skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php
Works for me, do you have a content blocker on?
>50% can't do FizzBuzz

How can someone possibly call themselves a programmer (let alone a developer applying for a job) when they can't even pseudo something like fizzbuzz ? How can they use any API, tool or even copy code from SO without knowing how to write a foreach and a conditional inside?
I haven’t been able to articulate it as succinctly as you did, but this is so true and Ive used the principle to push for many hires who didn’t do so hot in their technical round.

If a person is excited about technology and is familiar with translating ideas into code, that’s really all that I’m really looking for. Writing good code, understanding OS, networking etc are things that can be looked up and learned by people who are motivated to do so… there are so many resources to learn from.

One caveat here is that for “senior” hires, the expectation is opposite: not that they write perfect idiomatic code, but they’re able to write solutions. I think the practice of less technical interviews for higher level seems somewhat paradoxical: you want your Software architects and Principal Engineers to be able to code with a degree of competence.
The “as if” part means it can only be true if the regular money aspect of these two cryptos has no value, which is laughable.
This is very exciting! Been waiting for this for a while
The person may know what is and how to use it without knowing its formal definition in programming language theory. I personally find interview questions that ask you to regurgitate definitions like an exam to be poor indicators of real world skills. It would better if the interviewer first established terminology to avoid confusion and then ask how they would use such language constructs
Bingo. Video conferencing meets the uncanny valley.
Yes, a new grad "feeling lowballed by 200k" was hyperbole because I waste too much time on Blind. But FAANG new grad TC is pushing that number, which is a stark contrast to my new grad numbers ~2010. But it was probably confusing for me to phrase it that way.
If anyone wants to contribute to codespell, I have a long list of spelling mistakes collected from various places that you could run through this procedure with:

https://lwn.net/Articles/823246/
If you want hands on play with signal processing, GNU Radio works just fine at audio rates, and can use the mic/speakers on your PC.
If you have low power mode on, videos will not autoplay and will (on this page) appear as gray boxes.
AMP actually supports paywalls: https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-access/

This extension is also actually kinda interesting in that it embeds a small domain specific language [1] that's interpreted with a lex-style parser in JavaScript.

This can itself be a bit heavy on the CPU if a website uses it too judiciously!

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/main/extensions/a...
Totally agree. I have an acquaintance in "evolutionary biology". She is unemployed for 1 year and trying hard to get a job. I get a "hey how are you" on LinkedIn at least weekly.

That! Is how oversupply on one side and shortage on the other side looks.
I had a VP of Engineering tell me once that 17 months is a standard tenure and that we should be happy with that. I think turnover was part of the strategy at that point though...
Yes, we use that pattern in the Elixir project I'm working on. But that's a simple query despite all the JOINs. It's just a waste of time to convert complex queries into Ecto. Maybe the reason is that I build them in the database using it as a REPL. Then I have working SQL and a lot of hard work to turn them into Elixir. Or Ruby, or Python or whatever. I played that game for far too long. I give up immediately now, write raw SQL and move on to the next productive task.
No you can't, it will pretend to accept your preference and then randomly reset it after a few days.
In toddlers and in very elderly, the sleep-wake cycle can no longer be full 24 hours due to decreased/lower abilities of your body to “buffer” for that amount of time. So a single well defined afternoon sleep can be good.

I wouldn’t call that “naps”. That’s not what it is.
Here's another you might enjoy: an eastern European couple that just quietly and simply tend to preparing delish looking meals outdoors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIix6MklfJFywa_36iDj8Sw
I don't know any alcoholics who transitioned back to casual/social drinking. The ones who beat alcoholism stopped drinking altogether. You just have to admit to yourself it's something you can't control, and avoid it.
What a hodge podge of a mess of mid-90’s designer Kleenex-box kitsch. What the hell is going on inside Google lately, this is somehow even more offensive than their banned word list we just learned about the other day.
As long as that same company doesn't complain about are shortage while they have their talent crawling in the crouch space it's ok
market rate =/= "most extreme salaries from the largest tech companies". By statistical definition, the highest salaries can't be the median income for newgrads.
I wonder too, and I do not know.

From some developers I've worked with in the past, they ask their colleagues a lot, try cut & paste until it works and ask detailed questions on StackOverflow or similar sites.

The bigger the team the longer they can stay with the company until they are made to leave. In some very large companies I've worked with, with large teams, they stay forever even when colleagues are unhappy with their performance. In those companies it is often more important to have all positions closed than have (good) developers in every position.

When looking at CVs - not scientifically - some stay only some months with a company or stayed for a long time with a large enterprise.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my obnoxious rant John.

I guess when we talk about destructive power, this topped out in the 1950s with fusion weapons. It’s unclear if that technology will represent the apex of deadliness forever, or whether we’ll discover and develop something more powerful in the future. As you say, even ordinary munitions are plenty deadly and are causing misery ever single day.

However, if we talk about evil weapons, they are very much in active development; there’s seemingly no limit to the cruel and unusual ways we’re willing to fuck other people up. Technological development on those has not ceased.

I’m actually in agreement that the economic incentives mixed with technology (and a lack of scruples) has led to a vastly degraded information landscape; where we differ is that I think the comparison–even as a literary device–weakens the argument and makes the concerns seem trivial.
How to look at the stack with gdb
Low level stuff, I happily code off the top of my head in pure PIC and AVR assemblies, is not same as C++ low level stuff.

(IMO) C++ is quickly becoming that middle ground language that is destined to be a niche language in a decade. It's not low level enough and not high level enough to give people dealing with assembly code or business logic code a reason to switch.
I remember when material design first came out and I thought it was really intelligent, they had derived a way to design based on physical attributes of the real world; light, shadows, cards stacking like pieces of paper...

I thought they were really onto something but every few years they now just seem to change it to fit with the fashion, maybe I was too naivete.

I've started to wonder if it's even possible to develop a stable form of design that can last, stay up to date and be good looking.
I’m somehow standing at a roadside in Tokyo. Probably going to last until end of the day, sky is overcast, about #fafcff I’d say. Visibility is good, wind calm.
I'm someone with Amblyopia and would love to hear people's experiences using this. Seems like the project made some waves on reddit and kind of died down. I have bought Oculus Quest last year in anticipation of trying this but the pandemic and work pushed it out somewhat.

Watching 3D movies in the theaters just gives me a headache but Oculus actually works fine, I've played a few games and it was amazing...
Now that old electronics is "E-Waste", the free parts sources of my youth are gone. On the other hand, the Arduino and other single board controllers can replace so much hardware.
Have we officially hit peak Corporate Memphis?

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tec...
I'm a big retrocomputing enthusiast (in the C64 and Apple // realms) and the people doing this project are well-known in the community, but I just have trouble believing this will be successful. I don't want a computer that's kinda like a C64. I have a C64, and anyone who really likes that platform can either buy one on ebay or emulate it. A new platform that is a shadow of a platform from 40 years ago is such a niche market that I have trouble seeing how it'll ever be popular enough to get the price to a reasonable level. Maybe I'm wrong and there's a huge untapped market for retro-like computers. Pico-8 shows that there is some market for retro-like emulators, but asking someone to pay $14 is a lot different than $100 (or more).
Creating a robot bartender with a Flask server and Dolt to serve cocktails
we hired a confident 2 year out bootcamp grad that was able to pass our interview process and he nearly destroyed our company, twice. There is a reason the interview is difficult to pass, being a dev is a job with an insane amount of responsibility, you do not want bad people in there.
Is the technology used here for "tricking" the brain to simulate 3D the same as what Nintendo was using in the 3DS? If so, it carries a risk of developmental damage for the eyesight of children under 6, so as much as this might be cool they really shouldn't be showing kids using it, especially not babies.
Looks like they haven't supported it since 2005:
https://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight.html

But still allow downloads for legacy systems.
Touch Bar Piano for MacBook Pro
Maybe. There diminishing returns as you hire more and more people, so it's also possible the company works with an engineering org of 50, but not 200.
That’s interesting. I’ve noticed that if I forget a dream and then meditate later in the day it often comes back or at least bits and pieces do some 5-15 minutes into the meditation.
This is hilarious. But maybe somewhat reflects on the simple reality that everyone wants to work with personable people.
> That isn't true. Google is able to cache AMP pages in their CDN and preload and pre-render them in the browser or in Google News. You can't beat that with even the most optimized site.

Surely you can do that same pre-rendering yourself, and serve the result of it?
> No one really expects much from them.

I think it’s really easy for people to accidentally have a net negative impact on the productivity of a team. Especially early in their career, especially if they’re only there for a few months.

Having interns is probably still worth risking that - they bring some life and variety into an office and they’re only around for a few months anyway. But I would be leery about adding a junior engineer to my team if we’re using manual memory management and they don’t get it. You might have to obsessively code review all their stuff to make sure they don’t introduce memory bugs. Memory correctness in iOS programming probably usually doesn’t matter that much, but a bit of wariness is reasonable and understandable.

Overworked engineers might also not want to spend their time handholding an intern if its not in their KPIs to do so, and they don’t consider that to be part of their role. This is a cultural thing as much as anything else.
Parallels and ARM windows runs surprisingly well, even for intel windows applications.
When developers change jobs after about 2 years at a company, what's the incentive for any individual company to take on the burden of training junior talent? By the time they've got the experience to contribute on their own, they're gone.
This is company dependent. I can speak from my experience on the promo committee of a FAANG. Visibility matters - it shouldn’t, folks are aware of this bias, but it happens anyways. However, it’s purely org level visibility that matters.

In the sessions I’ve been a part of, packets are calibrated with org directors against other packets in the same org. If your work, or the team’s work, was visible across the org then there’s bias in your favor because the impact is easy to identify. If your work wasn’t visible then someone will almost certainly ask “what was the impact here?” and then it’s up to your manager to convince the room of impact.

To be clear, no one at the org level calibrations knows what’s going in ads. All they know is what are the big things that happened in their org this cycle. Even if you happen to work on tools that only HR uses, visibility is still there because that’s all your directors are focused on - just be sure they see your piece of it.
My apps were at the top of Developers Tools (iOS/Mac App Store), I made $60
I upvoted solely for the use of an en dash ( – ) in the title, instead of a hyphen ( - ).

Probably comes down to personal aesthetics, but I find it looks so much nicer!

For users on Windows, I recommend setting up an AutoHotKey script to convert the string "==-" to "–", and "===-" to "—".

Easy to type, very intuitive (typing more characters gives a longer-width dash), and gives your carefully crafted email missives a lingering, hard-to-describe dash of style!
I genuinely don't know what you're speaking about. I have stride 1 in front of me and it does not contend that "either/or" thinking is a tenant of white supremacy. In this document, either/or thinking is used synonymously to refer to the false dilemma or false dichotomy fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

As an example, page 21 states:

White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when...
Language acquisition is equated with mathematical proficiency.
Instead...
A common misconception is that students who are negotiating language are unable to communicate their mathematical knowledge. This reinforces quantity over quality when teachers reduce math teaching to things that are more easily measurable, like literal math. This not only denies opportunities for more engagement with more rigorous math, but it also creates a dynamic of paternalism where teachers are deciding for students what math they should interact with, without true consideration of the student’s experience. The idea that mathematics instruction has to happen separately from language reinforces either/or thinking rather than considering how they interact with and build upon each other.

Now, to me, this is stating that it is false to assume that language proficiency should be equated with mathematical ability. Further, it appears to contend that the idea that language can be studied or mathematics can be studied, but not together, is a false dichotomy or an example of either/or thinking. They can be studied together. I don't think that you or anyone else has to agree with this, but this particular example does not appear to equate something like either/or thinking as a tenet of white supremacy as you have stated.
The seller is based in J&K state and customer have address of UP State. AFAIK, you can not buy a prepaid SIM card in J&K due to security reasons.

Getting a postpaid SIM card, is difficult because they need to verify your documents and physical address. So most probably the customer entered a wrong email address in the application.

Better to report this to local police station to avoid any future issues.
It also sounds like an incredibly bad idea to put a junior engineer with no network technician experience in a network technician role. Have fun when your server goes down at 2am because something is fried, somewhere!
(Off-topic)

I was surprised to learn that in Northern Ireland, you are legally required to ask candidates whether they are Catholic or Protestant. If they decline answering, you must make an educated guess and document that. The goal is to ensure you are not hiring all Catholics or all Protestants.

Northern Ireland is in a unique situation. The Troubles were horrible. I can’t imagine having to write regulations to put a society back together. I should not judge the wisdom of this approach. It is just so different from what I am used to in the U.S., that it is hard not to be confounded.
A Moroccan startup tackle the no-code AI future
Thank you for the kind words! I have received a fair amount of flak as well as appreciation for that post 10 years ago. So it is quite nice to know that it made a positive impact on your career.

Thank you for the suggestion on emailing multiple appellate authorities. So far I have been sending all information to the Srinagar and Bangalore appellate authorities. I have received no response yet.
"by multiplying uncertain variables, the level of uncertainty grows exponentially"

No it doesn't. It grows geometrically.

"the number of confirmed exoplanets has grown exponentially"

That implies that the rate of discovery of exoplanets is proportional to the number already discovered. I've no reason to think that's the case; and it seems really improbable.

When a science journalist uses the word "exponential" to mean "very fast", I conclude that I'm reading some kind of low-grade popsci from a lazy writer who thinks fancy words make them look clever. Well, it might to some people; to me, it just makes them look ignorant.
Discarding applicants for game dev experience and claiming there's a dev shortage is completely bizarre.

It's like starting a restaurant and banning chefs with baking experience.
The Man Who Didn’t Invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
I just recently had someone ask me not to curse when I said “ah, damn” in relation to some trivial thing (from memory I was just expressing disappointment that a project wasn’t going ahead, or part of a project).

It’s the first time in my life I’ve ever met someone (over 10yrs old) who considered “damn” to be cursing but apparently they do exist.
At a certain level of experience, you do have an idea of what kinds of things can be nuances and pitfalls, though. And for certain team/codebase sizes, the effort required to learn and adapt to the specifics of the in-house systems will almost certainly dwarf the pitfalls of the general parts of the language/platform/stack.

There's some shortcomings of the algo-oriented interviewing practices FAANGs are famous for, but IMO one of the things they get very right is that language/stack knowledge is considered less interesting compared to general problem solving skills (and I say that as someone who failed to get an offer on his last round of trying).
Absolutely. It can be quite painful in the short term, but the long term benefits (both for you and that particular relationship) can be huge, especially if you're naturally averse to confrontation.
Cost of living is also wildly different since 2010 though too.
Every time I hear of developer shortages the next sentence involves increasing the H-1B visa pool.

I’m now in upper management. I’m told I can hire as many Indian developers as I want (based in India) but must limit my US development team. Why? Cost of course. There is no real shortage, just an attempt to clamp down on real wages.
Sounds like a solution that a regular consumer will never afford to use. I see the usual bay area behavior: Cool tech for rich people.
Those are lists of pages and attributes and of little use for a table of numbers
It’s interesting Google is focusing so heavily on “color” as a primary design element (redesigned Mail, Drive, Docs, etc., unique individualized color palettes(? if I understand that correctly)) when one of the most common tests for UI designs is the grayscale test. I mostly try to avoid senseless “update hate,” but I have accidentally opened the wrong Google App multiple times after the redesign and am constantly grateful for Apple’s “reduced motion/transparency” settings when I have headaches.
> Which is in practice really no different from meme stocks today.

Which is exactly my point.

Crypto is a decentralized meme stock. Unless crypto finds a way to become just a normal currency, it'll go the way of all memes over time: dead, once everyone and their grandma is sharing it.
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That sounds like you're trying to stab yourself in the face...

The unfortunate bit is - there is a lot of people that are learning Python or TypeScript that can develop that business logic as fast as you at a fraction of the cost.
I know a company where "Senior" is anyone non intern.
>if anything, the whole pandemic is a good case study for Universal Basic Income.

What, everyone would sit at home, do nothing while debt to GDP rises dramatically?
I was watching Hennessey, the flying cat that stuck the landing on a five floor leap from the burning building the other day and trying to find out if he had been found yet. No luck, appears he's still mia.
Content except top navigation bar doesn't load at all on mobile Firefox. It's 2.5MB of JavaScript in the webpage so I guess it doesn't surprise me.
That's really weird. I pointed one of my domains at a YouTube video around the same time this seems to have started.

Probably totally unrelated.
Thanks for your comment. Isn't the email notification that says, "Recharge successful for Jio Number <number>" (see 3rd table in the post) evidence of a prepaid SIM card? Or am I missing something?
Is that the same company that produces a lot of thermal cameras?
Alternatively: -- and ---. Some operating system (like iOS) even automatically convert to – and — for you.
Over 30 year term of mortgage, it eventually will, most likely sooner than later.
By the way, I believe that ETC is the 'true' Ethereum, and ETH was forever compromised by Buterik after that DAO fiasco. Code is Contract, but only until somebody decides otherwise.

(I fully understand that this belief of mine is not shared by the majority of Ethereum users.)
Silver, gold, and art are classic assets.
Widly? I don't think there's ever been a decade of lower inflation. It's certainly not 4x as expensive as then
A bit off-topic, but I couldn't help thinking about Tantacrul's video, Corporate Music - How to Compose with no Soul [1] when watching the video on this post.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxY_Y9TGWI
What's a shortage?
Yes. It's an approximately two-line FontForge script.
If 1000 companies want to hire top tier experienced engineers and there are only 100 on the market, that is the definition of a shortage.
It's great that Google is doing this. Quantum computing is the kind of capital-intensive research that perfectly suits a corporate research lab.