skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bombed one interview.

I was interviewing for tech lead in one of startups in my niche. CEO said that there is a potential growth path to CTO (I was young and had no idea what CTO really means so I believed him). Startup was fairly established with big customer base for the niche it operates. And my experience was a perfect fit, at least from technical point of view.

Prior to that role I was working in environment where people generally had respect to each other. I never had to deal with politics. It was enough to be respectful and just deliver what I was meant to deliver.

When I entered the interview there was a long table, on the other side of the table there were 4 persons - CEO, COO, accountant, and some older person in his early 50s. On the other side of that table there was a chair for me to sit on.

The interview immediately started from a bombardment of non-technical questions I would normally have time to reflect on. But still, I was expected to provide fast responses even though those questions was not really even close to what the role was about. Particularly the older guy was very active and, well, the tone of his voice and the way how he was structuring his questions was not nice, to say the least. Anything I said was immediately denied by this guy, and while the time was passing the tone of his voice and general behavior was becoming more and more rude.

I remember what I was thinking about straight after I left the interview - this was the worst interview in my life, it felt like actor-played drama. I was on many interviews prior to this one, I think I can say I have seen enough to be able to tell the difference :)

When I left the room I was simply told I'm not a good fit, even though days earlier CEO was very excited and there was not a single technical question asked (like, not even what technologies I worked with, or what projects I delivered). I found it quite confusing, but such is life, I moved on :)
As long as one feels like using OpenGL ES 3.0 subset.

For reference, OpenGL ES 3.0 was released in 2012.

In what concerns WebGPU, the first draft was just released, and it will be basically a kind of MVP when it gets finalized.

Then expect it to take as long as WebAssembly is taking to move beyond MVP 1.0.
Use this https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Having trained a couple of people on Elixir, I have had good success.

I believe there is more a "critical mass" coupled with "matter of taste" issue, which I hope will be solved as more good stuff comes out (e.g. graphing support via Vegalite for Livebook as announced yesterday https://twitter.com/dashbit/status/1395763964215185409).

I believe a number of people would currently like to get paid to work with Elixir, and hope the critical mass will be reached soon.
R has much better syntax with tidyverse for data wrangling and even up to models with tidymodels and all. Python in comparison is hard to read.
I typically just throw random, interesting links into a folder. Then periodically I create a new folder named YYYY-MM-DD and move everything into that folder. All of these are moved into an Archive folder to get them out of the way.
> There he argues that moving off the gold standard was a bad idea in many ways apparently unrelated to money.

See Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein (of NPR's Planet Money):

* https://bookshop.org/books/money-the-true-story-of-a-made-up...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Goldstein

From what I've read on the topic, gold (and 'hard money' in general) is generally not a good in most circumstances. Yes, if your mint/central bank takes orders from the government to create more money it can lead to bad things, but generally that disaster only needs to happen once before everyone realizes how bad an idea it is and probably never does it again.

Recommend the book. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is also worth checking out:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
I'm very against judging people.

That being said, we do a disservice to our youth if we overemphasize the role of luck in being in poverty or not. There are strong correlations between poverty and lifestyle choices people typically do have control over.

- Starting your career before having children. In many cases, this implies finishing a certain amount of school and/or training.

- Marrying a responsible person and staying married

- Avoiding substance abuse

- Planning your pregnancies [1]

- Avoiding a criminal record [2]

And then there are risk mitigation strategies to avoid catastrophe:

- Establishing an emergency fund

- Living within your means

- Getting insurance and keeping up with payments

- Avoiding high risk investments and career moves [3]

I guess I feel that people who have figured out the basics are hesitant to preach what they practice. All of the above seems like a given to people who are comfortably middle class. But if you didn't have wise parents and nobody says anything out of an overemphasis on empathy, you could make any of those mistakes easily and then get treated like a fool.

[1] Tragically, some people are raped and become pregnant against their will, which is why we shouldn't judge folks, but the mass majority of pregnancies do not happen for this reason. Considering the abortion rate for married women, it seems that accidental pregnancy is actually very common.

[2] Again, don't judge. People are falsely convicted of crimes. People have criminal family members. People make dumb choices and learn their lessons. But being violent over beefs or going for joy rides in stolen cars is just setting yourself up to struggle financially.

[3] If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
I think it's okay. There are plenty of opportunities later in life to fall back on a middle class job if your dream doesn't work out. Lots of people don't enter my field (actuarial) until their late 30s/early 40s. You pass some exams and then start applying.

The biggest group of older candidates are ex math teachers who couldn't pay the bills with that job, but you do run into an ex poker player every now and then.
news is never accidental.

the subtext here is obvious: dear normal people, Uncle Sam will not tolerate a competitor to the USD. get out before we criminalize crypto.
> this fix only works when the MacBook lid is closed

Not really solved then. Everyone I know that has a 16” has the same issue.

Since the top of the line model is the one most chosen by professionals, very few will not connect to an external monitor. Apple should be issuing refunds left and right after this fiasco.
> You’re totally missing the point. Erlang is more “message passing” than any OOP language I’ve ever used.

My point is that OOP is not about message passing. You say that Erlang is more about message passing than OOP languages are, aren't we exactly in agreement here?

Also, it was the post I responded to that referenced actors, I'm not jumping to anything.
`unwoke.hr` was one attempt, but I think it was even more poorly-engineered than Parler and was immediately trolled into oblivion.
One would hope they'd learned from Iraq and Afghanistan why military invasions aren't the strategically optimal way to deal with these problems. Although that may be a forlorn hope.
>One good reason is that the people that typically give this type of advice (counselors and career advisors) are in such banal careers themselves

It might be poorly compensated but it's not a banal career. A good career advisor has the potential to make a huge difference in people's lives, more even than a teacher. As someone who grew up in a rural lower-class family (where good career advice was scarce), I'd have saved a couple mostly wasted years of my life if I'd met a good career advisor in high school.
The difficulty of tasks generally increases exponentially, not linearly though. 2x in absolute terms definitely translates to 10x or more in terms of skill.
I agree, for their use case they should have linked to SDL2 as a static library. It was the best option instead of patching the binary with patchelf.

I think many developers don't know about static libraries. For some reason they think they have to use a shared libraries. This is probably due to many tutorial saying something like: download the SDL2 library from there, it is provided as a shared library, here the instructions to use it with Visual Studio.

The way I do is with static libraries, I ship a single executable, all the third-party libraries are linked in as static libraries. The only dynamic libraries the exectuable will use are the standard libraries that are part of the OS.

I do this very easily with the help for lhelper:

https://github.com/franko/lhelper (I am the author)

that has recipes to build many libraries including SDL2. It builds the library on you system using your compiler and your settings. By default it will build static libraries so you don't have to bother distributing additional dynamic libraries.
Distracting from the main point, "let's just try something and hope nothing bad happens" (trial and error) is precisely the reason civilization made it this far :)
The Aesthetics of Multicoding Esolangs
Yes, please. I’ve been asking for this for years but mods usually flag my comments.

Links should only be allowed to the public internet.
On the other hand i think working corporate jobs is also still way overrated (even if it is maybe already rated low). Whenever I think this will be different i want to shoot myself after 1 or 2 months latest, working for a startup just is the lesser evil.
Free as in speech and beer, self-hostable, and I don't know about opencore but everything seems freely available right now.
with only 4GB RAM :)
I keep my fridge empty of perishables, precisely because things in it have a tendency to rot. Putting the rotting stuff into a rot soup that makes me sick will not increase the amount of stuff in my fridge.
This uses the same OCR as this ShowHN, so the OCR results should be identical.
I thought F1 was the ‘continue’ key...?
The "saying you don't have a position is an endorsement of the status quo" argument implies that the entire world needs to stop until your favorite problem is fixed. That's a recipe for getting to the political equilibrium where anti-abortion voters live.
Nanded Gurudwara to Use Gold for Construction of Hospitals and Medical Colleges
Do people literally dream of what they want way in to the future ? My dreams usually follow me (closely). If I play tennis, I dream about my tennis serve that night.
It's important to notice that the perspective change is related to switching midset from what you dream to be (marine biology professor) to what you dream to do (write about science).

The former seems much more about extrinsic motivations: status, salary, prestige, title, etc.

I am getting more and more convinced that to have a sustainable and fulfilling career you need to be honest with yourself and find out what you like to do not what you'd like to be.

Trade-offs apply...
> I would say an innate talent for ‘coding’ is a relatively minor factor

I would argue that innate talent is strongly linked to genetics. In the case of coding, I think intelligence plays a large role.
though at that point it sounds no different than a hobby, really.
Or maybe you are the one that doesn’t understand their situation. These are government professionals that live and work there, and are intimately involved with all of the legal proceedings between county and state.

You called them out as ignorant, and provided zero facts to back it up. Now let’s hear your credentials and experience with regional government in the rural Pacific Northwest.

And wouldn’t it be great if there were GAO reports on where every collected tax dollar is spent. Maybe if you had that, you would be able to address this with facts instead of your assumption that you must be right because you are smarter than them, and that means you don’t need facts to know you are right.

But given that you have presented zero facts, and zero experience, and may actually benefit from disinformation, I’m going to go with the opinions of the people that have all the facts, and all the experience, and actually have to pay the cost of their decision.

But instead of psychoanalyzing them, let’s hear your opinion on a simple yes/no question:

Should they be allowed to exit?
> The standard function naming and argument ordering is inconsistent and stupid

This is quite hard to fix, as it would break almost everything. So you'd end up with a Python 3 situation. However, as of PHP 8, it's less of an issue. If you can't remember the order for arguments, you can use named arguments <https://3v4l.org/cY1PB> like so:

strpos(needle: "foo", haystack: "foobar")

> It throws errors written in Hebrew

If you're referring to T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, this is no longer true as of PHP 8: https://3v4l.org/2T8qQ -- the error is just this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "::", expecting end of file

Internally, the token is still called T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, but you can also refer to it by T_DOUBLE_COLON: <https://www.php.net/manual/en/tokens.php> and I suspect eventually they'll phase out the Hebrew spelling.
I'm excited to try this. I've tried xstate many times and always struggled with the typescript, if this Just Works I'll be v happy
essentially requires permanent rental of a room on your house you might otherwise use for something else

Does it? When I'm working, I don't need that room during working hours for another purpose. I just work in it, tapping away and speaking into the microphone and so on, and when work is done, I use the room for sitting, reading, all that sort of thing; it's the lounge, I guess. Worked out fine so far.
A tiny bit of unsolicited advice that is not popular but is powerful. Envy. That is the missing key. You need your kids to want something and not be able to have it. You need them to want it so bad that they try their best to get it and fall flat on their face trying. That journey will teach them the value of money and that fall will cement it in their minds.

Now how to do that without building a deep well of lasting hate and resentful towards their father...I'm not the man to help with that part. Good luck.
Why People Buy the Dip?
I think the importance is having a risk mitigation mechanism in place before you pursue your high risk dream. This often takes the form of some form of wealth or capital.

My wife has a childhood friend and a cousin who were both very talented in Indian classical music in their youth and regarded as potential stars. The friend came from a well to do family, the cousin from a lower income family. The friend didn't really need to pursue a college degree in a professional field and take up job to make ends meet and instead could devote the entirety of higher education and focus to music because even if she doesn't succeed monetarily, the family still owned several properties and the rental income and capital appreciation could give enough of a passive income for survival together with say teaching.

No such luck for the cousin who now does music as a hobby when he can.
> And it will stay this way until someone has a navy as powerful as the US.

Armed force superiority is a requisite for maintaining order, which is a valuable good in and of itself, but the country also needs to produce goods themselves (such as research, medicines, technology, media) which is greatly enabled by a large population that has a higher than average level of trust between each other.

I would even assume the latter is far more difficult to create than the armed forces, and only arises from a perfect storm situation. And it feels like it’s in a downward trajectory, but hopefully that is not true or will reverse.
That quote you pulled about there being no causal relationship is from a list of 4 possible reasons they didn't find a relationship. That's not a claim they were making. It's one of a few proposed explanations for the data.

Talk about taking something out of context.
To be fair, Latin shouldn't really count as a "foreign" language since it has essentially no native speakers :upsidedown:
Flameshot could do with this feature https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/702
Usually, it means good tools.

I don't work in the video game industry personally but tooling that allows for these fast iterations seems to be a common theme among success stories.

And if you look at the composition of a large game dev team, sometimes, tooling makes the largest part. I mean for programmers, not artists, obviously.
Obviously, no advice fits all. But with wisdom, it makes sense for smart, hard working and motivated people. It is wiser to take life as a set of " experiences" and not as a war with yourself to get in your dreamland.
However, folowing your dream is one of the important experiences...
A child lights up a rocket in the basement, it travels upwards through every apartment in the building.
>...at a Gmail address...

That's a fairly big red flag these days, even if the company is actually using free email.
Oh? Why don't you list the topics you think of as political, ones that should be ruled as out of bounds? If you do that, you can pretty quickly see that what you are doing is practicing politics.

I agree that the workplace shouldn't be filled with random, irrelevant contention. But the current crop of "no politics" rules aren't about that. They are about taking topics that are material to the workplace and preventing people from discussing them so as to favor the political interests of particular people and groups.
AI makes Robert De Niro perform lines in flawless German
Yeah my "niche" right now is consulting for companies that are high revenue but built out their platforms during lean times where they were focused on growth over stability, reliability, or security. "Legacy code" I guess though it's a little more varied than that might imply.

Basically the only two technologies I touch these days are rails and php. I'm not filtering out other tech stacks, these two are just absolutely dominant for this type of company.
I was very confused by the GPIO example. Where does active get set to false, and after how long?
Study Confirms That Reopening Texas 100% Had No Discernible Impact on Covid-19
see the (current) top comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27244810

it's a very clever use of symmetry.
Same in India, most students take 3 languages in their school career - English, a native regional language (typically Hindi), and a third language, which can range from Japanese to Sanskrit (i.e. Latin but Indic)
Australia will need to remain closed for decades
P2ing Is the New Working
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27244810

As I understand it, when starting up (beginning of stream) - the network does not compress, then guesses the next byte at every turn determininstically from input so far.

Decoding can "read" the fist byte, then proceed to learn and guess the second byte and so on.
> golf
Or even over 3.7. The next exciting release is 3.10, which features pattern matching, union litterals, and above all, way, wayyy better error messages
Tried attaching pix to chrome the other day. And it was not a pleasant experience, eventually just gave up. When mentioned in the meetup it kinda seemed like a tounge in cheek answer as in it is technically possible...
Interesting. I have the opposite experience, the more I use them the more clunky they feel.

* If there’s only useState, then everything is mostly fine. All is good.

* To avoid unnecessary re-rendering you’ll have to move callbacks into useCallback. These callbacks then also need to specify all of their dependencies. So many lines of code that are merely noise.

* They encourage having state locally in the component which often breaks down the moment you slightly tweak the design. So much refactoring!

* Dealing with any other (callback-based, stateful) API is confusing. If you want something to execute once initially you can use useEffect with an empty dependency list, but note that then there’s no way of accessing updates values (in callbacks) and everything will reflect the initial state. Often you’ll have to use useRef just to keep track of the current state. Or maybe useState?

* Debugging is painful. You forget one value in your dependency list and the weirdest things happen. Suddenly you have callbacks running in different rendering scopes with different values.

They feel very “brittle”: Once it works the code looks pretty, but when there’s a slight change of requirements you need to rethink everything.
Emily Wilder, new Associated Press staffer, terminated over Palestine tweets
I have a very beefy laptop at work but with Teams I'm feeling like I'm using my old 133 MHz PC again. Everything takes so long to open that I'm growing increasingly mad when using it. Plus the statuses of my contacts are consistently wrong.
DeFi Beyond the Hype [pdf]
If the batteries on the bottom of this thing are punctured, doesn’t it become a raging inferno practically instantly? I’ve seen videos of a phone battery lighting up, and I wouldn’t want that to happen with what’s on the bottom of my car.
or rather figuring out why it didn't

That can end up being just as time consuming as doing the research to begin with. Often there is no time and no money to go back and do that. If your 'budget' is 6 month you're going to spend 6 month trying to get your experiment to work. You're not going to 'give up' after 4 month and spend 2 month putting together a "why we failed" paper.
How* We Fixed The Ozone Layer
If you expect people to continue to look the other way when asked in the future, you've got to ensure that each one receives minimal punishment in the present.
For me, I think social media on the whole quite has been quite valuable use of time. It feels less like a waste and more like research or learning.

The serendipity of HN, Reddit and Twitter have exposed me to a lot of ideas and information I would have otherwise never known about.
Do you have some data backing that?
I always wanted to be a physicist. I even got into a Physics program in a decent college. But my dad forced me to go the engineering route and I switched my major. Two decades later, I often wonder what my life would have been if I hadn't done what he told me. Physics is super hard and regardless of my passion and devotion I don't think I would have been very good at it (I can't even do dynamic programming problems asked in coding interviews - so unlikely I would have done any useful research in physics). I would have been languishing as a professor in some unknown college making significantly less money. But the dream hasn't died out though. I still fantasize about being a physicist working on black holes or cosmology. But I have accepted it will forever remain a dream.
I agree with your criticism on the current petrodollar system, but I still don't understand how Bitcoin could replace it. I've yet to see a crypto enthusiast who seems to really think about the implications about world trade purely done in Bitcoin. And the "there was the gold standard back then, it's going to be similar" argument doesn't work, it has historically ended in total disaster and countries which abandoned the system sooner has recovered from the Great Depression more quickly. Right now a Bancor system that's designed to balance imports and exports between countries seems like the more convincing route to achieve peace while continuing global trade. Any ideas?
Show HN: Create and share YouTube playlists, without a Google account
When you start talking millions of people damage gets subtle.

Robocall scams are very high on the profit:human misery scale, but their hardly going to end civilization. Pollution, corruption, theft etc all make things worse, but we never see the better world without such things so it all feels very abstract. Of course you need to lock your doors etc that’s just the way things are.
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

-- L. Tomlin
U.S. seizes $90k from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot