skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to watch companies admit they abuse this pattern.

A couple years ago I got into it with Comcast over an Identity fraud issue. When I threatened to take them to court for harrassment (I'd sent them more than what was needed to prove I never resided at the address in question) they tried to throw the 'binding arbitration' clause out there... When I told them I never was or would be a customer of theirs and thus wasn't held to their arbitration, they didn't quite know what to say next.
RSS seems to have worked out quite well for audio content, viz. podcasts; there doesn't seem to be any technical reason why it wouldn't work equally well for video media.
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>The “progressive” movement is why we have addicts encamped at a school — they’re so out of touch with reality, they view that as “compassion”.

I would not classify that as progressivism. Things like voting rights and ranked choice voting, progressive taxation, environmental protection, increasing educational opportunities for all, more nutritional options for food at schools, access to mental and all other healthcare, etc would fall under progressivism in my book. Of course, I'm not the arbiter of what is and is not deemed progressive, but generally I was under the impression that the goals were to keep the bottom quintiles moving forward, not letting drug addicts establish camps on or near school grounds.
Why do many projects in CS research remain closed source?
> That is a dramatical difference and this would be a valid argument in a court of law

What are you talking about?

> Why would anyone put their faith in it?

They need money, maybe?

Because software developers are, by and large, employed (not to mention paid well)?

Because the economy is functioning?

I don't understand what you're suggesting, what is the alternative to interviewing? What do you want fixed? Why are you coming down hard on me for suggesting that not being allowed to Google the answer to your interview question isn't a serious problem that needs solving? How would you hire people if you had a company?

What does trust have to do with interviewing? Does one need to have trust in order to get a job? Do you have a job? Aside from cultural bias, what are examples of the system breaking trust in large numbers that demonstrate that hiring is "broken"? Where is the data that shows this?

Since you want to talk about trust, why should a company trust your or your claim of being qualified for a job without asking you to demonstrate you're qualified, in a time-bound and resource-bound setting? The interview questions you called "silly tasks" are nothing more than a request to demonstrate a very small amount of your claimed education and ability. Is that unreasonable? Why or why not?
I'm just a lowly software engineer with a M.Sc. in Computing, but I didn't find that first paragraph particularly difficult to understand. The images further support it.

Naturally, to understand it you need to some understanding of the terms used but that's why they each link to their own wikipedia pages.
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I'm not sure how people couldn't merge two sorted arrays when a competent fifth grader could figure that question out without ever touching a computer.

Some people, even those with 100s of hours of schooling, just never learn how to think computationally. They just "fake it till they make it", which really just means they have no ability to provide value to any company.
Some channels I was in on Freenode were hesitant to move, but they were then taken over by Freenode staff in the wave of channel hijackings (for example, because they had topics like "We're discussing whether to move to Libera, please <bla>") which expedited the move for all of them.
Why do mosquitoes buzz in our ears?
The UK definition is “within 28 days of a positive covid test result”. There was a day in July with no reported deaths, but that used a different definition.
Imagine coding for a 64-bit version of the 6502, where you have a 192MB "zero page" :)
Anecdotal experience but I have found mobile data rates to be extremely cheap in developing countries compared to western ones, even after adjusting for local purchasing power. "Expensive data" isn't really a thing outside of USA, Canada and Europe and maybe a few other countries. In India, for example, the cheapest 4G data plans will give you 50GB+ a month of usage.
> People who want to come back into an office most days but don't want to come into a ghost town with most meetings over video anyway.

I think this battle is lost. Even if people go back to offices, a lot of meetings will happen over video anyway. This has been the norm in some large companies already.
If you can see no BUT in WordPress or PHP I doubt you know much about them and their history (especially since you wrote you don't use them). There's a massive list to be written about their bad sides. Mind you I use PHP so this isn't coming from some hater BUT having used it in many versions I can definitely see many huge problems that mostly have not even been acknowledged until lately. As stated, it can do the job BUT.....
I don't think this is accurate.

Some professionals, notably those whose work culture encourages self-determination, can be allowed to bring in their own hardware or request custom hardware. These are usually the outliers, rather than the norm (and in fact, this is often advertised as a "perk" of being employed at that particular place).

The vast majority of corporate environments are rather locked down and standardized, understandably, with one-size-fits-all or a set menu of tech provisions, depending on role (e.g., designers often get larger screens than accountants).

Even as a developer, I had to fight for larger screens for my team, as IT saw no inherent need for larger screens beyond what they initially provisioned.

Contrast that with my WFH setup, with my 3-monitor setup on a 7-foot standing desk...
He is a whining man-child who refuses to grow up, the writing does not suggest a mentally ill person - and I believe that lots of people who started receiving government checks, now don't want to go back to work - the employment numbers were dismal, and employers are having a hard time finding people to take up jobs. Most people work dead-end, meaningless jobs anyways. So why not just drop out?
> If you have kids, it is hard to focus sometimes, specially small ones.

This is what can happen when you WFH with small children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY
$5M is quoted as the construction cost, not cost amortized over launches. It's been given that way a few times, e.g. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/inside-elon-musks-pl...

I think you're probably looking at a few more million in launch costs, but those aren't recovered by recovering the ship anyways.
Instead of a beam of Cesium atoms being sensed with microwaves, this has a vapor cell sensed with microwave modulated light. This eliminates the finite lifespan previously associated with Cesium Beam atomic clocks.

Unlike Rubidium references, the light is supplied by a solid state laser, eliminating another huge power sink.

I expect these devices have a practically infinite life. What an amazing set of innovations.
Personally I would say all the dynamic scripting languages, while they shouldn't "die", should stop focusing on adding new features and focus on the other things that will enhance the value of the language as it exists.

This isn't criticism of those languages; it's a compliment! They've all hit maturity, in my opinion. That's a good thing. But I think their developer communities still sometimes don't act like that's the case, to their detriment.
To be fair to Wikipedia, Taylor Series are taught to students in the UK at A-level but only for about (thanks to the horrors of A-level mathematics) an A4 page worth of material.

As for the section you quote - I saw what it was trying to say in my head (graphically-ish) before I actually parsed the sentence properly, that might be why it's remained poor. It's not a bad explanation it just isn't long enough.
I give fake email addresses to get access to public wifi networks. Interestingly, some systems appear to have a list of well-known fake addresses, which they reject, including foo@bar.com.
> Long trial contracts to hire

I don't understand these. If I'm going to do this (as a candidate) then why not just do independent consulting / contracting and charge a higher rate?

Only once was I offered a contract to hire and I assumed it meant the hiring manager hadn't yet secured the FTE req. When I asked for clarification he just said "that's how we do things here". I explained that a significant portion of their pitch was spent talking about their stellar benefits when they were trying to recruit me and now I wouldn't receive any of those. He said I'd get those in 6 months. I took it as a red flag and passed.
Rank choice voting would definitely change that
I just use MaterialFox (https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox), which makes Firefox look more or less like Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/gYwrGjK.png

Edit: Welp, the new Firefox update kinda broke MaterialFox: https://i.imgur.com/biLz0e2.png
What an unexpected, particularly specific video game reference, but also too metaphorical to illustrate this scenario. Town Portal means literal teletransportation :D
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Ok, counterpoint again.

The support contract for a huge multinational I was a small part of a while back, was bought out by an Indian-based company, who wanted the prestige and new line of business, but bit off WAY more than they could chew, and threw the entire tier 1/2/3 process into near chaos.

Had they looked even a little deeper, they might have realized that they had no pratical experience in customer facing sw/hw support, and saved everyone two years of flailing, panic-driven, blame-everyone-you-can-point-a-finger-at, the-technicians-are-wrong-since-our-process-says-otherwise-oh-wait-our-process-is-shit-what-now-MORE-METRICS unbelieveable bullshit.

All because somebody in high level management managed to bend somebodys ear, and the parent company got swindled into it.

So glad to be gone.
If you boot on actual hardware (no VM), if your application code + kernel (or unikernel) fits in under 192 megabytes, you are golden.
Not the same thing at all, here's mine

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Who cares about operating systems any more? That seems like a solved problem and frankly all the major ones are fine these days.

Computers are chosen based on applications. If you want to play games, you are probably buying a Windows PC. Developing iOS apps? You want a Mac. If you just need a browser, then a Chrome Book or iPad is probably a good choice. I'd bet a lot of people here use three or more operating systems every day on different computers doing different things.
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Thanks, you made my day :)
I am not sure where you live, but I would expect that WHF allows those under 30 a similar financial relief to those above. For you to be forced to live in an 800 sqft place working in tech, I would assume you live in one of the larger metropolitan areas. WFH should allow you to move further away and capture more space for your dollar, even if you don't end up owning the property like those over 30 might.

At the start of the pandemic I lived in a house full of people working at tech startups in Oakland. So I understand having no space as I worked/lived from my tiny room. But, I was able to leave the bay area, as were my roommates and now we all have our own places (some rent some own) because the same rent in Oakland was able to afford private spaces in other parts of CA.

So I empathize with your position. I recommend trying to move out of the locale that only allows you to afford an 800 sqft studio. Even the shittiest tech jobs in the Bay would allow for you to have your own 2 bedroom apt in other parts of CA. This is how you take advantage of the WFH opportunity as a younger person.
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>>> atrophy

Have you consider team atrophy as a pre-existing/chronic condition which maynot have cure?
I disagree, if only because those who take heed to your advice will find themselves worse off than if they treat themselves as the master of their own success. Clearly work alone isn't the only reason and you need to be smart about it, but effort always trumps excuses, even if the outcome of another's similar or lesser effort is better than your own.
The 150mph trip to Paris i don't buy, which puts in doubt everything else these people say. But otherwise this is a very sad state of affairs.

Edit: ah, they might have slipped the wrong units there (this is the Uk's guardian).
That Skynet is funnelling data & connections into a network it constructed out of junk electronics it sold under the guise of other functionality, and thus is removing the ability of humans to airgap other Skynet devices? Seems like we're in the middle of the book to me.
It's a federal crime and grounds for stripping ones security clearance... unless you're a VIP who can get special treatment.
eIDAS + smart card reader. :)

But I guess, google still wants to make the check passable.
This is the millionth time I’ve come across this post. I always had assumed this post was about Typed / multiple Dispatch for whatever idiotic reason.

So glad that this has been well pointed out. Oof big relief
And once you are a lead you are doing less of the stuff day to day that would make you shine in a coding interview. Especially the ones where “we need a c# engineer so let’s dust off those weird exception handling edge cases again and test on it” when in real life you look it up or run a unit test over it (better!)
You complain about nonsense and than go forward and spread some on your own. You saying that SmartScreen and Defender slows down a Windows machine by a factor of 2 just makes you a nonsense clown.
> I'd start looking for other ways to scratch that socialization itch.

Also, having a social aspect outside of work makes job changes way less scary and stressful.
You ever try standing on a NYC subway, surrounded by strangers, at least a few of which are playing video games or listening to music videos / TV out loud on their phones, having to move every 6 minutes as the doors open and close, and having to keep tabs on who's around you since there are sometimes shady and angry individuals -- for a 45 minute stretch mornings and night? I have, and I can assure you, it's no way to start your day - or end it. Reading is extremely difficult with a bag on one arm and a phone or kindle on the other, if you need to hold onto a pole to not fall over.
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> Simple solution, put a sign on the door

Who said anything about a door? We dont have two spare rooms really.
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How does the yeti perform on echo cancelation and background noise isolation? In my experience, the Evolve 40 is good enough that I can turn off Zoom's software filters and get a further quality boost.
> especially if the work is such that he can work longer without a decrease in quality.

So, nowhere in reality.
Just checked the video in the issue, it doesn't work in newpipe.
Rust's type system still lacks the expressivity of Ada. Rust has a lot to teach Ada (and you see this coming out from AdaCore's blog recently with efforts to add lifetime analysis to SPARK), but Rust has a ton to learn from Ada as well.
The "two weeks" originated from the idea of instituting periodic, local lockdowns in order to keep hospitals from filling to overflow. The idea wasn't to keep people from dying from COVID-19, per se. The idea was that there would be some people who would be affected severely by the virus, but who could pull through if given supportive care in a hospital. What we didn't want was numbers getting so high that people who could have pulled through wouldn't because there were no available bed for them. That's the original idea behind how lockdowns were supposed to be used.

But, returning to my original point, once things locked down, a number of politicians realized that they would be blamed for any deaths that occurred when the lockdown was lifted. These politicians received support from the "if we can save even just one life" crowd — which I'm characterizing as the neurotic.
there have been atleast 2 instances in the past few months where Indian govt agencies were able to release whatsapp messages of their opponents.

It is safe to say that if you are doing anything remotely of interest to the govt, you should not be using this tool.
I know a good number of service industry people that have been out of work for 18 months and are not very interested in going back to work under the old terms.
Let’s be honest, nobody would have paid that $1 (you had a free year before you had to pay IIRC). Everyone would have switched to another free service.
It covers bruxism, of course, because it literally goes over your teeth, but it's bulkier and has a lower jaw adjustment since it's designed more around your jaw and airway than just your teeth

Mine is from VitalSleep.com (promise I'm not astroturfing, you can find 50 similar products)
I follow the car modding scene and to be honest, in the U.S. there don't seem to be anything preventing this from being street legal.
Even in California, something like this being a non-engine mod I don't see it being an issue.
This is off-topic, but to me as a European, it's fascinating to read that you consider an 800sqft studio to be somewhat limiting. I'm pretty sure most couples in European cities live in apartments smaller than that. Back when I was in university, I lived in a ~200sqft studio. Granted, I'm really happy that I didn't have to lock down or WFH from there.
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Hopefully the digital wallet will be leveraged to reduce the bureaucracy. We can’t continue like this without hurting ourselves.
I presume you’re in eng because we’re on HN but are you not? If you’re in the Bay Area, you should be able to afford an okay home here (assuming you stop playing the startup game and join a public tech company). Being only able to afford Tracy or something sounds like very low pay...
I really believe in a "No code, no publish" policy. How can I verify that you aren't a fraud if I can't reproduce your work?
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Even if allowed, if you want similar equipment at home and in the office you'd have to buy two of it all, or tear it down and take it home with you every night. If you just work from home you don't have that problem.
The speed of light is the absolute limit but isn't really a useful measure at any chip-level design. IIRC, its more about capacitance and leakage current.

The less capacitance (and 3d finfets / other innovations reduce capacitance), the fewer electrons it will take to "turn on" or "turn off" a transistor.

That's why modern process designers are trying more and more exotic shapes to reduce capacitance and reduce the number of electrons that need to be moved anywhere for the "on-off" toggle to happen.

Leakage current is the amount of electrons that "leak" even in the offstate (which all CMOS designs are statically in the off-state. Even at 5V / on, there's a complementary transistor that's in the off-state somewhere that theoretically prevents current from flowing).

As such, the two sources of current (and therefore power usage) are capacitance (the number of electrons you need to move to turn a transistor from on to off, or vice versa). Or leakage (the number of electrons that flow despite the transistor being nominally off).

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The lower the leakage, the less power is used. The lower the capacitance, the less power is used AND the quicker the transistor turns on / off (because fewer electrons have to move, so the switch goes from .25 nanoseconds to .1 nanoseconds or whatever).
With #freenode themselves being one of them.
I can totally understand where you are coming from but that doesn't mean I don't also see the big BUT there. I'm sure we can agree neither PHP or WP are perfect, especially historically.
Depends on company size. I am in a <100 employee company that is not a software organization. I lead the IT group (12 including myself). I report to the COO. He participates in interviews for candidates who would be in my group -- even those that report to one of my supervisors.

Even in larger groups, I wouldn't be surprised if the CTO participated deeper than you might at first assume.
Tesla expands trademark registration to cover restaurant services, etc.
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