skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends who you read. Some philosophers are better writers than others, some philosophical traditions prioritize clarity more, and some translations are really bad. If you’re looking for relatively straightforward thinking, Plato is often where freshman philosophy students start and his work is considered background knowledge for basically all of the rest of western philosophy.
How many times can one person win the lottery? The large firms seem to successfully bet on winners quite a bit.
The point is that you directly suggest that to hold classical music in high regard could be a signal of racism.

So you just said to every person who prefers classical music, "Hey, I think you could be a racist because I correlate a fondness for classical with racism."
The Oversized Product Backlog Will Cost You Dearly
Can you recommend some other Xometry/Hubs competitors for hobby use?
What a terrible company, working on divesting from them in my personal life
New Technology Charges Your Phone from 0 to 100 Percent in Only Eight Minutes
I don't know who needs to hear this, but in management's eyes, it's your job to make them look good. If you want to be rewarded, make them look good, and if you want to be punished, make them look bad.

That's it. Fight losing self-destructive battles if you feel you have to, but never forget it.
DDoS Guard’s Database and Source Code for Sale on a Hacking Forum
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Not so much as hire-to-fire from my limited experience. When they hire you, they want you to succeed. However, the pressure to deliver is there and it is real, good is many ways.

And firing typically is totally unrelated to hiring. Firing decisions are for typical bottom X%, or product not doing good and actions need to be taken. It is easy to say that leaders do it to save their ass, but there is more to it and almost in every organization.
> That's not going to change with the number of new core features.

I... don't really see why it wouldn't? What's your logic here?
> > Firing people is really, truly hard. Traumatizing even.

This still holds true for most people that have to fire someone.
Funny that you say "evolve". For many of us, showing that off in the office would result in a considerable loss of fitness...
Well... I'm not sure that it's exactly like that, at least when I was there.

The bar raiser can say "no" even if the HM says "yes," but I never heard of it going the other way (where hypothetically the HM would say "no" and the bar raiser "overrule" the HM.)

And in hundreds of interviews there, I never experienced a situation in which it was as black and white as the above would make it seem. There were times, of course, when there was a difference of opinion, but it's on the people in the room to debate and convince each other based on logic and data - a bar raiser is not simply going to walk in and put his/her foot down and say "no" to a team that is otherwise saying "yes" without pretty detailed discussion and reasoning.
The 34 config checks we run across all our GitHub repos
That article explains that the outperformance was due to a broader economic trend of small cap companies outperforming weighted indices. They effectively baked in a known-to-win strategy from the start and then ran it in various slightly-randomised ways (and they're fully open about it!)
I've heard it akin to Etsy is where your aunt buys her "Live Laugh Love" signs and Depop is for kids to shop for cool college outfits.

I do a lot of thrifting myself and have been comparative shopping on Ebay, Depop and Poshmark for the best deals. Sometimes the same products are on all three!
In common law systems, if there is a contract there is consideration. Without consideration (which doesn't necessarily have to be monetary), there cannot be a contract (although you could have some other form of legal agreement, such as a deed or promissory estoppel.)

So, when I presented a hypothetical involving two contradictory contracts, both contracts (presuming a common law legal system) necessarily have consideration, or else you are denying one of the premises of the hypothetical.
MSFT is just doing so well at getting "enterprise" lock-in, that I'm reluctant to conclude they are getting anything at all "mixed up" in their messaging to decision-makers. At present they seem to be doing it exactly right for their business goals.

I have worked at and know of so many place that are "no, you can't spend money on that product, you have to use the equivalent from MSFT that is already included in our deal." Which is one reason it might be in MSFT's benefit to convince you that their thing is in the same class as some other thing you could spend money on, or may already be spending money on. And also, yeah, they are indeed convincing decision-makerse that they meet everyone's use-case and is whatever you want it to be, it's working....
Could be because it's European.

openSUSE has a nice pacing, it's new enough to be a great platform but it's not changing so quickly you need a fresh installation every handful of months or you're constantly fixing things. The tooling is good as well, there are some aesthetic things I kind of dislike (like some of the config files in /etc should be a layer deeper, ATMO) but it works well and it's well made. Major upgrades tend to work and aren't that scary.

The transactional system versions (MicroOS and then TW can be installed as "transactional") are potentially game changers. The snapper integration with btrfs and grub makes a really compelling case if you've ever needed it; btrfs seems like it's getting closer and closer.

This is my interpretation: If you go back to when RHEL was spawned, there were sort of two distinct styles of Linux systems, they were very much and east coast and west coast sort of style. UNIX dorks may disagree with this, but SuSe has provided something more like a European style. They have tools for updating configuration files and they provide some opinions on how things should be run. Once you get used to it and in to it, it's nice.
Cost. If it's $25, that's too much for some people.

Time cost. If they work 8-5, or two jobs, they can't get time off to go get an id.

That's just a few off the top of my head.
Racism is everywhere if you look hard enough. The trick is to not actively look for it, else you'll become permanently disillusioned with the human race. We are imperfect beings, full of faults.
There’s a different hook you can use that returns an error state.
I'm sorry but that's just not borne out by the rest of the blog post, at no point is it clear that he is using the terms interchangeably.

Furthermore, even were he to be doing so, that in itself is anti-Semitic, and the entire blogpost is full of anti-Semitic devices.

Your reply is contradictory: on the one hand, in response to a direct quotation from the blog post you claim that it is "clear" that one can swap "Jew" for "Israeli" in that quotation, and on the other you go on to say that using the word Jew is "provocative, but not outright wrong", which implies that this post is directed therefore at all Jews, and that's basically fine by you in this context.
It's why Apple is the best at what they do. Their apps are consistent for years.
By "native version", I think that Cthulhu meant building "at" into the JS runtime, not writing "at" as a C extension and compiling it into native code.
Olx and Swiggy are huge in India.
why would that be true? Many things that are true are socially uncomfortable and are still known.

History is chock full of examples of things which others in the field (and society) hated but could not disprove, and then became well known. I can think, off the top of my head, examples in math, human biology, plant biology, psychology, and martial arts, (the last one due to the wonders of the internet). It seems to happen all the time.
The article specifically stated that Amazon managers were hiring unqualified people:

>Instead, Amazon managers are hiring people they otherwise wouldn't, or shouldn't, just so they can later fire them to hit their goal.

And as OP is correctly pointing out, that can't happen, because the bar raiser can veto any hire they think is unqualified. Or at least it can't happen without the bar raiser colluding - and since the bar raiser is not the hiring manager (or even from the same part of the organization as the hiring manager) and they are not being evaluated on the UAR, they have no incentive for this.

If, as you suggest, managers were hiring _qualified_ people with the intent of firing them... I guess there's no way to prove that isn't happening but FWIW, I'm also at Amazon and have been part of a bunch of interviews and I've seen no evidence of that.
I’m in this position now. Nice person, is eager, but simply isn’t a high performer (or imho, even average).

They’re also a junior engineer (less than two years), so I’m still not sure if I should be looking to push them out.

My biggest uncertainty is what is an objective criteria and expectation for a junior engineer.

The fault is mine.
If anyone is aware about the numbers, how are their ecommerce and fintech ones doing in their markets? That space is quite competitive and a lot of well funded players.

Also, are the food ones profitable or loss making like most other food delivery startups?
Me too. I wouldn't be where I am today without it. That's such a strange thing to think about.

I got on AIM right around the time it came out, so tail end of high school for me. I had been doing some programming, linux, script kiddy, basic web development stuff for a few years but nothing too serious.

At some point I switched fully to Linux and couldn't use AIM anymore. I found gaim which was AIM-only at the time. I installed that and began using it and eventually ran into some bugs or missing features and decided to begin contributing.

This eventually led to me becoming an official part of the gaim team and, eventually, moving across the country to work and live together at a start-up in Southern California (they hired the team, as well as the lead developer from competing/friend project Everybuddy).

I eventually became lead developer of the project and continued to build out features and a development team. Managing/maintaining a popular open source project was such an impactful moment on my life, especially coming from a small rural town where I never really thought about things like that.

I ended up retiring from the project around the time the naming dispute was happening and the project was becoming Pidgin due, well, due to a few things, mostly burn out and some personal life issues, but was with the project in some fashion for about 9-10 years. Going to linux shows, doing a few interviews, working with and living with my friends, playing with linux / open source software all the time, having gaim-dev meetups, getting paid to do what I love... I was thinking about this a few weeks ago, but that timespan is my fondest. I have so many great memories from then and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

All that because of a chat program.
In a world with firearms it can mean survival of the best shot, the owner of the best weapons, or more likely the wealthy with their own militia. This is all in the absence of a state providing security. This happened many times in history, particularly the feudal era where feudal lords acted like a mini state, and often pledged allegiance to a larger state with a king.
>Why do you suppose that under conditions of perfect fairness we would see perfect equality? That's just not the case. Human talent is not sprinkled in the proportion in each person. You can achieve equality only through Harrison Bergeron measures. I'd rather have freedom.

The assumption here that perfect fairness is a perfect information meritocracy is an intellectual leap, and even if true belies the fact that what constitutes merit is defined by those who have power.

Is this perfect fairness outcome or opportunity based? Is the equality measured purely in terms of economic outcome or in terms of individual value maximization?

There's too much swept under the rug to generalize a model about the direction of society.
No, I'm saying the 36kW charger is unacceptable. A 150kW charger is the bare minimum that might be acceptable and you're adding about 10% to your travel time for recharging. 350 kW is still about an order of magnitude slower than filling an equivalent sized gas tank, but is probably fast enough.

And of course the fast charging capability is useless if it isn't along the route you need to travel. While we may not need quite as much coverage as gas stations, you definitely need regularly spaced stations along major routes like the interstates. It honestly doesn't even need to be a huge number - 4 stations spaced every hundred miles along the interstate system would only be 1900. It would take 27000 stations to get 1 for every hundred miles of paved road in the US, but that can come later as demand increases.
Huh always thought because of the blue LEDs it was electronic and dismissed it as "nice but would have been better if mechanical", turns out it it's actually a feat of mechanical clockmaking.
A few companies under the FAANG umbrella do monthly/quarterly vesting.
In my org, we did a lot of hiring (I was in hundreds of interview debriefs) and we saw mostly the same set of ~10 bar raisers for the debriefs, with occasional fill-ins to make scheduling easier.
The bar raiser decides “hire for Amazon at X level and role” and then the manager decides if they want that person on their team or not. If it’s a hire decision but manager declines the specific person they find another team instead.
You're speaking from a position of how the process is supposed to work, but not from how it actually does work. I think you seriously underestimate how much power an HM can have in the process if they have a little bit of experience.

In practice, the HM absolutely does make the decision. If the candidate is seriously "below the bar", then the BR might strongly assert that they will not be hired. But in reality, most BRs do not actually uphold a very high bar. The BR's main function is to act as a facilitator during the debriefs, but if the HR feels strongly one way or another, the BR will almost always back up the HM.

If an HM wants to hire someone just so they can fire them, all they have to do is find a mediocre candidate that a BR will not feel strongly about, and then during the debrief they just say that they know the needs of their team better than the BR does, and the BR will say "ok, I'll go along with your decision". It's as easy as that.

This is especially so on teams that use the same BR over and over - hiring teams can actually influence which BR they use for loops, so if they find one that consistently disagrees with the HM, they can simply just find a new BR that is more agreeable.
I can't recall who said this, but one suggestion that has worked for me is to listen to a certain genre exclusively for 30 days. Country, Hip-Hop, House, various kinds of Classical. At the end of 30 days I always have songs that I really like, and kinda get the genre even if it's not going to replace my love for 80s trash rock.
It does autocomplete with types on that line, and yes, it’s really that cool.

Disclosure: I funded the development of version 2, and have written a large app using it. I am very happy with it, and believe it’s the best data fetching solution around.
Using Typescript,GraphQL-codegen, and Hasura, I can build correct-by-construction React apps. GraphQL-codegen & Hasura introspect the DB to type the query result, and typescript confirms my JS is not accessing any of those fields illegally.

It’s pretty killer to open GraphiQL, write a new query, drop it into a graphql file in my repo, rerun the codegen, and be able to have type safe operations on the queried data.

Also makes me completely unsure why anyone would want what the OP is but that’s ok
It also exists for the PinePhone. [1] [2] I'm looking forward to trying it when I receive it.

[1]: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:PinePhone

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCrGi8hsGhY
In general Nix is a huge step above Ansible for config management. They aren't even playing the same game. Ansible is an awkward syntax to generate a shell script, NixOps is a declarative deployment tool. (I wrote more about this in [1] if you are interested).

However one place that NixOps doesn't handle well is state. So for example if you want to run state mutating commands such as boot read-only, kill replication, then start replication on the other node it is a bit tedious. You could do this with multiple states. For example generate the "readonly" state and deploy it, then generate the "failed over" state. However there isn't great support sequencing these types of things as far as I am aware. But also a disclaimer that I haven't actually been in the situation where I needed to manage PostgreSQL with Nix so I haven't looked too closely at the options. I would love to hear someone with experience to share what they do.

[1] https://kevincox.ca/2015/12/13/nixos-managed-system/
I notice you don't decry the lack of female representation in classical music. Is that because you're sexist?
> How Philosophers Think

I thought they went for dinner and try to eat with one fork in each hand
Most sites could run on a single mid range machine. Top 500 sites could run on a small cluster of less than 10 machines. You have to balance work to external egress to intracluster bandwidth while accounting for your total random IOP budget.

A well tuned monolith is a beautiful thing.
I don't use trending topics in ordinary days. It helps me a lot when something important happened recently.

An important political speech, a big earthquake, bombing... For this kind of situations, Twitter trending topics help a lot, because it provides you the most up-to-date source of news.

When critical situations happen, your priority is getting the news live. Correctness, officialness are less important. I don't know a better way to get that kind of news other than trending topics.
You are addicted my friend. I'd suggest some sort of anti addiction therapy.
>Spotify and its fellows allow us to constantly switching [sic] track [sic], always trying to hit the next “high”. Have you ever noticed that after while no music satisfies you?

No?

The author sounds like such a condescending, self-congratulatory and ill-informed asshole. I don't understand how this is upvoted here at all.
Try Megadeth or Pantera, they are even more musically interesting.
India fell in, then out of love with Twitter
Yeah people freaking out over getting "cancelled" due to political views are missing the more mundane way this could be used to retaliate against students posting shit in general about the university.
> Try covering dynamic-sized image with an svg surface.

You could embed the dynamic-sized image within an svg, perhaps even a fully dynamic inline svg.

> Try outlining a hovered element so that outline/shadow covers other items around. Try to baseline align text in non-shallow div hierarchy

I mean at some point you need to use JS. Still, IMHO it's quite amazing how far you can go with a purely declarative language. That also means a myriad of side effects including smooth reflow being taken care of automatically as long as best-practices are followed. Is there any way to write these examples completely declaratively in GTK+/Cairo, NSView or QPainter?
I believe Fraunhofver did a pretty rigorous scientific test that established the CD transparency quality to be around 256kbps mp3. I don't dispute or doubt that.

However, obvious encoding artifacts abound on Spotify. Do I have a superhuman hearing?

Probably not. My hypothesis is that not everyone authors lossy files as meticulously as Fraunhofver. Also, the performance of mp3 depends on a highly linear and faithful reproduction after decoding. Mp3 is painfully obvious on crappy, processed-to-hell speaker systems like the iMac.

I think the real question is, why bother with lossy codecs? FLAC streams are lightweight by today's standards, and it's just so much simpler.
Well yes, I understand that. The point is that your model predicts the current landscape of funds as being about as likely as pigs flying.
I think there are two answers: the bad answer is that people think of interviews as school finals, with all the same connotations about potential for cheating, cramming, memorization-without-retention, etc.

The good answer (IMHO) is that the format allows the interviewer to evaluate how a candidate deals with prioritizing conflicts of interest (i.e. the desire to write clean code vs desire to just get something out due time constraints pressure). It also opens up opportunities to explore refactoring, whereas a primed candidate might just bang out "perfect" code the first time around, and not leave much room for evaluating their iterative process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370372
History is littered with examples. But for China's ambitions, maybe it will depend on the nature of their alliances by then (2050 is their goal).

There's a complicated relationship with Russia vis a vis scientific collab in space, and now we're entering the openly militarized age of space. Russia's relations with China, meanwhile, are improving.

Besides, the nature of domination going forward, in any kinetic sense, won't involve nukes, bayonets, bow and arrow, or the like, except as backup offensive strats. Could involve, say, leaking a virus from a lab.

The nature of global domination may be far less violent than we've seen, historically, but certainly has the potential to be far more insidious.

I'd much rather do my part helping the West maintain their incumbent role. As for Snowdon/surv topics: everyone did it, everyone does it, espionage is the 2nd oldest profession.

May I ask if you support China's ongoing initiative to reclaim Taiwan? They seem to be willing to use force to do so.
Name me two.

And I've read some Plato some years ago. I would not classify him as a clear thinker by any remotely modern standards.
I envy you... my client has a horrible process with lots of manual steps and prod deployment every two weeks.

Can you describe at a high level your development toolset, CI/CD toolchain and workflow, and deployment environment?
I bet Microsoft's "Low Code" turns out to be "Slow Code".
You mean https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix?
I believe a file was built up on me by the “Student Conduct” department and an individual from there reached out.

I agree it was extremely odd.
Just ask Kevin Systrom.
Last time I tried this, the NixOS Live USB still requires network connectivity to install. Is there some way to create an ISO or Live USB that installs completely offline?
I do that for my work machine which is a MacBook Pro.

You still need to install most GUI apps through the normal non-Nix procedure.

You also won't be able to use the Git module in home manager since that will use a version of Git that doesn't understand some MacOS specific customizations, mostly surrounding Keychain if i recall correctly.

Most packages just work on MacOS but it's not a first class citizen and there are always more packages broken for Darwin than Linux.

But I'll say it again, I tend to dabble in plenty of programming languages and often run software that's a bit off the beaten path and Home Manager and Nix on MacOS work 95% of the time for me.
_Somebody_ wins it every week.
To me, it seems that Github has become more proactive (or hair-trigger) in pulling down content via DMCA in the recent years. This could be down to companies finally figuring out that you can DMCA code repos, but I can't help thinking that the Microsoft acquisition was a factor.