skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s striking that command of written language could be considered an “unfair” expectation in a cerebral, white-collar job.

In a not-very-distant cultural landscape that’s the baseline. Show up on time looking presentable, read, write, summarize, make deductions, discuss. All the domain specific stuff is taught on the job.
I did triplebyte most recently in mid 2019 and that was my experience as well. I used triplebyte as well as job searching on my own and I got a few offers from triplebyte, some of which seemed like interesting projects but couldn't offer a level of compensation that would make the risk worth it. I got two high-quality job offers from my own search, both of which were more compelling than any of the triplebyte offers and I am still with the company whose offer I accepted.

The "super week" of onsite interviews was interesting, probably increased my overall interviewing skill, but was probably one of the more stressful individual weeks in my life.
I like this direction and I'm rooting for you now but it's tough when I can't even fill out the Basic Information section because of a bug in which the form won't submit even though there are no errors.
> Apparently the only qualification should be whether the candidate can do contrived coding tests and programming jeopardy, but whether you actually want to work with them is beside the point!

Yeah, different companies want different things and are ok with different things. My best experiences have been with companies that have taken less than 2 weeks to hire me with no testing whatsoever: just a couple of calls. Other companies want and only select for the contrived coding tests and programming jeopardy, and that's fine, but I want nothing to do with them at all.

I would be interested in using triplebyte if they explored something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27545446

Maybe even allowing 3rd parties to bet on specific hiring decisions (in addition to what is described in the link) could add another layer of incentivized feedback loops to the process (esp if the people making the hire/fire before 3 months are made known) and add another layer of market driven signals for them to pay attentions to. Maybe make it more expensive to chase certain types that are in higher demand, and less expensive to chase others types that are in low demand (not the salary to the employee, just the payment for filtering). Maybe less expensive for shorter refund windows, and more expensive for longer refund windows.
I don't care about the airlines, they're increasing medical costs for the whole system. Obese people have a greater incidence of injury and illness than the non obese population. When the percentage of obese people increases, it furthers the strain on the medical system. This ends up increasing costs and wait times while decreasing quality of service.
OSRM allows you to make considerable customizations using your own Lua routing profile, even pulling in your own data sources into the mix.
Pretty much the only phone you have real control over and can buy with any moderate reliabilty is the pinephone. There absolutely is a shortage. Oh sure you can put a hacked rom on an Android but you can do the same with the iPhone. Even then you don't have control because the closed drivers are coupled to the userspace and there's a bunch of crap you can't get rid of combined with Google play and you effectively don't have much control at all.

> I quite enjoy having next to no concerns about my iPhone and whether some malicious software is going to screw me over.

I feel the same way on my pinephone and also know I'm not getting screwed over by Apple.
Perhaps the call should be "Airspeed $X knots thus alive"
to demonstrate that the airspeed is readable.
Unlike cannabis and immigration status, there’s a real constitutional amendment involved. I’m interested in the arguments that somehow treat the three of these differently. (Pro-cannabis-choice, anti-immigration-hypocrisy here.)
This is why Cardano smart contracts will be so strong in August. The language running underneath it all is Haskell, a functional programming language where you can prove the code will work as intended. You won't have to constantly put out fires like in Solidity.
> More readable and writeable, and probably more popular in the past fifteen years.

You're confusing PHP's general popularity for web development with it's popularity as a command-line scripting language. There's no way PHP is more popular than Perl for non-web scripting. Unlike Perl, PHP was never designed as a general purpose language.

Try writing a PHP script which has to parse command line options. It ain't pretty. Python, Ruby and Perl were designed for this. PHP was not.

PHP is extremely fast for scripts written in raw, procedural PHP but its shared nothing design makes it a liability with large frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony. In many tech empower benchmarks Django and Rails are listed ahead of Laravel.
Perhaps educating recreational users about safe dosing is important when it comes to harm reduction? 500mg dose in a non tolerant individual would cause serious issues, they didn't get there overnight.
Also, nested sets and materialized paths have been around forever to do graphs inside SQL.
Airspeeder eVTOL racing series makes historic first flight
On to Taiwan
A number of people have touched on the fact that comments (even 'obvious' ones) provide boundaries, context and intent. I very much agree with this, with a couple of additional comments somewhat particular to embedded development:

- Compared to most user facing development, where probably >75% of code is purely for interaction (and potentially more repetitive, obvious, and readable), a LOT of embedded code is not so readable, and quite often context is key. Good comments (even on apparently obvious code) almost always carry some context (why do this here, and why in this order, why the specific delay before reading the ADC, etc)

- Because almost all the code is in some way business logic, it is definitely easier at times to read the flow of comments, rather than work out directly from the code which register someone is trying to set, and why, or why some seemingly arbitrary value is being incremented (that is actually being read by a parallel task somewhere else)

- As always, good comments are as much for yourself six months from now, as for the guy replacing you 6 years from now. Sometimes, it is just a good way to document your thought process, as well as provide reasonably up to date system documentation, since ACTUAL design documentation almost always gets neglected.

Basically - comment as much as you can, and as much as you need. Try and keep it up to date. It doesn't matter if it's seemingly obvious, or discussing the reasoning behind a particular architectural decision. Nobody I know has ever complained about too many comments, and if anything, more would have always been better.
Do you like any of the lower cost options, or do you think folks should be looking at, say, Ettus Research?
Yes, that was my point--when the author said spatial audio was not bluetooth compatible, they were likely confusing that of Lossless HD Audio.
Just restart the script and send it to all 150k people, then just send the apology to the whole list.
I find the 95% figure hilarious, frankly. As if 95% of any population on the face of the planet could agree on anything, much less a population of over a billion.

It being as high as it is tells me it's fake. Not fake as in falsified directly, but definitely fake in that the citizens opinions are manipulated via information control. The later makes perfect sense with the 10% figure for local governments. You can lie to people about how things are going far away, but you can't lie to them about how they're going in their backyard.
Badge of honor to be honest. Even if HBO Max fired me I would forever be stoked to be "that guy/gal" who sent out an integ test message to the entire userbase.
Why did you consider it necessary to link there? I'm genuinely curious.
I was building a system to call patients and remind them of doctors appointments. This was hooked to a T1 I think, with dozens of phone lines. Naturally, we tested this with our own phone numbers. One evening I get a call reminding me of a fake appointment, and while I listen to the reminder and enjoy knowing I built this... I get a call waiting notification (and you know the rest)

... (but I'll say the rest anyway). The system was using dozens of phone lines to call me and leaving multiple voice messages simultaneously. I considered myself reminded.
You still get preemption at the thread level.
What you're arguing for is task preemption, and it has a global cost. If you're willing to pay global costs, Rust is probably not the right language for you.
Seems Coca Cola Co should have placed a Smartwater instead to stay in brand and maybe even have him want to drink it.
I think it is clearly framed as a last resort rather than standard treatment:

> Here’s someone who was totally untreatable by the normal methods, with a debilitating condition, and a drop-dead simple intervention that nobody else had thought of gave her her life back.
Should come with a disclaimer - It is addictive. Once you click the link, be prepared to spend 10minutes...
I'm in the process of doing something about my symptoms that as far as I'm aware are ADHD, and people have said that to me, but I reckon I could be at least 5x more productive with help. The number of unpushed branches on my machine is proof of that.
I mean the red states have mostly been doing this with abortion rights
Efficient and Robust Lidar-Based End-to-End Navigation
I wonder how widespread this is outside Amazon. Compare it to, say, Google: In Bay Area, the cultural influence of Google is strong both in good and bad ways. Things like OKR, monorepo, snippets, go links etc. seem to be adopted by many younger companies. I don't think it means these cultural artifacts are always superior. It'd be more about familiarity for ex-Google employees.

There must be a lot of ex-Amazon talents, but I haven't heard or read this outside the context of Amazon. If this is unique to Amazon, why?

Maybe the book "Working Backwards" [1] is changing the situation? I'm very curious, and honestly, a bit envious.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Working-Backwards-Insights-Stories-Se...
I overstated things. Sorry.

A syscall that does literally nothing can still have a latency as observed from userspace that is vastly faster than the hardware latency of a fast SSD, though Spectre and friends have slowed this down a bit.

However, when comparing the latency as observed from userspace of syscalls that actually do significant work and cause stuff to happen, such as shepherding an IO request through the various layers to get down to the actually submitting commands to the hardware, then you usually do start talking about latencies that are on a similar order of magnitude to fast SSDs.

In particular, if you're trying to minimize IO latency, the kernel can no longer afford to put a CPU core to sleep or switch to run another task while waiting for the IRQ signalling that the SSD is done. The interrupt latency followed by the context switch back to the kernel thread that handles the IO completion is a substantial delay compared to spinning in that thread until the SSD responds.
? HackRF is a $100 SDR with TX capability, there is nothing below its price with comparable capability.
I worked at a shop with a psycho-in-chief who thought he was Frank Underwood on House of Cards. Internal competitions were one of his favorite things, but he generally had a pre-ordained winner.

In one example we had two teams asked to deliver the same calculation enginer:
- Team A: 1 dev, ~1000 lines of code, ~ 3 months but in a tech he personally hated
vs
- Team B: 15 dev, project manager, 100k lines of code, 18 months.. and they stole someone from Team A to basically explain the business logic to them

Team Bs solution was also on delivery 10x slower.
Team B won.

A year later once he was gone, it was all scrapped and given back to Team A.
Yep, you nailed it.
It sounds a bit like you personally reached high status, then discovered that status is hollow. Was that a big part of it?

Do you think you would have been as disappointed if you had ignored your goals and settled for a more “normal” life?
Seems like there's a pretty big difference between two groups duplicating the work of a handful of engineers, like in your query engine example, and billion dollar programs like in the article. My personal favorite example of the former were workflow systems; somewhere around 2009 Google had like 15 different ones. But obviously the reason was that nobody had foreseen such a need early enough, a lot groups ended up building their own solutions, and with so much fragmentation none of them could reach critical mass organically.

In terms of large scale and crippling internal competition, Nokia comes to mind with their utterly non-cooperating consumer vs. business mobile phone divisions back in the day.
So what’s your big plan? Sounds like fatalism to me, and I’m not buying it. China is just the latest authoritarian government to look unstoppable from the outside just like the USSR once did. It does not have the internal agility necessary to thrive long term. Already China’s diplomatic “wolf warriors” are making fools of China on the international stage, and China is increasingly unable to pragmatically adjust. This ossification will continue under Xi.
Someone has not worked on wall street
I am simultaneously sad and a bit relieved that others are also struggling with a problem that I thought was uniquely mine!

This is genuinely just an example of bad management and bad workplace politics. If the code is working and checks all the boxes, nobody in the organization should be allowed to say "I personally do not want your code to be deployed", especially if other developers dont face such restrictions.

The simple solution is to leave, but I am growing tired of job hopping. If I can land a job as a lead, or at least a place that has autonomy, I am pledging not to do such things to those "beneath" me, as if that word was even true.
The internet makes the process a lot easier because of the fast feedback loop.

In reference to COVID... nobody was prepared for distance learning because why would they?
I’m autistic too, and I think what happens is that autistic people who also happen to be brilliant are not expected to learn how to interact well with others to the same extent that autistic folk of average intelligence are, so it ends up being on them whether they care enough about being kind and gentle to others to learn how to interact congenially. I know a lot of autistic people and most of them are nice but some of the more clever ones are indeed rude and socially inept. They also invariably believe that their rudeness is an inescapable aspect of their brilliance, but knowing a lot of brilliant people, autistic and not, this is just untrue.
The problem is more than half of the children live in poverty. Maybe making sure they can eat is a better first step.
That’s excellent news. The included scripting languages in macOS have always been a nuisance to deal with.

I agree that they keep something like python2 around for scripting, but that’s about it. Having to get around the included languages is a bitch every time I’m trying to set up a development environment.
I've found what always works there is

var string = "";

instead of

String string = "";

My teammates waste their time focusing on the most inane things.
That precedent is called the 10th Amendment. And it didn't have anything to do with sanctuary whatevers.
I got two of them, and I was like "Test works."
Modi is a wicked man. It’s really sad what’s happening in India.

I wouldn’t say India is several decades behind China on all fronts, though. Cultural exports (Bollywood) are on par with China. It’s hard to produce exportable culture under severe authoritarian regimes.
Windy Maps is a pretty good fork too, and from a company with good engineering resources.
Generally a link to the document is sent out earlier in the day. That way folks who are inclined can read ahead and comment. The slackers still get time to read the doc at the start of the meeting so they’re not completely in the dark.
> ... any large enough nation state could do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM
The writing was on the wall well before it was even handed over. England was in no position to defend the island after the lease on the New Territories ended, nor are they capable of doing anything to prevent the CCP from slowly eroding institutions in Hong Kong now. Everyone else has little to no skin the game to risk anything significant. Their only hope was the belief that the economic development of China would usher in democratic reforms, which hasn't happened.

England never had any leverage in negotiations, so it makes sense that the CCP wouldn't care or honor anything because they correctly predicted that repercussions would be minimal. Over time, the importance of Hong Kong as a financial and economic hub/ gateway to China has waned substantially, so now the instability in the region isn't as costly anymore. The incentives were never there for the CCP to act in good faith.

It is incredibly unfortunate what is happening, but realistically it was only a matter of time before these things happened, the terms they agreed upon weren't much more than window dressing to allow England to exit gracefully.
More than half. And now it got worse because lots of child used to eat once a day in school but schools are closed.
I think that question applies equally to both parties.
I almost applied to Triplebyte, but at the time they were Bay Area only, and I needed a remote job. The most important part of a job search is to avoid wasting time, so I stayed away. (But I would have used them if I was in the Bay Area.)

What am I looking for?

1: I want my skills evaluated in a standard way by some neutral licensing board, just like engineers who build dams or surgeons.

2: I want job interviews based on mutual interest, not proving competency.

3: I want my colleagues to be certified, just like me.

4: I want legal standards in place that give me leverage against employers who are cutting corners, or managers who "know enough to be dangerous."

Example: My wife, a doctor, had to go through an intense process to be certified. The vast majority of medical school graduates pass certification. She only applied for a handful of jobs. The interview was based on mutual interest because the certification process proved she was competent. All her colleagues are competent, and her hospital is well run. There are legal guidelines that make it hard for her hospital to cut corners or make her do something unethical.
Yes, that is why people feel that what was done to Native Americans was wrong. By which I mean that Americans believe it was wrong. It was also 200 years ago, and no explicit treaty had been signed to another world power granting them rights (the French and Spanish sold them out).

Unless you think it was right and the Big Stick is right, then HK is more than tragic. It is a violation of international treaty and of human rights.
The potential stickiness of pandemic-induced behavior changes in the USA
This 2005 (claimed to be from Mountain Gazette in the late 70s) repro includes some hiker nostalgia.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic%20id=6867...

More discussion: [http://www.whitneyzone.com/wz/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/to...]
Glock did crazy deals early on, letting US police departments trade-in their existing used guns from other makers for new Glocks at minimal or no cost.

Glock could afford to do it because Glocks are cheap to make due to the brilliantly simple design, with a manufacturing cost lower than the resale value of the used guns they were accepting.

Soon Glock owned the US police market, and that gave them the credibility to win in the US domestic market at full price.
I hear you, but I don't think the article is that specific.. It's an internal article.. I happen to agree. Along the lines of Era, a greek, you could put stoicism in there. But writing about it wouldnt be stoic.

Are you looking for a 'proof' of his claim ?
What a Kafkaesque situation. Really gives new meaning to the word "Kafkaesque."
Parrot vs. Machine Learning
For some reason I don’t relive in the sincerity of those apologies. You have an adult who acted as a*le for a whole life. They were told it multiple times. They saw other people cried.

And now they finally apologizing when s*t hit thr fan. Sure. I’m also wondering whether sociopathy has something to do with this.

The blog post claims multiple incidents, not a single one.
You have ~20 GFlops videocore + 4 ARM cores (around Core2 performance)
That's great news. I have been running Bullseye on my Thinkpad x260 for a while now and it's been bug-free and a pleasure. Looking forward to switching to the next testing and onto the next two years!
404: Code Not Found. Man’s Gotta Have A Code.
But I got it, and I’ve never had an HBO account or a DirecTV account.
This. I think most people devs, including low skill, understand Fizzbuzz, but performing on the spot is just very difficult for many people.

Its the same reason why a top notch, genious writer can turn out to be terrible at giving speeches, even if they're reading from a script.

Performing an interview is a different skill from writing code.
Square does not support PIN entry for US Debit or EBT Cash/Food cards, this appears to only be a feature in countries where Chip & PIN are mandatory: https://squareup.com/ca/en/townsquare/debit-is-here
Haven written many 6-pagers, PRFAQs, and other written narrative formats then centering the meeting around the written documents, the writer should write for the audience and the allotted time for reading and discussing. New people may have less to contribute in the moment, but now they can read and research it later for contributions.
Hopefully this is a good lesson for the US because I see their media going the same way. Try voicing any opposition to the Democratic Party's point of view and you're done. No PayPal, no bank account, no social media profiles, people forced to cut ties with you, you get fired from your job.

Before 2019, Hong Kong was probably one of the freest places on Earth in terms of what you can say and do (no elections though).
As much as I feel this write up is a self reflection, its useful. I appreciate the time you took to talk it out. You expressed yourself really well.
Depending on the time period, it's pretty easy to clean out nice well patterned spam like that these days. In the days of yester-year, it could be a largely manual process.

In AOL one prank was to flood someone with emails because it was difficult to remove them, IIRC and needed to be done almost one by one.
They didn't have a choice. It was either rejoin China or get their water cut off.
It does give the noise figure though.
I think you mean East Germany, but I think you are right... and if Russia came back for East Germany now, there would be a war and it would likely go nuclear, because it is part of a powerful neighboring country. HK's neighbor is who took over.
And those initial buyers need to swallow their pride and losses.

Seems everything is a 'hustle' now. Lumber prices are increasing, go to the local hardware store and hoard up. Hold and sell for higher prices.

Such a sorry state. I blame social media for this. Young impressionable minds are being spoil by the myriad of videos showing a young fit youtuber / instagrammer promising millions by doing X Y Z. The first X always is to pay them money.

And you have a large number of young gens who are always looking out for 'deals'.

Even the startup sector has come to this point.

That the target of a startup is to get acquired, is appalling in itself.

Such a waste and loss to society.