skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that too, and when you combine it with "Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform" it means they aren't doing great with the rate either.
She's a woman in a man's world. It's much more socially acceptable to say "I'm depressed" than to say "Doors don't open for me even though I am doing all the things I get told I should do to make them open and I'm doing my best and nothing really works anyway. It's demoralizing."

Women have long been given prescriptions for antidepressants in cases where "divorce" might have been a better prescription and so on.

And you eventually get beat down by it. Even if it remains clear in your mind that your gender is a factor in things not working even though you work hard and do what you get told is the right thing to do and yadda, you eventually learn that saying it out loud not only will not get you any remedy, it will get you nothing but open hostility from other people.
Nocode Tools I would still use despite knowing how to program
Nixon was a comic book villain. China executes political prisoners and sells their organs. What China does has no baring on sensible drug policy; quite the opposite.
Artsey – One-Handed Keyboard
In the vast majority of cases, OP did not check (or even define) edge cases, race conditions, memory usage, network activity, etc etc etc.
Spot on, mate!
$272 million dollars could buy a lot of lawyer hours.
Invasive “jumping” worms are here to stay
I was pretty happy with triplebyte from the hiring side. Slogging through candidates with good looking resumes that couldn’t actually program was expensive for my employer and unpleasant for me. TB took care of that first big cut down.

I guess they didn’t hit product-market fit with candidates. Two sided markets are tough.
I am in the difficult position where discusing my internal states too deeply is a significant trigger for downwards spirals. It doesn't mean I don't need have those conversations, but I do need to be careful about when and with whom I have those conversations.
Generally speaking:

- Listening is typically OK (with some exceptions).

- Transmitting is a minefield, and you could interfere with critical systems, cause outages, and get in trouble. Imagine interfering with aircraft communication systems on accident because there’s an airport nearby. Things can get pretty serious pretty quickly.
The OP link is blocked for me (work VPN) but seeing the title immediately made me think of "Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?" https://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Why-There-Server-House/dp/16053...
>We don't, for example need to have such a lot of disposable packaging, we don't need to farm the way we do etc

Ok, innovate a way to ship items across the world while keeping them from spoiling, getting damaged and make it so they're received in a timely manner. I'd also like to see how you can feed an entire planet with 1st world standards and not farm the way we do.

Just a hunch but my guess is you'll be no where near as efficient or viable as you think you would. I'm gonna place my trust in experts and not arm-chair internet activists.

The only reason you're even able to sit around and consider things like this IS because we've innovated to the point that your base needs are met without you having to lift a finger.

So, yes we should always strive to be better but you also need to take a few moments and realize the sort of advancements it took to put you in a position to consider issues like packaging/factory farming instead of where you're going to get your next meal or drink of water.
"The helmets, he says, will allow people to finally take their mental health seriously." Anyone else having Theranos flashbacks?
Smart contracts don’t protect you from being sued. So, now you need both lawyers and programmers while still risking losing everything.
What xAAS (x-As-A-Service) would you like to build?
Developers are always innovating on converting software into SAAS. What are some things you would like to build or see being built as a service ? For example, FFMPEG as a service etc ?
"there's nothing in the Bible about access to broadband internet"
I read the whole thing. That's why I have the question. So they used to have messages send to everyone (websocks?), now they have the messages persistent in different channels for people to consume. Isn't this just different entry points of a Rest API?
Maybe the new ALB and NLB don't support it, I didn't go digging into their docs, but the "normal" ELBs allege to be able to do what you're describing: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/clas... (search for "To use a custom SSL security policy" because it's not an HTML anchor :-(
Miles Davis could be unforgiving in his critics, but I like to think that his ability to change his mind allowed artists he ripped apart to not take it personally.

Take for instance his comments on Dolphy, who was by then already considered very gifted by the likes of Charles Mingus and John Coltrane:

http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_3.html
That's got to be Eric Dolphy - nobody else could sound that bad! The next time I see him I'm going to step on his foot. You print that. I think he's ridiculous. He's a sad motherfucker.

Then the irony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Dolphy
Carter, Hancock and Williams would go on to become one of the quintessential rhythm sections of the decade, both together on their own albums and as the backbone of Miles Davis's second great quintet. This aspect of the second great quintet is an ironic footnote for Davis, who was critical of Dolphy's music: in a 1964 Down Beat "Blindfold Test", Miles quipped: "The next time I see [Dolphy] I'm going to step on his foot."[57] However, Davis new quintet's rhythm section had all worked under Dolphy, thus creating a band whose brand of "out" was strongly influenced by Dolphy.
There's an nice episode of a Wyoming PBS series that covers similar work in Wyoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyD74vNdcc.
I wish I could upvote your comment more, but putting it in my bookmarks will have to do for now.
It's enough time for most people to exit during normal circumstances. Sometimes longer periods are used. Definitely better than nothing.

In this case people wouldn't have been able to exit due to the bug, correct.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We ban that sort of account. Fortunately you don't appear to have a history of that, but please don't go there here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This was really great. I would like to see more content like this.
Imagine if the nice perfectly planned solution would have gotten the build time down to 5 seconds and been done next month, but it now never would be implemented because 1 minute was considered good enough.
Until Notion starts encrypting my data end-to-end it is just non-viable. The temptation is too great if the data is just sitting there on their infra to start poking around and gain "customer insights" and "add value".
There are other cases where society punish people before they commit a crime. We punish people from driving under the influence, even if the drug has yet to cause an accident. Society and the majority of the populace has generally decided that the risk to society is bad enough to make it illegal.

Under the process of law making, a lot of things has been made illegal because it adds a risk to society. From a simplistic perspective it is just risk management, with risk on one side and the cost of the mitigation on the other side. It is not necessary any ideology behind it, and thus the removal of one costly mitigation strategy can have little impact on other strategies that are less costly.
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> Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform, and that means we can flip the script on companies. The collective power of thousands of engineers is enough to change their incentives in a way that individual engineers cannot.

Copying this from the article. Doesn't this sound like a union? Unions generally lead to mediocrity though.
> No idea where the author got the information they wouldn't.

Being misinformed.

Apple Lossless HD Audio, which was recently announced, is not currently supported by wireless (read: bluetooth) headphones.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN and please not use HN for ideological or political battle? Those things destroy the type of site we're trying for here, so we ban accounts that do them. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: actually your account has been doing these things so overwhelmingly that I've banned it for now. I hate to ban an account that posted a good comment like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26421426, but when the rate is that low we have little choice. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Very well said. As Immortal Technique said, in the North American legal system, "it's better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent." If the state chooses to prosecute, it's impossible (edit - for most people) to match their resources unless you're both incredibly lucky and prepared to have to start over from $0 after the trial with no job.
You should tell him to get in contact with the CDC or with researchers again. I'm sure an epidemiologist would be very interested.
>“If you went to a cardiologist and they asked you how your heart feels, you would think they are crazy,” Johnson says. “You would ask them to measure your blood pressure and your cholesterol and all of that.”"

Depending on what condition you're suspected to have that's a perfectly reasonable question, but that aside this showcases the tendency for reductionism that has become prevalent.

The mind is not equivalent to the brain, and neither is comparable to a mechanical device. The better analogy to the statement from Johnson is, if you wanted to inspect software you certainly would not start to turn transistors on your hardware upside down, or if you wanted to get insights into a Dostoevsky novel you wouldn't start to inspect printer-ink on the pages.

For some purely physical ailment of the brain better scanning techniques may very well be a good thing, but 90% of what his project seems to be about has little to do with the physical brain and a lot to do with studying emergent phenomena of the human mind, in which case getting lost in brain chemistry is probably not that helpful, and at worst seems to lead to a sort of ML-powered craniometry.
I’m not sure I understand calling this a “dead end”. Almost no one limits themselves to pure ANSI SQL. Pretty much any application of reasonable size in production uses vendor specific APIs. A “quasi-standard” is not a standard.

I was thinking more about technical reasons in terms of the storage layer. The query syntax seems to be the least interesting part of a database, to be perfectly honest.
It’s one or two 13 bits samples from the ADC padded out to 32 bits. True 32 bit ADCs do not exist.
No, this isn't a Ponzi scheme. That's the only thing I've said. I think you believe "Ponzi scheme" and "scheme" are interchangeable.

Usually the go-to lazy catchphrase is "we're just arguing semantics!" but "semantic definitions" is new.
What's special about these frequencies to exclude them? 2398.5-2400 MHz and 2483.5-2485 MHz

Unless that was meant to be 2483.5-2495 which is something called "Globalstar".
Any experienced crypto investor knows that putting money into an unaudited contract that's less than a few months old is basically throwing that money away. There is another side to this, though, which is that protocols than have been around for a year or more without problems are quite trustworthy and become important building blocks for DeFi.
My beard is gray. I tend to apply Occam’s razor. The problem with code is almost never a bug in the compiler.

The simplest explanation for your experience is not Google being incompetent.

I have read AskHN’s written a bit later under similar facts. The consultant is trying to get their own account reinstated because they made a new account on behalf of a client experiencing “arbitrary” mistreatment.

Outside of that, the market for consulting clients is a market for lemons. Good clients already have consultants. Those consultants hang onto good clients like grim death.

I could be misreading what you wrote. You might not have written down something that would change my take.

Maybe this is not a situation where you pay the dumb tax. But everyone pays it sometimes.

As for paranoia: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challen...
The argument is probably that while they are the best qualified to know whether it solved their issue, they're not qualified about whether it was the best way to solve their issue, since they had to ask in the first place.
I assume you have two eyes, right? What happens when you close one eye and only have monocular vision?

Not much, but it's a lot harder to judge distances correctly. You still can, if you use outside knowledge and perspective, but it's less accurate.

Same for stereo hearing. With two ears it's easier to locate where a sound is coming from. With one ear you can tell if something at constant volume is moving away or moving towards you based on loudness. With two ears you can tell if something at constant volume is stationary or circling around you.

Unfortunately I don't think there are words to describe it. You "just know", because it's an unconscious brain thing.

You could sort of simulate it by rotating your head 180 degrees and noticing how the sound changes. People with two working ears can do this without moving their head.

The effect for music is mostly: it's easier to separate instruments even if they are the same volume, if they are in different spatial locations so the brain can filter against it. Stuff can sound less "cluttered, muddy", but it doesn't help as much as you think in recordings because you as a listener can't move the microphone. I think it would be a bigger deal in small live shows, or music performed in virtual reality where a 3D engine can calculate the audio delay appropriately for each ear, and that difference is relevant because you the listener are close to the musician and possibly moving relative to them.
How many were thinking about quitting before being asked?
It becomes a question of how expensive the message passing is between cores versus the context switch overhead - especially in a world where switching privilege levels has been made expensive by multiple categories of attack against processor speculation.

Is there a middle ground where io_uring doesn't require the mitigations but other syscalls do?
Other F-Droid users here might know that the previously existing fork of Maps.me (called "Maps") apparently stopped providing data files. Perhaps they're unable to continue hosting. (In any case, I appreciate their work.)

So, it's exciting that there's another option available again.
What are the tax implications of this? Is that $8 income?
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> We got jobs for over 1000 engineers

Triplebyte has existed for, what, 4 years? That actually doesn't sound like very many.

> Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform

Hmm.
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I've always thought triplebyte was interesting, I did a first online interview with them while finishing school but basically had an offer from a large company in hand by that time and haven't looked for a new job since. I think they should try and pull people who indicate they are interested into attractive job searches, I mostly care about compensation as long as a company is decent.
If you want to put candidates in control, build a CRM tool. When a recruiter pings me on LinkedIn or emails me, I have a URL I can send them to with an intake form. No more calls wasting my time, I can see the company/role/salary/etc. up front.

The trick here is you need to figure out a business model where you don't take money from employers, because once you do its just the long slide to becoming a shittier LinkedIn.
This is what happens when a central authority is controlling the economy. Everyone should know that free markets can allocate resources better than any central planner, but still somehow those economists think that we need central bank policies to control the whole thing. Central planning might be appeling idea especially for those who benefit from it, and provides unlimited avenues for complex economic theories, but it just doesn't work in the long run.
Roughly, yes
tomte, why do you keep resubmitting these old things over?

Recent discussion on this one's last submission was not even a year ago
Another voice in the fray, I also did well enough to bypass the technical screen. Interviewed with four companies they recommended. Picked one. Still with them two(-ish) years later and an outspoken advocate.

It's a tricky situation because you have to balance being accepting of people with non-traditional backgrounds while also making sure they can do the basics. I liked that TripleByte could condense DAYS of interviews into a few hours.

In general, long tech screens are hard on people that can't afford to take off a full day, so it's tricky for people already working in crushing jobs that need a change. The TripleByte quiz worked nicely for this.

On the flip side, if their tech screen is filtering people for reasons other than ability, it's removing possibly good candidates who deserve a shot at something.

The new approach is sounding like it's trying to satisfy the latter, which is good for improving inclusivity, but won't be to everyone's liking.
I’ve had this idea about using IPFS via buses and bus stops to disseminate data around.

Probably impractical, India 4G connections seem to have been very succeful.
This is outstanding!
Haha my thoughts exactly..
Similarly, I used to get anxious about if I'd turned off the lights, locked the door, made sure the oven was off, etc at night. So now I count one number for each "thing" I do, and I know that I need to count up to 5 to "prove" I did it. Then, later in bed, I know I checked the front door because I know I counted to 5.

You'd expect this would transfer to the "well, are you sure you counted", but I'm never actually anxious about that. I think it works similarly to mnemonics, where the simple act of making a mnemonic for something makes it memorable, and it doesn't matter if it's a good mnemonic or not. In this case, I have "proof" I have done the things that make me anxious, and it doesn't matter if it's "good" proof or not, I just don't feel the anxiety.
Uh, I think he got downvoted for being wrong, not for being reasonable. The US used to execute people who were minors when they committed their offense, but no longer does. It was abolished by the Supreme Court in 2005, and the last time it happened was in 2003 (the execution of a 32 year old man who, when he was 17, deliberately burned two people to death.) So his information is almost two decades out of date.

The 2005 SCOTUS decision abolishing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_v._Simmons
To put some hard numbers to this: further down this thread, there's a post about how "any engineer" could answer a question the poster thinks is too easy. I looked up the question in our back end and, in fact, barely a third of people who take our quiz get it right (the correct answer isn't even the most common one!).

That's maybe a little unfair (plenty of people who aren't engineers take our quiz out of curiosity), but the basic point here - that companies are frustrated because they keep getting fizzbuzz-incapable applicants - is more-or-less accurate. That has been (and continues to be) a big part of our offering on the other side of our platform: in the same way that we can provide data about company behavior to engineers, we can provide independent verification of an applicant's skills to companies.
325M isn't all that much when the company has been growing for over 10 years, doubling its staff count every 2 years, with a bunch of VPs added in, supposedly to figure out how to run professionally 100 nerds. It leads to 4 layers made of directors, senior managers and managers below each VP. Those jobs take a decent pay, and a significant cash bonus. Significant travel and other expense coming from sales folks who won't take airbnb for a 3 days trip in NY, 5 stars sheraton please. Add to that it's pretty common to spend 1/3 of the yearly flow into marketing, your IT, HR and accounting departments having itself large IT expense (concur, service now, etc) you end up with a boat burning 325M per year quite easily.
> There're a lot of people in the comments here who don't seem to know what depression is.

> Depression isn't just “I'm sad all the time”.

I always see these comments in threads about depression but I almost never see people actually making the comments in question. Can you point to an example in this thread?
I make a mark on the back of my hand in ball-point and ONLY rub it off when the job is done. Eq (using your example) if I knew I had to lock a door on the way out I would write either an 'L'(ocked) or a D(oor) on the back of my hand.

Because I stick to the 'mental rules' of only rubbing it off once the task is completed, if I'm uncertain if I've done the thing / task I can look down to my hand to see if that mark is still there or not. If it is - U-Turn time!

It Works pretty well (as always, mileage may vary) even for multiple things if needed although the random letters/marks on the back of your hand can make people curious but if it does I simply say - It's a list of stuff I need to do.
What the heck. I didn't know this was a thing. Thanks for the pointing it out.
I'm doing my best and nothing really works anyway.

This is probably something that most of us can relate to at some point in our lives.
> I think a hiring process that puts engineers in control (no ghosting, get data on when a recruiter looks at your application, search ranking by whether companies lie to candidates) is something that should exist. I want to try to build it!

This is a space that unions fill well compared to for-profit recruiting agencies. The organizations give engineers control and leverage in hiring, and can help them up-negotiate. They also allow employers to hire from pools of skilled talent.

Whereas with recruiting agencies, the customers are employers, not the candidates. Incentives are not aligned to give candidates control.
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Theranos had real value proposition. They just lied about having the tech.

In this case I don’t see the value proposition. Just bunch of marketing speak.
We would like to do that one day! It would take a long time though, so more impactful things will come first, such as improved tooling and documentation.
I wrote that code. It's mostly broken nowadays because newer pi's use different hardware and new Linux distributions lock down the ability to poke random memory without the kernel having a proper driver.

There are other pifm projects which use the same general idea and work properly though.
You think literal geniuses can't solve sligtly challenging algorithm questions ?
That's why they should do triage. If they can't figure out the problem, at least be able to refer a person to someone they think can. If they're not willing to do that then they're probably more interested in their own practice (can make more money by fumbling around) than helping patients.

I have a great deal of respect for someone who says "I can't help you, but that person over there can" and turns out to be right. I'd gladly try them again with a different problem.