skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience at Amazon. About midway through the onsite at Amazon I kind of decided "I don't think I'd like working here and I already have other offers, so my brain will be going into neutral now." and kind of checked out. Felt very much like the interviewers didn't want to be in the room with me and just wanted me to fuck up so they could click "No hire" in the HR app and get out.

Walked out figuring I probably wouldn't get an offer, but given they apparently needed a ton of people maybe they'd down level me and offer (I figured I'd checked out to the point there was no way I'd get that SDE III level offer).

Recruiter actually sent me a very nasty email accusing me of wasting her time, I must be a bad engineer who over sold my experience, blah blah blah. Made it sound like I was blacklist for life. Three weeks later a hiring manager emails me and is like "So I found your interview notes in our internal database, you look like an amazing candidate and I want to fast track your hire onto my team."

I have no idea what is going on Amazon, I mean they built AWS so this must work on some level, but I just have such a bad taste in my mouth from my experience I don't want in on it. Maybe it's working as intended in that they want a process that skews toward hiring certain personality types so having other folks self select out is a win for them. Although I get pinged by them 2x a month and regularly offered fast track hirings based on those notes from that interview I did 14 months ago which is also weird. Which makes me think it's more likely their hiring a mess and they survive via throwing money at the problem and big old RSU offers at candidates.

e: Actually not 14 months, it was pre COVID lockdown, so even further back.
> Don’t conflate corporate size with engineering competency. It’s counter-intuitive, but oh so common to see this. That’s why so many engineers want to work for start ups!

I thought start ups were all about letting tech debt pile up like there's no tomorrow, since there might literally be no tomorrow for them.
All those articles seem to say if you leave App Tracking on, and use Google Maps, yes, Google will save your location. Someone who is anti-Google shouldn't be leaving any tracking on, and shouldn't be using Google's Apps.

If you have any evidence that someone who uses Android without a Google account and doesnt use Google Apps is still getting tracked by Google, I'd be interested to see it.
Right. The same logic that says bike helmets lead to more deaths because people drive more risky. Which I guess is great until you get t-boned by someone you don’t see coming and just die because you didn’t have a $20 helmet on.
I'm in the US and have been approached by multiple recruiters who explained the the first part of hiring was a leetcode-like online assessment, and a later part of the process was a full day onsite (which I understood to be leetcode-like, or systems design questions, just like other big tech companies). I did not actually go through the process.

They might not be using leetcode.com itself, but they are doing similar things.
I never understood this argument. Many products in the past have failed because they were too restrictive. Apple’s current suite of products are doing very well, so they must be doing right.

If you don’t like Apple’s approach or products, then don’t buy them and let the market decide. No company is under obligation to do business according to what you or I think is correct.

If you think the market for a good phone with open hardware is there, then by all means go ahead and build such a product. There is plenty of VC money these days.
I've noticed that I only start to unwind when I'm on week 3 of a holiday. On weekends I just feel like the clock is ticking until weekend is over. I logged into work today (Sunday) and that eased my usual Sunday "fear".
Make it 1/3 of the size and seal and you got the best desk toy ever.
I agree that it’s not nihilism when some people really believe it. It might still be nonsense though, or a mixture of some sort.

This is the sort of thing many people stay away from because dumb heuristics say it’s probably nonsense and therefore it’s not worth investigating, and some stranger on the Internet saying “no, there is something to it” isn’t enough to move the needle on being actually curious enough to investigate.

Someone with a reputation for not being fooled would have to look into it and explain why, actually, it’s not nonsense.

More: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
This is really interesting.

What are the tradeoffs of generating the unique ID uuid's from the database vs from the code?

Compared to ORM's, is one of the main differences that the db objects define the types and constraints and those propagate out to the code? And ORM's start with code and propagate out to the DB?
Some of my favorite HN threads remind me of bubble tracks in old school particle colliders. Just stacks of tangents that are hilariously off-topic but somehow, at times, still interesting and even informative.
> It seems like the more employees you have under you, the less you see them as human beings instead of inputs and outputs

I mean, there's a department in most companies called "human *resources*" to give away that employees are still resources, just human ones.
Favorable outcome on viral load and culture viability using Ivermectin
> I think managers and business decision makers underestimate how much benefit we bring with our unique set of skills.

If that were the case, the companies that did not treat every individual engineer as a special and unique snowflake would have been doing badly. They do not. Hence, it can be derived that while the engineers believe that they are unique super special snowflakes, in reality they are more like electricians - totally interchangeable at a given level of skill.
There's nothing "broad" about a compiler not generating "exactly one binary". First, most of the time, even in conventional systems, it is the linker who creates that binary, not the compiler. Second, in other systems, such as Oberon, there's not even "exactly one binary" for anything, unless you're talking about the currently running system as a whole.
There are special "cap-less"/cap-free watertight USB receptacles for phones

Ref: https://www.jae.com/en/releases/detail/id=1739
Shouldn't this be a link to the github page instead of an announcement link to another announcement link? It gives the impression you are more interested in people going to your Twitter feed than you are about Vinix itself.

It really shouldn't take two leaps to get to the content your title suggests it would lead to. This is a lot like a pay wall, where the direct link is readily available and could have been used instead.
> However I'm not sure how to do things in the first gif. Looks like you have to prepare a few different (but visually close) tiles for one "group" (say grass/dirt/sky/etc.) and when the designer drag the mouse the editor randomly chooses one tile from each group. Still I think it's a lot more complicated than I thought.

The algorithm is called Wang Tiles. I think you identify a set of tiles which have edges compatible with each other by coloring them. Every time you place a tile, it will pick a random tile that meets all edge constraints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile
The parent never mentioned a conspiracy. They did mention running into a lot of glibly dismissive dead ends researching their concerns.

I don't think their decision is unreasonable. I'm personally not looking at the same factors, and think of covid vaccination differently. I'm guessing you do, also. I personally don't see a problem with that. Who am I to tell force someone else to my way of thinking?
Yeah, that's why I think everyone should pay, not based on their age, but on their ressources.
I really wish this had a few more sensors, particularly a barometer, heart rate sensor, and touch screen, these would make it much more useful.

I realize it's FOSS hardware but I'm more of a software person and would probably take me too long to figure out how to hack all those things in and get it manufactured ...
I'm still a bit disappointed the Pine64 folks didn't go for a low-power reflective LCD like the ones used by this or the Pebble.
My modern car made my insurance rate go down. Most of your rate is about damage you cause to others. Modern safety features, at least according to my insurance company math team, make my car less likely to hurt someone else or their car.
This is potentially a source of inspiration! Two simple options for example: your goal is to exactly reproduce the existing thing; or there are parts of it you don't like and want to improve on.
My problem with all this, is that they don't get it where this is taking us all.

Big Tech have a tremendous power all over the world. Lack of regulation and civil rights enforcement is taking us into a era o digital feudalism..

So its not just about their rights to let Apple strip their rights, but the rights of us all.

It's about our future, because governments are getting weaker and big tech companies are start to take over with power that transcend territory.

So its our duty, to not let this happen, because they are not really seeing, being selfish and thinking about their own convenience.

The worst part is that, it will not change anything to them, but the marketing machinery whisper all the time how this is bad for them, making they fear any sort of change in that direction.
Think cameras, gps and microphones instead.
Any chance you could post another link or the title of the paper? citeseerx.ist.psu.edu appears to be at least temporarily offline.
I like older grandma cars in an additional sense: they're usually low mileage, gently driven, garage kept, and well serviced because older people tend to take care of their cars so they last and also often don't use them that much.

Most all of my vehicles have been 10+ year old vehicles, gently used, and bought for a great price from some elderly person who no longer drives/can drive or from a relative selling their parents/grandparents old ugly car they inherited and don't want. The older designs are often geared at making them easily maintainable vs new designs. This is shifting a bit and you're not starting to get in the early 2000s unless you want to get something much much older.

You do have to worry about seals, gaskets, rubber parts that have dry-rotted/cracked etc. or start to fail but the rest of the vehicle is usually in fantastic shape from my experience. I see many vehicles 10+ years old with less than 50k miles on them. It's probably hard to find anything like this any more and I really hope the pandemic doesn't inspire everyone to start picking these older used options long term because then it's going to get more expensive for me to find good reliable cheap cars.
They probably can, but solving that problem is not the point of the anecdote.
Why a blockchain though? How about a database the chip makers can update when they make a new chip, and a public forum showing latest chips made and a lookup to ensure chip authenticity?

What does making this distributed or trusting others have to do with anything?
Can you explain the a pillar part? Did it get safer or less safe? Less strong?
The media already did plenty of damage to their reputation long before COVID.
(cosine, not cosign)
I find myself deleting "western" from "western civilization" a lot lately.

Chris Lasch's "Culture of Narcissism" applies to the 1970+ US, Ancient Rome, Heian and Tokugawa periods in Japan. The CCP would like to think it has the cure but I am certain China has the disease too.
There is a gated community in Kirkland that was developed to look like an old English village. It's pretty cool, and I've never seen any other development like it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6652292,-122.2070988,3a,75y,...
The $30m floor price is a long-running meme, and clearly a joke. But it helps to know the historical context…

https://www.gmefloor.com/ was set up around 4-5 months ago. Back then, the price displayed on the site was around $500 or so.

The site’s counter has just kept ticking up, every second, and has been doing so for months. It’s now at $30m.

It’s more of a running joke amongst the community, with no actual data to support it. The site itself even says it’s satire.

Nonetheless, it captures the spirit of the movement. Hence it gets memed at every possible opportunity.
Not to mention game development asset creation is inherently a disk intensive task. You're going to have lots of huge images, 3D files, sounds, etc. in lossless high quality formats (even for simple 2D games). 76 megabytes is tiny compared to the rest of the stuff you're dealing with.
I think the poor service is swamped, but it isn't doing itself any favors by hammering the /healthz and /status endpoint about once or twice a second
> A skilled engineer starting out in their career will begin with zero leverage

This is true, but it's important to recognize the huge industry shift that has happened in recent years. There used to be a lot of starting leverage. For folks who remember the early 00s and late 90s, it used to be that just by being a kid who knew stuff about computers, it was assumed by the general public that you were super qualified and possibly more qualified than most people already in the field. You could literally be the "hacker kid" from your high school, and walk into a high-paying software engineering job with a 401k, or become a company's first technical hire. Then as software engineering became more formalized and in-touch with industry on the academic side, people with a CS degree started getting the best entry level positions in the mid 00s. Now things are shifting again, as frontend and backend frameworks have increased exponentially in complexity, recent CS grads often no longer have the domain knowledge to jump into the field without prior experience, so we're seeing a shift towards bootcamp grads, who have some actual practical experience in developing software.

The value prop of getting a CS degree is rapidly diminishing at least in a short-term, start-of-career sense, and I say this as someone with undergrad and grad degrees in CS. At the same time, if you manage to get a CS degree _and_ be a major open source contributor or graduate from a bootcamp, you'll beat out most of the competition, and this will also be a benefit later in your career when you are vying for CTO positions.
Oh wow, thanks for sharing that, I didn't realize how big unis can get, it's mind-blowing!

Having (some) separate infrastructure for the faculties would make sense then. Less single points of failure :)
It seems far more likely that it's a "boy who cried wolf" situation. The people strongly pushing the lab leak possibility at the beginning were not doing it for honorable reasons, or they would have released any evidence they had for it. Given that, it was reasonable for media outlets to characterize those claims as disingenuous. It's not impossible that they could end up being right, but I'd bet that it won't be because they knew they were right at the time.
https://sjogrenssyndromenews.com/2021/05/11/damaged-mitochon...

Brain fog is something I’ve suffered the last several years. Eventually got a diagnosis of autoimmune Sjogrens. Similar to Lupus.

A link between mitochondria and autoimmune has been of great interest to me as I battle to keep my wits.
And slower (to start) than both of them. I tried julia to write some scripts that were previously in numpy, but the slow start threw me off. I hope they solve this because it's a great language.
> Why blockchain technology would even be necessary for a job network platform, who knows?

Same reason that “black-owned” is
> Not entirely sure how he can afford it, but I suspect he borrowed a lot of money to afford it

There's a gray/black market for second hand phones whose provenance is...questionable. As someone who involuntarily contributed a phone to this surprisingly international parallel supply chain, the sellers are probably not selling at Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price.
Emacs as of quite a while has included the contents of this book in the Info system under "Emacs Lisp Intro"
C++20 added modules to the language more than 3 decades after Fortran had it already in the language.
Yes I bought the device. Yes I have Apple money, they gave me an iPhone. It’s mine now, and it’s no longer theirs.

> What is wrong, however, is Apple's insistence on approving every single instruction iOS devices run

Why in the world would I trust any of the instructions YOU or ANYONE else have written?

I as a customer don’t care if iOS app developers don’t make any money, sorry I already have all the apps I need and you’ll find other work. As such, I would be ok with iOS sideloading, but only for GPL software. Because otherwise, what other recourse do I as a customer have to trust YOUR instructions?

I have tolerated arbitrary instructions on my desktop/ laptop for 20 years and consistently been bitten by it. There is a reason I no longer do anything important (barring work e.g. banking, email, etc) on my laptop.
I'm not an antivaxxer but lazy people like you won't differentiate and don't differentiate well which is why research studies published are poorly understood and bad conclusions are perpetuated and in part why we're in this mess.

But yes, terrible way to start productive conversation but even when linking and putting the effort in the HN intellectual mob has already ideologically and shallowly investigated and come to shallow/poor conclusions and downvote and don't bother engaging further: how is someone downvoting a good beginning to a productive conversation?
> Do you think there's a way to use the leverage ... (aka decent) compensation for open source contributors

Making money from open source often involves building an owning a large ecosystem.

Apple, Facebook, etc. all the big tech companies does lots of open source software. But the play isn't to make money from the software, but from the platform.

Perhaps, it's that money from open source requires huge investments. Because sometimes you're basically building an ecosystem.
There's no link to another announcement link, just a link to the repo.

This tweet is about the new particular feature, submitting a link to the GitHub repo when announcing a new feature wouldn't make sense.
I agree with your premise and doubt that adding NFTs into the mix will do anything to prevent counterfeits.

I don’t buy fancy handbags, but I have read that counterfeits are often made of higher quality material than luxury brands. So, the fool pays $$$ for a quality knockoff and an NFT. Maybe they realize it 5 years from now when they try to sell the bag. Hopefully at that point they will learn that there’s no tangible way to link physical objects to a blockchain.

One optimistic consequence of this may be a distancing between materialism and value. After all, The knockoff is just as good or better than the authentic. Let’s tie value to experience rather than objects. If you really must use NFTs and blockchains, then use them for concert/event tickets, governance systems, game collectibles , decentralized gambling’s/prediction markets, p2p and cross border value exchange, etc.
Well then the point about leetcode doesn't mean much here.

Yes, most companies do coding assessments, but that doesn't mean it's ironic that the comment was posted on leetcode itself.

My experience with Amazon had no self guided coding assessment, it involved a human guiding you through a problem or multiple problems.
The AppStore review process is what enforces you have a sensible sandbox, why would a sideloading App Store enforce those, they don’t care about platform security.

As for “don’t install it if I don’t want to” you mean don’t I stall any software that insists on sideloading.
>> Looks like it’s a format string bug, which is rarely seen nowadays.

This strongly suggests that the author has not interacted with any real software for the period of time they’d call “nowadays”

In what universe are format string bugs rare?
I am a bit too lazy to do the maths, but I would guess that a single Electron development team consumes a lot less energy than many native development teams.
Here is an example with an actual tab (Aftermath by Muse): http://shortlinkapi.herokuapp.com/3280425
This is not the first time I see "(not our best model due to commercial issues)" in a model release. Am I right thinking the the fully trained model may have been sponsored by a provate entity and it's being kept for a commercial release?
The belief that rape and murder are bad is not universal in human history. That kind of behaviour was just a normal part of life for many. We may see it is a black and white issue, but that took thousands of years to achieve.

Why tie your hands with this kind of black and white thinking?
There is zero technical reason for trucks and SUVs to have the large hood they do that strikes adult pedestrians center mass (and kids at head level). It's extra comical on the upcoming electronic versions where instead of safe design, you get a "frunk".

It's design nonsense and the only reason it ever got this bad is the regulators are fully captured.
It’s not illegal, it’s just career suicide.
Spending time with loved ones doing nothing productive per se is more than waiting for death.

It's living.
I kinda wish there was a good electric car that wasn't so cloud-connected though. Tesla has done some pretty good things wrt engineering (e.g. see Munro Live on youtube) due to out-of-the-box thinking and a lack of sunk costs in existing "parts box" parts, but I would rather not have Tesla be able to decide to "remove" some features if I purchase the car second-hand [0]

The most trouble-free cars I still go for are used Lexus sedans, especially those driven previously be senior citizens. Not always the coolest but man I never have to worry about anything on it.

[0] https://jalopnik.com/teslas-removal-of-features-on-used-cars...
GPT-3 does only thing, predict the next character based on the previous n characters.

The nuance of the context (previous n characters) and the quality of the prediction(s) (following character, a function of gpt-3 you can repeat by just concatenating its last prediction to the previous n characters) is what has significantly improved.

It has now learned on a significant amount of the writing available on the internet. Which includes guides on writing code, stack overflow, and github repos.

So one is able to write something that looks like a python comment

// This function adds two numbers

And the following n character predictions of gpt-3 will with some unreliability spit out the python code for that function as its predictions

def add(x, y):
return x+y

This has been shown to work with simple descriptions of pages, with it returning html with css embedded that matches that description.
Yes it should, because being able to install an OS on their device means they can install one on mine.

And people will come up with all kinds of farcical workarounds for this, like that nonsense about 72 hrs in diag another comment made (right, because someone can't hold a device from you for 72 hrs), but I'm not interested.

Jailbreaks are security flaws, I like that they're patched and I like that there's no blessed equivalent. I liked that I can trust my iPhone in ways I can't trust the Android devices I'm paid to develop for.

The same freedom that makes developing for Android fun is the same freedom that ruins them for any reasonable use I might have.
Yep. And YouTube Facebook et all will continue with the censorship and banners with no shame.