skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My job opportunities are limited to what my real connections and friends can help me get.

If I want to expand my opportunities I have to add nodes and strong ties in my network.

Not gimmicks for the interview lottery and pray the hiring manager doesn't have a friend going for the job.

From my past positions I suspect people highly underestimate how many times they go on an interview with no real chance for the position because the hiring manager already has someone in their real network in mind. I mean a real friend or friend of a friend, not someone they just added on social media but don't really know.
What happens when you go to this site? Part 1: DNS
There really needs to be a third way … how are Linux smart phones looking? No hope of getting WhatsApp etc presumably but at the very least a fairly solid browser should be possible …
Instead of being so dismissive, you could have taken a few minutes to check the site. The DIY builds all allow you to drop Windows and roll your own OS: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition/configuration...
Im a huge fan of what they are doing at Cornell!

hope im not contravening the rules too much by plugging my current project Birda - 'Strava for Birdwatching' https://birda.org/
Could use a different algoritms then on HN et. al. For example, show results based on how you and people that vote like you vote. So the ranking/order would be skewed for SEO spammers, but hopefully better for those that upvote based on the quality and information on the page.
I've had the taskbar at the top of the screen for well over ten years. When I want to know the time I look in the top right corner, same as on my mac. Tray icons are also in that same corner, just like on mac. Sure mac dock can't be put up there, but I just use spotlight (as I use the start menu search on windows).

I'm planning on staying on windows 10 until they pry it from my cold, dead hands. I already had reservations before, but breaking my muscle memory like that is the last straw. Though I suppose I'll have to eventually update when software starts only working on it.
Do you need a phone?
As I read it this was (based on the previous revision of the policy) - "we're planning to store some data on all users, with no way to opt out. However, in some regions, we cannot/shouldn't store data on people who are 13 or under. So, if you're 13 or under, please don't use this software as we'll be storing data on you."
I use it on the left because I have an ultra-wide monitor and run out of vertical space before horizontal space.
There's no contradiction here. The App Store rules apply to everyone else wanting to publish something on the App Store. Obviously Apple has its own internal rules for what their own software can do.
Should have called it skynet
The main issue is with the funding model of open ecosystem. Once open models have a viable business model they'll all flourish. As consumers start realizing the dark side of closed systems and thus the need of open models it'll drive companies to go open and engineer models to cater them.
>Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025

I'm optimistic that by 2025 either Microsoft or a third party have developed a way to put the taskbar back at the top. It's apparently possible to use the W10 taskbar in W11 with a registry hack, in the current builds.
Yuval Noah Harari had a great quote on the history of misinformation in his talk with Natalie Portman that all religious people in history think all religions are fake news besides for one.
You can use views for that usecase, and you can have multiple available at once.
I'm pretty sure Google and Facebook know the same. This isn't really news.

Google Chrome's FLOC I believe sorts people into 5000 person groups with similar interests. I assume google picked this number for a reason. I imagine you can probably sort the world's population into groups of 5000 people with almost exactly the same interests and motivations.
Short circuiting for logical operators has existed at least since the first C versions in the early '70s. It's maybe not intuitive, it's probably a crummy idea, but that's how basically everything based on C works (including modern languages like Go and Rust), so there's not that much that can be done about that.

Also, after seeing how weird JavaScript is in comparison, I have to say that C++ definitely isn't the strangest kid in the block when accounting for weirdness and unintuitive behaviours.
Google Replaced Font and Icon Customization in Android 12
Pick DIY, select "None" for OS?
"We programmed bots to go down rabbit-holes. Watch as TikTok's algorithm makes our bots go down rabbit holes!"

Not saying TikTok isn't spooky. But:

The effort that went into making the viewer feel anxious while watching this was extreme; and the effort that went into actual explanation of the TikTok algorithm was minimal.
Wouldn't be much of a laptop, good luck using it on your lap
Because there needs to be a trickle to start the flood. All companies are incentivised to co-ordinate prices to some degree, it's the desire to fill a particular role quickly or poach a particular superstar that causes companies to break from whatever happens to be the"industry standard", and those variances become factors in future negotiations. If there was never any variance in individual pay there'd be no pressure to adjust salaries at all, barring collective action. Which has its own negative externalities.
So what happens to people who are affected by this? Are they just out of luck and have to find another device or try to unbrick their chromebook somehow?
Cornell has some really great resources.

I haven’t tried using this particular one. It has its work cut out for it. Bird calls are difficult. A mockingbird or catbird can sound exactly like a sparrow or finch.

I remember, in the 1990s, when everyone had Nokia bricks, that mockingbirds would sometimes copy the ringtones.
It sounds like you're unhappy with the taskbar's defaults but didn't look into changing it? You can make the buttons small and show the titles (in "Taskbar settings") and make the taskbar bigger so it has multiple rows (uncheck "Lock the taskbar" and drag the edge further out).
You are talking about replacing 30% of topsoil, thats how much organic matter as a percentage of soil you need to have for soil to be soil and not sand.

Its not about capabilities, ita about cost.
That's fcking my mobile. I paid for it. I own it. If I want to install something on my owned device, who the f is Apple to stop it?

Think about it this way: A chair supplier telling Apple to only allow it's employees to sit a certain way. Or architects telling it to only build their HQ's a certain way. Not as an advice, but, enforced.

How ridiculous is that!
No budgies it seems, although they're not usually seen in the wild which might be the theme here.

To me it would be cool to be able to decode bird noises to their meaning. Am really curious as to what birds are chirping about.
I am a man and I haven’t seen anything like this in my workplace but I can say I have been sexual harassed by several women at two of my old jobs. So statistically, if men are less likely to be targeted then it must be happening. So even though I haven’t seen it outside my own experience, it’s scary to think how much of it is likely happening behind the scenes. I say this as a father of two daughters and husband to a woman who was physically assaulted by her former boss.
definitely yes as real threat. whether or not successfuly exploited - some researchers have shown potential exploitations, I can't vouch for any "in the wild" exploits but I am certain this is something under active research.

I myself planned a proof of concept for such an attack, although it has proven trickier than expected. I'm willing to collaborate with someone for the sake of publishing a nice article on the matter (don't expect much, it's not a "real" threat but a small PoC that might get some buzz and be used as a nice case study for future research)
Blocking save to xls via group policy would be a good start to prevent a recurrence
I only use zip because zip won. There exist other better archive formats, but what matters for me is availability of tooling, every OS has a zip implementation and every major programming language has zip library.

But one good thing that RAR has is recovery records to protect against data corruption, nice feature for a long term archiving format. Not sure if other formats have this too.
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I am satisfied with the climate in the United States, but my visa will soon expire and I will have to return to the Russian Federation.
Ask HN: PostCSS, CC0-1.0, React, patents and commercial apps
Question relates to the use of PostCSS in React.
Context:
There are lots of plugins done by Johnathan Neal (https://jonneal.dev/), but these plugins are CC0-1.0 licensed.
In section 4.a of the license states "No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned,
surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document."

Question 1: Is PostCSS thus patent encumbered by the use of Neal's libraries or any CC0-1.0 library for that matter?
Question 2: PostCSS can be seen as a "compiler" in that it transmutes CSS source code. Is this seen as a business process, which can be patentable?
Question 3: And the use of this business process, the produced artefact (the "compiled" CSS) is shipping that CSS liable for any
patent royalties?
Question 4: Are there any projects that removed the CC0-1.0 libraries from PluginCSS which I can follow?

Thanks for any insights. The last thing I want to do is to make an app and my employer gets sued.
It is, and it doesn't require a VM to run the K8s cluster.
interesting query when compared to yandex.com image results
I don't know, I'm from Russia but I live in the USA, but my visa will end soon. I'll have to come back for an extension.
Interestingly, "mal" in french means "bad". In latin, "malum" means "that leads to something wrong".

So "Malgorithms" it an accurate one.
In JavaScript statements don’t have to do anything.

"hi"; 1; true; new Date(); () => {};

This is valid JavaScript
How do you feel about competition from the M1 processor? I can see when its more widely available a fair amount of ppl might want to move from x64.
Chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous (2015)
I think phones can be both waterproof and modular. Going by [1], waterproof gaskets usually come from either glue or silicone. Glue obviously inhibits modularity, but silicone gaskets work fine.

1: https://www.ifixit.com/News/30845/your-phone-is-never-waterp...
This is just a specific version of the Red Queen of evolution and in no way unexpected. But the virus will keep mutating as much as it spreads, so our best bet is still to vaccinate as widely as possible to contain the spread, thereby reducing chance of mutations. Vaccinated people get still sick but are less likely to infect others, reducing overall spread.
Totally agree. Re: Zookeeper, Kafka are apparently going towards removing Zookeeper. The goal is to give you a calculator to measure complexity. You can totally add it to your calculation.

You can certainly overlay cost to the calculator by adding an additional column. Cost should not be just the storage layer cost, it should include HR cost, licensing cost, overhead cost, basically TCO for each system in the data layer.

But I think generally by simply listing all your systems, you'll already kind of know how complex or simple your system is.
That is pretty neat! Tried it on mobile, and it was a bit constrained (likely due to my settings like font size and the like), but will certainly try on a full desktop browser shortly.
Binary searches should be internalized as part of your life's vocabulary if you're a programmer.

You don't use all 10000 words of your native language every day. You don't ride a bike every day. Nevertheless, that's part of you and you don't need to make a conscious effort to remember which way the pedals spin when you ride a bike after a long hiatus.
No, small side projects will definitely help you stand out when you're applying for a junior position since you don't have a lot of experience yet.
It's a shame it's not an option for the preconfigured version. Especially as the DIY Laptop pricing has Windows 10 at ~$200.
> You can also load your own operating system later, like a Linux distribution.

Yeah, but I’d rather not pay for that Windows license.

Edit: Oh, I see that you have to DIY the entire laptop in order to NOT select a Windows OS.
the point isn't about whether the question is hard. It is about understanding that other people are different and especially when the people stumble for whatever reason. The manifested "holier than thou" and lack of humility probabilistically suggest relative youth and inexperience.
It's just a tool to calculate complexity. You don't need to use Redis or Kafka or any thing used in the article. If Kafka or CosmosDB or something else works better, that's great too.
> ...but perhaps I don't qualify as literate?

Probably.

Point is, you don't really need to know how to program to ship software.
Sad… I played Kings Quest VI on an ipad with this emulator and it workers great. Why does Apple even care if a few people play some old abandonware on an ipad?
Squashfs turning 20, Squashfs tools 4.5 released
the keyboard looks very fragile, like that of a macbook. For me these tend to develop problems after a years use. I am not very fond of this type of keyboards. The old thinkpads used to have a solid keyboard, but that was once upon a time.
Are the cold viruses impossible to vaccinate against? I always assumed they were the same as flu – possible, but you need new vaccines every year because the strains keep shifting – it's just that the severity of colds is low enough that we don't bother. Is that not the case?
Which is even less explicable to me. I get along with my coworkers, but I don't hang out with them after work because I have my own life and work is just the thing I have to do to support living it. Why in the hell would you want everyone you work with to be your drinking buddy? And what sense does it make for a company to give up access to all that experience for that?

SV business culture is truly insane.
I have used it, and it's VERY good. It also shows you the birds you can expect in your area and the recent sightings nearby. It's a great introduction to a layer of life I didn't pay attention to before.
How often do you, upon having a free/libre software crash on you, rebuild it with debugging symbols, run it through gdb to replicate the crash, and then send a full backtrace to developers?

I've done that in the past, more times than I care to remember, and never have I thought 'Blimey! That's a great use of my time! Let's do it again!'.
I think this is exactly the spot audio books come in.

When I am driving in the car, cutting the lawn, walking for exercise..I am "reading". I make time to walk 50 min a day without exception and you just rip through books if reading 50 min everyday.
Apple has always been like this. Better hope they dont decide to throttle down your current hardware when they release a thinner one next year and deem yours obsolete.
Open-source tool increases microservices visibility
Thieves in California are stealing scarce water amid extreme drought
Isn't the narrative of Aurora slightly odd (at least at first) because of who the narrator is and how the narrator develops over time?

I really liked it.
Man I didn't know about Parkinson's law even though Ive been obsessed by that topic
I doubt TikTok's algorithm is really so awesome. It's a legend they promote to hype up their brand. I know I'm not their target demographic as I'm in my 30s, but it fails completely to show me interesting stuff. Instead, it shows what it thinks I could like. I get a lot of odd videos that start of sexualized and then turn into a prank (its a TikTok genre apparently). Or videos of woodworking. Or asian cooks. It is very odd and not very fun.

Facebook videos does the same, I get a lot of videos about Resin art and Woodworking and Streetfood, which are at best mildly interesting. I also wonder who pays for that or what their business model is since I see no ads. But maybe resin and wood tools are so expensive that it pays off for them to promote the videos.
I believe this is to accomodate for ISO layouts. They build one chassis which is compatible ANSI and ISO.
Yes, but that's not related to code example I gave, which produces a syntax error.
Give me six facts about the most honest of men, and I'll have enough to hang them.

Which facts you include and exclude is quite relevant to your bias, politics, etc.
I don't have Photoshop, but that works fine in Krita on Windows and Linux. Maybe Adobe didn't bother implementing it?
Indeed. It is also inconsistent with the fact that COVID vaccines are still in clinical trials, with no data regarding long-term (10 years) effects.
Would generally agree about the anonymous example.

The general idea would be that people are harder to fake as a signal than links.

A lot of sites associate social profiles with their domain/page. Something like a topical author Pagerank would be interesting, with endorsements. That too, of course could be bought and gamed. Pagerank was a game changer when it arrived, essentially acting as a 'vote' for a page, where some votes are more important than others. Associating votes with people (like the OP thought) is interesting.
No matter what you say, someone somewhere will get offended, or think they got offended.
Alright. Let's break down the question of adequacy; as it's a vague word that we may be using differently.

1. Does it work? In the UK even people who have completed both rounds of vaccination are having restrictions imposed on them. Contact tracing has not been ended there and is now triggering a full blown "pingdemic" that is causing a generalized economic crisis in which supermarket shelves are emptying, port authorities are warning of further supply chain disruptions and TV shows have been knocked off the air. This is incompatible with the idea that vaccines work and very incompatible with the narrative that was previously being sold, that vaccines were a way out and would mark the end of the restrictions.

Hence, governments are acting as if the vaccines are not adequate solutions to the crisis.

2. Are they dangerous? You raise good questions. Unfortunately the article you link to is paywalled. However, I've also read deeper analyses of VAERS data + similar databases from other countries that look at this and conclude:

2a. Background reporting rates for other vaccines are similar to what would be expected normally. There is no evidence that current events are inflating the reporting rate (or decreasing it).

2b. Studies of reporting rates in pre-COVID years have indicated a very high rate of under-reporting. https://www.openvaers.com/images/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-r...

Fundamentally although the Y axis may not be accurate, the trend is hard to ignore. The data has gone vertical in 2021. Once massively increased awareness is excluded as a possibility, I don't see how other conclusions are possible.
I've had my taskbar in Windows at the top of the screen since 2005. Admittedly, there was no particular reason to move it there, but having done so I'm now used to it. Having to re-learn how to use my computer because the taskbar is at the bottom now sounds extremely offputting to me.
And you default to assuming that someone who wrote code in order to have something to show a prospective employer is attempting usurp the integrity of your hiring funnel. Wtf is a fully qualified SWE anyway, and how is someone supposed to get there if not by getting in the door?

Lastly, it's absolutely not rational to follow that line of reasoning. If you find yourself out of work, and discover that the interview process has changed so dramatically that your resume basically accounts for fuck all, then you need to stand out somehow. If you assume someone is automatically unqualified, you might just not be very qualified to make these determinations. Ya filter however you're going to filter, but this is just prejudice.
Jeff Dean's legendary life: Super engineers save Google
"In the eyes of many people, Jeff Dean is synonymous with Google technology and an important reason why Google is so powerful. But in fact they all overlooked another technical god behind Jeff Dean. In the process of Google's growth from a startup to a generation of giants, countless engineers participated in the effort, including Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, who were the only two super-level engineers to reach Level 11 (Google Senior Fellow). The two of them are still good friends who have a lot of friendship.

As a good buddy coding on a computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat have changed the direction of Google Inc. and the entire Internet. Some people joked that they are the best pairing programming role in the computer world."
> But it's easy for the algorithm to hide subtle bugs.

For sure, but I guarantee you the interviewer from the grandparent comment wasn't looking for correctness and safety when they asked to implement a binary search.

They ask the binary search question to check if the applicant knows what an algorithm is and if they ever had to implement one. (Any algorithm.)

Sadly, 90% of programmers these days don't and haven't.

> In Python you should probably just use the bisect module in practice, most of the time, rather than reimplementing it.

Well, yes, most developers ship software without ever having to actually program.
Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, the web demo is not suitable for mobile devices - make sure to check it out on a desktop browser or in a terminal.
My favourite feature is dragging the icon in the title bar to move the file it represents around.
The problem is not that the chip is soldered, but that you can't buy it. Soldering BGA is not that difficult.
Many ethnically Chinese researchers are based in the USA, including Chuan He, one of the senior authors on the study. He is based at the University of Chicago, has a stellar publication record, and is an HHMI investigator.

But you can be rest assured that many labs across the world will be working to replicate this finding.
Sure, but the reason they're nice to have for that one time that an accident occurs, whether a drink is spilled or you drop it in the sink or whatever.

It's a pleasant nice to have if it is waterproof.
I think the article is mainly attempting to provide you with a tool to calculate complexity. You can add additional columns to the calculator and make it your own for your needs. It's been used by some companies internally to compare complex systems or to migrate from an old system to a new system.
Work on PinePhones and Librem 5 is going well. There are still issues of course but I’ve been blown away by the community efforts to iron out the issues. You can get Linux Signal and you’d still need to have it connected to an android or iOS device too, but that would at least give you messaging.

The other caveat being that there are still many apps that are not designed for mobile form factor, and while there is strong work on libhandy and many apps use it for responsive GTK apps, there are many great apps were work hasn’t yet started for mobile sizing/touch input/virtual keyboard
There's always a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Some of the reinfected people died. You don't die from false positive result on two tests. It's not stated in the article buy you can safely assume that some of the reinfected had symptoms other than death as well.
Ding ding ding.

Dont cage birds, if you are not working from home and giving them stimulation all day everyday, its torture.
Show HN: Background remover for video/image using machine learning open source
As someone who reads a lot of CVs: if you’re applying for a front-end role and your CV looks like ass, maybe fix that?