skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on a uni paper review site. Only available in New Zealand for now. https://papergrade.co.nz
40 years of ecosystem recovery from a vantage point (Landsat) in a 6 minute video about Mt St Helens post 1980 eruption: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13614
H.R. 3684 US Infrastructure Bill Full Document [pdf]
The author exactly captured my experience - when I moved from an in person job to a remote job 4 years back I realized that I had more time to indulge in hobbies that I enjoyed in the past - reading, working out, cooking. I gradually lost interest in eating out as much, drinking at bars. During Covid, it accelerated more as the one indulgence I had of eating out once a week, also disappeared. I rather get fresh ingredients, make a nice meal, fix a nice cocktail or open a nice bottle of wine for me and the wife.
> until average, non-FAANG companies can compete on TC (never).

And that's the rub. Not only do they struggle to value my skillset, they also can't compensate it accurately. And sadly, FAANGs don't even have the roles in a lot of niches.

When you can make 3x what a FAANG would offer, annually, but the companies building in your same niche are too immature and pay 1/3rd of what FAANGs do, its tricky to want to tolerate any of it!
Probation periods in the US are rare, especially for white collar positions like software engineers. Of course, that’s mostly because of at will employment where either side can choose to part ways at any time.
I remember using MediaWiki as a personal wiki in 2004-6ish. At some point I stumbled across shii's website and thought their solution was a much better approach.

Wasn't there more to it than this archive captured?

I wasn't into chan culture, but this person struck me as pretty creative. What ever happened to them?
Abide with Me and I’ll Abide with You
Abide with me and I’ll abide with you: Everyone wants God to be with them, but only a few are with God,
if you abide in the Lord, he will abide in you because, without Him, you cannot do anything that’s why you need Him,
more than He needs you. When you abide in the Lord, you need to be like him, and when you’re like
Him, your wish shall be done, take a look at David, David was with God and God was with David,
God was not just with David, David was with God first, and the way God was with David, He was
also with all of David’s generation, and God isn’t a man that would lie.
I think it's time to name and shame not sure why you are being coy when they jerked you around so much.
WTF is a "todo app?"
All the centralized blog sites go through the same general syndromes. The value of them is that they're a single name to remember in order to get to a lot of varied content. The harm of them is that eventually they start removing people for political reasons ("deplatforming") or doing various other things the content creators don't like, but have little power to stop.

I wouldn't create an alternative to Medium, because I just think it's the wrong approach. We know the answer, because it's what everyone had no choice but to do before: run your own stuff, host it yourself, own your own domain, have your own process, keep things much more under your control. RSS.
Your documentation literally backs it up as a wide scale failure of an industry resulting from many contributing factors slowly building up over time, not an explicit conspiracy, or caused by concrete players who had all the cards and knew the whole situation or had any historic examples that could show where what they were doing would go.

You can certainly go on about all the folks who didn't stand up and say 'Stop!' - but really, we've got a bunch of those brewing in tech, and no one listens to anyone saying stop there either. There are a million apocalypses predicted every day - and it's rare if any of them ever ACTUALLY happen.

In retrospect, you can find those doing it in Finance back then, but they couldn't stop this mess anymore than anyone else - and plenty of people easily papered over the possibility of the crash, the same as we paper over a million other issues in tech.

The regulators were in on all this too.

So you can blame 'finance', same as someone could blame 'tech' for the election. But it doesn't really mean anything and it won't change anything, because it doesn't provide any useful information or potential corrective action.
Of course, it all depends on your needs. I'm a fan of repurposing old PCs for less demanding tasks so I have a few of those low DPI monitors around the house.
None of the cards my bank offers seem that enticing: https://www.kiwibank.co.nz/personal-banking/credit-cards/rat...
I got stopped for speeding once and the state trooper followed up the ticket by asking me if I was military or law enforcement because of my demeanor. I had been truthful about the speeding, I said I wasn't paying attention when he asked why I was going 82 in a 55. He had knocked 10mph off the ticket for me and I had thanked him for that. Anything over 80 in my state involves a lot more punishment than just a simple speeding ticket, you have to go to court, pay a bunch of money, and you get extra points on your license which raises your insurance significantly. I was a little taken aback by the question and just said no. I am a fat nerd with shaggy hair and have never been confused for military or law enforcement ever before. I'm not sure if it was just my politeness or there was something more to the question.
Ask George Soros how he figured out how.
From point (1) in the post:

> The amount of things one can customize is really large, but making all this decisions has a cost.
I talked to a company for three weeks — I went over and would talk to a couple of people, a couple of times a week — and then decided they wouldn’t get their act together.

I didn’t mind the way it unfolded — people were busy, I wasn’t working, and it was only a couple of minutes away from me, so really it was only perhaps 8 hours. But after three weeks I felt I wasn’t getting the answers I needed and they didn’t seem to be making progress on the hire. So I said no thanks.

This was a company with 50 or so people — I have no idea how they managed to hire them.
My partner swears by it and uses it a lot.
https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/cucumbers Bakers Creek only sells heirloom seeds (no cultivars). I get most of my garden seeds from them as they have the lineage of the seeds they sell available.
But DRM would in principle require you to watch it all in real time, which would probably help with profiling the abnormal behaviour.
Bitter Brew: High Coffee Consumption Is Associated with Smaller Brain Volume
They went bankrupt 10 years ago trying to sell same product. Its the Sinclair C5 of this century.
country with 300 million vs country with 20 million......
I remember interviewing for some grad roles. No hackerrank, no bullshit, very straightforward companies with "easy processes". Both had one "interview day", and five/six interviews total.

I read your comment and I was thinking in my head...wow, five seems like a lot, and then I realised that even these places I liked went pretty hard...I think they call this conditioning.

I didn't get either job btw, the work was trivial but I get terrible interview nerves so tanked both of them...in both cases, I also had a 6-hour take home...the results of which were largely ignored. Neither company is ever fully staffed...ofc.
If I find my todo list are overwelming, then it is because:

1. A task is not worth doing - delete it. I am using the app so I don't have to remember it, I am not taking orders from it.
2. Not organized well - if I am cleaning the house I don't want to see what I should do for my personal finances; gift buying guides for Christmas and so on.
3. The item is important, but not something I can do something about now. This indicates to me that I should split it into smaller parts, until I have a GTD next step.

I personally think that a todolist isn't worth much unless you are also blocking time in your calendar to do that task - and when you do, that is the task you will be doing not worrying about anything else.
oh they bred for performance just with different metric than the consumer would prefer. they can sit on a shelf without rotting far longer than say a gala jazz or opal apple, they hide bruising, all great traits if you are a supermarket chain storing hundreds of thousands in a warehouse for months at a time waiting to send them out to stores over the course of a year between harvests.
I don't think building the feature/product is the challenge here. Signing up all those merchants and convincing them to on-board is going to be time and resource intensive. That is what they are buying.
I have recently been through this.

Google took 3 months. 1 month was from the virtual onsite final interviews to the Hiring Committee decision. It was a miserable month and even my wife hated Google by the end.

Second was for a Director of Engg position at a mid sized company. It took 2 months and finally I had to force them to answer. It was a company with weak leadership and it showed in their inability to make a decision.
It is true that photonic systems can multiply/add very efficiently. The limiting factor for optical neural networks are activation functions. Non-linear relationships are hard for photonics. State-of-the-art nonlinear features require optical elements that are difficult to manufacture or op-amps which slow the computational potential of the optical neural network by orders of magnitude.
Nearly nobody under the age of 35 is aware that popcorn used to taste like corn. Not like modern ears of corn, which are bred mostly for sweetness; more like tortilla chips, whose corn is still (somehow) cultivated for corn flavor. Corny.

[edit] … also I’m baffled by how, every time I “hold the tomatoes” on my burger or salad, someone will invariably say “don’t you like tomatoes?” and I have to go on this dumb rant about how the flavor has been bred out.

Like, all these people have had marinara sauce and even ketchup, which are made from varieties of tomatoes that are still cultivated for flavor (and thus unsuitable for long-distance shipping). They know what tomatoes actually taste like!! yet still eat these slices of pink tomato that somehow have less flavor than American cucumbers and think “this is the same thing”
I'm so excited that some lawyers get a payout for a class action suit on behalf of me about stuff I could not care less about.
I prefer pink lady, or opal apple myself. I used to eat a lot of golden delicious but the local stores haven't carried them regularly for several years around here.
I'm again talking out of my depth, so take this with salt, but my understanding is the small public exponent is for the sterotyped message version of that attack not the partial key recovery variant.

Looking at this page https://www.cryptologie.net/article/222/implementation-of-co... it looks like the exponent isn't even an input to the algorithm when doing key recovery
Disabling JavaScript worked fine for me (via uBlock Origin).
From that link you shared:

> But while the early ego-depletion concepts appear to be flawed, experts say that self-control can wax or wane for a number of predictable reasons.

and

> Inzlicht says that no matter what a person does, willpower is going to be a fickle commodity. It’s heavily influenced by many variables, and so it really cannot be trusted. “There are easier, less-muscular ways to engage in goal-directed behavior than relying on willpower,” he says.

Close enough for most purposes, really.
What spoiler?
Zoom's income in 2021 was 2.6 billion dollars.

$86m/$2.6 billion = 0.033. If I earn $100k per year, that's like a fine of $3300.
> it is very hard for early stage startups to give meaningful offers in the bay area.

This falls on deaf ears around here over and over, but worth mentioning that money isn’t the only “meaning” there is.
To play devil’s advocate though, if a 6% payment fee allows a merchant to make a sale they wouldn’t have otherwise made, then that might be a net win from their perspective. I.E. eating some decrease in profit is better than making nothing at all.

It’s basically the app version of offering interest free payments on a purchase.
I think many do this, though it’s impossible to tell of course. I do know a couple of mathematicians (one sometimes discussed on HN) who only circulate proofs, or conjectures, among themselves.
But that is just trade and you can negotiate for those things. The employer benefits from getting you up to speed in the same way that someone might offer to send a truck to a store to get something delivered faster.
As a hack, could you use the work as inspiration to create a similar port in another language during off time?
So the answer is to not spend the money at all? How much are you costing your company by putting candidates through 8 hours of interviews only to reject them. Rinse. Repeat.

All the while, productivity suffers as the remaining team falls further behind due to short-staffing and being pulled away from their real jobs to interview.
No one is doubting the risk mitigation, which is why the process exists in first place. But the BS of wasting someones time also needs to be addressed. The reason most companies waste peoples time is because they are too busy with abstract concepts tangentally related to the actual job, and theoretical models by some "expert" of HR management. Software engineering has become a psuedo-religious exercise in computing witchcraft.

If you want a backend engineer - book a few hours, even on a weekend, set up an IDE and get on a real world project. No bullshit. Build a small API to these requirements, using these technologies but take care of edge cases and deploy that bad boy.
I agree that writing short sentences is key. It seems most people are taught the opposite in school, and I know some English tests give you higher marks for longer sentences, so you have to get people to unlearn that bad habit.
>I'm sure the mechanism for configuring this bypass is documented. But does your documentation specifically call out the accessibility limitation of your product, the need for this workaround, and the recommended additional safeguards for these employees' machines?

This is super important. Remember that while a bunch of us are nerds who know how computers work, some blind people might just know enough to use the web and do their job--as most people in the world do. They won't understand why the product doesn't work, let alone know how to fix it. The problem with a solution this transparent is that a request will have to go way up the chain before someone will actually know enough to address it and determine the problem. Of course it's not the job of Cloudflare to fix corporate ignorance, but a note like this one in the documentation might be a good start.
The Database Olympics. Does MS Access Still Rank?
Source : my total comp as well as my coworkers and friends.

Just look around...

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Lyft/salaries/Software-Engine...

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Airbnb/salaries/Software-Engi...

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Twitter/salaries/Software-Eng...

https://www.levels.fyi/company/HBO/salaries/Software-Enginee...

Many of these are fully remote.
In Australia (Afterpay's home market), credit card merchant fees are tightly regulated (<1% for most transactions AFAIK), so 'cash-back' offers like the US don't exist.

Airline/Frequent Flyer point conversions similarly got nerfed, so much so it's better to cycle cards (credit worthiness permitting) every year to get a point bonus up front (e.g 200K points for spending $X000 in the first 3 months) than trying to earn that amount.
The ios one is just better. Or at least they present the features better. On Android I do not remember it being an app but instead a website you go to. On iOS the app has multiple functions, finding your phone/macbook/ipad, finding your friends if they enable location sharing, and finding your items via airtags. The latest version even lets you track your iphone while it is turned off via an airtags like function built in.
As part of the Intuit purchase Credit Karma had to sell off their tax service, which Square bought. I'm guessing that's what OP is referring to.
Despite the implied "cancellation" of the authors listed (Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and John Updike), whatever that means, you will find it is easy to get ahold of as many books written by these guys as you want. If you shouted to a train full of people that you were reading them, you'd get blank stares. I can't help but feel as if the author of this piece is fighting an imaginary battle.
Interviewees should demand payment by the hour at their going rate.
I worked on some of Spotlight's rollout of Zip. I can see why they would prefer that. Spotlight go to a lot of effort to make sure every expense is accounted for. Also given their enthusiasm for it they definitely negotiated a good deal for it. (interest rates on Zip can get higher than most CC's, its only worth it if you pay off in the interest free period).
In _a_ tunnel yes, but not this one. The argument isn’t against tunnels in general, just the damage that would be done by the current plan.
I don’t know about Jins, but I’ve owners many paid of of Zoff (the other big Japanese maker) and they’ve all been made in Japan or Korea. There’s also a ton of small brands in Japan still. And it’s kind of interesting that virtually all Japanese eyeglasses are made in one city (Sabae).
Also apple does very reasonable battery replacements and has stores in many locations to do this.
That's a substantial fee for a human making $100k per year (plus taxes), but I don't think we should be comparing what's a reasonable fine for a person vs a business.
IIRC someone proved that if markets are efficient, the P=NP.

That convinces me that P!=NP, heheh.
Many companies use 90 day polices as well. So Fall2012! qualifies as a secure password.
32 GB/s
I think monetization has pushed almost everything to video. I miss the old days when people would actually write up how to do things.
Diana Moon Glampers strongly agrees with this suggestion.
You can 'just ditch an accent' if you can mimic someone else's accent.
3.3% of gross revenue isn't as tiny as you make it sound.
A new platform for async knowledge sharing
This is only aspirational to the degree that you actually like beaches.
Totally agree - I was just poiting out that just like 2.9% credit card fees that get ammortized over the total sales by the means of higher prices (meaning even if you use cash, you don't get a discount[1]), the 6% has to come from somewhere.

[1] Some gas stations have a different cash rate to pass the savings on to the customer
Wooden Buildings Reach for the Sky
Interviews or rounds? Phone screen and 4-5 on-site is pretty reasonable, but that's only two rounds.
Texas Instruments’ new calculator incorporates Python
> That is irrelevant because the main point is, the attack will be unsuccessful.

Is your claim here that the Fed cannot afford to buy the 51% attack? Keep in mind that they printed about 6 trillion dollars last year.

If the Fed can buy a 51% attack then they will be successful. They will demonstrate beyond a doubt that an entity with the power to print fiat can always take down a decentralized, permissionless network by exploiting those very features.
For everyone saying that it's risk mitigation, I recently asked about something similar[0] for a junior position, and the process still hasn't finished. For context, the company is a medium-size tech company with presence mostly in Europe and Asia.

I don't know these things well enough but it makes no sense to me. For starters, in the tech sector in my country the salary for fresh grads like me actually come mostly from the government. Moreover, these companies are all secretive about compensation, and they probably think they can get away with it by dangling their "reputation" in front of you like a carrot. In most cases the salary is about the same as a small startup because, again, they get the money from the government.

People can argue about spending time and resources on training and what not but basically every job ad, from "top" companies to the web dev garage down the road, expects us to learn by ourselves anyway?

It's frustrating for early career starters that most of my friends and I are going through. It's such a huge waste of everyone's time and people are just churning because of this crap. Please get rid of non-technical HR and interviewers.

Sorry for the emotional rant. I would really like to know what risks (other than useless non-technical HR keeping their jobs) there are after candidates have past a certain threshold for quality, particularly for junior positions.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881668
It would be nice if hiring processes were defined publicly up-front in the job advert.
Easy for them to build something technically equivalent, impossible to guarantee that it will get the same usage. There's a reason why companies like Google, Amazon, Apple do hundreds of acquisitions every year despite having enough money and talent to build it all on their own.
Any guesses about how long the market will stay like this?
HR gets paid for it candidates should demand payment too at their current rates.
This is also why many AKC pure bred dogs have serious health problems. Turns of you select only on a simple metric like hair color, ear shape, of slope of the back, that you end up selecting for things that go against the very heart of what the breed was. So you lose characteristics that led to the breed in the first place.
"Evitable" is a word, in Spanish. https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/evitable
For me its update length. In 2019 I did not have a single Apple product but then I needed a tablet and found that the android side was offering almost no compelling options so I picked up an iPad Air 2 (2014). I was absolutely shocked by the fact it was still getting updates (its getting ipados 15 now) which convinced me to try out the other products so I now own the iphone, watch, ipad pro and airpods. The air 2 went to my mum who still uses it today and it works well.
Because people have brains, can learn new things and technologists don't need experience with particular technology to be successful using or working on it.
> It dawned on me then that - brilliant though he is (and he really is: one of the best all round devs I know) - he couldn't see the benefit because he 1) was too good at what he did that he didn't see that most people aren't like him, and 2) he simply wasn't the audience.

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid this or books to read, as I feel like I have this problem. I've been trying for nearly a decade to start a profitable side project, but any ideas I come up with are too technical so end up being hard to sell and/or complicated to build. If someone told me of an idea like this I'd probably also dismiss it :-)
Black is reserved for their premium card. NAB have a similar product https://www.nab.com.au/personal/credit-cards/nab-straightup-...

Yes the chunking into 4 payments, is the primary benefit of BNPL. It allows you to buy something significant (i.e. a laptop) and spread the payments over time.

The downside is its very easy to overspend and get stuck in a debt spiral