skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that this is simply a symptom of what Matt Stoller [0] has been talking and campaigning about for a very long time: the concentration of supply in the hands of a small number of middleman and monopoly global-transport companies.

The incidental problems stemming from labor-shortages, short-term factory and harbor closures caused by covid, have simply accelerated and exposed the weaknesses of our monopolistic, global just-in-time economies.

[0]https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/counterfeit-capitalism-wh...
Hmm come to think of it cigarettes are actually a social network of sorts. At least in the beginning :)
Because slabs are never level or flat. The framers always start with a level and cut to fit that first wall.

Block is generally level, but if they pour it, they don't get very close
All available with Clojure plus you get the JVM.
On the facade, that is between the facade and the bricks there is a layer of styroform and other insulations.
> On the USB-C, not saying this was your issue but really every USB-C phone I've had I've eventually needed to use a needle or pin and clear junk out of the bottom of the port to keep a good, solid connection. I don't know if that says more about the amount of lint in my pockets or the design of the USB-C port.

Me too, but as my only phone with USB-C is my Pixel 3, I assumed it was the fault of the model.
If you are lucky enough to work with people who are willing to explain this and take the information in objectively, that's great. Sometimes, I have been that lucky person.

On the other hand, in not a trivial number of cases, you'll be working with people who get all the upside when things go right and the blame the tech side successfully when they don't. Their interests do not align with the interests of the business either but since the business side consists of their bros, they all instinctively align on that.

So, you keep talking about "risk", that gets portrayed to upstairs as "I am doing my best, but so and so here is throwing technical minutiae at me which is slowing us down."

They are used to being graded on the curve where your position gets better if everyone else does worse and taking advantage of that system.

Among the many reasons I never graded on a curve, but you can't do that with upper management in business.

I say this as a person who believes business cost/benefit calculations trump everything else. However, decisions must be made by people who understand the tradeoffs and are accountable.
No books on Mossad?

My favourite is - Deception: The invisible war between the KGB and the CIA. by Edward Jay Epstein. This is the real "Art" of Spycraft.

Another must see is Yuri Bezmenov's "The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion" video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

You can go crazy trying to interpret this video in the light of what Epstein wrote about Deception :-)
I live in south-eastern Europe and almost all houses are brick. Only smaller buildings in the yard are built from wood but sometimes even they are made with bricks.
Well, if the manufacturer says I should park my car 15m away from others due to spontaneous fire risk...
I had ~500 day streak on duolingo for french. Sometimes just 1 lesson a day, often more. I got a french book of various names, animals, things, etc. I knew nothing. I thought I'd know a good chunk.

I tested myself and I knew nothing. Duolingo is trash.

>Want to learn a language? Please don't do it with Duolingo.

But then what should you use?
jatis have been endogymous for ~2000 years according to genetic studies. nowhere else on earth has this level of genetic segregation within a single region.
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Unfortunately even left wing folks in the UK remember that the coal unions shut down the country regularly in the 70s. I’m not from here, but I know a very left wing crowd and the older ones remember how they would dine in candlelight during the big coal strikes. Tatcher was a reaction to this.
The analysis I saw back then limited itself to vilifying VW, looking at excess deaths from PM2.5 etc., not taking into account any reductions in other emissions caused by the vehicles getting better mileage.
It seems the new code of conduct is worded in a more positive manner, encouraging good behavior instead of a list of things that will get you kicked out. I like it.

The hugs thing specifically also calls out “virtual backrubs”, which is quite creepy. This may be an example of behavior that a project member had to deal with in the past.
> I've never understood why techie interviews aren't simply replaced with the sort of discussions programmer co-workers have amongst themselves daily.

I think the answer here is simple: scale and trust. The smaller the company, the more likely you are to get this sort of "just a chat" interview. But larger companies invariably feel the need to standardize their hiring process across huge numbers of people. And it's just very hard to trust the "just a chat" format at that scale, and can seem much "better" to build a bank of questions with answer keys.

The solution: work for smaller companies!
To be clearer, the EU did not "abolish daylight saving" either, just the practice of switching back and forth every 6 months [0]. Each member state will decide whether to keep DST or Solar time. For instance, countries such as Italy, France, Spain, etc. will have to choose between CET (GMT+1:00) or CEST (GMT+2:00).

[0]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190321IP...
It is even worse in Portuguese; there is only a two letter difference: Suécia (Sweden) vs Suíça (Switzerland) — or three letters depending on your perspective, but in Portuguese the c with cedilla is not considered to be a different letter from a plain c, and in this case both forms are pronounced the same. Therefore some level of confusion is understandable, even expected.

In English they are similar as well but spelling and pronunciation are different enough that there should be less confusion, at least on paper. Not sure why there is such confusion in practice.
The thread, charted:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1438461867777658884.svg
> my strengths as a generalist

I'm curious to understand this phrase, and how the interview process helped.
Just trying to see the benefit of the Home Assistant Amber over a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB.

It looks like you get:

* Zigbee module ($45 for rp4 https://phoscon.de/en/raspbee2)

* PoE module ($20 if desired for rp4 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14882)

* M.2 Slot (but no SD card slot)

* battery powered RTC

* A case

It's priced at $149 with all that, whereas rp4 2GB w. zigbee and PoE would be $45 + $45 + $20 = $110, so price seems reasonable if you need all those things as you're getting the rtc, m.2 and case all in a nice package.

My use would probably only need the Zigbee module and I can 3D print a case, so I'd go with the rp4 especially as I have a bunch lying around anyway! But Seems like a really nice package if you need all those things, and especially PoE is nice to have built in.
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10 hours? Preparing for FAANG interviews requires months of preparation.
I’ve had interviewers ask about cycle detection in a linked list. The answer was of course the classic tortoise and hare algorithm. Which took ~15 years to come up with, and was found by a Turing award winner.

Anybody who claimed they “came up with the algorithm themselves” in a few minutes in an interview is a liar, and anyone who takes them at their word is a fool.
As soon as you see a Builder a Container is sure to follow then you need a Factory for your Containers and a Proxy to mediate access to your Factory. Alternatively you can opt for Clojurescript and never have to deal with any of this crap.
The need for people to have a villain in their stories always disturbed me. I guess it gives people a semblance of control if they “know” something, rather than acknowledging the innumerable causal factors intertwining with each other to create an unknowable future and unattributable past.

I am sure Kissinger played a part in many things, but he seems small pickles compared to labor costs (and hence quality of life) in the US being multiple standard deviations above the mean compared to the rest of the world.

How long did people expect that arbitrage opportunity to not be taken advantage of?
It's a real shame. The most thoughtful discussions usually take place on forums. Chat has this feel to it where it's better to reply fast and short instead of taking a bit longer but providing an elaborate reply.

I understand the maintenance issues though. Forum software like vBulleting or phpBB have had it's fair share of security issues. Let alone the costs for a small community forum.

However I do think that the moderation of forums is easier as opposed to moderating a chat. Where context can get lost in the different topics that are discussed in the same channel.
Every car manufacturer, even in the USA, harms people with their cars. Even a battery car emits particulate matter. If you really want to put something sensible on the road, it's the FCEV. That frees the air from particulate matter.
So, is this a bit like "clubs that have accepted my fake id, thus proving it is genuine"? I'm assuming customs are accidentally accepting passports that were printed by internet randos.
One big issue with tech hiring is that the vast majority of the interview pool consists of terrible candidates. Good candidates get callbacks for (almost) every job they apply for, choose to interview at a few select companies, and get offers from most of the places they interview at. Thus, they’re only briefly in the interview pool. On the other hand, terrible candidates are constantly getting rejected at every step of the process, and must continually re-insert themselves into the interview pool, and thus comprise the vast majority of interviewees.

Because of this, the interview process is not designed to efficiently handle the minority of qualified candidates, but rather efficiently weed out the majority of horrible candidates. It is therefore a terrible process for the people actually qualified to pass it.

(Note that the majority of the interview pool being terrible does not mean the majority of programmers are terrible. Assume 80% of developers are great, and 20% are bad. If the great 80% of developers only need to interview at one company to get an offer, while the bad 20% need to interview at 10 companies before either getting an offer or giving up, then only 0.8/(0.2*10+0.8)=28% of actual interviews will be with qualified candidates.)
Being valued at £2M doesn't mean you could sell all of them for that price or that the people living in them paid £2M for them.

The sort of person who could afford a nice house 3+ decades ago and spent the intervening years living in London isn't likely to move to somewhere more rural just because they can realise an investment.
See, I just went to ha. My hubitat experience was bad. For two years I had crashes, failed devices and failed automations. The last lockup I had I said enough. At least with HA I could get under the hood and deal
with an issue. Hubitat gui is awful and the rule system is tedious but powerful. It was just way too unreliable for me.
I was interested in the countries in bold that have been listed as officially recognizing the passport.

The wikipedia page (which lists this passport as a "fantasy travel document") is skeptical:

> "The World Service Authority website has scans of letters dating from many decades ago from six countries (Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Mauritania, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia) which the WSA claims is legal recognition of the World Passports. "

> "These letters of recognition are several decades old (i.e., 1954 for Ecuador, 1972 for Burkina Faso, 1975 for Mauritania, 1995 for Tanzania, 1983 for Togo, 1973 for Zambia)"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Passport
What information do you have to backup that opinion?
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> That frees the air from particulate matter.

It doesn't, as long as the car still has tires and brakes.
There is definitely caste system in hiring process. If you take any big company operating in India, and you will most certainly find the caste system replicated in the corporate structure in India. The Brahmin caste dominates the corporate hierarchies and are the perpetrators of this system, typically through favoritism and through their early advantage (but their grip is loosening up slowly).
Full Report (DOCX) - https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Sessio...
So most countries probably accepted this passport by accident? By a border guard that was too tired or lazy to take a look, who issued the passport?
you don't understand social justice, do you ?
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Try Tindering in any big Indian city:)

Demands are rather specific:

- ICS grade 3, seeking ICS, or a practicing lawyer

- MBA Columbia blah blah blah, glads outside top 100 need not apply

- Or even simpler: "seeking computer engineer, programmer, Java consultant for marriage"

The last almost fell me out of the chair.
That is what most think.

Naturally they ignore the size of ISO C and its implementation specific nuances, the set of extensions each compiler provides, every system that matters also brings POSIX for the ride and it isn't fully portable with plenty of room for interpretations, the amount of build systems to rely on, the tooling to actually write safe code,...

But hey, the K&R C book is small.
> We have an informal rule that every feature that starts with the words "Why not ..." gets rejected.

I wonder how much language inertia can be overcome by surveying what's been implemented multiple times and ranking them.

One imagines a very minimal language with multiple implementations, say, of asynchronous I/O or common data structures. Frequently-implemented features would be good candidates for thoughtful inclusion.
My friends and I started a website devoted to a multiplayer game back in college at the turn of the century. It had a forum that was heavily used.
Somehow, 20+ years later, it's still going. 14 million posts and 196 people online now. And the game series has been dead for over a decade. I moved on a long, long time ago, but many people remain.
There's a community there that just keeps going, despite the original purpose being long gone. I don't think that would happen with Discord.
Thanks also to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.
It really depends on the size of the subreddit. There is definitely an inverse correlation between subreddit size and quality of content / discussion as more karma is available for bots to farm.

But Reddit is great for niche hobbies or topics. The subreddits are much smaller and more manageable to moderate without needing full-time influencers to moderate. The sweet spot seems to be around 100,000 subscribers with a few hundred active at any time; at that size you have enough new content that the default view isn’t static, but not so much that you get lost in the noise. As for being time-based, forums suffer from this as well — if your post reply isn’t on the first or last page, it’s probably not getting read.

Forums suffer from significant bitrot — particularly when images are involved. A sizeable percentage of those useful forum posts from 10 years ago aren’t really useful anymore because all the images are gone and the links are dead. Reddit at least has a centralized infrastructure that is actively maintained.

Furthermore, accounts can be anonymous and not linked to e-mail which limits the blast radius of any data leaks (which are VERY common once a forum starts to fall behind on patching). For relatively niche topics, Reddit is probably the best option.
> Engineers are problem solvers, and a manager who applies pressure becomes the problem the engineers decide they need to solve. If it is really important to deliver Something™ by the date, engineers will, if enough pressure is applied, deliver unfinished code by that date. Unfinished code that is full of race conditions, performance problems, outright bugs

This is wrong. You can and should deliver "by the date", but you should also prioritize ruthlessly, and ship at least the top of most-important-features list with reasonable quality when time runs out.

Of course, this implies that both managers and engineers have to understand deeply, what value each feature brings, and communicate among themselves and with their client continuously.
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My biggest issue is Amazon controlling the biggest marketplace and also selling products in said marketplace. They should be required to either stop selling their products on there, or be subjected to comprehensive audits (code-base and processes) on a regular basis by the FTC.
The iPhone 13 event was a case study in Tim Cook-era product refinement
> I love when people tell me examples of extremely poor people taking risks and hitting it big, and at the same time lament how people irresponsibly have children and debt they could not handle. Celebrate them when the gamble pays off, but shit on them when it does not.

How often does this happen? Who says those two things simultaneously?
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Yes. But not every manufacturer has committed this level of fraud in an attempt to illegally circumvent regulation.
"Success in crossing a border using a World Passport is generally attributable to the whim or ignorance of individual immigration officers, not official recognition of the document."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Passport
over 90% of american indians are brahmin anyway https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/getting-america-...
> and the financial system shrug

Doesn't affect the casino so why would we see a reaction? The financial system is mostly fictional by now.

Companies switched from having warehouses as building to having warehouses on the road, mainly in ships and trucks.

We had some problems too getting parts for our products, mainly chips of course. Until some weeks ago we still felt the Ever Given in the Suez Canal because our suppliers were out of stock as well. Many businesses were relaxed on
contractual penalties because it affected everyone. Of course Covid is still a factor, although it really didn't hit many industries too much.
The agency model is really not that much different from baking pies.

If one of your developers is consistently able to finish projects substantially faster than other developers - you as a company are supposed to accurately estimate project difficulty and thus pricing (of course this is very hard to do accurately).

Your input costs are just wages, and your revenues are how much you charge for projects.
Does Netflix have a smoking problem? (2020)
True. When I get Stallman-y about "sideloading" someone usually says, "well games consoles aren't computers either" but my opinion of the matter is the same.
Not sure where you read these information, but makes no sense.
Build a shed first. There are lots of free designs online. Choose one with a window so you’ll know how to frame openings and fit windows and doors. Put the type of siding you’d want for the house on it.

Then build a detached garage, get experience with pouring a slab, attaching walls to a foundation, trusses, more practice with exterior doors and windows, insulation, wiring. If you’re really feeling confident you could put a half bath in it to practice plumbing.

You should be ready for the house at this point. You’ll either love it or hate it so much you’ll just hire someone to do it for you. Having a shed and garage on site is a big plus for building a house since it gives you a warm dry place to work and store your tools. I’ve known people who built their garage first so they could live out of it while building the house, only works if you’re a bachelor though.
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This article barely mentions Common Lisp. The author makes a good point that for complicated languages, programmers carve out a subset of features to get their work done. (At least, this is what I do for Common Lisp, Haskell, Swift, etc.)

I have always loved a tech world with many programming languages, but I wonder if this might change in a few decades if software reliability becomes more of an issue. I don’t know much Rust, but I have taken a good look at Swift as being a possible direction for a universal language (REPL development, strongly typed with fast compilation speeds on M1, and a generally pleasant language).

I have a prediction: IT security will become such a larger problem in the future that programming languages and operating systems will go through a winnowing out phase, fewer choices, and those fewer choices will have more effort in producing provably correct software.
Similar experience, what I learned with Java and I see Go going through exactly the same mistakes, is that when the language is too small, the complexity lands on the eco-system.

That is how you get AOP frameworks, code generators based on EMF, XML driven frameworks,....
They're not making security products. They're making "security" products.

Imagine you're working on products for airport security. Should you focus on stuff that might actually be useful to improve the security of the airport and planes? Or, should you focus on useless security theatre for the well-funded TSA and similar entities?

You won't find these "security" products in environments where actual security was crucial and the operators understood what they were doing. What you see there is Zero Trust, low friction but effective authentication, and occasionally actual real air-gapping, because somebody says "It would be easier if this wasn't air-gapped but that's inherently unsafe and the risk is unacceptable, so we're doing it the hard way".

But lots of places want to play pretend and for them a "security" product is perfect, it checks off the box for the relevant CxO role and causes some level of irritation while making no practical difference to actual security. Perfect.

Reminds me of the first question you ask about a "Secure" site (e.g. a data centre) to understand if they really mean "Secure" or not. "Who cleans this place?"

If the answer is "Nobody, it's a mess" or "sigh we all have to take turns" then maybe it's actually secure. But if there's some bullshit about "vetting" of staff paid minimum wage to go wherever they want, unremarked, carrying large black bags of unknown objects then the facility is not, in fact, secure.
You also have to remember that the construction industry itself is constantly in a boom and bust cycle and we are in the boom cycle right now, it would have been more expensive now than a year or two ago even without the pandemic or any other economic factors, just those other factors have nudged it up a bit higher.

Couple years from now it will settle down and carpenters and tradesmen will be fishing for jobs again and lowering prices for consistent work instead of like now where they can throw out a even the shittiest net and catch over their limit.
I recently interviewed at some place which did exactly this. Their first round of interview was a 30 min (or 1 hour) candid talk with the hiring manager which involved around technology (and the role). Although I was deemed not fit for candidacy in further rounds, that first round help me express myself more rather than how would you do X in Technology Y and so on.
Get your own servers. Sometimes it feels like people have forgotten how much traffic a medium performant computer can deal with. You often dont need a full cloud or a bunch of vms and serverless functions etc etc to run most services.