skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Four practical "exercises" when writing JDs to help prioritize the knowledge and experiences you expect this person to bring:

1) Pretend you only have 100 words. Simple stuff, but getting ruthless is a good way to prioritize.

2) Write an "anti-JD": the type of person you don't want for the role. A tip: focus on unconscious competencies - things you expect the person to know on day 1.

3) (Similar to Aline's litmus test in the article of "Can most companies say this about the work they’re doing") If you can write "Only an idiot wouldn't ... " in front of the line, it's not a good differentiator.

4) Imagine you were going to ask the person you hire for this role to give 5 lunch and learns their first week on the job. What would the topics be and to what depth would you expect them to go?

Also, at least in my experience, the easiest way to deter "noise" from unqualified applicants is to be clear what the first interview will consist of and how it will be passed/failed.

"We expect you to come prepared to discuss the pros and cons of the following, citing previous work as much as possible: (insert relevant topics from exercises above e.g. computer vision, DevOps, Redux, recent famous papers in your field, etc) Candidates without experience or evaluated below an intermediate level of knowledge will not proceed."
I'd greatly appreciate an example of someone arguing that we should "[embrace] of monarchy and caste".
This has been common practice for decades.
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Neat. I am pumped about Intel GPUs with official open source drivers for Linux. Exciting times ahead!
Pretty well. It doesn't shoot through them, because it can't see through them. Sometimes it aims/shoots through them somewhat early before it dissipates completely, because rxn time is way faster than a human. But it's close enough to not be suspicious.
Info on Recreation.gov API
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21625504 (sas unsure how to thread it there)

FYI I learned more information about getting access to availability info in case it's helpful to others:
1. Creating an account at ridb.recreation.gov
2. Going to https://recreationonestopprod.servicenowservices.com/externa... and submitting a help desk ticket with the “Topic” as “RIDB Inquiry/Maps”. Please include your description of your use case in the comments section.
3. From there a formal ticket will be created and I will need to get formal approval from our Program Managers
4. An access agreement will follow for you and our side to sign
5. Access to Tier 1 (Availability) will be granted to your account you created in step 1.
So you think google is guiding you, based on your profile based on all the data they have collected on you, to (for example) specific tech product reviews in order to entice you to consume goods at retailer walmart/dell/apple/samsung etc?
> In fact, there used to be a particular Samsung galaxy "pad" or something that was identical to a phones form factor ... but wifi only. EDIT: Samsung galaxy "player" IIRC ?

Yup, and on the Apple side there's the iPod Touch (which is apparently still available!?)
Anyone remember PunkBuster? If anything took more out of the soul of gaming in them days I'd love to know what. It never managed to keep on top of "hackers" but some how managed to destroy the legitimate gamer communities - I got kicked so much I just gave up in the end playing publicly.

Does anyone even bother anymore with online gaming without using hacks? I've never strayed far from private servers for over a decade now.
Consider that I may use a tool like Google Drive for a subset of data that I don't feel is particularly sensitive or identifying in nature
People said the same thing about the recent Elon Musk book by Tim Higgins. They trot out the Musk Tim Cook example. I don't know why both denied ever meeting but I do know that a lot of the stories correlate to what I saw on the anti-Tesla subreddits. In fact it helped complete some unanswered questions about how things were running at Tesla during their Model 3 struggles.

So while this guy may or ay not be getting his sources from unreliable third party places, he has enough of a personal credibility to at least consider the stores in the book. At least thats what I learned after seeing how quickly the Tesla community turned against the Higgins book.
What do you mean? They make great XML readers now a days! /s
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

Bloomberg's followup article (and probably the original article) doesn't seem to discuss BMCs at all.

I'm not saying that I invented the line of argument. I'm saying that Hacker News, the community, brought up BMCs. Its not a talking point of the Bloomberg article at all.

The fact remains: we're already in a fully tangential point compared to Bloomberg's "facts" (of which there are very few. Its largely just allegations and FUD).

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The most frustrating thing is that Bloomberg very well could be correct. But the articles they wrote are absolute crap on this subject.

> People coming forward about a successful foreign state sponsored attack on AWS and Apple server infra is a pretty big story for HN, even if it doesn't have all the details you'd like.

Without the details of how it happened or the mechanism, then it doesn't matter.

We exist in a zero-day world: there are attacks I will never understand in my lifetime, happening today. Welcome to modern computer security.

What's important is understanding as many of these attacks as possible, so that we can build the proper security mechanisms and policies to defend ourselves correctly. Without an action plan, the news is basically null and void. It doesn't matter if China hacks us per se, it could be Russia or Iran tomorrow. There's always state actors trying to do things.
Consider these two scenarios.

1. SPA with asynchronous server communication. A button switches to a spinner the moment you click it, and spins until the update is safe at the server. Error messages can show up near the button, or in a toast.

2. LiveView where updates go via the server. The button shows no change (after recovering from submit "bounce" animation) until a response from the server has come back to you. To do anything better, you need to write it yourself, and now you're back in SPA world again.

There's a reason textarea input isn't sent to a server with the server updating the visible contents! Same thing applies to all aspects of the UX.

EDIT: https://dockyard.com/blogs/optimizing-user-experience-with-l... talks about this. That'll handle things like buttons being disabled while a request is in flight, but it won't e.g. immediately add new TODO items to the classic TODO list example.
Setting aside anybody opinions on this particular law/topic, are you suggesting companies shouldn’t “vote with their wallet/feet”? If you had a 2 person company and you were the CEO and SomeState enacted a law you strongly disagreed with would you not seek to limit your business’ support of that state?
True. Really, it should be compared to a standard basket, or maybe equivalent meals?
neither is allowing massive corporations taking moral stands on divisive political issues—wholly unrelated to the purview of their industry—to become socially acceptable!
Not to mention the "minority" shareholders are only minority in voting rights, not minority in shares owned. The multi-class share system is designed to enable exactly this kind of executive behavior, where even a broad shareholder revolt isn't enough.
FTA

> It's neither a bird nor a plane, but a winged microchip as small as a grain of sand that can be carried by the wind as it monitors such things as pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases.
Your comment reminded me of this Government of Canada web document, detailing pre-Columbian conflict in North America:

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/service...
First rule of wielding economic might: Make sure you don't hurt the people you're trying to help. Taking economic opportunity away from women in Texas doesn't make them better off.
What article was the book based on?
Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
I'm not sure about most, but mine is on Trifexis (spinosad + milbemycin oxime). It protects her against fleas, heartworms, hookworms, roundworms, and whipworms. I haven't seen a single flea on her the entire time I've had her, she just tested negative for heartworm at her last vet visit, and she tolerates it well.
You would forbid it?
If you're serious about using the type system to encode business logic, improve resiliency, and reduce runtime errors: scala is really a great choice. Beware "type astronauts", FP purism, etc. and you'll be able to go very fast. You get access to the whole JVM ecosystem.

Rust is great but more clunky. I'm under the impression F# is a viable alternative.
Your question is interesting, as weird things happen even in cities, and not infrequently.

> I'm curious how Tesla FSD works with obstacles that aren't cars or people on roads.

This video would appear to show it the Tesla plowing into a lit up, stationary car. It looks to be dark, but that’s abysmal.
If so, the gambit is pretty weak, since the law is plainly unconstitutional, and Democrats know this. It's only a matter of time before it is overturned by the federal courts. The Supreme Court might not even bother to hear the case (though that is unlikely).
>You can't prevent the client from auto-aiming or knowing the enemy player position behind a nearby wall

Valorant and Edan.gg's defender [1] has the best fog of war system I've ever seen. CSGO has probably the worst; in fact, at one point, the game had NONE and sent player pos's to everyone at all times.

I completely agree, but there are a lot of server-side mitigations that haven't been nearly as explored as I'd hope.

[1]: https://edan.gg/defender
Our government is a regime, and has been for a very long time. Presidents today rule almost exclusively by executive order. Each administration takes yet more drastic action, completely obliterates past precedent, etc. Why can't we say this really? Is the US as bad as Iran? No of course not. But that's like a the bare minimum here. I'd rather we not get there.

> But hey, you can keep blaming me for your shortcomings, that's what religious people like to do.

You're the one worshipping at the feet of Uncle Sam.
At the very least, it's missing treaties under negotiation.
One of the most important ideas I‘ve come across in the last few days while doing low-value browsing on HN was an insight shared by Rich Hickey: „A computer is the absolute worst place to do thinking“. I think it was in his talk „Hammock driven development“. I actually installed a hammock in my office yesterday because of it. It takes self-control to actually go over and use it. And to leave my phone at the desk, too. But once I do, I profit tremdenously. I get ideas. I see the big picture. I get energized again.
"In the olden days, a software application was built as a large monolith (...)" - people should stop writing this kind of shit.

You can hear this nonsense from some poor quality bloggers. People who are serious about it say things like "for most startups microservices is bad idea", "monolith should be starting point in most cases", "there is a price that comes with microservices", "modularised monoliths are often pefect fit" etc. this is coming not from random internet dudes but from Sam Newman author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", Martin Fowler etc.

Microservices/services/monoliths are one of design kinds, they best fit into different setups.

References:

* https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/04/microservices_last_re...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTdnfD6s5Q

etc.
Wasn't clear to me who wrote this or why, so:

> I’m Colm MacCárthaigh, a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, and this website is my blog.
I worked for Google for almost 10 years--nearly 7 on Chrome--and found the internet unusable without uBlock origin installed on my laptop. On my workstation I basically just didn't use the web unless it was obviously pertinent to the problem in front of me.

Nowadays, I use Safari with Ghostery lite and Adblock Plus. I won't go back to web without a blocker.
Apparently most of the fines go straight to the "US Treasury." Basically, congress decides how to spend the money. That makes some sense: at least it is being spent by people who are elected, so that there is a chance at accountability.

However, it also doesn't make sense, because it doesn't seem "fair." The money from fines should be used to compensate victims.

That being said, compare this to the common practice of civil forfeiture: The money often goes back to the very same government entities who took the money. This is very bad because it incentivizes government agencies to be way too aggressive.

On balance, I think it might be better for the money to go back to the general fund. That way the temptation for corruption is severely mitigated. Though, I'm not sure about this, as I haven't spent much time thinking about it. There could, perhaps, be a more nuanced approach, based on each unique agencies needs/situation. That would require a lot of legislation, though.
> active/away status

This can easily be abused for stalkerish behavior. Even read receipts in chat apps like Facebook should be able to be disabled by the user. (You can, with some JS injection, but basically that means programmers' privacy is respected and non-programmers' privacy is violated.)

Also micromanagement.

I once had a coworker who would "pounce" on me when my Slack status became active, instead of respecting the time I needed to code. I had to set my Slack status to always away.
Much better for privileged geeks maybe not for anyone else.
How long till epic brings their store to Linux (or at least native Steam Deck)?
Corporations happen to be composed of people who do have opinions.
Unless you are communicating C++ services for example and you prefer a lib that does the parsing and transformation to native object for you
this worked for me: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Famp%2Far...
I'm more interested in seeing how this plays out from a privacy perspective regarding the use of Apple phones or services by people in Texas to surveil or report other people seeking abortions.
Thank you! Those last 10% always seem to take just as long as the first 90! Ask me one day about that typo that a friend discovered that showed in all marketing materials so that I had to redo all screenshots and the demo video.

Pricing: yes, agreed.

One Page Summaries: I have more ideas on that front. I'd like to add a way to "save" the summary config as kind of a "smart search" so that you could have them in the outline on the left or even embedded as a block inside a note.

Another idea is a kind of command line syntax for the location bar:

. / #meetingminutes / H2:Lessons Learned | View:OnePageSummary

This would find all notes tagged "meetingminutes" in the current note and below, pull all sections with level 2 headings "Lessons Learned" and show them as summary on one page.
Substitute “display driver” for a draw over other apps, “tap this dot” game, then.
Surely it had the name “ilaqa-ghair” (no man’s land) for a reason
This is probably the best solution I've seen around anti-cheat solutions. I also think this is the best approach to prevent abuse on social media.

I can't be the only one sick of what a sewer the internet, like multiplayer gaming and especially social media, has become.
Are they not? It's not exactly a secret he has full control.
What does this (client to web service communication) has to do with interservice communication?

You still have to unmarshal json into some sort of object/struct.
America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of just 8.2%
Expecting Apple to leave money on the table in an economy the size of Texas would be almost as crazy as expecting them to leave Russia or China over their stance on human rights violations or political apps (both of which they capitulated to).
The concept of ownership manifests itself if there exists entities (or agents) and limited set of resources to share between entities. An entity owns a resource if it can assert control over it and deny control over it to others.

It's pretty brutal but in the end, that's kind of what it is. If you dissolve all governments, teleport us on a new world and wait to see what happens, ownership will develop based on this. No one "owns" Jupiter at this time. If one day someone manages to deny access to Jupiter to others, while having access to it, that person will probably reasonably "own" Jupiter.
The way that worked for me was to DM people on Twitter or Reddit. You can identify your target users based on who they follow. Don't spam or send generic messages. An example I can think of is the following:

"hey xyz,

Saw you following Foam Freesearch. I am building a product in the space between networked thought and thotworked net.

Right now, we are doing a Private beta testing with a small number of users who are interested in this space.
Therefore, reached out to you, in case you are interested to join.

We have limited slots, Lmk if you want in.
Kudos
"

I got around 50 users to try out private beta for Primer (https://primerlabs.io) that way.
Ask HN: Why can I down-vote some comments but not others?
On certain HN posts, I can up-vote and down-vote comments. Then on other comments in the same post, I can only up-vote (there is no down-vote arrow). Why?

Screenshot:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/Z4uj8w2l
Wittgenstein was a tortured soul in a garbage world, much like a lot of other people who did not have the means or will to organize all of their thoughts in writing. I do wonder how many "great philosophers" were and are out there, not writing down their thoughts.
The end of the one-child policy brought just about zero improvement in birthrates or the demographic trajectory of the country.

I would not be very confident that any of what you are talking about is going to fix China's massive demographic problems, and such policies have generally had limited success elsewhere.

Additionally, with the new entrants to the workforce in 15-20 years already having been born, even if improvement was seen, you're talking many decades before you're going to have that said improvement in births be sufficient to stop the workforce from shrinking, dependency ratios getting worse, etc.

China loosened it's policies about 20 years too late.
> From what I have read and watched, it has been very successful.

Let me guess, you have not played CS:GO? There is an insane number of obvious cheaters, more than in other games I played.

Also, there is TeamFortress 2 that's just has been abandoned and they can not an anti-cheat to it, it seems.
It would also be nice if people were able to use cheats in a game against other people with cheats. It would be very enjoyable to watch battle of the bots in games and have people pit their programming skills against each other like this.
If you mean actual testing, we use a lot of mocks and this[1] little dude.

[1] https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl
I was going to add that as my second sentence, but decided to keep it short and sweet. It seems to me that Democrats are desperately trying to show that it still works while the other party is coming up with creative ways to show that it doesn't.
> What about the plastic wrapped foods that last for years?

I appreciate a good whataboutism as the next guy, but please keep in mind that fruit already has short shelf life, and plastic packaging is not used for longevity or higiene but to protect the product from mechanical actions and to prebundle items.

> It's probably fine even if it leeches out into a landfill (...)

The whole point of using paper-based packaging is that this problem simply does not exist at all, it's recyclable, and the timespan it takes to biodegrade is not measured in geological time.
Will you add treaties under negotiation?

The BC Treaty Commission has a website with a map showing them at their various stages:
https://www.bctreaty.ca/
The federal unemployment benefits ended like last week, maybe a bunch of people are trying to switch to state benefits instead.
Hard to make or small market?
I think "the rain dances cause rain circular logic" would be true if (and a big if) it weren't for other states trying different, less strict strategies. Clearly some states are explicitly not rain dancing and are facing headwinds.

And that's the beauty of state and to some extent even more locally based strategies versus national mandates. As long as there is a national agreed upon mechanism for measurement - its actually quite great that some states are willing to be guinea pigs and their citizenry are willing to go with different riskier strategies and experiments.

In fact the steadfastness and persistence of some states sticking to their strategies even in the face of significant headwinds is a plus as it creates an even richer dataset for research and analysis.

The headwinds these states are facing provides assurance to those in states with the stricter mandates that the mandates aren't just a pure power grab and government control and actually do have a benefit that is measurable.
Maybe they should upload the video in question to vimeo and/or peertube, and not just youtube?
The Economist is a great exemplar of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Their subpar coverage of wars, Iraq WMDs, Syria, Afghanistan, Middle East, Asia, Latin America (they couldn't even call a coup in Bolivia a coup), Tech, Business all prove the Gell-Man amnesia effect. I don't have enough knowledge about their coverage of Finance though.

They seem to fail upwards like most of mainstream media acting as mouthpieces of the DC/London establishement, stenagrophers of the national security establishment and PR agency of many VC funded tech bros.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
The seller registers the IMEI along with the listing, so if the buyer sent back a different device it would be clear they did that.
PSA: Anywhere there are cats or wild animals (like squirrels, racoons, etc) tends to have healthy flea populations throughout the environment.

I give my dogs a special "cookie" quarterly which makes it so any flea that bites them becomes sterile and makes doggos no longer a vector.

Few things are worse than tiny almost invisible pests in your home or living on / biting loved ones!
It's funny, because Apple is trying to get its engineers to move away from the Silicon Valley which is so expensive, and Austin is their next best US campus.

They've got big money on expanding offices in Texas.
I don’t care for skeleton screens much in any case, but there’s no reason why skeleton screens couldn’t be limited to client-side page loads while the client waits for the data. The server could and should still fetch all the data and send down a fully-rendered page.
Yes, if only we could trust advertising networks to work in the best interests of their viewers.
Scramjet engines can combust the air at supersonic speeds. Rumors are that the Chinese and Russians flew scramjet aircraft multiple times.
Haha! Already downvoted by his army of Renfields. Love it.
Yeah, a journalist has to say "alleged" because it's a lawsuit that hasn't been settled in court yet. But it happened, and there's evidence. So it's more than "just an allegation."
I see ads on my Apple TV but they're not personalized, just random food delivery, lots if ads for chips, shampoo and meds, or the usual junk that you see on cable TV. I fail to see how this brings me any benefit.
I did exactly this - even down to using Apple Magic keyboards, because I happened to have two of them.

The only difference was that I had the keyboards angled ‘out’ rather than in, propped up at their front and middles, so that my wrists were higher than my fingers and thumbs higher than my other fingers, if that makes sense.

Eventually I moved on from this to a single keyboard specifically designed to support this sort of setup, but two small keyboards was a great start!