skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point and thanks for sharing. I've had some similar experiences (though my current long-term contract required the "standard" tech interview process).

Tangent: I followed your profile's link to your blog. I like what I saw (wrt Docker practices). Have you written about your freelance / contract gig experiences per se? I've been mostly remote for the last 20y, strictly remote since starting my tiny S-Corp / committing to consulting FT 4-5y ago, and I'd be interested to compare notes.
At a previous company, we usually had requirements to keep customer data for X amount of years with the client we worked for, so it could be audited or checked during that time, and then after that we had to delete it, which meant we had a script that would replace any sensitive and identifying data (name, phone number, address, etc) with 'XXXXXXXXX'.

Outside of that, we usually hung on to data. We still had databases sitting there for clients we hadn't done any work with for over five years.

But there was always a chance we'd secure more work with them, and if that happened we wouldn't have to go through the setup process all over again, plus it would take a decent amount of time to remove them entirely from all of our systems that management didn't really want to spend the manpower doing.
These drones are so cool, saw them in a Bloomberg video. I hope to get into that one day even just on my own in my creek/pond (submarine type).
I think the best explanation is that NFTs are a very fancy system of provenance (which the art world already takes very seriously).
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Most of the new companies that I'm personally familiar with are intentionally avoiding investment money and are bootstrapping up. And the devs starting them did not suddenly discover product market fits, they're finally pulling the trigger on things that have been percolating for a long time.
I think parent point was that if it was well done we would like it in the start menu, but if it was only 99% ok or below we would hate it.

Omnibox sucked until it reached a point where it didn't.

But microsoft is so focused on competing to google's product that they fail to realize they don't even need to go there.

With that said, we're talking about a company who can't even search properly for the installed app given the infinite resource of a modern computer and an app list below a hundred, so I don't want them to make the search menu/search any more of a disaster.
Hot takes :D
The Emacs-28 release branch has been created
My opinion is that Agile is intended to be vague, as there can't be a silver bullet plan that fits every occasion. Of course, "no silver bullet" sells way worse than "I've got a silver bullet for you right here, Mr. CEO, just sign here".

Let's check some "principles" posted at https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.

Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for
the customer's competitive advantage.

Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.

Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.

To me it looks like all of the above is screaming at you "quit your great perfect plan and look at the real world instead". If something's wrong, adapt and adjust - this is what agility is about. You can't calcify agility.

P.S. not really in any particular argument with you, just that your comment prompted me to write some thoughts that have coagulated in my mind while going through the comments here.
Why is it an "archaic notion"?
Think it's like an elevator on airplane controls the angle of the big one.

Easier to rotate the wing than a motor at the root of the big wing.
at least consider a ban on stock buybacks like was the case until that regulation was rolled back in the 80s.
>So code isn't the law?

Code is law. This law was just written incorrectly. This is a known risk; it's the reason why defi interest rates are similar to junk bonds.
My personal blog was once on top HN, back then it was hosted on wordpress, intel atom, 256Mb allocated to php-fpm. It easily handled 700 users in a minute.
>>Not to mention, crypto currencies are worse than traditional currencies in every way

You've never been denied financial services due to discriminatory policies, or you would not claim that.

Everything needs to migrate to the public blockchain: banking, online markets, social media platforms, etc. Giving a handful of corporations and governments control over almost every aspect of every one's lives is dangerous and corrupting.
Is this just a wish list, or sham is in a state people can play?

You might be onto something. I long wished of a scripting/shell language where the relational table is a first class construct.

Maybe repost this once you get it into a more stable server.
Can’t the people who have the money just pay the tax themselves? Seems like the easiest way to keep the money and stay on the right side of the threat?
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in my team we don't micromanage, however I agree that some scrum events can be adjusted a bit. For example the sprint reviews don't make much sense if you can deliver any time you want, and we do. It's probably just a way to wrap a bunch of work we did and show it to keep everyone on the same page about what's happening.

Daily also don't make sense, because the team has several major tracks in parallel and I can't really contribute to what others are doing, unless I decide to put my work aside and/or overwork.

Why this? My guess is that it's more convenient for a manager to have a more consistent view of what's happening. On the other hands there are team members that like to hear what's happening besides their own work, and such meetings give them that opportunity.

The luck we have are the retrospective meetings: one of the most efficient ways to actually make actionable things. This meetung I would never cancel, because it has nothing to do with the sprint but with the teamwork, workload, etc.

The issue with all "things" is the ability of people to be able to adapt it to the own workflow. It takes balls and experience.
A relative once said to me "The reason I get on with my aunt so well is that she's also my cousin". Islander life, islander values...
The top income tax bracket in the US is 37%, so the rational thing would be to keep 100%, pay taxes on it, and still come out on top.
Netflix pays for the packets that go in and out of its network. SK’s customers pay for the packets that go in and out of their home networks. So what am I missing? That’s sounds like the way things are supposed to work.

When I read this description of SK’s complaint it appears they are unhappy with the deals they struck with their customers. Nor in other words they are unhappy their customers are actually using the product.
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The reason people are hating scrum isn't because the simple scrum statement is simple, it's because a whole industry has been formed around advocating "true scrum" with consultants that fly in and give big meetings about how you can turn scrum into a tool for micromanagement.

Corporate suits eat that shit up. The value add of scrum, to them, is everything devs hate. They love the burn down charts, the timelines for features, the resource allocation, the ability to fly in and say "You are working on polish? WTH value add does that bring to the company? Dump it and do feature 123 instead!"

And, unfortunately, corporate suits tend to pay the bills.

I'm sure there are companies out there that don't fall into micromanagement shit, but I'm convinced it's an inevitability that any successful company will eventually turn into a feature factory hell hole.
It’s thought that something like 20% of BTC are “lost” (1) (ie, private key is lost). This will certainly happen to NFTs as well since people will inevitably fail to back-up their wallets.

1. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d580747908cdc0001e67...
So it would seem.

EDIT: Also profitable, taxes should be less then 90%. Just out of curiosity, isn't DeFi motivating users to defraud the IRS by promising 10% without reporting it as income?

EDIT: Come to think of it, if they are offering 10% without reporting to the IRS, which is obviously less than after taxes, would it be reasonable to assume all revenue / profits have not yet been reported to IRS as revenue?
Silicon’s 300% Surge Throws Another Price Shock at the World
It doesn't do this, because it's not smart and treat everything the same way. You first need to figure out what kind of content the user is talking about, and then go around that.

Microsoft system doesn't care if you're typing calc.exe or John Smith or 8x9 it will do the crappy web search, crappy app search, crappy store search, crappy calendar search, and vomit a mix of useless results in your face.

That's what makes it "hard" to do it right, and frankly something that microsoft just doesn't have in their dna (if they did, their start menu search wouldn't be so horrible). I think an OS that did it right would be improved, and I hope to hell and back that microsoft won't try it because they will never succeed at that.
I wouldn't say super easy, but at least much easier than before.
The difference is that being maximally charitable is the right way to approach normal communication from normal people, but the people who write “CoCs” are known bad actors. You don’t assume good faith from the person that’s assaulting you.
it is the depiction of in-group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups

Modern tribalism at it's finest
> This honestly is quite normal

For our industry, during the last 20 years.

Not normal for most industries. Or in IT before 2000.

> I have seen a lot of my contractor friends go full-time during this pandemic though

Yeah, that's why I think it's important to have an elastic life style if you are a freelancer. So that you can suddenly cut 80% of your expenses. If you have big loans, an expensive car, 2 children in private school and live in a pricey area, if you revenue get shots, you are in trouble.

> But the risks were an illusion the whole time.

It was surprising though, wasn't it? I mean I expected calls to stop, but I got more of them. Now I have people calling me for things that are very far from my specialty.

Software is, indeed, eating the world.
>here in Sweden there are many mustards that are only available at Christmas

I have a theory that desserts that are only on holidays really sort of suck or they would have broken out of the holiday and are just getting by on the nostalgia factor - how are these mustards you talk about?

Also can you name some of them? I guess I can always take the train over to Malmö in a couple of months to pick some up to test the quality myself.

on edit: fixed typo
Yes, and everyone went back to using WhatsApp as I said, including me.

Nobody bothers with Signal and all these other fringe privacy apps or alternatives.

That is my point.
Piling into high gamma strikes at the same time to force a dealer squeeze is a bit more than expressing a view that an asset is undervalued.

I'm not defending either side here, but Reddit has picked a fight that is absolutely tantamount to market manipulation.
Wasn't the original manifesto written by consultants?
Whenever I end up on Bing, I go out of my way to search for “Google” (and click the link) before closing it. If I also happen to be in Edge (because microsoft ignored/changed the defaults again), then I also make sure to search for “Chrome”.

It’s petty and childish, but it’s my way of coping with the fact that I have no power when I’m using Windows. And I don’t even use Google or Chrome.
He is extremely rude to me, to appease him I edited my comment and he just angrily attacks every point I make without reading any information. Because he just attacks me so I don't see any reasonable communication with a purely ad hominem poster. Internet bullies will only be affected by lack of attention to their trolling.
> Why is the discourse centered around one specific Californian policy?

The same person calls it “universally accepted corporate values” in one of the previous comments.

I guess it's Americans again ignoring the existence of other places on Earth with their cultures and views on things?
Yeah, I love how these people pushing CoCs love harassing and discriminating against non-Americans.
> - but there are rules around this

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

From the article, judges aren't even properly recusing themselves.
Isn't this exactly how YC network effects work?

Is that why the parent is downvoted?
Browser office blows compared to desktop.
Sooo... market manipulation is wrong if and only if it is being discussed on a public medium like reddit, but not if an entity like a hedge-fund does it on its own? That's an interesting take.
> Cruise founder here. This is kind of confusing. Short version:

> - Cruise permit is for robo-taxi service, available to public (fully driverless, nobody in the car)

We need to have fewer executives talking about their awesome safe technology and more executives being forced to use their awesome safe technology.

It is extremely unfortunate that as the condition of the permit the DMV did not force dogfooding requiring that every executive of a company applying for driverless robo-taxi permit and executives' families, including their children, were mandated to give up their drivers licenses and all other modes of transportation ensuring that those executives and those executives families are the constant test subjects of the technology.

Same goes for the likes of Musk.
It’s a difficult question and I’m not qualified to answer it as an amateur tbh.
Maybe and Monad are not types - Maybe is a type constructor and Monad is a type class.
If your business plan includes shipments from China at specific costs or times, or if your business plan needs reliable workers at $18/hour, you may run into trouble. Otherwise, yes
Is this typical of how start ups hire these days?
So, I'm job hunting and I bumped into next task:

[system description - you need about 2 mins just reading through it]

1. Implement a new SDK method [method description].
A sort of graph search with limitations regarding scalability and space. Not trivial.

2. Write 1 simple unit-test and 1 simple happy-path integration test for the method above

3. Write a small technical design doc to formulate the technical problem and
document your approach to solving it. Discuss the estimated scale of the problem,
and propose an architecture for handling networks of such magnitude. Prove your hypothesis
with running time and memory complexity analysis of the average and worst cases.
How big do you think one's network can be in the absolute worst case? Discuss
how you plan to engineer the SDK for testability.

[Another paragraph of hints/tips/dos/dont's that you need at best 5 mins to get through]

[And the punchline]

This is a small task (20-45 min)

-------

This is a small startup in Berlin. No huge salary. The best perk being remote working (which TBH post-covid is a given with most IT jobs).

I consider myself a fairly smart and competent dev but there's no way this task would take me under 2 hours. So, what exactly is happening with recruiting these days? I mean, there are devs that can understand and pull this off in 20 mins but for the life of me I cannot understand why such devs would opt to work for a no-name start up and not go straight to a FAANG. What am I missing here?
‘Mandates Are Working’: Employer Ultimatums Lift Vaccination Rates, So Far
Late-age boomers are in their mid-70s, not mid-60s.

Edit: Did my grandparent comment get voted down because people don't know what 'disingenuous' means?
FAA reviewing Blue Origin safety allegations
We do now. The problem was when Netflix first opened here and the vast majority of people were still on ADSL links or even slower, and our NBN infrastructure was still just starting to come together (which I'm not going to go into details about because omg there's a huge political fight in that which I really don't want to think about)

Short version: our Netflix is just fine now. There were just a couple rocky weeks/months at the start. :)
> My definition of fully opened is no masks,

Many countries have reduced mask requirements to "just on public transport, in shops, in hospitals etc". You should expect some of those rump restrictions to hang around for years.

> no vaccine passports and no test/quarantine required to enter the country.

Realistically, international travel to most places is probably going to require a vaccine passport or else a test for the next few years. Other uses of vaccine passports (restaurants and bars etc) are likely to be more time-limited, and many places are already phasing them out.

However, beyond those items, many countries are fully opened or will be soon.

(Obviously, this is all based on current circumstance; if tomorrow a vaccine which gives 99% sterilising immunity comes out, 7 billion doses are rapidly manufactured, distributed and administered, all of this goes away. But that's very much the hopelessly optimistic outcome...)
> Agile has become a way for people with no development experience to “manage” developers and that will always be wrong

True of course but also now the Developers and Architects are compensating for the scrum master's/manager's lack of knowledge in tangible and intangible ways - they bear the brunt of everything and that can become the many straws that broke the camel's back thing easily.
"Taking a closer look at Germany, federal and state statistics reported by Der Spiegel show that there 0.95 fatal accidents per billion kilometres driven on German autobahn sections with speed limits. When it comes the parts without a speed limit, however, there are 1.67 fatal accidents - 75 percent more than on stretches with a speed limit."

https://www.statista.com/chart/25098/fatality-rate-and-speed...
https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/tempolimit-koennte-jaehr... ( In German, should be the original source)

Would be interesting to know about accidents in general. It's quite obvious that higher speeds increase the likelihood of fatal accidents.
Concrete usage is sufficient to illustrate the mechanism.

- https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-...

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_conc...

- https://www.statista.com/statistics/273367/consumption-of-ce...
I would try but there is just one problem...
A couple possible solutions:

Disallow them from being directly involved in investment decisions. Make them hand their money over to someone who will make investments on their behalf with influence limited to broad things like risk profile and the term they want returns over.

Alternatively, implement a minimum holding period. It's much harder to trade on insider info if there must be a long period of time from purchase to sale. One place where I worked wouldn't let us sell until at least 3 months after we purchased any shares.
Yep, nothing stopping anyone from keeping the funds. But we've seen other shenanigans in the past (forks, CEX involvement, etc) to paper over these mistakes.
I think we just don't appreciate it as much here. It doesn't add to the conversation other than to indicate that

1: the author disagrees (but may feel they can't do so directly), and

2: the author is clever (which of course is true of all HN users).
> Compilers for C, Pascal, and other languages of the time were hundreds of dollars

If you knew where to look, Tiny C was published in early Byte magazine (late 70's?) and Small-C published in Dr Dobbs, May 1980.

I get nostalgic and peruse the early Byte ...
You make it sound like a quality of life issue similar to having a flexible schedule when it’s really about managing the conflict of interest. Part of the problem is the rules judges and elected officials are held to barely scratch the surface of what a financial professional must do.
Thnx, murilax. I always get Konami and Capcom IPs mixed up ;)

Interestingly, looking at Japanese gaming majors by rev: Bandai (¥600B), Square (¥300B), Konami (¥280B), Sega (¥250B), Capcom (¥95B), I think it roughly tracks with value of IP warchests. Capcom, if it can get Disney to sign off on a Marvel v Capcom re-boot, may have an ace in the hole.

https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html
I was thinking barb wire, too. I need to do something because I bought a lot of my fruit trees fall of 2019 and so they should be producing next year and they’re pruned low, not to mention I upped my berry game this year.
You're actually just a nazi
My mother told me about some new anti-scalper scheme she encountered recently when she was looking at ordering concert tickets for herself and my father.
It went something like this:

- basket size limited to IIRC a maximum of five tickets for the same concert,

- name of the buyer is linked to (idk, maybe even printed on) the tickets AND

- the named buyer would have to be there with the group to enter the venue.

I think this would probably be pretty effective in countering that bottom-feeding scum called scalper.
Exactly. The moderators need to be better.

A reasonable moderator should flag a joke as this as not appropriate in professional conversation without any CoC changes:

# Maybe this has been written for women, having calculated their age ;)

When they say “there will be no jokes”: a joke told by professionals in professional setting might have different meaning than originally intended.
FYI: basilgohar's comment was accurate when it was written, since my comment was downvoted at first, but has since been upvoted again.
Ok robot, solve this: [https://youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg]

(John Rober’s squirrel maze, one of the most wonderful concotions I’ve found on Youtube.)
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> as corporate livestock you add negative value to society (you're now a cog in the money laundering machine) but you're getting paid more than what you did when you were adding value to society.

Can you explain this bit more? Why are you adding negative value?
It’s kind of a long range gesture. Normally, a judgement e: B can only capture some truths about the program e, but if B could encode arbitrary logical statements about e, what does the system look like?

It turns out that if you have that system in code written as s and then try to assert certain properties of it G, then it’s possible to design G such that s: G is so twisty and self-referential that it can’t be verified. Something to that effect: strong logics have a tough time speaking completely about themselves.

So that’s at least one property for one program that’s unprovable no matter how powerful our type system is.

But that’s so long range. Practically we can make type systems that let us prove massive amounts of things using judgements like e: B. The real issue is that it’s just very hard and expensive to make those systems practically eliminate even a small subset of bugs.
No, but it seems they want to ban non-Americans. These CoCs are very hard to understand for anyone not familiar with US politics.
I don't think that it's changed that much over the decades of my career, really. The words used change, but the concepts seem reasonably stable.

New batches of commonly accepted practices come into play with new technologies, though, and most of the "hot" technologies today are still so new that the "accepted practices" unique to them have still not settled down. So, yes, in that space, they change rapidly because they don't yet really exist.
Wow that’s the biggest piece of evidence that the letter is accurate. 18% is abysmal
Envision every driver owning a semi-truck made by the company. It's not a single company blocking the streets; it's the drivers who purchased the company's very large vehicles and who also paid for street access.