skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As suggested below, Pushover is great (you have to pay couple of bucks). Another free option is using, surprise, telegram for sending notifications to yourself
How is it broken?
NASA Says Soyuz Thruster Firings Trigger Emergency Alert on ISS
If you are ok with manual changing a non-GUI config to change your GUI then technically the taskbar in Windows 11 is relocatable. It requires a Windows registry change.
I feel like we could do way better with tactile interfaces for infotainment control. There's got to be some better way than a massive array of single-purpose buttons.
> Crypto-currencies are selling you a service: linearizing database transactions.

That service is worth zero dollars to me and 99.9% of the world.

Also, the cryptocurrency doesn't sell this service, and doesn't make any money.
The scam is Tether owns a brokerage that they used buy other crypto with their barely backed, worth much less than advertised stable coin which they falsely claim is worth exactly the same as USD. (Tether also pretended that they weren’t affiliated with Bitfinex, the aforementioned brokerage) Consequently, they’re artificially pumping the cryptos that they are buying. Once they artificially pump crypto, they then dump it. They’ve probably pumped and dumped several times now

People are guessing that they’re doing this to regain reserves that were stolen by an untrustworthy bank that they previously used. Ie they were probably telling the truth in the past before their money was stolen. It’s similar to what happened with Mt Gox. What’s impressive to me is how the people at Tether are somehow 8 steps ahead of regulators, whereas Mt Gox just failed overnight.

Imo regardless of Tether fuckery, I believe that the Ethereum platform has utility beyond speculation
> on the razor edge of servant and served

An incisive comment for the times. It brings ‘farm to table’ to mind.
Is nuclear power our best bet against climate change?
> At least for me, this is even better than backup/restore. Generally I don't want to preserve cache or cookies between installations, I just want my config there.

Yeah, I agree. NixOS even includes a module for easily hosting your own Firefox Sync server, too! So I guess in terms of use cases the solution is actually more or less complete.
I wouldn't use the word "confused" because it sounds derogatory. But substitute that with "trans women are men who feel that they are female", and that's a perfectly reasonable point of view isn't it? You may not like it very much, but you surely agree that it's understandable and not malicious or cruel? It is after all the position of the vast majority of people on the planet, and that of most people in the usa and western europe, except for a left-leaning contingent under the age of 40. (That statement is approximate of course)
I never bothered typing 'man git' because git offers the 'git help' workflow quite prominently with with quite satisfying results. 'git help everyday' even works, it just doesn't seem to be called out anywhere.
The Ignalina Power Plant in eastern Lithuania was decommissioned as a prerequisite to enter the EU. I always thought they should reactivate, especially given the reliance on Russian gas for power.

I'm aware its a Type II reactor (same as Chernobyl) but it should be easier to convert to a modern Type IV, no?
I work in a unicorn that has 300+ developers and we run a bootcamp program every year ourselves that lasts 3 months. We give offers at junior level to basically every motivated and capable participant (50%+). We dont source from specific schools. Other top startups in my country have similar programs. I would say that people tend to hire juniors for better salaries and with less requirements than when I was starting out.
Typically there's another p-word used to describe this.
This is an interesting observation and I think part of what makes it so hard to hire developers. What you really want are people that are very good at learning and problem solving in a practical way, but that's a really difficult skill set to evaluate. Data structures and algorithms are important tools, but they're only that: tools. So we do the equivalent of figuring out whether someone can swing a hammer, but that's a weak proxy for the skill we really want.

To be fair to bootcamp grads, I think plenty of "experienced" hires have also just managed to stick around and are not necessarily great developers either. It's a really tough to pin down skill.
We just hired two junior devs, and we could have hired more if we had the recs.

Please tell me where all these seniors are coming from, because we certainly couldn't find a single qualified one during twelve+ months of interviewing.

I also haven't observed "remote work makes onboarding and training more challenging" in companies that are dedicated to their remote workforce (which is basically everybody right now?). I've been remote for almost 10 years.

Attrition of senior devs will always be a problem because managers don't properly incentivize sticking around. Most senior devs will never put in the long hours to reach Staff Engineer. I don't blame them, but there needs to be a way to see professional and financial growth for senior engineers who are doing their jobs well.

And lastly "everyone's understaffed" because management never lets the calendar breathe. There's always more work scheduled in a given quarter than there are engineers, but management doesn't adjust the schedule accordingly. You could hire 5 senior engineers and they would still make this mistake.
So here is what I just learnt from https://programming.guide/hash-tables-open-addressing.html:

Open adressing = When there is a collision, that is when the memory slot is already taken, you just put your key in the next one (linear probing), or at squared increment (quadratic probing) or at an increment determined by another hash function.
Howewer all those techniques seems to be suffering from clustering and the more elaborate ones trying to trade memory locality for less clustering.
I guess it just depends on how long and what scale you are going to need a hash table ?
> So basically, California's main weakness is that too many rich people live there.

California is a state where median house price is $760K, whereas median household income is $75K.

If you look at that number and say "Well, clearly that's because too many rich people live there", then I'm not sure what benefit is obtained from looking at any data at all.
I send photos to Costco for printing. Cheap and easy.
Partial answer I guess? http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/contributing
We should start issuing perpetuities at extremely low rates to take advantage of this while it lasts.
Carbon sequestration is inefficient if you are doing it on diffuse CO2 in the air, as opposed to a concentrated stream from an industrial process like a cement factory. Battery electric storage, or redox flow batteries, or even hydrogen are more likely to work in remote locations.
I agree completely, the founders should be criminally prosecuted and the fines should be multiple times all time profits from the illicit activity.
Wouldn't it make more sense to run something like this in AWS Lambda or another FaaS platform? Why waste a whole instance periodically checking to see if something is running.
I'd add to that that we're already scathed! The higher temperatures have already affected the oceans, wildfires, droughts, and increased intensity for weather patterns like hurricanes.
Dell XPS 17. With WSL and 64GB of RAM it's basically unbeatable as a dev laptop.
Statistics to support the claim?
to be clear, I'm not even against this. it seems like the sort of thing he might take a crack at, and it would be substantially more useful than car tunnels to nowhere
Also true, although you could get the pronounciation very wrong. It happens to be a few time with English. Regardless, being able to read it make it easier. For example, search for "industria" is easier than searching for "業界", especially for text on a picture. Google translate's OCR is not great, and reproducing the drawings to get a translation is painful and takes a lot of time.
That's exactly what I meant. For standardization, does Kubernetes help in that regard? For example when using network rules to whitelist what component is allowed to communicate with what service? I imagine extracting the current rules and building a graph makes discovery easier. No tolerance/limits/throughput or availability data is included though. The approach is also limited to the cluster level, excluding out-of-cluster communication, while having everything in the cluster may not be that secure.
> But the approach with best performance in practice is to just do a dumb increment through the table in-order because of caching... the penalty for that simple approach can be made up for with a good, pseudo-random hash.

SwissTable, which is generally among the fastest hash tables around, doesn't do this. It does chunks of 16 entries each, then starts skipping chunks (so first 0 chunks are skipped, then 1, then 2, etc.) The chunk skipping behavior helps avoid O(n) behavior on pathological cases.
My guess is that they don't have to pay rights for the podcasts, so for them it's a win/win if you spend your attention on their app listening to free content.
Hi, author here, that's a very fair point that I didn't consider. It totally makes sense that the number of available jobs looks smaller than it is, because some of them are never really advertised in public. Thanks for sharing that!
I'm surprised by the backlash about the potential notch. I'm not in the market for a MacBook as I just got a framework - but the notch is an interesting solution for a top mounted camera + thin bezels. The "hole punch' camera on my pixel works great in practice I don't even notice it
I feel like this article describes the problem well without making any headway on the solution. It doesn't make financial sense for companies to train juniors so they should... just hire juniors?

Honestly, I think this is going to be a self-correcting problem. Seniors will become more and more expensive until it is cost-effective to hire juniors. If you can hire a senior for the price of 1.5 juniors, you probably do. If you can only hire a senior for the price of 5 fresh grads, you start looking real hard for ways to make those juniors effective.

It certainly sucks for people trying to enter the workforce now, but it seems like it'll ultimately reach a new equilibrium.
YouTube makes recommendations around engagement metrics only (1 political video gets you Fox News recommendations for years), spotify still gives me plenty of small bands - I think if you’re listening to very popular music you’re screwed either ways
That's a bit overstated. Although curl wrappers exist for most languages, they're far from popular or consensual in each individual community.
That's great that that happened! I think it's to the point now where we need everyone to do that.

Was it hard for them to physically change out their gas system for the heat pump? Was it hard to find installers or units?
This or the printer constantly dumps ink to prevent this problem. Both are not ideal
> In practice, if you improve your productivity at work, it's going to be mostly for your employer's benefit (other than bragging rights and some personal satisfaction).

This is true if you're bagging groceries, but certainly not true for most software developers. To quote the post again:

"I'm sympathetic to the argument and agree that upper management and shareholders capture most of the value from work. But as much as I sympathize with the idea of deliberately being unproductive to "stick it to the man", I value spending my time on things that I want enough that I'd rather get my work done quickly so I can do things I enjoy more than work. Additionally, having been productive in the past has given me good options for jobs, so I have work that I enjoy a lot more than my acquaintances in tech who have embraced the "antiwork" movement."

> But GP is making a point that it should be perfectly acceptable to not want to (significantly) improve at work while meeting the bar for staying employed.

I don't see any point in Dan's post against this idea... it's the GP who is elevating this into a moral choice, i.e. from his/her response to mine:

> Yeah but he doesn't recognize that his entire argument is personal choice elevated to moral imperative.
I've never experienced any rolling blackouts in any us state, and I've lived in 3 others, before living in California.
Surely they have some context as to what "now" means?

I read that YouTube Music recommends different music depending on time of day, whether I'm at work / home / in the car, and even takes the weather into account. I'd be surprised if Spotify didn't have some context awareness as well.
> Skipping a song after less then 20 seconds for example can train a model as well as incorporating an explicit dislike button.

So, basically if I dislike a song but want to give it a chance and then decide that you want to never hear it again, your industry thinks that I liked it. That explains a lot.
> AWS clearly benefits from curl

Don't we all?
Yes, I put that badly. But medical and living assistance costs go up steeply after 75, and many people will sell properties to pay for them.
I wonder if the nascent CSS Layout API enables a proper solution to this. A quick skim of the spec seems to indicate that it could run the author’s algorithm in a single layout pass and it does reveal the browser’s chosen line break points, but it doesn’t give word by word metrics. But, maybe you could use custom elements and JS-inserted children to get word by word metrics with performance still good since there’s still only one pass.
A country’s energy policy cannot be predicated on vaporware energy storage technology that is “just around the corner”. The UK is pretty good on renewables due to wind power, but this year’s relatively low wind combined with gas price spikes has put the country in a very difficult position.
but that’s inconsequential, nothing comes from it other than more exposure - that’s the point i’m making, if anything this continues to show that there’s no such thing as bad press
> Where I live

Do you live in Denmark perchance?

> I don't know if this is a common thing in other European countries

There is a similar system implemented in Poland and works very well.
XOR is not linear in the inputs. I mention this, because Minsky's paper used that fact to show that perceptrons could never work as AI. This pretty much started the first AI winter in 1973.

It's an interesting story: https://towardsdatascience.com/history-of-the-first-ai-winte...
> He's discussing one way out of the trap of conforming to group/tribal beliefs. If you put your fear of God (in other words, some power higher than, and distinctly external to, any social group) you begin to liberate yourself from caring too much about what other people think.

This is well said. I believe it was the theologian Stanley Hauerwas who said in the 70s that the decline of religion in America would inevitably lead to the rise of political tribalism - seems prescient.

"There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship [...] is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already - it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness." David Foster Wallace
By developing ?

I'm sure this isn't a good answer but I'd written tons of hobby programs before I got my first developer job. Not because someday I wanted a job but because I actually enjoyed programming and creating things on the computer. If you don't enjoy it or do enjoy it but don't have the time to do it outside of work I don't know what to suggest.

I get that might be considered "no fair". I guess maybe you can become a doctor or lawyer without doing doctoring or lawyering in your spare time? But can you become an artist? I feel like most successful artists (video game artists, fashion designers, graphic designers, motion graphics editors) won't get the experience and job by just taking a crash course and then applying. You get in by showing a portfolio of art you've created.

Programming might not be similar to art but it feels like getting in is similar, you show a portfolio of stuff you've created. And via this creation you learn much of the stuff you need to pass the interviews have stuff to show.
It’s absolutely true, and interviews at most companies are set up like “did you take an algorithms course”, with questions like “develop a path finding algorithm (a*)” for web frontend work.

I am self taught and got “lucky” finding a small company paying peanuts that had a lot for me to do. I interviewed multiple people with several yoe and degrees and found they couldn’t do very simple things that anyone who’d built any frontend could have done. That was over 8 years ago now and I’ve moved on to much bigger companies and much more responsibility.

But I tell my friends nowadays you have to get very lucky to find any company that will hire you based on ability to code rather than ability to pass a theory heavy interview.
Thank you! Now I'm thinking of course ... Puerto Rico? I don't know how much fresh water there is, or if there's available and suitable land on the east coast. Are Georgia or South Carolina too far north?
I did not suggest anything. I very clearly stated what I stated, in plain English that is very easy to understand. Your qualifications are irrelevant. Your point of view on the issue we are discussing is wrong for long-term product success, and destroys the hard work others have put into the idea, in order to feel personally superior to your users. I don't know how more plainly I can put it for you if you had trouble understanding that. I do believe however that not understanding something, is not something that has ever prevented you from action or strong and wrong opinions on a subject matter.
No, we should ignore the nuclear naysayers and keep existing and build more nuclear plants.
Weaponized Architecture
I'm pretty sure parent is being sarcastic. Boris Johnson is the guy who literally goes 'uh, I think' when asked how many children he has[0]. He's not big on commitments of any kind.

[0]: for the record, it's supposed to be six, but some people say seven.
> it seems that the golden days for bootcamp graduates and self-taught devs are over.

Going to a bootcamp (or being self taught) and getting a job at big tech was probably never easy. Breaking into those jobs is easiest if you go through the internship pipeline (which starts at a university).

Also let's not pretend that a bootcamp compares to a 3-5 year CS degree.

Don't get me wrong I think there are lots of jobs where bootcamp training is more than enough.

But most CS graduates will struggle with the kind of dynamic programming questions you risk getting asked at a job interview with big tech.
(I know I struggled)

So it's IMO no surprise if bootcamp graduates gets filtered out on questions like amortized complexity, big-O, computability, dynamic programming, or computer architecture questions.
Not needing to think about stuff anymore implies the ability to do so when needed. Somehow I doubt people who have always relied on language features and libraries would be able to work effectively without them should they ever need to.
Voting rights should have a cool down period. If you trash the red or blue state you live in with your voting policies which are toxic and then when the time to pay the tab comes, you flee to your next victim state and vote for the same unsustainable politicians you had in the place you just left you are a cancer to democracy.
Also revenue generation via citations and civil asset forfeiture, which is asset seizure without due process that is highly abused by many departments to supplement budgets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
Yes, this the motto on our state flag I believe
It's like tipping the waiter a penny.
https://archive.is/BVGl0
System76 GalagaPro
I think that people bristle at it in the same way that people used to bristle at having Christian-normative culture pushed on them. Not everyone enjoys cultural imperialism.
Not being able to fly over land seems ridiculous. Planes fly over land, right?

Sounds like the same shit as nuclear power plant regulations. As a civilization or even a species, we'll "safety" our way into extinction.
I agree. If I gave a test like that and someone gave me an answer where the hash function was pretty much just a dummy I'd be fine with that as long as they were clearly aware it was just a dummy and hopefully could explain roughly the characteristics of a good hash function.
Get the largest screen you'll be comfortable to lug around.

From using a lot of different laptops over the years, I find 14" to be the minimum useful, and 15" the maximum luggable sizes.

For aspect ratio 5:4 is excellent, 4:3 is alright, 3:2 is fine. 16:10 is tolerable. 16:9 is tolerable with a 1" bottom chin.

Refresh rate is very important for something that isn't attached to a table or a wall. So is self-weight and hinge, it can't be jumping around when you're typing.
Is it really a problem if boomers are buying second, third, or even fourth homes to rent out? This has long been a common path for the elderly to afford healthcare and living expenses in their golden years rather than relying on the government.

I feel large companies and financial institutions that are buying up swaths of residential properties are trying to find a scapegoat and they have found one in boomers. I imagine we will see more propaganda pieces like this one, pinning the blame on them.
That does suggest that the doom-and-gloom predictions are wrong, but I'd hesitate to call those jobs "available" when they only exist for a tiny slice of the job-seekers.
The laws governing teacher firing were changed in 2014 [1], and credential revocation has become compulsory in a large number of cases. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing opened 361 discipline cases last month alone [2].

I'm in metro Sac and got my numbers from this local district [3]. Looking at the numbers for Menlo Park City [4], the max pay rate is still only $130K, and that would require a PhD and over 20 years of service. A teacher with a BA never reaches $100K.

1: https://www.davisvanguard.org/2014/06/governor-signs-bill-st...
2: https://www.ctc.ca.gov/docs/default-source/educator-discipli...
3: https://www.sanjuan.edu/cms/lib/CA01902727/Centricity/domain...
4: https://district.mpcsd.org/cms/lib/CA01902565/Centricity/Dom...
Yeah I was wondering if Pandora had a patent on channels based on likes/dislikes.
Spotify does have a dislike button on their recommendation playlists and also, Spotify's recommendations engine is by far the best that have ever been on the market. It managed to discover new artists that I'd have never found unless I lost several dozen hours on Discogs. The important part is to train recommendation playlist accordingly.
So your developer issues should trump my user issues?
A bunch of the comments in this thread are inappropriate. There’s no justification for the over-the-top insulting language on this forum.