skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm honest, I very likely have un-diagnosed ADHD or am on the spectrum at some level. I'm most assuredly OCD. I often have an easy time getting my own office over other techs because I'm willing to sit in what amounts to a broom closet
with no windows to escape the nasty, overhead fluorescent lighting prevalent in most office settings. My username should give a hint. I love overcast skies, dark offices, and dark terminal windows and IDEs. Strangely enough, I cannot stand dark theme browsers setups. Surfing the web with a dark theme seems almost like wading through fog.
> I have zero faith in some faceless megacorp deciding for me

They are already deciding way more for you than just what is "dangerous misinformation".
How do you imagine the carbon makes it from the sugar and into the components of new/larger cells? Magic? It has to be metabolized first. In the gut, mostly through fermentation.
Basically they dump a lot more sand in a strategic location and shape so that, if I understand correctly, the sea will make it flow to where it is wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_engine
It could be the same from a hire-ability standpoint.

I say this because I don't think Enron was a stain for the average worker there. They were likely doing good work and had no knowledge of the fraud being perpetrated by the C-suite.

So FAANG members might blow up due to privacy, antitrust, or some other abuse. I would assume most workers would still be hireable and the executives would be the ones on the hook (but we know how that goes...).
That’s what philosophers debate :)

Technology-wise it might look like inserting not only advertisements into your imagination, but changing your thought process on demand to think about needing the products without even knowing why. Or erasing all experiences and replacing with other peoples, or inserting other peoples conscious experience into your own so you could have a debate :)
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Can someone comment on what assumptions those banks are permitted to make regarding names?

E.g., can they assume that names can be expressed as a sequence of (current) Unicode characters with some specific maximum length? Can they assume that names have no leading / trailing spaces?
FreeBSD was a more stable/mature platform to build on when WhatsApp was designed, particularly in terms of network performance.
The website on internet censorship/outage went after researcher Colin Anderson and censored him by taking over his domain netblocks.fyi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBlocks
HIV doesn't have DNA
Shit, man, foosball ain't no joke, I can't talk while doing that!

We used to have a table at Oracle, inherited from the SUN acquisition. Managers never used it, maybe because they were mostly women. We had some furious tournaments though, where I discovered that French people play it with balls made of cork - for a slower and more technical game.
I have fine vision and the maps are still terrible for me. If I get close I can see that the text labels for the stations are barely legible because the panel resolution is so poor.

If only it were feasible to install high DPI eink panels instead. But then those ads wouldn’t be anywhere near as attention grabbing, would they?
The thing about witch hunts is that witches are in the minority. I don't see how this is supposed to destroy an entire society.

In my opinion if there are things that are destroying the west it is that western populations are aging and so far nobody has thought about making these demographics sustainable [0] and the growing wealth inequality that results from ownership of land and other monopolies. Even the VCs are merely hunting for the next monopoly which they call "unicorns".

[0] By sustainable I mean what we do with all the old people. Adding new young people will leave us with more old people so it's not a solution.
I have literally never heard a developer utter the words "so how does the customer like the software?"

I'm not surprised, given how many lousy places to work there are out there. But there are plenty of shops where this isn't the case. And where developers do in fact care what the customer thinks, because this obviously (if only slightly indirectly) correlates with the organization's chances for long-term success and revenue, and all that stuff.

None of which has anything to do with Agile of course (because the same issues existed and were dealt with thousands of years before the AM descended to earth, accompanied by angles).

But just saying - yes, actually giving a shit about what the customer thing is a thing, and always has been a thing (at better shops at least).
Hopefully someone better than me can answer...

But for what I read on HN, leetcode it's just a filter to get in like having harvard or stanford in your resume is too...

Once you pass the filters, however you do, I say there are much more important stuff to know than leetcode that can predit how well you will do... Also in any big company the size of those, it's literally a gamble as in the team you'll be working with will be the most important thing affecting you, besides salary or whatever... So you've a lot of variance on success on those big shops.

I've never tried/had a leetcode interview tbh, 4-8h take-home code challenges (in frontend positions I apply) are more abundant in my experience. But I'm not in the US so who knows...
I'm not in the job market, but I have a LinkedIn account. Despite occasionally nudging from LinkedIn, I have never bothered to add a profile picture.
Could always get the R5 Live stream and process it, or use gnuradio/hackrf etc to rebroadcast it on AM for that real authentic vibe.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=86181

https://www.dlineradio.co.uk/articles/building-an-am-transmi...
...and therein lies the problem.

having some sort of syntax for lambdas does not a function programming language make.

There's nothing about the Java syntax or design that lends its self to FP. Lambdas were bolted on to the language after the fact..

That's like saying Scheme is Object oriented because its trivial to make objects from closures, and should one decide to go deeper, you could easily define macros for classes, methods, etc.

It's grossly disingenous to call Java functional, or even compare it to other functional programming languages.
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It certainly creates fewer bugs of a specific nature, depending on the language.
Even the Dutch have words that cannot be encoded with in Ebcdic[1]. And I suppose many Dutch have names like André.

https://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/tremas-e-i-u-o-a/
I use Pinebook Pro as daily driver for a couple of month, and my only complaint was about the keyboard. Even the screen is bearable.
Ask HN: Do I just need to do some algos to get 200k+?
We all read the same news. The world now is remote. The big companies (not just FAANG) all do algo interviews. There is a shit ton of money in tech. You heard it all. Everybody makes 200k or more.

I currently make 130k USD living in Europe. I can maybe get 10k if I switch jobs or, being lucky, 30k more if I try contracting.

But no way I'm going to make 200k+, so there is only one option, US companies. Which mostly look for remote workers in the US. Yeah, I know there are folks from Europe working for US companies, but how many?

Outside of the big cities in the US, the average dev salary seems to be around 120kish for a senior position, from what I've read. It seems like they are in a way better position than I am to play the algo game?

So I do really not know if I should go down that road or not? I would need to spend serious time learning algos. I never had to. I could pick jobs because there is so much demand.

I'm 35 and working as a dev full time since I'm 20. I just don't know if I should invest that time in learning the algo game or just work a sideproject.

What is your take?
(Node-RED project lead here) Node-RED is an open-source project and part of the OpenJS Foundation. We'd certainly aspire Node-RED to be comparable at a technical level with other offerings.

But as an OSS project, we aren't looking to create a hosted SaaS offering - the core project isn't trying to compete commercially with those vendors.

But there are companies looking to create commercial services around Node-RED that certainly want to be competitive. (My own company, FlowForge Inc, is one of them)
I think the assumption here is a non-technical interviewer filling low value roles.
Not all managers have a primary concern of "trying to build a resilient team".

Sometimes, the #1 goal is building a high-performance and/or high-quality product. Lack of team resilience, (temporary) downtime, risk of project failure due to an insufficient bus factor...they're all not good things, but they can be compromised in the pursuit of that goal.

If you want high resilience as well as high performance and also high quality, well, you should go work at NASA, and hope that the Senate works out their budget issues...
> Free speech is freedom from the government not allowing citizens to publicly speak dissenting opinions.

This made sense a few years ago when realistically government was the only historical large consumer and regulator of speech.

Now that we have another large entity, we need to have a think about what to do. This isn't an endorsement or rebuke of current rules, just a statement that we need to have a debate about this that incorporates what we've learned.
Strange what’s in a word. Some people might find this sentiment disagreeable, but if the word were exchanged for something different but of similar meaning like fragility or sensitivity then it becomes less disagreeable without much change of substance. Perhaps the most appropriate word is decadence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadence
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Mondragon, the Basque truck-making coop. They've been going for as long as I have, because they were founded in the year I was born.

John Lewis, a UK department store. It's not exactly a coop, but it's pretty close. The staff are referred to as "partners". They're in financial difficulties at the moment, I think, but that's not because workers participate in the company. They're one of the few UK department stores still standing. Waitrose (a John Lewis brand) is easily the classiest supermarket/grocery in the UK - people choose where to buy expensive homes based on how close the nearest Waitrose is.

It's easier to set up a private company than a joint-stock corporation, and it's easier to set up a joint-stock corporation than a cooperative. It should be easiest to set up a cooperative, rather than hardest.

Oh - and there's the Coop Bank. Wait - that went broke due to dreadful mismanagement, and was bought by a VC outfit. So how come they're still allowed to call themselves that?

There's still a number of local chains of fairly small grocers, operating as autonomous members of the Cooperative Wholesale Society (the bank was originally part of the CWS). These are decent shops, well-run at a local level, but I'm not impressed by their head-office management. If you take their discount card, then you get to participate in board elections and so on. It's a "customer coop".
That seems like a problem with station naming - how can you choose name that's not an unique identifier?

How is Google Maps doing when you want to go to one of those stations?
Cool! just an FYI, if you are using the kindle app to read, you can enable the reading ruler which does something similar https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=20906594011
> hence the engine is usually one single swappable part.

So if I need new spark plugs, I just swap out the engine?
Asymmetric information or understanding causes people to think less of each other.

Many times, they just don't know, or haven't been put in a position to know.

You're not alone.
In fantasy stories, we don't know how technology works and thus can't make logical inferences about how it works.
Please don't whatabout this. Unless CNN also amplify genocidal speech, those are really not the same. And as the GP said, Facebook is kind of a town square - you don't agree with CNN, you don't watch it. Many people need to use Facebook to interact with family, friends, community.

> Generally, people can, what’s currently being censored are often not lies

Really? Covid being a hoax, Pizzagate, QAnon, Earth being flat, the horse paste / HCQ debacles, etc. There were QAnon related protests in Germany. If people were capable of deciding, how is that possible?
> It feels weird to me when privacy legislation turns out to require supporting UTF-8.

No. It requires you to store data correctly. And in the case of a bank storing data incorrectly could have potential ramifications (think two different people, one with diacritics and without).

The law doesn't care whether you use UTF-8 or a manually written translation table, or a 15th-century printing press
That's certainly a valid point, but a key theme of the article is that Facebook seems deliberately to have neglected non-US and non-European territories when it comes to seeking out and removing problematic and inflammatory posts. A couple of extracts:

> In many of the world’s most fragile nations, a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars hasn’t invested enough in the language- and dialect-specific artificial intelligence and staffing it needs to address these problems. Indeed, last year, according to the documents, only 13 percent of Facebook’s misinformation-moderation staff hours were devoted to the non-U.S. countries in which it operates, whose populations comprise more than 90 percent of Facebook’s users.

> In 2019, the human-rights group Avaaz found that Bengali Muslims in India’s Assam state were “facing an extraordinary chorus of abuse and hate” on Facebook: Posts calling Muslims “pigs,” rapists,” and “terrorists” were shared tens of thousands of times and left on the platform because Facebook’s artificial-intelligence systems weren’t built to automatically detect hate speech in Assamese, which is spoken by 23 million people.

The article also points to FB apparently caving in to political considerations (specifically abroad/non-US):

> “Time and again,” the memo quotes a Facebook researcher saying, “I’ve seen promising interventions … be prematurely stifled or severely constrained by key decisionmakers—often based on fears of public and policy stakeholder responses.”

> Among the consequences of that pattern, according to the memo: The Hindu-nationalist politician T. Raja Singh, who posted to hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook calling for India’s Rohingya Muslims to be shot—in direct violation of Facebook’s hate-speech guidelines—was allowed to remain on the platform despite repeated requests to ban him, including from the very Facebook employees tasked with monitoring hate speech.

The article ends by repeating a point stated earlier that FB in the US is the network at its best:

> But the Facebook we see is the platform at its best. Any solutions will need to apply not only to the problems we still encounter here, but also to those with which the other 90 percent of Facebook’s users struggle every day.
Why? Has the “partitocrazia” first and the ‘80s cleptocracy, Berlusconi’s downward spiral, and the last attempts an installing neoliberal proxy governments done any good to the country?

I guess there’s no point discussing impossible alternative scenarios - especially given the extremely conservative attitude of Italian society - but an Italy with a more Scandinavian-like compromise would have been an interesting country to live in.
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> While the result, after booting, is effectively the same.

I'm not sure it's exactly the same. First, because having embedded firmware formed an incentive for hardware manufacturers to test stuff and fix bugs before hitting the market. Second, because who gets to push updates to our machine has serious political/security implications. We have reached a situation where the OS we choose to run has less and less control over our computing, and i find that worrying.

> it’s not a deal breaker for me, as long as the blobs are freely redistributable

Thanks for your explanation. I can completely respect this position, although i personally disagree. If you ever get the chance to bring up the issue (libre firmware/drivers and librebooting), please spare a minute to raise our disenchantment and mention the possibility to work with other distros (such as Debian, who also has ties to Lenovo) hand-in-hand with hardware manufacturers to improve the situation for everyone.

I don't exactly have any hope for it, but having Lenovo publish its entire hardware specs and playing nice with maintainers to provide libre firmware would definitely inspire confidence in their hardware. For the moment, it seems only Librem and Pine64 (and a few others) are manufacturers that can be approached on that topic. But like the original author (mmu_man) suggested, software freedom should be for everyone, not just people investing in specific hardware... and i'm pretty sure he would be thrilled to work on Haiku support for his Lenovo hardware given proper documentation ;)
Awesome to see people still producing things with this small form factor. I loved my Asus Aspire One when I was travelling as a student (even before mobile internet was widespread!), though I think that was 9" even.

Seems quite expensive though, and it's also surprising they didn't choose ARM. As for such a mobile unit you'd probably want battery life over high specs.

The PineBook Pro is a cheaper alternative for those use cases - https://pine64.com/product/14%e2%80%b3-pinebook-pro-linux-la... but is 14"
> In my experience, there's also far less participation when everybody has their camera off.

I feel this is a blessing in most cases.

Remembering in-person meetings, half of the “participation” was asking to get back one slide before to check a point that went too fast, questions on points that are dealt with two slides further, people getting asked questions as a punishment for being visibly bored to death, and facts that could be checked by a 10s document search but would seem rude to be looking for right now.

Forcing people to share their documents, everyone free to get back and forth in the slides on their side, and just able to cut the camera/mic and look for whatever they feel they need to look for, do whatever they need to do just helps tremendously to cut down on unneeded back and forth, and improves a lot on efficiency.
I was thinking more long distance commute and moving away from city
That’s not the issue, the question is whether they are the public square? If the answer is yes, it doesn’t matter how they get revenue. The government is empowered to protect the citizens and to be an arbitrator, such the violence isn’t the only recourse. If the government is not going to take that responsibility, there will be violence.

Trust me, if the government mandated Facebook couldn’t censor, advisors would still advertise there. They have no other option to reach people, that’s actually the reason it should be considered the town square.
Javascript is faster than java... sorry... the JVM is slow.

and ugly and verbose and all the things you mentions are bolted on after that fact or not even apart of the core programming language. which hurts your agreement of its being "elegant" or "designed well"
Take part in the UEFI secure boot process to get a key whitelisted that'd be shipped in hardware out of the box (e.g. one managed by the Linux Foundation).
I know that the speed of light is c, or 1 or 3e8 m/s, but I really feel like it's a foot per nanosecond, because that's how I measured it the lab one day messing around with BNC cables amd an oscillscope.

Similarly the earth-sun distance is 8 light-minutes.These feel right, like measuring mass in stone for people, kilos for sugar, carat for diamonds, electron-volts for particles etc.
> Why do you think that someone with a camera off is not present?

I never said this.

> Furthermore - even if you were right, I would say it's a good thing that busy people have a socially graceful way to opt out of the organisational mistakes of others.

Maybe, if you have a company culture where such mistakes cannot be addressed frankly, then perhaps. The lack of facial expressions and other non-verbal cues will take away much of the signals that are available to the organizer however. Which in turn can make regular nonsense meetings last longer than they should.

In my experience quite a lot of these regular meetings are scheduled as a knee-jerk reaction of management to solve problems they don't actually understand. This is great source of unproductive meetings, bowing out 'gracefully' by turning off your camera and attention will not make things better. I'm used to being able to express my concerns openly though, without holding back, so maybe I'm biased.
Also Greek, Turkish, German, Romanian... Is there any language other than English that can be written 100% by ASCII characters?

If you have special letters in your name, you'll have a different name in another country without that letter. My surname is supposed to be Özcan, but it's Ozcan or Oezcan in many official documents. Don't even let me start with the "Turkish iİıI problem"...

I mean it's not totally unrecognizable but it's a different name nevertheless.

I was talking to a Romanian colleague recently and she told me that most of the country uses some US keyboard layout instead of Romanian and cannot type Romanian letters, so people have 2 names even in their home country.
not an argument.
there's 'free money' in exercising and eating healthy but most people don't do it enough.

People don't always make the most economically rational decisions.
I leave my camera on but make it so I can't see myself, far more immersive. I try to pretend I'm in front of them in person.

Also I recommend you forgive yourself/others for getting distracted. If you were getting coffee together, you'd frequently get distracted by the surroundings and ask the person to repeat themselves. It's not like you're in a therapy session where you have to pay deep, undivided, focused, uninterrupted attention on one person over an hour. That's really hard.
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It's a ban on banning apartment buildings. It's not a ban on building detached homes.
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> France and Italy could have had moderate communist governments,

The only way any industrialized nation adopts a communist regime is with Red Army tanks. There is a reason why no communist government has succeeded in any industrialized nation -- and it's not for lack of trying. But you just can't convert a liberal advanced economy into an authoritarian command economy without massive repression. There are too many people who own property and land who won't agree to be dispossessed.

There has never been any moderate or mild communist regime that didn't start out as a repressive regime and just mellowed out as successive generations stopped believing in it.

But to make that initial mass confiscation of property you need true believers and mass democide as class enemies are liquidated.
While you wait for the stock market to crash, I am waiting for the housing market to crash so that I can finally afford to buy a home. The situation is crazy at the moment. This cannot be sustainable. If you or I could predict that, we could be billionaires ourselves
space bar actually is a very good idea, thank you!