skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recruiting is tough. Thinking about my last job transition, there was probably a golden period of two weeks where I was truly open to all recruitment possibilities. By the end of those two weeks I was starting to move into the offer stages. So realistically I can't blame the frequency and volume of recruitment communication; it's possible a followup message would have struck at exactly the right moment.

That being said, for senior engineers surely it's more likely that recruitment will be more driven by referrals by trusted colleagues? I don't think I've seen referral bonuses rising at a commensurate rate.
No. According to the press release the vehicles in NYC will all be manually controlled at all times.
There are still plenty of reasons to use SASS. Especially if you need big, engineered stylesheets.

Are most people using PostCSS? Are a lot of front-end people married to JavaScript-specific tooling? Because Tailwind does all the same stuff and works anywhere.

I mean PostCSS is cool, but I don't see how it's actually better than alternative tools. It just makes CSS easier in one particular aspect, at the expense of others. Like pretty much all tools.
There can't be a labor shortage on a free market, right? There can only be a labor shortage for the price you are offering for that labor.
I know a retired chemist who said something similar. In order to get funded consistently, you have to be successful every time in getting the results you claimed you would on your previous grant application. The only way to be sure you can do that, is to sneak some work on the next grant into the current one. Granting agencies think they are being more efficient, but there's no way to avoid risk in research - they've just pushed it off on the researchers. Researchers need to have some career stability, so they found a way to hand the risk back to the agency, by adding the cost of trying the riskier experiments into the cost of the boring, sure-thing projects. Everybody gets what they want!
In general you're right of course, but it still solves the problem that you may not HAVE to move to the expensive place anymore. Of course you still CAN, like the author chose to.

And as someone who never moved away from where he was born and also never lived in the really expensive part of the city, it might solve the problem of many more people just moving here to work, whereas they would prefer living more remotely. I would love to stay here, for example, not just because of work because I've lived here all my life and like it.

Also your (and the author's) mention of a studio confused me for quite a bit, we'd never call anything 30m2 a studio where I live :P
>As an aside - It's a bit strange to think how cyclical things in tech are, now we're back at a strange echo of the classic bespoke architecture UNIX Workstation phase with Apple's new series of computers.

I see what you mean. Let's see: IBM had (and has) POWER (Is RT/PC's CPU an ancestor of POWER? Or a different genus?) HP had PA-RISC, DEC had Alpha, Sun of course had SPARC. (Oracle still sells new SPARC hardware, yes? Although I doubt any true workstation-class devices.) Did Apollo have its own custom silicon? Who else am I forgetting from the Workstation Wars days?
I understand the imports and exports for goods that employ people create services and etc.

Coin mining doesn't fit / necessarily that pattern at all.

In the meantime they have power shortages so I'm not sure at all what you're thinking about here... your idea of cheap power is pretty meaningless when there's a shortage.
There is a future that exists where cars aren’t allowed in major cities. Something similar to Amsterdam where people and bikes have right of way, and cars are the least preferred mode of travel. Obviously there are situations where you need motorized transport (emergencies, moving day, people with disabilities, businesses etc) but these can be serviced by autonomous vehicles run by the city. All vehicle infrastructure (roadways, parking) would be cut dramatically. Autonomous busses that pick up and drop you off exactly where you need would be the preferred mode of transport but you could even have personalized autonomous cars that people can rent for more privacy. But these would be slow moving vehicles swerving in and out of people and bike traffic, all connected to a central hub.

Only problem is with 2 feet of snow on the ground, no one will bike or walk and the demand for these vehicles would greatly strain the system. Not sure how you would account for it.
What a “converged battlefield” means to the future of air I mean, joint warfare
The word torture only appears in the HN headline.
This article's conclusion isn't wrong but the premise is. Standups are NOT for developers, they're for business types to tighten grip over a project, to make sure everyone is there at a certain hour, reporting to clients, etc.

We have two daily standups, one in the morning and one in the evening, each about 30 minutes or more. Moving from a company with no standups to one that treasures meetings so much has been a killer on my soul...
JIT can be considered an optimization. If you F12 in your browser you have a javascript REPL, no need to know about JIT or not

CPython doesn't have a JIT, it has an interpreter. So it spends a lot of time in this loop: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/ceval.c

But you still have a repl with pypy. The downsides of JIT is that compiling bytecode to assembly can take up time (hurting startup performance, but that can be mitigated by not applying jit aggressively) & some programs have very dynamic behavior which the JIT has to eventually give up on (& go back to interpreting) or run off some pathological performance cliff where it takes up a bunch of memory & runs 10x slower than interpreter

Ruby 3 introduced a jit to their reference implementation
The theme song linked at the bottom reminds me a lot of the System Shock 1 theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZRuDOqIIBA
> diplomatic cables to enemies (like the "red phone" which is a misnomer), which uses one-time pad (technically hard drives now) encryption, mainly because they don't trust each others' encryption

I don't think that's quite accurate. The Wikipedia article makes it sounds like the issue was more that they didn't want to give their adversary access to their encryption technology. In this context, OTP has the advantage of being both secure and not secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad#Historical_uses

> The hotline between Moscow and Washington D.C., established in 1963 after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, used teleprinters protected by a commercial one-time tape system. Each country prepared the keying tapes used to encode its messages and delivered them via their embassy in the other country. A unique advantage of the OTP in this case was that neither country had to reveal more sensitive encryption methods to the other.
Ye it is kinda confusing having a spy agency also be the domestic data protection agency.
> I'm totally open to new ideas.

Find a better hobby =/ This casino is not worth boiling the world.
Debunking Myths about the Hindenburg Crash
Why is one thing a corporate persona and the other "speaking their mind"? I think most CEOs are good at cultivating a personal brand that speaks to the people they want to be reaching out to.

Musk is equally if not more pompous with his nuggets of wisdom, and offers no value or substance either.
If you start from the assumption that it is meaningless and insincere, then it is eye-rollingly vapid.

If you start from the assumption that it is a genuine attempt to put messy feelings into concise words, then it is a bit lacks vividness but is nonetheless heartfelt.

When you choose not to trust someone, you make them untrustworthy.
DES also has parity bits believe to make it brute forceable. 56-bits of strength instead of the full 64
How so? My first thought when reading the title and seeing it was a GitHub blog was that someone was probably leaving the company. Do you expect someone leaving their company to title their goodbye blog post like "John Doe leaving GitHub"?
I get the standup hate, but i have also been to a company with no standups and no 1-1s policy and it was a massive chaos. People doing whatever they wanted, overengineering, working on features overlapping with others’ work, creating silos, no actual organization and hierarchy which resulted in severe micro management by the PMs asking new features on a daily basis, people getting fired without ever receiving any feedback and other fun and toxic situations.

In the end i would take a boring 15 min daily catchup anytime compared to that.
WHO issues emergency use listing for eighth Covid-19 vaccine
I see no reason that my tables, plates, glasses and books could not be useable 20 years from now.

My clothing will be worn out, as will shoes and so forth, but if they didn't, they could be handed down.

Basically, everything that is super cheap today could be handed down, that which is expensive (car, laptop) won't be.
> This is all well-and-good, but how do we read all that data in 500 years time, or even 20 years time?

I know it won't last due to bit-rot but all my CDs burned in the nineties are still readable.

> Loads of bit-rot combined with complete lack of DVD drives still in common [computer] usage...

They are still very common: both in desktop and as USB-connected readers/burners. You can find countless models on Amazon. I don't think they're going away anytime soon.

> People were busily archiving data to CDs and DVDs two decades ago, ...

That's precisely why they're not going away anytime soon.

There are even companies like FB would, at some point, were burning insane amount of data to Blu-Ray discs.

> Compare this to books, which can still be read a millennium later.

Having a book from 1575 here I do agree (not quite a millenium but still). However the solution to disc bit-rot is simple: once every ten years or so, read your discs and burn them on the new fancy tech of the day (say CDs to DVDs, DVDs to Blu-Ray, now Blu-Ray to these 5D thinggies, rinse and repeat).

It's not as if new mediums had less capacity than older ones.
Yeah, I specifically mentioned interactive disassemblers here. There are only a few that let you fix up and annotate the disassembly or decompilation and they're leaps and bounds above the ones that don't.
spending piles of money developing self-driving and managing a large fleet of automated cars is kind of antithetical to the way uber operates anyway
Nat wasn't originally at Github. He was already at Microsoft through the Xamarin acquisition and was installed as Github CEO post acquisition.
Lululemon is a regular clothing retailer, with no MLM, membership or even loyalty program at this time.

You can't earn any money by re-selling their clothes, you'd probably get sued if you tried.

You probably mean LuLaRoe, a brand that is capitalizing on the name similarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lululemon_Athletica
In my experience you can’t really have that conversation. The conversation is equivalent to “please change the way the team works, just for me.”

If a company isn’t set up for that, it’s hopeless. You’re asking to be more special than everyone else, and everyone else is going to notice.
Does Destiny count? Wasn't Activision just the publisher, but Bungie did the ideation and development?
You might have knowledge and connections:

Do you see any hope for a fork of modern Firefox that start with just the tiniest stuff, maybe adding back a simple tab strip api to let Tree Style Tabs work properly again, that kind of stuff, then go on to put Mozilla out of business as soon as the economy allows it?

I'm only halfway joking here, and only about putting Mozilla out of business.
I’m as pro-transit as anyone but I don’t foresee a future where we have no cars in Manhattan any time soon. Taxis do serve a purpose even with the best subway system in the world, like when you need to go somewhere with more items than you can carry (as a parent of two young children this happens to me a lot more than it did in my twenties!)

A Manhattan without private cars would still be a huge leap forward and feels more achievable (though neither feel achievable any time soon in absolute terms)
> ” we've informally agreed that the time right after standup is typically reserved for small group discussions for any subset of the team.”

This happens with us as well. Usually for technical discussions that will take longer than 5 to 10 minutes.
It certainly does apply: why do men have nipples? Likely for reasons similar to why we have an appendix.

Fundamentally, natural selection and evolution are models that help explain general biological processes, to help us comprehend a bigger picture. Around the edges of that picture, it's not fully clear.

The truth is that the universe is governed by laws that are deeply unintuitive: general relativity and the standard model. Each layer of abstraction on these makes the periphery of the image fuzzier, but allows us to make more sense of the part of the image that we're focusing in on.
'The paper does not say what the article claims. The paper is about proposing a credible alternative model of weight gain and is a call for further research. This article, like most science journalism, is fake news and we need to stop sharing “stories” like this'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29091249
> I wonder why it upsets you that someone would complain about this though, do you have a personal attachment to Nat?

Please point to where I implied I was at all upset.
Not to mention that all New York power plants, including Moses Saunders, are connected to a massive electrical highway that runs straight to New York City.
Upbound Enterprise
Ours used to be similar, then we were assigned a scrum master to act as a mentor (despite most of us working together for more than a decade, we are fairly new to agile). He made stand ups much more regimented. All the chit chat is completely gone. I’m now realizing that standup was the only time of the day that my coworkers and I connected about anything not strictly work related. It does feel like we have lost out on something.
If only New York had a series of underground tubes connecting different parts of the cities. We could put trains in those tubes!
That's not the garden walls to which I refer. I remember trying to program against Facebook even in the pre-Cambridge Analytica days. Sure the APIs had way more data, but it was all still siloed in that only apps that Facebook "vetted" were allowed in, and they were always strict about the CSS and components you were allowed to use and tight on the ways you were allowed to link people outside of Facebook itself.

I don't care if the data is locked down or not, the social graph isn't the interesting part of a "metaverse" and in some ways it is probably better locked up and that can remain Facebook's lock in to keep them interested in the project. The kind of garden walls I was talking about are more federative: bringing external content in, but in ways that are true to the outside content; not just confined to Facebook looks and styles and components, not confined to a bare amount of customization of boring card styles, not embedded in a "Facebook way" but in a "web way" (whatever that means, and it doesn't really feel like it means much at all after the imagination and wilds of the 1990s).

I referenced the anarchy and chaos of blogs and MySpace, specifically: it's about user control to "do ugly things", to escape the gray walls and graffiti "their spaces". If Facebook is a "space" today, it's a building full of cubicles all alike. Sure, you can hang photos in the cubicles and they've got colorful stock ones, but your still constrained to just those cubicle walls and they mandate a lot about the allowed size and frame styles. That's almost directly the antithesis of a user owned "metaverse" whether 2D or 3D.
We understand why it exists. Although it would be nice if the issue was up front so people can be aware of the problem.

If they have an innovation that solved the TCP meltdown issue that would be interesting.
I’m all in favor of making our cities more pedestrian- and transit-centered, but isn’t this a little of an unproductively absolutist stance? Is there much of a difference between a shareable self-driving car and a tram?
> People who are in the top 1% of technical skill will do that. Not "the rest of us".

Nobody is obligated to help you learn.
People can care and not think that version control software providers should start to denying service to governmental agencies.
I don't care about seek times if we can have media with orders of magnitude more storage capacity and life expectancy. (of course if you can also have good seek times, it would be icing on the cake)
I've heard this before but I'm not sure how it'd work. Would it just be trucks doing deliveries? Wouldn't they still need parking and roads? What's gained by banning the cars if you can't reclaim the roads?
So yeah, you would work with your team to do it in a way that works for you and makes you and your needs and working style feel respected too.
If there's one thing I've learned from ToughSF & Project Rho, is that you'd better run the numbers before you say anything like "a missile boosting into orbit will be hard to see and hit you before a laser reduces it to smithereens".
Five seconds to say and two hours of lost productivity from the context switch required to hear it[0]. And I still don't care. What am I going to do with the information?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg
Staying on this subject, how is the Azure DevOps phase-out going? When can I expect to see a "migrate now!" button?
It was developed by inktomi[1]; inktomi was acquired by yahoo in the one of the great extinction events of the early internet.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi
I was intrigued so I went to hunt for the Burrito repo[1].

I thought it was some sort of Erlang native compiler written in Zig (which sounds like an incredible pain in the ass), but it's really "just" a cross-platform installer. Still useful !

[1]: https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito
I am curious about this as well parents in the same position. What happens now?
It was explicitly their goal back in the day. Paid drivers were seen as a stepping stone.
I've used a U2F dongle for my 2FA with Google for a few years. I've been enrolled in the Google Advanced Protection program for a while. I don't have any issues around Google logins, just plug in my U2F dongle and press the button or hold the dongle near my phone for NFC to do its magic.

Another benefit is that I'm much less likely to lose my U2F dongle as it's on my physical keychain (and has been, for years, without damage) than I am to need to replace or wipe my phone (although a password manager with 2FA codes in it also avoids this).
It's somewhat annoying that every zig or go conversation becomes a rust conversation. Outside of being somewhat niche languages, they don't really compare all that well.
Yup it's a well-known problem, but several of us still have CDs decades old that still do read totally fine. That doesn't mean we rely on them as backups: mine have long since been copied to DVDs, then more recent DVDs but also backup'ed on harddrive / servers etc.
"happened because of the lack of uniform"

Following interviews of the man's employer, and the official word from the DoD "we tracked the vehicle from a known ISIS safehouse."

The vehicle was a Toyota Corolla whose driver took his coworkers home, and one coworker's home was "a known ISIS safehouse" even though he had long been working for the U.S. effort, in full support of the U.S. effort.

Let alone, ISIS isn't quite a government entity, but rather a terrorist group so not explicitly going to follow international treaties. Their premise is to blend in - the U.S. shouldn't be allowing the collateral damage to happen on our watch, rather do it's best to stop damaging and hurting civilians.
Nah, I don't think it can be banned.
At least not in the non-authoritarian parts of the world.

Even if it is, they would need to break my fingers to prevent me running a Bitcoin node. And I will get the blocks via Satellite. If there was a credible threat, we would go somewhere it is not.

If your economic thesis is based on hoping the government bans something, why are you even playing with state-resistant decentralized monetary systems?
Conscientiousness is the most precious and rare resource on planet earth.
iMesssage allows you to filter out bad actors -- but raw SMS (green text message) does not. I was getting a few SMS messages a day, each from a different phone number, likely with a service like TextNow.com
There's two main aspects to the claim. The first is Clojure's general stance against "place-oriented programming" that ties in with its immutable-by-default data structures. A good talk is https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

The second is more specific. In Clojure, symbols are just names. When the compiler encounters a symbol, and it's not a special java kind or a local, it'll try to lookup that symbol in a Namespace map, and return a Var. The Var is where the storage is, the symbol is just a name to find it. Re-def'ing the symbol doesn't change anything about the old Var, it just associates the symbol with a new Var. In CL though, symbols are themselves objects that have attributes (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/t_symb...) which store data. If you (inspect 'a) you'll see it has a string name, package, and an empty value, function, and plist. When you (defparameter a 8) and inspect 'a again, you'll see it has a value attribute of 8. You can then (defun a ()) and inspect again, and see both the value and function attributes are set. Of course CL is a Lisp-2.

Part of Clojure symbols being just names, means they aren't owned by any namespace. If you have three namespaces with functions that return 'x, they will all be value-equal to each other. Clojure symbols can be namespace-qualified, like 'some-ns/x, but that just restricts the lookup, the namespace doesn't own such a symbol. You can even make such a symbol without having defined the namespace some-ns first. In CL by contrast, if you create three functions in three different packages returning 'x, they will not be value-equal. And if you try to reference a symbol in 'some-package:x when the package doesn't exist, you'll get an error.

Clojure symbols are not storage-equal though: (identical? 'x 'x) is false. In CL, in the same package, (eq 'a 'a) is true.

Some consequences: another feature is that Clojure's syntax-quote/quasi-quote ` for macros will automatically bring in the symbol's full namespace, e.g. if you (ns a) and quote 'inc or 'a you'll get inc and a back, but if you syntax-quote `inc and `a you'll get back clojure.core/inc and a/a respectively. This helps reduce the chance of name collisions. Another consequence is that since symbols don't belong to namespaces in Clojure, you don't have to worry about a CL behavior of polluting your package's namespace with a bunch of symbols. (i.e. in CL when you switch to package a and type 'a, you just interned the symbol a in that package.) And another consequence is that if you make a function private in Clojure, you can't get at it with the symbol name from outside of the namespace, whereas in CL, if you don't export something from your package (making it "private"), you can still get at it outside with package::symbol.
We don't though, I mean if you explicitly change the scaling factor. Of course if you don't change the scaling factor then your scaling would technically be correct.
like everything else this pandemic, the science is continually updating, especially w.r.t natural immunity

we've gone from "diminishes in 3 months" to "may last over 10 months"

https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-long-does-covid-19-immunity-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/04/past-covi...

notwithstanding the flaws of measuring only antibodies as a true measure of effective immunity