skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience there are 2 kinds of recruiters.

Those most likely operating out of the same boiler rooms as tech support scammers who have pitch terrible roles and employ a spray & pray approach where it's just a spam campaign with very little effort on their side. Those are a waste of time, the roles are terrible and are pretty much never matched to your profile, and when you go through anyway the recruiter will not provide any value (I had one insist on me writing a short resume of my profile... I mean you have my resume in front of you, why don't you do it?).

The rest which are typically alright. Again, quality varies, but I haven't had any outright "bad" experiences with any of this category. On the top-end of this category are those that understand the industry very well and what you're looking for and will only pitch you the right roles at the right time. The right recruiters can essentially be your sales team and are absolutely worth having on your side.

I suspect most people's interactions here would be exclusively those from the first category as they're the ones that typically send unsolicited spam. The second category will typically show much more restraint in reaching out out of the blue, so unless you explicitly seek them out you may not even be aware they exist.
You don't need a server, you just need to transpile beforehand.
This might be the real motivation. Facebook(Meta) is data hungry and data driven company. It cares about existing data and the potential for getting more data.
Known platform has a high chance to provide more data.
It's just open season on Meta and big tech in general. Giphy isn't exactly an ad powerhouse nor a real competitor to Meta, but any acquisitions are now opportunities for political theater.
Which is why they state a lot of the attack and not all of the attacks.
"Mapping the Atari"; Ian Chadwick, 1983. A must have, so very sought after.
So I guess Nestle is communist? People who took land from natives are communists as well. In a way, every capitalist corp which takes resources from other countries is communist.

If you think communism = taking away things from people, I guess you don't know political ideologies that well :)
Can’t you use views for joins?

Usually you should be fine with a few views, in most schemas, there are just a limited amount of tables you can join in a meaningful way.
My anti-theft device is my Brompton foldable bike. It folds down to a small package in 10 seconds and I take it with me anywhere I go including buses, trains, etc. It came with a nice black zipper cover. One cannot see that there is a bike inside. This helps with some pesky ticket masters on trains.
I like the way you think ;) But 'taste' will be really difficult to model for a long-long time.
The whole argument that something needs to be replaced because it has been around for such a long time has always struck me as a bit peculiar. Odds are that if something has stuck around for a long time, it is exactly because it works pretty well and whatever perceived benefits of doing it differently haven't panned out, or have been small relative to the hassle of changing the paradigm.
Okay, I'm dumb. But can anyone please explain how the UK has any right to stop an American Company(Meta) from acquiring another American Company(Giphy)? If the UK can, can Germany, India, or even China and Russia do something similar?
Ironically, that statement is the strongest argument in favour of blocking the acquisition I've heard.

Any company so arrogant about its market dominance it assumes that the only way for an entrepreneur to succeed in building a company in its market is to sell to them deserves to be broken up.
Instagram was a tool for applying filters to photos and posting them on Facebook.

After Facebook bought Instagram it became the rebranded version of Facebook for women.

For all those who consider Facebook irrelevant, or fading, you should realize that Facebook (Instagram) is the portal through which almost half the population almost exclusively use the internet — it’s AOL and Internet explorer and Yahoo rolled into one.
I get all kinds of misspellings, only one mobile, due to uio keys right next to each other.

I get one variety of misspellings on Android using swipe (the word is wrong w.g. I type due and it guesses sure) And another variety of wrong vowel. And autocorrect messes these up in different ways too.

So while the keyboard layout is a factor, another is language, and input method (type or swipe) and probably user idiosyncrasies, etc
I don't interpret parent's post as a complaint so much as an observation: Raspberry Pis are incredibly affordable little computers that are seemingly a good fit for Haiku since they have relatively little diversity of hardware to deal with (outside USB devices of course), would benefit from a less bloated Desktop, and little otherwise is expected of them. Lots of people have various Pi models laying around in want of something to do with them, and lots of people would like to play with Haiku outside of a VM, so I agree with parent that it seems like a missed opportunity.
fixed link https://www.slps.org/cms/lib/MO01001157/Centricity/Domain/94...
Darwin is much further from BSD than Android is from mainline Linux, and the Android/Linux distinction is entirely sufficient to call them different operating systems.

I think you can accurately say that there are either two or five distinct operating systems in wide consumer use at the moment: Windows and Unix, or Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux.
It's been a little while since I've worked with C++ professionally, but the project was cross platform so I'm not sure Windows and Visual Studio was ever a feasible option.

Most of us were using Xcode, but at some point I discovered CLion and it felt like a big step up. Having proper CMake integration instead of needing to regenerate Xcode projects really helped, plus I've often found Xcode to be quite unresponsive and never really liked the way it tries to be different with stuff like code navigation (recent versions seem to be better with how they handle tabs etc.)

But CLion is relatively recent. Quite possibly VS was the only IDE that did that stuff well for quite some time.
> when people try to reinvent something, they instead end up learning why the existing thing is so great

As someone who has actively tried to switch to Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts and failed, I'd argue it's less because that Qwerty is so "great" and more that it's just so entrenched everywhere, that unlearning it for keeps is difficult.

Like I'd have to set up Colemak everywhere I go, if I sat at someone else's computer or a public computer it would be back to Qwerty, if you ever look down at your keys for reference (something you want to do a lot when you're learning a new layout) they're telling you Qwerty, etc.

Also the unlearning process can be slower than I'd like, and my typing speed plummets while I'm learning these things, so I'm less useful at work or school or working on personal projects. I've been using Qwerty for over 20 years at this point, whereas my Colemak experiment was only a few months.

It did seem like I was straining my fingers less when I was using Colemak, though, and could potentially type faster eventually if I could ever fully commit to it.
> The last few times I've looked for a role I've just googled for companies I'd like to work at and browsed their careers pages.

This is my current practice. If I get a bite, it's one I'm excited for since it's a company I already know I'm interested in joining.

On the flipside, I do this rarely and it seems like exploring jobs to the extent of seeing what the job market thinks I'm qualified for is a volume game. Based on what's been posted here thus far, sounds like balancing between one of the known recruiting sites and still cherry-picking careers pages is the way to go.

Thanks!
Rights groups petition Israel's top court over Omicron phone tracking
I'm beginning to think that we should extend Godwin's Law to include Elon. Just about every online conversation nowadays eventually deteriorates into a discussion about how terrible Elon is.

Btw, I'm exaggerating, but still.
I was tempted to agree but considering they managed to make such a nice and large piece of software without marketing.. I'd keep the marketing low and let the energy flow organically.
What Can the Telegraf Monitoring Agent Do?
Like NFTs, the important question is not "what can you do with it" but "how much did you spend on it". It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Kubing Rails: stressless Kubernetes deployments with Kuby
It can vary by company and culture. Tech may be different, but in non-tech roles where equity isn't expected in most roles, signing bonuses can serve a function to nudge someone to leave a role they're comfortable in, or to make up for other aspects the candidate is losing out on by leaving at a certain time (e.g. annual bonus with 10a 10% of salary target pays out in March, but the new company wants you to start in January).
More acceptable than the absence of such a statement. It makes Elon’s pedo comment look like immature reactionary school yard banter. Somebody said something mean to me so I’m going to say something mean back.
I understand the sentiment but there is a difference between ghosting the during recruiting process and ghosting after committing to the job.
Ha, yeah it takes a little bit of getting used to. I pressed v instead of c a lot for the first few weeks.
> Security theater.

I'm always amazed how the Lockpicking Lawyer on YouTube defeats any lock within seconds. I think the hardest one was a couple minutes.
Ask HN: How do you recruit beta testers for your SaaS?
I work full-time at slite.com. We've been around for 5 years and done well. For a number of reasons, we recently decided to pivot.

We're developing a unique product for a small, growing, market we love: async-first communication (understand documentation + discussions).

Our success will massively rely on growing our (free) beta waitlist:
1. Bringing design partners on board and iterate with them on new releases
2. Hoping this will lead to a big public launch

→ Do any of you have experience building beta waitlists? How would you approach that in our context?

Thanks, and looking forward to reading your thoughts!

@clementrog
Western, mostly UK an EU, regulators are dumb. They wanted to help their citizens with privacy, instead the whole world gets annoying cookie pop ups. Boomer energy is too strong in the Western world.
Don't know what Giphy has, but creating and sharing a gif from a movie would be fair use and not subject to copyright.

You're not going to watch a movie in gif format, and it would be a derivative anyway.
You have been treated unethically in the past, now you have zero qualms acting unethically? That's not cool, its very easy NOT to ghost people it basically costs you nothing, you might want to seek some therapy.
4 players, 4 missiles. The missiles could be combined to a 5th player if you wanted.

The players only had one color and there was a fixed size in pixels. (you could cheat this a bit if you really worked with the display list.)

Edit: as corrected below, each player was (or could be) a different color, but was only allowed one color.
So why didn't they skip "Mu", which as others have pointed out is a far more common name than Xi?

Everyone knows the real reason they skipped Xi, you're not fooling anybody.
There's an online version here: https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
This is an interesting idea, and I can see the value... But how does this work for those with disabilities? Will screen readers describe the image in the mouse over as well? (I imagine so, if alt tagged, but I'm not sure and would love to know)
When to fake it ’til you make it (and when not to)
Giphy is and was always just a metadata aggregator with the side effect of hosting funny little copyright infringing videos.
Haiku has less of a software problem than I expected, since Qt has been ported to it, and it has some (not the majority of) Qt apps, as well as the Qt Creator IDE. I'm not sure if Qt apps are as light and responsive as native Haiku apps though.

Unfortunately I never did find supported hardware and clear out enough hard drive space to install it (despite shuffling my disks around and losing my last copy of important files). Perhaps I could try running it in a VM, but why not use the outside OS at that point?
Imagine a government across the world asking you to sell a portion of your business. I’m not a fan of FB but I’d be laughing with Zuck in the board room at this one.
You can also sell them to the public. The real crux is that Facebook was the highest bidder, so it does lower potential valuations not being able to be purchased. All well in my books. I'm still salty about Red Hat optimizing the short term and becoming an IBM arm
I don't think they link the binaries. It's more like, put them each on executable flash in separate places and the kernel just calls them.

The intent here seems to be that each binary has no need (and no ability) to get all up in another binary's business. Nothing shared, except access to the RTOS.
Also in documentation, I always loved the Grafana documentation for being sprinkled with short gifs to demonstrate different features.
Democrats did try for a "public option" or something like it in 2009, but they always barely have the Senate, and have 2 or 3 Democrat Senators that are closer to Republicans who force them to cut back on spending. I remember Lieberman from ACA times forcing quite a few changes to ACA, and the same exact thing is happening this year with Manchin/Sinema.

Although the bigger issues is probably distribution of resources within American society. Lots of people were pissed that even the compromise that was ACA caused their healthcare costs to rise, even though it objectively lead to many more Americans getting access to healthcare. The country might say they want everyone to have everything, but no one will sign up to pay.

Whereas before, say the top 50% of the population got access to healthcare because they worked for government or large enough private companies to afford it, now that the bottom 50% had access to healthcare via subsidies and laws ensuring no one could be excluded from health insurance, the costs rose for the top 50%, and I hear endless whining about it, ignoring the fact that the bottom 50% can actually get an annual physical now.
Even as anecdata, I see a few issues with this comparison. For one, part of your mortgage payment is simply a repayment of loan principal, which is not a cost of living. Only the interest portion might be considered a legitimate household expense.

Second, with a $10K deductible, it sounds like you have a HDHP (high deductible health plan), of which the main feature is lower premiums, and also the ability to fund an HSA (health savings account) for additional tax savings.

Even with your deductible, a wide variety of basic and preventive health services are available for free to you under ACA's minimum essential coverage provision.
For example, see this list [0] for all adults, along with a similar ones specifically for women and children.

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-adults/
I think summm's comment was mocking anti-bitcoiners, but some people probably took it seriously.
Sorry about the judgemental tone, that was not my intention. I just wanted to explain that not everybody wants to be self-employed.

I'm also a specialist (software-architect), so I don't have my own farm animals ;).

But I don't think I explained myself properly, so I will try again. As an employee, a lot of things are decided for you: which company phone you have, company car, your career trajectory, bonuses, holidays, etc. You also know how much money will be on your bank account at the end of the month. And when you're sick, you know you're getting paid (EU here :)).
This is what I consider the "easy life", because a lot of stuff is decided for you because of company policies. The good thing is that you don't have to overthink all this stuff.

But I don't want that. I want to have a car that I choose, want to negotiate my rate all the time, want to take holidays on my own terms, etc. The price that I pay? A lot of administration. And when I'm sick, I'm not getting paid.

I used to think that everybody wants this freedom that I desire, but that is not the case. And there is definitely nothing wrong with that.

Just like everything, it has benefits and drawbacks, and everybody makes their own choice. And I think still more people prefer to be an employee than self-employed.
They can remove their access to the country. The EU has been doing the same for quite a while.

Also, Facebook UK is a thing.
Facebook literally employ the former deputy Prime Minister.
> LinkedIn's bread and butter seems to be spammers in India with addresses from New Jersey.

I've had to deal with those. The answer is to ruthlessly block/reject anyone you have doubts about. Thankfully most of these put up a very poor show and just a quick look at the quality of their website will tell you whether they're telling the truth. Frankly, you don't even need to dig that far - even just the quality/suitability of the roles they pitch will be a good enough indicator.

At least in the UK however there are decent local recruitment agencies that are worth having on your side. They don't proactively reach out (at least not as much as the aforementioned spammers) so you may need to seek them out yourself but if you get in touch and explain them your situation they will be helpful either now or in the future.

Whether this applies to the US is a different story however. When searching for jobs in my niche I often see tons of US-based positions posted by the aforementioned spammers, so it may very well be that US-focused recruitment has been completely overtaken by them.
Uninitialized Stack Variables
3 comma club
Why even bother releasing it at that point? The humans won't appreciate the majesty of what was produced. I say send them off to camps.
If I can click elsewhere to get them to go away, maybe they aren't too bad. First reaction was to wonder if this was satirical, though. :)
Like many readers of HN I work in an office (well, not at the moment), and quite often I'll end up working with someone else, and perhaps using their keyboard or vice versa. I don't think I have the mental muscle memory to switch between two keyboard layouts, from the 99% of users' flat-keyboard QWERTY layout to two isolated Dvorak keypads, or whatever.

And I don't expect other developers to carry their keyboard over to my desk, switch keyboard settings on my PC in order to pair-program either.

I suspect this article will exist in another 150 years, unless we're in Minority Report territory (with unfeasibly fatigue resistant arms...).
Both Meta and Giphy operate in the UK market, and the UK can set conditions for operating in that market. The EU, India, China and Russia can do the same.
Ah yes, the player/missile graphics :) Actually there were 4 "players" 8 px wide (although you could of course put several side by side) and 4 "missiles" 2 px wide (the name already gave away that you couldn't draw much more than a bullet with 2 px of width). The width of the "sprites" could also be stretched, but you could only move them horizontally in BASIC - for vertical movement you had to actually move the sprite's bytes in memory, and BASIC was too slow to do that smoothly. I had a 800 XE (the German version of the 130 XE - the same Atari ST lookalike design, but only 64 K) and programmed some games/"demos" in BASIC which I still fondly remember. One of them was a train with a steam engine and 3 carriages (the four "players", the carriages were double-width) which rolled over the screen. Another was a game in which you could bet money on one of four snails (again the four players) - the snails would move a random (small) amount, then pause for a second, then move another random amount, until they all reached the finish line. Nerve-racking action!
Microsoft is a bit schizophrenic in Rust's adoption.

In one side of the fence you have Azure IoT Edge, done in a mix of .NET and Rust.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/09/30/building-the-azur...

On the other side you have the Azure Sphere OS with a marketing story about secure IoT, yet the SDK is C only,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/app-developmen...

To the point they did a blog post trying to defend their use of C,

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things-bl...
That's now how they will sell it. It will be about ease and convenience. Plug in the TV and it's ready to go! You don't have to go find your wifi password and type it in with the remote. Nobody likes to do that. It would be sold as something they do to make things easier for their customers.
The mouse is just as big of a problem.
I honestly don't understand why there are (almost) no keyboards with a built-in mouse. Being able to perform at least some mouse movements without moving your hand(s) off the keyboard is great.

Yes, I'm aware of the Lenovo keyboard that comes with a trackpoint. I had one for several years before accidentally killing it. The mouse part is great but it's not ergonomic in any other regard which is a deal breaker.
> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor.

Imgur already exists, and I believe (?) Giphy was created as an answer to it?
Maybe they want it to be possible to have closed source and open source task to be mixed.
Is there a true difference between those two models though? In the end, the client has to foot the bill, no matter how the money is allocated between commission and candidate.

As a recruiter, you could have a similar model for contractors and promise a fixed % of the daily rate. That way, the higher the rate of the contractor, the bigger the commission for the recruiter.

However, I do see your point and I notice most recruiters not being very transparant about their commission, nor do they want to give it up & work with a fixed fee instead. I know one small agency who's very open about their commission and promise to only take a cut for the first year. I hope eventually other freelancers will wise up and choose those types of recruiters over the more shady businesses.
I wonder if there is a standard way to specify a researcher’s “Sharpe ratio”? The typical reward units out per risk units put in.
What about using video with control instead? Furthermore what about performance?
This looks very useful; I've not seen it before. Gotta love Hacker News, I check Hacker News several times daily and have learned so much.
I wouldn't call SDL2 "dead simple", unless sarcastically. Just opening an empty SDL window requires writing about 20 lines of code that deal with several different abstractions, a "window", a "surface", a "renderer, an "event". I only want an array of pixels that I can edit and see the results in realtime. It is of course possible to do that, but it seems ridiculously overcomplicated.

I was taught as a kid to program simple graphical demos using peek and poke in basic. Then in assembler. In either case, stupid me got colored pixels on the screen after a few minutes of work. Kids these days, how do they start? Please, don't tell me "matplotlib" or I will cry myself to sleep.
Lightpaper looks like a fantastic markdown editor! But the landing page makes me feel like it isn't getting much love from the developers. The copyright notice at the bottom, for instance, says 2019.

Any idea whether it is still getting updates?
Any company has to follow the law where they operate. Being an American-headquartered company doesn't really mean anything in this context.