skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can take a guess...

Recruiters are over-excited sometimes. The recruiter told you that you passed. The recruiter told you that you should expect an offer. The recruiter asked for and checked your references.

The hiring manager may have said very little to this recruiter to encourage this. We don't know whether it was "we're going to hire him" or "he's ok let's talk to a few more people".

So there may be a disconnect between Stripe and the agency they use to hire.
Cron still exists on Ubuntu at least.
That whooshing sound is the goal posts moving
I recommend also using direnv, with nix-direnv (home-manager has a setting to trivially enable nix-direnv). This lets you integrate your shell.nix environment into your existing shell without having to run `nix-shell` or use bash.
Always good to be entertained while we court disaster.
A 50/50 split between life and death/corporate drudgery would be a godsend.
Maybe fear of looking at health care premium bill every month. Healthcare can be found. Maybe it's not at a preferred price, but it can be found. Even post-ACA.

Source: me working for myself and paying healthcare premiums for self and family 2003-2018
In your mind you imagine an HR professional planning your loop, interviewers that are genuinely interested in you, a hiring manager who's carefully read your resumé and has specific questions about your experience. You just (wasted|spent) five or six years and $200,000 on your four year degree. They better be interested, right?

Not.

In reality, a hiring manager clicked on your resume because an algorithm suggested it, told HR to setup a loop, and then promptly forgot you until the day you showed up.

If you're one of the lucky ones, your resume might have actually been read by a human.

The interviewers on the loop are probably not even on the team you'll join if hired.

There's a 90% chance they haven't even read the job requisition for the position you're applying for, if they could even find it. I've had to interview people blind without requisition or resume, and yes I did feel like an idiot both times, a rude one.

The person sitting across from you asking questions probably first learned of your very existence 15 minutes before it began; not because of disinterest, but because HR assigned the interview with that short of a window! re: x out sick, y in important meeting, etc.

All of this is true for at least 2 FAANGs and 1 MSFT in my experience as an interviewer and interviewee on over 50 loops over a decade.

What I'm saying is there is no spit or polish to the hiring process, not even at competitive companies, not even at the big ones, perhaps especially so because the assumption will be that you actually know what you're doing since you were bold enough to apply and even bolder to attend an interview loop at one of these "amazing" companies.

The musical chairs you experienced at Stripe, if explained at all, will be calendar conflicts, meeting overruns, sick employees, fire drills within, etc., all of those ambiguities that constantly interrupt IT. The show doesn't stop within because you're being interviewed on Wednesday. You are not the show. That $1000 suit you're wearing, the only suit you'll ever buy or ever wear ever again, bought you 60 minutes (or 20 at Stripe for Mgr of Mgrs).

The real explanation you will never know, but something as facile as the third guy on the loop not liking the fact that you have a full head of hair and he has none is actually sufficient, if you understand what I mean, that hiring is messy and opaque and human and, therefore, often ridiculous.

Would you believe one of these companies has had for decades now, as a core competency to hire for, “A tolerance for ambiguity”? I always loved that one.
Ask HN: Are there any research using chaos theory to study Deep neural network?
I just know and reading this book: Emergence: From Chaos To Order (https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Chaos-Order-Helix-Books/dp/0738201421),

but it just studied simple shadow neural network,

Are there any research using chaos theory to study Deep neural network?
The sarcasm went over my head initially. Sadly, I think it is because your post is 100% something I believed I would find on HN.
And when you start relying on them for all of your business, you've basically reverse engineered being a regular employee at a creative agency.
I can't imagine using a package system for building images that doesn't allow a full local cache of exactly the packages I want installed.
At the time, it wasn't...
> no perceivable benefit

I see no “perceivable” benefit in lots of things that other people choose to spend their time and money on. But at least I have the decency not to say it out loud.
Dynamic Digital Maps (2020)
Yes, I read the original non-answer and was looking for a little clarification. If 50k isn't enough to help them, are you suggesting we should give them more, less, or none?
Use the pen to design a better sword(missiles, f-35s etc), that's the point, not writing novels and reddit threads with a pen.
Except that multi-stage builds are deceptively not grabbing or blending layers - it's simply letting you copy files from a layer.

And that is a big miss. Being able to describe "now append this layer and all, but only, its file changes from this previous layer" would be pretty epic.
This article doesn't really support that. ClosureScript targets JavaScript, which is a platform that doesn't have special support for optimizing immutability.
I guess that would not fit my definition of "fully".

Do people really build images this way? It sounds completely insane to pull packages like that randomly from the Internet.
Or would GDP be increased more (and more evenly distributed, both geographically and demographically) if the jobs in NYC or SV were all required to be remote? Imagine if every small town in the country had HN types bringing money into the local economy instead of taking it out.
One of the properties I own is in Reno which is a 4hr drive from SF. It's a 2br 1ba condo which Zillow estimates $207k. It's nice, fully remodeled. That would be $900 mortgage + $180 hoa + $50 taxes (?) = ~$1200/mo ?

Make $20/hour like most folks in this working class neighborhood do and you are all set. Get a roommate or a spouse that works part time if you can't earn $20/hr.
Because at a certain point money becomes an addiction.
I disagree. $445/mo for a healthcare policy for a family would be cheap. Likely cheaper financially to a young family than the tax impact of socialized healthcare would be to them.
I think it's natural that the world is deglobalizing. As we move away from fossil fuels a massive amount of trade that flows across borders will disappear in the next 30 or so years.
I'd be THRILLED to tell you. Shoot me an emal at grey@hodge.be and I'll tell you everything. I love the product, been a fan of Dropbox for ages, and if I can help you help someone else improve the experience, maybe Docusign can get real competition.
Author here. As with most things, its all about the trade-offs. Docker has certainly proved itself and that approach has worked on a massive scale. However, its not a silver bullet. For us at Replit, our Docker approach was causing issues: our base image was large and unmaintainable and we had almost no way of knowing what changed between subsequent builds of the base image.

We've been able to utilize Nix to address both of those issues, and others who may be in a similar scenario might also find Nix to be valuable.

Of course Nix comes with its own set of opinions and complexities but it has been a worthwhile trade-off for us.
I mean, I can imagine situations where it's appropriate, but like you said, I think it says more about the company if it's a common occurrence. For the types of interviews my company does, they're designed not to suck, even if you're not knocking it out of the park.

Most of the sessions are collaborative solution design exercises. The interviewer can drive the solution, if necessary, and hopefully it's at least educational. The remaining session is a behavioral interview centered on the candidates accomplishments. It's usually possible to set least draw out what the candidate is proud of from their career.
I know a few Smalltalk programmers who did the same thing. They basically wrote their programs in the debugger. It was an interesting technique.
Hey Patrick,

You might look to improve y'all's process by looking at datatdog's interview process. I have never felt more appreciated and well treated than interviewing there.

1) they always give feedback

2) they have more generic positions, get you in the door to some small filter interviews, and then shop you around to find the right team for you, instead of the reverse approach where people shotgun resumes across your company trying to get in the door. The problem with the recruiter and multiple HMs I talked to at stripe is they didn't seem to care about getting people to work at stripe, only getting people to work in their org which didn't have open positions for X.

3) incredibly quick and responsive through the process. My recruiter at stripe did this!

Love what you're doing for science,
Take care
Of course, because there's no local context and you have all the information required to infer that. If you're in Europe I understand but in my local context "staying at home" as I was doing would have a near zero impact on improving this global pandemic while being a huge cost for my well-being and health.

I live in a poor country with cases slowly approaching zero, a high vaccination rate and in the midst of the hot/humid season. Also staying at home is a luxury that the large majority of the population can't afford so my decision has a linear effect because nobody on my neighborhood will be "staying at home" or using masks anyways. Right now poverty and hunger are more of an issue than Covid.

Oh yeah let's ignore all the economical, social and health issues that are side effect of the "staying at home" and insist on social shaming and in a policy that is unsustainable. Let's adopt a dogmatic approach to solve novel issues.

If you want to shorten the global pandemic please lobby your politicians into not holding but subsidizing vaccines to poor countries.

I'm a supporter of building longer term effects that contribute into making society more robust against Covid and other kinds of airborne diseases. Like proper indoor ventilation in public spaces, load balancing, better respirators for daily use. Improved vaccine manufacturing capability and shorter lead times for vaccine development. I understand that they are not mutually exclusively in theory but there's so much we can lobby for at the same time and I prefer not to waste it.
Does that mean its limited to 720p video (since higher resolutions use HLS)?
Best advice I ever received about these kind of topics, was from my mom. She said:
don't worry about it. Kids will grow up no matter what you do. That may mean a lot if you think about it philosophically. Do what you can, what you know, what you feel like.
Don't worry about it. About what you can't do, or others tell you. Just keep doing what you are - the fact you think about it, means you are on track. Most important, is to enjoy it.
>Part of that is due to the company being killed by our bank, all assets sold off, because they panicked.

Care to elaborate.

If I do end up FIRE, I imagine I could always have a family in a cheaper country. 2 million in FAANG RSUs can easily raise a family outside of America.
>They claim that they are on 160 million devices.

How many of those are active devices?
> I think the oversimplification doesn't help

True

> It's usually harder to attract new customers

To my defense that difficulty was factored in the 2% figure.
Thank you for this project. Brave browsers feature set and roadmap has been off the rocker for a while and i will be happily dropping it for this.
Dumb TVs would cost more because availability of smart functionality earns manufacturer subsidizes from various streaming services while the cost of extra hardware is really low (you can get streaming sticks for under $50). Just don't connect to network and enjoy getting a nicer TV for your money. Also on Android-based TVs you can disable any unwanted apps through ADB or install a privacy-enhancing firewall, so that's one middle option.
You had your kids' blood drawn every six months?
Because of the power dynamic they have to do this. It is sad, but having been in a similar situation with a billionaire, you can't say it with your name attached.
I get those too - Chrome, Windows 10 x86
Counting phones, tablets, and laptops, I have at least 10 devices with browsers in my house.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Well that's fine, but it would be nice to have more official guidance, like editions/profiles/versions that turn things off as well as on. There are some standards, but mostly you just get self-proclaimed C++ experts telling you you suck if you write a `new` statement and don't use whatever kind of smart pointer is the right one now.
Understanding the Body Electric
Software can't execute itself. It must be executed by an external agent and given some kind of input. That will be true regardless of whether you consider the software to be a true AGI or a mere language model. So what does it mean exactly to "start a conversation"? Are you saying that it should be able to give a useful output with a blank input? I don't see why a language model can't do that.
If your point is "lies, damn lies, and statistics," then I guess I can't argue with that.

If your point is something more specific about OECD self-employment data, or the processes and practices for a specific or category of "OECD types of datasets" or general practices of society-level datasets...I encourage you to make that point, and give others something to work with.
Not really? It would be notable if I handed you a slice of pizza sat atop a wad of toilet paper, even if it's just unused paper and not actually from the bathroom.
(First of all, my editor is someone I got from Michael Lynch, who blogged about her. She's now become quite expensive, and you get what you pay for. She's certainly been a "developmental editor" as well as "copy editor" -- she's the guardian of the character of Janet in Inventing the Future [1], for one thing, and doesn't hesitate to tell me when a chapter needs work. And yes, I do pay out of my own pocket.)

Secondly, I also noticed that Kernighan book on the web, and my first thought was "that is such an amateurish cover!" It does not sell the book at all, and I'm not at all surprised that the writing is equally weak.

Third, the Reedsy site is invaluable for finding good professionals. But you have to be the judge of what's good. If you don't have good taste, then you'll just need to be very lucky.

Lastly, Clifford: your friend who said the book was about the people you interacted with did you a tremendous favor. That's what the readers want, even in non-fiction, unless you're writing a purely how-to book.

[1] https://www.albertcory.io
The references were checked by the hiring manager. The congratulations were also extended by the hiring manager. So it’s hard to pin this on the recruiter.

Also no agency was used, it was all internal.
I think it clarifies things, tbh. Managers of managers used to be called Directors and VPs, but now many companies have Directors as line managers. So at least Manager of Managers is clear in that regard.
I mean it actually does. Concentration leads to much higher economic growth. Both in absolute terms and per capita.
I think there's a certain type of person who has no trouble selling themselves and therefore finds this sort of thing easier than those of us who are most decidedly not salesmen.
Historically asciinema was not easy to embed in React because you can't have multiple copies of React. So my team at the time wrote and open-sourced an embeddable alternative to it. Unfortunately that project seems to have disappeared by now.

But now that asciinema is no longer in React maybe it will be possible to embed now. See https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues/72#issu....
This is what any middle management position really is. You are managing and coaching managers.
The challenge with almost all government subsidies is that you need a tax year of little to no income before you can qualify.
Well, I thought it was clever
Everybody can say that. Regardless of whether they are or are not leading a large company.

For all I know, one insider holding a grudge could be creating multiple accounts claiming to be leading large companies and thus not being able to divulge their names.
Somewhat not related and likely dumb question but I figure folks looking at this article can help steer me in the right direction: if I want containers to act like Linux VMs what's the best option? Like Docker minus the assumption that I only want a few specific directories to persist or the idea I'm interested in layering containers in a way that lets me reproduce building them. Like if I just want another separate full instance of Alpine with it's own network view and own filesystem view and own everything but sharing the host kernel instead of being fully virtualized.
Why chase 30% Y/Y gains when you can chase 300%? At least until these late days of summer are over…
Author here. In our case, we had a large base Docker image called Polygott (https://github.com/replit/polygott) it pulls in dependencies for 50+ different languages from various repositories. We would pin things where possible, but its still very difficult to ensure reproducible builds.

Additionally, docker builds have free access to the network to do anything it would like. Nix goes to great lengths to sandbox builds and limit network access. Anything accessed from a network requires a pinned sha 256 hash to ensure the remote data hasn't changed. (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix#Sandboxing)
> The annoying thing about that design is, if I want to turn my high beams on manually, and the car decides that a street light in the distance is a vehicle, it will ignore my request to turn on my high beams when I push the stick forward. I then also have to set my primary headlights to manual mode in order to override the car. This requires turning the knob at the end of the stalk which is not backlit and therefore not legible while driving at night. This is one area where I like the Honda design better: I can always turn my high beams with one operation.

It's an Outback for what it's worth, but... High beams work directly by pushing the stick forwards. I haven't experienced it denying such a request, only correctly toggling off when traffic is both oncoming and within a reasonable distance, but if it did behave incorrectly in this way, I would simply pull the stick back and push it forwards to re-activate high beams. I don't think there is any complexity in managing state with this implementation, it seems inherently obvious to me it would be this way. I am very surprised with everything else you've written here because it seems quite extraneous.
USB 3 was a horrible janky mess for many years, with the early chipsets (and/or chipset drivers) being highly unstable. I recall being entirely unsurprised that Apple stayed clear of it during that time.
That sounds like a pretty fair position. It does seem difficult, on the other hand, because I don't think we really have mechanisms to protect whistleblowers as a society. The options seem like stay silent, speak out anonymously (clearly subject to abuse), or speak out publicly with the threat of retribution. None of these feel like great options.
A lot of it you can check here https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=chao... or https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=chao...

Also try to search for chaos in reinforcement learning. Hope it will help
Options for individual and family healthcare plans in many of the less restrictive states don't stop at "Obamacare." While not for everyone, Short Term Medical is a viable option, many times much more attractive than IFP ACA plans as STM plans typically ride on a national network whereas "Obamacare" plans are typically EPO plans that are geographically limited.

It's a commonly held myth that bigger companies offer lower premiums to employees, that is most certainly not always the case.
> Trying to appease the spatial Finder advocates and at the same time trying to appease Steve's desire to never have to know where a file existed in the filesystem was a constant source of grief.

This is explains so much, thanks for commenting.
Understanding Floating-Point Numbers (2020)
I never understood how multiple electrical frequencies can be in a copper cable. I always thought they must merge and therefore it must be impossible to find the right set of original frequencies and their strength.

Then I learned about the Fourier transform in this beautiful video:
https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY
I greatly appreciate efforts like these, however I don't understand the value here.

From my perspective:

- More difficult to search (single page manual is easy to ctrl-f, emacs built-in docs same)

- Difficult to read, styling plugins don't work well.

- MUCH more text on the screen at once. A single horizontal line is at least 2 separate contexts.

- Menu animations :(

- various styling errors (code blocks overlapping in safari for me)

- code copy also copies repl output... not very useful!

- font stylings reused but for different meanings

etc...

It feels like an interesting pet-project, but it doesn't feel like someone sat down and thought of a prioritized list of problems with the original documentation presentation... then fixed them.

It feels like someone wanted to try out some common web tropes on the emac docs.
Chaotic systems are iterative, that is, you keep data through the same function over and over again.

As usually used, neural networks run in a single pass, you get data in and get data out.

If you iterated a deep neural network you'd probably find chaos and other dynamic phenomena. But if you just run it once, nope.
I used to customise my Mac.

Icons, window positions, folder structures, Apple menu and so on.

But now? Nope.

macOS just pretty stays like it came out of the box.

Maybe it's due to the general shift of devices being more like Cattle and less like Pets?

Or maybe I was younger, computers were new and fun, and personalisation still seemed worth while?
Still nothing for kids under 12, while in the US 5 and up can be vaccinated.

Still masks only in school corridors, but not in classrooms.
Still no masks or mitigations at all in primary schools.

The fake grass roots group "Us4them" has the ear of MPs, to try and push herd immunity via kids in schools.
Having anybody be able to create a noise of slanderous comments seems like absolutely worst option to me.

I personally back my posts by my real name and I think this is fair. If I did not feel safe posting something important, I would make sure to include proofs. If I can't include either, I keep my mouth shut.
Oh god I hope not. Having worked in > 100kloc nix environments I am completely turned off of the idea. I really really tried, I installed NixOS as my main OS and used Nix whenever I could to try and pick it up, but it's such a complex beast I felt it slowed everything down. Simple tasks that would take 10 minutes in Docker suddenly became DevOps tickets. I suddenly had to write bindings for tools rather than apt-get them in a Dockerfile. Build times in Haskell were bad enough but suddenly you had nix into the mix and I'd be wasting half a day as Nix built the entire world - solved with internal caching servers but have fun trying to work out how to push something to that correctly.

There's a blog post that goes around from time to time about how a company have three risk tokens to allocate per project on non-boring technologies. Nix seriously needs all three. It's the only technology I've ever vetoed at a startup because I've seen the hell hole it can become - perhaps not for the DevOps engineers who know it, but the team who have to suddenly work within the resulting environment.