skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend gave me advice, when looking for job ask for a lot more than you'd want to earn. Often refuse to waste time on stupid tests, act a bit like a diva. And apply for a lot of positions. Its a balancing act, as you don't want to over-do it - asking for 400k will get your CV a ticket to a shredder.

Acting like a 'yes man' will subconsciously put you in a certain bin in recruiters' head. Acting a bit fussy means you value yourself, you are confident so you know what you are doing. That naturally puts you above everyone else who follows the script and tries to please the recruiting side.

When interviewing you want to be relaxed, ask them questions. Make it a bit about them trying to sell you the position. Again its a subtle power dynamic.

Other one is not to give CVs to every single recruiting agency, as it often will result in burned CV. If two agencies forward your CV for same position, the company will often drop you automatically as they dont want to deal with litigation between agencies fighting over who got you the job.

Good luck
There isn’t a “top of the hierarchy node” in BitTorrent. Everyone gets treated the same less some tit for tat rules which usually don’t apply because a swarm usually has that 1 or 2 altruistic seeders.
Having a rule of law is not a regulation, is the most basic fundamental prerequisite to having a functioning modern, democratic society. Free markets are built on top of that and regulations come on top of free markets.

And free markets imply free people - slavery is the opposite of that.

Taxing externalities is also necessary, and it's tax, not a regulation. But that is something we're still working on, with little success it seems. See the carbon/pollution international issues with China, Russia, Australia.
Tesla are operating as a tech company, and it shows - they have pretty bad quality control issues. They still remain a small manufacturer, and don't have much technological advantage, giants such as VW, Stellantis(PSA+FCA) and Renault having catched up.

Some sectors are moving to tech-first approaches, like fintech, and there are plenty of european ones. Same goes for Bio ( BioNTech?).

Trying to expand before you have a stable local market is stupidly risky. Furthermore, some concepts aren't easy to export, or require significant legal and translation work. EU-based startups have plenty of drive and initiative, try to conquer their local and neighbouring markets ( e.g. Ornikar is a driving license online tutoring startup, who started in France, are expanding in Spain and will probably add more; but each new market is basically redoing almost everything from scratch). Those markets are smaller than the US and China, who are very protective, so the resulting companies are smaller. So what? Not everything is about infinite growth and trillion dollar companies.
> Sometimes you get the job and when you start rolling questions and ideas, you get a "talk to the hand" followed by "that's now what you're here for". Why hire a senior person as a poster, if you're not willing to be challenged and listen to different ideas? Nobody is asking you to agree, just play ball with convincing arguments. Too much of an ask, I guess.

Convincing arguments can be hard. I know I've been asked about convincing arguments in the past and I've tried my best, but sometimes its really difficult to recall the exact details around why a particular approach didn't work. I'm working on this by using Obsidian (or better, the company's Wiki) as a knowledge graph that I can refer to in the future, but in most situations you are not able to reuse the knowledge graph from a previous job fully. Architectural decision records / design docs work well for this - perhaps ask if they have those?

I agree though, convincing argumentation is not really common in software engineering for some reason. The way we approach best practices is the most revealing IMO: instead of explaining the reasons for the practices in detail, most of the time we just list and cargo-cult them.
It's always a mix of luck and persistence.

People always assume luck means something with the probability of a lottery win.

I don't have a spouse, I payed for everything myself, but there was still much luck involved. Just not one in a billion kind of luck.

I'm living in a shared flat, so I don't pay much rent, which allowed me to save more of my income, and the low rent allowed me to live much longer from those savings later.

I could have gone 2-3 years without a job, simply because my costs of living were so low. That opened me up to much experimenting with jobs and also enabled me to turn down many bad jobs.

Having low costs of living is luck, but you can have that much easier than you think.

The odds are quite in favor of a freelancing developer. I focused on projects that went 3-6 months. This meant, I only needed to be lucky to get one or two projects a year.

Again, you have to be lucky in some kind of way to get one of those projects, but if you write like 10 applications a month, and you only have to be lucky in 1 of those 120 applications a year, you're good to go.
And how many more years did they give people on the Google SOC?
Microsoft, a $2.5T company, should employ infinite paranoids to QA Test every situation in all cases, always. They power nuclear submarines.
Funny as how many change away from iOS because of its strange changes.
Hm, out of six interviews I've had in Sweden only a single one did that kind of test. Norm might be an overstatement.
Some examples would help, I am not aware of any.
>The speculation about Omicron did not air on the optimistic side of things. Instead, worst case scenarios played out in stories. Scary quotes about a "Frankenstein" escape variant were plugged into headlines, chyrons, and push alerts.

>Already, bad faith actors [emphasis mine] are using this latest episode of media overreach to suggest the press cannot be trusted on anything. For instance, I was watching Laura Ingraham's show on Fox the other night and she was railing against the media's coverage of Omicron. "COVID FEARMONGERS FORCED TO FACE REALITY,"

We got so close to some real introspection. Keep working at it, CNN.
A language lawyer quiz: if the definition is changed to

uint16_t mem[UINT16_MAX + 1] = {0};

is it guaranteed to work on platforms where unsigned int is 16-bit wide? What about platforms where void* is 16-bit wide (hint: &mem[65536] must be a valid pointer value that must compare unequal from &mem[0])?
> Google may blame Microsoft but there is no way an app should be able to disable 911 calling on a phone.

Google runs a battery of automated tests on any app before admitting it to the Play Store. A part of this testing should be simulated 911 calls. Failing to do so could open Google to liability through negligence.
Primitive, you need to determine the bumps on the skull ...
You can absolutely do readiness-based IO. Either call the system-specific APIs or use the MIO library, which is a low-level platform abstraction for that: https://github.com/tokio-rs/mio
>So this is a much different reaction than the US government who protected the investors and banks.

It was mainly to prevent systemic collapse of the financial system. Banks and other financial institutions profiting from it is an 'unfortunate' side-effect.
This doesn't match your description exactly, but I wonder if this is the case you're thinking of:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/12/13/d...
Here's some earlier work on the opl3
https://github.com/gtaylormb/opl3_fpga/blob/master/docs/opl3...
I agree there appears to be a mismatch here. But I disagree that it can be changed by a new perspective.

If we take it at face value that he is experienced then we can say he is running up against culture fit problems.

And honestly I can relate to him because I have found most companies to be overly structured and resistant to change. In my opinion it comes down to personality types. The OP is not the standard developer architype and has trouble operating in an environment others find comfortable.

Rather than dismissing this as a problem with the candidate we should consider that it can be a problem with the environment.

My contention: Large organisations are a horrible environment for individuals high in creativity (big 5 personality trait). They very strongly tend to be populated by people who are low in creativity.

Experienced people who are high in creativity need to find leadership positions in companies breaking new ground - startups. They either need to find a position where they call the shots in a startup, or they need to create a startup themselves.

A person very high in creativity is designed to be working at the edge and if they find themselves working in the middle, doing maintenance, then they are going to be unhappy and misunderstood by others who are fundamentally different from them.

My advice to the OP is to get out of large companies and to go as small as possible, go take some risks on some new technology and architectures.
Hey everyone,

Dracula creator here!

Feel free to ask me anything, I'll try to respond every single comment.
> There’s nothing wrong with asking for clarification about reasoning, but when someone is constantly challenging every decision made by management then it becomes an impediment to getting things done. If you want to be the person calling the shots, you should probably be applying for management positions. If you want to take an IC engineer position but constantly argue with the work, the company will eventually need to isolate you with a patient manager or remove you from the team in order to keep everyone aligned.

> More broadly: If you expect every manager to reflect exactly how you would choose to run things, you may be trying to act as a “backseat driver” manager without taking the responsibility of actual being a manager.

These hit close to home. Need to do some introspection, since I think I kind of behave this way. Thanks for writing this!
Regarding logging, you don’t know but the node doesn’t know that it was the first node to receive a transaction.

If you are communicating directly to the node.

Infura, on the other hand, uses a load balancer so it receives transactions before they hit their nodes, which means that server can assume it was the first to receive.

If you are operating on clearnet then you need your own node for privacy.

A TorOS lets you do this on darknet just fine though, its some random onion or exit node IP.
> having catched up

That’s the point - why are we always playing catch-up? Why don’t we come up with anything ourselves? Legacy companies just about managing to keep pace doesn’t make me comfortable.

> basically redoing almost everything from scratch

Well yeah that’s part of the problem. Europe needs to get over being so beaurocratic and stubborn.

> stupidly risky

I just think US people would think the risk was worth it, while we wouldn’t… and well just look at the results.

Not everything is about trillion dollar companies but I worry the European tech sector will get entirely eaten by the US if it stays happy to be small and inoffensive. Ideally we’d be able to compete with the US globally. If we aren’t that worries me for our ability for self-determination.
Sure they could but they wouldn't get them. Not for release and without that they are useless.
This is now detailed.
Edge Impulse raises 34M$ Series B to bring ML to embedded devices
MBTI (or other non-scientific test) stressing that there’s no “good” personality behave just like tobacco companies prior to regulations, trying to whitewash downsides of the product.

People rely on these things to make hiring decisions. I personally know people who hire based on reported personality that closely matches their own. I’ve seen people making biased opinions after being coached on these tests.

“No scientific backing, Makes people rely on confirmation bias” should be plastered all over these things, just the way we label cigarettes with photos of smoking consequences.
There's a difference between personality test taken because you're curious, and one taken as a filter on the way to get a job. Usually you can guess where the authors of the test are going with the questions and which answers are "a better fit". And then it becomes a test of "how much you want this job" vs "how strongly you feel about being honest".

Also even if people answer honestly the science behind it is very shaky and when applied to real world situations it seems about as useful as astrology.
Hmm, I don't think that's true. I score incredibly highly on the 'verbal IQ' segment of the test, and anecdotally I seem to give people the impression of intelligence, but in the mathematical segment of the test I score about as highly as a potted plant.

Unless you've ever independently (non-circularly) corroborated your 'idea of how smart someone is', my guess is that it just serves as a proxy for qualities like academic education (which != intelligence), social class, similarity to yourself, &c.
For IQ tests, a higher number is supposed to mean better. The accuracy of such tests is dubious.
I've had a similar issue where no interaction worked and then physical buttons have a long-press to dial emergency. I just stayed quiet and 911 recognized it as a pocket dial and hung up.
I don't understand the hate towards MB. It does what any theory should do: predict behavior. And it does it pretty well, actually. I'm 52. I learned about it when I was 16, and my mother filled in some questionnaire in a computer program, and it nailed my internal thought processing to a T. Ever since, I've paid passive attention to it, and people seem to fit the archetypes pretty well, though I find the category division names to be utterly useless. Why do you say it's BS? What's the thinking behind the "anti" side?
I see your Microsoft office and raise you blackberry work.
Then Google should ban the app from play store and auto-delete it from phones until MS fixes it.
I personally find IdiotBox[1] to be better than this as it opens links in ad free youtube embeds and also links channel and other information alongside the video itself.

P.S. you can replace the “watch?=“ part of a youtube url with “/embed/“ and get a distraction free view of the video.

Or you could just open it in mpv or something.

1. https://codemadness.org/idiotbox
Banking is one of the most heavily regulated and lacking competitions domains I know. This is why we have innovation in fin-tech startups but banking-startups only in crypto, where regulation is yet fairly light.
Mozilla Again with a Profit in 2020
Naphthalene
A cooperative synchronous task switching (i.e. fiber based) need only save the exact same information as an async based one (i.e. stackless coroutines): at a minimum a context pointer and an instruction pointer. Plus any live registers (which might be none).

You only need to save caller saved registers fs your context switching routine uses the conventional ABI, but that's not a requirement.
I agree, I'm a fan of the whole 'somebody slaughtered a herd of unicorns' approach to colouring code. It makes it very clear at a glance which keyword is doing what, which is always an advantage. I guess such things are very subjective though.
Interesting. This is the biggest developer in a sector worth 29% of China's GDP. If they can fail, so can all the other ones. Who would invest in Chinese real estate now, and where is the needed 8% plus GDP growth needed by China to meet its annual targets going to appear from?
Maybe someone has died and we will never know. Not many people go on debugging why 911 wasn't working.
But the banks were the ones telling us that. How true was it?
Can anyone identify the class of ship? I'm at a loss, though the shaky footage doesn't help.
This blog post caused a rather heated discussion here on HN back in the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488642
This looks similar to SyncedStore which was posted just yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEh1GR0t29k
How to Navigate the Endless Streams of the Internet
Of course get to know the candidate as much as possible before hiring, but if you had to pick your candidate based on a single number, you truly don't think IQ isn't way up there as one of the more usefully discriminating ones?
Yeah large companies in the EU never get entwined with the government.

In fact, I would argue because of the many small countries, many companies are incredibly entwined with the government. Because many of these countries only have few large companies.

I think the West loves saying 'all China suggests is because the government just finances every single company'. In reality this just doesn't seem to practically hold up. If all the companies are always losing money and have infinite money. Why are many they so good as scraping, forward looking, innovative and so on.

Its not government money that makes some of the China car makers better at software, or faster at adopting new innovations.

A contractor of Arianespace for Ariane 6 had an issue, RUAG had an issue with fairing. And the Swiss government jumped in. And this happen very often in many industries. I am not confident that all of the recent space companies in China would get the same treatment.
This is very substantially different. The real problem with 2008 was all the banks were leveraged to the tits on mortgage backed securities.

Chinese banking system on the other hand is very conservative and the banks are state owned.

The problem wasn't real estate developers getting shreked but rather the financial institutions the underpin everything suddenly facing massive liquidity crisis and enormous losses as MBS plummeted.

I fully expect a bunch of over-leveraged Chinese RE developers to fold here but I don't expect further contagion unless there is something unaccounted for - like international institutions being overly exposed to bad Chinese RE debt or something.
I actually registered a trademark for Dracula.

https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1407342343963951105
Cue in Tether's explanation of how their currency is pinned to real world value in 5,4,3...
Nothing any doctor or surgeon ever told me about. And I've see a few...
Qwant.
For emacs I use doom-one-light https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes/tree/screensho...

I wish there were light themes which are consistent across apps. The only ones I've usually found consistent are Atom One Light. I usually stick to light themes because it is more comfortable on the eyes, provided your environment is also well lit. I find this easier to do than staying with dark environments and stepping away from the PC to be blinded by light. This and lower brightness helps.

Adding to the above, light themes are usually the default provided by most apps (except discord in my experience) which makes it easier for me to get up and running with any app / system rather than trying to get a dark mode theme to work for the app (if they provide one). I honestly want to spend my time better than going down that rabbit hole of "the ideal dark system". On top of that there's the question of whether the theme is maintained consistently and whether it is supported or abandoned.
> Who would invest in Chinese real estate now

It's not that true for Western countries after the 2008 financial crisis? It seems to not have stopped housing bubbles.
That is actually a good point, but on the other hand you have to start somewhere.

I hope vendors would be more supportive of third party drivers because that obviously makes their hardware more attractive, but that has not been the case the last years.

I also don't have an opinion on the rust foundation. Member setup doesn't convince me, hope it doesn't influence the language negatively.
What's crazy about his case is that he was sentenced to more time than somebody who just outright named an accuser on twitter.

Leonna Dorrian should be disbarred. What she did was a blatant abuse of her power.
A friend absolutely bombed his IQ test (mostly on purposes, because he couldn't be bothered). He was a few standard deviations under the average person. When they asked him how he felt about it he excitedly said he was happy with the result. He later got the job.
What history? I don’t know of any society that adopted socialised health care and there were overwhelmingly negative outcomes.
That's cool, but I hope you can also see that the user experience on mobile is pretty bad due to small icons and links.
Over-squashing, Bottlenecks, and Graph Ricci curvature
It sounds as though that shift happened with Brian's death. Paul took up the reins....
The author is not defining AI as such; he is proposing it as an application thereof.

Is it your position that commercial flying can never be automated, or only that, if it is automated, it would not, by definition, be AI?
Its a strange world to me where being pro-competition is a god thing when it means to deliberately hurt outsider and prop up internal alternatives that are not competitive.

And I think at least in the cases I observed it hasn't fixed the 'problem' either.
>It was mainly to prevent systemic collapse

What systemic collapse ?

When a tree is rotten to its core, you need to either let it collapse on it own, or if it risks damaging other things when crashing, you cut it down.

One thing you do not do is prop it up and pretend that all is well.
Andreessen Horowitz Founders Begin Slow Process of Stepping Back
Vercel acquires Turborepo, a high-performance build system
New to podcasting presenters speak headtalk. Too fast for comfy listening and digestion. Doctor Joe Rogan has the tempo about right. Do Jazz musicians operate their instruments nearest to thoughtful waveform?
An interesting read to answer this question would be "Stress Test" by Timothy Geithner. I think the general consensus was that in the moment, all appearances of financial contagion were very real.
“Tether does not hold any commercial paper or other debt or securities issued by Evergrande and has never done so. As we have indicated in our published statements and our most recent assurance attestation with a reporting date of June 30, 2021, the vast majority of the commercial paper held by Tether is in A-2 and above rated issuers.”

Is there something I don’t know or are you just repeating stuff you think you know?
Somewhat paradoxically, my opinion on perl can't be (cleanly) reproduced here ;)
Oops, guess you're right. I haven't written any Javascript in years.
I don't know if this fits into what you call your "unmatchable standards", but have you considered remote work for international clients? A senior software engineer with high work ethic who speaks excellent English, should have an easy time landing jobs on the various "remote freelancer" job-finder sites? I can personally vouch for Toptal, but I keep hearing about a ton of others: https://revolancer.com/, https://ateamcentral.org/, https://www.crewscale.com/developers, https://www.usebraintrust.com/, https://www.flexworkweb.com/talent, https://www.nixa.io/developer

And of course there's other more standard job-finder boards for fully-remote workers, such as http://weworkremotely.com .

Looking abroad for remote work both vastly increases your pool of options, and also puts you in a very different hiring culture from what you have described. In my limited experience, my remote-only jobs/clients tend to be much more results-oriented and less buzzword-oriented or checklist-oriented when interviewing me and evaluating whether I'm a good fit. Also, with remote jobs it's easier to do a 3-month "trial period" where both you and the client can evaluate whether the relationship is a good fit, and part on good terms if not.

One downside of remote work (ignoring the risk of social isolation / staying home all day) is that you're likely to take a pay cut in the short term... but in theory working remotely saves an immense amount of money for both you and the client/employer, so I don't take this too seriously as a long-term concern.

Anyway... good luck, and don't give up hope of finding meaningful work.
Kaisa has also now defaulted... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-09/kaisa-cut...