skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people will soon realize that code is a data structure, not text.

Like a hash map or an array, its text representation is merely a human-readable interface to it. I predict the capabilities of IDEs will expand, and to make their state persistent, they will begin to store IDE-specific files in your source code directory. Eventually this will morph into the source code itself being stored in binary format and opened/searched by editors.

The programming language Unity is pioneering in this domain, but they are too far ahead of their time. The transition to code-as-data will be gradual.
> You don't seem to understand the dialectical shape of this argument.

A) No, you don't seem to understand the simple logic of the issue at hand.

B) "dialectical shape"... Yeah, use a lot of Big Words flim-flam, that'll surely make your argument so much more convincing. Sheesh.

> Microsoft could pay Red Hat for whatever they like, but this does not contradict the general law of profit maximization.

Exactly. So they could pay Red Hat for support and maintenance on this piece of software, too. Or, waitaminnit... Does this only work for paying Red Hat, specifically; are they mentioned by name in the laws on fiduciary prudence, or what?

Otherwise, one would have thought that if they can pay Red Hat to maintain this code, they can just as well pay someone else for that. Like, for instance, its original author(s).

> You need to think a bit more about the motivations and rules operating here

Yup. Mainly yours.

> and if you do, you can't fail to come down on the conclusion that it is open source that is broken

Oh yes, sure I can. Fail to come to that conclusion, that is. Wake up and adopt my perspective, and you'll see that if this shows anything, it's that it's the corporate model that is broken: It repeatedly leads to exactly this kind of simple-minded attempts to defeat the elegant copyleft judo trick at the root of open source, which repeatedly get the prospective beneficiaries... Exactly fuck-all.

> because it reproduces the free rider problem as a well documented and persistent market failure.

If this shows anything, it's the exact opposite: The habitual corporate parasites have been notified that there is no free support-and-maintenance plan for them to freeload on.

Yeah, the market is full of failures. Assholes thinking there is such a thing as a Free Lunch -- for them, only -- without any obligation for them to do anything for anyone else, is one of them. Once enough of them have failed that way, maybe the rest will learn from that. (Not that I'm holding my breath.)
Thanks! Many of our users have found it to be a good way to learn Flutter basics :)

Firebase is not required, but it is the easiest way to get started. We also support 3rd party API integrations, so that users are free to use whatever backend they prefer.
I give take-homes because they’re a better representation of people’s actual work output.

But I’m not giving them because I think people are lying. I can tell if people are lying about their experience in the first interview. The assignment part of the interview is to assess the quality of their work. Some people do awesome work straight out of school, and some have been doing awful work for 20 years.

We do have standardized testing: certs. But they're of limited usefulness in determining someone's job performance.
You make a very good point about adblockers having that negative second-order effect where they continue to let people have the expectation of getting things that are intrinsically expensive (storage, bandwidth, sysadmins) for free - I didn't think about that before.

As for alternative funding models - why not microtransactions? Attaching an explicit price tag onto website access (subscription model) or individual media/document objects (standard "pay for what you use" model) would have some other beneficial effects, such as reducing extraneous media consumption (mindlessly scrolling for hours suddenly starts costing you money, better to buy a book and get value out of it) - most advertisements are a mental cancer that we should try to get rid of anyway.
> If both parties got rid of the extreme elements, everything would be boring again.

This is the key isn't it? Do we observe anything happening on this end recently? What we observed in the last decades, is the opposite.
cost of living in california is 4x what it is in western europe
If it were about ignoring their lovingly set font overrides in their browser or their terminal, they'd sing a different time. Which is perhaps indicative of the empathy gap, but hey.
Yup, costs £12 to incorporate, and it can be done entirely online. Then £12 a year to maintain.

The last time I incorporated a company in the UK it took a grand total of 35 minutes from start to actually having an incorporated company.
When does the market for engineers turn into a buyer's market?

If the economy goes into recession or worse, do those playing hot potato get stuck out in the cold?
While fundamentally true, I think this is an oversimplification. I don't think you need the majority of people to be "extreme elements" to have a low-grade civil war.
that's me. sorry guys. my bad
DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion
Vue.js is the only frontend framework that I have some clue about, and the first blog post when googling 'Vue 2 to 3 migration' [0] says it took them 4 man-weeks to migrate their product.

From my limited experience, the main issue is that it's really hard to ensure frontend actually works as before, after upgrading frontend libraries/frameworks, outside of having really extensive end-to-end test suite.

[0] https://crisp.chat/blog/vuejs-migration/
How is this different from ReactJS?
I had some guy do a phone interview from the beach, idk about rude but that was annoying.

anyone who ghosts after multiple interviews

I find it annoying when people start lecturing me about their hate of some tech.

I did some "open book" on site programing quiz, i looked up the syntax for else if in python and the guy goes "hmm do you really know python?" i switch between like 3 languages, so yeah ill double check syntax...

i need to think of more, i hate interviews. It feels like the smaller the company the worse the interview experience is. funny enough i think facebook was the most pleasant interview i did
Why is crime going up pretty uniformly across the US, even in places where police budgets and enforcement have increased?
>To me stateless CRUD isn't compelling.

Most of the time getting started with a project involves the boring CRUD stuff, a table with users, login, register, reset password stuff. Then on top of that you add some business logic, this days if you do an SPA that will be done mostly in frontend and in backend you need to validate stuff so users don't send you garbage. The initial comment just had a list of names and no explanation, like what languages/tech is used and for what is good and what are disadvantagtes, now you comment is welcomed and is very clear what this tools are good at.
Or a simple toggle deep in the system settings: "Show indicator when using a microphone or webcam".
> So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures

So what makes you think that "popping new software ventures" is a good thing for society? Isn't there enough software already? The problem is the mediocre quality of it, and decline (hello Adobe). Popping new software ventures is hardly a solution.
This back and forth will continue to escalate into an actual civil war until both sides can come to terms with their misdeeds and meet at the bargaining table before the country is torn apart. The events you are referring to were inspired by violent attacks on the US capitol (as well as every major US city) only months prior.
Yup. I'd never blame someone for taking a better job elsewhere.
long on renewables but short gas (eg keep buying from Russia paying spot price instead long term contracts [1]). I don’t think cost leveraging is working specially when LNG isn’t making up for demand as expected.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/10/06/eur...
A standardized test might actually be ok but I doubt it could encompass all of the technologies that appear over the years which one would use at a company if the company is looking for a specific skillset. That's why we go with resumes. I would be willing to bet that you have at least one thing on your resume that is embellished ever so slightly. Some people take it a bit further than others, which is what these interviews are meant to ferret out.
Can you please explain the term "endogenous" in the context of your comment? You appear to use it in two different ways where the implied meaning are polar opposites. Did you mean to write "exogenous" for one of them?
But now we have Top Golf!
You mean "Needless to day I didn't get the job"?
See also: https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1472959101416226823?t=...

On my laptop, QOI encodes a test corpus at about 78 MP/s to a density of about 8.0 bits per pixel. Fast png encoding with fpng is 71 MP/s and reaches about 7.8 bpp.
Fast lossless jxl encoding can be done at 162 MP/s (single-core, faster with more cores) and reaches about 6.8 bpp. It can also be decoded in parallel, unlike QOI and PNG. It doesn't have a single-page spec though :)
Haha, that might have made it a bit less awkward to be honest - heck, even saying “hey, I’ve planned badly, I’m just going to pop up my standing desk” would have been enough
Many stores have closed, and it wouldn't be a stretch to connect a bad shopping experience to lower sales, to then having to close the store, which could easily be millions of dollars that year. We can argue whether that was the only factor for these closed stores, but it's certainly a factor.

It can still be an exaggerated number, but not only does the article offer no details as to how exactly this number was determined (which would have been interesting), it also fails to mention the potential intentions of why stores would report that... maybe it's the only way to get some attention to UNDO some of the legislation that has caused it.
Props to you for publishing the startup's name!
Contrary to popular belief in startups US is not just California.
One of those extremes literally tried to stage a coup d'état, and is in the process of doing its best to stack the deck for the next elections. Social media or not, their intentions, and the support they get, is pretty clear, and the two-party model makes opposition hard. It's entirely plausible that next time they get farther in their attempts, which triggers an agressive response from people against that.
I found it in 2005 or 2006, a year or two after my MBA, and a few months after I started studying for professional accountancy exams.

I wish I'd found it earlier. It was more in-depth than the MBA material on financial reporting, and was presented more logically than the study guides I'd been using.
I think it’s more that the corner mechanic can do everything in an hour than you DIY.
One party attempted a coup and no organizers have yet even been charged with any crimes. If you allow the basic system of government to be attacked without repercussion, that's not going to have a peaceful end.

Social media and "the news media" may be part of our issues, but they're not the whole of them.
Is the R/G/B separation greater because these sensors are built like TDI CCD lines?

edit: Seems like pushbroom is the name for TDI when it's put in a satellite.
On vacation and no laptop, but perhaps someone can add better readme directions to the patch.

To us software folks, I t makes sense, but I imagine this'll be linked to many individuals outside of software who won't know even what git is or how to get the fix.
Interesting point about trusting your friends/family to make objective reviews - I was thinking about my close network, whom I'd absolutely trust. But I have a maybe a strong expectation of my friends.

Do you really have so little trust in your immediate network to review items? Especially if you knew specifically who posted each review?
New ventures is a solution for decline of old ones. The circle of life... It's a necessity, in fact. Cells need to divide and renew, organisms need to reproduce. Companies are the same.
Agreed, most people are far more reasonable in person than social media would like us to believe/click on. I figure even 80% of the more "radical" people would be a lot more to center if they talked to real people instead of stuck in outrage loops designed to have them view as many ads as possible.
It's unfortunate that the US views the carceral system as a punitive one instead of a rehabilitative one. Recividism is so high because even if you go in a decent person who made a mistake, you'll come out violent and often broken.
How modern and industrialized? Syria is a real country with MiGs and submarines.
I don't think this is a tale to emulate.

Everything that failed has been built hundreds of times before. None of the "businesses" started with talking to customers.
I literally have a 720nm lowpass infrared filter in front of me for use in photography.

Infrared imaging is not "military", it's public, common, and legal.
Depends where in California and where in Western Europe
Yes, nice comment.

I remember being part of the staff of NATO's only MIG squadron during military service. People considered a MIG within NATO a sensation, while I was simply bored. I saw them every day in droves. ;)
We have public blockchains deployed today that can do tens of thousands of transactions per second, and those transactions can be for tokenized fiat currency.
> If both parties got rid of the extreme elements, everything would be boring again.

I don’t agree neither disagree with the article, but that’s a big “if”.
There's also a link to a plot element of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton.
The amount spent does not say anything about efficiency if you don't consider what is provided with that money. Lack of free healthcare and education are some of the biggest complaints about the US after all.

Europe is also doing pretty well in several fields and you don't explain at all how tech in particular is affected by public spending.
Yes, but health care costs and the housing crisis do not affect the wealthy so why would they care/panic?
I don't know where pressures for healthcare pay are going. I'm just saying that, if you are an employer facing a work week change, you can make this argument to higher paid workers:

- Under the previous contract, most of you worked 50 hours and got 40 * $100/hour plus 10 * $150/hour = $5500/week.

- Under the new contract, we expect most of you will still work 50 hours, and will get 36 * $100/hour + 14 * $150/hour = $5700/week. This is on the par with the 3.6% wage increase you expected.

Vs. having to move base pay to $103-104/hour.

It sure increases the pressure to find new employees, though, because you can save a whole lot of overtime pay.
Two years ago, I applied via a recruiter, and made my position clear about my salary expectations.

It was a 30 minutes video call, followed by a test to design a system, which took me around 8 hours to finish (I used sequence diagrams and detailed documentation).

After that it was a meet and greet interview for 45 minutes and I asked for another 30 minutes to ask questions and understand the expectations.

I received an offer few days later, 30% less of what I asked for! I immediately told the recruiter I lost my interest even when they increased the offer to be close to what I have asked for.
Now I know bombers are fed by green trails.
Well, I can see people still lying (and taking payment) -- but in that case you should probably get better friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
5 years ago, I started raising this topic.

People said, "It can't happen here"

4 years later, they got an insurrection which was few hours away from something way more serious.

The harder people want to believe into "It can't happen here," the more likely it is going to happen.
I'll take a stab at this.

This is like when you crash a car. Insurance company considers it "totalled". But you can still drive it. The cost of fixing the car is more than the value of the car.

In this case, the negative effect of the orange dot outweighs all utility of the product for the use case. So it's useless in the sense that it's "worse than nothing" by some metric. It's useless in the same way that a shopping cart is useless for commuting to work. I mean, TECHNICALLY, you could commute to work in a shopping cart. But it would be worse than just not using it.
Did you see the presentation Trump's chief of staff had to hand to Congress? The events OP is referring to were nothing less than a failed coup d'état. Diminishing it is only giving an excuse to the perpetrators, distract from their ongoing preparations to stack the system in their favour, and fuel their next try
You call it unfair, yet don't give insight into your criteria for fairness.

No analogy is perfect. But the parallels are too strong to ignore. Studying history is about using the past to make sense of the present, and possibly even predict the future.

Saying the USA was obviously overreacting from the start is just hindsight, and not representative of the sentiment at the time. Further I'm sure years from now we'll say the same, that many things we did during this pandemic were overreactions, and that it was obvious at the time.

Comparing the MIC to the WHO is a false dichotomy. The WHO is historically an institution for the USA to project power internationally.

The question of who is "taking over the world" is the territory of speculation. I said originally it remains to be seen how much manipulation is occurring. For example, the lab-leak hypothesis, once the ramblings of a mad man, has gained traction among officials as a likely source for the disease.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17047986/wuhan-lab-leak-most-l...

If this proves to be true, it will have radical implications on the past 2 years.
...until today: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/ now has data through 12/19, with daily updates to resume tomorrow per an update on that same page.
Why should any retail worker stick their neck out for a company that's probably paying them close to minimum wage?
If you can, teach your kid to drive at 13. On private property obviously, no traffic rules, just the mechanical part. Everything after that will be much easier.
Helpful mental model to help you overcome bias: imagine for a moment, that instead of Tesla, it was that company you hate doing this. You know, that privacy-invading company that's just the worst - would you still feel the same?
>Are you a macOS user?

Yes. macOS is my daily driver and I'm on Monterey.

All I'm saying is that, if anyone wants to say that this dot makes their use case unusable, then they have to admit that the current OS setup was always unusable for them because the OS was always able to display chrome on their displays. It may not have happened often or even in a way that they thought was "unusable" but it was able to happen. The only difference here is that they're not happy with the type of OS-level things that are displayed.

In my experience, people for whom any kind of errant display items matter use dedicated hardware devices for their I/O. If it didn't matter before because it was only windows/alerts/notifications/whatever, then that clearly doesn't make it "unusable" just "not preferred". I fully agree that there needs to be some kind of option for this on presentation displays but the people saying that SNL wouldn't have dedicated hardware for their displays is asinine.
> To be safe online we go to sites we trust.

I'm fairly confident in saying that nobody, but nobody, only goes to sites they trust. Come on. You're on HN: do you mean to tell me that you never click to open a link from a post unless you've pre-vetted the website and know it to be trustworthy? That's simply not a practicable model.

And every site pulls in JavaScript which, to you, is arbitrary. You don't know that they won't add a new third-party script, and you don't know that any given third-party script won't change. You don't know that transitively for the scripts loaded by the scripts. Etc etc etc. Nobody can practise the approach you are setting out here, not both diligently and honestly.

Your complaint here is just about how the internet works. It's absurd to expect Google to vet the JavaScript that all of its users host, as much as it's absurd to expect Squarespace or Weebly or even AWS or Cloudflare to do the same. The model of the internet does not and cannot rely on any and all JavaScript being vetted for 'malice' by a trusted party before being loaded. It relies on the JavaScript runtime being a safely isolated sandbox where malice or the lack thereof doesn't matter either way.
They've been rude in a variety of ways. The big one though is simply ghosting me after 5+ rounds with no explanation. This has happened a variety of times and reaching out usually gets a non response. It's infuriating.

The others are just not being professional. Wearing pajamas or not paying attention or acting incredibly disinterested. It's really terrible.
You were sending 10k TPS of stablecoin transfers on a public blockchain in 2011?
Looks great! Reminds me very much of AppGyver, which is a tool I've been using in few client projects. It uses react native under the hood, allowing for example creating logic using either the node-based logic builder or plain JavaScript. Interested to hear where do you see your advantage over AppGyver and similar tools?

One pain point of mine in visual app builders is the not being able to search the "code", for example when I've built a logic for fetching and mutating data in one view and now need to change it but can't remember where it is. Have you come across this problem and have you already solved it/have a plan for solving it?
"closer to civil war than most would like to believe" is almost certainly true.

"close to civil war" is probably not true at all
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of which country you have a problem with. It leads to predictable, shallow, nasty threads and just makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not even the key, the premise is flawed. The Democrats are pretty much just trucking along like usual, while the Republicans are embracing the end of democracy itself.
Interviewing me then offering me a role without an accompanying offer of compensation. Especially after being evasive about comp at every prior step.

Your “competitive” salary turned out to be $65k, after I’d become gotten all excited about the role? Owch.

You want to hear about my market research on the local employment market before you pitch a number? No: that’s your job.

You want a salary range from me despite you having a 10x better grasp on the responsibilities of the role than I do, which also happens to be secret info in the negotiation because you never came up with a written job spec? Well. You are now at the back of my priority list of potential future employers I’m talking to.

If you decide you want to hire me then, I’m sorry to tell say, the next move is for
you to make me an offer. We can schedule another chat if you like but I’m just going to pitch why I’m the person for the job again, then wait for you to make me an offer.

No, you also don’t get to know anything about my current salary.
This would only be one facet to an interview and definitely not the entire technical portion.
> that would severely limit opportunities of smart people who can code

Whether or not that's true, is it really important? I guess it depends on your perspective. Do you think the industry exists to provide job opportunities, or to solve real business problems?