skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interviewing SWEs, hiring managers, etc.

Apparently long tenures denote being an expert beginner, 1 year of experience repeated 5 times instead of 5 years of experience, complacency, laziness, things like that.

Again, I don't agree with this personally, but this seems to be the prevailing attitude. People like you and I being a minority.

There seem to be exceptions - the chief one being if you stuck around at a top company versus a mediocre one, that doesn't ding you much.
State medical licensing boards are also corrupt institutions. They use quotas to limit the number of practicing doctors. The result is the ongoing doctor shortage and overwork, resulting in lower-quality care for everyone.
Advertising and marketing are forms of social manipulation. If they didn't work, and were not effective, they would not be used.

A thought-experiment: how many people would be obese if it were impossible for manufacturers of unhealthy foods to market their products to anyone?

Look at the obesity levels in countries that such manufacturers exclude from their marketing campaigns.

The point is that advertising makes people do things they otherwise wouldn't have done. That's kind of the whole point of it.

It's an entirely valid and important argument for something such as obesity, that advertisers and manufacturers of obesity and diabetes-linked products, may play a major, even dominant and causal role in those diseases proliferation. How could people become obese, for example, to take it to an extreme, if there was nothing but healthy fruit, vegetables lean meat and water to buy - anywhere?

If you're a coder or engineer you'll know you find the faults of a system by pushing it to its extremes. Society/health and the struggles we face in those arenas are no different.

As for the pandemic, there are countries in "free Western Europe" that have violently arrested people for attempting to go and buy food. I've seen elderly assaulted, who - with trembling hands, hold their medical exemptions to merciless and uncaring store security, and a hopelessly split society pouring derision either upon the woman or the security staff. It's up to people such as ourselves to pick up the pieces.

These scenes are familiar to some of us, and people such as yourself discounting it is heartbreaking and frustrating.

Spend a little time rooting out what it is you're "not supposed to see". Maybe your perspective will shift. It's all there, if you're willing to look.
> Web 3.0

In my mind, Web 3.0 was synonymous with the Semantic Web.
Here's my old website: https://archive.elliott.computer/old-index.txt
My experience (mostly on the hiring side) is that an in-house recruiter is indeed trying to close you if they think you'll be a good fit (they're measured/bonused on metrics around their job, after all) and third-party recruiters are just interested in closing the deal and you staying 90 days.

As a hiring manager, I can't recall ever being influenced by a third-party recruiter as they "love" all candidates at a rate equal to 30% of the candidates' first year comp.
I think this is an arbitrary "computerification" of the problem, and doesn't really make things clearer.
Let's hear what the father of the web had to say about web 3.0.

> People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics – everything rippling and folding and looking misty – on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you'll have access to an unbelievable data resource… — Tim Berners-Lee, 2006

That's funny, he didn't mention blockchains once.
Obligatory reminder that a carbon tax fixes this so that optimizing your cost also reduces your carbon footprint. Guilt-tripping yourself about efficiency is a waste of your time.
The author has strong credentials in the Jekyll community but this proposal is unwise. I regret posting this to HN.
I/O Is Faster Than the CPU – Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
an aside, but .computer has been a valid top-level domain since 2013-2014:

https://icannwiki.org/.computer

these are fully standard.
> Because dirt exists all over the world all clothes are in need of washing at some point

Some aren't. And certainly washing one cloth because other is dirty or can get dirty doesn't make sense. So how does it make sense when it comes to sins?

> We all confront the same questions.

Meaningless poetic language again. Some of us don't. And even assuming that we all do - we also confront low temperatures and yet Christ didn't burn on cross to heat us all for eternity. And even if he did burn he would only heat the people near him at the time. How does this future-proof abstract-idea-solving suicide work, exactly? Doesn't seem to work that well if we still "confront evil".

The whole point of original sin in Catholicism isn't that we have to confront evil. It's just an excuse for why we need Jesus and baptism.

> As he says, the theodicy question

This isn't theodicy. I'm not asking why is there evil. I'm asking why do we all need Christ to die for us and why do we need baptism if personal sins aren't guaranteed and the original sin is just the capability to sin or possibility of encountering sin.

I don't wash the idea of clothes because some real clothes can possibly get dirty later.

What the original sin actually is in Catholicism is not some capability - it's an abstract idea that makes it impossible for specific people to get to heaven without Christ dying for them. And it makes no damn sense.
I mentioned two roads. One which doesn’t allow parking and is great (in front of my house, not designed for motor vehicles, takes about 50 cars a day), one which is town which was great when parking wasn’t allowed but is now rubbish.
How was your skiing trip? And did you schedule the meeting?
> ...a Unix mainframe...

???
>If you mean the war between the US on one side and al-Qaeda and various other Islamist groups on the other, that’s…a pretty bad example of a war that doesn’t involve religion.

Ya I included that intentionally because it was the only one I could think of that was related to religion in anything I would consider close to meaningful.

It really depends on how loosely you want to define "involve," like I said, wars involve sticks and shoes because everyone uses them. Nearly everything involves language does that means all wars involve language? I guess so in a pedantic sense, but still, so what? Wars don't involve language in any meaningful way other than a means of communication. I would argue because of that, language is far more important than any semblance of religion in all of the wars I listed.

What's the point of your or the OP's argument? Following the definition of "involve," anything involves religion, even an atheist walking down the sidewalk, because the sidewalk was funded by at least one person who happens to be religious. Not overly meaningful.

Here's OBL's "Letter To America," where he states his reasons for his attacks.

In bin Laden's November 2002 "Letter to America",[3][4] he said that al-Qaeda's motives for the attacks included Western support for attacking Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya, supporting the Indian oppression against Muslims in Kashmir, support for Israel in Lebanon, the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia,[4][5][6] US support of Israel,[7][8] and sanctions against Iraq.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_a...

I mean I guess if you really wanted to make a connection to religion you could, but in the statement he mentions Israel, not Judaism, so it would be a stretch in my mind. The only connection to religion is the term "Muslims," and those citations are always followed by "in" a country. Hell, even the crusades weren't fought over religion, they were fought over resources and power, the church just used religion to get free cannon fodder. Of course Bush, in his infinite wisdom called the WoT a "crusade," which again I guess "involves" religion in that it was mentioned in a speech, but again, not in an overly meaningful way.

What I think the OP was trying to say, perhaps I'm wrong, is that religion is bad and as an example, all wars involve religion. If that's the case, I disagree with the premise.

All wars involve dirt therefore dirt is bad. Prophetic!
yes, did you feel the energy?
One other thing to note is that by default lastpass allows reverting to your previous password for 30(?) days. The option is in account settings -> advanced -> "Allow master password changes to be reverted".

To be safe you would probably want to disable that then change your password again. Just don't lose your new password as you then can't revert.

See https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/recover-your-lo...
"The folks with laser eyes" are affectionately known as bitcoin maxis, and they have more interest in web0 than in web3.
If I had a dollar every time one of these "javascript bad, raw html good" websites/rants gets posted here, I'd have enough money to buy the entirety of YC just so I could ban such posts.
They never admit that?

Easy to call something “strange” when the narrative is completely twisted by editorializing the original source.
I misattributed what he said to employees instead of founders, which you're right and I am wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-sil...

"Venture capitalists have a notorious bias against older founders—“older” being relative in youth-obsessed Silicon Valley. “The cutoff in investors’ heads is 32,” Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham (now 53) told the New York Times in 2013. “After 32, they start to be a little skeptical.”"
I agree that money and democracy are also human or social constructs.

Can you clarify what you mean by rules members of society have to live by?
It’s different, because it’s not the same thing. I’m not defending either side here, just saying.. let’s keep the rhetoric out of the debate.
To me the article seems to be more about the challenges of growing up in 3rd world communities specifically, not about being born poor in general. There are many people born poor in 1st world countries that can rise out of poverty through education and discipline. In first world countries being poor is often about poor money management and going into poorly paid fields - https://www.askthesavingsguy.com/2021/09/16/why-youre-broke-... but in third world countries it seems to be much more of a systemic problem
I wouldn't go so far as useless, but they frequently exhibit significant inaccuracy, no matter which vendor/service you use. It's not unusual for me to query 7 APIs and be told the user is in 7 different cities spanning 5 states. At least there's usually a quorum at the country level. Given the market ($$$) for IPv4, this feels like it's only getting worse as more blocks of IPs are being sold, leased, transferred, even between continents/RIRs and the geo providers are always a few steps behind.

For the IP posted above, I have 3 providers claiming it's in Sao Paulo, 3 who says it's in Joburg (this is as accurate as anyone's going to get right now) and one says it's in Chicago! If I'm trying to do something with these results programmatically, I don't have a majority or a plurality to pick as a "winner" and I have to try weighting specific providers, which is a whole new mess.

Anyway, there's a good idea brewing in RFC8805 but it'd require pretty much every AS to play along.
> "as you're testing, all of your code is automatically scanned for these vulnerabilities".

For browsers, that's been done for years and years, probably even a decade at this point. Tooling for memory safety has gotten incredibly good.
Have you tried other eBook stores? Depending on your country, there’s Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and often massive freely available collections through local libraries (at least in the US and some European countries).
Ah, I missed the slideshow. Thanks!
> Recruiters get paid when you sign

As far as I understand it their fee is (often/always?) also contingent on you staying there at least 6 months.
Normal for Sephardic Shacharit
I got in to sewing recently and none of my cheapo scissors actually worked for cutting fabric properly. I spent $20 for a two pack of fabric scissors at the fabric store and they work great. I can definitely see how $100 scissors would be just fine!

Also sharpening twice a day sounds more like a ritual than a real need. But what do I know I’m not in that industry.
It's not an issue that the screen is expensive, but we should take issue that the way Apple positioned the screen is beyond misleading. It's a hard lie.

During the launch, Apple generously rewarded it with the title "best Pro display on the market" and directly compared it to a 35k Sony reference monitor.

The problem is, Apple's screen is unusable as a reference monitor. The screen is not uniform, has a strong "vignette". The backlight zones create blooming artifacts. Color accuracy is fairly good, but not better than something found in a low-end BenQ.

Not only is it not the best pro monitor, it's not a pro monitor at all. It literally cannot be used as a reference monitor. It's basically a 6K LCD screen with all the problems that come with LCD.
the bros with the ape avatars then? you know who I'm talking about.
needs more blink tag
It's supposed to be, and it is. Every domain points to a different node in the decentralized web. Just because some nodes are massively popular doesn't mean the technology is not decentralized. Popular nodes will always exist in every decentralized vision of the internet.
My bet is on the 2017 breach. Those affected/unaffected can share how old their master password is? With enough data points it can be easy to pinpoint.
Maybe all web∅ pages are the empty string, so they're all equal to one another?
My point is not that the default assumption should be either the supernatural or the natural, but that perhaps actual agnosticism is the humble stance.
I wish browsers would render text/markdown. It's easy to write, theme, and host. I know it's not the best text format out there but it's reasonable to write and read for most cases.
Someone could also buy a really nice monitor for $2k and donate the other 2k to a local food bank. A lot of people are struggling and hungry.
> Was there something in particular you were looking for and didn't find?

Mostly dealing with allocation - ie dynamic string handling, reading strings from a file, passing a string to a function, and returning a different string to another function and so on.

Ed: this was pretty much before solving concrete aoc problems, just figuring out how to read "suffix" from standard input, passing it to a function "prefix_suffix", getting a string "prefix suffix" back and outputting that string; trivial manipulations, but lots of dynamic allocation.
Now and 5 years ago are probably in the same ballpark. High salaries for many positions, low barrier to entry (code camps etc), also many developer-led companies. The landscape may have been more different in the 70s-90s.
Oh don't worry, I'll bet they re-use it when they have a working retina display. And the trademark will still be in place!
The part of the GDPR they cite says "Personal data shall be: kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed"

The personal data was processed to give access to games that the customer bought, and which the customer still should have access to.

Using the GDPR as an excuse here is bullshit.
> It's here

Can you post a link to a place where I can interact with some web3 content directly then?

Not an article about what web3 will be, but something I can play with? Back in the early web 2.0 this is pretty easy, just point to twitter, myspace, stumble upon etc.

I'm genuinely curious what web3 really even looks like since all the pages that talk about it mostly sound like marketing pitches without a single real thing I can interact with.
I'm in this party too. bitwarden for yourself, friends and family...
I feel like with that logic web browsers should be banned including their own. There’s nothing stopping me from buying a brand new iPhone and immediately opening up safari and finding porn. Heck even their own search feature built into the OS can do this. Rules for thee and not for me.
It's a pretty nice experiment to see what happens when you don't encourage trade.

The biggest benefit from trade between countries is that it prevents war.
I'm of the belief that income is less relevant - wealth is what really matters.

My marginal tax rate is ~48%. I think that's already high enough.

The idea that there is no wealth tax - and that the Fed arguably gives people a negative wealth tax - that seems a little off to me.

The median home owner has about 3:1 leverage on their house - with a home value that's 4x their income. The Fed has been pumping up house prices by a couple percent per year for 13 years.

.02x4x3=.24

The average home owner with a mortgage is getting an ~24% negative income tax. The median tax payer has a ~22% federal tax rate. Effectively, this is a -2% income / wealth tax.

This seems incredibly broken. We've created a society of haves and have nots. People willing to speculate on government handouts on their mortgage are wealthy. People not willing or unable have almost 0 wealth.

I'm in the 1%. Do I deserve to be? I don't know. But by definition, someone does. I make ~4x the median laborer after taxes and transfers. This doesn't seem broken. In my state, I make ~9x minimum wage after taxes and transfers. This also doesn't seem broken. Maybe others think differently?

Before taxes and transfers, the numbers seem much more extreme. That seems irrelevant to me.

The top 1% in wealth have ~100x the wealth of the median person in my state. That seems broken.
Yeah but for the price of a good systens canera you will get only a basic industrial one with a tiny sensor and no AF
i am sorry you feel this way. i am rooting for you. it really gave me great perspective though. i appreciate your advice.
The new YouTube redesign is the best. It now randomly decides you're offline and doesn't bother fetching anything when you click on links.
Yes it doesn't quite feel right, but the problem as posed also doesn't quite seem rigorous enough, leading to some of the confusion in the answers here with people saying it seems easy.

Maybe two VMs, identical program loaded on both, pick a leader through synced messages. You can't do this unless there is something different about the VMs. If one VM goes first it's easy (just use its suggested color), if there is a hardware RNG, easy (iterate until one VM rolls higher than the other, then use the last suggested color from that VM).

If the programs are different (as "maximally logical" is vague), then it comes down to some kind of analysis of the output of an arbitrary program, which is impossible in the general case. You then have to assume some kind of shared knowledge (red most likely, rgb averaging is most likely way to blend, known mots likely ordering of colors such as alphabetical) to make progress.
There are real things happening in web 3.0, they are just being obscured by layers and layers of bullshit, scams and other fuckery. Once all that has crashed and everyone has lost all their money there will still be real and interesting tech remaining.

Be very sceptical, but don't ignore the whole thing or you might end up missing the next real wave of innovation in tech (which is what i thought HN was about).
The university had (has?) some kind of central Unix system for students to mess around with, share files, and host their webpages. This was around 2014.
Counter point, many older more experienced hairdressers get away with a $1000 scissors just fine. Your point stands though, pay for what you want. Just don’t tell me it’s the tools that make the operator.
Where and how? Removing competition among distributors? media producers? manufacturers?

The only place where I could see it reduce competition is manufacturers sure, but why would media producers want to reduce competition there?

I think it's media producers refusing to accept they can't stop pirating and manufacturers making use of that to sell them stuff. In the end it's only the manufacturers who make money from DRM.
That's amazing. I couldn't even get decent 24fps out of it....
Yeah, so... why on Earth do people keep saying that it is centralized? I understand that for some there is nothing beyond Facebook, but that has to do with Facebook apps on the smartphones, restrictions or limitations at the smartphone-level, ISP-level, and so forth. Regardless, it is decentralized, so what is this decentralization based on blockchain bullshit? Do we need it? What problem does it solve? I hope that the problem it solves (if any) has not been created beforehand.
Get Used to Chip Shortages: They Are Not Going Away Anytime Soon
I appreciate the level-headedness of this writeup.
No affiliation with them whatsoever but I saw this on Twitter or HN a few weeks ago and have it bookmarked to trial: https://mockrocket.io/
> In hindsight, it was definitely the concept of original sin that got my young mind spinning, not understanding how for example a newborn baby could be innately sinful.

I have no qualms believing that. Watching a young child empirically discover the theory of mind, and then progress to deceit without being taught is almost miraculous. Humans are inherently selfish and short-sighted, a huge part of parenting is spent on tempering these instincts.
> you prevent the database from growing without bound?

The whole point of shipping cold storage off to S3 was to solve that kind of scale problem.

You can keep your ingest nodes scaled up to the incoming data (per-day, approx), replicate 3-way for HA and use SSDs for commit throughput.

The query nodes scaled up to the working set sizes, but auto-scale up/down based on the workload scan sizes (no need to keep them running 24x7, cheaper to throw away the cache after a workday - no need for replicas, just jitter them so that the entire cache doesn't go poof at the same time + hit s3 throttling on the next query).

And the S3 bucket is literally infinite storage (more like caps out when the metadata about the s3 backed items hits 8 Tb).

Run the equivalent of an fsck every quarter to check the checksums, then re-encrypt them with a new key or to recompress the blocks by swapping them (go from lz4 to zstd as they age out).

There is a mechanism to expire data after 7 years of storage (I guess it won't be queried anymore, so there'd be nothing "live" to expire?), but that might be longer than the current architecture lives on without a refactor.
It's not web0 without <blink> and <marquee>!
They didn't do anything to the architecture. The fact that most people spend most of their time on a few websites doesn't centralize the architecture at all, or even the web, it only centralizes attention.
I think that password case is a separate issue. If I remember correctly, many online services do "secretly" accept mixed cases for the same password (because users make more mistakes than they realize and it would be "annoying" to be too strict)

If you didn't receive a "Someone just used" email (with an IP that's completely geographically off from where you are) that's a good sign, of course.