skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So chiming back in here a few days later since it will probably be just you that sees this...

Go read this comment chain again and consider if the way you commented here actually helped you at all.

I know for sure that I wouldn't hire you with the attitude you're expressing here (and unlike you, I'm a senior engineer who's involved in hiring) - some thoughts:

You seem to want to fight.

You're getting emotional and angry.

Things are "Obvious" to you. (So obvious!)

You're throwing off red flags left and right - To the point where I almost believe you that all your gigs suck, since I can't imagine many decent companies agreeing to hire you in the first place.

I'll take a generous approach, and assume you're really venting here, and acting in a way you wouldn't at work.

So take it or leave it, here's my piece of advice (and don't worry - I won't comment again).

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There's a sliding scale for how people tend to judge others at work -

You can be EXCELLENT at the literal job, but if you're miserable in social interactions, you're going to be a mediocre employee at best.

Alternatively, you can be stunningly underwhelming at the actual job (even just plain bad, honestly), but as long as people enjoy doing it with you, you will also be a mediocre employee.

If folks have to pick between mediocre employees, people pick the guy they enjoy working with. This applies for basically all choices (who gets hired, who gets fired, who gets promoted, who gets bonuses, etc). Is it fair? No of course not, nothing is "fair".

Your best bet is to be positive on both sides of the scale - be somewhat enjoyable to work with, and do the job ok.

Your worst bet is to be painful to work with, and egotistical about how valuable you are.

If you can only pick one - prefer being easy to work with. It pays better dividends and is more transferable.
> From my reading, the journalist is being targeted for reporting the vulnerability or perhaps for exploiting the vulnerability- I'm not sure.

He reported on the vulnerability, even telling the state it existed. He never exploited it.
But ... Amazon for example redesigns i are ouse picking to make employees fungible. I am pretty sure project management is becoming totally fungible - the reporting and chasing and so forth, can be replaced by automation and is becoming so despite best efforts of millions of "mqnagers"

Something intrigues me about this idea.

The film / book "Moneyball" showed how to re-create great players "in the aggregate".

I think that we will soon enter a phase of "MOOP" - measuring our daily activities on a deep basis, phone calls to colleagues and clients, tonality, agreements and actions etc.

And at this point redesigning an organisation to recreate CFOs or salespeople "in the aggregate" becomes ... possible?

And if you can do that you get close to the ability to create that fungible option - and close to valuing the job.
iOS Apps Are Still Better Than Android in 2021 – and That's a Problem
Because that waste is tiny and controllable.

All energy sources are dangerous, the toxic waste from making the batteries required for solar + wind only is no joke.
Likewise, if we want to solve an industry-wide or global labor ethics problems we need industry wide or global solutions. Tariffs, taxes, regulation, trade agreements and embargoes solve these scale of problems and we do it all the time. Make it an even playing field across the industry and make it more expensive to do the wrong things and force externalized costs to be part of the price.

Apple fucks up, but it seems entirely unrealistic to expect a company to voluntarily put themselves at a competitive disadvantage, to give up profit, and to make everything harder and more expensive for themselves just because they're a big player in the market. That gets the exact results we see, instead of the solution we want. Let's try to solve the problem and let's line up Apple to be first in line for inspection, but it can't be a line of just one company if we expect actual results otherwise we're just going to shift around the problem instead of solving it. It's not like Google and Microsoft are small scrappy startups looking for a moonshot, they're chomping at the bit to take marketshare away from Apple and they're both already in bed with Foxconn too.
Unfortunately if we look at Germany, it means exactly that, as the electricity deficit from closing down these plants is largely offset by coal plants.
Actually 22/2/22 is a palindrome, if you use the UK date format.
Fair. Beware of anything depicting deities!
Basically all energy could be covered by renewables, if people would stop complaining that they don't want them build near them.
I mean they're cheaper anyways. They win.
Because that didn’t happen. The idea that they “could have ruined the biosphere” is a completely sensationalist fabrication.
So far, probably what Zerrahn et al. suggested in 2018 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211...), namely overbuild renewable generation to achieve a Pareto-optimal mix of generation of storage. This doesn't prevent opportunistic uses such as demand-controlled charging of electric vehicles or demand-controlled hydrogen generation from the overgeneration which further increases the appeal of this option.
Use your external and internal senses. I believe that you already know much better than we do what you need - including the possible answer “to take a lot longer to further understand my feelings”.

If you feel like you’ve lost something, ask yourself what. And if you feel that you need to be free of the past, ask yourself why. And if you don’t understand why you are seeking permission, ask yourself what you make of that.

Perhaps I may suggest that you think about if you feel confident about your needs and what they are while also balancing them with the needs of others. When you write your new chapter of life, begin with the same question you would have if it were a book: “what’s the story gonna be, here?”
TNGs?
> internships really don’t matter for anyone past a junior role

I think the grandparent comment isn’t claiming otherwise, which is why it essentially says [paraphrased] “if you are finishing college right now, internships are the most important factor in getting that full time offer when you graduate”.
I was hired at Microsoft several years ago. I do not have a college degree, but had many years of experience in software development. Here is what I did to prepare. I read Skienna's Algorithm Design book, and actively coded many of the things in there. Then I spent weeks practicing on a whiteboard, actively talking out loud through the problems. (These days you're basically not going to need to use a whiteboard, but you should practice talking out loud while you work through the problems in a text editor.) I identified the kinds of problems that gave me the most difficulty, and for me that was things involving dynamic programming. But you should be well versed with graph problems, how to attack problems involving recursion, and so on.

I practiced for weeks or months and thoroughly immersed myself in it. Different people would likely need to practice less. Practice enough to transform your though process from "I'm nervous" to "I've trained for this." I probably over prepared, but I'm the kind of person who would rather show up too early for an airplane flight than to endure the stress of maybe missing the flight. Also whenever I do a long talk, I spend an embarrassing amount of time preparing for it. But if you take weeks or more to prepare don't beat yourself up about it. And keep in mind that if you don't get the job it's not the end of the world. You can come back and interview again. In short the only way you can fail is to give up.

Another very useful thing to do when preparing is make a list of stories you'd like to be able to tell. Little 1-2 minute stories of different important things that you have done. Rehearse telling those stories. When you look at lists of common behavioral interview questions ("tell me about a time you convinced your team to do something" etc.) think about which stories you would tell to answer such questions. Good stories will have several kinds of questions they can answer; during the interview, look for opportunities to tell some of these stories. This is a trick that a top sales person taught me, and has been very useful to me.

If you're transitioning from one kind of technology to another, and the job you're shooting for requires experience in a field you have no experience in, then do some work to prepare a portfolio you can point to. For example, when I made the transition into an AI job that required demonstrated experience with machine learning, I spent a good amount of time preparing a portfolio of work I could point to.

Many people spend a lot of time talking about how it's useless to jump through these hoops to get a FAANG job, and how broken the process is. Do not distract yourself worrying about this; if you want to land the job you need to go prepare. While needing the actual knowledge is somewhat debatable, it's good to be able to demonstrate that you're the kind of person who can dive in to hard-to-learn things and get the learning done. Because once you get the job, you're going to be diving into hard-to-learn systems that you won't know anything about.
Apart from some localised hotspots, the actual worse case that is Chernobyl is doing amazingly from biosphere point of view. Not having humans around is actually great for biosphere.

Fukushima on other hand is insignificant. Not really having much effect on anything.
I don’t really understand what your point is. In some sense I guess they are portrayed positively, but they are still incredibly awkward. Richard can’t talk normally, Gilfoyle is incredibly weird, Dinesh is more normal but still needy and friendless, Jared is gloriously awkward and beta, Gavin is a sociopath, Peter and Laurie are cartoonishly autistic.

I don’t think any normal, social person watches Silicon Valley and walks away wanting to be like these.

The only normal people in the show are Dinesh’ cousin and Monica.
Unfortunately, I've since moved on. #FirstWorldProblems, but in retrospect, +50% salary isn't automatically enough to make up for good vs bad corporate culture and quality of colleagues.
If the options you're talking about ever get cheap, sure, they'll take over.

Ever wondered why solar is exploding? Low price.
> jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like Germany.

Hahaha! Haha! Ha. #sad
> The state governor is either an idiot, or trying to cover up iltheir incompetence, or both.

He's both, in addition to trying to "stand up to the fake news" for his voter base.
It 100% is politics. For example in the US, our government is incapable of doing anything on a time scale of longer than 4-8 years because the party in power shifts and undoes everything the other party did during that time. Nuclear power is inherently authoritarian because it works best under unchanging centralized governments that can plan out a 30 year program without interference from other parties.
Which is exactly why geologists do surveying before they build a nuclear power plant...
I do not think that's the point.

Let's say you had a build that took 7 hours but if you took all the steps the author did, you would be able to build it in 30 minutes locally for debugging. Would that be interesting? That's about the amount of relative improvement the author saw.

Size of input varies, finding solutions to unnecessarily long compiles in rust are useful across many of them.
> But in crypto, the point of audits seems to be assuaging people's fears instead of making actually secure software, and in the rush to invest / FOMO

I've said it before a bunch of Corpos pushing for it despite it's obvious flaws and what made me walk, and I will say it here: Soldiity is fucking garbage!

The fact that they can hide an exploit like this goes to show just how poor the vetting process is in ETH community.

Attributing the (often absurd) misgivings of ETH to the rest of the projects (like Bitcoin) is a mistake that should not be made. Whether it's the DAO, or 2.0 or the proof of stake transition. ETH is it's own cesspool and should be contained to just that--it's also no surprised established corporations and VCs are backing this far beyond anything else in this ecosystem. It's what those who gravitate towards buzzwords will opt for because it sounds promising, rather than actually taking the time to understand what the goals of a particular project is and how it functions.

I'll never forget how Bitcoin meetups, with a far larger market cap and more robust developer community, was still hanging out in bars and doing p2p trades and workshops while ETH meetups had VC backing and had their own co-working spaces with sponsorship when I was still frequenting meetups like 4-5 years ago.
When I first heard this I did wonder if the AI had achieved sentience and had fallen in love with Ryan Gosling!
>the other caused by mismanagement and frankly jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like Germany.

Are you sure? One example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48527308

>BER has become for Germany not a new source of pride but a symbol of engineering catastrophe. It's what top global infrastructure expert Bent Flyvbjerg calls a "national trauma" and an ideal way "to learn how not to do things".
This is not my beautiful house, I am not the beautiful wife. How did I get here?
It really begs the question "what is a company?" if one can shift between such disparate markets. Surely mission doesn't define a company then. Perhaps ability to accumulate capital for a means?
Or really starting your root cause analysis without being open enough to a wide enough set of possibilities.

As a fairly trivial example, years ago now I wrote a little article observing that a Sony ad boasting about how responsive their camera was (at a time when many digital cameras had a distinct delay) was using a rather famous wildlife photo shot on film. I also noticed that it wasn't quite the famous frame though it was still an excellent photo. Odd. Maybe something about rights.

You probably see where this is going. Subsequently I saw other ads in the series which had clearly mistimed versions of other famous photos. At which point the thing I had never considered clicked--to my somewhat embarrassment.

(In my defense, the wildlife photo used was certainly not an obvious example of bad timing unless you were familiar with the original and even then it was subtle.)
> Not building more nuclear plants doesn't mean you'll be building more fossil fuel plants instead.

Uhh… Yes it does. The data shows that. An increased reliance on renewables means a large increase in reliance on LNG.
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The one that you linked where the face is obscured and the head is visible...?
Windmills installed all over Germany are mostly German and some Danish and Swedish production. Afaik there are no gridscale windmill exports from China, though there are small ones (up to about 40KW). If you do have a pointer to a gridscale Chinese machine that has been installed in Europe I'd love to hear about it, especially if it has been operating for a while and maintenance records can be reviewed for comparison purposes.
for the plants that are being decomissioned, those costs had already been paid off! that's the whole point; the ongoing costs for these plants were low, so it is the height of derangement to shut them down at the very moment germany needs reliable low-carbon locally-sourced energy. decomissioning them is monumentally expensive and amounts to civilization-scale vandalism.
I've used it, and it's... fine, I guess. I ended up using something else but it was kind of nifty.
It doesn’t seem like the relays on Nostr sync with each other and each relay operator can choose which content is hosted on it.

The link to the content isn’t global it’s still relay/post the client just searches for a given post within its list of relays.

The content is then served through a specific relay which hosts it so basically directly from a server.

So this isn’t a supernode topology or server P2P of any kind.

GNUTELLA supernodes were used to limit the number of peering connections that each client on the network had to maintain and organize the network into a manageable topology this is necessary from a technical perspective and any P2P network solves this problem in some manner that turns a fully meshed network into some sort of leaf and spine topology.

This is basically needed to ensure that any client on the network can reach any other client reliably and to ensure that the network can support large number of clients without needing to coordinate peering globally across the entire network.

If you build a P2P network where peering is just a randomized best effort mesh between all clients it would rather quickly break into a bunch of rather isolated networks as peninsulas and then islands would form.
I don't disagree and you're correct, the problem is that I'm usually investing 1-2h segments in playing with OCaml once every few weeks. Having 80% of that time swallowed by a build tool leaves a sour taste. :|

I get what you're saying but it applies to people who already work full time with OCaml. For guys like myself who want to periodically dip their toes and make a slow and steady progress... it makes us feel we're not welcome. (Obviously we're not owed a made bed but I'm hopeful that you get my point and you wouldn't interpret it as entitlement.)

A potential improvement: a very opinionated guide to esy, perhaps? I'd love to author such a guide one day (and would be delighted if somebody beats me to it).
- The native clients for Matrix suck. Even the mobile clients for Matrix are full of bugs.

- No custom emojis; every chat application known to man has regular emojis supported in UTF-8, so the author must be talking about custom ones. Which Matrix still does not have: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1951

- I don't think doing what PGP does is really impressive, but okay, fine, one point.

- Matrix group chats are broken and this is why Synapse eats resources like a bear.

- No searchable history on all but one Electron client on one platform when using E2E is terrible, and further supports the argument that all clients suck.

- Point; this is pretty convenient.

- XMPP sucks. Matrix is modern XMPP. People don't like getting confused with servers and similar nonsense, and when your homeserver goes down, you're out of luck. Federation sucks. The question wasn't made to exclude Matrix, it was made to point out that federation sucks. Matrix didn't invent federation; it chose it long after it failed.

- E2E degrades experience greatly. To list my two biggest complaints: It ruins search for all but one client, and the UX around keys is terrible. I frequently have conversations with incredibly technical people and they'll still get absolutely stumped by the UX around keys, because it's awful.

Two out of eight isn't bad.

I use Matrix every day. I have for years; long before the recent rebrand, and multiple presidents have vacated office since I started using Matrix. I love Matrix. But there's no reason to act like it's some golden goose when there are problems from 2015 that are no closer to being fixed than they were at the time. It's a comfortable protocol for usage by people who have powerful computers. For everyone else, it still isn't great.
ooohhhh I see ...
Side note but I wish hacketnews wasn’t always so anti-crypto. Makes it a pretty depressing forum for those of us working in the space earnestly
You don't see men playing the victimization card at the drop of a pin. It is a genuine social phenomenon worthy of disregard.
But it needed a huge amount of subsidies to keep the money flowing long enough until the technology caught up to bring the price down.
It should be noted that Maple Leaf Rag was written by Scott Joplin. Ossman was just one of the many artists who recorded the piece.
I initially opposed the move but now it sort of makes sense. Previously I was influencing my own thoughts from the liberal media sphere but the more you dig into the reasons why UK left the EU, the more convinced I am. Just look at the vaccine fuck ups by the EU. UK has one of the best vaccination strategies in the world barring smaller nations like Israel, UAE and Qatar. And of course, China.
No it wasn’t- there was just a heavy intersection between middle aged women complaining and BLM + other wokeness. “Karen” is used correctly here and your origin story is completely false.
> How many people died from Chernobyl? About 50, despite over 100,000 people working at the site on cleanup. The adjacent reactors continued to run and provide power for about a decade after the incident.

I am surprised you're quoting official Soviet numbers. Numbers that weren't updated since the early days of the accident.

> How many people died of radiation poisoning at Fukushima? Zero.

At what cost?
Nobody dare to insult saying that the leaves must have been in front of a face, just like nobody would dare to say to "google search doesn't work on my computer!" - "did you turn it on?".
Late replying, but I readily admit that supportive parents and a school subculture that valued academics were both factors. I didn’t mean to suggest that I single-handedly pulled myself up by my bootstraps. But the SAT was the main path I had to stand out in applications as a public-school-educated person from a rural place you’ve never heard of.
> FANG is the best way to get peace of mind

You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience.

I've worked in start ups my entire career, never once in 13 years did I worry about job security or financial issues in general, the market is just too good for competent software engineers.

The last one happened to have a very successful acquisition and now I still work at my startup (one of the lucky ones whose culture and working environment survive acquisition), but it's part of a larger fortune 100 company. Now I have a start up life, a FANG salary, and mission that doesn't include cramming ads in eyeballs or invading other's privacy and I can't help but to feel that my way was the best way.

This isn't to say that my way actually was the best way, but that calling out any single career path as "the best" seems likely to be wrong.
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> This was a natural disaster, which might happen at higher frequencies nowadays.

You don't build nuclear power plants in narrow valleys with known flood events though. I mean, you also don't build wind turbines in swamps and hope they don't fall over, or put solar panels on your roof and don't fasten them.
Signal desktop clients are not native. They use Electron and are much slower than Telegram.
> Most of all, however, it makes composability hard.

I see this argument a lot as if it's self evident. Using X makes Y hard. Ok, what if you don't need Y?
> Everything is getting more expensive.

because IP owners are increasing their 'margins' (increasing the extraction of surplus value, and thus increased labor exploitation) by charging more and more economic rents.
It isn't about averages, it is about perceived tail risk.
Having FU money is really helpful though, and you get that by working at FAANG. For example it lets you take a few years break without worrying about money etc if you feel like it. It really helps!

The only reason to not care about this is if you love your job so much that you are sure you want to work all the time until you retire.
until it's night and the wind isn't blowing.
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Hide a secret message in a chessboard (using Go and WASM)
We need self sealing stem bolts.
It's dirt cheap because it's heavily subsidized by the public. For example no commercial entity in the world insures a nuclear power plant. These costs are completely hidden.