skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A POSIX filename is a sequence of up to 255 bytes excluding NULL and /

A reasonable person[1] might argue that this is too liberal. IMO the exclusion list should be larger, but silently and automatically rewriting an application's filename into something else at creation time is too far.

[1]: https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
> try to identify what it would take to make you trust a pseudonymous organization or identity. For example it needs a track record you can validate. Valuable real-world holdings or a business or something else you could take legal recourse against

Again, we already get all of this with real names and the existing legal system. This is really what a legal name is! Its a "pseudonym" but with enough linkage to the real world that its costly or impossible for someone to abandon it if they do something bad. Why not try to think a bit more about what systems already exist and how they help us before cheering on a new way to reinvent them poorly? I'm not suggesting the author is a criminal, all im saying is we as a society have always needed to build systems to prevent criminals from taking advantage of them, because they will. We all use email providers that block spam and sign contracts for jobs/rent too - its not because i think everyone who emails me is a scammer, its just that some are and this necessitates making the system resilient to them.
Hmmm I think someone else is also extrapolating one data point to an entire community as well based on less than probably 0.1% of the participants of HN...
I would also comment that a lot of engineers decamped for FAANG-land software jobs.

Software pays way better than hardware in Silicon Valley. I would argue that the current engineering "shortage" is because a bunch of hardware companies haven't adjusted to the fact that they're competing against the FAANGs.
That list isn't very useful in this context unfortunately. There is no reliable mapping between area code and provider in North America.
I keep hearing this talking point brought up but I just don’t get it. If you’re making more on unemployment, you’re poor and need money for essentials. It’s unlikely you’re investing in stocks. Also, unemployment doesn’t last forever (mine ran out in less than a year). What am I missing?
These are the trash recruiters. The good ones are trusted by hiring managers so you have a better chance getting noticed by going through the recruiter.
I'm going to assume that they didn't get $100M for it though.
The difference is Walmart holds so much less power. It would be like if Walmart owned the exclusive ability to delivery packages to 50% of houses in the world, and then no matter what the filter company does, they can't avoid this fee because Walmart holds their huge captive market and is able to extract these fees without adding much if anything to the transaction.
The fact that you keep using the word 'propaganda' when referencing warning people against using a non-approved veterinarian product with known severe side effects in humans says a lot about your position on the subject. As it stands there is no strong evidence that supports Ivermectin as an effective treatment for covid-19 (The big Elgazzar study was withdrawn due to it being mainly faked, and the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found it to not be a viable treatment) and many people have been hospitalised due to self medicating with the stuff.
The ministry of truth cries out in pain as they staple your mouth shut... to protect you of course.
We can stick an ad-hoc type convention, e.g. every dictionary used as an object has to have a "type" key and so forth. Doable, but not too appetizing.
Good article, hiring is very inefficient and that is offputting.

I would rather do anything else. Try my hand at the markets while traveling, launch a project or two, fly a girl out for free using my rewards points and be a fun host that’s not preoccupied with meetings.
Definitely don't use your Gmail account to send them then unless you want to end up as one of those people that got their account suspended.
Yup. AWS really wants to hire me as another cog. I’ll pass.
Pubg itself is a ripoff of minecraft hunger games.
30% of the new hire's first year salary
Thanks for the references. We're trying to write up a paper about all this work, and (to us) it seems obvious that differential geometry is the right framework.

What reverse mode AD talks informally about as "gradients" are cotangents, and if you are constrained to a submanifold of another manifold (such as the space of all symmetric matrices, embedded in the space of all NxN matrices) then your cotangent is a projection of that in the larger space. This reduces to the obvious thing for symmetric matrices, as you say, but there are less obvious AD-relevant cases (like the space of orthogonal matrices, or the space of "ranges", vectors with uniformly spaced elements) where getting it right with your bare hands is tricky.

I don't see any of the relevant terminology in these links, but they do seem to be thinking about related problems. Perhaps they have re-invented the wheel? Amused to read that standard cookbooks seem to have faithfully reproduced the recipe for a square wheel, for decades.
ReconSpider Osint Framework
You're making the same mistake as lots of others here and acting like this is all scientists. Did you pay attention to how much disinformation spread and you want them to report every email from every scientist to the general public as relevant? Do you post every frantic email from every engineer in your organization as equally viable along side well thought out memos/emails about a given situation? I don't think you really want that...
Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?
Fundamentally I think it comes down to monopoly. If Comcast is the only way to get internet and they gouge me on price that’s bad.

The App Store is a more premium alternative to the Web. It’ll never be a monopoly — every iPhone comes loaded with Safari for alternative ways to engage with customers.
Consider going on a vacation for a month or two. The company won't die immediately.
A lot of assumption in this thread that the only reason to be pseudonymous is for criminality. That's not the case.

I've raised a decent bit from a well-known pseudonymous twitter account. If it's a smart contract-based investment, the blockchain secures their investment, not law, so don't need their "real" name for that.

Short of needing the name for legal reasons, why do I care what their birth name is? I know they have a certain audience in my target customer base, I know they are knowledgable about my space because I hear them talk all the time in twitter spaces.

If they want to remain pseudonymous, let them! In a world where gaining a large online presence essentially rolls the dice on whether you get cancelled for something in the future, are we really surprised people want to reclaim a bit of anonymity on the internet while still being able to build a reputation they can build on?
This is another reason why it is destructive to run society on a usurious financial system.
I'm more or less on the same page with you—and it's worth noting that the things we agree with him on are where the extra burden is placed on the client side, while the places we disagree are where the extra burden is placed on the server side.

If you can make sure your server is fast enough that the client never notices a difference, it shouldn't matter whether you're using Apache's built-in routing or Symfony's PHP routing.
They often believe they'll never change ticket systems. Until they find out one morning IT didn't subscribe to the same ideology.
We use a lot of tubs with seals because panty moths came in woth the bird food a couple of years ago. I HATE pantry moths.
Evolutionary Models Are Unreliable
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It's a very naive view of climate change, on par with "whatever happened to global cooling?"

What exactly do you think happens? Runaway greenhouse effect? People just start baking to death in the street? It's senseless. Climate change causes negative effects, but it's much more complicated than that. You should do some reading.
Regulator warns Covid boosters could lead to ‘problems with immune response’
While True: learn() is interesting. https://luden.io/wtl/

It is an interactive algorithms visualizer packaged as a game.
Pepperoni pizza rolls were out at all 3 of the grocery stores in my town (pop. ~20,000) as well as the cheapo Totino's frozen pizzas, and the pasta section was heavily picked over. Ramen noodles were also picked clean, it's super bizarre what does and doesn't get snapped up.
Pragmatically, sure but then every species using HN shares our bias. Doing right would mean trying to transcend it. But am not sure we have to suppress our empathy just because we're being pragmatic.
I appreciate your comment, but I'm not sure what your point is. Corporate personhood is literally a legal fiction due to the granting of personhood in order to fall under the umbrella of existing law. This personhood is accepted as true, even though it is objectively untrue; this is a textbook example of a legal fiction.
GrubHub hands down
They're alleging art and other asset rips, which is very different from copying gameplay or themes.
What do you consider the sticks?
I totally agree, he definitely downplays or under-appreciates the possible severity of climate change.
Population Growth and the Housing Crisis
It's *Bezos. (joke)

In all seriousness, my experience with third party recruiters overall has been quite good. One sought me out and continued to follow up until it sounded like a good deal, and in the end I won a sign-on bonus, decent salary, and felt like I started a good working relationship with the recruiter themselves, too.

Now, this guy hits me up for when he has potential matches for my team. It's been really good. I'm sure like most things, there are good recruiters and bad ones, regardless of first or third party.
What is locked into mean in this context? If you’re an adult I don’t know how this would happen unless you chose to use Apple products which you could equally choose not to do.

> That means I can't subscribe to postmates or uber?

Those are available on Apple devices, don’t know why you think you can’t subscribe to them?
Neat! I’ll keep that in mind next time I travel. Tho I’d still use a self-hosted VPN to hide the destination IP when I don’t mind the latency.
Also, I feel like engineers are much more likely to be attracted the FIRE mentality and tend to have the incomes and low spending habits that can get them retired easily by their mid 30s.

I'm personally in that boat, and frankly, I'm a little bored but not bored enough to go back to work as an SE full time. If companies offered more part time work and highly flexible work, it might be enough to drag me back in.

Even large six figure salaries just aren't enough money for the soul crushing reality of renting out my brain full time to solving someone else's problems now that I have enough.
According to this November, 2021 article, 20% of health care workers have quit since the pandemic: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-11-15/...

According to this aggregation of stats, it seems about 1% of hospital staff have been terminated or quit due to COVID-19 vaccination compliance: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/vaccination-... The numbers seem to be lower in highly vaccinated states and higher in vaccine skeptic states, so for California the number is probably lower than 1%.

I'm not sure if those numbers favor or disfavor your point, but I was curious.
Not a copyright lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt:

One of the core limitations on copyright is the idea-expression divide. Copyright does not--cannot--protect an idea, only the expression of the idea. (There are other limitations on what expressions themselves can be protected, but if it's not even an expression, you're hosed). Of course, this itself isn't a clear-cut and easy divide, and is endless wishy-washy.

So what allegedly copyrighted material has been lifted here? Well... as you dig into it, it's really a stretch. The argument is that PUBG copyrighted using a military-style helmet in a shooter game. No, seriously, ¶57 is arguing that using a particular "Russian special forces or 'spetsnaz'-style helmet" is a copyrighted element. ¶59 ups the insanity by arguing that using clothing is copyrighted. Not specific kinds of clothing, just regular streetware in general.

Again and again, most of their claims on the aesthetic being copyrighted boil down, essentially, to "we copyrighted using military-style equipment, casual streetware, and a vaguely war-torn, somewhat austere Eastern European-ish environment as the setting for a shooter game." Which is not copyrightable for the even more basic fact that this predates PUBG by a long-shot.

The two strongest copyright claims to me are a) the use of the frying pan and b) "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner". The first claim itself is pretty weak, but it's one of the strongest by simple virtue of its actual rarity in games, so PUBG may have a viable claim to have actually originated it. And the second claim is weak because I'm not sure it's actually infringed--the claimed infringement (¶101) is that the win screen has a cooked chicken on it, not the actual phrase.

So the basic summary I have is that, while Free Fire is definitely a rip-off of PUBG, PUBG's aesthetic itself is so generic that it's not really copyright infringement.
[Are Black Holes and Dark Matter the Same? Scientists Upend Textbook Explanations (scitechdaily.com)] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29799644

If so, would it be strange to find a galaxy with less blackhole mass?
There is no evidence that long COVID is anything other than the Post-viral syndrome we've known for decades accompanies the flu and other illnesses.
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Hi everyone, My friend is hosting a 4 week group building session to code up an Amazon clone. He's ex-facebook and is looking to keep his skills sharp while looking for the next gig. Over four weeks, They’ll work with various technologies including reactjs and nodejs, so feel free to join them if you’re interested in the topic.

I’ve joined previous cohorts and found it motivating to complete projects with a group in the past, it’s especially useful when you get stuck. Plus, it’s free! If you’re interested, you’ll find the cohort here: https://buildfaast.com/#service under the name `Amazon Clone (Intermediate/Advanced)`
You know something else that enabled that? The internet. And mobile connectivity. So 30 % to each of these as well would be more than fair, right?
> Wouldn't it have been written in electron the code-server project would not be possible.

Please clarify what is so special about Electron in that case. It was so slow they had to do it that way, is that what you're saying?
This is how (https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/09/28/scientists-precisel...):

[Dr. Mohamed Abdullah] explained that one well-proven technique for determining the total amount of matter in the universe is to compare the observed number and mass of galaxy clusters per unit volume with predictions from numerical simulations. Because present-day galaxy clusters have formed from matter that has collapsed over billions of years under its own gravity, the number of clusters observed at the present time is very sensitive to cosmological conditions and, in particular, the total amount of matter.

That article links to paper, co-authored by Abdullah, Anatoly Klypin, and Gillian Wilson, which concludes that "matter makes up 31.5±1.3% of the total amount of matter and energy in the universe" and "80% of matter is actually dark matter". So 20% of 31.5±1.3% is 6.3±0.26%, which is how much normal matter is in the total amount of matter and energy in the universe.

I realize that's different than the 4% number given by the other commenter. This is the latest estimate I could find. Maybe the estimated ratio of dark matter has changed with newer measurements, or maybe the other commenter was working from older estimates.
Why?

This is exciting. There could be a way to prove your identity without revealing it using zero knowledge proof on the contracts.

I'm seeing some of these pseudonymous companies take the form of a DAO with DAO members having say in how the tokens (funding) is distributed so the founder doesn't control 100% of it.

The investors would also be part of the DAO and can vote on proposals. Distribution of funds can be controlled through smart contracts.

It will make the landscape diverse too. There will be less biases for investors when they can't know the identity of the founder. This is making the place more inclusive.

Also, I think Sam Altman wanted to do something similar which he started with the community.

https://www.hyperscalefund.com/
Just like when CNN, WaPo, etc post “The GOP…” or “Republicans…”
They probably mean that they were a lurker previously, and created the account and hence made their "first comment" for this.
My experience with fresnel lenses growing up was with the sheet magnifiers my grandmother would use to read; I could melt asphalt with them and it acted like my own laser beam. I always wanted to make one of these solar cooking apparatus stands but it was ... frowned upon ... by my parents: https://www.bealsscience.com/post/2016/10/04/solar-death-ray...
> It's not accessible to everyone, but calling it "fucking dire" is just fearmongering

Individual economics are dire in terms of how much it costs to have basic security with housing specifically.

Median home price in the US was $222k in 2008, its $400k in 2022. Rents have gone up accordingly. Average person sees their paycheck go less far every year, and then add inflation on top of it. Putting away $1k in a year sure doesn't seem like it helps you.

Everything works out pretty well for you if you somehow own a house in the US, just hope you aren't behind the curve on assets.
Exactly, human artists browse through vast number of resources, then call it "inspiration".
It's a fair choice to use none of them, but the problem with large entities making decisions you don't like is that the next step from "large" is "institution" (which Apple arguably already is) and then sometimes "dominant institution."

So if you buy the slippery slope argument (which you don't have to), then if there are objections you want to make about that dominant-institution-in-progress, now is probably a good time to think about what they're doing and what you wish would change.
Code points, scalar values, glype, surrogates, encodings

Unicode should be called multicode really. If we want something "uni-" then all of them should better be unified to one encoding. Hopefully UTF-8 do the job.
If you have ever met a recruiter who was NOT an unhelpful middleman, I'd love to meet them. My spam folder is filled daily with dozens of body-shop spammers with 50-point scrabble names offering me jobs I don't do in places I won't live for money I haven't made since I quit my newspaper route in college. It's maddening and has been very consistent throughout my career.

I've toyed with the idea of finding a for-fee recruiter on my own to spam these companies and their listings and pre-negotiate out something really interesting for myself. But that's more like a sports agent. Anyone know a tech sports agency to Jerry Maguire myself with? :D

(I know, first world diva problems, sigh... it's still grating though)
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I suspect this is a largely incorrect legal take as far as US law goes, though if you have a court case supporting you I'm open to being proven wrong.

My not at all a lawyer reading is that streaming video games is almost always a classic example of fair use and thus not copyright infringement in the first place. Fair use is evaluated as a balancing act of 4 factors, and streaming is very favorable under 3 of them:

It's transformative, adding something new to the original work and not superseding it at all (factor 1), it reproduces a small fraction of the whole of the work - only renders of the final work not the models behind it, none of the code, only the fraction of the artwork that is interacted with and even then only in one of many possible renderings of it (factor 3), it doesn't compete with the original work in the market place (factor 4).

The only thing that really ways against it is that the original work was very artistic in nature (not something like a recording of JFK getting shot, mainly of interest for it's factual content... actual example from a court case).
There is a lot of truth here. I. Just tired of the corporate BS and not having a real career. It doesn't have to be cool, just useful or meaningful. I don't make over $100k as-is, so low 6 figures sounds great. I don't need to work with geniuses, just people I can learn from.

I hate my job, and would likely hate any tech job at this point. Shitty companies are having trouble hiring because people know they're shitty. People examine they're being used.
I would posit that the OP underestimates the impact of his second point: remote-first in a covid world opened up a large swath of opportunities to get very large total compensation bumps everywhere. I'm part of a slack group comprised of ex-employees of a company I used to work at and some folks there expressed that it is entirely feasible to land jobs today that pay a full 100-200k over their current or previous compensation, thanks to big tech companies expanding engineering operations outside of Silicon Valley.

Considering that each of these tech companies are trying to hire in the order of hundreds of engineers, and willing to accommodate remote work from locations that they previously did not consider, is it really a surprise that other companies with less competitive compensation packages are struggling to find talent?
Maybe some respect for the animals that are sacrificed for our sakes. Just seems fair. Not trying to be judgemental.
I think that would be good too, but breaking the walled garden would also be useful.
I'm aware the topic at hand is unionization. You turned it into something about shibboleths and polarization - while BIPOC is regularly used in mass media - and implied I'm using scare quotes because I don't know what it means.

I don't think you're having this discussion with anything near a neutral viewpoint, and I don't really want to engage further. You've said in the past you're not a Trumper, but you definitely appear to lean quite far right.
It's funny that most of my high school buddies grind their jobs for a paycheck, but as a software developer I'm supposed to "find a company I'm passionate about" so work "has meaning".

Hard lessons I learned over the last 24 months:

- Titles don't matter. Promotions provide minimal pay increases. It's better to focus on finding another job.

- Job difficulty doesn't scale linearly with salary. I'm working roughly the same as I did in jobs where I earned 1/3 the salary I get now.

- RSUs are the way to get crazy money. I completely disregarded them early in my career.
I recently did exactly the same. Sadly, the local library system uses these gateways, but that's a sacrifice I was willing to make to cut out a ridiculous amount of spam.
If you're lucky... "There comes a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore"

Fixed it for you
It's worth noting that a takeaway message from this is "A strict CSP policy would completely prevent this attack, as long as Chrome supports the `prefetch-src` directive."

Unfortunately the ticket for implementing that (or taking the implementation out from behind its flag) is still open and has just had its 4th birthday.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=801561