skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past Google appeared to better honour advanced searches using boolean operators. You could add operators to narrow a search quite effectively.

From my experience, they have diluted that functionality in favour of keyword and context matching against popular searches. Often the thing I want to find is not the most popular thing. Breaking out of that and the search bubbles you get associated with is becoming increasingly difficult. I find myself more and more clicking past the first page if results hoping what I want is there just with less SEO. Rarely is there anything relevant beyond page 3. I definitely remember sometimes digging multiple pages deep into the search results and still finding useful information.

In the early days of Google the speed at which you got the search results was a major factor, I remember being surprised at the speed of response and the quality of the results the first time I was introduced to Google. They still include the search time at the top of the results.

I would prefer to regain strict boolean logic in search at the cost of increased search time. I often care more about actually finding what I want than how fast the result can be returned.

Maybe something like the default search works as it does today as it gives a fast result that has a high likelihood will contain what most people want to see. Then allow for advanced search that strictly adheres to the search terms but could take a few minutes to return the results.
Yeah, but People Republic of Alaska may join RF.
Probably no worse than the alternatives. Just about everything is going to be easy to upgrade except possibly the Kubernetes masters (and even that isn’t so bad if you can spare a bit of downtime).
Purging voter lists is not suppression unless you view dead people or those who have moved out of the voting jurisdiction on the voting rolls as legitimate voters. No different than a company purging email or address lists of outdated names
I don't think a lot of 80 year olds are going to see Pixar movies at the cinema.
It's starting to seem like the group who had it and recovered are ignored by the media. At least now the CDC is saying this group has more durable protection than the vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm

'By early October, persons who survived a previous infection had lower case rates than persons who were vaccinated alone.'
I self taught myself to type and so don't really follow whatever is "proper" technique, so with WASD I tend to use my left pinky for SHIFT and nothing else.
Internal software? That's what the interns do, right?
He was a soldier in the rough riders cavalry unit. The statue was meant to represent him both as the cavalry president, as well as the explorer.
I know a bunch of highly skilled people who would never have trouble finding work at other companies who say they love working at Facebook. I also know a lot of people who use it and think it's a great tool for keeping in touch and communicating with friends and family and the social, hobby, interest and volunteer groups they're in.

I don't personally like the company or Zuck or some of the things it does very much, but they aren't the devil. I could say the same about probably most corporations. Where do you work that's pure as the driven snow?
Enforcement is relatively easy. Many US states regularly pursue enforcement action for misclassification of employees.

Companies already report how much they pay contractors to the IRS and state tax agencies, so spot checking companies paying a large percentage of their total wages to contractors is the easiest way to do it.

If you’re being paid by any American companies, the most likely theoretical enforcement would be the state the company is based in.
I don’t think it’s that per se, for instance Meet has been innovating in small ways to the point where I believe it’s way better than Zoom. But not all Google tools are innovating at the same rate.
I’ll match your anecdote with mine. I’ve been everything from CTO to lead engineer. I’ve made sure we always pay well above average for every role because I’d rather have one exceptional engineer than 10 regular ones.

FAANG on your resume is an instant disqualification.
I mean…you say that, but I can’t name a single one.
> But sorry - what you're saying about the ratio of 'a' to 'e' makes no sense at all.

Sorry I confused you. Let me be clear, it’s not relevant at all to job performance. I would take someone with terrible spelling and punctuation who actually writes documentation over someone who writes half as much because they are obsessing over details like that.

> in the sense of READMEs, docstrings, et

These are generally for other developers. Developers do not get confused when they see “NodeJs” instead of “Node.js”. Do you know what point you were trying to make?

> is definitely seen as a red flag, both in and outside the company.

> For any company you'd want to work for, that is.

Not sure what kind of company you’re talking about, but it’s definitely not a tech company. Maybe Wall Street or something a little slower paced?
Apologies for unintentional duplicate. Happens sometimes when I forget to change default cache settings in text-only browser.
On the other hand, being willing to work for a company like Facebook says something about a worker.
I’m just a user for whom “building” is too much of a burden. When this was posted, I went to the website to see if I could download the standalone desktop version for Windows. Since I knew that the lack of this was something I had experienced and commented on in the past, I was able to find the issue and see how it was (poorly, IMO) handled. Someone else may have just given up. How many users (not programmers) would even bother to go to GitHub to hunt for binaries for Windows or macOS? The Windows binaries seem to be on GitHub but there is no link on the site’s marketing page. It seems very shortsighted to not provide the links on the main site.

I also don’t think it’s entitlement to give feedback on open source projects, which typically have better feedback mechanisms and acceptance from external sources than from commercial vendors. It seems obvious now that Mattermost has other priorities and doesn’t know how and when to close tickets.
I'm not interested to pay 15k in taxes to receive 5k back as UBI, regardless of economy or stability.

How much you plan to pay in taxes to support my UBI?
It is 100% wrong.
I don't think kernel has demonstrated fast optical imaging of direct neuronal activity here. The article clearly mentions they detect oxygen activity corresponding, like conventional fNIRS or fMRI.

I've been looking at this field and my conclusion was that non-invasive optical imaging of direct neuronal activity, while possible in theory, it requires several magnitudes of improvement in today's technology. Even Openwater is detecting blood flow (and not individual neurons). Wrote my thoughts here: https://notes.invertedpassion.com/Consciousness/Fast+optical...

Curious to hear what you were building and whether you actually got close to doing fast optical imaging. Happy to chat offline, my email is here: https://invertedpassion.com/about/
> At Facebook I could get by barely working a few hours a day. But the job was so unsatisfying

This is a little too first world. if the work were too sparse and wants more work, why not join interview loops or take classes/training, attend talks? Does Meta not have those options?

The frustration feels almost artificial, if one does not want to get more work, then maybe just go boating or mountain biking. Watch some sports and play video games.
The privacy makes sense, but KYC doesn't restrict your freedoms. Just adds responsibilities
half their stuff
Covid: Did Pfizer's boss cast doubt on his own vaccine?
Checking to see if the string is valid UTF-8 requires code to execute, which gets in the way of performance. Therefore, you can check with functions like:

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_utf.html#validate

when it is convenient in your code to do so.
Hey.
We will work on it together with the community this year.

Private mode is even more private than DDG so we will likely have to do private ads just like them.

But for the personalized experience we have a few ideas that I think are more creative and more aligned with users and privacy but not fully fleshed out yet.
We're still a very small team but hoping to ship them this quarter.
> Here's a candidate with all the time in the world, and huge motivation,

You are woefully out of touch with the job market. And I’m saying this as someone who worked as a hiring manager at one of the most applied to tech companies in the world.
I've noticed in the past 2-3 months that results from StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and official programming language documentation sites seem to have been abruptly downranked. They used to typically be in the top 3 results for me for appropriate queries, but now they frequently aren't even on the first page.
For sure no worse than the alternatives. I also don't care about downtime. But I'm looking for something that minimizes the overheads over not self-hosting.

I'd love to prove Moxie Marlinspike wrong that "people don't want to run their own servers, and never will." (https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html) This is the key bottleneck in getting people to run their own servers.
That is to say, crypto is built for fraud, and shouldn't be trusted for transactions
How to deal with movies that bounce from too quiet to too loud
Try Lazarus/Free pascal. It's an open source clone of Delphi, and targets a wide variety of systems.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
I would like to see a search engine like Google, except without paywalled content, without PDFs, without whitepages.com type results in name searches, and without store product pages for items that are out of stock. A lot of that is repackaged public content, so the fact that they're duplicative should be a very strong negative signal. Relegate those pages to a DMOZ/Yahoo model.

I think that would take care of 90% of my frustrations. PDFs are the only questionable item there, I think, but invariably they should be on a research search site or converted to text...or even penalizing the sites that only supply PDF menus for restaurants and PDF manuals for plain consumer items.
And refrigeration. That's a big power draw in my home.
Everyone hates ethnocentric snowflakes. As they should.
Huh? Compared to... running commands infrequently to administer servers? IaC is strictly and comically better.
Yes. So does a career where you make stupid money almost no matter what you do. I've made less money than most of my contemporaries. I've also taken much more time off to do other things and had much more fun along the way.

Sustainability is a real thing. You don't have to wait until "FIRE status" or whatever the cool kids want to sell you podcasts about in order to have a life.
There's many flavors of Buddhism and the idea of all "being one" isn't a shared philosophy amongst them all. The "woo" and connected, anything goes mentality, etc is mostly centered on "California Buddhism," which is a sort of western bastardization of common Buddhist concepts.

If you were to study, say, Theravada, you'd see something a lot more austere, less touch-feely (but compassionate), and very much centered on the four noble truths and eightfold path. It reflects a great deal about suffering, overcoming suffering in a Buddhist fashion, and living very, very morally.

So it helps to name the specific brand of Buddhism you're discussing. You're saying something akin to Christians all believe in transubstantiation and see the Pope as their leader, who can declare himself infallible if he chooses. Yes, Catholics do believe this, but not other Christians. Or speaking in tongues or handling snakes. Or that Jesus was a white northern European man with blue eyes.
Desktop programs don't require permission from an app store, so there's no wall.
I really wish that people who let strong political opinions bleed into their professional careers would somehow flag that on their resumes, so I could likewise avoid them.
A lot of food waste happens in the supply chain before you ever get the chance to buy it which then gets attributed to the whole population.

I think there are quite a lot larger sources of waste than food or clothing in our economy where things could be engineered to last a lot longer and be more repairable but aren't so they will be purchased more often. (think heavy things: appliances, vehicles, tools, etc)

The most environmentally friendly thing I do is delaying replacing my totaled 12 year old car.
It definitely should. It is externalizing an astronomical cost. I am not a lawyer, so I can't comment on the law. As a citizen in a democracy, I can comment on what the law ought to be, though.
The biggest question I have is:

Why -z and -t for the x and y coordinates of the initials?

(More seriously: nice work. I'll probably use this myself someday.)
Leaked photos purporting to show Putin’s palace
I’ve written all of my companies guidelines.

I explicitly codify that the hiring of former surveillance capitalism mercenaries is a fireable offense.

“But the equity was great” is not an excuse.
There are a lot of shareware or shareware-like desktop Mac apps that I have been relying on for many years. The programs continue to be updated regularly and don’t seem to be hobby projects, so I assume the developers are supporting themselves. Some are sold through Apple’s App Store, and some are sold directly by the developer.

Here are the ones that I use most and the companies that develop them:

Fission; Audio Hijack (Rogue Amoeba): https://www.rogueamoeba.com

Amadeus Pro (HairerSoft): https://www.hairersoft.com/index.html

Transmit (Panic): https://panic.com

Jedit Ω (Artman 21): http://www.artman21.com/en/

BBEdit (Bare Bones): https://www.barebones.com

GraphicConverter (Lemke Software): https://www.lemkesoft.de/
Would love to hear your thoughts on you.com
We're trying to innovate on various aspects of search, design, UX, AI, etc.
Somehow it never occurred to me to run `diff` on a SHARC. Horse for courses.
So now that we need to migrate our families off, what are the best alternatives to Google for personal email / document / etc. accounts?
I'm not. I love getting to watch new movies from my couch.

If anything, I'm disappointed that the forthcoming, nearly 3 hours long(!) Batman movie will premiere in theaters. I'm not going to sit through a 3 hour movie in a theater.
But they might be in close contact with someone who did go to the cinema and contracted the virus.
> Most recruiters are terrible. They send generic job descriptions if there’s a matching word in your resume. I’m very surprised the market didn’t push the recruiter game up. There’s so much room for improvement!

Yeah, why is that?

Same for most Realtors.
> allow users to continue using their existing domain names with the accounts striped down to the same functionality as a free Gmail account and associated service access

That would give them MORE features and services.
Run it in a VM. Works fine.
The Liar and the Scold
I listen to the whole team. Including the people who have to pick up the work left by the person on leave. Don’t get me wrong, I insta-approve leave requests that are measured in months. A year is just too long.
> or a fracturing of states within?

That's precisely Lincoln's point:

> if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher
Yeah I know but one of the things with immersed that hindered productivity was the need to up the scaling too much.

But it's also a very clunky user experience yes.
https://archive.is/drG1C
You definitely don't want to put boiling-hot water in one, so "warm water bag" might be a more suitable term, and they are more fragile, but do work well if not too thin.
On the one hand, I really like their principles and their commitment to art for art's sake, in their games.

On the other hand, I owned one of their games (Donsol), which used to work just fine. Then they removed it and basically reimplemented it in their new unique format, which I couldn't get to work.

So it was frustrating to have a game I was looking forward to playing, having it at one time (it worked fine), and now not having it anymore, when my old computer died and I tried to download the thing I'd bought before once more.
Buddhism rejects the concept of a creator god, though it does not deny the existence of "gods". But it holds that they, too, are subject to the cycle of rebirth and suffering like the rest of us.
If I can turn that stupid thing off, it might be worth learning Rust after all.
CTO and lead engineer of what size companies? How big was the tree of reports under you? What is the band of your total compensation recently? $100-200k? $500-1000k?

Honestly sounds like a bit of cope, especially if you've tried hiring in the past 10 years.
That's funny. I paid for something using my CashApp debit card and the merchant took the money and never delivered it and CashApp say there is nothing they can do there either.

I just got banned from Twitter for posting the contact details of their VPs :|
I might speak for some of those critical by saying that you got my attention with the "bootstrap" hook but immediately lost it when I saw the funding. At that point I had a hard time believing and following the rest. This might seem like a small nit, but it comes to the honesty and intent of the piece. Good job getting our attention tho. And pay attention to the details.
I didn't choose the integer suffixes for types because:

1. they are slower to type

2. they just aren't pretty to look at

3. saying and hearing `int` is so much easier than `eye thirty-two`. Just imagine relying on a screen reader and listening to all those eye thirty two's

4. 5 minutes with the language, and you know what size `int` is, as there is no ambiguity. I haven't run across anyone confused by it in 20 years :-)
The bypass paywalls extension might help! It's great for WSJ, economist, and many others. Helps to bypass some of the more common websites at least.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Most of the divorced parents around me in Australia do this week on week off thing with the kids which actually seems quite glorious.

As a separated parent you get focussed time with the kids and in the off week you get a good bunch of me/adult time.

Looking in it seems a great setup for mature ex’s.
Facebook took over the internet in Africa – and changed everything
I have 38 years in hardware design, most of that doing ASIC design in Verilog.

I've been with my currently employer 19 years, but if I found myself in an interview I'd expect them to ask me technical questions. If they didn't ask them, it would be a red flag. What if they asked me an "offensively" basic question? Great, I can make quick work of it, no insult taken.

It has happened to me only once that I interviewed someone far more senior (and was a PhD) who got offended when asked about some simple technical issues. He deflected my questions, and so was flushed immediately.
Calendar is great; but I wish it would let me edit an event the same way I can quick-enter one; from a pop-up. I'm half-inclined to write a browser ext to do it.

Also the latest updates to Sheets in the menubars have been welcome
The article specifically states you won't lose access to anything you've paid for and you'll still be able to authenticate with that account. You just can't use it for mail, calendar, drive, etc. Just repoint your email to another service, export your calendar, and move your data somewhere else.

Considering GSuite is pretty much hot garbage in 2022, they're almost doing you a favor. Seriously, this is good for you. It'll be like you've been transported to the future!
Wow, this is an old document...

> To start your walk head across campus to the Shell station.

Hasn't been up there at SFU for well over a decade now, maybe longer...
In California I think alimony for marriages under ten years is usually half the duration of the marriage. Expectation is that the dependent partner is expected eventually to support themselves. That seems generally fair to me.
with != of
It’s a bit of an exaggeration, but same for most people at most jobs.

Most people aren’t that great at what they do. They do enough to get by and don’t make a ton of mistakes, but they rightfully don’t give 100%.

Source: Me. Am not great at what I do. Don’t give 100%. Do make a number of mistakes. Do enough to get by but not much more.
> alm2022 | created 1 hour ago

> Geez, almost feels like you need a trending hashtag and public riots in order to be heard. Am I rite? #alm

@dang HN is clearly being used for propaganda
Please don't take HN threads further into regional flamewar, regardless of which region you have a problem with. It's tedious, offtopic, hellish, and particularly avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This hit home for me as well. I’m currently at a large company and looking for a smaller one where I can work more hours Thor the same money doing something more meaningful. I have a min/max mindset, probably like most people here, so it took me a long time to come to the realization that working longer hours for the same pay was a good thing.
What’s up with Google?

It’s the best search engine that’s available today, in my opinion.
I’ve heard plenty of horror stories about someone being hired that couldn’t write simple code.

It’s easy to study leet code, and it’s relevant because it shows the interviewer you can write code.

I’ve had non-leet code interviews, like write some feature in 60minutes. It was fine. It tests code and knowledge as opposed to just algorithms and tricks.

I dunno I’ve always felt that the people who can’t leet code are the ones that complain about it. The ones that can just spend a bit of time to practice and ace the interview.
The people who would have been hospitalized and died of covid already died in the previously infected group.

You're looking at a fundamentally different group of people.

If you didn't consider the vaccinated people who then died of covid, you'd see a lot less hospitalizations there too
NAT busting is a minus. If apps can create holes in your network and “bust your NAT,” your network is not well secured; you should disable UPnP and filter egress.

Also, you gain simplicity but give up to coordination servers, that can be a privacy and security problem.
If a 30% drop from insanely overpaid to highly overpaid doubles how long you have to work until you "retire" _and_ you feel the need to whine about this fact in public, the solution is simple: thank god every day that being an entitled asshole is not a crime
Anyone can put n+ years at Facebook on their resume regardless of whether they worked on Facebook or not. Maybe they’re banking on a background check not being run. And if I know anything about people, I’m sure there are people out there doing this. Frauds abound.

Check this out: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yahoo-investor-ceo-lied-about-t...
Sounds like it might be a negative thing to have on your resume now though?

Rather than focusing on how an association with FB would be viewed on your resume -- you may want to ask yourself whether that company lives up to your own moral standards, and whether (just to yourself) you would feel proud of yourself for working there.

Many people have come to the conclusion that it is an extremely cynical and unethical company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Criticisms_and_contro...

And that even aside from the specific episodes of abusive behavior, that its core product is basically toxic:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036519/facebook...

Meanwhile, some of the founder's behavior in his early adult years can best be described as nakedly sociopathic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Early_years

Whether any of this matters to you is ... up to you. But it is definitely a question you may want to investigate before you start working there -- rather than after you've signed the dotted line.

Being as asking your recruiter or your interviewers these questions -- isn't likely to get you very far.