skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the super cheap stuff from Shein is so utter shit quality it won't last more than a few wears.

And it's almost all plastic.

I can't stand synthetic fabrics I feel like if people were exposed to real materials they would learn it feels better and last longer. And is fashionable. Real wool, nice cotton, silk. It lasts a long time if it's constructed & woven well.

I don't know if it's actually better in terms of co2 but sustainable livestock and cotton seem better than plastic.

I would bet a lot of the typic HN 'dude engineers' don't even know their shirts are plastic.
How do you orchestrate your Node runtimes? In containers?
I work at a place with a defined benefit pension that is sweet.

But, I’ve watched colleagues who get and stay miserable because they just need another 15/10/5/3 years. Misery is tough and I’ve seen people really destroy themselves chasing the end goal.

Point is, find your happiness first.
When my mentor was going through MANAMANA interviews a several months back for senior/staff DS/MLE positions, he was getting mostly mediums and a handful of hards.
No. It never gets a habit. It is torture, and you have to look up the commands every time you do it, because you do it infrequently enough not to learn by heart.
Get a color laser printer and print out whatever you’d like. Anybody that sees a crisp color printed paper will assume it was actually mailed to you.

Another tip if you need “proof of address” is to use any notice from your State that your license or other paperwork is expiring. They’re a government agency, the paper is printed on their letterhead, and it’s addressed to you at the address you’re already trying to establish!
> I also talked to a few fintech companies. I entered the discussions with pre-existing biases that these places are stressfull, not innovative but well paying. The conversations confirmed these biases (except the salaries, which were lower than I expected).

That's interesting. I wonder which companies these are?
I've seen enough experienced people who are great at system design and expect to be tech leads, but who are absolutely bad at coding. Do you want to hire someone for their ability to program or for their ability to think about the big picture only?
I was notified back in 2020 and decided to just can the (free) service. The most tedious thing I ever did was to go through my password manager and find every online service account that tied to my GSuite email address for the past decade and either change the email address or deprecate them entirely.

What was most interesting of my particular setup was having my GSuite email address forwarded to my regular GMail account and having the ability to compose emails on behalf of the GSuite email address. When I did log into the actual GSuite account, it had close to 5k~ unsolicited emails caught in the spam filter that never got forwarded.
Which distro did you land on?
I use Google sheets for my budget - from my phone. I can’t remember the last time I actually used my personal computer for anything. I use my work computer for work and my phone or iPad for everything else.

What am I suppose to use when I’m out and about or traveling? I was on vacation when I got paid in December. The only thing I had on me was my phone.
With a few exceptions, I generally can't solve hard leetcode problems. It never even occurred to me to feel bad about it! I've been a working programmer for 25 years, including many years at Microsoft and Facebook. I'm certain I've never encountered a problem at work that needed a 'hard' style solution, and if I hypothetically had, I don't even know how it would pass code review.

I've solved almost all of the easy and mediums, though.
The comment to which I was replying said "the end of the URL". Adding the period at the end of the domain name is not the same as adding it at the end of the URL. I responded to what was actually said.
Europe, sure. But america only really cared about that because of domino theory and it’s own empire to protect. It’s not like america didn’t do the exact same thing in South America, but on the other side of the political spectrum.

But fears of a Red Dawn scenario were always delusional. And that’s my point.
DuckDuckGo is just Microsoft's highly successful attempt at getting you to use Bing
It does seem like a challenge. And even though I only know a couple people there they have nothing but good things to say.
Compulsory school serves multiple purposes:

- Taxpayer subsidized day care so parents can go to work

- Keeping teens out of the labor pool

- Keeping kids and teens off the street causing trouble

- Social and political indoctrination

- Imparting some minimum level of basic education

Motivated students and their parents can get a lot out of the school system, mainly admission to good universities. Schools used to provide vocational “tracks” for students not focused on university, but that fell away in the ‘70s.

A lot of kids just do the time and get through it, or maybe drop out, possibly learning some useful information and skills, but too often just wasting a lot of time.

You might look into Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich, John Holt’s books How Children Fail and How Children Learn, and Grace Llewellyn’s The Teenage Liberation Handbook. John Taylor Gatto, a former Teacher of the Year, wrote this great essay The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher about school:

https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
Weird article.

Poor people get good condition, fashionable recycled clothing for a few cents, and this is somehow a bad thing?

Does africa really need to be in garment production? Could they compete with vietnam/bangladesh?Banning imports and mandating locally produced clothing is likely just going to lead to forcing poor people to pay 10x more with no improvement or even worse quality.
You don’t need to adopt this style to avoid discrimination.
Long COVID-like symptoms or not, the protection afforded by COVID vaccines still clearly outweighs the negatives. This holds true especially for at-risk populations.
> Somewhere around 2010, a group of xooglers started selling CTCI (Cracking the Coding Interview)

> They single-handedly fucked hiring for the entire industry.

I'm not sure about single-handedly. I think you can blame the creators of LeetCode as well :-)
We have a clear picture of what schools would look like without the myriad of restrictions we have in Ontario - the Scandinavian countries.

No masking of young children. Minimal masking of older children, or teachers. No quadmesters. No banning of assemblies, or proms, or extra curriculars.

Your guess is not grounded in the data we are seeing from dozens of other countries.
This demo is actually fairly close to showing you a hypercube.

The six rooms in the house form six cells of the hypercube. You can make one more cube by joining up the tops of the walls: that cell is always above you. And finally, there would be one more cell below you. (To be a bit more precise: the six rooms of the house would have to be extended to be twice as tall. The tops of the walls are at coordinates (+-1, 1, +-1, +-1), but right now the bottoms of the walls are at (+-1, 0, +-1, +-1). You have to remove the floor and make the walls go all the way down to (+-1, -1, +-1, +-1).

You can do this for any 4D polytope. Taking it down a dimension, the layout of the house shows how to put a cube on a 2-sphere. I could have done it for any other 3D polyhedron. Give the sphere and the polyhedron the some centre point, and then project all the lines of the polyhedron onto the sphere. Each face of the polyhedron becomes a 2-D region on the sphere (in the case of the house, each room is a square). Going a dimension up, you can centre the 3-sphere and the polytope on the same point, and do the same kind of projection. Every cell of the polytope turns into one 3-D region of the 3-sphere.

I wish I had had time to include that.
Why do you think the stock market indexes are crashing as inflationary expectations are being entrenched?
To answer my own question two weeks later, it turns out that number quoted on GMA was specifically the percentage of vaccinated people (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid-deaths-4-comorbiditi...). Her statement had no relevance to an unvaccinated person, as the grand-parent's comment was asking about.
Sounds a lot like clothing is now “post scarcity”.

I’d have thought that was a positive thing but from the articles moral panicky tone, I guess it’s just another thing we need to feel guilty about.
Interesting trick. The two whose text messages showed that the board was aware of discrimination were two who were against it but who ultimately voted for it.

This means the rest of them could deny discrimination and say that only those two were involved.

But if you kicked them out, you’d entrench the discrimination because they were the only ones who secretly opposed. Very neat.
Thats an interesting distinction. I've heard nothing about working at IG specifically. Wonder how different it is.
The USSR wanted Alaska back in the exact same way that I want to be the CEO of Apple. There was no world in which the USSR tried to take Alaska by force.
You can, but when you're making that much above what a series A or B company pays, it's not a useful number. Having multiple offers that are comparable is what matters. A company can go ±5% but it's not like they offer you $180k and you give them your $800k Facebook total comp then they're like, "oh, I guess we'll give you $800k then."
Inhuman Figures: Robots, Clones, and Aliens
How is the universal masking working out for Japan lately?
Why shouldn't mask requirements, social distancing, Corona passport and all the other restrictions be a thing of the past.

We're well past the first vaccine shot, this is as good as it gets.

It's time to realize that.
Thanks for posting the question. Great responses. Slightly more encouraged to resurrect an old .NET app for windows and Mac. Motivation is still fleeting.
On the other hand, one could easily work at Facebook for 10 years and have enough saved up to retire immediately depending on what their living expenses look like. So taking a 30% paycut to work on something that you find more interesting is less about being able to retire and more about working on something interesting until you decide that you'd rather retire.
>Build: failing
Thanks!

There is a little bit of CSS. And I would have gone for no javascript, but unfortunately in this case that's the whole point.
>"The initial target audience for Briar includes "activists, journalists and civil society"

Sounds exactly like a project an agency would help create/infiltrate to tap unto all of the above....
Building a brand new Commodore 64 [video]
Depends where you are on the income spectrum. If you earn enough, there's a point where hiring a full-time nanny becomes cheaper than marrying a stay-at-home spouse and then getting divorced.

Nanny costs have an upper limit, alimony and child support can grow unbounded with your income.
I find it kind of fascinating how into the idea of early retirement many people on this site are. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with it as such, but… I don’t really get it. I don’t think I actually know anyone who has early-retired. What would you do with yourself? Is it not better to work for a longer time at a job you like than a shorter time at a higher paying one that you dislike?
And who audits the auditors?
Is 1000 people a day a lot more than other places? It sounds like a lot, but every place has lots of people moving to (and away from) every day.
Congrats, but the grammar was off-putting :(
One of the great talking points of capitalism is that competition breeds efficiency, so no: the complete decoupling of production from demand is at least A weird part.
>To give you a scope of the problem of game assets, "small" indie games like Stardew Valley or Terraria are close to 500MB. How on earth are you going to deploy that on the web?

A friend of mine just got 350 Mbps optical fiber to his house. I was wondering what would come along to eat up that kind of bandwidth, you just answered the question. Someone playing a game on the web could also be seeding the thing on bit-torrent at the same time, thus cutting down the hosting fees for the developer.
Don't know about FB specifically, but in Bezosland they apparently are, according to this proud Amazonian, at least:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/I-always-ask-leetcode-hard-7S...

Smells like a troll - but perhaps only "partially" so.
https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation says to use "older adults" or "aging population", and "placeholder", respectively.
I find the has_ghosting() function more problematic and reminds me of why C just sucks even if it is the appropriate choice.

c and c2 loop variables so a typo can hose you horribly. A global variable to hold the array length. ! instead of comparison to 0. Having to offset the second loop by 1. Early return which means the function will normally work fine but might result in N^2 extra time depending upon the data state. A bit trick relying on unsigned underflow without pointing out that unsigned is a key constraint even though it has a comment. An extra missing const on the incoming pointer (should be: const uint8_t * const). Braces left off the short-circuit if conditionals.

The worst part is I have personally written tons of functions like this. This is a "normal" function in C--in fact, it's far better than average.

The fact that you write C like this just shows how much we need something better.
>but getting married is betting half your stuff and a substantial amount of future earnings things will work out.

Exactly. It's greater risk for a greater reward.

Also divorce rates are significantly lower (seeing ~20% on Google) for this with a college degree
I’m sure you can find a feature that minio/ceph/swift don’t support out of the box just as i can probably find something that’s very easy to do do/add in ceph/seaweedfs but will be on the back burner of your cloud tam for a few quarters/years or do it at a cost that can’t be beat by any volume commits. At the end of the day we are payed to solve business problems with set constraints so statements like “you need s3 bc everything else is hard” are kind of myopic
I said exactly what I meant. I would like to see a trend towards passive solar design and similar principles for humans generally.

All humans, even those for whom that would be a huge step up, not just those who might currently think of it as some kind of virtuous personal sacrifice.

I would like to see a world where The Haves are not obscenely wasteful, The Have Nots are not screwed by a system that makes it impossible to find some means to get your needs met on a budget and the middle class is not being exterminated by our social practices, policies, etc.

I'm too old to believe in faerie tale endings, so I'm not holding my breath here and waiting for anyone else to agree with me. But I'm also old enough to speak my mind anyway and say exactly what I mean rather than what I think other people will find palatable or expect based on their current mental models and world view.
Blame the site operators. They probably have specifically allowed the search engine web crawlers to index their sites, while paywalling everybody else.

One possible solution would be for you to use the same user-agent string that the search engines are using, thus you will see the same content.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
seems more like a little bit of both.
His honest commitment to non-violent action is legendary. The very embodiment of Buddha teachings. His words have touched generations. He will be missed.

A quote from my favorite Thich Nhat Hanh's book Old Path White Clouds:

"The same clouds that Buddha had seen were in the sky. Each serene step brought to life the old path and white clouds of the Buddha. The path of Buddha was beneath his very feet."
So if an employee determines that they have a moral problem with Facebook, you will not let them escape?
I am grateful for the idris2-dom library by Stefan Höck: https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/idris2-dom/ . It covered most of the web APIs I used.

I'm using the WebGL API pretty directly, though. So if it were missing I could have hacked it with some foreign function calls, but it would have been a lot more effort.
Repo owner here, I just created this account, I'm a long time HN lurker.

I was surprised to find this on Hacker News, I wanted to wait until the stable release before posting on HN, but thank you for posting :)

This project is still in alpha stage, but please feel free to critique; I'd appreciate it.

Edit 1: After reading some of the comments, I want to clarify a few things:

- Because it is currently in the alpha stage, I do not host anything important on it.

- This is also my learning environment, I use Kubernetes in my day job.

- Yes it is overkill ;)

Edit 2: Wording
Please. No.

The stuff just works.

From the experience of having several critical business SaaS tools go thru constant UX changes that disrespect the user and make the product less stable, I'm actually glad Google still have some respect for the user.

That's why i will gladly buy gsuite for the businesses i provide advice to, yet actively considering replacements of core business infra of which im a power user....for several years.

Its hard to keep something running with no bugs, or downtime.

Its even harder to change something, and keep it bug free, and with no downtime.
Retirement at early age doesn't mean you stop doing things - it means you get to do things without having to regard financial consideration.
That is one of my fantasies, if I had enough time. Apply different rules to different regions of space.
>Live Commenting

>Since the UI is rendered by the server, one time, live commenting features are not available.

I've done this before with an iframe. You just don't stop rendering the page. As new comments get posted you render those comments and send them to everyone.
5 years ago I had a 40k offer in Vancouver and a 150k+signing bonus offer in Seattle.

If Canada wants to keep its talent, it's gotta pay for it
I’ll hire at $400k cash comp for 2 yrs experience and I won’t skip you for Meta. The only problem is that, like most big tech companies, it has some people who are there as a retirement.

Meta is better than Alphabet about that, though.
Yes. (This has to be the case because I'm drawing everything with triangles in WebGL.)
you are absolutely right. I couldn't figure out why GAN didn't make sense so I spelled it out and got the wrong one. It is amazing how much smaller and cooler GaN made usbc power supplies and rf power amps. I'm waiting on lunchbox welders based on it. It is so insanely efficient.
Compared to pretty much all of its peers (facebook, snapchat, instagram, tiktok, nyt, the economist) twitter allows the most content without login.
Yes. I have a suit of watermarking apps under the uMark name. Although I also have a full time job, I make as much money from uMark as I make from my job. I can easily live on any one of the incomes.

The app is developed in .Net way back in 2006 and I keep updating it periodically.
Your math makes sense, 60GHz and 600THz are a factor of 10000 apart, etc.

But that means you mixed up meters and kilometers when you did your division.

1.3km visible light telescope
Participating in a multilateral civil war is much easier than actually invading a unified country, because you have friendly forces to get you in past the frontier and help your supply lines out. Generally speaking invading armies haven’t had a great time in Russia when there wasn’t a civil war on. America on the other hand is an absolute nightmare to consider invading, given geography and the power of our navy.

The Bolsheviks were absolutely correct to be paranoid about the west’s intent towards them. But that doesn’t mean that American tanks rolling east through the Fulda gap was that likely either. Too bloody, and too likely to fail.
The model encodes some generalities that may still hold true, given that it was fit on a lot of scenarios, and a lot of brainpower went into it.

But sure, it might completely miss some novel phenomenon. It is up to the humans running the model to be aware of its limitations and accuracy.

In any case, the more heads thinking about the problem the better, and the model is an approximation of a lot of heads. And the equations can show why it thinks what it thinks.
I doubt many (any?) startups would match FB's 10-year senior engineer's total comp. That would burn up the startup's cash (and/or ownership) very quickly.

I think the main draws at a startup for a post-FAANG senior engineer are feeling good about the product they build (more useful to the world than FB's ads) or the role/environment (less bureaucracy and org process). I am sure there are many exceptions, but I suspect that after 10 years in a senior role at a FAANG money stops being the most important thing you need from a job. My 2c.
This is not accurate. Playgrounds were closed in Ontario - where the author of the piece teaches - until June 2020, and then again in April 2021.
I think EV will replace ICE in the end too, but Tesla looks to me like the type of company that isn’t still around after the transition.
> goes into maintenance mode, only getting updates when a new OS update breaks it.

I don't see anything wrong with this. Users buy software because it solves their current problem now, rather than a possible feature in the future. The revenue stream is definitely more reliable though. Just that as a user I wouldn't mind if the software I bought today stays that way forever, and as a developer I wouldn't mind developing software to completion then leaving it as that.
This is one company I really like. Hope they offer an ARM based laptop soon.
Their $1m figure is Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), so they just need $83k per month (or 333 clients paying the $249 per month).
Should’ve called it jjitsu
No. Nobody cares about the specific company when you are getting a loan.
Sorry! It is because I was too lazy to figure anything else out.

To be honest I usually used my browser's zoom functionality to make it bigger while debugging, and you can too. Changing the aspect ratio would require some code changes, though.
If he had a $330k salary, 30% is roughly $100k. Take 50% for marginal income taxes and he’s banking an extra $50k/year into retirement savings. That’s almost enough to support a comfortable year of retirement for most FIRE people, even before compounded investment returns kick in.

As someone mid career and planning on early retirement, I look at this situation as a choice between working X more years at Facebook being mildly fulfilled or 2*X years elsewhere for only a chance at being happier.

Again that’s my personal view based on my own retirement goals and savings rate. I’m sure he made the right choice for himself.
What is the greater reward?
In the last few days several major publications have had articles discussing the grey areas of the covid response in ways that didn't seem acceptable recently. It feels like we've made a cultural shift from pandemic to endemic, and fear has much receded. HN readers are flagging these topics less heavily too. It's encouraging.
I’m not sure how it would, at least these days. Mortgage underwriting is, I gather, pretty formulaic now. There was a time where it was an advantage if the branch manager approved of you, but particularly after the last crash, banks started getting a bit worried about that approach.
Must be a challenge to find LeetCode Hard questions that you can somehow tie back to one of the Leadership Principles.
Nedium: A libre, cross-platform client to browse Medium
It’s a de facto format in eDiscovery (litigation document disclosure).
This is downvoted but I think it is true, self hosted services don't get nearly as much love as they need. It takes a huge amount of effort, monitoring, and knowledge on the specific tools to be able to host them securely and detect intrusions. I attempted self hosting for years but decided it ultimately wasn't worth it and that I have very little ability to prevent against attacks or detect that they had happened.