skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great summary. She's also one of the only people to help create more parts for someone living with an iron lung[0]. Unlike a lot of people, she seems to actually 'give a shit' about things happening in the world.

Her "skimpy outfits" are part of lesbian culture. One of the lesbian archetypes she enjoys being a part of entails her clothing choices and physique. I don't think that's any different than other cultures. Her content was never branded for children anyway, I don't understand what the issue Youtube has.

The crazy shit she's had said to her on social media makes me gobsmacked over and over again. You always hear people say they get these sorts of comments but she seems to get them a lot more, and a lot worse. It's really heartbreaking.

I've learned a lot from her, enjoy her videos, and yeah. This is just another example of how broken Youtube and Google are.

[0] https://archive.org/details/youtube-4VKZTmTP7oY
> Sigh... while talented, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of taste and the YouTube TOS to gain subscribers.

So, we have an article about the negative consequences of dressing like she does, and you're still here pushing the "she does this only 'cause she benefits from it"?! She really, obviously does not benefit from it.

> She pretends to be some women's rights activist when she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation.

Dude, this is so beyond false it's insulting. She's an accomplished engineer. Sorry you don't like how she dresses—hell, I don't especially, either. But to ignore everything she has accomplished and act like she's a pornographer because of it? Your misogyny is appalling.
In most dictatorships, many journalists are usually horribly mistreated. They get jailed, “commit” suicide, or vanish i.e. NK, Iran, Belarus, etc.

Unfortunately those governments’ tone and narrative is similar to what you’re saying here (based on my personal experience). Don’t get me wrong, I am not implying you are the same or you have the same intentions. It’s a different context. But this narrative, without rooting out the cause, leads to the rise of those dictatorships.

My point is that the problem is the system that incentives a group of people to game it as, you rightly mentioned, in order to be more successful. They have to get the most viewers, reader, clicks, impressions, you name it. It’s all the same.

The ways things work lead to emergence of toxic “journalism” and rotten social media platforms. These are side effects.
Awesome textbook. My OS professor in college switched from the dinosaur book to this book to alleviate some financial burden for students.
The situation you describe is not what you face in leetcode. The key here is "a problem space not seen before".
Bugs in production by definition are problems in a domain on which you are currently working and are familiar with. So yes in that case I would expect someone to work efficiently even under pressure.
But a problem in a completely new problem space no. Someone may know for example that a presented problem can be seen as graph traversal problem but may be blocked for the moment on the actual implementation of it. This is a context switching problem and not a performance problem.
You’d pop that bubble in a few directed questions wouldn’t you?
That was how it worked in the US with software retailers back in the days when most of us got our consumer software from the local Egghead, CompUSA, etc or from mail order companies like PC Warehouse, CDW, etc.

The stores were really more like real estate companies and payment processors than what most people think of when they think "retailer". They rented shelf space to manufacturers/distributors and handled the money when someone bought something. (For the catalog companies, replace "shelf space" with "page space").

This was why when after you decided in late 1995 to upgrade to something better than Windows 3.1 and walked into Egghead to buy a new OS you'd see Windows 95 somewhere prominent visible from the door, probably with banners touting how great it is, and OS/2 Warp would be on the bottom row of some shelf in the back of the store with poor lighting and enough dust to suggest that not even the person who is supposed to vacuum bothers to go back there.

Microsoft paid for prime real estate in the store and in-store advertising for Windows 95. IBM did the minimum possible that would get OS/2 Warp to be somewhere in the store.
Excellent point! As you imply, bad code compounds the need for job openings:

* bad code requires more maintainers than good code

* it's hard to find people to work on it — partly because the code is bad, and partly because whatever process that _led to_ bad code is probably still around
I enjoy programming challenges and do them for fun and I see their value as an exercise in thinking, but the problems I solve with them aren’t a reflection of the real world work I do or have done. I’ve never needed a topological sort in my day jobs.

If a company asks me to complete a leetcode style code challenge they are not getting a representation of the work I’ll do day to day, so I always make a point in an interview to say, “I may have passed your test but please don’t judge me on that basis, let’s discuss my work”.

They’re garbage as a hiring tool for lots of reasons, but mostly it comes down to the reality that they just aren’t representative by any stretch of the imagination.
Don’t forget about the year she spent asking Signal to put a warning in place for Android users that have third-party keyboards. Apparently an extremely common thing in China and something that totally undermines Signal’s security without people realising.

Signal put the warning in, of course, after she got enough white men to repeat her request. Until the right people reported the problem, the only response she got was Moxie blocking her and dismissing the issue. I don’t see how that isn’t an operational vulnerability a mile wide for Signal: security problems go ignored if people from the wrong demographic report them.
It happened to me once too, when I was still wet behind the ears, my mind went totally blank, could barely remember my own name. It didn’t help when one of the two men interviewing me said “look, we don’t want bullshitters here”.

I wonder if I’m one of the anecdotes about people in tech who can’t do the basics. That would at least amuse me somewhat.
> Edit: On that note, it's kind of ironic how every Android phone has the DNA of a company Apple cofounded and initially led.

You do realize that the ARM architecture existed for almost a decade before Apple was involved, right? From 1981-1990.

Apple was involved with ARM Ltd, the company that was formed when the chip division was rolled out of Acorn; not in the design of the original chips. Apple wasn’t significantly involved until the ARM6. Considering Microsoft was as involved with the StrongARM project, most of which has long since been integrated into the mainline ARM architecture, you could argue their DNA is just as integrated. By your logic, at least.

> Both based on Apple's higher-performing core designs than ARM stock

ARM’s vanilla cores aren’t intended to be high performance cores. They never sought that out until the recently started X-series, which even still isn’t designed to operate in the same envelope as Apple Silicon.
Their designs have always been primarily focused on power efficiency with a secondary focus on drop-in generality.
Sexism is so deeply embedded in culture. Yes, I understand people get annoyed by language police, but we have hundreds of years of damage to undo.
If you're not willing to spend an hour every day practicing to get the job the employer doesn't want you. That's the point of leetcode interviews. Find the candidate who wants it the most.
Infra as config is such an accurate statement about terraform.
Try chickens with cars...

https://michaelhendrick.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/chickens...
I agree with most of this.

The thing about litter bins, though, is that if you do put them in good spots they are effective at modifying the behavior you are against here. If you want to affect a change in behavior, you will have better success working with the flow of how we know humans interact with the environment than against it.
A person without insurance would have payed many thousands. This is why you absolutely need good insurance in the USA.
So much the rage on YC, it became a YC company.
Yes, 120k is easy via contracting in London, however almost none of those contracts accept EU applicants even if the role is fully remote.
This is The definitive site for mind blowing ninja facts.
Let me give some advice I’ve heard from candidates: post the compensation information!

This alone will set you apart, and attract more applicants.
> A lot of HN commenters advocate for a “just trust me” hiring process where they want the interviewer to just read their resume and have a quick chat to decide if the person should be hired

That's how your manager is going to be hired, as well as all of his bosses on up.
Yes thank you. Sometimes you should just write out things explicitly ...
Something not mentioned by the author, but what I was told here on Hacker News some years ago: If your drive has too much wear (or misalignment of the drive head?) you might end up with tapes that you can only read with exactly your drive.
Do you not hire remotely from the entirety of the European Union? Would you consider hiring a web developer with 4 years of experience, of which 2.5 is backend and 1.5 is full stack (HTML, CSS, JS within a CMS)?

I am asking because that reflects my situation and I am having a difficult time interviewing with most people expecting 3+ year exclusively in frontend.

I have been trying to make a switch from backend to frontend development. I went from Backend Dev -> Fullstack Dev and I am currently trying to do the next step to -> Frontend Dev.

Would be nice to know how to approach this.
Belgian retailer shipped gaming PCs with racist hostnames
Like counting distributed streaming data with high accuracy and low latency - or especially calculating quantiles - for example.
Similar to https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/assholetax/ but where workers complain about their employers, managers, human resources department, toxic workplaces, unions, minimum wage or holiday regulations. First person stories where a worker quit on the spot or otherwise "sticked it to the man" were popular.
Yeah, IIRC on Twitter she's pointed out that it's really common for rebellious teen girls to rebel by "dressing sexy", and for women in general to be interested in fashion, and she would really like those girls and women to feel welcome in technically innovative spaces; hopefully if I've gotten that wrong she'll chime in to correct me.

Also, though, it isn't really practical for her to get her breast implants removed just because woke "feminists" at Google and NPR are uncomfortable with the sexualization of women's bodies.
> […] nor compress the data going to tape.

Just to note that tape drives have built-in compression that generally is done transparently in the background. So while using something like zstd (per the article) may get more bits on a given tape, there is some compression that one gets "for free" without doing anything at all.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Optional_tech...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape_data_storage#Dat...
That would be nice.

However, a big problem is the opacity of engineering, especially software engineering. It can be hard to tell the quality of code from the outside, and the less technical you are, the harder it is to see. There are signs of course, such as the number of bugs, but it can be hard to tell the difference between style and quality.
It's really annoying that all these new projects are using Telegram. Discord I can handle, but Telegram is a pain to setup. I'm not gonna plug my phone number into some botnet.
For me note taking is to:

- cognitively offload things for later and preserving work in progress;
- archive things without processing (like a data lake);
- build a corpus of knowledge to both improve my understanding of a subject and have a reference material that I can later look up.

I have spent a significant share of my life organizing my notes in a mnemonic tree and also writing code to improve it's usability but the dividends are starting to pay off.

It's good to have a functional 'external brain' to perform in a digital world that is filled by 'trash'. A decade ago you could find a good answer for 'everything' on Google. Today, besides a few islands of knowledge, you mostly find SEO optimized machine-generated stuff.
How much would it cost to make things right and provide full unrestricted broadband to both counties? It would go a long way to restore their image. Instead of old Google's "do no evil" adopting "make it right" would restore a lot of public faith.

There once was a person who worked to place land mines as part of their job for the khmer rouge, they spent their life trying to remove them. It didn't fix the initial destruction but it helped to set right some of the damage.
Heck, 20 years ago we had 10 years until climate change killed us all.
Battery Backup vs. Generator
> Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

"Generally correct" is a much lower bar than "always correct". It might even be a bar that JRE can pass.

Edit: where they're talking about factual matters I mean, not where they talk about aliens, big foot, and other obviously outlandish ideas where they're clearly just shooting the breeze.
Let's do the "Vaccine" next.
The Controversial ‘Calendly’ Etiquette
It's tough. I've been a hiring manager and my company is trying to hire like mad now (link in profile if you want to check it out; we legally must provide salary range so it might be of interest for comparison purposes).

My suggestions:

* widen the net. If you previously needed folks to be local, can you have them be in the UK? If you needed them in the UK, can you expand to the EU? If you previously needed ruby experts, can you work with someone who is an expert at another similar dynamic language (php, python, etc)?
* hire newer devs/junior folks if you can build or have the infrastructure to support them. From what I can see, there's not a dearth of folks looking for their first dev job. You'll just have to train them up.
* reach out to local bootcamps. There are a lot of folks there hungry for work. Sure, some of them aren't great, but there may be quite a few worth chatting with. Especially had luck with folks who had a previous career but were pivoting into tech.
* find a good recruiter. How? I'd look at recruiters who have invested in the community. I have one in Colorado who has sponsored community events for a decade. If you don't see one of those, maybe ask friends for referrals?
* be public about the company's engineering/design/product culture. This is a longer play, but can let folks self-select out or in to chatting with you. Posting on the monthly who is hiring threads here at HN is another way to be public.
* support local meetups for the technology you are using. I run a meetup and the sponsorships are quite cheap, esp when compared to recruiter fees or the opportunity cost of an unfilled job.
You could contribute translations
Everything after "essentially" is you being very presumptuous about what I believe and I didn't sign up to defend the version of me made of straw.
> The imperative approach would be to query Postgres and do the aggregation yourself. The declarative approach would be to query Postgres and ask it to do the aggregation via GROUP BY.

These solutions don't necessarily have anything to do with the concepts as you name them.
The vaccines have been shown to be safe and effective over and over. At some point you just aren't listening.
good job everyone!!! excited to see where Meilisearch is going
Yes, like I mentioned she has pushed the limits before and Youtube is well aware of her. Not saying I agree with it, but having individual videos demonetized isn't the same as having the whole channel demonetized.

Here's a video of a Youtube video getting demonetized automatically after 0 views [0], probably because of previous videos on the channel.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJd7gRAVFbo
One of the side effects of Spacex Starship, if it works, is it'll make it was easier and cheaper to send a bunch of stuff out into the solar system.
I don’t actually use it, but my understanding is that it doesn’t. There’s an Android app, at the very least.

I just know that MOG’s selling point for a long while was it’s huge metal library and license set; I see no reason for that to have been lost through its MOG->Beats->Apple Music transition.
Wouldn't be that clever. They only have one beak per bird, so travelling longer distances isn't worth the effort, or you'd have to pay them with more food. Crows can make these decisions and might decide there are easier ways to get food.
Without fear, however, you don't get any kind of progress. Fear is powerful

Disagree. Fear is not the only motivator, and it's a particularly bad one, because it spurs immediate action rather than exploration. Fear of sailing into the unknown is also what kept Europeans in the dark about the American continent for centuries.

What "fear" motivated the construction of the LHC at CERN? Wasn't it fear that caused a lot of people to advocate loudly against turning it on and performing experiments with it?

Overcoming fear drives progress (but it is by no means the only driver). Giving in to fear just leads to regression.
Historically though she's done her builds herself, and she's been careful to call out the exceptions where a friend wrote some firmware for her or something. Not sure about video editing, I think she does that herself too. I don't think it's accurate to accuse her of "movie magic".
Vaccine refusal has directly lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. At some point we have to stop acting like its ok.
Europe may well be different, but anecdata: I live and work in the northeast US, I suck at leetcode / FAANG-style whiteboard interviews, and I make about $300k/yr (albeit via long-term contract gigs as a consultant w/ my own tiny S-Corp).
I think the context was replying to "You Need Docker Desktop", which used to be true with WSL1. WSL2 opens up the option to run regular Docker in the WSL2 instance, which doesn't have to be Ubuntu, but could be.
I agree that the aftermath of 9/11 wasn’t handled properly. You can’t react to a terror attack by becoming more afraid of terrorism—that just means that the terror attack was a success.
The osm.org main site is primarily intended to be used by mappers, not end users. So for this purpose it makes sense to use local languages since most people doing the mapping will be locals.

Other renderings such as the maps with me app use the appropriate names for the users language if available.
What’s the hardest test called?
Interesting point of view. So why are you labeling what the experts that Rogan brings on as "presenting contrarian hot takes"? Is it just because they're different from what another group of experts are saying? What gives one expert-group the right to say something more than what some other experts-group?

Then again if you read my comment carefully, you can see that I'm not "dismissing" what Neil himself is saying/doing, but what the comment I'm replying to did, which is labeling one thing as dangerous and the other as not. Which IMO is dangerous for the opinion holder themselves because it eradicates any chance of self-inspection.

I'd really like you to specify as clearly and concisely as possibly why you think the two positions are not equally worthy of my attention:

- A) the experts that are pro something

- B) the experts that are against something

Is it just the "near-unanimous consensus" as you put it? How is it near-unanimous? and who's consensus is it? And does consensus make things unquestionable? Not exactly clear on what you're trying to say.

Or are you saying that the people Rogan brings on are not experts? Or were experts and not anymore? If so, please provide some examples.
Muslim Prayer Apps Sold Location Data to a Controversial Data Broker
It's not “virtue signaling” to say that someone should not use their platform to foment deadly misinformation. Rogan isn't talking about sports, or debating whether someone's music is better than another artist's, he's giving weight to people who are pedaling advice which will reliably harm people.

It's especially interesting to see you attack the scientific consensus as a “biased narrative” because that's what you are actually trying to promote. The scientific process isn't perfect but it includes a lot of effort to avoid bias, starting with how things like experiments are designed and conducted. Claiming that someone else's politically-motivated position deserves equal weight is revealing that the problem here isn't bias but rather that it's not biased in the direction you would like.
The difference being that one of those examples is illegal.
Humans seem to have a lifespan of around 100. 2000 years ago people lived into their 90’s, and a few even made it to 100.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...

Modern medicine should be able to get more people into their 90’s but we’ll need to do a bit of research to get us to 150,
for instance.
yep - part of our fix was ordering the expires such that the invariants are maintained even if the expires arn't exactly at the same time (we are assuming expires are at least ordered)
Yes you are given the tools but given a novel problem from leetcode, how likely are you to solve it within the pressures and time constraints of an interview environment? And how is the problem solving process indicative of engineering competency? It misses on some key points, for example integrating DB queries, refactoring, clean code, good git commit messages. And I’d argue the biggest miss is evaluating how well you can read other peoples code.
You can select people to display in your man on the street interview segment to make it look like the average American doesn’t know who the President is.

Regardless of what some people in Harlem think, data shows that minorities are in fact much less likely to have government ID.

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/d...
I don't think it is fair that you are downvoted, the parallel you are presenting is a real question, eg. how much does being good at leetcode correlate with being good at solving production issues timely and efficiently? (Even if real life production issues are _not_ leetcode problems, but nobody said that.)

I don't think that there are any conclusive studies covering this, so both sides might be correct for all we know.
Dialect variation, English second-language speakers, etc. may be classified as better or worse (though this is controversial and I'm not entirely convinced for the dialect variation case), but that doesn't mean that they don't have something important to say. Some of the most productive conversations I've had are with people with far less mastery of English than native speakers, and even people whose grammar and spelling are poor.
IF YOU DON"T WRITE IT DOWN... IT NEVER HAPPENED
> $12,399 per minute in transactions

> Junior dev didn't show up

Why is the junior dev in charge of something so important? What were the senior people working on instead that was more important than this? Sounds like he cracked under the pressure. Where was leadership?
Is the Great Resignation Overblown?