skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't get how this has become the standard, on the team I hire for we do two interviews - one introductory conversation, and a technical interview. After that we're either going to hire you or we aren't, it really doesn't take much more than that to get an idea of whether somebody knows what they're doing or not.

The trend for running multiple multi-day interviews is a waste of the candidates time, and its even more of a waste of your teams time because for every candidate they're now having to take out hours on end to go through the motions of interviewing. I find it painful getting 20 minutes into a 90 minute interview and knowing that the candidate isn't going to be getting a job, I can't imagine having to string that along for a full day.
But that wouldn't attract so many HNers to comment.
Amazon built a literal rainforest for their employees:

https://www.seattlespheres.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2018/01...
DeepCite, Traversing links to find the deep source of information
Since packages are derived from Debian (which supports arm 64), I assume pretty much all packages you can install from the Raspbian repos for 32 bit will still be available.
I see the link (from 3 February) is to a short video capture of the ship burning and apparently with a broken back judging by the fore and aft deck angles.

Other sources give latest updates [0][2] which show of ten crew, three (or four) are known to have died, three recovered but their health unclear, and four (or three) still unaccounted for. The vessel spit in two and partially sank. Some information suggests it was operating in shallow water (~30m) in the Niger river delta.

The vessel is the FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) unit Trinity Spirit [1], a single hull VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) built in 1976 and converted to a FPSO in 1997, operated by SEPCO (Shebah Exploration and Production COmpany) Limited, a Nigerian business apparently currently in administration.

According to some reports [2] SEPCO, or this specific vessel, lost its production license in 2019 and was only storing approximately 60,000 of its 2,000,000 barrel capacity. It is over 30 years old, operating 20 years beyond its design life with reports stating it was poorly maintained.

[0] https://shipsandports.com.ng/sepcol-vessel-explosion-death-t...

[1] http://marinelike.com/en/vessels/7370325-trinity_spirit.html

[2] https://www.hazardexonthenet.net/article/189306/Three-crewme...
Developer makes off with all the funds for the Ratz Club NFT project
I'm already looking at it that way. the concept of a company recruiting various agents under its name, the concept of managing cohorts of humans to extract most value from them, elaborating organisational structures with promotion/termination schemes, the whole thing is a form of modern slavery.

- We are born with a certain social position
- Many can't make ends meet
- We are talked into thinking each can escape his fate and rise, if he work hard at it
- Only a few get entirely liberated
- The liberated are examplified as role models
- Those are the top don't need to perform any work
- They spend a good chunk of their time making sure their position isn't threatened
- The owners are free to trade their ownership, and they often do

No need to be Marxist to view the system as inherently rigged and work out a way to escape it in favor of independent trading relationships with one another,with no agency as intermediary.
Unikraft is based on a small trusted compute base, meaning there is nothing else running with a unikernel, no ssh, no daemons, no Linux, etc.

Towards increasing security, however, we have just introduced native support for Rust[0] in Unikraft, paving the way for more internal libraries to be based on this secure and performant language.

[0]: https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft/pull/348
I agree with you, taxation does nothing but enable the government to work on projects it deems important in the name of helping the public. It's inefficient and obviously open to corruption.

If we really think that it is unjust for money to be concentrated in the hands of the rich and should go to the public instead of their heirs or private interests, there should be an option of zeroing out one's bank account. That is, literally destroying money (not to be confused with wealth). This should have roughly the same effect as dividing up one's fortune and distributing it evenly to all holders of that currency.
https://justine.lol/
This is important; words matter, especially in this delicate case.
My first tech job I made ~8k$ a year, due to being under 25 years old. My second job as a programmer was 33k$ a year, about 40% more than a cleaner in my city.

It just feels ridiculous that US salary can be 10x this, when costs of living are very similar. Apartments in my city in Sweden is about 200k$, houses 500k$.
> government was subsidizing your car-centric lifestyle

Huh. In my closest city, the parking is expensive and the local government taxes the shit out of it.
They never said it would prevent infection. Find me one instance of Fauci or the head of the CDC saying that and I'll retract what I said. Sure you'll find some quack on extremes of vax/antivax but not a single scientist of any renown said "the vaccine will 100% prevent infection and sickness", you won't find it, I guarantee it but if you want to waste a few hours on google the go right ahead.
Sorry - I thought you were referring to the parent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172268).

To answer your question, though - I believe OP's major concern is that the direction WP is heading gives the _client_ more control over the website structure and design rather than the original designers & developers. Making it less useful for their more rigid requirements and corporate environments.
> Is The Forest just a play on the name Amazon

Yes.
When a person takes an ostensibly principled stand to defend the right to post health lies and racist speech on a private service for profit, while remaining silent as government agents ban books and force teachers to tell lies to their students, it is becomes obvious that the principles were always bullshit.
> a standard library that doesn't require import statements

I consider this a non-feature in JS. The global namespace is enormous and growing rapidly. As I recall, PHP’s global namespace is similarly enormous (and notorious for its inconsistencies and redundancies). I understand that there are ergonomic advantages to not having to import built-ins, but I think framing it as a feature deserves a healthy asterisk :)

> fibers, a way do asynchronous execution without every function in the callstack having to be aware of it

This isn’t built into JS, but there’s an implementation of it, mostly used and popularized by Meteor. Again it has some ergonomic benefits, but I think it can too easily hide/obscure deoptimizations—eg performing IO operations in sequence which would be better performed concurrently.
The average tenure numbers are misleading when a company rapidly expands and hires many new people.
Yep if you go on levels.fyi you can see that recent promos to SDE 2-3 make 100-200k less than external hires.

They probably were testing new paybands to see what stuck.

The bleeding has to be pretty bad for them to make an announcement like this though, otherwise they'd quietly bump up pay/bonuses for their top performers.
Some make millions for Authors who take those papers and cite them in popular psych books. The actual authors of the papers are rarely, if ever, making millions.
The only poster I think is a problem is the coronavirus curling one. Blaming a nation for a viral outbreak is kind of not cool. The rest, they earned for sure.
My first job after I moved away from my parents when I was 21 was at a convention company, ostensibly as a "Jr Java Developer".

This turned out to be flatly untrue; I could count on one hand the number of lines of Java code I actually touched at that company, and when there was code to be written, it was in ColdFusion of all languages. Most of my time was spent being stuck designing nametags, and I cannot put into words the level of hatred I had for that job, but I was afraid to quit because I had just gotten an apartment and didn't have the direct parental support that I had previously.

They ended up firing me after my manager ended up overhearing me calling them a "moron who didn't know anything" [1], and I was sad at first, but the next morning I was happy, maybe even elated, because it was the first weekday that I didn't have to back to that awful job.

They had done me a favor firing me, I'm honestly grateful they did. I would never have quit because of fear of being homeless, but I managed to bounce back fairly quick into a better (and luckily higher-paying job.

TL;DR, I completely agree that a firing can be a "mutual breakup".

[1] To be fair to me a little, while my choice of words in hindsight was bad, I honestly did not know she heard me until after I said it. I felt like an asshole immediately after, but I also didn't apologize because it wasn't like I didn't mean it.
Really weird you just jump to "biology," as I assume your kids have access to media and at some point interacted with someone else other than you (children and adults).

I didn't learn gendered behavior or thoughts from my parents but I learned them from everyone else and society as a whole. I learned from a very, very young age that some of my interests were very much not acceptable for girls and I internalized a lot of it.
Ask HN: How long until Google charges for private Gmail accounts?
Given the recent changes to workspace, it seems inevitable that someone at Google start to think this might be a huge revenue generator
Most of the confusion is semantic in nature. Whether defund means remove all funding or just some funding.

I think some radicals wanted to remove all funding, and radicals on the other side latched onto that and spread that as if it were the truth.

Defund the police has mostly been about reallocating budgets between agencies. There are, however, a few specific branches of police that protestors have want shut down, but not to remove policing entirely.
Just my opinion, but I really hate any message created from the template "Shhhh... I'm making a snarky remark against the guy you replied, not contributing to the discussion constructively."

Do better next time.
I guess my advice is US-specific, so apologies if this doesn't apply. I'm assuming you have health insurance either through your employer or your partner's. If so, they most likely have a portal that will help you find nearby specialists who are on your insurance network. Take a look there and research a few therapists, psychologists, or psychiatrists. You might have to meet a few before you find one who clicks. The good news is that many (most?) are doing virtual consultations these days, so there's a lot less friction to having a meeting.
In Cargo it's not merely a suggestion, but actual implemented behavior. Cargo takes the first non-zero number as the major incompatible version, and this influences dependency resolution.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Amazon values their stock grants as if it grows 15% every year. Obviously this is pretty optimistic and makes their offers not directly comparable to other companies that value their stock using current prices.

They're easily comparable because current prices incorporate all publicly available information (and even some non-public). If you accept the 15% assumption, you're letting them hoodwink you.
whilst warehouse workers earn what...
"Well, in that sense, aren't leftists also "taking on responsibility and getting out of the relationship", by e.g. organizing, protesting, throwing down governments, and establishing global socialism? :)"

That is just crying for help, not creating what they want themselves.

"Yes, but what's missing is that a city structured for cars is already a different beast than a city structured for pedestrians (and/or bikers). You can always personally use or not use a car in city X. But if X is built for car use, it wont be a good city to walk or bike in."

There it is again. They should not whine about "cities being built for car use", they should build (or move to) cities build for bicycle use, if that is what they want. Cities are being built by people, not by some mysterious higher powers.

"So, if enough people want to reshape it, they should be able to have a go."

Exactly. They should just do it, not whine about capitalism.
Transforming JavaScript logging from a bad habit to best practice
Good, let them leave.
Why not just seize all cash from all armored cars regardless of what kind of business it is? I don't see the distinction from seizing the cash from a LEGAL marijuana business versus seizing it from Walmart. What law is being broken by the marijuana business or the cash-movers?
Thank you! That's my past life as well. The impedance mismatch between what I knew was possible on the market design front courtesy of my academic background and what I did day-to-day as an algo trader is part of the origin story. Steve and I want to figure out how we could bring Smart Markets to finance so that everyone could spend more time on alpha and less time on market structure workarounds.
If you spend a huge amount of money on police, and get bad outcomes for both crime rate and negative impacts of policing, there's really two options:

- The money is poorly spent, and better (perhaps less) spending would obtain better outcomes

- Because of other factors, we're doing approximately as well as we can: if we deployed resources away from the authoritarian, heavy-handed mechanisms, we'd have even more crimes and bad outcomes.

I think the former is more likely, but I can't entirely exclude the latter.
Not OP, but IMO WSB used to be interesting because it represented a small contrarian movement within the highly structured world of finance; a ‘secret club,’ if you will. I always browsed WSB primarily because it was fun, not because I expected to get mega-rich; after the GME blowup/meme-ification/massive media coverage, now everybody and their grandma trades OTM options (and now penny stocks and cryptos and NFTs etc etc) and it just isn’t cool anymore.
> No, I just don't want thousands of confusingly named, completely worthless and/or actively harmful functions to always be in scope.

Again, why would you care whether some functions that you don't use are available should you want to use them someday? It's not as if there's a huge list of thousands of functions stapled to the beginning of all your code files that you have to scroll for 5 minutes before reaching your code.
> Why did [Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown] need to imply that she might have acted differently [during her confirmation hearing]

Because she was looking for approval from the Democratic Party? Are you asking why the Democratic Party cares about the opinions of the "activist left" ?

> But most of the US, from the Puritan-descended WASP northeast, to the Midwest, to the South, never struck me as especially individualist

Religion in the Northeast seems more like a token thing rather than a way of life (eg "Christmas and Easter Catholic"), and despite communal structures the entire US is still steeped in individualism. One of the current major political issues of the political right, anti-mask / anti-vaccine, rests mainly on appeals to individual freedom! It's front and center in the founding documents - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
I kind of don't like the huge push for sets, because it feels like it ruins childhood imagination. You're just following instructions and not actively building something new. I know Lego sells the "Classic" sets, but it's usually harder to find and relegated to the clearance aisle.
I did actually! As jcun2148 pointed out, the game of trying to return the hyper cube to the start position is a great way to start building intuition.
To describe what each rotation axis does in words: There are six axes of rotation because there are 6 perpendicular planes in 4D (xy, xz, xw, yz, yw, zw). The 3 of these which only use xyz are just the regular axes of rotation. The other three rotate between a regular axis and the 4th dimension. This has the effect of a kind of toroidal wrapping (you may have animations of this, where the inner cubes wrap around to become the outer cube) oriented in the direction of the other xyz coordinate.
I am aware how big the markets are. I am also aware that transaction costs are miniscule.

By your own data above, if typical fees are $0.0009 per share traded, $1tr in costs implies notional value of instruments traded each year of approx $1x10^17, assuming average price of $100 / share.
Reddit (or any social network for that matter) was never meant to attract the same quality crowd and comments as HN.

Social networks, in their design, are destined to degrade over time no matter how much technology is used, because it is a refection of the collective corrupt human nature.

I thought Linkedin was an exception until
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30215033

HN is not a social network and hopefully stays that way. The slight degradation you see might be due to COVID, where people flooded online in general. But you can still find great content because its core community and function remain fundamentally the same since inception.

Note: I mainly use HN as a information filter and research tool.
Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant
It's Time to End Mandatory Masks in Schools
Hmm what do you mean?

They announced the numbers, before perf season even started.

Everyone is going to be asking can I get ~350k? Base salary before was half that...
I really enjoy the Creator series. I don't really have money to spend more than $30 on a set at a time. It's also cool all(?) of them are 3 in 1, so you can choose between 3 instructions. It's fun to mix them and build new as well.
What about Linux? I guess there isn't enough market for laptop makers to even bother releasing arm laptops unless Windows supports it.
This doesn't say where the money comes from.
The end of the monopolistic web era?
Really nice project! I’ve been looking for something like this, and typically end up building a very minimal version of it for projects. Are you looking for help or contributors? Would love to contribute if possible.
I wonder how much of the "managing processes" part could be delegated to software tools? How many of these processes could be automated, or "managed" by some sort of workflow software. Would it be possible with the right software product to essentially distribute the role of manager across the team/company?
I tried to qualify it "should put it in a good position" but I guess I wasn't handwavy enough. Indeed, the C code could be inefficient. But, for example, nim uses a C backend unlike Python which interprets bytecode.
Any credible UBI proposal always involves raising taxes to support payments to everyone. Usually the marketing pitch is that it will be a wash for the middle class (tax increases ~= UBI payouts). But of course "middle class" is poorly defined and spans a wide range of incomes that aren't taxed the same. Presumably a middle class family in San Jose would have a much different calculation than a similar family in Des Moines.
Without question this "word" can be broken down further.

Each of those characters can be broken down further into their radicals. And, those radicals tell you a lot about the meaning. When I lived in Japan I could identify anything botanical by the tree radical even if I didn't know the character.

Every single native Japanese speaker will look at that character and see that "word" contains the word for war (it's a beautiful and striking character).

Every single word in every single language has a long history with dozens of influences.

Japanese is not Chinese. But, the influences of that language are all over Japanese. Almost every character has a Japanese and at least one or more Chinese pronunciations.

It is absolutely not correct to say "it is a single word and cannot be broken down any further."

Source: I'm not a native speaker, but I've got a degree in Japanese, and lived there for two years, and have been studying it for thirty years.
I’ve had my identity stolen (twice!). The first time I got things untangled, the second time I headed it off. You’re not wrong to be paranoid, but billionaires have bank accounts and hand over their passports all the time. If you keep a low-enough profile and secure your info, you probably don’t have much to worry about. Roughly 1.5 million families in the US are worth more than $10m and they manage.
Considering Google/Facebook your “peers” is a common mistake people at MSFT make when they complain about comp. MSFT targets 67 percentile pay (which is actually above median, contrary to what everyone says), while GOOG/FB target > 95. They may be your competitors, but they are certainly not your peers (at least market-wise). Microsoft has managed to have great business results with 67 percentile SWE talent for a decade.
My understanding is:
1) Given Peter Thiel is for more capitalism and more libertarian initiatives;
2) Peter Thiel believes that women's enfranchisement prevented more capitalism and libterarian initiatives;
3) Peter Thiel believes at the very least that women's enfrachisement has a consequence of preventing more of what he stands for.
I get the same way about a lot of modern NPR shows and the podcasts that ape them... carefully scripted and produced to sound like two friends just hanging out and talking about the interesting article one read in The Atlantic. Notice how any "guest" gets their interview chopped into sub-sentence snippets with the hosts interjecting between... who knows what the original actually said before it got edited to fit the story!
> There are already many countries with generous welfare states where one does not have to work and could theoretically live off the government, yet they manage just fine.

I didn’t know there were any countries like this? Would you please link to a few?
I wish I could rent a set. I’d love to put a huge set together, but after that I don’t really want it anymore and don’t want to deal with the hassle of selling it.
Oh our company is fully on 7.x and looking to move existing projects to 8.x. (New ones being deployed to 8.x already)

The enterprise client is the one on 5.x (for an interop program for B2B order processing), in a secured intranet system behind firewalls (multiple, on occasion one of their teams breaks one while updating it and we lose access for a day) and a VPN.

They might get up to 7.x this year when they retire the server "our" VM within there is on and reprovision to some new metal.

But by all means, go try and bypass their procurement and change process. I'm sure they'll appreciate your insight into rapidly changing a component of one of their main revenue streams... Just let me grab some popcorn first :)

To be a little less cutting, its admirable to want to be clean and proper, to do it all the right way 100% of the time... But that ain't how the world works and you either bend to accommodate and try to do some good, or scream into the digital void... Your choice.
> They even play minecraft differently!

Pls explain
I'm more concerned that GMail will be shut down, just like most other useful Google products and services. They'll tell everyone to go use this messaging app they released last month.
Did you compile it in release mode?
Well made! Can you share how you made the website?
As a Xoogler I would have been very pleased indeed with a door-sized desk instead of the little A4-sized desks they were cramming everyone on when I left in 2018. The downward trend of personal space in the industry has been awful. As a part-time undergraduate sysadmin I had a private office. At my first commercial job in the 90s I had a door on filing cabinets. My last desk at Google wasn't even big enough for my display and laptop at the same time. The only bright side of permanent WFH, IMHO.