skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a lesson I learned the hard way with my first startup: Be cautious about how much you undercut your largest competitors unless/until you have deep pockets and/or unless you're very sure that their economics makes it impossible for them to undercut you on price, because the more you undercut them the more you're inviting a price war you can't win without deep pockets the moment they perceive you as a threat.

When trying to enter an established market to compete on price as your primary differentiator it's often better to keep your margins higher to start with than offer the steepest cut you think you can afford, and then drop your prices slowly as you build up volume and a war chest.
I've recently been doing a fair amount of reading about how craftsmanship worked in late medieval and renaissance Europe -- think crafts guilds of Florence, which were the societal context where the Medici happened and Leonardo da Vinci and many of those good things.

One of the things that jumped out at me was that gatekeeping was institutionalized at the guild-level, rather than the level of the individual company.

You only had to prove to the guild of wool once that you knew how to work with wool at the master craftsman level, and then the individual merchants and companies within the same guild would accept that more or less at face value.

If there were repeated complaints about your craftsmanship, those, too, surfaced at the guild level rather than just the individual company level, and might put an end to your guild membership.

It would be really cool if the ACM, BCS, IEEE, or any one of those professional associations, started doing something like that, i.e. you could just be an "IEEE-certified dude who friggin just knows what they're doing". Then companies could just say "people without IEEE-certification at the master craftsman level need not apply", instead of giving people exams of technical competence that are insulting to the people who will actually pass them.

On the other end of the lifecycle, an employer who finds an employee repeatedly falling short on craftsmanship could report that person to the IEEE, and they would investigate the complaint and revoke certification if appropriate.

Also: This is how it works for doctors & lawyers, and some other kinds of professionals. I don't understand why it wouldn't be equally useful in Software Engineering to have such a system.
I’ve been using Linux for 24 years and didn’t know about this. Mind blown.
https://archive.ph/U1HEJ
If I ever look for a job again my plan is to give the hiring managers my performance reviews from my previous company. There's enough information in them that speaks to the kind of engineer I am in the real workplace working on real projects with real people. I think that + a 1-2 hour conversation to verify that I know what I'm talking about (i.e. I didn't forge the perf review) should be sufficient for hiring manager to assess if I'd be a good fit in their role. I think that will be a lot better/easier for everyone.
DARPA funds all kinds of stuff. The national defense angle I think should be obvious at this point post COVID.
The problem is that device manufacturers employ additional killers and "efficiency managers" because too many app vendors use one of the various workarounds to collect data or whatever the fuck they are doing otherwise.

Google won't do much against it because the worst of the data hoarders are the f2p games that make money for themselves by selling the user data they can get their hands on and make also a lot of money for Google via all the IAP commissions.
Indeed, and the article leaves out other relevant issues, such as where else the question was discussed, and also when - the article rather glibly suggests a rescue mission could have been launched, but that would have been a very risky action in its own right, even if it had been started on the day of the launch; it remains uncertain whether Columbia's oxygen could have been stretched out long enough even then. There were no other alternatives.

This led to a certain realistic fatalism:

"Then [Linda Ham] delivered the sentence that would define the rest of the tragedy; a sentence that was repeated as common wisdom by almost every senior manager that I talked to over the next two weeks: ‘You know, if there was any real damage done to the wing, there is nothing we can do about it.’ As unsettling as that was, I had to agree; going back to the first shuttle flight it had been well known that there was no way to repair the heat shield in flight. Nobody, not even me, thought about a rescue mission. Why would we?" - Wayne Hale, https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/after-ten-years-d...

Once it became clear, during the investigation, that the foam impact had created a hole in the reinforced carbon-carbon leading edge of the wing, the board's chairman, Admiral Hal Gehman, insisted that a test should be performed to demonstrate that this was likely. As this meant destroying one of the few spare parts, and it had not been decided at this point to retire the shuttles, he was unsure whether this was worth doing, but what convinced him to go ahead was the number of engineers and managers who still doubted this could have happened, despite all the evidence.

It is never just one thing.

The whole of Wayne Hale's retrospective starts here: https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/after-ten-years-w...
So it’s about escaping the sandbox around Lua interpreter, not escaping some sandbox Redis itself is running in?
Why focus on political ads? Is facebook fact-checking ads for products and services?
Tufte isn't exactly wrong, but the way he writes has so much certainty in it. In reality, the design choices people make in the media they use has as much to do with social norms and culture as what really works.

Alternatives like Prezi exist, but are not really going to be accepted in formal presentations https://infovisu.com/assets/pubs/linder2015beyond.pdf .

If you really bring me a physical piece of paper today, I doubt I would be able to keep track of it.
I am a fan of native apps but I do have to admit it is nice that slack is -exactly- the same on any platform you access it from and that will continue to be the case without any effort from their developers. Different ports of native apps invariably start drifting unless lots of care is taken to make sure they don’t, and that does not happen to always be a priority for companies.
In that case, I'm sure China would support the West, with loans. With generous interest rate for China.
The problem is, unless if you're paying candidates, I think you're selecting for a group of desperate people. Which is to say, I don't think that your process respects candidate's time. You talk about give and take, but all I see is take--"submit to our process or F off." Or enlighten me, what are you giving in the exchange?

To me it sounds like you needed some way to thin the stack of resumes, and this is the method you chose. I'm just skeptical that you're going to get a lot of quality candidates. How are you going to pull developers who are comfortable in their existing jobs with such onerous requirements? These are people worth hiring: they're competent, skilled, and don't need to find another job.

Though looking at your profile a little, I think the answer is clear: you don't try to. Rather, I think maybe what you mean when you say fit is "we filter for people who need this job so badly that they'll go through our hoops to get it."

perhaps its that a web dev shop can't afford to hire the best talent, so the that sort of a filter is useful.
I’d prefer to earn a badge from a single coding test on leetcode or similar. Then companies can have more confidence in applicants’ skills and skip the code tests.
Ripcord [0] supports slack, but probably lacks a few features. It's very fast.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
It really depends on the ISP. After spending some time trying to get phishing sources taken down and not getting anywhere, I wouldn't be hopeful about DDoS (reflection) sources being taken down either. When I was running servers that were getting DDoSed frequently (but thankfully for short intervals and not with tons of bandwidth), trying to get chargen servers or wordpress servers fixed didn't even seem like an option. Just make sure my servers wouldn't fall over, or at least would fall over gracefully.
There is nothing wrong with a hiring manager recognising that an exam helps them make a hiring decision. What you really need to worry about are hiring managers are incapable of filtering without exams and not using exams.
Drawlogo86: Draw your logo when you boot your USB stick
Thank you! Pipe is revenue based financing focused on SaaS companies (Bill discounting) which means the company is pledging their revenue stream to Pipe. The 8vdX early stage venture debt is unsecured with founder friendly terms which includes 0% cash interest (we can take SAFE instead) and conversion of principal into equity instead of repayment.
Firing someone is much more expensive than it is to just give someone a shitty coding test and losing out on a few good devs
I'm not even that unusually tall and without investigating this even at all, I'm more than 50% confident that the height adjustment will still be a foot too short even on its highest setting.
> will give Russians a chance to reestablish home brands

This is delusional. There's not enough talent nor capital to replace everything from Caterpillar to Xbox, and much of what's considered domestic is partially or fully imported, eg https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501361272230752262
The damage happened during launch. Unless you're talking about how the insulation was old and NASA knew that insulation can, and had in the past, struck shuttles.
What's the alternative? As a Hiring Manager, do I need to spend multiple hours with 20 candidates to get a really valuable insight into who they are really like or should I just screen them with a basic exam so I only need to interview the 4 who can do it?

What insults me is when someone wants to be paid more than a doctor based on no qualifications and the fact that they tell me they are worth it. If you cannot do the exam but can discuss it with the company who accept your argument then great, if you can't then you probably don't want to work for them anyway so just chalk it up to experience and move on.
>The title is saying we need to be careful because a tile was likely penetrated.

To the point of the article, I think this is the wrong takeaway, meaning the slides were not communicating effectively.

The second point illustrates this. It says the models were overpredicting the penetration. Meaning the models were conservative and the the actual penetration was likely less than what models show. They were setting the table for an optimistic outlook.

The real issue, IMO, is highlighted later in the article where there isn't sufficient fidelity in the tests to back up those claims. Tests after the incident showed the foam acted very differently at the delta-v that actually occurred.

And regarding your point about blaming contractors, the vast majority of work done by NASA is done by contractors. NASA is, to some extent, a pass-through organization that funds other organizations like Boeing, Lockheed, Honeywell, Jacobs, etc.

>If you thought they didn't know, then ask them what they do know!

This gets to the same cognitive biases that led to Challenger, EVA 23 and a host of smaller incidents nobody hears about. Data is not objectively weighed in these situations because of schedule pressure, optimism bias, etc. In this case, most launches were showing foam shedding with no issue, so it lead to a false belief that it wasn't dangerous even though it was out-of-spec. Add to that a slide that says the models are too conservative and you can see where cognitive biases may influence the decision. Lastly, most people like to think they're self-aware enough to identify these biases in real-time, but they aren't. It's also why the incident lead to a separate organization within NASA focused on safety, quality, and risk that has a segregated chain of command.
BBC World Service Revives Shortwave to Russia, Ukraine
Always weird to me when people suggest that the Linux Desktop is a failure. Keeping a solid percent of all computers when your competition is effectively a coalition of the richest companies in the world should be seen as a rousing success. Anything thing short of complete annihilation is a great accomplishment.
The idea is to sell more weapons manufactured by USA firms. Conflict in general is good for that, but conflict in which one or more of the combatants was trained and/or put in power by USA is even better.

It's possible that other nations do this, and certainly some of the colonial European powers did in the past, but no one does it on the scale that we do.
Yup, they usually lock the account once you start using it, possibly using some kind of pattern detection.
I have zero problem with this. They designed a nice stand, it's expensive, so what? If you don't want to pay for it, just buy a VESA arm instead.

They also offer a VESA adapter instead of the stand, for the same price. That's great IMO, and a big improvement to previous Apple monitors where you had to buy the stand with the monitor and then spend an extra ~$50 for the VESA adapter.

On the other hand, it would be even better if they just built the VESA mount into the monitor itself like everyone else. I guess they just can't figure out a good way to cover the screw holes.
No, you didn't. The original person did. You then told me I was making a straw man by calling him out for it.

You could have just as easily not commented and I could have been dealing with the original commenter. You decided to comment, defending his absurdity. You don't get to now tell me I am "looking to be offended," especially when you take the side of the less reasonable position.
The Patient Who Received a Pig Heart Dies Two Months After Transplant
Exactly. Given unlimited budget of both time and money, how would I amuse myself with it?

Buy a big house. Ok then what? Sit on my couch in my big house? What about the 2nd hour?

Sure I'd travel and consume amusements like ziplining in the jungle or something and seeing plays and concerts.

Ok but then what?

What I would do is buy a big workshop and fill it with all kinds of tools in all kinds of different disciplines, from woodworking to 3d printing to welding to machining to chemistry to glassworking to software to electronics... (ok I lack imagination because in fact my garage, basement, guest room, and a rented 10x20 self storage unit are already stuffed to the gills with those exact things, plus guitars and aquarium stuff and cycling stuf...) and not just to look at them but to play with them.

That IS my maitai on the beach.

The beach is very enjoyable, and I do enjoy it, but it is not interesting.

The users who get my stuff for free don't matter at all. I owe them nothing. If I care about a project or a project's reception or usefulness or quality, then I care about it. The users don't extract unwilling care out of me, I have to already care on my own, which means adressing bugs or features is just more of the same work I WANTED to do just like the developing in the first place.

It's totally backwards to think of the users as some kind of burden you hate.

I mean, let's say you do hate that burden: ok then just don't release any of the stuff you built. But then what was the point in that? Yes you can't help building stuff and it was engaging and interesting to build, and you chose to do it when you had the choice to do anything you wanted... but still, part of what makes something worth doing is that it's at least theoretically not totally pointless. Even if in reality your github gains no real audience, it's good enough that it's at least published and out there and could possibly be found interesting or useful by someone else sometime. The mere possibility is enough. But to me unreleased code is a dead end. It's maybe good for exercise but what good is the exercise if not to eventually use the strength for something somewhere that is something other than exercise?

So you build and publish and so what if some users whinge?
Yes, I'm seeing a relaxing of the general exclusion and abusive
stance towards Tor users.

But that gives me a weird feeling to be honest.

We need to be in an international military crisis in order
that basic values of privacy prevail at home?

That does not speak well of our quiescent "western values"
Remembering Pioneer 10, 50 years old as of last week
Threat Reduction Program? Wow, that sounds familiar.

"Of the $41.91 million, $37.61 million was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which describes its mission as “to protect the United States and its allies by enabling the DoD and international partners to detect, deter, and defeat WMD and threat networks.”"

https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/pentagon-gave-millions-to-ecoh...

I wonder why when the pandemic hit, there was literally zero useful info coming out of all these threat reduction programs?
Taxi lobbies wouldnt exist w/o the transferability and leasing of medallions. The idea that a "permit" can be transferrable is ridiculous. This is the structure that caused one of the the problems. Taking a non-cab on Manhattan proper is usually a waste of time. To take a cab in NYC, you walk out to street that has a place to pull over. Form the "I need a ride pose", or raise your hand and look the cabbie in the eye and boom, you are off to your destination in seconds. I don't think I have ever waited over a minute for a cab in NYC. If you need to get to the airport, call for a black car.

It broke my heart listening to my cab driver talk about how much he paid for his medallion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion
> I can't work out why you wouldn't develop a native app anyway

Really? One code base, one language, write features once. I think it's more about eng resourcing (headcount, onboarding, roadmap parity / feature drift, etc) than whether making a native app is hard.

Anecdotal, but I feel like the React Natives and Electrons have made it so you see less "Sorry we're only on Mac", and "We're only on Android, iOS coming soon!" from apps
>How are they helping maintain global geopolitical harmony? Their actions seem to be doing the opposite

That depends on where you sit, doesn't it? Balance of power. The West constantly talking about spreading democracy around the globe isn't appealing to non-democratic governments.
> Having said that, I have one song I always skip because it ripped badly and I've never got around to re-ripping it and replacing the bad one.

Heh. I have one that has about five seconds of silence, at the end of an album, then about ten seconds of horrifically loud noise. It still catches me off guard every time, but it’s not in heavy rotation so I still haven’t gotten around to trimming it.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

From the Hacker News guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Actually, that whole page is worth reading, given that your comment violates a lot of it. Another sample:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

You're probably being downvoted because your post (a) is whataboutism (b) is emotionally-heavy while content-light (c) seems to make the assumption that Russian/Chinese propaganda is somehow equivalent to US propaganda and (d) violates several of the HN guidelines.
Seems like a mistranslation?
I got those numbers from Wikipedia.

FWIW, I got my first Sirius radio in 1998.
If coding has taught me just one thing its.... keep your ego in a box.

If you need a job, do the fucking exam. if you dont, tell them to pound sand. Its as simple as the dynamic of power.
> how does imply American incompetence?

1 million dead people kind of makes it seem an “a priori”
Well, considering that capitalism has been the biggest source of good in the world, lifting untold numbers out of poverty and raising the standard of living across the globe… I’d say anything that gets in the way of that for protectionist reasons needs to go.
I find them fun.

What's disgusting is when you solve the coding test with flying colors but the interviewer pulls the "candidate doesn't seem interested about X company" and still fails you. That should be illegal if the session you're in is called a Technical Screen.
We are seeing a bit of a backlash nowadays to "SPA everything // webdevs will save the world" naive techno-utopianism. Turns out that nail actually has some funny curves and the hammer isn't enough!
> notwithstanding that Taiwanese people see themselves as independent.

It isn’t that cut and dry. Most Taiwanese people prefer the status quo, surely by no small measure due to the fact that an outright declaration of independence would provoke China, but still, people who paint the picture as black and white like you have are either advancing an agenda or simply ignorant of the facts on the ground in Taiwan.
What was the point of all of New Zealand's draconian lockdowns then? They had all the negative lockdown effects for no reason, and still ended up with just as much of a COVID problem as the rest of the world that didn't have them.
Of course they are. But the context in GP's post was about nice office. Think investment or other firms with designer chairs and sofa etc.
If you look at the `network` tab in developer tools, you'll see every http request made by your browser, and the headers that are sent along with the request.

e.g. when you hit the `reply` button in HN, it'll make some HTTP request, with a cookie in the header that identifies your user session.

You can right-click on the request and click "copy request as curl", and then paste it into a terminal to duplicate the request locally.

Fore example, Stripe has some API endpoints that are only available to logged-in dashboard.stripe.com users. They are not documented in the public API spec, and they have more powers than the public API. If you do the actions in the dashboard and record the requests, you can use those undocumented APIs: all you need it a session token!

This leads down an unstable path, where you write a browser-emulating script to login to $service, scrape the cookie, and then use the cookie to make requests against the $service's undocumented API. Not a good idea to build companies on this logic, but it's fine and fun for personal projects.
yeah I just dont get why we have to make the coding exercises algorithmic.

I care more about like, do I have to hold your hand or not? no I dont. Okay we are cool.
Not sure why this guy is so focused on C, with C you can also make code that compiles but has unexpected behavior at runtime (which can be extremely difficult to debug on large projects).

I'd recommend Rust or Go for big projects, here most of these things dont happen.
But in the end it all depends on the programmer, you can write bad and ununderstandable code in any language.
Oil and rare minerals are separate revenue streams. Let's say that a given dictator's petro-adventurism is 50% funded by oil and 20% funded by rare minerals. If you can degrade their ability to wage war by reducing one or the other, why is that "bad"?

I'm curious — do you prefer e.g. the Chinese governance model over the democratic model? I'm getting the feeling you believe that autocracy is inevitable and unstoppable, and I wonder if you believe that that fate is also desirable.
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