skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when can I use this tool to eat away at the huge chunk of my storage that is reserved by the system? Losing 10gb of my stock 32 is a tough pill to swallow.
The first time I used Uber was about 6 or 7 years ago. I was living in the DC Suburbs and I had a plane to catch. The night before my flight I called and booked a cab for 6 am. At 6 am there was no cab so I called the dispatcher and asked when they'd be there, they said the cab was on its way and would be there in ten minutes. At 6:15 I called again and they admitted there had never been a cab on the way, there were none available, and they cancelled on me.

I downloaded Uber, signed up for an account, and had a ride by 6:25.
I'm a straight guy and I see gay men in my tinder lineup from time to time. They change their gender to female to try and turn straight guys.
Noise Nuisances of the Nation
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/ftc-s...

Considering a large part of Match's business model is essentially fraud, I'm not sure how this is going to work.

I haven't used an app in years since I had a very scary experience. I'm much happier now, and I'd advise anyone who wants to safeguard their mental well-being to delete this stuff. The vast majority of guys will never meet a quality partner online.

Sure you might "meet" someone who's 34 and she doesn't want to work or anything, and she expects you to send her money before she even meets up.

Or you can just be a social person in real life. I've had no trouble meeting tons of fantastic people, when I think about it. Everyone I've gone out with since I deleted the apps has been college educated with a great career. I never met a single person who had a decent job online. At most, maybe someone works 10 hours a week at Vons or something, and that's all they can do in their 30s.

Overall, social media in terms of meeting people is not a good idea. There's a near constant anxiety of checking or matches, of seeing if someone's even typing on Snapchat, blah blah blah.

Versus how I live my life, where I give a girl my number and if she's interested she's interested. This is how I've met practically all of my recent partners, and they've all been amazing.

From Garbo's FAQ:

>Garbo is not intended to be used for the following purposes:
Employment Screening
Tenant Screening
Credit or Insurance
Hiring of Household Workers
Educational Qualifications
Volunteer decisions
Stalking or harassing an individual
Any other reason prohibited by the Fair Credit Reporting Act

Translation: We want to run a background check service without actually making sure these checks are accurate.

What a horrible idea. Let's imagine someone, Sarah, when Sarah was 19 she got arrested for shoplifting in Arizona. Then she's turned her life around. Then she meets a guy named Brad, who uses this disgusting service to figure out where she's from, and a host of other personal information.

Given dating apps are already used largely for fraud, this is just makes lives easier for scammers. Not only will the average guy never meet someone, but now you can get your identity stolen too!
I think the unadjustable monitor stand is actually illegal to deploy in a workplace in many countries. Health and safety standards require monitors to be height and tilt adjustable in order to be ergonomic and not cause neck strain and other workplace injuries.
> We need to be in an international military crisis in order that basic values of privacy prevail at home?

Pretty much, yes. The US benefitted hugely from defining itself in opposition to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. It's a major countervailing force to growing to resemble your opponent.

Arguably, the US hasn't really figured out how to effectively define itself in opposition to China, given how liberally China has been copying parts of the US economic playbook (ie. "Capitalism with Chinese characteristics"), which itself is a trick the Soviets never managed.
Falco and Brian May pay good money for what this boy gets naturally. Or, test his IQ as he's rocking Einstein pretty well.

Either that, or he's carrying one hell of a static charge - how many cats in the house? Anybody still have their ground straps?
That said, hard to feel like it's the future of the web when it's just wrappers around the services that people are actually using.
When logic gets more complicated than a single ternary (e.g., handling pending/error/result state), I've found that a `useMemo` gives me the flexibility I need. It also keeps the messy logic out of the final JSX, which tends to make it read better.
That's true, but it remains that bioweapon research is distinct from virus research.
It would seem to be two tweets with maybe 3 to 6 sentences (depending on if you think one word and a period is a sentence).

That's Twitter for you...
What if you're experiencing rapid growth and not sure if you can afford it? Investment is basically required at this point, no?
>And at this point, the Russians have demostrated a clear willingness to lie about anything in pursuit of their geopolitical agenda

US history says the DOD, Pentagon, & the CIA are just as willing, if not more.
Chile a step closer to nationalizing copper and lithium
I feel this is going to turn into a discussion of what a SWE is, and are Data Scientists or SRE's also Developers or not. For Google I think their number is probably 25,000.

As of 2016 they stopped reporting their split of employees. Something that is actually a decrease in material quality of reporting that Wall Street analysts don't seem to have complained about...

Their last 10k to have those numbers said:

"December 31, 2016, we had 72,053 full-time employees: 27,169 in research and development, 20,902 in sales and marketing, 14,287 in operations, and 9,695 in general and administrative functions."

Alphabet had in the meanwhile 200 acquisitions and their total current number of employees is 156,500 employees ( As of end 2021). Taking the very, very, optimistic view that the number of R&D employees augmented in the same exact proportion and that 1 in 2 R&D employees is doing software development we get a number in the
25,000 to 30,000 SWE's

Netflix has only 11,300 employee and it seems most are content development so lets says 2000 SWE's

Apple has a little bit less employees than Alphabet ( 154,000) and I dont believe in more SWE per employee than Google so let's say another 25,000.

Facebook had 71,970 full-time employees as of December 2021 so I am going to
say 10,000 SWE...

For Amazon get's difficult as you need to split with AWS plus you cannot the
number of 500,000 employees at Amazon for nothing. Let's say they have 25,000 SWE what looks like a massive number both for AWS and Amazon.

So I am probably in a range of 50,000 to 100,000. Would still mean we are talking about working on small set of 0,2 to 0.4 % of the worldwide professional software developers and I guess the core point still stands:-)
"winning" and in "the west"

This isn't over, how long will the west pay attention? How long will it remain united on the topic? The information wars is escalating as well.
Sure but a far weaker Russia is what? The worlds 20th largest economy, with a history of having a geopolitical chip on its shoulder (I think most observers would agree that the Russian people would die before becoming ‘chinas little brother’) ?
>Samsung phones

Yep, an S7 went swimming with me for about half on hour one day and after a quick pat down it worked just fine. I wouldn't mind the switch away from jacks so much if most phones & bluetooth earbuds supported higher quality codecs, but it seems relatively rare.
2 other major things I'd say are :

- They can design systems that last (functional, performant, don't need to be remade constantly)

- They can solve a wide range of technical problems (investigate performance, build a basic UI, add some ML)
Steve Jobs was not the nice humble guy everybody wants to believe in.
A lot of people in the west couldn't potentially afford a single modern computer or a smartphone without any piece from China.

At least it would push us to take reusing more seriously. Brutal decoupling from China could be really, probably extremely hard, but in a lot of aspects, intellectually interesting to watch.

How Europe will react to adapt the current crisis regarding fossils will also be really interesting. I'm just hoping that it will accelerate the de-carbonation of our energy sources. But it's just that, hopes.
That's pretty slick.
Personally I hate implied casting of booleans (and implied casting generally), and go out of my way to make boolean checks explicit whenever I touch the code. These kinds of shortcuts made some sense when minification was commonly a manual thing. But now, I want code to be as verbose as necessary for it to be unambiguous.
capitalism dictates that we should offer it to the ones with enough capital to spare, nothing we should do about it then
Sounds like the state of CS education should be improved to fill in those gaps of knowledge.
> Not mere embellishments, but claiming advanced degrees in computer science when they can't solve a simple algorithmic problem (something that can be coded in <10 mins).

I thought the second part of the sentence would be about how they don't actually have those degrees. If you say that you have the degree you have, that's not embellishing at all, and it doesn't mean that you'll be able to solve a coding problem. They're two separate things and you've kind of mixed them up.

There's two questions

- is the candidate outright providing false information (where they've worked or studied, how much experience they have and with what tools etc)

- does the true information give you the wrong impression about the candidate i.e. you think someone with this degree or with that many years of experience should be capable of more than they are
I've been there too, I've definitely had bad experiences with coding assignments. I try hard to not treat others as I have been in the past.

I run a respectful process. I offer people ample time. I tell them that asking for more time is a-ok. I answer questions.

But at the end of the day, some people just really knock it out of the park (maybe around 30%?), and I don't think it's unfair to reward that.
Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks [pdf]
imo this is just an improved version of garbage can Mac Pro

They refuse to build what a sizable number of people want, yet we're stuck with Apple because the alternatives are even worse. That's what pg got wrong with one of his predictions. He didn't realize that no one can do better than Apple's worst effort
Whether the tests are useful or not, if a prospective employee - no matter how senior - felt insulted or thought it was beneath them to answer simple questions, I don't really want them working for me in any case.
Or does the realization make you bitter?
Here is the url lightly obfuscated if anyone is interested in investigating further: https:// kuwaitpostparcel [DOT] express / KW343

You can trigger the website by using "responsive mode" in dev tools and selecting a common android device.

Please note that this site /is/ malicious. Investigate at your own risk.
why would it be pointless? everything should be anonymous by default. that's how the internet always worked before corpo scum shat all over it.

now the next question is whether you can actually _do_ anything over Tor on there. do they block you from half the functionality, such as searching, scrolling, etc? do they still pointlessly force a phone number as opposed to it being optional (why did this trend start right after snowden anyway)? can you even write a post? is this article just some PR generated crap and tor is still actually fully blocked? are they able to implement their trivial web application without javascript yet (so tor browser can be run in safe mode)? i made some accounts on tor 10 years ago there and they silently got deleted / shadowbanned (it seems the ones i used to DM a pre existing account got deleted)
Replace twitter.com with nitter.net for a more pleasant experience, i.e. https://nitter.net/neilcybart/status/1500825861242724352
Not at all! I am merely not of the opinion that economic sanctions are reliable or effective deterrents to authoritarianism.

The cases where they have been demonstrably effective are comparatively few, and the geopolitical circumstances are substantially different in those than now with Russia invading Ukraine.

Pretending that massively investing in solar, wind and EVs will absolve us of dependency on autocratic regimes is just intellectually dishonest- we are merely trading one for another.

For the record, I do support temporarily ceasing the purchase of oil from Russia. Buying more oil from Venezuela, Iran or Saudi Arabia is not a long term answer, or rare earth metals from China (who is notably not participating in sanctions). Though Russia has yet to ramp up production, they will also become a key player in a post-fossil-fuel world as they are thought to have a full quarter of the accessible supply.
Not FizzBuzz, and not me personally, but from someone I worked with and I have 0 reason to believe is lying:

After a few disappointing responses to better questions, interviewer decides to give a "freebie" and asks for a function that determines whether an integer is odd or even.

Candidate produces something that loops from 0 to the provided integer, incrementing two separate counters, then comparing them at the end.

Interviewer manages to stammer out something like "are you sure there isn't a more efficient way to solve this?"

Guy furrows his brow for a few minutes more, then a light bulb of sorts goes on, and he declares "Of course! ..."

"... I only need one counter!"
Congratulations on your launch!

Feedback on the site: I read the site and still really don't understand what the product does (I immediately saw it as an Auth0 competitor). Your "In more detail" paragraph would be a good bit of text to include prominently on the site.

Good luck!
Drives me nuts that there's no straightforward way to do a switch statement in JSX.

<Layout>
<Header />
{switch (page) {
case 'home': return <Home />
case 'about': return <About />
default: return <NotFound />
}}
<Footer />
</Layout>
> Or in fewer words, your blaming of the victim.

Well, yes. Who is to blame for the sanctions being applied on Russia now? Russia, the victim maybe? Can I blame the victim sometimes when their actions directly lead to a terrible outcome that's bad for everyone?
> A single nursing home in New Jersey lost more staff and residents to COVID

That's because Phil Murphy issued a monumentally stupid edict preventing nursing homes from barring entry by people known to be COVID-positive.
My dream in life, seriously, is to get waaaay more people doing this sort of thing than they do now. If STEM is worth anything, it would be worth things like this*

*(I run a STEM non-profit, so I feel pretty qualified to criticize it this harshly)
How do I set up uBlock to get around the sign in wall?

Or is zapper a separate add on?
I really wonder how many people actually care about saving space with desktops at the expense of everything else.
And yet it is Russia invading and killing its neighbors as we speak, not the US (which admittedly is quite far from perfect too).

As someone who lived under Soviet occupation, we never had any doubt which one is the evil empire. Joining NATO is just good sense for countries unlucky enough to be geographically close to Russia. One does not just live next to Mordor.
I humbly disagree. Experience means nothing. The ranking is defined by how capable engineer is.

Do not get me wrong. Title != ranking either. There is no industry-wide agreement what senior engineer is. Frank might be a senior engineer in his company -- because because he proved in short time he can perform on the senior engineer level of that company.

Each of us has limits. For some it is Senior, for some it even could be Junior. If people are happy in their level, there is no reason why they cannot be productive for many, many years.
The relative graphics claims are particularly dubious. M1 Ultra has 10% less memory throughput than a 3090. I somehow doubt that nvidia has left performance on the table that Apple is picking up, even with the power savings of being on a smaller node. On the balance of things this just seems wrong. The intuitive range of relative performance for a 3090 in flat-out single precision vector workloads should top out at 90% but more likely 75% or less.
I always wonder why I want to run something I can accomplish within an IDE through another tool.

What's the advantage against running find in files from my editor?
I'd love a study on desirability of ex-FANG devs vs non-FANG. I think the best credential that OP has is having Meta on the CV. It seems the best step in career paths.
I'm not insulted by coding tests. Not even simple bug fixing - those silly bugs may not be production bugs, but I cannot be the only one who makes mistakes on the fly as I code, then self-correct immediately afterwards. How many times a day to you self-correct something in your code? Stupid tests for bugs show you can do so, so I'm not insulted by them.

What I am insulted by is the leap from "have a conversation" to "go take these tests". I want that conversation to know if I am even interested. It is not respectful of my time to make me jump through hoops just to have that first 5 minute conversation to see whether there is even any potential here.
Diplomacy Remains the Only Option in Ukraine
I believe they were using that question to point out the absurdity of making a slide that long by suggesting that it is made even longer with a summary of itself.
> If someone successfully works shipping code but can't reverse a linked list, does that mean they're lying about being able to code?

On a whiteboard? Probably not.

In front of a computer, with a compiler and manpages handy, being able to test and debug it right away? Absolutely, yes.
Choosing the correct algorithm is a different question from implementing the correct algorithm.
> That said trying to leave a company that isn't profitable while keeping a 50 % stake and offloading the job of getting to profitability to your co-founder is pretty toxic.

I partially disagree. The shares are his property, and his leaving should help things along as the remaining cofounder no longer has to argue. Also, trying to buy out a cofounder by giving them 50% of the startups current assets is absurd.
Well, the Keystone XL doubles our capacity in the US but pales in comparison to overall demand. Based on what I read I'd expect that most of the pipeline would be used to replace hostile and unreliable sources at a minimum.
Open-source licenses 101 for startup founders
Military veterans here would know that NBC (the DoD’s umbrella acronym for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) threats and defensive postures against them are constantly ingrained into the individual soldier’s training regimen. It starts from boot camp. Every recruit becomes familiar with the lovely pepper spray gas chamber encounter. NBC is taken very seriously in the training doctrine. It probably stems from the horrible use of chlorine gas during WW1. Russia has a few NBC favorites that they’ve used—sarin gas, novichok, litvinenko tea to name a few.
Contrary Raises $75M Fund III to Bet on the Founders of Tomorrow
There was a thread on HN about drug smugglers who used commercially available drones to fly drugs from the northern coast of Morocco to somewhere inland in Spain. They'd charge the drone's battery in Morocco, load it with drugs, configure it to fly a specific path and land at a lonely spot inland in Spain. 0% remote control, 100% GPS waypoints.

Programming a drone to fly to a given road and then along is easy without any remote control. Recognising fuel trucks using opencv left as an exercise for the reader.
Why couldn't the carrier keep images of stock configurations and the phone download them OTA when factory reset?

Conversely, maybe I don't want those pre-installed apps in the first place.
Thanks, I wish we didn't need to do this and could use Reddit and Twitter like they used to exist a decade back.
They can play both sides without much consequence, and milk Russia for some cheap oil / deals.

For now that works for them.
I don’t know how many times this has to be said, but the situations with Taiwan and Ukraine are in no way similar. The US has no formal alliance, or guarantees, with Ukraine. The US not rushing to defend them is not proof they won’t defend Taiwan (for one thing Taiwan is vital to the American military as a chip manufacturer.)
That's neat but I don't really follow. Why isn't the oxidation layer just a higher impedance material? Why is quantum tunneling required to explain a light switch?
Do you really believe that companies should price their products below market rate?

The only likely consequence of that scenario is that they will be resold to the people willing to pay more.

Apple is not a charity. They don't owe you anything.
Things You Should Know About User-Generated Content Moderation
> but somebody is posting essential information on twitter

Tell that somebody that websites exists.
Twitter was already available over Tor, via https://www.twitter.com - Creating an onion service didn't make it any more available.
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman launches new AI venture
Russia Headed for One of Biggest Inflation Shocks in Decades
Once they were established in a different country, yeah. But would they have been able to start and secure their business in those countries? That’s less certain, imo. Part of the real value prop of Uber was that taxis were expensive and clunky, and they made it faster and cheaper.
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Ask HN: First TV commercial you remember seeing with a URL?
What was the first mainstream TV commercial you remember seeing with a URL? For me, I think it was a commercial for Oracle during a (NFL) Superbowl. I don't remember the year.
When there is open source code the candidate supposedly wrote, you could go through it with them, having them explain things, but you'd have to make sure it's not something they could have studied up if they're lying.
SimulaVR's Optics Design Achieves its high PPD (tricking the human brain)
I don’t understand your logic. 3500 US men in their 20s have died from COVID.

There are 20m American men in their 20s.

That’s still more than 1/10000.

Isn’t this supposed to be a forum where people can do math?
You can also use https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect to auto redirect from twitter to nitter
The US is nearly at a million deaths overall.

New Zealand has 65. Even normalized for population, our per capita death rate is over 200 times theirs. Many stupid decisions are involved in that, but it's hard to argue NZ didn't do a good job here.
But I already taught myself most of the CS curriculum. Why would I spend years of time plus tens of thousands getting myself a piece of paper that says I know all the things I know?

And not just the cost, the opportunity cost! I would have forgone the last 4 years of salary and work experience. I wouldn’t have been able to write the post this thread is about if I had been in school in that time.

Thankfully, our industry doesn’t worship pieces of paper.
no brain teasers, riddles, gotchas or whiteboarding in our process. And I make sure candidates know it so they aren't stressed about it.
SRE's in the Aerospace/Telecom Space
Hi, i'm an SRE who recruits other SRE's for placement into interesting startups. In addition to the standard stuff, requirements such as DevOps, Automation, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, AWS, etc. I'm looking for people with reliability engineering experience in at least one of the following: Aerospace, Space, Telecom, RF communications, Autonomous vehicles. Any suggestions on where to locate people with these dual/hybrid skillsets? e.g. job boards, message boards, and the like? If you have such hybrid skills, where do you go to look for interesting positions? any info would be much appreciated! thx
Works great, until I'm in some remote place away from signal.