skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
making the interview process similar to the job is a good first step. when I worked at Invitae this was my proudest achievement from my time there. I suggested that we change the interview process to a paired programming session that were situations from our day to day work. the candidate brought in their own laptop or was provided one (their choice). the session was 90-120 minutes and didn’t involve leetcode hard problems, just practical day to day stuff a web developer might run into on the job.
When is this going to be pulled in?
I think the real shift is in "productizing" yourself (if you're able to). I created https://gloutir.com, a subscription service for design and development. It costs a company roughly 1.2-1.4x an employees actual salary to keep them on the payroll. So a $47,000 a year employee actually costs that company about $65,800. Productizing myself, you can afford to pay me MORE than $47,000 a year, while still paying out less than you would for a regular employee. Plus, I can work for multiple companies at once.

This all sounds like glorified freelancing, and it basically is, but the fixed monthly rates are more preferable for everyone involved vs billable hours.
4. I think there's also a potential cost to your future ability to recruit. Once people know you're quick to fire, candidates will view your offer less favorably if they also have an offer from a company with a longer interview process, but who doesn't have the reputation for firing quickly.
Can confirm, would've laughed too.
Thanks, I guess I’m living in the past
> If you don't like the terminology, you can try to take it up with the NLRB

Well, I am talking to you here though right? And there is context here, to this subthread that you are ignoring/missing.

If you want to say "Non union members cannot force 3rd parties to work with them, if they don't want to" Then yes I agree.

But the context of this subthread was about the idea of who is or is not forcing people to do things.

So, to get back to the point of all of this, I was initially responding to someone else who tried to claim "That's not exactly liberty".

But it is liberty. Liberty is the idea of consenting parties, not being forced to do things. So yes it is liberty to say that people can join non-members unions, but that those non-members unions cannot force other people to do certain things.

Do you understand the point and context of this all? It was about whether that is "liberty" or not, which just means who is or is not forcing others to be in the group, or forcing people to work with your group.
The Puzzling Reason AI May Never Compete with Human Consciousness
Statecharts in the Making: A Personal Account (2007) [pdf]
Kong used to be a product of the company Mashape. Now all funding goes to the Kong ecosystem while the marketplace was split off https://konghq.com/blog/the-api-marketplace-joins-rapidapi/

https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/provider-dashboard Best URL I could find that doesn't lead to a signup page.

https://promptapi.com/ which got acquired recently.

We used https://www.3scale.net/ years ago, prior to the RedHat acquisition. Afaik the source code is now open.
Has no male DNA (no Y chromosome), and is completely homozygous which simplified the assembly. https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_VU12
The FAQ has some good information: https://go.dev/doc/faq#generics_comparison and other sections around it
Wikisocial comes to mind. Have you tried that?
I'm sympathetic that there is grief in losing someone but I always find it strange when it lingers long. The person grieving is not honoring the person (or animal) they are grieving for. If the person they are grieving for saw them grieving they'd be upset and say something like "Move on! We had good times. Now go forward and have more good times! Every time you continue to grieve you're actually hurting me and the memory of me so stop it! You're also hurting yourself and you know I wouldn't want that. Go and have a new life!"

I'm sure easier said than done. Maybe long term grief is a disease or something. Still, there's logic (to me at least) that your long term grief is dishonoring the very person your grieving for. They'd hate to see you in this state and would love for you to be happy.

I lost my father 3 months ago. Yes, I miss him. I have lots of good memories. But he'd not be happy to see me grieve long term.
The reason GoPuff bought BevMo
I would generally try to avoid working somewhere so horrendous people don't even last a year. If one somehow did not already know that about Amazon, talking to future team members about the corporate culture seems like a good way to try to find out before making a mistake!
I was building towards it a while ago. [0] There were a few stability regressions in the editor that made it too painful to continue.

I found that even with the simple set of features I was really pushing some of the limits of the scripting system, (there's a reason I referred to the forge as "the bane of my existence"), and some of the things I really wanted to do like generating new items from scratch weren't entirely possible.

But as an engine, OpenMW is actually one of the nicer experiences I've had.

(Note on building towards - Items and other objects were slowly being replaced, with the intention to eventually be able to start from scratch, but sourcing art was the hardest part, so starting with a total transformation seemed wisest.)

[0] https://morromod.netlify.app/frontier/
I don’t think OP is making a claim about better or worse. It appears to be about getting away and doing something where the commitment is minimal and attachment is zero.
Why artificial general intelligence may be impossible
I had a similar experience in the late 90s. We had people who couldn’t program but represented that they could.

We would give them a quick screen of “write in one of the languages this position requires a program that takes in a string, reverses it and prints it out.” And we changed it to any language once we started working with novel stuff like JavaScript that any programmer could pick up.

It was so weird how many people would fail this test.

I always wondered how other industries dealt with people just flat out lying on resumes and applying for positions they shouldn’t. Programming is lucky that we have some litmus tests.

I feel bad for people who freeze up and can’t even write a three line program on paper.
The $10M fine is going directly to their victims. Maybe you can get part of it.
Whoa. Interesting idea!
Buy a Tesla. Its the only way to put a stop to this.
I'm not advocating for hiring literally anyone. If they pass your credential requirements, reference checks, and team meet then they're already passing through significant filtering.
Working on both =]
Unless they’re old or gay
C is the lingua franca of systems languages. Rust, nim and zig all seem very capable of wrapping C libraries while providing more safety.
> Basically everywhere in NA has allowances for probationary periods with at-will employment.

Yep. Lots of places with even stricter pro-employee laws, including Europe, also have it.
I don't think the content which addresses the title is OP's point, just the fact that there have been numerous publications with this title or something similar.
Accuracy Is Not Enough – A Visual Explainer of Precision and Recall
The best people don't work at places with 5-7 interviews. They get offers from other orgs after 1 or 2.
Yes, but beware that directly connecting a speaker output to a microphone input can be dangerous for the input port. Computer headphones or small speakers outputs are generally safe because of their low power, but anything that can directly drive more powerful speakers can damage a microphone or line input if directly connected without any attenuation network in between.
I consider myself a huge "dog person", yet I don't own one. If I'm honest with myself, the fear of losing them someday is the biggest blocker to me getting one. I feel like I already have a lot of inner turmoil, and I'm not sure that all the joy my dog would bring me would compensate for the grief I'd inevitably feel when saying goodbye. My brain tells me this is the wrong way to look at it, but I can't help it.

Thus far my choice has been to live vicariously through other dog owners, i.e. visiting dog parks with my partner and playing with other peoples' dogs. I tell myself that, this way, I get to have all the upside of having a dog, with none of the downside. This feels like a complete and utter copout to me, and I have no defense against that argument except to say that I am emotionally fragile and don't have the inner fortitude it takes to let a dog into my life.
It's really underrated, I love it too.
I created my first data visualisation SaaS with D3js, FastAPI, & WooCommerce
Same issue with Slack. IMO the PRs should be by default opened as drafts, or at least there should be a per repo or per user option to enforce that.

Often someone opens a nonreviewable WIP, or messes up something with branches, and dozens of codeowners get pinged to review a diff of something that was already merged.

Also even if initial PR is flawless, it doesn't hurt for the opener to take a deep breath and self-review it before notifying everyone.
PIPing and firing is a huge time and emotional energy suck, and it sucks for people on both sides. To reduce the amount it happens is worthy. You can’t in practice just say, “this guy sucks, lets fire him next week”

And it shows, barely anyone in my entire career has ever been fired. I only personally have been close to one.
Flying by plane is incredible cheap compared to railway not only on that connection unfortunately.

The plane business is extremely cost effective organized (not only thanks to cheap players like RyanAir) and benefits a lot from state sponsored infrastructure (airports, ATC) and subsidized resources (no Kerosene tax) compared to railways which need more infrastructure (tracks everywhere instead of "simply" using air) and need to refinance having trains going "everywhere"

The railway ticket to and from the airport is almost more expensive than a flight across the continent ...
Show HN: A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day
Solar Witch is a little webpage and server which receives and displays messages, so I suppose it's a tiny message board. It's coded in very dubious Arduino C.

It's not a 24/7 website. Depending on the state of the battery, the server itself might run all night, but all the messages it receives during the day are deleted at sunset, and the messaging function itself is only active between sunrise and sunset. This is for two reasons:

1. Less usage of Solar Witch during the night conserves battery power.

2. I like the idea of websites which _aren't_ constantly available. Websites which have to sleep too. Websites living on servers which aren't somewhere in the cloud, but which are bound to a particular location, giving you a sense of where in the world they actually live.

Solar Witch is very much inspired by the solar-powered version of Low Tech Magazine (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) and the not-always-online chatroom Gossips Cafe (https://gossips.cafe/), but at a far, far smaller scale.

PSA: Solar Witch is a teensy hand-written C server running on a teensy microcontroller attached to a teensy solar panel which can only handle one HTTP request at a time and may have buffer overrun issues due to my ineptitude with C. If it's gone down, please don't be surprised, and rest assured I'll hit the reset button soon! Solar Witch encourages patience.
My cynical take is that this company views development as a combination of basic coding skills plus the ability to find solutions on stack overflow. Maybe it’s exactly what they were evaluating.
That’s that.
I’m not sure that’s feasible. Not sure what the roadblocks are, but every company I’ve ever worked for seems to have real reservations, usually at the HR level, with simply getting rid of bad eggs.
Thanks! RapidAPI and ProgrammableWeb seem to be the biggies in the "API store" space. Where there any others which you looked at?
Hah, I had to learn the most basic understanding of Morse for my private pilot certificate. When I finally got to the checkride and had to fly off a VOR radial I asked the examiner if he wanted me to identify the station (by the 3 letter Morse code broadcast) and he said nah.
I'm pretty sure there a bunch of very popular, high-traffic sites with tons of content that demonstrates the build process.
No longer manufactured, I believe; only available on eBay?
What would be the kind of data you would need for that? Also, how would you kickstart it? This kind of site needs a huge amount of data to start becoming useful so there is always the problem of recruiting users while at the same time not providing any useful service.
SQLite Database File Format
It does, doesn't it?...

On the off chance this flew over some heads, my entire point was the the alternative to "Agile" is actually being agile.

It's astonishing how many people in this industry get paid to spend their entire day on step 1. Just talking about work all day. It's all just talk. Disgusting.
> https://promptapi.com/ which got acquired recently.

Looks like they become https://apilayer.com/. Thank you for the feedback!
Or discrimination. You never know, maybe you worked with his former boss, it could be anything.
As someone who was there to witness it when it happened, that is not the impression I got at all, and I think Dang may have taken the more humble interpretation in that remark.
It's not if the company uses cloud or not. It's if they are solving the hard problems or instead, outsourcing the technical challenges to their
cloud provider while charging the user a non justifiable
premium for the intuitive user interface :-) So it's about
the eventual value add and the business case.

The challenging part is to provide the back-end. Get massive storage, with proper checksum integrity, at a cost effective value and with flawless security.

A single command (and minor variations around it):

aws s3 sync <name_source_dir> s3://<name_target_bucket>

get's you all that. It can be easily mapped to an intuitive
user interface by a software development boutique in weeks.

And because that is the difficult part, it seems for the
first 8 years of their history that was solved for them by
AWS, according to their own reported history.

Sharing a folder or file from Dropbox is no more
intuitive than using the S3 console. Looking at
the very colorful history of security issues
around Dropbox [1] it's certainly not safer.

So why would a user pay more for storage costs than with
a cloud provider, with notoriously less security? Does a tiny layer on top one or more cloud providers
justify the add-on value for the user or the current
valuation of 9 Billion dollars?

[1] "Criticism of Dropbox": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Dropbox
Finally, optical disks are more expensive than HDDs - at least in cost per GB. A 4TB NAS branded HDD costs ~AU$160, which is ~4c/GB. My last BluRay purchase was for 3 x 50 spindles of 25GB disks costing AU$330, which works out to be ~9c/GB.

For anybody with deep knowledge of the industry, is the price of discs an accurate reflection of costs or is it inflated by secondary factors such as attempts to make the media more expensive to deter piracy or Sony's desire for high profit margins on data storage? I well remember Sony's shenanigans from the 2000s when they made great hardware and then only accepted MemoryStick instead of SD cards while charging much more for their flash format. I was so excited for BluRay and then prices just never came down enough to be practical.
The article focuses on Blu-Ray media, which has different physical characteristics than CD-R and DVD.
Laser disc, compact disc, digital video disc, and blu-ray disc are (from what I understand) officially spelled with the c. I'm in the US and that is the typical way to spell it that I see, but I also see the k is generally used for hard disk and floppy disk.

That said, there are a lot more instances of "disk" than "disc" used in the comments here so far.
I wonder this me too, I want too look at the maps :-)
I dont mean for a literal business, just for personal use, but being able to run stuff like MS Office and such would be nice. Maybe even do Windows development on it for web things. I like the idea of an OS not bloated by "telemetry" basically. I hate tweaking Windows beyond the norm, it breaks things typically.
The word "fraud" does appear in the article, with the implication that it isn't happening here. I wonder, how many other traders on this market could get into such a situation in the first place, much less have the market and the banks go so far to help them. "Its not fraud when they do it"
Watch today's videos from Bucha, where Russian forces murdered who knows how many civilians just for fun. Some were shot while tied up. Some were tortured.

And you sit here and play whataboutist game and complain about NATO? About "Nazi"? Make up "millions murdered by NATO" and lie about carpet bombing and whatever nonsense?

What does that make you? Objective?
I set up a similar system in the past with redis replicas — it was about 200 MBs of data that I needed to have on quick access to on ~ 300 servers around the world — it was easy to set up and worked really well.
"It says something about the company" might be a moral salve in your eyes, but you have not established that they provide value to anybody but themselves. Specifically: how does pilfering pension funds, and then declaring bankruptcy provide "value" in any meaningful sense? It provides greater wealth to the already filthy-rich and destroys the considerable investment that life-long workers have earned, sending those who would be retiring comfortably into poverty -- which then taxes the public support systems. A huge negative for hundreds or thousands of people, for what? A marginal increase in wealth for the already wealthy. Where's the value?
That's just the Homeobox[1] genes. They're actually incredibly simple given their complex function.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeobox
Because they can. There’s way too many of us, so the expectation has changed from ‘trainable’ to ‘pre-trained’. It keeps changing too. Just 5 years ago, hiring was mostly leetcode from junior to principal. Now I think it’s changing again, but I don’t know what to. I’ve found that developer productivity is mostly determined by facility with the DevOps tools and frameworks. I hate to say that because it turns hiring into buzzword bingo, and this has become impossibly complex.
I got the 2% from a presentation by a company in the business of prepping people for FAANG interviews, the actual number could be higher but I was just trying to make a point about relative probabilities.
Is there much hope of AMD improving this situation?
https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-reproduction/do-birds-have-p...

[..] In birds, apoptosis of the genital tubercle is triggered by a gene called Bone morphogenetic protein 4, or Bmp4, a protein involved in bone, muscle, cartilage, and limb development. In the majority of birds, Bmp4 gets switched on and blocks the genital tubercle from developing into a penis so they either lack one altogether or it’s so small as to be rendered useless.

In ducks and other birds which grow penises, Bmp4 remains switched off and the genital tubercle develops into a functioning penis.

But although this explains how most birds end up penis-less, it doesn’t explain why. And scientists are still not sure of the answer to that conundrum.

There are several plausible explanations. It could be that the loss of the penis was an unfortunate side-effect of Bmp4 triggering other changes to body parts such as the development of feathers, or the variations in beak size. A bird without a penis carries less weight and therefore would be able to fly more easily, although this theory is unlikely when you consider that fact that ducks make some of the longest migrations of all species of birds. And most flightless birds or birds who fly very little, other than the ratites, have non-existent penises.[..]

Hope this helps.
> If everyone could reape the benefits but don't pay there would be no unions.

Right to work states exist for this reason, and they do fine. Unions in a right to work state are not mandatory.
Of particular interest to me is the arcade game Time Traveler, even though by most accounts it is a cheesy FMV game, the technical achievement embraced in MAME is the fascinating bit: the LaserDisc CHD for it is the first of its kind that was dumped by deep signal analysis on the disc and obtaining a level of quality never before seen from a LaserDisc dump; sharp visuals (at least, as far as 480i can be sharp), deep blacks, vibrant colors.

I don't know all the details, but the results speak for themselves. I wholeheartedly believe this should be the present and future standard of LaserDisc preservation.
And for countries with limited sea access, possible airborne Carriers, even US developed this technology few decades ago.

Sure, for our case, should talk about underground Carrier.
High stakes means high investment. You can’t just hire a dev and have them running in a week, their bad work could cost the company multi-millions in obvious and non obvious ways and proper onboarding takes months at minimum.

On the other hand, a cashier can be replaced in a week, and they don’t effect the entire future of the company as SOP.
> CHM13 lacks a Y chromosome, and homozygous Y-bearing CHMs are nonviable, so a different sample type will be required to complete this last remaining chromosome.

(from the paper itself)

It is a respectable achievement. But the Y chromosome is too important to be left out in order to call this the complete human genome.
Yes, I try to do this, but it's extra effort to remember. I usually try to clean up my public repositories once every couple of months.
Don't forget the need to filter for bias. Many many moons ago, when Google's ATS was young, they didn't weight scores based on the interviewer. After some incredibly confusing low scores and some obviously bad hires, it was determined that there was a need to account for internal bias. That lead to applying weights to the interviewer's score because you still needed them to interview but you also knew that you couldn't trust them outright. More interviewers, more data points and better selection even with accounting for bias.
Here's a 2013 article on google's results on evaluating various factors in hiring.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...

Basically, no one really knows how to hire.
Sure. Usually contacted by internal HR or a recruiting firm (depending on the position, recruiting firms use to be -almost- exclusively c-suite or very, very specific specialty niche positions. Internal HR would just setup the HM call, maybe ask some clarifying questions (education, certs, etc) to make sure it all adds up.

First interview was with the hiring manager, sometimes in person sometimes over the phone. In person was a good sign because if it was a technical position you'd usually have the senior join the meeting. Goes well, job offer within 2 business days.

Second interview was generally exclusively for highly technical OR executive leadership (depending on position). Again, it goes well, job offer within 2 business days.

If there was another stronger candidate and the prospect was side-lined but later reconsidered there might be one last interview if enough time had gone by to put a face to the name again.
AGPL adds more constraints, LGPL is probably a slightly better example.
I am glad you got the answers you needed.
Ask HN: Have you tried GitHub issues to manage issues with a significant other?
*batuts
I've carefully arranged my life to be like that. Zero responsibilities, zero stress. It's great! Imo it's optimal and I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to live like that, other than bullshit peer-pressure or conspicuous consumption related reasons like having high status.