skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I made pottery and then smashed it. I patiently sat with jigsaw puzzles and coloring books. I went into the forest with a chainsaw, cut down invasive species and set them on fire. I devoted hundreds of hours to punching pads and round-housing bags at the local mixed martial arts gym. I zombie-watched TV shows and absently scrolled the internet."

Thats way more than most people do. Most people just goto work then go home for tv and food.
Also, she seemed to be fit and could also afford a bunch of therapy, so relatively speaking she was doing extremely well.
Ever since upgrading to Windows 11 on my relatively modern desktop, I have been tempted to replace it with ReactOS. I do not expect the 100% stability or compatibility, but my question is, what should I expect from it as a "daily driver" in a home (i.e. non-critical) setting? I do not intend to use any software from Microsoft (which is known to sometimes rely on some undocumented features and assumptions).
What a profoundly monstrous view.
How about better treatments for cancer? Not dying might help with anxiety too.
The company I work for has an opportunity available that might be a good fit for you -- we specialize in conducting remote technical interviews as a service. It pays pretty well & the work is very flexible. We have some folks who work full time on our platform, and some who only do 3-4 interviews per month.

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My father died when I was 7. It was years of therapy and being an angry child, without the maturity to know where to direct my angry energy. If I didn't have an extremely active, attentive mother, I would no doubt be in a gutter somewhere right now.

Looking back, I can distinctly recognize the stages of grief, even from when I was a child. They almost exactly line up with the 7 stages that therapists tell you about. I remember them all, one after the other. I literally remember bargaining with god to bring my father back.

That experience, and recognizing grief for what it is, has made family deaths much "easier". My grandfather just died a few months ago. First death of someone close I have experienced in 24 years. Of course I still grieved, but it was much easier this time. Recognizing the grieving process, and being able to understand that what you are feeling is natural, are extremely important to getting through it.

Grief is something that people just don't understand until they are floored by it one day. And it can last years. I'm glad society is more openly discussing how difficult it is.
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For the GPL, this makes sense. In rental contracts this can be incredibly annoying. I’m one of those people who reads them from start to finish, and very frequently I have to have them amended because they’re obviously either:

- reused from previous rental terms, incorrectly restating basic local laws which have since been revised

- downloaded from some website, with terms which are obviously illegal locally

These contracts just introduce more ambiguity. They really should just reference the relevant legal codes. And at least in places with good protections for renters, that should maybe be mandated so the actual lease document is reduced to meaningful terms the renter needs to know.
The President gets that salary for life. A tech job stops paying when it ends; even if there are any jobs with pensions left, you only get them after working a long time.
I went through a similar experience with a radically different outcome. I was given a coding assignment and one week to finish it. I spent more than 30 hours on it and came up with a solution that was supposedly 500 times faster that what they'd ever seen (they told me this later). But things took a wrong turn at that point. In the followup meeting the interviewer turned out to be rude, disruptive, and combative. He tried to grill me on every little thing I said and finally rejected me. I have no idea how it happened but I suspect they simply thought my solution to the take-home assignment was too good to be mine.
Ridiculous. That’s what a panel interview is meant for.

I would refuse unless they want to pay for my time.
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This book is a must read. It is a very good and short intro to must advanced feminist books. Above all, one can't read it without rethinking about ethics. Ethics was invented by men, not women.
Agile is an informal manifesto[1] + poorly-specified software prototyping method based on a feedback loops.

Scrum is a brilliant idea that SW Development is no different than Rugby;)

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
Evoked memory of these passages from Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, on the compounding of this by life extension:

> this culture’s structure of feeling could also be called balkanized. Gender therapy and speciation were both parts of the longevity project, and the combination of the three created a new structure of feeling that is often characterized as fractured, compartmentalized, bulkheaded, firewalled. Usually longevity itself is identified as the primary force driving this; until now, no one has had to integrate a personality in its second century (or more), and often it is experienced as an existential crisis. The super-elderly have had so many experiences, gone through so many phases, lost so many companions to death or simply time that they have grown distanced from other people. Spacers, mobile over huge distances, especially bold in trying all the augmented abilities, often live as isolatoes, in a solipsistic narrative or performance of their own (495)

> She liked her work; she liked her play; she liked her art, the play that was work. So it was something else. Really the question became quite philosophical; how to be? What to care about? And how to become a little less solitary?

> . . . .

> Maybe nothing. There was a pruning of life by death. Parts died before the whole. When the people you loved died, part of you died. Some people by the time they went were like certain junipers she had seen, one live strip on a dead trunk. There was no way to counter that. (619–620)

> “Marriage,” Swan repeated, marveling at the word. To her it was a concept from the Middle Ages, from old Earth—an idea with a strong whiff of patriarchy and property. Not meant for space, not meant for longevity. One moved through one’s life in epochs, each a stage in one’s history, lasting some few or several years, and then circumstances changed and you were in a new life, with new associates. That could not be altered, not if you were out there riding the great merry-go-round; and so to deform one’s life in the attempt to make a relation last longer than its natural term was to risk wrecking its end, such that it splintered back along its whole length and left a bitter wound and a sense that it had all been a lie, where really there should only be a passing on, in one of the little death-and-transfigurations of one’s epochs. That’s just the way it was.

> At least so it seemed to her, and to many others she knew. It was the current structure of feeling in her culture and time. Spacers were free humans, free at last and human at last. So they all felt, and encouraged each other to feel, and she had always believed it, always agreed it was right. But structures of feeling were cultural, historical; they changed over time like people did; the structures themselves went through their own reincarnations. So if cultures changed over time, and an individual lived on through a change in that culture, then… didn’t the individual change too? Could they? Could she? (621–622)
I got my last 3 jobs after half an hour conversation with the lead/CTO. I'm not a "rockstar" either, just average dev. When companies are desperate to hire they don't dragg ass with infinite interviews. Of course, SV gravy train doesn't fall in that category.
If you buy Amazon basic brand items you don’t have to worry. And the Amazon basic products are generally really high quality, from clothes and more high end niche items to daily necessities, Amazon basics items are best in class. People who complain about Amazon are usually buying crappy items from dodgy vendors, and then they idiotically blame Amazon.
I really do believe it's possible. 10 years ago it would have been a pipe dream, but the dedication people put into making Wine and DXVK function properly is nothing short of astounding. Aside from high-performance studio software like NLEs and DAWs, you can pretty much expect everything to "just work" through Wine these days. From Bonzi Buddy to Battlefield, nothing seems to escape it's compatibility.
Obviously if you have read their criticism its gets much further than "non-ionizing can't harm", its a criticism of the methods use to analyze data from other studies in cherry picking fashion, they did no actual testing themselves and could easily have statistical issues with the positive outcomes.

Again there is no conclusive proof that RF exposure causes adverse non-thermal effects at cell phone power levels or even much higher power levels let alone being able to explain a mechanism that would cause those non-reproducible effects.

If you have better information please post it, one paper from a questionable journal using questionable methods is not enough.
Basically everywhere in NA has allowances for probationary periods with at-will employment. Moreover, prospective hires could start on contract.

Morale is improved when team members feel like they have some control over their membership.

It seems like you're assuming that a great many people would be fired; why so? In my experience, having worked for several such companies, firing is rare because even minimal filters are effective.

Resume check, reference check, and meet the team. Done.
It’s a shame they choose air over rail. We chose air when cash strapped, but the train was superior in every other way. We arrived in the middle of the city we wanted to go to, it was quicker to get there and there way space and comfort. 10/10 from me.

Time in an airport is a waste of life from my perspective.
Another link which says pretty much the same - https://medium.com/@sobeyharker/weve-been-acquired-bye-bye-w...
I wonder how this is not a felony charge?
> What if I told you that all governments are similarly corrupt, and
that the USG (arguably, Western governments in general) is one of
the least corrupt by reasonably objective measures.

Then I'd believe you and say, as I kinda tried to in my comment, that
it's to the credit of US citizens that they still hold that
government to the highest of standards.
I discovered a "color-scheme paradox": Every color scheme I enjoy using avoids using color red for anything except error messages -- which seems to be objectively a good thing -- yet such color schemes are rarely the most popular ones, which I attribute to the fact that the preview screenshots that do not use the color red look unappealing.
We'll get another batch of "the human genome is complete" articles when we start publishing graph genomes.
They are trying to find candidates that won't quit once subjected to micromanagement and a culture of constant fire drills, etc.

A proxy for that kind of tolerance is whether the candidate will jump through an inordinate number of hoops while being hazed by future coworkers.
If you are hiring someone with 10 years experience it becomes a lot easier. Just try them out, 9/10 will succeed.
Nice, a clone of Soda Constructor!

I once went to a talk by the creator, Ed Burton. His message at the time was that you should not be afraid that people will use your product totally different than you intended.
I can't remember his intentions, but they were very different and he was amazed by how people started to use it and what they created with it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
Intrinsic value of stocks comes from dividends or the potential for future dividends. Any stock that doesn't pay a dividend could pay one in the future from their earnings/cash flow.

So even stocks without dividends have a measurable intrinsic value
I find this claim is overstated almost all the time. People are sensitive to the small details even if they can’t explain why. Something as simple as the downloads being moved to a different place is enough to throw my parents off. And that isn’t even to get started about form filling, browser extensions, or browser window management. The chrome matters more than software people think.
This license was not released by MIT, and should not carry its name
Maybe this is the honed hiring process.
> Is... Is Amazon allowed to just use the name "MIT" for its own unrelated license?

Absolutely not.
Why is this surprising? You can get to dozens of different countries in a few hours by flying from Luton. Unless you’re counting Northern Ireland to Ireland, all international rail journeys go through France and take much longer.

You can go for a cheap holiday to Alicante in a few hours from Luton. How long would that take by train? It’s quick and easy to get all around Europe by train if you live in, say, Germany. Simple geography rules that out for the UK.
If You Make Money Every Day, You’re Not Maximizing
I never understand answers of this format: "status quo has flaw of some known, finite impact" time to "completely ridiculously overcompensate, overreact, and make arbitrary move?"

I can't even fathom in what ways you think "time to hire more, and fire fast?" is more "effective and equitable"? You just shove even more risk onto individuals who might be getting their footing still.

You're just turning a 8-9 hours commitment to an interview into a 6 month commitment. Sure, you get paid but you also have to deal with churn and burn.

I mean, did you think stack ranking was a good idea?
Color schemes doesn't work unless we are talking about a dozen standard schemes. Otherwise, it is drowning users in choices. What we needed is an interactive fine tuning. Doing it with config files isn't working. We need a web application for that. Give me a dozen also template, and let me fine tune from there. Export, done.
Prop 13 should be repealed.
From 1983 to 2008 my interviews were basically, talk to some one who's doing the hiring. No testing. Get hired. Most of those companies were relatively small. All but 2 were under 50 people. Only 1 of the 12 or so even asked any technical questions to see if I knew anything.

Also, none of them were specialized. No one asked are you a Front End Programmer? Back End Programmer? UI Programmer? Graphics Programmer? etc... It was just "programmer", do whatever is programmers do.

That part today I really dislike. The teams have gotten giant and you often have to choose some speciality position.
Oh brother, wait until you find out about leetcode!
I’m a HM at a big tech company with this format as well. Honestly, I really like it. I don’t want to hire the wrong person, it’s expensive and it makes my job awful for a while. It’s great getting data points on several programming interviews, system design, etc. That makes my sell interview so much easier because I can trust the process to assess their technical skills. You need multiple people because you’re constantly training up new people and need to calibrate everyone fairly.

Scaling any process to thousands of people is always hard.

Is it annoying for candidates? Yeah, but we pay you a lot of money, and it does actually work for us. Is it perfect? No, but it does work.

“Hire and Fire fast” doesn’t actually work well if you want to give people a chance to succeed. Also people tend to keep low performers around too long. Best to avoid this as much as possible.
Can one really not chose in this situation? What one worships is somewhat synonym with what one values the most. How can a man ever not have something that he values more than other things? On what basis would he act?
Ask HN: How to give each list item a left swipe gesture in react-native?
Most orgs use a veto model. If not everyone is a strong hire, the candidate is rejected. The bias is still there, just not a positive bias now. It’s a strong negative bias. And obviously most people don’t want to come across as “too easy”. Essential you’re positively reinforcing to reject more and more candidates and make the whole process a nightmare.
Have you ever been fired before? It sucks.

I’d much rather not get hired then get fired “fast”.
It may have been edited, but the article's current title is "A History of Hup, the Jump Sound of Shooting Games" - which seemsore accurate.
This reminds me of the -Wlifetime proposal, which provides similar checks but requires annotation of ownership at struct level (hence the check only applies to new structs):

An example: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/test/Se...

More details can be found at https://herbsutter.com/2018/09/20/lifetime-profile-v1-0-post...

Unfortunately it was never upstreamed according to https://github.com/mgehre/llvm-project/issues/98
react2solid is a ReactJS to SolidJS code converter https://github.com/rrjanbiah/react2solid

I have started the development today (after months of thinking & gathering ideas).

Any contribution is welcome. Would prefer contributions in to the code transformer rules; something similar to https://github.com/rrjanbiah/react2solid/blob/main/_transfor...
I agree and initially I refused but the problem space was interesting and I wanted to get in it so I did it.
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1) Talk with recruiter

2) Phone Screen

3) 4 tech interviews (2 coding, 2 systems design)

4) 1 behavioral interview, sometimes.

To be honest, this isn't egregious. Given how much we are paid this doesn't seem so bad. Whether or not the coding and systems design questions actually provide signal is a different question though.
Curious, what is the "wrong" person? I've worked with some co-workers before that were clearly not a fit, but it was so obvious. One time I was asked to help a new hire with a project that was falling behind. He had spent 2 months trying to get some javascript (that he copied from a project I had done) working. He didn't even know what the web console was. As soon as I opened it and saw the javascript errors the fix was simple. But he spent 2 months just smearing random javascript around... Surely it would be easy to filter that person out during interviewing.

But on the other end... I've worked with some people that are pretty good at leetcode and very fast coders. But even though they write many pages of code every day and tons of commits, their code is absolutely horrible, full of bugs, impossible to read. They got stuff done, but it was at great cost in the future. That was mostly why I left my original job in the first place (looking for work now for 18+ months). We hired a couple of new people and they were pumping out so much code I couldn't keep up with all their commits. Bugs started rolling in and they were too busy working on the new projects to fix their old crap. Boss had me hunting down and digging through their garbage code while my projects were getting behind and I was the one "under-preforming". I started going insane, unable to get out of bed, staring out the window for 12+ hours a day unable to look at their code. Mostly walked out. Those new people all quit after I left as well but the company's market crashed due to covid so we would have all be laid off anyway.
You might find the novel The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson interesting:

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Affinities.html?id=...
I'm terrified of publishing on youtube or use any Google service that can get me banned, like adsense. I'm terrified it will cascade into my accounts and get me locked out of everything.
Yeah this also is a big issue. It was nice having the "debrief" meeting afterwards. This meant that people had to back up what they had written.

"Why do you think this person 'isnt a good culture fit'? Oh because the team you run are all 20-something male brogrammers and this candidate is a 38 year old woman with kids? Hey cool, that's illegal discrimination."
it's not cargo culting if it works, and they even say in the article that mysql or postgres would've worked

maybe next they will stop cargo culting operating systems and switch to SerenityOS?
I think you might underestimating how bad things were in the past. For instance if Amazon warehouse workers in Colombia decided to form an union and strike for better working conditions, could Jeff Bezos call the secretary of state and ask him to threaten Colombia that US will invade if the Colombians don’t sort out their liberal/socialist problem? Hard to imagine right? But the exact same situation happened in 1928 with another famous company. Possible thousands of workers, women and children were murdered. I’ll quote one of the telegrams sent by the US ambassador:

“ I have the honor to report that the Bogotá representative of the United Fruit Company told me yesterday that the total number of strikers killed by the Colombian military exceeded 1000.”

‘ The US is today rivalled only by China in its degree and depth of corruption.’

Really? I mean you really believe that US is more corrupt than Russia where Yeltsin and Putin parceled off most of the resource extraction industry to their oligarch buddies (Putin also added his ex KGB colleagues) in exchange for political support?
Hiring managers lose their authority when they cease to ask meaningful questions about the existence of and rationale for each requirement that is listed on the job description, and its relevance to the overall outcome.
The (arcane) tricks to make vim or any editor work well is:

* export TERM=xterm-256color

* Use tmux attach -2 (-2=256color)

* In tmux <c-b>:set -g escape-time 0

* In vim, :set t_Co=256

If your terminal is the issue, use rxvt-unicode256color as it is the best terminal emulator (kitty is too slow (Python), urxvtd can segfault, xterm lacks features), or iTerm2 for Mac (Terminal.app recently broke colors and haven't figured out how to fix them, plus it lacks panes which I use to simulate an i3 environment). On Mac you have to enable option as meta key to make alt work as well
With people leaving in 2 years or 1 year at Amazon on average do you really need to talk to employees? Take a chance and make the best of it.
> It uses an integrated coil pack for all the cylinders, which in turn means, a failure of one is a failure of all.

That’s interesting. My coil pack is also integrated, but it’s designed to fail independently. Maybe it’s the design of the coil, but not an inherent shortcoming of the system itself.

> One interesting tidbit is the coil packs run a bit of current over the plug when it's not sparking to measure ionization to determine engine conditions (i think mostly knock)

Didn’t know that. I knew that engine knock was measured with vibration sensors, crank position relative to other things and engine output measurements via load sensors (irregularity), but ionization measurement is new to me. Have any sources, so I can read more?