skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those games you play are a lot easier to deal with oversight-wise. I disagree with your conclusion. You're assuming in-house doesn't have the same perverse incentives. Also, pricing information can be impossible to discover. You often hear on HN how nobody can realistically estimate large software programs. Under that regime, what good is a firm fixed price contract? What'll happen is that the company, once it goes over-budget, will stop work and/or go bankrupt depending on the legal contract it signed. Then the client has no choice but to add more money into the pot - which suddenly sounds like a cost+ contract.
It's now become abundantly clear to everyone that you're using a different definition of "page" than everyone else in this conversation.
I think this is a bit disingenuous and misstating (or not understanding) the evolution frontend-focused web development has been through over the past 10 years.

There’s no pendulum swing back to server-rendering, but rather new frameworks and techniques that involve both in unison.
Interesting & telling (& not at all what i meant!) is most replies celebrating IC's.

It's a simplifcation for sure but "autonomy, mastery, & purpose" being the elements of fulfilment rings true however hou dice this. Personally I'd really like to see a lot of really good engineers given direct unfettered access to talent, given authority while trying to minimize their personell and management overheads: let the humam resources go wild, synergize, make good things. And stand the frak back.

It's a gaping vast culutral loss that Brendan hasnt had a team of 10 under him. There are people missing from the world who would be way awesome & have done great things if Brendan had simply been tossed some people. Byt usually corporations statt having political games, attachments, commitments, things other than the work itself that comes with authority. Im fascinated by & not sure this world will ever get to grapple with just how core & essential a problem creating "low-drag" organizations is. Allowing itself to acknowledge that much of what it does is far more excellent & powerful than those in the chain of command can really.tap, harvest, understand, much less take credit for or manage.

Orgs need an anti-gravity force, a depolitical defence, of stand the f back. Brendan's go do it figure it out brilliance needs a chance & positiom in this world, needs to be shareable. Or the idea of an organization is actually a hazard, is ossified & unworthy of being the thing that has overgrown this planet loke it has. Human dignity & potential should not remain so shadowed & bound.
Fastmail actually has 1password integration for their "masked" emails. https://www.fastmail.com/1password/
In my experience, most engineers won't even get the chance to work on something so impactful and cross team/org to land a promotion.

Not their fault. Sometime, as everything in life, you are in the right place at the right time. You get to work on a good project and bingo. But most of the time
you will end up fixing bugs in some half baked, broken PoC that someone launched in production just to get that promotion, and now you got to make it to work, while the person who got promoted get to move on and draft another broken PoC, launch it etc ...

It depends if you are the one fixing shit and make things work (you rarely will get a promotion) or you are the lucky one who get to write spaghetti code on the next thing, cash out and move on onto the next thing ...

Life is not fair I know ...
> I don't find the reasoning behind this convincing at all.

It's a very convincing argument, if you are referring to only this article then try it re-writtern here -

https://mobile.twitter.com/akapczynski/status/15214945538779...

Now that anyone can diff the final version it's very hard to change the draft in a lot of ways.

The best argument against this theory is that's it's too logical and people are not logical. It took a day for the hive mind to think of this.

Pressure and vengeance don't make sense, but nor do people.
It depends on what you're withdrawing from

If you're withdrawing from opiates for example, your best (legal) bet is to buy some Kratom online, or pick up Immodium from your local drugstore. Immodium is a weak opiate that doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier -- so it'll alleviate withdrawal symptoms, but doesn't have psychoactive effects.

If you're withdrawing from stimulants, the best thing you could get is probably Clonidine or Gabapentin, but neither of those are OTC unfortunately.

It certainly won't hurt to take DXM if you're having WD/s, regardless of the substance though.
Better than $500K/year plus best-in-class benefits and access to a large number of very bright people? How, exactly, did you manage this?
I found this interesting. For more mechanical watch reference - https://www.timezone.com/2003/10/04/mechanical-watch-faq/
The fixes are all about directness, consistency, and intuitiveness. Legibility is never mentioned Tonal music is arguably more suited to the original than this is, where small differences in distance from the lines can make for a different note.

For example, I claim that the tonic scale will be more legible in traditional notation than in clarinote; portions of the tonic scale make up a significant fraction of music that many people read. TFA never claims that chords and/or arpeggios will be easier to read under the new notation, and I don't have a strong opinion on that one after my brief time with it.
Im extremely curious the legal precedents you used to accomplish this, particularly around forcing certain providers to un-spam or un-block your emails. What was the condition your legals found in order to do that?
I can’t see any blue state bar taking action on this.
The pattern is extremely common on CDNs that serve JS.
Is the correct response to slip a Benjamin to another waiter to "accidentally" trip the one who screwed up, so you can judge from their response what your demeanor should be like when requesting a correction?
> I was offered the job that I was clearly qualified for, but I declined.

Out of curiosity, why?
I mean, I do think that is the genuine goal for most proponents of raising the minimum wage.

As far as I know, as a general trend, politicians pushing to raise the minimum wage tend to also push for raising taxes on the wealthy and greater investment in social programs, especially those targeting the poor.

On the flip side, politicians I'm aware of that push back against minimum wage increases tend to also be against any tax hikes on the wealthy, and as a bonus they generally work to erode funding for social safety nets.

I'm not aware of many politicians being for raising minimum wage but against increasing taxes on the rich, or at least that not being just a minority of those involved in the debate.

Either way my take on it is that we should just look to what seems to work empirically. For my money that's the Nordic countries, which have an effective (due to very strong unions) high minimum wage, along with high taxes and strong investment in social programs.

That said, maybe you're right and UBI accomplishes the majority of what we're going for more directly. I definitely think it will be a necessity soon either way.
Did you start out with the Google salary + stock options, proceed to also start a side gig, and now drive a lambo?
Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
I am working on some typographical software that is supposed to generate PDFs at the end. It seems like there is no accessible information on how to do this. The PDF ISO specification is behind a paywall and has a dead link to a 2008 spec. There are open source converters like pandoc, but nothing that actually writes to PDF that I can find. Is there any resource that goes over the process of PDF generation?
R&D spending at FAAMG includes all software development work, regardless of whether it's research.
I've evaluated one of these group exercises for a grad program before. One thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was out of the four individuals there was one guy that continually derailed the group, and there was another guy who even though the other guy was always derailing things still showed courtesy towards him and listened to his opinions. The other two guys were both reasonable and I liked them too, but the guy whom I both liked and who showed courtesy to an individual I would describe as "difficult" was one of the ones we wound up hiring. He got glowing reviews from pretty much every assessor and went on to become a great colleague to work with. I think any of those three out of the four people would have been fine hires, and the other guy was a strong no-hire.
Sorry, can't comment on this, never owned anything from Apple :)
> It will also be really cool to see how we program for this kind of thing, to really make the best use of it.

With light and simple software (libraries)
I propose changing the promotion criteria every year so they can't be predicted.
I disagree, the best time to evaluate how a candidate behaves towards other people is when they don't know they are being evaluated. Were they stressed before/after the interview? Well, how one behaves when stressed matters too. Finally, yes, rudeness is subjective, but so are most things in life.
I am just beginning to learn piano and when I told my teacher that I was memorizing the pieces I was supposed to be reading, he told me to simply play each piece once, mistakes and all, and continue on to the next - specifically to practice playing a piece on first sight.
I feel called out on the academic part hahaah. I simply want to code state of the art (thermodynamic) models, and at least julia helps by providing easy testing and publishing infraestructure. but obviously we can't compete with a corporation in code quality (we are trying!)

Unrelated, but for small sizes, i really prefer to use forward mode in julia (Via ForwardDiff.jl) instead of Zygote. the overhead of reverse ADing over an arbitrary function with mutation is not worth it.
I once interviewed a guy who was going to work on a different team than mine who, 20 minutes in, I knew he was going to pass everyone's interview. I then proceeded to give him a "take home test" which was actually my project for the sprint, but framed in a generic manner. He was a much better and faster programmer than I, and he completed it beyond my expectations. I made the modifications to make it work with my project and I even received a commendation at the end of the sprint on how clean "my work" was.
Build them from source, then.

Hare is a systems programming language. What kind of a systems programmer doesn't know how to build from source?
Also, the + breaks so, so many sites.

I've switched to a custom domain and from.<sitename>.<random>@
Well the story doesn't tell us who was the 'assholes'. It could be someone up at the whiteboard, or it could be someone yelling at the people that was at the whiteboard.
> As far as I know, as a general trend, politicians pushing to raise the minimum wage tend to also push for raising taxes on the wealthy and greater investment in social programs, especially those targeting the poor.

>On the flip side, politicians I'm aware of that push back against minimum wage increases tend to also be against any tax hikes on the wealthy, and as a bonus they generally work to erode funding for social safety nets.

Yes, in the absence of a UBI, a minimum wage will have to do, and I do appreciate the politicians that can at least make that happen. I did not intend to crucify individual politicians per se, but rather the voting public’s priorities, which clearly make half measures with undesirable side effects such as minimum wage (and higher education loans and “recycling”, etc) the only politically palatable option.

Unfortunately, a lot of these require consensus on the federal level and are not possible on the state level, so the compromises are quite heavy.
There is a continuous issue in our government where you can support a department and its efforts however its continuous underfunding or gutting has made the department essentially defunct.

Then when the rest of our electorate looks at it they say "what is this shit dept? it doesn't do anything anyway, let's find a privatized solution".

That was in fact the entire goal of gutting it. That and passing the cost onto you, the citizen in addition to the taxes paid for said defuct department that has a few well paid bureacrats sitting in there finding more ways for it to be shitty at its job.

This is an openly stated conservative talking point and goal. I first noticed it happening in earnest under GW Bush with the EPA, dept of interior, post office, and more.
> I don't get why you should quit your job, take on tremendous amount of risk for a highly improbable outcome with heavy survivorship bias.

For someone like you? I'd say you shouldn't. The correct option for the vast majority of people is to stay at a stable, low risk high paying corporate job and live a comfortable upper-middle class life.

For other people...it's not that much risk if you're good at fundraising, hiring and executing. For those people, the sky is the limit.
I think those are 68k ops - PDPlls didn't have special addressing registers (just general R0-R7) and MOV/MOVB opcodes
Asianometry's humor tends to be of the dry sort so don't take it too literally haha
I was able to get into this with a $60 set of screwdrivers, a $20 crappy movement from eBay, and another $20 toolkit of random watch repair stuff that wasn't really necessary. And maybe like $20 of lube. I would never attempt to service something I wear/use, but for the $20 crap movement off eBay there's no harm no foul.
I second the recommendation for Synology DSM. The setup process is remarkably painless.
Couldn't it backfire if there were people who were not that keen on getting the job and thus wouldn't be under much pressure?
You must be somebody who's never had to remove an underperforming colleague on a public project.

What happens is that they get promoted to another team, or put on a project that has absolutely no future, and everyone knows it.

Why is it difficult to remove people? Because in the old days, newly elected executives would clear out the civil service and hire or contract with people that supported their election campaign.
Nothing to do with this event, I just had another offer from a company I interviewed at during the same period that was more interesting to me.
Like with those "personality tests" where anyone with decent perception and reading comprehension can easily tell which outcomes each answer's going to push them toward, and so obtain any result they like.
> I don't think it's ethical to evaluate a candidate's interactions when they weren't informed they were being evaluated.

That makes about as much sense as saying that you shouldn’t be held responsible for stealing office supplies because no one informed you that there were cameras installed.

If you treat cab drivers and other service personnel badly, that’s because you’re a shit person. It’s really that simple. I’ve been in extremely stressful situations in my life involving lots of travel and I’ve yet to “take it out” on a third party.
Oh, so _that_ is what the test was about?

In 2006 I went to a "new grads hiring day" at a large company, and one of the steps looked just like this, except I think we were divided in groups of eight.

My team solved the problem at the last second and we all passed to the next round.
This is underlying problem with promotion culture, I am in a big financial firm, my whole team wants to get promoted every 1-1.5 year. I feel people are not really learning how to write and manage software systems properly due to this.
$3000 is a fair price? To me it seems excessive but maybe I am missing something.
Thank you! :) Let me know how it can be improved.
I know PBFC and the team. There was a lot of drama with the PBFC women’s team early on, so not sure how serious the issues claimed really were. From my perspective, there was a lot of inner conflict that probably helped blow things out of proportion. But with that being said, Nick Clark is an obvious fraud and scammer, so whether he sexually harassed women or not, it seems obvious he never had their best interest at heart. And he was definitely crude. He was too busy living in his own contrived fantasyland and not qualified to actually coach, so it’s a shame for young women to be introduced to cycling in that way. But the real victims are his young kids. They were elementary school age when I knew them, and his young daughter rode with the women’s team some times and was “mentored” by them. I am sure his kids wondered why all the people in their Dad’s life, who they thought were also their friends, were suddenly gone? They already lost their mother. And how can a pathological liar truly parent?
Really wonder if this actually worked.

I don’t think we even care in this day and age with hiring if someone is an asshole. Most of the companies I’ve worked at have had many of them in various forms. (Or just simply - not pleasant people) It’s trivial to fake in any interview format.
If Politico knows the identity of the leaker then I think that reduces the chance that it was conservative aligned. You have to be either mad or have very little to risk to put your trust in Politico. If they are 4D chess enough to come up with this game theory strategy then I assume they would use washington post securedrop (https://www.washingtonpost.com/securedrop/) or something similar or at least leak through a non-mainstream liberal/non-conservative reporter that can be trusted like Greenwald.
This is true. This past week, I coached a friend who is a new grad on a how to ace an interview. Going in, she was super worried, almost on the verge of tears.

The strategy was simple: right from the beginning, ask questions about the company and the interviewer's daily work, e.g. "Can you tell me about what you do?" Act as if every response is super interesting/inspiring, and follow-up with more questions, saying you are really eager to learn, etc. until the time runs out, so that they don't get a chance to ask her anything.

She got the job.
Not the OP, but for my money, a company that does that isn't a company to work for. I don't work for free and you shouldn't either.
I am jdhn. I speak for the markets.
Yeah, he mentioned it quickly, but kind of dismisses it for bad reasons imo.
DMCA request removes Moz from Google Search index
You can always get a spring drive from grand seiko - it's mechanical (with an "brake" driven by an integrated circuit, but still no battery) but basically only gets a few seconds off per year. Lowest price point for those is like $5k though.
If it was your IP block rep, then it could have been anyone else on your block who tanked everyone else on the blocks reputation. A few bad apples on a block /24 can tank the lot.
The one time I've experienced assessing this type of thing it's very much something you have a natural feel for as you watch the events unfold. You can't really assess it in the abstract sense, it's all about the concrete interactions and how the individuals handle them.
My interview for IBM back in the 1980s went well, and I got the job as a software architect. I don’t remember much about the interview; it must not have been stressful.

The strange thing for me was a weird day of interaction with a group of around 30 other new hires. We were divided into teams and had to work together to solve problems, etc. I always suspected that we were not being trained but instead graded on some sort of scale by those leading the exercises.

I worked at IBM for 5 years and never discovered what that was about.
How many researchers in the ML/DL community don't speak English? I don't have hard numbers but I highly doubt that it's a significant proportion. What is the reach of your Japanese papers when almost no-one outside of Japan can read Japanese?

Even China, despite their best effort to de-westernize their culture still uses English in their research papers.

And if all the above wasn't enough, Julia's libraries are still all in English so if an hypothetical researcher's English is so poor that they don't know what "learning rate" is, I'd venture that they'll have trouble programming in Julia/JAX/PyTorch.
Note: even if the LED doesn't get hot by itself, if light gets absorbed within the computer case, the light will heat up the computer case.

I've heard of using rubber putty (eg. Blu-Tack) for holding down components during soldering. I tried it a few days ago (on a mouse switch) and it seemed to work well.
After eating only dinner for years, a month ago I found myself eating every other day (except for two pieces of fruit in the afternoon) and I feel even better since then? Where is the limit?
Ethics aside, in my experience this type of character tends to contaminate their surroundings with this undirected negativity. It’s like a black hole that has no sides, only the mass of their ego. I have a friend like this, and while we are still friends and can manage that, I would never work together with him. It’s okay to be sad, stressed, angry. Not okay to spill it all over the world.

Otoh, not clear what gp means by “rude”. Someone could perceive sad/neutral silence and “thank you, goodbye” as rude-ish too.
You might be forgetting self-employment tax there?
It would explain why the draft was written in the first place: Russia is known for supporting extremist groups.
Isn't the existence of separate RH product docs (that require log in) a validation of the parent's point?
> Selection bias kind of leads to an assumption that those who work for the court support the neutrality and processes of the court

Certainly hasn't been true for those who make up the court. It's one of the least legitimate legal courts in the land.
AI Speech to Voice Morphing
AI Speech to Voice Morphing is so much better at creating a believable speech pattern vs TTS however I notice there’s not a lot of information on it. There is one commercial solution. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNcTKEx-y8E

Any of you know how this is done or could point me to some open source projects? also What do you think about this vs TTS
Impactful scientists.
This is generally called a "stress interview" and, as I understand it, they used to be more common decades ago.

These days, I think it would be considered wrong to deceive candidates or to purposefully increase their level of stress (at least when interviewing for a normal desk job). If someone were to try this today, the only thing it would prove is that the interviewer is an asshole.
Kind of makes you wonder where all the assholes work?
Let's Attack Let's Encrypt (Black Hat, 2021)
Not OP and I've never seen CyberChef before, but personally I'm very uncomfortable pasting secrets into any web application, even an open-source one.

Self-hosting would at least give me the guarantee that the code I'm running is the same code I ran last week: If nothing left my browser then, it probably isn't leaving my browser today.

I don't get that guarantee with someone else's hosted version.
Russian frozen reserves were what, 200 billion? Passing it to Ukraine shouldn’t strain EU or US budgets.

As for losses - in war the victor always suffers some losses. The point is: Ukraine will survive this, Russia probably won’t.
Honestly I see two asshole tests here. Some of the candidates failed the first one. IBM failed the other. This type of dishonest and unnecessarily stressful approach tells me that I probably don't want to be working there. Even just professing that a candidate needs to work well under stress is somewhat of a red flag. Why are your employees under so much stress? I am software developer not a trauma surgeon. If I am under regular stress, that is a failure in management of my employer.