skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s weird, but like you say, it seemed like a sort of nervous habit.

Not during interviews, but sometimes I close my eyes when I want to focus intently on what the speaker is saying. I used to twirl my pencil.

I try and give both interviewers and interviewees the benefit of the doubt.

Walking out without saying anything seems pretty rude, but I don’t know all the circumstances. Laughing in your face seems much worse. It’s a two way interview. If it doesn’t feel right, hopefully you’ve got other options and don’t need to proceed. Or get an offer (if it isn’t going to take 5 more rounds of interviewing, you’ve already committed time to the interview, consider whether it’s worth taking it to completion) and then raise concerns and listen to how your concerns are addressed.
The comments here in this thread illustrate why unions are so dangerous. So many Americans subscribe to the “we are full” and “why should I lower my wages” arguments against immigration. On their own, they’re flaccid. If unionized they would be powerful. Better that software engineer unions never see light lest they behave like unions of old did and turn their ire on immigrants.

Read here about the history of existing immigration policy and its roots in union anti-immigration policy https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5124597.pdf
sbin as "static binary" is an ahistoric retcon, like claiming usr means 'universal system resources'. (It means 'user' and was the original /home.)
We need eye tracking that would blur the objects that would normally be out of focus for what the person is looking at.
Why do you say Coinbase is good for cold storage? It’s not custodied so in the event they went bankrupt/sanctions compliance/TOS violation, they could lock you out forever. A hardware wallet is good for cold storage. Coinbase is a hot wallet.
That's an outlier situation so not very useful as a yardstick. But kudos if it worked for you.
I’m asking about individuals.

I’ve flown a couple times this year. I’ve been airborne for about 20 hours. Are you saying my portion of the emissions from those flights is likely negligible compared to the emissions from owning a home and car?
With FAANG companies it is not as much profit driven as much as it is that they get an employee who will have to work harder than others due to keeping their visa, and will stay for longer at least until their green card processing is complete and they have their I-140.
> You are the candidate and hold equal power.

I frequently see comments like this on HN and I don't really buy it.

When every job opening has several qualified candidates, and it can take several applications to land a new job, I still think the employer has more power.
I am sailing in the same boat. Except that I am still waiting to be liberated with a Green Card.
Its outrageous that there is still a big racism on the name of "Per-country" caps for a common-sense high skilled immigration system in the country like USA who makes a tall claim of being "Equal-Opportunity" country. A Pizza-delivery guy from Non-India/Non-Chinese place of birth can get his citizenship before atleast a decade than the person of Indian/Chinese original who filed on the same day. Its 2022, 4 administration went away since 2007 who made claims of changing the immigration system. Let's see how long do we wait to suffer.
RCMP commissioner denies claim Mounties used 'kid gloves' with Freedom Convoy
Police in North America are consistent: white people are treated the same and non-white people are treated the same. Total consistency.
EH, GC and JIT are examples of difficult things that some use cases demand, yeah. They were intentionally punted out of the MVP into the Future as a result of that - the spec committee were aware of the need for those things (and some of us actively wanted them) but it's really hard to satisfy all interested parties and still ship.

Exception Handling appears to be in really good shape right now, but I have my doubts about GC. I'm not sure JIT will ever be solved (right now people seem to just compile tons of modules and hope the browser won't crash).

I don't think any of this means that WASM has a bad future, but it'll probably require a lot of careful work as it has up until now.
I believe we’re making the same point from different angles:

I’m pointing out that companies I work with don’t exhibit easily identifiable characteristics to verify authenticity.

You (correct me if I’m wrong) are stating that bad actors will craft messages that look like legitimate ones.

In either case, we end up in a place where I would be unable to determine if a message is legitimate barring further out of band confirmation.
I feel it's more likely related to how often "don't reinvent the wheel" and "NIH syndrome" is thrown around. It's no surprise to me that people will first check to see if a library already exists before going to write their own, probably lacking function.
Signed,
Conservatives
Now that covid is waning, we're back to 'the kids' in order to allow governments absurd amounts of power over individuals. None of these excuses are put forth in order to further the argument, it's to create a trap for detractors and be able to label them as evil people, killing grandma, hating kids, supporting terror, etc etc.
So I assume we'll see a nice big donation to the sqlite coffers, then?
> It’s funny to see people shocked (SHOCKED!) when crypto doesn’t have the protections of regular banking and investments. That’s why you don’t invest with stuff that isn’t insured. Those aren’t real rates, they are risk adjusted rates for not having insurance.

You are missing the point. We are shocked that even if Coinbase keeps users' deposits 100% safe, users could still lose their deposits if a judge decides so. Why isn't there a way to segregate those deposits from assets on which creditors have a claim? This kind of simple arrangement ought to be possible without new regulations or FDIC-style protection.

Needless to say, "not your keys not your Bitcoin" continues to be good advice.
Some examples, especially the one about the "English" possessions in 1154 vs. elections results in 2022 vs where Brits are living in 2020 look very fishy. You have to try really hard if you want to see (or invent) a correlation between those, because they really don’t match at all.
Alright bro then I'm holding you personally responsible for everything on this list: https://github.com/binka/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md
This is what the subreddit mentioned in the article sort of "discovered"; they spend a lot of time obsessing over the details and subtle variations they can get by working directly with factories and artisans in China. By using a real design as a template they cut out the difficult part of designing the whole concept from scratch and can work from a template but still achieve quality with some minor tailoring.
> The money we make pales in comparison with the size of our contributions to the company. Especially so if you are in a value-adding position and not something like internal tooling. Management and executives are DEFINITELY underpaying us relative to what we bring to the table for them

I mean, I’ve seen people working in retail make this same point. And I’m not saying either of you are invalid in your claim, thats just how work is, it seems
I remember DADT as an easing of the status quo, which was at the time: we are watching & you better not.
Comprehensive List of U.S. Atrocities
> Is Coinbase "loaning" out the Bitcoin users have deposited in it?

Maybe not Bitcoin, because I don't know if Bitcoin has any staking protocols in it.

But things like Anchor / UST / Luna participated in a staking scheme, where if you promised not to sell UST, you'd get 20% APY gains (measured in UST of course, not US-dollars).

Coinbase could be participating in those schemes in a group wallet-setting. Ex: UST holdings at Coinbase would be staked, so that Coinbase would get those gains. Or with other coins with such benefits??

I'm mostly pulling this out of my ass btw. I don't know the structure of Coinbase. But I can see the "incentivizing" from the various cryptocoins on the market or the various "protocols" that allow for exponential growth (as long as you "lend" or "stake" your coins somewhere else).
I care about US policies, of course. I just don't think that Biden is different from Trump in any way that matters in the big picture.
Does anyone know of tooling like this but not for only making websites?

I have an asciidoc based chain that mostly works for generating both PDF manuals and standalone html docs but it's a bit of a faff to install and set up especially for non-technical users.

My dream is something like pandoc but with one or more diagram libraries integrated, native PDF output and all wrapped up in a single binary, maybe with a nice web UI/editor built into the binary. Oh, and if it could manage multiple documents and versioning that would be great too. Looking for a Fossil SCM kind of feel?

Closest thing I've used would probably be LyX but that's almost too capable!

I do appreciate this is a really hard thing to do and I'm wondering what toolchains other people are using?
Stockholm syndrome much? What a horrible sad story. I felt pain each time the author mentioned being elated or joyful. One hard working Asian gets mistreated by the Land Of the Free, the mother of his child subjected to completely needless stress in the worst possible months of her pregnancy, and for what?
Part of it was, yes. But going by the image from the tweet, there are many regions recovered, that belonged to the Second Polish Republic and still contained quite sizeable Polish-speaking population. [0]

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GUS_languages1931_Po...
The (billionaires') case against billionaires – Cory Doctorow
Fear and self-loathing: getting old in tech
take a look at Graphext ( https://www.graphext.com ) it automatically creates the clustering embeddings using BERT for you + great visualization libraries to interpret the clusters :D it took us 5 years to build the product
As someone who uses questions like this in interviews, the entire point of these kinds of questions is to see where the candidate takes you.

If you want to spend 20 minutes talking about DNS, I'm going to ask a lot of follow-up questions throughout the process, not fail you for not meeting a rubric or magic list of buzzwords. My goal will be to see how deep your knowledge on a particular piece of technology is, especially for a security role.

The problem here isn't the question; the question is a tool. The problem is that the interviewer isn't using the tool appropriately.

(Note: I don't choose these questions, the team I work for did. I follow a script, and it includes questions like this. But the script also contains a reminder for how to use the damn question.)
"I’m not saying it’s fair or right…"

Good, because concern trolling like this is pretty shitty, and definitely not fair or right.

Certainly not intellectually honest. You attack someone repeatedly for supposedly not standing up against "dumb policies" and "extremist" positions, without your daring to name what you think those are. After all, if you did that, you might have to defend your stance against criticism instead of attacking someone for not preventing the entire Democratic Party from committing unspecified wrongs of "inclusion".
> Curious, where have you been staying with the egregious misrepresentation

One thing I recently noticed was, including "sofa bed" as an actual bed. Screwed up with my filters so much that I had to verify from the pictures that they actually had the number of beds I was looking for.
What you and responders have missed is the 1st Amendment is totally and entirely inapplicable to Twitter. There is a misunderstanding here of the Amendment. It only applies to federal, state, and local government actors. This is a broad category that includes not only lawmakers and elected officials, but also public schools and universities, courts, and police officers. It does not include private citizens, businesses, and organizations. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional. No other entity or group is bound by the 1st Amendment. And this is by the Founders' design, because extending the 1st Amendment to all entities and groups would in fact limit freedom.
"Analysts" have been claiming this for the past 5 years
Where gasoline and diesel are consumed at low or no pressure from a fuel tank, an EV is analogous to a compressor driven high pressure hydraulic line.

High pressure fires are very different to low pressure as this garbage truck hydraulic line fire demonstrates:

https://youtu.be/aj8-JlRqoWc

Trapped energy is in a hurry to get out. Damaged batteries contain immensely 'pressurized' amps that will find a way out until exhausted...
Why not make WASM as simple as possible, and let layers on top of it deal with extensions like GC?

Stacking abstractions, like how computer architecture used to work in the old days.
It still has to run in a server process on a server host, and virtually all of the challenges of managing a database server are just moved up to the application layer. There are fewer actual hosts, but for the likes of fly.io or a cloud provider a difference of a handful of hosts is negligible because hosts are cattle rather than pets.

There might be advantages to SQLite (e.g., maybe lightstream's replication/backup/etc story is simpler than Postgres's), but "number of hosts" or "number of server processes" doesn't seem compelling to me.
> You could crash, but you can also throw. Somebody somewhere sometime might be able to do a better job with the situation than you can right there and then.

This is a very big assumption.

Edit: The assumption is that this day can ever come. The author decided that in his system that day would likely never arrive.
Slippage, in a word.
That Sweet Spray
I didn't ignore anything. The product is the output. Code is not the output. Your code is as much the output as communication is. Users don't care if you spent your time coding or in a meeting. They care if the product fulfills their needs. A meeting that stops a terrible redesign contributes as much the output as the heads down programmer who would have implemented it. Now I would hate to be in meetings all day, don't get me wrong. But I disagree that code is the output specifically for a product.
COLRv1 and CSS Font-Palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
He's getting a billion dollars out of this, maybe that's playing a part too, to lend Musk some additional cover. Look, even the guy who banned him thinks differently now.
Everyone should invest in a decent microscope. Whether it's some soil or a drop of pond water there is an absolutely insane amount of life that escapes the naked eye. Easily one of the best couple hundred dollars I've spent in my life.
yeah tauri is some progress and flutter webview is also is ok if you only care about ios and android but its not enough.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
Right. As a Canadian, I forgot the various delays between election, certification and inauguration.

I like the down votes for asking a question :-P
Yeah, you said it better than I did.
What if I want to run fsck on a drive image owned by my user? If I can run /sbin/fsck, I can rightly run that on such a file without using sudo.
Actually, in-house IT is going away. I've seen many companies switching to a hybrid format with a skeleton IT crew and larger external managed service providers providing IT services. And many managed service providers do have a global teams. Can you link to the report about projected IT jobs growth?
Buddy of mine solved 1400 leetcodes and still failed several rounds
Chesterton's fence.

I admit that when I was younger I was much more eager to just tear it all down and start anew...but with experience I have come to see things are never quite so easy. Things are the way they are for a reason, and it is important to know what those reasons are before attempting to modify the things.
>I still think the employer has more power.

This is the mentality that gets you bullied. There are more openings than qualified people, and businesses can't make money without employees. No one is doing you a favour by giving you a job, they are literally making off your back.
I have had this happen in several different macbooks. I just stop and restart the sound card in terminal to fix it. It's annoying to do every couple days, but it only takes a few moments.
Thank you we just got here a perfect example of whataboutism! What some countries do to some people has nothing to do with what the US of (pardon me) Assholes does to someone who lived there most their lives!
"Did the other interviewers in the room continue on without saying anything either?"

Yep. They didn't say anything and continued as if nothing happened. Though I did get the feeling that one of them seemed uncomfortable after the interviewer who laughed at me walked out without saying a word.
At some point i read that the reason the south-west of England is a stronghold for the Liberal Democrat party is due to the soil: i think it was that the soil there is suitable for dairy farming, and something about the economic structure of dairy farming led its well-off population to support the Liberals rather than the Tories, and that has persisted. But i can neither remember the explanation clearly, or find a source for it now. Sorry!
Closed-system farming, where basically everything is recycled - nutrients, water, biomass (except what goes onto people's tables) - is theoretically possible and this article describes what looks like a successful system. This is also the kind of thing you'd need on a large spaceship or Martian colony (where human feces/urine would also need to be recycled).

However, the increase in labor needed shouldn't be underestimated. Some automation is likely possible with advanced robots, but this would mean a much larger fraction of the population would be involved in agriculture, perhaps as much as 10X as are currently employed.

In the cited example in the article, apparently one worker has managed 7 hectares using a closed-system model, if we take 'single-handedly' at face value. In contrast, according to wikipedia, in the USA on average one worker can manage 100 hectares (1 square km) with industrial methods (lots of water and fertilizer wastage).

This would be a pretty radical social restructuring, probably not what most people have in mind when they talk about 'postindustrial society'.
> How come there isn’t a household name akin to Apple for apartment development?

Because real estate development is capital-intensive on a fairly unique scale and it's very easy even for good developers to go under. It also doesn't scale in the same way because builders are subject to all of the tax and regulatory implications of each market they're in.

They go bankrupt all the time due to market forces outside of their control. Just look at the price of lumber over the last couple of years. Markets can move more quickly than builders can react because big projects can take years and building supplies can double in price in a matter of months.

> I want to be able to stick to one amazing developer for a consistent experience across multiple markets especially now that remote work is becoming a permanent option for multiple developers.

I don't how realistic a vision this is because it's not like developers that dominate a market are inherently incentivized to do good work. In fact, demand is so crazy for builders that getting good work done at all is becoming harder and harder.
You use Hacker news. Hacker news rate limits requests and throttles some activity like commenting.

Do they do it because they hate people? Because they have an evil political affiliation? No.

They do it because of simple common sense and I agree with it. Same with the immigration system which is similar to the one from my country of origin.

The guy in the article is definitely a the type of immigrant any country wants, sure. But he comes from a country where you have jerks like Infosys and Tata submitting 10 copies of the same application for every employee, DoSing the USCIS. And where there are fake universities with 24/7 phone numbers and websites and fake photos. And a world of cheating in every aspect imaginable.

This has resulted in higher skepticism not only from the USCIS but from every governmental immigration agency on the planet.
I'm building an open source firebase alternative using sqlite. I'll be reaching out, I was thinking to build the distribution & durability part myself, but I would rather use D1!

I guess it would count as a client focused ORM :)

I'll be reaching out from jp@javascriptdb.com

Great addition, congrats!
> There is no way to avoid most of things you listed.

Oh yes, there definitely is: There are no function calls, nested expressions, or malloc in assembly – those are abstractions provided by the language and translated by the compiler, for comfort, not necessity. In fact, you can simulate all that in C itself: use gotos and an explicitly managed memory area as stack, and manually transform nested expressions into SSA form.
> Is there just a different set of free speech rules for the rich and powerful?

Yes, just like there's one for left wing vs right wing. Trump was banned for violence for saying he won't attend the inauguration. Yet tweets calling for violence against the right are allowed. Many of them are years old.

You can search for yourself. Example:

* https://twitter.com/bobmorr32749439/status/15240565867375042... : "kill putin and trump and all the Republicans"

* https://twitter.com/gnarlyymarleyy/status/131111964852019609... : "can someone just assassinate trump so we can be done w this PLEASE"
I work for an international company and see the full panoply of international holidays on our master calendar. The problem here isn't a lack of observance, but the punishment for asking about reasons.
"Waste their time"

You would waste your own time, too, with this approach.
I'm single and bought a $350k 3 bedroom when I was making around $130k. I bought the home because the city I lived in at the time (Austin) had banned townhouses/duplexes/etc so my only option was to rent in a midrise, rent a home, or buy. I wanted a townhouse downtown, not a SFH in the suburbs.

Unfortunately I sold said home at the beginning of 2019 and have watched it essentially double in value over the last two years.
> Had she gotten an abortion, she wouldn't have charges.

That, to me, is kind of the whole point.

If you decide your dog is old and sick and you take it to the vet to be put down, you've done the right thing.

If you decide your dog is old sick, so you starve him to death, you deserve to go to jail for animal abuse.

(At least for now) we have a way of dealing with unwanted pregnancy. Abusing / neglecting your fetus because you don't want it, but not getting an abortion, is clearly immoral IMO.

Whether drug use constitutes abuse, and whether she deserve jail time for it, are more complicated and nuanced questions.
I agree with you about modern phone cameras, but I have an old digital with minimal postprocessing, and the images come out clear (at a whopping 3 megapixels), as do the raws on my Sony A7. Similarly, film cameras worked fine without piles of neural networks, etc during development.

The images in the article are all blurry, but seem decent for a research prototype. Presumably, dumping lots of commercial development resources into the technology will improve it.
Do you think Do Kwon will go to jail or be charged? They literally created money out of thin air (UST <—> Luna burn mechanism) and then hedged their ponzi by diversifying into BTC backing, then basically imploded billions of dollars of made up money mixed with real money invested by people from fiat on-ramps and retail legacy banking systems, etc.