skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at G. They put this pressure on you artificially, I think because they believe it gets you to buy in to your work due to its importance. Practically, it seems to encourage lethargy because you need to make sure that all billion of them are happy. Great engineering is done when you know what you can sacrifice some goals for other goals.

People today aren't a lot smarter than people were 20 years ago, and we kind of forget that fact when we try to do grandiose projects like "replace the entire stack and make sure that it works equally well to the old stack in all circumstances." The old stack was built well for its goals, and had the benefit of 20 years of tuning. The replacement needs to come when the goals change. There is plenty of opportunity still: peoples' goals change frequently.

If the goal was just to allow you to write webapps using toolchains for native apps, then you can put in an LLVM-like sidecar next to JS that has terrible performance but amazing security (I think this was closest to the goal of WASM). However, if the goal was to bring native performance to webapps means you can target your spec toward efficient JIT compilation on x86 and ARM (and RISC-V), without worrying a lot about portability to other architectures. I have heard a mix of the two looking at the WASM project from the outside: that they wanted native performance with 100% portability of both hardware platforms and development languages, and they thought they could achieve it.

A great TPM (technical program/product manager - the Google term for an engineering-focused product manager) can help define these exclusions, and it sounds like OP really tried hard to get one. I'm surprised that Google didn't give them one to start.
I think it's a bit of a trick because instead of just blocking the page unless you're inside the paywall they let you download it and then whip it away from you are you're reading it.

Designing something to deliberately annoy people when they could just be upfront about things seems like a tricksy way to behave IMHO.
> When every job opening has several qualified candidates

Every applicant also has several qualified companies they can work for.

It's not totally equal, but if your mindset is not peers meeting to see if there's a good fit, your interviewing experience is going to be worse than it could be.
Can’t solo with passengers… :) this was commercial experience!
To obscure the facts of the story that when gathered make it less impactful / impressive.

It's clear that the "no idea how to fly" guy actually had plenty idea, when you listen to the full audio.
The hiring process is racist all-right. But, the direction of that discrimination might not always align with the most commonly held intuitions.
I've been thinking about using this or Docusaurus to start a blog. Does anyone have an opinion on which of the two is better/easier/etc?
> Cryptocurrencies were supposed to replace banks but they ended up reinventing the whole thing badly.

The only way that statement could be true is if anyone every assumed it's feasible or desirable for everyone to have physical wallets and self-host everything
I do what I use to do on dates that weren't working out. I politely explain, "hey I'm not feeling this, nothing personal - I just don't think it's going to work out. I don't want to waste anyone's time so I am going to go home." Say this confidently and without a hint of anger to avoid conflict.

People will get bit flustered but just kill 'em with kindness repeating the three main things in the quotes:

* Not feeling it

* Nothing personal

* It would be rude to waste your time

They'll eventually get it as you pick your stuff up and leave. If it's an interview I will thank the person for their time/the opportunity with a handshake on my way out the door.
How does that balance out with health insurance premiums?
And, my god - have you read Anne Applebaum's wiki bio?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum

The first 2 paragraphs:

"Anne Elizabeth Applebaum[4] (born July 25, 1964) is a Polish-American[5] journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator,[6] and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–2006).[7] Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for Gulag: A History published the previous year.[8] She is a staff writer for The Atlantic[9] and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.[10]"

"Applebaum is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[70] She is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and Renew Democracy Initiative.[71][72] She was a member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's International Board of Directors.[73] She was a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) where she co-led a major initiative aimed at countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).[74] She was on the editorial board for The American Interest[75] and the Journal of Democracy.[76]"

"In 1992, Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who later served as Poland's Defence Minister, Foreign Minister, and Marshal of the Sejm. He is a Member of the European Parliament. The couple have two sons, Aleksander and Tadeusz.[77] She became a Polish citizen in 2013.[78] She speaks Polish and Russian in addition to English.[79]"

If this deeply embedded elite journo is who you trust to give you the low-down on what's going on, no wonder we are so far apart in understanding what is going on!
100% yes.

Fundamentally, the C-level/senior executives are rarely connected with what's actually going at the ground level. And IME a lot of them simply don't care. They make decisions without understanding the impacts to the rest of the organization, and when objections or concerns are raised, they're filtered or attenuated at the middle management layer (due, usually, to a culture of fear) or dismissed at the top levels.

Put another way: When the decision makers don't feel the consequences of their decisions, those consequences will be ignored. It's a kind of corporate negative externality.
One curiosity: I was trying to figure out how the diagram at the top of https://markdoc.io/docs/render was generated.

The items inside the diagram seem curiously absent from the source of the page: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markdoc/docs/main/pages/do...

Instead, when the `diagram` tag is defined, it maps the "type" parameter to a particular diagram: https://github.com/markdoc/docs/blob/main/components/Diagram...

Any reason it is done that way, rather than specifying the diagram in the source of the document using mermaid, pikchr, etc? Even inlining the SVG seems like it would be better for keeping everything together.
Starlink Scrambled to Keep Ukraine Online
Commercial airliners have autoland systems. Much less common in smaller planes.
Facebook stopped actively maintaining Jest months (years?) ago, so this is a good move for the community.

See this old HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30168241

..and the comment from the "only" remaining maintainer:

https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/11529#issuecomment-102...
One of the best programming aphorisms I've heard is "Everything in programming can be solved with another layer of abstraction except for the problem of to many layers of abstraction."
Ask HN: What do HN users feel about the downfall of tech stocks?
There are lot of speculations around economic crisis given tech stocks are in down fall and some companies started talking about reduced hiring ( FB, Uber).
Please tell me you have a YouTube channel!?
I think the question is, is it painful or harmful? The early discussions only seem to reference its potential problems, with the 2014 Drupal repo[0]'s reasoning being "those terms may carry racially charged meanings to users", and the 2018 Python bug[1] referencing "for diversity reasons". Maybe there are scholarly papers on this issue?

0: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692

1: https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
As a Salvadoran here. Using the USD is a great advantage. I'd rather be paid in USD than in any other Latin American currency.

Every country is different. But would we, in the particular case of El Salvador, be better if we operated in another currency?

- The USD is the currency of our main trade partner and the currency of the 30% of Salvadorans that live in the US. Our remittances don't incurre in expensive foreign exchange.

- Less Foreign Exchange risk, compared to what Colombians, Chileans, Argentina or Mexicans experience.

- We also have lower interest rates than many bigger Latin American economies.

- Most Latin American currencies have been devalued in the past years. With few exceptions like the Guatemalan Quetzal. I've heard about the Cuban Peso Convertible and the Panama Balboa too but those are pegged to the dollar anyways. Or French Guyana and some Caribbean islands which use the Euro perhaps.
The "ban" on externally installed accessibility apps is nothing more than two extra button presses to enable APIs that are used by real-world malware to steal money. Alternative app stores like F-Droid are exempt from the change, assuming they use the correct API, and apps you manually installed can still be given the necessary permissions.

It's just harder to do when you don't know what you're doing, which is a good thing in my opinion.
In addition to being interesting to techies, this is a really well-written article, e.g.

> Everyone was slightly disgusted and slightly impressed.

Went back and reread the whole article to find more gems like that one.
> Nobody wants to work for your crappy startup.

I rest my case.
Your other comments aside, just for the record: I was able to take the time off because I saved my income instead of spending it (also thanks to having paid into disability insurance programs for decades). Between rent, food and health insurance I used up all my savings. Certainly having any money saved up at all is a privilege, and I hope it's one more people are able to have in the future.
I've been involved in making this move happen and it has been many months in the process and was many years overdue. The two events, at least from my perspective, are unrelated.
I completed a four-year honours level program at a research university. Math has always been one of my biggest passions, but I wanted some real world work experience before heading into grad school.

Fast-forward four years: I now work in software and, as others have said, I have tried and failed to find anyone who cares that I have studied high-level pure math/theoretical physics. So if I ever want back, it would be purely out of passion, not for any professional gains.

I have considered going back just to fulfill the passion side, but right now that passion does not outweigh the burden of potentially going without an income and paying out of savings to support myself and my family while I get a graduate degree, and I doubt that it ever will. I've done a lot of work to make peace with this fact of life. I have a lot of other passions, and I focus on those instead.
CPI Inflation Rate Is Finally Falling but Not Enough; Dow Jones Rises
> What happens if the interview goes poorly? The interviewer gets paid, goes home with a shrug.

Yeah, and the company continues being understaffed for what they want to do, and often the interviewer is one of the people on that team who needs more people.

(no it's not exactly the same)
This is assuming that more immigration equals better. And even if one does think so, then the USA is doing "better" - by orders of magnitude. The Chinese and Indians are not set to become minorities in their own countries, are they? But thanks to immigration, white Americans practically already are [1], yet it is they that are called xenophobic. Double-standards doesn't begin to describe it.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/less-than-half-of-us-chil...
This really hits home for me. I've been in a similar situation for more than a year. Extremely overworked, understaffed team constantly missing deadlines. Endless pointless meetings. Managers don't care. Even my short and long term memory has taken a toll, although its probably due to another chronic health issue. I want to quit and stay unemployed for a while, but that's frankly just scary. Good job.
And a screen reader would have no idea how to parse it without a special case... I've seen stuff tagged with this a lot and every so often someone mentions this issue and I've yet to find an explanation other than if you already know about it it's easier to search for.

I appreciate the advice nonetheless but it's just such an odd choice for making it discoverable.
> People keep talking about having "your lawyer" do something as if everyone just walks around with a personal pet lawyer and I never understood it.

Let me explain: they don't walk around with a personal lawyer. Just as if I buy a chocolate bar it doesn't mean I walk around with a personal sweet shop. You've just radically misunderstood how everything in the world works.
Correct me if I’m wrong..

But the simplest way to check would be

1. Inspect element > start recording under ‘Network’

2. Press any key, and check for new requests visually that correlate to the time you pressed the key.
> Most people in ESTA countries qualify

Correction: most citizens of ESTA countries qualify. For example, approximately three million Canadian residents are not citizens of Canada (they have work permit, study permit, or permanent residence permit instead). Wait times for a visa appointment from Canada are about 1 to 1.5 years now.

Fun fact: permanent residents of the US can visit Canada without needing a visa, but this is not reciprocated. Permanent residents of Canada need a visa to visit the US, unless their country of citizenship is one of the ESTA countries.
yeah, but sometimes i do need to be vaguely aware of whats being discussed.

Rapidly changing from topic to topic but having everyone in a conference room while everyone is working is highly effective. People can jump in and give input on the topic they were half listening too. How many times someone has said "Oh, i have a supplier for that" or "I wrote a script for that".

The above example is really off topic from "He was on his phone while we were pitching" but i think it applies to the fact that smart people are actually really good at multi-tasking, bad a social ques and norms but you shouldn't take it as a sign of disrespect.
"Trilobyte", heh. That's a funny typo.
You mean an app with email and calendar?
That is actually an interesting concept for the Hulk. In a small plane, if he were to go green he would immediately cause a crash so Banner would have to calmly listen to instructions while fighting the stress.
> 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.

I don't think it would be so radical. For one thing, only about 1% of us work in agriculture now, so even if it takes 10x that's still only 10%.
Not nitpicking because I agree with you, but in an emergency situation like this if you can walk away from the airplane, the condition of it is irrelevant. So I think at least 85-90% of the time (in good weather with a crosswind component below 7-8kts or so) everyone would be okay.

And absolutely agreed on the large aircraft part. I'm a private pilot, but no instrument cert yet, with only piston single experience - not even a high performance or complex endorsement - and I'm pretty sure if I had to land a widebody commercial airliner the only difference between me and someone with no experience is I'd sound better on the radio. I think the end result would probably be the same.
> The problem here is that Android apps have to opt in to loading user-imported certificates.

Yes, but since Android N introduced this change, I haven’t met a single non-browser app that opted in to trusting the user store, or offered an option to do that. Maybe some enterprise apps do that? So it’s practically broken for any non-browser app; as for browsers I’ll just use a desktop one...
How does that relate to having a small subset of users to whom the rules don't apply?
Snippyly (YC W22) is hiring software engineers to make the internet multiplayer
> One posits that the fashion houses own the rep factories so they can monetize at every level

This is a side plot in "House of Gucci". After Lady Gaga shuts down the street sales of knock-offs, Gucci loses a large portion of their income and it contributes to their financial woes.
Stupid question, but could this guy end up in some sort of legal trouble?

He's obviously a hero and saved the lives of everyone on board, but it's still illegal to fly a plane while unqualified, right?
Coinbase popping and everyone with their funds/crypto still there gets ruined is probably in my top 5 signs that the crypto apocalypse is nigh and the Ponzi ends.

I still expect that the current downturn reverses later this year, and Coinbase isn't popping yet they're just having to disclose that risk. But given a real melt down in the broader economy and something like commercial mortgage backed securities popping, I expect that Coinbase would melt down.

Even though I'm not as negative as everyone else over current conditions, it is probably time to seek shelter (or that if there is a bounce later this year it is probably a profit taking opportunity before the crash)
Yeah, BTC and ETH together burn around 1% of world electricity consumption (though that might go down now).

A single BTC transaction pays the miners over $100 in seignorage/mining reward (increasing the money supply, around 1.7% p.a. until the next halving), of which around up to half, AFAIK, goes into electricity and mining equipment. Would love to see a good breakdown on that.
Yes.

Do not keep funds in "hosted wallets" for more than a day or two.

Of course, Coinbase wants you to keep your money with them, so they can dip into your funds. Do they offer a service where funds in your Coinbase account sweep daily into a non-hosted wallet of your choice? No? How about that.
The person you're replying to is very kind and considerate.

They're not assuming people using the problematic terminology do so with the intention to harm. They are, however, mindful of its negative effects, hence the gentle reminder.
I really hate that quote. For one, it is frequently hard to tell when you are actually getting quality by spending more. Sometimes you might just be paying for the label. For another, nice things often require expensive maintenance. Boots you will keep must be resoled periodically. Or you might not need or want to wear the same boots for years and years.

It's not at all uncommon for the cheap thing to be much cheaper in total cost of ownership (TCO) than the "quality" item. Take a look at Edmunds TCO numbers for cars, for example. And back to Harbor Freight: I've heard of shops switching to Harbor Freight air tools because they're 1/10 the cost of the good stuff and last, I forget, something like 1/4 as long.
I have seen "worse is better" trotted out many many times, used mostly as an appeal to authority instead of a clear instantiation of the argument presented in the essay. I think this is because the argument in the original essay is not crisply presented (at least not to me). So authors take "worse" and "better" on some random dimension that's beneficial to them in the moment, and then appeal to the authority of this well respected essay to "prove" that their approach is better.

This post is stating that they tried to generalize too much instead of building to narrow use cases first. There is no need to bring "worse is better" into it at all, IMO
The Fall of Ubuntu as a Gaming Distro
> The left doesn't equal human rights, it means more government intervention

Really? Does "legalize abortion" mean more government intervention? Does "abolish the police" mean more government intervention?
> I generally urge people to think of this as a cooperation exercise and not a power struggle.

Any "adversarial interview" techniques are a big red flag, imo. They also make it easy to quickly recognise places with a toxic culture, so there's not need to beat yourself up if you fail. You dodged a bullet, plus now have an excuse to rant with your friends over a pint!

Hence, my favourite interviews (regardless of the side I was on) were the one when we had a chance to spend a day working with the candidate.
Don't forget the 'good faith' deference that the Courts give to these people. They can lie, you can have actual evidence to show they are lying, but the court will extend 'good faith' to their testimony and hold it above the facts you demonstrate. Reality can literally be trumped by their lies. The USA has gone crazy in its support of the authorities. Oh, what, your evidence wasn't kept secure, and no one filled out any of the required logs of who took it out? Well, we'll throw out all of the rules and still accept it, because we extend 'good faith' to the officers. Why even have rules then if the officers aren't required to follow them and they know they will be given an excepts because of 'good faith'
I had to control-f too far down for this comment. I would have a hard time working with anyone who laughed at the idea of anyone's favorite language, let alone a language like Scheme. There are reasons to dislike Scheme but it's hard to argue against how amazing the language can be.
That basket of goods is supposed to be representative of a person's needs (although there is debate about that). If the person's aggregate purchasing power across the basket went down, then the value of their salary went down. They're receiving less value for doing the same work.

Most things are interconnected. Yes, gas might not directly affect a specific company, but it will eventually due to things like inputs, shipping, etc going up. And yes, even the people on the supplier side getting raises will affect it.

"People like to think of X% inflation meaning that every dollar is worth less"

At an aggregate level that is how it works. The basket of goods costs more. The person's purchasing power has been reduced. The the number of dollars needed to purchase the same basket of goods is higher. So yes, the dollar is worth less. As you point out, not every product costs more, but most do eventually as the effects ripple (some go down, but usually though changes in technology/production/etc).

I understand that the company needs to stay competitive and they would need to increase revenue to increase salary. Usually that isn't a large enough increase to affect competitive prices for the actual workers (executives and management are different). Of course that assumes being competitive with other onshore companies. If competing with offshore companies in LCOL areas, then it's going to be nearly impossible to compete (see things like steel production in the US).
>He's also saying it was a business decision, and it shouldn't have been. Honestly I don't know what that means.

It means the decision was driven by which option drives higher profit, and not a moral position.