skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently interviewed at a startup where I faced a very bully interviewer. First a bit of background about me ..I have few years of gaps in my career due to family responsibilities. But whenever I have rejoined work, i have always enjoyed the work and loved working in development role with active coding.

The start of interview felt like he had made up his mind, being lady, with so many years of gap in between, may be she is no good for coding role.
I was asked a question for which some particular answer was expected, which is commonly used for that domain, but since I had never worked in that domain, the answer didn't click instantaneously..

And the very next question he asked me in next 2 mins time was "you don't know the answer because you haven't been coding ? "

I politely conveyed that just because i dont know the answer to this question, doesnt mean i do not code. Its simply means that i have not worked on this particular problem and probably next time they should screen people with those particular skillsets. And i didnt continue the interview.

It felt good. I didn't want them to bully me just because I am a candidate (and not employer) and tht too the one with not extremely impressive profile. Even if I had cleared the interview, I don't think I would have accepted to work with that company.
If I have a weapon in my hand and yell "I will kill you" at someone, this is a threat.

If I you give me a teddy bear with a pun that I hate on it and I tell you "I will kill you" with a smile on my face, that's not a threat.

It depends on the context.

The first person would go to jail. The second person would not.

Analyzing the context of any situation is why we have a legal system with judges and juries.
Ask HN: Gmail popup – already on vs. count me in
So today I open gmail and I get this popup on the top right, asking me about 2 step verification - which sounds good and all that.

But then it shows two buttons, the first says “Already on” and the second (which is highlighted blue) says “Count me in”

I’m not sure how to interpret these (and therefore which to click).

If it’s already on then surely it won’t present me with the option to click it? So what does the alternative count me in do?

And there’s no close / x button either. Annoying.
Ah very true :) Joking aside, I don't want to make it seem like I am discounting their achievement. It's a very high pressure situation with a lot of potential for a bad outcome, and they handled it extremely well.
I think the big savings in real estate came from not having to keep getting more and more space to house all of your new employees. When I worked at a large tech company in SF, they were running up against their limits and just didn't have enough space to house the people they were hiring, so they had to slow hiring.

The smaller startup I worked at also had to get a second office a couple blocks away from the original office.

In the current remote-forward world, while these companies have to keep their existing real estate, they get the benefit of not having grow their real estate portfolio relative to their employee size. I was also told it cost that large tech company 20-30k a year per physical seat in the office. So I'm pretty sure the savings have been decent, even if they didn't dump their office spaces.
"So don't shit on burger flippers..."

I'm not. I'm saying if everything paid the same (true income "equality", really equity), then why wouldn't I want to do a job, that is stereotyped as easy and typically low paid? There are tons of burnt out devs who want to quit and do something else.

There aren't any In-N-Out in my state. If I could get a manager position, then I'd consider it (although the range starts below $100k, especially outside of CA).

"And trust me, most devs I know couldn't handle flipping burgers."

Maybe. Many of the devs I know seem like the could (or have). But there are some that seem like they would struggle. I've worked in a warehouse, I've worked in billing, I've worked as a janitor, I've worked retail sales, and I've worked as a house painter. I've even done a weekend gig as a good worker at a BBQ stand. Food service is not my main choice (I'd take that over painting though), but your example pays much better than any of these did. Every job has tough stuff and everyone likes to assume others couldn't do it because they don't have as much grit or whatever, including devs. I think this is mostly just bias.
Usually the non-tech way would be to associate with bizarre visual imagery.
The tech way would be life-logging with a camera on most of the time that extracts a searchable transcript.
When I did my private license 20 years ago, my instructor asked me whether I had previous experience playing flight simulators. She said that people who had usually required more time in the cockpit to unlearn all the bad habits they had acquired from games.

Maybe things have changed since the days of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000.
Because it is being used for manipulation, falsely. "Oh, oh, this hurts me! I cannot bear it!"

Recollect Emory University, in 2015, when someone wrote "TRUMP 2016" in chalk on the sidewalk. "Traumatized" protestors shouted "You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!" It's manipulation, pretending to be hurt. These people weren't locked in some kind of perpetual seizure for the four years of the Trump presidency, wailing in continual agony. It was a show.
Put a month in between starting something new, too. Depending on the particulars of the healthcare involved that might not even require COBRA (many cover you through the end of the month rather than ending the day you leave; many also cover you day 1 of employment rather than starting X days after, so you can quit on the 1st of one month, start new job on the 1st of the next month, or similar), but even if not, one month of COBRA and missed expenses isn't that bad.

But, that way you can actually have a breather, get back into a healthy headspace, etc, before starting in. My best job transitions have had a break in between; my worst were quit job 1 on Friday, start job 2 on Monday.
That's some oddly specific trivia, but the index page for that site looks like a great resource of technical information on the original PC line of computers.

http://minuszerodegrees.net/index.htm
It seems pretty silly to throw $375 at mildly inconveniencing a website operator with the input form thing.

On the other hand, I guess we'd all probably be better off if we'd have a lawyer look over things like our employment contracts, renting contracts, etc (I just sign the dang things though).
Well thank god they're software engineers and not butterflies!

https://ronmayhewphotography.com/2020/02/06/if-a-butterfly-f...
Anne Coulter aside, there is a core point here and that is that historically, we've gotten it wrong and I think most of us can agree that looking back we had it wrong. Yes, that Anne Coulter quite is ridiculous but was likely more representative of opinions around the time of Women's suffrage. Is it not possible that we can collectively figure out where we continue to get it wrong?
That is why you should always leave enough space in front of you so that you can react and safely come to a stop if the car in front were to suddenly hit a pileup.
Think about how much a bad hire costs a company.

Not only does 6-figures of cash get burned, but you're back at square one needing to find a new hire, not to mention your project now being behind schedule because you expected work from someone, and now the existing team has to go through another interviewing spree.
Mainly military budget if you google it.

A common American complaint is "subsidizing" European defense off of our tax dollars.

America is also a big spread out place so maintaining it is more expensive than small Euro countries.

On my first point, I think we get a rather strategic advantage from being the "Western" police. However I'm just explaining a common critique you'll hear.
> Those company lose money because of good standards.

They absolutely do not, and they often make money and realize many other benefits by leveraging and/or contributing to standards.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

https://www.fastcompany.com/3044088/apple-and-usb-a-history-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_File_Format#Extensio...
cofounder at Bristle here. Unfortunately there is a lack of data around the efficacy of behavioral, lifestyle, and product interventions on oral health despite decades of dentists telling their patients to "brush and floss more". We decided we would share some of our findings with the community in an effort to shed some light on the importance of the oral microbiome in oral health.
This is probably going to open a can of worms I don't really care to deal with, but to be fair Friedl is an obviously Jewish name.

Jewish people very often do not consider themselves White -- so from her perspective, she is almost certainly not included in the 'less White people' statement.
Name me one LGBTQ riot that is not The Stonewall riots of 1969.
I'd guess that most people living in Argentina are not, in fact, US citizens. If an Argentinian did a contract for an American company while living in Argentina, I'd expect them pay Argentinian rather than US income tax on that
The same thing that is causing reshoring: rising developing world wages, culture, language barriers, etc. If you have the necessary support in government, labor law. The defeatists will always argue against improvement of the status quo; they are not to be indulged, as their goal is not improvement. Only 30% of an org's workers need to vote for the NLRB to hold an election [1], and then you only need a simple majority to unionize.

Are we arguing against the attempt when a quick glance at the financials for FAANG and Co shows ample profit margins available for worker compensation?

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341698 (ongoing)

Others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31337300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31338318
That is just the compiler optimizing out the runtime indirection. The effect on you as a programmer is unchanged: you have to look through the same number of source files either way.
I've had to work on a11y efforts. One challenge I see is that some websites/apps are not overly usable for people that don't have disabilities. Also, many of the calls on what needs to happen or not are subjective when getting an audit and go far beyond this list guidelines. Then on top of that if you are big enough, or get in someones crosshairs, you face the threat of the DOJ making an example of your company based on a number of standards (beyond this checklist) that are nebulous.
Well, if you have an argument against KISS, we'd all love to hear it. The opposite of KISS is KICKME (Keep It Complicated Keep Me Employed). Life is a pretty good example of successful complexity. But we didn't design life, and we do not maintain it (understatement). Simplicity for simplicity's sake is self-evidently advantageous. Complexity for the sake of complexity is not.
It's a gender neutral pronoun.
That is less bad than I thought.

Manifest v3 & it's forbidding of dynamic code is another major treason, in my view, an uncompromising & cruel stance to force upon the web. I'm less knowledgable here, but I also feel like there's a bit of a hostile relationship with works like Magisk on Android, which have long had an uneasy relationship, albeit the recent v24 & it's new Zygisk zygote injection shows a lot of health & excitement right now. The ever encroaching desire to drive top-down control is highly visible in SafetyNet, which make it clear the device in your hand serves corporations, not you.
you can do that with the snap filters. I use the mac app to overlay all sorts of goofy hats, sunglasses, laser eyes, etc.... onto my face to spice up dull zoom/teams calls.
Indians and Chinese make 40% of the global population, but only 1% of US population.

So, clearly the diversity of US isn't representative of the global population.
If "cash and cash equivalents" is wrong, that's fraud, not something I should have taken with a grain of salt.
I've had that feeling as well, absolutely agree that people can feel that way at Google. Personally the feeling of ennui was much more at my previous jobs, and I expect will exist anywhere I go. I do see however people incredibly engaged. I think there's a ton of luck in terms of what team/product you're placed in.
Fit-tested N95 masks / portable HEPA filtration protect from aerosolized virus
For real those are visualization fails.
I don't know if you care to be consistent:

> Great government and social benefits

> - TAXES! TAXES! TAXES!

are one and same thing. Unless you think benefits can just appear out of thin air. Or just that others must pay for all good stuff that you looking to get.
If they made a film of this or a similar style story, it would be interesting to do it in a slumdog millionaire style where the character picks up some things playing video games, some from a case where the nato phonetic alphabet is used, some from watching aircraft investigation shows, etc.
I'm still waiting for the day when the entire back of every cellphone is a flat compound eye surface lightfield camera.
I don't work for that company. A company that would allow that to happen is probably not a company with a culture I'd like to be a part of.

In your specific example, depending on how the rest of the team reacted, I might've also just stayed to the end.
Belief in free speech is a fundamental prerequisite to free thought. We express all critical thinking in words - if that speech cannot be shared, then neither can the ideas.

There is nothing more tyrannical than restricting speech, which is something the Founders recognized quite well, given their own situation with the English king as well as that of their recent ancestors fleeing their European homelands for a new, tough land half a world away - it was worth the travail/travel (same root word) for that freedom.
Surfing the Gopherspace
Android's networking team has historically been very opinionated and unwilling to support use cases they don't consider to be the right way. It and ChromeOS are still the only things actively refusing DHCPv6 support for example.
How is it different than using “their”?
But next is already react smirk
And those players can certainly develop their own WebView formats for their mobile apps. There's no need to change public WebView standards for their needs.
Price is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for quality, but that's no reason to throw out the idea. Harbor Freight is also not a bottom-barrel brand these days.

Cars are actually a great example. $30k will set you up with a Camry hybrid for >20 years. If you can only afford to finance a $15k econobox, you'll end up paying extra on interest, maintenance, and fuel while your car spends more time in the shop.

IMO this theory gets unfairly maligned by a strawman of "price == quality".
Just to quantify this, the shortest 60-0 stopping distance for a "consumer-grade" car (meaning not a formula one vehicle) is the Porsche 911, which can do it in 27m. This is nearly 6 vehicle lengths. Usual safety guidelines are to stay about 3 car lengths behind whoever you're following, so even world's greatest brakes are not gonna save you if the vehicle in front stops in 0m because it hits an immovable pile of already stopped objects itself.
When I was reading through the examples I sort of wondered why sometimes these geopolitical phenomena persist, and other times not.

For example, at one time long ago in the US, politics were dominated by "frontier-interior" versus "urban-coastal" dynamics, and then as the US grew, and the civil war came about, it established a lot of the geopolitical patterns evident today (although I'd argue the urban-rural distinction is maybe reemerged in a more distributed way today).

To explain cherry-picking versus something else, you'd want a theory for why patterns sometimes change and other times remain the same.
It's unfortunate that the SSID can't be automatically used as the domain on the TLS certificate.
If that's the case, shouldn't the controller be a Certificated Remote Pilot under Part 107 rules?
This is bullshit, the amount of oil and gas used for garments and plastics is a pittance compared to what we burn to move those products around.

Nobody is saying oil and gas is evil.

What is evil is profiting and pretending we don't need to change how we fuel our economy.

What we build our durable goods out of isn't in question.
Wishing that mommy and daddy would just stop arguing is absolutely not a position of privilege.
I find amusing to use "Oil & Gas" as if it was some kind of demonic entity.
update: I downloaded the original image. The EXIF data indicates the exposure time was 5 seconds. Apologies for the inaccurate assertion.

URL: https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
Probably my favorite 4X game ever made. Been playing as the Darloks for the past 6 months on Impossible but looking to switch to another fun race to play. Any suggestions?
i'm still learning it, well neovim, and have a long way to go. i was an avid blind hater for 23+ years, and pico, until nano, was he the first compile and install on each machine. i admit not learning it sooner was a huge mistake, so kudos to you for deciding to take the plunge. it's literally a game changer and personally i can't wait till i know more in depth.

anyways, my advice is to just keep using it, no matter what! funny thing, the first couple of days i could not stop typing "nano <file>" due to muscle memory so i finally aliased it to "nvim" and also created "pico" as a link to nano's binary, just in case. well, it took maybe 3 days for me to find myself in nano and trying to control it with vim commands. that was the day i removed nano from my systems and made nvim my editor of choice!

what's helped me the most on advanced features is every once in a while learn a few new key presses. i reference these [1] two [2] cheat sheets every so often and i pick 2 or 3 commands and write them on a note pad in front of me. i reference the notepad a few times until i retain the command, which is pretty hard sometimes, but so worth it.

[1]: https://devhints.io/vim

[2]: https://vim.rtorr.com/
Do you think React will survive without Meta?
A return to institutional bigotry, under the DIE agenda, of which the misappropriation of transgender voices (or rather, promoting extremist voices) is a piece. Further, using the claim “you’re not being inclusive!” as a club towards people who object to things such as preferential hiring, affinity groups based on protected class, censorship on social media, etc.

For example, WA and CA are attempting to repeal civil rights laws to re-legalize government bigotry.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...
Well, there's nothing properly developed, that's why we are still here. The basic building blocks are all there, cryptography for privacy and identity. p2p networks for data transfer have worked in the piracy world for many years too.

What is missing is putting it all together and be able to replicate the network effects you get from centralized media, like if you are able to reach one person, be able to reach in a simple way all of his friends as well (supposing they want to be reached).
Being told by a candidate that they don't know the answer to something is a really useful thing to hear.

There are times when you want someone to show initiative and come up with a solution on the spot and others when you really just want someone to clearly say, I don't know.

It's always good to have at least one question where someone can demonstrate that intellectual honesty.
> The thing with countering averages with anecdotes is that neither really paints a holistic picture of the demand pyramid. Back of napkin calculations say around 4% of US developers work at the FAANGMULAs, meaning that some 29 out 30 dev earnings are somewhere lower in the pay scale.

Not only FAANGABCDEF, but "Staff+, with specialized skills, at FAANGABCDEF, in a small number of specific metro areas". If 1 software engineer can be found who makes $700K for every 29 software engineers at other companies/metros/levels who make $100K, Hacker News Commenters will tell you that "Software engineers make $700K". Important to point out there are a lot of other things in play that make it more complex.
> once people realise you're serious

I know people joke around on guard, but, I have to imagine joking about that topic is rather taboo.
They could simply have a ringfenced seperate legal entity hold the customer funds. Begs the question, why not...
Yeah I do get that. However, it used to not behave this way. So I can't help but think they broke something in recent years. I think they just wanted to increase the frequency of updates probably for "engagement" since tech companies generally go with quantity over quality on notifications. But this just breaks the functionality for me.

I forgot to mention sometimes "Continue straight for 1 mile" causes me to begin my migration from left lane to right lane in anticipation of the exit, then she just says, "Continue straight for 3 miles" and I'm livid. (Not sure if this is widely understandable but I tend to speed and usually am in the left lane passing/speeding, while exits are generally on the right so I interpret "Continue straight for 1 mile" as I have an exit coming up).
> Thanks, video games.

Based on how common it has become for people to tailgate and then twitchily bail out of their lane at the last second before they rear end the person in front of them, I'm very 50-50 on how well video games prepare our reflexes for the real world.
Thanks, I needed it.
Awesome attention to detail. Imagine how many stamps (or other similar small design elements) have discontinuities like this that haven't been noticed yet.
The essay is funny.

Lisp machines were clearly abandoned because of their price. Every time I find some history about someone that actually made that decision, the reasoning was exactly alike, those machines costed more to keep than the Unix ones to install, and were less capable due to outdated hardware.

Yet the essay goes all over the place, citing time to market (that was completely irrelevant, UNIX was the newcomer, Lisp machines were there already), university-based prejudice (yet every single one decided the same at around the same time), and blaming the user. The essay doesn't even talk about money.
MC Mechanic: Post Card for Micro Channel Computers
I'd like to see some up front D1 & R2 benchmarks (read/write/iops). I can't judge invocation cost value until I can judge my use case performance. Here's hoping its -gt NVMe raid 10 under the hood of D1 as some big SQLite reads suffer under slow storage.
Reminds me of: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/04/jaz-a09.html
I purchased the ReMarkable 2 a few months ago and I can maintain that it is the most useful computing device I've purchased since my first smartphone over a decade ago. It feels like "upgraded paper". There is a little clunk around the UX but honestly with the writing and reading experience it doesn't really matter.

I placed an order yesterday for 50 spare "marker tips" just in case the company ever went under, but it seems like that worry may be misplaced! I'll likely be a long-time purchaser of ReMarkable products.