skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unacceptable behavior for an interviewer. Ironically, that person did you a solid by showing you this wasn't the company you want to work at without already starting there and investing even more time with them. Imagine finding this out after you quit a current job, and low and behold, this guy is your new boss.

You are the candidate and hold equal power. In the thought process you had "I think I should terminate this interview." If it ever gets to a point you are uncomfortable due to rudeness, leave. Sure, in a big faang world you may never have interaction with that person, but them being on the panel has a chance they would be your boss, peer, or in your org some way.

Toxic people can ruin what would otherwise be good careers. Alternatively, this can also be a huge indicator a company tolerates and promotes this behavior. To me, while it's possible, that this was a once and rare thing that only this person has done... Screw betting my career on the least likely possibility.
11% of growth every year for 10 years is 2.83, almost 3. Things haven't gotten 3 times more expensive in the last decade - far from it.
But if that same restaurant started having different wait times for something as arbitrary as country of birth, we would have a problem.
Maybe but that’s not where the big money is made. They’d go broke hoping for small movements off low effort journalism. If they got major pieces in the WSJ that could really move the market. But a total scam short seller won’t get that kind of press
Out of curiosity, can you give some examples of quirky test things you say?
Thats problem is for CDN product. On R2 like other Developer products (KV, Worker, DO) you are already paying the bandwidth over the storage price. All those products can be used to HTML and non-HTML product.

https://www.cloudflare.com/supplemental-terms/#cloudflare-de...

Thats the major problem of the CDN product, they dont say that are no traffic fee, they just say they will not charge you "except" on some cases (that you never know). But other products they are very specific of the egress fee, like Stream, Magic Transit, Spectrum, etc.... They should fix that matter on CND, no one like that.

Sure, i dont know what will happen if someone just try to make a youtube like over R2... They probable "want" that....
It wouldn't matter, because EA Sports still has the licenses for teams and players. Those rights are provided by UEFA and national football associations.

Only thing EA really loses out on is official licensing for World Cup-related games.
Did you have you have any experience with Genie, Prodigy, Delphi, or Q-Link (prior to becoming AOL)?
Cool blog. I dont think the four coverages will change anything. I've been nomading from airbnb to airbnb across the USA for over a year now. Airbnb has been meh to poor everytime we have had to use their CS.

The worse case was a home that we rented in Denver for a month (during peak renting summer months) was sold less than 30 days before we were to arrive. We'd booked it 90+ days in advanced.

Airbnb told us they would help us find a similar or better home in the area. Very similar to their policy they just announced. But because it was summer and less than 30 days from our booking and we were looking to stay for ~35 days, there were no similar cost homes. The equivalent homes were 3k-5k more for the same time period in the same location.

Airbnb said okay. Here is a refund and a $200 coupon to help you find another place. A refund is great but if all other similar homes are booked you could end up spending thousands more for a similar place like we did.
It seems to me, based off of their sample picture that the advantage would not be so much in getting one single frame where everything is in-focus. Instead I would be more excited about being able to "change" the focus after the photo is taken. I assume that would be equally possible with this camera (depending on how the raw data is stored).
>. The cost savings of work from home must have been enormous for these companies

First I agree overall, however I think you overestimate how much any companies saved on the WFH shift.

1. They still own the buildings or leases/mortgages. I doubt many were able to get out of leases which in commercial are usually 3-5year min. Mortgage only goes away if they sold the building.

2. They still have to pay the cost of maintaining the building and facilities while unused in the above cases.

3. Pretty much all companies are using their commercial locations to bloat their balance sheets and secure debt. This is actually a HUGE factor as to why so many companies what WFH to end. They simply cannot get rid of their offices or they would be insolvent based on their finances. You can't throw out 2bil in real estate that is securing 20bil in debt or it would be called in.

4. Many companies were unprepared so they had to pay out the nose the get things setup rapidly for remote workers because they resisted it for so long. Why do you think Zoom blew up so fast?
The output size is linear, but since each byte of output requires O(n) work to compute, the total time to decode an encoded string is O(n^2). Or to put it another way, the decoding throughput (in bytes per second) is inversely proportional to the total length of the string.
The point was to not look like a dweeb!
What's the formula for demand letters cost?

Something like: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
I don’t mean offense by this, but did they actually ask what your favorite language was?

Either way, you have to understand why a regular firm would laugh at that. A lot of these run of the mill places are thinking in terms of API’s. They don’t really care about combinators, run time AST manipulation, or true benefits of dynamic typing.

My guess is they’re cranking out Apps, or some sort of cloud deployment.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-org-blocks-access-to-...

Craig Wright (obviously falsely) claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto and thereby copyright on the (MIT licensed but whatever apparently) Bitcoin whitepaper. A UK court ruled in his favor and bitcoin.org are therefore not allowed to distribute it in the UK. They responded with restricting access to both the whitepaper and the software for UK IPs.
Apologies if I'm missing your point, but yikes - any user on your system can run /sbin/shutdown?
And if you're a programmery-type, you can programmatically generate graphs using DOT/Graphviz and load them into draw.io for final tweaking!

I used to use OmniGraffle, but have since jumped over to Draw.io. OG is far more elegant, but draw.io is just handier overall.
How can it be an albatross if it's been a profitable franchise with Coca-Cola level name recognition globally?
I'd see your appreciation of Scheme as quite positive!

I once had an interview (in Portuguese) where some HR person asked me if I spoke English and seemed to get very upset when I replied that I did. This person started berating me with an angry face: "how would you know??". That was very strange. I can't imagine what was going on in this person's head.
£95k would be exceptionally good for the vast majority of the UK, and unless you’re trying to buy a house in central London or something it would still be a very good wage there too. Take the last bit with a pinch of salt though—I’ve never lived in London but a number of my friends do.
I'm an engineer on the Docs team at Stripe. Can you say more about where you're seeing the animation and what it looks like?
Of course some will try to do this (not everyone). The aim is to limit their ability to do so. And one doesn't have to succeed entirely for it to be worth the effort.
+1 to this as well.
> Here @Peter Cacioppi delivers what is in recent times to most expressive answer!

I'm not seeing a link to go with this?
And the above is why ageism exists.
I 'd like to see airbnb move to long-term rentals.
I think modern distros have resolved the issue . For example this is void-linux:

$ ls -ld /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 3 00:20 /bin -> usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 3 00:20 /sbin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39444 May 10 18:41 /usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 3 00:20 /usr/sbin -> bin

Ubuntu, Debian and RHEL, on the contrary still splits up:

$ ls -ld /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 set 25 2021 /bin -> usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 set 25 2021 /sbin -> usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 69632 mag 11 14:00 /usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 mag 11 13:33 /usr/sbin
Oung entrepreneurs pivot to battle on Ukraine’s economic frontline
> To be clear, GP's stated intention was

> to merge /sbin with /bin, and /usr/sbin with /usr/bin

It's a bit more drastic than you make it out to be. This would give two valid $PATHS to the same commands. It would make tab-completion slow. It would likely break all kinds of compatibility across the SUS. And it is incredibly arbitrary, no better or worse than eliminating system hierarchy entirely and putting everything in /.
I agree. If I didnt need a kitchen I would stay in hotels. So many airbnbs lie in ways that are smalll but important. Their "office space" is the kitchen table. Renting the "whole house" means you get one floor and while the helicopter owner gets the upstairs or a shed out back or the basement.

This type of stuff is so common but there is no real way to get a partial refund or screen for it ahead of time.
Kia and Hyundai Fire Recalls; 6M Vehicles Impacted
I guess it's almost impossible to emigrate as a Junior to US being European, but I would like to know the opinion of someone that has experience in that. I would like to work there in my first years (don't want to spend my life there) but I see normal that no company would like to support a VISA for a Junior having a lot in the US.

I know that some companies hire you for 1 year in Europe and then offer you move to America, but they are usually big companies where it's difficult to get hired.
Hah, no. The problem is whenever someone talks about pushing back, you can find at least one guy saying "ok then I'll do the job" and 3 people saying "I don't care, my 250k is super comfy".

Like others point out, it's incredible the US hasn't mass outsourced their work to Europe yet.
They can't license the World Cup, so I think national teams are out as well, as they're under the FIFA umbrella.
> Despite his misadventures with Bitcoin, President Bukele is wildly popular in El Salvador.

He seems to have successfully controlled crime in El Salvador. Usually, there is something behind these strong men if they are still popular. Homicide is down from 103 in 2015 to 17.6 last year. People will stick with such figure; it's not clear why previous rulers have failed. 103 is scary as shit number. Bitcoin will look like a blip in his mishaps from the citizenry point of view.
Fix is up—thanks for calling this out.
Does anything have a zero chance of happening?
> all we ever do is steal features from other apps.

Strategically, this is called being a Fast Follower. One of GOOG's problems is that it acts in the market as a fast follower, but tells itself internally that its an groundbreaking innovator. Your reaction (which was also my reaction),

> Nothing I ever do here is exciting. Thought maybe working on app with over a billion users would be exciting...

is a form of corporate-wide cognitive dissonance between GOOG's propaganda and reality.
I'm seeing weird effects from the "Try it out" text that chases the cursor. Sometimes it jumbles and freezes, etc.
Mt. Gox take N! I wish I could withdraw my ETH but it’s staking and Coinbase doesn’t have an option to stop staking or move it in any way
Signaling. If you buy LV therefore you're rich.
Funny how people complain about Apple dropping devices, but this has hung around so long. Thought it was dead years ago. Real use would have been a fake phone for kids.

I see so many bemoaning streaming. Your iPhone can store far more music than an old HDD iPod. Don’t see the difference.

I mostly stream with Spotify. It recommends good obscure music for me, and I can find most of the weird 70s/80s punk I love.

I still have my old records and use them when I want that captive experience. I kept my CDs of super obscure local bands.

For me it’s not an xor, but an and. I like both the new and old experiences. And I still listen to albums more than songs.

The streaming sound quality isn’t nearly as cringe inducing as old MP3s. I’m no audiophile, but hated MP3 less than barely compressed. That crunch on the high end was brutal.

I don’t miss maintaining ripped CDs: fixing metadata, keeping FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 for different devices, etc. Never bothered recording my records. I’ll never understand anyone longing for cassette tapes beyond personal mix tapes.

I do still pay for records when I love an album just to kick them more $. But they mostly just go on the wall or collect dust in a bin. I usually only listen to my old LPs.
You keep claiming the system is “at capacity” with no evidence, and the psychological trauma it inflicts as inevitable. How does it strain the system differently to process an Indian applicant than an Australian one?
Most people don't bother, in EU you can do that with disposable income, but if you don't have disposable income there are lawyers studios that are funded publicly to be used by lower income people, so you either have disposable income or you have the will to look around, but you have possibilities

to make you an example I am in the netherlands, few weeks ago I went out with some friends, a dutch guy was complaining about an issue and about having to pay a lawyer, and a polish immigrant here had to tell him that he could give a go to https://www.juridischloket.nl/contact/ , like some people live and grow up in a system and they don't even know what they're surrounded by
It seems that social housing is a big feature of Vienna's housing policy
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl...

In the UK previous governments allowed social housing tenants to buy, then sell housing on. In retrospect I think all this showed was it took one generation to break the social contract for future generations.
I'm not wedded to my favorite language. Right tool for the job and all that..

Still, when given the choice I prefer to work in a language that's easy and clear, rather than one that's painful and convoluted.

Sure, I might be able to do the same in another language, but I'm reminded of Alan Perlis' advice to "Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."
Absolutely. This happened to me and cost us thousands of dollars. A refund is expected when services are not provided. But in practice if you are not able to get a similar service for the same price than a refund is not an actual solution.
It's probably working as designed. Most people in ESTA countries qualify. The list of country visits that disqualifies you is North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, all places where the US is hostile to the government or a major indigenous rebel/terrorist organization. The US government won't ban you outright for going there, but they're happy to deprioritize you.

Compare with China, a non-ESTA country that makes the US a lot of money. The wait time for a visa appointment in Beijing is two days.
This is the way.

If you're not sure how often you might use something: Buy the budget Harbor Freight equivalent tools, if you use it enough to wear it out/burn it up, upgrade to a better brand. If you never push it so hard it dies, you're perfectly fine with the HF version.
> Despite all the theoretical advantage for remittances, adoption for remittances is still very low, with 11% ever using the app for this.

An issue that Salvadorans in the U.S. face when they want to fund their Chivo Wallets to send to their family is that they charged a Foreign Transaction Fee by their U.S. banks. This happens because the Chivo card transaction is processed in El Salvador and most Salvadorans in the U.S. don't have debit/credit cards that refund Foreign Transaction fees. Depending on the bank they may be about 3% and they add up for larger transactions.

Btw Salvadoran banks don't charge foreign transaction for purchases abroad. So these fees are something we rarely think about, and came as a surprise to many :D

Or they would have to take a bus or drive to a Salvadoran consulate in the U.S. to use a US Chivo ATM. The time that would take plus transportation costs wouldnt make it a cheap option either.

> It may be in part because using the government app means the remittances are known to the government

This seems incorrect. El Salvador has very strict transaction reporting laws.

1. Every remittance is reported in El Salvador. Every one of them. In a very detailed way. To at least three government institutions. Central Bank, Financial Investigation Unit and Tax Office.

> and can be taxed as income,

2. Transfers between family members are not considered taxable income according to the Tax Code. It's on the first pages of the Income Tax Law: Article 3, Paragraph 3.

> whereas cash goes unreported.

El Salvador tracks cash transactions.

Even paying the $2.29 water bill in coins requires an ID.

Other commerces have a higher reporting thresholds, like +$100/$200 in supermarkets and clothing stores.

Many cashiers are trained to ask for an ID even for lower purchases to activate product warranty and loyalty programs.
A pension fund might very well be allowed to buy junk bonds since it is a well-known if risky instrument whereas bitcoin ETFs are a newfangled weird instrument that is probably not covered by their guidelines.

I mean allowed in the sense that the investment guidelines set by the board allow it.

Source: I work at a pension fund where I think we are in precisely this situation.
When you get right down to it, as a purely virtual asset the crypto isn't anyone's property. Coinbase holds some keys which give it the ability to sign transactions on the blockchain, a service which has value. They owe their depositors the service of signing such a transaction on request transferring some quantity of deposited crypto to a suitable withdrawal address; the value of this service to the customer is the market value of the crypto. However, it does not seem likely to me that this service Coinbase owes to its depositors would be prioritized over their other debts, especially if that meant selling off other property to buy crypto so they could complete the transfers.
How is this different from the Lytro?
The problem is that this equates "relationships" and "love" with "sex". The literal text of the law says "don't teach children about sex". The explicit reasoning behind this law is that this means not teaching children about homosexuality.

This positions homosexuality as inherently sexual in a way that heterosexuality is not, which is, of course, not true. Sex is of course an implied part of heterosexual relationships, we're just conditioned as adults not to think about that.
It's been several years since I interviewed, but I do recall one Zoom interview where the panel was in a physical room and one of the people on the panel was just on his phone texting or something for around half of the interview.

I basically just ignored the behavior and continued as normal, professionally, with the other interviewer. Eventually, whatever I was coding up finally drew the rude interviewer's attention.

I made it to the next round, which I passed, and was ready to do a final round but ended up going with another offer before proceeding with them. After reading a bit more about the work culture at the place and seeing the interviewer's behavior, I definitely don't regret it, even though their RSUs would likely be worth quite a lot today. Work life balance and culture are important so that you're not miserable in your job.

My advice is: continue the interview professionally, but take the rudeness into consideration before you take an offer if it comes. Worst case, you're out a few hours of time and learned a bit about a different company. Also don't assume the worst. With the interviewer who was texting, I chose to believe that maybe he had some personal issue going on rather than thinking that my behavior triggered the rudeness, which helped me finish up the interview.
One can very easily say "sorry I don't feel well" and walk out immediately.
This is the exact case when the "except" will be triggered. He is describing a video/image cdn in his comment.
> Many people resent immigrants

FTFY

Many people don't need a reason to resent immigrants, they just use anything they can use as an excuse.
Unfortunately, the people in power have all but removed that possibility from the table.
Some of the replies you're getting are comical.

"Obviously we don't mean having a lawyer on retainer. That'd be unreasonable. We're talking about the lawyer with whom you maintain a working relationship should you need one. You know, kind of like your accountant!"
I interviewed for a position on HN's "Who's Hiring" thread a few years ago. They asked me to do four different tech screens...but the kicker was, that they were all the same question.

During the second one, I mentioned that this seemed a lot like the first one, but, did it anyway, a different way. During the third one, I literally just used the same code/approach I did on the first one.

During the fourth one, I refused and said, "Hey, this...isn't for me." and then had two weeks of HR emailing me almost every day asking if I'd reconsider.
Same reason I guess some tools are better to work with than others. I definitely like my iFixit screwdrivers set more than a generic set I've bought years before: there are more different bits actually used in things I need to disassemble and assemble, the things are sturdier, they feel nicer to hold in my hand, there is this nice magnetic pad so my screws are not lost. Now if I have no choice but this shitty screwdriver, I'll use it, sure, as long as it doesn't break (this has happened), but when I have a choice, I go for better tools.

What's so incomprehensible about this?

Of course if you do a half-assed job all the time, you may afford to not care about your tools. I want to excel at mine, so I definitely have preferences.
isn't that true for basically any website these days? spinner gifs are the trademark of this decade
Yup sorry about that. I missed the entire "read replica" bit when reading that blog post.
Ask HN: What is your solution for long term data preservation?
What is your current solution for secure long-term storage (>10 years) of rarely accessed data? It is about project and experimental data.

I've checked out NAS solutions with mirroring via RAID, but found too many reports of complete data loss (due to failing box, controller) online to consider them secure. Given all the media center apps they come with I'm also questioning whether I'm even in their target market. Also there is the theoretical problem of ransomware wiping the thing.

Is tape manageable for private use, and are there any go-to solutions?

What about cloud storage with too-big-to-fail companies (S3 buckets)? It sounds good to have access from everywhere without carrying some box around. It is not needed to keep the data private but I'd prefer it.
Steering wheel buttons should be to go for all of these though not every car lets you use them with a paired phones map app unfortunately. You shouldn't have to look at anything or take your hand off the wheel to e.g. lower the temperature the same way as you don't have to in order to activate your wipers. 1 second of distraction on the highway is 100 feet less reaction time not just an example of someone being stubborn.
> That's not what happens when you're a monopoly.

But they're not a monopoly at all. There are countless other ways to find lodging, whether short term or long term, and even the market for app-powered short term letting like airbnb has very low barriers to entry so someone with enough capital (harder in the current environment, but eventually doable) can come in and outcompete them