skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another data point - I'm an EM. I still get all the usual SWE interview questions (system design, coding which is often leetcode, behavioral/cultural, etc), plus additional loaded ones about how I've handled various situations in the past (which is always fun because sometimes they're about things I've never had to handle because the question assumes something that shouldn't be true, i.e., "describe a time you had to handle an employee who was angry with you", well, that's never happened; well, why is the employee angry with me, specifically, what happened to all the time spent building trust so they could calmly come to me with issues that they had, all the times they saw me advocating for them so they know that a disappointing and unexpected outcome is due to factors I'm not in control of, why had I dropped the ball in being responsive to their earlier voiced concerns, etc etc). This latter usually is asked by the hiring manager (usually a director)

My last three jobs, at least, I landed because I clicked well with my immediate hiring manager in this particular interview. That was it. I did no worse, and no better, than I did elsewhere on anything maybe a bit more objective (system design is weird, but coding, at least, you can say "does it work/is it efficient or not").

Which sounds bad, but it means my expectation of management aligned with theirs. It was a complete crapshoot in every case, with a lotta rejection along the way, before I found that, but each time it led to good outcomes.

Interestingly, there was also one company where I know I was a strong contender, did decently with the HM, but was beaten out by another candidate. I know because the recruiter reached out to tell me how close it was, and that was further validated when I later applied to a role, spoke with a different recruiter, who said "yeah, I saw the feedback and was like 'why the heck didn't we hire this person?!'". But that second application went nowhere; the HM gave the initial phone interview and didn't want to continue.

It's all random (or at least, so many variables that can't be measured or controlled for as to be indistinguishable)
A white elephant, basically, you mean? I definitely understand that, but I'm not sure it applies here. Jest and React are exceptionally mature and well-maintained pieces of software. Many a startup has been built by gluing React to Express and Postgres with nary a glimmer of skill required. Hell, it has its own developer tools built into Chrome.
Are we really going to pretend that Xooglers struggle landing jobs in tech? Relative to what the average software engineer goes through, they are "handed jobs".
Does this include the full machinery to prove the necessary theorems or are these basically practical courses?
I very opposed to the proposal of the commission - in fact I even went to a demonstration today against it. It's a horrible privacy invasion and very bad in many different ways, but...

But I think your take is not true. I can imagine that it might just be a really misinformed proposal to actually go against child abuse. I hope.
I think my gripe with the argument in this video (which is, nonetheless, interesting from an offensive marketing perspective) is that equating making clothes out of petroleum products with "being a friend of the oil and gas industry" is disingenuous. For the most part, the environmentally disastrous emissions come from _burning_ fossil fuels; I'm guessing cheap plastics are just a side-effect of a massive energy market, and not a major driver of the industry.
There's an interesting one linking geology and politics in the north of France, kinda like the Alabama one:

A coal basin [1] predicts low revenues [2] and political votes for far right [3].

I'm no political or demographical historian, but the gist of the story IMHO is that there was a coal boom. People settled there, and not much else was invested in the region. So when coal mines went bust, no other industry could convert the workers; it created low revenue zones and it fed discontent, which can be seen in the votes.

"Au nord, c'était les corons", as the song says. [4]

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassin_minier_du_Nord-Pas-de-C...

[2] https://www.comeetie.fr/galerie/francepixels/#map/revenus/Rd...

[3] https://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/infographies-resultats...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coron_(house)
I'm certainly not accusing you of being a hypocrite. Largely because I don't know you.

I'm accusing my family, friends, coworkers, of being a hypocrite. Because I know them and have seen how their values have changed on this issue. They're for "free speech" and "against cancel culture" one day, and then for "banning LGBTQ+ cartoons from Netflix" the next day.
The 'track' I was referring to, was that it's ok for your kid to marry someone from another part of the political spectrum than yours.
I agree - It isn't specific to YC IPOs - it applies to all IPOs.
I think the point is that YC perhaps is a good early stage VC in maximizing the IPO price for the benefit of LPs and founders and unloading at the right time onto the market.

Perhaps its less clear given the current state of things whether their companies are good for long term earnings performance for long term ownership by retail investors.
I'm referring to grassroots discourse and good faith debate. It's awfully hard to discuss approaches to problems and weigh blue-paradigm approaches with red-paradigm approaches when you've got a sizeable contingent who's position is that the whole problem is "fake news" and by the way everyone who thinks it might be real is stupid.

And sure, the same effect caused the media to go crazy. That doesn't mean the entire effect can be lumped onto "the media". Destruction of the memetic environment via disinformation is real in and of itself.
Split stays is a fantastic feature. Limiting it to just two homes seems weird though. I'd love to be able to stay in a city for 2+ months and change homes every couple weeks if I have to. At the moment finding places and timing all the dates is a nightmare.
there's absolutely no way the controller qualifies as PIC for this event - to be PIC of a non-unmanned aircraft you would have to be onboard the aircraft.
Those seem to be the mechanisms to extradite in the absence of a treaty. No point in having laws about treaties because ratified treaties trump the law (is my understanding).
Google is working on some interesting stuff but their live events aren’t doing them any favors. There’s no hype leading up to them and the events themselves are dull as hell. Google currently has only 40k people watching the live event. Apple WWDC events attract 10X as many concurrent viewers.
So you didn't use SQLite then? Because RocksDB + Kafka is not similar at all.

Also databases all use the same fundamental primitives and it's up to you to choose the level of abstraction you need. For example, FoundationDB is a durable distributed database that uses SQLite underneath as the storage layer but exposes an ordered key/value API, but then allows you to build your own relational DB on top.

If you just needed distributed SQL because a single instance wasn't enough then there are already plenty of choices like CockroachDB/Yugabyte/TiDB/Memsql/etc that can serve the purpose instead of building your own.
Reach out to @AzureSupport on Twitter. I think they'll be able to help get this escalated. (From what I can tell)
It’s a sad world when asking questions and seeking clarity is “thought-terminating cliché.”

My question still stands: what would you change about our current system to fix these problems?
Their depositors wallets aren't "on the blockchain" -- if they were, they'd be in the the depositors custody not coinbase's.

Their users balances are just entries in a database at coinbase. Users expect that coinbase holds coins to back up those balances, but there is no proof of it.

Last I checked coinbase doesn't participate in any proof of solvency protocols so there is no way to know if customer balances exceed their holdings.
Certainly it wasn't. I would like to think that there is not a 'conservation of intolerance' principle here, though, that requires some other kind of intolerance to go up in order for intolerance of race, religion, etc. to go down.
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What? There's no bait and switch - the site tells you as soon as you load that you need a subscription.

> These journalists want all the benefits of the web

Where's this coming from? Where's this "want"? Most of the stuff that you listed is either explicitly paid for or just comes with the web automatically.

> free indexing

Yes, Google offers free indexing because they get search engine ad revenue as a result. There's no "stealing" here.

> archiving

Hosting costs money. Journalists pay for that themselves. There's nothing "free" about it. The end.

> free global distribution

They're also paying bandwidth costs.

> and rendering

There's no way to view a page on the internet without rendering it on your computer. That's not something that journalists are taking advantage of - it's how the internet works. Also, publishers pay for hosting costs, too...

> virtual word-of-mouth advertising

Word-of-mouth is completely unrelated to the internet.

> a huge and easy revenue generation model

Please don't tell me that you're complaining about publishers trying to recoup costs of the journaling process. Who's going to pay for the salaries of writers? Infrastructure costs? Distribution? Web development?

> Their production and design costs are nothing compared to two decades ago.

...and yet, the costs are still there. Publishing is not free, especially if you want content to publish, and especially if you want quality content.

> It's like they feel entitled to all this free stuff and the one thing they offer of value they pull back at the last second.

The only entitlement here is you feeling entitled to the work of journalists. This is a rant with little substance behind it, predicated on the false assumption that publishers and journalists have no costs.
Free markets have always been innately fair.

If you own something, how would it be fair for the government to have any direct say on what you should do with it?
So far it's been a lot of "look how smart we are: we make things easy!"

It brings me to a pretty forlorn place, that there is such high & mighty technology, but delivered in such preconcieved, packaged products. Technological goods have become much better distributed, but the art of technology keeps evaporating upwards. Subliming up into the cloud.

Part of the allure of the personal computing era (RIP) was that it invited in the spirit of Man The Toolmaker. There was a dignity to mastery & development that was visible, we could form a close & knowing relationship with our systems. That spirit has been returned to the gods, fire returned back to Hephaestus's workshop. Which is now HQ'ed in Mountain View.

(I haven't always felt this way about Google. My perception is there had been a bigger focus on helping advance the web & making available APIs. That Google was creating new starting places.)
ATC audio of the event: https://archive.liveatc.net/ht/kpbi-kfpr.mp3
Most do/will. Unless you have an ironclad constitutional protection against it, there’s an extradition risk for citizens in their own country.
So if I wanted to move stuff to my own wallet, what’s the best way to do that these days? Anything that can support more than just Bitcoin?

I assume I’d just stick any private keys in a password manager vault that I already trust, and/or Yubikey. I’m not sure I trust the dedicated hardware wallets as that seems more prone to failure than a pure software approach.
We are beginning to roll out a fix now to a small portion of traffic. I will update when the fix is 100% applied for all Cloudflare traffic.
It does have to do with the overall topic of traffic inspectability.

As explained above, a relatively recent change in Android makes applications not trust user store certificates by default, except if an application explicitly opt into that. ~None of them do, except Chrome.

The solution to that problem was to install the certificate into the system store. But now Chrome considers all system store certificates to be public ones and requires CT for them.

So now there's no way to install a certificate to be able to inspect traffic from both Chrome and other applications at the same time. (If a certificate is in both the system store and in the user store, the system store version takes precedence, so Chrome would still require CT.)

There's a Chromium bug the author of the article filed to document this regression and you can already see a Chromium dev argue that "reverse engineering" (i.e. the ability to inspect the traffic your own device produces) is "understandably" not an addressed scenario: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132430...

To be clear, this particular change isn't the end of the world, but none of them are since they're just using the slow frog-boiling method. Each change makes it a little bit harder until eventually it won't be possible at all.
You say "It's sort of irrelevant if they're official" then you say "it's time to stop pretending that the attacks aren't official", which kind of comes of as you're saying: they are official, so it's not that they are irrelevant, it's just that you're not buying it. Or maybe you're just not explaining yourself clearly: Which is it? Is it relevant or is it not?

If your first statement is what you meant (It's sort of irrelevant if they're official), what's your evidence? What/where are the pitchforks? Do you think people who are advocating one side or the other are not convinced with what they're advocating?

If it's your second statement (it's time to stop pretending that the attacks aren't official), I ask again, what's your evidence? What is it about "this point" in America's politics that makes it clear as you're saying that attacks are always official?
This experiment is one of my pet peeves, at least in terms of how it's usually used as a parable. Yes, in this particular situation, the monkeys are being irrational. But they are only being irrational because they are in a completely artificial environment that was deliberately constructed for the purpose of gaslighting them.
The comment I'm referring to is by a different commenter twofornone.

My argument definitely isn't that Hacker News is run by the SJWs, both because I don't think HN moderation is particularly left wing and because I don't think "the SJWs" is a meaningful category. What I would say is that debates about the fundamental legitimacy of transgender stuff get too heated for most platforms to accept, because people have strong, passionate beliefs on the issue which can't easily be compromised on. It's an entirely reasonable moderation decision and I might very well make the same one if I were in charge - but as a consequence, those of us who are transgender skeptical sometimes need to carefully talk around the touchiest issues rather than engaging on them directly.
it's not a criminal offense, and the FAA has no authority except to revoke a pilot certificate, which the "pilot" does not have.

Basically, the FAA really can't do much, and nobody else has authority to punish the person who landed since they didn't cause any personal or property damage.
It must really suck to live on planet earth with its giant magnetic field.
Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
I've created a diffusion-based neural net generative assistant that makes creating new melodies much easier, even for non-musicians like me. These are meant to be just the catchy "hook" parts of songs, so more work is required to make them into full songs, but this is already handled well by existing products (e.g. there are plugins that can suggest a few possible chord progressions based on the melody and there is even good singing software that I used without any tweaks to make the “voice” playlist: Synthesizer V Studio).

This side project turned out to be quite challenging because of how little data there is to train on - several orders of magnitude less than DALL-E or GPT-3 had available for its training, so it required a deep dive into research of new generalization and augmentation techniques and some feature engineering.

Various other instruments:

Voice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkE1yC8_WtJ-...

Synth: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFj7RNZvjr7...

Bell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkEYHYvHX9m9...

Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkGKvfkP2Oex...

Sax: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkHfsZgzzdSh...

Grand Piano: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFMch5x60uh...

SoundCloud electric piano: https://soundcloud.com/lech-mazur-995769534/sets/ai-assistan...

SoundCloud vocal: https://soundcloud.com/lech-mazur-995769534/sets/ai-assistan...
Depending on the industry, this can be so true that at a certain point you start to wonder why VCs are even tolerant of companies with zero technical founders in 2022 given the obvious risks of this situation.
It's probably not exactly going to be hot, but even failing execve is inherently semi-expensive since it needs to be a syscall and incurs context switches.

It's just outweighed a couple orders of magnitude by all the overhead that comes with a successfully launching another executable unless you have, like, a thousand junk paths in your PATH.
How long will it take for Librem 5 support to be similar to Android smartphones?
I've enjoyed watching for 3.5 minutes a man that will soon transform himself into a dinosaur...
>> Minority activists don't actually have any political power
I naturally have a bad memory as well.

I haven't found a way to improve general abilities, but Anki has worked well to keep my memories fresh.

(The cost is that I spend an hour a day refreshing my memory. The benefit is that I recall everything that's in Anki.)
I once took a gliding plane lesson with an instructor. I had never flown a plane before but was able to do the whole flight including a winch start, circling up in a thermal and landing on my own just by the instructor telling me what do. So I don’t think it’s hard if you have a good instructor and stay cool enough to listen and do what you are told to do.
This is not entirely true, especially if you have a margin account.

In the US, there is Government insurance up to the SIPC limit of $500,000 of securities and $250,000 of cash. But coverage ends at that point.

I have had the annoying experience of having to pry restricted stock certificates out of the vaults of a failed broker. Fear of the regulatory agencies is strong enough that a week of phone calls produced the certificates.
Google Lens New AR Tool Scene Exploration
That used to be the case, but the industry is incorporating more cheap plastics to harden against future projected fossil fuel revenue loss. On that topic, this PBS Frontline episode is a good resource: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/
Also, it was interesting how quickly Apple made very good offline conferences after covid, as if they were developing it for years.
2nded. I sync mine via iCloud, and have a shared sub-folder with my spouse where we keep family/house related knowledge. Between that and Todoist, 2022 has been my best GTD year yet.
I was kind of believing that most apps would use certificate pinning anyway, so I was kinda surprised manipulating the system store is actually workable.

Though if modifying the system store is indeed officially "unsupported" my guess is it's only a matter of time before CT is enforced by the standard Android TLS API and will apply to apps as well.

In which case I guess the next step would be... Add a fake CT log in addition to the fake root CA?

But anyway, stuff like this confirms my impression that Android sides with app developers more than it sides with users when it comes to analysing traffic of your own devices.
I think they meant 'the rest of the industry'?
I use one other technique: I keep a diary of what I most want to remember of the day.

Writing things down helps fix them in memory.
https://github.com/markdoc/docs/blob/main/components/SideByS...
The problem is that there is no alternative statement for them to make. The disclosure of risks require them to be FDIC insured or state there is a risk of loss in bankruptcy, and given they don't have the option of FDIC insurance, they have to declare the risk. The problem is that coinbase don't have the choice to be insured, yet they get labelled as though they're yolo'ing it _whether they are or not_ because the FDIC don't insure the asset class they're trading.
Resistence has been fierce in areas like Kiev where the majority is ethnic Ukrainian. But Russians made their large gains in the south where Russian culture and language is more widespread.

For example Russians took Kherson without too much resistance. It's a city where almost half speak Russian as native language.
According to the Utah government's Drivers Handbook[0] (printed page 27, or PDF page 36), they recommend a 2 second distance on clear dry roads:

following distance
Watch when the rear of the vehi-
cle ahead passes a sign, pole, or
any other fixed point. Count the
seconds it takes you to reach the
same point (one-thousand-one,
one-thousand-two.) You are
following too close if you pass that point before counting
two seconds. Slow down and check your new following
interval. Repeat until you are following no closer than two
seconds.
Always increase your following distance on slick roads,
when following large vehicles, motorcycles, or vehicles
pulling a trailer, at night, in fog, in bad weather and when
following vehicles that stop at railroad crossings (transit
buses, school buses or vehicles carrying dangerous mate-
rial.)

[0] https://dld.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2022/01/Dri...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

I don't mean about looking someone in the eye, but I do mean cutting through a multiple months long dance to get someone money when they are in a full sprint growing their business, or sitting on their board and meddling when you don't have experience operating a company. I think VCs can learn something from that.
Yes, like it was yesterday (or today). It was a strange time where the term was often used for things that had nothing to do with the original meaning of the term.
The great thing about the original IBM PC (and the XT) was the wealth of documentation you got with it (I never had an AT). I don't remember seeing the docs described in the OP, but it really was good. I had an XT, with a mono monitor on my desk, and I learned so much about the 8086, MSDOS and other things on that box.

But all IBM documentation (for mainframes, peripherals and such) was really brilliant. And their hardware was great, from big boxes to little ones. I've never really understood how they got such a bad reputation.
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