skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. Barclays gave me an error in their app at the end of their account opening process, telling me to take an appointment at the branch, but telling me I can’t take an appointment, then sending me a welcome email. I tried calling them but I can’t get beyond their voice recognition system that doesn’t understand what I call about, and this is their premier banking experience. I must say that I have no idea whether I have an account with them or not right now.

I also helped a friend who just arrived in the UK. The procedures are completely circular. You need a proof of address to open a bank account but you need to have a bank account to do anything that will give you a proof of address.

As for natwest their account opening procedure involves printing a blank pdf form, filling it by hand and going to the branch with it. Welcome to 1999!
They don't. In a GUI a directory you don't have permission to write to is greyed out, or shows a "no entry" cursor when you drag something to it. An unmounted volume just isn't shown in the first place. A full disk shows an error saying how much space is needed, or asks you to free up space.
Neurodivergent perspectives aside, it’s entirely possible that the world (well, universe) is some combination of religion and mathematic proofs.
emacs/tetris.el (1997)
I consistently have a more pleasant time with the well-designed, minimal JS websites (which are now a rarity) than even the better designed websites which heavily use JS. And my job is allegedly to 'improve' the internet with more JS.
Tech workers in Latin America want Spanish their primary language of programming
If one owns items of substantial value, something which is easy for a thief to take/hard to trace/almost impossible to recover once stolen, why would you carry it around with you unless you absolutely had to?

Setting up your phone so it can directly access your crypto wallets appears to be the modern equivalent of carrying physical silver/gold/bearer bonds around in your backpack every day.
What are you buying that you've lost "much worse" than 10%? There's no guarantee each individual stock will go up over time.
IMHO the most compelling use case of blockchain technology today.
Perhaps by misrepresenting the blog post's argument, the comment is reinforcing the blog post's point about the importance of reading primary sources.
Yup, once hotspot kicks in on the JVM, a toy language is going to have a hard time competing with that performance. It’s definitely disingenuous to include JVM start up time in any benchmark. I used to run clojure benchmarks in a REPL and I would watch as the functions I was testing dramatically increased in performance over a few invocations. JIT compilation is pretty incredible.
Regarding voting, I think people who pay taxes should only be allowed to vote based on the place they pay their taxes in. It really annoys me that because I don't have a long-term address, I need to separately register where I live at a given time to vote in local elections, to have any say in what the money I pay in taxes is spent on, while there are many people who pay their taxes in one place and vote in another, where they haven't contributed a penny. Those things should be linked.
Funny, I came in here to write this exact comment, but I was going to use Word. Wonder why our minds go to MS Office... First thing that comes to mind when we think "big and complicated?"
Until people post example inputs where McIlroy's script produces wrong results.
These machines (at least the one I have used in Cambridge MA) have you pay by entering your license plate instead of parking spot number.

Even in places that only have numeric plates I assume they are not going to make a numbers-only version of the machine
That is one of the metric problems (both metrics on 'prevention' and survivor bias) which really don't actually help prevention nor does it actually provide usable information.

Prevention is not possible in some cases (sometimes genetic or traumatic origin for example), but the root cause is generally a combination of environmental context and vulnerability. If you live in a culture where taboos and other people telling you what you can or can't do in your personal life are part of daily life, a lot of avenues of support (and by extension, prevention) become unavailable. That applies to much tighter scopes like family and much broader scope like city or national levels all the same.
Chile has a great system which guarantees a free bank account linked to your national ID called Cuenta RUT. It has some limits like only a debit card and a max value you can store there but I think it’s a fantastic idea.
You just need to walk in to any branch with your ID and you’re all set with an account you can receive and send payments from. If you need something more from your bank account - it stands to reason you have the necessary documentation to apply for a ‘regular’ bank account which most do.

Even foreigners with any kind of work permit get this ID called a RUT and are eligible.
I recently discovered the printed codes aren't particularly reliable and google will still ask for another authentication method. I managed to get into my account by driving to a wifi google recognized as "home" and being connected to that after the codes weren't enough. I too assumed they were some sort of master key but they're just an extra method and google's security blackbox can decide its not enough.
It does sound silly the way they present it here, which is intentional. But I recently started Skyrim, and damned if the unrealistic way NPCs sleep IS pretty annoying. They just rotate 90° on their z axis and hover over the bed, stiff as a board, with their eyes open.

If this is something that you might see an NPC do while walking around your ship, that's something that Star Citizen can do to differentiate it from existing space pilot sims, so i don't think it's totally ridiculous. But the more practical approach would have been bunks that close like drawers so you never see them sleeping, or stiff sleep sacks that can simply bulge.
https://archive.ph/fVG3Y
I would just say, if rights are being violated, then that is not acceptable working conditions.
> It feels like it could be a "shell language for the cloud", ie., the language for cross-OS cloud automation work.

Isn't that terraform?
> What became of the leaders that made that decision?

@Dejify: Not sure if you can speak to this, but it'd be nice to know what happened to those who dinged you? - https://twitter.com/Dejify/status/1523025584749629440

@Jsnover reply: "Retired" with a picture of Donald Trump on the Apprentice captioned "Fired" - https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523031601390571520
I'm a not-so-young chap, so a lot of my compatriots are combat veterans (mostly Vietnam, and Iraq 1). They are the ones that have given me that impression.

In any case, my original post had nothing, whatsoever, to with military service, and I think we've just about exhausted this rabbithole.
Hong Kong under British rule was an autocracy too. Sure, they had Western civil liberties, but no real democracy.
Oh yes you're right, thank you so much for your comment!

Sorry it was past midnight & did this post really quick because I didn't think this post would pick up at all! Lol but yes, parents, baby sitters, deaf grand parents, etc.
I set up a copy, thanks for sharing!
In Switzerland we have about 3 suicide per 1 death on the street. While there are a lot of regulations to make the street safer, I don't know any program to lower the suicide rate. Also in media, deaths on the street are covered well in media. About suicide, you hear just in media, if it was somebody famous.
A comment on the CV. At quick glance it looked like you only worked at places for a year or two then changed. This is generally a red flag for me. But because I saw the salary history I knew there was a Lon time at Capital One. However this was harder to spot on the resume. It might be better to group your experience at a single employer together so your loyalty stands out.

I’m curious if employers ever saw your salary posts and responded.
Work and leisure are very different. When relaxing between work sessions I'd usually rather read IRL with my 4yo than chat IRL with same coworkers I've already spent the morning with.

While working I prefer control over interruptions and means of communication. And there are no emergencies in my line of work that require physical interruption.
I got the idea for the take-home test from the Remote book by Hansson and Fried and I think what they spelled out made sense:

1) Give them a realistic task to work on - this is what you want them to do if you hire them
2) Give them a reasonable amount of time
3) Pay them for it - why wouldn't you?

We did this for one candidate and although your gut feel as an employer is sometimes, "is this a waste of £1000"? but if you are already quite far on in the process, you probably think they might be good enough and that £1000 is offset against the Recruiter fee that you incur when a hire doesn't work out or the loss of a good person you don't hire because you are not sure.

It also shows good will between employer and applicant. We have done it once so far and didn't take on the person but gave them feedback on the task and because they were paid, they didn't see it as a waste of time.
This doesn't work at all for people who move around. I might have an assignment one year in Berlin then another for two years in Bangkok, then another three years in Singapore.
It's weird seeing this all of a sudden, when Monzo has for a long time not required a fixed address. They require an address just to get your card sent to, but nothing else (so you could get it sent to a hotel, P.O box etc).
Right. IRR has a number of problems, though many stem from the fact that it reports a percentage.

Npv/economic value added/etc. will yield one level per investment. And while you can sum these values for an aggregate, it’s not helpful to compare the npv of one investment for the other, because the fact that you have an NPV limits the risk of misinterpreting the investment as SCALEABLE. Some opportunities truly are finite, and cannot scale up—but if I were using irr to measure the value of selling my daughter painted Easter eggs, you’d think I have an investment of a lifetime—only to realize she has $35 stashed away, and is 10+ (hopefully 20+) years away from applying for credit!
I can just as well claim that ignoring startup with a small hot loop would unfairly favor a JIT compiler, since it ignores problems that would crop up in real world scenarios such as poor code locality.

Basically what you're suggesting would be the absolute best-case for JIT.
They can also lose earnings if the consumer weakens, which looks pretty likely to me, given consumer credit data.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG
OMG Yes, thank you for your comment! You're right! That's exactly why we have added the ability to "Mark alert as critical" so that it will increase priority and provide notification even if your phone is in Do Not Disturb or Focus mode
Is the NI really a must in UK? I have heard of people working there that are working only for a few years in academia who don't have an NI - or at least so they claim.
1Password also has a distributed TOTP system.
They want to take away the linux/open source community
> syntax and case sensitivity have always been a barrier for me

Can you clarify that a little? PowerShell isn't case sensitive, and the syntax is just a mixture of traditional shell syntax (pipes, operators like -eq/-ne/-lt/-gt, etc.) and conventional C#-like syntax (if/elseif/else, switch, ?:, ??, try/catch/finally/throw, etc.).
The answer is fundamentally incorrect since it assume total engagements as per video engagements.
Net present value - essentially valuation that takes into account the discounted time value of money (money in the future is worth less than today, since you can’t use future money without borrowing at an interest rate, coupled with inflation)
hahaha booking.com, I got rejected after screening call.. they must be swarmed with geniuses, or they are probing the market for current salaries, or they're looking for someone ready to relocate to Amsterdam for 65k EUR. What an enigma.
Tesla releases list of battery material suppliers, confirms longterm nickel deal
Unfortunately this is not accurate advice as someone who has gone through the Kafkaesque recovery system under duress can attest, recovery codes, 2FA via authenticator, confirming via the recovery email address, "trying again after 48hours - 2 weeks", logging in from the same IP as linked accounts, etc. all fail to work if you lose your phone number (as I did with a prepay number once).
On Periodic Tilings with Regular Polygons [pdf]
But if you don’t remove your phone number then the insecure option is still present.
They’re referring to using symbols instead of strings
My hunch is they require you to enter your license plate number, so you can't hand off your spot to another driver when you leave before your time is up.
This is a very negative view of what an interview is. Most interviews, however carried out, couild be described as "trying to predict the mind of the person asking the questions" but most interviewers are trying to get a realistic view of the applicant with very little objective information.

The bigger the company, the more likely people have "trained" up to try and give themselves an advantage over others. I don't think companies are necessarily looking for people who have dedicated weeks of learning, but that learning can certainly make the applicant look smarter than they might be.
Very insightful post. Although my work is mainly about audio not GUI, I still learn a lot from your idea. For my audio work, I also use declarative style and diff algorithm for updating the audio graph. But when rewriting it, I found sending messages is also very convenient:

https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol/tree/main/rs/synth

This might be interesting for you as I found that you also have a synth project (https://github.com/raphlinus/synthesizer-io). Admittedly, there is still some way to go for this audio lib. Will further study this post when I got more spare time.
He does mention that he is looking for language to use for cli with fast startup. For cli and serverless cold start times become important so much so that clojure (non Graal complied) isn't usable for those scenarios.
That’s an insightful take, and completely un-obvious, at least to me.

The idea of a company having its engineers livestream all their production work kind of terrifies me, but might also be kind of an interesting way to do business.

I wonder though if being able to write code and explain it at the same time is a skill like singing and playing guitar at the same time. I’ve never live-streamed though so couldn’t say. Any tips for trying it out, good reasons to do it or reasons not to?
All OpenGL does it draw triangles.

Once you get through the process of drawing a triangle on the screen then you're learnt 70% of the core of OpenGL. I think you're making the incorrect assumption of "wow if it takes this long to just get a triangle on the screen it must take 1000x as long to get an entire model of a watch" when really you're almost able to draw a model already, you just need to put multiple triangles on the screen now instead of just one.
To access the paid bits, you log in with your email (passwordless: it emails you a code to login) either online (https://httptoolkit.tech/get-pro/) or in the app itself, and you complete an online checkout (managed by Paddle.com) to subscribe for X duration.

As long as you're logged into the app itself, it makes a check on startup with your auth token to see if your current subscription is still active. If it's active, all the paid features turn on.

No passwords, no license keys, auth & subscription data storage managed by Auth0, and one tiny accounts server that glues the checkout & auth0 together (which is also open source: https://github.com/httptoolkit/accounts/).

That's the normal flow, but assuming you don't change the code it works the same whether you use the hosted deployment or you fully self-host the core app.
Hey Davide thank you for your comment! Currently it just helps you BeAware of all noises that hit the noise threshold (60-90 decibels) that you set on your phone. We want to use ML in the next version to allow users to select what sounds they want to be alerted to "Baby Crying", "Fire Alarm", "Microwave beeping", etc.
If you aren’t receiving support from Shelter or one of our other partners, you won’t be able to access the No Fixed Address programme.

Well, I hope it helps some people but color me unimpressed. It's hard to prove homelessness and some people don't qualify for services and etc.

I wish some bank would pull its head out of its butt, accept an email address as adequate contact info and let people pick things up at the local branch (like a new debit card).

Online banking is encouraged anytime you, say, try to call the bank these days. They have the capability to implement this.

They could do it quietly and not make it "a homeless program."
Go-monads:a library that implements basic Haskell monads
Diversifying your banking lowers your risk or being locked out of an account, but increases the risk of data and identity theft somewhat, as various digital copies of your IDs and other data now reside on even more servers, creating a larger attack surface in case of a breach of one of the banks.
Nice idea. How do you avoid the copyright infringement problem? Most of the textbooks do not allow to be posted online.
They go through a little timeline at the end of the article, re: the 15-year-old girl, G.

- She spends over a week in the emergency dept. at Boston Children's.

- A bed opens up in the hospital proper; she spends another ~3 weeks there.

- She moves to an inpatient treatment center (of the kind advocated by the doctor quoted above), spends a week there, and doesn't find it very helpful.

- She returns home and spends the summer working at a fast-food place; she still self-harms but manages to hide it for a while.

- In the fall, suicidal again (or perhaps she always was), she returns to the inpatient facility for two more weeks, then transitions into an outpatient program.

- She's still having a hard time, so she goes to a different hospital and stays for three weeks. By now it's mid October 2021 (iiuc); her initial visit to Boston Children's was in late April.

- The last update is that she continues to self-harm, has gotten better at hiding it, and has learned not to admit to adults that she's suicidal.

Pretty f'ing bleak! Not that I would have any idea who or what to blame in such a situation. The silver lining is that this person is still alive, a year after the first hospitalization.
Also it must last for, say, 15 years, be installable by road workers, and deal with abuse from not only the theives, but also vandals and construction workers repairing the road and pavement nearby.
You, and everyone that responded to you, have no idea what Juicero was. It wasn’t orange juice at all, or any type of fruit juice. It was green juice. The founder made millions selling his chain of green juice stores on the east coast so he short had a history of success.

I have a friend that worked there so I even tried the product. I thought the idea was vastly overpriced, but it definitely had the chance of working. Lots of people are into green juice vs fruit juice and they were trying to create a new market.
Saw this at a hybrid company. Chat wasn't required over Slack. Though if it was a work topic requiring a remote coworker (like myself) then sometimes they'd use a conference room and call to bring in remote folks, or everyone would go back to desks for the call.

Occasional all hands conferences provided some IRL a few times a year. IME these weren't strictly necessary yet did provide a chance to bond with the people on the other side of the glass.

Career wise I do think that fully remote can be a boon to shorter and less attractive coworkers, since it reduces or eliminates some of the tall+beautiful biases.
The rate at which your project becomes NPV positive.

If it takes $100 one year to return $110, then the irr is 10%, because a 10% interest rate would cause you to owe $10 at the end of the first year, which is exactly equal to cash generated.

Irr usually takes average accounting income per year in the denominator e.g. $10 in our case, and divided by the investment size.

Note: an investment that yields $5 at the end of each of two years is more attractive than one that pays $10 at the end of two years. Both have average accounting income of $5 per year, and the IRR is the same for each investment!!!!!! NPV scores the first incessant higher than the later--yet another reason why irr is a bad metric
Venezuela just imemented something like this as well.
Without the context, it is hard to know what this means. If they are a company that heavily uses Kafka, then there could well be an expectation that you would have researched it and at least learned enough to have an informed discussion.

Other employers might expect someone who is "Senior" to know about what different languages offer. As others have said, the title "Senior" means different things to different people and not all skills are transferable.

As others have said, if they don't do interviews well, don't sweat it, you probably don't want to work there anyway!
I don't think this article makes a strong case.
> Many people cite stats about how previously suicidal people are glad they didn’t commit suicide successfully but it’s got obvious survivor bias from those that did and don’t get a say.

It's pretty much tautological, no? Either you're (still) suicidal or you're glad you didn't previously commit suicide.

> How many suicidal people are suicidal simply because the specific lifestyle before them is the only norm they know of and they just don’t want it?

Perhaps there is a philosophical challenge in the standard definitions of mental illness, which more or less amount to "thinking in a manner which causes distress or impairs your functioning".

We like to pretend that ordinary people ought to have the fortitude to face whatever adversity comes their way-- a belief that is easier to sustain for those who aren't currently facing great adversity.
> This other company, however, gave me feedback that "if this was how you worked on a team, it'd be perfect, and we love it. But in an interview, that's not what we want"

The tech interview process is still so completely broken in my book. Nobody really knows what anybody wants or how to show it 1 hour blocks (for both parties - applicant and employer)
Good news - a new version of Slackware was released just for you! ;) (And me as well, actually)
A bit of a nitpick but New Caledonia is a French overseas territory.
A bit sad that this stopped working in lambdas in Python 3, it was nice to have in Python 2:

(lambda (x, y): x+y)((2, 3),)
Alcohol (note comment about horrific withdrawals), marijuana may or may not be toxic to different organs but the threshold for serious damage is a higher.

I have a family member that’s still strongly against any form of legalization because he swears up and down “marijuana destroyed his family”, yet has no qualms sipping on beer and bourbon despite multiple people in our family having been killed or ruined by it
I already do that - my domain is actually hosted at Dreamhost, and then mail is forwarded to Gmail.
This is me. Doesn’t help that I’ve been the youngest person on every team I’ve worked on, usually by at least a decade. I’m polite and friendly with my coworkers, but I’ve never felt enough of a connection with any of them to want to continue the relationship outside of work.

I prefer working from home for other reasons as well, but certainly avoiding the annoyance of coworkers I don’t like all that much is part of it.
It is not irony, they are looking for something they don't have to complement SAP.