skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it's the latter.

> the FDA investigated a cheese factory in Pennsylvania and found that the cheese it was selling as “100% grated parmesan” was actually cut with fillers like wood pulp and contained exactly 0% real Parmesan cheese, using instead cheaper varieties like Swiss and cheddar. That particular producer was busted and heavily fined due to a tip-off from a former employee, but similar practices are still widespread.

> According to Nicola Bertinelli, President of the Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Consortium, which works to promote authentic Parmigiano-Reggiano and fight counterfeit versions, the estimated turnover of fake parmesan worldwide is over 2 billion dollars annually — more than 15 times the amount of genuine Parmigiano-Reggiano exported each year

You won't find much fake Parmigiano here in Italy, which is their largest market (IMO the amount of fake Parmigiano in Italy is so insignificant that we can count it as zero).

There are other varieties, like for example Grana Padano, which are legit alternatives, but don't pretend to be Parmigiano Reggiano.

It would be like trying to sell a fake Ferrari here or a fake Tullamore D.E.W. in Ireland.
Yes, would be quite nice :)

I would like to follow this industry, but probably won't re-visit your site every x months. An rss feed (or email newsletter) would notify me about any new updates!
We had computers - they were just teams of women crunching numbers in a room somewhere
25 questions, some of which would require a paragraph or more to adequately answer, is not "a basic questionnaire," is completely inappropriate to ask someone to do before even an initial phone screen, and is artisanal small batch bullshit of the highest (lowest?) quality. Whoever put this together should be fired, and the people defending it should be ashamed of themselves.
And vote too... I think the only election that can't be voted for is English people resident in Ireland for the president (for obvious reasons... there is no equivalent vote in England).
> The unfortunate thing about TypeScript is that incremental type checks are still very slow, because any file can influence the type of any other file, without the other file knowing. It's a design issue, that is unfortunately very unlikely to be fixed at this point.

That makes sense, thanks.

> Also, we already have a "do-not-typecheck" flag (`--no-check`), we were just seeing in real world usage that nearly everyone who uses Deno professionally would enable this flag for inner loop development, and leave type checking up to CI and their IDE. If 95% of your users use a flag that changes a default, then that changed value should probably be the default (resulting in a better experience for most people) :)

I'm still not a big fan of changing defaults for commands that may e.g. be part of scripts, outside major version jumps, but I get the motivation if the no-check flag was in fact far more oft-used than the default behavior.
The questionnaire looks pretty reasonable, but I'd be concerned about the sketchy looking "Psychometric assessments" that's next in the list.

Also, at what point will the candidate be able to vet whether Canonical is a suitable match? Is that only after this questionnaire, psych test, and take-home assignment?
Your hunch is incorrect. Perhaps they have removed this functionality, I haven't checked, but this historically is functionality that was used to change the default background/text colors of all pages, built in to the browser.
Yep, totally right. Same at the previous company we worked for and built the billing logic. You start doing it in house because the first version is simple. It’s getting complicated when you keep adding paying features to a product. Often see product managers becoming experts in taxes and accounting :)
It is responsive on my Firefox. Basic HTML has always been responsive, except when folks break it, on accident or on purpose.
As a developer of a browser supporting WebExtensionsAPI, the move to v3 is going to add so much complexity.

For developers, maintaining browser extensions across browsers with different support for WebExtensionsAPI is going to become a major PITA.

Even right now one can not submit a new Chrome extension unless it is v3 so that means that extensions codebases have to be branched out for Firefox and Chrome which was not the case before.

The hardest will be on the browser side of things. Supporting both v2 and v3 sides of an already extremely complex API (which is what we plan to do) will be causing a lot of issues.

The situation is not good. The lack of standard and unity does not help the web.
To get things started,
Wayfair has a 90-day hiring freeze. https://fortune.com/2022/05/17/wayfair-freezes-hiring-90-day...
No talk yet of reduction in force. That was then. The stock has taken a beating bigger than the NASDAQ since the announcement so who knows what's coming down the turnpike.
> And Google wasn't giving $880k sign-on equity grants for L6 in 2019.

Note that Facebook certainly was.
I think you're guilty yourself of what you're accusing other people of.

I haven't seen people ITT arguing that there is empirical evidence for types providing better correctness guarantees, just that they strongly believe it to be the case given their own experience.
Consider using alternative SE's like you.com or neeva, they give you the ability to rank sources and e.g. set Reddit as a preferred site so you don't have to type site:reddit.com every single time. Works great and saves time.
They appear to be visible on the edge as stickers. I don't think they are hidden within the rind.
That’s low. I don’t think they’re using “staff” right.

Also, Total comp in 224k is more like $400k. 15% bonus target is normal with a possible 2x performance multiplier. 100k/yr gsu stock. 50% 401k match. To say nothing of the perks. On-site gyms, fantastic food, free shuttles.

Not that I’m advocating for working for goog, just saying.
I'm sympathetic to the extremely legitimate security concerns here, but it's pretty rich for the "open, we're so open" company to be running a classic 90s Microsoft Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook on SMTP/IMAP which, for all its faults, is one of the more important open protocols undergirding the internet.
Neat. Hope it can scale and soon!
Yeah, I'm sure their application process works great, for keeping their pipeline nice and empty of potentially worthwhile candidates. These questions are anything but "reasonable", either in their quantity or in the depth of demanded response.

I'm sure that the team at Canonical feels this process works for them, and maybe it does, but I'd love to see what metrics they have to show that it does. (Or maybe they for some reason have to practice "hire slow, fire never"...)
I'm probably the last person you'd want to ask about this but it sounds like you failed to take risk, possibly due to mild (or not so mild?) perfectionism.
RFC 9239: Updates to ECMAScript media types
Curious, what are your habits for writing a book?
Very interested in this as well
>Equity isn't guaranteed at all.

Especially not at coinbase, whose stock has imploded to the tune of -75% just this year, and more since IPO.
It would aid communication if Mozilla would denote the maintained support for blocking `WebRequest` in the version number. Unfortunately `manifest_version` is a number, not a string, but I guess naming it 4 would clarify things plenty by annoying the standards process just enough.
Seconded! I haven't read through a book that quickly in quite a long time.
Yeah I think that like opinion or review type content is probably a big enough area of information that google fails to really serve these days that going after it is a smart idea both because of how much better it can be for users but also because I think it's a large and potentially profitable niche.

I think general fact based search is super solved and competing there is a waste.

Edit: And when I say general fact based I mean like "Who is the president of the US right now?"

For individual areas of knowledge (programming being an obvious one for me) there's still improvement to be had for sure.
Ask HN: Have You Tried or Heard of Hyper Live Avatars?
Just saw a job listing on the front page, and Hyper sounds a little interesting as a product.

Aside from the gimmicky funk of "pseudonymous founders", the core offering does sound like it could empower people, especially those not genetically blessed with great looks.

Have any of you tried out the product? If so, I'd like to hear your take.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hyper-online/jobs/EwWvbln-sr-backend-engineer
To quibble even more, it's much harder (legally) to take away unvested RSUs than it is to demote / reduce salary.
It's not like SAP/Oracle/etc have some magical power. They just pay attention to these things, build the product, THEN release the product. And initial releases are buggy just like most software.

So more agile players can get involved more quickly and entrench position.
I just wanted to add that I really liked your 'Classic CS Problems in Python' book. I found it much better than following university course notes (e.g. CS 61 A/B etc).
Psychometric assesssments, eh?

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

> such measurements are often misused by laymen, such as with personality tests used in employment procedures.
Depends what you work on. If you are working on super privacy invasive projects and have regrets then at minimum that is a problem for you and reducing your quality of life.

I generally do not get disheartened by this sort of thing but you also probably will not ever see me working for Facebook for example.....
Ok but it should be an opt-in workaround for dependencies' bugs. Tell me if a dependency has an issue, and then let me decide if I want to ignore it. Don't just ignore them all - for one they'll never get fixed.
Let's get rid of the heavy weights and squat machine and fill the gym up with stationary bikes. Then you piss off the power lifters and the mum that wants to go from stationary bike to a more serious routine will have to look for another gym, because here they're only catering for the casual users and people that forget their membership.

This is what happens with popular software.
But there's a difference between editorconfig and vscode specific stuff in that editorconfig is IDE agnostic...
There is a follow up video[0] of the man being chased after the cover is blown up.

Not cool chasing people though.

0: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ialWQry0mxo&feature=youtu.be
Nowhere is amazing, really. Shopify would still be a fantastic career move for most people in terms of resume clout and income.

Plus I was just trying to be nice!
> ” If one can't get a job at the top corps, one shouldn't enter the field. The risk is just too much”

What?? I think I never read anything in HN that I disagree more with.

I got fired December 1st last year because the company I worked was heading to an IPO and decided that they didn’t want to work with full time contractors from outside the USA anymore. I got paid the whole December month. I started in a new job in January 18th.

Being a good frontend developer is what minimizes the risk of my career, not working on companies that will exist in 20 years. I doubt a lot that I will be working in the same company that I am now in 10 years.
Only if you have a trusted central database. With blockchain you can move your cheese independent of central authority.
Even smarter would be to take that plastic and burn it for energy, instead of giving that energy to an enzyme, that will just make waste heat.

After reading the article instead of the headline:

They imply they can turn the plastic back into a monomer and then rebuild it as a new polymer. Maybe that would work, but I have huge doubts - a monomer is very chemically active, and it really wants to polymerize. That enzyme may work in a lab, but I doubt they can turn it into an industrial process.

I take issue with this:

"The most common method for disposing of plastic, besides throwing it in a landfill, is to burn it, which is costly, energy intensive and spews noxious gas into the air."

This is utterly false, and I don't see how they can claim to be scientific if they publish falsehoods. It makes me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the press release.
It's definitely totally bizarre. I think it works only insofar as there is some filter.

I used to hang out one a discord for competitive programming. Many people gave referals to other competitors, even though they may have only known each other through their online interactions around programming competitions.

This worked, until it didn't--people start to show up without any interest in the topic and just referal seeking.

Kind of a tangeant here, but this is how status symbols evolve. First, someone figures out that 'people who do x can do y'. Then, if y is highly desireable (say it's 'work on wallstreet' or 'become an astronaut') suddenly everyone wants to do x, and the association between x and y is lost.
What about e-mail clients which allow you to configure multiple accounts at different e-mail providers? Those will be able to access your Gmail data, and also "data from or through third-party servers" in form of receiving or sending e-mail via different mail servers.
Different tech companies, that are also major browser manufacturers, have a radically different vision of what the web should be and how it should be consumed.
They're likely lamenting how hard it is to find great people.
>for some reason

"Our investors include Microsoft, Reid Hoffman’s charitable foundation, and Khosla Ventures."
That's a great point.

My initial interpretation from TFA was: When escaping from the abuser isn't possible, this may be the next best alternative strategy.
I disagree. It's exploitive for people in a position of power to exploit the psychology of the folks that are in their care. You use the word exploit, exploiting folks isn't good or moral, in any case. It's never ok to exploit folks.

If we say we are aligning the interests of the employer and employee that's different. If we are saying a rising tide raises all ships, we all do well when we all do well, etc. That's different. None of that is exploitive, it's inspiring. There is a difference between inspiring and aligning people in powerful ways, and exploiting them. One is ok, one is not. One leads to true long term success and prosperity, one leads to short term success but long term failure, a flash in the pan.
This is what happens when everything is just contracted out willy nilly with people running systems that have not kept up with the times and (at best) are reaching their own level of incompetence.

Or at worst there were big kickbacks involved and something nefarious is going on here.

Regardless seems like a good thing to investigate
Open-source newsletter platform. Inspired by Morning Brew
Not every discussion does. But when your conclusion is "therefore, we shouldn't say vaccines are safe, and we should be wary about getting them", comparing them to the alternative is required, unless you're arguing in bad faith from the start.
People move on for all sorts of reasons. He's probably well off after a long career, so I don't see the point of the ageism at the end of your post.
Fixed. Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, and I don't always get these things right. Thanks for pointing that out.
nightmare job creator.
Personally I'd prefer to fill this out than have someone try to interview me and scribble some notes down that I later get evaluated on. I'm a good writer but I'm not the best extemporaneous orator.

Of course if it's this and then 14 hours of interviews (looking at you, Plaid), then it's a different story.

EDIT: for these kind of numbers? no way: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Canonical/salaries/Software-E...
Now what we need is some plugin like Iconify [1] for Sketch to pick it up and allow inserting vectors from it right into a design file.

[1]: https://iconify.design/
Boris, is that you? Get to work!
i always felt firebase was a trap, but i can see how having minimal backend can help you move forward fast. i guess ill learn it properly
The article just scratches the surface too. I could have written a book to describe it!

Reporting for revenue is a hard game, indeed. Spent a lot of time trying to reconcile revenue streams in the same company we ended up building the whole billing system. It’s also not easy because metering is not something that is predictable nor easy to make it fit into a finance report.
I have a slight hope that gorhill will just remove the Chrome extension which might get users back to Firefox. It's next to useless with Manifest v3 and has been quite constricted for a while now when being used in Chrome [1].

1: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
So, uh, what are the CO2 emissions like on eating that much sequestered carbon?
My favorite part was the senior engineer that said he worked like 4hr/week in Q1 probably a bit of hyperbole but knowing a few people that do work there I'd believe it. Working at Twitter sounds like a great deal.
I agree it was repetitive, but indeed, I did not want people to think I was trying to pretend to be unrelated to the post.

Thanks for the constructive feedback!
Part of this is learning from the “failures”. If you are building AviSynth filter #742, then maybe you are skipping that step.

On the other hand, if you are having fun and learning something along the way, who cares?
Love your sense of humor
> That works even if you remove the "Blockchain".

That's a key criteria for being Web 3.0. Now basically, the only new principal involved is that instead of value being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive-interactance... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
Sounds like this was great practice, even if the stakes were a bit high.

(Definitely let the cat in! Every zoom meeting I am in has at least one cat, and it is a welcome distraction compared to all of the crying babies and other nonsense)
That's just making the job of future archeologists easier :)

On a serious note, the half-life in acidic solutions (which might include stomach acid) is 1 day according to the link shared by perihelions.
I started doing the same but with macOS apps: https://lowtechguys.com

Reading about the author's projects in the past is actually what inspired me to do it.

I used Windows for a long time before as a power user (living my life in FarManager and WinAPI), then switched to Ubuntu with i3.

After finally switching to the Mac, I loved its simplicity and how it freed my mind from micro-managing the system, but I also noticed its shortcomings and how some things were better on Windows/Linux.

Nowadays I'm making small apps to overcome those macOS shortcomings, and help others find their carefree macOS setup where the system doesn't get in the way of real work.

And it's going pretty well! I've also shared the source of the framework [1] I'm using for these apps, so that I don't have to constantly reimplement payments, licensing [2], SwiftUI styles/components and utility functions on each new project.

[1] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/Lowtech
[2] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/LowtechPro
Yeah! It was my first ever email client back in 1994/1995.

More details on the developer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harris_(software_develop...
Unfortunately the app is not available in my region it says. Will there be an in browser solution?
Hmmm I looked for this position and couldn't find it. Could you link it? I would like to see if I can apply
With hallow-core, Spread Networks[1] could be back on top again!

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Networks
I bet he's right in a lot of cases. I think the difference would be that back then you had actual humans making every decision and everything was local so the social and cultural expectations from everyone involved would have been more predictable.

Plus, I imagine everyone made more effort to be civil when interacting because everything was face-to-face.
You've clearly never had the displeasure of filing a Radar report.

It's about as effective to write the report on paper and light it on fire - the chance of it getting actually addressed is about the same.
How do you get people interested in your projects both from a consumer and production standpoint? Basically I am wondering what the best ways you have found to SELL whatever project you are working on (even if say the project is technically free to the end user) and also how do you sell someone else on collaborating with you?
It's coming soon, we're in the final steps of QA, but we could not wait to share this post!
Thanks for the comments on the documentation, by the way!
It was a scam then, and it's still a scam now.
U.S. agency opens probe into fatal Tesla crash that killed three
Rodrigo Copetti has a great article detailing the Wii architecture and how similar it is to the GCN - https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/wii/ - Really looking forward to his Wii U article.
> The bulls*t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give

Can the title be updated with the other half of the sentence?
I'd actually characterize it the other way around: Elixir and Beam give you most of the benefits of serverless with better portability and lower costs.

Also, meta: don't worry too much about where people tell you the industry is heading. 1) They don't actually know, 2) it's much more conservative out there than you might think. Even when new paradigms do gain traction, they pretty much always augment rather than replace, for a good long while at least.
West Germany basically destroyed its economy to unify with East Germany.
> signatures of socioeconomic status in the brain

Oh well.

Some people believe that propaganda is good when it's a propaganda of something good. These people probably know what everyone knows, but they don't seem to understand that the whole thing is way too similar to finding racial differences in cranium measurements and such — and it doesn't matter if the conclusions they want to support are the direct opposite of “bad” ones. Taking arbitrary human-invented properties of objects in human-invented stratification model of something objectified and then called “society”, and stating that “genes” and “brains” absolutely have to have some projections of those is not much different from complex reasoning based on “Qi” or “divination”.

Of course, a swift reply that all science is tying discreet observations to intentionally simple imaginary models is expected, but that's a next step in our argument.
What would be really cool is if we got something that could eat plastic and produce as a waste product some environmentally neutral substance like (say) some kind of alcohol. Is there anything like that on the horizon?
The OG poster website is actually a Stripe alternative. They also call out Chargebee which is another alternative that should support this.
> It's constantly trying to play albums in random order, and even more egregiously, related tracks when the current album finishes.

This can be turned off in the settings.
For any public school (elementary, middle, or high school), they get funding per pupil. When that school loses students, it loses money.

Now, if the district or state has fewer pupils, they may decide to change the formula, but that's probably a few years after the school has already been hit financially.
> Code is still being type checked, just not by default

That's a pretty big caveat. In most cases "not by default" means "hardly ever".

I feel like the change would go over better if you were more honest about the only real reason to do this - speed. If you just said "type checking is too slow for `deno run`. We'd like to have it type check then but upon reflection we think the speed cost is worse than the cost of moving type checking to a non-default command."

That's very reasonable. "We don't think types should be checked by default" is just pretty crazy IMO.

Also, don't you cache the output so it's only slow on the first run?
I’ve read this headline monthly since the 90s.