skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cut with fillers like wood pulp

Label fraud aside, I really don't understand the vitriol that gets directed against grated cheese being sold with cellulose. It's only there to make the cheese shake out better (which it does well, you can buy grated cheese without cellulose to compare it to) And besides, there's nothing wrong with cellulose in the first place. You eat loads of cellulose every time you eat lettuce. Sure they get it from trees, but so what? I really don't see what the big deal is, assuming the labels are accurate. The fraud is a serious matter, but the "wood pulp" is inoffensive.
I’m in the same boat and feel the same. It’s just not a great state of things for extension development, and yeah the separate Firefox and Chrome code in my codebase truly irks me.
I know the main people behind much of the hollow core work being done. Much of their financing is coming from HFT related firms.
Plastic that goes into the trash is not pure plastic, it is trash and it has a lot of other junk in it. i.e. heavy metals and other stuff. That's one of the biggest reasons we have trouble recycling it. Are there even any WTE plants that burn only plastic?
I use Firefox every day and never have problems.

As far as JS for IMAP, I seriously think that the developers of Thunderbird would understand the pros and cons of using it more than those of us sitting in the peanut gallery.

I would bet that if it was implemented without any fanfare, you probably would not notice anything.
I'm of the same mind. Interviews are not like school assignments, there's not some reason why the average person should "pass" most questions. Every question or step should provide clear information that lets you decide who to hire.

In practice it's not like this though, it's probably true that < 10% of what goes on in most interviews actually differentiates candidates.

I think part of it is it's just hard to figure out which 10% is the useful part. Though certainly if 80% are passing an early step in the process, it should just be scrapped altogether.
How to Replace Excel?
We are getting to a position where the entire business will choke on Excel. We are growing rapidly, large contracts coming in left and right. We deal with the government,so often Excel is all they know. What can I use for quick deployment, multi user access to make it a bit more manageable?
Political instability, the decline of post-war culture, and the ascendency of the Global South is going to define your lifetime if you live long enough. The, "big ideas" are mostly bullshit. Read, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. You're not Luke Skywalker, Neo, Harry Potter, or Elizabeth Swan. Do what you want and be free. You're not the main character and if you can realize that at some sincere level without killing yourself you'll be capable of everything. You'll be an actual human being. You'll be the breadth of the evening sky.
Garfield, Elias, and Gutschera's Characteristics Of Games is a good foundation.
Exactly. Reddit’s culture acts as an anti-spam, anti-shill immune system. That’s not to say it’s perfect, but it’s quite a bit better than the typical search engine or social network at weeding out content-spam and other bs.
So not only has the type checking been removed from basic usage. It is also a breaking change. Nice.
It doesn't necessarily have to get kicked out of the pool. You can use error-averse balancers that will never send the same request to a channel that already gave it an error, or you can have N channels and just roll the dice on a (N-1)/N probability of getting a different channel the second time.
What type of cheese do you make?
I looked at several logos and saw that they were missing the registered trademark or trademark symbols. Those shouldn't be removed when making the vector versions, as they're part of the logo.
https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Tidy is your friend. Think Black from Python land but far more powerful.
If it’s interesting to someone I have a similar pipeline I used to write and deploy my book The Security Engineer Handbook [1].

I basically wrote everything using markdown files, and a pdf/epub/mobi is automatically generated from the folder using a Github Action. The action will also modify the date of the last update on the webpage, which gets deployed via cloudflare pages (although github pages could have been used). On the other side Stripe handles the payments (No server side code for me) and zapier detects new customers and sends the artifacts by email.

It’s magical :) the next time I want to write a book I’ll focus purely on the content and everything else will be taken care of automagically.

[1]: https://securityhandbook.io/
It's missing when you find out that business people don't know how the business must be executed with total precision.
>If all surveys show that climate change and societal equality are high on citizens priorities, then politicians and attorney generals who live and die due to such surveys will sniff non-compliance and attack the companies which are non-compliant, thus jeopardizing their profits.

which is why Tesla was delisted from the ESG index, but amazon who drives individual items often imported from china to people's houses and operates warehouses where people have injury rates and earn low wages, and exxon mobile who creates petrol products, etc are on it.

It's all just political games in trying to coerce companies to repeat political messaging in the hope of investment money. It's not a question of "running from ESG products" its about communicating to the general public what's actually going on.
Things are a little different now than when Texas and Florida first started ignoring COVID. Now, people who want to get vaccinated, have been.
Germany Affirms Crypto Sold After One Year Is Tax-Free
Ask HN: Where to find a freelancer with GA 360/SFMC integration experience?
Not a typical HN post, but I am at a non-technical company and desperate to find someone who has done Google Analytics 360 & Salesforce Marketing Cloud integrations before. This is to help a client publish audiences created in Analytics 360 to Marketing Cloud, and use those audiences in their Salesforce email campaigns. Thank you
> Standardized aptitude and personality tests

These are almost always extremely discriminatory when it comes to neurodiverse populations and I'm saddened that Canonical uses the equivalent of phrenology in its hiring process.

sigh
Lead soldered copper didn't become popular until the 1960's or 70's. Before that it would have been galvanized pipes threaded together.
Facebook may find it easy to hire shills, but it's can't hire engineers
Twitter’s board to Elon: “We have not altered the deal. Pray we do not not alter it any further.”
I just turned 50 and I’d say I’ve had entrepreneurial episodes where I’ve tried ambitious things and also times I was more ‘boring’ and mostly thinking about paying back my HELOC.

I am working on another reinvention now and it will take a lot of time and a lot of work…. And I’ve still got some time and ability to work and a strong feeling of urgency because I don’t know how much I have left.
To be fair, in an in-person interview talking about something like this can be a nice way to settle into the interview and steady any nerves they might have - it's a question that doesn't have a wrong answer and doesn't (or shouldn't) have a "gotcha" attached that the candidate can be afraid of. It can spark a little conversation that could lead to other, more specific topics - but if it doesn't then no worries, it's served its purpose.

It's a bit odd to be asked to write this out ahead of time though, because if when it comes up in the interview it's like you're being questioned by the police on a statement you had previously given them and being tested what you said. Weird.
From talking with the abode poster I think the problem is that my doctors room doesn’t look fancy, not that my mechanics office looks too nice.
SEC in-house judges violate right to jury trial, appeals court rules
Landfills are not a miracle technology. They exist already and are technologically sound. It’d be way more of a miracle if we somehow managed to greatly reduce waste.
in the US, in order to get a background check of any kind, you need to get fingerprinted

This is false. I've had my background checked at least a dozen times. Most recently, just this past October, and I have never given my fingerprints to anyone.
Gmail has never been free. They charge businesses to pay into whitelists based on volume when that volume exceeds some threshold. No idea what that threshold is currently these days. The more people that use gmail, the more businesses that are compelled to pay into whitelisting to reach their clients and prospects. Those costs are passed onto their customers. Alternatively some businesses pay email campaign providers that in turn also pay Google.
I'm surprised no one else has brought up Oxide's process, which has a similar writing-heavy stage as part of the application. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xtofg-fMQfZoq8Y3oSAKjEgD... for what they ask for.

It's not quite as much as Canonical, but it's still a _lot_ of writing to go through just to apply for a position. I considered applying there during my last job search but I just wasn't enthused about it enough to spend all that time writing before I even knew if they had any interest in me.
Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the party of division and hate
Sure. That's almost all due to food waste, though. FWIW.

https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/sustainable-...
I appreciate the outlook, but it seems that there is mismatch of what we are each addressing in terms of scale. Sure there are situations where cars are not needed for most people (large cities, etc), there are options for changes to lifestyle where one organizes life around not having a car. However, those adjustments have costs which another may objectively not be able to bear, and evidence from around us suggests that is simply the reality. (If people could accomplish all they want/need within a day for personal or business purpose which they can with a car by other means which would be cheaper - they simply would, dont you agree? I most certainly would.]

However, that is not invalidating or negating the undeniably true statement, that all these cars we have today, out of all other possibilities, are the most economical (and by definition of the word "economics") in fact (as counter-intuitive as it sounds) most environmental friendly choice [as of today] - providing an entire cluster of benefits in terms of personal transport. In other words, if there was a different means of personal transportation that could be substituted and be as affordable/economical for people they would have switched. [E.g. remember the unsolvable problem of horse manure 150 yrs ago in medium scale cities, let alone in mega-cities]. Cars are just too flexible, multi-purposed, heavy duty, relatively-cheap, safe, and fast personal means of getting from A to B for an average person. And yes, environmentally friendly relative to any available substitute (I would genuinely like to hear a reasoned outline of a counter-argument for a substitute that can do all thing a car can do and is more environmentally friendly. It does not mean that cars do not pollute, they just pollute less than any other substitute I have been able to study).
Just using the brand in question:

https://www.target.com/p/sartori-sarvecchio-parmesan-cheese-...

https://www.wisconsincheesemart.com/products/parmesan-sarvec...

The price is about $7, but you'll notice it's only about 1/3 of a pound, so the per-pound price is $20-21. Which, again, tracks with what I've been saying. The only difference is you might be forced to buy a pound of the real stuff when you get a wedge of Parmigiano Reggiano, so there's a bigger upfront cost, but you'll definitely go through the stuff. It's delicious grated, it's delicious on its own, and it freezes well.
In return, I would ask them couple questions before going through the process.

* What is the salary range?

* Who was the person coming up with the interview questions?

* What is that person's psychological profile?

* What is that person's biggest achievement since high school?

* Who are the people working in the team?

* What are those people's psychological profile?

* What're their education levels?

* What're their work experience?

* What're their biggest achievement since high school?
This is why we have preferred sources on you.com - and a special mode just for coding specific results: code.you.com, eg.

https://code.you.com/search?q=onnxruntime+segfault

those you would not necessarily find on .edu domains but it's a similar spirit.

(you.com founder here)
I have a custom esbuild configuration which separates typechecking and code generation.

The separate code-generation combined with esbuild means that I can hit “Debug” and my app builds and starts up almost instantly.

The type-checking is done as a commit hook, so if there are any type errors they will be fixed once im done working on whatever small change. Any dependency which doesn’t have valid types probably has bigger issues, but during active development, active-file type-checking is usually enough.
Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell without all his hucksterism
Maybe we should disallow selling / transfer of copyright rights then? Dunno, just spitballing ideas here.
Facebook has tens of thousands of employees and everyone there is issued a Mac and iPhone. The Amazon employees I know were issued Macs as well.

Looking back to see if you were ever right, I see a 2013 article[1] claiming

Google explained that it’s managing a fleet of over 43,000 Macs its employees use

as of now if you start at Google and want to use a platform other than Mac you have to make a business case

You're talking about "larger businesses" but the largest tech businesses(#1, 3, 4, 5, 7 in order of market cap on S&P500)[2] require everyone to use Macs.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/google-wants-employees-using-macs-not...

[2] https://www.liberatedstocktrader.com/sp-500-companies/
Right, I can do those things and sometimes do. Similarly to per-file I generally don't need to because I try to write and commit a logical change at a time.

I have no problem with people who do it some other way, it just seems odd to hear people proclaim a particular way to work with git is wrong, because it does not match how they work. Not sure if it's because they can't imagine any other way of working, or they just think all other ways are also wrong.
Aldi does have a significant US presence https://www.aldi.us/stores/
Our corporate environments and capitalist structure in the US consolidate power in people. Once you start being an exec who can fire individuals on a whim or hand out raises/promotions they end up getting surrounded by yes men and then you start seeing the crazy ideas start flowing down.

The worse corporate jobs I’ve had have been the privately held large firms as the places are big enough you never know the executive but you still end up spending days/weeks doing ice breakers and personality assessments because the CEO’s life guru convinced him it would align the astrological feng shui.

It doesn’t do anything for the company but waste time and money, but until it wastes enough to cause the leaders to lose all power it’ll continue flowing down to us peons
terroir
Or, make it so I can do my own "diff". In other words, teach me how to fish. Make the information discoverable.
Do apple users really require the ability to train large ML models while mobile and without access to A/C power? Is this a real-world use case for the target market?
The history of extending human life through sanitation, disease prevention (vaccines and antibiotics), and treatment for chronic conditions has so far led to even worse conditions brought on by age. Centuries ago almost no one lived long enough to die from heart disease, cancer, or dementia. Now those are common, diseases of old age, imposing tremendous costs. I don’t propose going back to 35 year lifespans or some kind on Logan’s Run future, but we may have to acknowledge diminishing returns of extending lifespans through treatment of (not cures for) chronic conditions of aging. Nature seems to have imposed limits on lifespan, and viewing aging as a condition to cure seems both unnatural and narcissistic. It’s also a path that will be available mainly to the wealthy and powerful.

As much as I’d like to live to 120 to see my own grandkids grow up, I’m not sure I want 100-year-old members of Congress, or Presidents, or business tycoons. We all need to make room for the next generation at some point.

I’m 61 with grandkids. I don’t look forward to my body and mind falling apart, a process already well underway. I hope to die suddenly and unexpectedly (as Julius Caesar supposedly said) rather than lingering on for years in a bed fed through a tube while my family feels obligated to keep me alive as long as technologically possible.
We're missing each other a bit here. I'm not saying that copyright law is unambiguous functionally, I'm saying that from my point of view in the process there are a lot of issues that people simply haven't considered.

Think about the line between craft and art when it comes to something like woodworking, and you might see what I'm getting at a bit.
> you can just trade one type for another types

You cannot replace most oil-based fuel with incinerators.
So I'll disagree there.

The utility of oil-based fuels is the energy density in combustion. Burning plastic doesn't come close to the same exchange.
Among most crypto insiders, Terra was long known as an unstable ponzi destined for a sudden collapse. As a result, most insiders stayed far away from Terra, Luna, and UST.

However, there is a significant contingent of machiavellian sociopathic insiders that are highly informed, famous, and well-capitalized, and they heavily promoted and pushed Terra despite knowing it was flawed because they made lots of money on the Luna token.

The problem is that the famous sociopaths that promoted Luna were successful in attracting many uninformed retail investors into the Terra ecosystem. The result was a fractured crypto community, where most insiders knew that this small-but-famous contingent of sociopaths was setting up a large segment of retail to get burned when Terra failed.

In short, most crypto insiders are really sad and dismayed by Terra. But, we aren't exactly sure how to help prevent future Terras, because the massive influx of retail investors is extremely hard to convince when the sociopaths are successfully marketing to them, and retail lacks the technical or economic know-how to spot the difference.

This isn't intended as an apology or justification of Terra. I just thought you may be interested to hear an insider's perspective. Source: I'm a low-to-mid-grade ethereum insider
There's often used copies on Amazon fairly quickly from returns.
I just want to say that this article is a great intro to the topic and I credit a lot of my growth and development as an engineer to working on billing systems in my first job out of college.
They did, but they still seem to be clearly leading among commercial linux distros, and the software they push keeps getting adopted while Canonical's does not. To me this reads as strategic maneuvering by Red Hat within the Linux ecosystem, and they're doing great at it, from what I can tell.

I write that as someone who finds them to have astonishingly poor taste and wishes they would knock it off, so I'm no Red Hat fan—but they do seem to be succeeding at some kind of broader own-the-core-software-of-Linux-outside-the-kernel-without-technically-owning-it strategy, by steering Gnome and systemd and having significant control over a complete (and, conveniently, architected such that it causes a ton of work for everyone who doesn't just adopt Gnome) replacement of heart of the GUI stack. Not that Canonical's much better (OMG, Snaps, WTF are they thinking)
In my experience, if you miss the deadline that closely, the fine from the IRS is negligible, or they ignore it entirely and move on because it's not worth the effort to follow up.
The job is for a junior position.
Thanks for your comment. We'll improve relevancy in the future.
If you squint, this is similar to how e-commerce billing is done. You have stock keeping units that represent the logical item being sold, and every transaction clones that row as part of the order record.

This way, if the price changes, the item description changes, the images on the item change, etc, you can still have a record of what was actually sold and how much to refund a return etc.
Be wary of advice from a successful entrepreneur. They've gambled and won. Unless you want to be an entrepreneur and you're also ok with the idea of failing and never becoming rich from it, their advice might not apply to you and your life.
Most of the questions are very funny. It's like when someone comes to you and says, define yourself as a human being. I would like to meet the very smart engineering managers who prepared these questions.
Since founders are commenting here. getlago.com webpage is strange:

"Lago is backed by Y Combinator"

"The Open Source Stripe Billing Alternative"

Why would YC invest in both Stripe and a competitor of Stripe?
I think there’s two parts to this. The first is that there’s a minimum number of parameters required to do an arbitrary task. For any sufficiently complex task (image recognition, large language models, etc), it’s not clear how to find that lower bound. And the bound probably depends on the model chosen. But we do know that the more parameters you add, the more complex of a function you can learn.

On the other hand, for many reasons (energy, training/inference deployment complexity, latency, even some sense of model elegance I suppose), we don’t want to massively increase the number of parameters unnecessarily. But again, I don’t think we have great methods to estimate the “ideal” minimum number of parameters for a model to achieve its goals. And what we keep finding is that if you increase the number of parameters, and you increase the training corpus, the model gets more accurate, more impressive, and it’s not stopping.

So while I definitely agree that size for size’s sake is wasteful, I also don’t think we necessarily even know how to define “wasteful” for things like large language models right now.
You Are Not Where You Think You Are [video]
Do you have a link to this? That's pretty funny if true
> I didn't notice anything about projections such as isometric projection and how it relates to 2d / 3d.

§ 10.2 Viewing in 3D is mostly about perspective projection, and discusses orthographic projection briefly. (Isometric view is just a collection of orthographic views along each axis, usually either 3 [one view on each axis] or 6 [+ and - directions one each axis].)

Orthographic (including isometric) views have fairly trivial math, so being a book about the math of 3d graphics, they don't get a lot of attention.
There is plenty of material on this topic already, and as other people pointed out the topics that you've mentioned would require some very specific experience that likely only a handful of people around the world have.

It's great to have a plethora of authors to choose from though, even when it comes to foundational material. For instance, I would have never learned as much as I have about programming language design and implementation if Bob Nystrom hadn't written crafting interpreters. There's plenty of material already about the foundations of programming language design, but he wrote the book anyways and I'm very glad he did.

I like going through foundational material in these types of books even if I'm already familiar with a lot of it. Most of the time I'll find a couple of nuggets of information that I never knew about before. So I agree that specialty books would be amazing, but I disagree about the notion that we don't need anymore books about the fundamentals.
High school is relevant for people don't do much after high school. It shows the level of expectation they have for their candidates.