skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...op left the company, so why should he still get a cut of their current revenues ? That does not seem very fair to the current engineers who a currently able to manage the $200 MM. As far as we know, the company really started working well when they were finally able to replace his crappy code with a better implementation.

The money probably goes to management, who stuck during the entire story - which OP didn't. It also goes to current employees who, by their number alone require more money. And of course to stakeholder who paid for OP $165k when the bank was making $0.
> If it's your house and you pay the bills you get yo decide then rules. Same goes for every home owner.

I think I can answer this pretty simply. The house is the world, and the home owners are everyone who lives in it. We vote people to make hard decisions so we can go about making our imaginary currencies or drive around or whatever.

So, no, I (personally) don't get to make these kinds of decisions. But I could, theoretically, run for office to get to do so. That reality isn't a real reality for me (personally) because I can't vote or run for office where I currently live because I'm just a resident and not a citizen. However, I can still run for office and vote in my country of citizenship.

But anyway,

> As long as I pay the bill who are you to tell me I cannot invent my own money?

Just because you pay the bills, it doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want. You can't print USD or EUR in your back yard just because you bought the machinery and pay the power bill. You can't just light a bonfire in an urban backyard because you bought the wood, or build an extension to your house. There are codes, regulations, laws, etc. These make up a civilization and society. So yes, there are people on this planet who can tell you "cannot invent your own money with your electricity." I, personally, am not one of them. I don't understand why I (personally) am a part of this conversation. But here we are...
These are such inane questions.

> What was your first Linux distribution, and why did you start there?

"Red Hat Linux, and I started there because I found a CD to install it in the cover of Red Hat Linux For Dummies at my local library."

What does that say about my qualifications for the job? I can scarcely imagine. Clearly the questions are prompting for answers that will be evaluated in some vague bullshit way, so why not evaluate the questions themselves in the same manner? I see a lot of questions about what I was doing in highschool. I therefore conclude these questions were written up by an airhead do-nothing who's life peaked in highschool and they've been dwelling on the past ever since. Am I doing this right?
Whether we should burn, recycle, or dump plastic into a landfill depends entirely on the relative amount of energy generated and CO2 emitted by those different options. Just because plastic and natural gas both are/come from hydrocarbons doesn’t mean that burning them produces anywhere near the same amount of emissions per MWh, or that the economics would be at all close.

And if you are proposing the construction of new power plants to burn trash, your justification also has to explain why that would be preferable to building wind/solar instead
Uber is the epitome of modern day sharecropping - shift all the risk and expense - many of which are hidden because they are long term or rolling expenses (insurance, maintenance/car replacement/physical security, etc) - to drivers. Waive the allure of immediate cash at people and damn the longer term consequences.
The Modern Gamer's Guide to Running Morrowind
An enzyme is a protein molecule, not a living thing. Probably the biggest risk is that some wildlife or fish may be allergic to it.
I still can't get over the fact that the Kindle Oasis their flagship device is still Micro USB.
That is true, but the best and easiest way to make a huge mass of a specific enzyme is to grow it in something, either bacteria or yeast. If it is in an organism, the organism can escape into the wild.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this process still assume that the plastic is collected and heated (not super hot, the claim seems to be "less than 50C")? In the case of the ocean, it doesn't seem like this technology would be useful until after we collect all the little bits of plastic. And at that point we could just put it in a landfill anyway.
It can't always be computed accurately; I suspect that's why it's not mentioned.

Bunch–Kaufman is the "right" factorization for indefinite Hermitian/symmetric matrices but it's not as well know.
Why is it a problem to use an API?
To be honest, that seems fair given that they are pretty community focused. You might view it as an unpaid internship, but my own contributions to open source and the community have always gotten me jobs. I view it as extracurricular activity... similar to what they pushed us to do in high school for getting into college.
What happens if you are still alive at the age of 60?
An exchange from that thread:

> > there is absolutely zero chance anyone on the other end is going to take the time to actually read and evaluate each of them

> This is understandable to think, but is simply wrong -- I know because I'm a software engineer at Canonical who helps review these written submissions. They're sometimes read and reviewed by our CEO, though often he delegates that out to a pool of us reviewers. I always read mine thoroughly, whether they're 3 pages or 30. I don't have exact stats, but from where I sit maybe 80% of them are quality submissions.

Shuttleworth is directly involved in, and approves of, this "write ten pages about your childhood, then take a battery of personality tests, and then maybe we'll proceed" shit? Is this a South African thing? I know some cultures have very different expectations about how job applications should work.
Disagree wholeheartedly.

One of the under-appreciated superpowers of gradually typed systems like TypeScript is the ability to ignore errors in parts of the codebase I don't care about right now, and focus on exercising the runtime behavior of the code paths I'm currently working on, because I can always have a working program that can be executed (and possibly crash at runtime) regardless of what the static analysis tells me is wrong with it.

Without this, large scale changes tend to become extremely painful all-or-nothing affairs that have to be applied codebase wide at every iteration, and I only find out the change doesn't work the way I expected at runtime after I've already done all the work applying it to everything across the board, and have to repeat the whole process over and over again.
> Sure, that makes sense, but you can write a compiler in languages that don't require it themselves.

I don't follow your rationale. With C the developer manages heap memory by basically calling malloc and free.

This means that once you have the memory model set, all you need to do to roll your compiler is to implement the interface.

A language that "don't require it themselves" is a language which provides only high level constructs and dumps all the memory management logic to the compiler/runtime, from object allocation/deallocation to lifetime management.

How is that simpler to pull off by a compiler writer?
At least you will only have to do it once. I migrated from G Suite to Fastmail, but because I had a custom domain, it was basically entirely painless.
layoffs.fyi tracks layoffs.
If you don't like crypto currency then you should do your best to stop things that make it necessary.
Why do we want to put the plastic's carbon into the atmosphere instead of back into the ground where it came from?
It seemed like a good idea in 2005, and switching costs. But yeah, I bit the bullet and left this year.
Great site! The only complain I have is that they use http links :)
If you don't understand the problem, you probably belong to a younger generation. In older years, you change jobs only when it's unavoidable. In informatics, it is already very difficult to find a job from the age of 45. So there must be important reasons. If he simply wanted to retire, he would hardly have mentioned the startup.
Depends on what the waste products are and how they are captured, otherwise you trade one problem for another. The plastic takes up space but if it's in a landfill you have carbon capture, best not to release that carbon into the air as CH4 or CO2.
No other medical treatments work this way. Private insurance and socialized healthcare systems will jump at the chance to prevent their members from becoming afflicted with the extremely predictable and expensive diseases of aging (Alzheimers, cancer, heart disease…)

People say “if it ever comes it will only be for the super rich” because they are afraid to let themselves experience the emotion of wanting something that might not be possible.
> The day old is fully removed or stops working is the day I stop using reddit entirely.

I know it's not the same but there's always https://teddit.net
I think that is exactly what they said?

> Up to now, deno run has always automatically performed type checking on the code it was about to run, just before running it. This can sometimes be a nice user experience, but more often than not it is not what you want. The reason for this is often that type checking is really slow: it is often by far the single largest factor impacting the startup performance of your application.
SBF founded a SuperPAC that's focused on future pandemic prevention/mitigation. He supported many candidates and a ballot measure in CA. One candidate who he put particular support behind was Flynn, a house candidate in Oregon who his SuperPAC spent $12 million on and who lost his primary with only a third of the vote. A Pelosi associated SuperPAC also supporting Flynn, suggesting SBF may be a major player in the Democratic Party establishment going forward. Also SBF seems to at least partially justify his spending through an effective altruist lens.

The impact:

> Spending $12 million on a single candidate who lost badly is, by no definition, a success. S.B.F. didn’t score a Peter Thiel-like victory and successfully buy a seat in Congress for an ally. But you get the feeling that S.B.F., like Thiel, will be among the most ambitious members of the new establishment attempting—in this case, expensively—to recast the world in his image.
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/tree/master/balancer
this is widely promoted (incinerator to energy) and widely disliked (state of the air in industrial locations around the world) .. not a new idea
In field metering situations you can have the timeline of each meter, when it records data points, and then you have the different timeline of the backend service, when it actually _receives_ data points.

Bonus points if the meters can send data out of order.
You evidently did not see the videos linked, which included clips from the films released insisting the whole thing was perfectly safe, at a time when they were burning radioactive sodium in open pits. Whole neighborhoods got cancer.

The whole "too cheap to meter" line was also known to be false when they were promoting it. No US nuke has ever been built for the quoted price. Lately, they spend $billions, deliver 0 watts, and return none of the money.
Sure. But I have a full-time job and a family. Combined with the essay's focus on the candidate's high school career, it's a pretty strong signal I'm too old to work there. I'm sure as hell not going to spend a year of my precious spare time on the gamble it'll get me a job where they expect me to continue working off-hours.
I don't see too much issue with this type of questionnaire. Even though the education part smells lot like bullshit from my European perspective.

Those questions can end up in interview too, so written answers and chance to properly articulate those isn't bad.

Still, way too many steps and hoops otherwise in the process.
But LU, when it works, is less flops (only half though, IIRC). And doesn't require a square-root. I think that's why it used to be preferred when compute was a very scarce resource. Clearly that's not really the case anymore today.

But otherwise I agree, QR is almost better on every front.
I am legitimately curious as to why there is such an adverse acceptance to gravity storage? This is already done in the U.S. West in running large density mass trains up hillsides and Gravitricity over the pond has a functioning model using old mine shafts. As an entrepreneurial tech founder I comprehend oh too well that until someone proves "it works" there will always be nonbelievers even though the math and physics agree. Maybe it is inherent human nature to not believe something until it is seen but in this era we also will have countless which do not believe even when it is proven. The planning is the easy part and the math checks out, mhg=pe, execution is what is difficult and all that matters.
Ask HN: Tips on running a successful hackathon with external participants
I didn't see any recent posts on this topic and was curious if anyone has any resources or anecdotes about hackathons and how to make those engaging and worthwhile from a participant POV.
Apple's HyperCard.
Wouldn't threatening to sell involve having to disclose he's got lead pipes and lead to a need for remediation?
Also 100% agree, the queue system as designed is almost unusable. I also raised a request on the community about it a bunch of years ago, but it was quickly closed. I’ll send another vote into the void on this one.
No, Mozilla is imposing the same brand new restriction against dynamic code (eval, Function[1]) as Google & has no affordances to allow this sometimes performance-critical & creatively necessary set of capabilities. Extensions can no longer grow & evolve, turning back multiple deacdes of possibility.

[1] https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_dynamic-code-evaluat...
Another option is to clone the dotfiles repo to your workspace. Then create symbolic links in your home directory. Like:

ln -fs ~/workspace/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
https://no-burn.org and others.. incinerator waste to energy has been a battle for at least fifty years..
> either by running deno check, or by specifying the --check option on deno run

deno check is very welcome, but I think I would have preferred a --nocheck option when running instead of a --check option
Copy and paste actual lines that can't be done in C++. Show me something that is 12 times faster in java or explain in detail the underlying mechanics of something that can't be done in C++.

You said C++ can't do atomics which is like starring at paint and saying it can't paint in the color that it is. What is it that you think the atomic C++ functions do?

This is all before even talking about whatever you were saying about "needing arrays in C++" or needing VMs, which is so bizarre I barely even know where to start.

Why do you say things like this if you can't actually explain them?
Comedian Seth Green Loses Bored Ape NFTs in Hack: “Well Frens It Happened to Me”
The article is written by someone who's founded such a search engine, so they're of the opinion that Google is dead and [thing_im_doing] is the way of the future.

> Sari Azout is a founder of startupy.world, a search engine for tech and culture insights.
Considering another step is psychometric testing, and given the nature of these questions, I assume there's some woo-heavy tea-leaf-reading process to evaluate the submissions. "This person used 'I' too few times while writing about themselves, so they're clearly not confident enough" or whatever.
The press release points to the paper’s abstract. From that, it appears that it is specific to PET plastic. It can de-polymerase PET for later synthesis in new PET products. PET is already being recycled, the issue there is that recycled PET is not clean enough to reuse as food packaging. I hope this method does not suffer from this limitation.
You happen to read anything related to removing salt from seawater as well?
I was admittedly being facetious, but my point is that those who push the "work is for working, not for having fun" line are neither doing the employers nor the employees any favours.

The other side of the coin is that what employers do to try to improve engagement is usually ineffective and often quite demeaning. What Erik Dietrich calls "carnival cash". You just can't fake the sense of producing something useful for the customers and in return getting your fair share of the proceeds.
"Oil and other products are in much higher demand compared to the supply"
You mean when you arbitrarily cut off supply to satisfy a fringe element it has repercussions?
Who knew?!?
I assume they ran out of space in the title.

Maybe it should be renamed to something more succinct, e.g. "Canonical's bulls*t Hiring Process"
Is that a real idea? Can’t Google right now unfortunately!
The tragic irony there though is that Canonical commits very little engineering effort to contributing to upstream projects that they don't control. They'll fix a few bugs that are affecting customers, but there's no generalised effort to grow the garden they live in.
Yes. It would be even larger if US companies couldn't accept foreign invoices without being in a special format. Does tax evasion in the US somehow disprove tax evasion in Europe?
I bet the images and videos collected by facial recognition partners doing KYC for crypto exchanges also wind up in various nations' law enforcement databases.
That's only per repository, isn't it? It won't really be convenient when you're working across several repositories or languages.
The 'at runtime' part you cut off from that quote seems pretty relevant. Tests aren't run by default at runtime either.
Own the domain name if you need it.
Save your data with the Golden Rule.
I totally hate that bullshit. The last time I ran into this "personal goal setting" nonsense was at a company where I wasn't planning on staying around very long. You could say it was rather challenging to be authentic.
having done some research on this topic, the problem is not what goes into the landfills.. the problems are in the plastics that do not make it into the landfills, the production of the plastics, and the over-dependence on single-use plastics since the era of the Bic-Pen
Shit. I live in a VERY old building (built in 1916). No idea what type of pipe they were using. I already do have a good lead filter on my kitchen faucet.

Are you worried about exposure from things like showering and brushing your teeth?
Then bakes in NFTs to turn the conversation on to something more edgy. Thus allowing them to tie back to their long push into "Web 3.0" which I would imagine is starting to look a bit bleak nowadays.
Yep, that's a good idea. I'd like also to open it the other way to designers once it gets some traction. Step by step.
According to this, a municipal landfill in the US requires:

> a flexible membrane (i.e., geo-membrane) overlaying two feet of compacted clay soil lining the bottom and sides of the landfill.

https://www.epa.gov/landfills/municipal-solid-waste-landfill...
The NIH Interventions Testing Program has identified 6 compounds that significantly extend HEALTHY life (in model animals). Some of these compounds have been tested in multiple model animals and the effect is conserved across all of them.

Human trials are expensive and obviously take multiple decades, so you’ll be dead before to see that data.

The compounds so far are:

rapamycin,
acarbose,
17-alpha-estradiol,
canagliflozin,
asthaxanthin,
meclizine
Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring”
I'm in my late 20s, just started my career proper as a developer. I got into a big tech position, leaving behind startups and the chaos of my early 20s, for now.

When I started school at 18, I was full of excitement and big ideas. Over time, economic, social, and physiological realities have sunk in: big ideas are hard and take a LOT of time to realize. Happiness is found in relationships. People (myself included) are very limited and imperfect. The body requires a lot of maintenance and has limited energy. Money is really nice.

A mentor has advised me not to become "boring" and wants me to try to stay entrepreneurial. I still want to be creative. But I wonder if I'll do these things or if I will just work and be happy.

I don't have a specific question here, just want to get perspectives and experiences. It seems like this forum is full of people who have traveled a similar path: starting with big ideas and hopes for their future, sometimes being able to achieve those but through a tremendous amount of time and effort. Or, have realized that a certain amount of money, free time and family is all they really need.

What are your thoughts?
> IMO we'd be better off focusing research on reducing the waste rather than improving disposal.

And IMO there’s much upside to pursue multiple avenues to desired solutions, rather than making choices to eliminate potentially contending solutions too early.

Mother nature herself provides pretty much exactly that template for evolution. So if we want to save nature, why not use that same approach? It seems to have served the survival of life on our planet rather well.
Its a decent effort, but to put 4GWh in perspective: my small house requires about 10MWh in heating over the winter. I can reduce that with a heat pump by a factor 4, but that till means the storage is only enough for about 1800 homes.

We need a PWh+ of storage, and we need it in the next decade, and we are nowhere near on schedule.
How do you do present window sharing to a Meet call?

Using OBS gives you a very flexible way to stack a window capture with video sources, composite them, etc, yes, but your output is then routed through the virtual camera driver and sent to Meet as a regular webcam feed.

So because Meet thinks it's just a webcam feed, your coworkers will just see your shared window as a tiny video tile downsampled on the sending end down to 720p, and the only way they have of seeing it large is to pin your video tile manually.

Is there a trick here where you got OBS to output the composite feed to a chromeless window then you share that as a regular application window presentation?
There's few things worse in B2B than encountering a system where engineers have reinvented general accounting principles from scratch.
I’d love to take a questionnaire like this. It gives me then impression they are trying to get to know the people applying as people. I know bias sneaks in. I’m not sure this is necessarily a bad thing. Ultimately we are people, and will be working together as people. You can’t make everything unbiased and precise without treating people like replaceable robot cogs. Maybe some people like this or feel it is fair. I don’t.
I mean, installing kubernetes on a baremetal cluster took me 10 minutes to run a script that I wrote over ~2 weeks. I spent two months trying to figure out consul, nomad, and vault, how they work together, dealing with their weird failure modes, etc. Basically, RAFT sucks. It really isn't very resilient AT ALL. You can literally take down an entire RAFT cluster with a single packet. One freakin packet. At least Kubernetes will continue to run in a degraded state if etcd goes on the fritz.
So you’ve completely forgotten the disaster in NYC, where hospitals were so overwhelmed they couldn’t take more patients, and corpses were stacked like cordwood in refrigerated trucks. If the “fuck it we can’t control this“ attitude had prevailed, every city would have seen the same.

And for that matter, the US did have much more of a “fuck it” attitude than many other countries and consequently killed a much higher proportion of its population than those countries.

Plus it’s now seeing its economy go to shit, while countries like Australia which took prevention efforts seriously are doing much, much better.
Why? They're right imo
Yeah, landfills are not major environmental problems, AFAIK, but they offend the neat freak within all of us.

And, as you say, they're pretty good carbon deposits, which is supposed to be The Most Important Thing.