skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. In the years I've been a hiring manager I've never lied or misrepresented anything about my company or team to potential hires.

To be honest, I don't understand why any competent manager would lie; any high-performing individual you hire is going to bounce as soon as they realize they've been lied to. Always be honest about the current state of your team and you'll get people who want to help you succeed.
NLP has improved a lot in the last 5 years. I believe that this is now technically possible with the right training data.
What does the share price have to do with this?

Perhaps if the co-founders hadn't paid themselves over a billion in stock compensation, this wouldn't have happened.
Easy/medium weren't that hard. The smooth UI helps quite a bit.
You will reach an equilibrium after gaining a not insignificant amount of weight, but of course hunger hormones tend to increase as well.

But my point stands that a few percentage points difference in metabolic rate makes a big difference. And likely could lead to one person becoming overweight while another person with identical habits maintains a healthy weight.
I've dumped pixels and pcm audio through a pipe, it certainly was fast enough for that https://git.cloudef.pw/glcapture.git/tree/glcapture.c (I suggest gamescope + pipewire to do this instead nowadays however)
safe to say anything happening on a work computer or work software is looked at or can be looked at by someone in the company.
My taste is distant from yours, and probably much closer to the “hipster” stereotype. But I say so with no judgment toward you, only toward the one barista who I’ve ever encountered who very vocally embodied the stereotype.

I prefer light roasts… lighter than most available in a grocery store labeled “light roast”. And most of the time I prefer beans fermented with a “natural” or similar process—some or all of the fruit left on the bean as it ferments and dries, often producing fruity flavor notes ranging from subtle to holy shit are there actual blueberries in this!?

And I prefer my coffee with whole milk. Aforementioned barista was offended, persistently, when he failed to persuade me not to stick with my order for one such roast in a latte. I was, frankly, embarrassed for him. Gratefully, I’ve never encountered that sort of snobbery before or since.

Life is too short and too difficult already, ain’t nobody (well one person) got time for that kind of busybody judgement. Enjoy what you enjoy!

(I told the barista that I understood his opinion that the milk would overpower the delicate flavors of the coffee, and that I anticipated it would be my favorite latte ever. It was, and still is.)
LibreOffice is actually pretty great, it's not "run on a Pentium 100 MHz" fast but it's stable and works well for basic office spreadsheet/word processing/powerpoint tasks.
It seems maybe not the intent, but the practical result is to use the private sector to implement CCP like social credit scores isn't it? By doing everything in the private sector they get around all those pesky constitutional protections.
So...Coinbase should keep the offer even if it makes bad financial sense?

It was true when they made the offer, time passes and things changed, now it's not true.

It's a lie if it's false when you say it - not if it becomes false in the unpredictable future.
Nothing. She's a retired clinical manager (and clinician) who worked in a hospital. She's still hardcore confidential about employment and health stuff.
This assumes you know that said party is doing such things, often one doesn't.
Is it fair to hope that we could demark profit media from the broader definition of social media? I always sign up for each new social media "big thing" for a few months to check it out and be aware, then delist. Family members have accused me of being a social media user/addict too because I read HN. I try to explain that (to me), there's a very real difference between "virtual places that are social" and "virtual gatherings that have a profit motive behind them."
As someone with more than 20 years experience.. I always feared what you mentioned but your post made me question that fear.

Small companies may hold it against you and you may never have a chance to work their again but what are the odds they have a matching role and would you ever apply again.

The industry keeps getting bigger. I have never run into anyone I ever worked with in any other company.

I don't think it really matters.

The chances of seeing someone at a party or burning man or a ghost reference (they want your opinion on someone you never worked with?) is literally 0.

If you told everyone/everywhere it would make people question you.. why doesn't this great candidate (you wanted to hire them) decide to back out. What is wrong with this manager/team.. bonus is if you are successful impacting their career they can personally sue and take everything you own.
Lettuce is not a very good value for the buck in terms of either nutrition or satiating qualities. Neither is an apple, but at least you can make a pork and apple stewed dish that is delicious, scales and will freeze amazingly well. US Southerners have a rich culinary tradition of meat and "greens" stews that do the same. When I was at grad school at UF almost 40 years ago the Hare Krishnas cooked vegetarian Indian lunches at scale free for anyone right on the main quad. It was good, we ate it, even though we could afford a burrito (with lettuce) from Burrito Brothers whenever we wanted.

If you look at what either José Andrés or the cooks for the Sikh Temple are serving, they cook for the purpose, not for ephemeral desires. My point, I want to emphasize, is that we culinary plebes can cook for the purpose and it be delicious and nutritious, with a freezer and a plan.

Ship the difference in fundage to the World Central Kitchen (or wherever) and your karma goes up too.

So what to do with hamburger at scale. As it happens... I have a great recipe for ground beef, potatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and stock that everybody I've ever fed it to, including my MIL, gets addicted to. It freezes perfectly. Here's a tip: grill a bunch of hamburgers on a nice hardwood fire, seasoned however you like. Eat a fabulous hamburger dinner with friends (and lettuce). Freeze the leftover burgers, and then... use them in this dish. We call it 4-Layer Dinner.

(edited to fix some nits and omissions)
>> Same with people from other castes

This is not true, because caste is an (evil) artificial construct which only has ever had one purpose to begin with: To discriminate against people of a lower caste.

Caste is not an ethnic/cultural/biological difference, and it explicitly is about saying some people are better than others. You can't celebrate the differences between castes any more than you can between jailers and prisoners, or masters and slaves. Caste is codified generational inequality.
Unpopular opinion: I find rust code unreadable. And I consider myself a polyglot. I am sure all those symbols have a special meaning but it's like perl to me. Just throw some random special characters and they all mean something.
I’m a white Australian and am in my last few weeks of a decade long stint in a large company, caste discrimination is certainly not the only discrimination in Australia, but it is the most overt explicit discrimination that I see every week. We have laws and company policies on other forms of discrimination, but the predominantly white corporate culture hasn’t figured out how to talk about caste discrimination without sounding like it is criticizing Indian culture so has just turned a panicked blind eye to it. I regularly see or am told of behavior that should lead to arrests, but because many Indians in Australia are on fragile visas it is swept under the rug.
This article makes it sound like it’s so easy to do. I have struggled for the last decade. So either people are lying or I’m the only one struggling from years of teenage conditioning and trying to go cold turkey as a millennial adult.

I’m writing a book on this topic. All the benefits are there, but can we talk about all the dark patterns too? It’s not as simple as just deactivating an account or never logging in again. It’s persuasive technology and built into our daily habits.

The FOMO is definitely still there, especially if your family or colleagues only use a specific platform. There’s many opportunities and doors that open by being part of these things, but my rule is in moderation.
More Mysterious DNS Root Query Traffic from a Large Cloud/DNS Operator
I think if you have an E5 license there is already thoughtcrime functionality built-in. I remember someone demoing this to me in a Teams user group, and no one seemed to think it was creepy at all. In addition to flagging keywords it also used AI to detect undesirable thoughts and emotions, under the guise of anti-harassment and compliance. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the feature but I think it might be this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/co...

So I think if Microsoft existed in the world of 1984, they would easily be the preferred tech vendor for IngSoc.

Side note, do you think this would also detect the money laundering and bribery going on within Microsoft itself?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreig...

Side-side note, I think the reason why that is allowed to still keep going on given that the SEC knows about it and that there's ample evidence has to do with national security reasons.

It's extremely troubling that given all this corporate authoritarian AI tech they built that Microsoft is still trying to be the voice of reason about the dangers of AI.
I've been programming in Rust for the last few years. My daily work is mostly just fumbling through compiler errors until the code works.

Some observations:

- The compiler is always right.

- Do what clippy and rust-analyzer says. Don't ask questions.

- If you're fighting the compiler, clippy, AND rust-analyzer, then you're almost definitely wrong.

Virgins try to use &str everywhere. Chads just use String.
In California does a rescinded offer after quitting another job qualify someone for unemployment benefits? It's a small amount compared to tech salaries, but is helpful when between jobs.
I said clone and not reverse engineer
Because race really matters when your worldview is all about creating post-facto equity between races, not equal treatment and opportunity.

When you have an a-priori assumption that every difference in outcome is due to oppression of some sort, the argument is over -- you've already allowed that discrimination on any basis is OK, as long as it's against whoever you've labeled the "oppressor" group.

As a final coup de grace, you can label anyone who disagrees as an "oppressor" (or at least "fragile") without engaging their argument -- it's all circular reasoning supported by an ad-hominem fallacy.
> To the extent that through a day's listening, a recognizable story arc is defined. Often with tension and resolution, so that the audience feels they have challenged their beliefs, but have ultimately been proven correct in their presuppositions.

Good observation. Even if there's nothing nefarious going on, this is not a great situation.
*pretending to have a better day.
It is a lot more complex than it seems from the outside.

If you want to play a live show somewhere big (reach the most fans, sell merch and earn the big bucks), Live Nation owns the venue. Live Nation is Clear Channel and Ticket Master. Live Nation also owns radio, where your show would be advertised.

The big labels all have deals with Live Nation.

It is all super super shady.
Oh no..... how terrible. Well I am going to go home to play my DSI/Sequential instruments ... over MIDI !!

Thanks Dave for the beautiful instruments and for transforming the musical world.
You still need to stop.
One Job, One Pay – Globally
Orthogonal to this entire debate on employee conduct, what you call "transparency and accountability" is synonymous with social surveillance and the erosion of privacy. Instead of a state-mandated social credit system, you're describing societal norms giving way to an ad hoc total information awareness as pushed by social media websites and search engines, public record indexing companies and grassroots doxxers. Let us pray in twenty years more countries will enshrine the right to be forgotten.
Most consumer motherboards have wake on lan. Though, admittedly, the incantations to get it working can vary between boards and can be difficult to figure out sometimes.
There is no way they will be able to make an AI at this point that will

A) Be accurate

B) Work across multiple contexts

C) Run efficiently on billions of messages

This will just result in many false positives, and unnecessary eavesdropping on employees personal conversations.

Once its revealed an organization is using this, people will quickly move all conversations to another platform, even if policy forbids that. Resulting in an even greater security risk potentially.

And as per usual, if Microsoft gets someone fired (e.g. comes in looking for money laundering, finds out the staff member is making fun of their boss), there will be no repercussions.
>> The singer Halsey put up a TikTok last week complaining about her label’s obsession with TikTok. “I have a song I love I wanna release ASAP,” she told fans on the platform, “but my record label won’t let me. I’ve been in this industry for eight years and I’ve sold over 165 million records, and my record company is saying that I can’t release it unless they can fake a viral moment on TikTok.”

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The article is talking about how Record Labels are no longer doing upfront funding. The artist has to become a viral sensation on TikTok __BEFORE__ the record labels put up the money for them.
The key is offsetting financial hardship, as they said. I think it will set back the job search months for some people, perhaps longer depending on what happens with the economy. I think severence based a month or two's living expenses would be reasonable though.
Which is why generating a sense of racial grievance in their electorate is such a powerful and dangerous tool for populists both left and right.
What makes you think Microsoft would care about this? They provide the tools to make managers happy but they certainly aren't going to start running the tools for you.
It reads pretty differently though? The specific obligations part seems like it applies to something federal.
Why are you saying this? It's what every single corporate pamphlet and forced talk says. No one is saying unions will bring everyone enlightenment and cure cancer.

What people are saying is workers need a say in how the workplace is run and companies spending millions convincing folk otherwise should be forced to stop.
"There are ways to plan better, especially at huge corps like this."

Not really true for crypto. The crypto crash of the last 2 months was extreme and sudden, not an ordinary "bear market". It puts the company as a whole into an existential mode. And not just this company, most of tech companies.

Also, Coinbase was getting into all kinds of side projects, like an NFT marketplace. Due to market conditions, NFTs all of a sudden are dead. People pull out their liquidity and trading stops.

Say they had offers for 10 NFT experts. Now they need none. What are they to do, hire them anyway?

I do feel for your friend. Tell her what my dad always tells me: don't worry, they didn't take away your hands or brain. You'll be fine.
Everyone on HN should own a copy of Max Stirner's "The Ego and It's Own".

Ethics is a scam by the powerful to control everyone else.

I don't love my kid because of ethics, I love my kid because I love my kid. I'm not kind to my annoying neighbor because "it's the right thing", I'm kind to my neighbor because, despite his being annoying, I appreciate his friendship.

Ethics that you're advocating for exist so people running companies an take advantage of you, full stop. If it's more important for you to feel smugly superior, good for you, but I don't buy into it. I'd rather minimize how exploited I am.

You don't have to buy into someone else's definition of "ethics" in order to life a full, happy life, which involves loving your community and being kind to your neighbor. The rejection of mainstream ethics doesn't mean you have to be a monster, it just mean you're going to stop being manipulated for the benefit of someone far more powerful then you who never even paused for a moment to consider ethics.

edit: obviously I'm being a bit hyperbolic here. Spinoza and de Beauvoir both establish fairly exquisite ethical systems. But by en large "pop" ethics is a scam that is asymmetrically followed to the advantage of people in power. Quick example: Music companies want you to consider ethics when pirating music, but absolutely never bring up ethics when it comes to decisions around artists that could potentially increase profits.
Tantalum: 2D Light Transport
im not certain why any of that is at odds with providing secure secret management to employees

it's already a part of secret management for machines in secure cloud environments
There are engineers who thought it would be a good idea to develop and train these models.
To be fair. Not all HR departments are like that. I’ve been through big layoffs during the last recessions and we let people go the day they joined and gave them 3 month severance packages, cobra access and unemployment insurance.

Coinbase HR are just being jackasses and deserve to be blacklisted. This behavior should not be tolerated to prevent employees from giving 0 day notice when they quit and screwing over the rest of us. I know they are going in my hiring notebook for do not hire.
jfc, a coinbase recruiter emailed me just six days ago.
Don't be a chump. Employment-at-will means being an asshole is both parties' negotiated default. It says so in your offer letter unless you're at the very highest levels. Now, I have personally extended the courtesy of a multi-month notice to a manager with whom there was genuine mutual respect. But generally speaking, if a company mistreats me the only reason I'll give any notice is because I think it will directly benefit me. For example, maybe it will help to get a better separation agreement.

Is that mercenary? Yes. Do I like it? No, not really. But in the USA where I live it's virtually universal policy with private employers.
I enjoy Rust, but it's not that simple. It really is more work to accomplish certain tasks in Rust than many other languages even when what you're doing is safe.

The narrative that "Rust isn't hard" is getting tiresome, and I say this as someone who writes a lot of Rust. Let's be honest that Rust can be harder than many other programming languages in many ways, but those of us who use it believe the upsides and tradeoffs are worth the minor to moderate increase in difficulty.

Pretending Rust is easy just sets beginners up for disappointment when they get into Rust and realize it wasn't what they were sold. Or worse, they start doubting themselves when they encounter the hard parts because Rust fans were busy insisting it's all easy.
This is a fantasy version of capitalism that assumes perfectly symmetrical information. A huge percentage of the people being monitored have no clue it's going on.
Yeah and the sad thing is companies that don't know better will flip it on because "wow look at smart Microsoft's latest feature, we better use this!" and then inadvertently fire Sally in HR because her asking people to sign a card for the VP's birthday looked suspiciously like a violation of corporate gift policies.
If you lie about the job and hire someone who doesn’t like the reality they’ll just find another job and now you have to start the hiring process all over. That doesn’t seem like a win to me.
I used to do large low voltage installs. My mom would say I "climb in the walls".
This should be apparent to anyone who observes fundamental physics.

The 20th century saw massive increases in knowledge with relativity and then quantum mechanics (ie QM/QFT/QCD). There have been accomplishments in the 21st century but a lot of then (eg the Higgs boson) were confirming things theorized 50+ years ago. Despites decades of trying we're still to find a crack in the Standard Model. Yes we've eliminated a lot of options and that's important in the process of elimination but we don't really seem to be any closer to resolving the fundamental contradictions of QM and GR.

There's a fun list of unsolved problems in physics [1]. My favourite is the so-called vacuum catastrophe [2] where the predicted (from QFT) and actual vacuum energy diverge by roughly 120 orders of magnitude. At the other end of the spectrum is the magnetic moment prediction vs actual [3] that differ by less than 10 parts per billion.

I'm actually losing faith we'll see meaningful progres sin a lot of these areas in my lifetime and I never used to think that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_tests_of_QED
Apparently I "sit in my office and talk to robots all day" according to my slightly scathing 10year old son.
I wish there was a Rust-like programming language that was just a little bit higher level than Rust. I like Rust's wide ecosystem with high quality packages, the nice type system, traits, the idea that my code generally runs pretty fast even if I'm being lazy about writing good code, and my code usually working correctly if it compiles.

I care about speed and correctness but Rust makes me also care about ownership and lifetimes even when I don't really want to care about that stuff. I've written Rust for years now and this still occasionally can really slow me down. Rust is still a very nice language so I just deal with it :) no pain no gain.

I would love a Rust-with-GC or something in that spirit that is similar to Rust but automatically figures out lifetimes as much as possible and GCs whatever it cannot figure out automatically. I've looked at languages like Nim and read about research languages like Koka so I'm optimistic something will emerge from this space I really like.
If you want to compare apples to apples, you can switch Python to use unbuffered stdout/stderr (via `-u` or fcntl inside the script [0])

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/881751/6001364
How, for the love of god, do you defend Microsoft after this?
If those things happen, Guatemala will not be better off than "poor in the US".

More to the point, those are unlikely possibilities (in a given lifetime), while the negative effects of unlimited immigration on US poor are pretty much guaranteed.
Other languages make this massively simpler by just disabling possible sources of failure like multithreading.
Agree. Let's document this trick and I'm happy with that unfair scheduling inconvenience for CPU heavy operations.