skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "truly excellent" a measurable quantity and do you tell the candidate exactly what level they need to reach and what knowledge they need to have to get the highest comp? If so would you accept a candidate taking a few months to hone their skills and come back to you at the same stage of the interview?

Do you put in transparently (after all we're talking about being honest and transparent here) in the job description so that candidates know beforehand how they'll be judged?

Do you let the candidate apply again a year later? if they have grown and learned a lot then there's certainly no reason not to hire them this time.

If so then yes, your process is honest and transparent.
> Conservatives don't deny racism exists,

Yes, they almost unanimously do, at least as regards anti-black racism; as of 2021, “A 53% majority of Democrats say White people benefit from advantages in society that Black people do not have. [...] Just 6% of Republicans now say White people benefit from advantages that Black people do not have.”

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/08/12/deep-divisio...
It's actually really good advice for those that can make it work. Not everyone is broke just because they're a criminal.
If I had bought a Prius Prime a few months back I could have gotten $1000 cash back from Toyota, plus a $4500 federal tax credit. Right off the bat I would have beat your haggle by $1500. What a haggler I would have been!

But seriously-- if we're comparing "no haggle" to "haggle" then it doesn't really make sense to include the manufacturer rebates in your total. You'd presumably get those even if dealerships didn't exist.
Except that this is not just weird and far-fetched. It is also very unusual for such diet-based discrimination to happen.
I am a vegetarian. All managers (with the exception of one) who hired me in the past 12 years (in India) were not vegetarians. Unlikely that they saw vegetarians discriminating, and did not practice a little reverse discrimination themselves.
The problem today in India is not that there is a caste competition between one caste and another, it is that the IT field is desperately in need of developers and testers. And, the employers are unable to pay the high salaries being demanded.
Agreed, it indicates it fixes some systemic issues present in emacs, but doesn't fully articulate what those issues are.
> This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it

Ford announced 3 months ago that they were forming a new corporation, Ford Blue, whose purpose is to skirt state dealership laws in order to lawfully sell these EVs direct to consumers. So this is definitely not just a comment.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2022/03/02/ford-...
> Rust is like C++ in the following way: it has many features and a complex type system, but that doesn't mean you should use all its features all the time!

... Until third-party libraries push you to use specific features.
Similar story for me, but in my case I was an idiot with undiagnosed and untreated mental illness and a $20,000 line of credit for no good reason. Blew through a ton of money and wasn’t making much either. Ended up saddled with medical debt after an accident. Medical debt has been erased but the others are still on top of me. I don’t need anything in the near future credit wise though it would be nice to have a line of credit in case of emergencies.
It depends. I don't think bad of any of my coworker who went on PTO and gave their notice on the Friday before coming back. What I remember of them is how great they were. This little snag at the end is just people being human, having had enough and not wanting to get screwed by a company's HR department. I'd recommend them anytime and they never suffered from it either, many even being hired by startups created by their ex-leaders.
If Conservancy win their lawsuit against Vizio, the answer will be "anyone who has received GPL code can sue for GPL compliance":

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

Edit: Case timeline: sued in state court as a contract claim, vizio moved it to federal court saying its a copyright claim, federal judge kicked it back to state court to hear the contract claim.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/
> It would be extremely valuable to society to find a way to conduct constructive conversations

It's tough.

I mean this sincerely - It requires heavy moderation.

The government can uphold a free speech ideal, but the good conversations happen in bubbles where someone can't create a burner account and start talking shit as loud as anyone else.

Some years ago, Christopher Hitchens gave a talk about free speech. It's very compelling. Nobody yelled "FIRST!" over him, cause it wasn't an Internet comment thread.

Maybe we should distinguish between free speech and "free-for-all" speech. I'll listen to Hitchens saying we have the Right To Read about Holocaust deniers, but I don't want any given thread to be over-run by the same Holocaust deniers.
What sort of work do you do that involves software and accounting? Disclaimer: I work in accounting in industry.
I pictured him being 14 through all that and that made it a wee bit better.
> What you ever see 'hackers'?

to be fair that movie follows a group of teenagers showcasing illegal activities that finally culminate into their federal arrest.

yeah, they're later exonerated because 'Movie-FBI' has a heart and a sense of justice, but that's probably not the best movie to try to pull criminality psych from.

my guess : Eric Corley injected a lot of his own personal ethos into that movie. He was apparently an unpaid consultant.
You hit the nail on the head, at least for me. I've found Go to be the right sweet spot between efficiency and productivity. I can't get anything done in Rust. My worst enemy is myself.
It is weird to me to see people talking like this. Throughout my 10+ year career as an SE, all the way from junior level to senior-plus, customer- and product-mindset thinking has been seemingly mandatory. Like how would I even write the software if I didn't understand what they wanted? What would I even do/what should I even write?

We need to remember at all levels that it is people that use this stuff. Coincidentally, we are also people. So we should all be able to think as them.

It is weird to me to be separated from my stakeholders. I can't say I really like having a PM in between me and them, other than having them sit in meetings instead of me.
I think the key point is the "and worked in modest conditions", emphasis on modest.

Injecting a ton of money creates perverse incentives and attracts people who are not interested pursuing something out of curiosity and interest, but for the money.

I think it probably creates a hostile environment for people who are there out of pure interest, because if there is a way to earn more money/status/power/whatever by doing something other than good work people will do it. So you effectively get punished for doing what you're supposed to instead of playing the game.

I think the "professional money extractor" explanation here is an apt description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253.
Timing belt is the only expensive thing on that list (because of labor) and very few American market vehicles use timing belts anymore. The market has gone almost entirely to timing chains these days.
This is very cool, but I'm personally more interested in what he is using for the big digital picture frame next to his phone :)
I don’t think treating devs as kings is necessary or sufficient for great products. But treating developers well does help. Micromanaged developers will produce great KPIs (close an unfixed bug to stay on target for # JIRA tickets whose status got changed) but not a great product.
This was a great post with a very sweet ending.

The unexpected screenshot of the LORD intro ascii art was a blast from the past.
I don't know, I never got heavily on the C++ inheritance bandwagon when it was popular in the late 1990's early 2000's. Rather preferring aggregation.

If you application is actually using the OO parts of the language that way, even without modern C++ its fairly easy to maintain as the different styles/etc area also encapsulated in their classes. Then hopefully the top level is using some kind of message passing interface/whatever to avoid trying to glue everything together into a god class.

AKA, there are a few fairly easy to understand rules that allow people to do their own thing without creating a maintainability nightmare even with very large C++ codebases. If an experienced engineer/architect/etc with a track record of successful C++ projects is in charge during the initial application design/etc you should have a fairly maintainable application.

I'm not sure this is really a C++ thing though, rather being a general engineering thing. If the main architecture is well thought out and understandable, a lot of sins can be burred in places where they can't create application wide chaos.

There are a lot of things that can make C++ applications suck, but you don't tend to hear about the success stories on your favorite board, those systems silently do their job. So many of the things people rail about with C and C++ simply aren't problems when appropriate engineer culture is maintained. AKA, having solid unit tests for most of the base classes being agragated, means that running them under various address sanitizer/etc tools will find the errors that aren't picked up by static analysis tools/etc.

Yes, sometimes things sneak by, but i'm not sure there are any languages java/rust/etc that solve that problem completely.
Heck, you can see this in the difference between member contributed submissions to PNAS and ones that go through the normal system.
Ok but on the one hand one choice is blanket pre-approved for all time for everyone with no time expenditure.

The other one is instigated and deliberate at the official request of legal and can take a lot of time.

It’s very different. It instills a climate of untrust. Everyone is “guilty”. In the other scenario everyone is innocent till a specific and circumscribed “matter” is started.
That is truly poetic.

Off topic but I wonder if current state of the art AI is able to come up with such metaphors. Or if there's research in that area.
Tyre cost is highly variable depending on driving style etc - it makes sense to exclude it.
You have to acknowledge that there is a slight difference between a union of armed mercenaries and a union of, say, grocery store staff. You can see how some might view one of those as "bad".
Sure but I’m sick with Covid right now because my blue collar coworker(s) couldn’t be damned to call out. Instead they lied to my face about allergies.
> It doesn't matter what reasons you have. What matters is the consequence of your behavior, namely, it is visible difference between castes, which makes discrimination easier and avoiding discrimination harder.

Not unless I go running around naked

> And your comment show that you are not concerned in a slightest about discrimination. Tradition is more important to you than people.

How exactly do you infer that? You don’t know me. I care about discrimination just as much as the next person. What I don’t care much for is rank identity politics disguised as benevolent activism spewed from a non-existent moral high ground.
IMO fallen from the light sounds spot on (not gp). I’m shocked to hear the state of async from real practitioners saying to avoid it.
It's what people had to model their own behaviour on in a time where most depictions weren't exactly positive I guess?

I'm purely speaking retrospectively here
Can't comment on Python, but I once worked on a Node.js codebase that could only handle tens of requests per second, it was highly unusual and doing some incredibly dumb things like pinging out to Redis to check for DDOS protection counters before starting to serve any request.

See: https://www.fastify.io/benchmarks/

Node is more susceptible to poor code and out of band IO slowing it down, but the V8 runtime itself is cpp and simple services are close to just writing decorators over a cpp webserver.
It's obscenely fast and good enough for most purposes.
The difference here is that "find a new job" might be accomplished by LinkedIn...which is also owned by Microsoft.

So Microsoft's cloud ecosystem generally owns your work email, and the site you use to find a job.

Honestly: I don't care what they say (because it'll be "we datamined LinkedIn, but don't worry we did it with only the public APIs and just bypassed rate limiting so technically...to add data to our "employee leaving" filter...) - Microsoft and LinkedIn, specifically, need to be forcibly broken up with this sort of control over the full employee lifecycle.
I like this part of the FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20001204222800/http://java.sun.c...

- 34. Isn't Sun becoming a bit like Microsoft -- owning the operating system, owning the user environment, the APIs, developer tools, even the hardware that all this runs on?

"Not at all. We continue to stress openness and publish specifications on the web. In addition, we have strong relationships with our partners in the industry and often collaborate with them on many of our initiatives. We are now cooperating with major industry players to define the WebTop API specification which will become publicly available. This specification will be incorporated into HotJava Views software in future releases."
You realize you can't just show up to a big venue with your gear and start playing right? It's like wondering why famousactor$ doesn't just make his own movies. Behind every artist there's like 1000 people behind the scenes making it all work.
Yup. Really easy to set this up with the IDP's available today too.
This.

I am a PI.

What I spent my day doing was dealing with managerial tasks, fiddly stuff for funding applications, etc.

I got to actually code for a whole day last week, and it was marvelous. It was also only possible because it was an all-hands-on-deck, everything else can wait situation.
Dealerships should go away though. They’re corrupt institutions that prey on the uniformed. New cars can be bought configured from the factory and delivered to one’s door. The dealership then only serves as a way to service the vehicle.

For used car purchases that’s a different story I guess. Maybe dealerships only exist to service cars and sell used ones.

Shrug.
It's a fair question. And I think that logically it's equivalent.

However, to maybe see why people don't do it (I imagine, I have no personal experience on this), let's put it in a US perspective. What if a visibly black person identifies as white? Or vice versa? Do you think it would be taken seriously by even the most ardent liberals?

EDIT: For context, let's remember the case of Rachel Dolezal [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
As a parent with a toddler this is what scares me most.

What I want to do: make them an amazingly capable human being and leave them to make themselves happy.

What I must stop myself doing: intervening ALL the time, advising how to do it better, helicopter etc etc.

It isn't always easy to stand by and watch your kid hurt themselves.
The ending was very wholesome
Hollywood isn't circling the drain? The only way for them to turn a profit is sequels and remakes. The industry that was created by intrigue will be killed by executives trying to make a marvel cinematic universe
Not having to worry about price negotiation is a massive plus in my books.

Previously I could never sweet talk dealers into the kind of deals some of my mates could.

The Tesla model is such an improvement.
async/.await in Rust is a perfect example of "code duplication" in the language core. Okay, you have a nice syntax for performing do-notation on futures, but what about iterators, streams, etc? We have generators in nightly and some third-party macros for streams, which sucks.

A proper algebraic effect system could resolve the problem. You can take a look at Koka to see how elegantly it abstracts common control flow patterns using the concept of an algebraic effect.
This 100% they are new gatekeepers and far richer.
Please see my other responses. I'm not dismissing the fact that racism exists, and I've personally been the target of it dozens of times. I have an issue with the notion that it defines and circumscribes our experience as individuals, or that it should be grounds for declaring our identity or the presumed lived experience of others, because that's not a path out of it and it's immensely destructive to the project of equality to create categories of victimhood based on skin color. One of the things I find most racist and offensive is other people telling me how I should feel or what I've experienced because of my race. We've gone back fifty years in the name of "equity" which is, substantively, white people's way of continuing to divide people into racial groups while acting holy about it.
People don't fit into the workplace based upon their physiological capability to grasp the highest role. You need more information than that to determine systemic sexism.

People have free will, life circumnstances seperate to corporate goals and a nature.

You can track a bias towards food and water that starts from birth and runs through all of society. We don't explain the lack of people in deserts as systemic waterism. Why do we see women working voluntarily with women in some roles as sexism when it has happened since the beginning of time?

The systematic worldview breaks down when it hits the nature of people. We aren't all pawns in a corporate game 24:7, so there are many reasons for people to work they way they do. One would hope they are freely choosing their work roles and not living their lives according to the dictats of gender equality statistics.
Android 13 launch devices will use Huawei’s EROFS for fast efficient storage use
Interesting to see so many confused /parents/spouses/etc in this thread. Even though what we work on is highly abstract, my parents have a reasonable non technical interpretation. I would think its the norm that the people you closely care about, or care about you, know roughly what you do, if you have explained it well enough to them in a compelling way. I guess delivering meaningless value for some soulless corporate entity doesn't really spark joy, or is memorable at all.
And eat more vegetables.
In a downturn, would you put your startup at risk to continue making payroll for engineers when, after looking at your runway/product needs, a layoff is clearly the right call? Maybe, but I don't think most founders would (nor should they). It's not reasonable to expect employees to be as invested in the company as a founder when they have comparatively so little ownership.

I also don't think accepting an offer and later declining because you found higher comp elsewhere is dishonest. No salaried employee (where I live at least) signs a contract agreeing to work for any specified period time and I've never promised or been asked to even give my word to stick around for a set period of time.
I would rather sit through a timeshare pitch. What a waste of time for all involved
Why does size matter? Mullvad is fast, has quite a few locations/endpoints, and good service.
Ever watch the newest one they made? It's like baudrillardian banality taken to its logical extreme. The first half is literally a clip show. Comes off as a shitty superhero movie of now but with matrix characters
Links to Koyo are also down https://koyo.defn.io/
Easy to say when it's not your money, I'm mostly hunting alpha and not surprised most institutions are as well... except maybe big educational / charity endowments who presumably have nobler goals.
>To be sure though, to be able to comfortably afford up even a used electron microscope for your hobby ... it would be nice to have a decent income.

they're often given out free or sold very cheap during lab auctions.

problem is that setup is a pain, the old ones are very large, and they're usually one of the heaviest pieces of equipment in the lab -- all that stuff adds up to the real cost.
But judging by the 90s-00s Disney Channel stars we're swamped with now, I'd say that all indicators point to yes.
I am a bit confused. Last week I bought a 12th gen Intel ThinkPad that came with Win11. Everything works just fine, including the touchpad. For the touchpad specifically, there is also some 'enhancer' utility that comes preinstalled. I assume that if I had to reinstall Windows (I believe there should be a partition for this purpose) it would put the laptop in the same state it is in now, so I'm not really following what the author is saying. In the worst case, won't Windows Update download the driver from Microsoft?

Is the author saying that some drivers are not included on the DVD image, or that there are drivers that Microsoft isn't making available at all, even via windows update?
Fair enough. Good luck with it!
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It doesn't have to be killing them, if a stray hostile dog is harassing you throwing a rock at it might make it go away
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I saw a doctor after the second time I went to the ER thinking I was having a heart attack.

I still have regular anxiety and nervousness. The panic attacks are something completely different though.
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Elon Musk's New Second-Gen Starlink Satellites Are Too Big for Current Rockets
$60k is right around what it would cost to support a single individual comfortably where I live, so that sounds entirely reasonable, if not a bit low.
On average yes, but I tend to agree that the 'jock' tech worker is an archetype that didn't exist 20 years ago. Tech is no longer counterculture and has become a more high status profession in the eyes of the public. This is probably good for short term productivity but bad for long term innovation. I'm a big believer in the idea that the biggest innovations generally begin as low status or 'unsexy' endeavors.
I guess if you're trying to decide whether you want to pursue a monogamous or polyamorous lifestyle for yourself, much of that decision would be about you
People would decide to form companies, so we would never get what the commenter wants.

This idea was explained really well back in 1937, in The Nature of the Firm. It explains why we form companies instead of all being individual contractors making trades with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
Hillary Clinton called 25-50% of the country deliverables, and it was basically well accepted by the media and most on her side. I don't think labeling the other is going away any time soon.
Tim, Co-Founder here. Yes, this applies to everyone within the company, including the founders and investors.
Personal experience working at a startup with massive growth, moat, took Softbank money in 2014 before it was infamous, stuck in series D. You can model all you want but it's still lottery.