skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Think about it -- almost every site on the Web is trying to get you to sign up for a daily email. Nextdoor already has one, and they're trying to take it away.

Well, this is kind of a "duh!" moment though, yeah? Of course they don't want your only interaction with them to be a single email once a day. That's so Web1.0. They want you on their appyApp so that they can hit you with all of their engagement algos and gather all of those metrics from you and what not. No once-a-day-v̵i̵t̵a̵m̵i̵n̵-email will ever give them the numbers they are looking, and if you're not giving them those $$$ then why give you the content?
This is not directed at you, but rather at the poor hiring practices that have permeated the software industry for too long. We've been gaslighted into accepting abusive hiring practices, and it has to stop.

When you're hiring an accountant, do you give them 4h take-home assignments? How about hours of interviews with your accounting team to suss out their accounting skills and critique their style? I mean, how DO you determine if they're real accountants or one of these fakers I've heard so much about that can't even do some simple books?

Or how about lawyers? Do you ask them to write up a fictional legal brief or some boilerplate that the rest of your legal team can scrutinize to see if they're an A player? How about a multi-day interview just to make sure you've asked all the tough legal questions? No? Then how can you know that they're not going to drag your fragile company down with their poor performance and gasp have to be fired! The horror!

How about civil engineers? Would you have them design a building foundation as a take-home? What about tricky interview questions weighing the pros and cons of various retaining wall designs in, say, Arizona vs Washington (even though they'd be working in New York)?

I don't know how this level of abuse became a thing in software engineering, but I simply won't put up with it anymore. Won't post compensation ranges? You're trying to cheat me. Take home assignment? I walk. Interview gauntlet? I walk. Things drag on too long? I walk. I'm a professional - I have an extensive portfolio of my work slowly built up over decades that you can ask me in-depth questions about (and other things) during our reasonably timed interviews. Does inverting a tree in any way demonstrate my ability to do the job? No, it does not. My time is precious and the compensation trends are clear. Disrespect that and I can only conclude that you are not professional, and not worth my time.
>By whom? From where I stand, a lot of folks have stated calling me and mine “groomers,” which is pretty critical in my book.

That's a very specific thing. Children of certain ages would go great lengths to feel different from the previous generation, "cool", "hip". Decades of various subcultures from Punks to Emos is pretty solid evidence. Grooming is trying to use the need to feel different in order to convince them to do sex-related things before they have a solid intrinsic feeling for it. The motivation for groomers could be finding these children sexually attractive, trolling (deliberately convincing someone to do irreversible changes that will cause them long-term suffering), or compensating for the groomer's own childhood trauma by forcing others to relive it (the worst bullies are former bully victims). I think, this is a legitimate problem and it's important to distinguish it from initiatives that actually help children (e.g. preventing bullying based on looks).

>They seem free enough to criticize to me?

No mainstream media outlet ever covers this angle - it's a complete taboo. But there are plenty of examples where rather mild criticism is immediately branded homophobic/transphobic and actions are taken to prevent other people from considering this point of view.

>The world broadcasts heterosexuality on every corner.

I would be interested to hear some examples.

>You can’t say that one group is being given “different rights” and then in the next breath say that it’s actually “non-monetary tokenism.” Rhetorically, that’s nonsensical.

Respectfully disagree. People do have an intrinsic need for some amount of other's attention, and can feel it very well. Many social rituals are built around it: networking (periodically paying attention to each other), arts (having others pay attention to what you create), the concept of celebrities. The HR departments have figured out long ago that some amount of coworkers' attention can substitute a raise (in terms of lowering the % of resignations). Like the whole "employee of the month" posters. I call it non-monetary because it doesn't cost the employer nearly as much as a sizable pay raise. But it's something people subconsciously feel and track very well. You take a small amount of everyone's attention and you direct it towards a specific group or individual. People belonging to that group feel slightly rewarded, people outside it feel slightly demotivated. Like if your boss congratulated your coworker with their birthday, but didn't congratulate you.
Why are unions necessary at tech startups? From my experience, these companies pay and treat their employees very well.
How OXO Conquered the American Kitchen
That's not the point though - that part is technically true (EPA filters are 'Efficient Particulate Air' filters and HEPA are 'High Efficiency Particulate Air' filters, and the E and H correspond to those respectively).

The point of the article is that the Wirecutter authors don't understand the physics of air filters and gives the difference more emphasis than what actually matters - it doesn't actually make a massive difference in this particular application. For a purifier that intakes and exhausts in the same space, getting more airflow through the filter per hour can mean over time it's basically the same effectiveness, and using a slightly lower spec filter can be a good design trade-off because it doesn't require as much pressure so it can use less power per unit volume of air filtered.

Of course, in other applications, like bringing air into a cleanroom, it makes a massive difference, but that's not what we're talking about.
I think he found something about handwriting to be more natural for the manuscripts he wanted to write. A good pen and paper note taking system can allow freer more direct expression than some sort of editor program.
California just gratuitously rejected a desalination plant: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/us/california-water-desaliniz..., too: the state is not serious about water. It rejected that plant and won't charge one price for water regardless of user; agricultural uses are subsidized. Get a free market in water and we'll see what happens.
Another attempt at shoehorning artificial scarcity into VR platforms to make a quick buck. I can't tell if there's just a generation of engineers who grew up never realizing that web3's promise of "decentralized computing" already exists and is called "hosting whatever you want on your own servers". If you have the hardware to run a VR server (still a stretch), there's no need to strap an inefficient ledger to it on the off chance people want to pay for their ones and zeros; just run whatever cool VR thing you were planning to run already!
Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to have a neighborhood-based social network that's any different. Even before the internet, this is how HOAs and small town governments behaved.
They can get every user except root (assuming that root squash is in place).

NFSv3 and below trusts any uid/gids presented by the client unless they are squashed.
Thanks. Emailed you.
the mere thought of that makes my skin crawl
I wonder if the reason this community embraced innovation in the early days is because only those who embrace new things are going to be attracted to a site in its early days. In other words, even the act of using Hacker News was an embracement of the new, which filtered out anyone who didn't embrace the new -- so you were only going to find people embracing the new in the comments.

Now that the site is established, it moreso attracts people who are interested in the established, and less-so attracts people who are interested in new things. This problem tends to amplify itself, as a community that rejects new things is also going to drive away people who are interested in new things.

Now that Hacker News is established, it's just not "it" anymore. "It" is somewhere else.

But this is all just a theory. The counter to this argument is that many people on Hacker News in 2007 expressed serious reservations to Dropbox/cloud storage when it was first revealed -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863. So perhaps what we're seeing is that problem-solvers (developers) also tend to be problem-finders.
“Let’s have a kickoff, invite everyone in the company who may be interested, and white board out all the possible use cases. We have an exciting new pricing model that will greatly simplify pricing on your existing business. But I can’t tell you that price until after the kickoff.”
I feel the same way and can understand where the original comment is coming from. To your point, I also think I’ve reached the ceiling too salary wise.

Was talking to a recruiter who specializes in recruiting for tech and product companies. The C# positions he had topped out at what other languages started at for senior developers.

I like C# it’s just it feels like it’s all enterprise jobs with bad development practices.
I got it to 43M with this basic idea and some experimentation with starting planet distances. Getting the dwarf star stable relative to the planets in the habitable zone allows you to drop a few more Earths into the habitable zone and push the score up.
There is an excellent British TV movie version with Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon.

Longitude, 3h 20m, 2000.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/
> “No politics” is itself a political statement.

Yes, but it's often the one that the silent majority supports. And I think in many cases, it is in fact an objectively better and wiser strategy.
I once had to purchase something for work myself to be reimbursed by the company from a shop that used Square. It asked for an email address, so I used the company email so it would be under that account when filing out the remiburse info. However, that card was now somehow permanently associated to that email address. I haven't worked at that company for 5 years now, but that address still received Square emailed receipts. I gave up trying to fix it.
> Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

Can you determine I know what I'm talking about and can do the work without doing a 4h unpaid hoop? You should be able to ask probing questions and pretty quickly have a rough idea of if I've worked with this stuff or not.
Wow. And not only is it a complete laptop for that price, but it appears to come with more memory and storage (4GB/64GB) than Abacus's base model (2GB/0).
I’m curious, too. I want to test it on a throwaway account and card.

One thought is that their offering is so uniform that they could provide the same information in response to every request, regardless of days passed since the transaction. They would only need to mark pre- and post- certain changes to terms and screens, which they could record without keeping identifying information.

They may also be using Stripe’s chargeback insurance, which relieves the need for the merchant to respond at all.
Would you say that building wheelchair ramps is also a waste of time, because you can't please everyone all the time, and they're only a small percentage of the population?
I can't believe I've never heard of this brand. How do they compare to Maytag and Speed Queen of new and old?
actually, they posted old.reddit

it's like 2 totally different things
> At Mullvad VPN we strive to know as little as possible about our users. We are constantly looking for ways to reduce the amount of data we store while still providing a usable service.

I wish more companies had this attitude.
> Instead of banding together and threatening the management and owners with strike action it’s better that they quit

Why? It's pretty weird to say they should use the most extreme option without negotiation or do nothing, and that this is better than using intermediate options.

> because maybe there are other people who are happy to do the work without a union.

The main concern isn't the mere fact the union exists, it's to have a more even negotiating position, and I feel like everyone should want that. And I'm quite sure that the number of people that want that is much bigger than the number of unemployed workers, so that trade you suggest isn't even possible.

> I think the problem is most people don’t imagine themselves as owners/managers. If they did they would oppose unions too because they would not want their autonomy taken away.

Are you actually encouraging the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" point of view? How about an attempt at an objective view, that even if we look at it like a zero sum game, it's better for 20 workers to have more autonomy than for 1 employer to have more autonomy.
Yeah this was very bizarre to me. It seems like the author just missed the basic fact that the H13 is the same H that makes it 'true' HEPA.

He can (and did) argue that this distinction doesn't really matter, but the distinction is still part of a well-defined standard that The Wirecutter didn't invent.
Don't feel too bad. One counterpoint to this is that most companies I've worked at will require even highly recommended employees to go through the same interview process as everyone else, primarily for fairness and diversity reasons.

Getting a recommendation may "put you to the front of the line", and may allow you to skip a basic screening call, but honestly I think most well run organizations won't skip the interview process even if it's a well-known "superstar" - they would instead just change some of the interviews to let that superstar demonstrate their in-depth expertise in their niche.
No crap it was a disappointment for them, they literally took what was good and appealing to the customers of that brand and reversed those decisions to create yet another corporate zombie clone of the same crappy men’s products with different names and colors than their other brands. Unilever didn’t get burned, they lit that place on fire themselves.
As my sex-ed teacher once said, hormones are one hell of a drug. Hopefully the wee lad doesn't suffer any weird side effects... I wonder if he will get baldness or other symptoms associated with excessive testosterone.
To me, it actually sounds like a dog-whistle. As I said in my original comment, making it an actually agnostic argument would have been trivial.
Most of the responses were pure gems. I wonder if comments on internet sites will be qualitatively better if people are asked to snail mail their comments to the editorial teams (to be formed) of the sites. HN thankfully doesnt need this yet.
Apple's feedback mechanism is broken
> I'm depressed because I make a decent base salary but I don't really know how to solve some of these tough algorithmic questions.

Talk to a therapist. You're tying your ability to solve fucking Leetcode to your self-worth.
I feel like VR has been the next big thing almost my entire life.

I remember watching TV shows in the late 90s talking about the VR revolution that was just around the corner. It seems that Virtual Reality™ is still just screens on faces. The whole article is about displays and lenses.

Regarding the 'indistinguishable from reality', a virtual reality would need to include things like smells, environmental conditions like wind and rain and thinner air, and physical sensations like pain.

In many ways we're not really sure what 'reality' is, so suggesting that one could make a virtual reality that is indistinguishable from actual reality doesn't even really make sense.

Virtual Reality is just ersatz senses.
I mean, I can totally see how it would happen if you didn't have a UX team, and your developers didn't have any exposure to the concept. The message makes sense to a programmer.

And, they couldn't easily fix anything post-release, right?

(This also makes the original Macintosh interface all the more impressive in my eyes. System 1 is a masterpiece.)
Why is it a pain? Not a payroll consideration, as they are not an employee (yet). Isn't it just a simple $600 max Form 1099 independent contractor situation? Small administrative burden to find the right senior.
Lol read the responses here, you're kidding yourself.
>I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or ...

And so what if you are? Not being there and put on blast affects you how? Being there and put on blast is different because? You can respond by using gasoline to put out the fire?

Nextdoor is a great place to find out who you never want to associate in real life.
His rationale is also why I enjoy writing in list format. https://lists.sh is great for one sentences per line writing style.
A free market is only fair if there are many labor purchasers and sellers. But when employers hold power (they are a major employer and they control many jobs in an area, they control your recommendations, the switching cost of changing jobs is too high) they can use that power to deflate wages below their fair market value. Unions create a level playing field to workers to negotiate with companies.
Costs for everything are becoming stupidly inflated or just an outright scam for necessities: housing, college education, childcare, food, gasoline, new/used vehicles. America just keeps making things harder and more unsustainable.
Can you disable an alias (i.e. drop all incoming mail to a particular address)?
You know, I had a litteral "Get Out Of Jail Free" card in my wallet when I was detained by police. It didn't work
Epic, or any studio could have done this without web3.

The perverse incentive of the "token" and making a boatful of money suddenly gets people concerned about developer's income.
When done, don't forget to click the "back" arrow in the upper left corner. There is another checkbox event (hurdles...)

In a weird way this reminds me of the old 80s "epyx" sports game which seemed to involve typeing keys as fast as you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Games_(video_game)
Don’t currently “follow this pattern”.

US English has several grammatical and pronunciation characteristics that were common in UK English about 300 years ago. Including being largely (but not totally) rhotic.
I agree with your assessment. I have one merino wool shirt, but I save it for occasions when I need the light weight and good warmth. For regular wear I stick to mostly cotton. I can't afford multiple merino shirts.

Other types of wool tend to feel scratchy. Merino feels different than cotton, but is not uncomfortable to wear like other wools.
That's really cool. Luckily, our datacenters where these machines are all Tier 3, so the full reboot doesn't happen very often. We've only had to shut down a lot of racks once for some power management issues. It was a bit of a struggle, but things eventually booted.

The bigger issue that we faced was that dnsmasq couldn't keep up with all the UDP packets and we had to switch to Kea kind of mid-flight, which was a bit of work since it was a weekend (of course things fail on friday night) and restarting everything to get new leases (and a few with duplicate IPs) was a bit of nail biting. It all sorted itself out though and we haven't had any more issues on that front.
An owner that's invested in multiple companies is probably more likely to push for risk than workers are. Losing a job is not "no loss".
It's impossible to gather someone's competence from a resume or even in a conversation.

A 4hr assignment is generally a really good way to gather competency.

That said - it's just 'too much' of a hill for senior devs. to bother with and there are probably some ways to do 'regular interviewing' in order to figure that out.

I have hired a ton of Engineers and I've found a lot of senior engineers to be particular, crusty and a bit weird: excelling in some ares, but cantankerous in other ways.

But yes, 4hr hr take home is going to be a barrier.
It's still common!
NFS is free, modular, and feature-rich.

SMB1 was slow - very slow. Novell IPX/SPX was far faster.

SMB2 changed the protocol to include multiple operations in a single packet, but did not introduce encryption (and Microsoft ignored other SMB encryption schemes). It is a LOT faster.

SMB3 finally adds encryption, but only runs in Windows 8 and above.

NFS is a bit messy on the question of encryption, but is a much more open and free set of tools.
My thoughts were along this line too. The village children spent one summer having a daily frog catching competition then chucked them in the pit at the end of each day. Hundreds of years later it's an archeological mystery.
Automated unique email addresses are a great idea, and I've been happy to see Apple make some positive moves in that direction.

That being said: it's a technological step, another countermotion in a never ending arms race. I would like to see policy steps that erase this ridiculous battle entirely. I shouldn't need a giant pile of code to automate email addresses for me, because this kind of corporate behavior should be completely illegal and extremely risky (from a liability perspective) to begin with.
> If bawolff knew the domain name, why did he not give that as the answer to the hypothetical. Strange.

You misunderstand me.

My point is that there are two cases - the one where the SNI reveals something useful but you also need some sort of SNI because the server serves lots of things and needs to know which you are requesting, and the one you dont need SNI but its trivial to figure out what domain regardless. Your example is an instance of the former. You can't get rid of the SNI in this case because the web server at the other end depends on it to function.

So its a bad example for your purposes because the example neccesarily depends on the SNI existing to exist. If your proposed solution of removing SNI was adopted the site would not work, so removing SNI does not increase privacy in this case as the site would neccesarily have to adjust how it works in a waythat removes any of the privacy gains.

(You could probably say ESNI, but if so, its already in progress albeit slow, so i still dont see your point)
downtown SJ is _already served_ by the transfer to VTA at milpitas (which itself probably should not have been built).

extending BART is subsidizing suburban sprawl with transit dollars that are urgently needed in the urban core. it's an s-bahn, and we've got more than enough s-bahn in the bay area. what we need is a proper u-bahn.

SJ is a glorified suburb with delusions of grandeur, whose politicians consistently sabotage regional and statewide transit projects. I am of the spiteful perspective that that alone should exclude SJ from receiving big transit bucks, but even from the more level headed perspective the density simply does not justify it.

why on earth would you trust an organization that built and operates a light rail system that is so poorly designed and operated that it is amongst the least ridden and most subsidized systems in the entire country? in what is supposedly the heart of silicon valley.

san jose is a bad joke, and if you live there I am sorry for you.
The Sound Escapes podcast has some longer-running audio (though I think there's also some short intro/outro discussion):
https://www.birdnote.org/podcasts/sound-escapes

And for completely unfiltered, vast amounts of audio, you can dig into the Australian Acoustic Observatory:
https://data.acousticobservatory.org/projects/1
I don't think the issue is with having fine-grained control as much as it is having no ability to either set defaults (e.g.: Opt-in to notifications from certain creators) or set account-wide overrides (Opt-out of all notifications).