skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First impression: a quickly thrown together clone of Otta.

Your site presented me with a few generic role/stack questions, nothing about the nature of the company, business or market I'm interested in.

I answered the questions and signed up with a throw-away address I've since deleted.

The site froze after showing me 4 of the 10 matches. Of those 4, none of them met the minimum salary I specified and one didn't match the region. None were the kind of startup I'd consider working at.

Overall very unimpressed.

My curiosity about this space is the only reason I wouldn't consider this a total waste of time. You've given me another data point but unless you make your matching much better you'll remain in the dozens of no-code "build your own job site" things you can find on youtube. A post or video on how you built this could get you some views but I would never seriously use this for an actual job search.
It may partly depend on what you want to do when you get there. Will you work in the country in which you live or continue to work for companies in the US? If it is the latter, living in Europe or the eastern edge of those time zone ranges might allow for work to overlap US business times. But, instead of free evenings, you have late mornings and early afternoons to do other things. A mail forwarding/scanning service will let you keep US ties for banking. Living in a generally lower cost area such as, for example, the republic of Georgia, lets you earn at a higher US rate while living at a lower cost. That difference may allow you to travel more and explore other areas.
More like Maniac Mansion 3, right?
There was a place that hired a consultant for a project a friend worked on, and she was... I don't think she could write code at all. Like, had trouble manually inserting fragments into an XML file despite fragments with the same structure already being in the file.

Her productivity skyrocketed at night however, and she generally had working code in the morning, which lead to rumors that her husband or someone in her home country was doing the work (would have been daytime over there). Nobody really complained. She wore a hijab and the company had just hired it’s first “diversity officer” so maybe that’s why. Thankfully they stopped using that vendor not long after. It's a story a friend told me a long time ago. I didn’t and couldn’t fact-check it.

The husband’s theory came from the fact she apparently mentioned her husband was also a software consultant.
I believe that American crime literature indicates that the presence of guns offers general protective effects against home robberies for the entire region, and that the visible presence of alarms offers very specific protective effects for that home alone (while pushing the crime to other homes), and that the presence of invisible alarms confers a modicum of protection to the region.

I'm inclined to believe that this will push home robberies onto those without guns.
Finland, Sweden on path to NATO membership as Turkey drops veto
> then stick unimportant mail in a "maybe when I get around to it" queue. Don't ask/train people to be obnoxious

Do enough people not have conversation threading that this is an issue? One unread message takes up no more room in my inbox than three unread messages in one conversation.
I don't think you can say that, and that's why I don't think it's really an email issue but a more general one about async communication.

I'd liken it to any time you click into a chat/SMS/WhatsApp notification, read it, but don't respond. Maybe you just don't want to deal with it at the moment. Maybe you're busy. Maybe a response takes some thought and you aren't ready.

You didn't miss the message. You just didn't do the extra work of ensuring you'd deal with it. Just think of how few notifications you get that demand that kind of action.

This is how a lot of personal/social stuff goes. But especially for the sort of "cold call" emails in TFA.

Frankly, I don't see inbox-zero vs inbox-30000 much related to this. Just because you have inbox-zero certainly doesn't mean you respond to every email on the spot. Nor does it mean you treat every email with the same priority. Those two things are all you need for emails to slip through.

It's all the same result and it doesn't matter because the point is about the email sender, not the receiver.
That's a little less true about LLVM. https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome
They seem fairly sure that llvm can be convinced to support a 6502 target.

As for gcc, I'm fairly sure gcc has at least one out-of-tree but yeah perhaps the code wasn't as good as hand rolled.
That's per year, not per instance. So it's really quite high.
cxo works as shorter placeholder.

At least for companies that don't have a Chief eXperience Officer.
1) Secure a bunch of low skill remote jobs

2) automate git co-pilot

3) keep 100% of salary and run health insurance scams
No, they need to keep the CO2 gas pure, so they can pressurize it again.

That's what the dome is for, storing the uncompressed gas. Presumably there is a much smaller metal pressure vessel for storing the liquid CO2.
Yeah... still likely just incompetence, dude.
Mastercard and Visa are not a court system. There is no due process. There is no appeals process.
Gun advocates: "registration is problematic for many reasons as the data can be abused/leaked"

prediction comes true

Gun control advocate: "good job now they'll use this as an example"

Yep.
The lite CNN website is missing from that list:
https://lite.cnn.com/en
There is an actual difference and legal difference between "Buying on behalf of someone else" and "Buying for the intent of resale". The latter may not (or may!) know the identity of the eventual owner in advance. Buying guns as a speculative investment is worthwhile. It is totally legal to know that "This collector/prop house is looking for $RAREGUN and will pay me $12k for it", find it and buy it for $10k, and purchase it. You know your buyer, you may even have gotten an explicit solicitation for the item in question, but the unsurety of when the second sale will be made (even if you're very confident of it) makes it not a straw purchase.
You are allowed to own a mortar in US.

You just have to pony up $200 for the mortar itself, and then $200 for each shell, to register them with ATF as destructive devices. Well, and find someone to willing to sell them for you. Or make your own.
It seems like electric rail would make a great replacement for long-haul trucking.
It's also worth pointing out that it was only after a peice in the NYT that Visa/Mastercard really actually paid attention to the fact that Pornhub really was only paying lipservice to these laws. It's not like Visa have been going around on some moral crusade, they were brought to this through bad press after close to a decade of not really doing their job.
Regularly, yes. But all the time? Come on.
To weigh in with an opposite opinion: if you make audio software, please, don't spend your time on reimplementing audio filters. It takes time and focus from things your program just has no way of doing with 3d party plugins. There's an over-abundance of audio processing plugins of various kinds and it's much easier just to support LV2 or VST (or, maybe, Clap, if you're optimistic about its future).

If you must bundle something, just add a JSFX interpreter and bundle a bunch of JSFX scripts. Your power users will thank you for it.
Having started my career at Bell Labs in 1984, the fact that you included AT&T X86 syntax cracked me up.

If you are still interested in learning more, ARM and PowerPC are also both interesting assembly targets.

Prior to Bell Labs (college) my assembly experience was 8085 bare metal (no OS) or Z80 under CP/M and MP/M. I wrote a couple console management applications for MP/M that had to dig into BIOS/BDOS routines. It was fun, and that was the thing that made my EE self realize that I wanted to work on software in embedded systems.
For batch workloads (not latency sensitive, can run at or near full capacity, etc), but most of the time Lambda is more affordable. You'll need to say more about your workload though.
A friend grabbed most of the data. I plan on looking through to see just how obvious / easy it is to draw conclusions once I see it.
A de-facto outsourcing of regulatory enforcement could be less desirable than explicit regulation.
> forcing unwanted children into this world

This turn of phrase, which I've seen used often, is bizarre and demonic. It implies that the default for children is to be killed.
Not sure what your talking about honestly, but I could chat with someone about their OSS work and get the same understanding of them as a developer
Direct link to the bill in question: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
> as the developers worried that American English-speaking characters would upset American players hoping for an authentic representation of medieval Europe.

As if middle English sounded closer to British English than American English.
Mastercard and Visa won't do business with adult content providers directly. They force them into very high cost low quality payment intermediaries.
Um, you mean they're not using it until November?

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pst
They are not the porn regulator. The porn space is much more than pornhub and actually most websites have learnt to live with border legal financing options for a long time. The ceo had probably always wanted to cut out pornhub and this was the perfect moment to deliver his agenda.

Porn is everywhere and there is no way to prevent that.
Yeah, that was my thought as well. It threw me for a loop because I never would have expected that my browser dev tools would hide something like that. It was a core tenant of my debugging that was broken.
Agreed. I wish everyone would just standardise on "Mac" and "Windows" rather than the frustratingly ambiguous "PC" (which half the time means both and the other half means just Windows...)
Well, if LoC didn’t count you could just write a gigantic multi-megabyte print statement :)
> As such, they require such websites (merchants) to prove that individuals in such videos are of legal age (no minors in the videos, because if so - that's illegal and horrible).
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> This seems totally fair, commendable and hard to disagree with - if you ask me.

Indeed! Though it's important to note that it's more than just that (as important as age verification of performers is!).

Mastercard and Visa are also acting as de facto controllers of what is acceptable content. In other words, not just who is participating, but what is being done.

For example, "… blood is banned, even blood obviously made of ketchup. This is a disaster for vampire porn, which is akin to a forbidden good on the internet." That's not my thing, but I also don't think Mastercard and Visa should be the ones who regulate that.
What, exactly is the alternative? The system might not be perfect or even good, but as far as I can see there is no alternative to this kind of issue. Even if there were a million different credit card companies (and god help us if that ever happens), they would still be bound by the same requirements.
The plane manufacturer's name, Airbus, only appears once, in the last paragraph, of this article. I don't usually think like this, but it makes me wonder if CNN, an American news site, is deliberately doing so not to promote a European company, one that is in rivalry with an American one.
not sure why this is being downvoted when it's a true statement related to—but not touched upon in—the article. plus it's a counterpoint to some of the other comments here saying that this is all solely due to these companies' proverbial hands being tied by federal regulations.
what? creating a useful project absolutely matters to the world a lot more than memorizing some leetcode problems
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I think their business model is like a gym - they need people making an effort to cancel, not to renew... Crypto works for one-time payments, but it sucks for recurring transactions. Too much hassle to pay every month, people would just give up.
It's ridiculous to imply that Google and Facebook aren't one of the most successful companies in the history of the world. And there's no way they could have made it to one of the most successful companies in history with a company full of terrible employees.
>what it would cost to buy up the necessary property at market rates--which is to say, rates the actual owners will voluntarily accept without any threat of coercion or eminent domain-

They're not even willing to do that any more.
> They're saying that the government leaking their personal information makes them a target for crime

Why is this? Are we talking about burglars who want the valuable guns? That does seem odd as the number two deterrent to burglary is knowledge that the home-owner has a gun (the number on apparently are large dogs).

If the above is the case, the idea is that a burglar will scan this list for nearby homes and target them? On the basis that they have a gun alone (which again, is the number two deterrent to burglary). Plus, there is a lot of precedent that it takes almost nothing to use deadly force against an intruder and have zero consequences.

> I guarantee you that no gun owners wanted California to track and subsequently leak their personal details.

I'm guessing that California gun owners are perhaps amongst those who particularly do not want their personal details leaked. There are all sorts of reasons to not want that for anyone. This argument though of "we're now bigger targets for crime", when they have guns to "prevent" that crime, I can't reconcile that. So is the gun a deterrent, or not?

I can think of a lot of other things that would make someone the target for burglary, like having a 4 car garage and gated fence.

> If you can't legally buy a gun at a store, you can't legally buy a gun privately.

While that is the case, if there is no obligation to run a background check (gun-show loophole) - then how do you prevent these people from purchasing guns?

The loophole is not that it's legal or illegal, the loophole is that someone is obtaining a gun that shouldn't.
I've never worked somewhere in which mentorship was formalized *and* something for which there was a clear relationship to promotion. Not saying that the only way to get me more into it is by paying me or threatening compensation, but when push comes to shove the things that aren't tied to promotions are the first to go (especially in management).

And also, I've noticed my desire to mentor has (slowly) gone down over time. I'm trying to avoid ageism and certainly not assume that seasoned COBOL devs are less eager to mentor than junior devs, and I hope I'm clear in that I'm projecting what is something of a personal limitation onto my future self.
Could not agree more. I have multiple VPS servers running for personal email, file storage, ci, and some side projects. Maintenance and management is really low - everything is backed up to S3 and if things go down, it will take an hour or so to restore it, but I can tolerate that kind of downtime as long as data is not lost. I think cloud platform is easier to sell once you need a robust HA.

As for performance, one of my projects can sustain 300rps which is more than enough. Sure it cannot scale automatically to thousands and millions but I don't think many projects have that requirements.
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At multiple companies I worked for, they concluded the backwards schema changes are not worth the risks and testing overhead. It's usually quick enough to issue a hotfix.

With rollback, you always risk losing data - remember, you're doing it when something didn't go as you expected. What are the odds, the rollback will break something further?

These were all Postgres shops, so schema changes within a transaction - that can be rolled back safely if it fails in the middle.
I don't mind an artsy-cartoony style, which fit the comical pirate world of the games, but the specific designs do seem to lack the richness and charm of previous games. I don't know, maybe it's the 2D puppet animation that feels lackluster.

Still, the original Monkey Island is one of my favorites. I had given up hope and imagined the "secret" of Monkey Island would only ever become a deathbed confession, so I'm really excited for the game!
Republicans have ensured that the ATF is not able to really enforce these laws. They are setup to be ineffective.
I'm confused... Where does due process come into play in a contractual relationship between two companies? It's applicable to governmental entities in criminal law. Contract disputes both do not involve the government outside of a request by the parties for litigation, and are civil and not criminal law.
How would this stop that? This would only stop the sale of known revenge porn. I don't think most of it makes it way on the internet through sale. It gets posted anonymously on porn sites.

Revenge porn is already illegal. If someone were to sell it, the problem with that scenario is not that those people were able to exchange currency, and I don't like the idea of setting up more barriers on the ability to give someone money.
They can.

Unless Quebec's laws end up getting overturned by the Supreme Court, just like in the US, then yeah they could.

It's been attempted before [0].

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/richmond-sig...
Remove the private right of action from CEQA etc.
Usually the seller takes on short-term price fluctuation risk.

Buyer initiates purchase, and the seller gives them a window of x minutes to send y btc to an address, where the price of the service is denominated in btc as of the trading price at that moment.

If at least 1 transaction doesn't show up on the btc network in the x minutes, that transaction times out.

If at least 1 does, then the seller waits for w confirmations to take place before the payment is recognized as valid, where w is set to their tolerance. I've seen as low as 3 and as high as 7.
I find this leak to be incredibly ironic in light of the recent California required political disclosure law that got struck down. One of the key arguments from the charities that challenged that law was that California has a history of leaking sensitive information and that they would likely leak this list of donors, and California's primary argument against this was "well, we've changed!"

It's just funny to see it happen again.

Here's from the transcript between Alito and the Solicitor General from California from https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/19-251 at around 1:19.

Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

All right.

The brief filed by the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund says that we should regard your system as a system of de facto public disclosure because there have been such massive confidentiality breaches in California. And from the perspective of a donor, that may make sense.

A donor may say: This is a state that has been grossly negligent in the past.

No sanctions against anybody who's leaked this information.

I have to assume that this may happen again. Why isn't that a reasonable way to look at this?

Aimee A. Feinberg

I don't think even the district court regarded it that way, Justice Alito.

At 62a of the Law Center petition appendix, the district court said that the Attorney General's Office efforts to rectify past lapses and to prevent them in the future were commendable.

Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

It said your past record was shocking, did it not?

Aimee A. Feinberg

In the foundation decision, it did.

Following the court's analysis of the evidence regarding the changes to the State's protocols, it called those efforts commendable.

Its concern at the Law Center -- its concern at that point was that the State could not guarantee confidentiality.
Requiring a credit card for age verification before getting access to otherwise free porn (like on pornhub) will likely just leave paper trails for millions of men accessing porn, cause embarrassment, lead to privacy issues, blackmail, and wreck relationships.

It will also probably lead more men to pay for porn, since the companies running these websites will then make it one click.

Systems like Mozilla Persona would solve this on a technical basis, and was way ahead of its time, but there's no political incentive to standardise on something like this.
By pretty much every imaginable measures: number of papers, number of researchers, sample size, size of the control group exposed to the disease …

The only lacking aspect is the long term effects, because by definition we don't have long term hindsight (but no vaccine has it before being commercialized, by definition).
Yes, but through the sanctions, not through the engineered, technical default. It's not like potential creditors will look up Russia's credit score and see that it's low, they will know exactly what happened.
Does The Foundations of Mathematics focus on performing calculations, or does it have proofs as well? I feel like I'm in a hard place because I'm not a total beginner; I've taken calculus I and II, some discrete math, and I'm fine with the basics of algebraic manipulations. But I need something to bridge the gap between calculation and proving theorems. As I mentioned in the original post, Linear Algebra Done Right is above my head at this point, I can't even do all the exercises at the end of the first section.
Having someone walk through their open source work is not easy to fake, reading someones PRs and comments is not easy to fake. And its real life work not some memorized puzzle nonsense
But that's not the point is it? The point is that Mastercard and Visa are facilitating the transfer of money for illegal transactions. In the same way you can't start a bank to facilitate money laundering, Mastercard and Visa cannot knowingly facilitate the transfer of money for illegal goods.
We've taken to reassigning tickets when getting consulted on something and while I was pretty skeptical about the practice, it actually works pretty well. Coworker needs your help, so reassigns ticket 1234 to you. You know the ticket's assigned to you, they can move on to something else without constantly getting questions about the status, etc. Some tools are better at tracking time from multiple people on one ticket than others, so YMMV.
Yes and no. Regardless of what early RISCs lacked relative to the 6502 (and other contemporaries), they were generally much fast overall, operated on wider words (32 v 8 bit) and had access to vastly larger memories. So there were often analogous workarounds, but different in details. For example, replacing calculating sine with a lookup table is much easier and more accurate when you can toss it someplace in your 16MB or whatever of memory rather than try and shoehorn it into 64k.
Related question: what's the modern COBOL, meaning the thing that will require well-paid niche programmers to maintain in 30 years?
Actually there are tons of techniques that one can use if they are willing to abandon integrity. As a matter of fact I've consistently seen bootlickers and shady tacticians advance really fast in their careers and lives.
Who even pays for it these days?
I doubt this is true. If you're operating a tech company anywhere in the world, I'm guessing $4K is pretty close to negligible. In whatever case, indexing by country is misleading, "tech companies" in general is more interesting, if there are a handful of tech companies in the third world for which this doesn't hold, it doesn't invalidate the generalization.