skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes please work for free so meta can generate news articles, chat bots, and better targeted advertisements on the internet for billions of dollars a year. Thanks meta...
Built out in the boonies, now completely developed Silicon-valley-style all around. It was inevitable they would cash out some day.
they don't believe people could consciously want to make things better

The hard part is that often they're right, especially in California - as with the Sepulveda Pass Freeway Expansion Project, where TFA says that the commute times were actually increased.

You can argue that it's a somewhat self-fulfilling belief... but the regulatory state is where it is. The CAVErs today are dealing with what exists.
It is your responsibility to follow up (2019)
It's just tacked on to identity politics. It doesn't really matter what the issue at hand is, only what stance is taken with the group the people identify with.

There is no logic on the issue itself at all, trying to find any logic will only result in conflicting results. (i.e. being against governmental influence, but wanting the government to control people's bodies; or having death penalties and weekly school shootings and not helping people to survive with basic living standards, but forcing childbirth wherever possible)
That's a very american thing to say.

If you lived in EU you would know you can't really trust public healthcare.

It's the same story everywhere: they introduce it, it works ok for a couple of years, it's a socialist success, yay... then it experiences a very sharp decline, but the government doesn't care

It just seized a good portion of private economy and they're the good guys because they pay your plasters with your tax money, no matter how shitty the service is.
EY to pay $100 mln to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams
Magic in Tolkien is rare and subtle. It isn’t in common use at all, and isn’t applied to solve many problems.
I am skeptical that a BigCo employer, who has thousands of engineers to choose from and countless more who could be hired, would move an engineer from embedded code in some smart home device to datacenter resource provisioning. It feels like the management equivalent of roulette.
It is funny where we are right now. After blowing up classical web pages to over-complex web applications that eat up memory, bandwidth and battery, we now think it is a good idea to optimize this by streaming these complex applications to clients?

To be honest: my fist take was "this has to be satire" - but this is really a product. Wow.
Furthermore, (I don't have any data on this, but) I'm willing to bet that Facebook's body count is much higher than 4chans, although by indirect means.

How many people have commited suicide because of mental health issues directly attributable to Facebook? We don't have the data, but it's certainly a non-0 number.
Reading the comments on these kinds of HN posts stresses me out. Not for me, but for you.

I wish I could just give you all a big hug and a pep talk.

The demand for software engineers is expanding faster than new engineers are minted. There are lots of excellent, well-paying jobs going unfilled out there and with persistence one of them is yours. If you fail a tech interview, it's ok. It happens, and all too often it's a blessing in disguise. Well-designed tech interviews bring your strengths to the surface and you will do well. Otherwise it's just a crap shoot and sometimes you win anyway.

Chin up. You will make it.
Well, we need to allow some to get more than others simply because we are not all keen to work and be productive, without any incentive a certain cohort will do nothing, pretending as human being to be fed, to have a house etc as anyone else and another cohort would isolate them since they consume without producing.

We need to redistribute richness via taxes to ensure a limited difference between the poorest and the richest, to avoid tearing the society apart, but still allow some who for instance produce more, innovate etc to get something more than one who do nothing.

In that sense getting rich by heritage and personal work is not negative, taxes ensure avoiding a too asymmetric society and that's all. The issue arise when money is not a public unit of measure of a substrate (raw materials, work, know how etc) but a value per se, substrate of anything, administered by a set of private crooks to steer the society. Witch means the issue arise when taxes are governments income NOT a mean to redistribute richness.

EU government do not represent EU people, so they are not Democracy, they have betrayed their people, Constitutions and Republics. So they are oppressive. Of course there are some more oppressive than others. But since we do not have a better terms (at least I do not know any in my limited English) I use that. I can say "soft power oppressors" vs "hard power ones". I can add mild oppressors vs truce one but still unable to find a better terms to describe them, if you know one I'm curious...
No one can afford a home here. In my hometown even very small homes are now going for $1.5m+
#1 can your site handle the HN hug of death?

Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220628135027/https://posthog.c...
not really surprising, but

<caveat emptor>

bare minimum GPU: NVIDIA 2080 with 8GB VRAM

300 Gb of disk space

</caveat emptor>
Complexity, Automation and a Future of Autonomous Development
Sam, post war, has a large family, and some of the other hobbits do as well (Farmer Cotton, for example).

But it also seems that Frodo and Bilbo were NOT mentioned as being "strange" or anything, so it's not certain that everyone would marry and have a family of any size.
Yeah this nails it. In my distributed systems class, the first thing we learned was that communication of a network was not guaranteed. I remember thinking, well how do you do anything? And then it dawned on me, that's literally why we have this as a field.

I think the same kind of thinking applies for all the simple things in each domain.
It must be difficult to create a 404 page that is funny, helpful, and not also incredibly annoying.
I've never been to the Caribbean - you would have to ask someone else.
Careful - they would likely not be fuzzy nice 'people'. Far more likely avaricious sociopaths. We have enough of those.
Clickbait title - the first two questions are clearly questions to ask startups only.

Not every engineering role is for a startup.
I submitted the link just after CafePress sent me an email with the information.

A lot of stress in "previous owners" and "before 2019". OK, fair enough. I asked them to remove my details from their DB, because I ordered something back in 2007 but I don't think I'll do it again.

The response was interesting:

"Thank you for contacting CafePress. Per your request, I will be happy to ensure that your information is no longer stored. However, I was not able to locate an account with the email address provided so it appears you do not have any information stored with us."

Yet, I got the email from them with the FTC settlement information.
Many do, but some don't. Contractor positions would most likely require experience, but full time positions would include more entry level. They're willing to make the investment to FTE.
I mean I dislike bullshit rankings and metrics as much as the next guy - but if someone asked me these questions I would just pass on the candidate - a person covering his ass about being a bottom performer, from the interview, is not really someone I would be thrilled hiring.

At least OP phrased it as career progression question.
These places are very careful to stay on the legal side. There’ll be little “not medical advice” disclaimers in all the right spots, and there’s not much privacy protection folks can expect in the US for this sort of thing outside California.
This is not China, for now, we run at a very high speed to copy them. Social score is already there, started with covid excuses, but there, the push toward e-cash, qr-codes+mobiles etc is here. I do not call whataboutism foreseeing tomorrow...
Want to add - the T1 helpdesk guy who has the ticket to install some rando software on some rando employee's computer is not going to know why. If you do intend to go this route, ask a decision maker, not the messenger (installer).
It's not real life but doing COBOL CTF was fun intro https://samsclass.info/129S/COBOL.shtml
I would like to think laws on stalking or protecting minors would have something to say...
Go visit a site with abortion info and it might get connected to your person through an fb cookie

But please tell me why the GDPR is not important again
Wait what? Like half of the ish we talk about on HN is what’s wrong with society, and we often look for the structural reasons behind society’s ills.. Including direct shots at capitalism.. And this is just one of a zillion online communities for folks of different stripes..

For sure I can imagine someone getting to a place where they feel gaslit by dysfunctional society, many must be in this boat all the time, the world is a challenging place. Should we not offer them a friendly hand, if they’re open to it?
On the contrary, HN is the place to debate the usage of words. Precise word choice is how to effectively get your point across. Words should have more definitions than the obvious two ("something universally good" and "something universally stupid, annoying, embarrassing, and smelling like fart") and it's not a shame to talk about subtleties of their definitions.
>>“False negatives better than false positives”

Nice idea, but doesn't work with underlying constraints. Nobody has infinite time and resources to interview and hire people. What that means is the more 'False Negatives' you do, less resources you have to hire 'True Positives'. Not just this, at this point you are inevitably likely to hire more 'False Positives' than 'True Positives'.

In fact the stated strategy seems to work, if and only if you are hiring 1 - 2 candidates for some very special positions. Otherwise its a bad strategy.
I've had my employer essentially go bust twice, and left another company that was in dire straits but managed to keep going. It's all been fine, of course you need to keep your skills up to date but the idea that one employer going to the will is the end of my career is just daft. No.

Having said that I have had a close friend get his career badly derailed by health problems. That really sucked, but after some tough years he's back rebuilding his career and loving it. He's in the film and TV production industry and just loves what he does.

I think the moral is, do what you love and be good at it. I honestly have no idea what I'd do if I wasn't in IT, but I love the tech and I'm decently well paid, so it's all good. Not everyone is so lucky, for sure.
Unless your parents own a home or some asset or pay into life insurance there is nothing to inherit as most of the middle class is in debt
ASC/DESC doesn’t technically need parameterization. The point about parameterizing and not query building is about not query building directly from user inputs. It’s fine to build the query fine when you control every part of the input used to build the string. Parameterization is only really for when you need to process a user string, particularly. One mitigation for the column name is to validate it’s in the enumeration of available column names first.

Now of course, if you’re trying to be super strict about parameterization so that static tools / linters / code policy during review don’t complain that’s one thing. But it’s not an invalid choice to utilize domain knowledge to simplify the problem if your tooling doesn’t let you do the right thing.
If people are looking for news on the topic, they will FB or tweet you first. That has a snowball effect.
1st world countries with social democratic values seem to do it with money.
It should probably have an option to download just one model instead of all of them. 300GB is a lot.
Sorry Slewis, I cannot reply to your other comment with another subcomment.

This is an ambiguation and it is an issue that as founder you should address as it could be interpreted as a self contradictory agreement and then invalidate part of the agreement (as I've seen with non formal open source licenses, ill formed patents which became bypassed, etc).

A way to solve that might be using a glossary of what do you mean by each term, however I do recommend you to use a lawyer for such things as this sort of mistakes might become expensive later on.
I was like “who would really use this?” then I watched the video and by the half-way point I already wanted one.
Maybe it's just me, but after closely following Spectre and Meltdown, I'm all worn out of speculative preventive measures. I'll let kernel and OS developers set the defaults, and I'll tweak maybe never.
sounds like a system that does not tolerate a high number of unproductive people
I don't see that as evidence? Incipient dementia causes self-isolation - that could be the vector as well.
I think this was from a movie or something, but it was along the lines of:

"The guy then asked the tycoon, whose net worth was 300 million dollars, 'Why do it? Why work so hard to get 300 million dollars? Why not just stop when you get to $30 million or something?' To which the tycoon replied 'And that is why you'll never have 3 million dollars'"

Point being, the type of folks who want to work super hard to become uber rich are generally not the type of folks that pine to lie on the beach. This is, of course, a bit of an exaggeration (I mean, Jeff Bezos seems to be "living his best lift" right now), but I think there are some kernels of truth in the type of hyper-driven personality that causes one to become super rich in the first place. If you're just concerned about becoming "moderately wealthy" so you can relax, there are a lot easier ways to do it.
Show HN: Virtual Maker – Make 3D/VR scenes in the browser
I think the hardware is great, but I definitely don't want Android or Linux and that screen looks power hungry. A similar form factor running a lighter OS (like EPOC) with an eink or other low power display would be pretty cool but also would likely only have a market of one.
Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer’s Affect Aging in All Cells
Overworkers and overachievers generally can't stop working. That's why they're successful.

I'm planning to retire soon and I won't stop working, I'll just stop working for idiots and start working more on my own ideas.
That's a software engineering problem, not a computer science one.
Alas, the very first point was already a no-go for me
> Rich CEO meets young sexy tattooed gen-X intern, they date, she takes him to a rave, the smoke weed after and listen to jazz. They fall in love.

If you substitute "musician" for "intern", this is basically Elon Musk and Grimes.
You can say this about almost any technology. You can say this about a sufficiently skilled plumber.
Have you asked them straight up why other employees receive new machines and you don't?
That is different level of abstraction and NTFS-only thing.

The mechanism mentioned in the article is Shell Namespace. Explorer.exe and friends do not operate on file system (ie. files and directories) but on tree of COM objects (called folders and items) that can represent pretty much anything, although usually represent file system directories and folders. The "Classes root" in "HKCR" means that this registry hive describes how names of these objects are transformed into the COM instances (either by directly naming the CLSID or by parametrizing the behavior of default class of filesystem objects). It works this way to this day. And for example the "Windows 10 God mode menu" is nothing else than exposing internal shell folder.
Politics trumps business in Truth Social’s war on Big Tech
> Does the company have product-market fit?

At a start-up, sure. At any company past Series C, you should know this before talking to anyone. The other questions here are fine, especially the revenue and DAU one. Even better questions are "what's your payback period?" and "what's the company's path to profitability?" Revenue doesn't matter if the company is burning 2x the money to get it.

> How much runway does the company have? Does their spending look within reason?

Kinda the same as asking about the path to profitability except also takes into account if the company can live to get there.

> What's the culture like?

I get asked this question and similar questions to the ones listed by almost every engineering candidate I've interviewed in the past 5 years...

> How strong is the team?

I think it's a good question but if you're just looking for someone to tell you how great the team is then you're better off not asking it. I think almost all interview questions should be asked with some level of doubt and in hopes of getting an honest answer. Also, the level of honesty matters. If you ask the engineering manager this question and they throw certain folks under the bus then you should run.

> What's in store in the future?

This (and more frequently the first 2 questions under it) gets asked in plenty of interviews. People want to know what they'll be working on and what kind of impact they'll have.

The "Do you plan to sell the company?" question under this one makes it seem like these were all supposed to be directed at a CEO/founder. I wouldn't ask this question because even if the answer is honest it'll be ambiguous. No one is going to say they're dead set on selling the company if there's still funding rounds on the horizon but they also won't rule it out because they need to give the compensation package some hope for liquidity.
Ah. Perhaps you had to migrate your Mojang account recently.

My daughter went through that yesterday. Stupid Microsoft continues to be stupid Microsoft.
> Does the company have product-market fit?

Interviewee: "Does the company have product-market fit?"

Interviewer: "Yes, we own Wholefoods, Ring, the entire internet cloud ecosystem"

Interviewee: "How much runway does the company have?"

Interviewer: "We have 86.2 billion. Should last us a while"

Interviewee: "What's in store in the future?"

Interviewer: "Take over every market segment"
...
Interviewee: "Great, where do I sign?"
Food is an enormous expense unless you spend an enormous amount of time doing it all yourself which gives you less time to make $$ and still is expensive especially with the perishable ingredients and failed concoctions
One of my icebreakers is that I guess an attractive woman’s occupation is Biochemical Engineer

and she laughs at the absurdity because she’s actually “taking a break from her communications major this semester” (for the past 5 years)

or loves how progressive I am to accurately assume she navigates the Western STEM world while being visually appealing

Only upside so far

Just nod, play along
Is the alternative that the bosses pushes ahead and hires people that have objections? Then the team risks losing a known good member who quits for spite, for a maybe good new hire.

I think respecting a red flag of any member of a team to stop a hire is a good practice.
The Legend of Irreplaceable Developer
If one and only one company is the be-all and end-all of your career, you're doing it wrong. F*'em, go get another job. Nobody owes us a living. It's up to us to be worth hiring.
I'd rather imagine corn not being subsidized..
Is there some legal requirement forcing them to offer an opt-out? And if so, how ridiculous and insecure can they make the opt-out? Anyone privacy conscious wouldn't install an app from someone as openly hostile as T-Mobile. What if one doesn't have the Play Store?

This is like a keyboard selling your typing data, and if you want to opt-out, you have to install a plugin for Google Docs...
People are hung up on it because it's the gate to making ridiculous amounts of money doing what we all enjoy.

Also, because there isn't really a "good" option for interviewing (especially at scale), the door is always left open for endless circular debates on the topic.
It’s possible that you just have an extremely left-wing view of what it means to be progressive, such that people who identify a
s progressive to you and who would be called progressive by most Americans appear conservative to you. This is definitely the case with Republicans who call an insufficiently conservative Republican a “RINO” or “Republican In Name Only” (although the Trump wing which isn’t conservative has colored it to refer to Republicans which aren’t sufficiently extremist).

It’s also possible that SF tried more progressive policies, but found they didn’t work in certain cases (for example, the recent DA recall). Note that I’m not trying to litigate whether conservative policies would work better than progressive policies or any such thing.
Asking for what you need to do your job is an important skill. If you have options other than this place of employment, it might be worth practicing.

Because working slowly will also look poorly on you.
This is the 7th article in a series we call developer-led landscape where we look at the underlying trends affecting the commercial companies in and around the developer ecosystem.
I have been using gist for my Spivak calculus problems. Often I write down on a notebook and then transcribe it to the $<latex>$ format. Along with the other markdown features it has been enough.

Plain latex has a steep curve and not friendly for mobile typing. Plain text is hard to read and hinders the actual math understanding. Therefore, i use gist markdown.
Show HN: Quaterion – x100 faster fine-tuning of similarity learning models
This reminded me of when Target outed a teenage pregnancy to her parents through targeted advertising.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
It is also clear that the author hasn't actually read the lord of the rings.

It doesn't feature in the films but the scouring of the Shire happens after the defeat of Sauron, in which Saruman and Wormtongue take over the Shire and push the same industrialization they were pushing at Orthanc. They have a small battle, Saruman is killed by Wormtongue, who is killed by Hobbits and then everything is right again for the last chapter.

I'd also say an industrial revolution of sorts is definitely a component of the story and unambiguously considered bad.
Email-based logins are not great from a security standpoint, to put it mildly.
Looking at the hardware document in the GitHub repo - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hdcTf9xUmsjRPd3waJEkQf1B...

Is that really a RS245 or RS485?

https://www.makerfabs.com/usb-rs485-convertor.html#!/back

I am in the mix for doing this over the next week or so. Totally love the hardware documentation and after tearing down a 900w solar array experiment, and having most if not all the materials (in Buffalo no less) we have a new shed w/ the materials to get online and on it.

Pergola lighting, internet web server, and plant hydroponics .. fun fun! (sorry, really love this particular type of stuff, so nerding out like - go home right now from the day job and just get after it).
The history has it that the git prototype was written in about a week. If everyone is so familiar with algos and data structures nowadays why don't I see good and novel solutions popping up here and there?

Is that I'm blind? Or is it that the set of approachable impactful problems has been exhausted? Or all the innovation happens in closed source/saas space?
Firing People (2016)
Wait what about the universal belief in Liberal Bias? Surely all media has a Liberal Bias.
>If you ask the engineering manager this question and they throw certain folks under the bus then you should run.

I one declined an offer for this very reason. I had the option to join one of two teams, and each team's manager took the opportunity to crap on the other team.
> At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations to the authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Am I missing a link or something? This appears to describe the visits, but does not describe any conclusions nor observations.