skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a brain tumor that made me make seriously poor decisions over a period of 4 years. I destroyed my reputation of 20 years that got me requested by a fortune 10 to the USA and green card sorted.

I am one of the few actually good recruiters that exist and am now capable of doing the good work that got me where I was but absolutely no one wants to hear it or give me a chance.

One of the main issues is I was very senior (but still actively worked on search assignments for niche technical and or c suite) and there are few senior roles and most junior people don’t want to manage me at 45 or even consider me for less senior positions.

45 is oooooooold in recruitment where you are up or out in a sink or swim environment and 90% are just glorified telemarketers.

None of this is anyones fault but man I got emotional writing this.

I hear so much about how terrible the recruitment ‘industry’ is, much of it true, I’m desperate to work and to help but how the hell do I break this loop?

How do I get past the ‘he took his pants off in the office once’ reputation? put CAT scans on my CV?

Look ma no tumor!
Right, I just tried to simplify the thought experiment to counter the argument that tech and commodities are as important to the consumer as housing is.
Alignment padding is added in front of an attribute to get the attribute offset to a multiple of the alignment value - and an attribute must [0] start at the alignment boundary of its type.

E.g. attributes of types (in order) byte, smallint, smallint, int, bigint would have alignment padding of 0 (offset=0), 1 (o = 1 + 1 padding=2), 0 (o=4), 2 (o=6 +2p=8), and 4(o=12+4p=16), respectively, when all those attributes are filled with data.

[0] 'must' is the case most of the time, because variable length attributes have special handling rules when working with alignment of attributes -- but that's not important right now.
Kinda seems like if you hate it you could go back to building services really easily. No real downside to giving it a shot! Unless I'm missing another trap door it feels very reversible. :)

You might even be able to return to your old company if you hate it. Tell them directly "hey I need to give this a shot but I'd love to check-in in a year".
> That would mean a shrinking possibility of an already bungled acquisition going through is better than the status quo

It is objectively better for investors because they get $54.20 a share instead of the current ~$34. It isn't a signal for anything else. Shareholders don't care what happens to Twitter as a company after that, because they have already sold their shares.
> and found that disabling JIT improves performance more often than not

Well, kind of...

>> We find that disabling the JIT does not always have negative impacts. Our tests that measured improvements in power showed 15% improvement on average and our regressions showed around 11% increase in power consumption. Memory is also a mixed story with negatively impacted tests showing a 2.3% regression, but a larger gain on the tests that showed improvements. Page Load times show the most severe decrease with tests that show regressions averaging around 17%. Startup times, however, have only a positive impact and no regressions.

Most people are going to care about page load times more than anything else by far, and that's the one that quite clearly took a hit without JIT. It's great that no JIT makes Edge open faster, but how many times a day do you have to quit and restart your browser?
Of course, if it's phrased like a discussion. Assuming these guys "know what they're doing" is a pretty good starting point.
> At least they are not eating spiders like in the previous one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider
Firebase acquired by Google
Are you saying popularity ist devaluing music? How so?
The whole papers revolves around this claim:

> Marine plants like diatoms produce omega 3 oil which acts like a cap on the surface of the water to slow down evaporation

There are no numbers about this, no reference, nothing. And this claim is quite extraordinary. This absolutely needs to be quantified in order to go further. How does omega 3 oil, rejected by sea life on a limited portion of the sea, a product that can be oxidized easily, be a significant barrier to evaporation.

Maybe this is true, I don't know. But this is definitely counter intuitive and any counter intuitive claim should be supported by something, not just hand waived like that.
Its not just cheap, in fact it seems like cheapness is the least discussed aspect in this thread. You seemed to have missed all these stores of a minimum Quality of Service. The professional white collar people here can probably continue to pay the increasing Uber fees. But its the general quality of service that keeps them coming back. I don't think you can go back now that the genie is out of the bottle.
If we heard a sound every time Google voyeured their users ...
For those who haven’t read it, Mistborn is next level. Such a great trilogy.
Well, first off, figure out if the anxiety is deserved. Do you have some possible random costs coming up? Do you think you have enough emergency fund? Some people (me included) just feel like there's always some kind of terrible bad thing that I would never be able to plan for... and sure, that could happen, but it's unlikely.

Let's say that it's founded based on your budget. You can either up your income (work more, more clients, whatever), but I think the easier thing can be to be more frugal. Look at your expenses and see if there's anything you can lower. Eating out or delivery is a prime example of something you might be able to lessen.

Sometimes the act of saving money itself can be a good feeling to fight against the feeling that you don't have enough. At least it feels like you are doing something to fix the problem.
Askin' the right questions!

The generations are colocated with the objects, and we can release memory back to the OS using the virtual memory shenanigans explained in [0].

However, the design and implementation have simplified quite a bit since that article. Now:

* We use these generations only for assertions on dereferencing non-owning references, and don't use them for weak references anymore.

* We let malloc release memory back to the OS like normal. If the user dereferences something in a released page, we'll get a page fault instead of an assertion failure, but both are handled the same.

* When the generation hits INT_MAX, we just let it overflow now instead of blacklisting the allocation forever.

These adjustments mean we never need the heap which is a big improvement, and really unlocks Vale as a systems programming language.

The purposeful overflowing does mean that only 99.99999998% of invalid memory accesses will halt the program, which is more than enough certainty in practice [1]. (The probability is actually higher, as we increment generations by prime numbers and won't even hit our first possible collision until well after most runs have ended.)

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/sglvcc/generational_references_2_3x_fast...

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16759/sponsored-post-keep-you...
That's just a normal security feature, passwords are input only. Just because Android lets you read them doesn't make it an ideal choice or any kind of standard. Besides, I don't want my kids to get the password from their devices and then share with their friends.

And how would that constitute lock-in anyway?
Super weird Apple AppStore error seen the wild
What gives?
I'm one of those who think the score is one of the weak points.

(Tron Legacy, on the other hand, has a brilliant score, and everything else is a weak point.)
Cable viewership across the three major cable news networks is, on average, down 19%.

It's specifically not "across the board."
They found that areas with high housing costs are correlated with high levels of homelessness? Well of course! People want to live in desirable places and that both drives up the cost of housing and attracts homeless people at the same time.

Remove that confounding variable and you’re left with addiction and mental health.
> Imagine a scenario where one the local officials you voted for is caught misusing city funds.

When I was younger, two consecutive governors from opposite parties both ended up in prison for their activity as elected officials. The STOCK act was passed 10 years ago, but insider trading in congress remains rampant.

We have different expecations.
If you present yourself as well in person as you do in your writing it seems like you could tell the story well and people would be endeared to you. What is keeping you from these roles?
So, if I'm from a western country that was occupied, colonised and had a foreign culture forced upon it, it would not be considered appropriation if I were to adopt non-western schools of thought?
Yeah, for example: https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018695819-Ub...
I'm responding to "There, fixed all the BIOS and firmware exploits for you". It doesn't actually fix all the potential exploits, and it makes it more difficult to apply the updates that would be required to fix them.
>> It sounds like the PM also wanted to pivot. But someone between you and the VP on the org chart didn't.

Most of the department was still on Waterfall, we were doing Agile. They mandated we use their old tech stack since we opted for Agile instead of their standard Waterfall project management. This was communicated as a compromise, not knowing how old the tech stack was.

There was a lot of back and forth and the PM showed incredibly courage to stand up to the department heads. Using the old tech stack was a compromise, but in the end, started slowing the project down. Once I was able to explain in more layman terms how it was affecting the project, the people with more say allowed us to pivot.

There was minimal backlash, once we pivoted. I made sure we started hitting goals and gaining traction quickly to offset any arguments they were going to make. I knew we'd be under a microscope, so I put in the extra work to make sure we were covered.
Most of the things I miss revolve around the community features and how good LJ was for MEDIUM-SIZED conversations: You weren't stuck in your immediate circle but neither were you just shouting into the terrifying public void like you are on, for example, Instagram or Twitter.

There was very, very fine level of access control over who could see what which meant you could require CONTEXT to be a part of a group. In addition, tagging support was robust and NOT just a mixture of hashtags. So you could do things like, in a politics group, click 'Elections: 2004' and see, in chronological order, every post related to that topic in the group. This made actual search possible and cut down on reposts/recycled content, because things weren't just lost the minute they fell off the front page, etc.
If the main driving force leaves(Uber), its just a matter of time until all the companies revert back to the old standard. It will be a slow boiling frog but it will happen.
Taobao has many sellers of pcb/controller and flash chips. There are even sections dedicated to DIY SSDs at Chinese forums.

But they all rely on leaked manufacturer firmware production tools, not open source firmware.
I don't think she's claiming that there's anything wrong with "white buddhism". In fact, she seems to explicitly deny that view

>I want to clarify, by the way, that I’m not necessarily critical of American Buddhist entrepreneurs. The problem is if you mistake this white American Buddhism for all Buddhism, or claim that this is the “right” or “only” way to practice Buddhism.

The idea that American Buddhism has been divided between Asian immigrants and white converts has been mainstream in buddhist studies for at least a decade or two now (and anyone who practices Buddhism in the US will see this divide immediately). This isn't anything Chen came up with on her own.
Because he wanted to use the due diligence (discovery of the number of spam bots) as leverage to negotiate the price down.
What are the specs of your VPS?
Bell-LaPadula?
I don't see how the analogy is applicable. To illustrate what I mean, you could have also said: "K8s is like a train. It's big and heavy, will carry most things that you need it to", and it would be just as much of a non sequitur. Analogies are usually worthless to an argument (and therefore should be worthless to your opinions), unless one is able to demonstrate why thinking about an idea with an analogy is applicable.

There's zero reason to think that Kubernetes is like a 4-wheel driven car for the same reason to think that Kubernetes is like a train, or Kubernetes is like a virus, or Kubernetes is like a snowman; it's completely unrelated.
There's been some employee attrition and negative effects on company morale. I also think the brand-reputation damage of this episode will take time to show itself.
Chefs themselves face this! Nobody wants a Chef who grabs the wrong ingredients for a recipe, accidentally rm-ing their customers.
Yes, it's possible to use A/B testing in a short-sighted fashion. Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of examples thereof.

No, that doesn't mean A/B testing is inherently short-sighted. It's entirely possible to measure long-term secondary effects of an A/B test. Just save a record of treatment groups, and remember to come back and compare long-term metrics like LTV down the road. We do this all the time at my startup, and of the dark patterns that we've tested, we rarely see a long-term negative impact on LTV that outweighs the positive conversion rate impact.

If you want to make a valid argument against dark patterns (which is basically what 90% of this thread is trying to do), it's unlikely to be grounded in efficacy. This is coming from a business owner who spends seven figures monthly on advertising, constantly split tests, and is heavily invested in only making decisions that are in the long-term interest of the business.
This - the nag screen to sign up iCloud when attaching photos in iMessage is prime example of this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250951130?answerId=2518...
Extremely useful .gitconfig snippet:

[alias]
git = !sl

catches e.g. `git git status`, which I run shockingly often.
"It's hard to look at the Webb images without thinking..."

What am I missing?
It means don't ask "what makes people like me?" but rather "what is the right thing to do?"

If you do the former, you are essentially handing over your free will over to thr judgements of others.
Some markets were less impacted than others, San Diego for example went down a mere 20% at the trough. Over a longer timeline, housing has appreciated by hundreds of percentage points in SD.
I don't think this is the biggest reason. It's because most cars now come with always-online LTE modems and everything is software-controlled. Couple that with a product VP who wants to make his bones and you get "turn everything into a continuing revenue stream." Doesn't matter whether the car is electric or ICE.

IOW, they're doing it because they can.

The solutions are:

1. Don't buy these cars.

2. Hack the software and share that knowledge.

3. Install a 50-cent switch to apply power to the seat heaters directly.

4. Disable the goddamned modem and share that knowledge too.
> Am I correct, then, in thinking your response to people currently harmed by social structures they have no choice in interacting with is, basically, "I agree that this sucks, but I don't support changing anything to fix it."?

I don’t know about the guy you’re asking but the way I would tackle this question is, first by point out in some cases the “harm” is only perceived.

To give you an example of this, a claim often made is “trans kids are being harmed due to lack of access to hormones/surgery”. I find this revolting. I would consider, for this example at least, the current system is doing good in protecting them, certainly it is not harming them.

For me and many people, changing this would mean creating a social structure that is harmful.

What will happen if the system is now changed to allow children to take hormones but in a few decades this will be broadly considered a harmful social structure?

Another point I would bring up is, there are various ways problems can be addressed. Asking for change begs the question what change precisely? It is very possible agreement on the existence of the problem can be reached while the solution remains contentious.

A more accurate description of reality would be I think “Some problems exist and some problems are nothing more than attempts at getting power, privilege or attention. And while the problems that are generally agreed upon to exist should be fixed, the solution is often unclear and the proposals open up their own set of problems”
>Rules and regulations can be changed.

Rules and Regulations are extremely hard to change, thats why we have companies like Uber popping up in the first place.
You can write many books from Kubernetes and still not know it perfectly.
I wouldn't have voted for Biden if I knew the full picture. One part of that picture is a video of him saying he wishes to eliminate, totally, fossil fuel consumption in his term. Then the laptop issue, which was real, and was important, I never heard anything about it other than its fake news conspiracy theory. If anyone wants to double back on this post and reiterate some opinion that says that indeed it was all conspiracy theory nonsense, are you happy with an angry geriatric president that reads note cards when he's about to do something? There are a hell of a lot of people unhappy with Biden. Not all of them voted for Trump.

There were videos of Johny Carson pointing out Biden lying his ass off in the 1980s. Had I known that I would have a much better picture of the president we have now.

The media has failed us and they don't realize it. I am suspicious these big companies are not being funded through the ways people think, like advertising or subscription revenue. How does this trash stay in business? I say trash because Biden is a 29% approval rating disaster and he was elected 100% at the behest of the media. When the media loses objectivity to satisfy power behind the scenes, what can really be said about it? If anyone wants to call me dirty words because of this, go ahead. I won't reply.
They listed the top 3 cable networks. If Skynews was one of those, presumably it would be included...
Some of the software are made available here:

https://github.com/spacetelescope

The Physical Optics Propagation in PYthon (Poppy) has some neat pictures:
https://poppy-optics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(2021)

> STV sits in the electoral system sweet spot, meeting nearly all of the ideal voting system criteria to a high degree.

Nearly all? What about the criterion that people don't want their MP to live two cities away because they were elected as part of a larger region? What about the criterion that people don't want to learn a new way of filling out their ballot (and have to worry about how/whether to rank candidates they've not heard of, or that seem equally good)?

The problems are even worse when it comes to the process of counting the votes. Not only do you have to explain to people what a Hare quota is, you have to justify why the counting process is now many times slower and more expensive. At a time when the validity of elections are subject to so much FUD, anything that increases that attack surface is a retrograde step. And let's not find ourselves needing to trust electronic counting machines in order to get a timely and accurate result.

I also think that STV has some rather subtle biases which might be seen as features rather than bugs to the Lib Dems and the ERS, who are the main proponents of this particular reform. By setting the size of these super-constituencies to some "optimal" number, it is possible to maximise the seats for third parties while minimising the success of fourth and fifth parties.

The article even admits that "STV can be hard for small parties that are just starting out." and hints that the Greens, for example, might not benefit as much. In fact, their level of success would be highly dependent on how these gerrymandered and (to coin a phrase) gerrymagnituded super-constituencies were drawn. It's also debatable whether independent local candidates would ever win enough of a vote share across a super-constituency to actually win one of the seats, which again favours the large existing (third) parties.

That's not to say I'm against STV, though, and would support it replacing FPTP in any polity that was considering it. I just worry that picking such an easily-attacked proposal would fail, and then further poison the well against voting reform, like the unsuccessful 2011 Alternative Vote referendum did.
I feel like a turkey saved from a trip to the slaughterhouse.

https://twitter.com/brammerayse/status/1542535497146408962
An alternative, again for (more) senior people, is to be able to point to commercial packages xxx and yyy as "things I made a direct contribution to, specifically aaa, bbb and ccc".

Those who have worked in commercial code, particularly for a longer time, predate open-source or have been essentially forbidden to participate (ie, companies own my ideas). I have no particular desire to be litigated :-).
I just started reading A Tale of Two Cities, I assume the book is just about "the best of times."

Otherwise the intro is written with incredible bias.
There is precedent for Delaware courts to force the merger to go through, Tyson vs IBP. Twitter vs Musk is going to be a test of that precedent and whether judicial system still works as intended.
The Delaunay tree link in footnote 14 doesn’t work.

But in any case you can build and incrementally update an AABB tree of the triangles to efficiently find the triangle containing query points, right? Though you need to rebuild the AABB tree if it gets too unbalanced.
> This is so dismissive and insulting. ... I'm sure you were well intentioned, but this comment read all kinds of rude and negative.

Your comment is way, way over the top. Their observation is entirely correct, maybe not in your circles, but certainly it's what I'm also seeing on Facebook and twitter.

Hell, NASA posted "The razor-sharp resolution of the @NASAWebb imagery was enough to bring astrophysicist Jane Rigby to tears."
I completely disagree. It used to be so easy to subscribe to everything I wanted to read via RSS and consume it quickly how I want to consume it. That user experience was 100x better than what we have now.
Ask HN: How would you rate your happiness on a scale of 1 to 5 at the moment?
I trust astronomers to know how to set the exposure.

I want the Webb focusing 10 days on a patch that looks pitch black on Hubble’s 10 days deep field
> Price doesn't matter for any crypto specific use cases.

Exactly! Ransomware groups, drug dealers, and money launderers don’t mind the volatility or transaction fees since their funds are illegally obtained. It’s just a tax they pay to launder or steal money.

I’m not aware of any other specific use cases for crypto aside from speculation and the ones I listed in the previous paragraph.
The local kid who knew about computers told me that Commodore 64 games were mostly written in machine language. So at the age of 12 or so I went to the library and flipped through the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide chapter on machine language - what the C64's memory map was, what registers the 6510 processor had, and then a series of steps in assembly language to display an A on the screen. This was fairly over my head, and my mentor, who was getting busy with high school by this time, didn't have much luck explaining it to me.

I worked in IT for a while and picked up some programming but didn't do much at work for a long time. Then I started going to college at nights and on weekends and now I am a programmer.