skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, people kinda forget that not every job is the same.

You can pretty much easily test if you have enough knowledge to be a good accountant or if you can play the violin well. There are couple smaller issues. Having knowledge will not tell you if they are hard working a knowing how to play violin well will not tell you if they will do well with orchestra and large audience. But in general you can do a testing period and be done with it.

With developers... the main issue is that it is super difficult to judge how good a developer is and that is IMO mostly because there is a huge delay between making a decision and suffering consequences of the decision and then it is frequently difficult to tell how the consequences are connected to the decisions and what were the alternatives.

And a lot of it is just opinions, so even if you hire a better developer you get into territory of trying to figure out whose opinion is right (probably the higher paid one? maybe?)

And so when I hire developers I am trying to look at various other things that I hope are proxies for what I really need. So maybe I will try to look whether they have good judgement in general, how they dealt with difficult situations in the past. Maybe get to know them a little bit as a person.

Which you don't have to do with an accountant or violinist.
I'd REALLY like to hear more about the macro system. I've been yelling about wanting that to become part of typescript for a long time, but I don't think they quite have the vision.

In Zig, code can run at compile time, and thats amazing. That's one of the main things I want in TypeScript. Once you have that, everything from type reflection to native graphql types without codegen is just a library away.

Yeah, I'd really, really like to hear more about that if you can point me at anything. Overall, all of the decisions Bun is making, in just about every part of the ecosystem it touches, are things that I have been really excited about. I've got a good feeling about this and I'm trying to scrape some time together to help out.

As for esbuild, I don't think you're correcting the article because it said that the parser is a `port` of esbuild, not "based on". You're probably just replying to the other comment :)
Since I'm an anarchist, talking about what would happen with someone like me "in power" quite literally makes no sense. I'm interested in removing the power of the state, not turning it to my own ends.
That’s the obvious criticism. Not to mention ability to generate a profit beyond those concerns. Proponents would argue that this a feature, not a bug.
"I've told you a million times not to exaggerate."

:-)
Every company I've worked for has had some form of annual or bi-annual "hack week," where employees can form ad-hoc teams and work on something they think would be cool to exist. Sometimes it's a feature, sometimes it's a new product line, sometimes it's just something ridiculous (e.g. an eight foot wide NES controller).

Some of these projects did turn into shipped features, though I'm not sure I ever saw a new product line come out of it.

One of the places I worked had an internal incubator. An engineer or PM could pitch an idea, and get paid their salary to go work on it if accepted. That was still early stage when I left, so unclear if anything came of it.

The point though is that many companies do open avenues for engineers to innovate directly.
If that is your take away after reading that you should probably take some time to do a little soul searching.
When Twitter forced the algorithmic timeline on people, someone tweeted:

"Is the algorithm based what everyone else likes, or what I like? Because I hate what everyone else likes, and I don't know what I like."
I do it like this: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2022-04-28-private-go-modules-w....

This is in the context of go modules but it works with regular git stuff.
But every community has their rules. Just because they're cultural rules doesn't make them anymore debatable.

You: Break user space.
Linus Torvalds: We don't do that here.
You: I feel excluded.

Good? If you want to do that shit, do it elsewhere. Don't come back. That's all the statement means: This is my standard as a leader and I don't have time to educate you. If you disagree, do it elsewhere.
And that all the other groups are apparently very racist.
In my experience it's absolutely true. Maybe it's just early in Instagram's phase of their new feed and it's not optimized, but all I see are a bunch of seemingly random memes and videos that don't interest me at all, and they only appear targeted to me in the most superficial of ways. Essentially I skip past the videos looking for friend photos, and after about 30 seconds get bored and shut the app.

TikTok on the other hand seems to know me better than I do myself (or care to admit). I go out of my way to not open it because I know 30 minutes of my time will vanish in an instant.
Yeah but you're comparing apples and oranges. When I was a kid my dad used to take open up electronics, test the individual components, and remove and solder a replacement (a generic component, purchased at the local electronics store) in. The manufacturer didn't do all that much to make them repairable aside from using screws to close the case instead of welding it shut or whatever...come to think of it, many did use specialized screws to try to prevent you from opening it, so you needed a large set of screwdrivers to open all the different types. Anyway, they could plop everything on a single circuit board, the components were so large that wasn't much of an issue. There was a great deal of margin for designing in "repairability", the components and housings were larger, in general the prices were higher, manufacturing tended to be lower volume, and development timelines were longer. Energy usage tended to be higher and if the device had batteries at all they were disposable. We're speaking in the abstract here (I mean there were no smart phones or wireless earbuds to compare), but generally this was the case.

When you're talking about doing "repairs" on modern electronics, almost always you're really talking about replacing entire modules containing hundreds/thousands/millions of these "components" with a replacement either directly from the manufacturer or designed to be compatible it. These modules need to be intentionally designed to a much greater degree, the manufacturer then needs to allocate extra space for this, decide what components will be located on each module, how many modules to break the design into, provide connectors that are both secure during normal use while also being easily connected/disconnect by users, and maintain a supply chain for each replaceable module long after the design is no longer being manufactured. It's a lot more work than the vast majority manufacturers have ever done (with the exception of auto manufacturers).
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AWS SM is having issues in the `us` region, I'm currently on-call and wondered that maybe somebody else would be impacted by this as well!

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I'd love a number attached to that "most"
>inflation is being caused by... the war in Russia

The war is in Ukraine and it is not the primary driver of inflation.

https://youtu.be/kOZoamzhfD0
>my guess would be south/central America got the Funimation music.

The Spanish dubs used the original Japanese soundtrack afaik.
The current administration (as many others before, mostly of the same party, Justicialism, but also of the other main party, UCR, and de-facto governments) doesn't allow for a floating exchange rate [0]. Nowadays, the ARS follows a (very slow) crawling peg devaluation against the USD, buuuut if you want to buy dollars (or want to pay some product or service abroad, think Aliexpress but also App Store, Netflix, AWS, etc.) you have to pay a tax, and can't buy more than 200 per month per person. Then you have dollars that you can acquire via a broker, buying and selling bonds or shares; these are more expensive than the official+tax rate. And then yoy have the black-market, which tends to be the highest priced.

Argentina also has a chronic problem with inflation (in my opinion, due to printing more money than required by the economy, most times to solve the fiscal deficit you obtain when the national state spends too much), so everyone knows that you have to save money in a hard currency, USD being the most common one. So it has a real big demand for savings and capitalization, e.g. real estate is priced in dollars.

As why argentinians keep voting parties that keep the dollar artificially cheap, I believe it's a mix between a survivorship behaviour (if USD goes up, prices of goods and services will more or less go up) and wanting to consume more than what one can afford (holidays in Brazil, trips to Europe or USA every other year, cheap electricity and natural gas so you can leave your air conditioner on all day, etc).

Disclaimer: I am not an economist, and as everyone else, I have a biased point of view.

[0] This newspaper article has a (badly cropped) chart of the difference between black-market and official dollar exchange rate through the years.
https://www.infobae.com/economia/2020/08/22/la-historia-de-l...
Thanks for the feedback! Hoping my responses will be quoted properly:

> I share other folks concern regarding a remote api call for authentication, but I think your Edge Agent solution would address most of these concerns. I’d thus hope to be able to terraform-apply your edge agent into my infrastructure.

Yes, that's the idea! The agent is a relatively straightforward go service with an image that can be deployed directly to k8s/cloud.

> As for UI, I imagine that I could use your supplied solutions with minor styling for admin-and-powr-user-facing use cases, while having to customize for end-user facing solutions.

Yes, the self-service admin dashboard is designed to be integrated into end user apps so that permissions management can be "delegated" to end users/admins. As mentioned in another comment, we're also looking into building UI components for common permissions scenarios (i.e. grant/revoke, view permissions etc) that can be directly bolted onto apps.

> I’d love to see that you also provided native mobile app samples for that, if you don’t already.

Great point! We've thought about building mobile clients/SDKs as well. I do think mobile has some specific requirements vs. web (connectivity, changing geo, device limitations etc) that we need to think more about in order to solve correctly.

> Also, at first glance,I don’t see that you take care of my third-party integrated login headaches. If not, then I’d just love to be rid of that thorn in my dev-team’s side in one fell sweep. Just sayin’, and probably revealing my ignorance at the same time ;)

Our approach thus far has been to stay squarely in the realm of authz and access control. Basically, Warrant works with any authn provider/IDP but we don't currently auto-sync users or handle 3rd party connections. But you're not the first to mention this so it's likely something we'll look into :)

> My worries are towards vendor-lockin and inheriting uour attack surface, although I imagine that you will actually handle the security aspects better as part of your core business model than I would. Regarding vendor-lockin, I imagine that you could solve this with legal licensing. As a European, I’d also like to be 100% sure that all of your infrastructure was running in the EU.

Very fair concerns! We're cognizant of the fact that we're building core infrastructure and so vendor lock-in and security are key questions. And yes, we'd offer customers a way to move-off in case they'd want to/need to (provide data dumps + a way to run the service for a transition period etc). We don't currently have infra in EU but again, that's something we can easily spin up as needed. In fact, we'd likely offer choice of DC/AZ directly in the product similar to how AWS and others do it.
Except that substantial VC investment is seen as a strong signal by NSF that they should fund.
Perhaps it should be /sa should be for /[s]trawman [a]rgument.
This sounds like a good idea, I'd save all the `ln` commands the install.sh of my dotfiles repo. But do you just .gitignore all stuff in your .config you're not interested in?
I think it's one of those things that if you haven't hit the wall with the JS ecosystem yet, you don't know the wall is there.
Ok. Compared to developed countries, it has a waaay higher incarceration rate.
"Tell me you were too young to remember Alan Greenspan without telling me that"

The Fed has always shied away from saying things too bluntly, and preferred to deal with wishy washy code words. If it ever says something bluntly you know they really mean it. Something like "softened" is a deliberately ambiguous phrase designed to acknowledge the reality that they're declining without causing panic, by being uncertain and sounding not terribly bad. You're supposed to wonder what that means and argue about it, so the markets don't bolt one way or the other.

If you look up the history of Alan Greenspan ("The Maestro") and the way that investors in 2003 watched for the changes in single words from meeting to meeting from the Fed, so that he never startled the emotionally delicate markets you'll see there's a long history of this kind of language.

Also it kind of scares the crap out of me that they're bumping rates by 75 basis points every meeting. If you understand how much Greenspan was walking on eggshells back in 2003, they're fucking screaming right now by their actions that they're going to plunge the economy into a recession in order to get wage growth and unionization under control.
Could you elaborate more on those things abstracted by SQLite? or point to further reading - You got me interested
I disagree that subsidizing R&D to a few companies is going to make us more competitive.

Look at GE or Boeing, it didn’t work out.

What works is a free market. Raise import costs on CPUs and you’ll incentivize building in the US and more companies to form. It costs $0 tax dollars and brings in revenue and high paying jobs. Similar to what we did with car manufacturing.
United States Semiconductor - aka spinning up a nationalized firm.
Sure, this random guy who works at a foundation who’s mission is “to explain to Argentinians that deficits are bad” [0] is the most qualified person to talk about global monetary policy.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.infocampo.com.ar/gustavo-vi...

Carlos Schilling, el ex presidente de FADA, señaló que “es común que hoy en día nos preguntemos ¿qué estamos haciendo para mejorar nuestropaís? Desde FADA hacemos, y hacemos mucho: trabajamos para que todos entendamos que producir más es bueno para todos, que si el país está en déficit es malo, que si exportamos más nos ayuda a todos.
You have a good point that would stand even stronger without the name calling.
Your story is quite messed up, your partner is responsible for ruining your trust and your wellbeing. And it seems to me that this one time slip up for 6 months is something that is no accident but says something fundamental about your partner. Not sure what you could do now and you’re right about being depressed about it. But life throws you a curveball and things may end up in a totally different unexpected place and it could totally turn out for the better, you never know. Also, learn to be a bit selfish and love yourself some more.
You don't fool me.

What this will predominantly be used for is abusive partners, who also happen to be law enforcement officers (police) to terrorise their victims, or, more generally, abuse of powers by LE.

Here in Australia the police already have 30% more domestic violence charges than the average, and have been caught way too many times abusing their powers as LE.
When someone breaks into your house while you are home you have no way of knowing what they plan to do. It is reasonable to assume the worst, burglars want to reduce risk and only break in when the house is vacant.

It is very explicitly threatening your life.
The ones coming up with products are usually executives looking to advance their career. e.g. everyone I know who worked on Google Stadia who cared readily pointed out all the problems from idea to implementation. Management & product design waved off the concerns, said they were in for the long haul, and that the product would be a huge success regardless. And then they got cold feet after realizing how much of a flop it was, and how money they needed to spend to make a real entry into games.

I am no fan of leetcode. I think Google's engineering interview process is mostly RNG. But have you seen mock interviews for the product designers? They're even more inscrutable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTcXXGJiunA
No, because the article admits to the change:

> Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that a season one episode of Stranger Things had been edited retroactively to remove a shot of Jonathan photographing Nancy while she was changing.
Income inequality is a separate (albeit related) problem from economic growth. Immigration generates more value, the fact that most of this value is captured by elites needs to be fixed with appropriate actions (higher taxation on the extremely rich etc).
In my experience, Dreamhost's e-mail has been the part of the service that always worked.

I'm under the impression that the architecture of their e-mail service has been some sort of HA clustered setup for ages, and I think one of their unusually outspoken blog post in the 00s said outright that their customers are less sensitive to web than e-mail outages.

I've had an account with Dreamhost since June 2007. Their web uptime wasn't great back in the day. I seem to remember that they made a bad investment in some sort of very expensive NAS or SAN architecture from NetApp that caused a lot of downtime because the filers just regularly dropped clients.

However, with the dawn of cheap SSD, I think they moved back to local, per-server disks in the early 2010s.

I still have my Dreamhost account. They don't use cPanel, which was appealing to a younger me, for aesthetic reasons, and they also gave away sub account privileges you had to pay extra for as reseller hosting at other places.

My DH account has been a Swiss army knife of sorts for doing small web and hosting related things. This was especially useful back in the days before you could just use free Cloudflare DNS for random things.

These days, I use my own M365 business tenant for e-mail, and all my web customers are on servers in Europe, largely on hosting accounts based on cPanel, which I hated before. Now I like the ease with which I can ask a new provider to migrate all my cPanel accounts. It keeps the web hosting business extremely competitive.

Dreamhost also uses absurdly old hardware, my account is on an 8-core AMD Opteron 4122 CPU. Performance isn't particularly good. They also use Debian, so they don't rely on new features that CloudLinux and LiteSpeed bring to the table for shared hosting, to limit resource congestion/noisy neighbors.

My plan is actually to get off Dreamhost during my upcoming summer vacation.
Do you have access to an Apple Store? If so, try to setup a Genius Bar reservation and talk to someone there. if you can't setup a reservation due to needing an Apple ID, just go into the store and see if someone can help you.

It may be difficult since this is a classic way to take over an account through phishing and they have been trying to block that kind of thing.

I hate those security questions because, if you answer with real data, it can be guessed by others. If you answer with gibberish, then you need to document your answers and store them like passwords.
Pentesting related to national security or gov work can pay really well with a clearance (and the workload can be really light). I don't know if the private sector does pentesting pay better than engineering pay.

I found most of the pentesting salaries came in lower than engineering ones, and I felt that pentesting was the more difficult job.
In 2020. In USA.
> I’m no expert but always saw Go as the better choice for CLI tooling where performance is important

I'm no expert in golang, so golang may in fact be better(?) by some metric of better, but as the author of a Rust CLI tool[0], I will say that Rust is extremely performant, and pretty fantastic at this very use case. It seems like a sweet spot to me.

[0]: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that:

1. Low value of exports leads to a trade imbalance and long term decline in foreign currency reserves.

2. The government prints money to spend not on productive investments to solve 1. but on vanity projects or more-or-less bribes for their constituents to stay elected, leading to inflation.

3. Many historical periods of high ARS inflation leads to a lack of confidence in the local currency debt market.

4. 1+3 mean that Argentina needs to borrow in foreign currency, mostly USD.

5. Over time the debt accumulates and even more borrowing is necessary to pay interest.

6. Recently, rising US interest rates lead to a stronger USD, exacerbating the problem.

7. As debt rises so does the default risk and investors won't lend except at higher interest rates to compensate.

8. Eventually the country risks a default. Nobody wants that because the country wouldn't be able to import anything due to a lack of foreign currency (see Sri Lanka) and the creditors don't want that because they won't get paid back. So the IMF offers a bailout on the condition that the country will implement reforms to reduce spending so that it won't need to be bailed out again - austerity.

9. Austerity is unpopular and the government is replaced with one who promises to raise spending again and stick it to the IMF.

10. GOTO 1

This probably describes most countries in the world.
You should tell my landlords that, the spoiled son and daughter who inherited a bunch of passive income from their mother (who was actually a great landlord), and who let the leak I could hear, and called them about, fester for over a year until a large chunk fell out of my ceiling.
Codebreaking Sexts in the 1800s