skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful with young and ambitious recruiters these days.

When large companies can do hiring freezes they do not immediately fire a large proportion of their recruiters immediately.

Recruiters will spent the same time interviewing for less vacancies to fill. Be careful not to waste your time on this.
I guess the main differentiators that OneDev, Gitea etc. have vs. self-hosted Gitlab is their more focused feature sets and small footprints. Gitlab's minimum 4 cores, 4-8gb of RAM just to run at all is prohibitive for some use cases. I use Gitea as a locally-hosted fallback so critical IaC repos are still available and can be accessed by things like flux in a (local) k8s even if Github isn't reachable. I don't need Gitlab's feature set for that, I could do with plain git repos over SSH, but having a lightweight UI is actually really nice, and I'll put up with some quirks as long as the basic functionality works well.
Seems like a sweet gig
'Zero' was most likely invented for the same reason Complex Numbers were invented: to make some rare cases of contradictory mathematical formulas work. Zero is more a mathematical device than a number.
Did anyone else get the sense that this felt a lot like GPT-3 generated text?
To be pedantic, most corpses aren't alive today.
For what it's worth, Meta offered me slightly after the hiring freeze was announced for a security engineer position (L4 IIRC). I'm interviewing with Google for Security Engineering as well and still they haven't told me anything about a hiring freeze yet.
Is there any evidence these are connected?
I wonder what is going on with Amazon. They seem to be going strong with hiring.
Both Google and Meta have millions of PCs in data centers and the number just keeps growing, so I guess you can call it a cancer.
Disclaimer I am the author (not OP). I guess the user re-posted by simply copying my original one...
He said 1000x developers not libraries. Big difference.
I can understand not shipping everywhere, at least initially. Most power supplies work everywhere these days, but you have to ship the proper power cable. You also have to worry about customers getting sticker shock if you're not able to explain the customs fees (let alone shipping costs).
I myself only saw this video quite recently and like many in the YouTube comments my first thought was, "What has changed in the way we teach things that this video looks so refreshingly simple?" The first thing that comes to mind is the focus on visual intuition and simplicity, so that if you dragged someone randomly off the street, showed them this video, they could be able to understand it, what else?
1. Sure (if you didn’t need incremental builds, why bother with make at all? Just use sh.)

2. It doesn’t, it’s programmers job to make an effort to append a file name to a single line in a single file.

3. It’s portable in the same way autotools are portable, which means you can make it work with relative ease.
The US has done and still does plenty of censoring. The land of Playboy and Hustler goes looney every time there's a story about sex or nudity, especially when teenagers are involved. Around the same time period that American culture dominated the world, the FCC had a heavy hand in broadcast content with the implicit intention of aligning said content to socially desirable goals. That's only changed slightly over the past decade and, coincidentally, just as streaming was taking off.

I agree with you that the US doesn't need China's help to destroy itself. For that matter, it doesn't need anyone's help. However, "unfettered consumption" has nothing to do with it. Japan, Korea, and, until recently, Hong Kong are the posterchildren for unfettered consumption and yet the former two still have a stable societies the respects tradition and civility in debilitating excess. All three of these societies invest in education to a point of creating suicide-inducing hyper-competitiveness in their students.

Ultimately, one's values belong to oneself. The best thing about the US is that one is allowed to choose his values and is not obligated to follow the herd. Respect is a conscious decision and neither an edict handed down from high society nor a dictate delivered from the grave.
These go against every statistic I've seen regarding American homelessness. If you truly believe this, could you please provide a cite?
For me, yes. That it's unintuitive and messy is something I can get used to. The weight, resource, usage and slowness I can not. It feels like JIRA.
Show HN is only for things you wrote yourself and want to share https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I'm not a moderator, but there are guidelines for posting and one of them is how often you should repost

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

was postet many times in the last 12 months and some users even reposted twice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's starting to get confusing/difficult to keep track if something is reposted again or just something with the same name.
Mealie is a great self-hosted solution:
https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie
> This makes some of the locals much better off than they otherwise would be.

This inevitably drives up inequality and all the nasties that come with it: underemployment, crime, violence, homelessness...
Is it just doing what markets expect? They currently expect the companies to signal hiring freezes, thinking it will lower costs and increase profitability... Probably started by some that needed to do something and now rest just follow.
It should be sustainable if those two hours were spent building something useful, and not just another random thing to be forgotten in three years.
maybe they realized hiring leetcode junkies is not a great strategy and they want to freeze that while they find a better interview system
So did it? Couldn't find a transcript on that page.
Ask HN: How do you read HN?
I'm a new HN user, I used to use RSS feeds but nowadays I prefer coming here and explore all the interesting things people share.

I'm struggling with how to read all this stuff.

I bookmark almost everything I find interesting, but most of the time I end up forgetting about this or that story.

On top of that, reading on phone or computer is a no-go for me: I did that during university and it's simply not ergonomic enough.

This phenomenon is especially true for research papers or more generally anything that comes in PDF form.

I have a Kindle, I tried almost all the tools to send over links and PDFs but the experience is abysmal.

Have you ever experienced this problem? How did you solve it?
The kind of kernel is NOT a definition of a UNIX. Tru64 UNIX and QNX have Micro-kernels, DragonFlyBSD and MacOS Hybrid.

Tru64 UNIX and MacOS are UNIX certified.

>for a start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

Varies; monolithic, microkernel, hybrid
Or they both over-hired and are taking similar steps to lean into natural attrition.

As for new engineers and surplus of others, I'm sure they'll be moving people around. A backend dev on one project can move to another backend project. Same for frontend, mobile, etc. So little of the work being done at these companies is massively specialised as they all have mature systems you're weaving together to deliver solutions.
Military equipment moving from Fujian Province towards the coast(towards Taiwan)
It's not for flour or yeast. Everything else that is not compactable you can get away with volume. But flour is different beast. Best to look at dough consistency if you know how it should look.
Those market forces don't mean much when everyone offering a comparable service has those same conditions - there simply isn't a market for that part of the offering.
The best businesses I've seen work counter-cyclically.

When there are hiring freezes and layoffs, it's easy to find good cheap engineers and you hire. When job markets are hot, you put a pause on hiring.

The same goes for many other things. A recession is an ideal time for deep R&D. There's little competition, and it's possible to do long-term thinking. When the recession ends, and the bubble begins, you hit jackpot.

All of this requires deep enough pockets to weather a few years, though, and patient investors. That's rare.

Cargo culting for Google and Facebook make little sense organization-wide, since they do have deep pockets. They make complete sense employee-wise. No one got fired for following industry best practices, conventions, or cycles.
I agree 100% with your take on CEO at $10B+ revenue companies. I worked closely with a handful of them and it’s a brutal role in terms of WLB.

As you said it wasn’t unusual to be flying international 2 or 3 times per week. Late night/early morning calls with Europe/Asia and not to mention the PR aspects of it.
> You're talking about the "young an impressionable", the most vulnerable members of our society. You can't just "teach" them how to moderate: they wouldn't listen nor agree with your reasoning.

The "young" won't stay young forever. They have to learn how to moderate themselves at some point. Impressionability isn't directly related to age, but to lack of experience. An 21 year-old can be just as hooked on Tik-Tok as a 13 year-old.
Half OT, but... I want to have a backup on another site, at an family member. Like the 3-2-1 rule, 3 copies, on 2 different medium and 1 off site.

For the off site backup, I want a cheap solution and was thinking of an rasberryPi with an connected usb-hdd and then the rPi connected to a family members wifi-router that I could connect to over the internet and do my backups to.

My question are:
1 - What solutions are there to make encrypted backups to a rasberryPi from windows? I don't want to encrypt all files with encrypted 7z files and transfer them (it is an mess), but just to have a solution so I can choose the unencrypted files and folders and then the software encrypts them on the fly and transfer them over to the rPi.

2 - The optimal solution would be to have the rPi usb-hdd mapped as an network drive or similar in explorer. But would that be possible with the first requirement that all files must be encrypted on the fly? 1 is more important than 2.

3 - I have read that a rPi not can handle a connected usb-hdd because it will take to much power than the rPi can deliver. Does there exist an dongle or something that you could connect one or two usb-hhd to the rPi and the dongle is connected to the powergrid and gives the usb-hdd the power they need and then the dongle is connected to the rPi but only transfer data? Or is there any other solutions?

Sorry for maybe stupid questions. But I have no clues here, what to search/look for or even if it is possible. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
> The real problem is that companies of the Google scale will always need new engineers for particular projects and have a surplus for others. A global freeze or even layoffs simply don't fit.

Markets are trying to communicate the exact opposite: tighten the belt and focus on core profitability.

Just because Google can continue to throw money at idea after idea doesn’t mean that investors want them to.
What's going on is there is a giant recession half-cycle heading our way and Google (don't know about FB) have teams of folks whose sole job is to forecast these cycles.

My bet is they are seeing which way the wind is turning and battening down the hatches.
Absolutely not to bash the offer (looks pretty nice!), but IMO the biggest obstacle towards self-hosting is not the lack of appropriate hardware, but the dreadful combo of IPv4 + symmetric NAT shoved down the throats of us mere mortals (contemptuously dubbed "consumers") by ISPs (which I really think is not their whim but a directive from above to reinforce the monopoly of the state on the world's information flow, which implies surveillance, censorship and data harvesting).

Simply not being able to just run a server with ports open to the outer world on a home connection is one of the nails in the coffin of freedom.
No, not really.

The first one (Jumeirah) is _very_ successful, and commands some of the highest house prices in Dubai.

It is on the back of this success construction of 2 additional Palms were started before 2006.

Palm Jebal Ali went bankrupt before any house construction began originally, but after construction of the island, and has been empty for quite some time (but not eroding).

Development recently began and the first villas have been sold.

Palm Deira went banktrupt before the palm part of the project was constructed and has been renamed to Deira Islands. There are some development there, but it isn't a destination anyone seems to talk about.

The scale of the 3 palms are miniscule compared to the wall in Saudi
Unfortunately, for a pile of non-technical human reasons, this vision won't come to fruition.

Firstly, EV chargers aren't as smart as they seem. For many models of car, they can't know how much energy the car will be wanting to be full, or the charge profile of how fast the car can accept said energy. Without that, it's hard to plan ahead when to do the charging most optimally.

Secondly, National Grid refuses to trust the energy metering done by EV chargers. They don't believe the software that claims 'I used 1 kWh between 5pm and 6pm' unless that's proven by independent metering equipment that costs hundreds of pounds. Not worth it to save a few cents.

Thirdly, National Grid (and linked energy distributors) don't have reliable 'whole system' monitoring. They wouldn't know if the cable in your street was at 99% capacity and about to trip because 18 of your neighbours happened to all be using the oven at the same time. Smart meters ought to give them this information, but sadly their design fell short of such second by second realtime information.

Fourthly, National Grid is an old organisation averse to change. They have no shareholders to demand the use of new tech to save money. Instead they'll just build new (very expensive and mostly unneeded) capacity and charge usersmake users pay for it. While building that stuff very slowly, they'll deny permission to install new EV chargers, holding back other industries.
Perhaps the productivity should come from fixing whatever level is deciding to make another chat product, again. Fix the bonuses and you'll get better productivity.
>By 30, many cancer researchers have barely finished their PhDs, so you won’t actually be that far behind scientifically, but you’ll be far ahead financially.

A lot of people trying to change their careers would like to have a talk with you about this, I bet.

Ph.D in CS is 5-10 years ahead of newbie trying to learn computers
The bottleneck is the CEO as this is the role that is supposed to figure it out and more often than not the CEO's attention is on 120% percent is on sales, investors or a fire to put out.

That is why I think a small secretarial/admin staff working very closely with the C-level can be a useful as a police + help with ordering the chaos bad behavior usually hides behind.
My main gripe was that it was postet by OP as a "Show HN" ;)

Nice work btw always astounded how you keep developing it for so long nearly solo. I was many times intrigued enough to try to switch to OneDev just to try it, but my personal git setup is working too well right now. Never switch a running system runs too deep in me.

Anyway there seem to be discussions taking place so I will cut the noise and stop whining.
OCaml Software Foundation
Digital Humanities/IT Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Berlin, Germany
ONSITE + REMOTE mix
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A hiring freeze is typically a freeze on new job reqs (candidates already interviewing wouldn't be exposed to this)
That isn't necessarily true. There are a ton of things that I know how to make and that I'm sure that I can make but which I haven't made yet.
Assuming it is accurate, the final sentence in this article is especially notable.
SourceHut? https://sourcehut.org/
Working 2 hours a day while getting paid 300K+ is unsustainable.

That's just not true though. If you can generate $50m of revenue by working 2 hours a day then you're brilliant at your job, and demanding you work more hours is idiotic.

Put simply, there is no function that converts "salary / hours" into any useful measure of a person's output.
Unless you're being facetious, I suspect that PC == political correctness in this context.
With Quarto Coming, Is R Markdown Going Away? No
My mom was at an interview where they were talking about how great it was that she was female, she walked out.

There's probably a balance between meritocracy(because hiring for these parameters) and hiring based on skill no matter where they're from.
How do you use a computer if reading on your computer isn't ergonomic for you?
Flagging for self-promotion. Should be a Show HN.
I have built this myself. It’s been evolving for ten years now and started as a motley pile of XML and shell scripts. Now it’s an SQLite database and a Haskell program to drive it. I use GNU roff to print the grocery list.

I won’t claim this saved any time over using some app, but it does work exactly how I want it.
Spacetime, Quantum Entanglement and Black Holes
note: I skipped the introductions in the url
The first layer is probably "don’t be there" but yeah.
The price of used cheap semi trucks for sale ranges in the thousands, but can vary greatly depending on the age and condition of the vehicle. A good rule of thumb is that if you’re buying cheap semi trucks for sale that’s over 15 years old, you’re probably going to be spending less than $20,000 for it. Semi trucks that are newer than 10 years old start at about $30,000 and go up from there based on their condition and features.
Nobody really knows this stuff. If you're at huge companies, you have the luxury of having several rounds of UX testing. But it's still largely trial and error.

At smaller outfits you just have ramshackle processes that sometimes include user feedback, sometimes not. The stakeholders rarely know all the applicable personas and journeys and such right off the bat, especially for greenfield features...

Not disagreeing with you, since that would be really nice, just never really seen it in practice. Every org I've ever worked for had made UX a low priority.
Quickly set up an escrow for safe transactions with other parties. Choose from a number of different blockchains like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain or Polygon.
Same here. Caffeine helps me getting into the first hyperfocused session, but after that the rest of the day is usually just me floating around. Quitting caffeine has an overall positive effect for my base dopamine level.
Aldous Huxley Brave New World Forward
archive.org full-text: https://ia801308.us.archive.org/8/items/BraveNewWorld-and-Br...
How to get your first job in UX: A Guide
Freeze? Both me and my friend from a previous project were recently approached by G's recruiters in Poland.

I wasn't pursuing new roles at the time, but my friend figured he'd try and found that the recruiter's calendar was filled up to the brim.

He asked what's going on and she replied that she has KPI to fulfill and this is the result. He followed up with a question about compensation and got a number which was... very close to the current market rate.

This is a major shift in policy comparing to just three years ago and with Poland being a popular outsourcing destination I suspect that this is what's happening, especially that due to the Russian invasion there's additional talent from Ukraine in Warsaw.
I doubt they have to be pixelated. They have a higher resolution than the other patterns which introduces more noise, which is probably good. But I would guess that smooth patterns would work too. It just doesn't matter since it would look the same from longer distances.
You're right, my apologies. :)

I misinterpreted the whole thread as "what's wrong with writing makefiles for GNU make specifically".

Which is subtly a different question (and to which the answer of course is "nothing, as long as you're happy to specifically use GNU make to run them").
Could you please elaborate on the Visa sponsorship?

I haven't been able to find any stats regarding NASA ADS (or NASA) visa sponsorships.
The article didn't seem to include much technical detail on how this works but I was hoping it would be closer to the Stanford research on effective body cooling[1] that was around 10 years ago and less just a vest holding frozen packs.

From what I remember most traditional body cooling gel based vests have the problem of causing blood capillaries in the skin to close down. That stops the body from transporting warm blood from the core to the surface where sweat is used to cool it.

To put it another way, they are too cold to really help with cooling.

They idea behind the vacuum glove was that there are certain areas of the body with more capillaries and if you can keep blood flowing to them by not going too cold (say constant 12C) and by using a mild vacuum to draw blood to them you have a much better way to cool the body.

I'm guessing that's much harder to work with than a simple vest holding gel packs. Seems a shame though that we don't have anything more effective right now.

My own personal usecase would be better cooling than "loads of fans" when riding indoors on Zwift. The cooling vests I've tried so far weirdly just make you feel cold and hot at the same time.

1. https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2012/pr-cooling-glove-research-...
Isn't that pretty much mozilla thunderbird?
It's so absurd that you understood exactly what I meant.
Sure, it's not perfect. The author's flaunting of his privileged lifestyle - taking months off a year to just chill - really ground my gears, but he seemed genuine in his quest to find the reason why he could no longer think clearly.

Does that make him biased - of course, but whether or not the study of how topics get covered faster across decades was peer reviewed is rather unimportant. What I know is that I was able to read half a book in one session, and now I am struggling with a single page.
Modernist cuisine has their own recipes. The problem is converting already existing recipes to the new format.

Let's assume that we make MC standard - you can get Hesston and Alton Brown on board. The bakers too. The egullet guys and gallals. But how many of the already existing food chefs, blogs will be willing to convert especially the one that have a bit more romantic connection to cooking.
I just wish PC would still mean "IBM / Wintel platform computer" on HN.
Most of the good tools like that do capture the context like that, while still making it easy for the end user. Even just a paragraph plus a screenshot plus the url plus the console is a great start, and that's all easy to capture automatically but hard to get from users manually.

Then there is a pipeline from that into your issue manager. I've sent them into jira, Airtable, etc. for further refinement and work.
You can't compare tango to a rave. At all. I used to go to raves too. :)

A tango marathon to a rave is like going to a Shakespeare play vs. watching a Fast & Furious franchise flick.
A Brief Introduction to Solid-State Batteries
I used to use DMXControl on Windows for stage play FX lighting (on-stage things such as uplighters, fireplaces, illuminated signs etc.) and would just setup a presets board with virtual push buttons.

I had a quick skim through the QLC+ site but couldn't see whether it had an equivalent feature. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Way too often.

I'm trying to keep track of the 'new' page on some days but mostly just let it go because it moves too fast to be bothered with. And I'll open the main page at least several times per day and break out those articles that I want to read. It's a huge time sink.
This really depends on the team, and the individual productivity and ambition of the person in question.