skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a really naive view. Attempting to expand the "fire" in a crowd limitation to many other speech areas is reckless. The government are just humans, and humans are conniving and motivated by politics. That road leads to an obvious end.

You list small examples of when free speech goes bad but I can assure you not having it goes bad in a bigger way for many more people.
I wrote an article about this same thing. Stop interviewing with ad-hoc code quizzes, live or take-home.

I've interviewed maybe 500 engineers in my career. I'm an early engineer of Instacart, 3rd engineer of Eventbrite, founding engineer of Reforge. Started 3 companies myself.

My interview is always the same:

1. Bring code you've written

2. Share your screen

3. Explain what it does and I will casually ask questions about it

You get so much information from this:

- How they think about code

- If they think it could be better

- Who they blame if the code isn't the best

- Personality

- Product dev glimpses

- Comms

- Sentiment
I think that’s fair psychologically, but as long as I’m on a level playing field I’d rather have a reasonable upper bound or I’m going to feel forced to overly polish to stand out.
social/chat based finance seems ripe for fraud to me. Imagine if a facebook worm had access to your finances. How do you overcome this concern?

EDIT: I guess messenger does have it's own payment system too... which seems crazy to me.
> What happens if someone makes a mixer that operates over Signal messages?

Honestly, if someone just develops a mixer and publishes the code they’re probably fine. That’s speech. GitHub or a journal, it is protected.

Tornado’s developers didn’t do that. They made a token that with monetary value that they get paid; they hired people and had a website promoting the service; et cetera. If this were just a GitHub repo, yes, the comparison to speech would be apt. It’s not. And I’m none too thrilled about folks throwing actual free speech and privacy under the bus to defend crypto.
You seem to believe that if a tool is illegal, as long as it's open source and the people making it don't have a criminal background, and as long as you call it something like "privacy software," somehow it's suddenly not illegal

But this is a tool whose specific purpose it is to make it difficult to track illegal transactions. Of course this is happening.

Programmers get way too wrapped up in "but I called it open source! I called it privacy software!"

What you label it has no actual power here. It was used in illegal behavior and that appears to be its goal.

Of course it's going away.
I can't speak to chemical engineers specifically although it's my understanding that it's mostly civil engineers (and other engineers who work directly with regulators) who get PEs. I can tell you that as someone with mechanical engineering and material science degrees, it's not at all common for people in those fields to get PEs.

Continuing education is a bit of a joke. So you attend a conference once a year, maybe watch some webinars. In general, PEs mean you've gotten an undergrad degree, passed a couple of GRE-type tests and have worked in the industry for a few years.
What makes Pana specific to Latinos? It sounds like this product is relevant to pretty much any immigrant who's struggling to set up banking in the US while occasionally exchanging money with folks back home. I can imagine folks from every ethnic background and 6 of 7 continents using this product.

I guess it's a market focus thing -- appeal specifically to Latinos to build a small, dense network before you branch out to other backgrounds?

Just feels a bit weird to claim to be "inclusive" when you also claim that you're for one specific ethnic group.
My view actually is that most of the world is actually really bad at hiring, and we spend lots of time complaining about the tech world doing it but that's because the tech world tries a lot harder.

This is anecdata, but based on talking to my wife and friends who work in other industries most recruitment is pot luck. They interview the candidate for 1 hour, maybe 2, don't have any consistency in what they're asking and no standard criteria for 'good enough'. It's all subjective and down to the interviewer (maybe two of them if you're lucky). You then get stuck with a proportion of your staff who are dead weight.

I'm not sure of the reasons why the technology sector cares more. Possibly because the difference between "good" and "bad" is much bigger - maybe not the mythical 10x, but more than the difference between one accountant and another. Or maybe it's just that these are all newer companies who don't have the older ideas holding them back and have discovered a better way to be profitable.
> you're not putting families at risk which you would by hiring people to fire them with pretty high odds.

I'm not sure what you mean by putting families at risk?
Started a new job which requires me to know c++ so I’m learning that. Half c# and half c++.

Bought some books.

- Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14

- C++ Concurrency in Action

- C++ High Performance: Master the art of optimizing the functioning of your C++ code

If anyone has any recommendations would love to hear them.
you should be able to replicate whatever special soil you need with hidroponics
Justifiable by what, exactly? International trade in a multipolar world requires a money supply that no single government can arbitrarily enforce its will on. Is the argument that every government should have an unchecked ability to enforce its will on the medium of exchange?
> I am curious what the situation is where the recovery log grows to large size

From the link, "if a writer writes to the database while a checkpoint is ongoing [...] it does mean that the wal file may grow indefinitely if the checkpointer never gets a chance to finish without a writer appending to the wal file. There are also circumstances in which long-running readers may prevent a checkpointer from checkpointing the entire wal file - also causing the wal file to grow indefinitely in a busy system."
I agree with you but sadly this model isn't viable in the U.S. due to healthcare and employment being tied together.
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I'm in Canada--if I want to buy a pair of jeans made here, my options are boutique brands starting at $150.

Your prescription to buy domestic is a noble end goal, but it's out of reach to the working class. What do you think are the intermediate steps to get there? How do we make over-consumption stop being normal?
I've been happily using the Jira Assistant browser extension [0] to try to work around the myriad and manifest shortcomings of Jira. It addresses some of them (such as information density on the screen, much more customisable reports).

As others in this thread have alluded to -- corporate security policies can, right or wrong, bring down the banhammer on these types of tools, which can be doubleplusfrustrating given the native features are so user-hostile.

[0] https://github.com/shridhar-tl/jira-assistant
Great point! We believe there is a lot of potential on many other technologies like ETH/Crypto. We just had to start with basics and continue to evolve from there
Yup, this is another idea I've heard floating around. In some situations where fiber backhaul or line-of-sight is not feasible, Starlink could link their ground stations to these hard to service locations extending the reach of existing backhaul.

Then the 4/5G can be set up using a mixture of fiber, line-of-sight or Starlink backhaul, depending on the situation and location.

Of course this is another way that Starlink might be able to win some of these contracts. They could set up (or work with a partner) mini 4/5G networks in these rural areas and also use a mixture of fiber and Starlink backhaul. After all, they still need fiber backhaul for their ground stations anyways.

Starlink customers end up not needing to buy the current, expensive hardware and just use relatively inexpensive 4/5G modems.

I've heard this isn't possible with the gen 1 satellites, so still a theory until the Starship program is off the ground.
There does exist a world where trendiness in clothing styles moves shockingly fast. Put This On in general advocates for a much more slow-moving approach to fashion (specifically menswear).

Personally I've found awareness of traditional menswear style to be a fun hobby, but 99% of the time I am still wearing a t-shirt and workout shorts.
My parents had goats.

The problem with goats for your nice landscape is that they will nibble at everything including your trees and any shrubbery.
Agree that Apple Music needs some improvements when driving and cannot access the screen.

Playing my 'personal' station in the car loads usually 2 to 15 tracks. These play in a loop. Wait, what?-I thought this was a station? Have to click the 'personal' station button again to load the next 2-15 tracks.

This kind of thing has gotten worse since they moved to server-side authentication. Every single request made has to be authenticated first....on the server side. If there is a lot of traffic you just have to wait. Try adding a song to a playlist; often this takes just a few seconds but sometimes it can take a few minutes (Wi-Fi or cellular, doesn't matter).

Apple has a mostly captive audience, so their services can survive by being "just good enough".
These trucks are going for 100,000 where I live. Kind of crazy imo - Tesla SUV with the Wing-Doors is in that same ballpark.

I personally would rather just get an ultimate luxury vehicle at that price point or a suped out Porsche.
Nim, Haskell, OCaml (bytecode only I believe, unfortunately), D perhaps, and Go (AIX 7.2+) are not bad options, depending on your needs and taste.

I'm hoping mrustc or the gcc frontend become viable too.
If started last year counts as new then I am using it for work aiming at low latency processing of data so seems a good fit, but to be honest it's my default language choice as well. The tech stack also has a number of typescript services and python for tooling, there is a service in golang too but it's a minor part.
But the article defines it but doesn’t explain it I think. What sort of trend changes in days or weeks? Any clothes chain is responsive to trends but those trends like skinny/baggy jeans take a season to change at least.

Is a concrete example that you’d push a hat found in a viral video to production? Then I get it
I tried to spend $60+ on t-shirts and guess what, the same crap that turns “shoddy” after a short while. Part of a problem is that bad fashion mimics the normal one and if you aren’t into brand tracking or what they call it, you can’t make good guesses.

I decided to not worry much about my clothing cause my look-matters phase is long gone anyway. When it’s official, I wear a decent official look. When not, I look like a basic dude and let it hurt their fashion/status feelings.
Trends come and fade very fast now. So you can't use the "old" and slow method of designing clothes one year in advance, produce them in China and then ship them across the world. If you want to wear the very latest trend, it was likely designed only a few weeks ago, perhaps more locally (at least Zara produces a lot close to or even in Europe for the European market to decrease time-to-market).
I'm fairly confident that they meant garbage, yes.

Without commenting on the amount of badness, the point is that they're both bad things that people nonetheless manage to regularly do.
Yes that was on the web, not mobile
In terms of LoC, I'm probably at 25% C++, 65% Dart (Flutter) and 10% Kotlin/Swift. Probably not enough to qualify as "main language", but enough that I'm writing it multiple times a week.

C++ for the low-level machine learning (Kaldi/ONNX) & rendering (Filament) components, Dart for the service/model/view layers and Kotlin/Swift for hooking things up to native APIs.

I can't claim to be a C++ expert but I've found that working with RAII, staying away from templates and being slow to incorporate newer (>C++11) features keeps things reasonably sane. The standard library is definitely painful to use in places (streams, chrono, etc) but all things considered, I still prefer it to Rust.
Servos and cables are going to drastically outperform these artificial muscles, though.

Only high performance hydraulics exceeds that.
Being a money mule makes you complicit in fraud or financial crimes. Running cryptocurrency code and using your own cryptocurrency wallet to help launder stolen money is a crime. People are expected to know better than to lend their wallet for "temporary storage" of money for a reward, especially if they don't know who the source or destination of the transaction may be.

No company will advertise themselves as a criminal operation, even the dumbest thieves aren't that stupid.
KDE KRunner has some of this, though not on the command line. I'd prefer to have a search engine running locally that handled this kind of thing, just because the browser can display richer results.
Ppl work hard to make sure they remain different for 99.9% of non-technical people (eg. banning anonimous cryptocurrency)... once this is done, you become and outlier by using different tools than average people, and special means of surveilance can be deployed against you personally at much lower cost...

Ofc this is bad, but the bigger purpose is always "power over the proles".

You can let most people have most of their privacy as long as you don't touch the "power distrubution tools" (money) - eg. if messaging is private, but money is on a blockchain where all wallets are mandatory to have an associated human identity, it doesn't matter that some sketchy transactions happen on the edges. Bitcoin would be targeted too if it were used to eg. pay wages and fund companies on a large scale.

Probably Tornado Cash enabled some activity that was large scale enough to not be considered just "on the fringes" anymore...
So far about 1200, including 400 celebrities, three heads of state, nine former heads of state, and 150 sitting politicians worldwide.

It's the third largest successful corruption sting in history.

Also, edgelords online who don't know what's happening in the real world like to pretend there was no fallout, so that they can feel wise about corruption, and like to demand that other people look things up for them so they can feel like they made a point.

In reality, it was about half of the names in the document base so far, and that's despite it being international prosecution with an unwilling nation.

Things in the Panama Papers are going quite well for law and order, albeit slowly.

Would you be kind enough to tell us what result you were expecting, and what point you were trying to make?

In the future, would you please consider knowing the answers to your sarcastic questions before asking them, please?
Yeah I agree, I don't have actual data to back this snowballing effect idea.
Is there any documentation with actual examples of using it? The “Usage” section only mentions Bash completion, the Wiki is empty, there is no doc/ directory, and the rest of the README seems to be about setting custom commands (which is good to have, but probably not for it to basically be the entire README).
Working in robotics with ROS2. Python for simple stuff and C++ for everything else.
My plan is to use Tauri in Rust likely with just the view in TypeScript (will probably move state into Rust). No, it isn't Qt/QML and HTML/JS/CSS aren't as snappy or memory efficient, but with work they can be made reasonable and bonus is styling is endless.
> Brave uses its own search index

Did not know that. I immediately grabbed some recent "poor result" Google searches from history and tried them at search.brave.com — so far ALL results are better. Reminds me a bit of Google from ten years ago.

Google's decline into its present inability to NOT show only "assumed popular content" created a huge time sink in my life that wasn't there before. Not a fan of the over- and inaccurate use of "disruption" but it was a legitimate description for what Google did to other search engines, and this feels like a similar level of improvement. I'm frankly amazed at how good the search results are in my initial test.
Most devs have a shit ton of projects, code etc to show. This is way more than enough to estimate skill level and bypass leetcode memorization performances and 90% of other tech elements of interview.

Corps basically just offload this work on the candidate as this is obviously cheaper and more convenient, instead of spending time and looking into his profile.
They’re looking at layers in a semicrystalline solid, so I actually do think that’s appropriate.
As usual, minority-language reporting is filled with weird formulations.

> Their language, also called Kusunda, is unique: it is believed by linguists to be unrelated to any other language in the world. Scholars still aren't sure how it originated.

Languages with no known relatives are called isolates, and there are a lot of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate And languages do not normally "originate", unless they are constructed, like Esperanto, or arise in unusual circumstances, like spontaneous sign languages in isolated deaf communities.

> And it has a variety of unusual elements, including lacking any standard way of negating a sentence, words for "yes" or "no", or any words for direction.

As pointed out in other comments, not having words for "yes" or "no" is not very surprising. As for a "standard way" of negating a sentence, I wonder what that means. Kusunda has negative verbal suffixes, which vary based on some grammatical features, but so do many other languages. Location and direction is also usually specified by suffixes like in, e.g., Hungarian or Finnish.

See a grammatical overview for details: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83v8d1wv
The trick is just to not be good at them. At least in Overwatch, at middle or low tiers you can just ignore the meta and play whatever, no one cares really.
A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP (2020)
We had some fairly standard interview questions that I wrote - problem solving type questions asking someone to sketch out a pseudocode answer. One of the smarter things I did was 'interview' several of our existing employees to get an idea of where people would fall on the scale. It was a great help when we then started giving them to candidates, and prevented us hiring some people because no, the good people we had really could solve these problems with only a bit of nudging.
So how would you desscribe the ideal interview?
When I was asked “why isn’t your room clean?”, I don’t think my mom was trying to have a philosophical discussion with me.

Well, maybe the first time.
Periodically stories emerge about cases in Indian courts that have been pending for centuries. [0]. Such cases, not only in India, have also been the fodder for literature, including Charles Dicken's "Bleak House" set against the backdrop of the interminable fictional probate case "Jarndyce v Jarndyce" which is implied to have lasted for generations.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-21446272
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I don’t know what the particulars of this case were, but a lot of similar cases led to companies being forced to adopt more consumer-friendly policies.

Like this story of a man who fought for a similar amount which ended up forcing the railways to refund hundreds of thousands to thousands of people:

https://www.news18.com/news/business/a-5-year-fight-with-rai...

Another case I remember off the top of my head was vendors charging beyond MRP for beverages in airports. Someone fought that in court over years and as a result, every vendor is now forced to sell bottled beverages at MRP now.
I use a take home exercise. It should take at most 30m to 1h to complete. I have a well calibrated objective scoring system for the exercise. It's trivial to figure out if someone copied it from elsewhere. I find it works pretty well at getting the "can they code" portion hiring process out of the way.
I'm using C++ for everything because this is all I know.
Great point, it's exactly because its the other way around that its completely different. Instead of adding financial features to a social platform, we're adding a chat functionality to an FDIC insured and secured banking platform. Its sounds like the same but from a security stand point -as well as a cognitive one- we believe it makes all the difference.
> International trade in a multipolar world requires a money supply that no single government can arbitrarily enforce its will on

Do we have such a money supply? If not, do we have international trade? Is the world not multipolar?

This claim fails on face value. Most of history was multipolar, international trading and reliant on money states de facto controlled. (You’re not moving tonnes of gold without the state’s permission and not being chased by them.)
Saving the Giant Sequoia from Wildfires
I generated 6GB of art for me, some of them I posted
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Yevhen+Pyrohov?rid=309205434

I also posted automation to generate arts 24/7 with good rate of paintings that inspire you

https://www.fiverr.com/ypyrohov/setup-batch-program-for-pain...
Scrivener came to mind for me as well. I've adopted Emacs' org-mode as my Linux-friendly Scrivener replacement and I like it a lot.

OneNote is pretty nice and was my go-to app on iPad for infinite whiteboard notes until I discovered ZoomNotes, the other app Curio made me think of.
>don’t care too much about integrating with web stacks (which is always a chore in C++)

Why so? Using Emscripten You can always compile C++/C to WebAssembly (for execution in web browsers).
> it is absolutely possible to recognise misinformation in others.

And this needs to be part of the education, part of the direct democracy.

Keep in mind that in many situations there isn't a single truth, compromises need to be made, different implementations of a system that should work in theory needs to be tested etc... The belief in a single great system has lead to many bad societies.
It's not just that. If you attempt to view something "spicy" like 3D printed guns on a mobile device, it tries to force you to install the app.
HN has a sort of hilarious amount of puritan sentimentality when you look at comment patterns at large
It doesn't have a negative connotation in my mind, class is an inherent part of the human experience as far as I'm concerned. It's just culture. Very different from immutable personal characteristics.
I've been getting these suspicious posts from people claiming to be from Ukraine. They always use the same template. Seems suspicious; any idea what's going on?
> so that is why companies keep on doing this

Google already stopped this, so which companies are you referring to?

This fine is only for Australia, and Google has had to pay billions in fines globally, which is not cheap and has changed their data collection practices. The suggestion that fines aren’t working isn’t accurate.
Somehow I had more fun coding on Aix than HP-UX, even though I used HP-UX longer.
It feels like government agencies and companies have found a spot where the fines aren't too much for companies to stop but enough for government to be financed. It's not about deterrence but about mutually beneficial arrangement.