skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The kind of trial by social media in which you're now engaged is all part of that. Why allege anything when you'll be accused of making it up, being a slut, having your life history raked through by trolls online...

The accused can also have their lives raked through and ruined simply for being accused. There is something to gain (e.g. financial and moral support, feeling as though one were on the "right" side of history, etc.) from being a professional victim, and doubly so on social media. Whether that applies here remains to be seen.

> "Hunted by his money" ffs. "Without more data". Have some empathy.

Empathy: The ability to identify with or understand another's situation or feelings

Waiting for data and considering the potential motivations involved are empathetic actions. It may be simplistic to make such claims, but there is no lack of empathy to consider that these situations can occur and have occurred to other people and that they might be applicable here. At the end of the day, no one here was present when the alleged events occurred. We're all relying on news reports and hearsay.

> Also note that he is NOT "being sued for sweet money" but criminally charged by a prosecutor. They don't do that unless they have strong evidence and there's no compensation to victims in a criminal trial.

Any evidence obtained in a criminal trial can be used in a civil trial with a lower burden of proof, even if one is acquitted in the former. Additionally, prosecutors have issued charges on exaggerated, or even fraudulent evidence before. The Innocence Project is a testament the consequences of zealousness and lack of impartiality that occurs in courts across the country.

In what is likely a to be a he said/she said scenario, one should wait to examine how damning the evidence and testimony actually is so as not to come to a premature conclusion.
> I also don't see why the content should be copy-pasted instead of just a link.

Quite possibly an easy way to preserve the content in case the original goes offline and to share it with colleagues. Perhaps they wanted to link to it from some long-lived or even printed material. Not saying it’s the best way to do so, but it’s plausible and not malicious.
> endless discussions and iterations about internal tooling

They just asked a simple question. It's a one-to-three-word answer. 'GitHub', 'Gitlab', 'BitBucket', 'Self-hosted CVS'. They wanted information, not to start a fight like you thought.
That is the whole deal, it was Web, so kind of easier than native, given its source based form, and even then, you had to bend the rules from TDD religion.
They were not arrested for violating a law that targets their race, religion or any other constitutionally protected status.

That is what imprisoning people FOR their ethnicity means.
Personally, I also ask more questions about on-call:

- is there a SLO?

- what is the schedule? 24h is no go for me.

- is non-business hours on-call compensated (even when there are no pages)?

In particular, I strongly believe we (as profession) should push more the employers for the last point. Being oncall during weekend means I need to seriously adjust my plans; need to have corporate devices somewhere close, etc. In particular this also means I don't fully disconnect from work if I have to carry laptop/phone with me. This kind of stress slowly accrues long term. All in all: staying alert for oncall is some sort of work. A physical security guard gets paid for keeping an eye on things even when nothing happens; it's startling that so many devs don't.
Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks
> Becoming vegan does not help this cause. Unexploited land is only unexploited because of legal protections. Not one acre will go unexploited because enough people became vegan.

There was a great interview with one of the guys who bought a black rhino tag and pissed the Internet off.

Very thoughtful guy, and his core message was "Given enough time, the only animals left on this planet will be those that are useful to humans or able to hide from us." In that an economic incentive is the only sure motivator of action over the long term, and so if we want to preserve something then we'd better find a financially sustainable model to do so.

And land can't hide.
So pick three? I really don't understand the issue a lot of people seem to have with this laundry list.

It looks exactly like my list of interview questions I ask candidates. I don't ask all of them, I pick the ones that I think make most sense given their context and experience. Doesn't mean that it's not helpful to have.
Wars are incredibly messy. War crimes abound by all sides.
> i'm an old, white, straight male

Same thing as with diversity metrics: This should not quality or disqualify you from anything, why did you feel the need to mention it?

This makes me feel some sort of uneasy. I wouldn't want to be around people who judge me or people in general by random things that "happened" to them at birth.
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That's great, until they decide to nix it or you want to migrate your list to another search engine. I wish we could decouple these choices from the website providers. A web browser that puts the user back in control.
The part of Oracle I was in were using Git on BitBucket when I was there years ago. They were on GitHub for a time but decided they didn't like the PR functionality.
https://www.debian.org/doc/

/usr/share/doc

man pages. No one uses info pages, whoever says he does is lying.
That is until you start a new job where they use subversion but people really just copy code around and once in a while a new version gets tagged.
No, they are trying to distinguish between content that is going to make $ for them vs content that is not going to make $. They don't care about truth or utility.
Many of those species are pollinator species. Others have different ecological roles.

The classic example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign : in that case, exterminating species in agricultural areas was intentional, but the results were not.
I'm not too sure it is that different. If a sufficient amount of microplastics is harmful to humans then it's a similar threat to our wellbeing when it bioaccumulates.

It's the dose that makes the poison, and if the dose is increasing over time it's going to become a problem if we don't stop it in time.
If you care about that, then just let everyone eat less of it instead? It could be rationed, or made illegal.
LineageOS still has amazing battery life though even with MicroG. 2 weeks standby on my ancient Sony XA2.

It may be less battery efficient than Google's builds but skipping all the spyware really saves a ton of battery.
Well in the absence of other data, I'll rely on YouGov more than you for viewing figures, thanks.
You realize Germany is the one who invaded Belgium and France, leading to 4 million Allied civilians dead?
You, accidentally, tripped a pet peeve of mine. Many people seem to think of writing software as a command and control function like some hypothetical military rank (and the leveling process engaged in by tech. companies reinforces this) where people higher up the ladder “trump” those lower.

But in software (and perhaps all knowledge work) many many times its the lowest ladder employees who are closest to the actual problem space. They are the ones dealing with the hacked up code base from 8 years ago, the indecipherable comments, the untested code that is critical to the business.

The job of the more senior people is not to command and control those employees, but to empower them. Bringing breadth of experience, or in depth expertise that is not specific to the problem at hand to help them make a decision.

Sorry, rant over.
> I mean, is your entire decision going to be made on GIT being used?

The absence of Git is certainly a critical negative factor. I wouldn't work in a company without source control, and these days Git and source control are more or less the same (I guess it's possible they use Mercurial).
Excellent. I'm in process of building a service delivering notifications via webhooks right now. Thank you!
You can always get a job as a doctor writing prescriptions, lol.

More seriously, I've always had bad handwriting; I even had extra lessons to try and improve dexterity and whatnot. I did look at old school stuff at some point and it was relatively neat compared to my current handwriting - I've definitely regressed.

I don't even know why. I don't believe my small motor skills are that bad. Laziness? Not paying enough attention while writing?

Anyway typing is more my jam.
Where was the code?
I'd like more search filters like that, they should be composable with logic expressions. For example, "forums" or "eu" (all EU national domains, so you can find a product that is easy to ship), but you could extend it with page categories like "reviews", "recipes", "python", "js", "in/out_top_1m", "blogs", not to mention verticals like "shopping", "hotels", "tickets".

Especially for the shopping category Google dropped the ball. When I am, wallet in hand, ready to buy a widget, why doesn't it do the best to help me find it? Isn't that the essence of search? Or just to search again and show more ads?

Such a failure of experience to try to use Google. Behaves like the doctor who secretly wants people to be sick so he can have more business.

But the writing is on the wall. Dialogue based search agents are coming, snippet based search is on the way out. The language models become better and better, they can even do sub-searches. The trend towards natural language based search is being accelerated by the mobile phones who lack proper keyboards and large screens.
Economics would be parallel to psychology, not evolutionary psychology. I believe that descriptive psychology is a science.

E.g. eventually they will be able to determine the result of the Milgram experiment, and it will become a fact, a building block in our view of the world, and it will affect our decisions mostly positively. They just need to make enough experiments.
Anything you posted in your job listing is fair game. You post your tech stack? I'm asking about it. I also want to talk to a developer at the same level as I'll be at so I can ask them what a typical day to day is.
You're making a whole lot of assumptions there buddy.
It is cut and dry. You need to be effective at collaborating with other people. I use git for everything even my own projects. How can you collaborate copying code around effectively?
It is a paid service, so probably not for everyone, but have you tried Kagi? It lets you 'pin' specific sites to the top, rank sites higher, rank sites lower, or block them entirely
It’s plausible and not malicious, understandable too, but it's not hard to say it in a sentence at the beginning of the post.

This is a public blog, not some internal website.

Anyway, my previous comment probably sounds harsh because it is the way I wrote it (because I previously worked in a research lab, so I kinda feel disappointed), but I still consider this a minor fuck up and it happens to everyone, for sure.
Three would be fair. Out of 251...
Massive flooding and droughts are here now, climate change isn't a future thing anymore. It will become worse every year, but the disasters are already here.
Right, people optimize for what is measured against - aka Goodhart's law.
The UK government has blocked HK-based Super Orange from purchasing Pulsic
We built Svix[1] exactly for this reason. We make it super easy for companies to send webhooks reliably. There are only three companies with a "perfect score" on webhooks.fyi's list, we power one of them. ;)

[1] https://www.svix.com
We can split hairs over federalism while kids rot in jail.
This is a really big help to anyone trying to implement TCP. At one previous job, we had to wade through ~20 RFCs to figure out how to write a hardware TCP system, paying particular attention to which RFC supersedes which sections of other RFCs. Consolidating to one RFC without the crazy dependency chain is a big improvement!
Embedded device. Or do you mean storage? Tar files... going to back a decade+.
I said "a series of questions akin to", not "this single question". Please don't take my words out of context.

My comment isn't about source control. It's about warning applicants not to over-obsess about technical details when other stuff influences job happiness much more than git vs mercurial.
Intels FPGAs should be able to run OpenCL kernel SPIR-V which simplifies the pipeline significantly.
Maybe we can take this list, and make something like Glassdoor where companies, or departments within companies can answer the whole list in one go, then point all the candidates there?
I can understand 'and why' being tedious, and I've never had any questions come to mind to ask really, but it has occurred to me before that if I joined and then found out they didn't use git... I'm all for 'actually shipping product' but there's enough employers out there that such a fundamental unlikely to change tool is a reasonable deal-breaker.

The other thing I thought that about was Windows - using macOS would frustrate me daily but I'd (and have) get by, but Windows I would definitely regret not having checked what I'd be using/whether it was my choice before joining.
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I currently do. It's not perfect, but honestly, I don't understand the hate.
It absolutely is already happening. Fox and the NYPost is always free and end up owning the narrative for many people.

There’s coordinated campaigns when issues pop up. When the former president gets himself in trouble, I basically get an early warning when my father in law is upset about some “woke” school/mayor/etc doing something outrageous.
This is a direct consequence of the Ukraine-Putin's regime war: unless there is a nuclear-umbrella agreement between the US and Taiwan, Taiwan is as good as gone: ppl who would not accept the level of freedom and basic rights tolerated by China CP have to leave (we are talking about millions of ppl I guess). As for TMSC, they have to move away asap (because rebuilding top-notch chip-tech R&D and foundries elsewhere is no little piece of work).

There is also the case of South Korea, and to a lesser extend Japan, because if no nuclear-umbrella agreement is setup for those countries, they hold so much high tech and so many competent ppl... well, if China is not able to manufacture top-notch chips, that's not going to help those countries.

The core of the pb is the following: Now more than ever, all countries without a nuclear-umbrella in the world could be the target of "some" nuclear regimes for "any" reasons.

It started 20 years ago with the iraky war and those "chemical weapons" (the intend was to avoid a 2nd Koweit or other invasion I guess). Now, it seems this is escalating and accelerating.
> Many of the "mysteries" of Quantum Mechanics vanish if keep in the back of your mind that QM is just a bag of mathematical tricks that "work" in specific scenarios to solve practical problems, but aren't a model of "what actually occurs".

They also tend to start vanishing once you get to studying Quantum Field Theory, which based on your comments I'm not convinced you have. Field Quanta very much "exist" (not getting into a debate on platonism here), and the debate between paticle/wave doesn't.

> I'm not making this up.

No, somebody else is, and you're buying it.
I think GP meant the source, like where/how was it stored?
I can't speak for Waitrose specifically, but luxury brands will definitely do a comprehensive analysis of the surrounding area before opening a store. In the US at least, the equivalent is looking for the closest Starbucks or Apple store.
This looks geared towards the UK crowd but doesn't explicitly say so anywhere (that I could find, on mobile). Since it doesn't use the familiar .co.uk domain, it wasn't obvious initially. Then I saw "boot" and then the location on the listings.
It's going to be an uphill battle. eBay aggressively sides with the buyer. I had a similar thing happen where I had delivery confirmation and positive feedback from the buyers but they requested a refund from eBay about a month later.

Mine was only for $400 so I just let it go.
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You have missed fountain pens. I found I wrote better when I used one, but it was compulsory at school until I was about 14. At that point, I immediately switched to a ball point pen, mostly to rebel and feel older.

I switched back once I was more mature.

Dip pens were obsoleted in the late 19th century.
Yea, if someone came in with that agenda right off the bat, I would drop them immediately. That person spends too much time on social media and if they’re going to get triggered or make a crusade over such social issues as me using traditional terms, not being on a DEI crusade myself, then they’ll be a distraction.

I am male. If I suspect that will be a problem, no hire.

I am Latino. If you insist I call myself LatinX, no.

I appear white to other whites. If you try to lecture me on the issues Latinos face, thinking I’m white and from the US, no way.

It happens, but is usually some laughable SJW who thinks they know my culture without knowing my culture. If this were a interview setting, then a hard no.
>Google refuse to see or present themselves in the role that they actually occupy. They avoid thinking of the search algorithm as encouraging or discouraging anything. It's just analyzing.

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

As an outside observer, it seems that Google recognizes that their search engine does have a "Heisenberg" effect akin to "measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the system"

E.g. the Google search ranking causes the rise of content farms. Google then fights back with a new revision to the algorithm to downrank them. That constant arms race between various blackhat SEO and Google's new algorithms was commented on many times by Matt Cutts (Google former head of search quality): https://hn.algolia.com/?q=matt+cutts

Another example is the RapGenius punishment by Google to discourage content that tries to game the algorithm: https://www.google.com/search?q=rapgenius+penalty+google+ran...

Google often makes manual human intervention e.g. M Cutts team telling HN they're looking into RapGenius SEO hack:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658

Are those are not examples of Google understanding its effect on internet content that tries to game their algorithm?

I think the issue is that Google's algorithm isn't perfect -- and therefore it appears like they don't discourage bad content.
Went for a job interview last year and the tech stack was an API built in Delphi, on Macs, using a virtual machine running Windows.

Company was doing well from it, but trying to scale, and finding anyone to code delphi was impossible.
Do moral culpability when it comes to our failings as a nation, precisely because we have a democracy? Or, do we even really have a choice? With the coercive system in place one can hardly not interact with the government. Throwing a name in a hat to elect your local jailer doesn't make you morally culpable when you are essentially forced to participate. Eg, jury duty. You are threatened to show up under threat of fines or jailing. How can you say a jury is unbiased when they've been forced under threat of death to appear?
The most likely option being "the British destroying a lot in order to steal a bit".
Fabric welding ?
Isn't this kind of a flaw in the RFC process? Shouldn't we have been amending the original spec this whole time and tagging new versions, source control style?

The legal system has a similar problem, though it's ironically even more obvious because amendments to laws will be something like "Page 143, Paragraph 7, Sentence 4 will now read ..." which is just literally writing out a diff.

I'm feeling salty at the moment because for various reasons I'm deep in the OpenID Connect specifications right now, and while they're available the overall formatting, layout and hyperlinking is just awful for rapidly conveying meaning (and like all things OAuth the spec by everyone else also can't be trusted).

Surely we can and should do better.
Well, version control wasn't always a thing and people got by just the same. So I can see how it could be done but the key is 'effectively' and the ability to quickly review and accord changes to a larger code base as well as to compare versions in a divide-and-conquer manner to see where a particular issue got introduced is priceless. So it would be a bit like trying to drive with the handbrake on, you can do it but it isn't an advantage.
Mixture of Juniors and seniors. I am looking for ownership in their own areas. But most of the time I need to provide instructions on what to achieve
Just adding to that - don't forget about users defining AWS metadata addresses for a webhook. Returning IAM data to them can be .. bad.
I’m happy the title isn’t “The unreasonable effectiveness of the OpenBSD’a documentation”.
Shameless plug: we make it super easy for companies to send webhooks. https://www.svix.com

There are only 3 companies on webhooks.fyi's list with 3 green checks, and we're powering webhooks for one of those. :)
Mundane observation, but I love reading stories about this era of computing and seeing the history that’s behind all the conventions we take for granted. The “log” was an actual notebook that was manually updated by a human, taking its name from a nautical logbook. The “console” was called that because it was a piece of furniture (a console table) that happened to contain lights that showed the system status. This stuff is fascinating.
There is a small step from stating that line between “social” and “biological” is blurry to getting that that line is as arbitrary as everything else, but instead of taking that step people stick to construction of all kinds of “evil enemies” messing with their nice and clear pictures. Philosophy is still the mother of all sciences, and this is an example of an education that lacks it.

Then there are observations of specific theories being used as obedience building exercises by various bureaucrats (and wannabe bureaucrats), which seems to be widespread, and is bad, but doesn't actually say anything about the theories themselves. Sacred oaths can be anything, they don't even need to have any meaning.
We need to drive way less to get rid of fossil fuels, electric cars still use a lot of energy (for mining the raw materials, manufacture and use) and are at most a drop in the bucket.
I remembered someone once posted about Dijkstra's handwriting being incredible, so I tracked down the link for you, see the third image on that page for an example: https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-hand...

The whole blog is about trying to write like Dijkstra.
I agree. The bootlegged version is more inviting to read.
it is. you’re perfectly allowed to write stories about any characters you want, doing anything you want, you’re just not allowed to sell them
You can also use it to block paywalled and clickbait content. For example, you can safely ignore anything from cnet.com or digitaltrends.com. There's a few niche-specific sites in my blocklist.
Already added that in edit.
But why would an employer keep tabs on the gender identities or sexual orientations of their employees?
And like in all things, there is probably a better middle ground. Don't commit forever to a horrible partner, but also don't look for the "perfect person" with whom there will be no difficulties. Neither is good. Look for the "good enough" partner and really try to make it work.
Does this require a phone and an internet access?