skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's no running water

So what would be running water? What's the next leap forward in terms of basic human needs? I can think of a few possibilities:

- Cheap housing

- Cheap medical care

- Dramatic reduction of
modern diseases like obesity & heart disease

- Less social isolation

- Dramatically reduced working hours

- Dramatic increases in happiness/life satisfaction/optimism

- Reversal of climate change/resilience to environmental disasters

- Dramatically improved stewardship of the environment (part of resiliency)

But I'm not sure there's any product that can be developed by a corporation to bring about these changes. I think we have the physical abilities/technology to accomplish these, but we're lacking the social/psychological/political ability. Much of the population could indeed lower their working hours if they weren't so busy paying for large houses, stuff to fill them up, cars, etc. And replacing those things with skills (cooking, repair) and physical activity (walking, biking) again could reduce housing costs, health care costs, and obesity/cardiovascular disease while hugely reducing our environmental impact. Cutting out TV/digital addictions, playing sports instead, and going car-free/walkable/bikable could give us more socialization, satisfaction, and health. Have we as a society bargained with the devil, forgoing these advances for ever-increasing consumption, productivity, and the hedonic treadmill?

(I've been reading Early Retirement Extreme and thinking about what to do with my life.)
“bad analogies I hate unions.”

There’s a reason UAW workers are highly paid
Small tokamaks are what I think are potentially viable, a la Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Here's a good talk that I think addresses the physics vs engineering approaches to fusion.

https://youtu.be/L0KuAx1COEk
I find it nice that you gave an epilepsy warning. We have a long way to go in a11y for the internet as well as really all media consumable by human senses, but I do feel like strides have been made and awareness is much higher now compared to even just 5-10 years ago. Thank you for the considerateness!
I agree with the other poster. The possibility of ending up unemployed is a bit stressful here.

What percentage of people get let go within 90 days?
Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
Your job's not a marriage, but there are similar elements to a marriage if you're co-founding with someone. You're building a business together. You need a lot of trust. It's primarily financial.
I don’t think that’s right. You wouldn’t use 0.0.0.0/32 you would use the private subnet range so they have no direct access to the internet and use a nat gateway to give them access to the outside world but no inbound access.

Edit: in the first example the servers should be in a private subnet. And not have a public ip allocated. They would require ssh hopping via a bastion or a vpn.
Police also pay with user’s money
Interviewing is terrible. I'll just say keep your head up and don't let it get to you. It definitely does not have anything to do with your worth.

That said there are a lot of people on HN. I would update your profile with at least your site/resume and what you are looking for.
Nuance is everywhere. We all have filters and goals and its important to apply them. If the leetcode queue will get you where you want then thats best. As a matter of principle i dont like it, because i think its too junior - no insult intended. Usually the types of companies that employ this interview technique also suffer from hiring freezes now and then. I skipped all that and went for the go getters. Can you do it? Sure if you pay enough.
Or residence permit. That is also a solution no one asks about.
57 is much less than 7,200.
> But it’s still depressing how both the options and defaults replicate a very heteronormative and male gaze

I don’t understand this particular aspect of fretting. Do the people making such comments think this won’t be applied eventually to all sexual preferences? Given that heteronormative male gaze drives the vast majority of porn consumption, doesn’t seem surprising that that’s where this kind of thing starts at first.

The bigger concern to me by far is revenge porn and use by children and that has nothing to do with gender.
No Pakistan[0], yet. If you start a list, make a pull request and I’ll merge it.

[0] https://github.com/slowernews/awesome-open-source-by-country...
Is there some magical keyword or ‘tell’ that you’ve zeroed in on and want to share with the rest of us when looking at a job ad to tell if it’s a “code assembly line” or not before applying?

From the rest of your comments you seem pretty confident and specific about not having these problems, so I’m curious to know what’s in your secret sauce.
This is why I just interview endlessly. At least one a week. You need to develop a callus to interviewing.

Find the time for it by rubber stamping a few code reviews.

It gets boring after a while. Just a very repetitive process after 100 or so.
Why would they be embarrassed? It's a PR piece, not meant to be actually secure against cryptanalysis.
Saurik!
From the article

> There are also people who try to claim that PoS allows big stakeholders to control the protocol, but I think those arguments are just plain wrong. They rest on a misconception that PoW and PoS are governance mechanisms, when in reality they are consensus mechanisms. All they do is help the network agree on the right chain. A block that violates the protocol rules (eg. if it tries to print more coins than the protocol rules allow) will not be accepted by the network, no matter how many miners or stakers support it. Governance is a completely separate process, involving users freely choosing to download software, and BIPs and EIPs and all core devs calls and other bureaucracy to coordinate which changes get proposed. The funny thing is that bitcoiners (who tend to be the most pro-PoW) should understand this well, as the Bitcoin civil wars in 2017 demonstrated really well that miners are quite powerless in the governance process. In PoS, it's exactly the same; stakers don't choose the rules, they just execute the rules and help order transactions
And my local bank couldn't actually do a medallion thing locally (no special signature person any longer)--and their central location couldn't either for some reason in spite of being verified locally. Ended up going to a not super-convenient brokerage office and the whole thing took 5 minutes.
I'll be the judge of that. But seriously, this interview is just one piece of evidence I've been collecting in my crypto folder. Like everyone else except for people who get into the team spirit and join one side or the other. I should just invest in both an forget about it, but that's not my nature.
Why do you suspect Ethereum developers aren't reverting all of their plans and sticking with PoW after seeing this video?
I.e., "Don't make me learn anything new."

You demonstrate only that you have no understanding of exceptions and their use.

It is allowed not to understand things. All of us don't understand most things. Your mistake is in pontificating about what you wholly fail to grasp.
How low was the lowball? Maybe you should have taken it.
Persistent corruption and poor management.
Why worry about the Fed printing dollars when you can create magically create new cryptos and print those instead. Money supply measures should count crypto too.
An hour talk, they usually have a person on the team that vouches for you that you've worked with. Then the first couple of months are a trial period that you are paid for.
Prohibition actually permanently lowered the average alcohol consumption of the average American
Find me an engineer who knows both vue.js and Postgres and they’re worth their pound of salt. And, if you’re differentiating against React and SQLite - e.g. they’re not familiar with JSONB style queries or CTEs, but instead have some alternative, par familiarity with another db… and the same level of sophistication with an FE stack - e.g usage of useRef vs forwardRef… and you cut them loose… well, they’ll probably be going on to a better position at another company.
For us, it’s a tiny fraction. I’ve hired around 30 engineers over 5 years and we’ve let go of 2 during probation, both for dramatically overstating their capabilities compared to their actual experience, to such a degree that it was clear it was done intentionally and with no effort to try and bridge the gap with learning during the period. Others who may have slightly embellished their skills but could learn as they went turned out fantastically, and I feel like those sorts of hires would not make it through the multi-round grillings satirised in the article.
What Babies Hear When You Sing to Them
there's some funny shit that comes out of it too though, like someone sent me a pic of this stripper looking chick with a whole ass head and neck growing out of her.

edit found it https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1010982959525929010/1...
> On Y Combinator’s Hacker News forum, a user purporting to be the creator describes Porn Pen as an “experiment” using cutting-edge text-to-image models. “I explicitly removed the ability to specify custom text to avoid harmful imagery from being generated,” they wrote. “New tags will be added once the prompt-engineering algorithm is fine-tuned further.” The creator did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.

Scraping an HN comment to post on an article just to get submitted back onto HN for discussion, classic.
Salaries for MBAs likely follow a similar distribution as for programmers. A small fraction of elite workers enjoy outstanding compensation, while the vast majority sit somewhere on a long flat tail of mediocre incomes.
If you swim in the "don't talk to police" ocean, you discover versions of the comic dialog (well, it isn't really funny) when the cops have you in the interrogation room "with your consent":

You: Am I under arrest?

Cops: We just want to ask you a few questions so you can help us out. You are not a suspect.

You: So I'm free to go?

Cops: We just want to clear up a few things. You are not under arrest.

You: So I'm free to go?

Cops: Before you go, we want to ask a couple things.

You: So I'm free to go?

etc.
I just went through an interview cycle at a FAANG, and I'm pretty sure only one interviewer out of five was directly involved in the actual position. And I'm somewhat certain that it was the others who were the nos. I actually didn't find out anything about the position until the final interview. Additionally, no one in the panel was a software engineer ... for a software engineering position.
Facebook claims 700+ million login daily but many are bots.

It doesn't matter because you are not talking or interacting with them. You have a small list and unless you explore groups.

Most of the world uses google search outside of China. I don't feel connected to them and if the volume dropped to a few hundred people using google search it wouldn't affect my experience.

Facebook isn't a community site it is a social media with expectations that you consume more content than you contribute.
I can't believe they thought they needed multiple 4K screenshots every second. What a waste of bandwidth!
I ran a bunch of interviews over the last couple of years, in some (reasonably rare) cases I saw quite junior candidates with only a year or two experience who scored very strongly on our technical interviews -- not at a senior level but as a solid intermediate level hire. I suspect if that candidate gets a junior or intermediate grade offer for salary may depend quite a bit on how strong their negotiating position is.
I may be mistaken but wasn't there some cases of people convicted for owning drawings of CP?
Money is the exclusive right of sovereign nations. Crypto is not money.
I'm using TLP and also have the fedora power settings set to "battery saver" (although TLP might override that with its own optimizations?)
There's a difference between having it regulated and open and there being gambling ads during free throws.
FreeBSD’s config files spring to mind. Here is an example:

https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/etc/defaults/...

Also relevant is this quote from john romero, id’s co-founder:

“Bulletproof your engine by providing defaults upon load failure.”

https://www.mcvuk.com/development-news/john-romeros-secrets-...
U.S. angers China with potential $1.1B arms sale to Taiwan
A GIF would be great
Yep Australian market. The numbers I’ve talked about above are what I’d classify as ‘normal’, there are of course always exceptions, and I’ve been fortunate enough to exist outside these ranges for most of my career, but ultimately I left the banks a few years ago for better prospects.
Just yaml please, or JSON.
> It's not a failure

It is a failure.

Having 3 million registered users and only 192,000 using it every month in the end after 6 years is more than 90% of all users not using it. With those numbers, there is virtually no-one using the platform which explains why many continued to keep posting on Twitter, more than on Mastodon.

So it is still a massive and complete failure in almost every way.

[0] http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/accurate_user_count
Yep, that was my last attempt at trying to search before I decided to ask instead. Using that filter I took a sample from the most active and most followed users and sorted their source repositories by stars but that didn’t yield (m)any interesting results (my guess is that the majority of Pakistani developers actively contributing to open source projects aren’t residing there)
I do similar, though only a few times per year. I also advise all my colleagues (and sometimes managers!) to do likewise. My rationale:

1. Interviewing is a career skill that has an outsized influence on your earning potential. You need to practice it to get good and keep those skills sharp.

2. Interviewing regularly (minimum twice per year, YMMV) keeps you up to speed on what skills are in demand and what problems companies are trying to solve.

3. It's a great way to network. I'm up-front about being a passive candidate and I still get takers for interviews. Even if you don't take the job after passing an interview, you'll have a foot in the door if you revisit your interviewee in the near future or have somebody you can send their way.

4. You never know when you'll need to change jobs. Job satisfaction, change in life circumstances, layoffs/economic downturns, or any number of things completely outside of your control can force a change in your employment.

It doesn't matter if you're happy, busy, or hate interviewing--interview regularly or suffer the consequences for being unpracticed and unprepared.
They are still voluntarily selling to police which is consenting. It's not your data, it's their data they collected about you.

Perhaps a good line to draw would be to ban resale of data? It's difficult to try to write a law around but at least we all agree it's a problem. It's a start.
WSL1 was almost useless on anything that did a lot of file I/O (so, installing or updating packages for a development environment took ages). This was not fixable given how Windows handles the file system and as I understand it this was the main drive to move to WSL2
A heat pump can use 1 watt of energy to pull in the same amount of heating from the outside as 2 or more watts of resistive heat.

If the "waste heat" allows the intake not to freeze up on a heat pump, it would raise the efficiency of the heat pump, and it's quite possible that 1 BTU worth of natural gas could do the work of more than 5 if burned through a high-efficiency furnace.
What if you actually pass an interview which you weren’t really interested in to begin with? Decline with some BS excuse?

The amount of deception you’ll have to do is what holds me back from constant “practice” interviewing
That sounds unlike faang interviews (the only one person being a swe part). Which one was it and what were the interviews like?

The non-team thing is common but they do it to bring “objectivity” to the process and since it’s leetcode or system design questions, it usually doesn’t matter unless you’re applying for a highly specialized role.

I can speak for google and Amazon - you might not even apply for a specific team till you’re in, and do that afterwards. Facebook also did team match post boot camp.
Look man - you fucking matter and you will get this.

The crap you are going through is not fair, this entire process is not fair, but who the fuck cares - you will get this.

Do NOT let this fucking industry joke of an interview process harm you man. Seriously. It really is not you - its them.
> But would you take Tim Cooks opinion on Android phones? How about Elons on NASA

I sure would. I'm always interested in what people have to say about their competition. When Steve Balmer said iPhones were a losing idea, did I believe him? No, I thought he was making a mistake, to put it politely. But it was instructive to let me know where Microsoft's mindset was at.
Source: I was a supervisor in Cleans at SAS for two years, with my only qualification being I was a submarine nuclear operator previously, which is what that hiring manager was looking for. There are a lot of ex-nukes at SAS. Anyway.

You're correct that their software practices, by and large, are absolutely atrocious. In general, I found that if a team had people who could code, they'd just write their own programs and stay in the Shadow IT realm. I taught myself JS/PHP/SQL while I was there, and built a shitty CRUD app to replace some even worse Excel sheets others were using.

However, from SAS' perspective, they aren't making software. All of the machines have their own control systems (which are usually running XP and are terrible), and they need tools that can connect to those, retrieve data, dump it into a DB, and run queries on it. It never needs to leave the site, you don't have to worry about surprise traffic, and scaling issues are never going to get to the point of needing thousand-node clusters or the like. What they have works.

Re: pay, IME engineers of any kind would start at ~$80K fresh out of college, which in 2017 wasn't that bad for Austin. Engineers also got promoted very quickly. Yes, pure software jobs rapidly outpace SAS salaries. Hell, I went from a supervisor role making $86K to an Associate SRE role (I have 20 years of hobbyist Linux experience, I just never did anything with it - also I got a Master's in SWE while I was at SAS) elsewhere, and immediately went past $100K.

It's a fascinating company that is also incredibly stressful, the pay isn't as good/fast as others, and to my knowledge remote work doesn't exist. Still, someone has to do it, else we wouldn't have chips. Also, they employ some _crazy_ intelligent PHds. They just exude brilliance. It's awe-inspiring watching them talk through problems.
100+? Are you just interviewing at anywhere and everywhere?
It's on my job laptop I don't care. It's my company's problem at this point.

The people working with me as way more power and impact over my life than Microsoft and two wrongs don't make a right. For example if they see I'm selling stuff that might mean I have financial problems which can lead to prejudice and and less powerful position during negotiations.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572770
For anyone who stopped using Samsung products and wishes to delete their data:
https://privacy.samsung.com/mydata/delete/request

I couldn't find a way to close an account, but this is probably the next best thing.
I’ve not tried to generate pictures of people with three arms but when I try to generate normal people it often gives them extra limbs.
Your question frightened them, they've deleted their account.
Quite a few more programmer jobs than elite executive MBA opportunities.
“The compensation is not adequate enough to make me want to leave.”
Most mafia bosses don't have to kill people; they get people to do it for them. They facilitate the killing. One might suggest they _develop the ecosystem_ that rewards murderers.
Python Type Hints Are Turing Complete
"...We apply Grigore’s
algorithm to Python type hints and deduce that they are Turing complete. In addition, we present an alternative reduction in which the Turing
machines are simulated in real time, resulting in significantly lower compilation times..."

[PDF] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.14755.pdf

"OriRoth/python-typing-machines: Python Typing Machines 1.0" - https://zenodo.org/record/7004898
Seconded. Advoko Makes is one of the highest-quality channels on the internet, IMO. If you like the subject matter, for sure check him out. His hand-made custom tools are amazing. And his method for sawing lumber with only a chainsaw freehand is worth a look, too.

It's also hard not to like the guy. He's got a great disposition.
That number might be low enough that there is no need to emphasize the probation period to candidates.

If 20% of candidates are getting cut after the probation, I’m very hesitant.

Losing 5% quickly is only slightly above normal and may, in fact, be a positive sign of quality control.
i like .js config files, easy to add comments
I was sloppy in my phrasing, I mean building approval/permitting. A bunch of local delegates are required to meet to have a new simple building (whatever the neighborhood a bit bigger denser is simple)
erected? And we are surprised that housing costs are outpacing inflation?

"urbanization" is ongoing for decades and density is not the default? and people are surprised that suburban sprawl is the result?
One thing to always remember, because it's the same for me as for you, remember that most jobs are already accounted for. They often interview for quotas, gotta try out 3 people or such. I've clearly been the best qualified candidate a few times, as a grizzled software developer going for devops jobs. Still don't get it. They often know who they want to hire before any interviews begin.

While that's not always true, it is far more often than you think. So assume that's what happened to you, it probably was if you look at the odds.

As far as thick skin, that's life. Stay strong. Remember that failure is never achieved until you give up. This is a cold, hard world if you don't benefit from nepotism as many do.
Got any stories of it exploding or more generally speaking things the common public wouldn’t know about from your experience in this fascinating job.
Do you think this was a constructive comment?
It's largely replaced Twitter for talking to a lot of my friends. Which is the only reason I ever joined Twitter in the first place - all their Livejournals got replaced by these autoposts of cryptic fragments of conversations, and I reluctantly followed them to this annoying world of ultra-short posts that just kept getting shittier and shitter as Twitter kept on trying to make it profitable. And I can preemptively block entire instances full of chuds for myself and everyone else on the instance I run. It's great.

It's nice. It's kinda like the Internet used to be before Endless September started.

I do think it could be a lot better if Eugen would stop trying to make it so much Like Twitter, I upped the post length limit to ~7k and it's fucking wonderful. I can have conversations with my friends. In paragraphs.
What Shopping on Amazon Feels Like (2022)
Slight comedy.
It's because it is dismal and Eugen is right as well and there is evidence supporting that [0] which it is still true to this day with the up-to-date instances that are active and with users who have logged in at least once over a week.

3,064,237 total registered Mastodon accounts and only 192,384 users using it. That is 7% of active users using the platform and 93% of everyone else not using it. There is virtually no one to talk to or interact with on the platform.

This is enough to tell us that Mastodon is indeed a failure and has not replaced Twitter after 6 years of marketing itself as a Twitter alternative.

[0] http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/accurate_user_count