skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lots of experience hiring people. Usually the people with certificates don't have much experience actually doing work or they have narrow capability. The cliche is putting them on your resume is not an indicator of general capability. 25 years ago there were tons of people with novell netware engineer and similar things for various technologies, but it wasn't a good interview signal. I was looking for software engineers though, and even though we were on windows at the time mostly, I didn't care about certified windows developers, people with that type of cert were not usually good devs in general. I even worked on helping to write the test for sql server, and I didn't see a point to getting certified myself and I authored part of it ;-)

I think it's really hard to get started in tech, and you can of course get benefit from actually studying the technologies and tools you'll be using in your job ;-) A certification is really good if you have a very specific use case and you need someone for a narrow type of work. I almost never want to hire someone for a narrow use case though. But if I was hiring contractors to fix something very specific on only aws say, then maybe it would be useful.

Of course I'm just some random person on the internet; getting a few certs might help at the start, listing things on your resume that you worked on is much better as an aid to getting interviewed and hired.
I treat LinkedIn as I treated Facebook: a way to keep in touch with people you know or once knew, as a way to keep track of a list of these people, and as an easily findable public handle. For Facebook, it was of course less oriented towards money making.

Now LinkedIn still does the same job. As far as I’m concerned, while “thought leaders” and other spam is more prominent, dealing with egos is the price to pay for making it easier to find a job, and to be found as a candidate. It’s not materially different to IRL corporate world.
internet radio, some of them even publish playlists. testfm, nts, dy10 (souncloud), from that point you can ask for track ids or browse recordings, look for artists' likes and so on
>They'll probably notice it when they reconcile accounts for SEC reporting, starting Oct 1.

I know several accountants who do not work for trillion dollar companies.
Variances in the millions are a daily thing. The more money moving around, the more unqualified people categorizing it and the more likely there is mystery money that cannot be rectified.
SawStop’s patents started expiring in 2021, so I imagine this is in part to get ahead of future lower-end competition. Until now most of their saws started between $2000-$3000, and their cheapest portable saw was ~$1600.
> Is it really a better alternative to putting some bomb bay doors on a modern Boeing?

The B-52 can carry about 70,000 lbs of bombs. You can't just hang that amount of weight from the floor of a 777, you're going to have to redesign the entire aircraft to support the load. The B-52 also has a range that's absolutely insane. With a combat load it can fly 8,800 miles, beating a 777-200LR by a few hundred miles. If it's just flying from point A to point B with no bombs it can go more than 10,000 miles.
H-m-m: Hackers mind map
Terminal based mind map, with vim keys!
Kilian Jornet running downhill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxvn9yEdlY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7agNyuN39E
I had to study WVO Quine at university. I found his fussy, fancy prose an obstacle to getting at his meaning.

> the links between maths, music and art.

Mr. H. is by reputation a very competent violinist; even though he's a mathematician, he can pronounce with some authority on subjects like Bach.
Look at the content as well, it all descends into "reality" TV shit like Ghost Hunters and Street Outlaws.
> Is it really a better alternative to putting some bomb bay doors on a modern Boeing?

From what I've been told, the B52 has relatively low operating cost and can stay up in the air pretty much indefinitely by being refueled in air by KC-135s.

source: I was an air traffic controller in the US Air Force
I think having one motor per wheel is very useful in terms of all-wheel drive (and braking) -- being able to selectively apply varied amounts of power to each wheel depending on conditions.

Not sure I'm convinced by the torque claim -- we've seen cars skidding / losing traction in both scenarios (accelerating and braking). ABS brakes were developed specifically to prevent that (and so was Traction Control).

My experience with electric vehicles is limited to a Boosted longboard, so take this with a grain of sand -- but it seems to me that electric motors are as effective at braking as they are at accelerating.
No. It just means that the prevalent drivel in this discussion about how much better it is in the US vs UK concerning ‘what are you allowed to say so the government isn’t mad’ is moot. I’d wager that those arrested in the UK won’t even see a judge but will be released right after, unlike in the ‘free’ US where what you say to a cop will be fully persecuted and lead to actual jail time of several years, for saying words to a government representative.
Were contract agents really a thing for software developers?

I was just thinking there could definitely be a niche like that, there must be a bunch of people that would love contracting but hate bizdev etc.

Up until know I hadn't heard those ever existed.
Yes, because people who bought at 20,000 are holding your ball for you... and you're holding the ball for people who bought at 10 dollars...

Or am I missing something?
Speaking of excel, for casual Excel users, the video "You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky" [1] is worth a watch. My casual Excel use probably got an order of magnitude easier from it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Maybe you don't need an Ambassador program
The gimmick is that it's really big, I suppose.
>I find I'm close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.

I'm sure that many of the clients you made happy during those years will gladly work with you again or make introductions. Between you and an unknown, you have a leg up. That's one of the advantages of consulting and having a track record of always delivering.

If you want to start your own thing, I've written a tiny Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...

It's also good you included your contact information in your profile.

I did a quick search for companies using Elixir. One site for example: https://elixir-companies.com/en

You could reach out to them and do the same for Rust, Go, etc.

This drew my attention:

>Starting as a freelance consultant, was hired in 2018 as Technical Director to oversee the engineering aspect of the
company. In 2020 took on part of the administrative concerns, such as managing the employees day-to-day and
preparing for a smooth handover in case of sale.

You can't mass produce people who can do this. That comes with real world experience. You can package that Interim Savior experience and make it lucrative. What are the signals and selectors of an organization that needs that?

You can also reflect back on all the entities you served during these years and can segment by sector/industry (and many roles), by one role across sectors/industries, or by problem. Then decide the approach you want to take depending on your preferences: maybe you like to work within a certain sector, maybe you like to work with certain roles (devs, salespeople, marketing people, designers, etc.)
Why the Pakistan Telecom Authority’s move to register VPNs should concern us all
Not income, profit. Three weeks of income minus bills, food, other costs.
Or use electric pressure cookers. A lot of heat energy is lost to steam in regular pots.
In the same vein, they tend to have much smaller motors, and the weight of the occupant is 10x the weight of the vehicle.
> 20th Century Fox, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar and many others.

They’re a big player for sure and I’m not dismissing the risk from their bulbous size just that no matter how big they get there’s going to be an alternative so there should persist a pressure to compete on UX quality to some degree. The monopoly power I’m far more worried about is how terrible the content becomes when they buy and fully digest an IP.
Wow this is just what I was looking for, a proxy written in a memory safe language like rust with no GC as an alternative to nginx. Looking forward to the open source version!
Sounds more like you're one missed funding round away from having a 10% chance of being kicked to the curb, where "kicked to the curb" often means a fairly generous severance that covers more than the period you're likely to remain unemployed (12 weeks in this case). While I'm sure there are some legitimately bad outcomes, it seems like the median outcome is keeping your job, and the median outcome for those who don't is a several month paid vacation.
Ask HN: Cheapest way to get EE type degree or knowledge?
I just like to learn for fun and considering maybe moving my career into lower-level stuff within the next few years. I have a masters in comp sci and have been working professionally since 2015.

Can anyone recommend a learning path to become fairly good at EE type stuff? For example, Georgia Tech MS is $7k which is crazy cheap compared to what my schooling cost. Is there anything similar or some good end to end open courseware stuff for EE's?
>> Over the years, Microsoft got big, Bill got overextended, and some shady ethical decisions..

Those innocent times when we thought the worst ethical decisions that Bill G would make was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Perhaps a naive question, as I don't understand this domain very well. How are these fonts different than, say just changing the color of the text?
They do it by buying lots of artwork for $, sell one piece for $$ to their crony, donate the rest as valued at $$$, saving $$$-$ off their taxes.
>you're one missed funding round away from getting kicked to the curb

Isn't that always the case?
Politicians are way, way cheaper than those 25%.
Anyone else read the letter from the CEO where they claim that the layoffs "were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens"?

That's verbatim from the actual PDF, in case anyone was curious (https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001447669/5c6aa73...) Page 6, under the heading "How did we decide which roles would be impacted".

I wonder what race they deliberately targeted for these layoffs, with language like that. Oh well, I guess we'll never know.
Same. I would be way more interested in contract work if I didn't have to do all the work to find clients. I would trust a human being more than a website whose only goal is to lower my value while raising theirs (ex. Upwork).
I feel the same having worked for a couple contracting companies. I think if I job hop in the near future, which is unlikely given the recent layoffs, I'll go for a company that is building a product. I'd rather the golden handcuffs than the freedom of mobility.
Thank goodness you have to enter more than just an account number, like a name! Ive done this once and it was all returned because all of the info didn't match.
Kondiaronk, Chief of the Native American Wendat People in New France
> they could use SVG or Canvas

They could but then it would be less accessible for screen readers or bots that want to scrape text from a web page for indexing or anything else. Your user agent can also determine if rendering those "ugly 3D titles" is the right thing to do or not, so you could have a plugin that stops them from being rendered.

> there should be more browsers and operating systems than the ones Google makes

These fonts work fine in Firefox.
Xinjiang Official Figures Reveal Higher Prisoner Count
It says invite-only. Do they invite randoms or do I need to find someone already on there?
I have seen this done a certain amount, and in at least one case for a girl. Something to do with living in an affluent area, probably.
MyList cut after certain number of entries. Entries stay in Mylist after I've watched them (ok, this is a feature actually, but it certainly should be optional). MyList is not searchable and there are no categories or filters there. I can't add to Mylist without hovering over preview (no quick context menu).

There is no history in some friendly interface, only some deeply buried list in the account settings.

Autoplay (should be optional). Auto continuation (also should be optional).

Horizontal scrolling sections is a bad UX, should be improved somehow.

No quality toggles in the interface, no quality indicator in the interface (e.g. Prime has one, albeit a primitive one "HD" label). I want to know stream resolution being actually received on the device. (btw, they had a test stream for this, it was an ugly solution but it worked, and then years ago they disabled it completely without replacement).

Categories are autosorted and auto chosen. I want to have these categories searchable and preferably browsable.

No quick list of available voice and subtitle languages, you can only know this after you have started watching. Prime has this feature.

No x-ray. I know it's a unique feature, but really, all streaming services should have it.
Sure, if your only source of electricity is fossil fuels like natural gas, then just burning them directly is better when heat is all you want. But if you have renewable sources of electricity, isn't that better than using fossil fuels at all even if it is technically less efficient?
They already have that. When people livestream, there are buttons you can click to pay money: $5, $10, $20 etc.

Looks really gauche and cheap, but then again so does most of the 'creator' economy.
I had _a_ brake caliper jam on my tundra. Completely frozen sliders on the caliper. The good news about hydraulic brakes is that the other circuits on the brakes still worked fine! I actually didn't realize the caliper was dead for (likely) a few months. With modern cars, each wheel is independent, so leaks and failures are more failsafe.
It was a strong conceptual design, yes.

For my aerospace engineering undergrad we also had to create a conceptual design for a new aircraft. And of course, as university projects go, we basically did it in five days. But I won't tell you how many iterations we would've had to go through until we had an optimum configuration ready to be sent to detail design

The headline makes it look like their design was a definite one. Then you actually read the article and it says it took another four years before the first one would fly. Which is actually to me the more impressive part of the story, considering the amount of time it takes aircraft manufacturers to go from concept to production these days (e.g. the A380 was first conceptualised in the 1980s and its first flight was in 2005)
Or perhaps more in-line with a favorite of mine:

The secret to mankind achieving unpowered flight is for someone to throw themselves at the ground and simply miss..
> They invested US$100 million (and currently that's around US$50 million).
We are a small country, for comparison the largest public hospital budget is about US$60 million per year.

> The next bond payment (2023 note that they are trying to buy back now)
There are two bonds which they are buying. The 2023 one at 91 cents per dollar, and the 2025 one at 51 cents per dollar.

> this looks like a publicity stunt more than any serious investment.

El Salvador has a very good PR team. So many announcements have their own publicitiy students. Teven produce different material targeting different foreign countries. It's always interesting to see what each to see what PR message each country gets.

For example: Targeting those who didn't agree on vaccine mandates in English Speaking Countries (Australia/Canada/UK):

https://twitter.com/CanAlbertaHuman/status/14784727600660725...

https://twitter.com/LowCard_Hunger/status/148358166523034010...

Targeting those who wanted vaccines in neighboring countries (Honduras):

https://twitter.com/radioamericahn/status/140378336359768474...

https://twitter.com/gotvhonduras/status/1402268608068268041
You're defending billionaires who don't give a crap about you except as someone to exploit. This is called "being complicit in your own oppression."
NetBeans’ auto-complete, in particular method call argument auto fill-in, is an important reason why it’s still my primary IDE for Java development.

It’s also slightly easier to (almost) fully keyboard-operate than IntelliJ, in my opinion.

Another thing I like is that Netbeans can open and work with Maven projects without having to “import” them.
Yeah, what's up with that pause behavior? Clicking anywhere on the screen pauses the player, which is fine. But then what you're watching goes into a small box in the bottom left, and if you click the same spot you clicked to pause, expecting the video to resume, you'll instead be redirected to Paramonut+'s main page.

If I wasn't getting it for free, with Walmart+, which I in turn get for "free" with a credit card, there's no way I'd use it.
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We know how to close the math achievement gap, now we just have to do it
Unfortunately this webpage is completely broken on iPhone.
> Internet users in Pakistan have been reacting strongly to a tweet by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, where it was notified that “public and private sector organisations, foreign missions and freelancers, who desire to use VPN for their legitimate purpose, must register their VPN by 31st October 2022” on the PTA website “to avoid disruption”.

> The Pakistani state itself has the capacity for surveillance of unencrypted internet traffic, using the Web Monitoring System (WMS) which was purchased for a whopping $18 million form Canadian firm Sandvine in December 2018.

> This was bought under the garb of grey traffic reduction and paid for by internet service providers and telecom companies under the Monitoring and Reconciliation Telephony Traffic Regulations, 2010. However, deep packet inspection — which is the technology bought from Sandvine for WMS — is a dual use technology that is also effective in surveillance and censorship of the internet.

> There are strong reasons to believe the blocking of YouTube twice in the past month were done through the WMS as Internet Service providers (ISPs) did not receive instructions from the PTA to block the video sharing platform. The WMS, meanwhile, does enable the PTA to block websites and applications at the internet gateway level without the cooperation of ISPs.

> The censorship of websites in Pakistan has also been a major issue of contention. The PTA claims it only blocks websites with “objectionable content” such as pornography and blasphemous content. However, what we have seen over the past few years is that a lot of political content gets blocked by the authority without prior intimation.
Is there a particular implementation of PGP that folks should use?
While you’re not directly stating that Twilio is VC-funded, that implication can easily be drawn by the adjacency in these two statements. Twilio was VC funded, but they’re a public company now and have been for some time. These layoffs have nothing to do with missing a funding round.
I value the insight of many that post here, so I would like to ask: isn't there any valuable application for blockchain tech? I realize BTC is imperfect, but blockchain itself is just a technology.

Being pretty young, everyone I know is involved in crypto in one way or another. I'm personally waiting on the sidelines, but there should be some beneficial middle ground between going all-in and completely discarding the tech.
You can be responsible and not guilty.
Yeah, exactly. If everyone has gas stoves you need gas, if you have electric there can be more sources of energy, and to a certain extent electricity if fungible across multiple sources (if you have power plants).
How much did Twilio grow from 2020-2022?

Over 200%: from 2,800 staff to 8,510 ...

This means this 11% reduction leaves them at... 292% growth since 2020, while its not amazing news, this is a small reduction given the growth they've had.

These layoffs were inevitable IMO, everyone doubled their team (or more!) and then asked where the money was going to come from.
Worker Power in the Tech Industry
> if you copy any of the code into your back-end, your whole back-end must be open sourced

That’s a feature, not a bug. If you don’t want that, don’t use it.
> Claiming that something was designed in a day is good clickbait

It also glorifies an attitude that the greenfield design process is where the wizardry happens, and that forgetting about or dropping products after this stage is acceptable. Only failed products don't need to be maintained and refined.
No, that would be called "not racist"

Anti-Racism is a specific philosophy that goes beyond simply not being racist.
What even causes "over hiring"?

People just building their resume for things like "managed a department of 200 people" ?

Otherwise over hiring sounds like a pain in the ass to deal with.
Why is it a risk? When prices go shooting up it's never a risk.
> The sexuality and race is kind of irrelevant to the point

FWIW, adding sexuality and race was intentional. Why? Because of the briefs by the justices associate with the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v Wade. Specifically because the same privacy protections which protected RvW also protected gay and interracial marriages.

And that privacy protection was explicitly and intentionally nullified, as called out by Justice Clarence Thomas.

So, in the immediate term, one's sexuality and race is explicitly at risk.
>It would be a scary time to work for a VC backed company, because you're one missed funding round away from getting kicked to the curb, and VC's seem to be clutching the funds in this economy.

VC-backed companies that aren't profitable are risky places to work for anyways. At least in these layoffs, the whole company doesn't go bust.

But if you work at a VC-backed company, and you don't feel essential, then maybe keep your resume updated.
There's counter-steering, and then there's speedway

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_speedway

Interesting physics indeed!
> Edit: It does not seem to protect against injection.

My guess is that in the current implementation of the edits endpoint, the two inputs are being in some way intermingled under the hood (perhaps being concatenated in some way, along with OpenAI-designed prompt sections in between). So the Harvard Architecture Language Model approach should still work once implemented with true separation of inputs.

To ensure the two token streams are not accidentally comingled, my recommendation is that the Trusted and Untrusted inputs should use completely incompatible token dictionaries, so that intermingling them isn't possible.