skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every company can't have the best engineers. They cost too much and they're a finite resource.

Your argument assumes there is an efficient market for engineers, and it also assumes that an engineer’s productivity is independent of the company environment.

There are multiple counterexamples of startups that have built great teams for cheap money. There are many reasons why great engineers can be underpriced or under-productive, and many reasons why mediocre engineers can be overpriced.

You can get the best engineers if you have the smarts to do so. Currently on the front page are two relevant links:

(1) a CEO’s opinion on what that takes for the funnel (not engineering specific): https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/learnings-of-a-ceo-matt-sch...

(2) a CTO’s? opinion on how companies fail to catch the best engineers: https://blog.southparkcommons.com/startup-engineering-hiring...

It definitely is not easy - and it takes unusual skill to succeed - but that doesn’t make the advice wrong but only extremely difficult. If you lack the skill, then partner up with somebody who does, or find a mitigating strategy, or don’t become a C*O for a startup. Edit: I am an engineer and I hate rah-rah thinking, but if you don’t have enough belief, and you poohpooh all the advice of others, then perhaps you lack the temperament to be a founder. I was a successful founder, but only by joining with others with the skills I lacked as a cynical engineer-type. I think it is amazing that engineers are now regarded as critical - I am from a decade when MBAs were the hot thing!
There are serious academics and serious politicians and serious activists doing serious, non-infantile work to fight - and advocate for solutions to - climate change.

The infantile throwing milk at a famous painting stuff is just what drives clicks and what the media pushes and what the masses click and talk about.

So if you want to blame anyone, blame the public for caring more about infantile climate activists than real ones or blame media or its incentive structure for showing them on the front page instead of IPCC reports.

Really misguided, unneeded, and dare say I, infantile article Mr. Shellenberger. In giving further attention to the infantile people, you're just amplifying their signal and making the signal to noise ratio worse.
Interestingly some banks provide this facility. I was once talking to my "financial assets manager"(I didn't know I had one until I went to the nearest branch for some other work!).

Anyway, during my discussion with him he asked me whether I would like to avail the "will creating and custody service". And he mentioned that in addition to financial assets they also have an option for safe custody of digital assets with them. Here digital assets are anything like usernames, emails, passwords, URLs, digital photos, backups etc that you would like to pass it on to the nominees.
Anyone could paint-by-numbers a Monet. But only Monet could create a new one.

You don't need painters, you need artists.
Well, I'm not a domain expert here, but I have followed this a bit over the years. Here's my understanding:

1. Prediction actually is getting quite good, just not on the time scales that we're interested in, which would probably be somewhere between weeks and minutes.

2. I don't think that at the moment we have access to input variables with sufficient power to be predictive on those time scales. Right now, I think one of the best predictors of large EQ's on short time scales is a sudden increase in variance of seismic activity. Which is sort of obvious when you think about it... The best predictor of a big slip is when it's already started slipping.

3. There have been good gains on minute time scale warnings simply by using sensors and communication networks that can outpace the speed of the seismic waves. This can actually be incredibly helpful for seismic sensitive systems!
My disappointment related to this is that I still think Snowpack's philosophy was the right one for JS present and especially for JS future: don't bundle for development at all because ESM support in today's browsers is great and you can't get better HMR than "nothing bundled"; don't bundle for Production unless you have to (and have performance data to back it up).

I know Vite inherited the first part, but I still mostly disagree with Vite on switching the default of that last part: it always bundles Production builds and switching that off is tough. Bundling is already starting to feel like YAGNI for small-to-medium sized websites and web applications between modern browser ESM support, modern browser "ESM preload scanners", and ancient browser caching behaviors, even without HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 further reducing connection overhead to almost none.

But a lot of projects haven't noticed yet because the webpack default, the Create-React-App default, the Vite default, etc is still "always bundle production builds" and it isn't yet as obvious that you may not need it and we could maybe move on away from bundlers again on the web.
The issue here is not the computers making mistakes or presuming computers are accurate. The problem is that the UK courts regularly imprisoned people even though no bank transactions showed any money being taken. The problem with the UK justice system is much deeper and it is fundamentally biased and heartless against ordinary non-politically connected people and always has been. Monty Python criticizes this in the fish license sketch, as does George Orwell. This is why Americans hated the crown so much. It doesn't give its own people any benefit of the doubt. And has presumed guilt until proven innocent. It is no accident this happened in Britain.
how ethical is it to spam people's inboxes with unsolicited interview requests, especially when one has never shared their contact info with his company, nor shown the slightest interest in working for it?
My reaction to the table of contents was similar to yours, and I think it was a poor choice of words to summarize the first section.

Maybe something like "Hire customer-oriented engineers" would've been a better title for section one.

I think the "grit" and expertise in core technology are also important points, but it doesn't hook a reader the same way as saying "don't hire an engineer that can't adapt to the customer" (gloss over the double negative)
Some very nice results have been reported with a new multichannel coherent SDR: https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/krakensdr

Haven't heard a lot of talk about this one yet, but the video at https://youtu.be/GZAbPsT3oRM?t=12 looks really promising.
Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Show Improvement
I'm a little skeptical as well. Vite is fast

I just checked a code base that's at ~900 modules, and
vite is ready to serve dev requests in well under a second.
Lesser of Two Evils: The crash of Ameristar Charters flight 9363
> I strongly hope that we'll stop that madness at some point before our education finally hits the lows of the anglo-saxon equivalent!

Don't British and US universities significantly outperform German universities according to most rankings? I think there's just one Germany institution in the QS top 50 and it's... 50th.
If I got this resume from a junior I would hire them assuming the interview went decently.

Half is empty - just graduated, can't expect that much stuff to put there.

Maybe I should have expanded more on the game but I was getting the impression nobody cared that much about personal projects.

The very first two things you do with a resume are match up the list of technical skills with the list of tech in your position requirements, and check the education requirement. That's why those two go at the top.

I'd dealt with a lot of config issues running Debian on various hardware in high school as well as installing it, dealing with apt, understanding chron, a lot of basic things. I don't think systemd was much of a thing yet.

I still fundamentally disagree that the resume is bad. Again, I'd hire this person, and I'm saying that as someone who's done interviews and hired people now.
When a zero-karma 1-hour old account says things like this, one should beware.
Absolutely. Even if only for the timesaving.
If you could inspect any Turing machine and devise a specific algorithm that determines if it halts, then you yourself would be an algorithm that solves the generic halting problem.
I wish I'd see advice where they prioritize having a roadmap, milestones, an actual plan of execution, after Product Market Fit (PMF) has been found. And before you find PMF, any concern for hiring the 'best engineers', building a 'solid foundation' is moot.

I feel I'm going insane expecting product people to put the time in to define the requirements and context; I get weird looks asking startups about the plan for the next week. "That's how startups do it" is just the most bullshit excuse I keep hearing constantly regarding lack of planning.
Weird, unable to get a noscript/basic (x)html download link on a tarball??
Sorry if I didn't make this clearer in the article due to space constraints, but the TV surveillance antenna gives me a fair degree of directionality, enough to distinguish planes on different LGA and JFK approach/departures paths as they move through different parts of the sky, although once you get within 90 degrees of the reference signal all is lost. You also get a velocity and a range, albeit a bistatic one, similar to the first U.K. Chain Home radar stations.
I've never seen any evidence these interviews accomplish finding the best or even a competent candidate.

In my opinion the best interview process involves simply looking at the work history and having a conversation about it. If it sounds pretty good, you go with your gut and hire. A bunch of different people paid this person a lot of money for 5, 10, 20 years and you really think there's a chance they were all fooled? The conversation and your gut figure that part out with a decent success rate.
Hence the use "prove" rather than prove.

But the length of the real proof is beside the point. We teach them about 1 and 2 before going to 1+1=2. And when we do go to 1+1=2, we show it to them using objects and counting. We don't simply tell "here's the function for addition, just put numbers into to to solve problems".
This is exactly the SDR I was trying out :)
Where are the two years of 25% inflation?
Yes, it definitely needs interaction if the user did not define preferences in earlier conversations.
Sure, you asked for something else. Which arguably is a very different direction than the one the industry has chosen for any significant sized population.

Still, it felt uncanny the same domain of discussion was invoked just hours apart.
No. It's been awhile since I played around with it, but it's a front end framework that depends on react, that's really good at generating static pages
Often used in hyperbole. The term stems from videogaming and refers to part of the precarious balancing act which the developers of online games must follow to improve overall enjoyment of the game among users.

In the case of an item, weapon, ability (etc..) which is too powerful (and thus detrimental to game balance), the developers make it less effective by changing it's in game statistics - frequently lowering the potency of the strongest characteristics, or by changing how it behaves completely.

Such changes, when overdone by the developers, are said to "nerf" the item - to make it a harmless, "nerf" equivalent of it's former self (Nerf itself being a popular brand of foam activity toys).

"This spell is getting hit with the nerf bat in the next patch" -- is an example of it in use.
HDR hasn't always meant 10 bit colour...

But anyhow, Ubuntu supports 10 bit colour and has for awhile:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeepColourDepthSupportPlan
Here is the benchmark section of the site, although I don't see a definitive source for what is being run.

* https://turbo.build/pack/docs/benchmarks
I am (un)lucky enough to had to manage several test, QA and production server farms back in the more manual and bash scripty days. Log in 12 different VMS to set up proxies, ntp, release versions whatnot.

I once spent 3 weeks with several colleges to use a multiple hundred page documentation to set up shit and the error was always a bad IP address or wrong configuration or missing values from arcane places.

For me the value of docker was clear from the beginning and love on first sight.
For quite a while now I'm using nitter [1]. It's a wrapper for twitter (without the login requirements). There even are browser extensions that autoredirect you to privacy respecting websites instead of the default ones (so for example you'd get redirected to nitter after going to any twitter thread, wikiless when going to wikipedia etc.).

Anyway, I highly recommend nitter.

[1] https://nitter.net/
The OP resume looks like a raw typewriter document to me. I don't understand what value it brings to go beyond - it's nothing but a tool to convey your skills and experience.
WRT hiring, I've been looking for a job and had a number of interviews, perhaps 15-20. Odd thing is they've almost all asked for touchy-feely things such as my values, what's my favourite language and the like but no actual hard questions that tested my knowledge or capabilities.

The only org that did that said I beat everyone else and they're interested in having me (currently in progress in fact). Make of it what you will; I don't know what to think. They all want innovative problem solvers with deep knowledge but don't ask the interview questions that would show that up. It makes no sense.
> We want audience participation / questions / feedback

Gotcha. Breakout rooms I assume? This makes sense with breakout rooms where you shard the audience into small groups of ~4 or so. Then you get (N/4)^2 interactions

Otherwise it's a waste of time as you only get 1*N interactions.
> But imagine that we could compute BB(n) for any n, even if we need to use a different algorithm for each n.

This is itself uncomputable; therefore

> Then, we could build the mapping n -> BB(n).

This mapping is not computable.

Edit as I'm rate-limited:

What I mean is, informally, the incomputability of the algorithm to select the correct algorithm to compute BB(n) is sufficient to make that mapping uncomputable.

However, that does not mean that an algorithm to compute BB(n) for a specific n does not exist. Trivially, it does; "output BB(n)". It's just very uninteresting! What you're asking for, rather, is more like "an algorithm to prove BB(n)=x", which is a closely related but distinct problem.
a few points (keep in mind I also agree with the post, but "paused" my mac ecosystem around 10.12)

I agree fullscreen mode is really annoying -- except for movies.

With movies every other computer/device in the world screws that up by putting something other than the movie on the screen (including just about every cable channel with "coming up next" overlays). Really, nothing except the movie. Nothing on top, nothing around the movie. sheesh.

The dock is fine on the left. or right. at the bottom ugh.

The finder is just ok. except imho one of the best features of macos is finder + spacebar to quickly preview just about anything.
Pretty much my interview process. I ask them to program a contains(string, substring), then come back 30 minutes later to code scattered all over the place, sometimes with “// 54 upvotes http://stackoverflow.com/…”, code not compiling, and I’m still wondering whether I should accept them.

I wonder what’s so hard with my interview. 5 years ago, even interns could do it, one of them could even tell the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16.
Ah, good point, I commented without having RTFA. It's a really cool piece of hardware, no question about that.
The current going rate for general software development for London banks is around £750-800 per day via an umbrella company. Depending on a few details that works out equivalent to maybe £650 per day for a real (outside IR35) contract position.

I haven't heard of anyone other than the most senior and well connected taking home £800 outside IR35 for software development in the financial services industry since the changes to the off payroll rules. Obviously there are exceptions like quants but that's playing a different game really.
> for example by using reflected DVB-T transmissions

Now imagine if you had a constellation of thousands of orbital
satellites with precisely known positions...say Starlink. Will ground
stations even be a thing as passive anslysis matures?
> You have to network your way into a job.

Not necessarily, but it does make it easier if you have that opportunity. Places like Tata are good for someone with no connections to get a footing.
> it is always possible to compute BB(k) for a specific and arbitrary k

This is not true.

There is a number N where BB(n) is incomputable for all n > N. This fact tie back to being able to solve the Halting Problem, in various clever ways if you knew BB(n).

The value of BB(744) depends on whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true or false. This means that it cannot be computed in general. The Riemann Hypothesis being either true or false are both consistent with ZFC. The value of BB(748) depends on the self-consistency of ZFC.
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll give that extension a try as soon as I'm back home. So far I'm using the native options of Chrome: chrome://settings/content/images. From that page I can set the default behaviour and the whitelist/blacklist of websites. When I visit a webpage, I can view the images by clicking on the small lock to the left of the url bar. I didn't find the option to unlock only one image, it's all or nothing.
If anyone's interested in how this actually works, take a look at this (originally linked) article: https://justine.lol/ape.html

This reminds me a little bit about how "Wine" works, but because the support doesn't involve "everything an OS has to provide" the footprint is smaller.
Executives feel the strain of leading in the ‘new normal’
Yes. I mostly build libraries and rollup still beats everything in compatibility (esm, umd, cjs, etc) and output quality. It's slow, though, and I would love a faster alternative. Esbuild doesn't do tree shaking as well as rollup.
Heads up, you forgot to handle confused deputy in your IAM Role policy: (In 'Configuring IAM role' at https://docs.paigo.tech/ can't link to a page), which means anyone can pass a role (e.g. for another user) and you'll assume it.

Check out https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/confused-de... for how to handle it. You need to require and use an 'ExternalId'.
Other good news (if you assume you'll be taxed at a lower marginal rate in retirement than you are now): the 401(k) elective deferral limits go up by $2K to $22.5K (and the catchup contribution for those over 50 goes from $6.5K to $7.5K, so from a total of $27K to $30K).
Twitter has been using it in production for ages now.
Ultra-violence is for wimps.

Real players are on -fast.
Embracing the Uncomfortable
Yeah. I’m consistently surprised and disappointed by how much resistance people have to getting their hands dirty digging through other people’s codebases. It’s fantastically useful, and a remarkable way to learn new approaches and techniques.

The world doesn’t need yet another JS bundler. It needs the one js bundler that works well with the wide variety of niche use cases.
Application to track everything related to your baby such
No, the crux of the issue is that you can't observe every infinite loop.
Well, that's what is really frustrating here. Turbopack is built by the creator of Webpack. So, instead of fixing the bloated megalith that webpack has become, they are just moving on to greener pastures. But this time it'll be different™
In startup context, when still experimenting with product-market fit and trying to win early customers, you need generalists to be able to quickly change direction when necessary. Specialists have too much inertia in such cases.
My Samsung got the notification from Google too, so probably not a Pixel exclusive thing.

Though I wish it would have overridden silent mode. 10s of advanced warning isn't all that helpful if I only find out about the notification 10 minutes later.
Nonsense, I live in Silicon Valley for 23 years now, this has nothing whatsoever to do with "the next big one", today's one was purely a 5.1 in a remote sparsely-populated area up the hills inside a county park with no reported damage or injuries, population only 191 and they hardly even have any two-storey buildings inside the entire park, not that those were reported damaged either. By the way, IIUC from geologists it's actually good and healthy to have frequent small earthquakes to blow off pressure and avoid becoming the "next big one", hence today's non-event is good news not bad news. I actually showed you multiple ways to instantly read the USGS data (coords, intensity, depth, population, total lack of buildings higher than two stories) to understand that this was a non-event not the "next big one", not even in the neighborhood. Technical literacy matters, sensationalism seriously doesn't.

Today's non-event was actually a Good Thing in that it also gives us yet another occasion to calibrate earthquake early-warning sensors, to stay prepared for any actual serious earthquake, which this wasn't.

I also said nothing whatsoever about "excitement" or "disappointed", so do not misrepresent me. I did imply that media is increasingly sensational (which it is) and lazily skewed towards merely collating cellphone "eyewitness reports" from places with 4G coverage, without making any semi-objective comparison to the rest of the planet; and I correctly pointed out that zero people were affected here in SJ today whereas 11 million Cubans were affected by Hurricane Ian [0], to pick one obvious example. I also know some friends-of-friends whose house was severely damaged by the 11/2020 Marikina, Manila floods/Typhoon Vamco/Ulysses [1] (98 deaths, 19 missing, 360K rescued, ~43000 houses damaged).

Also, a magnitude 6.2-6.5 struck rural northern Luzon, Philippines earlier today [2], no reported damage or injuries [3], but noone's mentioning that.

[0]: https://www.state.gov/u-s-support-for-hurricane-ian-recovery...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Vamco#Philippines_2

[2]: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000iwds...

[3]: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1684866/magnitude-6-7-rocks-ab...
The cpi and other inflation metrics get messed up by hedonic adjustment and improper weighing of the baskets. Sometimes just looking at the M2 money supply is a better estimate.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

Significantly more money chasing the same amount of goods= inflation
Yep, although for a very, very long time that wasn't the case.
This is great! I’m currently using webauthn for my home’s vpn (you can create an account but not login — vpn.bottled.codes) but my wife always has issues when switching between phone and computer. Having a single thing that “just works” sounds quite promising.
Step 1. Set up data pipelines that feed into a data warehouse.

Amendment if you are using financial data...

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If you are in crypto, we have integrations with the blockchain, Dune, coinmarketcap, coingecko etc.