skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is my experience as well,
I understand the appeal, hell I was even the one to frontrun/poc it 6 years ago.
But in the end it's just worse dev experience, no sane Keywords autocomplete/lookup in any IDE out there(by that time).

In the end you end up programming inside english like DSL with weird quirks, that's somewhere connected to python, with different variable syntax, and not really good debugging.

I guess everyone has to pass through that stage at least once, but I will never go back to it.
> because I never talked with anyone who doesn't casts stones to C & C++ and badmouths it while saying that Rust is the one, and only, and the last savior we need.

I do definitely cast stones on C/++, especially considering that a C project I've rewritten in Rust uncovered several memory safety issues from the very first run. Another C project I've approached also showed C-specific issues from the very beginning.

On the other hand, I don't define Rust and the savior and so on; to be specific, memory safety is a very serious issue, but not the only one, and memory safe languages solve a very serious issue, but not all the issues. Additionally, I think Rust is a niche language; other memory safe languages may be more productive for the majority of the use cases ("webcrap", like a famous software engineer described :)).

Now you know one!
as a UK person living in the US who recently passed the US (technician) Ham radio exam, it astonishes me how draconian the UK laws are about RF.

it's even illegal to listen to UK air traffic control radio? what? how can they even be serious
Hard to imagine it happening at that scale in the West. Is it just wealth that keeps most people here from becoming slavers and murderers? Is it the fear of the law coming down on them? Cultural norms? How "accepted" is that trade in the wider community, do the owners of these scams (or the Thai fishermen) get respected, or do they live in constant fear that someone takes justice in their own hands and ends them?
If consciousness is out of the loop, then why are we discussing consciousness here? It should never come up.
Germany: stored 239.64, consumption per year 905.30 ⇒ 239×12/903 ≃ 3.17 months

Spain: stored 32.99, consumption per year 338.99 ⇒ 32×12/338 ≃ 1.17 months

However, the “Stock/Cons” column, annotated with “Filling level compared to annual consumption”, shows this:

Germany: 26.47 ⇒ 26.47×12 ≃ 317.64 months

Spain: 9.73 ⇒ 9.73×12 ≃ 116.76 months

What did I misunderstand?
It is apparently based in Hong Kong.
Haha, omfg a classic...

One of the "questions" on their apply for job form is

TL;DR

Optional field is REQUIRED and only option is "Yes"

"At Thoughtworks, we are intentional about making technology a better place for all. We know that the more diverse our backgrounds are, the more impactful solutions we build for our clients. We foster an inclusive community and focus on creating a balanced workforce reflective of the society we live in.To help us achieve this balance, we encourage you to answer these demographic questions. We collect this data to understand who we are reaching (and who we’re not) so we can do better at connecting with a truly diverse group of potential Thoughtworkers. Our recruiting teams will only see the data collected here on an aggregated level, consistent with our Data Privacy Policy. Responding to the questions is completely voluntary and anonymous. Declining to respond will not impact your standing in the recruiting process."

The field is REQUIRED and the only option is "Yes"
But why would you enter it manually? Why not click "attach"?
My experience is that it is not possible enter such a flow state on demand. The state is beyond "my" control. There appears to be "a part" (not necessarily a physical part) of us that we think is "me" that wants to control, i.e. micromanage, and "on demand" means that this part would decide, i.e. able to control the flow state. However, the state seems to happen when this part lets go of the need to control things, and seems to disappear when this part tries to control things. The whole discussion is too long for here, but I recommend book Inner Game of Tennis for details.
Cryptomining campaign abuses free-tier cloud dev resources
Foundation and Empire
>I figure that lack of common sense is systemic in the company, so I don't want to work there.

They probably want you to fill that so they can query that data easier

Meanwhile still have access to original CV
Given how many organizations run on widely shared Excel sheets with shitloads of macros someone wrote thirty years ago, it makes sense to use Excel sheets as a spreader mechanism.

Basically, a multi-stage hack:

1) Get RCE on an user's computer in some way (e.g. via a browser exploit chain, yet another exploit in a public reachable Citrix instance, tech support scam)

2) Scan the MRU lists of all users for Excel files on network drives, Onedrive, Dropbox and other common share tools

3) Once the files become accessible (e.g. because the user connected to the VPN), open each file and check if it has macros. If yes, inject spreader payload (e.g. a credential stealer, a miner or a crypter). If no, continue to the next file.

4) Other users now open these Excel files, execute the macros because they expect to be asked that question, and now the payload executes.
No ATS accepts this, sadly.
Using Codeberg with the dark theme, and I must say that I like it better than Github. Really crisp and easy-to-use UI.
Because it was there?
If they don't want to hear from me by phone, e-mail, or in person, they'll never hear from me. Maybe that's the advantage of working in an area with a permanent labour shortage, but I simply refuse to jump through hoops before getting paid. I will not fill out a huge questionnaire which will leak my data, I will not record a video, I will not do a little dance and show my tushie (without getting paid, that is). They can go fuck themselves.
> The problem is that this is a very first mandate for vaccination we ever imposed on ordinary people.

That's not true! It used to be you had to show your smallpox vaccine scar (the vaccine left a distinctive mark) in order to enter many businesses.
Schools that deliberately don't go out of their way to select for gender parity wind up with far more girls than boys. UNC Chapel Hill, for example, is 60% female. From what I understand, this does interesting things to their social dynamics.

Highly selective colleges that strive for parity must accomplish that by rejecting a few girls who would have gotten in on merit alone, and admitting a few boys who should have been the first ones out.

What incentives are you thinking of? What's the source of your data?
> there are a few corporations (with revenues that are greater than some countries GDP) are building on Gitea for core products without even contributing back enhancements

That's exactly what you get when you release Gitea under MIT.

What they are looking for is AGPL.
Then it's not necessarily a "deadline", but a suggestion.

Most of the time it's better to do something the right way than to artificially hurry developers to hack something together that will bite you later in the form of bugs
Yeah but if there was a program called HITLER, NAZI, CRIPPLE or what have you, even if their names were acronyms, would you really not think twice about using it?
Sweet jesus that's easy. Wonder if stuff like Samsung ODIN (which already has a OSS clone) could be ported to that.
As far as I've seen it's actually the opposite. Gitea has been growing in support and popularity, and as such, it needed to put some legal structure in place to deal with increased income and distribution of funds so that it's not abused.

That is, I BELIEVE, the intention with the announcement and structural changes. As a relatively significant commercial backer of both bounties and Open Collective, I was as surprised as everyone to see the announcement. If my assumptions are correct, I completely agree with the decision. I want developers who contribute to gitea to benefit from the software they are building and think there is enormous potential for everyone to share in the upside.

It's an exciting, new junction for the project. I think we are a little bit in the dark at the moment and I'm pushing for better communication.
For me the iPhone was closer to a PDA than a smartphone. Ie Palm and WinMo were close. Why didn’t they go all the way?
Where I'm currently working, a coworker left a couple weeks ago. He really wanted to stay, he LOVED the company, but his position wasn't a great fit for him and he found something else.

He told me that when he told HR "I hope I will come back some day", HR replied: "until I'm head of HR, no one that leaves will ever be considered again".
I mean it's really common, I've seen it on at least 20 tech jobs in the past week, but I don't know who would actually use it.
I don’t really agree with these points regarding performance speed (of course AOT is a cool technology that has its uses):

> - in AOT 100% of the code is compiled

If the code hasn’t been run enough times to become eligible for JIT compilation, it likely doesn’t contribute any significant time to the whole runtime, so I doubt it would be a meaningful change.

> some optimizations are only possible under a closed-world assumption (AOT)

Which a JIT compiler is more than free to assume much more strictly than an AOT one can? Like, if it sees that only a single implementing class of an interface is loaded it can assume that every virtual method call can be replaced by a static one. Upon a class load, this assumption can be revisited and the native code can be deoptimized in cases. In an AOT compiler you have to optimize based on the worst case, while JIT compiler may avoid loading that class based on some dynamic property.
Also, Graal is not only an AOT compiler, it is also a JIT compiler with.. closed-world assumptions, so it is quite meaningless comparison.

The last point is true on paper, but as far as I know it is not true that JIT compilers produce worse code, and even if it is it is not due to lack of time/resources.

But I just wanted to refute the performance claims — Graal Native executables do start up much faster and have significantly less memory usage, which are worthwhile goals in themselves. But most Java code will perform better under a JIT compiler (which can be Graal’s as well)
> Covid was/is killing people, vaccines prevent that, so vaccines must be required. Very simple.

They don't though.

None of the vaccines prevent transmission - they were never even tested for that.

And only the extremely elderly or obese are in any significant danger of dieing of COVID. If you're not in either of those camps, or have natural immunity the risk is negligible.
Great to see an authz app building block based on a robust model as OSS. This is one of those things every app needs but so far most folks were building it in-house (as I can attest myself) instead of focusing on what really moves their app forward. I wish it was available a few years ago when we were starting.
I loved this tool :) ! Few years ago, as a junior I joined one global corporation to my first job and I started to use it with zero knowledge about the python or even testing at all. But learning curve was very easy & fast and as of time, we created more than 3000 E2E & integration tests for our business application, running through the Jenkins. The tests were written in a very human-readable format, so anybody at the team could easily understand the test and identify the issues. Reporting had nice (but quite slow) html & jquery page. Also, Robot editor was a recommended tool to write tests.

After a time, when I was starting a startup with a few junior developers which lacked the expertise, we used this tool in combination with Selenium to crawl data. It was fast & easy.

Always glad to see this tool is still alive. Good job Pekka Klarck!
Thoughtworks asked me talk about a time I've been discriminated against in their culture fit interview. One of the worst interviewing experiences I've had.
JM2C, Apple is probably working on that 14" MacBook X iPad device, which patents showed back in May/June 2022.

Falls in line with the recent rumour of a 25% scaled up macOS variant too. Basically like a device running macOS with a touchscreen & detachable keyboard. Battery life should be off the rails since both halves would have battery packs.
There are many solar plants not mapped due to lack of high quality, up-to-date aerial/satellite imagery, or volunteers.
Germany is country mapped best, not necessarily having significant share of solar.
It's more like 6 once you include the HR screen and Department head meetings. 4 interviews seems totally unnecessary in itself. Especially if they were all 1 hour or more. Their current process would take 4-6 hours and that's only if they don't have any take home technical tests.

1) Quick phone chat
2) Technical interview - Either review or carry out technical test.
3) Team interview

Even then the team and technical interviews can be doubled up and the phone chat can easily be cut out entirely.
> Sure, someone really depends on an electrical gizmo to survive, but most of us would wake up to a world without machines that we rely on daily, yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. There are fruit on trees, water is still flowing and drinkable, boars still roam the forests.

That would be true for like, 15 minutes. Then the realization hits: we eat it all, and there's no more left until the next growing season or whatever, meanwhile we'll be hungry tomorrow.

No. The fate of humanity, were the machines to suddenly stop working, is most of it dead within first couple weeks. Not only the nature cannot support 7 billion humans without technology to make it, not only we're not tooled out for doing agriculture the "old-school" way, but also most people now live in the cities. Cities do not produce food.

If you live in a city, and the machines disappear, or the economy collapses, you will starve to death, unless someone kills you first.
We've got a line of em out between Watford and Rickmansworth along the Colne. (Just outside of Greater London but inside the Orbital.) One is my favorite - it's in a field by itself next to where I walk for exercise, and something about it is weirdly peaceful, like a remnant of a vanished civilization.
3. a Protoss building which costs 100 minerals and supplies 8 psi and allows you to warp in other buildings. Protoss executors are frequently reminded to construct more of these, though in my experience the effort might be better spent reminding them to build additional photon cannons instead.
> Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice ;)

Actually this thought process has been problematic for me. Seeing that everyone is actually incompetent is more dangerous than there being a reason (good, bad or otherwise) for their actions.
Can you email me (jgc) details?
I cannot find it...a great article on how elite athletes, actors, racing car drivers, have an a bility 'slow down time', in order to foresee, calculate and perform complex tasks.
Your comment confirms 'it exists'.
I think i get it a bit when I'm on my bike in dense town centre traffic (europe) and having to cross lanes/ roundabouts in front of cars.
Plenty if you ride your train further south enough. Starting from Wimbledon substation. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4307/-0.1884
Would anyone with an OpenAI key be willing to share? Interesting to see what it gives for an "enthusiastic cover letter for a software engineering job at Google" or whatever
Gitlab does the exact same thing only to then reject you because you haven’t had a previous tenure last longer that ~3 years. Strange culture.
> Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice ;)

While this is true — I would be very surprised if anyone was actively malicious towards their hiring pool — it's not an important distinction when trying to decide which employer to apply for.
I wonder whether this is due to unreliable data. I am not sure where this is sourced from since tracking all the solar installations seems like a lot of work.
Oh how wonderful! My late Aunt Valerie Doodson coordinated the restoration and exhibition of this. I am very happy to see it on HN. <3
That's not the case. Even against Delta effectiveness dropped very rapidly and then actually went negative. The UK is one of the few countries that kept regularly publishing case stats even after this happened and it showed that once the initial vaccine 'high' wore off, vaccinated people were getting infected more frequently than the unvaccinated. Omicron didn't change this.

This sort of thing is unintuitive but has happened before. In fact Fauci cited the possibility of this effect as one of the reasons not to rush the trials. Unfortunately the trials did not detect this, probably due to bad use of statistics (the way they classify people as unvaccinated for weeks after having actually been given the shot can warp the stats).
I have an analogy that for me defines the difference between conscious and unconscious.

I imagine myself sitting at the breakfast table with a cup of coffee in front of me. I wonder how that cup makes it to my mouth and eventually the contents to my stomach? What part of me does the work of picking up the cup, guiding it to my mouth, swallowing and ensuring it does not end up in my lungs and finally ensuring that the cup returns to the table.

All I do in that instance is consciously think to myself: "I want a drink of coffee" (not even politely). The rest is done by the unconscious. The next morning I attempt to get out of bed conscisously, trying to remember in which order, which muscles need to be triggered to move my legs. Eventually I just give the command "I want to get out of bed" and in an instant I'm out of bed.

Riding a bike: how times to I conscisously think to push down my right leg while pulling up my left and reversing that order for the next stroke?

I find it fascinating what the unconscious does: muscle memory, instinct, reflex, feelings etc are all things that are controlled by the unconscious. I try to do meditate as a way to connect to that unconscious, to obtain some of its advice - since I believe that the unconscious is not just the muscle-driver, there is a lot more intellectually that my unconscious does.
This in the original paper to which the singularity hub article refers.

> “They reported that just as they were ‘about to’ push the button, but before they had actually decided to do so, the projector would advance the slide—and they would find themselves pressing the button with the worry that it was going to advance the slide twice!” The commonsense view of consciousness tells us that the conscious decision to act precedes and causes the action itself. How do we explain this strange phenomenon in which motor actions occur before the conscious decisions to take these actions? How could the effect precede the cause? What advanced the slides was actually a signal from the implanted electrodes.

https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/Fulltext/9900/Consci...
I am the %8!!!
"My brain feels like it's been relieved of the task ..."

Obviously an illusion, since your brain is doing the task. The "conscious" part of the brain is apparently unaware of most of what the brain is doing. I feel that way most of the time, actually, that I don't need to consciously micromanage everything that I'm doing, since the brain still gets it done in any case. I feel that way now while writing this sentence, I'm consciously just watching the words as they appear.
In my experience, they're like accountants and lawyers, eithet horrible or amazing (+never in between).

Most people think they're useless, because they've never used a great one.
I think latest version of XCode is needed if latest iOS is being targeted.
Yeah I was fully expecting a licence change with that preamble. And then they mention DAO ._.

GPL scares people for stupid reasons (stupid from my fanatical perspective that if you use open source software, of course your derivatives ought to be open as well), Gitea honestly might be so popular because it had a more free license than GPL. Doesn't mean I'm sad to see they're not even trying to make these changes be contributed back going forward.
Ok, fair point, but how else can we get politicians to behave better? I don't think that assigning immense powers for four years without personal repercussions for bad actors has worked very well.
As an interesting note that it is not surprise that half of showcased business logos are from Finland.

Robot Framework is (was?) heavily used by Nokia and then spread from there to its subcontractor network.
This kind of binary thinking where you want to put everyone not fully toeing the party line into the evil group is exactly what makes issues like this so politicized. All it does in the end is divide and thereby push people further into opposition of what you are trying to force on them. In other words if you want more people to actually become anti-vaxers rather than people questioning or just being hesitant about a specific novel vaccine, keep doing what you are doing.
The Tragedy of Telford’s Girls
The Great Silence is my personal favorite short story. It is absolutely beautiful (and sad too, in a way).
Xtree Pro
Lack of execution in your tech roadmap can sink your startup. However, effective execution by your engineering team does not guarantee success. The thing that leads to success is product-market fit and growing revenue. Tech can be a barrier preventing revenue, but the thing that determines revenue is product (does your thing solve a problem?) and marketing (can you make other people aware of your thing?). But there aren't a lot of product-minded engineers out there: most engineers get excited about scaling databases rather than marketing funnels. So the tradeoffs aren't symmetrical: a bad engineer hire hurts than a good engineer hire helps.

In any case, 5% is a lot for any salaried employee. It's been a few years since I've been at a startup, but employee share pools used to be 15% or 20% - you wouldn't give a third or a quarter of your pool to one person.
How many hundreds of years ago was this? Ethereal has been Wireshark since 2006.
Totally weird! Tell me more!
> If you have some "thing", that is so grotesque that it needs to break a users web browser in order to work correctly, you no longer have a "site". You have a creature, you have an application.

There is nothing "grotesque" about writing web applications.

That is the entire point of HTML5 + CSS3 + AJAX.

With modern Chrome-based browsers and Firefox I can write an application that can be used by Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, iPhone and Android users who need only visit that site.

No installation necessary, and (most importantly) no gatekeeping of apps by Apple, Google or Microsoft.
> Noone calls...

Let each of them know, please, that I and my compadres apologize for referring to MPEG-4 Part 2 as MP4 to save time, and refer to the container as MPEG-4 Part 14 to avoid ambiguity. Major faux pas there, how embarrassing, mea culpa, and thank you for taking the time to set us straight by letting us know what every single other person does.
4 hours doesn't seem reasonable to me for anywhere that's not top tier. How many interviews would you consider unreasonable?
Robot has it's peak maybe a couple of years ago. Although my company still uses it extensively there are other Automation frameworks that are proving to be better, like , say Cucumber, Cypress, etc.

But why is Robot Framework being mentioned and getting attention now? It's not like it's something new and doing anything different from the existing frameworks.