skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FizzBuzz interview questions are fair game[0] , especially if you're not networking in via referrals and are 1/5000 online applicants like the parent.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
I have interviewed many “senior” candidates who can’t do simple coding exercises. I think that starting out with a simple exercise like that weeds out a ton of people without putting undue burden on the good developers.
I used BetterTouchTool to configured three-fingered-swipe on the trackpad to switch tabs (left or right). https://folivora.ai

I like it so much that I've actually been petitioning Apple to add it as an option in System Settings, but like so many things, they seem to think they got Trackpad Gestures right the first time and haven't added anything to it since debut.
Given Twitter better to have some and at least one garden to none.
One of the problems with giving users access means that they can forward such access to malicious actors. It's a tough choice and perhaps not the right one for some, but I think preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot is the right call for many. Many do not understand the consequences of their actions and will readily grant access incorrectly.

While I agree that a single company shouldn't be unilaterally in charge of controlling access on behalf of users, I would say the industry doesn't do a good job of coming together to produce an option that works. Look at the software supply chain as an example of what tends to happen. The Linux distros do a pretty good job, but they maintain far fewer packages and getting your application into a distros repos isn't trivial.
> If B sees the product is fraud, he presses another button and both sides lose all their crypto. This disincentives both A and B from committing fraud.

That can't possibly be right. It would mean that if person A defrauds person B, person B would lose 150-200% of the asking price, rather than just 100% if no "crypto escrow" were used at all.
That's an important question.
No, not on iOS safari.
It is for the political party that controls the DoJ and other federal prosecuting agencies.
These lessons are just brutal.

If you are high in EQ and vaguely likable you can substitute for technical skill or hard work.

I had a colleague who was like a golden retriever and lacking in all talent. Everyone loved him. He never got anything important done and always worked on superficial shiny objects.

He was basically untouchable. Being optimistic and having no talent is a huge advantage.

The hard working workhorse industrious person always griping about how broken everything is: Can’t wait to get rid of you.

Don’t do great work for morons.

All of the collective results of these brutal lessons for me has been to become ultra cautious about where and who I work for and to try to do a much better job reading the room and analyzing people.

If you are an Aspergers person, this is super hard. I now do my best to get multiple second opinions about the situation because I learned my personal judgement and evaluation was nearly always wrong.
Elastic to layoff 13% - 450 Employees
A single news cycle of a story full of misinformation would dissuade them? Sorry it has to be a far bigger problem than that. A very complicated easily communicated opt-in hacking risk is very very low on the totem pole.
to serve and protect the regime
I do have a question about this – (as I've said in another comment here) after investing a lot in building our own terraform/aws stack, we've started moving all our smaller apps to fly and it's downright delightful to the point where we are considering moving even our HIPAA-compliant software to Fly as soon as I saw the BAA option in your pricing, (and the only hesitation is that there is no Vanta integration and we'd probably have to fill out a bunch of stuff manually to make auditors happy).

But to my actual question: I remember seeing somewhere that Fly Postgres is not a managed database and isn't as fire-and-forget (somewhere in the docs), and that honestly scares me a bit. It shouldn't, because at the end of the day, RDS is probably downright hairy and ugly under the hood, it's just hidden from us.

I've also seen a handful of reliability issues on the forums around postgres. So what is Fly's position on actually running these clusters? Are you guys feeling pretty good about its stability for critical workloads?

On a related note, these folks that are continuing to use RDS via fly... what are the latencies like with a us-east-1 RDS? I know you're in Ashburn so it must be sub 5ms?

That itself would be worth keeping our RDS and moving everything else to Fly to be honest.
Interest rates exist to incentivize loans in a universe where there’s a risk borrowers might not pay them back. The Roman Catholic Church decisively proved during the middle ages that no interest = no loans

You just described escrow with extra ~steps~ risk which has nothing to do with loans unless you’re suggesting borrowers put up 150-200% of the capital they want to borrow? (!?!?)
How do they justify having browsers in the app store then? There is more objectionable content found on browsers than any other type of app, and it's not close.
The reason is to draw people in with a comparison to something they already know. "bacon made of seaweed" sounds more interesting and will draw more people in than "seacrunch", which has its own identity and brand it would need to build up
> I don't understand the obsession with recreating meat from[sic] people

I agree, that doesn't sound particularly appealing
What an absolutely awful take.
Twitter thread with "some highlights": https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1597943870154997761
Variston IT
It was merely explaining that it takes comfort from the healthy vegetable-based diet it is being fed. That seems perfectly cromulent to me, and I'm sure other statistical language models would do a lot blurse.
That's me. Grew up in a very middle to perhaps lower-middle-class area and went to more-or-less middling schools. It definitely wasn't 'the mean streets' or anything but very blue collar. I'm certain there were kids living through very real problems at home and in their personal lives all around me. But I was blissfully unaware and disconnected from all that as I was wrapped in the bubble of band and honors/gifted classes and the associated type of kid. A pretty good childhood overall. One time, one 5-minute instance, I was actively, actually bullied, in a very minor and entirely inconsequential way by the football captain jock kind of kid. Took me by surprise, but rattled my cage enough that I still remember it. He went on to play in the NFL, had a short and pretty much unremarkable career as an athlete best I can tell, and now is a construction worker nearby and I saw a headline once that he got arrested for a DUI. I now live in a much nicer neighborhood in a bigger house than he does, and based on the blurb about the DUI, I drive a better car than he does/did. Point is, I can't imagine what it's like to actually be bullied. One tiny thing happened to me in an entirely impersonal and inconsequential way and here I am decades later googling the guy and feeling smug that I came out on top. I would have been crushed by any amount of real bullying.
> If consumers value Spotify enough they will leave Apple for it (spoiler: They won't)

It should be illegal for apple to force such a choice to begin with.
Congrats! GIMP is great for people who can't afford a $100 software package to edit photos. It's been a long time since I was in that cohort, but I fondly remember using GIMP at that time.
Lol we’re well past that.

If you’re willing to ban the NFA/legalize probate nuclear weapons we might be able to talk.

In the mean time I suspect you support at least some level of collective restriction, and that means banning companies from selling locked hardware is fair game.
One time istg no shit I dropped a bunch of change on the tile floor of the laundromat and a nickel landed on its edge.

If someone says a coin toss is 50/50 I don't jump in with "not always" though.
I have a different perspective. I feel that specific coding task tells me absolutely nothing about the seniority of the person performing the task and tells me very little about their qualifications.
“Poor”.

I mean that’s quite possibly the most charitable, Iraqi-general-during-desert-storm way you could put it.
Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-Training for Vision-Language Understanding
> The black people on the receiving end of “coon” would be the decision makers in this case.

The black people in the United States, specifically. To put this into perspective: 1.2 billion people live in Africa alone, most of them non-white.

> Anyway I’m working on a new terminal string styling library that I’ve named Colored which should be of some interest to you.

And what exactly is the negaive connotation here for 1.1 billion English speakers (out of 8.7 billion people) who don't live in the US?

Once again. To put this into perspective since you both are being maximally culturally and racially insensitive to anything that is not US, here's a perspective of an English-speaking person from South Africa (I only quote parts of the messages):

- http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-February/0...

--- staty quote ---

I think you just need to tolerate different cultures better. A word that is
deemed racist in one culture isn't the same in another.

There are many other uses for coon.
Maine Coon is a type of cat.
Coon is type of cheese in Australia. Go on - tell all of Australia to stop
eating coon.

Next you'll be telling me to rethink the use of the work 'monkey' or 'gorrilla' for a library. Where does it end?

--- end quote ---

- http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-February/0...

--- start quote ---

I grew up in apartheid South Africa. This was a system of government that
legitimised racist laws... I've been mocked and called racial slurs, served last in queues, talked down to. Bad words over there are 'kaffir' and 'coolie'. They're
highly offensive words and given the nature of violence in that country,
it's something you could be killed over. For me those words carry more
significance than 'coon' ever will.

...

When I moved to NZ it was quite clear that those same words that were
insulting in South Africa didn't carry over. Both countries speak English
but the cultures are different, although SA has more languages. I noticed
that there's there is a product called 'kaffir lime' grocery stores
everywhere. Imagine having 'n...ga lime' in American/Canadian grocery
stores. I got used to it after a while and it really doesn't bother me
anymore. Instead of shouting out about the use of the word 'kaffir' in
their product, I understood that different countries use words differently,
and expecting NZ to change for me to accommodate my sensitivities would
have been stupid.

--- end quote ---

Now. Are you also going to dismiss this as "some guy from South Africa ffs"?

If the US were a person, literally everyone would tell them to get its shit together and go see a psychologist. And not make the world assume that all issues must be viewed strictly through skewed American view.
I guess there isnt much money in the vegan market, so this false advertising is trying to appease meat-eaters.
The price of a new iPhone 14 Pro Max[1] or 12.9" iPad Pro[2] is ~45% component/part costs, on top of which there is all of Apple's R&D costs including the cost of developing iOS and integrating it with new hardware, amongst many other costs to Apple of bringing a new product to market.

I couldn't find public information for Apple or Google on the amount spent on R&D for iOS and Android, hence I'm not sure what the cost to Apple is of maintaining iOS and all the APIs that application developers can use to build their applications. There are some attempts on the Internet of people attempting to estimate iOS/Android R&D costs from LinkedIn data, open jobs data, other public records of revenue from app stores, etc but nothing much I can see being of use to generating a useful estimate.

It appears that in 2021, Apple received somewhere between USD$10-25 billion[3] (likely on the high end of this range) from app store sales (after paying developers) which for the 235 million iPhones[4], 58 million iPads[5] and 29 million macOS devices[6] sold in 2021 equates to about USD$77 per device sold. I'll just assume watches and TV app store sales don't make much of a difference so USD$77 may be slightly on the high side of an estimate.

Apple could perhaps increase the price of all their iPhone, iPad and MacBook models by USD$77 and do away with collecting revenue through the app store, but would consumers still buy these devices at the higher price points?

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AwEUXo...

[2] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vDm8GL...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/10/apple-implies-it-generated-r...

[4] https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS48830822

[5] https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS48826122

[6] https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-pc-market-Q4-2021
Do you want to give us more information on what you want to do exactly? A _specific_ example of what you mean by "production release".
That information is available in the last section of the paper.
You (and anyone reading this comment) are a rare exception. Users of this site are interested in how tech works. You spend time to understand what it’s doing and make things work for you.

And that’s awesome! Personally I’m the same way.

But an overwhelming majority of people do not want to fight with or customize their tech. Opening the tech actually tricks them into causing more problems by clicking random pop up’s on websites that look like system updates or other malware / advert tricks.

A recent discussion on this problem is here [1]. I’m not sure how to solve this. Maybe we need an actually viable Linux phone for tinkerers, while also having a locked down iPhone for the less tech literate? Maybe Apple can introduce a less locked down version of iOS for power users?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33314291
For those used to PhotoShop who have a hard time transitioning, checkout PhotoGIMP [1]. No, it doesn't magically make GIMP as powerful as PhotoShop, but it rearranges the UI so that it's more familiar to users accustomed to PhotoShop. Frankly, I don't do very advanced image editing, so GIMP definitely has what I need, but I could never unlearn the tool placement of PhotoShop.

[1] https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Is it? Can't people read your DMs on Mastodon as well? If that is your concern then seems like all things are equal. I'm being somewhat obtuse but I don't see how Mastodon is a reasonable replacement for Twitter.
We already went through one cycle of that:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-s-lawyers-terminate-ftx-r...
Perhaps connected family pulling a lot of strings and asking for one-time favors in a coordinated fashion. It almost reminds me of how mr Weinstein was able to deflect from his sexual crimes through connections to power and his own intimidation. He was able to stave of investigation into his crimes for decades. Regular Joes would have had no such perverted ability.

If the perp had been a persona non-grata, you'd bet this would have been all over the place --pitchforks and torches in-hand.
while I understand your point, I have to believe that anyone hosting and showing naked underage pictures is very quickly going to decide not to so that particular threat really holds little water.
> Where did the $2 come from?

Charlie
Is this recent from LaserJets, or involves HP software off-printer?

My HP LaserJet Pro 400 series m401n will keep printing even as the print quality fades, presumably due to actually low toner.

(This is running with CUPS and open source PCL drivers on the client, talking TCP to network passthrough to printer's USB, no HP-written software used off-printer.)
And also let’s stop the pretend milk. Oat milk ain’t milk.
get as bored as you possibly can, put yourself in a situation where your only alternative to boredom is doing something that you think you can only do with motivation, figure out what that is, and then don't allow yourself to do anything but that, so if you're not doing that, you should literally look at paint dry, or be in an empty room (completely empty, no bed, no chair, possibly, no lights)

you can "nudge" instead of going cold turkey, set your phone to grayscale, turn notifications off, close social media accounts (or at least uninstall apps), stop binging tv shows (if you do), or watching tv, you probably get the gist of it, make it so that what to you now requires motivation, is the fun option
Agreed. Doesn't pass the sniff test at all.
Stripe has become the dominant player in its market, and they need to continue showing year-over-year growth to investors, so the only way forward is to cut costs.
And yet globally both of these companies spend 20% of CPU cycles on TLB misses. Should we turn off virtual memory protections and go back to raw physical memory (or something?)
opportunity cost? question is why they have the staff for this kindve thing and not for azure or other productive stuff.
That's a really cool use of BetterTouchTool. Definitely going to give that a shot.

The more I see comments like yours the more it reaffirms my faith that "pro" users want customisation. If Apple opens up the OS a little bit it will have arguably the best hardware and a great OS. But I won't hold my breath.
Well, this completely explains where one of my Truecrypt volume passwords disappeared to after migrating away from LastPass years ago. Too bad the account has long since been deleted.
IIRC, Madoff was literally creating fake statements for customers and not buying securities he claimed he was for his clients. Not saying what SBF did is thus not criminal, but I don't think investigators have that kind of smoking gun yet.
This is required for PERM (for green cards) but not for H1B I believe.
Other people seeing and understanding what is going on does not require your participation.
Have you had turkey bacon?
I meant it as an honest, open-ended question.

Would you prefer them to just not explore their sexuality?

Or explore it online with people they know, like their classmates?
If SSH is already being used, can't one just create an SSH tunnel to forward the login?
>At the end of the day all of these companies would do the exact same thing as Apple

and with that sentence you've just described the exact reason precisely why antitrust legislation is long overdue and whyy your solution doesn't work. Running to an alternative will, in due time, just reproduce the same result. In fact Spotify is itself a walled garden for artists suffering from the same dynamics.
@dang this comment is anti-semitic dog whistling.
> Our Trust & Safety team continues its diligent work to keep the platform safe from hateful conduct, abusive behavior, and any violation of Twitter's rules. The team remains strong and well-resourced, and automated detection plays an increasingly important role in eliminating abuse.

And yet they lock accounts for tweets like "Elon Musk should pay taxes"
This helps answer a serious argument I had on whether Puerto Rico and/or Washington D.C. should become states. Some people argued that the the flag could stay the same. I think the most clever answer would be to make a flag with a star randomly placed to annoy flag-obsessed nerds. More seriously, I think the reason that a 51st or 52nd state can't be added is that the urgency of the matter is lacking. Doing something about statehood would require it to be exceedingly popular and even then the odds are poor.
Oh Spotify, the company that is eating the podcast distribution market.
I saw one story where Chamath Palihapitiya said his due diligence team made very simple governance recommendations like “have a board” and “formalize your related-party transactions” and the response from FTX was literally “go fuck yourself”. Given the recent reporting around just how absolutely fucked their records were I can’t help but wonder what on earth they were handing over in response to DDQs? Was it garbage and people invested anyway? Or were they just making shit up whole cloth? Social Capital must have seen something to get their spidey senses tingling about the related-party situation.
> I suspect you support at least some level of collective restriction

Locked mobile phones don’t hurt people other than the people who choose to use them. That’s different to for example a gun.

The only reason to ban iPhones is because you know other people like them as they are and you’re in a minority! You want to enforce a minority opinion on others. That’s morally wrong.
Or support the Nostr protocol
Made a slight edit, did not mean to imply it was a bad service in any way.
Pretty wild that the reporting from CoinDesk that led to the downfall of FTX, is causing such an entire market implosion that it may be putting CoinDesk itself out of business.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/media/coindesk-scoop-ftx-reli...

https://crypto.news/potential-buyers-circle-around-digital-c...
> Is it? Can't people read your DMs on Mastodon as well?

"People"? No. Server operators, yes, but that's true of Twitter as well.

The disclosure, here, is that anyone can read private messages. Oh, and also edit posts.
I once needed to download PDFs from emails, and then post just one page from each to a Web form – and all I had was an iPhone and 3G at a Caribbean beach bar. Shortcuts are less limited than I thought!
But shouldn't a blacksmith be able to make a nail before he makes me a suit of armor?
Thanks for breaking that out. If it's only on Twitter, it's invisible to me.
Individual Corporation to User sanctions are a good idea. For it to be effective, it's need to not only hit the user, but their extended network. Imagine if you worked for these guys, and then oneday you found out, both apple and google and microsoft banned you, your wife and kids and parents from their networks based on your actions. Say the ban lasted 5 years for relations and lifetime for the person.

It'd be an interesting escalation. I think it would work, It's a big part of the digital ecosystem you'd essentially be blacklisting bad actors from. Though there'd be scope creep eventually. So maybe it'd be dead on arrival as a technique to pressure them.
my god... seriously... every single response seems to be careful crafted to not offend anyone.

"Can you provide an estimate of who the most well know person in the world is?"

"As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not able to provide estimates or predictions about the popularity or fame of individuals..."

ugh
> I've worked with too many people who can't be bothered to do any work unless it's something they can put into a promotion packet, add to their resume, or brag about in their next meeting.

I wonder if tech hiring is basically selecting for this now. So companies have to either constantly fight promotion driven development and people gaming their employment, or let it run amok and hope that their shareholders/customers don't notice or care. Given a lot of recent tech news, the latter might be a more successful strategy than I would have guessed. Were it not for rising interest rates who knows how long some of this might have gone on for. Basic jobs for programmers.
Bacon is from pork.

I appreciate the innovation, and I will definitely try it, but please call a spade a spade and stop the nonsense.