skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ease of use" is mentioned, and I suppose this refers to HTTP being text-based, pretty readable and intuitively understandable. HTTP/2 and later aren't like this anymore, for the sake of efficiency. It's a trade-off, but at this point I don't see much value in using it for APIs anymore. If you value efficiency and clean design, there are clearly better alternatives that aren't more complicated than what HTTP has become.
Attention any quant firms-- I'll do it for 250k, 80 hours a week, 24/7 on call, fire me if I don't deliver satisfactory results.

10 years of experience in Cpp, Java, Javascript, Python, SQL, the last 5 of which as a lead (aka designing the data model and optimizing slow parts of the code base through better ds and algo implementations).

Only catch is I won't show up physically in NY or Philly or Chicago, etc.
Question #3 offers a great opportunity to make the interviewer feel very uncomfortable. Tell them your bad habit is sticking boogers on your keyboard.
For the record, a commit is the whole tree. Git does not store patches, they are generated on the fly by the UI.

Trees still rely on hashes to address the actual content though.
I would much rather have these questions than go thru the LeetCode grinder. Without spending significant prep time, you can’t get through the grinder. For most software developers, the grinder isn’t actually representative of how we work.
I had never really thought about it but am now realizing that the Eurozone (countries using the Euro) and the European Union do not overlap perfectly. There are countries outside the EU that use the euro and countries in the EU which do not use the Euro.

Look forward to reading more about about the differences and successes/failures that can be attributed to falling within each of those groups.
> How do you see yourself in five years?

Man, this question.

I was asked this question in an interview for a startup. I gave the regular answer that was expected of me. The interview went well, and at the end when the interviewer (who was the co-founder) asked if I had any questions, I turned this around on him: "where do you see [company x] in five years?"

He laughed and talked about finding product-market fit and getting a certain amount of funding, and having so many employees, and that kind of thing. In other words, the things you're expected to say in that position. I was impressed, and took the position when it was eventually offered to me.

18 months later, the company was on fire, most of the staff were laid off, the product I had been working on was shelved, and the company pivoted to a completely different product. I put in my notice just before that co-founder left the company completely, and eventually took a salaried position in a different industry, and moved across the country.

So, we both just said the right things, but had absolutely no fucking idea where we'd be in even two years. If either of us had any idea, we wouldn't have told the other person anyway. Questions like this have no answer, but a trivially correct response, and so are meaningless wastes of time.
Indeed. When I was a high school teacher, I saw kids fail estimation skills like #10 badly. You don't want technical teams doing that.

I've also seen people fail #8 in interviews for junior positions. They can't introspect. It sounds impossible but it happens.
You never put a ceiling: otherwise it makes them believe you work the hours, not the job (I mean, if you care to "win" the job offer).

A good response is "there s no hour limit: as long as there s work and the client isnt satisfied, we work. I think it's important to sleep a bit between work day sto stay coherent, otherwise as long as I can".

Doesnt matter true or not :D
Speaking as an American too, this guy is completely wrong, and I disagree with every single point he made.
These were startups who were not making up for the long hours with financial compensation. They just felt that they were entitled to cheap labor that doesn't value their time.
I've been wondering why there is not more movement the other way around. Croatia is beautiful, especially around the coast, and given the hybrid work direction the world is heading in it seems it could be very appealing to have satellite offices around Rijeka, Split, Pula etc. to the point where even foreigners would be willing to move there.
It's a good perspective for sure. I also understand that the non-hub p2p model exposes LUV in ways it doesn't for other airline carriers.

I gotta say tho - it is extremely tiring to keep seeing "shit happened because bean-counting C-level decided to over-prioritize profits over product and the company rots from within" motif.

Happened with Boeing, GE, and now Southwest I guess.

https://archive.is/5vXIZ
https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/comments/zxg6op/t...
Should be ok from a residential IP, no?
Haven't heard of those two, but would be really awesome to see an integration. We have an open API[1] for just this reason: we really want to make it easy to use (and source) your data across all the different tools out there. We've recently launched integrations with other labeling[2] and AutoML[3] tools (and have integrations with the big-cloud AutoML tools as well[4]). We're hoping to have a bunch more integrations with other developer tools, labeling services, and MLOps tools & platforms in 2023.

Re synthetic data specifically, we've written a couple of how-to guides for creating data from context augmentation[5], Unity Perception[6], and Stable Diffusion[7] & are talking to some others as well; it seems like a natural integration point (and someplace where we don't need to reinvent the wheel).

[1] https://docs.roboflow.com/rest-api

[2] https://github.com/SkalskiP/make-sense/pull/298

[3] https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/discussions/10425

[4] https://docs.roboflow.com/train/pro-third-party-training-int...

[5] https://blog.roboflow.com/how-to-create-a-synthetic-dataset-...

[6] https://blog.roboflow.com/unity-perception-synthetic-dataset...

[7] https://blog.roboflow.com/synthetic-data-with-stable-diffusi...
Yes but in reality this is in addition to 3 leetcode grinder interviews.
> The NSA

Seriously? As soon as the NSA certifies a piece of code it'll be dropped like a hot potato by everyone outside of the US, and probably by a large percentage of the people inside it.

If such a body exists, which seems like a reasonable idea, it has to be nongovernmental and not controlled by large corporations either.
>Funnily enough, the old.reddit.com view does have a <link> to the RSS feed.

Maybe that's not a coincidence! Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, was also one of the developers of RSS. Most people already know his story, but for those who don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Do recruiters have up-to-date information on the number of piano tuners in NYC? How do they verify the answer?
Biggest problem is any of these can be rehearsed and the best interviews are spontaneous ones where the person opens up into uncharted authentic territory vs canned responses.

Of these, I've only been asked questions 5-9 back circa 1990 when I was just starting out and the "where do you see yourself in 5 years" and "what are your strengths/weaknesses" were ubiquitous. Something must have happened in HR world in the 2000's because interviewers stopped asking these questions even thought I was still hiring for dev positions so maybe a memo went out or possibly the internet was blowing up. By the 2010's I was 20+ years into my career and at that point your CV speaks for itself and they just want to know if you are going to be behaviorally difficult person. Interviewing very senior people is a much more difficile proposition.

When I was 20 (cusp of 21) and hiring for internships my mentor told me the answer to "where do you want to be" should be "in your seat" but I my mentor was so old he didn't understand the concept of HR people giving the first interview lolololol.
> Those who want to DDoS will always find a way

How do you figure? You don't think far more DDoS events would occur if it was easier and more effective?
> EU member nations are countries with literally hundreds if not thousands of years of storied history, all with varied cultures and traditions. It is impossible to unify such peoples in as heavy-handed a manner as the EU without harming and even destroying the identities of those member nations.

The EU doesn't really "unify" all the countries in to one. The US federal government has significantly more power than EU parliament has in many areas.

I also can't think of a single area where I feel my national identity is being destroyed or taken away from by the EU. In what ways does it do that?
> The difference is that FOSS is not a business model

FOSS can be part of a business model, but only if there are contracting parties who agree on the mutual obligations. If someone simply develops open source software and this is used by arbitrary people, essential prerequisites are missing for a contract to come into being. Instead, there are no obligations to the developer.
Straight out of John Howard’s awful playbook, using human lives for political ends.

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

> The Children Overboard affair was an Australian political controversy involving public allegations by Howard Government ministers in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, that seafaring asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed ploy to secure rescue and passage on 7 October 2001.

Or had they?

> The Australian Senate Select Committee for an inquiry into a certain maritime incident later found that no children had been at risk of being thrown overboard and that the government had known this prior to the election. The government was criticised for misleading the public and cynically "(exploiting) voters' fears of a wave of illegal immigrants by demonising asylum-seekers".
> When the position probability distribution is made narrower, the momentum probability distribution becomes wider ... Note that this is not a limitation of measurement

I see this a lot, but what's the reason we know it's not the case?
Not if you care more about making sure users can use your app (think services, etc). Or apps with network effects.
Sorry but it is janky asf... and if it's easy to fix why deploy without said fix. Uninstalled. Unsubscribed. Alone for the condescending tone of this comment. At least the export is easy. sic.
These "donor" state analyses are dishonest because they use % of state budget that's from the federal government as a key metric. This metric unfairly penalizes states that run lean governments. Further, most of this federal money is entitlement spending that's following poor citizens, like the impoverished people of the Mississippi Delta, and would accrue to them no matter what state they lived in.
> the idea that a good is OK in one country but unacceptable in another is silly.

Goods are produced under very different standards, different subvention systems, different economic systems, different economic policies, ...

For example in the EU the Chinese Covid vaccine(s) have no permissions. Likewise China does not allow European vaccines to be imported. Each country has their own reasons for that. It's not because the regulators are silly. It's because they have different standards and different interests.

In large free trade zones and joint markets like the EU, there are common standards and a common court for disputes. The EU as a union, just like any country in the world, negotiates the trade agreements with other countries, ...
1. Synced feeds, read/unread status, and consistent UI across all devices

2. Hosted feed reader for friends and family.

The author mentions the friction they imagine their friends or family would have using RSS feeds, so hosting the reader for them can reduce that friction and bootstrap cost (everyone already has a browser). Then they could always export their feeds and move to a different solution later.
Under the highly financialised system we have, then it's not really about what Mississippi contributes to the other states, but more about what the other states extract from Mississippi. From their natural resource and from their residents.
If you run your own NextCloud instance I highly recommend the News app as an RSS aggregator and the accompanying mobile app which I use regularly.

With regards content I have a few feeds I read everything in, and a lot I just browse through. The read everything list varies but always includes ArsTechnica.
Here's the link for Jetbrains survey results last year. There's web dev (django perhaps), dev ops and sys ad, education, and software testing.

https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2021/
> Has that in fact happened?

Certainly. I've heard of some native archaeologists, but I'll confess I'm not super up on the topic.

> If you're an anthropologist who'd like to solve the puzzle, what should you do?

Well, if you're an anthropologist, and some group of people makes it very clear they aren't a puzzle & won't be studied (say, the people of Sentinel Island) - go do something else maybe? Curiosity doesn't entitle you to answers, there's plenty of other stuff for an anthropologist to do. I feel like the first rule of anthropology is, "respect the culture you're studying and take it seriously," and if what they're telling you is "mind your business" - well, listen.

Returning to Sentinel Island, we might not know why they don't want to talk to us, but they've made it abundantly clear that the lines of communication are closed. Surely we could spy on them from satellites, drop surveillance devices from helicopters, et cetera, and start to understand their culture that way. For that matter, we could create some sort of arrow-proof vehicle and overpower their efforts to repel us. But why should be? Just because we're curious about them? Why should we privilege our curiosity over their clear desire to be left alone?
> Croatians use the euro as a store of value in preference to the kuna

Not only that, but they have used the German Mark before in favor of the dinar. And dollars as well in seafaring regions. There are pop songs from the 80s made about this. [1] Pop the lyrics into Google Translate Croatian --> English: https://cuspajz.com/tekstovi-pjesama/pjesma/djurdjica-barlov...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfzjPrWO5o&ab_channel=DekyS...
They split up the Free Territory of Trieste????
I want to build my first ever game on the app store. Never made an app before but I have a cracking idea which I am too scared to hire a developer in case they pinch it, so I’m enlisting my partner to help make it. Other than that, just hope I can start to make amends with the fact I have no friends (warning: never hire your friends, it’s devastating when they shit on you and thieve from you). Happy new year!
75% convert.

25% are just rude forever.

I have had to fire a few aholes from my SaaS. They would ask a question, get an answer, do the wrong thing, then call my support team member profanities. So I just refund their last bill and delete their account, and send them to a specific competitor I don’t like.
We used my regex compressor and saw a very large speedup on a large production system so anecdotally it was very useful.
Depends on the market one must serve. Often 2 mediocre yet functional apps are better than none on 50+% of your market.
Yeah heard about that feature in ttrss. Last I looked into it I gave it a miss based on Reddit having a strong consensus that the dev is ahem unpleasant [0]

Doesn’t make the software bad I guess but I try to avoid drama like that where feasible

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/v3xtz7/comment/...
I have been waiting for the release of the new Mac mini. Then I read an article like this and I think that for far less expense, I might as well just upgrade my Intel based desktop running Debian.

The premise that paying the Apple premium gives you a better system doesn't seem to hold anymore. Back in the Steve's day, he would have called "shit" on such work and berated the staff for daring to think of releasing. Perhaps, these days the accountants and marketing staff are calling the shots.
Imagine describing states at the bottom of education and public health standards with horrible racial disparities as running “lean” governments.
You mention a lookup table would have been tedious, but surely an easier method.

This might be a case of "to a hammer everything looks like a nail".

The solution in my familiarity would be to align the emoji in a grid, take one screenshot and write a script to iterate over the pixel data to figure out the most dominant color and how dominant. So the build of the lookup set would be automatic.

Less interesting for sure but easier (at least for a JS dayjob skillset).

Similar to a below comment, I know this isn't the point. Thanks for an interesting write up
Could the compiler put PGO (profile guided optimization) results into a table embedded into the executable binary and feed that to the CPU?
Happy new year! May it be a good one!
Blaming the EU for Greece’s issue is a real stretch…

Whether how the EU responded to the Greek crisis was all good or not is open for debate, I think we can nevertheless safely say that Greece was mostly responsible for its own debt and fiscal management problems.
> Risks Digest is still around

Been so long. Interesting the added attention toward AI, compared to e.g. real-time and high-reliability
If there is a book and its a non-trivial fraction of the volume, cant you just compare the weight of it to a block of the same volume?
HA. In theory, if you have several boxes, workload can move around if a box or service go down.
Having interviewed innumerable candidates for software development roles, I seldom used anything resembling these questions. If the candidate had relevant domain knowledge, e.g., financial apps, we’d talk about that. If not, how did that person go about acquiring the relevant knowledge. Same on the development platform. If they weren’t experienced with our suite of technologies, how do they approach learning it. What were they reading currently? Some answers were disqualifying. The most extreme case being an individual who said he was reading “Shades of Gray”. When I clarified that I only cared about technical material, he replied that he only read technical material on the job, not after hours. Pass. Who/what was their favorite development source? Assuming they were good prospects, possibly they would be subjected to more in depth technical interviews with senior staff. Generally, we hired for talent not specific skill sets. As such, we had relatively long tenures with excellent productivity and quality. I considered pure behavioral interviewing to be a horrible way to select new hires. Making the individual uncomfortable seems to be counterproductive. Fortunately, I’m retired now. The various ATS’s cost companies untold millions in missed opportunities as do many HR departments.
> why publish your code so that people will think you are a supplier?

Because I was taught that sharing is a moral good. Are you suggesting that anyone who shares their source online is obligated to also provide free support to any and all users?
On the other hand, I have used some web apps that, when I "Install as an app" on Android, work pretty well.

Sure, there are a couple of annoyances mostly related to notifications and how it works when switching between apps, but these are quite minor parts of the app - sure, they're annoying and need to be fixed but it's also important to acknowledge that the other 99% of the app was running correctly and with decent performance on my mid range phone. I think that the remaining issues, including perform, are fixable and will be fixed over the next few years.

You might not write one fully unified code base but you'll at least be able to use 99.9% of the same code with just a little bit of glue on top to make user accounts and notifications work on other platforms.
Some back of the envelope math:

- there is a branch instruction every 10 instructions or so

- if you can't predict, assume you guess wrong half of the time

So every 20 instructions or so, you take the wrong branch. Sounds like it could be a significant overhead, from 10% - 50% depending on what the code inside the loop is doing.

For instance, if your code is doing only arithmetic operations, no load/store, such as computing factorial or other silly integer math, 20 instructions would probably take 20 cycles or less to execute, but the branch failure would cause a similar delay. So that's 50% overhead. In the other case, assume the 20 instructions are fairly slow (lots of memory accesses), then your branch penalty won't feel so bad.
nonsense.

autoconf didn't have a core developer. But it had many distro package managers.

there's nobody adding code/fixing bugs, but there are plenty people reading and looking at diffs before packaging it in distros.

then the js libs have neither core maintainers nor anybody at npm corp that cares about security or reading anything.

the top comment is correct to care about those before system libraries.
> It's a reddit link so I don't know if it's true,

Reddit links to the source article at https://www.thenation.com/article/society/airbnb-banning-sex...

> If the whole thing is true, I'd want some proper confirmation.

The thenation.com article links to a court case (to be precise a complaint, so it hasn't been heard in court yet) https://classactionsreporter.com/jumio-facial-scans-for-iden...
Speaking personally, I always want to give a technically promising candidate a chance to defend his job hopping, but rarely do I hear convincing reasons for sub 2 year stints unless it is something out of their control, like a spouse needing to move for work, or their whole department getting laid off.
I don’t think many people left those days TBH. I personally saw how 2 large RN efforts have been rolled back to native at a big tech company. I don’t know whether RN is gaining traction or is stagnating - would love to see some stats.
You seem have written that I am misinformed what you have written is a bunch of nonsense and what sounds like leftist drivel about electing better leaders. No, the point is kids have meltdowns and do not behave in these idyllic ways as depicted in these cute pictures.
Your original statement focused on fertilizer and didn't mention the rotation system. This person pointing out that he didn't invent fertilizer is correct. It's not a big deal.
I don't know anything about US states, but we have the same arguments here in the UK.

Living outside London, there's nothing I can do in my daily life that doesn't result in a net transfer of wealth from my self, or from the public domain, into the private sector and therefore into London.

Every private or public interaction I have has been financialised. be that being forced to keep a car, having children in school, getting sick, renting or owning a house.

I could go to toilet in the middle of the park and that would result in net movement of wealth to London and offshore (someone would be sub-contracted to clean the park).
I didn't even know David Hasselhoff made music and this song is amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!
That's a fallacy. Assuming that an open source developer is a "supplier" just because there are users is a hasty generalization. Important elements are missing for it to actually be a customer-supplier relationship. From a legal perspective, for example, the contractual intent is missing.
>You're preaching at me about neutral sources while throwing conservative AM talk radio and Rupert Murdoch newspaper links my way. That's kind of ironic and hypocritical.
I just did a quick Google to find the links, but is there anything specific in either of them that was incorrect?

I’m aware of how definitions work and change, but these were changed for political reasons, not because society writ large changed. I’m also intimately familiar with the multiple definitions of “run” as I’ve had to write them all by hand, several times, during detention in my secondary school years. Perhaps you should read the definition for caution, because it’s certainly not preaching.