skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would 100% accept that as an answer since it tells me the candidate is not good with subtext, [...] if I ask "what's your favorite food you've ever eaten", there's an unspoken implication that it's a food you remember eating.

Will this filter cut many of the best engineers?

Our field is full of people who pull 'engineering' out of our behinds, to various degrees. I'd assert that the engineer who doesn't assume an unspoken implication, but instead qualifies their answer, or tells you when they cannot answer, or asks for clarification... is more likely to be the one who can make a system that works, and tell you when a system will not work.
In a startup with investors you have money coming from the investors and equity going to them, expenses leaving the company, and money going to and work coming from employees. For a co-op you draw that diagram but have the equity and money arrows that were connected to the investors connect to the employees, with some of the money cancelling out (working for equity, not for free.)

As for why the employees would work for equity, well, they'd value it for the same reasons the investors would. If 1M shares is worth $20M to a group of investors it should be worth the same to 100 employees. You're obviously going to be using personal runway, which millionaires have more of than average workers, but SWEs have been making enough money over the last 30 years that it will be easier for them than almost any other profession.
Widespread ethernet issues reported on new M2 Pro Mac mini
Are you getting paid still? Are you still doing office work?
> like one day i needed to COALESCE in mysql. i didnt know that, but chatgpt did. theres a few times i would have written a function the complicated way when gpt gave me a much simpler nicer to read way.

I find copilot helps me with exactly these kinds of coding issues. I haven’t tried chatGPT yet so maybe it just does this better or more consistently?
5th person cured of HIV after groundbreaking treatment
> I don't think I spend more than an a couple of hours per month maintaining my configuration

This is... still significant.

Outside of auto updates sometimes rebooting my laptop overnight and major version bumps requiring me to hit the "update" button explicitly once a year, I'm unsure what "maintaining my configuration" would entail once things were setup to your liking on macOS.
Why are you assuming a studio and not roommates?
So what's the alternative? Do we accept that eventually all of our antibiotics will fail to be effective?
I read it differently. It looks like a good outline of 4 basic approaches to building and hosting web sites. I would word them as:

1. Stateless static site. There is a variety of ways to build it (such as React or Svelte or purely by hand) and a variety of ways to host it (such as a directory of HTML files hosted by nginx).

2. Function services like Cloudflare workers, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, etc. This is a way to store state without having to manage servers.

3. Single conventional Linux server.

4. Distributed containers.

All web developers should familiarize themselves with these 4 basic approaches and prefer them in approximately the order given. It's good to avoid jumping to distributed containers if you can get away with functions, a single Linux server, or even static HTML. It's also important to move down the list as the app grows rather than reinvent K8s.
Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others. Most people postprocess to make photos at that depth appear as if they were taken in air, which IMO is harmless.
https://i.am.ai/roadmap
That’s fine but if the pigeons start arguing back, you should probably leave.
You can apparently use kubernetes YAML with a .kube target and podman will orchestrate the containers, service, volumes appropriately (on a single node). The only systemd config is a minimal boilerplate to point at the kubernetes YAML.
The executives have already "suffered enough" with their stock compensation going down so much (eye roll)
Does anyone have any news on the effort for a new APK format that includes license texts and copyright information? This is sorely needed to produce any re-distributable software, legally compliant with the open source licenses of the components.

A comment here last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27113914) mentioned that the information would be available "in apk3", but I don't follow development to know whether this has been implemented already.
Right now, the biggest problem is discovery, i.e. who is still hiring vs who just has stale jobs listed on their website. I'm working on making this list so it's much easier to discover the (literally thousands of Seed to Series B companies still hiring!)

See companies that are hiring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OeuaamkeOpMzlufPk6hY...

Add company here: https://forms.gle/abCCJ5ByvDFcyRP2A

If anyone is struggling and is on the mid/senior/director side of their career (3+ yrs), I'm helping place people at my friends' Seed and Series A companies. Email me at j{at}markovmanagement.com if I can help :)
Idea: Ask the students to record themselves explaining their solution, and what lead them to it.
No one wants to live on that runway even if they have it. How is any of your condescending attitude conducive to discussion?
Or the devil because if they succeed we'll need to check rendering on yet another target!
from https://sonosuite.com/en/blog/music-royalties-explained-the-... :

Mechanical Royalties: Refers to the payment made to songwriters whenever one of their copyrighted musical compositions is distributed or reproduced in both physical and digital formats.

My wife's cousin produced Music in NYC for a long time, he explained that of all the ways you got paid for Music being played, distributed, or sold, the songwriters got the biggest cut.

It was songwriters who sued "remixers" for a cut of the royalties based on the mechanical royalties clause of music copyright. They get the most money, they had the most to lose from creating a "loophole" based on sampling, so they prosecuted anyone who didn't credit them as a songwriter on their song if they had resampled something recognizable.
hi, FBI agent working in the psyops department.
Medium is now dead to me because it prevents the very one thing blogsites must do. Publish the damn blog!

The mandatory (unless are able to join their program to opt-out) paywall reduces the number of people who can even see your blog
First few were easy here's the solution. Haven't got time for this so here's a dump of what I have so far.
(SPOILER ALERT)

1: Update URL to be whiterabbit
2: "TMA-2", name of monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey
3: "palladium", convert decimals in picture to ASCII
4: change URL to /right/brain
5: Something to do with "The Usual Suspects" probably
The major problem with dead letter queues is that people naturally end up mixing recoverable and non-recoverable errors together, which results in all errors being ignored.

Proper monitoring typically requires application specific details and logic, which queues, being a dumb bus, typically don't have.

E.g. your client has a scheduled downtime every midnight, so you want your monitoring to not alert on messages produced by account X between 00:00 and 02:00. Oh, and ideally these exclusion rules are set up by non-technical folks (maybe even by customer himself).
I’ve never seen an app that only works in Safari.
> having it in the back of my mind that I should do regular updates, make sure the disks are fine and everything is healthy.

All of that can be easily automated. If my system starts getting flaky, I get an email telling me well before it actually fails. Theoretically, if an automated update fails, I'll be notified of that as well, but that hasn't happened in 15 year or so, so it's been a while since it was tested.
At Valve the corporate wing made (and still makes) those decisions, trying to have ten people agree on who deserves to be paid what and whether it should be invested instead hasn't been tried in any company I know of. In contrast having managers who are collectively answerable to those ten employees through the share ownership structure has been tried, and it works out okay.
> I haven’t done any testing with compressed audio formats, but I would expect even lossy formats to perform well, if one keeps the lossiness within certain bounds, so that the highest frequencies in the audio file are preserved.

MIDI as a compression format for that kind of audio data would be a lossy way to encode such an audio stream, and it certainly would perform well, so yes, such lossy formats do exist.

Most research in audio compression has been done on compressors that exploit the limits of human perception, though, so of the shelf lossy compressors may not do very well.
Not sure if you really do mean latency, or the much more subjective-and-common complaint about the acceleration curve.

If you mean the latter, there are ways to customize that to be more like other desktop environments (sorry for not linking anything, currently on mobile and I don’t have time now to vet search results, but there are built in CLI settings which should be pretty easy to find).

Mostly commenting in case the above leads in a helpful direction, but if you actually mean latency of trackpad input apart from the acceleration curve, I’m wildly curious to hear more about what you’re experiencing and expecting otherwise!
This will be written on tombstones one day.
Interesting. Played around with that kind of prompt a bit and asked follow up questions on the answers as one would in a interview. The answers to those were all very vague and almost "evasive". And within 1-2 follow-ups it started to contradict itself.
It's definitely impressive, and it shows it is possible to build a new browser. I don't think it shows it is possible to build a new browser that ordinary people will use though. That requires implementing a gazillion niche features that Chrome supports, and compatibility with a gazillion broken websites.

Probably with web browsers the last 0.1% is 99.9% of the work.
These CSS declarations do get the work done on Firefox 110 and Chrome 109 but Safari 15.2 still introduces antialiasing. I will try with Safari 16.3 sometime later. I have set up a test page here in case anyone wants to play with it: https://jsfiddle.net/uLob1yxr/

It does not seem to work for arbitrary monospace fonts though: https://jsfiddle.net/ku4jfeg2/

Thanks for the nice comment!
Huh, this exactly what I’ve been looking for recently for some local/home-network/homelab setups, even down to the use of systemd-like ini/toml syntax.
How easy/hard is it to set up a 3 part scheme where your personal files live on their own partition that can be accessed from macOS or Linux?
$50k is four times as low for that role if you have a decade of experience.
The other replies to your comment cover my most immediate thought, so I won’t repeat any of that.

However, in addition, I think there’s probably a significant amount of highly transferable learnings you’ve gone through while spending all that time configuring your machine. Was any of that time wasted? Well, probably, at least by some measure… But it’s also very hard to gauge the value of all the incidental knowledge you gained about what computers are, how they work, etc.

My point is this: don’t over-penalize yourself for wasting time when you’re learning in the process, and try and remember how magical it is to learn things for the first time. And for other readers… It’s good to be pragmatic, but if you’re lucky enough to be in a position to spend a lot of time tinkering, playing, learning, then DO IT. Life is meant to enjoy!
s/Cows/Humans/
That much money per person? Todoist added gpt 3 task AI stuff to their paid plans that aren’t that expensive.
At the end of the day, people like a black and white narrative that they can keep all in their head. Even if you had all the facts at hand for a given situation, there are too many factors interacting with each other in different ways for any one person to actually understand what is happening. You only ever gleam bits and pieces of the actual interaction network between these nodes, and your brain looks to build out the paths as best as it can guess if they are unknown, like a Rorschach test where your brain sees an elephant in spilled ink.

Given all of this, its probably best not to focus so much of ones thoughts and efforts on these things you will never fully understand, things that really don't make a difference in your day to day life, systemic things you can't even change even if they did, when there is just too much to focus on that's much more pressing in life where you can make some actionable changes, like the events that take place right in your neighborhood or in your very home. News is fine for entertainment, but people should see it as such, not the absolute source of truth (if there even is such a thing given all the latent variables for anything at all).

Of course, there's no money in convincing people to go work out, clean up their house, read some books to improve their skills, to tinker on some personal project. There is plenty of money in convincing people to put all of that aside, however, and be locked into the content you drip out thats coated in advertisement, so that's where the incentives lie. Not in self help or betterment, but in maximizing the return these organizations get from offering you as a product for their customers whose business exists to milk you of your wages.
AI is starting to pick who gets laid off
You don't need docker for that. Also if you leave a WordPress for years with auto-updates, the plugins will often be abandoned causing your site to be vulnerable.Not to mention any breaking changes that can be introduced.

A SSG generated site will be the same in 10 years as its today, even if you might need to fix some things with your project to make further updates.
The latter seems correct.
Web dev still has tons of weird bugs, tend to be in the interactions between multiple frameworks and edge cases in the assumptions they make. Like, I had one issue with intermittent test failures in Ruby on Rails, not reproducible with any fixed seed, and not affecting production. The overall source of it was:

1. We had a table from a third-party API that used their ID as a primary key, I believe stored as a string.

2. Ruby on Rails believed that it should make sure that primary keys aren't a too-large-to-store integer before attempting to save a row.

3. Our test suite would generate fake hexadecimal strings for the primary key for testing purposes for the table.

4. Sometimes, the hexadecimal string would have enough leading 0-9 digits that when Rails coerced it to an integer for their own internal checks, it would exceed the integer limit it thought the table ought to have.

I honestly only figured it out by getting lucky.
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What are the obvious equity issues of oral exams? PhD program have oral exams, are they engaging in wrongthink?

One option is to teach some ethics and accountability and have real and immediate consequences for cheating. Make the policies very clear and enforce them. You cannot detect every possible instance of cheating but you can detect many instances, you can test students to determine if they really wrote or could write such code and when they are found, you make examples of them as has been done in previous times. People want to treat literal cheating using ChatGPT as if it is like a calculator and not something fundamentally different.

If you accept this cheating, you may as well not have the class at all nor the degree program.
I am addressing the contents of your initial comment.

> Communists certainly contributed to the climate disaster, and continue to do so today, but by the time push came to shove, and we were set up to enact the essential international agreements to prevent it becoming a disaster, it were capitalist countries, and capitalist countries alone, that resisted.

Also incorrect. China is a strong resister. Of course they like treaties that puts restrictions on the west and allows them to continue increasing emissions, which is what they push for.
> [your lifestyle] is pretty unhealthy honestly

I still vaguely remember this discussion from Walden from when I read it 10 years ago:

> "I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

> The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can “see the folks,” and recreate, and as he thinks remunerate himself for his day’s solitude...

> ... He wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and “the blues;” but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.

> Consider the girls in a factory,—never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

There is more than one way to live, and it's not a sickness not to eagerly participate in social axe throwing et. al. I think it's great that some people like it. But I don't think not doing it is missing too much. Life is long.
After moving from an Intel MacBook Pro to an M1, I’ve lost the ability to run Ubuntu in a VM with Vagrant.

If I understand right, this is an important step to getting an Apple Silicon version of Ubuntu, correct?
That's not an attempt to make her feel good about herself. I suspect gpt has erroneously taken that from the subsequent dialog.

Clearly both answers 4 and 5 are wrong here.
A lot of misconceptions in this and other comments. To address the two most glaring ones:

> 1. Not everyone takes their medications exactly as prescribed.

That's irrelevant. Not only is there a fair amount of leeway in the standard dosing schedules (meaning that missing some doses does not actually cause a clinically meaningful impact), but the studies that demonstrate that U=U are based on real-world applications. Variability from adherence is already captured by the results.

> 2. Lots of folks on antiretroviral therapy are not undetectable, or may move between undetectable and detectable over time.

This is not true and based on an incorrect understanding of what "undetectable" signifies clinically. Once a person has durably achieved clinical undetectability under HAART, they do remain undetectable, as long as there is no prolonged disruption in treatment[0]. The most common reason for a disruption in treatment is an inability to access treatment - not something that happens without the person's full awareness.

People on Internet forums like HN like to get worked up about bogeymen like people intentionally not taking their medications, but actual clinical data shows that stuff is largely the realm of urban legends, not reality. And if you're that concerned about it, the answer is simple: PrEP prevents HIV with a near-100% efficacy, rendering the question "is this person undetectable?" moot.

[0] Emphasis on prolonged. Missing a few days, or even a week or two, does not cause HIV to become detectable again. These sorts of treatment interruptions are contraindicated, but for other unrelated clinical reasons, not because of the impact on viral load.
Edit the content of the viz and have it save back to the datasource.
Not an engineering manager, but I love that the Queen's Gambit was written by the former CEO of a bunch of Scottish whisky distilleries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Scott_(Scottish_screenwr...
Yes it is hard to blame the destruction of the marine ecosystems all on cows. Industrial agriculture in general caused all kinds of nasty runoff including animal effluent and the many chemicals dumped on fields. Water treatment plants for industrial and residential sewage evolved and surely discharged plenty of other stuff too.
Far be it from me to try to define art, but at some point I imagine an artist must stop and ask him/herself "Is my work an original thought? Am I telling a story here, sending a message, engaging with an idea, being provocative, being honest, making my audience feel something, or is my work... mass-produced background mall muzak? A soulless sculpture for some corporate headquarters?" Pop music has always been right in the middle, toeing close to that line between "mostly art" and "mostly commercial product". Where the difference between what the artist wants to say and what the audience wants to see/hear is blurry. I'm sure when you enter that world, surrounded by producers, business people, investors, execs, marketing, focus groups, event organizers, you feel the pressure to go along with the flow and just build a formulaic consumer product.

I don't think art that doesn't sell is lesser than art that does sell. I know, tell that to an artist who wants to make a living... but I really think you have to measure a work along more than one axis. How good something sells is a different dimension than how good something is. If that wasn't true, Thriller would be the best music ever and the Toyota Corolla would be the best car in the world.
Funny, but this is the same reason I use ChromeOS—I get something that’s simple to use and update, but I can also use the built-in Linux VM for all my Linux needs (and not have to work about hardware inculpabilities, drivers and whatnot).
A UI is not a web app.
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Am I missing something here? There are only 4 companies in that spreadsheet...
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Geez Louise have you actually ever met anyone working at a big tech company? Trust me we are all just like any other tech worker. Compensation is higher but there is still the same dynamic of capital against labor - just look at all the talk about "coasters" and "low performers" from CEOs across the industry. They are trying to trim fat as fast as they can now that there is the cover story of "economic uncertainty".

Everyone has their own story so please don't assume and judge. Many of my colleagues are H1B, or support their family back home, or has student loans, or whatever else.