skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify launches a new feature offering personalized music with AI commentary
I think that’s what they meant - “rocket science” as in “way too complicated for 99% of down-to-earth jobs”
FACTS but forcing it into the courts is a good start
Slap means really good in this context, e.g. "this song really slaps".

This makes me want to make a generational/chronological slang chart now
I like that.

I was a hiring manager for 25 years. I hired experienced C++ engineers, for fairly hairy algorithm work (image processing pipelines).

Leetcode was absolutely worthless. There was no way to test for the stuff we did. The algorithms were nowhere to be found in most textbooks (they could be found in some textbooks that cost hundreds of dollars, though).

Also, our company was cheap. They offered "competitive" salaries. This probably reduced our candidate pool by 90%. We were a marquée imaging company (great to have on your résumé), so the only folks that applied, were fairly serious about the job.

I had to filter for folks that had the basic tech chops to get into our codebase, and also had the ability to learn the stuff we did.

It was challenging.

Also, once we hired someone, Japan wouldn't even acknowledge their existence, until they'd been on the team for at least a year. Training them on our algorithms was also a multi-year process, so I hired for the "long haul," and keeping people for many years was important.

I didn't look for people that would work crazy hours, but I wanted folks that would be dedicated enough to the job, that they would be conscientious in their work, and put in extra time, if needed (which I was careful not to do too often).

I looked for folks that I thought could work in an extremely diverse team; spread throughout the world, and that were capable of treating their teammates with respect; not competition.

I did OK. Never had a technical bomb, but I did make a couple of mistakes, when it came to folks that could integrate into the team. They generally found it uncomfortable, and went their way, but that still hurt, because of all the time we had to invest.

All very old-fashioned stuff, and probably not representative of most of today's companies.

I will say, that, towards the end of my tenure, there, the HR started to get really rapacious. They were run by the Corporate General Counsel, and tended to treat the employees as threats. Shielding my team from them was pretty important, and it meant that I was occasionally called on the carpet.
As far as I can discern, the Carter administration, much like its predecessor, was responsible for providing the most of the arms used during the East Timor genocide. However I don't believe that Carter supported Latin American dictators. He stopped all US arms sales to Argentina, for one.
I heard the same.

At some point, price gouging laws apply.

But below that point, if one company takes steps to prevent bird flu in their flocks, then they get rewarded when all the other flocks get bird flu.

Rather than looking at one company who managed to do well in the situation, I'd be curious to know what happened to overall egg producer revenues. If they went up, there's likely price gouging going on. If they went down or stayed the same, well, that's bird flu, and this company did well by planning for the future.
A question for those who are hiring: how much do cover letters actually matter? How much of a setback is not submitting one (when it's optional)?
This is a great example of how supply and demand, in the real world, works. Prices don't automatically rise during supply constraints, or demand increases. Prices rise when those selling decide to raise them.

Also, most people don't actually interact with markets day to day. They shop at distribution centers which have contracts with suppliers.

To put it differently, throw out your economics textbooks because prices are far more complex.

The reason inflation happens is producers decide to raise prices. It's a human decision made by a small group of people (management or owners of companies), not the mass of people spending.
Following up regarding the other points I missed. Compared to OpenReplay, we have similar functionality in our session replay, but we've focused a lot of effort on making a cohesive error monitoring (backend and frontend) experience. We closely link sessions with errors (stacktraces and associated metadata) and vice versa to make it easy to get to the root cause of a bug.

To demo your own sessions on highlight, you can easily spin up our next.js example app that has highlight installed: https://github.com/highlight/nextjs-13-sample. All you need to do is make an account on highlight.io and copy your project ID over into the sample app!
Academic side-note: an excellent book about memes, culture, genetics, evolution, and life is by one of my favorite philosophers: Daniel C. Dennett

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

https://www.amazon.com/Bacteria-Bach-Back-Evolution-Minds/dp...
I thought the article would be talking about why you don't really need Github... Instead it was saying that discovery (meaning finding developers/projects) was an anti-pattern. GitHub (GitLab and others, too) do have a strong value prop.
See Hans-Georg Moeller's response to Jonathan Haidt Re: Social Media and Suicide https://youtu.be/QNEep8lgoiY ; https://wiki.ralfbarkow.ch/view/social-media/view/social-med...
Sundar is the Steve Ballmer of Google. And that's fine! Ballmer was a competent if uninspiring CEO: Microsoft under his leadership missed many new opportunities, but still made lots of money.

Most importantly, Ballmer's tenure is what made it possible for Satya Nadella to pivot Microsoft into what it is today. Realistically, Windows Phone was never going to beat Apple, Bing was not going to beat Google, Yammer was not going to be the next Facebook, but Microsoft had to try and fail in order to learn those lessons.

The real question is who- if anyone- will be the Satya Nadella of Google, bringing the company back for a third act in the post-AI world. And maybe, in this new world, the limiting factor of human progress is not the number of CS grads who can solve coding puzzles.
FYI, the nix2container [1] project (author here) aims to speedup the standard Nix container workflow (dockerTools.buildImage) by basically skipping the tarball step: it directly streams non already pushed layers.

[1] https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container
I am not passing judgment, but it’s literally the last sentence of the link. Personally, I don’t see any problems.
Feeding this list in to chatGPT, some of these are hilarious:

Here are some more examples:

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Local Man Discovers Shocking Truth About Popular Programming Language
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How My Startup Became a Unicorn in 10 Days (and How You Can Too!)
89 points by startupguru69 8 hours ago | flag | 37 skeptical comments

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Why I Stopped Using Social Media and You Should Too
54 points by digitaldetoxer 6 hours ago | flag | 72 argumentative comments

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Company Announces Major Product Update, Users Unimpressed
42 points by disillusioneduser 5 hours ago | flag | 28 critical comments

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10 Reasons Why Agile is Dead and Waterfall is the Future
16 points by projectmanagerpro 2 hours ago | flag | 24 heated comments

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New Study Shows That Coffee Actually Decreases Productivity
11 points by sleepisbetter 1 hour ago | flag | 78 incredulous comments

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Founder Blames Failure on Lack of Investor Support, Investors Disagree
35 points by realitycheck123 4 hours ago | flag | 19 skeptical comments

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Why I Quit My High-Paying Tech Job to Live Off the Grid
73 points by offgridtech 10 hours ago | flag | 49 curious comments

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Breaking News: Company Raises $100 Million in Funding, Still Has No Revenue Model
62 points by skepticalinvestor 9 hours ago | flag | 24 incredulous comments

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I Tried Every Productivity Hack and Here's What Actually Worked
29 points by productivityhacker 6 hours ago | flag | 12 skeptical comments
Anecdotally I removed all social media from my phone recently and I only am using Twitter for work on desktop. My mood has improved dramatically and my focus is improving. Towards the end I found myself getting angry at posts that showed curated idyllic lives and realized that it's all really a facade.

To that end the last post I saw on Tiktok before deleting it basically said that social media is so insidious because it is both the sickness and the cure. You feel bad and then you feel better ad nauseum and that rang very true for me.
I think there's a lot of people who have tame virtual relationships (like the example I offered above). People who are jerking it to AI porn are more like the subset of religious devotees who go in for self-flagellation and various forms of bodily mortification. It's not a 1:1 mapping, of course. Umberto Eco's debut novel The Name of the Rose explores these questions in depth through a fictive lens.
You might want to look into sewing/textiles/fashion as a creative and intellectual activity. It's a nice combination of history, creativity, technical work, and learning from/with adults.
What’s the term for a weeaboo but for the Amish?
I can't speak for the OP, but, in my career I've consistently ask for and received year raises a few percent above CPI. Twice I've been denied and found a new employeer. As the OP said, if you're not at minimum getting a CPI raise, you're doing the same work for less money, effectively a demotion.

For the last decade tech has been hiring like crazy and jump jobs has been easy. I can't speak for how that will change going forward, but it does concern me.
Of course you would. That is exactly the problem.
Once again discussing this: this is a non-falsifiable conspiracy theory. There is no outside measure of success of government programs, and no path to failure.

There is also little-to-no constraint on resource consumption, so government is the ultimate paperclip-maximizer.

Anyway, it’s nice that you’ve invested so much in theorizing and hypothesizing about something you very clearly do not relate to, but it is deeply disconnected from practical reality of resources in an economy.
2500 hours in 9 months could be two developers logging hours on the project. The project may have had stretches when dependencies limited the amount of work that could be done, and often one assumes at least an hour of non-billable time lost to miscellaneous business shit, per IC, per day.

The rest of the team (not logging engineering hours) may have included a (probably part-time) designer and likely some kind of project manager (likely also part-time—that is, managing 2+ projects at once for different clients).

7 (billable, on average) hours * 47 weeks (assuming 25 weekdays lost to holidays, sick days, and vacation, over a year) * 5 weekdays only yields 1,645 hours per worker per year, anyway. Divide by four, times three, to get ~9 months, and 2500 hours just looks like two full-timers on the project, really, if we're talking billable hours, but that's also (it reads like) not counting support roles and non-dev contributors like design or PM or maybe testers. Or it might be one full-time and two half-time devs, or whatever. I'd guess not more than four developers contributing significant time, anyway, based on the numbers and with fairly pessimistic assumptions for how many hours could be logged a week, and maybe as few as two.
This API looks like a recipe for XSS vulnerabilities:

def render(data):
return f"<h1>Last regenerated at: {data['time']}</h1>", {}

What if data['time'] is '<script>alert("oops!")</script>'?

While JavaScript's template literals [1] would allow this kind of API to work (because the prefix of the template string can be a function that escapes the parameters), Python's f-strings doesn't have equivalent functionality. The tuple returned from the render function should probably include an additional item containing the parameters for the format string (which shouldn't be an f-string).

See also [2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_format_string
To answer the title question, because that's the subjective experience of commodifying oneself for the market. It's specifically the cognitive dissonance resulting in the erroneous assumption that social relations are primarily not economic relations in an environment, more than almost any other, that is evidently the opposite. The sooner that one realizes that one's job search is primarily a performance in commodification of labor, the easier it is to get over it and move on.
FWIW, in the United States he almost certainly wouldn't have been granted a clearance. It's a bit odd that they didn't find a problem with his family's situation during his personnel security investigation — the potential for foreign influence is a huge red flag.
Yeah, I see that side of it too. I'm an Army officer, and there's an interesting phenomenon in our ranks. Officers who attend West Point live under some extreme restrictions, whereas officers who are products of ROTC and OCS tend to a have a normal civilian college experience. You can guess who gets into the most trouble after they graduate and enter the "real Army" with all the freedoms that young officers have. We have a long history of tinkering with how much freedom to give new enlisted troops during their basic training and specialized job training, trying to balance "discipline" with the fact that it's counter-productive for us to graduate new troops who immediately go wild when they get to their first real unit.
So?

The parent comment talked about how FB never have any kind of long term thinking. I refute that comment with one example.

To address your comment, everything at that level is a survivorship bias since there are only a handful of companies reaching 100b valuation, and each of them took a different path.
Again, pure anecdata and possibly a lot of misatteibution, but 2017-ish seems to be some kind of inflection point.

Even back in 2015 or so, it seemed that the overwhelming majority of people met IRL, whereas just a few years later everyone was meeting online.

Might be a changing demographic thing (I was 22 in 2015, and 26 in 2019), but something definitely happened.
That's not non-sense, that's the reality [1]

It happened with Japan, look at them nowadays [2]

It also happened with Europe, Alcatel and Nokia, look at them nowadays [3]

For some reason, only Microsoft can get away with bribing foreign countries [4, 5]

We seen the extension of it with the ban of chinese's 5G and multiple tech companies, including huawei, wich later unveiled novel EUV patents [6], they maybe knew what they were cooking

TSMC's developing story is also quite revealing, with US officials suggesting sabotaging TSMC [7]

"deep state" nowadays has negative connotation because the government wants it to be that way ('it's a conspiracy' argument), look, it works [8]

And it's not just with tech, there are some suspicious stories in other industries, car [9] and metal manufacturing [10] for example

After all these stories, seeing Samsung having to drop plans for a homemade chip with advanced homemade fabs instantly ring bells, specially when the house was tainted with similar stories [11]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

[2] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/s...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent#Lawsuits

[4] - https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_...

[5] - http://techrights.org/2014/05/28/microsoft-brazil/

[6] - https://www.techspot.com/news/97072-huawei-patents-euv-litho...

[7] - https://eurasiantimes.com/us-taiwan-should-destroy-its-semic...

[8] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_State...

[9] - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Carlos_Ghosn (i couldn't find english coverage)

[10] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Pierucci

[11] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Scandals_and_contr...
I don't know it seems plausible to me that it was just an accident. There is plenty of legitimate Russian activity in that area. I'm no fisherman so someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think it is that unusual for them to go back and forth. It's not surprising that it happened to a vulnerable spot, because if it wasn't vulnerable the cable wouldn't have broke and no one would be looking into it. Finally the Russians have submarines they could use to cut the cable without being detected. Who runs a covert op with AIS on?
I didn't think postHog was a good comparison either,

I knew of rrweb https://www.rrweb.io/

Great to see more open source contendants in the space
Deplatform Instagram.
Because the universe did not originated in a Big Bang, that's just a theory that is becoming more and more disproved. The universe is infinite and eternal, in constant change? sure, but in no way it started 13500 million years ago.
Wow, that's one wild legal theory, especially given Italy is (IIUC) already taxing the ads that actually produce the revenue via the Digital Services Tax.

Why stop at user registration? The service can collect user data for anonymous users just the same. And why stop at collection of user data being the quid pro quo in the exchange? If a site is letting people use it for free, the site must be getting something of value from that user no matter how undefinable, and that value can be taxed.
Have the run of things for 200 million years then learn to fly?
Yeah of course, they just let murderers roam around the country because they haven't been judged yet. Terrorists too, why not?
Albie's First Word
A fictionalized story of Albert Einstein's childhood.
The only examples I've been able to find were backing Suharto in the invasion of East Timor and backing a coup in El Salvador, both of which are regrettable but are essentially as you say par for the course in terms of the US 20th Century foreign policy (albeit far tamer than the actions of his predecessor and successor).
If you spend a million dollars on Oracle hardware they at least give you a human being who is authorized to fix things for you and diagnose your problems.

Meanwhile in google land, you can literally be bring in millions of dollars worth of advertising revenue on your channel and asking for help from your dedicated Youtube contact/representative can get your entire channel retroactively demonitized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRsVDZvmaAE
I also wonder how this compares to https://www.framer.com/motion/, anybody tried both?
Does that include Hacker News?
For "Game of Stopped Dice" the article states "we would keep our winnings on the first throw only if they are 5 or 6". Would it not be better to cash out even at $4 and play again using those winnings?
I'd like legislation that acknowledges both the utility and harm that social media and more generally smartphones have. All I want is an internet-based texting only mobile-phone that doesn't have a browser or anything besides utilities. I don't want any feeds, reels, TikToks, etc. The fact that you basically need a smartphone to socialize, make payments, park, read menus, but it comes with a hamster-wheel for dopamine dispensing is like if the only way you could hydrate yourself is fountain soda -- you're just playing a game where you try not to get diabetes.
I have not taken a vacation away from my farm in over ten years. I have had no interest in doing so, because I have everything that I want here.

But chickens? You can load up a feeder and provide ample water that would last for many days without supervision.
If I were inclined to rob houses, I would find the challenge and risk of robbing houses here quite interesting. Apart from the fact that all roads in go through manned gates, this is the most republican city in SoCal. In translation: most of us have a lot of guns.
Original title had "massive" as an adjective to galaxies which explains the comma, HN sometimes removes these "superlative" words from the title creating this kind of nonsense.
The latter isn't real because most people don't interact with markets, the former is how prices actually rise.
Any web-based application could be a good fit! We also support a lot of the gnarly session-replay features that a lot of other vendor don't: namely canvas recording, shadow dom etc.. (see https://www.highlight.io/docs/general/product-features/sessi...).

In terms of audience, most of our customers are startups, and the users at those companies are often engineers or technical product people!
Back in August of '96 when I had just moved out to California and started the onboarding for working at Taos, the group of us who were new hires that week (a dozen) were sitting in a conference room with some bagels.

Some of the bagels were poppy seed and one of my new-coworkers commented "well, guess we're not doing drug tests."

The "what can cause false positives" is a "this should be well known" and if someone has a positive result and claims that they've eaten poppy seeds, then get a hair sample and test that.

If you're in an industry that is likely to have random drug tests, it may be wise to avoid poppy seeds.

https://www.usada.org/spirit-of-sport/education/can-poppysee...
> If you said something libelous about me on HN, I can sue HN for publishing and promoting the comment?

Why is it different if a "newspaper" does it if HN is curating the content algorithmically? I'm honestly not sure what the difference is.
Internet infrastructure in Myanmar is still relatively underdeveloped, which is why it's slow. These cables are not heavily used for routing your traffic typically.
They do seem to live on Snapchat lately.
Bars were always terrible for meeting people. Idk anyone having success there. If it did work, I don't think apps would have taken off
How to Win in Generative Tech
Filmed live at Stanford University GSB in January 2023.
Was a well written article. Pretty amazing contrast in the way various people are forced to live. While obviously not great for black people during apartheid South Africa's government really fell apart afterwards.

Hiv infection rates rose from 3% to 18% of the adult population.

Top 10 in the world for murder rates.

30% unemployment rate.

Rolling blackouts.

Afrikaans Paramilitary groups.

Massive organized criminal organizations.

Widespread government corruption.

Recently had the Zuma riots.

It seems to be inching it's way towards a failed state now.

I'm in no way implying that apartheid should not have been abolished. It was terrible. Just saying that the governments that followed were objectively not great.
There is also the other side of the coin that the bot learns from abusive behavior and then repeats those behaviors on other users.
In other words..

“We have enough coders, thank you!”

( pssst … actually we have too many )
Aye. This guy was a pro chef hired to cater to a cash-rich start up.

Not a college dropout working the prep line, or, like many of the kitchens in the US, a Hispanic guy with semi-passable English skills and who may-or-may not be here legally.

Charlie got lucky.
> I was replying to a comment about a 6-egg breakfast.

And that person is already in the upper extreme of most affected.

For you to make a scenario where that is multiplied even further goes beyond anything realistic.

It was clear what you were doing, but that doesn't make it reasonable.

Your other comment says "I'm disagreeing that the doubling or tripling of the prices of basic foodstuffs such as eggs, flour, milk etc. is a silly thing to get hung up on." but you're really going about arguing that in a bad way.

If 5% of your diet triples in price, that's a notable setback, but building up the 5% into a much bigger percent for the sake of argument doesn't make a very convincing one.

There is a huge difference between one foodstuff going up at a time versus all of them, especially if it's temporary. I'm much more worried about the price of every food that isn't eggs. If you gave me a choice between cutting eggs 3x or cutting everything else 10%, I think I'd do the latter.