skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm known for hiring the best engineers". BUT if you're really known for hiring the best engineers, please show us your accomplishments! You just told us you look for trivia which means you're great at hiring engineers who are good at language trivia.
That set has a pretty small overlap with "best" engineers. "Best" itself has a small overlap with "useful" engineers.

Your trivia knowledge is great to impress like minded people but irrelevant if the problem space doesn't depend on it.

PS: Someone could consider you a pretty junior engineer if you ship:
"if(!!1 && b.some(e=>e>6)){

foo();

}"

because the you're increasing the risk of error in a codebase that would likely be maintained by people of varying skills. You write code to solve problems and you write code so regular earth humans can grok it and manipulate it to solve problems.

Writing code with a high risk of introducing problems and misunderstanding does not signal senior in many domains.
It happens my company partners with GitHub to deliver with this kind of thing. Drop us a line over at [1] and we can give you a breakdown of the different migration/deployment models.

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The sad part is they think that all the reporting and metrics, and the juking of the stats which goes along with it, is making things better. In reality it’s generally keeping things the same but with a pretty coat of paint.
Agree with the not listening to anything part - trying to curate your own music for thy long of a time is tough, and radio stations will be changing to static with the distance. It’s just easiest to drive safe and focus on that.

This is something that’s changed with me in age though
Thank you for everything that you've done! The Android ecosystem is uniquely hostile, and it's hard for an outsider to understand the public and private battles that you've inevitably faced over the years.
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Really young kids are so easy, I can understand the nostalgia. The worst they do is cry? And you have to do diapers? These are trivial things.

Tweens, on the other hand... ugh, lots of fun in different ways, but lots more worry & stress too. And if I'm to believe my own mother, this does not recede when they leave home as adults, it actually gets worse.
> (1) There is no reason you couldn’t, in a stateful, connected web app (or a stateful web service) open backend DB transactions controlled by activity on the client. You probably don’t want to, because, “ew, stateful”, and would prefer to use compensation strategies to deal with business transactions that span beyond a database transactions, but you could.

You'd have to break the rules of how web systems are meant to work. HTTP requests are supposed to be independent (and may arrive out of order with each other etc.), holding a long-lived connection between server and client has limited support.

> The backends very often need a consistent view of state and to be able to assure that a sequence of mutating operations against the DB are applied all or nothing;

You never need that if these things are the result of a fixed client request; the set of things to be done can't change, so eventual consistency will serve the purpose. The case where you need ACID is where there's a complex back and forth to be had with the thing that's driving the change within the same transaction - and to the extent that "the thing that's driving the change" is solely on the backend, it's not really a web system.

> “Consistency issues” in the ACID sense do not (cannot, in fact, since “consistency” is a property of database state) happen anywhere other than inside the database. Client <-> server communications have all kinds of issues, but ACID;s C is not one of them.

Small-c consistency (actually I was thinking mainly in the CAP sense). Things like requesting to make a change based on stale data.
It doesn't matter if commenter is or isn't if such agreements are prohibited by law.
In the Messages app on iOS, how the message was sent is clearly marked. At the the top of the conversation window, above the chat bubbles, it will say “Text Message” or “iMessage”. This line will also appear between chat bubbles whenever the current thread changes how messages are being sent.

But I think I see the miscommunication. I’m assuming that iMessage gains interoperability and thus there are more people who could potentially send spam. But I think you are arguing that SMS would be replaced with the more advanced, interoperable protocol. In that case, I understand your arguments why there would be the same amount or less spam.
"Over a mass zoom" is not particularly humane. In a better world, laying someone off would be done in a more caring and sensitive manner, because it's a huge and often unexpected change for the recipient. Human beings deserve better than being forced to attend their own mass slaughter.

However, no matter what, someone will always be unhappy about the method. Which is probably why the axe people throw up their hands and just try to get it over with efficiently.

Edit: "Over zoom" -> "Over a mass zoom", since this was apparently poorly worded and distracting. I wasn't proposing the ridiculous move of forcing a remote worker to fly to an office to get fired.
While I agree with your assessment, the lifespan of such companies (lot of red tape) will get shorter and shorter.
This might be the problem I have with my in-laws. They’re good and mostly happy people but they’re incredibly… simple? Visiting with them is one of the most excruciating things in my life. All they want to do is talk about complete drivel. Gossip about the neighbour’s garbage cans or their visit to Costco.

I’m not judging. It makes them happy. Great. But spending hours there I just feel my brain dying. It’s not for me.

But the opposite happens at my family’s dinner table. My poor wife once commented, “my brain began dying about 30 mins into you and your brothers discussing the philosophy of his Supreme Court brief.”

Furthermore: my incessant “need for cognition” is kind of screwing me up. I can’t sleep without medication anymore. My brain will not go to sleep on its own. I think and think and think. My wife puts on a stupid firefighter show where nobody ever wears helmets and passes out in ten minutes.
The roads in the northeast are awful. It hardly ever freezes in Texas and almost never is the frost line more than an inch deep so many roads go decades between needing repair or rebuild. Bad roads exist but I specified Texas for a reason
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As a parent, hard disagree.

Yes, parenting can be challenging and a lot of work at times. However, it’s silly to let the first few difficult months define decisions that impact the entire rest of your life.

It’s not that we forget that the early months are difficult. It’s that we realize they’re temporary and that they’re worth enduring.
But there’s lots of systems like this that you could diagram with arbitrary levels of detail without talking about NDAed systems
If anything it is the other way around. C# is a better language than Java but has a much worse ecosystem.

People complain that they can’t do what they want in a maven POM file but that is because you aren’t supposed to be able do very much with XML. POM is based on a system that materializes Java objects that do the work. When you find “you can’t get there from here” in a POM that is the time to write a Java class that does what you want and load it into your POM.

If you try Python you might find yourself pining away for maven’s correct dependency resolution algorithm.

Most people think annotations in Spring are a way to avoid the annoyance of XML but you disagree. I will tell you what’s not in the manual though. The Spring core framework, like the maven POM system is all about instantiating ordinary Java objects. Some people though seem to think life isn’t meaningful without ‘plugins’ and ‘integrations’ but unfortunately they pay a heavy price for this. You don’t need “Spring X” to do “X” in fact you are very fortunate if incorporating “Spring X” doesn’t fail your project right there. “Spring X” projects are run by whatever rando got the idea to make it first and there is no quality control or no effort to maintain the Spring brand image. (Though Spring Batch does have some great ideas, unironically, that have been passed down by the macro assembler masters of the mainframe era.)

I still like Spring but a lot of people have moved on to Guice.
Funny how my troubleshooting mind works - I assumed I had borked the config, then assumed they had introduced a bug, then found the real reason is an outage.
Ford Hearts CATL: America's Awkward Battery Deficiency
It’s $30 for a cheap VHF/UHF antenna, and he could’ve watched it on the open web, he did not need a VPN
I try pretty hard to avoid being conscious between midnight and 3AM because it rarely seems to be a happy time to live with my own thoughts. If I do it too long, I'll turn on the lights.
Hyundai’s lane keep is so bad that I don’t trust it at all. In the three times I’ve tried to use it, it started to veer off the road suddenly and in strange ways on even the slightest curve. It should be recalled and disabled.
Yeah, Markdown does 95% of what I need, requiring roughly 10% of the keystrokes needed for raw HTML. And you can always use HTML where needed.
You are right and it is a bit sad.

I was talking yesterday with a Chinese friend. If you are a highly educated Chinese in America, the present time is not the best of times. China is sliding towards autocracy. The rift between China and America widens every day. If you go back to visit your family, you are not 100% certain you'll get your US visa renewed. If you do, it might take two months. Add to that the fact that some part of the US population has anti-Asian sentiments (fortunately, the majority of the American people are solidly anti-racist, but the exceptions do bother you).
The older version is very difficult to read.
I’ve only been laid off over zoom. And fired over the phone
> I don’t think young people appreciate how talking to strangers in public went from common and acceptable to creepy and taboo in the last 15 years

... uh, what? I meet people (i.e., "talk to strangers") all the time in public, it hasn't changed at all (and I've been doing it for far longer than 15 years). OK, work's a little different (but that was never particularly a place (for me, anyway) to meet people), but the rest? Don't see the "creepy and taboo" at all.
>This is a theme of some prime dystopian literature but yes, it can be a solution if you are into "more from my kind" ideology.

The OP suggested making all these new humans genetically engineered to be sexless, so I'm not sure how you got the idea he wants "more from my kind" (GE sexless humans don't exist now); he's obviously talking about making a new race of humans that's genetically engineered to be quite different from modern-day humans, not just with a few improved traits, but some radical differences.

As for religious sects, they're not that numerous today, so unless this Brave New World of state-controlled breeding creates a LOT of new converts, those savages could easily be isolated into their own open-air prison in Oklahoma where everyone else can visit them on tourist packages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

They are more common that one may think. They have quite a foothold in e.g. European agriculture and even finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation.
I know you’re joking, but this kind of hyperbole is kind of out of control when discussing kids on the internet. People seem to forget that young kids sleep a lot and eventually they go to school and/or daycare.
We have already announced there will be no bonuses for 12 months. However we are quite obviously not going to go out of business, and people have higher-end salaries, so I think people just want to stay where it's safe.
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Probably better to ask one question per post.

It's an awful book. Don't read it.
I think most programming languages tokenize first. Tokenizing is absurdly fast, like 100x faster than printing to a terminal.
there are companies out there literally shooting things to the moon in the next two months

https://spacenews.com/ula-announces-may-launch-of-first-vulc...

plus as others have pointed out, in times of mass layoffs all kinds of companies are created when out of work people band together. I'm optimistic for our future.
I created this satirical tech company website to poke fun at the absurdities of the industry. This website is intended to highlight the excesses, overused AI-blockchain jargon, aggressive growth tactics, and mistreatment of outsourced labor and contractors that some tech companies engage in.

As much as we love technology, it's important to recognize the negative externalities of some in the industry, such as the prioritization of profits over the well-being of employees and customers.

I would love to hear thoughts and comments on the website or the importance of ethical practices in the industry, and encourage you to share it with others who might appreciate the satire.
Public transit for the win!
Context is still relevant though. "Highly Scalable" means something different if you're working on core AWS infra vs an app to be used by 100k people at the same time for instance.

I'd expect the interviewer to engage and set some helpful boundaries (and the interviewee if they have the experience to talk about what changes between the two situations)
For many, $1500/mo is living in the streets level of income. I have family that collected early and get like $900/mo. It's grim. Medicare/Medicaid is not free at all. There are lots of things that cost you additional money, that they don't have so they don't get all the medical care they need. Just what they can afford.
I guess you can subsidize shitty working environments with large salaries
This quote has, pound for pound, provided more comfort to terrible leaders than any other. It’s also just not true, good leadership is very obvious.
One for the Indiehackers/Startup, or even company internal tools people.

Firestarter https://github.com/mcapodici/firestarter, is perhaps a more humble project than most here, but happy if anyone is interested to follow it.

It is an attempt to build what is (in my opinion!) a great stack for quickly iterating on a web app idea. Probably about a month off from first release, which will be a simple TODO app you can sign up for, with full instructions on getting it set up and deployed that would be about an hour's work. From that point you have a semi-professional setup with devops and CI taken care of so you can move faster on your idea or startup. No need to touch a server (there isn't one to touch!)

Uses Firebase/NextJs/Vercel/React/Tailwind/Github Actions/Jest/Testing Library

I chose firebase because it is a very good choice for getting up to speed fast. The downside it is a lock-in, and not open source. However the code is written in such a way that swapping out to Parse, for example would be fairly easy to do.
Wrote a C-subset compiler for a compilers course back in university.

In general it's useful for a compiler to not just hit the first error it can find in the source code and immediately error out. Instead, if you keep parsing after encountering an error, you can often encounter more errors, so that you can give the user a list of errors they need to fix, not just the first one. In that sense, a compiler's job isn't over the instant it encounters a syntax error, so the extra tokenization would not be useless.
I felt like I knew the scale of game testing, but 200 still shocks me.
In the US several federal institution have their own zipcodes, no box number required. So they might win the "shortest address" competition on this side of the pond.

For example: 20500 just goes straight to the Whitehouse, 20501 to the Vice President, 20511 to the Director of Intelligence, 20555 is the nuclear regulatory commission, etc.
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Work will be a mix of data and platform engineering + feature related tasks. The right candidate will enjoy a high level of autonomy to optimise and innovate with our modern web stack (Elastic, Django, GraphQL, React / Next.js).

Enjoy working in a fun and growing industry. We promote a culture focused on learning together, whilst building features our customers love to use.

Salary: AUD140K+

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49 years old, married (same age), six kids, and my ACA plan in my area is $3k/mo for bronze, and $4 to $5k/mo for gold, with $10k deductibles. We have paid cash for five of our six kids.

Thankfully, my spouse and I and kids are healthy, but that's so much money that if I'd carried insurance when building my startup, we wouldn't have a startup today.

The ACA kills the American Dream. One possible fix is that I should be able to buy any insurance I want from anywhere in the country I want; this would mean real competition; currently, I can only buy from a few providers that operate in my local part of my (large) state.

Anyway, I find $85k shocking, but not that shocking given that I'm looking at $60k/year (not including deductibles) at a much younger age. (When I first started in my career, that was more than I made in a year!)
> Ford hired about 550 employees formerly of Argo AI

is pretty weird framing. Did they acquire the company? Or certain parts of it? I'm gonna guess they didn't actually recruit and interview all of them one by one.
Call a few lawyers to shop it around, choose one and let them handle it.
Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy
Is that including property tax and the fact that there is severely inadequate public transportation so you need to own a car?
Moo Cheese.
Manhole cover launched into space with nuclear test is fastest human-made object
Dual income is probably one of the last things I would list as reasons I enjoy being married.

Even without children, companionship, intimacy, and yeah, love, have tangible emotional rewards.

If you have never felt these feelings because you're young and haven't met anyone interesting yet, that's one thing. If you're older and just don't feel these feelings towards others, then you might want to talk to a professional about that.
When I used to work with cold fusion Ben Nadel was a life saver. Please update the title to correctly spell his first name
Yes, I had somehow mixed up "monolithic kernel" with "unikernel" in my head.
Shopify is a remote company. They can hire wherever they want. I suspect it’s a cultural preference.

Anecdotally, I know a senior dev who moved back to Canada from SF to work for Shopify.
Fine, delivery vehicles only, in the city center
You'd think so but apparently these days the bar is set at first insult your employees, blame them for all of the companies problems, then lock them out of their computers and lie about their severance package.
I’m disappointed that LTE Direct didn’t take off. It sounds like it has to be builtin to firmware or even requires hardware changes, and manufacturers didn’t add it. Probably cause couldn’t see way to make money.

It would be perfect for short-range comms, replacing walkie-talkies and messaging. It would work with phones that people already have.

For mid-range, cell towers on hilltops with link to other places would work. Except I heard cell towers need a lot of network infrastructure to work. And may consume too much power to work off solar. Simple solar-powered, self-contained cell sites would be useful for disasters and other events.
This is a person who is linking to an article that literally says the opposite of what they are claiming it says.

> The media erroneously reported [a statement from September 2021] as Apple reversing course.

Linking to an article from December 22, 2022 in which Apple is quoted as literally saying “We have further decided to not move forward with our previously proposed CSAM detection tool for iCloud Photos.”, ie actually and literally reversing course.

If this person cannot comprehend an article, should I trust that they actually checked that what they were seeing was what they were paranoid about?

Btw, the screenshot shows an interaction with api.smoot.apple.com, which is known to be used for spotlight and related services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479958 ; mediaanalysisd is used for visual lookup, where macOS tries to identify landmarks and other items in an image to help you find more information about it (https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/21/tests-confirm-mac...).

In short, paranoid people are good to use as indicators for further investigation, but are rarely to be trusted as sole sources—even less so when they attempt to ascribe intent.
came into the comments to post this, or see if anyone had. couldn't find the URL using the sitewide search.

https://www.meversusanpost.com/
Never give up, never surrender!

Originally, Mathesar was just an internal codename (we needed to name the repo something), but we decided to stick with it.
Mathesar dev here.

I like the idea of being able to track multiple data migrations or schema changes in parallel. We do currently support basic point-and-click DDL, and the data gets migrated when you (for example) set up a linked table based on some columns from an initial table, but we don't really have a way to track multiple such requests in one view.

I suppose one general solution would be to provide a UI for `pg_stat_activity` or other similar system tables that lets you filter easily.
Denver is trying. But they have so far to go. I wish them luck and success. The driving culture is strong.
https://www.vulture.com/2014/04/6-new-york-artists-on-the-cl...

I was shocked to find out it is closed (fairly recently actually). Last I felt this way in newyork was when they closed the art cinema close to lincoln center back in the day. (Don't remember the name now.)
"Controlling the output of generative AI technology is simple. We will create context for its use. First we will censor any use related to social taboos. Then we will censor anything else that we desire. If anyone complains, we will accuse them of wanting to engage in or promote social taboos."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY
This seems well-written and explores some of the probable outcomes. One of the things that concerns me most is about AI is that it could strip away or reduce what makes us human - creativity, friendships, romance (https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users...
)

Also, there's a version of the same article with more comments. LessWrong has a lot of great content on this topic (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CvfZrrEokjCu3XHXp/ai-practic...)
Really? Seems like a terrible name to me. Where I'm from, if you "post hog", you're getting blocked.
Not really what I mean. Spreadsheet implements a generic formula evaluation engine that triggers updates on value changes efficiently.
How can eventual consistency handle the inventory use case as well as an ACID system? You can't tell the user "your order is placed successfully" and then later tell them "actually no, it was out of stock".
It is indeed extremely rewarding. I still think that the fact that our memory is not perfect recall is a true blessing. It allows us to make a life changing decision once again based on incomplete information.
> Should I still have kids?

If you were honestly this worried… you need a therapist. And maybe read some history and rejoice that people didn’t stop having kids during famines, wars, plagues, genocides, economic collapses, revolutions, barbarian invasions, Viking raids… otherwise you might not have existed to worry about a theoretical long-term threat.