skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most common complaint is that the interviews don't test technical skills, they test things that look like they're adjacent to technical skills but aren't the kind of work that you'd actually be doing.
This article is pretty off-base with its description of Medellín from my experience (lived in Laureles for ~1 year with some locals).

Medellín has been a digital nomading hotspot since at least 2016. It is not “in the early stages of nomadification”.

Laureles is not a middle-class neighborhood.

Insinuating that the “gringo price” for an apartment is what a local (or even a gringo who can speak Spanish) will pay is dishonest.

And while I love paisas, it’s disingenuous to complain about the rich gringos when much of the current middle-class Colombian lifestyle is powered by Venezuelan migrant workers.
Interesting. Thanks for the ideas. I think my initial ideas were around that dating all the way back to 2016 but I was never able to get it off the ground. Let me share an idea with you to get some feedback. https://mu.xyz/network

I'd really like to figure out how this would work in practice but having the idea is not the same as getting the buy in and executing on it.
Asylum? Send them to labor camps I mean private prison and also prescribe more opioids and shut down all drug addiction clinics.

Don't do this.
The “sad thing” was so good it made its way to other countries outside of the USSR and is to this day served in many places. I can confirm from the first hand experience that it has no equals in the western world.
In 2023? I would argue image/video editing for sure.
Distributed / remote is not the same as full nomad
The rich people I know in the US do have an option of getting their healthcare from any other country, and that is what they often do.
In my experience, most of the outrage against the medical system is that it is so expensive, and has such variable outcomes. I don’t think overworking doctors (even more than they already are) is the solution, but I do feel something has to give. What do you think is the problem. What could be productively changed that would make access to healthcare more affordable?
I've banned Forbes from my news feed over this type of "$TechCompany just gave $NumUsers a reason to be afraid" clickbait titles. Every time I opened them, they were a teemendous waste of time, a simultaneously dumbed down and hyped up drivel about a security issue that made the news a week prior that was never as serious as the title implied.
How does this make one drop LibreOffice as a package?

If I focus on video editing, do I drop... say, Thunderbird, because of "adjusting my engineering priorities"? What are users of my distribution supposed to use, by default? This sounds weird, if not disingenuous.
No longer true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524549

> As of April 29, 2021 Amazon S3 is discontinuing the S3 BitTorrent feature and it will no longer be available to enable. AWS will support customers currently using the S3 BitTorrent feature for 12 months. After April 29, 2022, BitTorrent clients will no longer connect to Amazon S3.
It's just not shipping by default, I don't think they're removing it from their repositories, so you can still install it if you want
[The security of Gmail has always been one of its biggest selling points, but now one of its most important new security features is actively being used by hackers to scam users]
I dream of a day when the source code for Mario Kart Wii is leaked (my favorite game), but I guess CS:Go and TF2 is already something.

But to be honest, in the future there will be powerful models trained to reverse engineer binaries, so it probably won't be necessary.
A lot of digital nomads are in their 20s, which doesn't mean they shouldn't think about RSI, but that they are less likely to. Plenty of them are older than that, but even then, it's a group which self-selects for priorities other than ergonomics. At their future peril, I'm sure.
Failure in the mobile assembly line is what the article mentions but is kind of irrelevant if you're still just selling pizzas to people. No one really cares about buying pizza from this unknown company so they have no product market fit. imo cutting minimum wage humans out of the loop will not yield a big enough profit weighed against the machine and vehicle maintenance costs combined with the skilled labor costs to deal with them.
I was a terrible student who really disliked school. At the time (late 90s), I found the curriculum staid and obsolete on delivery and didn’t see a way to explore things that interested me.

Things turned out ok. None of the big companies that visited campus would interview me. I ended up at a late stage startup that had taken a hit in the dotcom crash and did really well there. Then the company was bought at a premium a year later and I got a nice deal from the stock conversion.

Later I joined a big mega org and moved up to the VP level there over the years. A have a friend who did something similar - he’s some big shot at a bank now.

The key is getting in the door and kicking ass. Be good to people. At the end of the day, once you have a track record, nobody gives a shit about your 2.0 GPA after a few years unless it’s a company that likes to collect Ivy diplomas.

Funny story - I interviewed for a gig apparently by mistake. The interviewer scoffed and said they rarely hire anyone from state schools, and that I’m wasting my time. 6 months later, I’m making 5x as a consultant to do same thing and pull their chestnuts out of the fire. I got a very touching gift from the same dude, who didn’t remember me.

Also consider that development may not be your jam. Devops, analytics or other disciplines may be more your speed.
If this is well supported by a Linux application, it seems really interesting.
This person is really confused about licenses and copyright.

> Please note that this code is property of Valve-Software and any contributions that you make are considered a donation into the public domain.
There are certainly unfamiliar people judging me and my coworkers when there’s an outage involving customers of various levels, yes. And in a previous company sadly yes we have had people let go for poorly handling incidents that resulted in lost business. It’s a lot of SRE in the ugly side
How much did Lincoln save per vehicle by not installing that fuse in the first place? 25 cents? 50 cents? $1?
Lots of employers will not answer to that request for various reasons. So you may get a phone number of a buddy of the candidate that will tell you he was stellar.
That's the problem. Decide some amorphous term like "hate" is not allowed, and the the goalposts shift to framing how everything you don't like is "hate".

Local laws vary, and I believe some commonwealth countries have pretty draconian ones, but outside direct calls for physical violence, I think it's an immediate slippery slope to telling people they can't say categories of things. If the kind of comments here are the worst that result, I don't think that's really a problem.
It would hurt me to look at that everyday. He can put them in his house where he can look at them all he wants without forcing it upon the world.
If you find it hard to take it seriously, I find it even more to take you seriously. What you're saying only makes sense if there's no such thing as coercion and deception, 2 things we know are practiced by Washington. A small, meaningless semantic meaning of hierarchy, when you have secret courts and plain, obvious examples of government & corporate media working together, it's like you're asking us to believe in fairy tales. And it's all backed by "we wouldn't lie, they would", which is xenophobia, quite simply.

You'd have to ignore Snowden and all the leaks of the past 20 to 50 years, to have such a misconception of how the USG operates. You'd have to have the USG's trustworthiness as the pillar of your belief system and then comes the usual philosophy. That's exceptionalism and xenophobia.
Another one I think about alot these days is "Funes, the Memorious."

So much in the broad culture of the tech world is wrapped up in these, I find, odd and misguided commitments to the idea/fantasy of a pure form of "intelligence," artificial or otherwise. As if the world was literally an RPG game or something.

To me, so many of the more... enthusiastic AI-heads seem to be unwittingly aspiring towards that space Funes is in in the story: all-knowing and in that, totally impotent. Attempting to amass knowledge, but not considering the inflation of meaning such accumulation necessarily entails. Attemping to know everyone, but in that, never being able to be with anyone.
The choice of bananas as a benchmark seems really bad given that the US invaded and supported coups throughout Latin America specifically to keep the price of bananas low.

> The idea that US and USSR were equals or even anything near it is totally absurd

That's not what I said. I said the material conditions of the population improved markedly more in the USSR than here in Latin America following WW2
The proper title for this article should be "sleight of hand magic tricks involving opposable thumbs only fool monkeys with opposable thumbs"

This "Title Fluffing" trend is quite annoying
Usually by responding with why or how is enough. If they can reason from the bottom up, vs just saying stuff they read online, they might just be smart.
>Until recently it was illegal to be gay in Singapore.

Not that long ago it was in many parts of the west too. Could get you fired from work, There were still gays in both places of course, both closeted and people everybody knew they were gay.

Hell, up until the 60s there was seggregation of blacks and whites.
Well, Nix mostly solves that issue so well due to a continuous massive offering of blood and sweat though, let's not kid ourselves. It's a significant amount of work to package arbitrary software because arbitrary software does weird and bizarre things.

But IMO the fundamental principles underlying the design are sound and granular compared to most of the alternatives, though, that's for sure.
There's a vibrant Mario Kart Wii mapmaking community and you can run the game flawlessly using Dolphin. It's not perfect, but it's about as good as we can hope for.
I’ll often check the finance-related articles on Abnormal Returns, and the non-finance Saturday links usually lead somewhere interesting.

https://abnormalreturns.com/
It's just not a long term thing, for obvious reasons. People do it for a bit and then realise that the lifestyle is transient. So it doesn't go on long enough to cause serious problems.

If you're still doing this at age 50 then you'll be a lonely old man.
Fisted by Foucault is a dark substack, meaning at least partly ideological lies and disinformation.

It's a bit like Zero Hedge in that it's one of those places where they like to talk about how the 'World Really Works!' aka 'behind the curtain' and they do so with some actual insight and intelligence, but ultimately there's a lot of BS and lies, and plenty of over misinformation.

The author is also a pro-Putin fascist / apologist who thinks that Putin's invasion of Ukraine must somehow be the result of Russia's victimization by other countries.
So maybe ~10x cheaper? I wonder what is the cost of ingredients for a $20 pizza. $2 seems low.
I was sort of hoping that the closed form analysis was going to be aimed at getting the critical damping factor to then plug it into a dumb Euler simulation so the behaviour is correct. Kinda disappointing that the final thing is so complicated.
FWIW, 200-300k is not that uncommon far outside of FAANG or the usual tech cities for experienced senior engineers with current skills. We are not even talking startups necessarily but boring industrials and other companies no one thinks of as tech companies. Every large business is being forced to be much tech savvier and this reality has diffused high-paying tech jobs among a much wider range of companies and locales.

You are correct on one point: most Americans don't have the skills for these jobs. That is why these jobs pay so well, almost definitionally.
Imagine reading this first sentence 20 or 30 years ago:

"Zume Inc., a one-time robot pizza business that came to represent the excesses of pre-pandemic venture investing, has shut operations, two people familiar with the matter said."
It's not a particularly controversial statement in the context of games. Many commercial games are still developed entirely or primarily in non garbage collected languages like C++.

Even Unity which uses garbage collected C# for game code is still a C++ engine under the hood for much of the performance critical engine code.

Having worked in games and VR development for many years I can say that memory management was not a major problem in C++ and for tricky areas of memory and resource management like GPU memory garbage collection doesn't generally help you.

When it comes time to optimize memory usage and performance it's often easier when memory management is explicit, deterministic and visible as well as highly customizable than when you have to work with a garbage collector which is a bit of a black box and has a lot of non deterministic and unpredictable behaviour.

Even after working for several years primarily in Unity with C# I still tend to prefer non garbage collected languages for games.
Interviewees being able to instantly produce the right answer made me think of another problem Interviewers need to account for currently: people who are biding their time until the market heats up again.

There are definitely engineers hunting max salary/equity over everything and they are going to jump ship if they can get a FAANG role. Being able to spit out rote memorized leetcode and systems design questions is probably correlated with someone who wants to maximize their salary.
The just shy of 40 years of having these tools as standard (They were in the SVID. They were also in Bourne's book.) militates against that.
I agree with the author that this could just be a fatal error and not an obsolescence warning; the obsolescence warning has been in the spec for thirty years already.

I learned about a quarter century ago that egrep and fgrep are considered obsolescent by POSIX/SuS, which has grep -E and grep -F, and stopped using them.

Here is Single Unix Spec from 1997:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/egrep.ht...

That's probably before some of the complainers were weaned off diapers.

However, I disagree with the removal of these commands. A POSIX or "Unix-like" system has a good many commands that are not in the spec. Removing commands that are in the spec (or have been) but were obsolescent is completely wrongheaded.

A sane approach might be for the utilities project like Coreutils to remove the programs; distros can simulate them with scripts (that don't emit any lame chatter):

This could be /usr/bin/egrep:

#!/bin/sh
grep -E "$@"

Why should we remove egrep just because it was mentioned in the spec as obsolescent, yet keep emacs or ssh that are not in the spec?

It should be a priority to retain any command that was ever in the actual spec, regardless of whether it was obsolescent, over retaining commands that are not in the spec.

The guiding principle should be whether those commands are in wide use and whether they are harmful in any way. fgrep and egrep aren't harmful. There is a spec for them which says what they should do; we have it from POSIX that egrep is equivalent to grep -E. People use them.

The only portability issue with egrep in a script is that it might not be there, which would only be because someone had a knee-jerk reaction to wording in the spec. If a system does have egrep, it is expected to conform to the spec and be equivalent to grep -E.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/
Perhaps I missed it in the linked tweets. Is there a technical write-up on how they are spoofing BIMI? Are they not using BIMI DNS lookups and only trusting SMTP header contents? Gmail is purported to have a VMC requirement. [1]

[1] - https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/7002542139663-Us...
FDA Allows Imports of China-Made Chemotherapy to Ease U.S. Shortage
unpopular truth -- around the time of the iMac products, well-before iPhone, Steve Jobs was building iTunes with huge guile on how to take record company revenue.. and some indie Mac devs were building a fun music player. Steve personally visited their house somewhere, with security around him, and told them "you have no chance" to make this a product. .. out of college guys making something fun. The issue was .. iTunes is the Mac OS music player - end of statement. (MSFT drama on this exact topic was fresh in the waters)

source-- mac dev at the time
Should I Write a Game Engine or Use an Existing One?
Jogging GPT-4's Memory
Just having a simple conversation with ChatGPT (the upgraded GPT-4 version) this morning. In the end searching GitHub myself was faster. Any tips on this or research on this topic? Is this what is referred to as In Context learning? Or In Context reminders?
This world view is quite perplexing, to be frank. On one hand, he urges potential users to switch to Linux, emphasizing its cost-free nature and the freedom it offers in terms of code and game direction. However, on the other hand, the code being used is stolen and leaked, thus infringing on the original creator's copyright. Additionally, the repository's license claims that all contributions are considered public domain, which adds to the oddity of the situation. Since there is no legitimate license permitting the existence of this code, it is even more peculiar that a custom license is being invented, allowing contributions to this clearly stolen source code to be considered public domain.
I thought options were also explicitly assigned for fulfillment (randomly among those matching) so you could match it to specific shares if you wanted.
https://archive.is/sesXn
Definitely.

From article: "Participants were asked to identify logical rules in a series of patterns"

The more intelligent you are, the more different rules you can come up with for a pattern. It then becomes a task of figuring out which rule the interviewer thinks is the (only) correct one.

Magnus Carlsen does not move his pieces faster than bad chess players. He thinks thru more creative options and see more useful "edge cases" than the bad players.
I have been to a lot of the cities mentioned in the article, and one thing I found is that most of these "digital nomads" are better classified as long-term tourists. They don't have real businesses, aren't doing any real work and aren't making any money. Their day mostly comprises "working" for a couple hours at some coffee shop and spending the rest of the day/night socializing and partying. When reality strikes and their savings start to deplete (and/or their company's HR department calls them back to the US) they will promptly pack up and leave.
I play modded Mario Kart Wii almost everyday on my modded Wii U, there are so many beautiful community tracks.

Creating tracks is fairly easy, the community has already reverse engineer all you need, changing the game behavior by modifying the main.dol and StaticR.rel is not (that's why a source leak or a complete reverse engineering would be gold).
Can't wait for the headlines 20 or 30 years in the future.
Original tweet:

https://twitter.com/chrisplummer/status/1664075886545575941
Funny how even the term "word processing" has gone out of common use. Yesterday I was reading Becker's Writing for Social Scientists, 2nd ed. This is a 2007 revision of a book originally published in 1986, and includes at chapter titled "Writing with Computers" which includes much of the chapter "Friction and Word Processors" from the 1986 edition. I recall a moment of bemusement realizing how archaic the term "word processor" sounded to my ear.
> All anecdotes, of course, but every one of them treated the job like a side project that they’d get to whenever they had some free time during a permanent vacation lifestyle

Devil's advocate: this is the direction we should aim toward as a society. Yes, the work still needs to be performed, but efficient workers should be rewarded with more free time for the same wage, because the purpose of life, the economy, and civilization itself should be to enable everyone to do whatever they want, as much as possible, and labor is only a way to achieve that.
There are many scholars working in industry (from software engineering to biotech) who believe in the ideals of information sharing and publication of research.
General point: Clean room reverse engineering is a common approach, from corporations keen to minimise their liability.

Nonetheless, clean room RE is not a legal requirement: certainly not in the EU, nor AIUI in the US.

The EU allows reverse engineering for interoperability. The EU allows reimplementations of APIs (as does the US). The EU also explicitly allows decompilation, where necessary.
It’s CapitalOne, not AWS, who had the flaw and suffered the loss. (And survived it, as is the main point of the thread.)
How many Internet users really know what it means when there's a little golden padlock in the URL bar? What goes through their minds when there are security warnings about not having the golden padlock?

I knew a guy who wouldn't open my email to him, because the icon/avvie was a question mark or something, and so it must be malware. He pointed it out to me in person.

Now there is a social-medial industry standard 'blue check' or 'verified account'. Instead of a golden padlock meaning the same, narrow thing, everywhere and always, the blue checks are implemented however they want. You can put a blue check in your Slack status if you feel like it. So what does a blue check mean?
I was familiar with the story of the Lisa, but hearing from Bob Cook about Sun Remarketing and all the work they did to support the deprecated Lisas (which they rebranded as the Lisa Professional) was super interesting.

If you just want to watch the bit about the Lisa Professional, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjbNWgsDt8&t=818s
That is not what I have read. Doctors are having to join as employees of larger doctor groups, that are owned and operated by older doctors or private equity. Or they can join the local hospital system as a W-2 employee. Either way, they are up against big payers, so they have to also join big employer groups themselves.

Or work in undesirable locations.
You're certainly correct; price of gasoline (petrol) tracks with crude oil.

I meant to read up on govt's allegations of price gouging (profiteering), to maybe understand what's going on, but got distracted.

So many outrages, so little time.

Cheers.
I have lived in San Fransisco an commuted through Tenderloin.

I am not opposing that they are statistically related. But it is not OK to assume that people are drug addicts when they tell that they are homeless. That is normal human decency.
I mean, if someone says a group of people should be killed based on their political stance or sexual orientation that should be a criminal offense. And I might not support all of the groups these days, but I reject blanket statements like “all transgenders are pedophiles”. This is stupid and wrong. And if teenagers are tweeting this, they’re going to end up very stupid adults.
And see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173519 .