skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know not much at all about South Africa but what you describe puts me in mind of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb's_paradox - the world will be better off if powerful criminals believe that they can give up their power and still live consequence-free. Then at least they have the option of giving up power and everyone might benefit.

If they think they'll be given the Gaddafi treatment [0] then the rational thing for powerful monsters to do is go down swinging.

It is better to have systems to punish crimes, but it is also important to have meaningful amnesty even at the expense of fairness.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_Libya
Understandable yes, but it has reached the point of unnecessary dog piling. Ars also stokes the flames by featuring as many Elon headlines as possible, and they aren't particularly objective.
Sure. But the 10s of 1000s of people laid off this year don’t have that luxury.
I have some business cards that are so valuable, I can't give them away.

I was attending a conference with some vendor booths, and while it wasn't anything like a job fair, I thought I'd try my luck at pitching myself as a prospective hire. So I went to the most IT-oriented vendor that I could find, introduced myself, and proudly presented my solid plastic CompTIA A+ certification.

The good fellow thanked me and promptly pocketed it! It all went downhill from there as I had to explain that was a credential and not a calling-card, so I got it back, and definitely didn't get hired for anything!
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When your account changes from the time based free tier to the only forever free tier they often shut things down. Even if you're careful not to use the time based free tier stuff, which I was, it went pop anyway.

If you're below their "idle system" threshold, they'll shut it down.

Get past the 3 month or whatever it is tier. Put a low level load on the system to get it above the idle threshold and you should be good to have a nice personal playground. Probably.

I've had systems go down to both these. They also have rejected every credit card I tried to throw at them. Which is a known problem for them as well as some other cloud providers. I no longer put anything critical on OCI.
I have this problem - I am one man hardware department for almost a decade. I am interviewing now and people don’t want to listen to this. I designed everything and own everything. So I started lying having imaginary colleagues who co-designed the these things. Then interviews went okayish again. Some toxic places do not want teamwork. It is called here “spoon feeding”.
This is definitely true, but enough work in Cuba to give them a higher life expectancy than the US.
Plot twist: they're left handed/footed and your biased assumptions failed you.
For the urban development minded HNers out there, would it make sense to build a dedicated tech hub next to the city so that rent and cost of life is less sensitive to it or is gentrification unavoidable?
> They flooded the job market with doctors.

US doctors have to put in long hours because there aren't enough of them. Are things different in your country?
Binance (with little notice) removed the option to pay out (but not charge(!)) in my currency, and all the easy trading options that I remember from two years ago have vanished. Suddenly I'm having to join chats with random people to get them to do bank transfers (via Binance) to my bank account whilst they wheel and deal to try and negotiate me to accept strange terms and conditions.

Fair weather goes away and suddenly you're left holding the bag. I transferred all my holdings to a private wallet. Fuck Binance. Fuck exchanges. I'd rather the money rot there than have these crooks profit from holding it.

Also good to know that suddenly all the exchanges featured in trust wallet have vanished as well. A total joke medium. A legion of fraudsters pretending to be businessmen. Where are the wind farms Stellar Lumens were going to establish in Ghana or whatever, by the way?
Quite cool, but what are the chances people will plug a USB drive they just got from someone they just met into their computer?
I regularly gets paid by my clients to help them filter out candidates because they don't feel they have the technical skill to do so or their team is too busy coding something to be available for anything else than than validating the last batch.

One thing that comes over and over again is how much most candidates suck at programming. There are a huge quantity of people that are terrible at coding that will apply to your senior dev $200k job offer.

They all have a great CV, and they cheat at everything: fake interviews with a look-alike, using chatgpt or indian services to solve programming tests are not uncommon.

Last year, I had one former trader applying for a python job with a perfect resume, a stellar homework result, and who was claiming he likes "putting some good 10 hours of coding". First, there are maybe a 100 people in my country that can focus 10 hours in a row on code, and they won't apply for those clients. Second, the live coding review showed that he struggled to even create a basic virtualenv.

Last month I created a test that I knew had one question that ChatGPT got wrong. 2 candidates gave me the GPT answer last week.

So companies are desperate and try sieves after sieves, hoping to separate gold from mud. And they have limited time and resources to do so.

Of course the hiring process sucks. Even if they knew what they were doing, and most of them are not, it would suck.

Now don't get me wrong, it's nice the power balance is shitfing toward the workers for once, but hoping the other side won't react is just naive.
People have been radicalized by all kinds of things: religion, crowds, friends, books, and likely broadcast television too. The amplification capability is just more widely available and there's more fringe content.

Never thought I'd have so many friends and acquaintances who doubt the world is ball shaped, the moon landing, or suspected 9/11 was an inside job. Yet I do and some of them actually came to these beliefs because of school research papers and debate classes.
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It's the exact opposite. A team with strong psychological safety is exactly the type of group that knows how to present critique and debate, even between junior, senior, and management participants.

The point is that participants feel safe challenging an idea.
> You’re reading incorrectly and I also wasn’t very clear.

There's nothing in your 3-4 posts that is applicable to physicians that also isn't applicable to any other white collar job.

> Someone making 400k at a place matching 7% with a good benefits package isn’t making less than a radiologist at 500k in private practice.

Sure, but what does it have to do with the discussion at hand? People need to do their due diligence about compensation when accepting a position, any position. This isn't unique to 1 profession, 1 field or 1 geographical area.

> It’s the difference between any independent contractor vs employee, regardless of if that’s medicine, construction or freelance SWE so when comparing the “high income physician” job it should be compared like you would a freelancer to FAANG employee @ 10 years of experience.

Sure, but the original point was, people making 400k + 7% or 500k can both easily retire at 50. The rest is pointless bike shedding.
If he added ransomware, that’s a bit different. Making a business out of it isn’t that bad (think about it in terms of people going to prison for assault vs merely making some money), but the ransomware would be.

Still, garnishing someone’s wages the rest of his life seems out of proportion. But I admit it’s harder to defend someone that made a livelihood out of holding peoples’ data hostage.
A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either.

1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...
Global:

- https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day)

Local:

- https://publicola.com (20/month)

- https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month)

- https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month)

- https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month)

- https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month)

- https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month)

- https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day)

Tech:

- https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week)

- https://this-week-in-rust.org (1/week)

- https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix (1/week)

- https://discourse.nixos.org/top (5/day)

Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).
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> I see a lot of geeks giving advice on how to hire other geeks,

Is it out of place for a chef to critique the hiring process for a head chef position with a restaurant owner that's largely clueless about what happens in the kitchen? Most people would say that the chef might have a better clue about ovens and quiche recipes than the restaurant owner, right?

> Once again, as a developer, I can only notice how much of a diva my peers have become. We are very lucky we are a hot commodity on the market, because I tell you, no other professional gets a pass for a tenth of the things we claim we are entitled too.

Providing some advice about being a bit humble is always valuable. There's a fine line between being confident and knowing your worth and being cocky and a rude jerk.

That said, if you're a software developer, you have a skill that's in demand that most people on Earth have no capacity to perform even if given years of free training. It's reasonable for developers that might provide millions of dollars of value to a company to demand better treatment than people who provide a fraction of that value to a company.
Consumer desktop product. That's a category that nobody competes in. Apple sells hardware that incidentally includes macOS and Microsoft hasn't cared about selling Windows licenses directly to customers for years and their OEM licensing business for consumer devices (i.e. non-Pro licenses) is neat, but it couldn't sustain Windows by itself.
Having to install a Flatpak does not make Linux any less “out of the box” than MacOS or Windows. They are all going to require installing something.

If you are not going to buy Microsoft Office, LibreOffice may be your best bet on all platforms.

These days, if you ARE going to buy Office, it is likely to be a subscription to Office 365. If you are a subscriber, you can your documents in a web browser in Linux as well as you can on Windows. You can even use Edge.
If it were only the WaPo the ones saying things such as the comment I was replying to, then "them" would mean the WaPo. But since every corporate news outlet uses the same wording to make it seem like the CIA was "evil back in the day but it's fine now", in this context, "them" means pretty much every corporate outlet out there. Each one of them who pretends Julian Assange is not a political prisoner by orders of Washington. Each and every one of them who publish stories whose source is "unnamed officials" (aka "trust me bro") and are usually just copying verbatim the government narrative without batting an eye. Since that's all of the big ones, NYT, WaPo, Guardian, even Reuters nowadays; might as well consider "them" all of them who do this kind of propaganda.
If you had the idea and you convinced others of the idea, that is a good story in of itself, because it highlights both very important skills, ability to brainstorm solutions and ability to persuade and sell others on this solution.

So you say: "I had this idea A to solve problem B, but not everyone was initially onboard, so I had to do C to convince others. I was able to convince everyone and I led the project to fruition with D results.

If you were in a leading role, it will be more impressive the more people and the higher levels you had to convince or lead.
And somehow you still get very many people who claim to be experienced developers in $LANG and are unable to write or explain even basic things.

Usually engineers can spot the CVs talking around the fact they can't actually do what they claim well before it even comes to interview, but HR often can't and the recruiters will try it on anyway to get paid!
I've read all Borges' work translated to my native language. I consider it a replacement of humanitarian sciences course (I've graduated from a math department).
What? I would like some evidence of that.
Although this anecdote is presented as something that actually happened, it feels like a straw-man premise. The VP "practically growled at me" and "found Anand's questions 'super annoying.'" "His assessment that Anand was a 'bad fit' was really code for 'I don't want to feel uncomfortable.'" This seems uncharitable, but if it really does describe the VP accurately as a cartoonish pointy haired boss, this isn't the article that's going to change his mind, even if the fairy tale did have a happy ending.

I generally welcome questions in an interview, but not all questions are equal. Some may signal a lack of preparation, don't seem particularly relevant, or come across as canned, like something they read in an HBR article (just kidding).

I'm no expert interviewer on either side of the table. If there's one nugget I'd take from this article, it's a challenge to "uncover capabilities, not just experience." How do I convey my own capabilities as a job seeker, or elicit them as a hiring manager?

Incidentally, the "77% of all jobs ... require little to no creativity" link takes you to a marijuana podcast, as the Martin Prosperity Institute is apparently defunct. I believe the statistic refers to a footnote in this paper (co-authored by the author of the submitted article):

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/80108
LaTeX Reviewer Flask App: Compare and Review LaTeX Documents Using GPT-4
Hi HN,

Just wanted to share a tool I've developed called the LaTeX Reviewer Flask App. It's an application that allows you to compare two LaTeX documents or use the power of GPT-4 to review and suggest edits to your document.

The idea is simple: You either compare two LaTeX docs directly or submit your document to the GPT-4 API for review and suggested edits. The output? A handy diff PDF showing the changes.

To use it, you just need to have LaTeX, latexdiff, Python 3 and pip installed, and have an OpenAI API key for the review mode. All the instructions are in the repository: https://github.com/muc-martin/gptEditor.

It's still a work in progress, but I found it very helpful in my work and thought some of you might find it useful too. Would love to hear your feedback!
I still really appreciate their moderation system. It ain't perfect but you occasionally see highly moderated opposing viewpoints which is difficult to achieve.
There are many ways to make a project open-source and still monetize on it. I've collected several approaches here: https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization

Your case sounds like you could apply an Open SaaS with an AGPL License or create an OpenCore and service special functionality in your SaaS.

If the only concern of your customers is that you could have to close the company and they don't have the code/system anymore, you could create a special (Dual-)License that is GPL as long as your company exists but becomes MIT if you close your company.
What is your background/budget/size of team to achieve such project?
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Hmm. I have majors in CS and electronic engineering and minors in maths and physics. In EE I had jobs without any interviewing at all; just sending my diploma and resume. The CS interviewing system is highly broken compared to anything else I have been in touch with. I have been a software engineer, electronics engineer, ceo, cto, pre-sales and some more things. Software engineer interviews are sad shitty affairs; it’s easier to land a cto job than a developer job for me. It’s just dumb and companies who do it deserve to get told to stick that job somewhere.
They carefully maintain the scarcity of doctors, but import as many nurses as they possibly can, work them hard, and pay them the least they can get away with. It's only logical.
Ask HN: Where do you go to skim the news?
I currently get my daily dose of news by skimming a handful of subreddits like /r/worldnews, /r/news and a few others. With third party Reddit apps going away soon, I need a new source. Where do you all get your news from?
"could" is not "will"
I can see someone instantly hiring a guy with a linux-driven business card which pierces through the sandboxed environment.
My final interview with a different company included the CEO. I took the job despite the red flags because I needed money. While his antics and temper caused a lot of problems for many people, it didn’t affect my department much.

I have a disability and no network to speak of. Getting job offers is difficult. I generally can’t afford to avoid every job with a red flag.
That's true, but it's also beside the point. I don't care enough about transformers to put statues of them in my yard, either. But he does. They're not hurting anyone, and he went to presumably significant effort and expense to do something different and express himself. Good on him. He can be cool whether one likes the statues or not.
Obsidian is made by a great team, which is the same team that made Dynalist. And their current CEO, kepano, was a community member and plugin developer since 2020 before becoming the CEO in 2023, so he knows what the community wants.

And the actual popularity of the app is probably significantly boosted by all of the productivity YouTubers who talk about Zettelkasten lol
I won't give any advice, but the story strongly resonated with me.

Spoiler alert: Anand got hired.

I didn't. After a thorough technical interview with the guy that would have been my boss, the VP had a five minutes talk with me, asking about my hobbies, what I looked for in a company and similar platitudes. His added value was deciding he didn't trust me, for no reason, except the magic Excel sheet he was entering my answers in. The first guy did call me to apologize.

The weird thing is the same company reached to me a couple of times years later. The most recent, I learned that the VP was instantly fired as soon as the company was bought by a french conglomerate and the whole infrastructure replaced. It was a mess, so I guess I dodged a bullet.

Once again, as a developer, I can only notice how much of a diva my peers have become.

I totally agree with that. We need to live with the rest of the employees every day, so it's better not to be a jerk.
I don’t want to be treated like a scammer; if you assume I am lying then I don’t want to work for you anyway.
"Just" :D
Long term side-effects may develop over time and may therefore not be caught in these studies. Longitudinal studies are needed to study this. As an anecdote, a relative of mine has has had dbs for years due to brain disease and has developed paranoia. May or may not be related.
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> when the BS generation is automated there is zero incentive for a human being to even look and correct the answers. what is the incentive to do so?

You hit a good point here. If users can't be bothered to spend time, effort, energy and cognition into answering a question, why should the readers and correctors do so?
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When I first saw the new logo, I thought "no way" and I hated it, but I got used to it really fast and now I probably even prefer it to the old one
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It sounds like you should not make your project open source, because there is no compelling business reason to. You only cite a speculative benefit of potentially being able to reach more customers, but it seems like these are not the people actually interested in buying your product. So I think your assessment is correct, it does not sound like a smart thing to do.
That's a false comparison. You can still edit documents using LibreOffice installed via flatpak, or, like probably most users, use Google Docs, Office 365, or OnlyOffice.

Meanwhile without proper HDR support and better color management, Linux desktop is basically a non-starter for any professional creative use-case, including design, animation, illustration, image and video editing.

Ideally both would be done but they seem to have limited resources, so in this scenario I personally fully support their choice as it will enable Linux desktop usage to a whole new user-base (which is also a paying user-base, namely animation studios that use RHEL).
You can read more about multi-perspective validation here:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/multiva20.pdf
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And how did you provision any of this? Did you take each device, connect to it while on that same network in a completely unauthenticated manner, and provision certificates? Can you send links to webpages on these devices to ordinary browsers that aren’t provisioned with the certificates? Would someone who doesn’t fully trust you and your infrastructure be willing to install your certificate?
And AppImage distribution has the same fundamental security problem as static binaries, making it difficult or impossible to replace downstream dependencies. When a dynamic library needs a security update (e.g. heartbleed in libssl), the shared library can be replaced system-wide. When a static executable or AppImage needs a newer version of a library, you need to update the program entirely, and there is no way to do so across all programs system-wide.
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Security through obscurity actually is security, and is perfectly valid to use with a defense in depth strategy. The problem is when obscurity is the only defense.
WYSWYG office suites were a mistake. Combining the editing and the display compromises both. They seem destined to become giant unmaintainable monoliths. They solve problems that are fundamentally really hard but also incredibly boring, like making layout decisions on the fly. And finally they are just boring in a way that means nobody is really that interested in contributing.

Markdown, LaTeX, or HTML are much better options if fancy text is really necessary. Often it is better to just do plain text though.
yes, you are right. The ultimate truth is Bitcoin. (I know downvotes are on their way)
My plans, if I may call them that, are definitely not suitable for the USA, because the foremost prerequisite of making the whole thing remotely safe is the existence of a national id with cryptographic signature support, similar to how Estonia, or other European countries have/plan to have.

As far as I remember some parts of the US were against requiring ID for voting, so make of that what you will.
Tells you something about their salt tolerance. It makes all the difference in plumbing together CRUD applications effectively.