skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the web hosting world, RHEL and its downstreams like CentOS (7 is still in use... just had to spin up a server for a customer with it a few days ago) Alma, Rocky, etc. are still king. Especially with software like cPanel, which exclusively works with Alma (previously, exclusively CentOS). Getting people to even upgrade to Alma 8 is enough of a pain, I don't see why any of these folks would move away from cPanel/Alma now.
In a "normal" operation (when things go smoothly and are well designed) yes, the objects are retained, even if deleted in primary mailboxes, explicitly for the accommodation of discovery requests and litigation holds. The rules can get more or less complex - negotiations on deals with TCV over a certain threshold have keywords and parties whose relevant emails are retained beyond normal policy, certain job classes have data retention extended beyond normal policy, keywords can trigger longer retention, information classification (either manual or automated) can extend retention periods. Software solutions have for many years streamlined the work necessary to pull this off compared to what it would have taken in an Exchange server farm 20 years ago.

Anyway, all these business rules are (should be) documented in formal policies on data retention, litigation hold, privacy, etc. If a company were going through a working annual audit process for Sox or increasingly even routine annual financial audits (non-sox), policies would be examined for evidence that they are working with spot checks - e.g. auditor selects examples of qualifying events and asks for evidence that the given policy is in fact enabled/enforced technically. This may test retention as well as intention deletion (e.g. we should deliberately have no data beyond five years unless an exceptional circumstance warrants it).
I agree that there's a lot that the current hiring process get wrong. I'm not really defending it, but want to clarify a few things.

> They're scaring off and filtering out excellent candidates with these excessive processes.

In my experience this is by design. The cost of a false positive (hiring someone they shouldn't) is far more expensive than a false negative (passing on a good candidate). Since FAANGs usually have a healthy pipeline of candidates and many who fail will eventually reapply they're okay with passing on possibly qualified candidates.

> None of them even cared about my Github repository that's full of code I write for fun.

As an EM at a mid to large tech company who has hired plenty of engineers I think ignoring people's Github is the right call and I don't even bother looking at candidate's Github unless it's for something like an intern role. Ignoring the fact that I don't know where the code on Github came from (did someone else write it? Is this just following a tutorial?), the code you write and the skills you use when you're writing code at home alone on a passion project is VERY different than the skills you need to be successful in a large, slow moving, bureaucratic corporation.
The actual policy at issue is tucked away in the "Other Business Model Issues" section and uses the term "monetary gift" instead of tip:

> (vii) Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by the giver, and (b) 100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift. However, a gift that is connected to or associated at any point in time with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase.
I don't know anything about the tea you refer to, but "the chemical is similar" is not a great signal, IMO. You can even have the exact same chemical with different chirality having dramatically different effects on the body (eg: l- and d- methamphetamine, and plenty of others).

Not saying it has 0 relevance, but I wouldn't take it to mean much on its own. It's like people being scared of mercury dental fillings because "it has mercury in it, which is poisonous." That doesn't follow.
I got 48%, so no not everyone does.
My parents read child psychology and based on that changed their mind on whether spankings were something good for your kids.

They updated their views based on expert peer-reviewed evidence instead of relying on their own armchair theories. I laud them for that. I used to be pro-spanking since I turned out OK and was stunned to later learn my parents regretted it all after what they subsequently learnt. They earnestly wish they had learnt sooner it wasn't necessary.
Doesn't the depend on where you live and how old you are?

In my part of the US, you can live like a king on $200k/yr and such jobs aren't rare. You can live better than 90% of the people here on $100k, and putting 100k/yr away for retirement is genuinely more than enough unless you're in your 40s or so.

But I know there are other parts of the US where what you say is 100% true.
A (work-in-progress) guide to your startup's back office
Out of curiosity, why DNS?
I can't imagine a shorter path to making my lizard brain scream "SURFACE NOW"
>I'm willing to pay for these roads and the electricity/gas to take me where I want to go.
Except you aren't, nearly all infrastructure that your using will need to be bailed out and paid for by the Federal Government because otherwise your taxes would need to at least double.
It’s interesting to me that there are multiple calls in the comments for updated entries (rust, zig, elixir, etc). But no one has actually thrown one down here. I notice that no one even mentioned Swift or Kotlin.

For me as a long time practitioner of many languages, one of the telling points is that most/all of the new entries I might write for any of the newer languages would lack personality. Historically, languages had opinions about things. C was common assembler. Smalltalk was objects. Lisp was lists. You could easily riff on these languages “first principles.”

Modern languages feel more like political committees trying to keep as many constituents happy as possible.
Where do you find other valuable companies to interview at? Genuine question, I've been entrenched in the Silicon Valley bubble for well over a decade that I don't even know how/where to find meaningful (remote) companies.
I don't think this is necessarily true. Big chaos score means that the hiring manager is basically free to hire whoever they want with no verification, but that does not mean that they do not keep their engineers in check. Google has low chaos score, but you can essentially get hired without a job that you should do so that could also indicate you may get away with doing not a lot of work
The FAANG, or MANGA, all vary a ton. It really doesn't make sense to compare them all as if they're remotely the same. They all have a similar hiring process and they're all big (which does wind up causing similar problems), and the similarities usually end there. Even between teams in these companies things can be totally different.

TL;DR don't throw out a basket of companies because you think they're the same
Texts with Founders: Handling inbound from investors
What do the different colours of mould mean in my house?
Surely you've had to travel since 2011? If not, you need to start.

Although I no longer get a pay raise or bonuses, I still decided to stick with my company of over a decade. The benefits are the fact that I get to work anywhere I want. And considering I'm usuall around the country... either housesitting or taking care of my family.

Take advantage of such convienent and comforts while you have it. Learn how to work on a beach, on a train, in a bus, or on a plane, etc. Learn how to work with one monitor. If you do need that second monitor, there are portables they make. Make sure you have Internet anywhere you go. I have both WiFi, Mobile capabilities, and an Xfinity login should I need to use it.

Pick a destination and go. Make plans around your work schedule if you can. If not, then take work with you and make sure you have enough time to do your work. I know wherever I travel... I often make sure I can stop anywhere as the jobs that come in for me can take anywhere from minutes to a few hours each. The hardest part is not the WFH but trying to convince your parents that you are actually WFH.
But it's still a very time consuming and expensive process. Typically 5h of interviews with 1/2 people from my experience. Spending that energy more wisely would result in more valuable feedback and better hires. But it takes actual effort to try and understand rather than simply checking boxes.
Yeah, of course I use them. It’s practically impossible to use the internet without them. No ethical consumption and all.

It makes me feel better that I am not directly working for them in the same way that putting plastic in my recycling bin makes me feel better about having no choice but to have plastic waste follow me around everywhere.

edit) have you tried eating food without having plastic involved?
I see this as one of the big unintended benefits of AppArmor and SELinux: it's easy to filter for the relevant subset of files.
That doesn't help at all because every key you try will lead to a candidate plaintext with no letters in common with the ciphertext.
In recent memory, 40% of cops ADMITTED to physical violence towards their wives.

But sure, tell me that men forever were actually so nice and good to everyone and slapping your wife or threatening her harm for basic things wasn't normal, or that women had the freedom to do what they wanted like every innocent human deserves, or that there weren't explicit societal pressures to be subservient to men, not by choice.

>Until very recently in human history, women actually couldn't physically survive without men - it's only been in the past few generations that the nature of work has changed to where women could actually perform it.

This is just wrong. The vast majority of women are as physically capable as the vast majority of men. There are only differences in the extremes
This proposal calls for developers to adopt a standard within their projects, as opposed to addressing where configuration files for installed software should live within a user's home directory.

https://dotmeta.org, note projects

This site exists to advocate that software libraries look for their config files in .meta directories of projects.

This is avoid making a mess in the root directory of projects, as this tweet laments.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-..., note users

## Basics
The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on the following concepts:
- There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME.
No idea why iOS corrected “ramifications” to “I Mification”. Too late to edit, though.
There's nothing subjective about the difference between a game that can run fine offline and a game that becomes unusable when the servers are slow. No engineer would say that. It is perhaps a bit more arguable whether a change in genre is subjective, but I still think the answer is no. There's no comparison between those and something like skill-tree changes which are common, expected, and even somewhat necessary for a series to progress. That's a ridiculous analogy. I get it that some people want to turn Diablo into WoW, but please don't make up insane arguments for your subjective preference.
> own a house, not worry about money

While you absolutely take a huge pay cut to not work at a FAANG, it's not like making 200k+ is living in poverty.

Typically non-FAANG also has other perks: many more fully remote options, typically much more chill about working hours, working with niche tech stacks or on new problem spaces, etc.

You can enjoy work and still have a house and not have to worry about money at a non-FAANG, just not as aggressively much as you do at one.
Yeah, culturally identical to Europe like how there are all those mosques everywhere.
> Consider the fact that most engineers can explain the cause of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (if you can’t, you shouldn’t be an engineer), the Tacoma Narrows bridge failure, the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster, and the space shuttle Challenger disaster

Does anyone know of a good documentary about famous engineering failures? Bonus points if they actually go into detail about the scientific explanation, as opposed to focusing on the human failures
My urge to work for FAANG company is faded away. Being in my late 30s I don;t want to grind leetcode anymore. I had interviews in Apple/Google/Facebook and I felt luck played a huge part of that. I got some live coding questions that prepared the day before and I aced them and in some cases I practiced so much and couldn;t even write more than 10 lines of code.
reminds me of Rosie Velez song with Fagen/Becker/Katz and possibly others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6I
Dumb question: After the 8473628484th study confirming how important the gut micro biome is, why isn’t there a pill to build it up?

Like a multi-vitamin that just boosts the diversity in the gut?

Are processed diets changing the physical makeup (thermal?, acidic?) of the gut as well and therefore a pill won’t work?
It is bewildering to me that there are companies where you don't interview with the team you will join. What if you don't click with them? These are the people you'll spend every day working with.
The land isn't really valuable. You can buy a football field for $10 in rural areas.

But you'll be in the middle of nowhere, with no infrastructure, no services.

The "location" value of a property is tied to what's around it. Having lots of people deciding to develop useful things and services around it.
It's not absurd at all when you consider that T-Bonds are the foundation of our banking system. Plus, there's no fundamental reason we price bonds the way we do.

The risk of this exact scenario playing out across the banking sector is likely the reason why the Fed took so long to raise rates (and the drastic, reversal of course when they tried in 2018).
Recently at work we were testing a new font for the brand, won't mention the name, it's unimportant.

We couldn't get it to look right on Windows. Only at a few select font sizes and weights did it look OK, at every other setup it looked like somebody took random bites out of the glyphs, meaning the individual characters had inconsistent weights.

On Apple devices, we had no such issues. It seems their anti-aliasing algorithm intervenes more deeply, prioritizing a good and consistent result over theoretical integrity.

You might have this same issue with thin fonts (this wasn't a thin issue) looking good on Mac and unreadable on Windows. A simple way to put it is that Mac renders font thicker (more black).

I've faced the issues above for multiple custom fonts. It's why I no longer believe in the supposed best practice of fluid font sizes. I hardcode a limited set of font sizes and only those proven to look good across systems.

Oh, another fun one is the glyphs of fonts having internal padding or asymmetric padding. Which messes with line heights and vertical centering. Or how about needing to tweak letter-spacing as characters overlap.

I've come across all of this and more for some widely used fonts. Most are anything but ready-to-go.
Signal vs noise ratio is too high. My point is that the model of Blocklist from others is not enticing for any individualistisc user who values diversification of ideas and the fact that the default makes it a bad burden for the user who wants to try that, means that communities won't be formed that don't have that blocklist mindset, one way or another.

The model is too focused on closing down networks instead of invidual choice. Utility, since it's not like the internet where traffic is good, seems to be around creating extremely narrow minded pools with little crossover, since any exposure to widened thought can be immediately shut down (having already fragmented the communities unless they self host their instance, again, creating burden on the user for more Accounts)
super fun to use. very useful right away
This case was kind of the exception that proves the rule, beyond the 4 others caught in it.
I'm not sure how it works in other countries -- and I hope I'm not explaining something you already know -- but the US has a LOT of different types of public land designations (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45340.pdf PDF page 9) and agencies to manage them (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF10585.pdf)

Some, like the most prominent parts of National Parks, are specifically managed to enable easy access (and also ADA accessibility, like wheelchair-friendly paths). There are also preservation-focused areas, especially but not only Wilderness (our highest form of protection, designated by Congress, prohibits motorized traffic and most buildings, often no use of machines like chainsaws or ATVs, though most will allow pack mules and such). Many multi-use areas (National Forests, BLM land, etc.) also have minimal facilities, often just a dirt lot and maybe a pit toilet if you're lucky. On the other hand, some smaller National Monuments might have no accessible areas EXCEPT for a visitor center and parking lot, usually to protect some extremely limited or fragile resource.

The USA is HUGE and many lands are public and/or protected for various reasons, to different goals. Not every trail is a National Park, and not every National Park is there for hiking or backpacking.

And it's also not merely a matter of land designation. Crowding can happen even in designated wilderness areas, often the result of a place going viral or being in close proximity to a major city or whatever.
I mean stick with math for everything. Value of a human life is ~10M [1] so it's pretty easy to undo 3.5M of damage if you spend decades helping people.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agen...
why is everyone dreaming of turning offices into 2 bedroom 2 bathroom family units? most of these buildings are in very dense, tourist heavy areas, usually with booming nightlives and social scenes

it's become a dirty word, but turning these buildings into SROs / low-cost rental units might bring back the artists and musicians that have been sorely missed from these areas, while providing people who don't have a credit history or first month + last month + security deposit a place to stay in a place that charges by the night instead of by the month

much easier to turn an office into a coliving space with communal bathrooms, dorm style accomodations, and large cafeteria kitchens anyway
Solving “Two Sum” in C with a tiny hash table
>Protection is antiquated but it's foolhardy to think a healthy man would suppress his instinct to protect his pregnant wife

Plenty of men beat their wives, up to and including miscarriage or death. Seriously you have an absurd notion of the realities of being a woman before like the 60s. Human men, especially when angry, are irrational beings, as all humans are, and are perfectly capable of harming those they "love".
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I don't think that's true -- and I say that as someone who's spent plenty of time on both sides of the proverbial interview desk.

Checking the boxes as you say sounds superficial, it's more like - there are some bars to the role you're interviewing for. A typical eng role probably has bars around programming ability, team work and communication ability, problem solving, etc. By "checking the boxes" you probably mean ability to demonstrate that you can do those things in the context of the interview - that takes practice.

Now it comes to the other stuff beyond the bar that you want to show. There are some attributes about myself that I want to come up in the interviews whether I am asked about them or not. Making sure they get mentioned takes practice too.
Off topic: do you not use a spell-checker?
I'll have to try my gas cap but I normally used my wallet because it was already out from paying if the latch was broken or missing.
And yet, they still cold email me every 6 months or so.
They are indeed lent out, but mostly in very safe, boring investments, that don't really generate economic activity (mortgages). This is by design, as we generally don't want banks going pear-shaped, and taking people's savings with them!

If your money is used to generate meaningful economic activity, that means you're investing it into something like stocks (Which anyone can do by opening a Schwab, or a Vanguard, or a whomever account) - which will beat inflation, but on the short-and-medium term, are not a safe investment.
Inside a Driverless Ride with Waymo’s CPO [video]
The thread is about exactly that: an appeal to the employer in the form of advocating lower wages as a means to combat inflation.
2022 A research charity called "OpenAI" accidentally breeds a language model in its lab (by feeding most of the Web into a neural network) that can generate code on request - and quickly morphs into a for-profit. Instantly, Google sheds 12,000 coders, anticipating a strong decline in coding skill demand.

2023 Rust, then the "most liked programming language", gets forked off as "Crap" by a subgroup of haters in brown t-shirts, so that they can have a proper in-fight. In an interview, an anonymous rebel leader states "I guess I got bored of the vi vs. Emacs debate a bit, so I was looking for something new."
In my experience this is entirely incorrect. Being a strong outside candidate (assuming "strong"=="good at leetcode") is going to make you much more attractive then hoping you're noticed internally.

You're likely to get more bang for your buck by spending your time grinding Leetcode, than learning how to be a data analyst and networking your way into a SWE position.

Context: Was Sr+ at a FAANG, have had offers from 2 others.
From Red hats point of view, RHEL shouldn't be an option without paying for it, it's why they stopped CentOS and now git.centos.org.
And as mentioned in the article, people just using clones as free RHEL were way too many for the user/sales flow to be worth it.

It's basically if a car company had a free car on every road, hoping it would drive people to buy a car for themselves, but people are just using it as their car, avoiding buying one because the free one exists.
I come to this site to read opinions about things I do not know. Not for a variation of, "Google it"
> The cost of a false positive (hiring someone they shouldn't) is far more expensive than a false negative (passing on a good candidate)

The cost of a false positive is 0 - they always hire the non optimum candidate there is a massive margin of error.

We all like to pretend that without our unique special skills the entire company would dissapear overnight, but it is a fantasy.
On mobile, regularly typing in three languages? No. Usually I don't write texts as long as that neither.

Edit: My Pixel 2 trained muscle memory is just so slightly off at the new Pixel 7, you should see initial versions of my posts lately...
I’d refuse, but If the conversation goes in that direction, then I’d probably end the conversation right there, since it’s pretty clear that’s not the kind of role I want to interview for. I managed to accumulate a bit of online presence over the years and I expect my future employer to a) look me up prior to the interview and b) have a direct interest in my Open Source work.
Luck def plays a big role. That's why you should keep going at it if that's what you want. The financial peace of mind makes it worth it.
They also don't give any feedback on your interviews other than an eventual "they were hired" or not. So if you are a mediocre interviewer you will never know.
Swedish parliament passes new energy target, easing way for new nuclear power
Interesting, this is yet another open source project that relies on a proprietary wake word model. Why are there no open source wake word engines like there are for speech recognition?
Isn’t this exactly what a probiotic is?
Why does it have to be news? Someone wanted to share what they found, that’s what personal blogs are for. Nothing more.