skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A talent for identifying talent needs to be supported with numbers and effect sizes.

The relative absence of numbers from the conversation is what allows many directors of football/soccer (those who recommend the purchase or sell of players) to boast about their stature as talent scouts.

Indeed, it is not surprising that directors of soccer focus on successes and tend to gloss over the many blunders made. Which makes it difficult, as in many other fields, to distinguish the role of luck and ability in successes and failures. Almost always, in my experience, those with the most money and at least an average "eye" succeed in doing the best that can be done: everything else is a game of chance.

A more sophisticated and technically oriented person would say that the most that can be done is to increase the odds of success, but then we are all left to the whims of fate: the young soccer player who many thought would be a sure bet will turn out to be one among many, and the average player at age 16 will have the growth spurt in the next two years that will make his body more conducive to stellar success (but was the growth spurt predictable?).

What I can say is that there have been several attempts to create a special agency for the identification and management of talent in the technology industry, but none has turned out to be more than a higher-level contracting firm.
But how do you define yourself outside of thinking and feeling? Even the thought to disidentify is a thought, no? I don't understand.
No, it's not that general, at all.

Either you say the specific words that are in their script, or highlight the stuff they're really into, or you fail.

Replying here because of wacky thread depth limitations in HN:

Often personal preferences. And there's no discussion, just failure because you didn't say the right thing. Especially if you have more experience than the interviewer. Arguing that someone shouldn't get hired because they didn't check whatever box is something you would never get fired for. My last example was using GET instead of POST for a login endpoint, which is a perfectly fine thing to do.
Thats how lots of large commercial buildings do it. Make huge blocks of ice in the middle of the night when energy is cheap and the building's heat load is at a minimum, then melt the ice and use the phase change of water to absorb as much heat as possible.

Also why its colder in the morning and it feels like the building is a bit too warm to be comfortable if you stay late. This, of course, varies from building to building.
what is a proper cloud? it does not seem to be a term frequently used when discussing clouds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
The only reason UML didn't pan out was because it isn't code, and if it's not code, software engineers don't want to do it because software engineers are lazy when it comes to things that are neither code nor one-step-away-from-code tasks. They will go build a million different things instead of documenting. As a consequence, they lose their engineering title and get called developers.

UML works.

One can lead a horse to water... just like one can stand up ALL of the top, fully-functional UML tools for a software team at what used to be a performant defense contractor, and have literally ZERO people use it.

Same with system engineers and commitment. Requirements work. Model driven time wasting doesn't.
> Maybe it would be better to call specific behaviours "toxic stoicism", "toxic domineering", "toxic aggression", or things like that.

That might have a better reception, but unfortunately it changes the messaging.

> So the terminology itself paradoxically leans on stereotypes of which toxic behaviours are associated with masculinity, even while encouraging men to move away from those behaviours and stop perceiving them as an essential part of being a man.

It's not paradoxical, because the term is specifically talking about the negative associations with the stereotypes for masculinity. That's why it's so important to keep the messaging. Masculinity as such isn't a biological reality (in so far that "masculine traits" differ between cultures/historical periods and aren't necessarily present), it's a social construct. "Toxic masculinity" refers to the toxic parts of this construct in regards to the culture in which it is used. If the stereotype changes, the meaning of toxic masculinity changes.
"Payroll accounts should be 100% FDIC insured the same why it works in many other countries."

Perhaps, but they are not so it is a bailout.

"The "bailout" (badly named) was for the average people working at these companies."

That jumps to a conclusion and fails to recognize the business owes a debt required to be paid by law to the employee for the work they have performed in the previous weeks.

I don't want to see banks fail like any of you folks, but the reality is responsibility lies somewhere and that somewhere isn't in more FDIC insurance. Business management is just as culpable as the banking staff in maximizing profit and maintaining proper liquidity and insuring working capital is secure.
> You sometimes still see mustard advertised as "argemone-free"

This was a response to the 1998 outbreak. I remember in the early days it was suggested the culprit was argemone poisoning, and honestly that's what I thought it was all this time. Wikipedia suggests it was adulteration with white petroleum.
> But there may be other layers of causation.

Having a permanent, of sorts, attachment to a location incentivizes people to vote to protect their interests in that location.
I don't use my cellphone for anything like this, so I'm acutely aware of those things in my area.

Around here, not using cellphone apps means that you can't use about 10% of vending machines, about 33% of parking spots, and in some apartment complexes, the inability to use the laundry room.

That's about it, at least that I've seen. So far, all of that amounts to slight inconveniences.
Grinding leetcode for a month or two to get a 400k+ TC is definitely worth the effort up front. It's probably the easiest way to earn that much money short of going to medical school or getting your JD.
I've been using lazygit and it's amazing. I used to use magit and I think it's great but lazygit seems to have an easier learning curve and is trying to accomplish the same thing (easy reach to the most common git actions).
Photonic bandgap fibres are not used in submarine cables their loses are too high. There are recent antiresonant fibres (NANF) which can achieve lower losses than even SMF. However production capabilities are not ready yet to make the amount of fibre necessary for submarine. The startup (out of Southampton) that pioneered these was recently acquired by Microsoft.

We probably see these fibres for links between the exchange and data centres first (although there it is difficult to beat RF links, as they are direct line of sight)
or make a food forest, permaculture, that's one of the rare non-destructive activities

or minimize your impact, for example my footprint is about 1/20th of average, if more people lived like that, global warming wouldn't be an issue at all

there are many possibilities between 0 (no human) and 1 (many homo consumericus)
I checked the source and confirmed no one in the car was seriously hurt.

So I will say it:

The way the tire shows up again after the mega damage: just slowly rolling up into the accident; was a pretty good comic beat.
Anybdoy can sue at any time. It meaningless and does not mean a law was broken.
Probably safest to point you to here for C23 but TS 18661-2:2015

TR 24732 was withdrawn.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23

Note the link to paper n2341

https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2341.pdf

C++ is going to be a library for now I think, but haven't looked recently.
I received the same email, mine was created in the uk and now im in the philippines..
On the other hand they don't need to warn away their family and friends from the products they develop so there is that.
Britain moved away from being a manufacturing to a service based economy which uses significantly less energy.
From [1]:

"Space lasers allow Starlink satellites to connect directly to one another, eliminating the need for a local ground station and enabling Starlink. to deliver service to some of the most remote locations in the world - like Antarctica."
Higher rank polymorphism despite monomorphization
I think recognizing that "something isn't for me" (vs is bad) is a great and mature point of view, I deeply respect that. Some thoughts beyond that:

By the time you frame something as "grinding" - it's going to suck. If I were you, I'd ask why does it feel that way? For example, is it because you don't have a good foundation in algorithms fundamentals -- if so, would it help your career to learn those, anyway? Is it because you don't enjoy problem solving or aren't a structured problem solver -- if so, is there something to learn there? Or is it because you framed something that could potentially be fun as an adversarial grind to begin? (BTW, I am not saying any of the above is true or likely - I am just suggesting one "next step" type thing since this question seems interesting to you)

Similarly, being deeply impacted by rejection -- is that a thing that would serve you to evolve over time? As you become more senior and ambitious, you are likely going after harder opportunities and your rejection / fail rate will go up and that's normal and good. Is there room for reframing how you deal with fails?
Dang, guess I’m a dummy then
Fascinating Horror and Plainly Difficult are OK - Plainy Difficult tends to go more into the mechanics of disasters, but both are operating under the constraints of a 10-15 minute YouTube video.
My first job was pumping gas at a full service station in Ohio in the late ‘90s, where full service stations were rare. We had two islands, with two pumps each. When out-of-towners would pull up and see us approach, they’d often drive to the other island. We’d get a big grin and walk over to them again. We’d get the best tips from them, because they didn’t know what to do.

I’d probably check someone’s oil about once an hour, but we washed windshields by default. It was before “pay at the pump”, so I spent a lot of my time walking credit cards in and out of the store to run them. It was actually a fun summer job for a high school kid.

A few summers later, I got a software internship at that oil company’s headquarters, working on a Visual Basic app for the pricing department to set prices at all of their stations. I’d often complete my week’s work by Monday afternoon and spend the rest of the week in their library, learning about all sorts of new technology. They treated me well and I was fortunate they didn’t offer me a full-time job at the end of my internship, because I likely would’ve taken it.

When I’ve filled up in Oregon, I’ve not seen them do anything but pump gas. During the pandemic, I drove through Oregon many times and learned to get gas before entering the state.
Meh, you could lower taxes on inferior goods and increase them on luxury goods to compensate. Income taxes are pure evil as they are unavoidable and maximally painful. As an Oregonian, federal+state income tax means I don't make any money I get to keep until late April. I think about killing myself every year because of it.
I miss Slashdot's moderation system... Flame Bait (so you filter it out), informative, etc.
You’re intentionally acting obtuse and missing the point to accuse me of a strawman.

That point wasn’t the sum nor the thrust of what I said, nor did I claim that the person I was responding to was personally putting that forward. Your reply, however, is both categorically untrue and an actual strawman. In such debates it constantly comes up that porn is “a good, healthy way for children to explore sexuality” and that parents who want to restrict access are actively harming their children. It’s highly doubtful that you’ve missed this if you’ve been paying any attention at all to the conversations around this. That, plus your intentional disregarding of the actual thrust of my argument, indicates that you aren’t acting in good faith.

Edit: and a soft-pedaled version of the same argument for children to be able to watch porn comes up in this very article
The fact that a candidate loves problem solving / coding so much that they'd do it for fun is a pretty strong signal.

Like I said, it would take more effort from the interviewers to dig into.

But it would also provide more valuable feedback and result in better hires.
Can you give me an example of what you mean?
I got so used to staging individual lines instead of files — it’s so much more intuitive! With „s“ and „u“ I sift through my edits and discard any debug code that I haven’t checked-in accidentally for a long time. Magit also speeds up cycle management of dev branches so much. It‘s usually just a couple of single key strokes — pretty cool.

But I would say, you really have to have drank the Emacs Koolaid to appreciate Magit‘s greatness.

That being said it’s only after I discovered Magit I also started to appreciate Emacs‘ built-in version control mode: The same key combo „C-x v n“ (Versioning Next step) does initialize a repo and checks in files with any kind of backend (be it git, mercurial or subversion). That’s pretty neat, too. With „C-x v l“ I access „git log“ for any file where I can access diffs or visit an older version of the file in a separate buffer e.g. to try out an older implementation of a function. „C-x v g“ gives me a „git blame“ integration jumping straight to the line I was hovering on.

So for exploring git logs I am using vc-mode but staging and branching I am leveraging Magit. They complement each other well.
But a lot less headscarves than today.
"In a history of Smalltalk I wrote for ACM, I characterized one way of looking at languages in this way: a lot of them are either the agglutination of features or they’re a crystallization of style. Languages such as APL, Lisp, and Smalltalk are what you might call style languages, where there’s a real center and imputed style to how you’re supposed to do everything. Other languages such as PL/I and, indeed, languages that try to be additive without consolidation have often been more successful." — Alan Kay in https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
This isn't an engineering assessment, at best it's speculation about what caused the loss of the Titan.
Do you think there’s a standard for “incredibly hard” that all applications need to follow? Or that it varies from one application to another depending on context?
Allegedly, they bought expired (out of freezer time) prepreg from Boeing Surplus. Boeing has released a statement that they have no records of this, so it likely passed through a third party before he acquired it.
In Canada, where do you find these non-FAANG 200k+ jobs?
Sure, I'd look you up and scan your github pages. I've dealt with people who set up fake githubs (copying from various places on the web to make it look like they did real work). Can't help you if you only want to interview people who are interested in your open source work... that sounds very limiting.
> and try to prevent users from having the freedom to re-distribute the GPL software they received, with or without their own modifications.

> refuse to have you as a customer if you exersize them, that's all.

refuse to -continue- to have you as a customer, that is. you are still perfectly entitled to the source code of, and distribution thereof, what you purchased.

The GPL doesn't create an obligation that you get continued access to future updates.

I probably should leave the conversation at this point (not because I don't think there's merit in discussing it with you - just don't want to muddy the waters).
How many times are you going to send it down?

The Titan made it a few times.
One thing that cannot be stressed enough, every system (I like the systems engineering way of thinking that goes beyond the single product to include everything from operations to maintenance, I come professionally from the point where Supply Chains meet design), every engineering project has to account for operating procedures, manufacturing procedures, training and human factors.

In all seriousness, the series about Chernobyl is great in driving that point across.
I don't think this is right, hunter-gather diets were largely restricted to the area they lived, you can't across the board call them diverse. It depends if you lived in an area that was blessed with diversity, or if you were forced to eat the same seeds/nuts constantly.

Malnutrition plagued the Neanderthals by the way. We have skeletons and teeth that show disruption to growth. There's evidence of some groups of gatherers that subsisted on local flora that caused excessive amounts of tooth decay. Modern living results in way healthier people (for the most part).
There's a great magit plugin for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kahole.m...
Spicewalla (out of Asheville) should be reputable
Millions expected to suffer as heat dome expands beyond Texas this week
>Tens of millions of Americans across the south and central U.S. – many of them in Texas – have endured a brutal heat wave over the past couple of weeks as temperatures soared to record levels, including some above 110 degrees.
> if you have completely free speech your inbox gets spammed into oblivion.

Don't know for your provider, but on Gmail, I click on Spam and there are all there. It's not censorship, it's sorting. I usually go see them once a month, just in case something got badly sorted (it's also quite entertaining to see the scams attempts).

In what world is it censorship to choose to read something or not too? It may be censorship for sure that something is blocked (and still can be argued upon), but choosing not to read crap is not censorship, just like choosing not to read every scientific papers in the world is not censorship…
At some point, you were a "whiny, annoying screamling".

The way this condition stopped was from socialization, which is harder to do when children are removed from the majority of avenues of socialization. The majority of social hubs need to be child friendly for the next generation receive this important instruction.

For reference, I have trouble with loud noises causing migraines. As a result of those desires, I socialize in quiet bars during non-peak hours and libraries.
I have to disagree.

In the Bay/Seattle/NYC, 200k is new grad range for most FAANGs. If the parent commenter does well, they can easily hit the 350k within a few years of work.

If they job hop and optimize, 500k+ is attainable at Senior(L5/L6 at AMZN). That will cut down your retirement estimates heavily especially if you're willing to relocate to LCOL down the line.
I just joined you as a supporter, thanks for the nudge
It's not so much that floating point needs to be boxed as that all-too-many languages allow smooth (read "sloppy") casting from float to int and back, often with semantics that are unclear to the developer and require esoteric memorization.

In 5 seconds or less, can you say whether 1.0/4 will be 0.25 or 0 for every language you use regularly? Most developers can't, and most languages make statements like that trivial (and worse, it far more often shows up as "x/y" for x and y of types that need to be looked up to know what the evaluated type will be). There's a reason C++, for example, has the MISRA rules about avoiding implicit coercions (because even though what happens is [generally] well-defined, enough code in the wild has been broken for developers mis-remembering or mis-applying the rules that explicit casts are highly recommended for high-reliability code).
As someone who doesn’t know the “why” but uses Stable diffusion a lot and has an intuitive feel for the “what” of what happens, it’s like trying to use a low res pattern for your wallpaper on Windows. It’ll either just repeat over and over so you’ll end up with weird multi headed people with heads on top of their heads, or you just upscale which hallucinates details in a totally different way that doesn’t really add new interesting details.

With automatic1111 you can get around this by upscaling then inpainting the spots you want more detail and specifying a specific prompt for that particular area.
Dumb law finally repelled by dumb legislatures. Dumb legistures now looking at future dumb laws. Story at 9.
I suspect their end goal was to sell deep sea subs to the oil and gas industry, and this was a testbed.
If DNS doesn't work, nothing works. The hassle of having to keep it running is more work than just paying the few bucks a month for someone else to do it.
Yes, identical story here. I was over the moon when I got the job. Within 6 months was basically just waiting until I had been there long enough that leaving wouldn't look bad.
Also, what if the machine was broken? Or if there was an error in transcription? There are so many possible reasons why this message may never be decrypted.
Well, there is basically 0 competition these days. I'm assuming that has to do with it in some factor.
I'm not sure it was the right call and am open to maybe putting it back the way it was. It's a point that is unusually unclear - something ends up sucking no matter what we do.

I don't think we'd implement technical solutions like autodead comments of class X on site Y. Those things are too brittle and trying to get around the community with technical tricks is asking for trouble anyhow.
Lots of blaming of 'greedflation' as the cause of inflation in the comments here, which is definitely an outside of the economic mainstream view.

If you want to hold heterodox beliefs, I think it is at least worth understanding the conventional wisdom on why inflation sees larger corporate profits: It's like Uber surge pricing, if you want more companies on the market making things people want, profits of the incumbents will rise temporarily to entice those new entrants.
We all have a different micro biome. While humans are only .01% different from each other, our micro biomes can vary wildly based on diet, lifestyle, environment, etc. There's no one size fits all pill we could take.
But your argument, as we've seen, only means resetting the enshittiffication clock.

The next level tech would prevent the type of preferential monopoly.
Maybe the tension is applied perpendicular to the pressure?
There's a pattern I've noticed of outsourcing code requirements. Most municipalities seem to adopt the international building code, and then because that code book is updated all the time, and none of the local officials actually understand it, they start to require that applicants prove that they meet the code. Planning commissions start to believe that they need to control everything that everybody does, but they shouldn't. Because everything is a shifting target, and proof is almost impossible, everything gets road blocked.

For the most part, I agree with building codes. They serve a purpose by ensuring that unsafe buildings aren't created. But they've become so esoteric, that meeting them is an exercise in futility.

I can't wait for the day that a "safe building" AI just watches everything, and tells people what to do. That way even unskilled labor can do work, and the work will be up to a safe standard.

Code officials are the worst sort of power tripping bureaucrats. I can't wait for them to be eliminated.
>Laborers don't know how to exercise power and laborers don't know how to provide consequences when our aristocracy takes advantage of us.

The US specifically structured its labor laws to prevent sectorial bargaining and the kind of labor power that exists in Europe. That’s why we have company-level unions. Our country will also quite violently suppresses all protest movements and empower those on the right to maim/kill those who oppose elite economic interests. While we certainly need more unions, this in itself will not resolve these problems any more than more unionization in Russia would overthrow their oligarch class.