skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that this is not the case any more for the more junior software engineer positions in Google and in Amazon, which are expected to them learn system design before being promoted. If you are applying to a more senior position, then yes, there should be a question about system design, and yes, you will probably be doing system design in your work, so it's completely fair game.
... what are you smoking? Because I might need some, but also what the hell are you trying to even say?
I know someone who used Excel to design the custom pool in her backyard. It turned out great!
It would seem that with functions support, they are hedging their bets. It seems that plugins is an end-user, chat.openai.com focused strategy whereas functions is a third-party developer focused strategy, if I understand correctly. In fact, I'd assume that under the hood there is a lot of overlap in the implementations.
>This view works except where it doesn't.

It only stops working in the worst case scenario though: LOTS of hastily written code (by interns?) that suddenly needs to scale and will take senior-level people years to do it.

If given that situation, most folks here would run the other way. That's years of toil for little career payoff, and a company in this situation is unlikely to be willing to pay for the best people to do it since they didn't want to pay for that in the first place.

It's very likely something like this will just die or get rewritten and it's probably for the best.
Warp terminal is very fast and very feature-rich (and, last I tried about 6 months ago, still very new with some rough edges)
Charts are an irrelevant red herring. The argument is simple and indisputable: Germany's collective investments in renewables was not predicated on the closing of nuclear plants instead of coal plants. Had Germany not shut down nuclear, they could have shut down coal. It's that simple.
I was able to get in by doing these. Not sure if these are necessary:

- Go to instagram app on the App Store. Scroll down to the section where it says other apps from the same developer. There, next to the Threads app, I had the download button. After installing the app I still was not able to open it.

- Once I had the app installed, I clicked through (on twitter) on someone's threads.net link and that kicked off the initial setup of the Threads app for me.
> Are they using tax haven flags to dodge taxes?

Not just to dodge taxes, but also to dodge pesky things like worker regulations.
If you're being fair to Pai, you have no business being on the internet.
> I'd still go with a heat pump AND gas furnace for backup though.

Thankfully, this isn't too expensive of an option to do. Gas furnaces are cheap. Heat pump that isn't sized to go to -40F/C is also pretty affordable. The crazy high SEER ratings drive up the price.
Interesting "brain drop," as the author describes it. It reminds me, though, of theories of human language that treat language as cognitive processing inside individuals' minds rather than as a social phenomenon. It might be more useful if we think about LLMs in terms of how they interact with us and with other software.
> I've never had one that was helpful in such a way

Had a fun moment with this just yesterday. We were driving across a road behind a line of cars stopped at a red light. The angle was such that I couldn't see the oncoming lane.

I go "Hey I can't see around these cars but you can, is anyone approaching?" and my passenger replies "No, all clear". We move forward slowly and ZOOM a car whooshes past us.

So yeah, I don't think passengers are paying attention even when they say they are.
https://maninthedot.com/
my clunky eclectic web face online. slow growing bits of projects and tools, eventual rambles on topics from what i do, made with experimental builds because it's mine and it's fun to play in the codes ;)
The philosophy behind a useful metrics store
And for the record, mine is http://www.nuke24.net/plog/ :)
So give some numbers of what the f100 companies make compared to FAANG?

I’m very familiar with at least three of the companies that are based in Atlanta - Delta, Coke and Home Depot.

Seeing that I’ve worked for corp dev for almost 25 years before joining BigTech.
Why do you say easily? Software is an endless parade of creative exploits both intentional and accidental, it's never seemed like an easy problem to solve.
In the past few years I think the ‘JavaScript community’ (whoever that is) has done a decent job at dispelling the reputation of ‘silly js devs, making a new framework every other week that you have to learn’.

This React Server Components seems to be a bunch of effort on throwing all that good will down the drain. It seems like they’re really excited about this new API and the react and nextjs teams have just charged forward with whatever this is, without really much consideration or anything else.
> There are cases where a teacher can make 30 copies of a portion of a copyright work for distribution in the classroom, and the comment is about those cases.

False, the comment is not about "a portion" of a work, it's about the whole work. I would certainly agree that an educator could photocopy a few paragraphs of a novel, or a textbook, or anything basically, if that work was 300 pages long, and that educator would be within his rights to distribute it to 30 students. A few paragraphs of a 300-page work is a negligible portion when considering copyright.

My personal examples were very definitely about reproducing the works in their entirety. The blog post was about a page and a half, so with permission, I had no trouble making it a handout. The other documents were of comparable length, and it would not have worked to use excerpts. I really wanted the work in its entirety for my students to understand the topic.

If an educator copied a full page of a one-page handout and distributed it to 30 students, they would definitely be in violation, as that is a reproduction in full, and not fair use at all. Ask any news aggregator site how much of a news article they are allowed to quote. They can't scrape the entire article from a website, they need to selectively quote from it so that it is a minimal portion of the copyrighted work. Percentages matter here. The GP didn't even address that question.
They said "earlier, Perl".
China and other Asian countries now imports a bulk of Saudi oil. US relies mostly on its own shale oil along with Canadian oil. Soon Mexico will have its own shale oil production. US does import oil from elsewhere but some of it is because US has a lot of refinery capacity to refine crude for others.

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/sau
https://tanelpoder.com

Mostly about systematic troubleshooting of Linux and SQL tuning (mostly Oracle stuff, but the concepts are universal)
A vanishingly tiny percentage of the world population lives somewhere that regularly reaches -40°.
It’s not difficult, but it is very energy intensive. That was my conclusion from visiting a desalination plant.
I have a sneaking suspicion that green rebates are being exploited by historically shady businesses (contractors and car dealers) by baking in the cost of the rebate into the final price.

There’s a local lot with a used 2021 Ioniq with the usual “used car dealer” hand-lettered sign proclaiming the $5,750 provincial rebate. I’m also fairly certain the car had its price inflated by that much by the dealer, or will climb by that as soon as negotiations start.

(1) https://www.apexautogroup.ca/inventory/2021-hyundai-ioniq-el...
https://rd.nz
IMO React started going off the rails when they introduced hooks. The number of concepts you needed to learn started growing, and the old intuitiveness of React began to go away. On top of that, there was a mad rush throughout the ecosystem to implement them, many times poorly, leading to more confusion. RSC seems to be history repeating itself.
Depends on the role. $500k total comp is common on the tech scale of the companies I'm familiar with. While not the $800k+ you might see at some FAANG in specific roles, it absolutely is enough to no longer consider FAANG if you're bothered even one iota by their hiring process.
Hmm, still can't see threads account on mastodon though....
It's kind of awesome & amazing how much better coders work as a team. Doctors are on the line for dealing with patients: they don't consult or make a Patient Treatment Request for every thing they do. Lawyers don't get everything vetter.

But in software we work in teams, and most lines of code get checked over. Most companies expect to be hiring juniors, who, even if they have 4 years undergrad, still have no idea how actually to build software in practice. It's a team effort.

And frankly, at most places, the CS has only a minor bit of overlap with the day to day. I spend more time with juniors flailing trying to understand how Kong and Docker relate than I do with people writing O(N^2) algorithms. Tech has infinite minutia, has endless tech-specific problems we run into. We don't have to train people to be able to take care of anything, to be able to stand alone: we just need to support & guide people who are set up to learn & explore. There's so much twiddling bits until the things start working as desired that experts and novices both have to go through, and just pounding into people's head the idea that it's a journey, that you have to keep going, that you need to look for data (and showing them new ways to read data out) counts more than background, in my view.

It's worth noting that while doctors and lawyers have a long amount of training expected, it's possible to become a registered nurse or any of a variety of paralegal roles in under a year. Unlike these professions, we rarely expect devs to emerge into the professional world fully formed & capable of autonomously leading.
Sure, but that doesn't mean you can throw your hands up and make an argument comparing nameplate efficiencies of things with different energy sources.

I'm well aware the figure in my above comment could be off by a decent amount due to transmission efficiency, what specific plants are generating marginal power, etc. But it's at least framing the comparison right.
SEO is kinda dead.

In an honest form it’s “don’t confuse the crawler.”

In its actual form it makes the web worse. Even if you create a strategy that works Google will eventually shut it down.

It’s an adversarial relationship. The search engines want you to buy ads, not win shelf space.

The organizations that can pull off SEO still do it more to suppress competition. It’s not a low cost way to find customers anymore. It’s keeping people from figuring out you can file your taxes for free.
The history of programmable GPU Pipelines
Link to specific comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/n0o3mf/xkcd_2456_type...

Hey @dang, what's the deal with HN forceably editing my URL and title on submission?
Name a company. You keep being obtuse
https://alexrichey.com/

I write personal essays and articles about code.
This is insanity. Have legal contracts no meaning any more? Is America not ruled by laws? WTH is happening?
Trane and Carrier are both US based and do heat pumps. They are more expensive than Mitsubishi or Daikin though.
> Well if they can't afford to even subsidize fresh water, their choices are move or die.

Would you tell that to the Israelis if they couldn't afford it?

The point is that yes, the original article is correct. Current desalination tech is woefully inadequate to replace fresh water surface reserves without putting a massive burden on the society using it.
What about one for "I made 10 contributions that have been sitting unreviewed for more than a year"?
I think he fully gave the wrong answer. The main problem with desalination is capital cost. The Carlsbad plant cost one billion dollars to make. I bet very little of it is the cost of membranes, or the actual RO systems. It's simply a large plant, and building a large plant is expensive. The same problems that plague large nuclear power plants plague many other large construction projects, including large desal plants.
Sorry folks, not sure why links are not clickable :(

Sign up link: https://lu.ma/nocodehackathon

More: https://www.notion.so/welovenocode/NOCODE-AI-HACKATHON-July-...
I don’t think meta description or keywords would work anymore. Their problems were the original reason PageRank was developed in the first place. There will always be a very long tail of documents that match a query, so you need some outside information to rank their relevance and value. In fact, spammy keyword-stuffed articles are likely to be better matches since authentic content probably won’t be trying to game the ranking algorithm.

Unfortunately now that Google so thoroughly dominates search, their perverse incentive to rank garbage ad-saturated listicles highly is not mediated by user behavior (to leave). This warning was also noted in the original PageRank paper.
https://iam.mt

I write about things that interest me. Will be starting a new series focused heavily on tech and computer science.
"The Novelist": Opens an issue or replies to a thread with only the words "doesn't work" with no indication of what they tried, how they know it doesn't work, or any error messages.

"Captain Obvious": Opens a very aggressive and angry issue about the project not installing, when the maintainer responds to double-check that you didn't miss a critical and well-documented note in the docs, you disappear, never to reply again.
“Product owner”
Fortune... 3. not FAANG but in retail. Can hit $500k total comp easily, if you live on either coast.
That seems crazy high too though, I just got a 5 ton for a 2300 sq ft house with 12kw heat strips including duct work for 10k. The duct work was $3800.
We've built Matic - A privacy-preserving autonomous home robot

5.5 years ago, we started building an autonomous home robot with these goals:

* Reliable autonomy — no user interventions, it should just work
* Everything on device — no cloud storage or compute, robot-to-app data through local WiFi
* Usefulness — solve a genuine problem that will impact real people

To achieve this, we
* wrote the robot's software stack in Rust
* used only RGB cameras and Mics as input — humans can navigate with only these sensors, so why can’t a robot?
* developed SLAM and computer vision algorithms that run on-device, in real time, with centimeter-level precision and semantic understanding
* gave our robot a purpose — starting with floor cleaning allowing us to develop specialized hardware for vacuuming and mopping w/o chewing up wires or getting stuck.

We're a small team of <60 people singularly focused on building something that we’ve all dreamed about: a mobile indoor robot that solves a real problem without jeopardizing our privacy. We're still developing Matic and iterating, but we’re proud of what we’ve built so far.

Let us know what you'd be interested to learn! We'll also answer questions here and look forward to your feedback :)

https://matician.com/
> "Model weights are not source code, but data."

OK but I mean it's functionally a kind of machine code for a strange machine with a neural transformer architecture, like a 'binary blob'. It's outside of the paradigm where machine code is created only by compilation of copyrightable source code written by humans following their creative "aha moment".
You could just as easily tell it as meta description etc. incentivising keyword-stuffing, and PageRank/'gooble' coming along and more reliably determining quality by a form of peer review.
Well, I never claimed that it was a super simple readme that explained everything you need to know :)

The target was clear, people that had issues with multiprocessing with the current ecosystem.

But as I noticed the interest growing, I also noticed a lack of simple guides on how to go from zero to have graphs in grafana for your metrics. That's why I started the "tutorial" section in the docs (pythe.us) initially for FastAPI to try to fill that void. I'm also considering making a full video tutorial to complement it.

So to recap, here I'm sharing the existence of this project so I can hopefully gather some feedback for the future direction. For beginners right now there is the "Quickstart" section in the documentation that guides you through monitoring latency in a flask application. It does not cover how to setup prometheus yet but I'm sure the prometheus docs can help with that for now :)
Making something _actually useful_. Creating a to-do app teaches me how to use tools, creating a web scraper that sent me an email when clothing my wife missed the chance to buy was back in stock filled me with confidence.
That is why I have always loathed the old-school essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_to_Garcia .

It describes a situation where a lazy manager simply wants someone to follow directions rather than gather requirements.

It was lauded as a work of genius business prose at a company I worked at and fortunately departed.
Is this not just an iframe?
If you were designing a planet atmosphere for 10 billion people, what percent co2 would you target ? Mars and Venus and prelife earth had very high levels of co2.

I wonder what percentage of the mesozoic co2 is sequestered in oil and gas and what the total quantity is based on that calculation.
A Small Recursive Descent Parser
iTerm2 and Kitty both cover the specific kind of terminal Tabby seems to be going after in particular: 'batteries included', modernized, extended with new features, tight integration with the shell, special SSH and tmux integrations, etc. If you're into bells and whistles and moving beyond xterm's capabilities, there are multiple strong contenders for Mac, and both eschew web tech in favor of native code.
That must have included furnace replacement components for cold weather (e.g electric heat strips).

Otherwise, heat pumps are essentially the same as modern A/C units.
https://www.bookofjoe.com/

I post 3x daily (since 2004) featuring things that surprise/inform/amuse/amaze/delight (sometimes >1 of these)
> Think about some of the logistics.

Weighing this against the logistics of paying down student debt for a lifetime, I imagine lots of students would prefer a 20 minute shuttle ride for a few years if they can cut tuition in half by building outside of historical campus, or outside of the city center.
When I think of green threads / fibers, its threading handled in user space. Where a stack is starts small and it can grow and its managed by the language’s runtime.
Would this be worth doing straight from seawater? I.e. place enormous solar/wind powered rigs in the ocean to spray massive volumes of seawater into the air? What would be the effect (beneficial and otherwise) of that?
Even if there’s nothing on the machine itself you care about, don’t forget about everything else it can talk to on your local network.
Maybe I'm living in another world, but I think it's far more likely to find people with low self esteem than overconfidence and neither is capable of being humble.

People who are proud about "staying humble" are every bit as insufferable.
The key difference in modern systems is the variable speed control and two way operating.
Is it really fair to call Kitty minimalist? It has a ton of little UX enhancements you can turn on or integrate with.
The web/desktop version seems to be basically read only. Can't reply, sign up or anything. Can't even view a full user profile I think?. No home page either for me.

https://www.threads.net/@hbo
In both FAANG jobs I had I was expected to design systems solo, and then review them with my team. If the system is complex enough, I would probably whiteboard it first with some teammates while I was designing it.

It is something that was asked of me in interviews, and comes up often in my day to day job. And being able to design systems, and to help review systems others are designing, is probably the single biggest impact thing I do regularly.

It is more useful in day to day than the algorithmic knowledge that was also asked of me during interviews. While there are people that do use complex algorithms in both companies, most software of Google is converting a protocol buffer into another protocol buffer, and in Amazon is the same thing but with JSON. If you are a frontend engineer, you might convert into HTML by plugging the values into a template engine.
Why isn't this a surprise? You can have cheap, fast, good, or accurate. If you're going with the first two of those options, you won't get the other two.
If Java was perfect, Jagex the creator of Runescape, wouldn't have felt compelled to create its own custom scripting language, RuneScript, in 2004, which it very much did: https://web.archive.org/web/20080615044119/http://archive.th...

https://runescape.wiki/w/RuneScript

Far more apps were written in Flash than in Java Applets. Java Applets were problematic for their large file size and memory requirements. You would also need to regularly download updates for the runtime and manually run through an installer on the base operating system in order to get applets to work. They were also a security nightmare, and critical vulnerabilities continued right up until Applets were finally canned for good in 2013: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2013/01/10/oracle-ja...

Flash had plenty of its own vulnerabilities, but it was at least efficient for what it did with the network resources of the time.

I know the history of the web, and I know JS wasn't practical for a lot of complex apps before Chrome's v8 engine came out in 2008. That being said, it was still plenty powerful enough for apps like Gmail and Facebook.

I'm not even criticizing these technologies for existing or having been important plugins of the web at one time, I very much understand why they were used and why JS wasn't. HTML had no native video encoding, but also, the browser war held back the web standards a great deal as companies competed on the peripheral features of the web like video encoding and Silverlight vs Flash. Video codec encoding was such a mess for such a long time due to the issues with MP4 and all the patent nightmare mess that unfortunately took way longer than it should have. At least Adobe could bypass a lot of that without having to deal with the Microsoft vs Mozilla vs Apple vs Google business. And Adobe could cover the license fees for any tech it needed with its editor prices.

I get it. My point, however, is that those other technologies introduced different tradeoffs in compile time size, runtime performance, proprietary tech stack (Java is still owned by Oracle, not an open standard, to this day), mobile compatibility, etc. And none of them would have satisfied all the requirements for the web then or now. Meanwhile, since the web was able to evolve, and open standards got better and browser compatibility got better, JS is now a pretty good choice.
Wagner and its sub Rusich? Both are directly funded by Russia (as recently admitted by Putin himself).

You can possibly claim that it is PMC rather than direct Russian military, but then there is the recent ultimatum given to Wagner troops -- Join Russian military ranks or leave.
The idea that the capabilities of LLMs might not exceed humans by that much isn't that crazy: the ground truth they're trained on is still human-written text. Of course there are techniques to try to go past that but it's not clear how it will work yet.
Ask HN: What do you think of Threads so far?
There isn't a desktop version but the app is finally out (For Americans).

https://www.threads.net/

It's clearly a twitter clone outside of a strictly chronological feed option missing. They appear to have brought in a few journalists and sports reporters from what I can tell.
Ah I was referring to the github specific terminology when sharing a link to a line inside a code file.
>What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?

That you don't have to know everything and if you're dealing with legit people, they'll be totally find with that and even expect it.

Trying to lie and say you know everything or say you're a 9/10 on every other odd skill/language will put you into a terrible place.