skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seniors would mentor and train juniors.

I agree that was typically also something that came in at senior level.

Maybe it's a regional thing? I'm in the UK. I'd say it was fairly standard here for a junior to be someone in the first couple of years on the job who was still learning the ropes and probably couldn't do much beyond very basic grunt work without the assistance of someone more senior. Losing the "junior" label came when you got beyond the near-full-time hand-holding and started doing routine stuff independently. The "senior" label came when you could do the less routine or more difficult stuff mostly independently as well.

What does this have to do with what roles are available in an organization?

It means an organisation that wants to hire a senior-heavy team can now do so. That wasn't realistic for most organisations a decade ago because there weren't enough seniors to go around.
Same, but seems it's already archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230728131032/https://dmitriid....
Nope, in the same boat, unfortunately.
She was so secretive for so long, it's crazy she's waving to us on that page. This interviewer flew to Kazakhstan to meet her and wasn't even sure she'd show up:

https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra
That is a really nice find. I played this one extensively back in the day and it's one of the better games of the era but beyond that it's one of those games that really needs the custom controls. I got it set up on MAME but never found a control mapping that was pleasurable to play.
I know this sounds 'old fashioned' but you really want to work for a particular company, walking in has had a surprising success rate for me over the years. Some are absolute sticks in the mud about requiring the candidate to apply online, but in many, you can at least chat with someone in hr or a hiring manager about the sorts of positions they have available and what skills they need. This all but guarantees your resume will be looked at by an actual human.
That article talks about cryogenic superconducting as is used in current quantum computers. Allowing room temperatures would greatly reduce costs but I don't see how it speeds anything up. But even then, the current discovery only works with the LK-99 alloy and not any of the materials used in superconducting logic.
How does it compare to something like MySudo or SilentPhone?
Comparing the environmental impact of extraction processes for batteries to the impact of fossil fuel use is laughable, but I don’t fault you for asking the question. It’s disinformation, plain and simple, and it’s been surprisingly effective at getting people to question the shift to EVs over the past couple of years.

A broader conversation about consumption habits and their environmental impact in the western world is completely valid and sorely needed, but arguing that the transition to EVs isn’t worth it because there are other negative impacts is just plain defeatist. Slowing the rate at which we are pumping carbon into the atmosphere is virtually the only thing that matters at this moment.
Ah, well there you go. I doubt that they can keep including that service for free forever. Do you?
The lower end iPhone still outperforms the higher end Android.
>I thought that gcc, for instance, no longer supported that declaration style.

It's g++ that doesn't support this, gcc should.
proc has way more in it than just proc/fd though?
> How are we to know you aren't a bad actor?

Apple has turned popular opinion against startups and the little guy so much that we're saying these things out loud to one another. Seriously?

Apple has too much power. Just like Google on the web.

Dealing with a little more pain and friction from marketing, in exchange for freedom for our devices and a healthy distribution of power, would be worth it.

We're being told to be afraid of "marketers", when we're actively being put into computing straightjackets by the biggest thugs of them all. Every move these gigantic companies make is to make you further reliant upon them.

We're moving to a world where Apple and Google decide who can execute what, and where there is no hope of leaving. And that's terrifying.
> Please man, use your brain at least a little bit.

Thank you for being condescending. If you expected being a bully might shield you from tearing apart your argument you will be very disappointed.

15 people is a lot closer to two than to Adobe which is the point of my comment you entirely fail to grasp.

Every companies taking out a large companies is an outlier by definition. It doesn’t mean they don’t exist and remains a clear counterexample to your extremely wrong original opinion.

This discussion is finished as far as I’m concerned by the way. You have clearly demonstrated you are not worth talking to. I will let you massage your fragile ego by yourself.
WH Council of Economic Advisors report: impact of climate change on the economy
No, a Korean one, which, in complexity, makes EO seem like kindergarten. Enough to say, you can code your own bot companions in LUA.
Harbormaster: A Tiny Container Orchestrator
Because it’s a (worse) variant of one of the first queries the article gives:

SELECT *, COUNT(*)
FROM t1
GROUP BY x, y, z, ... -- all attributes of t1

EXCEPT

SELECT *, COUNT(*)
FROM t2
GROUP BY x, y, z, ... -- all attributes of t2

and we aren’t discussing ChatGPT here.
I was sad to not see them move their tooling to multi-database. I had a couple calls with them ~5-6 years ago to talk about our needs and how they would be solved by a Postgres version of their tools (like SQL Compare), but apparently it never went anywhere.
Record-breaking for human/technology-generated activity. Earth still rocks harder than Taylor.
> And in the end it can't circumvent stuff like the great firewall of China.

Actually, this isn't true: Tor with private Snowflake bridges can be very effective against the Great Firewall. I'm an activist who works in this area and I've spoken with activists who were using it as recently as this year.

The issue is scaling bridge discovery, since any automated bridge discovery mechanism rapidly exposes available bridges to a determined censor. But any team doing high profile, notable, or sensitive work can find an individual or organization outside China to provide them with private bridges. So Tor is one effective option now for key activists in China, just not a mass-scale solution for everyone.
On the app I'm writing, keychain info remains.

I have a specific debug setting to wipe the keychain.

Sign in with Apple also generates a persistent ID with each app. That could be used to fingerprint the user, but not the device.
Yeah but then you hear about tribal societies, which didn't have access to modern medicine but they spent a lot of time just sort of hanging out and having sex and the only other thing they did was walk long distances and hunt and pick berries and shit. THAT doesn't sound terrible at all.
Managers should be better engineers than you
I'm a long time Android user but boy, Google is trying hard to make me switch. Android Auto is a mess, not a lot of good phone options with compact footprint, poor update policies and basically the feeling of always being 2-3 years behind Apple.
Sublime Merge is my preferred Git GUI.
https://www.sublimemerge.com
> I would imagine the most important qualities to have in an interview are going to be charisma and an ability to reason through technical problems.

My guess, as someone who has occasionally been the hiring manager, is that this is true, but so is the leetcode crap. It's leetcode that gets you far enough to meet someone who matters. It's charisma and reasoning ability that will get you an offer.

I've met plenty of applicants who could give me superficially correct answers, but with any kind of detailed conversation it became clear that this was basically all they could do. When I hire someone for my team, I don't want leetcode answers, I want someone who can solve problems. I want someone that seems like they'll work well on the team. I want someone low maintenance and at least adequately productive.

But this is just a medium sized software company and not a FAANG.
What AI teaches us about good writing
If it’s unenforceable and unconstitutional, then why was the FBI able to obtain a search warrant for Richard Burr’s phone?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...

Clearly both a judge and the FBI understood that they could act in this law.

I don’t understand why you are so adamant on this point about regulating Congress. Multiple people in this thread have posted examples refuting this.
Indirectly as it marks the presence of stabled cattle.

Elders (and nettles) signal Nitrogen in the soil.
I worked at Facebook for 4 years and also don't understand that comment. I think it's just worded confusingly.
Launch HN: Refact – Open-source AI Code assistant with fine-tuning on codebase
Hi HN! At Refact, we're building an open-source AI Code assistant with fine-tuning focused on providing the enjoyable coding experience without privacy concerns.
Why? When you look at AI code tools like Copilot, you'll notice that they often provide generic coding suggestions because the models were not trained on your codebase. They also only work in the cloud, so in order to get a code suggestion, you need to send your code to the cloud provider.
One of the solutions for this is self-hosted fine-tuning on codebase, but the companies who provide this feature currently prioritize it for enterprise making it difficult for individual devs to use it.
We want to change that by open-sourcing fine-tuning for everyone, not just enterprise customers.
Currently with Refact you can self-host Refact models and the best open-source LLMs (like StarCoder, LLama2, WizardLM) and use it for code suggestions and chat.
We would love to hear your ideas and feedback on your current experience with AI code assistants and what is currently missing!
isn't that what MS SQL Server's tablediff does? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/tablediff-utilit...
You can’t write that “indirection” is the “root of all evil” and then in the conclusion claim that capitalism and tings like the nation state are one of our greatest inventions. But the fact that they chose a programming concept as their metaphor tells me enough about this wide-sweeping narrative.
There is this thing called hyperbole. The reaction would be more a polite “I’m pretty sure we can find something else.”
>My advice is to ditch the applications entirely and go straight to networking. Yes, not exactly the most revolutionary advice here. But, if you;re in that kind of competition/environment, you've no choice but to work your network.

Could you elaborate on this please?

Is there more to networking than just sending personalized connect messages based on a person profile on Linkedin?

I have been doing that without much success
I'd agree, but also reckon there's likely to be quite a lot of people holding out for the 15. I am.
Tor is a meme in 2023. Even advocates for it seem to believe it's only really good for circumvention, which is the totally wrong way to look at it. Having a built-in outproxy to the web is probably it's greatest flaw, not its strength. Why? Because there's nothing stopping anyone from setting up exit nodes and analyzing the traffic. The open web itself is a vulnerability. Being an anonymizer for the web also encourages people to not contribute energy to "hidden services" but to the non-hidden web, which is self defeating.

And as others have pointed out, Tor wouldn't scale if everyone was using it. Contrast this with I2P which not only would scale but become more resistant to DDOS attacks with the more nodes on the network. Unlike For, I2P has no distinction between nodes, mostly because it's not designed to be an outproxy. But no, let's keep insisting that everyone use a deep state tool with chronic flaws because reasons. /s
I wonder how many times the allied intelligence services found the opportunity to pwn each other, and did so rather than patching what they found.
It's important to have both running in parallel. The more that Sci-Hub becomes normalized, the more people wonder why it's illegal in the first place. When you have a pirate site which the content creators themselves endorse and use, it really serves to highlight how broken the existing academic IP system is.
I get the appeal of a virtual SIM but I don't get the smartphone part. I'm curious, when would I need a service like that?
Why do you believe decentralization is responsible for TOR’s speed? Decentralization often improves speed by routing around traffic, and the regular non-TOR internet is decentralized. BitTorrent is often faster than regular internet due to its additional decentralization of the data. I suspect TOR is slow due to intentionally long and twisty routes, added encryption, extra hops that require more processing, low numbers of exit nodes, and limited bandwidth at the exit nodes. In a way, the speed is probably partly a byproduct of TOR accidentally centralizing traffic at the scarce exit nodes.
Love to hear that! Anything else you had in mind? We have a million ideas but I'm curious what else you had thought of that we missed / could add.

Also thanks for the spellcheck!
You can flash grapheneos on your device and then side load which really isn’t possible with an iPhone. I was alluding to this but I should had made that more apparent .
There's also a difference in volume and freq response due to the head being in the way and also the shape of the ear that helps you determine the direction.

I don't think we could tell direction based on the distance and less than 1ms difference alone.
Yes, you are right. I was confused by what I read as they started offering a free preview in December 2015 and was convinced they released at the same time they did their serie A.
This human intelligent agent specializes in that, quite impressively, and has 897k followers. Not a bad start on a movement.
False claims that heatwave is bogus spread online
> There is darkness inside people that lack of rules, lack of order, lack of accountability brings out.

Maybe, but it's nothing in comparison the darkness that comes out of people who want rules and someone held accountable.
I'd also recommend Toonami Aftermath. It has a bunch of shows from the mid 90s to the mid 00s. The Saturday morning line up is really great.

https://www.toonamiaftermath.com/schedule

You can also get it running in Plex (requires Plex pass) with these two projects:

https://github.com/chris102994/docker-toonamiaftermath

https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe
Both the use of “veteran” and “tenure” that you provide as incorrect are recognized as correct by OED and are common colloquial uses.
Are you looking at monetizing it other than donations?
The alternative is that—without an act of congress—private journalism will die, and that is a tragedy.
> I would imagine the most important qualities to have in an interview are going to be charisma and an ability to reason through technical problems.

As someone who has interviewed many software developers, I can assure you that charisma is not something that experienced hiring managers in tech are expecting in the candidate pool. For sales positions, sure. For coding, though, competence is often inversely correlated with charisma.

Reasoning through technical problems is a different story.

I think your first observation about grinding leetcode is interesting. I suspect that this is the approach people take when they're trying to get picked up by big companies (FAANG or whatever). Programming problems become a quick way of winnowing the field for companies that have a highly process-oriented approach to hiring. My own experience has been in small companies, where being able to get in the door and make progress through the interview process is often dependent on one's personal connections/network, creativity and so on.

So my advice to the OP would be to leverage your network and try to get inside companies connected to people you know. Maybe look at smaller companies that aren't necessarily tech companies, but have a strong need for tech?
That's a great point, that VC-funded startups aren't the only sources of title inflation. Salary bands at bigger companies also fuel inflation. I worked for a startup that got acquired by a large bureaucratic company, and I ended up as a principle engineer -- along with two other engineers on my team. It was the only way to keep paying us what we had been making as senior engineers at the startup. It was a director-level title, so my boss technically had a lower title than me. When I decided to leave that company, I was looking at senior-level positions at startups, because that was the equivalent to the job I was doing as a director-level IC at BigCorp.
Wow, this adds some context to his assassination, which is still one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time.
You're right but "MySQL database table acting as a queue" doesn't stand out on resumes/CVs. Plus, new and shiny things attract devs like moths to a flame.
What’s the robbery in this analogy? From a liability perspective, using Tor is strictly more risky than routing over the ordinary Internet.
Is it something I can use for 2fa? I jump between a lot of VPNs and systems, and having to use my personal phone device for 2fa is annoying at best, and something I'd like to avoid in future. I don't understand quite what "App Store" means in this context. I can download and install stuff from apple's App Store? Or something else? Thanks.
Seriously, a cop can pull you over and your fourth amendment protections are dead, must help that driving is considered a privilege and not a right by states
This whole essay/concept is essentially just Paul Graham doing a bad job of re-hashing the main character arc from Neal Stephenson's /Cryptonomicon/...
This! Python testing ergonomics are terrible, worse than Js.

It’s a reason I love Elixir.
Agree with most of it.

I'd would not call it "virtuous cycle" more of vicious cycle.

Well intentioned I doubt. Unless it means McKinsey style well intentioned: hammering about re-orgs and reforms while generating ton of consulting revenue with it.
This is a misconception. The "lag a lot" is very much debatable. For a lot of areas, specifically OpenBSD, is pushing the boundaries[1], not lagging behind. That's why they don't guarantee user space stability or even ABI stability inside the kernel, to move faster. Just check this recent case[2] about Linux is not enforcing IBT/BTI on its binaries and this being a known problem since 2001, while OpenBSD is solving this.

But again, people have different conceptions of lagging behind. Some people think not having a graphical installer is to "lag behind", when this is pretty much a design decision and not a problem of fewer people working on new things.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
[2] https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230714121907
I take a more skeptical view of the relationship between politics and technology (not specifically on cryptography, though I think my point stands in this context) in a recent (scholarly) article:

https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/2/000690/000690.htm...

Abstract: A consideration of the political meaning of software that tries to add greater philosophical precision to statements about the politics of tools and tool building in the humanities. Using Michael Oakeshott's formulations of the “politics of faith” and the “politics of skepticism,”[Oakeshott 1996] it suggests that while declaring our tools be morally or political neutral may be obvious fallacious, it is equally problematic to suppose that we can predict in advance the political formations that will arise from our tool building. For indeed (as Oakeshott suggests), the tools themselves give rise to what is politically possible.
I am curious if they will go back and look at apps that are accessing these API's or will only look at them when there is an update?

With the earlier privacy crackdown that upset Facebook and Google so much, it only applied to new and updated apps.

According to people on HN, that's why it took Google months and months to issue an update to its apps, and during that time it continued Hoovering up people's information.

There are lots of apps on the app store that haven't been updated since the last round of privacy rules came out, which tells you a lot about those developers.
Sometime around 2002 I chartered a small plane to photograph the landscapes around the bunch grass prairies in NE Oregon. These are one of the last remaining ecological intact bunchgrass prairies in North America.

One of the features I caught on film are “mima mounds”. To this day I license these images over and over again because the mechanism that shapes the mounds is hotly debated. I had no idea what they were at the time, but it is fascinating.

It’s also fascinating that conversations and debates around these kinds of mysterious features just keeps on going.
I prefer privacy of whatever small improvements will be made to the UX through data collection. In 20 years of software development, I've not seen data collection actually move the needle much in terms of UX improvement.

The pasteboard is critical to protect from bad actors.
Great inventions can be used in good or bad ways.

What does the metaphor tell you? And are you sure it's only the metaphor doing the "telling"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
Try it if you don't have a perfect 100% vision (20/20 this is called in USA I think?) and have a phone that fits in a normal pocket

Optimal reading width for speed/comprehension is also fewer than 80 characters afaik. I think different sources I read years ago were undecided whether it's closer to 60- or 70-character lines. Either way, rescaling when there is no ASCII art or position-dependent characters seems rather basic and <pre> disallows that
I encountered an interesting paradox of this when visiting town of Val Gardena in Italy, one of the top skiing locations in the country. I'd come down from a long day on the mountain absolutely famished and looking for a big plate, but because the town is oriented to a wealthy clientele, many of the restaurants serve expensive plates with tiny portions.
I'm actually pretty bullish on humanoid robots like the Tesla bot - combination of LLMs, cheap batteries/motors/controllers from cars and vision research should be able to come together in useful and cheap ways in a few years, say 2030.

$35K for a robot that can putter around the house doing basic stuff is just not that high of a bar. With a 10 year life span, that's $3.5k/year, or $10/day. Doing 1 hour of useful minimum wage work around the house is just not that high of a bar - doing laundry, cleaning, tidying up, weeding, wiping surfaces down, taking out the garbage etc. If it can do some combination of those, it would make sense for basically every household. And it doesn't need to be able to do the crazy parkour of Boston Dynamics to achieve this. Our world is generally designed to be operable by all sorts of people - disabled, old etc. Crazy athleticism isn't required to do useful work.
Pizza Hut apparently still runs the Book It program, where students earn a free personal pan pizza for meeting a reading goal[1]. There's a lot of nostalgia I have for 90's Pizza Hut in part because of that program. That and the PS1 demo disc they gave out once.

[1] https://www.bookitprogram.com/faqs
My first and immediate thought was "there is a lot of blue pigment in these clothes."

When you search for early century Guatemalan fabrics and materials, it is difficult to find examples of blue fabrics, as I imagine, because the materials were just too expensive and not broadly available.

... but AI does not know that.
Yep makes sense, I hate all that too, and they probably should do a better job providing sensible defaults for people like us. But it definitely can all be turned off.
Well, there's degrees. Last week I did 5 interviews where the candidate gets a full PDF explaining what we are going to do during the interview (along with a sample problem to practice on), and half didn't have an IDE or testing libraries set up for a TDD coding interview...