skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey @hartator,

I felt the need to talk about my experience with SerpAPI's hiring process because, quite frankly, it was no good.

First off, I was super excited when I applied at SerpAPI. I really wanted to be part of what you are building. I worked for 10 hours non-stop on the challenge you set up, even with my brother visiting after not seeing him for 2 years. But my excitement turned into confusion when I got no response - not once, but twice.

You mentioned "obvious red flags", which simply doesn't add up. Despite offering numerous referrals from past jobs and delivering work that is deserving of at least a reply, it feels as though I am being overlooked.
My conversations with others who have also applied to your organization reveal a similar experience of being disregarded. Respect and clear communication matter significantly to me, being neurodiverse, and while your attempts to keep things simple are acknowledged, these are not mere extras - they are fundamental. Companies such as Basecamp comprehend this need but my experiences suggest SerpAPI doesn't. Your silence paints a negative picture that contrasts with the image of SerpAPI you aspire.

I know you can make things better. Start by recognizing the hard work, and responding to applicants. We are not just forms on your website; we are individuals with genuine interest, deserving of respect. Also consider focusing more on candidates already deeply engaged with open-source.

Best of luck to you and your company.

Marcelo
Crazy idea, let me run a Windows VM on Azure from my Xbox.
There's a difference between wild speculation and reasonable speculation with high likelihood.

For example. I speculate you are a male and it's highly likely I'm right. The speculation I'm doing here is of the same nature as the speculation for intelligence.

The angle your coming at it from is that any form of opinion other then the opinion that LLMs are stochastic parrots is completely wild speculation. The irony is that you're doing this without realizing your position is in itself speculation.
> I'm actually a bit surprised that they do also seem to still run an actual FTP server there as well.

FTP is more practical than a web browser. Midnight commander and Total commander have an integrated ftp browser.
When Stars Twinkle, They Make Music
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Worth watching just for the intro theme song, "The Russians Are Coming", a reggae remix of Dave Brubeck's "Take Five":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-fvwg9zy08

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Bennett
x86 is locked down by Intel and AMD, and ARM demands tribute-- I mean license fees for ARM. That leaves only RISC-V for those who want to make their own processors without paying someone for the privilege. That's the value add.
Sounds realistic to me, except the expected salary range. 200K-250K USD in Europe as simple individual contributor is extremely unlikely. If we are talking about a very senior engineer (more than 15 years of software engineering is experience) then we are talking more about a position like Principal Engineer or so. Not all tech companies in Europe have even such positions. I would say a more realistic salary range for a staff engineer (which is a more popular role in many companies for engineers who are very senior) is probably ~120K. And getting this kind of salary at these kind of companies is not easy.

Now, of course there are perhaps 10 or so companies in Europe who can pay ~180K for a Staff position. But that’s like winning the lottery.
> Once this is commercialized we no longer need women.

Babies need to develop inside a uterus, and artificial wombs are much harder to make than artificial ovaries.
Yep I have a folder called Obsidian in my Dropbox with markdown files I edit with VSCode :-)
The transformation of my dumb home trainer to a smart Zwift trainer
that's theoretically possible, but beyond the scope of the work we have planned in the near feature.

it's a great idea though - I will add it to the "Discussions" to track for the future. I can personally see the benefit of PostGIS support
not anymore, Elixir community as usual delivers some great tool for their beloved developers and users

https://dashbit.co/blog/rustler-precompiled

(it's similar to pre-compiled Python wheels, but it's better developers' side in my opinion)
Awesome AI-powered developer tools
I'm not sure what you mean by snapshots, and it's not open source -- but if you haven't tried it yet, check out Obsidian. "Vaults" are self-contained, just markdown files in folders, with an extra folder for the Obsidian stuff, i.e. all settings and state and even the plugins. Plays great with SyncThing etc. And there are so many great community plugins, which is where the real magic of it is for me.
What I was never able to wrap my head around with NIFs was lifecycles and ownership. The entire "resource" thing always confused me a little.

Say I wanted to implement my own ETS, maybe to add an atomic rename (which ETS really should have). Like ETS, I'd like to have a :named_table, so I don't need to pass a `ref` around everywhere. How/where do I create this global table lookup and how/who manages it?
Yes it definitely would :) There's conductor loss in both the signal and return path.
Small fyi, the site seems to break the back button on mobile.
This is hugely misguided. Architecture comes before implementation, not after. A tool that encourages a view of the structure of the implemenatation to be mistaken for architecture is a tool for failure.

Whatever next?? Make your code edits on source accurately generated from the binary?? :)
Wickr was sold to AWS for an undisclosed amount of money, so we don't actually know if it's a graveyard or if it was a life-changing amount of money for the founders, or somewhere in between.
She means that it's not a drop-in replacement that works exactly the same way.

It works differently, and (in her opinion) in some ways better.

But you will likely have to change your workflow to use it.
The point is that in some countries a high percentage of people are overeating all the time. They can easily do with a caloric deficit, for a long, long time.
Straight-to-wok noodles with some chopped mushrooms, a standard sauce mix and then stir in a spoonful of Lao Gan Ma at the end. Takes about 10 minutes to prepare and cook.

If I have more time, I'll make my own sauce using stock, curry powder, tomato puree and soy sauce.
It’s a neat project. But it does remind me a bit of that 18 inch (instead of feet) Stonehenge in Spinal Tap: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyh1Va_mYWI
Four levels of time handling in a database
To be fair, we did try to outright ban alcohol and make it illegal. It just didn't work. If people in mass acted towards any drug like they did with alcohol, they'd cave. See: Marijuana
Mr Malkinson was originally sentenced with a seven-year minimum term but was held for much longer because he refused to admit to a crime he knew he did not commit.

This is happening in all countries, but it is the worse denying of real justice in my opinion. Having to plead guilty just to have a reduced sentenced when you know you did nothing but no one believes you.
> If a non-parent told you that you can't truly enjoy your free time because you have kids, wouldn't that be a bit rude?

Nah, I’d nod my head and agree, but I imagine that’s not the point you were going for xD

I feel it’s like growing up, it’s hard to appreciate childhood, or university, or any of that until it’s passed.

By the same token you start to appreciate the seas of time you had without children once you have them, but by then it’s too late of course, and you can only appreciate them in hindsight.

I’m sure the same thing will be true after my children grow up. I’ll appreciate all the time I got to spend with them more in hindsight.
X, formally known as Twitter, takes over (at)music account from user
On and off on this. I enjoy the aesthetics and the rate of releases, but in the end some innovation will come into my way - latest example: tab handling. I need the simple, old school completion.
Porn and beautiful women in movies are very different things.

For example, look at Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls or Alicia Silverstone in Clueless.

That, and porn are very differently appealing, and almost surely have very different audiences.
In 2017 they were growing sheep in one for 4 months

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112

I think it’s relatively close, sure maybe 10 years, I’m not sure exactly. My point, was that this technology is going down this path and theoretically, pretty dangerous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...

And this is only for obesity. If you would include overweight the percentages would be much higher.
You know what drives me nuts? People spending two pages on a convoluted description of what could have been a simple diagram. It goes both ways.
> The false equivalence you're trying to establish between censoring child porn (illegal for very good reasons we hopefully all agree on)

im not drawing a false equivalence to anything. the article in which this entire comment section is linked surrounds piracy--which for better or worse is illegal, just like child porn. It is entirely and thoroughly relevant to discuss censoring illegal attributes *and* non-illegal attributes such as:

> spam (something you opt-into and can opt out of at any time)

and it is absolute non-sensical to argue that spam is something we opt into. if it were opted into, then by definition it isn't spam. and to even imply that people can opt-out of actual spam is wild. go ahead, set up your own email server, don't "censor" any spam, and attempt to opt-out. let us know how this goes--as someone who has administered many organization's email servers, i can confidently assure you that it will absolutely not go well and you will of course not be able to simply opt-out of it. you *will* censor it. remember, spam isn't illegal, but pretty much every organization in the world will "censor" spam. any crying about censorship which doesn't consider the question "why is it ok to block spam?" immediately shows how unserious and unnuanced the discussion will be--a literal waste of time.

if you can't distinguish between the organizations i listed (restaurants, bars, forums, etc...) curating their audience and some version of wholesale "individuals free speech" then obviously the nuance needed to talk about this in any meaningful manner doesn't exist.

if you are able to distinguish the nuances between those, then i absolutely welcome the discussion.

again, the "who decides" pearl-clutching boils down to the organization and the audience they're curating.

in terms of governments suppressing free-speech, i usually (but not always) agree with most arguments that the government should typically not be prosecuting for speech. sadly, im not shocked with how many of the free-speech internet screamers have suddenly gone quiet now that multiple actual state backed attacks on free-speech are happening across the country. from book bans in libraries, to book bans in schools, to silencing teachers, to drag shows. there have now been 100s (if not 1000s) of these instances and all of those pearl clutchers are now silent. their silence is wildly predictable tho, /shrug

again, there's no false-equivalence as the topic has been so muddied by disingenuous bad-faith actors for so long that many people can't even begin to distinguish between a government suppressing free-speech, websites or places curating an audience experience, and also freedom of association. most of the people crying about censorship don't even understand why the conversation must have at least those as a starting point or its not worth having.
Hi, I'm the first author on the eLife paper. The 2016 paper you mentioned is basically worthless (their differentiation method doesn't make biological sense and didn't work when I tried it, they're only looking at a small subset of cherrypicked markers to conclude they have granulosa cells, and also, these people are from the "Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine"). We have much more functional validation of our granulosa-like cells, in terms of gene expression, hormone production, and follicle formation.

A better precedent would be Yoshino 2021: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34437124/, which made mouse granulosa cells from mouse stem cells:
Alternatively, one can enjoy cooking and don't mind spending time in the kitchen. Freezing food degrades the taste imo. But in my country eating out is considered a luxury activity, homecooking is the norm (the Netherlands)
not the biggest expert, but from the top of my head I would say "static reference in your library"

you might be interested in looking at this

Neural: an ets-like interface to shared terms

https://github.com/soup-in-boots/neural/
SVN may have been more widely used, but it was on the way out by the time GitHub was launched. It was the incumbent, at least in communities at the forefront of change. GitHub and integration with Microsoft tools certainly accelerated it's adoption into the enterprise environment, but among the "new VCSs with a future," git had already won.
The Robots of CERN [video]
Maybe if they know, but nobody keeps a record of which codes are being followed and which are not in each paticular room. Firefighters rely on building codes. They dont have time to read through user-generated exceptions documents before responding to a fire. Even if they did, such practices are akin to sovcits opting out of obeying laws they dislike. Safety codes are meaningless if not apllied to all.
Recently switched back to Docker Desktop from Podman Desktop since Docker Desktop seems to integrate better with Windows.

Good progress though and I'll revisit it again soon.
When working with high voltage/power equipment, its best practice to keep the capacitors shorted while you are working to keep dielectric absorption from “recharging” the capacitor to 1-15% of its rated voltage.

Wow, I was not aware. Nice tip. Does this also apply to TVs and computer monitors from the 1990s? Are they high enough voltage/power?
classic line. Do you think he'll be remembered for his struggles with the perils of open source feature requests, as well as for vim itself? Largley because of the keybindings, Vim was a perfect storm for this: maybe the epitaph is "he could never figure out how to quit vim either". +1 for the Moolenaar award to show appreciation for people whilst they're still alive and coping with the rest of us all being dicks....
Could you elaborate more? There are many places where they form, and some are quite predictable about where they form.

Seattle is an example of a place which is generally cloudy, with infrequent clear days, so if you want clouds go there.

Table Mountain in Cape Town is famous for its frequent orographic clouds.

There are places which often get a marine fog layer, which is a type of cloud.

You can look at a satellite image and see a front coming through, as the band of clouds moves. If you are in Iowa and see there's a front in Colorado, then you'll be getting clouds pretty soon.

Hurricanes have rain/cloud bands which rotate around the center. Here too you can see that a band is coming, and predict where clouds will form.

Some parts of the world have a rainy season where nearly every day the clouds build up in the afternoon, with a downpour, and then clear up.
Outrageous claims require commensurate evidence. Human factors easily explain why these hierarchical social structures produce wealth concentration.
Most flux pinning examples on youtube allow rotation (With round superconductors and magnets, though.)
Read "the theory of the leisure class".
I agree that the comparison with coffee does not make sense. But in what ways are Netflix and Kagi comparable?
I can relate to this 90%. The only difference with me was that I had stressful home situation and I postponed things that I knew I'd be able to get away with at the last minute. The former is being resolved but is mostly out of my hands. The latter was a maladaptive behaviour I was not aware of ("I thrive on deadlines", I'd say) and now am very wary of falling into again.
I don’t think that this list is supposed to be an accurate representation of how people typically use vim. More likely this list was compiled precisely because these uses are somewhat non-standard / non-obvious and therefore worth sharing. Having said that, I do believe that using external tools is much more idiomatic for Vim than Emacs.
Even Docker Desktop for Mac works pretty great and they improved the startup. Not really had issues to warrant switching.
US court rules Reddit doesn’t need to identify users who pirate movies
In Iceland they do a good job largely banning alcohol.
http://svardos.org/
Enjoy.
“ For trips of that distance train will never make sense, flying is too much faster."

I think you are making a common mistake of being too focused on speed - what really matters in convenience. I would like to go London -> Prague but there are like 4 changes. That’s too complicated.

If I could rent a coupe with friends and play poker, that’s a different experience than jumping between trains and platforms for an entire day with heavy bags.

There are advantages to trains - you can bring large and heavy luggage, lithium ion batteries, food service, etc.
Anyone using Podman on a macOS? How's the experience compared to Docker Desktop?
Inaccessible site. Decent web development still a fantasy.
Apple is a company that uses slave labor and gives Chinese government full access to its data.
If you want to use podman some of the more recent podman versions on Ubuntu or Debian, I have a kind of hacky PPA up here - https://github.com/notbobthebuilder/podman

GitHub actions auto build new version releases for me so major versions become available as soon as they are released and I click the button
Ultimately my opinion boils down to two things:

1) I would prefer the US maintains a military advantage over all of its adversaries, and these types of programs have historically been extremely, extremely important to that.

2) I trust the military’s assessment of whether any particular images compromise those programs much, much, much more than I trust the assessment of random internet commentators or of a random guy who got sufficiently obsessed with Area 51 to move to its outskirts and start photographing it.

You, I, and the blogger have no way of knowing what important pieces of information he may be filling in for our adversaries. If you don’t care about our advantage, fine, or if you are of the “information wants to be free” religious persuasion, fine — I don’t think those are commonly held views however and I don’t think they will or should shield this guy from due process.
it leverages your code-base, rather than connecting to your database. it uses to libpg_query (https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query) to construct the syntax tree which can then be used to for the LSP features
Ha ha. Vimcode, though.

And "vim" is pretty close to "vm" for virtual machine that runs that vimcode, or bytecode :)
the root cause is your immune system losing the war. there are always new cancers appearing in your body, most of them get caught and stopped by the system designed to do so.
I hope they don't create any license themselves and open source everything too
It does has some quirks that is why I keep using docker for containers on servers.

I do use podman daily in the form of distrobox since both the steam deck and my desktop are immutable systems.
I've had some of the most fun I've had in a long time just writing a calculator for Risc OS in pure ARM assembly. Maybe I've just been aiming too high?
I think that says more about Microsoft's poor optimisation of #include <iostream> semantic caching.

There's no good, fundamental reason why #include caching can't be done with similar mechanisms to import, resulting in similar perfornance.

Certainly, modules are cleaner than headers. That's a language improvement and a fine reason to switch to them. Headers leak more definitions, macros etc that are part of the implementation, and their interpretation is affected by definitions before the header is included.

But in normal situations those header semantic leaks need only add a very small or negligible time overhead to symbol resolution compared with modules, both from a compiler-friendly precompiled form. Articles I've see explaining why modules are faster tend to talk about parsing headers, repeatedly, and if not parse then still process a precompiled syntax in some complicated way, as opposed to modules storing a compiler-friendly data structure. But those are merely describing how things are already done, not what's possible.
Well... URIs, URI fragments, URLs, URL shorteners, hyperlinks, symbolic links. With good will and some effort, it could be fixed I guess.
Sure! Til then I’m 100% fine with them going after people who blatantly break a completely reasonable law.
Hi, this is my research and I'd be happy to answer any questions about it (I know I'm a bit late though).
On cost -it is internationally agreed that aircraft fuel is tax free, but train fuel is not. We subsidise air travel.

Now I don’t mind sitting on my butt for 3x longer than on a plane, but I don’t want to pay 3x for the privilege.
Ditto with the Spanish (es) layout, they layout looks more apt for journalist and writters than programmers. I just switch to the us keymap with the compose key bound to right menu/right win key, so I can type áéíóú with compose key + ' + vowel (not pressed at the same time). Ñ is more cumbersome (compose key + ~ + n) but I can adapt XCompose under BSD/Linux for that.
Era of easy money is over...for now.

Grow the old fashioned way. It's harder and slower but at least you won't be beholden to the big bad banker or mr money bags.
It would be nice if the black bar was a link to the relevant HN post.
There is one site I always admire (non-ironic) in this regard - twitter. I scroll it's feed, click on tweet, dive into several sub-threads and then I can easily get back to main feed where I was. (Unless they fucked it up recently).

That's shiny example of doing it right. Too sad it's pretty much only one.