skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd modify #1

1. Make friends with _everybody_ at work.

That includes the guy who brags about himself all the time. That includes the person who you only give the easiest tasks because you don't trust them with anything complicated. That includes the person who doesn't suffer fools gladly.

You never know. I had a constant braggart coworker who everyone else avoided. I smiled and listened politely. He was the one who got me my next job.

Exceptions, obviously, for coworkers that are actively corrosive or abusive. I'm not cozying up to the guy that the female interns refuse to share an elevator with.
Well maybe not, but I am slowly growing a group of people that are interested in avoiding technology, and maybe soon we can form a coalition, one which would promise to avoid using AI. Not sure it will work but maybe it could. And there is already some backlash against AI so it's not as hard as you think!
Honest question: why do you need to see their faces and their surroundings, and conversely show your face and what's around you? Furthermore if you have to aim your camera to you and watch the screen you can't put the phone in your pocket and move around and do things, or pretend to be 100% committed to the call.

An audio call is much more convenient in my experience.

Edit: I could be your father but I did my share of video calls when they were a novelty and I was about your age. They didn't stick. They got interesting again only when we couldn't see our friends during the covid lockdown.
> the tech isn't open source

Neither was automobile tech a hundred years ago yet somehow GM and Chrysler managed to put up a fight against Ford

> the hardware is expensive...and then there's the massive regulatory over head

Sure. It's expensive and not easy, and yet already a few companies are trying. Evidently they view the potential upside as worth it. Turns out, they don't have a monopoly on that view.
I doubt it, but I bet you can combine this with a private window and everything gets wiped from loca storage after it's closed.
GitHub has always said that they only train on public repos. I don’t see why they’d lie about that - including private repos would only add a relatively small amount of data to the corpus and would risk alienating all their corporate customers.

> GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages that appear in public repositories

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilo...
It's about the kind of power they have. Microsoft cannot get GPS data from your smartphone (no one uses Windows phones anymore), Google can. Microsoft cannot get the searches you made from your smartphone (see above), Google can because, regardless of whether you're an Android or iOS user, you most likely use Google as a search engine.

Nowadays, people spend a lot more time on smartphones than they do on their personal computers. So, Google is far more powerful than Microsoft and arguably even Apple.
It costs money to run YouTube and it costs creators money to make content. Some of them are trying to make a living doing it. If you don't want to pay and you don't want to see ads, how do you expect the service to function?
My first tech job at 19 was sysadmin in Exeter for £13k lol, as a first line technician. Pretty sure the only reason I got that job was I didn’t care about salaries so just said what I was earning at an electronics store.

£25k is definitely low though.
we do not use any telemtry on the site, not event google analytics
but i have to say that cloudflare reports us on page-hits, which is even included in the free version

EDIT: we also use google ads since a few hours, to cover hosting expenses (1 ad on the page, should be enough for this small site)
It seems to be a culmination of all the worst the hiring process throws at you right now. Your frustrations aren't unique right now unfortunately, as far as I can tell. But at the same time, either to keep up appearances or for whatever other reason, others don't seem to be freely describing the same frustrations.

The public perceptions don't seem to reflect this side of reality either -- the job reports and unemployment rates at all time lows, yet the frustrations you're expressing seems more common that you'd think just looking at the headlines and reports of the job market.

For what it's worth, I think it's best to try and ride it out, until the tides turn for the better. I don't know the root cause, but the economic situation (high interest rates) would seem to be the likely root cause, but that's just a guess.
Why read a science book when you can, you know, just figure it out?

Yoga is a tradition honed over millennia, it's weird to assume that your first swag at the topic is just as good.
Btw, I do this and sometimes stuff stops working suddenly when you block random telemetry. This applies to MS and Apple products.
I save them for resale of the item, when I bother. Additionally, it over a thousand bucks, gonna keep packaging for returns for the first few months. I find the packaging itself mildly annoying.
i discovered this after buying a house with asbestos and looking not only into the official guidelines but the undercurrent of industry experts, their observations. the risks of asbestos are massively overblown in the way that the public understands it. massively. it was shocking to find out.
So, HTML was too cumbersome to write because of the </> symbols so instead you created an entire toolchain to compile it, based off some arbitrary HTML like language. That isn’t cumbersome…? Just write HTML my man.
Nowadays OO is seen as a mistake.

Interfaces are much better. What's the difference? It's this: no inheritance.

Still, with interfaces your complaints remain unsatisfied. But add generic functions and then you can have the mix of OO-like and not-OO-like APIs you have in mind.
this is cool. Kudos.
I've thought a lot about this too, it's great to see work on it.

I do find I have a bit of empty page syndrome when interacting. Like... I'm not sure what to say. Whatever I say the bear will be happy and positive, but it puts the onus on me to dig up things I want to be comforted about.

It would be nice if the bear could initiate some interactions, maybe ask me about something, give me something to respond to instead of me initiating. But of course once we are talking about something it shouldn't redirect! Though it could try to expand on the subject.

Like a response I got was "Please don't be afraid to talk about those feelings" – it's kind of the worst. It's like someone saying "tell me if there's anything I can do to help." No one ever asks for help in response to that kind of statement. You need to be concrete: "tell me how that makes you feel", "let me know about", etc. You don't want to fall into the Rogerian trope of just reflecting things at the other person ("how does it make you feel that X?"); you should be engaged, empathetic. Maybe try to interpret things for the person, but as a question ("does that make you feel Y?" where Y is NOT just what the person said). I found watching some videos on YouTube of sample sessions to be interesting and get around some of the stereotypes of Roger's approach.
I'm a Classicist (and non-Christian), hadn't heard of Richard Carrier before, it's an interesting list, though the guy's anti-Christian bias infuses it so much it's a little hard to take him seriously. He's got some odd conspiracy theories about Nero, for example. And for someone with his perspective you might imagine an intact copy of Josephus prior to the later Christian edits would seem like it would be #1 on the list, but since he's a Mythicist he doesn't mention Josephus at all, since in Josephus you have a few mentions of Jesus as a historic figure which is evidence against the Mythicist belief, esp. given the chronology.
I tried touching on that in this paragraph:

One could say I could have spent all that time on writing vanilla HTML, CSS and JS and I would have had the same result in the same amount of time. I agree, if time would be all that mattered.

But for some people (like me), feeling productive, seeing how easy it is to test my ideas and how code seems to flow from my fingertips at the speed of thought, is what decides if I’ll ever finish and publish something, or if I’ll lose my patience and fallback to comfort zones.

Having to write the same boilerplate code over and over again, constant context switching between files, jumping back into a project after a few days and not knowing where everything was in those thousand-lines files.. these are all detractors that will eventually make me say ”f••k this! at least my day job brings money”.
I think the constant obnoxious YT Premium ads are a big reason for the animosity. That and that it doesn't feel like an option. They really increased the amount of ads so it fells like an extortion - pay or suffer.

Most YT ads are abhorrent and incredibly repetitive. Awful music and a piercing voice. I very quickly develop loathing for the brand I see on YT ads.
I agree with that assessment, but with the caveat that I think this mostly applies to new-grad hires. In my experience, people who brought outside experience into FAANG weren't nearly as affected by these guard-rails outside of things I think most firms would approve of (mandatory code reviews, unit/integration tests, don't write inscrutable wizard code golf changes, don't be an ass).

I've spoken with recruiting firms before that literally told me companies asked them to stop sending people who were hired as a newgrad to FAANG.
What nuance would you want? YouTube is the most similar to Google Search of all Google products in regards to 'doing things people hate about Google', beyond maybe Android. The product has been trend-chasing for years trying to do what Twitch, Instagram and Tiktok did all to sell more ads and data to in turn become more profitable, because we all know a few clear tech guides without ads are not turning YouTube anywhere as profitable as another 30 second short or 10-minute pog-face clickbait for kids who somehow have access to their parents' credit card or primed to become the perfect future consumers.

It's been a very, very long time since YouTube has been very profitable for individuals who aren't playing Google's game or started before that time. Practically any new channel is clout-chasing, appealing to kids or unsatisfied adults in some form, with few able to replicate a momentary success if not following these tactics. Enshittification of the platform has been going on for at least a decade now and Google isn't showing any signs of stopping. A few people making themselves believe "oh well it isn't so bad because tech guides" may as well say "Google Search isn't so bad because I can specify the website and aggressively avoid ads".

But YouTube is the good guy because it.. centralizes content creators and soft-locks them into Google's desired format, be it now or in the future? What, do people think if WEI succeeds, YouTube won't be a future candidate for whatever funny business Google decides on next?
Lost Cat Behavior
I'm in a similar boat.

I'm a marketing guy, and have started to regret my career path. I've made it to several final rounds in the past year, but only wound up with rejection at the end—at the final stages, it can be real subtle things that lead them to make that final choice of one candidate vs. another.

On top of that, I'm taking care of a toddler full time, since we can't afford a nanny since I got laid off, so I have even less time to dedicate to the job hunt / skill advancement, and honestly I'm so exhausted by the end of the day that I'm too drained to work on projects that require real brainpower. It's been a slog, but I'm hanging in there and not giving up.

Otta.com has been a great, easy resource for job hunting.
Are you filtering before the interview?
Can they not just noindex them?
I don't have to assume there will be competitors because I know that there already are competitors.
If you release source code under a FOSS license doesn’t that specifically mean that you explicitly consent to it being used in ways you might not be fine with?
It's like C++, you have boostlib which is separate from stdlib but you pretty much need it either way.

Or in JavaScript, you need left-pad to align text to the right, which everyone and their uncle depends on.

Nix is a programming language, where there are holes people will plug them with libraries, what's weird?
TPM, Widevine, Web Environment integrity,
NGSCB; codenamed Palladium, SafetyNet…
If your phone is otherwise normal, clearing the app's cache and data is usually a good way to get things working again for cases like "this app obviously must not be doing this on other people's phones"
I too am a pedant when it comes to using the word "literally" :)

IMO I'm using it correctly here though, let me explain.

Overhead is originally a business term that refers to an ongoing cost. Yes there is a small amount of code in the kernel that has to run, but my naive understanding is that this code also runs for processes that are not in a container (the kernel still needs to check whether the process is in a namespace or not). Additionally, I've never seen a benchmark that shows a workload performing worse when cgroups are applied. I'm happy to be proven wrong here but if this is the case, then there is no ongoing cost (and thus no overhead).
Oh, definitely. I totally agree.

But some people are delusional and sufficiently isolated that they will attribute real significance to affirmation from a piece of software in their emotional sensorium.

Which makes me wonder how long it will be before someone builds a girlfriend app that is super awesome and supportive and “loving” for months but eventually breaks it off after a chat with another user “leaks” into your context lol.

A cheatbot, if you will.

I’m sure it would be effective in nudging a certain cultural subset to a whole new level of weaponised mysogeny, for the views of course.

I think I might be in the wrong timeline.
Undergraduate programs — esp. ivy-league ones — are valued because they enculturate people to the particular (almost always upper-class) culture of the school, which is carefully curated by maintaining a certain mix of pre-enculturated students (= "legacy" students) and a certain student body size. Someone who went to Harvard, acts like "someone who went to Harvard." Even if they grew up in Kolkatta.

For the longest time, "a highly-competitive hiring process requiring a University education" (as still exists in e.g. finance) really just meant "we want upper-class or upper-class-enculturated people; the more upper-class the school, and the more steeped in the culture of the school the person, the better." That's also why (most) state colleges, (most) trade schools, etc. were considered close to valueless as degrees for decades, despite accreditation: they weren't going to enculturate you to the upper class, because everyone who went there was middle-class. It's why "living on campus" is considered more prestigious than commuting to school: more exposure, more enculturation. It's why fraternity membership is prestigious, regardless of what fraternity: it's even more enculturation. Etc.

Graduate programs are valued for similar reasons, but where the culture being enculturated toward, is the culture of academia itself (a culture valued mostly only by academia itself — though also by a few parts of industry that do research and want to attract academics.) Academic culture has an even more rarified upper-class nature than regular university culture. This is why the economics of academia is the way it is — it's a set of (dis)incentives that work out fine for the independently-wealthy trust-fund hyphenated-last-name crowd, but are prohibitive for everyone else.

Academic tenure was and is not supposed to be about getting a steady pay-cheque. For the type of people who academia expects to become professors, the pay of a professorship, tenured or not, is valueless. Rather, academic tenure exists to guarantee that you'll always have access to the resources of the institution to use in your ongoing research — no matter how heterodox that research is vs. the views of the institution. Tenure is a staple through your card on the org-chart that can't easily be removed when leadership (of the University, or of the cultural zeitgeist) shifts.

If you look at the academic "ladder" through the lenses of 1. an assumption of already being independently wealthy and extremely upper-class; and 2. the end-goal being "you can do whatever research you like for as long as you like, under our roof, using our staff, and we'll get it funded for you, no takesie-backsies"; then I think it's all structured in a way that's pretty optimal to achieve adequate gating and filtering of applicants.

Just, the applicants to this "ladder" seem to mostly mistake what it is they're vying for; and often inherently don't have the resources to qualify.
It's pretty bad considering Oxford prices.

(Source: I am an Oxford resident.)
Spoiler alert: be prepared to spend a ton of money of gas, and hours for driving to any kind of doctor's office beyond a GP. A friend of a friend commuted for 4 hours each day to go to school as a kid because her family lived so far out.

I still agree with the general sentiment though. I'm happy with living in a 1br condo and taking public transport, but I had coworkers that "needed" a detached house with a back yard and a moderately expensive car.
Nice to see a fun, creative project like this. The LLM tie-in makes sense because it keeps headlines fresh & relevant to today's news. Thanks for sharing!

If anyone else wants a peek behind the curtain, here is the GPT-4 call: https://github.com/johnpolacek/notyetnews/blob/main/cron/ope...
> you can't fault a lot of non-bonsai trees for considering how they might qualify.

I will 100% fault them for acting on it. Just like I'll fault a company for choosing terrible single use plastics that increase their bottom line a bit, and companies that use AI to reduce head count. You can disagree with a decision even if you understand why it was made.
This seems... a highly problematic line of reasoning.
What are you trying to say by this comment? Odd comparison.
We've done SOC2 type 1 and 2, and with a few exceptions, you only have to do what you say you do. First you claim you have controls on X, Y, Z, and then your audiors check that. You can just not claim X if you don't want to implement it. If the claim is vague, you have a lot of flexibility for implementation too.

This is a huge reason why SOC2 isn't a very useful certification. Your SOC2 and my SOC2 can be wildly different.
> I think the part of the question that throws people is “most common”. It begins to sounds like a trick question, because it hat is the most common? Its going to very from code base to code base

That’s pretty textbook overthinking for an interview. The point is that it varies from codebase to codebase. Tell me about what you normally use and I’ll ask questions.

> Maybe id the question was name 3 data structures, any 3 it might sit well.

Trying to get every human to agree on the wording for an extremely easy and general question isn’t a worthwhile use of time though.

> But even so. The question did devolve into list of things somebody should know as a ex developer.

Interesting use of “devolve”. An an interviewer for a technical role, am I not allowed to have a set of required skills? And is a basic understanding of common data structures not allowed to be in that set?
> Microsoft has and will always try to control the entirety of the stack

> from hardware to servers to operating systems to applications, in a way that would make any Apple exec salivate thinking about vertical integration

Apple has the world's most valuable integrated stack. At scale nobody integrates more tightly or better than Apple, and nobody makes more money from that tight integration. It's the foundation of their entire business and has been for a long time.

That's a pretty bizarre premise to suggest Apple is lacking in the integrated approach. That's exactly what they do, very aggressively. Imagine Microsoft building their own processors and then Windows only running on those. You have the integrated salivation inverted, it's the other way around - Microsoft execs can only dream of the business gain they could have if they actually had Apple's level of ownership (over its ecosystem) but over everything Windows touches.

Microsoft doesn't even have a play in mobile OS / mobile app stores. Whereas Apple is one of the duopolists in that critical segment.
The post that worries me most about the future is "Ask HN: What Happened to Pizza?"
Yeah, it's quite interesting how energy works, AFAIK we still don't know if task fatigue is really a thing or not. But if it isn't, doing more in the morning would not leave you more tired than usual, assuming you get regular good sleep.

The body can be affected by so many things, and it's different for people what affects them. What you eat in the morning, sunlight exposure and consistent bedtimes is what worked best for me. I get an afternoon slump no matter what I do, but that is usually remedied by some physical exercise or breathing exercises I've found, and the longer I go without taking naps, the more my natural rhythm gets used to not sleeping at that point. But I've had periods with extra stress where I just need to take naps, but that is just something I've accepted and enjoy now when it happens.
What do you mean, ChatGPT is monitoring everything you type?
Looks like it runs at a much slower framerate though
I know this isn’t an ad for Temu, but it makes me curious about it. I assumed it was a Slicker AliExpress.
We could make a slow human friendly machine code, show how it abstracts electronic components and then get into physics and chemistry.

It would be as fascinating as unproductive.
The gym didn't exist as our bodies evolved. But neither did grocery stores. Stress and depression pushing you to eat more is your body telling you to get moving, in the past eating more required exerting a lot more effort.
If the actual cost to the consumer to unlock the features isn't more than other brands would charge for something with everything enabled, I don't really see a big issue, aside from that it requires closed firmware.

Seems like it could allow higher quality and cheaper products because they don't have to spend the money on keeping track of multiple hardware versions. Fewer models means the ones that do exist will be more tested and mass produced.

Then again, I've never ridden a motorcycle or even a bike, maybe things are different.
Yes, you are right - I misremembered this detail. My problem at the the time was I didn't want to commit my flake.nix to the repository in one of my previous work places (for political reasons). So I had to unstage and restage it every time I created a new commit.
I think I confused the translation here. I'm Romanian where the {curly brackets} are called "acolade". I read the word "accolade" in English a few times and wrongly assumed it means the same thing as in Romanian.
A previous boss of mine had a heart attack while finishing a 5K turkey trot. He happened to be nearby multiple emergency and medical personal who started administering CPR immediately. He survived and still runs.

https://archive.ph/Yc4gU

Bob Odenkirk was also very lucky that through a set of unusual circumstances, there was an AED available when he had a heart attack on set:

> Rosa Estrada — we were very lucky that this woman was nearby because she knew how to do CPR properly, and she had the AED [defibrillator] in her car, and she only had it in her car because she was returning it to somebody who she borrowed [it from]. It was a total crazy coincidence that she had put it in her car, and I guess she'd had tried to return it, but the friend wasn't home. Otherwise she wouldn't have had it either. And so it's only because of that circumstance that it was in the trunk of her car. And I'm sure that helped me immensely. I mean, the CPR is number one, but the fact is, I didn't get a heart rate for 18 minutes after this started, and that's a long time.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/25/1112731181/better-call-saul-b...