skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We hired a former Googler recently, great hire. Your resume couldn’t be more different from his: yours is so generic that my only takeaway is “oh he worked at Google”. I fear you’ve taken resume advice along the lines of “…explain the value of what you did…” (which is great advice) but should be used to augment technology experience, not replace it. I have no idea what you’re good at.

Find some former Google colleagues who have managed to get new jobs and ask to review their resumes. Google is noteworthy on a resume: it won’t guarantee you a job but it’ll mean someone reviews your resume. If you’re struggling so much with a 4 year Google stint under your belt, there’s something wrong with your resume.
Teaching my kid has been fun and educational.

The rule in the house is we don't say "I don't know." If we don't know something, we are required to think about it and then ask a question.

Recently, he asked how an audio recoding dog trainer worked in terms of how it "went back up" because he couldn't see the internals. He knew that it went down and back up, and then knew that it was not electronic, but mechanical. I asked him to think about it. He thought, and I could see his mind working, thinking about everything in his mind where a toy of his would go down and up. He sat for around 20 seconds and asked, is it a spring? I was quite impressed considering he is 4 years old and was able to come to this conclusion.

There is a map we create, a list of things that go up and down. From that list of things that can go up and down, knowing it was not a pulley or a plunger, because it returned to its original state, he's able to limit it to the one object that would work.

The biggest jumps in my education have been directly related to people mapping Concepts and ideas instead of memorization. That's like the idea that everything is a file. From that framework you can pull out questions like, can I read, do I have permissions to read, can I write, so now when someone explains to me I knew shiny object, like a fancy Wiz Bang database, I asked a couple questions and generally know how it works.
kind of. you can decompose an arbitrary matrix into symmetric and antisymmetric components: R = S + A. Since A = -A^H (anti-symmetric), for any vector x, <x, Ax> = -<x, Ax> => <x, Ax> = 0. So for any matrix where <x, Rx> > 0, you can add an arbitrary anti-symmetric matrix and keep the same induced quadratic form. So people typically enforce symmetry in their definitions because it is the only part that contributes to the quadratic form and is "nicer" to work with (always diagonalizable, positive eigenvalues, etc.)

This should generalize easily to the complex/Hermitian case.
The perks of FAANG are there, IMO, to pay the employees with a feeling of high-class status. Meanwhile, from an economic-class perspective, engineering is essentially blue-collar - it’s mostly about things and not (directly) about people. It’s a weird dichotomy.
Yeah I also had a good experience with recruiters. I've only got one job through them but it went pretty well. The two best things I found using a recruiter were:

1. They know about all the jobs. Despite searching quite hard I didn't know that some big companies had offices in my city. They are bad at advertising this.

2. They want you to get the job. That's how they get paid. So they are (mostly) on your side and will tell you things like details about what to expect in the interview. Surprisingly useful.

3. They bypass the normal nonsense application process. You just need a CV.

Would use again.
I've done a lot, got a load of interviews and it's all just dried up. It's pretty depressing too. I'm fortunate I can retire in a couple of years but I'd love a change to sink my teeth into before I finally put my feet up.
Alt + start typing jumps to file/folder with this name.

Ctrl + enter puts currently selected file/folder name into command-line.

Ctrl + O hides panels and shows you "background" with all the previous command outputs.

Custom editor can be set in F9 -> Options -> Editor settings.
> their operational area is smaller and they have fewer cars in fewer regions

Waymo has consistently been more conservative. That’s partly what makes them better.
College professors are searching for ways to “ChatGPT-proof” their exams
Don’t expect quick fixes from AI model red-teaming. Security was an afterthought
How are you liking Unifi Protect?
Use SageMaker: https://www.philschmid.de/sagemaker-llama-llm
> Why would you need to _communicate about programming_? Because it's a core part of your job...

Honestly, I am not sure I have personally ever had to communicate low level details like that with anyone else. The people I have talked pogromming with in my life have all be capable technologists, which allow us to discuss in high level detail. If a list is the right data structure for whatever high level problem we are trying to solve, it is assumed we know that and understand how to use it.

> Every interview question can be characterized as trivia if you squint hard enough.

Well, I suppose. And there isn't anything wrong with trivia per se. But at the same time it should not be surprising when someone doesn't have an answer. A lot of this stuff just isn't worth having in immediate memory – unless you enjoy trivia, in which case, cool!
Love it! By briefly viewing, only thing I might be missing is adding a signature
It's a common joke at Google: thousands of PhDs moving fields from one protobuf into another. Can confirm, did some of that personally before transferring into a more interesting area.
Weren't people right about this though? Institutionalized racism and sexism was everywhere, neoliberalism created the most unequal society since the era we unironically call "the robber-baron era", the carceral system is truly heinous (the ban on weed alone was just a joke), etc etc etc.
Is the concept of trust related to privacy somehow? Do I trust X because it won't share my data with Y? Well, that concept has been blurred to me. I live in a country where prosecutors can demand me to give them all my digital devices and the credentials to all my self-hosted and online accounts. So this fact by itself makes my trust on MS, Google or alike irrelevant from a data privacy perspective.
So this is a pre-existing thing burning some money to enter a new market. This seems… normal? Presumably if all goes well, they’ll build a US distribution/fulfilment network, costs fall, all is well.

The relationships with suppliers just sound industry-normal, tbh; Amazon, big supermarket chains etc also have a reputation for being very aggressive on supplier pricing.
Microsoft is a company that in the past tried very hard to use their dominance in certain markets take over other markets. It’s hard for young people to understand how powerful Microsoft was as a company in the mid 90s.
Patric McKenzie, aka @patio11, is a great writer, and as the article discusses, he has done a lot with helping people manage debt collectors. I once had a ISP send me to collections over a paperwork fuckup (not my fault) when returning a cable modem. Patrick’s writing helped me understand my legal rights, and how to handle it (and how to find additional trustworthy information).

This article was really interesting in the context of my $150 cable modem. I wrote the collection agencies a letter with a paper trail (as he suggests) informing them about how to contact me, and my dispute of the debt. The debt magically disappeared. This article really illustrates what happened behind the scenes, which was a pretty cool full circle.

As someone with a high credit score, it makes sense why they bothered to contact me. When I wrote the letter, informing them I understood the law and required paper correspondence , I clearly became “not profitable” to them - regardless of the debts legitimacy. Surprisingly powerful insight about how it works behind the scenes. When reading the article, I couldn’t help but think that you could almost intentionally avoid paying debts if you had a lawyer willing to help you fight the system. The economics of the debt collection system seems like it’s not worth fighting anything.
You give Elon a pot of shit and he will stir it. Sometimes he just makes his own pot. Just ignore him.
You can tell a lot about a company's priorities by how they make most of their money, and if you do that you see that Google is an Advertising/surveillance company disguised as a tech company, while Microsoft is a professional/enterprise services company disguised as a tech company.

Obviously this isn't perfect because both Google and Microsoft are giant diversified companies with lots of revenue streams, but I think you can roughly understand the way they will behave by looking at them through this lens.

This is why Google sinks resources into Android, but retires projects like their domain registrar: because android is an excellent advertising/surveillance platform: they can not only serve ads using Android, they can collect surveillance info on users to sell better ads.

Conversely, Microsoft invests resources where they do because they want to make the Windows/Office useful for professionals at work. They are sinking billions into OpenAI so that they can develop their Office Copilot to make their Office/Windows platform more appealing to C-Suites writing emails and memos in Outlook and Word
> Your description of Pornhub's "duty" is an abstract notion that you're refusing to connect to any practical real-world implementation online.

It's called a thesis. We haven't delved into any of those details because we can't even agree that this is their duty. Pornhub seems to think it isn't, because it says other things should be done instead. You seem to agree.

It's okay if you don't think porn providers have any duty to verify the age of their users. I think that's pretty messed up, but you're entitled to that opinion.
I thought sama said they don’t use data going through the api for training. Guess we can’t trust that statement
Yes, I'm pretty sure. In my and my friends' experience at least. As long as the codebase is of manageable size it's one of the most laid back languages out there, letting you get shit done without having to write pages of boilerplate or being lectured by a compiler. The level of abstraction is just right for the current hardware too.

I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but having all objects be hash maps that can be extended or edited at any point and be simultaneously dumpable and loadable into JSON with one line was an unfathomably big brained move. Being able to just use the data you get from various sources instead of having to create an ad-hoc struct/object that perfectly matches all types and values (and ofc crashes immediately if a change is made on the other end) is so underrated. That's not even mentioning the native async support.
Dropping my own favorite review of the contributing factors that led to the downfall of the republic and rise of empire:

"Storm before the storm".
> However, ChatGPT risks exposing confidential intellectual property.

I don't remember seeing this disclaimer on the ChatGPT website, gee maybe OpenAI should add this so folks stop using it.
Check out the History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan if you haven't already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)
No, it's not about Local Group. It's about Local Supercluster, Perseus–Pisces Supercluster, and so on, which are attracted by Shapley attractor, but stretched into different directions.
Yeah sure, I totally trust you after the Storm-0558 desaster
That is really impressive!!! Are you able to do some kind of power management on any attachable sensors as well besides whatever their standby current is?
Proving that is impossible. As said before, rsc has analyzed publicly available source and found the change fixed bugs in the ones where it made any difference.

If you want to argue, you really need to show an example of where the change causes a bug in any scenario that matters. With a real, preexisting, program.
The problem is that whether or not downloading a YouTube video can be fair use, the RIAA is alleging that youtube-dl is a copy protection circumvention tool. 17 USC 1201(a)(2) does not care about your fair use, it only cares about keeping copying tools off the market.

To bring this back into the home recording of radio, it'd be as if Congress decided to ban the sale of tape decks that could record radio transmissions[0]. That ban would work regardless of fair use.

This is why Section 1201(a)(2) needs to be struct from the law, BTW - your access to copying tools should not evaporate because of a lack of ability to enforce copyright on you.

[0] How this ban is actually implemented is immaterial, but perhaps radios can't have detachable speakers or audio out ports to hook a tape deck into, or tape decks have to only have an integral speaker and no audio in ports. This wouldn't stop home recording of radio but it'd be significantly worse.
Do not be put off by the number of applicants of jobs on LinkedIn.

I hired two developers in the last few weeks via LinkedIn job ads and I can tell you out of 200 applicants there were less than 10 who fits the requirements.

I would also say make sure your resume fits the job, add your phone number and email address. Start with what's important, your experience and things that you're really good at.

Changing the resume to fit each JD would hard, but apply for jobs that your experience fit well.
Assuming $709 an average number over all cost of living locations. We’re spending more than that.
Sounds like UK recruiters work differently to American ones. I don't understand how they would steal your wages. They don't pay you in the UK.
Nope. I read it and found many interesting points on how the ultra rich on the left operate, as well as about this family that I had never heard of. If you want to see it as a culture war piece, then you will see it as a culture war piece, can't really help with that.
If anyone sees a static "image" on their iPhone, check that you have Reduced motion disabled in system Settings. I totally forgot I did that and just assumed it doesn't work on mobile.
Having three, I still think that the tabula rasa might be the proper was to look at it. The expectations of infants follow from their interactions with the world. And those are firstly the interactions with their parents and family. Outside of the very basic needs (food, drink, emotional comfort) you get the children you make. Not to say that all children react the same way to the same parenting, or have the same expectations. But you do mostly create their value system that governs their expectations.
It's sunk cost. They have CRE leases they can't back out of and want to leverage their expensive real estate.

In the future as the leases expire we may see shrinking and a slow return to more remote work as companies reduce the square footage of the leases.

Smart managers know that eliminating rent from balance sheets improves the bottom line.
The hypocrisy of download defenders is exposed when re-distribution is the concern. Most content producers and publishers are fine with downloading as long as you don't re-distribute (which is theft), but we have no way of preventing that, so they are forced to close the download gate
Too pedantic I assume to point out that by definition inflation means they aren't actually spending more?
> I also distinctly remember learning that Google had 100K+ employees. To me, that is moving into "big bank" size territory and it's clearly impossible for EVERYONE who is former Google to be amazing.

Ive worked at 3 places, sizes: <10, ~10k, and ~20k.

I cant even imagine 100k. 100k for Toyota or Walmart, sure, that makes sense. But at tens of thousands of engineers you must have a lot of people not doing anything. Even at 20k, so maybe 5k engineers you only have so many people pushing on new stuff. Most are doing maintenance on crud and batch apps and keeping up with whatever "initiatives" are being pushed while attending meetings.

Most impressive to me imo are the instagram type companies that have 20 employees when they are sold/ipo or whatever.
What would be so terrible?

Some people will be naturally curious, as always, and they will go deeper.

And even languages like Javascript influenced the design of CPUs and even specific instructions. Nothing is "pure" in the computing field
Return to office mandate? It's likely just lazy leadership. Leaders, be better
I don’t think you can both love someone while also thinking they “don’t matter at all”. But maybe your definition of love is different.

A parent simply telling their child, unconditionally, that they love them isn’t enough. You have to believe they do matter and are worth something.

If you can say that about your child despite their many flaws, and potentially how they might hurt you [1], to me is what unconditional love is more about.

[1] That is, humans aren’t perfect, and will on occasion hurt other humans, to some extent — especially children that are still developing and trying to figure out what is and isn’t appropriate.
I guess Tramp mode must be the inspiration, to some extent.

But the VSC approach allows me to customise the tool environment within the remote extension, including going as far as using different SCSS processors and language servers, but is managed through essentially exactly the same interface as the local.

(It's also inherently multi-user; changes are reflected in each machine connected to the remote, which makes it really easy to move from a work to a home machine, or a desktop to a coffee-shop laptop.)

This is what I meant by uniquely-implemented. I often find that the most visceral critics of VSC or adherents of "natively implemented" code editors haven't the slightest awareness of this feature.

Still -- thank you for your comment, it gives me one more thing to investigate for those times when tools fail me.
> It doesn't take a lot of effort to reverse engineer mechanical parts

Internal combustion engines are ridiculously complicated. Modern engines directly trace lineage to their manufacturers’ founding. Major engine differences continue to define the automotive field.
Companies are being as picky as they can get away with.
Youtube, when compared to any other streaming / video on demand / film tv services etc, has by far the most insane value proposition.

The sheer amount of content on there for the price is well worth paying. I use adblocks everywhere, I use pihole, I am really strong on that. But I do use Youtube a lot, and it is only fair that I pay the price. It is very reasonably priced.
Would it be incorrect to call such associating with brands/ "loving" a company more (or less) an American thing? Why even spend any moment of your finite life pondering over behaviors of random companies, let alone defending one over another?
Namesake of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
I think you missed my subtext, which is that rent control followed New York City into its current housing crisis. But, I will add "complete public financing for virtually all new housing" to the list of interesting ideas people have for solving housing scarcity, along with "plant based diets" and "moving everyone to federal grazing land in rural Oregon".
As a parent with kids, I really don't know how folks are getting by with the prices of everything. I know folks who keep eating out, buying new vehicles, and even building new houses and I'm left scratching my head wondering how they afford all of this.

I'm not saving nearly as much as I was years ago and I think my "lifestyle" has decreased post COVID (few vacations, eating out is a treat, gifts are for birthdays/holidays). Is everyone swimming in debt?
you cant reuse names with top line functions:

package hello

type cat int

func greet(c cat) cat {
return c + 1
}

type dog string

func greet(d dog) dog { // greet redeclared in this block
return d + "one"
}

but you can with methods:

package hello

type cat int

func (c cat) greet() cat {
return c + 1
}

type dog string

func (d dog) greet() dog {
return d + "one"
}
Bullshit. That would be global news.
Waymo is already $5/ride, no tip, in Phoenix. That’s cheaper than an Uber and competitive with public transport.
I think you may have missed the point here.

You could start your computer, then your browser, then visit a few websites, and never interact with any product not owned by Microsoft, minus perhaps routers and switches. Your traffic could even be routed through some of the undersea cables owned by them, to ad networks ran in their massive cloud.

> Imagine Microsoft building their own processors and then Windows only running on those.

I’m old enough to remember the amount of leverage Microsoft has with the entirety of the x86 platform, e.g. [0]

Microsoft does not need a proprietary hardware platform, although the hasn’t stopped them from trying to lock other OS out (see TPM).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
> I didn't want to commit my flake.nix to the repository in one of my previous work places (for political reasons).

Does the same workplace not allow people to include config related to their editors and so on?
Please tell me how.
iCloud is not even a cloud, just a set of services running mostly on GCP.
My data suggests that wages are down about 15% from their peak 2 years ago.

When I see people with 10+ years of experience struggle to get jobs right now it's almost always because they're filtering out good opportunities with their comp expectations.

For more junior folks the market is tough right now. It's going to be a grind but I'd highly encourage you to consider working with a third-party recruiter. You may need to try a few different ones before you find one that can get you placed but a good one will be worth it. All the normal advice applies: leverage your network and debug the problem. Consider where in the process you're dropping off. Are you not hearing back at all? Are you getting interviews but not offers? Work from there.
Don’t Anthropomorphize AI
Pretty sure Azure has a moderation endpoint enabled by default that makes using the OpenAI API an awful experience.
I think what you say yo kids, and what you say to adults should be different.

And like either most of "growing up" the transition from one to the other is hard.

We want our kids to "work hard" because we know that to get places they will need to be able to do that. "Working hard" is a skill they need to learn.

But as adults, in the real world, "hard work" counts for nothing. The world rewards results, not the hours. Working effectively rewards more than working long. It's hard to explain to an employee that despite the fact they work "harder" than their colleagues, they get paid less because they deliver less. "Hard work" counts for very little.

Transitioning from hard work, to effective work, can be confusing for a young adult. That doesn't mean teaching children that hard work doesn't matter. It's precisely because they -can- work hard that it's possible to work smart.
It handwaves all the things EC2 and all services built on top do.

The amount of engineering needed just to migrate droplets live is enormous - it’s an art (according to a friend in hypervisors), and that ignores everything else regarding hypervisors and security.

Scalability is also a thing you get “for free” with serverless computing.
In theory, you might be able to use the csv entry as a hook to trace back both the original lender and ask them for their documentation of debt as well as the chain of custody that leads you to be authorized to collect it; but most likely it's going to be default judgements because nobody showed up. Default judgements are more of a punishment for not showing up than a statement of likely results on the merits of the case.
I see no logical reason for this to be true, certainly not in any absolute sense.
yup, with daycare costs we're technically top 10% and still kinda hand to mouth in a MCOL area.
> 1:1 mapping of the C programming language

I was pretty surprised the first time I discovered the C compiler could "reverse engineer" a "logical or of two shifts" to generate a single rotate instruction.