skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prompt makes all the difference. Give ChatGPT the right prompt and you'll be able to see a large change in quality. Yes, it can be dead but many times it will surprise you.
Yeah, the OP's advice makes sense only if you're looking to get the theoretically highest possible offer, to where you surprise yourself, like holy shit I didn't know it was possible for me to land this number! If you know what you want and have room to decline an offer below that, the OP's advice does not apply much. In fact, if you take the OP's advice, you're opening yourself up to wasting time with chumps who were never going to meet your internal number.
>>If a company gives you an exploding offer, it's a strong signal that the culture of that company isn't good, or that they can't afford to hire quality candidates (or both).

I work in games - what happens for us quite often is that we'll interview ~10 candidates and 2-3 are actually good enough to hire. So the process is to give the top candidate the offer with a few days to accept it, if they don't then we move on to the next candidate because they also want to know whether we are proceeding or not - otherwise it's just rude(to the candidate). How does that indicate poor culture?
Percy Ludgate
Hey Jarred, any idea where the bundler + React server components fall in the priority list? Colin's post[1] made me excited about the idea of having a lightweight RSC compiler/bundler built into bun. I'm curious when it'll be considered usable and ready for experimentation.

[1] https://bun.sh/blog/server-components-in-bun
Soda cans and (most) Lego don’t have moving parts and are a lot smaller.

If, for example, you want a one-meter wide door to hang exactly horizontally such that the end farthest away from the hinges isn’t more than 10 micron lower than specced, you’d need an angle of less than ±10^-5 radians. For your typical Lego door of 2 cm, that would be ±2×10^-3 radians.

Or, as the (current) top comment on https://electrek.co/2023/08/23/elon-musk-lego-cybertruck-qua... says:

“Golly getting micron accuracy over something a centimeter long strikes me as at least 100 times easier than getting micron accuracy over something several meters long. Is EM learning why cars aren't designed the way they designed the CT? It seems to have evolved from super cheap to make to "the most difficult ever" which is an odd choice for a mass market device”

But then, this is how you drive innovation. If somebody is willing to push (and pay) for it, things that are imaginable can become commodity.
Absolutely. Internal Family Systems \ Voice Dialogue perspective enables this process to continue and deepen. I would say that IFS puts too much of an accent on trauma, healing, changing (it is therapeutic approach after all), where VD is (in my opinion) more allowing, more positive, less patologizing. It does not matter after all, the perspective of having these voices is key.
Ask HN: Best Alternatives to Postman?
Postman has announced that it is ending offline "Scratchpad" capabilities and is requiring users to create accounts and upload data to their SaaS by September 15. [https://blog.postman.com/announcing-new-lightweight-postman-api-client/]

What is the best alternative GUI for documenting and testing web APIs that operates without intrusive registration and data collection?
Japan has spent more than ¥4 trillion on the decontamination effort so far. So it's definitely not true that they have spent more on propaganda than "actually dealing with the problem".

> Total decontamination costs have exceeded 4 trillion yen as of the end of December. Going forward, additional costs are projected to grow by trillions of yen. [1]

Is ¥70 billion a lot? Sure. But to put it in perspective, more than $14 billion (¥2 trillion) was spent on federal election campaigns in the US in 2020 [2]. Gaining public favor is expensive in a democratic country. And misinformation is a real problem with real costs (e.g. to Japan’s fishing industry) - so it makes sense economically as well as politically.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Fukushima-Anniversary/Fuku...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United...
Junk food manufacturers depend on the addictive nature of the sugar and fat they cram into their products. I don't see how this is any different than cigarette warning labels.
what is the working open source alternative for retook and tooljet?
The JVM doesn’t really have multidirectional arrays, it just has arrays with a type, and that type may itself be an array.

Sometimes that can be useful, and sometimes not.
This is an Oracle blog, and it's called "Inside the JVM". What VMs do Oracle build besides Hotspot and its ilk?
How can you tell difference between effect of redshift and time dilation
Where are they getting the money to pay the journalists? Isn't that the main issue, that people don't pay for journalism, hence why media outlets take VC in the first place? Seems like VC funding is a consequence, not the cause.
If you like baklava and Greek/Mediterranean cuisine, especially if you like to cook it, you'll love Dmitra's Dishes: https://youtube.com/@DimitrasDishes?si=ivasQL7zG_Al1PPZ
i used scrotwm around decade ago. it was my gateway drug to useless linux desktop shenanigans.
That is beautiful and gentle. Thanks for sharing.
Mexico’s big black hexagons warning across excess fat/sugar/calories are kind of ridiculous. I don’t think they are serving to dissuade consumers, and even foreigners stop noticing the labels after just a couple of weeks in the country. The problem seems to be a wider one: Mexico is importing the convenience-store junk-food culture of its northern neighbor. People are often eating crap because there isn’t much else available from an Oxxo.
Elegant means written in the simplest, clearest way possible.

Agreed, a complex application riddled with global variables is not elegant.

In a fifty line self-contained script, global variables are often the simplest way to go. Turning the code into a reusable class with member variables, which will never be reused, is not simpler. YAGNI.
>Once Loris was the sole moderator, he decided to change the subreddit to read-only mode. However, this was thwarted today when a troll (check their comment history) performed a hostile takeover in broad daylight and reopened the sub.

I would say you are the troll for closing a programming language sub for ideological reasons.
>If he’s not worried, why are you?

Because he already got paid enough to keep him going during the forthcoming drought caused by AI absorbing all the water.
Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963)
Feature updates to help podcasters stand out on Spotify
SpaceX deliberately doesn't make money as they want to invest as much as possible into going to Mars.
ToolJet is open-source - https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
I mean, short of showing up at an office, and making yourself enough of a nuisance for HR to get off their duff, it sounds like a good sign that employer may not be for you.

If they can't handle an I-9 in good faith, they have no business hiring. Everyone who employs someone has to have that link of process done.

Anyone who isn't your employer is absolutely justified in refusing. It is a huge liability for anyone else but your employer to do it, as lying to the feds, da-da-da-daaa...is a crime.

For your employer, it's cost of doing business. For anyone else, it's really sketchy af. The Notary Public would have had the best chance of being accommodating, but if it were me, I'd want to hear from your employer directly why my services were required, and to whom to send the bill. As you should not be on the hook for any costs therearound, and they really shouldn't be sending you scrabbling to strangers for a vouch.

Good luck.
Now I’m wondering if AI is going to result in new fetishes. “You’ve heard of foot fetishists? Well, Brian only gets off to women with feet for hands.”
Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

--

From usenet

My comment on the situation: Online mirrors are fine, but calling them backup is a stretch of the imagination,since you must assume that an event can compromise all data within a domain (be it The Internet, or a physical location).

A true backup must be physically and logically separate.
Sometime around 1992, I was at a conference with booths from Compuserve and AOL and all the rest. I marched right up to the Compuserve lady, never having used the service, and I inquired "so when are you gonna get a clue and connect to the Internet?" Of course she answered with something rather clueless and diplomatic, but I got a thrill out of being right when all those walled-gardens hooked up to the walled garden to end all walled gardens.
Why not just legislate the supermarkets to put a label on the respective shelves?
Similarly, not hitting a gift horse in the mouth is a good idea.
Nutrition Labels in India are strange. Many drinks (like refrigerated shakes etc.) have nutritional information per 100 millilitres, whereas the actual bottle is say 330 millilitres, and the "serving size" will be defined as 250 millilters.

The point being, the added sugars will probably come to 20-25 percent of the daily allowance if you drink a single bottle of beverage. At the same time, it will not be seen as "high in sugar" because, hey, the serving size is only 250/330 of a bottle, so the sugar level is below 20 percent. [Sophisticated level of duplicity]

Most people are not that careful anyway - they might glance at the nutritional label, and see that the sugars are only 7.5% and think: that's pretty good, I'll have one, not seeing the 100 ml gotcha. [Basic level duplicity]

The only thing that will alert you is the cloying sweetness of the drink which will cause you to pull out a calculator and see what that small bottle is going to really cause.

Processed foods (snacks and beverages) in India seem to be very high in sugars, sodium and fat, more so than the same brands available elsewhere.
as far as i know, graalvm is also an oracle project
That's awesome. It's not easy to get seniors to spend that much time in the gym, so well done if you contributed to motivate her! Physical exercise is indeed one of the few Parkinson's treatments that there's little doubt about.

In terms of reversing the damage, look into photobiomodulation (PBM) aka red light therapy. In "Improvements in clinical signs of Parkinson's disease", Liebert et al in 2021, she shows improvement in all symptoms including cognition, which is one of preciously few such results I've found in my extensive search of the literature[1]. Caveats are that this was a proof-of-concept study with n=6 only and that the red light helmet is somewhat expensive if you want to try it. There's a Canadian company that makes one for above $2000 (modern, very sci-fi thing), and a more hackerish version from an Australian company for ~$700 (pairs of diodes on aluminum bands you have to finish assembling yourself).

[1]: At least which are actionable for the public. There are tons of trials but good luck getting in early unless you can donate a new library to the university! Gene therapy, stem cell therapy, GDNF, drugs that target alpha-synuclein are all promising but not yet accessible. PBM is something you can do today and since mitochondrial dysfunction is a leading hypothesis in the pathogenesis of PD, the treatment fits.
No explanation whatsoever. Why the branch predictor is not "invoked" in the first version of the function?
faster and easier yes, as long as you're happy to leave money on the table.
Historical acquisition premiums give you a distribution of what you can expect to pay for the whole company given the market cap.
I had a friend who carried around a canceled credit card to get free rides on the bus. The fare boxes accepted swipes and didn't/couldn't settle transactions until they were back in the barn. So they took any credit card that checksummed, I suppose.

They ceased this feature soon afterwards. I was appalled that they'd ever enabled it if it was so vulnerable. (I don't think public transit really cares about collecting fares as a priority.)
I try to avoid buying anything from all such companies but the concentration of power in the international food and drink business makes it quite difficult.
Your main point was about salary negotiation (and I don't know much about that) but your example about interviewing is interesting to me:

> I spent a full day interview [...] and yet I thanked every single interviewer for their time, and told them how much I appreciate [...]

Where I work we became very sceptic about this trait in candidates, especially if someone is overdoing it. Then the suspicion rises whether they are overcomensating for another trait they believe about themselves.

I feel that being likable is table stakes and not something you would optimize for that much.
One thing they can do to make it easier is publish approved adu plans.
I returned to Netherlands after many years abroad and didn't have anything set up except a tax number (BSN) like everyone. This may not sound too bad, but:

- Few people are willing to rent to you if you don't have a Dutch bank account and current registration.

- You can't get registration without a place to rent that qualifies (and many places don't).

I was earning €90k/year at the time; it wasn't a money issue.
Because that doesn't help when you are outside the supermarket. It isn't uncommon for folks to eat things other folks buy (for example).
Code of Design
An ethical code for design.
How can anyone be addicted to alcohol? Its effects are also shit, overdosing can definitely make the abuser a vegetable (temporarily and, over time, permanently).

Both drugs act on similar receptors (GABA), and both induce euphoria, which can lead to abusive behaviour when users keep chasing that ever waning bits of euphoria.
The system started its existence on a VIA EPIA board with a sata controller pci card, later upgraded to an Intel Atom-based Supermicro board. The Atom was 20W TDP iirc, the VIA less than that. The system was mostly idle.
XPONSHOP provide Huawei original S6700 provides a wide variety of services, comprehensive security policies, and various QoS features to help customers build scalable, manageable, reliable, and secure data centers.
Here in Serbia, baklava is mostly too sweet for my taste. I prefer another Turkish dessert called tufahija, which is cooked apple with central part with seeds taken out and filled with grinded walnuts and honey, soaked in sugary water and topped with whipped cream.
Depends, most companies paying that kind of money expects the employee to bring in enough money for additional hires.
So it’s not a textbook case after all?
It wasn't just Australia: They've basically fought warning and package legislation wherever it has been introduced.
Perhaps supermarkets should be required to divide the floor area into two with all the stuff that is bad for you further from the entrance than the good stuff.
Securing Firmware Updates with AES Encryption
The only way to do that, of the places I'm aware of, is to get them to change your starting level from "fresh grad" to "engineer with 2 years of experience".

Since the people involved in setting salary are not involved in setting level, that mostly doesn't happen, because they're not going to countermand the leveling decision just to get your compensation up.

When did you do this? In the current hiring climate, I can't really imagine that happening.
I think the issue with the DSM was mostly that the definition -- in terms of language -- now covered routinely accepted behaviour. That is, it wasn't useful to use those terms to describe a disorder.

What ultimately happened, as I recall, is a reworking of the definition to focus more on the core behaviour that Narcissistic Personality Disorder really means, though I guess functionally this might be much the same as saying "things we used to think were evidence of a diseased mind are now commonplace behaviours".

I assure you that outside of the USA we've always admired the individualism and those aspects of the American Dream etc., and I don't think that is what the DSM debate was about. There's always been unfair tropes about Americans abroad but the change we would notice in the last 40 years is the whining/demands to be accommodated, the babying of language, and the growth of infantilism generally. The "Karen" trope is a consequence of cultural narcissism. You guys have changed.

I'm sure the Brits have too (and in a few holiday destinations we are the worst tourists on earth, no question, though that's not narcissism, it's cheap booze) but I don't know if our core character has changed (for better or worse!) and I would say the world misses the cool self-assuredness it used to associate with the USA.

"What's in it for me?" is selfishness, not narcissism.
Budibase is open-source, including the workflow platform which has helped accelerate thousands of workflows already:

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
The Myth of the Middle Class Squeeze
You know, its actually a pretty good idea, and I see the patent is expired!
Honestly, I pay because I'd rather Discord make a business of being paid by users than waiting to see who they end up getting paid by instead.
Show HN: Playwright in Docker with hot reloading – Simple testautomation
Mmm, sounds like the arguments between "common law" and "roman law".
A small one. If I'd realized I was only getting a 6 month advance I probably wouldn't have taken the offer.
> People bought personalized filter programs to skim a few droplets from that sea and keep the rest out. For some, subjective reality became the selected entertainments and special-interest zines passed through by those tailored shells.

> To avoid such staleness, Jen had hired a famous rogue hacker, Sri Ramanujan, to design her own filter. “Let’s see what happens to that list,” she said aloud, “when we use threshold seven, categories one through twenty.”

> “And the surprise factor, Professor Wolling?” Jen felt in a good mood. “Let’s go with twenty percent.” That meant one in five files would pop up randomly, in defiance of her own parameters.

-- Earth by David Brin
> react passes everything as attributes for some reason

Because that was their design choice: if you write attributes you pass them as attributes to the components

> I personally don’t understand why this hasn’t been fixed.

Because React is very popular and it's used everywhere in Facebook. You can't just change the behaviour without breaing a lot of stuff

> Preact has managed to support properties

> it would be fairly easy for React as well.

Yup, they should "just" do it. Meanwhile, here's an overview of what's needed for that support: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11347

Preact uses Option 2 in the list. Other libraries go for either Option 1 or Option 3. React is going with option 2 in an experimental branch.
A bit late to the party but I still remember vividly the day I was back from school and my dad installed Windows 2000 on the family PC. I remember looking at the shiny animations thinking this is the peak of technology. It was exciting!
Web API to a global ocean hindcast-forecast biogeochemistry model
What hilbert42 says is very relatable to me even if it never got so bad for me.

I can't stress enough how everything is different "when one can't 'go home' during off hours". I used to be an enlisted sailor, then an officer. It's sometimes hard to have a few minutes alone in an entire day (night included), especially on smaller or older ships. After a few months any small thing can become a very nasty fight very fast. The word "microagression" suddenly makes a lot of sense. I once got into a fight because some guy thought I had slightly moved his towel that was in front of my bunk. This man had been at sea on the ship for more than 6 month, I had joined mid-tour a month before.

I've seen a male-only boat (there were one or two female officers, which was accepted because of the bathroom configuration) get one female enlisted sailor, a talented and very professional young woman. Everything changed in one day. Though submariners are often a bit more mature than others, managing a mixed crew on a small ship is very different.

Remember the average age on a military ship is rarely above 25.
Sexual harassment is not the hardest, since everyone is with everyone 24/7, most cases are very clear cut. I've seen a few very nasty cases (sexual predator that went undetected for months or year, a guy that wasn't reported despite a suspected rape attempt and went on to assault someone on his next ship under my command, a false rape claim) but it's mostly straightforward to handle. A lot of officers don't close their doors when doing personal review or other one-to-one interviews and conversations with female sailors but the paranoia mostly stops there.

Dealing with "regular" harassment, rumours, jealousy etc is way less simple with a mixed crew, regardless of the personal qualities of the people. And of course your management style has to be adapted. When you have more than a few (young) women in a team, you have to lead differently. (Women over 40 are rarely on the "bad" side (when there is a clear one) of those problems).

I've seen quite a few of those cases. Sometimes, we've been successful in stopping them before harm gets done, sometimes someone's life was ruined for months or years or people had to be transferred because trust had been broken too deep and some people couldn't work together anymore. And a few cases with legal proceedings (harassment lawsuit etc), but never handled one myself.

On a personal note I (male) have had to share a two beds room with a female for a few months. We didn't sleep a lot, and often not at the same time, never had any problems. It was a male-only boat with less than five women.

Hope this gives you an impression of what it can be like.
> you can't force someone to care.

Even worse: there do exist quite some people who do care a lot, and thus become very radicalized about the politicians and the political system.
Thanks for pointing out soulseek, hadn't heard of it, will be checking into it.

But I meant it in a much more general sense, for most of what happens on the net .... built-in. A LOT of sites want me to enable services that I don't want to deal with. I don't want google-analytics, or apis, or syndication. A LOT of sites want me to subscribe with a long list of personal information. Not happening. A LOT of sites want me to watch advertising; I quit cable-TV long ago.

I could just auto-'nope' to all of those right up front and they could just - reply 'nope' and go away. All recorded once and for all, never knock on that door again.

uBlockO helps with some of that, but things shouldn't be that complicated, it wastes my time, it wastes a huge amount of bandwidth ... and data center energy needs. Enshittification.

Wouldn't have to be all-or-nothing; there could be maybes. By 'BBS-simple' I mean an up-front human-to-human negotiation style. I download something, if the sysop is looking for something and I have it to share, they'll get it, guaranteed, nothing else. Micropayments for their time? Wish we could do that.

If I click a link on a specific topic, and with that query I auto-communicate 1) what I don't want (images say, or a subscription pop-up, or an unwanted 3MB list of all their other features, services, plans, site history) and 2) what they're looking for) ... they could just say 'no go', or we could bargain. The machines can keep track.
And what if the backup you're copying to cold storage is also encrypted?

How did the saying go? You don't have backups until you've successfully restored from them or something like that. =)

Basically any 3-2-1 system is Schrödinger's backup until you've actually used it.