skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Deflection of electromagnetic waves by pseudogravity in distorted photonic crystals" (2023) https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.0... :

> We demonstrate electromagnetic waves following a gravitational field using a photonic crystal. We introduce spatially distorted photonic crystals (DPCs) capable of deflecting light waves owing to their pseudogravity caused by lattice distortion. We experimentally verify the phenomenon in the terahertz range using a silicon DPC. Pseudogravity caused by lattice distortion reveals alternative approaches to achieve on-chip trajectory control of light propagation in PCs.
What do you mean "google refuses to sell me a Pixel?"
> too many ads and pop-ups

Going to download chrome multiple times just to pick this. I prefer Edge but this seems morally good
A former coworker moved back to Aus (Perth?, he's Aussie) from British Columbia. He was awesome but apparently the timezone change was too large for him to continue with the North American based org. Not sure the new work status.

A friend-of-friend (U.S. nationality) might move to Sydney(?) for work with Amazon, to be closer to a team based there.

Random data points and not direct answer but would assume large companies in general would be relevant here.

Edit: I don't support amazon at all this is just for information transfer
I very enthusiastically want an answer to this as well. If I get an offer on my current farthest company today and start Monday, it'd be the shortest turnaround I'd ever expeienced. I applied on August 31st and got a reply on September 10th (and a call within a few more days). So the process was 6-8 weeks depending on how you measure it.

well, 2nd fastest. My fastest would be my first role if you count "reply back starts the process", since the process was 3 weeks. The problem was they took 6 weeks to reply back (and yes, applying in December is rough. one reason not to graduate in fall semester I guess), so it cancels out. Take that one as you may.

> Frankly I think the process is so long because a company doesn't want to hire new people/a replacement

to give some generosity: a bad fit SWE can certainly do a lot of damage to a codebase and overall team morale, even if kicked out in 3 months. That plus the higher pay compared to other industries makes me understand some scrutiny. those 3 months are still ~30-50k+ just to "test" someone on the field.

But I do agree at some point in your career that it shouldn't take 5 interviews to see if someone is BS'ing their resume (that's what background checks and references are for) nor has "1 years of experience 10 times". I can only see more than 3 interviews (or 2 + recruiter call) being necessary if they are considering you for multiple roles (which you hopefully agreed to, either in applications or in the recruiter call). recruiter call -> technical/leadership evaluation -> soft question/culture fit (this can be 2nd if you want).
To mitigate it, use `null` as prototype:

Object.create(null)

For example,

function PersonModel(person) {
const p = Object.assign(Object.create(null), person)
p.name ??= ''
p.age ??= 0
return p
}

const p1 = PersonModel(JSON.parse('{"__proto__": { "Mallory": 666 }}'))
p1.Mallory // undefined
Windows phone killed Nokia
I think you might be misunderstanding my and many feminist reasoning (or you might also just not agree with it, which is fair). Nobody is asking girls, boys, and non-binary kids to study one thing over the other, or to pursue a certain career over the other to fix the uncorrected pay-gap.

Rather the focus is on removing systematic barriers which hinders certain careers from being valued as much others. It isn’t a coincidence that CEOs are being payed a ridiculous amount of money despite not contributing all that much, while nurses have to suffer austerity after austerity with their paycheck mirroring.

These are examples of systematic barriers which feminists wish to remove. I know very few (probably none) feminists which are asking for equal representation among CEOs, rather they want CEOs to be valued for what they are, and instead the profit going to the workers.

The corrected pay-gap isn’t a big deal in Iceland. I think they’ve even stopped measuring it because it was deemed a distraction from the equality that most people actually want. Instead some feminists in Iceland actually want to go in the other direction and look at the total wage gap (which also takes into account unpayed lost work).
Because you keep interfering with my work with your never ending notifications starting with the last opened tabs, to the incessant "use Bing it's great" - which I can only mute for a week at a time.

WTF already; used to love Edge until all this started.

In my case I switched to Firefox. It's working really, really well!
ah so like gq, vogue, teen magazines, mtv, hollywood - the traditional media.
I don’t disagree but it’s an obtuse way to make a point.
MAME 0.260
There's driving without attention, there's defensive driving, and then there's ability to react to things which would be physically impossible for people to react to. You can train all you want (and yes, that will improve your survival rate significantly), but the eyes->brain->muscles->movement->car->inertia pipeline has delays we will never be able to work around.
The interesting thing about that is that it's actually independent of the current wealth distribution I think, i.e. you could allocate any arbitrary amount to each person.
> But how could anybody could have thought that the economy would tank, once we all got out from the Covid shutdown,

The economy tanked because they started raising interest rates.. That was certainly an expected consequence to some degree

What was less expected was for inflation to remain high at the same time the economy was tanking. It's already understood that people spend less in low-inflation environments
No mention of Frege’s Begriffsschrift?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begriffsschrift
Ban human drivers and lobby to have Waymo be the only legal way to drive. \s
Isn't "The Base" == Al Qaeda?
I'm sure this happens but you should give some examples.

Also, many of these kinds of laws have clauses which make them only apply to social media with over a certain number of users (like 1 million or 100 million). These laws create other potential issues (mainly, government being able to control the popular narrative by "regulating" the most popular social media); but niche social medias are so niche (Twitter probably has more users than every small forum combined) that almost nobody is trying to regulate them in this way.
This is funny, nice.

Have been into Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares lately, most of the restaurants featured are now closed. That might be a fun list of restaurants to celebrate.
Can I fly with a joystick?
>> If this knowledge is valuable, the best way to show a support for it is hiring somebody to work full time on this problem.

Best for whom?

I'm not sure it's best for the employer since they then live or die based on the abilities, insight and inspiration of that one employee.

Equally, I'm not sure it's best for the employee who becomes singularly focused on that one problem to the exclusion of all others. If they want to diverge down an alternate path for a bit they (likely) cannot.

Of course in one sense work-for-prize is not efficient. We may as well argue that FOSS programing is not efficient. But FOSS exists not because of effeciency, but because it allows people to scratch an itch (usually unpaid.)

Prizes allow specific goals to be prioritised within that community. Say, for example, an expert at ocean currents notices a prize for decoding a historical text. Sounds like a fun hobby. Figures out that it contains tide tables.

Employment is clearly a good thing. Scanning in old archives could easily be done by an employee. But there's a place in the world for more than just formal employment. The existence of prizes does not negate employment. Rather it might attract folk into a "hobby" of sorts.
I've said this previously when a self-driving Uber killed a woman, and I'll say it again:

I don't understand why authorities allow self-driving cars to beta test out in public. I thought Waymo was the best of the lot with something like millions of hours on the road and no incidents, but when they started accepting passengers, it failed to proceed past a traffic cone on a sunny day:

https://youtu.be/zdKCQKBvH-A?t=742

The government should initiate a comprehensive test on a self-driving car's capabilities. In their current form, I wouldn't trust any of the others like Tesla and Uber that think self-driving is as easy putting it out on the road. And that too with Tesla and their cost-saving no-LIDAR nonsense.

These companies should be fined hefty amounts and barred from beta testing out in public.
I had such bad memories of trying to slog through those books in middle school that I never even considered the movies.
Heh Heh Heh

Does that mean you're starting to believe what the naysayers have been saying for years? ;)
No one likes that either you know.
The scene customization feature is a game-changer. Definitely trying it out with my iOS 3D scanner creations. Thanks for sharing the tech stack too! https://www.revopoint3d.com/
> especially not in the UK.

For US readers who weren't taught this in history class, the UK suffered a number of terrorist attacks by the IRA from the 1970's til roughly 2001.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-security-bombings...
Those were all really good points, and I agree with most of what you said. Do you agree with my original thesis though, "writability over readability" is a software anti-pattern and also applies to numeronyms such as a11y and i18n?

> The extreme aversion to learning, bordering on antiintellectualism, that's plaguing this industry, is not helping in making better software. It's helping companies in solving problems by throwing large amounts of easily replaceable fresh juniors at them.

I feel the same way about any business or tool that advertises itself as "write less code!". It's not the quantity of typing that is difficult about a programmer's job; it's the cognitive load and context that must be held at any given time. I'm always interested in tools that can help reduce cognitive load, but I am also fearful of leaky abstractions. If a tool wants to inject itself between myself and the machine, the abstraction better be flawless and rooted in first principles.
"But that's not a real reason. Give me a real reason!"
> some faceless people at the British Establishment Country Club put down their whiskeys, ordained that mr Murray be bullied and so it went.

I don't mean to go off-topic, but the last few years have shown that this is how power and influence really works in our world. There is no other way to explain (for example) why no clients of Jeff Epstein's brothels have as yet been named and prosecuted. Conveniently, a few have identified themselves through their actions. But they are all free men still, with no signs of any pending comeuppance, or really even an investigation into their involvement.
I'm 20 and all for it, and have been all for it since I thought about it at 17. I think that social media and the internet are ways of not having to develop social or emotional skills and going through school without social media would be really healthy for future generations.
I've been using unscented "Dr. Bronner's - Organic Lip Balm" for years. I have cripplingly sensitive skin, and this was the only brand that doesn't irritate it (love their bar soap too). I have basically bought a stick for every jacket I own, so I can reliably whip it out and apply whenever my lips feel chapped.
To not have "without damaging the brand" as a contingency on that goal seems shortsighted but I wouldn't be surprised if the goals omit that judging from watching the way MS operates over the decades.
Or maybe they know they can do anything in front of the car because it will always yield. It will be interesting to see the game theory develop when most of the roads are full of driverless cars so you can gain an edge on the road risk free
I wonder if there was a collision of super heavy black holes, would we feel the gravitational waves by ourselves
Curl from Start to End
> Why does everything involving the Fed turn into a conspiracy theory?

Because they are a secretive cabal of elites who have some control over the economy.

Or maybe because they keep telling us "the economy" is great but most people's day to day lives are worse and we can tell when someone's lying to us even if we can't quite pinpoint that lie.
Re: Quantum gravitational models observed superfluidity, and reasoning about sufficiency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37967527

Can distorted photonic crystals help confirm or reject current theories of superfluid quantum gravity?

Amplituhedrons are also "quantum-geometric" "manifolds" (?); and so no Feynman diagrams.

Could these be a layer in a PV/TPV cell? Isn't that almost already a rectenna?

Is there Hawking radiation in all things?

Can quantum wave functions be written to and read from holographically-encoded photonic crystals; thereby overcoming current qubit storage coherence limits of less than a second? IDK that holographic storage folks are yet aware of this either
also it seems to me that you are implicitly making that representation by submitting a response to something called a 'skill assessment test'

i mean unless you think they're trying to assess your skill at copying and pasting, or cheating on tests, or general dishonesty

in the last case you have a sort of epimenides paradox, in that the way to pass the general-dishonesty test legitimately is to try to cheat on it
Google Maps is a service - there have always been ads in free services.

Microsoft is sticking ads and deceptive practices into the OS and its tools (that you pay for).
If you don't believe they're trustworthy, then why are you trusting them with your valuable data by using their OS?

I don't think they're trustworthy either: why would I trust a company that forces ads on me right in the OS, tries to force their crappy browser on me, and many more awful things? So, I don't use their OS. It's pretty simple. If you continue to use them despite supposedly not trusting them and being offended by their user-hostile treatment, then you're just rewarding their behavior.
> This has led me to software consulting/contracting

For better understanding your context, have you started being a consultant/contractor already?
What do you even mean by motivation? If it's true (though it's probably a sensor error), it's perfectly reasonable to mention. And lying about it would be ridiculous. What scenario is there where you're worried about bad motivation here? It's not unrealistic for someone to like the idea.
Obstructionist paper pushers? Check. Computer illiteracy? Check. Blaming the requester for your own fuck-ups? Check. All combined? Priceless.
Haha fair play.

HN is in general the best thing on the Internet but the number of people who stand with Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers on knee-capping Brooksley Born because they think the Ayn Rand car looks cool is like, very high.

So I generally try to start that conversation in a roundabout way.

I guess I’m ornery today. Objectivism is fascism clotted with purple prose written by a welfare recipient.

Prove me wrong ;)
I think it's better to write 10 quadrillions rather than 10 thousand trillions. Also I think frequency and power measurement precision are not mutually limited by the Heisenberg principle, as E = ħω .
"your overreacting, if you had a different mindset you'd be OK with my behavior"
> Are you suggesting that we should have no hiring criteria?

> You did see the part where I would find it perfectly acceptable to show the behavioral traits by working any job?

I'm suggesting that hiring criteria that reflect more directly on the candidate's abilities, and less on what opportunities they've had to date, are fairer. (And, distinctly but relatedly, the more objective the assessment is, the better for those from lower-class backgrounds). For someone who's grown up in a working class household where showing initiative had negative consequences and then gone through public schools where showing initiative had negative consequences through to line-level jobs where showing initiative had negative consequences, a tech interview that focuses primarily on whether they've got the skills, and lets them show it through their fizzbuzz/leetcode/hackerrank/what-have-you, is one of the few ways to make it out.
Right on, am sort of in a similar boat. Have been software contracting for a few years but it's still not truly "independent" dev work.

Probably the best way is to just do more independent software development. Personally think dog-fooding business tools are good to work on - solving your own problems.

One tough part about working independently is not being exposed to others' ideas. Keeping up on industry trends and continuing to learn via whatever means may also be relevant.
LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net) seems ok so far (couple of months), and tracks the Firefox release schedule pretty well.
Maybe, but I do drive on ice and snow all the time, I just slow down.
How long have you been doing "software as a job"?
And Brazil.
Most candidates I see don't even have 5 minutes worth of questions. Maybe it's just time budgeting based on the median expectation.
I read that Waymo is losing 2 to 3 billion dollars a year.
Sure, but switch "make" into the title and it becomes ambiguous.
build something and launch it. charge money for it. publish about it. repeat.

check out @indiehackers and @levelsio, and the book "start small stay small" by rob walling
Wouldn't you have to additionally prove that facebook had some legal duty to prevent harm? Otherwise you can't claim that it's facebook's fault, rather than the parents or the state.
> If you don't believe they're trustworthy, then why are you trusting them with your valuable data by using their OS?

The very, very common reason for this is that it's an employer provided laptop.

So the employee has no (reasonable) choice in the matter.

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That also often (but not always) comes with a locked down admin capability. So installing a different browser may not even be possible after the download. But that's a different issue. ;)
It's really pretty telling that they leave out the most obvious, and, I'm guessing, common answer: "I'm content with my current browser want to stay with the thing I'm used to."
This is true at the global level, and especially in the 3rd world, but not in the developed societies most of us are living in.

The Flynn effect reversed sometime in the mid 80s.
The pattern is currently for less educated people and people in worse financial situations to have more children than those more well off.

That's significantly concerning given we have extensive evidence genes matter more than environment does in humans:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/

It is far more efficient in the long run for that trend to invert, and the average intelligence of the population plays a huge role in facing the challenges of the future successfully.

Pretending this is not a significant and increasingly dire problem does nothing but avoid confrontation with hard truths.
I hope I see you out in the 'verse some day o7
No, registered sex offenders don't have to broadcast their location. Just register. Armed cops don't broadcast, because they understand it's not safe. FAA members don't put markers on themself or their family members for the same reason. They understand that would make them exposed. But they easily do it to hobbyists. For simple reason: to kill this hobby off. Who might be interested? This remind me that shill in FCC killing net neutrality.

Drones, by the way, didn't kill no one in US. RC aircrafts did kill 2 in US through the whole history. Last one was RC helicopter. Pilot killed himself. Legal guns kill illegally many more. Thousands per year? But owners aren't forced to put a target mark and broadcast their location. Obviously why, that would make them a target. But drone owners must. Don't you think it's disproportional?
I also like to say that years of rules lawyering in D&D and MTG have given me a leg up in contractual language debates. Its kind of fun, even.
A former co-worker of mine used to work at a company where his job (he was a fresh college grad, so got the shit work) was to go through tons of text messages, social media posts, etc., and mark them as spam or not-spam. He... didn't last very long. It was just soul-sucking work.

A level worse is the people who have to trawl through social media posts looking for the gruesome types of ToS violations: images of extreme violence and gore, cruelty, etc. A lot of people in those kinds of jobs need copious amounts of therapy to deal with it (but unfortunately many seem to not have access to therapy).

Having to look at suspected CSAM all day to give a ok/not-ok determination on it? God, I can't imagine what that'd do to a person.
Good answer here. We probably need a lot more shorters than we currently have inorder to enjoy short phases of relative price equilibriums.
Why not stop adding borderline abusive nags in software instead?
Wish they would have done this with Teams
Thresh one of the cofounders was a pro Quake and Doom player.

Another founder ended up working on CapitalG
The last time I heard someone argue like you, was as the recipient of a negative case in a policy debate round 14 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_policy_debate_term...
what's so special about 1000 karma? I never comment on things for points.
I don't get it, someone's clearly willing to break the law if they are drunk driving, unless you're banning steering wheels I'm not sure how that's going to help.
I have had similar thoughts lately, I currently work in govt in a job that isvery secure but isn't everything it could be. The thing that puts me off it is the unknowns around generative AI over the next few years - the cost of creating software is plummeting and the barriers to entry are dropping, language translation tools are going to enable a lot of high quality international developers (read: India) to better compete for remote work. Of course the flip side is a big increase in demand when there are lower costs, maybe it's the best time to do it.
Archive: https://archive.md/lNFFx
I love how this innocuous little random text message functioned as a Rorschach test for all the folks answering.

And they've shared themselves with their responses, we've got: obsession, schizophrenia, scams, butt texts, Asian languages, aliens, passwords, LLMs, leetcode. Could it be any more diverse!

This was not as intended. I actually thought it might be some sort of hacking 0-day or even a telco error, and this seemed the right place to ask!
He has done more for desktop Linux than anyone else ever.

Keep ruining Windows, buddy. You are doing great.
Though I know the CPU itself has nothing to do with how the manufacturers build the laptops - I hope to dog that they make laptops that are as nice to use as the MBPs.

High quality track pads, great high refresh screens, tiny adapters (or just use your mobile phone charger) and fantastic battery life.

First class Linux support would make a "must buy" device.

If they deliver on that, other than compatibility, it would be the best portable development environment available. Combine that with FEX and Proton, it might prove to be a competent gaming device.

So much potential here, I shouldn't get my hopes up...
99% of the people would double their currency, but probably lose all of their wealth because trust in the currency would be absolutely destroyed. Yay!
You could start by comparing highway driving, where I think Tesla actually is quite good.
That'd be a hard sell. One, you'd need to show reservations for that whole time, and two, "loss of use" on Turo ("share your car when you're not using it") is a whole lot different to loss of use for Hertz, when the car's "full time job" is earning income.

(Especially since on my Audi RS 5 with OEM glass, HUD, and rear "hatch" on a sportback, the replacement cost would be $3,800.)