skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In person interviews aren't a thing anymore. Instead it is all "virtual onsite".

There are lots of ways to cheat in those contexts. The most obvious way that is close to undetectable would be having a second person looking up the answers, and telling them to the candidate, while the interview is happening.
The laptop my job provided me to write programs on has no home, end, pgup or pgdn keys. Which I find to be insane. I learned quickly that I just can't function without an end key.

So I remapped capslock to end and honestly it's been life changing.

I just wish I could replicate this on my Linux machines now. I've built the muscle memory for it, but I have to hesitate every time to make sure I'm in windows where the key works.

I'm sure it's possible, but none of the easy solutions I've tried so far have worked, and I'm not really willing to go tinkering in multiple config files hidden deep in the system. I need something more portable than that.
Apple made a guide for how to use Mastodon on iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1668483560

So conceptually they are fine with it. And there is nothing you stopping your running servers on your devices.
Fossil, the bespoke VCS used by sqlite includes a wiki & web server out of the box. It's not normally what people think of in this domain but I've used it for that purpose and it works great for it. https://fossil-scm.org
GP is saying that a good product can carry a bad name, and that opinions on what names are "bad" change over time.
I'm surprised they're surprised. Inflation makes people want to buy things before they get more expensive. Even if inflation cools prices will never be this low, and savings will be worth less tomorrow than today.

Seems like reasonable behavior to me.
We hosted the website on vercel. Using remotion to render the videos on AWS lambda and Azure blob storage to store the videos.
This is Russian propaganda.

In reality, crime gangs supported by Russians, first tried to use firearms on maidan, and also had large supply of flammable fluid.

But when feel resistance, these gangs tried to hide in trade union building with those flammable fluid barrels, and just accidentally burned themselves, and maidan activists tried to rescue ALL people when burning happen.

Only propagandist sources could consider trade unions storing flammable fluid barrels in building full of people, when unrest happen.
That's it, not sure what they googled, it comes up first when searching San Francisco airplane crash...
Email succeeded because there wasn't anything better, and of course it's become baroque in the meantime as the need for security and other features have been added.

What worked 50 years is not going to work today just because it's technically similar, the environment has changed and it's foolish to ignore that.
> The fediverse makes these bubbles so much worse, with servers of like minded moderation creating a trend towards groupthink as opposed to representing a variety of opinions.

You say groupthink bubble, I say place where I don't have to brace as much for racist or sexist views being expressed.

> regression towards the normal mean.

Yeah, the normal mean is something to strive for... If it already benefits you.
Sentiment will always be pessimistic because optimism doesn’t trend on social media. Consumer sentiment isn’t meaningful in the social media era.
The switch over to doing everything via target properties is the big difference between "modern" and "old school" CMake. This fixed a lot of CMake's problems other than the scripting language being awful and has mostly happened over the last decade.

CMake release notes pretty consistently have at least one thing that makes me go "how is that a thing that just got implemented now and not 20 years ago?" That's not exactly a positive, but there are a very large number of things where 15 years ago you'd be shocked and frustrated to discover that there's no good way to do it, while today there's an obvious and simple way.
When I first found HN in 2008 it was a refreshing community that actually understands business. Which is a very rare thing on the internet. Because the site is geared towards startup and entrepreneurs, they had to understand business one way or another. And hence this somewhat pro-business stands earned its early reputation as an alt-right site.

Now that is mostly gone. The business side of the discussions has completely vanished.
It's a mental health problem. Social media etc. are actually driving people comparatively mad.
Here’s the blog version https://willemhandreck.com/f1-live-updates
Windows only, for now. They're working on macOS and iOS versions, but they're not there yet.

I'll be interested to look at it when the macOS and iOS versions ship.
Newt Gingrich proposed once that we make kids do this, but it was just gonna be for the poor kids.
I did! This definitely applied. I wish I could go into more detail about how without doxxing myself, but PowerPoint had a unique and very strange prominence in my college friend group.
You can take the story for whatever genre you see it as, but being satire doesn't excuse it from being shallow.

Romeo and Juliet fall in love for some very grounded, realistic reasons. They are adolescents, which are known to be particularly susceptible to falling in love, and also doing it with someone your parents don't like is extra hot, and so on.

And the way the story plays out requires some suspension of disbelief (wait, how did they get married if the royals would forbid it?) but it is always explained in a way that at least feels like it logically follows (oh, the Friar believes secretly marrying the two might bring peace; funnily ironic that they then should die instead).

Shakespeare did not have to experience these situations in order to portray them. When they start to get over the top and imaginative we at least feel like we started from some sort of grounded position, so it isn't so hard to suspend our disbelief. The entire play is building up to this ultimate tragedy and it earns it.

This contrasts with the other work, which does not set up anything before attempting to claim a payoff. The characters just are the way they are, things just happen. They don't have to be explained or have reasons that follow, because it's just satire.

I am not blaming the author for taking creative license in the way that Shakespeare did in describing the suicide of a pair of romantically involved individuals. Nor am I blaming the author for being a man. I am blaming the author for producing a work that is just shallow in a gendered feeling way. Were the author a woman, they might have realized that women don't just do things randomly but instead, drawing on her past experience being a woman, that they usually have a backstory where these things originate from.

If you like stories like this, don't let me yuck your yum. But also it is good to take the time to more deeply think about a work and what it means, why the characters act the way they do, why the author produced it in the first place.
Level 2 chargers aren’t actually chargers, they just pass mains voltage and some signaling. The charger is inside the vehicle.
Are we in the ‘it’s time to start worrying’ phase? When you think about this more and more often, which I personally am, what types of discussions should we start having?
As someone who doesn't like concerts and is a big Autechre fan. That sounds amazing.
I am looking at Brenden’s GitHub repo https://github.com/bbycroft/llm-viz

Really nice stuff.
Respectfully, "I firmly believe" followed by an assertion from a non expert passing as "facts" is a pox on our modern society.
My biggest motivator not to work for apple is this post from Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple
> And because they're a lower social class they somehow deserve the mess you make.

At my high school, we graduated with quite a bit of money left in our "class account."

There'd just been a tiny statue to the school chairman, who almost none of us knew, built.

We decided we wanted to spend our remaining funds on getting a larger statue built for the groundskeeper, Otis.

Teachers and student government were pressured to "change our mind."

I remember there was a pretty acrimonious and humorous meeting where the class argued for a few hours with their elected leaders about it.

I also remember being a pretty big dick about it, because we were in the right (and I was a HS senior with a chip on his shoulder).

In the end, we settled on "donating it to the faculty endowment in the name of Otis."

If I was me now, I would have fought harder then. Fuck not recognizing the people who get shit done.
I understand staging and prod running the same executable, but wouldn't dev typically be a debug build?
It's only bias when it doesn't fit your narrative.
If you end up asking a woman that, please let me know what she says.
Wonder why the other vendors are listed as having none.

HackerOne says there have been hundreds reported and most car vendors can't OTA patch.
I would assume the apology was for classifying SpongeBob as subversive or NSFW, which they likely don’t agree with (and it seems like you probably should have to defend your view if you do as it’s a pretty fringe PoV)
When I was at AWS working in the ProServe department, I got onto a popular open source project that eventually became a more official “AWS Solution”. While much of the work came out of customizations I did for customers that got reintegrated into the project, I did spend some time working on features that just scratched an itch.

Once I found out how easy it was to put something through the open source process and have it posted to AWS Samples:

https://github.com/aws-samples

I sanitized all of my customer facing solutions that didn’t have proprietary business logic and submitted them - 8 projects in all.

When the interviewer asked me what project was I most proud of, I discussed my contributions to the “AWS Solution” that I knew the company probably used or had at least heard of and my own related work that was open source that I knew was inline with the strategy they were pursuing.

I’ve been at the company 3 months and I’ve already implemented and modified 5 of my 8 personal open source projects. Two of the other three are based on now deprecated methods and once I dig into AWS Reinvent announcements, there may be better options out there than the AWS Solution.

All that being said, the last time a side project landed me a job and the last time I did anything “open source” before 2021 was 1995 when I was in college. I submitted a HyperCard based Eliza clone to the info-Mac archive and AOL (this was 1995) and a professor from another college wanted me to integrate it in a HyperCard based Gopher server (kids ask your parents).

I don’t do side projects. Anything I can’t afford from my main job I don’t need or I need to get a job paying more. For me, the same applies to learning new to me technology. If I can’t learn it on my main job, I need to be getting another job.
They paid for less for far fewer people.

You can't store labor in a vault. They didn't save or make any investments worth giving them a cut. They demand no expense speed in their government-funded care while cutting services young people use (child care, college, k-12 education, etc).
The US does not have historically high credit card debts right now, and it isn't particularly high relative to incomes either.

I think part of it might be that credit cards added planning features that have guaranteed fees to compete with BNPLs.
The issue is the parallel runway, not the traffic in front, which has a much larger separation. What the environment at SFO does not permit is for a pilot to be able to rely on the controller to guarantee separation from the airplane landing in parallel.

The other problem with the Lufthansa is, being a heavy, it needs to be the one staggered slightly behind the other aircraft for wake turbulence reasons.
It's missing people because 98% of people can't get past the 'pick an instance' stage, when it's not at all obvious why you should pick any given instance or what the repercussions will be.

Imagine if you had to pick a particular node to access Facebook, or select a particular data center before you started shopping on Amazon. Consumers just want to find people and exchange a mix of public and private messages, they do not want to be bothered with the dogma of federation.
Firewire used to be really nice to do that as well.
Retail therapy!
He's specifically criticizing the orbital refueling timeline and the use of methane+LOX instead of hypergolic propellant for the lander. The timeline will probably get pushed back and the lander development seems to still be in a very early stage and it may well be worth it to consider hypergolic fuel. Also the systems of the starship lander must be accessible for repair.
I went to a one-room schoolhouse in the US. Every month or so, we would have a school meeting where kids were elected to do various jobs like sweeping the room, taking out and burning the trash, washing the blackboards, cleaning erasers, pumping and bringing in water, etc.
One slightly better solution is to get a Voip number from a distant area code in a place you’ve never been and know no one. Only give that number to people you want to actually call you. Then you can safely ignore all calls from that area code.
Once upon a time, answering people's questions on forums was an excellent long-tail payback career strategy. I used to answer many questions, write explainer blog posts based on repeated questions, etc.

In the early-to-mid-2000s, Macromedia paid for my trip to San Francisco, a hotel stay at the W, and a chance to meet the programmers and authors I looked up to -- all because I answered and helped people with their questions on online forums.
At my employer it's not terribly unusual for an analyst or developer to become a manager (team manager in most cases), stay in that role for several years, and elect to return to "the ranks." Typically these people go into the role of "senior" developer or analyst. Everyone seems happy with this changing of roles; valuable experience stays in the company, and often with increased productivity. One manager I know of demoted himself to senior analyst in anticipation of retirement, and hasn't retired yet (five years later). He might be enjoying himself too much.
It often flows the other way too (speaking from experience with some self-authored posts on Lobsters).
I've never had the thought "let me spend a bunch of money on disposable things because it'll be more expensive a year from now"

I don't think that's how most people think about their purchasing decisions at all.
The only people who believed it were rich people and republicans who think if they suck up to rich people enough they will become rich
What if much Black Friday spending is buying stuff cheaper they would have needed anyway? That would be in line with a frugal outlook. People being savvy consumers.
> This "YOLO" attitude towards money bucks the spending trends of past economic downturns

The 5.1% annualized GDP growth rate last quarter also bucks the trends of past economic downturns.

If neither aggregate output nor consumer behavior are acting like a downturn, maybe the thing that should be surprising is the description that there is an "economic downturn".
> Maybe you can only have 100 connections and you can’t post links or rants. Just life updates and photos.

Many I’ve been exposed to wouldn’t know what to post if it wasn’t regurgitated content or rants.

We could go back to the early days of Facebook and Twitter: “I’m having toast! And it’s not burned!”

It could be an improvement.
Uh, it gives us zero power to enforce anything whatsoever.
I’m curious, why didn’t you accept either offer? Compensation? Relocation requirements?
I assumed this was about SFO before I read it. What is it about that area to have the worst controllers?
> "If 18 months ago, you'd have said the Federal Reserve Bank could raise interest rates by 500 basis points, and the consumer would chug on, relatively unfazed, I would have been extremely surprised," says Ellie Henderson, an economist at UK-based, global bank Investec. "I'd have said, 'that's just not how economics works'."

Economics is such a funny field to me. The systems involved are incredibly complex, yet economists habitually speak as though their models are anything more than that: models.

Somehow we got into a place where policy is made on the explicit assumption that the Federal Reserve Bank is in possession of a mystical lever, a single number that they can change to steer the behavior of more than 300 million people. As a layperson, it's incredibly obvious that interest rates are but a single variable in an enormously complex equation that we have no hope of recreating in a spreadsheet, but somehow that comes as a surprise to the professionals.
That's not what rational expectations means, it's just a way of saying things are priced in, so that if the price of eggs went up there is probably a good reason for it and it doesn't mean you can go and start an egg business to compete on lower prices.

https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/economists-do-they-kno...
Few of his videos are done with NASA and his day job is developing anti-missile systems for the DoD. His career will not be meaningfully impacted lol
The problem with debunking trickle-down is that the vast majority of people who still buy it also discredit economic professors and their research.

It’s not a problem of knowledge; it’s a problem of belief.
No, because it isn't reasonable. What would be reasonable is for the individual receiving the call to excuse themself leaving the rest of the meeting to carry on. Isn't this already the standard?
My law practice [0] started as a side project from an errant Hacker News comment years ago, and now it’s my primary source of income.

At the time I was an in house lawyer, and then a software engineer, and things just kind of snowballed from there.

[0] https://www.khanna.law
I think people definitely do exhibit this behavior. It’s part of what causes FOMO.

They also exhibit the opposite - waiting to buy things that they think will go on sale later.
Do you have to wake up at the exact same time?

I wake up with the alarm only if I go to bed too late, otherwise I assume I have to sleep for 10 hours, go to bed and my body naturally wakes up between 830 and 930 hours of sleep. Very resting. Also if I gwt 2 days of 9 hours, the next day usually I end up sleeping 8 and still feel rested, so it seems the body naturally adjusts
> you supply it with the intentionally current-carrying wires and the ground

Whether you connect both grounds to both themselves and Earth, or just connect both grounds to Earth, or connect them to Earth once and connect them both depends on so many details, it's not funny.

What is certain is that you don't want something that doubles as a lightning rod protected on the same internal circuit as your house. So your rationale doesn't apply to the GP.

But anyway, every time somebody talks about electrical installations on the internet, somebody says some version of "If there is a fault from a hot wire to a grounded object, this (if done correctly) allows the upstream overcurrent protection to trip." Is it still a recommended practice on the US to rely on overcurrent protection to protect against current leakage? It's an horrible practice, as it requires several amperes of leakage before triggering.
Pragmatic Versioning – An Alternative to Semver
An early draft of an alternate system to semantic versioning (semver) that I think is more useful in practice for both package maintainers (who don't want to evaluate every change for meaning, and want to be able to maintain large releases) and package contributors (who want to know what the maintenance period is)

Pragmatic versioning reflects more closely what many mature projects do in practice. Feedback welcome!
Physical access = game over?
Really? Because that's how I think and have been thinking since the money printer got cranked up in 2020.
We are not in any particularly worrisome period. The reason you are thinking more often about this is that we're in a "vibecession" where the media are all being unusually negative about everything.

This is causing historically strange results in financial surveys right now where everyone says they personally are doing fine but that they also think the economy is bad because they heard they were supposed to think that.
> More esoteric content than HN?

In bits and pieces. The advice and some things that trend diverge significantly from HN. I prefer to think of Lobsters discourse as sort of an Inverse Cramer Index, but for software development.
Folks, a perfect & ideal new way of life is not going to spring fully formed from the head of Zeus.

The main issue with the fediverse is the pervasive naysaying. Merchants of FUD are abundant. They all have their "the main issue" why it's hopeless. Few bother sparing even a second to contemplate the possibility of success - however faint it is against the meteor of doom which surely is careening through the sky right at us & will obliterate us all momentarily that they see.

There's so many criticisms & critiques, and so much lowly & pervasive nattering of fediverse & alternatives. I think though that what's important now isn't getting everything right & tackling each and every problem first. What's important now are strong solid bases for innovation. We need early adopters & innovators trying things.

We need to grow our capabilities, to figure out how to iterate again, after being well served by free with surveillance systems. The nattering can be constructive, once we have a base. I think we are losening things up, greasing into fluidity capabilities that have been ossified into place by titan sized ultra-captive industry. Making the connective online space fluid again is more important than anything. We can find wins, and the titans will keep stumbling & making errors. Innovation from the edge is going to shed some blood, but it will also allow iteration & evolution, will drive future wider forms of meta-moderation that will help us all suss & grok each other in ways that these highly centralized walled gardens can never be open enough to allow.

The paradigm here, of connectivity being participative and evolvable and changing: that seems like something we forgot a while ago, and in the hours of such discontent about so much being decided for us, I think the commonality should be more important than the quibbles. No one is leaping to defend the creaky status quo. We haven't figured out all the safeguards and onroading we need to get to the world scale that the titans are at now, but it sure seems to me like we have some viable starting places to work from now. We can iterate and change, socially direct ourselves, and that hope for iteration and ownership is what is at stake here. Scant criticism is on offer that has constructive alternatives, offers any rays of hope.
Stay solvent people!
They stated that they host it on a dedicated server rented from the provider Hetzner.
You can find screenshots by going to the Wayback Machine, e.g.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210212001340/https://obsidian....
Working on plan 9 (9front) has gotten me two different jobs now. Not through companies wanting to work with Plan 9 specifically, but from members of the community who happened to have open spots at their company and were familiar with my work. This has the side effect of working with folks that have similar technical ideas in my dayjob, which is a nice bonus.
Isn't the US at record high levels of credit card debt right now?
While neither of us can extrapolate behavior of “most people”, I and a lot of my middle class peers definitely this exact thought and acted on it.
They work OK if you don't set your expectations too high.
> You felt a need to respond to me calling you "a fucking ghoul"? Wow, you enjoy arguing. You should be more irrational.

Nailed it.
The real problem is knowing what tools exist for the job.

Or that the right tool actually does exist.

I would submit this is true for many fields of knowledge.