skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After doing the first-time CTO thing three years ago in an established company with over 100 engineers, I think these two are the minimum required reading:

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Eng Management (https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle)

and

The Art of Leadership, small things done well (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Leadership-Small-Things-Done/dp/1...)

There are a lot more that were helpful to me, but those two encompass most of the important concepts and skills already in a usefully synthesized way, at least for me.
As someone who interviewed in the bay for the last 7 years, ghosting is pretty normal on both sides of the equation.

It totally sucks when you go through the process and don't hear anything back but I also take it as a sign of feedback that I didn't kill on the interview.

I have ghosted a ton on interviews, never purposely but things get lost in the shuffle if you aren't super passionate about the company

It isn't a great habit/practice on either side, but by any means this isn't new
If someone says "imagine batman on a boat" am I not prompting what's essentially my own internal generative AI that's been trained on seeing copyrighted content at some point? If someone says "remember that scene in..." isn't that a form of recovering a copyrighted sequence from your own "trained" memories? Once there's a better ability to extract data from someone's neural activity, remembering or imagining will just be another form of prompting.
The way around this is license it to another platform. No exclusives.
Microsoft's next Surface laptops will reportedly be its first true 'AI PCs'
I think this would matter more to me if the feedback was ever useful. The feedback from these "no" is more cliche and less useful than a Dear John letter. All I ever hear are "another more qualified candidate", or rarely the slightly more useful "culture fit".
Safari is much smoother on my Mac. I was recently running a very compute intensive script. Firefox was dropping frames so badly that the UI became nearly unusable. In contrast, Safari was still a buttery smooth 120fps.

Combine this with the fact that I still get E2EE sync and better integration with my OS, Firefox is no longer tempting to me. And I used to be a Firefox power user for years.

For me, the enhanced plugin ecosystem and additional control that Firefox offers simply isn't worth a slower browser that isn't as well integrated.
And printing money isn't the only way to deal with supply shocks; a government could also use its reserves, as e.g. Singapore did during covid.
Just fork it. I don't have a problem with the tech I have a problem with the corp that governs it. Because in their last Annual Report they see the future of Mozilla in AI services...and that's not what's going to get usershare back.
And that explains why lawyers will never get love or sympathy from most living creatures. They'll always have to sue for getting any kind of consideration. In my ideal world, they don't exist at all, or they're called mediators.

But let's be clear: this is an ad. And ad folks are the worst, worst than lawyer, just a notch above dirt. And btw, not buying velcro products anymore.
Anyone else remember Mitchell Baker (Firefox CEO) calling for more than deplatforming?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
Every country in the world welcomes foreigners that make an effort to blend into the local culture and aren't assholes.
Orion, which is based on Safari [1], supports uBlock Origin [2].

[1]: https://help.kagi.com/orion/why-orion/orion-vs-safari.html

[2]: https://help.kagi.com/orion/browser-extensions/ublock-origin...
This is so nice, this tops the design of the varied kind of cities you'd find in fantasy RPG games, but it's real life!
Ads about what? Upgrading to a more expensive tier or like third party ads?
Turns out that streaming unlimited things to a family of 2+ for $13 a month is less profitable than selling $20 experiences per person per view?

Doesn't seem too surprising to me.
Have you tried Tree Style Tabs [1]?

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
It just boils down to energy/capita. While there have been some efficiency gains on the consumer usage side, the big cuts in quality come from the production side. Our lifestyles need to worsen to stop climate warming...
Same, and with my toddler we’re back to good old fashioned DVDs. They may be slower, fragile and have a few unskippable parts but at least the ads are predictable, they don’t involve endless scrolling, and they belong to you.
>Yes you are right, a lot of that 2-3% goes to the government

I'm not really sure how that's the case when inflation expectations are baked into any sort of fixed income products.
Yeah you can buy it, but soya is by far the most popular base for commercial replacement. In China you can buy all sorts of meat replica's based on seitan that are much tastier then current meat replacements way before beyond burger.
This has absolutely not been my experience. Must be a different extension you installed.
> Some websites still will just not work in FireFox

I run into this as well, but I just use Safari as my backup browser and that usually is good enough. The only thing I still need to use Chrome for is my Nest thermostat.
I also love having the Apple Pay and automatic SMS OTP integration. Those got me to start using Safari again from FF, and the only thing I'm really missing is uBlock Origin (Adguard is doing okay in its place)
If you don't mind me asking, why did you buy a macbook?
Some footage of the 2022 competition https://youtu.be/D9AivYbgVuU
I will never switch back to Firefox. Not until Mozilla as an organization fundamentally changes.

They pretend to be the "good guys" but they're a very different organization than they were 20 years ago.
The new normal? This has been the case for years for almost all job applications. Maybe if you're lucky and the company has put you through like 4 rounds of interviews you might get feedback, but the general rule seems to be that useful feedback for an interview is the exception rather than the norm.

And heck, even that isn't something you can rely on. I've had a fair few interviews get about 80% of the way through the recruitment process, then just ghost me without a trace. The main reason I have my current job is because the other company I was interviewing with just kinda faded away at the end of the application process.

If being ghosted is the new norm for you, you must be insanely lucky.
Yea - because Google is just outright acting evil in a number of ways. A good example is the fact that background blur isn't supported in google meet in FF and that audio translation is similarly blocked in FF. These are just arbitrary ways that Google is degrading the FF experience because of their commanding market share.
Brave is more ethical. Firefox is just a vassal Google. And it is run by San Francisco bugmen.
> What matters for the end user is the experience. If using FF will lead to a poor experience on certain websites, then why recommend it?

Because holding that against Firefox is exactly what Google is counting on. And the more you recommend it the harder it is for Google to continue its anti-competitive practices.

The more you fall a fool for Google's (or Microsoft a decade ago) practices, the worse the experience for everyone is in the future.

Anyways, there's simple extensions that will sidestep Chrome's bs. In addition, you'll soon to be able to get an adblocked experience that you can only get on Firefox. That means less network traffic, faster loading websites, and better user privacy
So if we ignore the technical merits based on which append-only data structures were chosen in general, we don't necessarily have additional technical merits for any particular time append-only was chosen.

The reasons why append-only structures were chosen in general apply surprisingly often to any particular system that scales to large data, which would like to be robust to a wide variety of real world problems. You won't see it in looking at the data structure because the hard parts are abstracted away from you. But you'll see it if you try to reimplement the same system from scratch, then scale it up to production.
Maybe. It’s an uphill battle, but if they start now at least they’ll be generating evidence in their favor for the inevitable trials to come. But it may be too late. Most companies that have done this successfully have started a bit earlier.
The main short coming in firefox for me is the ability to create different profiles for different use cases like one for personal and one for work etc.

It is doable but is hidden behind special settings:/// etc sort of and switching between them also requires something similar.
Yep, one of the many reasons I won't support the organization.

At least capitalist/for-profit organizations are honest about who they are.
Mac Studio Pro's with up to 192GB ram are an alternative here too though still on the M2 Ultra chips if you don't need the portability. Not sure how relevant the generation bump is for running the models.

Might be a good hold-over for X years until the consumer hardware catches up and/or the model optimizations make the same hardware perform up to today's DC hardware.
One of my top lessons I've learned doing successful startups:

1. Recruiting is the #1 job of any startup CEO, and the #1 determiner of corporate success.

2. Up market, down market, side market, it doesn't matter: You will get better employees if you treat candidates with respect and you will be more competitive.

3. It's a lot of work for the 95% of clowns out there you interview, and there's a push towards automated process, but it will hurt your business.

4. There's a lot more to recruiting than just treating candidates with respect. It involves how you present yourself as an employer (participating in conferences / meetups / etc.), how you find candidates, checking references, reviewing github repos, etc. It's a crazy amount of work.

5. This is hard, but if you can do this, you will have a huge edge.

The flip side is that as an employee, doing a good job interviewing / recruiting, especially at a big company, is one of the lowest value-add tasks you can bring on, from a purely selfish / incentive structures perspective. This friction, I think, is a major reason why recruiting is handled so badly. There is absolutely no upside to doing a good job, and it takes a lot of time to do so.
No. Fragmentation is not a feature of the web, and delusions about developers caring about Firefox and its ~2% of web traffic are not helpful. The way to make sites work on Firefox is to convince them to stop serving broken shit to Firefox. This is the way the web has always worked.
I’m trying to get started in this field, I am finishing grad school in the spring and applying everywhere…

I mostly hear nothing. It is incredibly unprofessional.
> ”So you have a situation where a person creates a work, a large rights owner buys it up, and then they get to milk all the benefits while preventing the public from having their rightful free access.”

The root of your argument seems to be that the public has a right to free access of someone’s work, why?
We should assume that at some point we'll be able extract imaginary and remembered images and sequences from neural activity - I think very poor/crude versions exist already.
The YouTube app is also a perfect YouTube player, so I’m confused…
This logic doesn't really scan for me. If you care about optimizing your time enough to not respond to the deluge of unqualified candidates you receive, then you might benefit from an ATS, which will make it trivial to send a polite rejection to multiple candidates with a single click, whilst also enabling you to progress others more efficiently.

You don't have to use Lever (just noped out of using them at our company bc they don't put any pricing data on their website + refused to answer simple questions over email, insisting on a "sales call", which is an even clearer indicator of a company which doesn't value my time than one which does not reply to an application altogether) – there are plugins like Streak which can make this effortless.

If you are experiencing an influx of unqualified candidates, you might also consider making your requirements much more explicit, although you'll still get people trying their luck.
Ehh that’s really the old definition. Nowadays I feel the colloquial definition is simply asserting a narrative you know is false. Emphasis on narrative, not a simple individual factual claim.
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Interesting that Richard Doty, the man being quoted in the video, doesn't have his own Wikipedia page. Is this part of perception management? He is only alluded to in this documentary film's page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men
Mid-show ads is more than enough to cancel Prime. Mid-video ads on youtube made me all but stop watching it on mobile. But I'll probably wade my way through S4 of The Boys and S2 of Invincible before doing so since they're both coming up in the near future. But this 100% explains the 2/4 premiere date for the last of Invincible episodes.

Same day and overnight delivery are something I never needed or wanted. 2-day delivery was nice, but now it's random. Amazon prices are no longer all but guaranteed to be competitive and buying directly from the manufacturer is often the same or lower price. Prime(sic) goeth before the fall I guess.
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It's unclear to me why we'd be optimizing solely for pixels or pixels/$.

I personally like my wide monitor, and I don't even particularly care to go for more pixels when available, ie my preferred resolution is ~1440p. They're nice and cheap, they look good to me, and they're easy to drive for the gpu.

I go more for deep blacks and good colors, pixels just look good until your eyes adjust and then it's all the same.
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I predominantly use Vivaldi, although I occasionally use FF as well. Mull and Fennec are good choices too, and in the past I used Bromite.
DRM isn't a relevant comparison because there the explicit intention is to prevent users from accessing data they've already been given. Everyone knows this is not possible in a strong sense, time-wasting through obfuscation is the best DRM can hope for.

The other reason obfuscation makes sense for DRM is the threat actors are individual consumers, who have limited time and resources to devote to untangling the obfuscation, and limited reward for doing so.

Normally we might expect to see many such users combining their resources to fund a solution to their problem at scale (by founding a public business or foundation for de-obfuscating DRM), but the state has made doing this punishable by prison. So DRM is rendered effective not so much through good engineering but through the legal system. This is an adequate solution for companies when the threat actors are simple civilians who want to play video games.
HN just turned into Stack Overflow. :)
>Landlords do not raise their rents because their own costs increase

Their cost definitely increases if the property is on mortgage and their rates went up. Also cost in maintenance increase and taxes as well. All those increases for the landlord will directly go into the price of rent for the tenant.

They also raise their prices because of supply/demand so someone comes and is willing to pay more. What are you gonna do, say no to more money?

The private rental market is still a business and not a charity. Only the public housing is there to cater to the needs of the people and not for profit making. Have you voted for the construction of more public housing?
> are they required to comply with laws preventing employers from contacting employees on weekends?

Almost certainly they are, as the same is even true with employment across state lines in the US. Labor laws are almost always determined by the employee’s place of residence vs. where the company is located.
similarly, on mac this bug is a showstopper for me, so I'm using Brave currently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149826

(the bug is that text replacement does not work in FF on mac, something that saves me so much time daily)
I still don't understand the phenomenon of "worse is better".

My current best guess is a riff on Bob Martin's (?) observation about new programmers (noobs) are minted faster than wisdom of the ancients can be transmitted. An ever expanding circle of ignorance, the center occupied by cranky old people yelling "But you're doing it wrong!" to no one in particular.

So when 'C' emerged, amongst otherwise equal options (to noobs), perhaps it appeared to have both the 'portable' bit fiddly bits (vs ASM) and the structured programming bits of Pascal. And natch, noobs wouldn't be immediately aware of the broken glass and tiger traps.

Further, like with all grifts, there's a turf grab for the new hotness. Something along the lines of "Turbo Pascal was for casuals. Real programmers, like you, should use Watcom's professional new 'C' compiler."

--

I was so enamored with object-oriented analysis and programming. A real zealot. Two (different) friends with experience were "meh". I vividly remember thinking "Those old people just don't get it."

Ahahahah. The folly of youth. Of course, they were proven right. (But also wrong in some ways.)

I try to remember young me now that I'm old, eschewing each new hotness, while trying to keep an open mind, gleaning whatever good bits tumble out.
Chrome feels so much better to me, I can't imagine switching
Same here. You can't just access my auth data over the internet.

You would also have to get hold of my machine and get past it's security mechanisms.

You can put as many layers on top of what you call "obscurity". But at the bottom it's still just a simple string that holds the power to authenticate you.

And "multi-factor authentication" does not help with the situation "User is allowed to use this script, so they are also allowed to use that website. Let's open it for them.".
That’s what I did.
I’ve been using Firefox almost exclusively for years with two exceptions. The web dev tools in Chrome are really just better. And recently my work made the decision to only allow Chrome for security reasons. I’m annoyed about that but I understand why, it’s not necessarily that Chrome is more secure but the central management tools are stronger and if they were only going to support one, they picked the one more people use.
Let's invent a new one: throw a CPU towards a motherboard. It must land in the socket in the proper orientation. Furthest distance wins.
> I shouldn't treat Carlin as a definitive source on anything

Isn't this a key lesson in the study of history? There are no "definitive sources." Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary sources have their own biases, limitations, and cultural influences, sometimes to the point that they say more about their own lives than the history they portray. Sometimes it takes centuries for anyone to notice.

Your best hope for assembling an accurate picture of the past is to characterize how the biases you're aware of may have influenced the evidence available to you.
I think the risk from this type of attack is probably near zero. You can't hack into Github and add a commit to Linux.

Probably most of the deliberate backdoors that are present in Linux have been inserted by well funded state sponsored developers performing useful work. Easy to sneak a vulnerability in that way. (There was a controversial incident a few years ago when some researchers proved as much.)
If you have enough candidates that it's too much work to reject people, you likely have enough candidates to merit at least a simple templating and candidate management app or plugin. It is absolutely trivial to one-click reject groups of people.
Look, Google and Facebook are just mom and pop businesses - they can't afford to support all these fancy browsers!

(I absolutely agree - especially when it's google turning off features when you're using FF... it feels blatantly anticompetitive).
Why should a top-of-the-line GPU cost similarly? GPUs in the late 90s were designed by tiny teams, with hardly anything spent on drivers, using fabrication processes which are like paper and glue compared to today’s TSMC processes. Just because an RTX 4090 is also top-of-the-line doesn’t mean there’s an equivalency between it and a Voodoo2, because the effort required is exponentially higher.

In 1910, the most expensive comercially available passenger automobile in the US was arguably produced by Lozier, and would be around $250k today inflation-adjusted. But these days, super cars and hyper cars can go well into the millions of dollars. There is no sense comparing the top 1910 automobile market segment to the top segment in 2023. Likewise, the 1998 GPU market just does not map to that of 2023.
This is basically fortune cookie wisdom. Sounds intelligent, has zero evidence to back it up.
Don't forget

- bic for a ball pen

- scotch for duct tape

- kalxon for a car honk

- rubalise for the white-and-red tape used in streets

- mobylette for that very specific old style scooter

- pédalo for the floating thingy on the beaches with pedals

As for cellophane I always called it "film plastique" or just "plastique", but this varies a lot from region to region and family to family.

As for Durit, it's actually a bit more interesting as the brand was genericised to "durite". It's so prevalent that we have expressions using it like "péter une durite" as a way to say "going crazy".
What exactly is so awful about this advertisement that it will cause you to never buy a product? It seemed super normal to me, do you just never buy products that advertise, or buy products that advertise using actors playing a lawyer?
Back then in those times, children were also your social security. Expectation and very strong one was that they will help you in the old age. Including when parent was abysive or conteolling. Expectation now is that you care yourself and kids have zero responsibility. Living with parents shameful, giving money to parent signifies lack of boundaries.

Plus back then, anticonception available to everyone was simply not a thing. Sex meant kids.
This is a pet peeve of mine, but A1111 is not a great example of a ML project. The backend codebase is a mess compared to diffusers, its slow even on Nvidia, its history is filled with controversy (including license breaking and outright piracy in the codebase), the frontend is buggy and unstable. I appreciate how it was a pioneer in 2022-H1 2023, but I am somewhat annoyed its still the de facto SD backend.

Better maintained inference projects are picking up considerable AMD/Intel support. Sometimes even Apple Silicon support.
Yes. The concepts apply to all programming languages. The exercises use multiple programming languages. For example, one exercise has you explore the Git source code (which is in C) to learn how to use a program's data structures to understand an unfamiliar codebase. Other examples have you find bugs in Python code or write Java.
A2 to Detroit is not really a reasonable commute. It's like commuting from San Francisco to San Jose.
If you’re looking for advanced courses in Python, I highly recommend a workshop or class from James Powell.

https://www.dontusethiscode.com
One of the catalyst for that were that insurance companies were kicking people off coverage as they knew about increased risk.

I have a female family member who never got a genetic cancer lab test because a positive result came with risks of her getting kicked off private insurance. Even though her sister had cancer at 30 and her paternal line had tons of history of women dying young for “woman issues” as it was called back then.

Anyway she assumed she had the genetic mutation but never could get the preventative surgery she should have because insurance wouldn’t approve it without the positive lab results confirming she was at high risk for cancer.

It’s dystopian.