skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is most horrible about current industry is that whenever I've done an outstanding job on the tech (which was essentially every time), the company failed to succeed on the financial side... Except one time where the company made a ton of money but I did such a good job that the CTO felt threatened and I had to quit.

Nobody in my network has much money so there is no network value there.

The only very successful people I know who like me were acquired by a big company for millions but they're not allowed by their new HQ to hire me. They still send me emails asking for advice and tell me that they appreciate my work which is great but for some reason I can't get any opportunities.

It's almost like I've been labeled as a member of the untouchable class.
I meant more like arranging for a friend or family member to pick you up from the airport.

As for hotels the concern is less checking in early but rather you have already payed for a room and now you aren't going to stay in it.
This sounds like a strange way to excuse deficiencies of a language in verbosity or otherwise.
This is sorta a boring fanfic take. Please show us how you read the materials to establish your conclusion.
It's all down to miles per year, a new car should last 100k miles "without major repairs" and if you drive 10k miles a year (whatever, if it's more it's more in favor of the owner) a car should last at least 10 years.

A new car is $40k, a 10 year old car seems to go for about $10k, so say $3k a year. So with a brand new car, still getting "around" that $6-7k a year.

Or to put it another way - at some point it HAS to be cheaper to own, because someone owns the car that is driving you around!
No one using an Uber tips.
Wage growth has outpaced inflation for the last 11 months.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...
The local, in-person meetup scene was an absolute treasure! It didn't really recover after COVID; I'm still trying to find where those networking opportunities moved to.
I haven’t had the chance to try yet, but trying to use slack in a fully remote company means I’m very frustrated in keeping up with what’s important, and remembering in which room or 5-person ad hoc DM some discussion took place in.

So I hope this is good, and I hope Salesforce (slack) backs a big money truck up to your houses to make you an offer you can’t refuse, because I specifically need this slack thing you mentioned and I don’t think they’re that friendly to third-party tools (as in clients). So I worry that if something is to fix Slack, it’ll have to have connections in-house.
I don't think that's sci-fi. The mythology is on the level of filthy frank omniverse tbh. Still, a good movie.
With Waymo? Or others?
I like people. People are the best thing about being alive.

Maybe you're hanging with the wrong crowd.

Isaac Newton said "If I have seen further than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."

Despite what Ayn Rand would have you believe in her works of fiction, no one got here on their own.
Nanoclj: A Tiny Clojure Interpreter
Use bash strict mode (Unless you love debugging)
I have almost that same die() in every script, except I call it abrt(). Maybe I'll switch to die() since it's shorter. Mine also prepends $0 and sometimes I use printf or echo -e so I can pass larger more complex messages with linefeeds and escape codes etc.
I often add a fail-unless function:

fail-unless() {
local result
"$@"
result=$?

if ((result != 0)); then
echo >2&1 "Failed ${result} with command '$*'."
exit ${result}
fi
}

That way, I know exactly what failed in the script.
Lots of people do that, and everyone is replaceable, so are you.

There's no relation between updating the profile and being replaceable.
> Demand exceeding supply changes the feasibility bar, but there's still a limit to fresh field sizes and extraction rates.

Not really. If at 100x the natural gas price, helium is profitable in concentrations above 1%, then at 1000x it is profitable in concentrations above 0.1%. We produce every year several billion tons of natural gas. The helium that we don't bother to separate from the natural gas we produce exceeds the world needs by a factor of 100 easily. But if the price goes up by a factor of 10, we'd instantly find out we have all the helium we need.
I guess “Hotel Ashburn” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Lawyers Who Got Musk Pay Struck Down Seek $5.6B in Tesla Stock
One thing about advesives- they are not stronger than original materials against all types of loads. Break an 8 ft 2x4 in half and glue it back together, then jump on it, where will it break next time? Right in the glued spot. I’m no engineer but have seen this lots of times because the original failure is usually at the point of maximum stress so glue there is not a fix.
https://archive.is/ifjzg
I find the theory interesting that the creator (or creators) ended up in jail and plan to rug as soon as they're released.
Ignoring speed-of-light delays, it's completely in-sync across the whole grid. Operators are required to keep things as close as possible to 60 Hz at all times, but it does vary over time.

To be clear, frequency is not the only signal. Operators have voltage and current monitors on most transmission lines, so they can tell where the power is coming from and going to. The whole system is partly automatic and partly held together by people making phone calls.
Recruiters reach out to me on LinkedIn and thats the only channel thats landed me interviews and offers

The companies on hackernews “whose hiring page” are too disorganized and havent figured out to use third party recruiters yet, some it’s even questionable if they’re hiring since they’re back every month despite their rejection emails suggesting they had a candidate that more closely matched yada yada

Recruitment platforms are all crap, like ones where the candidate signs up and passes some tests, theyre all broken and dead for me

Cold applying is pretty bad

Applying over linkedin is even worse

For me only thing that works are recruiter’s bots hitting me up in Linkedin DMs. if that dries up couldnt tell you

but prior co-workers have become decision makers and still liked me too, old fashioned and human connections are the only common denominator here
Forth (according to sources I have not verified) powered the influential CRPG series of Stuart Smith: Fracas (1980), Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (1981), Return of Heracles (1983), and Adventure Construction Set (1984). All were multi-platform releases. If true, Forth was a good fit for that, since it would function as the game's scripting environment as well as the engine, and it would additionally explain why those games feel like more developed scenarios than contemporary rivals.

Action games needed tighter main loops for gameplay so my understanding is that where Forth was used for those, it was primarily as a macroassembler system.

I am exploring Forth for Agon Light right now. Since the Agon is a modern 8-bit design swaggering around with an eZ80 at 20MHz, 512kB RAM, and a programmable VDP with functions resembling GPU shader programming, it can absorb all the interpreter overheads easily.
>If you don't use the service yourself, you don't care that much about the quality, and you are more likely to support funding cuts.

If you don't use the service it doesn't matter if it's a hunk of junk or a limousine, it's your tax money for a service you don't care about and will cut it anyway. You may be more likely to cut a limousine if you don't personally use it.

>Because the poor are a minority, most people don't really care about services used by them.

I don't know about minority, especially in these times. But minority or not, welfare programs take up 20% or so of government spending. It's a large enough population being serviced that it can't be ignored.
> Mining is done with huge vehicles that are hard to electrify ..

Mining is done with huge vehicles that have had electric drive trains for decades - Haul Paks (100+ tonne trucks) have electric motors driven by onboard diesel engines, shovel loaders that move from face to face and fill Haul Paks are mostly stationary and are powered by fat electric cables that pressurize on board hydraulics.

Fully electric Haul Paks already exist in small numbers and are increasing in number, hydrogen powered Haul Paks are still in test (last time I checked).

> and also operate in a remote low-infrastructure area where there are a bunch of big vehicles moving around and ripping up the ground all over the place, making it expensive and difficult to run any direct powerlines or such.

Iron ore ares such as the Pilbara ship almost a billion tonne per annum of ore and move more than a billion tonnes of material per year; they factor building power stations adjacent to minesites into costs and have started buying entire adjacent cattle stations in order to build out solar farms for direct power and hydrogen creation.

Mining processing plants are mostly electric, and have been so for 50+ years - crushers, screens, ship loaders, conveyors, etc all run from local power stations. The power stations are the key to "greening" mineral resource extraction - these are already scoped to be replaced by solar farms and generated hydrogen for overnight 24/7/365 operations.

The Infinity Train project is current building (and still hiring) electric trains to recover power from transporting than near billion tonnes from 600m above sea level inland to the coastal ports.

You can chase up Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals on these projects.
SiriusXM | Product Manager - Internal Developer Platform | Full time | Hybrid: Onsite 2 days/week at any US office

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to join the SiriusXM Platform Engineering team as the second PM hire! Probable domains are DevEx, Observability, and IaC libraries (AWS CDK). Would also consider Toronto, UK, or fully remote for exceptional candidates. Please apply at:

https://uscareers-siriusxmradio.icims.com/jobs/15473/senior-...
Location: South Bay Area (Sunnyvale)
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: NO
Technologies: React, React Native (Expo), .NET, Azure
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nJ191FgyGOJMfnmEdLIgyF-X6m8...
Email: alokfall2015[at]gmail

Co-founder at a small business with approx 7yrs of experience. Looking for senior IC/PM roles.
the fentanyl high is apparently shorter, more rushy than heroin.
So as a full stack engineer - don’t you find time saving as a good enough reason to use tools like retool to put a decent frontend across with very less efforts?

FWIW- I run growth at DronaHQ ( retool like tool )
The better language at this to both Java, Go and, god forbid, Elixir is C#. It properly implements generics, pattern matching and task-based asynchronous model which allows to trivially interleave or dispatch all kinds of method calls in ways which require extremely verbose and bulky code in Go.
Thanks, I never expected to subscribe to a lumber podcast, but I am now.
Only if the taxes are actually owed. If an entity lowers their tax burden legally then the public was never owed the money.

I don't agree with this model and would much prefer a simple tax code. But as-is, its disingenuous to say that taxes unpaid because one finds a legal way to avoid owing them is taking out of the public coffers. One can't take money that was never owed in the first place.
It's actually possible to produce a stack trace of sorts, if you use a lot of bash functions. One possible implementation is: https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/sdc-headnode/blob/master...
> https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/31/us-military-admits-no-on...

No deaths were proven, that does not mean nothing sensitive or harmful was in the data. The argument failed in the sense that the court found that the leaked info was sensitive and harmful at the time of release:

https://archive.org/details/usa-v-manning-third-party-transc... page 7

> You dont remotely appear to be familiar with the facts OR are intentionally ignoring recent history.
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cia-discussed-kidnapping-...
> https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london...
> https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/t...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstler_v._Central_Intelligen...

The US has plans to nuke Russia and China too, doesn't mean they are going to follow through on them. Even in the absolutely unhinged Trump administration, there were enough checks to stop the wilder plans from getting anywhere close to happening, and now the most objectionable thing the CIA ended up doing was getting the contents of some phones from UC Global, for which they are being sued.
Turns out, it was actually the left making Google stupid.
No, I mean MONEY in any form. Apple doesn't really care about users or developers, all they care about is money. They have proven again and again that they will hobble the product if it means they can make more money.
If the above statement is the only “commitment” they’ve made to open-source, then that argument won’t need to be made in court. They just need to reference the vague language that basically leaves the door open to do anything they want.
But it's not like you complete your objectives and then you say "great, we're all done, let's go home." Every company I've ever worked for had a backlog a mile long, and we knew we'd probably only ever get to 20% of it or so. The whole purpose of sprint planning is to just prioritize the most important stuff to work on for the next sprint, but if the teams capacity increases you'd pull more stuff in.
Mediocre engineers send in their resume. Good engineers network to find a connection in the company. Great engineers constantly have people banging on their door asking to work with them.
At 20y you will do better reaching out to people who respect you, especially people who were more junior that are now advanced in their careers, and see if they know of opportunities. While you might get something from a recruiter still, they usually don’t fill senior roles from cold outreach on LinkedIn. It happens but usually even then it’s a reference from someone you worked with in the past.
I had hoped this talk would stir more discussion than it has so far.

I don´t know. That 45% figure for quic was news to me.
wow, that's a 29% annual return on investment. that's unbelievably huge! not in the literal sense, i mean, i believe you, it's just astounding. are you comfortable sharing your calculation?
See also:

Why doesn't set -e (or set -o errexit, or trap ERR) do what I expected?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using set -u (or set -o nounset)?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/112

Safe ways to do things in bash https://github.com/anordal/shellharden/blob/master/how_to_do...

Better Bash Scripting in 15 Minutes https://robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-bash-scriptin...

Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts https://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-s...
I'm referring to Zelle.
In NZL I pay $5nzd for 3 months? I’m On 30mg Ritalin instant a day. One doctors check up every 3 months. No health system is over loaded I have to book 2 weeks in advance.

As for the food. Pistachio nuts are expensive. These trade restrictions on Iran are annoying as I have to pay $30nzd a kg of pistachio nuts. Angus steak is also expensive
Now let’s discuss the green flash.
Also a formal specification can have bugs. Formal verification checks that the code matches the spec, not that the spec implements all desired behaviors and no undesired behaviors.
>So in your experience, how does one find employment opportunities in 2024? Is it all about networking? Are things just really tough in the IT world lately?

I'm much newer to this industry than you so don't have any personal info to share, but the data does seem to show it's not just you, and that programming and IT are in the trough of a contraction right now. Indeed seems to have around only three quarters as many available (US) positions "floating" right now, so to speak, as it did even in Feb 2020, which was before the tech crunch and explosion most agreed was temporary and unsustainable; it's also markedly lower than the whole (US) economy, which is at least still positive (although I'd also guess without looking Indeed is more heavily used by the tech industry than the economy as a whole). It seems job hunting in the tech industry is going to be tougher for a time, and more intentional networking and hunting opportunities than before will be necessary: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1hG1R
I think the assumption is that a CV will be at least as, or even more, up to date than a LinkedIn profile if given. So, instead of assuming the LinkedIn profile is up to date, you get asked for a CV.
It’s easy to defend this position.

It is safer to operate an AI in a centralized service, because if you discover dangerous capabilities you can turn it off or mitigate them.

If you open-weight the model, if dangerous capabilities are later discovered there is no way to put the genie back in the bottle; the weights are out there, anyone can use them.

This of course applies to both mundane harms (eg generating deepfake porn of famous people) or existential risks (eg power-seeking behavior).
I’m the article he pivoted from the magnets and used the publicity he got from the story to overfund a bike-attached sweeper of a type previously shared on HN
Location: San Diego, CA / Lopez Island, Washington

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Heroku, Hotwire/Stimulus/Turbo, TailwindCSS, TailwindUI

Résumé/CV: Email for resume or see summary below.

Email: bradlyf@gmail.com

With over 16 years of professional Ruby on Rails experience and leadership at companies like Apple and Intuit as well as successful startups, I bring extensive knowledge, with a reputation for delivering high quality code and value to the teams I am a part of.

I've led teams on large-scale systems and have a proven track record of successful cross-organizational collaboration. My focus has always been on creating sustainable growth, both for the systems I work on and for the teams.

My leadership approach is deeply rooted in empathy and shared code ownership. I continuously strive for code quality and maintainability, while always balancing business goals.

I believe in the monolith.

<3
If elected legislators pass laws creating legal means to lower one's tax burden, the means in which the law was passed only matters to ensure it was legal.

Our system is much too complicated and corruptible today. It shouldn't be so easy to effectively buy legislation, but as long as it is legal we can't really fault anyone with the means from taking advantage.

If Facebook bribes legislators in an illegal way they should be held to account, otherwise laws should be changed and legislators should be resigned in through both elections and checks and balances.
GPT-4 with code interpreter is better at math than elite Math undergrads.
It's worth pointing out that old growth timber operations and lumber products ARE actually reproducible forever with intensive management on a small scale. With what some might say is proper respect for the forests. You will get wildlife, and recreation, and cultural values, and food gathering, and hunting, and strategic timber harvest that provide physical/monetary value. You may not get the volume of 2x4s out of Home Depot, but it is is, technically and ecologically, a forever sustainable source of wood. Until the sun stops shining.
QuickJS, the Next Generation
Am I the only one who was taught that crane flies where male mosquitos?
It's just over 10%, which seems fine.
I find now I identify the companies and roles I want to do and then go after them. Either find someone you know, apply online or find an in-house recruiter on LinkedIn and talk to them directly.
Ah yes, gRPC, something using which requires more ceremony and worse UX in Go than in …C# of all the languages.
That's definitely part of America

Here it costs me $50 for two weeks. I'm supposed to be on 30mg dexedrine a day.
Good to know that I’m not the only one who was shown useless content on Threads. Half the posts were from Facebook developers bitching about Apple. The other half were from unknown women who were complaining about something I had no interest in. Never went back after that.
The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted a Century (2018) [video]
There's that time, soon after he took over Twitter, when he boosted a right-wing conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a male escort (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-...).
(He later deleted the tweet without explanation.)

This kind of stuff matters when it's amplified to 100M+ people, and he knows it.

I put some of the blame for the Club Q nightclub shooting that happened a few weeks later (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/club...)
on this kind of behavior. There's no evidence the shooter saw that tweet in particular, but his homophobia was clearly stoked by this sort of edgelord-ism on social media.
Spoiler alert: Everyone is replaceable labor.

If you think you are a special unique snowflake that is irreplaceable, think again. There are a few handful of individuals in the entire world that might be exceptions to the rule and those people are not irreplacable because of their knowledge or talent but because of their charisma and vision.

If you have a special skill or knowledge or talent... someone else has it too.
I bought a 2022 vehicle and my annual registration is $600.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39454268
The eyeball searing orange text on fluorescent teal background made me chuckle like an idiot. Did the web page designer troll me? I love it either way.
America's primary tool in warfare is economic in nature. Anybody that does business with the United States must comply with US sanctions.
Absolutely. I asked my academic friends and many told me that they still use X although may not post there often. Interestingly a bunch of my friends are using Bluesky.
Engineer Benedict Jebakumar has picked 37 kg of nails from roads
Show HN: US flag made with Tailwind CSS
it's beautiful, reminds me of donut.c
> As a European, I was confused to read that wood was considered structural enough that they needed this…

Another variable is how much the building moves. Being in an earthquake zone here in New Zealand makes me look at elaborate brick and stone buildings with a degree of nervousness.
"All land is stolen" is a very lazy statement. Lots of land in this planet is occupied peacefully. It's just that Europeans have been doing it to each other and the rest of the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash