skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "why did you need someone from outside the organization who doesn't know a damn thing about our work to come in and tell you how you're screwing up? I'll tell you for free! That is a breathtaking level of disconnection."

There are times where external advice can be helpful, but it can also be a form of plausible deniability. Managers can display a "willingness" to improve a situation, without engaging with their team or changing their actions.

I think a big part of this is ego, as stated in the post, but a lot of the times it's piss poor communication skills.

The worst manager I've ever dealt had been very skilled engineer, but he suddenly found himself in a position where he had to actually listen to subordinates and mediate conflicts between departments. He simply did not. Mind you, this is not a large organization. Departments almost never talked to each other, even if they were on the same floor. Feedback was futile and met with hostility. Bright and motivated employees were quickly demoralized and retention was low.
Seems like taking away the choice for closed ecosystems may not be great for the market, sometimes consumers like myself want the closed ecosystem!
Is your allegiance to your employer above your allegiance to your country?
We had Computer Shopper in the US.

If anything it was Computer Shopper that was the end of most of the other computer magazines.
Fornax's Guide to Fast Ethernet
Oregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize drug possession
Apple stock is in free fall and Wall Street weighs in if it can rebound
Epic broke the rules 3 years ago, they were reinstated recently cause of the european union decision. They haven't done anything to break the rules except write a tweet complaining about apple. I don't see how apple has any footing in this argument
EVs provide flexible demand, they are parked 22 hours+ a day, can charge whenever power is negative (which happens 100s of millions of times/year) or power is zero. Right now, there is excess production from renewables, which is wasted. EVs can absorb all that.

We don't need quick chargers at home, unless you mean 240V chargers? Which is in some of the countries with 110V/120V.

We don't need more generation capacity. Utilities are keen on increasing costs, their profits are a percentage of cost, there is a nexus between generation, transmission and distribution companies to keep adding capacity. This was pointed out by many commenters, a recent out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487714

Energy demand will down with EVs and renewables: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/iea-energy-scenari...

Whats needed is demand response. But utilities won't do it, because it won't increase their profits.
I am suprised anyone still gives out take-home coding assignments as part of the interview process. I have been hiring for 15+ years and have tried this approach many times. While long time ago maybe it did help a bit even then its usefulness was questionable. But last few years I am quite convinced it's the worst thing you can do as part of your hiring process, as it dramatically worsens your candidate pool and makes it harder to sift through.

The basic premise of take-home test is that it is meant to entirely eliminate the bottom percentile of your candidate pool at the cost of also eliminating a chunk of the top percentile (which is supposed to be an acceptable trade off, especially if you are hiring for junior to mid roles). But I found it does not eliminate bad programmers at all. In fact, after we did some in-person interviewing we discovered a negative correlation between take-home test score and actual coding ability. Most likely explanation is that those with really good scores are the ones who paid 50 bucks to some comp-sci prodigy from <random_country> to sit with them in screen share session for an hour. In contrast, those with poor scores are the ones who actually tried to do the test honestly. Another unintended consequence here is that your candidate pool now has a higher percentage of unscupulous people than it did before the test.
Our conclusion in the end was that we still have to test the coding ability in person, which means take-home test does not really eliminate any work for us as part of the interview process, but imposes additional costs as per above.
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment
> doing anything else is fighting against the environment

Video game programming, where performance really matters, is a great way to see the cost of forcing the hardware to deal with human abstractions (mainly OOP). Rules like "never have a Boolean in a struct" or "an array with linear access can be faster than a tree with log access" wake you up to the reality of the hardware. :p

In academia, and the especially academic, utopian realm of functional programming, you're trained to live in dreamland.

If you can afford it, though, hey, it's a nice place to be.
Article behind paywall: https://archive.ph/H9UpN
The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice
Most of the best commercial product developers that I've worked with had zero open source contributions. If they have some then sure, take a look. But it's not an effective filtering mechanism.

There is also now an underground economy built around fake open source contributions and even entire projects. This exists precisely because some employers do care about open source contributions, so hiring managers now have to verify that those contributions are real.
Also opens the door to a lot of ultra-low-effort open source contributions that are done for the sake of it :/

I help maintaining a quite popular package ATM, I prefer when people do it for pragmatic reasons or for passion, rather than to improve their GitHub stats :/
HR is the problem especially as organizations grow. People in HR are some of the worst. I equate them to used-car sales. They end up hiring mediocre brown-nosers because they tend to have longer tenures and this gives HR better performance metrics. And that also works out for mediocre staff because they don’t want to be exposed. This dynamic creates a long-term loop within the organization: mediocrity hell.
In the lead up to WWI there was more free trade between all the countries than there ever had been up to that point. In fact even as it looked like war was on the horizon everyone was saying it was impossible because the economies were so interdependent. Money only motivates so much before emotion takes over.
The Guys Turning Old Graphic Design Manuals into Kickstarter Blockbusters (2016)
I think approaches like this can be good for people learning programming for the first time, but there are two huge aspects that mean it is unlikely to be used for anything serious.

1. A new language. New languages don't go anywhere 99.9% of the time and when they do it takes a massive undertaking by hundreds of people as well as very careful design over the course of decades.

2. Building visually at the expression level. Writing expressions in any modern language is very compact. In this case what takes up a single line now takes up and entire screen.

if(n>1) return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2);

Graphs are much better for working at a high level because that's where the locality isn't there are it isn't clear what data is going where. For expressions drawing lines instead of just using the same variable that was used in the previous line doesn't help clarity.
Do you have a source for that? Sounds far fetched. (Not a Trump fan.)
Why, then, have a DOJ spokesman do a press conference in the middle of an ABA function?
This is a hollow excuse.

It doesn't have to be a replacement for traditional interviews. Rather it could be a way of distinguishing candidates instead of only relying on a white board.

When I was trying to get my first job out of bootcamp, I had a built a mobile app with my team mates, and we had it on our phones. The idea behind that was we could pull put our phones during interviews and show our interviewers exactly what we did.

"Btw, hiring manager, I happen to have that app on the projects section of my resume on my iphone as we speak - would you like to see it? Happy to walk you through the commits I made on github if you would like."

But...

Most hiring managers were not interested at all. Instead, it was all white board. The whiteboard brain worm infection in hiring managers just runs too deep, there's probably no cure at this point.

Who would you rather hire -- some one who could show you an actual project, code and all, or someone that can implement LRU cache in under 25 mins bc they happened to already do the problem on leetcode?
A Chinese national is trying to make big bucks with stealing technology maybe...
Plans announced for pilot US nuclear fuel recycling plant
Please consider investing either time or funds in your Linux distro of choice.

Desktop Linux has made progress over the years in being a great substitute for Win/Mac thanks to webappification and Win/Mac emulation.

Mobile Linux still needs a lot of work on both hardware and software. Ubuntu Touch, Phosh, PostmarketOS, etc need every bit of help.
I think you've hit the nail on the head, and for what it's worth it's the same in the midwest now too.

Ten years ago if you could write good code you could get a job. Yeah you might not get a FAANG interview if you didn't know anybody and you went to Southern Regional State College or whatever, but you could get a job making twice what your English major friend got, and a lot easier.

Being able to write code is no longer a differentiator. You need to know something about product, or design, or finance, or entrepreneurship, or at least show through the other parts of your resume that you can be a benefit in some of those areas given the opportunity.

The root is that you are not owed a job at all, let a lone a cushy six-figure one where you can type JavaScript into a computer for a couple hours then call it a day. So if you believed the lie of "just go to school for 4 years, major in CS, do what your professors tell you to, and you'll be set for life" then you're in for a rude awakening when September rolls around and you're still looking, or you're writing Java for a bank for $45k/yr.
Writing for Software Engineers: Read Me First
For the record, Germany just finished paying off war reparations from WWII. 92 years later.

-https://www.history.com/news/germany-world-war-i-debt-treaty...
Not to mention, the other app has open webpages and other scummy, unsolicited behaviour. Whereas yours just does what it's supposed to.
Telegram gives you a JSON export of a full conversation, should not be complicated to adapt the input.
I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable.

Maybe this exists elsewhere, but is is free?. It is still a thought and I haven't dig deep to see what exists, but Flyde seems kind of close.
But you can see them and filter out the low quality contributions. And ask about the good ones.
Yah, so there is a problem here in that many of these "homeland nationalistic" folks who send stuff back to "their governments" are in many instances, citizens of the country they are betraying.

Since these two[1][2] incidents, I wondered deeply for a while, what is going to happen here as it seems the CCP is getting more and more brazen. I don't believe it would be legal for "enhanced background checks" on someone in the hiring process because they are Chinese American, and it opens an awful door regardless. I don't really know the solution, but I've thought a lot about the problem. (And yes, of course there is that 5 eyes/other "Western" powers are almost certainly doing similar stuff)

[1] https://japantoday.com/category/world/2-us-navy-sailors-arre...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-...
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but what’s the remedy? To regularly scour sources for information on tens of thousands of employees and parse actionable meaning from
the data?

Maybe someone can make a horrible start-up that does this as a service.
It would be interesting to have benchmarks in memory usage et performance versus the big projects like wasmtime and wasmer. There are quite a few interpreters in rust these days!

Did you plan for possible spec extension like WASI?
Yes? And also it doesn't matter? Ignorance of the law doesn't mean you get a free pass. And by day 1 at any company you've already had to sign stuff saying you won't steal trade secrets (in addition to loads of other things).
Wouldn’t it be best for Apple to have complete access to users’ messages and location data to optimize ads and “personalization” upsells?
> It's pretty maintainable

> something you write in one place can be copy and pasted somewhere else

That sounds like the opposite of maintainable.
You mean the use of a writing system to share knowledge amongst ourselves?

I find that absolutely wonderful and it worked decently well for me (and possibly you.) Now we have a never seen before technology and society will adapt, that's it. No failure.
>You what works? Identifying the purpetrators, prosecuting and convicting them. If you want to go ultra tough, use Mossad to go after Hamas leadership. Heck, even using precision strikes at Hamas leadership in Gaza wouod be better, regardless of the related colleteral damage and casualties. Israel is not doing any of that

ah, yes, it's that simple, just press the magic button that makes all Hamas disappear and all uninvolved civilians live well and prosper...

To me it seems that if those who care about innocent civilians were more focused on demanding Hamas to surrender and release the hostages promptly would be do more to save lives than constantly criticizing Israel, which gives Hamas hope they can survive this (and do what they did again later on)
One thing i imagine is missing is the weight aspect. The weightiness of a macbook pro makes a solid typing experience that is missing from a lot of laptops and keyboards
We use timestamps in file names.
Before you merge you have to catch up your branch (or it gets automatically updated). CI runs the migrations, so if something doesn't work you will know it.
You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name?

Disclosure: I work at Google.
Airbyte and DataStax Simplify GenAI and RAG App Development
"Passengers are free to refuse the searches and leave the station."

But are they free to take public transportation to work?
This looks excellent. Since this is a university project, what future plans/hopes do you have for the project?
He’s clear enough what he’s talking about (and what the original book talks about), and that this isn’t about intelligence, but you couldn’t tell it from the bulk of comments as I write.

I’ll just stop there.
I was about to send a archive.is link but the domain seems dead now?
Temu's Push into America Pays Off Big Time for Meta and Google
"The beatings will continue until morale improves" is not meant to be a serious guideline.
The "smugness" of the author is what made me close the tab 3 sections in. And totally agree, some of the smartest people I know are also the most aloof.
Although Wayland is more modern, it’s been nothing but trouble for me on older hardware (and even some new hardware).

I’d prefer non-smooth scrolling any day over a computer screen that doesn’t come back after sleep.
> It would be easier, and perhaps safer, to push my children to not associate with them - is that really the best policy?

Yes, because a child's peers have more influence on their development than your parenting: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda...

"Behavior geneticists contend that the rough rule of thumb when it comes to the determinants of child development is 50-0-50, that is, roughly 50% of the variance in personality, behavior, and other traits is heritable (influenced by genes), roughly 0% by the shared environment (what happens within the family and is experienced by all siblings), and roughly 50% by the nonshared environment (what happens inside and outside of the family, not shared by siblings)."

As an adult, you might be able to compartmentalize dysfunctional people and evaluate their behavior in a neutral manner. But children are not rational like adults. Their frontal cortex isn't fully developed until their mid-20s.
"Muslim-ban" is not accurate because it did not ban on the basis of being Muslim or not. It was a ban on travel to the US for 90 days from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. There are many predominately Muslim countries it didn't include and it was specifically about travel from those countries.
Apple stock is back to November 2023 valuation, so it's definitely not in free fall.
Ya bro and then the next level would be to like feed that AI generated play or script and feed it into an AI movie maker. It would totally be a game changer! I'm super stoked and pumped about it
> I mean I think we're all on the same page about not wanting to reduce people to their race.

No we aren't. China, at any rate, isn't squeamish about using nationality and race of a person as one of the inputs into profiling them.

Until China is onboard with prohibiting race profiling, everyone else who doesn't do the same is at a distinct disadvantage.
I think power is a hell of a drug
...Or possibly it's the other way around: to get 1000x as smart, you need to put in 1e1000 times the effort needed to get to human-like intelligence.
I'm not sure why you're asking me that. I made it clear from my comment that there's a distinction between legal and moral "wrong," and I described the unlikelihood that he didn't know it was the former. That's all.
I think you parsed that wrong.

I took it as “they have developed products that deliver value to some people every day, so summary execution would not be an unmitigated good”
I thought styled components solved this issue pretty well. Your markup (JSX) is composable, and so is its styling (styled components with raw CSS or object syntax).

Unfortunately, many developers using styled components don't realize the power of their composability, and end up just writing one level deep for each component. But in fact you can wrap styled components and compose them together...
I know of no other fields (correct me if I'm wrong) with multiple employers hiring many people at > $150K/year less than 5 years out of college. That leads to an enormous number of applicants (Google gets > 3 million per year), and the necessity of stringent gatekeeping. Any hiring process in big tech will by design drop at least 95% of applicants.
I find that this becomes less of a problem when you move up from senior positions. Staff, principal, lead, etc.

IMO this doesn't make sense. I don't think a senior dev should have problems switching stacks or languages.
It was, a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39602417
They've been extremely selective for folks with no relationship, yes. They've never been particularly selective for the family of donors or legacy. But, there's not really any way to tell if John Doe Harvard '23 got in because his great-great-grandfather also got in, or because he's hot shit.

I don't think this is altogether a negative, if you're hiring an investment banker then yeah the rich or connected family they come with is a benefit so you're probably in a good space regardless.
When folks talk about reliability of these cameras, what are we talking about? Like, the camera longevity, or ruggedness? Or like they reliably produce a consistent output, versus producing different results under the same conditions where one would expect consistency?
Israel is not defending itself. They are actively murdering civilians to the point you can claim it as genocide. [0] Hamas did not killed those civilians it was Israel who killed them.[1] Israel dehumanized Palestinians[2][3]. He is not a Jew hater, you are accusing him of something he is not and trying to deny the reality of the atrocities committed by Israel. As for all Jews, yes, they are all the same. If the Jews didn't have someone at the head of the Jews who was dedicated to building Solomon's temple by committing this atrocity, the Jews wouldn't have the courage to act.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...

[1] https://www.liberationnews.org/evidence-shows-israel-killed-...

[2] https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/17117377126238824...

[3] https://www.liberationnews.org/israel-calls-palestinians-hum...
I wasn't familiar with BN Press for personal use. I've done some research into KDP and Lulu, but I've decided that ebooks would be my main focus after getting a Kindle and loving it. For a limited/test run, BN Press seems fantastic. $30 for 1300 pages is fantastic.
Europe's DMA rules for Big Tech explained
Ukraine is going through ~200 quadrotor drones an hour in "Garage workshop miniature cruise missile" applications. Anything that has the potential to make dramatically cheaper mass-produced weapons is in play now that we have almost-free precision guidance.

If you can get $2000 of cardboard, foam, and plumbing parts to launch a 50kg warhead at a target 100km away in ten minutes, you can do the same for $2,000,000 and 1000 targets; Long-range anti-air rockets are almost useless for this because they cost more than $2,000,000 per, and even short-range ones cost more than $100,000.
seems like a headline from 1944.
America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

-- Arthur C. Clarke
Valid point. Node-RED is a successful and popular tool and has a great ecosystem, especially around automation and IoT.

NodeRED is a standalone tool than a "language", and although it's possible, using it to integrate with (and from) existing code is not trivial.

Flyde on the other hand, takes more of a "library" stance. It is agnostic to the code running it and can be easily embedded into other codebases.
Nadir-SAR would look very confusing, full of ambiguities, and probably unexploitable since the ranging part of RADAR would not be able to distinguish the left returns from the right returns -- that's why SAR is side-looking.

even with a strictly side-looking geometry, images collected closer to nadir (steep/low incidence) start exhibiting some artifacts such as nadir returns [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Example-of-nadir-echo-in...
I started using Fedora as my desktop just as they defaulted to wayland and honestly the transition has barely been noticed by me.

The biggest issue a few years ago was screen sharing not working in video metting apps like Teams. But I can't even remember when that was anymore.

So the team has really done well from my perspective.
My wife's course exercises in statistics for health studies says "if the p-value is below 0.05, the relationship is statistically significant." Sure, it's a medical institution (Karolinska institutet in Sweden), but the programme she's in is about workplace health management, not even close to drugs.
making vast amounts of scraped data accessible, almost like search.

you’re right, the big names probably can’t handle that on their own.
Source Code Disclosure in Asp.net via Cookieless Sessions
Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results
Totally true, but I was talking more from a package maintainer PoV.
Linux as a service is most of Redhat and Canonical's business models.

grsecurity does this from a security angle specifically - in fact they're boasting about it on their homepage right now (fair enough!)

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