skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insider trading is only when you're the insider. If you happen to walk past a geodetist (land surveyer?) on the street measuring something, ask him what'll be built there, and he tells you, you're still not the insider.

Otherwise I agree, but in my country they do it differently,... government needs a building for X, someone close to someone in the government buys it for eg. 2mio eur, holds on it for a year or two, before a tender comes out (governments are slow), and 'coincidenetally' that building is the best match and the government buys it for eg. 7mio eur from that guy. (and then they split the difference).
I found my current job (which is the best job I had so far) through a high quality recruiter (not just trying to maximize hires to maximize commission earnings, but they actually cared; E.g.: they suggested specific industry standard trainings which I completed before they would even consider me).
> various pseudo tests

Leetcode fits this too
I’m fairly sure that the president can dissolve a company at will.

Seems .. iffy but I remember reading it and being both shocked and excited that it was possible. I want to say that it was intended for things where the SEC and FTC would be involved today.

Maybe I dreamt it. Or maybe it was revoked via an early constitutional amendment that I’m not familiar with.
The article lacks details to discuss this particular incident. This could reasonably be a company with poor governance, insecure configuration and authentication - and then this is a non-story. OTOH, with the amount of money in question, a sophisticated attack is absolutely believeable, and even 2FA and better process governance will help you out. Maybe a PKI does, but as always, it depends.
I had brain zaps with Zyrtec (Cetirizine) that took me a while to recognize for what they were because I thought they were related to other meds I was taking. I find Allegra (Fexofenadine) agrees with me a lot better. Personally I hate Claritin (Loratadine) as it definitely makes me depressed.

Experience with those others makes me wary of using Allegra except when my allergy symptoms are really bad.

BTW: Benadryl (Diphenhydramine), which has the same ingredient in the same dose marketed as a sleep aid, is really good for Poison Ivy because of its ability to penetrate into tissues really well. 30 years ago you would get a prescription for a round of steroid pills that will have you feeling pretty messed up for a week if you got Poison Ivy but today you are likely to be told to go to the pharmacy and treat yourself with OTC pills. Poison Ivy is bad enough that most people will take the drowsiness.
In this field, “senior” is a state of mind, there is no point in chasing promotions + compensation increases in your 1 company

I have a lot of experience and job hop too, I just never put the 3 month stints on my resume and keep the 2+ year engagements on it

Its an adaptation. I don’t think avoiding juniors helps you
I see what you’re saying, and partially agree.

However, FM synth on PC sound cards, IMO, sounded pretty awful. I would prefer 8-bit NES synth over that of PC synth. E.g. while I do have some nostalgia from the Canon.mid file, I still thought it sounded relatively bad, compared to NES or SNES voices.

I felt the same about the Genesis, which I think used similar synth to older PC FM synth. I always felt that the SNES voices (or even NES 8-bit) sounded far better compared to the Genesis.

But ack this is subjective.
Useful blog post about this sort of situation: https://lethain.com/hard-to-work-with/
I think this points to the real problem: it is hard to evaluate how "good" someone is during the hiring process

Lots of great coders don't have a big open presence. Years of experience isn't a good sign with the churn in tech, plus you don't know if they wrote code or just watched. Is being able to do a l33t coding exercise in a fixed time a sign? IMHO I'm decent programmer and I've failed them. Can you come up with an exercise that matches the work that will be done and can be completed in a reasonable amount of time?

And the phrase "matches the work that will be done" is doing some heavy lifting: many companies don't really know what they need. I've seen companies that need 99% soft skills that want a ton of niche tech experience. Or advertise for something other than the real dumpster-fire that you'll have to work on.

This is the fundamental reason that knowing someone works: they know your coding skills and they can give you the inside scoop on the position.
That really would be insider trading.
They want the best of the best candidates but they won't offer to pay the best of the best rates. As with much in life, you get generally what you pay for.

Anyone who can pass a drug test can likely go get a $20/hour job at McDonalds/Walmart/Target/Home Depot this afternoon and you're offering new college grad engineering positions paying $50k? Yeah, that is why you're having trouble hiring. You're not going to get the best of the best for a small increase in pay over the bare minimum.
Brutalism has been very popular in civic architecture due to it's appearance of megalithic permanence but humans find it so ugly that a great deal of brutalist architecture has, ironically, been torn down.
In a decade or so when people who was not even born when all this happen read this story, will they believe any of it?

A guy publish a bunch of embarrassing documents from the United States central intelligence agency, including private documents between diplomats.

Sweden raises sexual assault charges against him a few weeks later.

He flees to UK and seeks asylum at the Ecuador embassy, on grounds of being afraid that the charges were a false pretense to get him extradited to the US on charges of espionage. The US claimed it was false and there was no intention to get him extradited to the US.

He then get kicked out of the embassy, and put in UK jail.

Sweden then drops the charges.

US then charges him with espionage and request that he should be extradited to the US.

Decades later and the court battles continues. His health deteriorate to the point where UN special rapporteur on torture request that the whole affair need to end.
Current job market reminds me of ~2016-2017 when you'd see absurd job postings requiring 5+ years of kubernetes experience (kubernetes wasn't released until 2015).

I suspect it'll shake out, but I imagine a lot of people will have to learn new skills and adapt - that's how it's always gone in tech. The fact that people seem blindsided by it is a little surprising to me, we've seen this cycle before.
Not all of them, no.

But consider: the hiring pipeline looks pretty much the same for all companies? Why is that? Well, they mostly use similar services to manage hiring, and those services all have similar features. But those features aren't great: they've narrowed the hiring pipeline to squeeze all candidates for all jobs down to the same sort of toothpaste that can be squeezed through the pipe.

Are the employers unreasonable? No, they are following what is considered HR best practices for attracting and vetting talent. But that process is broken, therefore the majority of companies are struggling to find talent.

The process is both homogenized across the industry and fundamentally geared towards preventing false positives - hiring the wrong person. That filters out many people that might have been hired, blowing up the number of false negatives - not hiring the right person.

Companies can't find candidates and job seekers can find jobs because the tools and processes for connecting candidates with jobs is both broken and homogeneous across the industry.
I got my first job out of university about 2 years or so ago, and it was immensely frustrating. I must have applied to easily over a hundred postings on linkedin, the vast majority of which never replied to me to even acknowledge that they'd received my application. Only two ever replied to me, one of which was my current employer. What would have been very nice was a brief explanation of why I wasn't chosen, what made everyone else reject me. Even just "We are sorry, we found a suitable applicant before we got to you"

I'm not an amateur to programming or anything, at the time I had been coding for about 6 years, was studying a programming degree and had a portfolio of my previous coding experience in a variety of fields, a lot of which was self-taught, which was linked in my CV and everything. It would have been very helpful to know if I was making an elementary mistake that resulted in no reply from anyone, or it was simply them finding someone else first
I had one, Dell's UP2414Q. It was a piece of shit, mostly due to requiring multi-stream transport to run in 60 hz mode. So you'd get a GPU driver or OS update and the screen would stop working. Sometimes the panel would split in half and one of them would black out or shift its content sideways so there was a seam in the middle and a piece of the edge wrapped around to the center. Would not recommend.

The ones afterward that got rid of the MST requirement might've been better. Pixel density was great.
Good idea. Keep going to add more obvious value for the property owner, I.e. the person who pays for the service. Good luck.
Has the bubble popped?
There used to exist a professional attestation market, where people could get useful certificates and distinguish themselves on the job market.

Nowadays that mutated into some certification institution running money-grab schemes, and anybody hiring someone just ignoring them because the only thing they attest is that the certified person felt for a scam.
Depends!

If you double the number of keys and you double the number of bins (load factor stays constant), then the problem becomes much worse very quickly.

If you double the number of keys and you double the size of each bin (load factor stays constant), then the problem diminishes as you suggest. BUT, larger bins are more sensitive to changes in load factor.

The sibling comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415826 ) does a good job of summarizing how post-2018 systems handle this issue.
I guess, by some measure it should be a separate skill. It appears to be a measurable skill, apart from AGI, so there's that.-

PS. It would appear to be a great, reflexive, quality for an AI to have: the ability to monitor its outputs, and improve on responses, in a "metacognitive" way.-
We covered more ground in a lunar rover in a week than any of our mars rovers covered in a year.
The issue for me is that unlabeled constants are doubles and they can cause promotion where you don't expect it, leading to double arithmetic and rounding instead of single arithmetic. Minor issue, but hidden behavior.
>One issue is that not everyone loves learning stuff.

Agreed. I do work with some folks who are all "OMG I have to work with this archaic mess." way too often. And I don't disagree with them, but man... not that hard to learn it and code your way out of it. But no they just complain.

Hard to really find out who REALLY has the interest in fighting through the unexpected / rough spots.
Neuralink Gets FDA Green Light for 2nd Patient–First Describes Emotional Journey
There are very few “Swift developers” out there. Much more common are “iOS developers who write in Swift”.

I wouldn’t assume that any iOS engineer would be jumping all over the opportunity to make Android or Windows apps just because they can do it with Swift. They have their (typically pretty lucrative!) niche and are happy living in it.
Because it has been observed [1] that a lot of people turning up to coding interviews don't know much about coding.

I'm sure in the ML sector right now, it's hell. Seven figure salaries are going to get some optimistic over-reachers desperate to try and get in the door and BS their way through the first few months.

My own experience: I had a CEO and board member of the startup I was CTO'ing push a dev my way. "Brilliant", they said, "just really great attitude, check them out see if we can get them hired, fast". I was excited, and keen to meet them. Turns out their way to code was to find a library (this was a Ruby shop, so technically a gem), that did the thing needed, bolt it in using example code and ship it. "OK", I said, "but we're a startup trying to solve an optimisation problem in the logistics space. There is no gem. We're going to have to be smart and solve this ourselves by reading papers and experimenting and trying things out. How would you do that?". And I kid you not, the exact response was "If there isn't a gem, I don't think it's doable, or maybe we should wait until it's done".

When I told my CEO and board member that this great, exciting prospect they found couldn't code, they refused to believe me until I spelled it out really carefully: if we hired them, we'd have to train them to solve problems in code. Like, give them CS50 or something. Is that right for a senior engineer as 4th or 5th hire in a startup?

So now I ask some trivia for engineer roles. I dress it up a bit so as not to be patronising, but I kind of want to have a conversation about how they code, what they do, what their method and see if it rings true. On a lot of phone screens, it still just doesn't tally up.

[1] This is 2007, but I see no evidence of it having really changed much, TBH: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
A unified theory of [quantum] tunneling times promoted by Ramsey clocks
We don't even have enough kidneys as-is.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/neuralink-gets-fda-green-light-for-...
I mean, the kaiju are kind of a great example - weren't they fought by everyone coming together to build giant monsters of their own but with humans making the decisions?

> when it's under the direction of some weird-assed UN committee no one's heard of

Er, not what I had in mind, but there's probably some useful energy behind that pessimism.
In an ideal org, perhaps. In many places, forming that team starts a process where it continually finds reasons to still exist, so your $1m is yearly until a reorg.

Sigh.
All people I know who have been good at leetcode have been good at coding (of course they may lack other important skills but that you can assess with other questions). You can't become good at leetcode without being good at logical thinking. But not all good coders are good at it because it also requires skills unrelated to the job to be good at leetcode.

I do not advocate for leetcode tests, but I think they have a bit unfair reputation. There are many worse interview questions.
So, is Wright not Satoshi after all?
since these chemicals accumulate in the body, if we're absorbing them from the environment they could reach toxic levels. but what if we don't measure toxicity just by death, but by worsening health? if i or my child has some mysterious ailment, how do we know it's not from PFOS chemicals, or many of the other synthetic chemicals industries have been pumping into our air, water, and earth for decades?

to wit: lead dropped the average iq of the americans since 1940: https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-sh...

how do we measure this kind of toxicity, except well after the damage is already done? if we know something is toxic, why don't we stop using it?
Yeah, I completely agree. But.. keep in mind: the idea that we _shouldn’t_ do geoengineering.. that ship has sailed at least a couple of decades now. Yes, dimming the sky is a more direct measure than the geoengineering we did so far. But I’m not even sure it’s less predictable than our first attempt
Add a social network for people to meet and I think you've just described LinkedIn.
That's true but misleading. If you ranked every American by the value of the stocks they owned, the bottom 93% - the everyday people - would be splitting a paltry 10% of the total value. The bottom 50% hold only 1% of the market.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthiest-10-americans-own-9...

Most business equity isn't even publicly traded; a complete accounting would show even greater inequality.
Well even with a 6ms refresh rate, you still have the inherent LCD grey-to-grey latency issue.

Latency is a pipeline issue though. Every stage can add a bit of latency and the total is the sum of all the stages. So with a 120Hz panel you really have a minimum of 6ms latency, with more to be added by software and other hardware in the pipeline.
It's been tough finding a role as a UX designer who is self-taught and has experience despite a lack of degree. Most of what I can find is hourly or small fee gigs that are devoid of any real value (You cannot hire a 1099 to whip up your UX in a week, sorry.)

It's disheartening, and I'm about to stop looking for work for 4yrs while I use my education benefits to go to school. I can get paid $2k/mo to study, so I think I'll put together a team and spend 4yrs building micro-SaaS products while studying art history, instead of siphoning my energy and soul applying to tinder-algorithm-powered-job-onboardings.

A goddamn waste if you ask me.

A product/UX designer who has worked almost 100% remotely as of yet.
Something is wrong with the AY-3-8913
>Ukraine is running out of people, out of money, out of everything, and regaining lost territory is slowly becoming incredibly difficult

I agree and recognize that is the other reality.
I think one way to verify legitimacy is by calling back. For example, "Ok boss, just protocol, but you wouldn't mind if I call you using your usual number?" (or just do it without informing in advance).

Ideally they screen-record (can you do that in Android/iPhone?), so at least if it's really scam, they can say "but I follow protocol, here's the evidence".

Btw we once had a similar scam attempt. "The CEO" emailed Finance in great urgency to transfer money. Good thing the CEO was sitting next to the Finance lady. I was sitting next to them watching the horror turned comedy.
> But a manned outpost beyond earth would make the logistics for large scale space exploration (even with robots) much more feasible, no?

How would it do so exactly? Please give me a technical reason for this assumption.

Because, I predict it would do the exact opposite: Keeping humans alive away from Earth eats up an enormeous amount of resources all on its own. Resources that could instead go into building better robots, building more robots, building more rockets.
I'll throw in my personal example from 2012 when I was laid off. Senior dev, about 30 years experience at the time. A friend knew of an opening somewhere but they wanted GWT experience, I didn't have it so they wouldn't talk to me. 6 weeks later they were still looking. Like I couldn't learn GWT in six weeks? If they hired any decent dev after a good general screening and gave him the docs they could self-learn GWT in less time than that.
The modern application process is a spammer's dream. It works like Google search: optimize based on keywords to drive your resume 'page' to the top. People mastered the SEO game a long time ago, so it should be no surprise that recruiters are getting clickbait resumes.
It's rather because the junior and the company disagree on how skilled the junior should be rated as they grow. At a new company, you get the benefit of fresh perception plus the honeymoon period to finish maturing.

Static job slots are also a problem, though. It would be wonderful to see companies hire for a vector/trajectory at the company, but that comes with its own issues if the employee doesn't change as well as hoped.
Maybe this is more related to modern culture than to feminism, but what I notice nowadays is that there's a lot of asymmetry in the conversation about sex. Everybody understands toxic masculinity, but is it acceptable to discuss toxic femininity? Is it acceptable to discuss "female privilege"? As soon as you mention it, an internet psychologist jumps out of nowhere to invalidate your identity and experience.
Which database when for AI: Are vector databases all you need?
That's exactly how it works right now actually. I'm proposing a rule where everyone is treated equally.
Humans also find it appealing and keep building brutalist architecture. Some other humans pay astronomical amounts of money for such pleasure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Building
How Google Does Code Review
> If all of that is true, I don't see why you would bother keeping in contact with them. At some point if someone makes it so hard to be contacted it sends a message that he doesn't want to be contacted.

Because FB messenger isn't that painful. Facebook the news-feed is, and if they only used that then I would indeed not bother, but the messenger app isn't.

Well, not yet, anyway. Ads creeping in, a "stories" tab I can't get rid of. I may drop it eventually, but today it has a monopoly on my connection with them, and I'm using it because it's less painful than losing touch.

> But we all know that's not the actual reason you keep a Facebook account, because that's technically bullshit in the first place. If you don't change your stuff, they have a way to contact you and that's all that's needed.

Just because I'm technically apt, doesn't mean everyone else is, or cares. Back when they were still around, I had to turn on "parental controls" to stop my dad from accidentally moving apps out of the dock and losing them (as in couldn't find, not deleted), and he needed me to write down instructions for him to be able to use webmail (and he forgot that his password was "XXXX", so complained that the instructions had a placeholder and I had to explain no, that's what your password actually is). One time my mum asked me to change her password by sending me a postcard with the desired new one written on it. My gran held the mouse rotated 90° and didn't know why it wasn't working.
That won't work because the incentives are misaligned. What we need is much better whistleblower programs. Programs where people are paid out $MM and witness protection if there are lose level of risks. These programs can easily pay for themselves by pulling back ill gotten gains to pay for awards and program costs. It should go without saying that it also needs to be a major crime to stop people from filing frivolously. But as Upton Sinclair has said, it is hard for a person to do what is right when their family's livelihood is at stake. People knew about Enron, Theranons, Volkswagon, etc. This sounds even more pertinent with the stuff going on right now around Boeing. I haven't researched that enough to know what is fact and what is conspiracy but it is hard to know what lengths people will go to when the stakes are high enough.
Quite often perception of reality matches actual reality.

I've found it extremely rare to the point of almost being non-existent that what engineers think a company needs or should do is accurate compared to what a company needs or should do.
Graduating into Y2K, there was definitely a period where new grads and a bunch of experienced devs couldn't find work at least for a couple years. I can only guess that it also happened to some extent during GFC.
When it's in an apple, it comes with fiber, which will slow down the absorption of the sugar. (The same is true of any whole fruit.)
The advanced technologies you're describing are part of Artemis. The other part is a huge pork barrel jobs project for the SLS workforce across the country, in as many states as possible.
Again, the Challenger disaster was 12 years prior to the launch of the first ISS module. ISS missions only flew 37 times, out of 135 total missions for the Shuttle.

The Shuttle had many other uses outside the ISS.