skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I keep hearing about these people who can't code but excel at leetcode

I think the mass trained at bootcamp is an exaggeration. The best bootcampers are those that use it as an extended education from learning the traditional ways. I'm sure most people here complaining about leetcode can indeed spend 6 weeks there and be interview ready. But few have that time nor spare cash lying around for such a venture. And why should we need to spend thousands just to ace a quiz like it's some SAT?

>cost of a bad hire is much much worse than cost of a no-hire, so it's the price I'm willing to pay.

At this point I wonder. Hearing way more stories about "survivors" from layoffs burning out from jobs that keep promising that they'll hire more staff to help out with. When in reality they have a hiring freeze or are trying to offshore the work that ends up needing more time to be fixed.

The stalls in a no-hire aren't just costing money in the lack of productivity, it's costing currently working employees who are doing 2,4, 8+ jobs without any meaningful increase in role/salary. It's not sustainable. You're draining a little bit of blood from a rock, but the rock is clearly starting to crumble.
I came up with some L systems for drawing hats and spectres based on the metatiles eg

https://trinket.io/python/274cc18bd5

https://trinket.io/python/108e28ab75

(the second program has a bunch of variant versions)

this cheats a little: it turns out you always want to draw the H8 metatile (which will overlap) instead of keeping track of the zoo of metatiles. And the flipped hat is never drawn; it appears as a hole in the plot. Similar things happen with the spectre.

This was all done so I could make a program small enough to fit in a toot to generate patches using the bbc microbot:

https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/110295593252210445

(also for hand drawing hats, use a hexagonal grid under your tracing paper, since it's just an assembly of kites)
The downside to transparency – someone will bad-faith you into oblivion for telling the truth.

Personally, even if the fall-out of losing the servers hasn’t been perfectly-and-neatly handled (civil suit, money back, etc.), I am impressed at the resilience they’ve had; this is something that very easily could’ve wiped out other projects, but they’re still here and they’ve managed to raise capacity. The transparency is also greatly appreciated.

I find this heartening. Godspeed to them!
> The throughput of a single cycle lane is insane.

Both the latency and the throughput of motorcycling with lane splitting is far better.

And, notice, it requires no infrastructure changes. Nor does it take existing lanes away from anyone. And motorcycles work in any weather that bicycles work.

We have the technology and the infrastructure but not the widespread policy. Silly cagers.
I'm curious what motivated their attempts to keep you there. I can think of several possibilities.
https://archive.is/DuJWZ
For those who want to try out Recall as a tool but do not trust Windows (or have the specialised hardware required to run), there already is an open source alternative that covers the basics: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall
> Go

Funny. Great choice! Almost makes one believe the company behind it is not the biggest driver of AdTech in the world, whose business model is built entirely on selling user data, and that company also has propensity to kill much beloved and heavily used projects no matter how ridiculous the move is.
Unreasonably good maybe. But then you'll hit a brick wall when you want something slightly better.
The market is choosing T+0

America just moved to T+1 down from T+2. If you want T+0 now instead of a decade or two from now, you have an option
windows install does not belong to you. your consent is optional

"my computer" > "this pc" meme is real
Yikes. I kept wondering why R&D has been dead for so long. I have made comments here on HN about how R&D is responsible for so many tech advancements we still use, especially at Bell Labs.
Does that make the statement any less relevant?
> "Me and Ognjen are based in BULGARIA / Serbia. Most of the time REMOTE, but, generally we like to meet up 2-3 times a year for a few weeks in a nice location."

Congrats! I'd very much like to set up something like this for myself, "company" in the sense of friends working together on a topic at a steady pace over the years. I just don't know how to get started, other than going at it alone, which is not quite half as fun -- pending cosmic luck of encountering the right people to team up, and networking certainly doesn't seem to make a difference.
* A bit more on the philosophy of this setup [here](https://medium.com/suomesta/the-future-of-work-4-efd281d526e...) and [here](https://medium.com/suomesta/winter-reflections-4-75fecb2e02d...)
I've noticed it gets quite murky when dealing with fibre-to-the-premises, particularly in the UK. Although I don't think an ISP would disallow BYOD, I imagine they'd just not be as likely to support it.

I recently moved ISP, partly because of cost, but also because they offered a great home router as part of their bundle. The installer could not utilise any of the existing wiring in my house, had to be all drilled a second time...

Conversely, my last ISP used some awful Nokia modem that barely supported any kind of routing or customisation and I picked them specifically because it was a rental and the fibre wiring had already been done.

It's fairly common for ISP's in Australia to also give you a choice of BYOD or buying one of theirs. Usually you pay outright for the modem, however, so its yours to keep. That said, this is changing with the national fibre roll-out. But with ADSL being the de-facto choice, BYOD makes sense.
I know what you're saying but I don't think there is any kind of nefarious backroom discussion that goes on to this purpose.

I think more likely though are the accidental favoritism in the industry where engineers submit resumes of other engineers they know who are looking for a job who, surprise, are also white males.

I don't believe it is either racist or sexist however. It's just "who people know". Nonetheless, you're going to build a hive-minded team if you don't go out of your way to break these patterns.

Perhaps similarly leetcode interviews come about from engineers who were leetcode interviewed. Again, no need to jump to ageism as the cause.

(And if anything I think it may have turned a corner where the older devs may have more experience with interesting algorithms that, I don't know, might not be taught any longer in CS?)
Oh... Is that why the page is suffering from the hug of death...?
Thank you! I'll try that with my next CA, which I think is actually expired but it seems not all apps care about that :).

If "relatively modern" covers browsers and email clients, that's pretty good already.

edit: here's the reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.... and here's a practical example: https://systemoverlord.com/2020/06/14/private-ca-with-x-509-...
A few weeks ago, I chose to write my data pipelines using Apache Beam. It seems that Koheesio shares some features with this project, but I believe Apache Beam is superior due to its ability to run on various runners, support multiple programming languages, and integrate with numerous data sources and destinations.
This blog post is a lot of words to say encryption != authentication.
You had trust in Microsoft? The Microsoft Office team still seems somewhat legit but the windows division has been garbage for years.
Deep Diving into F5 Secure Vault
Harvard's Largest Faculty Division Will No Longer Require Diversity Statements
In my state, bicyclists can treat stop signs as yields. Yes, that means if there is other traffic it returns to being a stop sign. Yes, there always is right of way for pedestrians.

So no, I definitely shouldn't be stopping at stop signs, but I should be following the rules of the road. Eye contact with peds, sometimes you can quickly negotiate "no, you go ahead". If not, stops for pedestrians.

My work has bike cages, which are right at the entrance and require a badge to access. If not, my bike parks vertically on its own and I could just bring it inside.
OpenBSD – Dhcp6leased(8) Imported to -current
The vast majority of people don’t stop all power consumption at home just because they’re not at home. Even modern thermostats like Nest don’t save as much as they claim, usually.
AMC7135 might work: it's a linear LDO fixed current regulator designed for driving LEDs, which internally is basically an N-channel MOSFET which holds it's gate voltage in the linear region and actively adjusts it to provide constant current.
yeah though a lot of these fall for a variant of the "universal standard" conceit joked about in xkcd. All these low-code solutions suck, so we'll build our own in-house that surely won't have the same pitfalls..
Digital Spreadsheets lets you do this from multiple angles.
A Generative AI EP, inspired by all the best gaming memories from childhood
I would not call LeetCode hard questions "basic coding problems".

Furthermore, asking (senior) engineers arbitrary and esoteric CS questions that

A) They may have never seen before

B) They will likely never encounter

Seems like a good way to lose out on competent candidates

If I hire an experienced electrical engineering project manager, I don't ask them to analyze convoluted circuits or random differential equations on the whiteboard.
Ask HN: How to bring traffic to my product
Two months ago I was laid off, and after losing my job, I started my career as a freelancer. I created a web product, but after it went online for some time, there weren't many users visiting.I have submitted my product to many navigation sites, which initially brought some traffic and also some paid customers, but now the traffic is slowly disappearing. Here I would like to ask everyone how can I bring traffic to my product?
I once reviewed a php library (don't remember which one but it was extremely popular) using `mb_strlen($string)` to get bytes to encrypt/decrypt. It was just waiting for someone to come along and en/decrypt with a non-english language.
Let’s see.. I assume the warning serves two purposes:

1. You may be talking to someone other than you think. This only makes sense with registered domain names.

2. Your data can be eavesdropped or modified by someone in the middle. This would be quite rare within a LAN. Encryption itself might make sense sometimes but standard TLS is a really poor fit because there is no proper CA for the domain names.

The main issue though is people don’t want IP addresses, they want names. If a special domain (like .home or .local) will only ever query local DNS servers returning local IP addrs, it would be roughly as safe as using IP addresses directly(?).

In either case, when the user intentionally wants to speak over LAN (either IP or known home domain) the warning is unhelpful. For instance, configuring a router.
I guess I am showing my age maybe, but 10 seconds for a TV to turn on is insanely long for me and seems even more insane when that is perceived as impressive. Companies love their bloatware.
I find caffeine has a very similar effect.
"Affordable" would also be "making it easier to access credit at lower interest rates", but what do I know?
> I realized that day that I have every right to inspect all aspects of a company that I might work for, and that I don't really have to make compromises if I see something negative during the process.

I think this is really contingent on your negotiating position.

I've been unemployed for over a year. The lower my savings get, the less picky I can be about potential employers.
https://archive.ph/VdH7s
As a balding middle-aged technology professional with disposable income and no experience driving performance vehicles I offer myself as a test subject for both vehicles. Clearly I am in the target demographic.
Title of TFA is “Chang’e-6: Moon samples collected and launched into lunar orbit”
word of mouth is best.
They have the same job posted on LinkedIn. You can see the number of candidates there with a Premium account.
> It's the same with homophones in any language,

It really isn't.
In conversation fluent JP speakers tend to avoid compounds that would be ambiguous, or add distinguishers like "学校の校歌". Honestly, try converting a paragraph of text from a newspaper to all kana, and having a native speaker read it.
> I remember a few years ago on here everyone crowing about the new Microsoft and how it wasn't like the old one.

People here still do this, despite all evidence to the contrary!

I have concluded that a large percentage of hn users simply work at Microsoft or one of its subsidiaries (eg GitHub).
iGPUs are getting better at a good clip, I think. Maybe we can have GPiGPU worth caring about soon.
> Solving the problem for international transfers simply requires greater international cooperation

Right, simply need to solve for world peace, ending all wars and economic sanctions. Kumbaya.
This thread is full of people trying to share experiences that you seem to not allow, Gnome 2 themes working well (for them) being one of them. Sharing the observation of a downward trend _is_ constructive. Trying to invalidate such observations is not.

Considering Mate and Cinnamon still exist and are healthy projects would indicate there's many developers who share this sentiment. Nobody maintains older versions of KDE, apart from a single distro using Trinity (KDE3). That's quite a contrast as well.

I wasn't, and very few are, treating developers hostilely, we are just sharing whatever experience we have. That this isn't altogether positive, is not our fault or responsibility. That's the 'risk' you run creating products for end users who just use it. Nobody forces anyone to code for them.

Please stop putting words in my mouth, nowhere did I write that Gnome2 was bug free.

I suggest you take your constructive criticism to hand yourself.
A Drive in the Office: comma.ai self-driving tech works indoors too
“Take a screenshot every few seconds, run OCR on it, and dump all the text into a SQLite database” honestly sounds like a machine learning intern wrote a keylogger in their coffee break. Hilarious that it’s a real Microsoft feature they proudly advertised.
Last I looked, most astronomy consisted of isolated data points with large amounts of extrapolation between them. This is not "data", no matter how often they insist that it is.
The house passed a bill, but the senate is working on their own version. I havent looked too deeply at either proposal, I just hope it doesnt make it even worse. I am waiting till the final proposal gets voted on.
1) They work really well but not in all the cases and most likely the better approach is some augment between the two. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch already include hybrid approaches.

2) The moat is having a snapshot of the web and being able to search through it efficiently.
Totally not-related to the topic, but I started reading that JAVAhurt PDF and find the typesetting god-awful. Just me? Feels like they imported some TeX package to space out words on a line far, far too far... and inconsistently. Like it was OCR'd from something else and put in extra spaces. Even the monospace sections have weird extra spacing.

Anyway, enough ranting for the day, but I found this really hard to focus on to read - almost felt like a science-kook type manifesto, though I know it is not.
Why are the two choices LC or TV? What about those who have a family, hobbies, etc?
At the same time, Cox is a commercial entity that makes money by providing services. Cyberattacks make them lose money, so it's only fair for them to financially award people that responsibly inform them of vulnerabilities instead of easily and anonymously selling those.

We're not talking about a grandma losing her wallet with 50 bucks in it and not giving money to the guy that found it and gave her back.
The article is about latency, the GP is about latency, you instead pivoted to throughput. Of course throughput can be made arbitrarily high when you don't measure latency. Doesn't help your case at all, quite the opposite.

I am in the happy medium where I can just as well bike or drive to work. It takes 2x to 3x as long (latency) to bicycle than to drive. Aside of slower speed, numerous latencies add up along the way - I can't time bicycling to hit green wave; I require brief but measurable time to dress into bicycling clothes and then to change at the destination, to park & lock the bicycle - nowhere near as quick as clicking the car's remote!. I know both modes, and while bicycling is better for my health and likely has higher throughput along my route, it certainly has higher latency. Which is the OG subject.

Lastly there's matter of variability: between occasional flat tire, the rare drained headlight battery, and other uncommon issues, my bicycle is significantly less reliable than my car. And that's in spite of heavy, and ongoing, investment into the bicycle - including well known puncture-resistant tires. This unreliability adds non-trivial variability to the latency.
My employer does not want my laptop storing screenshots of everything I do any more than I do. Kevin is doing a huge favor to General Counsels everywhere with this work.
I wish Thunderbird would transform into K9 on Lin/Win/Mac.

/ducks
A good way to avoid the Fritz.box issue from a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106336 / https://domainnamewire.com/2024/05/02/internet-gateway-compa...
Physicists coax molecules into exotic quantum state
To note, it feels a lot easier nowadays to remap keys, which helps make the best of any layout we've grown used to.

Carabiner on macos was great until kext got the stinky eye, but I'd assume the situation could improve again. PowerTools on Windows is excelent for most cases, and AHK covers the rest. Unixes have always been stellar on that front. At this point anyone should try at least once to remap some keys to make one's life easier.

On this front of the weakness of the US ANSI layout is the lower number of keys, where other layouts (the JIS one for instance, or the british internaltional on mac) give more latitude for extra modifier keys and additional shortcuts.
Why MTP? It's strictly less functional and more annoying to user than presenting as mass-storage device, and since you need a filesystem either way, might as well go with a protocol that gives you access to files, instead of a slow, half-working abstraction over them.
Core Competencies
Wouldn't that be...the worst of both worlds? Django and Python are really slow. Blazor is not a paragon of performance, and this will make it worse by an order of magnitude.
Honestly, I think the "stringly-typed targets" thing isn't too bad, having used Buck2 quite a bit, and being a Nix user for 10+ years. If anything, it's a small price to pay for some of the other smart things you get in return, like the far more fine-grained action graph and the tooling around BUILD files like querying. One weird benefit of that stringly-typed bit is that the BUILD files you have don't even have to meaningfully evaluate or even parse correctly, so you can still build other subsets of the tree even when things are broken; at ridiculous-scale it's nearly impossible to guarantee that, and it's something Nix does worse IMO since evaluation of the full nixpkgs tree is slow as hell in my experience but a requirement because a single eval error in the tree stops you dead in your tracks.

Also, no matter how much I might not like it as a language nerd, I think Starlark is simply far more "familiar" for your-average-bear than the Nix language is, which matters quite a bit? It might be more complex in some dimension, but the problem space is fundamentally complex I think. So other factors like how approachable the language is matters. (And at least in Buck2, you can use MyPy style typing annotations, thank God.)
If it helps think of the first author as the lead engineer or the CEO, and the last author as the board or the VC. In some areas of science (or some teams) the last author is closer to a CEO, in others closer to a VC (they almost always have the powers of the board). This picture does not contradict the guideline in the reference you shared. Typically, most of the work and writing of the paper is done by the first author, though sometimes, for example when a student gives up, only most of the writing of the paper. The main ideas may be from the first author or from the last author, and rarely in between, but the sorting typically goes by amount of labor/contributions on the task. In some narrow subfields, including most math, sorting is alphabetical or random.
If you can tell me how to put your own public key in there, without spending hours on google; I will agree that it is a good idea security wise.
This. Why have an interview filter that isn't based on what you actually need to hire? (And then, probably, complain that you can't find enough good candidates...)
Depending on the specific job role, I actually like that interview question.

It tests knowledge of the C++ vtable and function pointers, which is probably a good marker for intermediate-level C++ knowledge. Especially for debugging some heinous bugs.
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Then I'm mentally making notches for every “the story would have ended there”. The story runs off its rails and needs the hand of god to set it back onto the track, and that diminishes the enjoyment of the world-building.
Motorcycles are like 30x more dangerous than driving though
I actually haven't tried Nix (or other nix-alternatives) yet. I've seen a lot of complaints about the language, but a lot of praise and love of the idea. I though Guix was the "main" competitor to nix, using a more mainstream language (Scheme). Is that still the case? How would Brioche compare against Guix if you are OK with both Scheme and Typescript as languages?