skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing a whiteboard interview does is confirm that you resemble the person described in your application. This is ever more important as many people have an LLM write their application for them.

Here's a prediction: as it becomes ever easier to fake details remotely, there will be an ever greater emphasis placed on in-person interviews in the hiring process, with the result being that even remote work is less remote: you have to being the physical presence of an interviewer at some point. If the job is in Kalamazoo, most of the people making the final cut will be near Kalamazoo.
Bingo. This is clearly the answer. However, law enforcement buys from data brokers, so it will never happen.
I am amazed by some people's persisting belief Unisuper was somehow "at fault" in this. As the article points out they actually did have a third backup in 3-2-1 and albiet with pain, managed recovery because they did not have sole reliance on their cloud platform.

Could they do better? Sure. Now, ask yourself: how many entities are you using that you know have an alternate backup outside of their hosting/CDN provider? Not "oh, I'm sure they have this covered" -how many do you KNOW have this covered?

Would you have believed an entity like their back-end could have this kind of single-field cronjob fail outcome?

(I am a Unisuper member with funds in accumulation and pension phase)
They guy was a successful score in the past. More than likely, it was the same people coming back to see what else could be taken. Especially now seeing it was a large operation makes me even more confident that would be likely. Not really sure what your point is at all. Except you seem to think that $200 is enough to make a cops investigative socks go up and down which is the point of contention. Even an ant hill can get massive one grain of dirt at a time. Lots of ~$200 items adds up to a big number, but again, individually they are nothing to get police excited about at all. It's not even enough to claim on insurance. You're just really trying for some unknown reason to hold on to this fallacy of yours.
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So is my understanding correct that only institutional investors are allowed to benefit from making outrageous public claims about the health of companies regardless of the claims basis in reality?
The instructions state the following:

> Imagine you begin a journey in Seattle WA, facing exactly due east. Then start traveling forward, in a straight line along the Earth’s surface.

Where does it say to "travel exactly due East"?
GtkDialog is just a GtkWindow with a few things done for you. It wasn't exactly a pleasant API to use either.
That's backwards reasoning though.

If limited liability is a concern... we can just create that for individuals.

I'm not convinced that Meta also needs the right to do whatever it wants, for the sake of aspiring indie filmmakers.
I'm not interested in the product, but I have to say this site is great. Too many sites that get posted in Show HN are so difficult to decipher what service they provide or function they serve. This landing page is about as clear as you could be straight away: it's a small camera -> great battery life -> pricing (without going to another page!) -> Mac Only -> Buy/Download links. You provide use cases, your tech specs are visible just by scrolling a bit, there's photos of the device that highlight its size. It even looks good. Only downside is a lack of example photos (which sound like they'll be added).

This is a breath of fresh air and I applaud your effort on it.
Author here — I agree the image is misleading (and added a caveat to be clearer, though I could have made the arrow smaller).

I don't think the question requires the reader to ignore what ‘east’ means, however. There is unambiguously one direction at Seattle (tangent to the Earth's surface) which is facing due east.

I also didn't mean to take a patronising/arrogant tone to the reader and I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave.
a small anecdote:

in 2019, my wife finally got fed up with windows 10. she used no software that was 'windows-only', so she asked me if i'd help her begin the move over to gnu/linux.

i made her live-drives of several different distributions, and showed her how to boot into them on her machine to play with the live environments. iirc, she messed around with ubuntu, solus, mint, and elementary.

she liked the fact that she had so much choice available to her. she eventually settled on mint cinnamon, as it has an environment she is familiar and comfortable with, and that was that. she's been running it ever since. and, keep in mind, my wife is someone who doesn't live and breathe computers like most of us here do.

i know there are the people out there who have disdain for the amount of choice we have in the linux desktop space ("fragmentation!"), but most people appreciate the amount of choice on offer.
He's saying the attempt to virtue signal, via the low salary, is invalidated by these deals. The virtues would be mostly altruism I guess, that the AGI mission was important enough to humanity for him to sacrifice opportunities to build personal wealth and so on. I think that's overblown personally, but certainly Altman would often repeat the line about having low salary and no equity.
Loving this throw away comment without any context:

"the only reason that an object appears to change over time is because it is entangled with a clock
...
anyone observing the universe externally would see it as completely ... unchanging"

How is a clock unchanging? Perhaps it's needs winding, maybe somebody pulled the plug, who knows, but that's the only kind of clock I know that doesn't change.
That’s exactly what I was going for — the issue of transparency here. It wasn’t dissecting why he’s “bad”, it’s that the public statements don’t match up with financial realities.

Maybe next time I could press more about the transparency factor, but I thought it was concise enough.
As they state at the bottom, they are referring specifically to geodesics when they mean straight line. They then rule out the due east curve, despite stating you must travel due east. They claim this is because to do so would make the line no longer straight, but this claim is utterly nonsensical in the context of three dimensional geometries.

This is a puzzle born of a misunderstanding of three dimensional Euclidean geometry.
Here's the thing:

There is a massive asymmetry between what a company that can afford to do 1000's of trials at a time to get what they want, and an individual who really can't afford to be culled and lose 2-4 months looking for another position.

Also if you've ever dealt with temp->perm situations, people can change when they go perm. It is a real issue.

---

As an employee: I usually can tell if a company is bad, I don't need to work there 2-3 months to learn that.

So for me there's little to no benefit, and massive downsides in that I don't have ANY real safety net to jump to the next "internship".

Maybe in Europe where they have stronger employee protection, and also better healthcare I'd consider it. But in the US, I'll take every protection you give me.
There's a risk with that in more sensitive areas, sometimes its months before you're allowed to see something serious because they don't want their secrets exposed.
I’ve been in a small group at an academic institution. With our meager resources we trained larger models than this on many different vision problems. I personally train LLMs on OpenWebText than this using a few 4090s (not work related). Is that too much for a small group?

MNIST is solvable using two pixels. It shouldn’t be one of two benchmarks in a paper, again just in my opinion. It’s useful for debugging only.
This is what the cathedral versus the bazaar is all about. You either make everyone angry by rejecting common-sense changes because you insist on being different (GNOME) or make everyone angry by accepting every kitchen-sink patch available until your desktop breaks (KDE).

I guess people perceive it as fuckshittery because there's no advertising or marketing team to help assuage the missing features. Comparatively, Microsoft Windows struggles to maintain any less than a dozen GUI frameworks despite being a centrally managed product sold by one company. When you look at it that way, it's kinda miraculous that Linux ends up having it's cake and eating it too.
I'm not too familiar with the DNG format, but if a DNG file could be as simple as [header][2304x1296x2 bytes][footer] then it might be possible with the current hardware.

But without a filesystem, would it be useful to have DNG files stored on the SD card? Wouldn't you need special software to read off the "packed" DNG data anyway? And if you need special software anyway, couldn't the special software convert the existing raw image data to the DNG format, instead of requiring the hardware to do it?
Board decides each quarter on behalf of the stockholders whether to pay dividends or reinvest profits to increase the potential of future dividends.
reminds me how the other day I circumvented disabled SSH port forwarding by using https://github.com/nwtgck/yamux-cli + ncat already on the machine to do something like:
yamux -l lport | ssh server -- <script: ncat --proxy-type=http -klp proxyport & and yamux localhost proxyport>.sh

good thing I needed HTTP access or else i had to find that socks5 server that's actually working again.
Because, it is the INTERNET! (cough cough)

Seriously, I run ARPA-NET in my home.internet, as well as IPX (Bayans VINES) and Frame Relay/X.25. Yeah, it's what I do. Also encrypted MAC-layers too.

Now the real kicker is maintaining DNSSEC for my home.internet. A real exercise in extremity (but not futility yet it is doable)
The national do not call list isn’t effective so I can’t advocate for another one as a solution UNTIL the first implementation is fixed.
Not only that, but very often health issues are the cause, not result of, bad employment performance.
Yes, I changed the title to the linked page to ‘A path from Seattle’ from ‘Go east from Seattle’ because, from reading the comments here, I agree the original title was too misleading. Just updated the title of the Substack post also.
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There are plenty of informally agreed-upon defaults in the GNU/Linux world. For instance almost everyone uses Bash, Git is the dominant version control, and the default browser is usually Firefox-based. This doesn't mean alternatives shouldn't exist, but they aren't neck and neck. Somehow no DE has won yet, and that's a serious usability problem.
Systems that do this use the latest value for leap seconds. The conversion becomes ambiguous, but not undefined. For any system sensitive to the ambiguity, you simply would keep the time in TIA rather than convert it.
KDE gives you the freedom to do whatever you want with it that's why they don't need to be forked. They actually learned from their community after the backlash they got for kde2. Oh and also gnome has no dock...

That said you seem to misunderstand the gnome "workflow" if you think the new KDE features are copies or similar to the gnome workflow™. I give you that they are visually similar but most of the concepts you described were shaped by xerox.
TIL the etymology of my favorite IMAP server's name https://www.dovecot.org/
it actually happened

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Rom...
I appreciate you writing this. These are all valid criticisms of Flutter. Especially the bit about pinch-zoom. Proper zooming is a long missing feature from flutter. There is InteractiveViewer[0] but it does not actually cause a re layout of it's children and it also doesn't respect the ScrollBehavior of the platform. There is also Two Dimensional Scrollables[1] which is a new official Flutter package which could theoretically be used to create a better zoom widget, although this hasn't been done AFAIK. There are some packages that can do this though.

As for Cupertino being a bad reproduction of the real iOS behavior, is it really that noticeable to non-developers? If so, that is very sad to here. I actually found out about Flutter via an open source app that was using Cupertino. I really liked the feel of the UI so I looked at the source and found out it was using Flutter. I feel like most Android users do not care about apps feeling "native" as the definition of a native UI feel has changed so drastically over the past decade or so on Android, with major apps like WhatsApp, Youtube, Gmail and stock Samsung apps each having almost completely different UI designs. If there are behaviors in Flutter Cupertino that would confuse iOS users (not just look slightly different) that does in fact sound really bad.

>Its handling of the screen rotation animation is also horrendous as it just stretches whatever widgets were present with no control.

FWIW I can't reproduce this in my own Cupertino app. For example a 3 column grid becomes a 6 column grid when rotated.

[0] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/InteractiveViewer-cl...

[1] https://pub.dev/packages/two_dimensional_scrollables
It’s not even specifically about the conflicts of interest — although that isn’t great — it’s about the obfuscation of that information, and the direct contradiction with public statements and ‘mission goals’.
Right. From the article:

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Is there a service that cranks out these clickbait articles?

The real lesson of this episode is that you cannot safely outsource your core business functions to a third party.
Very typical and probably the most important takeaway: these things are almost never decided by technical merit.

Almost any organization, once it reaches a certain size, ends up thinking about standardizing on languages and technologies, and put in place certain systems to support the preferred choices and discourage others.

Whenever the subject is revisited, it tends to end up as a political fight at the management level, and technical folks don't have much say. Even when a company does have set standards, if the project is important enough to be visible at a high enough level, the technology choice can go against the standards.

In one case I'm aware of, a shop that was heavily Microsoft/C#/TS/Azure chose Go and K8S for a high-visibility project, despite almost no one in the company knowing those technologies, and the few who did could not be pulled away from their existing work.
That's just it-- I really don't think ChatGPT and Sam have harmed anyone besides possibly a very few people who disagreed with Sam and tried to resist him and got outmaneuvered by him. But I think many tens of millions of people have greatly benefitted from him. And to ignore that in the calculus of "is Sam worthy of reproach?" seems silly.

And I also don't feel like I am somehow owed a huge amount of transparency around the exact details of how Sam may or may not benefit financially from his association with OpenAI, or the legal agreements they had with departing staff. Even if he does benefit, is that really so horrible? They have a for-profit division now so they are paying taxes. And the fortunes made from OpenAI stock with be taxed for sure. And the people who left are rich and got to work on a world changing product.

Where is all the harm? It's really hard to point at any real harm from my standpoint. But the benefits and gains are palpable, and they are obvious to anyone without an agenda to push or axe to grind.
Ah, my source was a co-worker from Hong Kong, which is apparently a stronghold of Bopomofo. A little ironic that the more westernized island would prefer non-romanized spelling... politics with the mainland I guess. He mentioned Pinyin when talking about input methods though.
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Just point me in a direction.
Perhaps, but you've also resisted rewriting the entire application just to take advantage of the newest GUI frameworks. There's a lot to be said about an application that gets things done, and quickly, regardless of whether it was the initial intention or not. Congrats on the release!
I'm running the same as above. However do check both the memory and motherboard manufacture's tested with lists (QVL qualified vendor list) before purchasing! Each product should have its own compatablity listing.
> That is likely even lower than the effective self discharge rate of a lithium coin cell battery.

That's what I've found too. Based on my measurements and calculations, Photon uses 5µA (MSP430 + motion sensor) while sleeping, while the battery's self-discharge is more like 80µA.

That's probably a good argument for using a more powerful chip though, if the battery self-discharge is that high, hah.
Every single desktop you listed has a completely different user experience than the next, except for maybe Cinnamon and MATE. They are solving different problems. Just because a desktop uses GTK doesn't mean it is a fork of GNOME.
I recognize this is the most trivial example cited, but on a Mac, you can also use the `open` command to open an URL:

open "http://example.com"
>general way to externally terminate a thread of execution

There's really no safe way to cover all cases unless you create a really scoped down interface that are explicit in what they do.

One use case might allow abrupt interruption with no cleanup (like in the case the OS is powering down) and another interrupt it might be imperative to cleanup (a long running program that can leak resources)
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When I went to my first job interview after years building my own software product, I brought all kinds of examples of code I wrote which I felt showcased my talent (including an effective API I created for one of their services that lacked one, and code examples of mine that had been published in a textbook). The interviewers had zero interest, and just wanted to discuss superficial / artificial whiteboard-type problems and (in retrospect) how to hose more ad revenue out of users by upending expected browser behavior.

I can appreciate how some of it offered a glimpse into how I approach problem solving, but the process (not just that aspect) left a sour taste, and over a decade later I'm so glad I didn't wind up in a career position there.

If you want to attract top tier talent, as an employer you should also work to make your interview process fun and challenging, and showcase what sets you apart from you competitors. Too often firms loose sight of the fact that in the interview, they are being evaluated too.
oh yes, it’s definitely outside the realm of possibility that there could have been fundamental shifts in the economy and consumer expectations that make it impossible to roll back the clock to a time when eventgoers just showed up and hoped there was seating available. how silly of me.
I'm pretty glad that didn't make it into the official canon. The evolution of the world is one of the most fascinating things about the legendarium. Imagine living during the age of the lamps.
If external F-RAM is an option, one can use F-RAM from, say Cypress (now Infineon, [1]) together with ARM chips from Ambiq, e.g. Apollo 3 Blue Thin [2], which likely have even better power consumption than an MSP430.

[1] https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/memories/f-ram-ferro...

[2] https://ambiq.com/apollo3-blue-thin/
Again, a small academic institution may not have the experience or know-how to know these things.
Perference for short pointer over long pointer. Obviously stack over flow reference problem could have been avoided with standard int. via look up on web. Leap seconds to fleeting a solution.
The most reasonable interpretation of this is to follow the latitudenal geodesic along its eastern path. You cannot claim that one geodesic is more “straight” than another in 3d Euclidean geometry, that is nonsense. But that is what the author does.

Edit: Ok, the latitudinal geodesic only exists at the equator, so the question is fundamentally impossible, with how the author defines a straight line.
Feature request: TCP over Facebook Messenger, TCP over Whatsapp

For use on flights where they give you "messenger only" internet access.

Feature request: TCP over JPEG cat pictures on HTTP port 80

It would likely do a better job at circumventing the China firewall than existing VPNs that can be flagged as VPN protocols.
The problem is that small organizations cargo cult large organization interviews, when for most small organizations (ones that are not building infrastructure for others) speed of delivery is vastly more important than algorithmic purity. Lots of n^2 and even 2^n algorithms are in fact perfectly reasonable in many contexts.

Even in large organizations, lots of people aren't touching the massively-scaled systems and are in fact just application developers.
"Easily" did a lot of work in your reply.

What's the right period of vacancy to allow for 1, 2, 3, and 4-bedroom units as a function of floor level, direction faced, time of year, elevator or not, age of building, distance to school and transit, etc?
The author here, just want to clarify:

The post is not a “hit-piece” on Sam, nor am I calling him a bad person or anything of the like.

It’s a discussion of the direct contradiction between publicly stating someone is without financial biases and the hard facts of clear financial entanglements.

I’m happy to hear any criticism on how I could’ve written it better to explain my position! :)
Leetcode questions are definitely step 1 in Meta interviews, at least as of the round I went through earlier this year.