skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is one of the causes, because Spirit have had numerous serious quality control lapses they've tried to hide (including as trivial and as serious as failing to drill holes properly). But Boeing itself has the same types of issues, so while it will give them more control, there won't be a fundamental change unless Boeing manage to fix their culture, which is highly unlikely in the short term. Especially while they're preparing for union contract negotiations with multiple crucial unions that have them by the balls.
I don't have to do any hacks to use my Lidl mattress. It just works. Am I doing something wrong here?
No the text is the abstraction. Or perhaps neither is the abstraction and they are just equivalent concepts like how uno is the same thing as one. Uno is spanish, one is English… there is no hierarchy where one concept is an abstraction over the other.

The main point of my post is to suggest that there are other equivalent concepts between text and box/line.
Awesome. Welcome to your first "Fecal Sample Corp." interview.

Are you passionate about programming on the IBM AS400 platform? Our parent company never upgraded their infrastructure for the past 40 years, as it was deemed too risky.
Who said anything about lies? In my experience, the primary goal of F2F interviews is to evaluate social skills like communication.
I assume that you've run into this with people before, or you wouldn't be calling it out as a worry.

But I would hope that I'm humble enough to admit (at least to myself) when I don't know much about a particular topic, and would accept at face value, without argument, when someone says to me, "thanks for trying to find an improvement here, but this is just how this data is displayed, and millions of fans expect to be able to read it this way, and will get confused if we do something different".
Have you written about this? I'm fascinated by exploit dev.
Very true. Most of all because stamps required value for a letter change often and I always ended up with lots of old stamps which were not enough for a letter anymore, had to buy lots of stamps with very little value to complete, it was anarchy.

(2012, 2016, 2019 and 2022 saw price increases for German post for example…)
How does the "." bypass paywalls?
What they actually did was to implement kernel-level rootkits.

This is why things 'secure boot' and requirement for signed drivers are a thing.
The link is working fine here.
I'm not sure if it's helpful, but if you want some perspective from someone that's interviewed a few hundred software engineering candidates..

I ask this question to every candidate I interview. My expectations for this question are very low.

I find it's a very effective screener for low effort applications. A lot of candidates I interview haven't even looked at our company website.

If you're the kind of person that's doing zero preparation for a job interview, I've already learned something about you.

Many people I interview just answer the question very directly:

- "I got laid off"

- "My current company is returning to office and I want to work from home".

- "I've been working at X for 5 years now and I'm bored"

- "I want to make more money"

- "I want to work with an international team"

.. honestly, that's all totally fine.

I agree that there's no need to pretend about your motivations—I'm not expecting a lot of enthusiasm about writing boring business software at my company.

On the other hand, if you've done some basic research about the company or the role and can ask some good questions—I'm learning something about your intelligence, conscientiousness and self-awareness, which are actually the things I'm testing for.

Job interviews are full of latent variables like this. As an interviewer I want to find out if you're good at X, but I can't just ask "are you good at X?". I need to test you out by asking other questions that demonstrate X.
Indeed, QML and C++ together are the best mix out there for GUI development. I've written my block editor completely using Qt C++ & QML: https://www.get-plume.com/ and it was a breeze.
Perhaps because it pays better and has better work-life-balance than the AAA game companies that some other people think are sooo interesting.
I think 2050 is a reasonable goal to get to 100% renewable/clean (including nuclear to some degree) for all energy. Then we need to average, what, around 4TW/year for two decades?

Considering how fast solar/wind is growing, that seems within reach doesn’t it? We’ll probably be somewhat under that in the 2030s and hopefully above that in the 2040s?

I hope by 2030 we start to see some real growth in advanced geothermal too. Maybe some wave and tide power as well.
Atoms have a few advantages over a plain object:

1. They can easily provide derived data without manual memoization.

2. You can provide custom setters that do more than just assign values.

3. Your UI only re-renders the parts that reference fields that changed, not every component.

4. Atoms compose nicely etc.

Putting plain JS objects in context/state and passing them around only really works for simple, small apps. Beyond that you need more powerful tools. I also like Zustand for this.
Understanding better this defense mechanism could allow us to understand even better of how it can be breached and design ... oh, wait...
I don't think that's what's going on here, though. Developers often don't design UI, anyway. They're given a UI spec or mock-up from a UI/UX designer, and build it to spec. That's not a "code factory", that's just being a professional about it (and many software developers are terrible at UI design and should grow some humility and accept that).

Regardless, a quick "we need this score box to be laid out exactly this way, because this is the standard in this particular fandom, and our fans will expect to read it this way" should be sufficient. A developer who doesn't accept that, and argues, needs to mature and learn some social and professional skills.
We already have artificial persons in the world competing with humans for resources, and have had for hundreds of years: corporations.
Thank you for the very interesting links. I used UML extensively during my studies in the nineties, back then on Unix machines. Interestingly, even then, it was possible to work together on a UML concept. I'm not sure anymore if the novelty of working with a graphical UML program was the motivation, or the opportunity to program in something other than Modula. In the end, after my studies, I still had to program only in C++. Once accustomed to the relative directness, it is difficult to embrace new innovative concepts. But I would welcome it.
Only tangentially related, but humans are thought to have floated (they can't really swim that distance) around fifteen hundred kilometers to the Galapagos from the coasts of Central America, where they later caused the extinction of Giant Tortoises.
As other people have said, boxes and lines is another way of representing order, or sequential steps. You can also do that in text.

But you're right that there are other ways. Scratch is an example. But most programming languages are relatively close to math notation, and that appears to be convenient for us.

If you want to see a programming language that works entirely differently, yet still has a graphical representation alternative in boxes and lines, look at CSound. It's an (old) language for generating sound, but its representation is different.
>You don’t argue for 10 minutes that your way of displaying a box score is better

most people working in any particular industry understand that there is a particular way things are done for customers in that industry.

on edit: actually thinking about this I recall I was working on a live streaming sports station and I should display some scores (not baseball) I hate watching sports and yet I still chased down several people to find out if there was a well known way that scores should be sorted and displayed because I expected different sports might have different idiosyncrasies and I should provide a generic templating system for displaying the score (these folks evidently didn't care as much as ESPN because there was nothing special I should do)
In the Netherlands it's even more. Seems like the Dutch wikipage on the subject is far more comprehensive to the English one: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnenvaart

Says over a quarter of freight goes by boot. Not surprising, seeing as how many small inland ports there are.
To be completely honest, it's pretty easy to find a job in the current market. Maybe american market is different but in Europe you can practically just chose some company and you'll get a job.
I world argue it’s still cause of money, whether it’s more money or less money doesn’t matter, just the money (and benefits if America) to be able to live. It’s only when your answer is still the same given you don’t have financial responsibilities and health needs that one can truly say it’s not about the money.
It depends. If its something like my personal todo list pure-todo [1], I tend to write it down in less than a week without using any frameworks and hardly ever touch it again.

If it's something like m4b-tool[2] or tone [3], that has to be maintained for a while, I tend to use battle proven libraries or frameworks (in this case Symfony, because it is an older project and Spectre.Console and atldotnet for tone). I prefer libraries over frameworks though, less background magic.

However, I have the feeling that you also find something in this comment that you don't like - maybe the shameless advertisement of my FOSS projects ;-)

1: https://github.com/sandreas/pure-todo

2: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

3: https://github.com/sandreas/tone
What. The. Fuck. Why would anyone buy such thing then? I really don't get it.
people totally use RSS feeds still. So many systems just make it by default, and I (and many other people) just use RSS readers for following blogs and whatnot.

It's not a complicated thing to get setup! There's a bunch of details you can flub but at the end of the day it's a big thing of markup. The "good enough" thing is easy.
The link to the full paper given in the article: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...

doesn't work from Australia, it reverts back to all nature climate articles: https://www.nature.com/nclimate/articles
can but dont.
I think that's a fairly uncharitable explanation of the GP's point.

Even if the developer is involved in the UI design (which at many shops is -- IMO wisely -- not the case), it takes all of 7 seconds to give context on why a box score needs to be displayed in a particular way.
>Like it or not, an app to configure the device instead of the device having a VCR remote control to program in schedules is what consumers have gotten used to these days.

No?? When was the last time you spoke to another human being about this topic? Has any other person in your life seriously told you that they like having to download a smartphone app to set up their soundbar? Have you managed to fully insulate yourself from the broader world with a circle of dead-eyed freaks that gleefully spend their free nights registering their appliances online and reading end-user license agreements?
No, it's still horrible, we just don't understand why because some other team maintains it. We just suffer the long build times by killing time on memegen or visiting the MK.
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I conjecture that mass market consumers have come to expect this because it's been pushed down their throats for the last ten years by rampant rent-seeking. Who is really asking for an internet-connected bed for goodness' sake??
Do you have any plans of open sourcing this?

Because I was thinking of making the same exact thing but in https://bun.sh/ for a use case I had for only taking screenshots at cron jobs.

I really like this tool but I would really love it if you could open source it and the website seems very premature (like the astro logo)

Other than that good job. I would like to see how this project progresses.
> As long as you cut a compressed audio / video file at the groups / jumps, you can cut it losslessly.

If you had a video with keyframes 'd'K and delta frames 'd' like

0 1 |<-->| 2
KdddddddddddKdddddddddddKddddddddddd

and you wanted to cut out the indicated frames, could you create a new keyframe from the keyframe marked '1' + the two following delta frames, and then another new keyframe from K{1}dddddddd? Something like

0 1 |<-->| 2
KdddddddddddKdddddddddddKddddddddddd
Kdd = keyframe "L"
Kdddddddd = keyframe "M"

KdddddddddddKdLMddKddddddddddd

Or I guess if you're creating new frames that weren't in the original, could you just rewrite all the deltas in between K1 and K2 such that those 5 frames aren't there?

0 1 |<-->| 2
KdddddddddddKdddddddddddKddddddddddd
KdddddddddddKddeeeKddddddddddd

(where 'e' marks recomputed deltas)
i think this whole thread is a false dichotomy. I'm not a sports fan myself, but I would absolutely sit down and learn the rules/stats/whatever ahead of an interview. i also wouldn't put up with shitty hours and rude bosses.
I would guess that the system generates more digits - lets say 3

when the postal system checks that PZC on the mail, if there is nothing written by the PZC then it's assumed to be fresh, and the 3 extra digits are looked up via a postal-service-only gateway, then placed on the mail by the PZC for future lookups, possibly along with a date.

If the PZC has the extra digits, then it can be looked up and confirmed as redeemed with those extra digits, and possibly the stamped date.

The extra digits could be stamped or handwritten, possibly with the postmark date used as the redemption date manually entered from the mail as it passes through the sorting system the first time, OR stamped from the date it's registered as redemption, either would work.

Such a system would relatively guarantee that fraud would be difficult, since only one person could have a PZC without the check digits go into the system, and sharing would be useless.
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I think you vastly underestimate the variety of the things humans will be passionate about.

But sure, many people will still be doing jobs that they aren't passionate about, and that's fine. Passion shouldn't be a requirement. Maybe it's a bonus, though, both for the employer and employee.
Do you know of any good sources to read about this (the internals of RIM/BlackBerry and its downfall)?
We're not talking about different modes off communication, we're talking about adding communication to a "device" that doesn't need it.
We spent good 60 years to get OKish text rendering. I mean, some of us can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica. Now imagine adding a new font to an OS like that: “Sure, boss! We only need to generate 5b examples for training and just 20 years of GPU time.”
You know, there is also Apache Nifi.
I can't wait for the deep dive on how the finals works on a technical level, it's extremely impressive
they just want a faster horse!
Or frozen food.

The sort of situation where I order DoorDash now (too busy to go out, going through a major depressive episode and don't have the emotional energy to cook) I would have microwaved a frozen meal 10 years ago.
Maybe this explains how I haven't gotten it yet despite being in proximity repeatedly (living with) someone who was positive, as well as being in groups where I was the only one who didn't end up with it. Fascinating.

I thought maybe I was resistant because I drink so much water, haha.
Well this is a very confusing argument. If you hire someone who cares about their work, who has passion for it, you're going to need to be prepared to talk things through with them when they think they've worked out a better way of doing things. If you wanted them to just code up what they are told to, you would have been better avoiding all that passion in the first place.
> The reason is demand

Induced demand.
I think it more "a person capable of empathising with the users". Knowing the internals of how the baseball industry operates isn't relevent here. The relevent experience is being familiar with how the viewers interact with baseball.

Having said that, it seems like this applies mostly to frontend people writing the consumer facing portions. There are plenty of jobs where your users are other people in the company, or partner companies. In those cases, understanding the bussiness tends to be far more important than understanding the user experience.

For parking garages, the relevent experience would be someone has used them a lot. Or at least someone who is familiar with driving a car.
> I’d pick the former.

Agreed, actually. It does depend on the industry somewhat and sports is probably one where interest in the topic is more valuable than average.

But for me I have to care about what the company does. I don't think it's necessary to be an extreme hardcode fan of the product, but at least caring more than a little bit is important.

Working on a product that I couldn't care less about is going to be too draining. For example, netflix has been recruiting me for a long, long time but I have zero interest in movies. I'd rather do anything else than watch a movie. So I've never been interested in working there since, at the end of the day, it's a movie company and I just don't care about that at all.
Maybe you could interpret this question as "what makes you interested in this field/domain" rather than "why do you want to work for us in particular"?
You can have those things without written language; they weren't hunter-gatherers. I don't know what building you're talking about, but as far as I know the Brits didn't have any building nearly that tall in 1700. The Brits didn't have a steam engine in 1700. The Brits recognized, in 1700, that the Indians were people just as much as themselves. This argument of yours projects onto the past an opinion that nobody actually held.
The interesting part of the deal is the parts spun off to Airbus. There are some minor components manufactured for Airbus jets, and then there's the A220 (formerly C-series), which as a designed by Bombardier plane, had production in the former Bombardier factories that were sold to Spirit. Most notably, the wings.

Airbus only needs the part of Spirit that relate to them, but Spirit's factories are not organised like that (e.g. the Northern Ireland complex that manufacturers the A220 wings also manufactures parts for Bombardier private jets). So it would be interesting exactly how Spirit, Boeing and Airbus split things up, and what the impact on workers and production will be.

Also, Airbus was asking to be paid for taking the parts of Spirit related to them because of their sorry state (the Northern Ireland site needs billions of investments, according to them). It's pretty funny if Boeing paid Airbus to take parts off Spirit so that Boeing can begin to try to fix their mistake from 20 years ago. Airbus are definitely making them a favour though (if they refuse, anti-competitive regulators will surely block the deal). So it's a win for Airbus, potential long term win for Boeing.

Edit: just read the FT's article on the topic, which is more detailed and covers those topics - Airbus will receive $559 million, and will take over Spirit factories in Northern Ireland, Morocco and France. Spirit will spin-off some other unrelated businesses, including other parts of the Northern Ireland facilities, which might be disastrous for the workforce there.

Article:
Boeing agrees to buy Spirit AeroSystems in $4.7bn deal - https://on.ft.com/3VMqoiL via @FT
Yes, exactly, and the game Slay the Spire is a strong example. Primarily made by a two-person team. The designer is super passionate about the game (and card games in general). The programmer doesn’t even like card games!

But it works great (it is such a successful game that it spawned a new genre) because both are really good at what they do!
>I guess it’s a sense of why do I need a PASSION for it

I think at the end of the day, an employee with passion is always better than one without, if everything else is held even. I think this is a tough pill for a lot of people who arent/dont want to be passionate about their work to swallow. It impacts every attribute an employer cares about.
The point is that you confused moral hazard with economic hazard in claiming that there was an economic hazard but not a moral hazard. When you have 5 million users paying $1/each, then pissing off a hundred of them makes very little difference to your bottom line, i.e. low economic hazard. But morally, because you sold them a product for $1/each, you owe them warranty of fitness, therefore the low economic hazard, i.e. the low economic consequences, introduces high moral hazard. When the situation is flipped, with 5 customers paying $1 million each, your high economic hazard in the risk of losing a customer aligns your moral incentives to do correctly by them, and you therefore have a low moral hazard.

I largely agree with you, except that you flipped the terms.
> I thought the whole premise of having licensed engineers was that licenses can be revoked if the engineer screws up badly enough

The cynical take is that the primary role of industry licensing bodies is to limit competition to insiders. I suppose we’ll find out if it’s more realistic than cynical if this individual remains licensed.
"Writing small, custom styled GUI apps for windows is painful"

I'd add "for free because I'm too cheap to buy a license for a toolkit that does what I want".
Ouch. I work at a sports tech company where about only about half the engineers were sports fans going in. I wasn't one of them. I'm obviously biased, but I think that the intersection of tech people and sports fans is small enough that the companys' growth and/or technology would suffer significantly if they insisted on hiring only the intersection. Domain knowledge is important, but "domain" can be multi-dimensional (my team's domain is "AV" more than it is "sports"), and general tech quality matters too.

But more broadly, I agree this question could be useful. It's not "say why you want to have a job, and it better not be for money", which would indeed be silly. It's more like "you're good and a lot of companies would hire you, so why this job?" I don't think I've ever asked this question, but it's good to know they have some passions that overlap with what we do, and this question could be a way to find those.
SEO will become LLMO, with the added bonus that if you do it right, you can get the LLM to lie in your favour.
> Could be correct even if not identical

Can you be 100% sure that the model-gen-IR is correct if output x86 is identical against the input?
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Yeah but that's a known order. You don't have to detect it.
Towards a unified theory of reactive UI (2019)
> The most straightforward way to incentivize is to simply reward the behavior that you want to promote.

I've seen first hand a child learn to read. By far their biggest incentive is the fact that written text appears literally everywhere (in a city environment). To them it's like unlocking a superpower. A monetary reward in comparison incentivizes passing the literacy test, it does not incentivize actually being able to read.
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