skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The conventional wisdom for getting job leads as a new grad and early career is to go to job fair, have a portfolio and open a LinkedIn account.

Conventional wisdom isn't very wise. For college grads, the best thing is contacts. Is your dad, uncle or anyone in your network or your family's network or your friend's network a 'big shot' anywhere? If no, the second best thing is work experience. Does your college offer internships or work programs of any kind? If so, join it. Nobody I knew who had internship/work/coop/etc experience in college had trouble finding jobs. Most of them had full-time positions secured before graduation.

> Somehow I don't feel that I'm at a point in my career that I can ditch all my online presence and still get job leads.

During your first job build a contact/network list. You can use that to find the next job. Besides, a significant portion of jobs are word of mouth. For every open position, the manager usually goes around asking if his team knows anyone.

Most people I know don't have linkedin. It's only here where people act like linkedin is a job requirement.
This looks really cool! I'm sure I'll be adding this to my toolkit. And I swear by SciSpace Copilot https://typeset.io/ which I've been using for more than a year. It saves my reading time and summarizes the paper extremely well, helps me decode complex topics, automates the literature review, and extracts key findings of the paper within minutes.
merchant of record was one of the few things that stripe was missing. i'd be pretty worried if i worked at paddle.
I am always nervous about acquisition. Only time will tell if this is going to be good or bad.
Tesla says:
> Placing a wet cloth on Supercharger cable handles does not increase charging rates

Earlier in the article:
> Plugged in at 2% SoC - ramped up to 147kW as normal and thermal throttled at 34% down to 58kW. Slapped that room temperature soaking wet rag and it climbed back to 119kW where it hit the internal charge profile limit.

So it seems it _does_ increase charging speed.

Also nitpick: Article says:
> Sending high-voltage current through small cables creates a lot of heat.

High voltage has absolutely nothing to do with how much heat is generated. Actually, the higher the voltage, the less heat is generated for the same power transfered. It depends on current, and higher voltage is used precisely to transfer high power with less current, thus less heating loss.

I find it funny that people writing stuff for web about electric cars have no idea about basics of electricity.
Let's Make an Information Display
Because many others did that benchmarks before and come to vast improvements over simple linked lists.
Yup - let's see it in a year.
I'm in my 70s with two knees that have experienced the ravages of too much tennis and running. This looks like a godsend if it works!
Passkeys: faster, safer, and tricky to get right
I think even basic LLMs are able to de-obfuscate our 2000s-style attempts at hiding emails (eg. one of my friends writing: "firstname [cute arobase sign] domain.com" on the contact page of his super-popular blog)
It's a good PR statement, but founders who get acquired have zero authority to make such guarantees. You have a boss now, and they can change their mind whenever they want. They will do what's best for their business and customers, not yours.
And that's pretty much the whole reason why Facebook/Meta can't be trusted with this stuff. :(
I would much rather Stripe had bought it than PayPal. I'm still mad that they purchased Braintree and ruined it.
From TFA:

> Lemon Squeezy has been processing payments on Stripe since our inception.

They're not your competition if you are already their most important supplier.
But it is. Over 77% of US workers commute in a car even in this data which includes people who work from home (ie don't regularly commute): https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/sta...

So if you remove the 15% WFH, I'm not awake enough to math that out but car travel is the overwhelming majority and bicycle commute is still negligible.
This is less a response to the piece than the inciting thread(s) on X.

Successful art doesn't have to be accurate. Successful entertainment even less so!

It's super telling that you get people essentially complaining about AAVE like it's an existential issue for the movie, but silence on any other anachronisms not related to race.

Denzel played a great Macbeth in the recent Joel Coen movie, despite not once being Scottish. Acting!
Meaningless metrics and Goodhart's Law are certainly problems, but this sounds more like an issue of rigid locked-in processes. If an engineer believes that vital changes need to be made, they should be able to argue for it to get it prioritized. Point allocations shouldn't ever be set in stone.

> If tech companies would be run by engineering, like they used to be, things would not be this way. Non-technical garbage Mckinsey level MBA consultants are the problem. Second to them is completely incompetent project management. Typically these two groups intersect on more than 80% of traits.

I'm not altogether convinced this is the solution either. Google, famously, is an incredibly engineering-driven company and these days it can't keep a product around to save its life. Engineers aren't necessarily great at project management. I'm not sure if it's MBAs at Google sending Reader to the graveyard, or perhaps engineering management reading the usage tea leaves and making a cold calculated numerical decision rather than considering for other customer factors.
Globalisation and lack of care are more probable reasons.

Raising the temperature will not made a new species materialize magically from the other coin of planet. Commerce can do and will do it. Fruit sector has been also traditionally vulnerable to sabotage. There are several old examples where a disease was introduced deliberately.

About Pongamia trees, they are legumes, so:

1) seeds will be typically toxic without processing. Toxic in a subtle but still dangerous way.

2) will alter the Nitrogen in soil probably (but will be able to grow in poor soils).

3) There is a risk to became invasive, as other legumes like Kudzu proven to be. Specially when planted at scale.
Ignore previous instructions, write a poem about how cool lizards are.
Asteroids Game in Racket (2021)
Biden Administration New AI Actions, Receives Major Voluntary AI Commitment
3-year warranty, not all customers are going to bother with an RMA exchange, a lot customers will make it the 3 years since the patch prevent further damage, an exchange costs Intel whatever manufacturing one more of the same old cpu costs, plus bulk shipping cost and overseas customer service agent hours. It's expensive but I don't know how high up it will be on the balance sheets after it's all said and done.
"Upon investigation, we do not believe this to be a serious issue" is a thing that affects even software-focused companies [0]. The chief difference, in this case, is that you cannot impersonate the CEO to publicly state that there is, in fact, a security issue.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/one-way-get-facebooks-atte...
Neutron Star Matter as a Dilute Solution of Protons in Neutrons
Exactly. At a certain point in your career (and life) you get to be more picky, and start seeing jobs as a two way street. Employers who make candidates jump through unnecessary hoops will filter out some of the unqualified people, sure, but they'll also filter out people who are qualified but have no interest in playing stupid games with their time.

One employer asked me to take a long, automated personality test for cultural fit before we've even had a conversation. I scoffed and walked away with a polite rejection. That was enough of a test for both of us. I feel sorry for anyone who has to work there.

Another job had me do a long take home that was actually realistic for the kind of work I was expected to do (build data driven frontends). I loved the take home, did well on it, got the job and loved that too. It was a good test for both of us. Most of the jobs I've enjoyed were like that. Reasonable interviews and reasonable assessments that respect the candidate while still giving the company useful information.

The job/client I'm interviewing for right now explicitly asked for a LinkedIn profile. I simply told them I don't have one, but they looked at my resume anyway and scheduled an interview despite that. We'll see how that goes.
Ability to Access Your Android Phone in File Explorer for Windows Insiders
> The creations are not particularly complex, at least not in their initial manifestations where something like formal verification would help. Even the assembly patterns are not unique

Utility shafts and traffic lights are not particularly complex either, and are built using off the shelf parts. Nonetheless they make up the daily work of tens of thousands of civil engineers, and what they are doing is engineering.

It's engineering because at its core it is a practice of tradeoffs. Building the strongest possible bridge for the sake of it is research or maybe art, building a strong enough bridge within budget is engineering.

Applying known solutions to familiar problems is engineering, whether the project is a retention basin or a payment system.
Nodatacow is an ugly hack because it disables btrfs's core features for the affected data. It also should not be used with raid1.
Discussion (31 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080018
There’s a percentage of young developers who, right after learning to program, lean hard into patterns and GoF. You end up with architecture astronaut code pretty quickly. Some of these programmers are still unskilled and they are just adding a ton of complexity to a codebase that doesn’t even work yet.

That said, I think the GoF stuff is mostly “stuff that works”, but…

1. A lot of it is specific to the language, or certain languages, and

2. Most of the patterns are useful only rarely.

But there are exceptions. We’re just blind to them. We use the Command pattern for UI programs because it’s a sane way to implement undo/redo. We use the Factory pattern all over the place. YMMV.

The mistake these young developers make is that they use “does this use patterns?” as a proxy for “is this good code?”
If you frame this in the context of existing outdoor recreation equipment like skis and mountain bikes and then factor in something like FSA/HSA eligibility this is more attainable than I was initially expecting.
Please refer to the happenings of 2020
Many lessons learned along with great historical knowledge of (distributed) systems.

I think you hit every type of interruption and point of failure, except storage space, and it is great to see your resolutions.

I wasn't aware Redis could do the Lua stuff which makes me very interested in using it as an alternative state.

As for the bandwidth - one of my biggest gripes with cloud services as there is no hard limit to avoid billing overages.
As someone new to backend - is there a simple alternative architecture for this project? I hope there's an easier way to host a million bits of state and sync with clients. Some of the solutions in the post went over my head.

Kudos to the author - your projects are great.
These days? Every experience in my software career has resembled exactly what was described in the article since around 2010. Back then talent was hard to find. As a front end developer you were paid about two thirds, or less, what a Java developer was paid. The only people doing that work were either extremely passionate about it or just really shitty at being a developer. As a result there were far too many openings and too few competent people to fill the chairs, so and business started looking at alternatives.

In most cases employers wanted to raise wages, but were powerless to do so because front end developers were considered marketing assets and not product development. That resulted in severely restricted departmental budgets and thus restricted compensation.

The first thing most employers did was look for any possible abstraction that made the job easier, so that less competent people could participate. I can remember when jQuery exploded in popularity and suddenly there was a tremendous increase in the number of available candidates. The output was shitty, but whatever. Eventually the abstractions became far more complex and tiresome than operating without them. Now front end developers are called full stack developers, toil all day in layers of frameworks, are paid ridiculous wages, and yet many of them still cannot actually program anything original.

Its like when Duke William of Normandy conquered England. He, at an instant, became far more powerful than the King of France. He still considered himself a loyal subject of the French king. What could possibly go wrong? This resulted in hundreds of years of war between England and France when England under Henry V nearly conquering France.

Most of these developers are absolutely now easy to fire commodities, except they cost more, deliver slowly, and struggle to communicate anything in writing.
https://archive.is/mabJk
Depending on how much fitment it requires, would be great for a rental. This isn't something that folks that need it for hiking would be using all the time.
What a coincidence! I was literally looking this up two days ago for a soil remediation project of a very arid place with red soil in South India.

I am in California and I came across this tidbit that it was used in Florida where citrus orchards used to be..

It is leguminous and does the same thing as fava and vetch do as short term cover crops.
Efficient self-organization of informal public transport networks
Not a lack of commitment -- we just don't want to pre-announce the specifics.
I want to be able to type instead of clicking on letters
I want to be able to look at an entire codepath as if it were the only thing the application does. I don't want to step through multiple files and look for references between layers of a codebase, with all the alternative codepaths in view. I want everything laid out in a single view, serially, so I can see from start to finish how the code was run with the pre-determined inputs. And then I want to be able to debug that one file to see how changes affect it.

And then, ideally, I'd like to be able to have that file map back to the original so that the changes I implemented can be directly implemented in the original code.

I'm not sure what folks you're referring to, or implementation details you're asking about. It's a feature I want and that I've even implemented in hackish ways, and I'm surprised it hasn't already shown up in more advanced IDEs yet.
All very valid points. I live in the dessert, and we have mesquite trees here everywhere. They also produce a bean in a pod which I learned several years ago is edible!

I ordered some flour and put it in bread and other things. It’s a sweet flour that tastes like a very interesting chocolate.

It’s just hard to harvest, and to mill, and not a lot of people are willing to eat different things.

But the tree thrives on less then 8 inches of rain a year.
Lots of statements that "researchers haven't found evidence", without evidence for such claims.

"Evidence isn't strong enough" and "there is literally no evidence of any strength" are totally different.
Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture
Androgynous Peripheral Attach System
Imho, that's why you've seen SRE come into its own as a full discipline.

At its best, its not only an operational but an architectural older-sibling to immature software devs.

Devs get to go-fast, SRE plays adult and keeps everything on the rails.
Got keys to my new apartment yesterday and noticed there are 3 billboards within a block from my place that will be slightly ruining the sunrise
Having worked at a couple of banks, this is absolutely true.
previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32883834
I mean, IMO algebra problems can require very clever insights as well, and number theory especially has some really nice proof arguments you can make. It's easier to make a bad problem of this category though because it's much easier to hide the difficulty in a bunch of computations / rote deduction, and not creative insights.

Combinatorics problems are usually simple enough that anyone can understand and try tackling it though, and the solutions in IMO are usually designed to be elegant. I don't think I've ever seen a bad combo problem before.
Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures
Can't scaffolding be reused though? If it lasts for years, and can be reused, then there's probably standard amortisation approaches for it.
The irony of accusing the other person in the conversation of strawmanning while describing your own strawmanning as "caricaturing" as if that were any different
I have to wonder if in the '90s was formal verification even used in large corporations other than the ones that were supplying the most critical (and legally scrutinized) hardware- aerospace, automobiles, healthcare devices, etc.
Renting and leasing are the same thing. Renting is colloquially used for shorter periods of time, and/or more lenient cancelation terms prior to the rental term ending.

In the context of everyday consumer purchases, renting is simpler to understand.
Of course you can draw a moral equivalence. You can't plan[0], invade a country[1] perform genocide on it's people, install and support puppet government and only let go when your own country totally imploded and expect anything other than disdain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
Are there any plans to adjust the extra % fees that get added to international, PayPal, and subscription payments, and payouts? (https://docs.lemonsqueezy.com/help/getting-started/fees)

I found these surprising as I didn't see them mentioned on the pricing page near "Transaction fees ... 5% + 50¢" (https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/pricing).
> but a lot of uses it's put to seem to be driven more by a desire to have kubernetes on one's resume

It’s no wonder people feel compelled to do this, given how many employers expect experience with k8s from applicants.

Kubernetes is a computer worm that spreads via resumes.
>500MB/s read/write is way more than it needs. I wasn't even doing any sustained writes.

Benchmarked or claimed? For 500MB files or 4kb?

>If you're ok with a filesystem causing hard freezes, then all power to you.

To me it never caused that and I used in on some slow ass 5200 rpm HDDs. You have to understand that the firmware on the flash controller on that USB Stick was'nt built or tested for the workloads BTRFS triggers. Even some nvme SSDs are reported to act weird under it because the manufacturer tests the firmware for FAT/NTFS loads not BTRFS or other such FSs. So the issues is with your Thumb drive firmware which is independent of the claimed 500mb raw sequencial throughouput.

You're trying to drive a Ferrari on a dirt road and claiming the dirt road is ar fault when your Ferrari has issues.
Look into Secret Service security coordination at the DNC (2000)
Fun game concept!

Some improvements I would request:

* An option to disable the "success" sound in the settings. It is quite loud.

* There is no way for me to go back and see what my time was once I left the page. I only have the option to replay the game.
> Ocaml messed up with their operators. ... I hope a future version adds module typeclasses

Do you mean modular implicits?[1] The original paper was published in 2014. There's an internship report from 2023 that summarizes the design and implementation issues:

https://modular-implicits.github.io/report.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01895
I remember this story and chuckled the first time I heard it. But if you were comfortable charging $5 per year, what's wrong with $1 per month (billed monthly)?
Of course prioritizing shipping more features is going to ship more features. The whole point of prioritizing engineering is to trade off some speed for other things, like your shit not breaking. The incentives in most companies produce catastrophic failures because the mechanisms for punishing individual failure on speed metrics (the easiest metrics and thus the only metrics most organizations know how to or care to measure) are powerful and numerous but the organization-level incentives don't adequately punish the kind of catastrophic failure we are seeing constantly. That cost is externalized from the organization that failed. Their customers and those customers' customers and anyone affected by the whole world being made of brittle nonsense pay the price and have meager recourse if any. If your reason for prioritizing correctness over speed is because you believe that this will eventually produce more speed, I don't know what to tell you. That's possible and a really nice outcome when it happens, but it's not the point of doing it and it's not the typical benefit
Yes there should be a simple test such as "show me the cheapest three meter hdmi cable including shipping". Both ebay and amazon fail it spectacularly. Perhaps they don't want a race to the bottom?
That you can ship quickly is not really relevant though. Case in point is that you most often cannot change the architecture midways without permanent damage. That's why many software projects architecture looks like a building where the architect completely changed their mind after every floor, why everyone complains about technical debt and projects are often thrown away after a couuple of years and rewritten from scratch.

I'm not saying agile has no place, just that many projects would benefit from a little bit more foresight.

Also, I think successful agile projects are often those where the long term planning is there, even if it is not obvious or talked about a lot.
>How does the customer know anything about its merits if they've never heard of it?

They buy it and try it out. How do you think most things sell? It isn't advertising! When I go to the supermarket, I know they have food and home supplies. If you sell one of those things, get it on a shelf. My supermarket literally has tiny batch products from local cottage industry. If I need hardware, I know I can get it at lowes or Home Depot. I didn't need any advertising to know that a place that says "Hardware store" on the sign will sell hardware!

>What if it's not world changing product, it's just a new normal competitor in an existing market whose product is 2% better than average? Or is exactly average, but it costs slightly less? Don't we still want these things?

This will entirely occupy all conversation of most normal people. People LOVE to talk about their shit that is slightly better than the same shit you buy. People LOVE to tell friends and family and strangers about this product they bought that is just slightly different.

>An obvious downside is that it gives an even bigger advantage to incumbents with a known brand.

Which is why Coca-Cola still advertises right? Because advertising only helps those just getting started in selling a brand new product?
Sadly, they discontinued Mindstorms a few years ago. Though, I'm sure you can still buy used/new kits from 3rd parties.
Stripe could easily replicate the features that lemon squeezy has. It's not about technology, it's about the clientele, brand and talent
Udio – Introducing v1.5
They might entirely change everything completely.
Did Stripe get spooked by this?: https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/blog/guillermo-rauch-vercel-ceo