skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the middle two questions a lot, and I try to ask them as well. I think the other two are flawed, though:

> What are the bad things about this job?

Too vague. Most interviewers won't be ready to shit talk their employer with this question and will say "nothing." A better question would be some variation of "What would you change about the way your team works if you could?" Frame the question properly so that they don't set the parameters themselves.

> How many other people are being interviewed and how do I compare?

Comes off very insecure and gives you no useful information. It will only reflect poorly on you.
kerning does not shift characters up and down, only left and right.
I have it a quick shot and I must say the UI is not easy to grasp. The graph is interesting and surprisingly well understanding my codebase.

But the navigation? Not easy to understand how to use it. Any video for helping us out see what we can do and how we can do it ?
Lived in columbus for many years. This absolutely tracks. There's something about being a blue city in a red state that makes the government rather brazen in protecting themselves.
> implementing a window manager and TCP stack is left as an exercise to the reader…

I'm pretty sure both of those have implementations available for DOS already.
I think ascents and descents fall under keming. You don’t want a j to bump into a b on the next line. So you have short letters from time to time. But that might be an archaic usage, or I’m wrong.
At some point an ad covered the entire screen and wouldn't go away. But I wonder what happens if people simply stop using their phones? I suppose that's why it's important the phone offers an addictive experience, like tiktok. Because otherwise people might weigh the pros and cons and throw away their phone.

I suppose another option would be to sell a privacy service the scrambles the ad ID on your phone. But I wonder how that would work?
“Science? Nonsense! In this situation mediocrity and genius are equally useless! I must tell you that we really have no desire to conquer any cosmos. We want to extend the Earth up to its borders. We don't know what to do with other worlds. We don't need other worlds. We need a mirror. We struggle to make contact, but we'll never achieve it. We are in a ridiculous predicament of man pursuing a goal that he fears and that he really does not need. Man needs man."

- Solaris
The problem appeared in the screenshots that the article shows, I don't think it has anything to do with the screen.
Are any efforts being made to incorporate this into VLC? Both as a receiver and caster?
I've got a circular slide rule (not really a rule, is it?) with square and cube values, so you can convert surface and volume. Conversion numbers are printed on the back. It seems to have been made as a cheap handout. Not that I ever use it, but it's a cool idea.
It's a screenshot of macOS running in low-dpi mode.
This is not a software bug, but rather an optical phenomenon called "chromatic aberration". What's happening is that your glasses are bending light at different angles depending on the wavelength, to the red and blue and green are landing at slightly different places on your retina.

It's a hard problem to solve optically and requires specially shaped lens. It's a common issue in telescopes, with higher end expensive scopes having these specially shaped lenses to reduce this effect.
There's a hamburger menu on the bottom left.
The 404 Media report was discussed (lightly) on HN at the time (14 Dec 2023): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38649113>.

And the current pitch-deck piece, also from 404:

<https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...>

(That's the original, but paywalled, source for this story. As it's hard-paywalled, the TechDirt submission is appropriate.)
I have always loved crows. I used to carry a bag of unshelled peanuts in my car to feed to them if I saw them. One day I was pulled over and saw a lone crow. So I threw a peanut and watched him open it easily with his beak and eat the nuts. Then I threw 2 peanuts and he picked up both in it's mouth and flew a short distance away and ate them. I always new crows could fit 2 peanuts but not 3 so I thought what would you do if I throw 3? So I do and for a moment he tries to fit all of them in his mouth but can not. So he flies about 15 feet away to a cement path walkway and on the side of it I watched him bury one of the peanuts. Smart I thought. Then he immediately flew back and grab the other nuts. I have always been impressed by that moment.
Expect used to be one of the "big" tools at one point. O'Reilly books written about it and so on. But then it went to obscurity. Kind of strange.
As someone who mostly works with standard OOP libraries / frameworks (Lit and Flutter) I’ve always thought that the overwhelming MAJORITY of the arguments that came out of the React camp regarding why functions are the path forward were mostly just bullshit and after sitting on that for several years now I think that has held up fairly well at this point.

I quite regularly find myself looking over the fence as it were and genuinely can’t believe people would willingly work like that with the insane levels of complexity and nonsense that the React ecosystem has become in recent years.
Good to know, also cool that you replied!
Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean
Do note that Bresenham’s family of algorithms (and much of the venerable Computer Graphics Principles and Practice) are from a bygone era where computers executed 1 instruction per cycle without pipelining or prediction.

These days processors prefer to draw shapes by having a coarse grained pass that conservatively selects tiles of interest then brute-force evaluates each pixel in each tile independently of all others.

Instead of minimizing total work, the goal is to maximize pipelined parallelism while skipping over unnecessary work in large blocks.
Difference being that the 2 year old human would not survive in the wild whereas most other species would easily after 2 years of age
No such thing. You’re paying or you’re the product.
Machine learners might think of "Microtome publishing", who used to print JMLR (the Journal of Machine Learning Research -- community run and free for all authors and readers). It turns out they don't bother to publish on paper any more:

http://www.mtome.com/Publications/JMLR/jmlr.html
A bet on cosmic rays is a rare bet indeed ;)
My dad always told a story about a guy at work who spotted a crow nest not too far up a tree and decided he would steal the baby crow and raise it. The crows attacked him as he did it and in the end the baby crow died in his care. Sad. But at least after that my dad said every single day he would pull up to work and if any crows were there they would dive bomb him. Only him. My dad said this carried on for years.
This is an interesting take. Has DeVault done a lot of Linux kernel development?
Every time I've tried to use Google maps to take me across Vic, between capital cities, it has always taken me down unsealed single lane roads. Despite there being a very well established highway system. It's fun to see what shenanigans it comes up with each time.

No stress for your average country driver but negotiating right of way on a single track road used by heavy freight is not something you get taught at drivers ed! You would also be surprised at just how hilly and windy Victoria can be, and that at some point you will be driving through a rainforest.

Like most states here, it's huge, so if you do venture on an unsealed road adventure just be mindful of your fuel.
I wish i could hear how they sound. Each tape has its own hiss and flutter.
Yes, this is not statistically well thought out. See Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy (yes it's about a cartoon, but read it for the math).

https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity

Also see the 2020 census statistical calculations and the tradeoffs they made.

There's "not that many" (compared to the number of ChaCha20 keys, for example) humans in the world, it does not take that many fractional-bit information leaks to get a good read on a person.
I never claimed it was a majority position. I was only expressing my own stance. Whether or not anyone else shares it with me is irrelevant.

> For the rest of us, "Just stop doing it on the web" would be a pretty substantial lifestyle change

It really isn't, though, at least not for most people I know who aren't into tech. It would certainly mean changing some habits, which is often hard, but (at least in the US) it means giving up a relatively small amount of convenience, not a substantial lifestyle change.
And of course by the time a market exists for that dollar figure, Intel has been beaten hopelessly, such that there is no hope for as stodgy and apathetic Intel is culturally.

This is what monopolies do, it breeds laziness in the good days, and as a company backslides on the morass of apathetic incompetent mbas that settled into their middle management Machiavelli fiefdoms, it becomes a clinging game to make retirement before layoff
Reddit has been my go to place to share my free chrome extensions and get feedback.
steam locked up nothing. you are free to publish your games on other platforms.
This is an expensive honest platform [0]!

[0]: https://hivebrite.io/
Haha. By the nonexistent gods.

Have you ever considered I was talking about specific individuals that muttered those things towards me instead of reading everything I did as a paragraph from a political reader? I have no close relationship with Libertarianslism, as where I come from it is not very wide spread as a political ideology and more of a curiosity that gets mentioned at the fringes.

So what I criticized here are the things people told me in online discussions as a defense for why the system we have is okay. I did not ask them which ideology they subscribe to, but I am pretty sure that was not some pure text book form of Libertarian ideology. So I am still curious how my criticism of an observed phenomenon made you jump directly in defense of Libertarian ideology, that I neither thought about nor mentioned.

Additionally: I can start to understand what you're talking about once you start at the beginning instead of diving straight into some sort of convoluted US-internal political debate. Rephrasing what you thought the other person said and why precisely it is wrong is a good habit to keep before writing hundreds of lines attacking them on what you think they said.
At scale, what I don’t get is this requires a lot of energy to kickstart the reaction (heating the iron ore to 400 degrees). Where is that energy coming from when energy production is constrained in winter.

Or would the plan be to slowly heat over fall?
It was never intended to. The BEAM is not a good fit for that environment. I find it a bit bewildering that people are disappointed about that but I think it comes from having had the difference between microcontroller and embedded linux device clear to me from the early Pi and Arduino days.

You can look at AtomVM for a way to run Erlang and Elixir on an MCU. It just isn't Nerves. Nerves is a Linux :)
https://github.com/rwmjones/miniexpect Miniexpect, a tiny C library that does something similar (for programs, not scripts).
We’ve come full circle. Meet the Tuatha de Danann.
There is a movie coming out teasing a little at the idea called The Watchers.
Bwaha! It is kinda jacked up but it was late. Might fix later.
I’ve used fullhd imac/osx for many years until around 2018 and never noticed anything like that. Easier to call it “low dpi issues” now that they destroyed it, I guess ;)
Mini Phoenix? What? And I run the full Phoenix web framework on Nerves. This comment does not make sense to me, as the author. Sorry.
In terms of using BAT, yes. But at least when I started using Brave, you had to change things to get rid of the cryptocurrency-related UI elements. That's what I was referring to.
My go-to example for `expect` is password-based SSH. Since we're all enlightened beings these days who surely never use this anymore, there's no risk to it:

#!/bin/bash

expect -c "
spawn ssh user@10.0.0.1

expect \"password:\"
send \"12345\r\"

interact
"

`interact` hands you back control to do whatever you want, but you don't actually need to do that. You can have `expect` run every command, fill out every field.

The tool you need when you're in environments you don't deserve.
I always chuckle at this study - "Ah shit, they've got the masks on again."
Notes has been super buggy for a while. The failure modes are so weird I don't even understand how it's possible for a text editor. E.g. text and selections rendered floating between or on top of lines of text. I wonder how they manage to bork it so hard.
Codeforces: Tourist has reached a rating of 4000
How do CEOs talking anything relate to an intelligence of a thing?
Is there an alternative to expect that I can just compile locally without having to deal with dependencies?
From the post:

> In conclusion, the off-center “x” is real and probably an artifact of the display or how it is rendered. It is unlikely that it is the result of chromatic aberration.
> Most people here seem to forget that ads is what pays for the free internet services.

Nobody forgets that, and the issue (at least for me) isn't the ads, it's the spying. It's entirely possible to have a financially healthy ad ecosystem without the spying. It used to be the norm, even.
Disagree. Hooks with all their warts are superior way to share functionality over anything found in the class land.
How so? For me, modern hook-based react is the most pleasant way to write UI's I've ever used — and I used to do a lot of different UIs on different platforms. And transition from classes to hooks was an incredible improvement as well. When you read a function body, you know that declarations can only depend on previous ones. This makes it much easier to read and reason about the code, compared to a class body, where each member can access any other. This also makes it much easier to extract different pieces of functionality into separate hooks.
Understood, thank you for taking the time to type this all out. Some if it does ring true to me.
I can make a decent argument that even offering a basic “sort by” dropdown, where the platform sets a _default_ sort, classifies it as an “algorithm”.

I’m arguing that judges shouldn’t be tearing down the existing legal regime without someone actively planning for a replacement that doesn’t have massive _unintended consequences_ (which all of the proposed Sec 230 reforms have)

And the fact that you only mentioned “modern social media companies” means that you are also underestimating which offerings qualify. Sec 230 protects all websites and apps that show _any_ user content to other users, not just the large social media companies. Think review sites, online classifieds, your group chat in a Messenger app, blog comments, social recipe sites, shared bookmarking sites, the “memo” field of transactions in every blockchain, etc.

And the obvious worry I have is that new jurisprudence starts pulling Jenga pieces away from AI chatbots before Congress even decides whether those qualify as a platform, a publisher, or something completely different.
Expect is such a great tool for a specific class of problem. Decades ago I worked as a test engineer for a big hardware vendor. We had maybe a couple hundred raid controllers that we were testing and to address some issues we found, the supplier needed us to change a bunch of configuration variables that were only accessible via a text menu system over a serial connection to these devices. After painful manual reconfiguration of a handful of these things, I instead wrote a fairly complex expect script to make the appropriate changes and also validate all the settings on the rest of the raid controllers in a fraction of the time it would have taken to do it manually. It saved me so much hassle and got me some pretty good kudos and respect from my direct leads. It's one of those tools that I kind of wish I would need to use again!
Funnily enough a simple fgrep is super fast on SSDs and actually reliable. Even across TBs of data.

With Spotlight you can never be sure. And to be fair, the Windows equivalent sucks just as much.
Paths: Why is life ﬁlled with so many detours? [Open Access]
I agree with you, when I made this comment I was simply excited but that didn't last too long. I find this technology both exciting and dystopian, the latter because the dystopic use of it is already happening all over the internet. For now, it's been used only for entertainment AFAIK, which is the kind of use I don't like either, because I prefer human created entertainment over this crap.
Thank you for publishing the free chapter, it felt very down-to-earth and relatable. Looking forward to reading the rest of it!
Yeah, for a reason I have always wandered around JVM, and its counterpart CLR, unless requested otherwise, since 2002.
Cygwin requires recompiling.
from the comment:

> That post points out it’s probably just subpixel stuff causing the issue, but I think my thick, cheap glasses at the time were adding a layer of chromatic aberration to something that was already visually confusing.
You can try submitting a bug report with Feedback Assistant.app or apple.com/feedback, but there’s no guarantee they will see it.
I was going to say that you would have to at minimum match: https://fireflies.ai/hipaa

but then I looked at their pricing, and I have no idea what it actually costs..

and this FAQ answer still has me wondering what it costs-

"What is counted as a seat?

Any teammate you added in your Fireflies workspace would be counted as a seat. If you are on paid plan then you would be charged on per seat basis. Teammates are invited from team invite panel. You can share individual meeting recap links with participants or other users without adding them in your team free of charge."

So F-it - I'll just record and then transcribe with any one of the several local programs I already have on my local machine.
Truly most people are poor conversationalists, I’m not interested in small talk at all but I do listen. I probe people for more interesting discussions (be it my interests or theirs) but I feel most people are quite boring or lacking intellect

I can name on one hand the people I’ve come across who are good conversationalists
For sure.

But ya know…

I know they arnt, at least I believe they arnt listening.

But sure as hell feels like it sometimes!

Still I’m smart enough and knowledgable enough to know that combined signals used to target and my own confirmation bias can make it seem like we are being listened to.

We can sometimes talk about something and then literally see an Ad for it.
Is this why, when I'm reading text on a dark background, red will appear on a different plane than white? I was just wondering the reason last night.
2018 was about when they stopped selling the last Mac with a non-Retina display, so that would make sense for when they stopped testing for it.
Depends on the company. I've worked for a number of companies that hired exclusively through trusted recruiters, because they outsourced the technical vetting to them. That way they wasted much less time interviewing applicants who were unserious or plainly unqualified.

I've also worked for a number of companies that exclusively hired directly and weren't willing to deal through recruiters at all.
6 years is a long time ;)
I read Toms Hardware before AT even existed. Toms had a dark era for a while, but Anandtech has fallen off hard for years now. It hasn't been worth even visiting. I still visit Tom's though! For me, this is a fitting end that I started with Tom's and still reading it as AT shuts down.
When I first came to Australia in 1987 my (then girlfriend now) wife drove me from Sydney to Brisbane and the inland route we chose included gravel roads. I was .. amazed. I fell in love with them, and for a few years we could enjoy them close to Brisbane, sometimes within the metropolitan area. The Lyons road, a privately maintained crossing from qld to nsw (throw a coin into a bucket to pay your share of grading cost) was a joy. Now? Sealed and (I believe) adopted by the states. No doubt locals are delighted but I do miss the gravel.

We sometimes find a bit down in Queensland's Granite Belt, and there are thousands of kms left in the real outback, and forested areas. Closer to urban centres like south East Queensland, it's getting scarce.
ME/CFS is seriously underinvested. I don't really understand why, any drug that makes a noticeable difference here will be a guaranteed money printer. There are millions of people suffering total disability, many in developed countries that have well funded medical insurance. Compare that to depression (which it only superficially resembles): many SSRIs, SNRIs, multiple "schools" of psychotherapy, neuroleptics, lithium, ketamine, ECT, ...
Obviously cryptographers were not naive about future technology. One example that comes to my mind is this: in a 1981 paper discussing Triple DES, the authors state: “A generalized meet in the middle attack would then require 2^112 operations and be well beyond the foreseeable technology for at least 50 years, and possibly forever.” - Merkle, R. and M. Hellman, "On the Security of Multiple Encryption", Communications of the ACM, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 465–467, July 1981

While I would not count on any Triple DES encrypted data remaining secret forever, their other prediction has held up for the time being – 2^112 operations is still completely out of reach 43 years later. Of course there are other ways to attack TDES and it is rightfully considered obsolete.
It would be easier to put the entire car on a platform that's on rails
Indeed.

I’m not sure it would be damaging.

Off the top of my head, Tesla employees were viewing internal cameras.

And I’m pretty sure Facebook employees used to be able to read private messages and jokes/bragged about it?

Nothing happens to these people, unless they step out of the US that is…
"... to pointlessly rebrand something from a descriptive name that is understandable to something pointless and generic"

Seems like the point might be to obscure the nature of the executable, i.e., what it does. Why someone might want to do that is a question left for the reader.
AWS at the time had AGPL on its list of licenses that couldn’t be used. There were other clouds in China especially ignoring the AGPL provisions and I think SSPL was used to try and be more explicit.
Possibly they ask the text engine to render halfway two pixel lines. It will round up or down quite randomly when fp errors accumulate.
> Yes, I know Spotify isn't perfect and that there are valid criticisms of the platform.

I wrote that paragraph for a reason.

> So actually as a listener of niche music, I am mostly paying for exactly the mainstream artists whose music I am not listening to

That mostly depends on how much you listen. If you listen more than average, your niche band will actually get more than they would've otherwise. At least if I have my brain math correct.
I’m sure their sensory experience is different from ours, but is the feeling truly alien? We share enough genetics to share the same brain chemicals, for one
X already has an onion service I believe, check the x.com meta tags for "onion-location".
Funny, one of the preroll ads on the video was one of those Chinese (I presume - the robot voiceover was in my native tongue though) scam ads for a product, with a big QR code with viewer discount.
Maybe now is a good time to remind everyone: your vision will deteriorate. Keep this in mind when designing.

When I first came to HN it wasn't an issue. Now I have to use my own app for it so the font (and some other things) are workable.

According to my eye doctor the screen time is causing eyesight issues earlier. We're not designed to stare at a bright light 40cm away all day.

May want to look at some eye exercises - or at least something far away.