skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reaching out to everyone you have worked above, under, and beside is the best strategy (assuming you are not the kind of person people don't ever want to work with again).

To put it another way, with ten years experience a hiring professional might reasonably wonder why you are cold applying rather than working through a professional network. Or at least networking into the company org-chart before applying. [1]

And because any public job listing is going to be fire hosed with applications by people scraping, the hiring professional's job entails saying "no" on more than 99% of applications.

Therefore finding reasons to say "no" is mostly what they are going to do for very practical reasons. You might be a diamond in the rough, but being in the rough is almost certainly a good enough reason to not move your application forward in a saturated channel of applications.

Good luck.

[1]: If you identify someone within, reaching out and asking for an "informational interview" is a way of opening a conversation. An informational interview is where you can find out what a company is looking for in candidates. You need to be fly fishing, not chumming.
The NRK story says it happened Monday, November 11th.

I am surprised the other sources left it out; 5Ws an'all.
Yeah as someone with a disability (juvenile arthritis) I hate this a lot. If I could take a pill and be cured of arthritis forever I would do it, and I would hate my parents if they decided to not give it to me because of some insane idea about arthritis being my culture. The deaf community in particular is really weird about this but I think it's pure delusion to think that giving a kid a hearing aid if they need it is wrong in any way.
Even with probation the cost difference between saying no at interview and firing them during their probation is enormous.
There is a bunch of cool tech kit stuff on AliExpress for not much money. I ordered one of these [1] (not an endorsement as I haven't built it yet) and I saw a lot of recommendations for other cool things I wanted. Search for Arduino kit, clock kit, etc...

The downside is that the included instructions will often be either poor or nonexistent so the hacker in question will need to be confident finding instructions online and filling in the gaps.

If you are buying components, the best places are AliExpress and eBay for most things. However for some kinds of chips (expensive or retro ones) you may receive fakes, and the shipping takes a long time. You can pay more and buy electronics from DigiKey or other distributors (be sure to buy a couple more than you need in case they get damaged).

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803011442657.html
That's why I didn't flag it. Yeah, it's a clickbait title, but it's good info.
Curious to think that the billion dollar profits, and 6-figure salaries, are earned by scamming people out of their money. Via an intermediary which is the scammer paying for ads on your platform, the money they have through by scamming people in the first place.

Yeah I suppose that's a certain %, the rest of it is ads from e.g. booking.com if you google "hotel california", and other not-really-scam companies. But a pie chart of "Profits made from ads from legitimate company" vs "Scammy ads" would be interesting.
I was first introduced to Objective-C in 2010 when I worked on my first iPhone app. I've come back to it a half dozen times over the past 15 years since then and always hate it. I only discovered swift a few years ago (when I had to do some iPhone stuff) and was so happy to not need to use Obj-C
Changing the bidding process days in advance and then accepting the lower bid (out of two) seems less normal though. I think it's obvious they're trying to stop Jones and his associates from simply buying back the business.

I'm not sure of the legal details but apparently the judge had misgivings about the procedure so here we are
It starts becoming a problem if this evolves further into "ignore or fight an actual fix when it's available", and then into "if it ain't broken, break it, so it's "fixed"".
It's a really new tool I quickly launched last week, there's a terms of service and privacy policy that gives info.

https://closing.wtf/terms-of-service
https://closing.wtf/privacy-policy

I plan to go through SOC 2 / other compliancy certification in the near future. Happy to answer other questions
You could absolutely write a tokenizer that would consistently tokenize all distinct English words as distinct tokens, with a 1:1 mapping.

But AFAIK there's no evidence that this actually improves anything, and if you spend that much of the dictionary on one language, it comes at the cost of making the encoding for everything else much less efficient.
I think PGP is great. The Swiss army knife design means that I use it for a lot of different things. Password manager, file encryption, ssh access.. All with hardware backed keys because of openPGP functionality in my yubikeys. Which works on Linux, Windows, Mac and Android both over USB and NFC <3

I don't care that people like this guy hate it, I'll keep using it.
Apparently in parts of Asia (I can't recall which between CJK) it's customary to have a cute little widget mounted inside your driver-side window that you put your phone number on, and it can be opened and closed as needed, and people know to check for that anytime they need to contact you to move your car. Seems quite civilized. Although I wonder if that means that people double park all the time...
If someone gives me a take-home assignment that I spend 4 hours on, there is no commitment of time on their side. They may decide to not even look at the results. They may spend five minutes on it.

That's exactly my problem with take-home code challenges. If I go to an interview, and they waste my time, they have to waste their own. But with a take-home assignment, they can waste my time without wasting their own. That may lead them to be more wasteful of my time.
Frozen Frogs
Slack / IM often, don't demand a response instantly though, async & remote go hand in hand.

Put important stuff in email not slack/IM

Have a company wiki

Prefer video calls for alignment

Write to each other often, spend time crafting written narratives, 1-pagers, amazon 6-pagers etc. to share ideas, make people read them, use google docs or ms word online and get comments inline in the document using those tools, follow up on video calls to confirm alignment.

Gitlab has a handbook for this stuff, they are a 100% remote business and very open about their practices: https://handbook.gitlab.com/

consider personal readme's if your team is a bit larger (example):
https://gitlab.com/swiskow/swiskow
Ask HN: Why the disconnect between Bitcoin and Ethereum?
I added small allocations to both in my long-term investment portfolio back in May [1]. FBTC is up 30% in that timeframe whereas FETH is down 5%. Why the disconnect?

[1] Correction: added FBTC in May whereas FETH was July but nonetheless there still seems to be a disconnect
Thanks, did you see any interesting insights you're comfortable sharing?
More like a tour bus, but for the air. "Airbus" has a nice ring to it :)
the article doesn't say it, but this all suggests someone probably had a bunch of old crap in a tank and dumped in the ocean. Maybe it was a giant ocean liner amount of it. Right? Why does no one want to just say that outright?
I dunno, seems reasonable to me that we might have nice things without requiring everyone to use emacs. (And for those who do use emacs, I guess you're ahead of the curve?)
"they're turning the frogs straight!"
I read this as virility and expected something very different. So I'm going to comment as though it said "Virility in cartography".

A virile map has monsters, and beckons a boy to grab his stick (gleaming steel) and hop aboard the patio (great ship with full sails) and set the neighborhood alight in delight fighting pirates.

He devises elaborate dilemmas and improvises wilely against his barbarous captors, even as the governors of his native country conspire against him, or wonders what strange countries lie just beyond the edge of the words "the known world".

Or maybe the sea is made of stars, and he envisions gayly springtime planets, or dark winter stars that become dragons across the nebulae.

Idk, even then, maybe there's a frontier beyond the final one - where consciousness melts between the fabrics of little realities, each with their own cutely crafted logic, and he drifts to a new dream where 1 + 1 is 3 and it only makes sense that way.

Idk. ChatGPT raised me and I'm afraid I'm becoming my father, who then will I raise to look like me? If only I had a map of the ages to not fear myself.
I'm not an expert on circuits by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd never even heard of a MOSFET failure being a thing before. Your comment makes a lot of sense explaining why that is.
That was the news release strategy, the actual behind the scenes strategies were a bit more enthusiastic based on what I've been reading on Substack.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2024
Rant HN: A rant against cargo cultism in startups
Founders aren't known for their social skills or patience. Yes, we're difficult people—deal with it. We have our own issues with you other difficult folks. Perhaps the most frustrating is the pace at which some of you work. "Let's put it on our roadmap" or "Let's sync with..." are among the most annoying stalling tactics used by smug know-it-alls—and yes, we think that about you too.

Invariably, the "process" you espouse to slow things down is some cargo cult approach you've pulled out of thin air, and that's exactly where it belongs, with all due respect. In startups, the only agenda item is "done"—that's how fast startups move. And no, your internship at a startup, religiously watching every YC video, or taking an entrepreneurship course during your Ph.D. doesn't qualify you to speak on this subject. Understanding that we're not moving nearly fast enough is crucial; believing otherwise is self-delusional. <end rant>
> it would slow down and even kill a lot of infectious microbes

I wouldn't count on it killing them. The cryoprotectants in the frog's body don't discriminate; they'll protect foreign bacteria just as well as the frog's cells.
I can definitely say I wouldn't be sitting where I am -- a software engineer, professionally for 27 years, but tinkering with programming for much more than that -- had I not started by learning BASIC on my PC Jr. (I still have fond memories of this cartridge [1])!

It was such a fun and easy language to start out with (around 10 years old). I had no idea at the time that it would lead me to where I am today. I can't imagine the number of people that have been influenced by him and BASIC.

Thank you, Dr. Kurtz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr#/media/File:IBM_PC_Jr...
I’d note that most U.S. law journals work very differently from what you describe. Strict Bluebook compliance is their raison d'être, much more than legal scholarship. I am not exaggerating that. (And authors are not generally expected to get it right themselves, fleets of law student editors do the checking and correcting.)
Right but it costs money to send SMSs. At least it used to. I dunno if they've given up charging for that now since nobody uses them. Tbf I haven't seen a phone contract without unlimited texts for at least a decade I guess.
Not one photo of said frog.

Look, new rule: you write an article about frogs, you include a photo.
I've been using it for the last few days. Product is amazing. However, the only thing is that my deck takes forever to load compared to DocSend. Investors might not have the patience to wait 5-8 seconds. This might be one reason for me to go back to DocSend.
C++ template macroprogramming versus Lisp macros
Probably not dolable on planetary scale but ii imagine it'd help in space, esp if combined with some other mods like fiximg the vitamin c gene to remove scurvy. If we could use light to suppliment our metabolism it'd mean fewer physical resources to bring alon.
$20 Billion per year worldwide is chump change. But that's 3 or 4 orders of magnitude away eh ?
Public info that you bought a property is entirely different from info about all the properties you are searching for and seriously considering. Especially being able to couple that with what you eventually did later.
From the linked video: timelapse of the thawing process: https://youtu.be/pLPeehsXAr4?t=176
It's perfectly fair, but it's also extremely annoying. That's the whole point.
AI is a new, hot technology, but there’s nothing really new for Mozilla to do here, either... There is no reason why Mozilla will be the best at creating these solutions, or differentiated in doing so.

Completely agreed, along with the selective endorsement of Mozilla's now-defunct advocacy division. Mozilla has chased too many trends, yes, but it has also chased too many redundancies.
Ugh, I got that question in an interview. Only they wanted me to write up a basic arbitrary precision math library, in C, on paper. (I may have chosen to do it on paper.) It was harder than I expected. I didn't do that well and didn't manage to finish in the time allotted -- halfway through, I switched from encoding things as ASCII numerals to base-256 binary (or the reverse?) -- but it was enough that the interviewer said it was clear I understood what was required. I got the job.

I thought it was a hard but fair question. I still feel bad about not doing well. It wasn't all that close to what I'd be doing in the position, but it wasn't unrelated. Perhaps if it were a PHP role I'd be more bothered? But even there, it seems like one way to check if someone understands what's going on under the hood, so as to not naively do expensive stuff without realizing it. The fact that one should not write their own library, and that if you tried you should get code reviewed to hell, isn't relevant if that's the purpose.
Real. Engineers who don't think they have this problem, are engineers who see their dependencies and the lower layers of their stack as ossified black boxes they "can't" touch, rather than something they can reach into and fix (or even add features to!) when necessary.

IMHO the willingness to "dig your way down" to solve a problem at the correct layer (rather than working around a bug or missing feature in a lower layer by adding post-hoc ameliorations in "your" code) is one of the major "soft skills" that distinguishes more senior engineers. This is one of those things that senior engineers see as "the natural thing to do", without thinking about it; and fixes that take this approach work subtly to ensure that the overall engineered system is robust to both changes up and down the stack, and to unanticipated future use-cases.

And contrariwise, fixes tending not to take this approach even when it'd be a very good idea, is one of the central ways that a codebase starts to "rot" when all the senior engineers quit or are let go/replaced with more-junior talent. When, for example, every input-parsing edge-case is "fixed" by adding one more naive validation regex in front of the "opaque, scary" parser — rather than updating the parser grammar itself to enforce those validation rules — your codebase is actively evolving into a Ball of Mud.

Of course, the tradeoff for solving problems at the "correct" layer, is that you/your company often ends up having to maintain long-lived, trivial, private hotfix-branch forks of various ecosystem software you use in your stack. More often than not, the upstreams of the software you use don't see your problem as a problem, and so don't want to take your fix. So you've just got to keep it to yourself.

(Funny enough, you could probably trivially measure an engineer's seniority through a tool that auths against their github profile and calculates the number of such long-lived trivial private hotfix branches they've ever created or maintained. Much simpler than a coding challenge!)
> being deaf was actually the same as being able to hear.

That's not even close to the argument being presented.

The fundamental crisis within the deaf community is around the fact that deaf people share a common language. This is very different than most other disabled communities. Language is fundamental to shared culture.

To be clear, I'm not saying that deaf children should not be given cochlear implants, but the issue is much more complex than "being deaf is the same as being able to hear." It's that deaf people historically felt a sense of shared community and culture. The ability to "fix" (a term many of them would not agree with) deaf people leads to a challenging position where a culture is slowly being destroyed.

It's much closer to the choice white American parents who adopt Asian children have around what culture should those children be exposed to and how much. Is it okay to raise an adopted Chinese child exactly the same a white American child? Should the adopting family try to learn Mandarin? Teach the child them about Lunar New Year? Make friends with other Chinese families in the community? There's no absolutely correct answer for any of these questions, but they are issues families in these situations must navigate.

I suspect your immediate response is that being Asian isn't a disability, but I would point out the first point in my comment: deafness, unlike other disabilities, does have it's own distinct culture because of shared language (not shared disability).
Allow me to expound on @kojeovo's remark. Please take this as a constructive criticism to improve your success potential. Much of it is from a quick glance, and am sure there are many other facets to improve.

A business is not just about the product.

Your Privacy Policy. There is no default way to download it (see 9.), and since it is window-ed cannot print entire doc. That means I cannot keep a copy of it for myself.

> We collect the following types of information:

> Mortgage Documents: Loan Estimates and Closing Disclosures you upload for analysis.

Okay, but

> 4. Data Security

> We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

This means nothing. Are you ISO 27001:2022, NIST SP 800-53, CIS, CE+, Essential Eight, or something else? Have you been audited, and proof? Who is your ISP? What regs do you follow around data sovereignty?

Terms of Service. Again, no default way of download. Overall, I would never agree to this ToS. It demands all kinds of requirements on the user, but takes no responsibility for anything - or as described above, explain how you will protect your customers.

You have no reference anywhere where you are geographically. No address, no about us, no who you are. I would be very leery on uploading anything.
Of course I need mechanisms to hear criticisms, political ads like the ones in the USA are definitely not that, that's what I said.

I learn about the people running from different sources, journalism where I live still has some modicum of journalism and not entertainment news like CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc. even though they have clear biases it's quite well understood where their biases sit at, and even the most biased publications here are not overtly partisan so even when they don't align with my political views it's still interesting to read and consider the whole spectrum of opinions without those clearly pushing a distorted reality.

I really do not understand how ads are even considered as any part of the solution, at all. I'm not attacking what you said but just want to clarify it's a very alien view to my own, ads are inherently untrustworthy, they are paid, they don't suffer public scrutiny.

I rely much more on interviews of candidates, publications pro and against them (including the ones I align with that's how I decided to not vote for a candidate and pushing for another candidate of the same party a couple elections ago), and read through their policies in their official platforms.
Have you met the undergrads at Gallaudet University? They live in both worlds.
I recognize your position is appropriately nuanced, so this isn't directed at you, but I hear this sort of thing almost daily and I think it's usually an incredibly lazy take.

Often we end up convinced we are on the same page when we aren't just because our communication is constrained (and accelerated) by social protocol. At least when it is written out you can go back and re-read or directly quote someone. In meetings I find myself constantly pointing out when someone has been fundamentally misunderstood in a way that aligns with the listener's existing beliefs/preferences, "oh, I think what Frank is saying might actually be the opposite of [your interpretation]?".

There are pros and cons to different forms of communication. Sometimes a call can help cut through layers of misunderstanding, but for more complex topics, often it's difficult to get a group of people to all be present enough to share genuine understanding. School is a great example of how ineffective this can be.
If you want to go super cheap, Blogger is still free (owned by Google now) and I think they allow a custom CNAME so you can attach it to your domain.

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Wordpress (in the cloud) doesn't require setup, since it's all hosted for you. There are a bunch of big commercial vendors that 100% manage it for you, OR if you want some control, there are also some lower-level abstractions (i.e. like 70% managed instead of 100%):

- https://www.cloudways.com/ is a dashboard + daemon on top of Wordpress that manages its day to day for you, but you deploy it to any cloud VM you want (AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.) So you still control the underlying instance and can drop down to it if you really want to, as opposed to the commercial Wordpress hosts that never give you shell access etc.

- https://gridpane.com/ is a similar self-hosted abstraction over Wordpress, as in they let you manage your own Wordpress "fleet" easily but on your own cloud or servers.

- You can also just run & host the normal Wordpress installer on something like nearlyfreespeech.net, which would be nearly free unless you get a lot of visitors. The setup process isn't really that bad (just takes like 3-4 min); it's the ongoing maintenance and updates and security flaws and changing UIs etc that's a real ongoing pain in the butt. Wix and Squarespace are much simpler.

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Personally I wouldn't suggest wasting time on this, though. Just pay Wix $10/mo or find some other cheap blogging service, or use the free Blogger or a Google Site or such. You just need to be able to connect it to a subdomain, but otherwise it's not going to be worth your time or money trying to manually integrate it into Next. For a big enterprise, sure, but if it's just and your friend writing a few posts... there are much simpler out of the box solutions than rolling your own.
>Musk still does those things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazi... he just has to be prodded a bit more (read it affects his wallet) or it has to be in favor of his particular politics https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/how-elon-musk-uses....

He doesn't. You didn't link to anything regarding what I explicitly mentioned. How dishonest of you (no surprise there). In fact, I knew someone would have the very same knee-jerk reaction you had and link that wikipedia article or a similar one. Go ahead, downvote me all you want. Silence my post just like Twitter used to do with non-woke standpoints. You won't have provided any real arguments to counter my original post, still. You're pointing to a whole other problem there: complying with court orders. And you can thank Lula for that.

>I don’t really understand this absolutist desire for an anonymous town square we can all yell vitriol at each other.

That's quite a ridiculous way of caricaturizing free speech. Whenever the truth emerges through the filth, it's "vitriol" and "hate speech" for your delusional lot. Wokeness lost. Own it. Now everyone can see everything for what it is, with no corporate, partisan or governmental censors trying to manipulate reality to fit their abject narrative.