skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Once in a lifetime' chance for football to block nation states owning clubs
In high school (late 1970s) I inherited (from my deceased father), a white book with red/yellow titling as "The Basic Programming Language" (the lettering on the front appeared to be in IBM check-writing font). In the appendix were about 10 basic programs including one in particular that would produce a meaningless technical report of arbitray length! I read the book, learned basic, and typed in a few of the programs (I had access to the UIUC CSL Dec-20 system). What a great time to be alive!

I am aware that the first STAR TREK game was written in Basic, using 10x10 quadrants and maybe a 10x10 quadrant universe. I eventually wrote an enhanced version of this called "Swords and Sorcery" but using a fantasy theme, not a space theme ...

I was so enamored with the BASIC programming language that a couple of years later I wrote a miniature interpreter on the PLATO system, at first trying to do a primitive BASIC language, but later I settled on doing a forth interpreter because RPN was so much easier to execute ...

Thank you, Dr. Kurtz. Your project helped make my youth a never ending joy of discovering new things! :-) :-)
Companies aren't incentivized to eliminate false negatives in hiring (talented people getting overlooked), they just need to make sure there are no false positives (bad hires). I'm guessing it's probably rare for companies to think about the bigger picture, like the long term health of the economy and nation, where it's actually really bad if there are a bunch of really talented people that are being underutilized.

If I were interviewer, I'd probably do a coding assignment that builds on an already existing mini codebase, quarter or half day assignment (2-4 hours), with a strict time limit to turn it in by the end of the allotted time. It would test for someone's ability to read unfamiliar codebases, with the codebase being reasonably small for the little time that's available, and the ability to build features on top of it, to write clean readable code compatible with the codebase, etc. And an a 30-60 minute more open-ended informal knowledge interview to gauge how knowledgeable the candidate is and where their strengths and weaknesses are. And previous work would probably be a good indicator, like open source work and/or previous job experience.
This is no great secret or revelation, Amazon's recruiters literally coach every candidate to use the STAR method.

And many interviewers will again repeat the advice/request to answer in STAR format.
edit: castellano not catalan
I don't know of many/anyone that's in favor of illegal immigration. Most people, I would argue, would say "if you just came across the border illegally, you should be sent back".

So there really __isn't__ an argument there, as far as I know, outside of the position that we should have a fully open border, which I believe is not a mainstream position.

*But*, that is *not* what people are actually talking about when they're talking illegal immigration. They're talking about the people who are already here, the regular scapegoats, so any conversation that talks about illegal immigration is going to necessarily talk about the people that have stayed here, and it's a smoke-screen for harming those individuals.

Funny, a lot of the people complaining about illegal immigration aren't even talking about illegal immigrants, but are scapegoating, again, the people on agricultural visas, etc.
Not what I'm reading on Substack/Ghost. I have a liberal bubble, though.

https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/restaurant-chains-won-big...

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/things-can-always-...

https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-trump-bid...
> All the time.

Not just all the time — right now in the other browser tabs I'm ignoring in favor of this one lol
It's available on my blog website: https://technicshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cfm_7...

I did capture there his most choice quote from the interview:

> Kurtz later said that he and Kemeny saw MAC's agenda as totally different from Dartmouth's--MIT was trying to design the theoretically best computer utility, with layers of security "and all that kind of crap."
"even in a domain I don't know much about, in minutes."

How is this done exactly ? can you provide an easy example for me (not a programmer but I use python/R from time to time)
The polling was pretty darn close though, overall. Same as in 2016. The thing is, there's enough polls out there that people can pick the outliers and decide themselves into a narrative that makes them feel good.

It's an incredibly small number of voters in the key swing states that actually decide the election. It's under 1% of the voters to swing the election. Winner take all + electoral college will give you that.
until you start to use zfs.. (completely doable with fuse overlay, but just painful)
Interesting. I had a similar experience: once the debugging instrumentation with #ifdef macros was switched off, the code that worked before suddenly crashed. In my situation it had to do with the stack, because my debugging macros used some
local/"automatic" variables, and that had concealed the bug before in the DEBUG build.

One thing I also noticed is that using "problem-oriented" languages like Python or Java changes where you spend your time trouble-shooting: ironically, not where the problem is (business logic) anymore, those parts of the code indeed tend to work better, but intead you waste time with libraries (Java: CLASSPATH, Python: packages, all:version conflicts). In Contrast, in C/C++ it was mostly memory management errors and bugs in the actual business logic (the former is also a great distraction, somewhat diminished by the introduction of smart pointers).
What if you placed another matrix below where the duration could be adjusted based on whole,half, quarter and 16th.

Love the app!
Very cool! I currently use `sad` for this, if you're already an fzf user you should check it out.

https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad
I gauge what work's best if I can already do what I am asking it to do, and that comes from years of studying and trial and error experience without LLMs. I have no way of verifying what's a hallucination unless I am an expert
Agreed. And a lot of people will say that you can just memorize a bunch of leetcode problems, but I've always created custom coding problems when I've acted as an interviewer so good luck finding the solutions online.

And frankly, if they're able to adapt a random leetcode problem to be able to solve the coding test that I give them, then that's exactly the kind of adaptability that I'm looking for in a prospective software engineer.
And yet that's exactly how the world actually behaves - see quantum mechanics. Object persistence is just a heuristic that we develop learning on our training data (our interactions with the macroscopic world).

You're inability to recognize high dimension relations between word tokens is no less evidence you lack coherent understanding.
And ed is in POSIX, so it's available on every minimally conforming system.
Someone made $57M with Carvana stock
The thing I think is funny in all this is that hiring a new manager is fraught with a high amount of risk (more so than an engineer), but they don't have nearly the level of hurdles to get over. Does the company interview past employees of the manager? Did the manager applicant have alcohol, drug issues, or weird sexual things he did to his direct reports or others? Or, instead, would you enjoy his presence on a golf outing?

I know one manager who had issues with all three got hired at Google. So. Think of the poor HR person that will have to clean up that mess.
A Change to ResultRelInfo – A Near Miss with Postgres 17.1
For real, 80% is effectively coin flip territory for me. I wouldn't put any important bets on 80%, for the same reason I don't play Russian roulette.
Bro this comment is so out of touch it's ridiculous. A 6 figure salary is lucrative. 7 figures is a crazy pipe dream that basically nobody will ever experience.
"...Mozilla has the tools, the history, and the mission to reclaim its role..."

What it does not have is the resources, nor any way to get them. Then the larger point is that resources are not general-purpose: when one says "let us acquire resources in order to do X", and then acquires resources, one finds that those resources can only be used to do anti-X -- and spends the very rest of one's life wondering what in Hell happened. That is where Mozilla is: the only way it can get money to perform its mission is by repudiating its mission.
And even most athletes I personally know fall under what's considered a healthy BMI (< 25). Some sports require a body composition that pushes the boundary of it but as a general proxy of the health of millions in a population it's a pretty good one.
SV, and California as an extension of that, has never been as liberal as people say it is. It has always been about money. Any "social justice" messaging a lot of tech companies professed was all a poker play in the current zeitgeist around the time. It has died down quite considerably because they see the direction the country is going--they would rather have a president that espouses populism without actually following through on most of their promises.
i don't want to be the "get off my lawn" person or "old man yells at cloud," but i couldn't get to what the tool does because the landing page is so overwhelming with colors, the background, the borders, things moving around.

the CTA buttons across the site are inconsistent in shape, form, and color.

the text color in the footer has awful contrast, so it's hard to read.
Did you ask why they chose the take home?

I'd favor 1 and 2 over 3, because I feel that you understanding the problem I'm solving gives a better context to appreciate my approach.

If I take it home and hand it later, you can compare my solution to yours (or others) and better grasp my coding style, even if it's different to yours, since we worked on essentially the same task.

If we're working as a pair, you can observe my thought process. I can better express my reasoning for picking certain idioms.

With past code, there's almost no context. It's just code that was written for some other project. In my opinion, this can be very useful in preliminary steps, when I'm sending out my resume and you need to validate that I can indeed write code. In later stages, I think it can be impressive if I have a working app and can walk you down the code for a particular feature. But who has working software laying around? We all have code that works with a few hacks, sorta...

I'd favor 1 over 2, because it reduces the probability to blunder. Between spending 2 hours on-site with a higher risk to mess up (due to pressure, Murphy's law, etc) and take the assignment home to work on it for an extra 2 hours, with ample time to freely research whatever I don't understand. It's a no-brainer for me.
Similarly, on bash/ksh: set -o vi Ctrl-[ v (or ESC) set -o emacs Ctrl-x e
I'm confused on where I order screenprints.
I think the reason that bothered me was, that this was after a take-home tech test, a long interview, and 2 other questions that were similar.

But really, the fact you should never write one should be very basic and fundamental knowledge. Quite simply it should be an automatic no if someone didn't know they shouldn't write that themselves. They were literally testing people on things they don't do. Which means everyone I would be working with wasn't tested on their ability to do their job.
WebGPU to Officially Ship on iOS in December
If you're uploading a loan estimate you've already made a loan application for a specific house- this isn't going to give them information on every house you were considering, it is probably just the single house which accepted your offer and are shopping around for financing.
EcDNA Fuels Cancer by Breaking the Laws of Biology
The metabolic rate of an animal scales as 0.75 the mass, I guess surface area is about the 0.66 power of mass so I guess it gets more favorable when you get smaller but not by a lot. See https://book.bionumbers.org/how-does-metabolic-rate-scale-wi...

Note thermal efficiency is a problem too.

For instance you could imagine wearing an LED suit that exposes you to a lot of light. You need 100W for your basal metabolism, if photosynthesis were 10% efficient you'd be dealing with 900W of waste heat which is a lot, real-life efficiency would be worse than that.
” albeit at much lower rates than before.
From January to September 2024, marketing intelligence platform MediaRadar found that these brands collectively spent less than $3.3 million on X. This is a 98% year-over-year drop from the $170 million spent during the same period in 2023.”

3m is nothing.
There isn't a comment specifically saying that including more config files can override values, so I'll give you that. However, it does have comments explaining exactly how to override default values. It looks like what the OP of this thread is attempting should work unless they messed up something else.

I'm looking at a couple sshd_config files on my servers, and the Include directive for the overrides is the first non-comment line in the file.

Having that Include be first means that changing any settings in the sshd_config file will override anything set by sshd_config.d/* files.

What in the heck are these people doing to break their config? There really is no legitimate issue here.
> Are you thinking about some of the homestead influencer types here?

Not really. I was humorously comparing farm incomes to incomes of certain pornographic performers. Not quite up there with the 1920s (when the farmers all built mansions after harvest), or the 1970s (when a single crop paid for the entire farm), but it was probably the third best time in history to be a farmer. Of course, good times can't last forever.

> We decided not to make our farm into a business pretty quick.

My farm was a business from the get-go. Some years are great, others not so much, but on balance it's a pretty good gig.

> if you're unwilling to go into a crazy amount of debt

That's the beauty of coming from the high paying tech industry. You don't need to accumulate the debt, you can pay for it out of pocket. I agree that if you start giving bankers your profit, you won't have a good time. That is a trap a lot of farmers do fall into, and perhaps have no choice but to without a tech (or similar starting point) foundation. However, for the typical reader here...

> to run what most would consider animal abuse and/or ecological destruction.

Be the change you want to see. There is always more work to do, but my farm has come a long way in improving upon those things from how things were done before I arrived.
Thanks for taking one for the team!
Mostly because the article is about a chemist focussed on identifying WTF it is and less so an expert in shipping/unreported damage/clandestine dumping.
OMG you lived my dream. In 1976 I was 14 years old and started programming for the first time on the PLATO SYSTEM (university of illinois), the first computer with plasma screens, 1000 terminals, SOCIAL NETWORKS, MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR (it was called airfight was the name back then), the FIRST DUNGEON GAME (pedit5 / dnd). As I mowed lawns I dreamed of buying an HP-25 or SR-52 calculator or maybe an IMSAI 8080 computer of my own so badly! I eventually taught PLATO how to simulate a pocket football game, and wrote BASIC programs using a toy interpreter but they didn't have a way to store programs when your session was finished! :-(
When I was hiring, resume quality was often a negative signal. I could sometimes tell when someone used a resume preparation service. They were good at what they did, the resumes really were much better, and the candidates correspondingly worse.

The problem is that there is financial pressure to game the system, which means it's worth spending time and money on getting through the hoops but not on improving your work after that. Resume preparation, leet code grinding, even references are tainted when the reference is aware of the financial pressure (this person wasn't that great, but do I want to impoverish their family? or they'll scratch your back in exchange for you scratching theirs).
I think you missed the part where you describe their current experience.

If he was even considered for L6 staff, then his on resume credentials already justified him at L5 Senior or L6 Staff.

The interview performance is what pushed him over the edge into L6.

It seems like you think they don't deserve a staff level position?
cool makes sense, thats for the tips!
Antwerp.
Second company smells like systemic dysfunction.
just curious, was this rephrased by an llm or is that your writing style?
CMS develops new AI algorithm to detect anomalies
Maybe Bluesky has "won"
They also have a wiki, but not many photos. One photo is from Quebec.

The wiki also mentions that urea is produced, in addition to glucose, and both act as cryoprotectants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_frog
I think the analogy by Steve Yegge still holds: if you claim you're a juggler, you should be able to juggle in front of people at any time. So, yeah, coding challenges is a good filter, at least.

The problem is not coding challenge per se, but that people can now cram it on sites like leetcode. See, before we had leetcode, only two types of people could solve a large number of algorithmic problems organically: those who were naturally talented, and those who were so geeky that they devoured the works of Martin Gardner, Knuth, and the like. Excelling those challenges showed raw talent in old days.

And companies like the young Microsoft and young Google absolutely loved such talent, and such talent did shine in those young companies.
> Where are these dev jobs where _don't_ have to figure out some mysterious issue in a barely maintained GitHub repo semi-regularly?

Oh, my job is one of those.

Our code is in Perforce.
"Botticellian baby"[1] "Many perfections". "I had a stubborn sense that her deafness was not a pit she had fallen into, but just one of many extraordinary discoveries about her that I was making every day." This is coming across as denial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Botticelli_04_Louvre.jpg
I really expected a wood(en) frog here, qualifying truly as a biological miracle. But the wood frogs are cool as well.
The proposed lunar seed bank is cryogenic, not room temperature.
Not to share here. I was at boring places my parents had the interesting experiences but those aren't my stories to share.

It had lots of small industry specific solutions, lots of hardware/software tied together solutions (so a large 'tech' community where 'tech' was the title for hardware technicians that hand built/designed/produced the hardware devices/circuit boards/etc). I'm surprised you never heard of the Santa Cruz software scene. Some examples:

Victor Technologies (specifically Victor 9000 Computer)

Texas Instruments had a fab/facility there.

Digital Research had a presence (CP/M, PDP)

Seagate

SCO

Borland

EMU Systems (hardware music samplers) (lots of cool musicians used to visit their facilities)

(current) Antares (Auto tune/music tools)

(current) Plugin Alliance (music tools)

(current?) Plantronics

But mainly it was smaller obscure companies. For example Parallel Computers working on parallel computing early on. IDX working on radio tags in the 80s. Triton doing sonar imaging with SGI boxes.

It was very much it's own sub-scene with people who picked it for lifestyle so a bit different mindset (more hippie, schedules around the tides so people could surf, everyone going to the Wednesday night sailing races together). I was just a kid but it seemed cool. And it was open and friendly (I always had summer jobs as a kid starting from duplicating floppies for CP/M or PDP software as a 10 year old). Plus just a cool vibe. I remember next door to where my mom worked going and talking to Lorenzo Ponza (inventor of the pitching machine) when I got bored of playing Trek or Rogue on the VAX at her office (she was a workaholic always working weekends and dragging me along) or skating the ramp (for the stoner tech(nician) crowd) in the parking lot.
It's easy to dismiss this as luck. It's maybe some luck, but also a non-trivial amount of skill. Same for buying and holding Bitcoin early and not selling on the way up. There are people who have a knack for knowing when to get in early, or for constructing the right narrative. It's too easy to dismiss such success as luck and ignore the skill element.

It's possible to have rationalized that Carvana would benefit from the trend of rising interest rates and middle/lower class being forced to sell their cars that they bought during Covid, at fire sale prices to Carvana's benefit.

Covid saw a surge in car sales due to stimulus checks and low interest rates. As the stimulus spigot stopped and interest rates surged, living expenses also surged, as did interest on debt. This forced buyers sell their cars at unfavorable prices to resellers like Carvana, who are able to resell at a profit.

This is an economic narrative that I only rationalized in hindsight, but someone who was smart enough could have done so 1-2 years ago before the stock had gone up so much.
I am in my mid-30s and am definitely a “let’s just hop on a call” guy.

So much quicker, easier, and less chance for miscommunication IME.
It is inhumane and lawsuit avoidance as well.

When someone dies in the hospital what happens in the inquiry?
Examine the symptoms of the person who died and how to detect them. Add another check.

If they left someone alone for 2 hours or 4 hours and they passed away during that time, what would the headlines read? "General Healthcare left the patient alone for X hours and didn't even bother to check on their well being."
ETH price rise makes the Ethereum-network more costly (and less attractive to uses and developers [cryptokitties]). ETH-Layer2 networks may be parasitic to the ETH price (this is an open discussion). Solana has more attactive tx/s, but is less decentralized (decentralization is less useful if gov isn't attacking crypto).
“collaborating with governments to silence opposition and dissent” he reinstated the ban of opposition accounts in brazil at behest of Brazilian government. not sure how much more direct an example I could give.
”Pex doesn't work on windows”

Oh that’s such a weird limitation.

In the early 2000’s open source hubris, next year was always the year of the Linux desktop. Since then consumer windows matured into a totally ok OS and one with the best support for graphics and C++ development at that.

Non-windows support nowadays is a fairly strong signal of a non-serious software offering if there is no obvious reason for it. And that’s totally fine, hobby tools developed by enthusiasts rock - but they are not industrial in scope as such.
Came across the idea of "probe" (awhile ago) as a name for this.
Why Self-Expression at Work Matters: From Desk Plushies to Tattoos
Since when is studying, practicing and preparing, gaming the system?

Is reading a book on software engineering to become a better programmer also not allowed?

I feel like people want these jobs to be distributed "fairly" based on "natural" ability/talent.

But it has never and will never work that way.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) is worse, and way overplayed by FM radio in my town.
Nicely written article. A few pictures could have made it more interesting.
Daily scrums are a stupid waste of time and completely unnecessary unless your team doesn’t know what they’re doing or are unable to coordinate, and if either of those is true then you have the wrong team or management and Scrums won’t save you anyway. It’s mostly crap designed to allow consultants from McKinsey to charge your company big bucks for “efficiency implementation”.