skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is real. I am the CTO and co-founder of Aha!, and also personally interview every engineer we hire.

A human reviews every job application we get, but unfortunately we can't respond to them all - we get thousands - but most of the applications are not related to the position requirements at all. I can tell you that if your resume matches what we are looking for then we typically schedule an interview within a few days. I see that you posted this same comment previously. Commenting was already locked by HN by the time I saw it then.

Why do I keep posting on HN? It works. The profile of engineers we have hired for our team, and the sorts of engineers who read HN has a great overlap. There are other things we look at too. Your Github profile is really important: people who contribute to open source have demonstrated their ability to work on a distributed remote team, but even more importantly it gives you a way to show that you can tackle interesting problems in interesting ways.
My guess is The Status Game by Will Storr.
Nice overview of sorting methods, thanks for sharing!

I also looked a bit into radix and distribution sort at some point over the past year, but in the end high performance sorting is actually too big of a thing to just do quickly on the side, as your post well shows :")
In fact I wasn't aware of the associativity issues for radix sort. That's definitely something to keep in mind and investigate.

Will definitely refer back to it once I'm looking at sorting again in more detail at some point!
A good economics education would let someone be specific about what they think the problem is. What year will the US default on its debt? How much money needs to be cut from the budget to avoid that? To what extent will those cuts slow down the economy and be self-defeating?

If he arms himself with the right mathematical tools, he might just discover that the default he’s expecting is actually not imminent.
> A few hours of the plane being hot should wipe them all out.

The article addresses this. Quoting:

The process typically takes two to five days and can cost airlines between $75,000 and $125,000 when accounting for lost revenue and treatment expenses. “They do have a bit of a protocol to work from,” Mr. Tuck said. “You’ll pull the airplane out of service and you’ll bug bomb it.” But without a spare aircraft available for long-distance routes, airlines face difficult decisions, particularly when passengers report infestations mid-journey.
This was really enjoyable to read - I really enjoy this kind of in-the-weeds optimisation and the author explains it all really well. I was surprised at how much Oj was willing to put on the stack! But my background is embedded and so large stack allocations have ruined my day more than once
Surprised this legal turn has so little discussion on HN right now. NN had felt like an evergreen hot debate topic for at least the past decade

7 years ago, 3000+ upvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924794
I was gonna ask if Terminal never had any security issues, then tried to find a page with its release notes, and unfortunately couldn't find anything.

I also tried different macOS release notes [1][2][3][4], doing ctrl F "terminal" and could't find anything either.

Does anyone know where this is published? Is it not publicly available?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/120283

[3] https://support.apple.com/en-in/109035

[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/106337
An argument that I’ve heard is that wooden boards can get more infected with bacterial colonies if not washed and maintained properly. I’m not sure how actually true this is though.
The lesson I get from this is that people were less attached to their last names, and called themselves whatever they wanted.
If having a bunch of money is a problem, there’s a solution. Give it away and start again. It sounds stupid but a lot of people do it.

I’ve traveled a lot and opportunity is definitely not evenly distributed.
There are millions of people who have potential and can’t afford silly things like books, school, tools necessary to succeed. If I wanted to give away a bunch or money I’d found work training programs for blue collar jobs in some major cities of developing nations. Provide training and tools for capable youngsters who might not otherwise have opportunities.

Although… this is not a tale about having too much money. It’s a tale about not knowing what to do next.

You need to recapture the satisfaction of work. Your professional identity was a big part of who you were and you’re falling apart without it. Unfortunately the old one is dead so you have to create a new one. The good news is there’s a foundation to build in.

Track down half a dozen people you’ve enjoyed working with before and start a business with them. I also recommend working mentorship into the mix.
I stepped back into macOS for the first time in ~8 years and was disappointed by Terminal. To be honest, I think Windows Terminal is much better, which feels a bit weird to say.
My sons worry a lot about this. In my (non-economist) mind, this will sort itself out in a few years. All the old people that own homes will die. Those homes will be empty, and everyone moves up a level, or prices are forced to drop from lack of demand (or ability to purchase). The one thing that really screw up my scenario is private equity buying up homes, and maybe AirBnB-type companies renting what should otherwise be on the market. Those could (and should?) be fixed with legislation.
Regarding the part of breaking up with girlfriend shortly after a winning startup exit, I'm reminded of a friend. (Different situation, but something to think about.)

She saw her bf through the difficult process of a developing a creative work, and eventually he completed it, won a prestigious reward... and he broke up with her.

He got invited to the White House because of the award, and I think missing out on that recognition and experience, where she could've attended as the partner, was symbolic for her.

It wasn't that he was upgrading, since she was an all-around catch, including probably being fabulous at whatever kind of cocktail party circles he entered.

It did seem like awkward timing, to decide that a relationship wasn't going to work out, after all.

(Don't worry, she's OK now: highly accomplished in her own career and creative side, and is also raising a family with a better match.)
How do you do this? Didn't know about this feature.
If you preserve "everything," you're sort of asking for a lot of those things to be outdated or no longer relevant. That's sort of the problem and why companies tend not to do so.
The whole situation is absolutely tragic. Another bright, talented individual taken to soon. Please, if you haven't, tell your friends and family you love them every chance you get. RIP Felix. Gone but not forgotten.
The opposite. It would be unsuitable to link to a long-form article when a 15 second TikTok video would convey the relevant information just fine.

What exactly was incorrect about Dans video? (He’s great BTW)

These new information medium was invented for a reason, in particular, the economic efficiency of conveying information.

I would suggest people learn to use them.
I'm confused by the comments saying "Just don't use iTerm2." The same class of issue can occur for any other project, and switching is not a very effective defense against it.

If anything, having an embarrassing issue like this is probably going to improve the iTerm2 project's security posture in the medium term. It's like that joke about firing the engineer who caused the incident, and the manager who retorts, "Why would I fire them? They just learned the hard way never to make this mistake again." (I'm paraphrasing.) I don't think that iTerm2 has had a notably high rate of critical security issues, and I suspect they won't make this class of mistake twice. (And if they do - then I will re-evaluate.)

I suppose intuitively I would think that using the default MacOS Terminal app is a bit lower-risk than using iTerm2 or any other open source terminal emulator, as Terminal is a rather sparse piece of Apple-provided software with a low pace of change. But it's also closed source and impossible to audit, so there are tradeoffs there too.
True, i would still argue that your identity might be fogged by these things and come out clearer after lifting roles you may stumbled into more than you chose them.

So sure hope for him and others they survive their 7 years of catharsis!
I've found that you don't see yourself without people around you to hold up a mirror
So what is the value of the old forum posts? To whom is it valuable? Is there somebody out there who would be willing to buy it?
I have the opposite problem. I know exactly what I would do if I had enough money in the bank to live off the interest. I remind myself how lucky I am and to be grateful, which is probably the most helpful thing I do.

As someone who has developed software for almost 20 years, and who is also staying on top of LLMs because I genuinely enjoy it, I really feel like I will make some good money soon.
It takes an incredible human to do something like this. Pure art. Not enough of that in the programming world.
Children are giver of immense sense of satisfaction that’s totally disconnected to wealth (though being wealthy certainly helps). Just remember - no short cuts.
Perhaps I missed something, but from what I saw none of his attempts to do something new seemed to involve any kind of genuine efforts to improve the lives of others...

Bit amazing that wasn't even something he would consider.
A former colleague did the same with most of AoC 2020 a few years ago.

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It's like that old saying, "where ever you go...there you are."
This is how interpreted the post. Listing “throwing parties” as one of your hobbies shows they don’t really have deep passion curiosities like the things you listed can be.
whats the paid alternative?
I have no idea who this guy is but anyone willing to go work for Elon/Trump seriously needs to reevaluate their ethics in life. How disgusting.
That issue you are exposing is everywhere so if fraudulent is the word we can see that a lot of social media and Internet, in general, is also fraudulent. It is call-to-action and conversion everywhere.
Also check Peter Lawrey's Vanilla Java blog (blog.vanillajava.blog/)
Congratulations on having a level head on your shoulders. Sincerely, I hope you have a nice life :)
Thomas is the greatest database systems researcher in the world. He is an incredible human.
I just don’t think the internet has mustered awareness yet.

This decision effectively killed net neutrality and dooms everything that rests on Brand X in one swoop (eg California’s own net neutrality laws).
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Lol, I use mouse with left hand so wasd would be silly for me. and semicolon is an extra perk, much better than mapping left side capslock.
I’m in Pittsburgh but didn't end up applying anywhere local. I was looking for remote-friendly positions to keep things flexible due to an upcoming move, which definitely limited my options. Out of the 50 or so companies I looked into, barely a third turned out to be remote friendly, with some only pretending to be (e.g. Meta seems to have gone out of their way to make remote suck for everyone involved by limiting it to staff+ on top of manager discretion).

I was definitely nervous about the time off being an issue. The usual stream of recruiter emails had pretty much dried up by the time I started looking for work, and I was fully expecting the search to take forever. It wasn’t an issue at all in the end - no one brought up the gap during interviews. I mentioned it in passing a few times when talking about why I left my previous job and mostly just got “dang that sounds like fun” from people. That being said, I have no idea if I would have gotten more responses to my initial inquiries without the gap on my resume.
Same as a liquor store.
Show me some sniffed network traffic demonstrating an app sending that data back to a server.

Discovery in a lawsuit.

Credible insider leaks confirming this happens and how.
If you are rich you have the ability to become a scientist without worrying about money. That is an absurd privilege that I am personally working towards. To contribute to science is one of the most enduring things you can do for humanity. The money will come and go. Even if you pass it down, it will be diluted away within 2-3 generations. But, if you contribute knowledge, it will forever be a brick in the edifice of humanity's collective knowledge. Please don't waste the opportunity.
Being able to SSH into multiple machines, and mirror your keyboard across all of them is my favorite feature.
They have different factories in differente countries with different quality and price points. Also electronics have tiers.

It's surprising how much there is still a difference in cheap and expensive potentiometers and switches. One would have expected someone to have cracked high quality and cheap by now?
What might start as “wow! A whole new place” ends up being “ok, just another new place” for many people.
Ask HN: Is wicd Back? If so, how can we guarantee it succeeds?
According to this Dev1Galaxy thread[0], wicd has been ported to python3. Most of the work seems from Takahiro Yoshizawa, who may or may not be hanaguro.

Without bloviating on how much I loathe Network-Manager, which I could extensively, those who love/d wicd might understand and should be pleased that their trusty old friend might soon be coming back. When Debian dropped wicd from the repos, I was severely disappointed and for the first year, managed my wireless connections via CLI. I certainly share the joy expressed in the thread.

Of the plethora of brilliant folks who loiter here on HN, perhaps someone might have the skills and interest to help resurrect the world's most awesomeist network manager? If so, please do consider!

Otherwise, we'll just have to wait, and hope it happens.

0. https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=52211
Most of the business is in the not-numbers stuff. If DOGE is specifically trying to fix the numbers, then it's far more important that they specifically are experts in numbers.
Does this decision(or the decision it was based off of) not also basically say "the fcc has no power over broadband companies" or am I misinterpreting the "information service" vs "telecommunications service" comment?
P-bass spirit.
despite the title..i read this post as an exhaustion with SV culture. everything starting with the personality types that are elevated (ie some flavor of antisocial personality disorder) and ending with the activities that earn you social capital (ie identifying the next anti-consensus big industry).

i've seen this happen with people that have had much much smaller financial success in the industry..or even ones that haven't had any at all. you are either naturally inclined to identify with the culture or you trick yourselves into it so that you may belong.

<insert paragraph about social desire to be connected and how we construct an image of ourselves through others>

the culture of SV today is an amalgamation of Taylorist ideas, Randian objectivism, Utilitarianism etc etc. there is a lot of social capital to be earned by embodying the values of these currents. DOGE is a quintessential representation of this. it is not surprising at all that author had such a visceral reaction to it.

its important to emphasize that there have been very successful companies that have gone against the current (ie Apple), with an emphasis on craftsmanship, obsession with the process, taste-driven vs data-driven decisions and appreciation for things that are outside of profit maximization.
This is true pain. To think a rounding error could free grinders like us to solve Actual Problems like disrupting Chrome hegemony, building user-respecting OSes and relighting the now nearly dimmed torch dropped so many years ago by Mozilla.

Hopefully one day we can..
This sounds awful.

I would do almost any amount of iteration and index tuning to keep the query on a single machine rather than deal with a networked distributed system.

When you get slow queries the real problem is algorithmic complexity and linear workers only can do so much,
Just a thought I’d like to share: the finish line to “Fuck you money” (FUM) isn’t even remotely close to the $60m mark. It’s not even beyond $100,000. Once you have no debts nor a mortgage, and you have $100k in savings, you have FUM, because suddenly you need $25k a year to live well.

I say this as a member of this community, who are (generally speaking) relatively well paid folk in IT.

If you have a partner in life then you’re even better off again.

I don’t believe it’s actually that hard to reach FUM if you’ve got your fair share of luck, discipline, a partner, and the stable environment. For those who don’t have those things, I respect your position and wish you the best of luck — I’m sorry life is harder for you.

Edit: I’m aware you need insurance too, for health, life/death, accidental, etc. Again, you need a stable environment to make this work and be easier to achieve — the USA is not a safe nor stable environment.
I hope China don't follow all these IP/patents. They have harmed more imo.
I just received a $400 check in the mail for my troubles on that one.
Sorry but I’m not going to upvote this, instead I’m going to act like the rest of the normal people and say WTF?
You have so many millions and don’t know what to do?
You’ve attained financial and work freedom and yet you complain?
What is wrong with you rich people?
If I had 400k I would live a trouble free and happy life and we have rich people coming here on HN to rub in our faces their zeroth world problems…
I don’t care if I get down voted or my comment gets deleted, but I feel sorry for the OP :-(
I just tried Facebook, not my experience here.
Also if you have a nanosecond timestamp, do you actually need a monotonically increasing row ID? What for?
Yeah understood that the internal meta stuff would be too tied up with internal infra to be OSS, it’s the same with a lot of Google’s tooling here.

I do wish there was a startup here. There is sourcegraph, which has ok code search (github has come a long way, but without indexing and understanding the build you can’t do it justice). There are also cool code review startups like Graphite, but they don’t work together. I remember how powerful it was to review a change then go use an xref to see how a function is used that is untouched in a code review, so does not show in the diff, which requires checking out the changes locally in OSS land and context switching to leave comments.
I mean, that's not a misunderstanding, that is what they're for. Conferring clout is a secondary effect.

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on...
Have you tried doing things for others instead of yourself?
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Doesn't that strategy only work for a temporary amount of time? Surely investors will ask questions when Facebook claims that it has 100 billion active users?
honored i guess. sorry about that.
I'm amazed he didn't even seem to entertain it as an option. It's quite unusual because even a total narcissist would eventually land on philanthropy as an ego-trip
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