skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person who invented FizzBuzz [1] did so because he was interviewing senior developers and a consistently high proportion could give really convincing explanations about their programming skills but, when it came down to it, could not program. And that doesn't just mean they were a bit rusty because they had been focusing on the big picture or managing people etc. Instead, they literally couldn't write a for loop but had jobs because they were good at interviews. That's why FizzBuzz is not done Google-style tree inversion exercise but basically just "please write a for loop". I wouldn't want to work a company that doesn't filter those idiots out. A full blown exercise with real code would be fine but a toy exercise would also totally do.

[1] Imran Ghory. He wrote a blog post about it but it now seems to be down, but I know it was him and the reason why he did it because I was working with him at Bloomberg when he came up with it.
There's always recursion.
The thing about arsenal is, they always try and walk it in!
Is this a decentralized like button? It's an interesting alternative to webmention (as is mentioned).
The salary ranges in London are different than the US.
PWD is does hot refer to the directory that file I am working on is in.
Three Arrested in Coca-Cola trade secret scheme (2006)
i guess it depends! i've been collecting for at least 15yrs and i still keep it organized alphabetically and then chronologically. i always loved the idea of a 'high fidelity' type organization system though.
The site linked in comments is gold.

> Shit. I was just about to launch into an explanation of our code review procedures. Every week we sit around a table and carefully and dispassionately analyse and constructively criticise each others code. And it works. We sit there and listen and take it all in. It works really well and team morale is excellent. One day we're even planning to do one when we're sober.
Brave works great as well.
Oh hi, another one of those checking in. IRC, Grim's Ping, FTP/FXP (preferably the WinNT machines where files could be made undeleteable). Those were the days.
Greatest cookie banner I’ve ever seen.
Yeah or more like a decentralized reaction button with any emoji.
Between pixelfed and bluesky, there must be some juicy scaling issues that the devops teams had to tackle.

If any of those devops folks are reading, tell us your horror stories!
Because it’s absurdly reductionist and in my experience suggests either a poor work ethic or a lack of empathy or both.

Additionally your argument isn’t logical. An unwillingness to do something for free isn’t equivalent not wanting to do it. You’ve moved the goalposts.
But you do notice that he isn’t doing the raids in red states that are close to the border that would negatively affect their businesses and economies?

> There have been people murdered by illegal immigrants that have committed many crimes

Yet he just pardoned 1500 people who invaded government buildings and threatened violence on his own VP…
This is supposedly a NodeJS / NestJS / backend position. If they seem like a good team fit then I would hire someone this good with TS types in a heartbeat.

Especially that this is a small company, so if I'm some kind of mid-level decision maker there then having someone versatile is a big advantage for this company.

If this would be a huge boring enterprise recruiting for the maintenance of their legacy COBOL.TS backend? Then probably the orthodox candidate.
What if the interviewers were offended that this guy is smarter than them?

I once was given an interview question for a position at a company. Wanted me to create build scheduler in any language. It was a build engineer position. I started to do their at home exercise but ended up telling the recruiter I won’t do the exercise. It was pointless since Bamboo, Jenkins, or GitLab is what they should be using. Not some home grown build system.
Okay, compare that to the amount of hobbyists by headcount. Also subtract out the support roles in those industries that don’t constitute “artist” roles. Is a programmer an artist? Is someone working on color grading according to the specifications of someone else an artist? Subjective for sure, but at least for me most roles in those industries don’t qualify as “artists” since they don’t exercise substantial control over the art output.

As an illustrative comparison, if we apply the same “massive org chart” model used in film or video games to painting, each employee would apply a few brushstrokes according to requirements specified by a painting director. Is each of them an artist? Or is the painting director the artist?
America has gone full third-world corrupt. I honestly don't know where this country is heading any longer.

Remember just 1 decade ago, people thought that the UK couldn't slide downward and yet here we are. No reason why it can't happen to America when the power is literally handed to crooks with no checks and balances.
> Just imagine if the public could capture the (financial) upside it produces...

Like through taxes on the sale of the property or the increased business income it produces? The public will.
You've got a very broad brush in your hand.
If the lights have adjustable white balance, you almost always can sync light color temp to time of day with home assistant's flux:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/flux/

This works with almost any smart light you can get connected to HA (most smart lights have white balance adjust), it's brand agnostic etc. I have lights from several different vendors working together this way.
I chose those names because they are a pure distillation of "everything that is wrong..." But it's pretty easy to find lots of issues that wouldn't exist if "digital media content creator" wasn't a job that kids today are aspiring to.

Look at video thumbnails and "YouTube face". Look at how many videos are feature-film length ordeals: there is no way everyone is actively watching all that content; they're all putting it in their TVs in the background. Look at how every video on YouTube is at least 10 minutes long: that happens because it means the video will get a second ad spot. If it comes down to making a 9.5 minute video it a 10.1 minute one, well, nobody is going to pass up stretching an extra 36 seconds out of the B-roll.

If you're an advertiser, it's gotta be driving you mad. All this micro-optimizing for length to get ad spots has to be really destroying their click through rates. Which is fine with me, actually, cry me big crocodile years. But it's probably also why they've spent so much effort on in-video sponsorships. Now that really pisses me off, because I'm paying YouTube for an ad-free experience and yet YouTube turns a blind eye to its content creators circumventing my preference.

But all of this would go away if YouTube didn't pay content creators. "Why shouldn't people get paid for their work?" They should. But posting to YouTube shouldn't be someone's job. Because the remuneration system is perverse.
Previous discussion (with some calling it a scam): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559
I argue the contrary case - the interview style is pretty reasonable, but the interviewers screwed up the process (and ultimately, the grading).

"Adding additional requirements which test a candidate's ability to refactor code" is a pretty good exercise. And it's ok to force candidates people down a specific development path. The problem is that the interviewers didn't do this. They let the candidate pick a strategy the interviewers weren't expecting, then were disappointed with the results.

Actually we have no idea why the interviewers rejected the candidate. Maybe they were just as impressed with the solution as I am. Maybe the candidate presented poorly in other ways. Maybe they agonized over hiring this candidate vs someone else who was even more amazing, and could only afford one.

Ghosting the candidate is pretty inexcusable. But maybe it was just old fashioned corporate dysfunction and someone dropped the ball.

You do not need to waste 45 minutes of someone's time on whether they can correctly interpret and execute some joke requirements -- this is absolutely not the case. I interview a lot of people and most are bad programmers, despite having impressive resumes. 45 minutes of a progressively difficult programming exercise is a minimum.

--

All that said, there are red flags that make me question the veracity of the whole thing:

* Author claims to speak English very poorly, but writes incredibly well! Maybe they leaned on LLMs, but this seems pretty good even for an LLM.

* Author says they have 2 years of work experience in a company that doesn't use Typescript, but then proceeds to create a solution ad-hoc that requires incredibly deep knowledge of the type system. Certainly not impossible, but I don't know anyone that could pull this off.

* Author doesn't have a name. There's no contact information. I don't even know if I should write "he" or "she". Here's a viral calling card that would almost guarantee countless interviews (including from my company!) and they aren't capitalizing on it.

* There's nothing else on this domain, no link to a CV, nothing. It's a ghost.

The story is too good. I'm defaulting to skepticism.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
I would love to hear them. Would you share a link or two?
I’ve always wanted a feature like this in Zillow for filtering the results by commute time to a given destination, but this is even cooler!
I totally missed Shelly becoming an HA Darling - I have an older home with some of the wiring not having a Neutral wire, so Lutron Casetta has been my only option and those No-neutral dimmers are extremely expensive.

Will look into Shelly
> I guarantee these people didn’t learn their lesson

Your argument totally falls apart here, because you’re just outright wrong. There are a ton of kids who are curious would-be hackers that turn away from the dark side forever after getting pwned while trying to do something sketchy.
In my experience, this does very by neighborhood. Midtown and the financial district? Absolutely. Up in Washington Heights? A significantly less touristy area, and one that feels more like a neighborhood, where I don't automatically assume someone wants something from me if they initiate a conversation.
Crowdfunding scam waiting to happen. RK3588s is not phone-capable by any means.
Yes, that's my point. The objective is to overwhelm the society and its institutions - a disease that stresses the host's immune response until it breaks. The lower courts will stand by since the ultimate court is in the bag for this guy.
No, it was tiny. Very likely it had decelerated to terminal velocity and was just falling like (literally) a rock.
So I actually live in Orlando and bought the game with the intent of doing exactly that...

I'm not a theme park nut but that seemed like a fun way to play the game (actually I was thinking Universal might work better but I wasn't sure).

Definitely share if come up with something good.
Here’s another hypothesis: none of it was real, but rather manufactured drama in an attempt to drive up ratings. If those seasons were reformulated for mainstream, that would be the simplest explanation about how both things can be true.
48 images is an incredibly small number for high quality photogrammetry. 480 wouldn’t be overkill. A couple of hundred would be considered normal.
Just put tailscale [1] on all of your devices and forget about the problem. It may be technically a vpn but it's much easier to use.

[1] https://tailscale.com/
I’d love to hear more about your setup. Do you have a blog or anything documenting it?
Musk's beef with Britain isn't (only) about politics. It's about tech regulation
Love the idea! Just wish you could clarify a number like you do in codenames. Otherwise, it just keeps going until all of its options are wrong.
After seeing those pictures of their cages, no wonder they wanted to escape. Would it be so tough to give them a more humane environment to live in?
Now spot UFOs/UAPs?
A short history of school lunches and highly processed food
(The actual title is "Can RFK Jr. remake school lunch?" but it's actually mostly about how school lunches came to be and how they became so full of highly processed food, which is interesting.
> artificially handicapping developers

> punishing creativity

A similar thing happened to me once in an interview. They said use any language, but were a TS shop. I went with Python, which is hardly esoteric. The interviewers were seemingly unaware of the breadth and depth of Python’s stdlib, and so I demolished their questions in short order. I don’t remember specifics, only that I used heapq for something, and itertools for something else.

The reply afterwards was along the lines of, “while you clearly have a solid grasp on Python, we didn’t get good signals from the interview.”

It’s very much worth noting that this was for an infra role, DBs specifically. The most advanced algorithm I’ve ever had (and “had” is a stretch) to use is Levenshtein.
I remembered playing around with Back Orifice, and absolutely knowing better, but being the kid (early 20s) who couldn't help but see "what will this do", turned on the server. Within seconds someone began wiping c:/Windows/system lol.
The guy who owns the house is a theologian scholar (1). Message from above, perhaps?

Original CBC article is here (2).

(1) https://islandscholar.ca/people/jvelaidum

(2) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-char...
I remember we were at work and the power flickered and all the UPS's started beeping for about 10 seconds. Then it went back to normal. Then about 30 minutes later people looked at the news and saw a massive blackout. We were hundreds of miles away and that's all we felt but I had a relative tell me about walking a few miles home because the subways were down and the traffic lights not working made it even crazier.
> No one in the US government is trying to stop you from criticizing Trump.

"CBS weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture" (in her own private account, not when doing her job):

* https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-...

Self-censorship and capitulation is a thing (see MetaBook's changes in policy, Amazon removing DEI references). Czesław Miłosz wrote about in Communist Poland:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind

The security detail on Fauci was yanked:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg49jz7v8no

Trump ex-NSA Bolton had security detail yanked, even though there are credible security threats against him (people have already been arrested):

* https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-security-deta...

(It was under Biden that Pompeo and Bolton had the detail for the last few years, so even a member of the opposite party didn't hold a grudge against them.)

One doesn't have to do things 'directly' to have something happen:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
I love that on HN you need to cite StackOverflow to document that dropping a rock on someone's head hurts a lot.
This depends on who the DDOS was targeting, otherwise the DDOS was legitimized by this logic (targeting bad people) and this becomes bad again (harming good people to aid bad people).

Of course, that was never considered nor was collateral damage because the ethical justification is just a pretense to excuse harming others.
Exactly like it works in Mastodon - it's up to the server admins, plus some controls in the client. Choose a server where the moderation matches your preferences, or start your own if you're unhappy with the options.
What AWS services are you using currently and what drives your costs?

We’re a nonprofit with apps that see ~1000s of users a month, but mostly in the US. I think we see good savings using Google Cloud Run and scaling down when there’s less traffic. You could probably set up AWS Fargate similarly. Modern app frameworks start quickly so cold starts aren’t terrible. Docker containers are portable if you outgrow that kind of environment and want to shift to dedicated VMs or the other way to serverless in future. I would also look at fly.io.
Have you completely missed the context of this thread? We're talking about the transaction log aka CDC. This consists purely of CRUD operations because that's all the database understands. Maybe read the books cited?
There's no reason to be a fan of an organization whose main goal is to make money, yet GP said he's a Chelsea fan.
don't worry, AI will fix this
Can they run obnoxious Android banking apps that refuse to run on rooted phones etc.
I linked below in another comment a version of the last video captured on an emulator, so no flicker. Also, I set the correct palette for each picture, so it's a bit nicer to look at anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxX4fu6dAzo
You can't force developers to build what they can't sell at a profit.

I'm sure San Francisco would love to have more billion dollar high density buildings, but can a developer sell enough million dollar condos to pay for them? Is there any evidence that it's zoning that's keeping more residentials towers from being built in downtown SF?

>Bro, that catastrophic disaster is called global warming

It's not a catastrophic disaster yet -- nearly all Americans sat at home in comfort watching the LA fires. People don't see a disaster if it doesn't affect them, then it's just a tragedy.
You don't think professional soccer teams are an organization whose main goal is to make money?
How many users and bandwidth do you estimate to have and use ?
Do you store a lot of assets (images, video, sound)?
Do Russians Support the War in Ukraine?
These states and many of their citizens have been murmuring about a "cold civil war" and "peaceable secession" for decades, and a few have been flirting with secession since the actual civil war ended. They don't want to be a part of the US - or more accurately they consider only themselves to be the US, proper, and reject the authority of the Federal government as illegitimate, oppressive, and run according to cultural values which they despise.

So yeah, maybe it's better to let them go than suffer having them dragging the rest of the country down with them.
Thank you for your incredibly detailed correction :)
The interesting contrast, though, is that the blog post demonstrates strong communication skills and self awareness.
We are a nonprofit and are in the process of switching all of our hosting over to Coolify. It's been great. We've moved 13 apps over to it so far.
The value of that ordering scheme was lost when her father died, not when she reordered the records.
I always recommend looking at Server-Sent Events [0] and EventSource [1]. It's a standardization of old style long-polling, mapping very well to the HTTP paradigm and is built in to the web standard.

It's so much easier to reason about than websockets, and a naive server side implementation is very simple.

A caveat is to only use them with HTTP 2 and/or client side logic to only have one connection open to the server, because of browser limits on simultaneous requests to the same origin.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource
Who told you about DRM? It is an open source tool.

Simply requiring a code change and a rebuild is enough of a barrier to prevent rude behavior from most people. You won't stop competent malicious actors but you can at least encourage good behavior.
If popular, someone will make a fork but having the original refuse to do stuff that are deemed abusive sends a message.

It is like for the Flipper Zero. The original version does not let you access frequency bands that are illegal in some countries, and anything involving jamming is highly frowned upon. Of course, there are forks that let you do these things, but the simple fact that you need to go out of your way to find these should tell you it is not a good idea.
Show HN: RabbitMQ-Message-Ops – A CLI for Managing RabbitMQ Messages
150k GBP total comp is not especially competitive with a BigCo.

If that is just salary though, it might be competitive in London depending on the rest of the comp package (i.e. about the same again for equity, 20-25% bonus - so total about 300-325k GBP - would be Ok for mid/senior level IME)
right now. Let's make it grow
Note that most of these victims were probably never customers of United. But somehow they had everyone’s sensitive medical data?
Ah! the memories! They are not as rosy as they seem now though.. the tapes were very finicky and you could get data errors very easily - sometimes almost at the very end of the loading of the programs.

But yes, I did enjoy those days.
Ok, so you make one of the other parties someone who has a fiduciary duty but not an emotional one. "We don't negotiate with terrorists" is a common enough phrase.
What's your current resource usage? Memory/CPU/disk etc?

netcup.eu has instances that are generally about the best value you'll find anywhere. They've been around a long time and good rep.

buyvm.net while not quite as cheap as a random lowend host (keep in mind there are lots of fly-by-night lowend hosts with crazy prices (buyvm is NOT one of those)), and harder to find VM vacancies there, is super solid, fantastic rep, great network and large transfer, if you need large block device attached they have up to 10TB "slabs" you can attach to your VM for $5/TB/mo (you won't beat that pricing anywhere-- I've had one attached for a year or so and no issues very stable. And I definitely use the space). And they have a fantastic discord community and documentation/help, and are fast to respond to issues in their Discord.

But in general lowendtalk.com offers section and lowendbox are your friend (but pay close attention to provider reviews/offer comments to avoid unreliable and/or fly-by-night hosts).
I write a ticket and open a PR and ask my team for review.
Crushing guilt led this Air France pilot to quit his dream job
Yet every single time I see HA in relation to a raspberry pi, the number one complaint is it destroying SD cards.
The only thing I don’t like about the idea of having to pick the server / moderation is now that moderation meta conversation that is a potentially endless thing.

I just don’t know if back end meta is a really appealing feature to people in the long run…

Maybe it will be, I’m just unsure.
I think the failure of Amazon Alexa is a better reference point here. The goal with that device was to buy stuff through it. No one did because no one trusted it to do the right thing. We just ask it to tell us the weather or play a song.
A Stranger's Smile Changed My Entire Day
I agree with the other guy, usually funding is dispersed in months or years at a time, so this shouldn't impact anyone in a meaningful way (unless they're doing gain of function research, in which case their lab will likely stop receiving funding).
Not right now, but it looks like someone is trying to build it on top of Bluesky:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own...
A damp rock.

It looks pretty though, which we wouldn't have known a century ago - a small, pretty, damp rock. It's not much, but it's all we'll ever have.
What do you have in mind? It seems to only allow sending a single character at a time from a limited set. What criminal use does that allow?
This always makes me laugh
https://grathium-industries.github.io/posts/deployments/bluf...
It's surprisingly hard to use 9P and get good performance because the design sort of inherently forbids caching for "real" file data. Trying to add that on top pretty much sacrifices the simplicity and starts looking a lot more like NFSv4.