skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with this. The big risk though is that you must continue to be seen the same way. Humans are highly prone to out-of-sight-out-of-mind, so you need to continually refresh their memory of you being that high performer. It's stupid and sucks, but unfortunately it's the way 95% of people are, and becoming a director doesn't change that underlying nature.

My advice:

1. Do try to report directly to the new director

2. Be honest and (mostly) open with them about your situation, and let them know that you are up for this challenge but that it won't be easy. Ask them for advice periodically with problems you run into (especially/mostly people problems unless they are very technical, which is rare at that level). Genuinely ask for advice though. Even if you don't take it, earnestly seek to understand what they would do and then use your own judgment about application.

3. Keep your eyes/ears open for new opportunities that might come up, but try to rate limit yourself because you don't want this to cause you to pull away from your new area or become a distraction. Also think about it as a "what could be next" not an opportunity to escape/eject early.
Let me trump that with the bat (fire)bomb!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
Hip Hop has shifted as much as America has. The only big 2020s hip hop artist from NY is Cardi B. Then you have to realize she's mostly a pop act -- a majority of hip hop heads don't listen to female artists.
AI-powered hedge funds are the future! Looking forward to testing Fincept Terminal.
Id say that if a candidate can demonstrably 5x their performance with LLMs then I'd be keen to hire them.

By banning LLM usage I think Anthropic is just indirectly admitting that their assessments cant distinguish lameduck LLM reliance and genuine increases in productivity.

This is certainly their prerogative but it's still a pretty bad look - like banning calculators in a math exam.
FreeBSD security audits have improved our security culture [pdf]
Yes most of the major banks do, but many neo banks don't. Upside is convenience and speed for folks that don't have a bank with billpay.
How common is check usage in the USA? Is it a daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly thing?
Your project certainly looks very interesting! Any chance of another device with a smaller form factor sometime in the future? This one is huge :)
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Sam Hyde and his canceled adult swim show World Peace seem to stand out in my mind in that it feels hard to call it “very” politically fringe these days (which is a scary thought from plenty of reasonable perspectives). He’s pretty hugely popular on the internet, could almost certainly be swallowed up by standard old corporatism, but has so far been spit back out for the most part. Perhaps a sign of just how dominant vanilla corpora-liberalism is as the defining filter culture is sifted through.

Maybe the chapo trap house people or Adam Friedland or other socialism adjacent people fit the bill a little bit as well, but they seem more in line with the types that are ultimately corporately unpalatable, like you mention.
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P.S. My love language is emails titled “Congratulations, You’re Hired!”
Interesting. I occasionally feel that way with Claude as the backend. Still the best backend that’s reliable, although o3-mini-high in architecture mode with Claude is very good.

I find Claude wants to edit files that I don’t like to be edited often. Two ways I deal with that - first, you can import ‘read only’ files, which is super helpful for focusing. Second, you can use a chat mode first to talk over plans, and when you’re happy say “go”.

I think the thing to do is try and use it at a fairly high level, then drop down and critique. Essentially use it as a team of impressive motivation and mid quality.
It's not just commodification. If you were a punk in the 80s with a green mohawk, you might find it cute to put one on your kid in the 2000s. I have long hair, my son has long hair. This isn't a commodification of a culture, it's me, like every parent ever, using my culture to inform how I raise my kids. What am I going to do? Not dress and present my kid how I want to and how I identify?
Oh no, less parking, however will we recover?
Well, that's not really the same thing though?

In an interview, the coding challenge is often to produce something new from scratch while being closely monitored by people you don't know, who control your financial future.

When working with a "junior," you'd already be fairly familiar with the code base, build system, and best practices. And with a junior, you're not likely to be solving things that require deep concentration, like never-before-seen problems or architectural work (or screwball interview-tests). And, unlike an interview, if something does require all my focus, it's very easy to defer. Take a break and think about it alone.
Were the bins in the street and not on the sidewalk for this test? These complaint were likely really about taking away a parking spot.

People would rather walk through a maze of garbage bags than make things slightly less convenient while driving. We are way too car-brained.
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Thanks for co-writing an insightful paper! Something I put together around 2010 on possibilities for what happens from here: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."
> Simple impoundment of funds violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. So Trump does not have the authority to just shut down USAID.

IIUC, the current administration is running with that the Impoundment Control Act itself is unconstitutional [1] so they do have authority to shut down USAID or any other congress appropriations.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5281438/understanding-t...
1%.

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/usaid-musk-trump-what-to-kn...
Migrating Aurora and MySQL to Vitess K8s Clusters with NearZero Downtime [pdf]
google.com homepage

59 requests 1.2 MB transferred 3.1 MB resources
If you can find customers more power to you I guess, but I just can't see the use case here. Having a checkbook, envelopes and stamps is a basic part of being a functional adult. It's not hard or expensive to do, so why on earth would anyone want to pay you to handle basic adulting for them?
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Native New Yorker now living in the real America vouching for the accuracy of this comment.

The majority of the US shops at WalMart. New York City doesn't even have one.
All of this is exactly why I compared today's flavor of DEI, and the brash over-reaction against it, to the agile and DevOps movements.

Agile is a very simple philosophy. It's only five principles! However, the extremes it's been taken to by some companies/coaches/consultants has created the visceral reaction we've seen here on Hacker News and elsewhere.

I believe that this tends to happen with very simple concepts. Like "responding to change over following a plan," there are countless ways that "diversity" and "inclusion" can be "implemented."

I agree with the anti-DEI school of thought that DEI programs can be implemented to an extreme that angers everyone and pleases no-one (like your friend's law class being held up on approval to discuss "triggering" topics, or endless and endlessly-long bias trainings that can't be skipped over). I also agree with DEI advocates that passing EOs that prohibit pronouns or chastise papers that mention "LGBT" or "pregnant women" isn't the right approach either.
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Location: Boise, ID

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Technologies: Python (FastAPI, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch), Rust (Rocket), JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, Docker, AWS Glue(PySpark), AWS SageMaker, AWS Kinesis(Kafka), AWS Athena(Presto

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Email: johnnydevriese@proton.me

I'm an AI engineer with a physics background, which means I love tackling problems from different angles. Over my eight years working with data and machine learning, I've found that I thrive being part of a tight-knit team. I'm the kind of teammate who jumps in to help, translates complex ideas into clear insights, and keeps projects moving forward. Plus, I genuinely enjoy turning messy data problems into something useful.
I use mine every day for recording year round barring a few breaks and need to charge every three days or so. I've had one long enough to have to change the battery because the life went down so much.
I was thinking more about them in my cloud environment. Was it easy to setup and maintain for you?
power costs?
noise?
The embedder could hand the module functions for manipulating external buffers via externrefs. (I'm not sure if that's a good idea, or not, just that it could.)

But if the module wants to compute on the values in the buffer, at some level it would have to copy the data in/out.
Location: Thailand

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Willing to relocate: No, but open to work-related travel

Technologies: Javascript, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, SQL/Postgres, MongoDB, Redis.

Résumé/CV: Available on request via email

Email: sam [at] jayasinghe [dot] io

I’m a generalist engineer with past experience including full-stack engineering at a YC legal-tech startup and full-stack + cloud infra at an NYC quant fund. I also have entrepreneurship experience that gives me an understanding of the end-to-end product development process at early stage startups.

My recent projects include building a realtime voice-based AI personal assistant—one that actively calls you on the phone, rather than passively waiting for you to interact with it, as well as a philanthropic project in the AI ed-tech space.

I’m skilled at taking initiative on projects and synthesizing requirements from multiple stakeholders into meaningful technical solutions. I’m passionate about functional programming, building reliable and scalable distributed systems, and optimizing developer experience. I also speak 4 languages (English, Sinhala, Mandarin Chinese, and Thai).
Really depends. I think we have to write one maybe every other month? We own a house, and a lot of contractors (plumbers, electricians, etc) will accept cash or check - and while paying $300 cash for a plumbing job is easy, it's more difficult to get $7500 in cash out of the bank to pay for a heavier renovation project.

If you rent, you'll often have to send a check off monthly.

I don't remember the last time I've mailed a check, however.
Location: Czech Republic

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Willing to relocate: No

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Software engineer with 15+ years of experience in building high-traffic, high-volume distributed applications across various industries including FinTech, data, automotive, media and entertainment, accounting, venture capital, hospitality and others.
I have extensive experience building software with Python and Javascript (along with their respective frameworks and libraries).

I've built E-com software serving an international community of over 1,000 users.

I've helped a California engineering student with their React assignments.

Location: Nigeria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Frontend: HTML, CSS, Vanilla JavaScript, TypeScript, Svelte

- Backend: Django, Express.js

- Others: Experience integrating third-party APIs like Stripe, Flutterwave, Coda, Circle.so, Dropbox, Google authentication, Brevo, etc.

Résumé/CV: My Github is https://github.com/chistev but my professional projects are private.

My Resume contains personal identifying information. Would share that over email.

Email: chistev12 at gmail dot com
Who do I want to work with? A person who can work with me, get stuff done and somewhat match vibe with their coworkers. They can be good in spelling bee, swimming, chess, marathon or leetcode, its on them. I do not get much useful information out of it.

What I usually do is case study that I also do not know at the start of the interview. The case study does not imagine spherical cows and are not usually leetcode style. Its a case of role playing a problem. We brainstorm it together and I determine if I can work with them.
In our defense, we don't write cheques, we write checks :)
Couldn't you use qemu-user (and binfmt_misc) to run ARM binaries under emulation on x86? I suppose you might also need ARM-specific system libraries installed - these can easily coexist with their x86-64 versions on a standard Linux install (see "multiarch") but I'm not sure if Android allows the same.
Go ahead. Free Software has no obligation to satisfy the criteria of FAANG's business units, I'd actually find it quite funny to hear the litany of complaints you've compiled for a group of people that barely knows you exist.
Well, don't leave us hanging. How many do live off of Earth?
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I’m a generalist engineer with past experience including full-stack engineering at a YC legal-tech startup and full-stack + cloud infra at an NYC quant fund. I also have entrepreneurship experience that gives me an understanding of the end-to-end product development process at early stage startups.

My recent projects include building a realtime voice-based AI personal assistant—one that actively calls you on the phone, rather than passively waiting for you to interact with it, as well as a philanthropic project in the AI ed-tech space.

I’m skilled at taking initiative on projects and synthesizing requirements from multiple stakeholders into meaningful technical solutions. I’m passionate about functional programming, building reliable and scalable distributed systems, and optimizing developer experience. I also speak 4 languages (English, Sinhala, Mandarin Chinese, and Thai).
Love to get a feedback on your usage.
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