skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For something a bit more cut and dried, there's a Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
Ask HN: Job Hiring Path
Hello!

I'm working on putting together a small art project around how people get hired, using Sankey diagrams to illustrate the current hiring scene. Here's [a classic that was posted to Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/992s4c/a_detailed_sankey_diagram_of_my_recent_job_search/) (not mine).

As part of this, I'm wondering if you've done a job search recently and would be willing to share your data with me! I have a handful so far but I'd like to have a dozen or so before I put anything online. I'm not currently planning on making any money off of this - it's just an exploration of how the job search is going for folks.

In exchange for your data, you'll get a fun Sankey diagram of your job search :) All data will be anonymized, no names, etc - I would just post aggregate numbers like in the linked Reddit post.

Comment or email me (erty@hiringpaths.fyi) if you're interested in sharing :)

I'll post a Show HN when the site is online.
I certainly don't "worship" any compiler, and am pretty quick to point out non-standard extensions in people's code. But C++/CLI goes far, far beyond extensions, and becomes a completely different language to C++, both syntactically and semantically.
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The modern VM technique looks almost exactly like what the original PIC papers talked about in the 90s. There are some details that are different, but I'm not sure that the details come down to exploiting changes in branch prediction efficiency. I think the things that changed come mostly down to the fact that the original PIC paper was a first stab by a small team whereas modern VMs involve decades of engineering by larger teams (so everything that could get more complex as a consequence of tuning did get more complex).

So, while it's true that microarches changed in a lot of ways, the overall implications for how you build VMs are not so big.
This was inspiring, what a cool idea. Just curious—-for 4o mini isn’t there a json mode that reliably produces structured output? Was that what you were referring to / ended up using?
This explains some of the bad methodology being used.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250109133420/https://www.mcgil...
Urban Dead is shutting down
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The difference being that a musician being influenced by other musicians still has to work to develop the skills necessary to distill those influences into a final product, and colors that output with their own subjective experiences and taste. This feels like a conveniently naive interpretation to justify stealing artists' work and using it to create derivative generative slop. The final line in your comment is pretty telling of how seriously you take this issue (which is near-universally decried by artists) -- some other massive company is doing a bad thing, so why shouldn't I?

edit: I have to add how disingenuous I find calling out corporations owning "all of humanity's musical knowledge and history" as if generative AI music trained on unlicensed work from artists is somehow a moral good. At least the contracts artists make with these corporations are consensual and have the potential to yield the artist some benefit which is more than you can say for these gen-AI music apps.
There are already commenters claiming it is fake SMH
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In case the site itself goes away:

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'Miswak' sticks are popular in the Middle East/Northern Africa.

Raw mastic gum seems to be gaining popularity in the US.

Neither is popular for the explicit purpose of cognitive enhancement, though.
Jag Man Must Die: The Inside Story of Jaguar's Polarising Rebrand
Don't forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation!

(which happens to be featured somewhat prominently in Kim Stanley Robinson novel 'The Ministry For The Future', which I am currently working my way through, and recommend for anyone who (a) likes coops and (b) is feeling overwhelmed by humanity's current situation)
>I've never worked with Java

Is the company already aware of this, and if so have they indicated that they're willing to look past it?

What other languages have you used besides Python and I'm assuming JS, and what has the experience of learning new programming languages generally been like for you?
If they also sell mechanical pencils, get a Zebra Drafix and Pentel PG-5, and maybe a Pentel Smash (aka Q1000) and/or Pentel 120 A3-DX.

You'll not be disappointed. :)
FYI the Office product group considers COM deprecated. The "new" version of Outlook has no COM support, for example. While Word/Excel may be many years off, it's something to consider if you do move this forward.

I would also suggest moving to a compiled binary at some point. Very few Windows users are going to want to figure out Python in any capacity.
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The October Revolution wasn’t a popular uprising but a surgical strike by a minority faction. just after the take over, SRs were more popular but bolsheviks crushed them fast without much resistance. so it wasn't about what people wanted but what a determined minority could pull off.
would redis/in memory DB be a better suited for this task? I don't think a regular rdbms will meet this requirement at scale
Best of Britain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnmzljtREk
I think that many established corporations, these days, outsource verification, and the background check companies can get very deep. I have heard of them returning massive dossiers, with social media posts, etc.

When I was looking for work (about seven years ago), One company asked for my HN handle, and another company wanted my Facebook login (and password).

I don't think so. Homey don't play dat game.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the folks, here, work for those background check companies, and could probably provide more complete information.
I once failed to get hired by an F100 company because of that last sentence. It was a small business that had gone under after a few years after I moved away.

Since the business's domain and phone number no longer worked I had to get a letter of reference on """corporate letterhead""". He had never made any such thing so he printed it on the back of a receipt. Bigcorp HR hated this and said they were moving in a different direction.

It was really annoying at the time because I was fresh out of college and did not have any other jobs to list as experience.
I think this is about pre/post increment/decrement being inspired by PDP-7, not about C pointer arithmetics being inspired by PDP-11 ISA addressing modes[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#General_re...
Find a way to skip the overpaid Mozilla Foundation and we'll start contributing to Firefox.
If you are curious about how Python's string interning works:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/InternalDocs/str...
No, I think it's a sign of it being a fake human. It sounds more like someone trying to speak like an influencer or podcaster and not being very good at it.
We had unlimited leave for dome senior employees for a while. Those employees ended up taking less leave than they did before and so we canned it.

We have generous leave allowances (18 working days at a starting level.) We also have a flexible sick leave policy - there is a fixed amount but we've extended that for individuals on occasion when the situation demanded it (long hospital stays etc.)

So in theory unlimited time off sounds good, but in practice its not a perk.
iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync
Solving First Order Differential Equations with Julia
7-Eleven owner to appoint first foreign CEO, report says
Fair. I agree that scope is not the only source of waste.
I really dislike writing YAML. It might be a skill issue (as the kids say), but it just never landed. I'd rather write JSON, even with all its verbosity.
Have you tried chewing on them?
OK, now I'm being harsh with myself about how I'm failing to get better at not being harsh with myself.
Even half of that time is unacceptable in my opinion. I use my backyard as a sanctuary from all the chaos going on in life. It's a place where I want to sit, relax, and listen to the wind or birds. I find leaf blowers and the noise of power tools somewhat annoying too (tbf, I also use them from time to time), but if it were happening for hours and every single day, I might actually snap.
Google Must Testify as LaLiga Demands Criminal Liability for 'Piracy Profits'
Socrates is a state machine: sans IO with async Rust
I really feel like this with regard to monarchs. Most of them seem like homicidal inbred mentally ill people. Why are we studying and deifying them? Henry VIII? One of the absolute worst human beings to ever exist. Put him in the bin with Pol Pot.

Most of real history was a simple peasant working hard and making quiet decisions while avoiding being trampled by a king.
I used to always chew on a scrap piece of CAT5 when doing cabling etc
Not trying to be flip or anything, but why can't it just be to defend the US? From anyone who may come.

Serious question.
there is no need in read replica, because every micro sqlite partition has very low workload (single digit queries per second)
If you look at the supplementary information document, there's more pictures.

There's definitely quite a haze around light sources. It seems they have tried applying some deconvolution to try to increase the sharpness, but the resulting images are still quite muddled.

Here's one of the libraries they used: https://github.com/apsk14/rdmpy
Same. I used Claude to write script for my lab experiment. I had to review and edit some stuff but it worked mostly.
As a factorio player, once they added remote operation of robots to the game, I never travel back to a planet after I've got it set up. If they made it so I could land a robot, I'd never go in the first place.
Chinese scientist who edited babies using CRISPR, says others are jealous
I do hope it wouldn’t come to that, but I also don’t think we can afford to immediately capitulate to any state with more manpower out of fear and still consider ourselves to be a world power.

If China has us completely militarily outmatched then of course we can’t afford to provoke them, but it’s not my sense that we’re ready to accept that currently.
'Picochat' Recreates Beloved Nintendo Feature on iOS
Yeah, kids starving and dying of cholera.. fuck em /s

> The Inspector General also warned that $489 million in humanitarian food aid was at risk of spoiling due to staff furloughs and unclear guidance. The Office of Presidential Personnel fired the Inspector General the next day, despite a law requiring 30 days notice to Congress before firing an Inspector General.
Coops are basically geared toward mediocre success - because there's really no pressure to risk aiming for amazing/startup-style success.

Ownership structure doesn't change many of the business risks, but coops can avoid the "expand or die" that sometimes normal companies experience.

The largest coops are mutuals (think: insurance) and banks (think: credit union).

Others exist in farmer's coops (Land o' Lakes, Dairy Farmers of America, etc).

https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/2022-world-cooperative-monitor-r...

The hardest part is converting an existing corporation into a coop.

The vast majority of coops are, like credit unions, relatively small and local. Instead of expanding to new areas, they often "split" into new areas, so you'd expect them to remain just below the noise threshold of the large multinationals.
Ask HN: Is it hard to build a successful startup now than in the past?
Hi everyone,

I am reading “Fire in the Valley” and it seems that back then it was relatively easy for hobbyists to build and sell computers. Borland also had “humble beginnings” like selling Pascal.

Now, software development is faster than before and hardware business seems to require more capital and expertise. Some big companies also seem to react to competition faster than before, not to mention they have the ability to acquire small companies.

So I was wondering that is it hard to build a successful company or startup now than in the past? Many thanks!
As someone who's spouse is currently in their 3rd year of rehabilitation after TMJ (tempo-mandibular joint) reconstruction, let me warn you against any kind of chewing activity that involves either high direct pressures (ice, hard things that "crack", anything that resists biting down very much), or strong lateral forces (bagels, pizza crust).

We're about $60K in to her treatment. She's had the meniscus of the joints on both sides of her jaw surgically repaired and now is undergoing orthodontia to permit her jaw to safely re-align.

This after a year of excruciating pain (the TMJ was bone to bone contact), and a year of painful muscular rehab. Unless you are a maxillofacial surgeon or perhaps a particular specialty of orthodontia you are probably unaware of just how many muscles in the head have to re-learn how to work after TMJ problems.

The "straw that broke the camel's back" in her case?

A pistachio nut.
Anybody hiring remote disabled people? My company says I'm a piece of shit. Would be cool if anyone wants to hire me remote with low expectations for around $100k plus benefits.
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Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
I just googled "indium chewing gum" and was not disappointed.
With a certain (class of) people, their MO is to try a lot of things, break a lot of things, and learn from what they broke.

Twitter was a lot of the same (kind of thing). The faster they can break things, the faster they will learn.

And if you are working for such people, it doesn’t help to already know what is going to happen. Blindly fire on all cylinders the commands they issue. Let the fall out occur. Then share the fallout with them. Allow them to learn and get better. They are one-man armies. And you are the high school coach of a proud obnoxious “all star” player.

Background: working in this environment for five years.
Citi group accidentally sends someone $81T
Mary Meeker's USA Inc. Report Revisited (Mar '25) [pdf]
Yes, exactly. What I meant is: it's not the code itself that encodes this logic or reasoning.
Most medium and large employers, employers in an industry with compliance requirements will match your previous employer, dates worked and job title through "the work number"/experian. This happens alongside the criminal background check, credit check. For an entry level role verifying your degree. But that would not happen until after the interview, if it went well.
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HDMI is an absolutely unhinged standard. I run the mediatec department at a university and the amount of things that can go wrong with HDMI is absolutely astonishing, when 99,9% of people at best what the digital equivalent of analog video /audio connections.

The best thing was certain macbooks not working at a certain input. It the turns out HDCP was at fault, which is basically DRM for HDMI.
> This topic came to mind after seeing a 'resume prank' video where someone came up with a ridiculous and troll-ish resume (with rude and offensive jokes in the bullet points), but had 'Stanford', 'Amazon', etc, and so he got about 30 out of 100 interviews applying to top (US) tech companies.

I think it's because they don't actually read your resume, and it's just about SEO optimization.
They could build an optional "risk score" that open-source community-oriented projects could turn on. It could include requirements like having something dependabot-esque along with CodeQL enabled. Rules could be created for CodeQL (if they haven't already) that check for obfuscated code, suspicious access (keychain, password storage, etc.) and other items.

On top of that it could have forced release binary scanning via VirusTotal/insert-malware-scanning-vendor-here.
Against internal dissent and against the enemy of the day in the Western hemisphere (seems to be the plan).
https://archive.is/i8FZz
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More fiber but watch out for lead poisoning

/s just in case it needed to be spelled out
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It's kind of interesting seeing this play out differently depending on your grocer. My grocer is a little bit "upscale" I guess where eggs were more or less always $6 for a dozen jumbos. All through this prices haven't budged, it's just a matter of whether the eggs are in stock or sold out already. However, you go to Ralphs, the ostensibly "working man's" store incomparison, large eggs there are pushing $10 now. Same city, another 5 minutes down the road.