skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term 'credit score' is sufficiently general to encompass literally all methods of comparing borrowers. You could certainly take issue with some specifics of how particular agencies calculate it, but the idea that there is some "alternative way of comparing borrowers" then I'd invite you to invent another formula for determining loan parameters, that does not boil down to a scalar value.

Loans involve the calculation of parameters. You can either choose those implicitly through personal knowledge, or explicitly through a scalar metric (credit score). There is no viable third option, and the first option is just a bad version of the second, in the end.
I just got a mortgage here in the Netherlands. No credit score.
> On a different note, Obama, the ex-president with theoretically no official power, is calling up CEOs privately to get them to behave differently?

The article's phrasing was a bit murky, but I read that to mean that Obama called after or around the 2016 election, while he was still president.
He wasn’t bound by the same clearance/confidentiality.
Agree. The required abilities multiply rather than add so the right tail extends much further than a normal distribution. The gap between median and top performers is extremely large.
To start with, there are engineers who deserve the title engineer. You are probably better of to hire a former civil/electrical engineer that can fizz-buzz than someone that can just fizz-buzz.

Coding and productivity are one thing, but engineering in the end is a lot about having a certain awareness of the impact your technological choices have on a project both in the short and long term. I'd rather take someone who has this awareness, than someone who hasn't, even if the person in the latter category would be slightly better at coding.
> but definitely not hard to get

very subjective. Anything at that price range doesn't exist in my region at all. Also consider if there will be a government auction next time your drive fails. I found just one offer for $500 now.

My personal "final straw" was also, that nothing that I was able to actually buy or afford (reasonably, so not $1000+) required me to have at least a full desktop to throw it in and often drivers were "windows only, but there should be something for linux somewhere". Simple usb makes it much smaller and easier.
Presumably this is intended to lead into an argument that because we disagree on exactly where the limit should be we shouldn’t have a limit at all. We could make the same case against drunk driving, speed limits, age of consent laws, maximum sentencing…
This is great example of how people struggle to see possibilities beyond the environment they’re raised in. The credit score system is not necessary to have loans and mortgages, as evidenced by all the countries that don’t have such a system. The notion that you have to take on debt to “build up your score” is particularly absurd nonsense to most non Americans
Oh stop narrating like nerds in a basement are cuddly lovable bunch.

Amount of toxic behavior in nerdy groups is just as high as finance.

Every single one just thinks how smart he is and how to one up the other.

Technical interviews were always bad even before 2010 as there was loads of gatekeeping anyway.
I was wondering whether the editors had debated whether or not to also help keep Hyperion's location secret, indeed there is discussion, and several back-and-forth inclusion/retractions of the location, on the talk page of that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hyperion_(tree)
It's shame all exif info is stripped. I like to see the camera info, such as focal length, aperture and what lens too for interchangeable lens cameras.
> you don't become a global ceo without being an absolute killer

This is nonsense. Plenty of good people are wildly successful. The difference is they aren’t addicted to the role, and so see a future for themselves beyond it. Connecting with that future self, in turn, effects their decisions today—at work, at home, in society.

We have a cadre of sociopaths leading our commercial giants. That is a fixable problem. Saying it’s a non-story is just being nihilistic and lazy.
to quote the CEO:

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You might be agreeing without realising it.

>> I would argue that the title is misleading and overly alarmist here. This particular bug may have involved recursion and a stack overflow, but that's like saying "malloc kills" in the title of an article about a heap overflow bug.

Let's see what the article[1] you cited says:

Rule 3: Do not use dynamic memory allocation after initialization.
Rationale: This rule appears in most coding guidelines for safety-critical software. The reason is simple: Memory allocators, such as malloc, and garbage collectors often have unpredictable behavior that can significantly impact performance.

If you think recursion is a known security problem, do you also think using the heap is a known security problem?
Yeah, but what would be the most optimal way to achieve the goals (spreading an open web)?
If by “create some” you mean “Identify a major new revenue stream” or “Investigate something everyone else considers great, improve it 10x and save hundreds of millions of dollars”, then yeah, that’s what I do.
The main premise of the post is this:

> The best engineering organizations are the ones where normal engineers can do great work

But this is entirely compatible with the notion of superstars pulling the whole team forward
I think it is associated with fascism, just from the other party.

This is pretty common fascist practice that is used all over Europe and in any left-leaning countries, when with regulations governments make doing business on large scale impossible, and then give largest players exemptions, subsidies and so on. Governments gain enormous leverage to ensure corporate loyalty, silence dissenters and combat opposition, while the biggest players secure their place at the top and gain protection from competitors.

So the plan was push regulations and then dominate over the competitors with exemptions from those regulations. But fascists loose the election, regulations threaten to start working in a non-discriminatory manner, and this will simply hinder business.
We do have credit scoring, but I don’t think it is in the same sense as in the US though. If you look at ”your” UC (for example using the app Kreddy) you will get a credit score back.
We still haven't found out how to use the internet to socialize, without resorting to giving power to a central entity.

If there is something out there that can do this, profitably, then we can kiss these mega social giants good bye.

I heard about the Blue Sky protocol, but it still feels primitive.
Switzerland - a public service collects a number of Boolean flags in the vein of “has ever refinanced a loan”, serves the raw set to the person or institutions that can request it according to the regulations.

Any EU country - regulations tend to be strict and vary from country to country. There is usually a central registry with either history of violated agreements and/or currently active loans. In pre-approval for a loan the borrower typically self-declares their credit capacity and the lender checks the registry for red flags. Before concluding the approval the lender will require supporting documentation (typically salary certificate, bank statement and/or tax returns).
You also have force multipliers. Which can be some managers: people whose presence on a project will make decent software engineers produce like a 2x one.
Yup, this idea that we're in a unique industry or that our industry is any different to any other career path is very toxic.

Accountants have the same bullshit memes we do.
It was fact checked: in Texas
Absolutely. The argument that screen readers shouldn't gain a heurisric for identifying this kind of text and normalising it down to pronouncable words is just prescribtivism, to my view.

ALL CAPS, SpOnGeBoB cASe, clap emphasis, and others carry specific meanings in colloquial written language, the use of other letterlike symbols can also. These should be presented in an accessible form to the user, rather than demanding that people refrain from using them.
That doesn’t mean that there wasn’t a lot of (often forced) assimilation or worse involved for that to happen.

e.g. it’s not like Japan didn’t have a “native population” that spoke a different language(s). The colonization just happened a few thousand years earlier than in the Americas.
> I don't know about you but I think trying to build a business on "Maybe (hopefully?)" sounds pretty scary.

Isn't this, quite literally, "business as usual" for the vast majority of entrepreneurs?
In the ethno-nationalistic sense, Sweden is not a nation state. In its current reality, Sweden is ethnically diverse and it (partially) covers the homelands of several peoples/"nations" in the ethno-nationalistic sense. The latter issue could, e.g., be solved by giving up most of what the Swedes in the South call Norrland. This would deplete "Sweden" of natural resources and make it even more dependent on high-skilled immigration to ensure that at least the tech industry industry in the somewhat larger cities keeps running.
Fair-code is not a software license
Please add an option to adjust the thickness of colored lines. Right now it's more of an eyesight test for me.
I work in science, and it is definitely not normal. Doesn't sound like state funded. Likeky private/industrial sponsorship
IDK, Ashby's Law of requisite variety comes to mind. In order for something to control/cope with something else it needs to have the capacity to do so. It seems super trivial when stated like that, but actually has profoundly deep implications.
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Volkswagen to lay off 1,600 staff at Cariad software unit
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Plenty of PhD offers have been rescinded, and stipend cut.
You realize people (including me) were socializing on the internet before any of these big companies existed, right?
I looked into this with an idea of running SQL Server Availability Groups on the Azure Las_v3 series VMs, which have terabytes of local SSD.

The main issue was that after a stop-start event, the disks are wiped. SQL Server can’t automatically handle this, even if the rest of the cluster is fine and there are available replicas. It won’t auto repair the node that got reset. The scripting and testing required to work around this would be unsupportable in production for all but the bravest and most competent orgs.
which hoops ?
> because every time I set up a free v6 tunnel I get banned about 2 days layer for pushing a few terrabytes over it, when all I wanted was to be able to SSH into every one of my containers

can you describe a bit more? I cannot connect the dots here on how terabytes are tied to free v6 tunnel - likely I'm missing some details. Thank you in advance.
> all sorts of big tech imposed hoops you don't have to jump through

Could you kindly share some examples for those of us without big tech experience? I assume you're talking about working practises more than just annoying hiring practises like leetcode?
You need to be tethered to enable the JIT, without it UTM is very slow. Even TinyCoreLinux was extremely slow.
With engineers (in software and engineering) i found out that a lot of people are there just for the money. Those have no passion and will never be great regardless of the skill.

Then there are also different individual skills (like magnus carlsen is more skilled in chess than me) that are influcened by practice and talent.

Also for a lot of problems experience might be more helpful than intelligence so you dont need to be einstein to engineer a dishwasher (probably).
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> still debated

Is there any strong evidence at all supporting that hypothesis? Besides lower population density = less interaction/violence I don’t think there is anything that would let us to conclude that “pre-civilization” people were less violent.
What LLM do you use to help you come up with names? ChatGPT sucks at it
Not of that opinion.

I met great engineers or developers who won't even care to answer a fizzbuzz-type question.

I met terrible ones who had top technical and math capabilities but little agency at pointing what is relevant or not in their work.

Even considering it's pyramid-shaped is excluding all the externalities that make one person thrive in some contexts, and just flat or negative in others.

Take a top performer, if he's not in the right position at the right time, nothing will happen. Conversely, someone not so good, but being in the right place at the right moment may nudge things in the right direction.

That's exactly around what I understand the OP develops in her article: engineering, building is a work of teams, not individuals. In a team, people come and go, roles are different, shift with time and progress. "Terrible" people become "excellent" and the other way around, that's life.

Perfect performance all the time isn't even what we require of machines, because then they (or systems they relate to) break faster. Why would one have the same expectations with people?
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It is definitely not healthy.

But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism.

I think the real problem is abuse of power, not accumulation of it.

Power cannot be eliminated. It will either end up in the hand of politicians (who are genuinely more evil than tech bros) or remain in hands of wealth creators.

What we should do is focus of punishingpeople who abuse thier power.
For a finance app - some basics are missing:

1) Who are the people/organization behind it.

2) What are the list of countries (40?), and banks associated.

3) What is the insurance/security for funds held.

These are key data for you to build trust for any user to touch you.
The imperfections of 'big' people have much more ramifications than the imperfections of 'small' people. Humans work best together in much more egalitarian groups where the imperfections of individuals are compensated by the strengths of other individuals.
Well written and fun to read! (For nerds)
> Humans are not perfect, whether "big" or "small".

Still, I've never seen a poor human becoming an oligarch.

The problem is not that those billionaires are not perfect, rather that they have too much power.
You could have a look at the potassco suite[0]. It is a grounder and solver for Answer Set Programming (ASP). ASP is a form of Logic Programming.

[0] https://potassco.org/
> The other way is of an employee who has seen how her boss treats employees, and believes that her position, career, and livelihood would be in jeopardy if she wasn't working even in situations where no one should be expected to be working.

Honestly, they need to grow a pair

This kind of pressure (might) have worked for me if I was just out of university and such. But with experience you get to learn your boundaries

You're a top-level executive and you're afraid of being let go by such a silly thing? They can't wait 2 or 3 days for "top level bullet points"? Seems like they depend on you more than you depend on them
More efficient burning means more the waste metals get concentrated in the ashes instead of in the smog. It has to go somewhere.
> At this point I'm honestly wondering if they aren't just using the interview process to generate high quality validation data for free.

Not sure if that is accurate, but one of the reasons why DeepSeek R1 performs so well in certain areas is thought to be access to China's Gaokao (university entrance exam) data.
1. In the long run Uber won't exist if they cannot optimize. In fact Uber is a great example. they turned multi billion profit in 2024 after years of optimization.

2. Firing people in large groups is definitely part of it. Not firing individuals. That is what you originally said.

4. Considering the real impact DOGE has already made in the few weeks it has existed I think we can at least conclude they weren't doing their job then.

Ah now I understand. You simply don't like musk and trump and anything they do must be obviously bad. I really don't like them either but at least I can still see that the government is not a lean functioning machine. I hope DOGE can fix that. And I don't particularly care if trump, musk or even Obama had done it.
It also provides a way to post data on the public web in an obfusticated way, that a human can read but automated search tools are likely not looking for.

Great method if you had short human-readable information information that you didnt want AI to train on ;)
Because your opinion is wrong. Problems with social media notwithstanding, just because you don't like the person who's running/ruining/most associated with the brand, doesn't make the product itself bad.

Most people don't give two fraks about who Bezos or Musk or Zuckerberg are, and they definitely don't think of them when using products and services from the companies you mentioned.
Whoa. I don't remeber an internet stranger making me _this_ angry in a while. IMO I made a perfectly valid argument overall, expressing my _unfamilirity_ with the usage, then meaningfully engaging with all the cited proofs, spending my time refuting them, then, when confronted with a good one, I concluded that I was indeed unfamiliar.

And after all this is over, the next day you come after me, lie, and shit talk me.

Now I am incredibly angry. Wow.
Yeah, so the EU App Store don’t really solve that since there is still not way(?) to get JIT legitimately.
I will take a look at it. Are you familiar with it, an example or a snippet would come in handy, but I may just ask Claude (if it even knows about Potassco).
>>This is NOT democracy in action.

That's just arguing over semantics, which just isn't helpful. US has one democratic action still in operation - voting for the president. And people voted for Trump having seen exactly what kind of administration he would lead - so this is what they get. So yes, this is democracy in action, even if other nations do it better.
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That's a very naive take, not using their products doesn't stop them from negatively impacting society. Look at what Musk is doing over the whole world (and the other two aren't much better, just not as obvious about it). It's not about being fair or jealous or whatever, a single individual having so much wealth and thus power is simply not healthy for society.
> Individuals ship software not teams

This is true at time T. But over time (can be as short as a matter of weeks), it is not anymore. Team work, interactions, support, resiliency takes over, in a good way.

And that's a good thing, because that's how you build relevance for your work.

If your take on managing your team is fighting complacency and mediocrity, maybe it's the hiring/training/managing process that ought to be reviewed _first_.
I think productivity isn't just about speed; it's about long-term sustainability, resilience... And it seems for many businesses it's hard to understand
Also African painted dogs.
Someone joined my discord recently and showed me this one: https://github.com/ashishbijlani/kwarantine

It runs on bare metal, though. I just thought it was very interesting to see. Must have been a lot of work.
> For a start, everything would become much cheaper for you.

That's such a fallacy that pro alt-app store people like to trot out. What evidence do you have that will happen? Are you basing it one the assumption that if devs no longer pay Apple a cut that the devs would lower their prices? Why do you think that would happen and the devs wouldn't just leave prices where they are and keep this cut no longer going to Apple? Why would devs leave that money on the table? Why do you think the alt-store would also not take the same cut or only slightly lower? Why would they leave money on the table?

At the end of the day, the biggest alt-store push is by devs wanting more money in their pockets, not the end users.
Should we replace Spark with DuckDB?
Seeing this multiple times in a day for multiple, articulable reasons in the mid 2010s if my memory doesnt fail me

>FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
> 1: node::Abort() [/usr/bin/node]

Is what made me decide it might finally be worth the time to actually learn how memory worked
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The nice thing about having kids is you get to dictate what they consume, how they spend their time and when they go to bed.
You cannot avoid FB. They literally stalk you everywhere and sell your info to advertisers. You are their product whether you like it or not.
The outcome of the dma is better served by breaking up the companies so that google cannot share data with YouTube or facebook with Whatsapp.

The EU regulations so far did not achieve much (other than eradicating EU ads market) , and the YC knows that.

They want to distract the government away from breaking up bigtech and towards an anodyne (but annoying) regulation.
And now to reply exactly what the left said 4-0 and 16-8 years ago ...

The first amendment protects against attacks from the government, not choosing not to fund something
> But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism.

Of course you can. Those billionaires don't pay much taxes, but normal people do. And we don't call that communism.

> It will either end up in the hand of politicians (who are genuinely more evil than tech bros)

This is a very weird take. In a functioning democracy (which the US are not at the moment), politicians are elected to represent the people. If they are evil, we change them. Tech bros are not elected, period.

> What we should do is focus of punishingpeople who abuse thier power.

That's where you completely miss the problem: the problem is that when people get too powerful, we cannot punish them anymore.

Similar with companies: you have to prevent companies to become as big as the FAANGs before they do. Otherwise they become too powerful and do whatever they want.
DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue
>>People think they have voice and choice, but in reality there is no choice.

They could have chosen not to vote for Trump. That was always an option.

>>Trump didn't win because he is good, he won because people didn't see any fruitful policies from Joe Biden/Kamala Harris.

So what was that vote then? Out of spite? I could believe that in 2016 - but now I absolutely don't. People have seen what 4 years of Trump look like, and they voted to have that again. Biden being or not being competent has literally nothing to do with it - everyone who voted for Trump did so because they saw what his 4 years of presidency looked like and they like it. If they say otherwise they are just lying to themselves first and foremost.
Don't foget the less visible guys (yes, it's a gender issue ;) like Thiel, Andreeeesssssen etc
Actual salary is a fraction of that number. Science is expensive.
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