skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP but I tell everyone on the market that one of the highest ROI things you can do is just go through your own past career history with a fine toothed comb and simply remember all the different things you did and be able to tell the story of each concisely and informatively (if possible, recall actual numbers and quantifiable impacts etc.).

When in an interview, when you're asked a question about your past experiences, the larger the library you have to draw on, the more likely you are to find an example that's relevant and persuasive. Even questions of the form "How would you deal with [hypothetical scenario]", I encourage applicants, if possible, to answer it in the form of "Oh yeah, that's interesting, we had to deal with a very similar case at [one of my previous jobs], here was my approach towards it".

After each interview, do a "l'esprit de l'escalier" retro, write down all the questions asked, what your answer was at the time and what you would have ideally answered now given the fullness of time to think about it. If there's a significant delta, that's a sign to go back and prepare more until your "real time" performance approaches your retroactive performance.
I’m sorry that I didn’t know that detail, thank you so much for letting me know!
I’ll read AGPL-3.0 license more carefully and check if it’s okay with MIT.
If not, I’ll fix license or change model. really appreciate your help!
well, whoever i was responding to, was most definitely hallucinating answer. so chances are that he is at least llm
Almost like if there was a centralized source code registry that can diff identify code reuse path?

Ironic that Microsoft GitHub is so close to that
Genuine question: what is so great about the Golden Record?

I understand the Svalbard seed bank. That can come very handy in a bad situation. May we never need it. I have visited the LHC and it is seriously impressive. Works in the Prado are amazing.

But the Golden Record feel just like someone made a mixtape and then chucked it far away. The music on it of course is great. But will anyone ever find it? And even if anyone ever finds it, will they have the anatomy to listen to it? If we received a similar record could we do anything with it?

For example the recorded greatings. A few sentences in many languages. There is something there. Presumably an interested alien could use it kind of like a Rosetta Stone to learn the structure of our languages. But for that to realistically work they would need a lot more recording in each language and the speakers should be saying the same thing!

Similarly the “brain recording”. An hour long recording, “compressed” somehow and then bandwidth gated so it can be etched into a disk. How is that supposed to contain any usefull information? It is like you want to transmit the content of a book, so you take a blurry underexposed image of the book’s spine as it is reflected in a foggy mirror. Even if the aliens are brilliant there is not much they can do with that “brain recording”.

The whole thing is so vibes based, but on the rational level it doesn’t add up to much.
Cool well I hope the US doesn't piss off all their other trading partners so they can find affordable alternatives ah oops
I believe the recommendation was to download or print out your existing payments/contributions so you can still get your money after they rm -rf / the whole thing
this would be a great thing to have transparency for the project

"we've put in our test comparison code, and it shows 100% mismatch, next we're starting on implementation"

and then later "we're at 10% mismatch, and here's the interesting bugs and issues with social security holding up the next 5%"
I just realized I managed to push node_modules to git repo.... the shame :)
How old is too old to learn a completely new and very different language?
Ads are inauthentic speech someone is paid to express. If entity A pays entity B to say or display their words or content, it's an ad.

This is not an impossible problem. It doesn't need to be perfect, and we can iterate.
An online application of this principle is Focusmate, where you schedule calls with essentially random strangers and just work together. There's very little chit chat and it's not some weird front for a hookup scheme. I've been amazed at how well it works for me. I can't really explain why, after all the other person can't see my screen so I could just be doom scrolling YouTube the whole time, but for some reason I don't. I don't use it all the time, but when I need to get something unappealing done I still use it. I've also used it for exercise, and I've had partners use it for all sorts of weird things that they had been procrastinating. I highly recommend it, I thought it would be far weirder than it turned out to be, and it's really useful.
hooboy, thanks for that laugh!
While true it does seem like the flexibility allows for good optimizations. For example, a lot of devices don't need addresses or have memory maps etc. So, sadly while it's a pain to deal with, it does make things very fast and efficient.
Whenever I see the Darwin kernel brought into the discussion I can't help but wonder how different things could have been if Apple had just forked Linux and ran their OS services on top of that.

Especially when I think about how committed they are to Darwin it really paints a poor image in my mind. The loss that open source suffers from that, and the time and money Apple has to dedicate to this with a disproportionate return.
Depends if the label is applied to you, or you identify with it
I never understood this argument. Without RAII you can easily get screwed by resource leaks without goto when returning early. In this regard, using goto is expedient. How do C programmers avoid this problem without goto?

bool function_with_cleanup(void) {
int *buffer1 = NULL;
int *buffer2 = NULL;
FILE *file = NULL;
bool success = false;

// Allocate first resource
buffer1 = malloc(sizeof(int) * 100);
if (!buffer1) {
goto cleanup; // Error, jump to cleanup
}

// Allocate second resource
buffer2 = malloc(sizeof(int) * 200);
if (!buffer2) {
goto cleanup; // Error, jump to cleanup
}

// Open a file
file = fopen("data.txt", "r");
if (!file) {
goto cleanup; // Error, jump to cleanup
}

// Do work with all resources...

success = true; // Only set to true if everything succeeded

cleanup:
// Free resources in reverse order of acquisition
if (file) fclose(file);
free(buffer2); // free() is safe on NULL pointers
free(buffer1);

return success;
}
I ended up building a word game last year for the wife and I to play, we kinda forgot about it but this post reminded me (so thanks for that, OP)

Just visited and turns out some people still play!

https://playfreestyle.co/new
This is poorly thought out. What this would incentivize is first party content networks. Instead of fox selling ads it would be the colgate channel for example
Building an AI-Assisted Blog Editor (it gets meta)
Some people really Will try to avoid politics at all costs, even if their own savings crater from it.
I've also wanted to understand Windows NT at this depth for a while. Skip the Win32 stuff, and discuss what's underneath it. As I understand Win32 is just one personality; there was also Windows Services for UNIX in the Windows XP days and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Windows Vista. The underlying NT kernel is flexible enough to allow POSIX compliance. That would be an interesting read.
I'd argue that people look forward to the Super Bowl ads specifically because they're clever/funny, and not at all because they're ads. You could replace them with non-advertising skits and they would have the same draw.
>If someone mentions it to someone else, that alone should be grounds to shutter your company.

I don't agree. It should depend on whether such a mention leads to promotion of the product. We are not barbarians to limit freedom of speech.

After any mention of a product by its user, a court should be held to decide whether this mention was advertising. Because even though the user received a benefit from purchasing the product from the company (otherwise he would not have bought it and would not have become a user), advertising also implies promotion, so the court must first determine whether this mention was made in such a way that it could potentially induce the purchase of the product by other people, and only then close the company.

And it doesn't even have to be a mention. Advertising is really mean, like a couple of days ago my girlfriend ate a pudding right in front of me. And it was the last pudding, and she ate it so well that I wanted one too. And you'll never guess what I bought at the store today! Yes, that same pudding. Unfortunately, we are vulnerable to advertising even when we are fully aware of its destructive nature.
Yep, my sister makes fun of me that her mere presence makes me more productive. (when I shared an apartment with her in my early thirties) she'd sit in my room just chatting to me and I would tidy and clean without her doing anything, whereas I'd been meaning to do that for months.

I suggested the idea of a responsiblabuddy website today to my wife – if we're both in the same town I'd commit to coming to your house on Saturday and you'd commit to coming to mine on Sunday and I'd finally tidy my shed / weld those batteries / list those items on fb marketplace etc. Then I realised I'd need a responsabilabuddy to get me to start and finish the website!

There was a guy running a co-working space in Dublin (Ireland) who would open it up on the occasional Sunday for "Sideproject Sundays" which I found great for focus.

Edit: there are no search results for "responsiblabuddy", I know I didn't come up with that term
My PC if put to sleep will completely randomly just wake up in the middle of the night. Its infuriatingly annoying to figure out why/which app is causing it as its not easily reproducible
> 99%…aren’t going to receive competing offers

Then it’s not for them. You don’t see me complaining about advice for plumbers bc I’m not a plumber. The advice is for the 1%. Anecdotally I know numerous people, including myself, who have been in this situation.
honolulu, well all of hawaii actually.

something like 80+ percent of texas cities ban them or are phasing them out with heavy new restrictions.

for example, in dallas, if you want a new billboard, you have to tear down 3. and new ones have placement and size restrictions.

houston is no longer allowing any new off premises signage including billboards. the only way to erect a new billboard is if it passes permitting and the company tears down one of their old ones.

and like i said, like 80% of texas towns across the state have heavy restrictions on new or outright ban them.

santa fe effectively has a ban on all off premises advertising which obviously includes billboards.

billboard are banned on highways in the entire country of Norway, including urban/suburban highways.

the entire state of vermont.

the entire state of maine, including cities.

all of washington dc, including georgetown.
But it's not really discussion if one person is rambling incoherently and everyone else is rolling their eyes trying to be polite.
Yup. It got it's second life because Flutter adopted it as it's language.

It was pretty dead for a few years (despite what the googlers will tell you...)
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying that
> Try this thought experiment from the article - imagine a world without advertising.

While we're at radical thought experiments combine that with "what if any entity worth over 100 million (insert arbitrary limit here, perhaps what if it was based on an multiple of average employee salary) was disallowed".

And, in fact, if the maximum company size were limited, and thus the marketplace wasn't a swimming pool full of whales, but instead full of a much larger number of a broader mix of smaller fish, what would advertising look like then?

For example, large categories of industry would have to change hugely into cooperative non-owning groups of smaller companies. Would they still have the same advertising dominance, or would the churn within the groups break things up?
Pair programming flummoxes me because I find it significantly harder to concentrate when someone's watching. It's like having that execrable old Visual Basic feature where it flags up syntax errors if you cursor off a line, forcing you to correct the errors before moving to a different line. Except now implemented with a smelly human flagging up the errors!

I get it. XP, and Agile in general, is all about relying less on individual programmers' focus on the task and more on external checks (a shoulder surfer and automated tests). The revolution of software development in the 21st century is building more effective teams rather than relying on super-productive individuals (the fabled 10x engineers). But I don't have to like working that way, and I don't.
Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots
Yeah I rolled my eyes at that, but publishers basically require the front 10% of non-fiction be like that. It's for the people walking through book stores and picking up books to browse.
Seriously next level. I am on an old potato, and its smooth as silk, forward and backward. Backward. My potato is a ThinkPad i7 which slips into low speed at every single moment it can.
Lftr is supposed to be in the high nineties allegedly of fuel consumption %.

And the gas/liquid nature means separation and processing is a lot more viable

Contrast that with solid fuel rods using like 20% of its fuel, and that only of the fissile uranium isotopes. The the waste is locked in a solid form of the spent fuel rods

I'll take lftr which (theoretically) is so much cleaner.

Fusion isnt without waste, the high speed neutrons irradiate/transmute the reactor
no guarantees that china would limit those when at war, same as russia and ukraine kept trading oil.

theres no guarantees that the US would get involved with china invading taiwan, either. again, look at ukraine. sales and donations of old materiel only
What are you reading?

What are you planning?

Who are you calling?
> Whenever I see the Darwin kernel brought into the discussion I can't help but wonder how different things could have been if Apple had just forked Linux

XNU is only partially open sourced – the core is open sourced, but significant chunks are missing, e.g. APFS filesystem.

Forking Linux might have legally compelled them to make all kernel modules open source–which while that would likely be a positive for humanity, isn't what Apple wants to do
say, i don't know how to PM you on this site... would like to ask you about your rustdesk post from somewhen around 2022?
This is quality advice. It approaches the process with the other party in mind.

I’ve put a few of these into practice and they work quite well.

Once you’ve made it to the offer stage most companies want to close. You have more ability to push back on offers than you think.
I'm sure it does, as Gemini 2.5 Pro has been making every other model look pretty bad.
https://github.com/ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon

> Apple Silicon devices emulated on QEMU, currently only iPhone 11.

demo video: https://nitter.poast.org/eshard/status/1908162866609311962
IME end-to-end tests in a browser really help with services that have a lot of parts to integrate, but damn they are hard to make reliable.

One challenge is animation and timing races, supposedly Playwright can address many of those. Another is some infrastructure like GitHub Actions can be randomly resource starved, such as causing the Chrome Driver to become unresponsive. Automated retrying is one workaround, at the cost of possibly papering over rare race and timing issues.

Of course unit tests are nice and fast and narrow. But refactors could render a large portion obsolete, and they won't prove things work together as a whole.
Exactly. There's an economic negative to advertising, particularly in the US, because "puffery" is legal. That gives advertisers nearly complete free reign to lie about stuff (especially if they put in a small white text disclaimer that says the things you are seeing and hearing aren't really true.)
I got my friends to install Element and use that to message me instead of Gchat/WhatsApp. They’re all quite tech savvy and have varying degrees of privacy consciousness.

I also got my partner to switch to it. She’s not a super nerd like me but she was able to figure it out easily enough.
I could have written this. I have ADHD and I've done 500+ FocusMate sessions in the last year. I've found it sticky and helpful like nothing else I've ever tried, and I can't even explain why. It just feels like some kind of brain hack.
Where I live this is hyper local. Some municipalities are extremely strict on ads (to the point of fining _churches_ over signage on their property) and some are overrun with billboards and ads on every corner and bench.

I don't think this is as much as a "societies choose" as "some societies have no choice." The municipality I'm in now struggles with property tax revenues and has to stoop to what I'd call predatory revenue streams (gambling, ads, etc) to make up the difference. And it creates a feedback loop.
You are absolutely right. It's referred to as Incitement to Imminent Lawless Action.
P values are common in science for those that don’t know. It measures what the odds are something you observe would happen in just a random sample. Or something like that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1824481
Yep, I hadn't considered things from this perspective at all. Thank you!
I checked in with my Republican friend and they said that US vanilla is just as good, if not better, because the soil is "more free".

I don't think the issue of trade is an easy one for many in the US.
When negotiating with a startup, especially a founder, always ask for two offers: one with a higher equity offer and another with a higher cash offer.

This allows the other party to still feel in control of the negotiation process but tells you two important pieces of information: the first is what the “top” number is for both equity and cash. The second is how much they really are valuing the equity portion.

Depending on the response, you can argue for both higher cash or equity, or both. I often ask what is preventing from giving both higher cash and higher equity? Often times I’ve gotten both.
Why would someone not then just tell every recruiter/company they are interviewing with that they already have offers are are in the pipeline at other companies even if they don't.

We've heard nowadays how hard it is to even get to the interview for many companies so theres probably plenty of candidates who do not have many other offers prepared or even close to prepared.

Another issue is timing. Theres been times when I've started the interview process with two companies but one is on a much shorter timeline than the other so now I have an offer for one whereas I am still waiting on an interview that isn't for even a couple weeks for another, if not longer.

Not gonna lie, last time I went through the interview process I just told them I have other offers already even when I didn't. It worked in my favor I believe but feels like to get the best outcome you just have to be okay with basically lying out your ass - and that goes both ways, as the employer and the employee since it seems like even the companies feel fine with dragging their asses on concrete unless you have other stuff going on.
> The line is clear: is money being exchanged in order to promote a product? That's advertising.

So that would exclude:

- listing your house, or car in the classifieds

- buying a sign for your business (ad discussed in other posts)

- buying a garage sale sign

- buying a for sale sign, or flyers for your house for sale

- paying a realtor to sell your house

- paying a reporter or professional reviewer to write a review. Even if they are paid by a newspaper/magazine/consumer report site, money exchanged hands for something that promotes a product.

- distributing a catalog

- paying a cloud provider or VPS provider or website hosting service to host a website that promotes your product

Also, what exactly constitutes a "product"? Does a service count? If not, that is a pretty big loophole. What about a job position? Or someone looking for employment?

And finally, advertisement in some form is kind of important for making customers aware your product exists. Word of mouth isn't very effective if you don't have any customers to begin with. I would expect removing all advertising to have a chilling effect on innovation and new businesses.

To be clear, I think the current advertising environment is terrible, and unhealthy, and needs to be fixed. But I think that removing all advertisement would have some negative ramifications, especially if the definition of an ad is too simplistic.
I feel like there's a lot of room in "imminent" - I wonder what precedent has to say.

E.g. probably if two guys are arguing in physical proximity and you're shouting for guy A to shoot guy B, that counts.

But maybe if you tweet, "hey everybody, go kill that guy", it's not imminent/directed enough?

I only say this because I feel like I'm pretty often surprised by how high the standards are for applying some laws, despite the title/brief description of the law (of course as a rule, high standards are good here, but sometimes they can feel so high that the law has no teeth).
I mean, roe v wade clearly shows it is not objective at all. There's always edge cases in life. Abortion aside, also consider the context of self defense vs. Meditated murder with a plan to hide the body.

>Again I’m amazed that people want to give the government more power unnecessarily s

Well we've done a horrible job self-regulating. This abuse of power also teaches us that ideas without enforcement is just daydreaming. If that all you wanted to do in this article, go ahead.
Thanks for trying it out and the kind words!

Initially, SpeakFast was focused on general speaking skills, but pivoted when I found users were more willing to pay for targeted outcomes like company specific interviews—higher stakes, clear value, and immediate ROI
I remember fondly reading that (and about his work in general), which is why when I saw the video thumbnail I immediately had a feeling "wait no it can't be".

Thanks for the link!
For startups, I'm pretty upfront about the fact that I don't negotiate but if they go under my activation price I will simply decline. It's a one and done deal and we can revisit months later. The range of cost I'll accept is quite large (though this part I don't communicate). I don't mind working for $200k annualized on things I really enjoy and I don't mind working on things I enjoy less for $800k annualized and so on. I have an internal sliding scale and I'm quite clear that I don't really need to work on any specific thing. Then I just take the gig if it meets my internal criteria.

In my experience, it isn't about making a $20k more now or whatever. It's about making a million more because you're invested in something worthwhile etc. etc.
It just seems that someone ignorant of Buddhism discovers meditation by himself