skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This assumes that was the job? What if the job never talks or sits in a room with anyone?

That's perfectly fine. Some coding jobs also don't require deep knowledge on data structures. Each company and project has its own requirements.

This does not reject the value of soft skills and being able to interact with other people.

You can also frame this from another perspective. How far should a hiring manager go to accommodate antisocial and straight out toxic people? Does an eggregious backstabber have the right to advance in hiring processes just because others found him unpleasant to work with?
Simping for Hamas is not bravery
Bottom line: Tariffs are just another of Trump's many cons --- with very high stakes and potential for an adverse outcome.

If China don't play along, there is little to gain and much to lose.
My classmate at the university had a laptop that first developed lines on the screen that he fixed by strategically cramming pieces of paper between the bezel and the LCD panel, and then eventually the hinges broke so he carried a book stand to prop up the lid. He did get a new laptop eventually iirc
Happens a lot in China too.

https://www.hwcooling.net/en/recycling-in-china-laptop-cpus-...
>kids see adults not knowing things about the world that they already do

In the age where anyone can find anything online, experience is more valuable than it ever was. Technology won't replace that.
The ASRS-5, while it only has six questions, is actually a very respectable test for ADHD, often used even in clinical research. It's thoroughly tested against more comprehensive tests and the data checks out so far. It's even seeing clinical use as an early screening before going through the full diagnosis, which in adults is very involved, since diagnosis requires a determination that ADHD was present in childhood.

Source: my dad is a clinical psychologist specialising in diagnosis and treatment of ADHD . I kept seeing this pop up in papers so I asked him about it.
Less so now than a decade ago. You need to watch them while they repair it, I learned that the hard way.
But does Mel's blackjack program run on it? And does it cheat when you toggle the right switch?
Companies should have to bear the full cost of cleaning up, repairing, or disposing the products they unleash upon the world. If I have to throw away my laptop because it broke, Lenovo should pay the cost of disposing (or repairing) it and bringing the environment back to the condition it was in before the product existed. When my car dies, Toyota should have to tow it away, part it out and reuse what it can. We've somehow normalized the idea that companies can just externalize these real disposal costs onto the public and environment.
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
The case in point was about legal immigrants accused of eating their neighbors pets and taking their jobs. Neither was true.

Your factcheck needs to be factchecked. Accusing me of being dishonest and acting in bad faith is a hoot. I may be ignorant of certain things but I'm only interested in the truth as I can best discover it.

I would love to have debate with someone from "your side", but you are, at best, a troll and haven't demonstrated any good faith.
Because they hired "web devs" when they wanted systems engineers.

Also this article reads like AI slop particularly the "Why Good Bugs Go Unfixed" section.
I think this is probably the reason why Rust is attractive to companies. They can say, "use Rust and never use unsafe without sign-off from some senior programmer" and then can be relatively sure there is no buffer overflow. In C you would say, you need to follow these guidelines with tools X, Y, Z and then you can be relatively sure there is no buffer overflow. The problem is that this is a striking argument only when the only thing you care about are memory safety issues. As soon as you care about other forms of security / correctness, you need "guidelines with tools X, Y, Z" anyway. And when you have mixed code base, you also need this anyway.
Once it's way past the time/chance/ability to stop things. At least that's what Germans said when asked 'how could you let it happen'. Or Russians. 'We didn't think it was quite enough to take action'.
Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing over your data too
Why would that be “a wise choice”?

I’m from Sweden and live in Switzerland. I know many people who have their own companies, and I was looking to start one myself before moving to Switzerland. It is SUPER EASY.

I’ve helped my wife become self employed in Switzerland. I do most of the admin work for her. Again, very straight forward.
A few thoughts:

0. It's not you, it's the job market and economic cycle. Many companies aren't hiring much at the moment because of economic uncertainty and unrealistic enthusiasm about AI-fueled automation. But the good (?) news is they are trying to cut costs by laying off senior people and hiring junior people like you. Keep applying.

1. You could lean into the EE side of things. Analog and digital design are still needed as we move into the era of RISC-V, robotics, AR/VR, self-driving cars, etc. You likely have a decent project portfolio already from your coursework. Also power engineering and efficiency are important at all scales.

2. An MEng from MIT (or another good school/program) would probably be interesting, challenging and fun, and you'd pick up some additional skills. It would also enable you to apply for internships, which can be easier to get than full-time/"permanent" positions, and can lead to the latter. Try to get teaching or research assistantships to avoid or reduce debt (even if it takes longer, it's worth it.) And you could potentially do a Ph.D. later on if it turns out that you like research.

3. Economic downturns can be good times to start companies because there are more people on the job market. Also you may be able to get good deals on office and lab space and equipment if you need it.

4. If you can't join a startup as a co-founder, you may be able to join as staff. Make sure they pay you a salary though.

5. Look into temporary or contract work, or any job you can get that pays money, ideally enough for food and rent in a starving student type shared residence. Then keep looking for something better.
>Everyone is very willing to engage at a very high level, giving helpful sound and advice that works for the broadest possible audience; but when you actually examine what they say, you see it is full of holes.

Completely agree. I spent the better part of a decade going through all the self help nonsense. Its usually more harmful than useful.
Tesla is run like a private company anyways. He did this in a slightly saner world already with SolarCity.

The shareholders are passive index investors through institutions that for some reason dgaf about governance (maybe because they've lent him massive amounts of money?) and worshipful fans who rallied to give him back the biggest pay package after the court struck it as he was burning the brand and working less than part time
what metal is it made of?
> Australians can be legally compelled in secret courts to install backdoors in the companies in which they are employed, and gagged from telling the company itself or any journalists (see the Access and Assistance Bill).

My thoughts on this as an Australian software engineer: how could they possibly “order” me to “install a backdoor”? To change a production system, I need an issue in the issue tracker, I need a PR, I need a colleague to review and approve it-if I’m not allowed to call it “install backdoor at Australian government’s demand”, what am I going to call it? How am I suppose to justify it to the reviewer? How do I respond to their questions? How do I convince them to approve it? “I’m sorry I’m not allowed to tell you why this PR is needed” is not going to get it approved

And in the (I think highly implausible) event the government did order me to do such a thing-first I’d insist it was impossible (due to the kind of internal controls I’ve already mentioned), and if they wouldn’t accept that answer, then I’d resign rather than do it. I don’t think the law can stop you from quitting your job, and once you quit, you are no longer able to comply with any such orders.

It seems to me like one of these laws which has disturbing wording but is going to be very difficult for the authorities to utilise in practice.

(Disclaimer: of course I don’t speak for my employer, etc)
> If someone misbehaves and two people are close by you can be sure that they loudly will talk with each other

This is the exact opposite of my experience (and all my Japanese friends). They will stare at the person misbehaving but will absolutely not challenge him. Their culture is "avoid the problem/confronting at all costs".

> The police acts swiftly

They are considered tax thieves, even by Japanese people. Also, talk to some foreign women that got sexually harassed or even raped how the police helped them. In fact, I don't have proof, but I sincerely believe that if the police was trained well, crime rate would increase because they would find more crimes.

> healthy food

Are we talking about deep-fried food? Or perhaps over-salted dishes? Oh, no, you meant the sugar they add in basically all their cooking? Time where they mostly ate fish and rice is over. They barely eat enough vegetables. And fruits are for the well-off only.

It's a country that I love and have spent quite some time there—and more to come—but your observations are exactly the opposite of what I saw.

What they do correctly is the low unemployment rate, though I think it's starting to rise with younger people. People don't need to commit violent crimes to feed themselves if any work lets them afford necessities.
Tech lads taking on 6 figure jobs and getting 7 figure mental health problems be like: "I love tech... keep grinding "
I understand your point, and that law is a problem. But there is a big difference between a law and a practice. In the case of NK, we have a long, documented trail showing that the country controls its foreign nationals. Despite that law, the same is not true of Australia.
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https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/
256 GB/s is excruciatingly slow for LLM interference. The 5090 has roughly 8x as much and since the task is mostly RAM BW bound, performance scales almost linearly with it.
Mendelsohn is a national treasure and easily one of the finest living Anglophone essayists. I remember little from the coverage of the manhunt for Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother but I vividly remember the powerful piece Mendelsohn wrote about its outcome: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/unburied-tamerla...
In my experience, the default VM size is so slow, you probably don't want Nix on a workflow that doesn't already take minutes.

Even with a binary cache (we used R2), installing Lix, Devbox and some common tools costs us 2 1/2 minutes. Just evaluating the derivation takes ~20-30 seconds.
This does look interesting! I’ll take a closer look.
Bronze.

Hallstatt was bronze age, and if it was an outlier like meteoric iron (a) it would look like it (corrosion) and (b) it would have been called out.
oh noooo
Gravity Maps: An Alternative to Org Charts
Accommodations usually (but not always) require diagnosis or confirmation by a doctor or other medical professional, and the law affords companies this discretion before granting one, whereas nonspecific 'neurodivergence' is often self-diagnosed.

All this aside, if you have e.g. crippling anxiety such that you can't make it through an interview unaided, you probably won't be successful in that job, whatever it is. Whereas a deaf person or someone in a wheelchair would have no long-term problem.
The other thing that people seem to just either forget or ignore is that you can do _both_ things! Tailwind can be used for the areas that it makes sense for, and you can write a sitewide layout using insane (in a good way!) grid declarations using plain old CSS and a few extra classes in your markup.

If you're using Vue, you even get a <style> block that can be injected into any component so you're still working in the same context. It's all delightful and optional and you can still do whatever you want.
This mentions the Fortune 500, and some of the financial companies I'm familiar with treat IT like janitors and have no qualms getting the lowest crap devs whom they can boss around. They don't want good devs and someone part of a team.
Pocari Sweat is great. I live in Osaka now and it's hard to resist constantly drinking the stuff. Aquarius also.
Remember when github disabled searches for users who aren‘t logged in? Well, they just set the threshold for searches to 0 these days so they have de-facto disabled them again, this time avoiding the shitstorm.
> People wanted Git

No. If Bitbucket competed with MercurialHub then MercurialHub would still have won and we’d all be much happier today.
In the current political climate, yes.
I wouldn't take that advice seriously. Suit in tech would be awkward (even for most mgmt roles). Tech pioneered the concept that you don't need a suit to get the pay of a suit. You can be yourself.
Correction: Payne isn't NYTimes staff.
> We blew 3.1% of our GDP on debt service alone in 2024

As long as GDP growth outpaces (or is even) the increase in debt it’s not a big issue. Some spending cuts and mild tax increases (maybe not so mild for the higher brackets) would solve that.

> focusing on a net zero or overall trade surplus outcome.

If you looked at the countries pursuing such policies like Germany or Japan they haven’t been doing that well at all over the past 20 years. Basically no real growth and they are permanently stuck in the early 2000s. US on the other hand has been doing extremely well (lack of redistribution is another issue).
The cryptography discussed in the article is probably more aptly titled 1980s microcomputers-oriented cryptography. QText was first released in 1988. I'm not sure when they first added supported for passcode-protected files, but the version show in the article was released in 1992. This is before the spread of the early internet, before RC4 was leaked, before MD5 and HMAC were released and probably before even MD4 became widespread.

I admit I was too young to be well-versed in cryptography back then, but as far as I can tell the only well-known cryptographic algorithms that I can think of during the late 1980s were RSA and DES, maybe also ElGamal? I'm not aware of any cryptographic hash function which predates MD2. There must have been some, but I don't know of any of them really caught on.

Looking at PC software from the early 1980s up to the early 1990s, most of the software used 100% in-house roll-your-own-crypto. DES and RSA were initially too slow for microcomputers and even when processing power increased, they were not so trivial to implement yourself and there weren't widely available in libraries until the mid 1990s.

So what you eventually got in this period was mostly ad-hoc algorithms that did very rudimentary encryption and were only as good as the author's imagination. If you were particularly unlucky, they wouldn't be much better than a glorified monoalphabetic cipher. This seems to be the case in QText as well. At least the key derivation function seems to be completely in-house and as the paper has demonstrated (and as you'd fully expect from an in-house algorithm), it has weaknesses that make MD4 seem secure.

I think PGP (first released in 1991) is where we can see the trend start shifting into composing more-or-less standard algorithms using insecure in-house constructions. The first version of PGP used an in-house symmetric cipher called Bass-O-Matic (together with RSA and MD4), but PGP 2.0 replaced that cipher with IDEA[1]. It seems like in the beginning even the RSA signature format was non-standard, and PGP switched to a PKCS #1-based format only in version 2.3[2].

This where you start seeing all the famous 1990s schemes that go horribly wrong at misusing IVs or performing key derivation with a single-iteration of unsalted hash. But 80s crypto is even worse.

[1] http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/

[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1991.html
Stop reading texts in meetings, JP Morgan boss tells staff
Amazon knows my entire purchase history too: it's nothing. In have never shopped at Amazon.

Went to an undergraduate library to surf, and low and behold: women's underwear, and I am not a cross dresser. If you do not identify yourself you get the default.

It's almost all "AI" driven. Yes the halcinating kind.
Ok I'll bite. I go running with my kids before school a few times a week. Usually a mile, but sometimes longer if time permits and we feel up to it. It's a very low-barrier activity - all you need to do is put on shoes. If we're not feeling 100%, we'll walk portions of it.

I always feel euphoric when I get back - it's a much better way to wake up than slamming coffee (although I do that too). And it improves my kids' mood and focus in the morning. I get a few minutes to chat with my kids on the cooldown walking home. They are able to improve their stamina, which makes them better athletes (they really love sports).

It's one of the highlights of my day, and my kids seem to enjoy it enough put down their iDevices for a few minutes in the morning. Sometimes it can be a bit unpleasant getting started, but that feeling usually passes within a minute or two. We could do some other activity instead - but I can't think of much that beats running when it comes to benefit vs simplicity and time commitment.

Just wanted to add a positive perspective on running. And I'm a cyclist, not a runner.
> It's up to me to "sell" that benefit to upper management. There's no point in assuming they'll figure it out by accident. Part of my job is enumerating the value I add.

Nowhere is that said.

The benefit of them selling is not for the management to understand, it's for the worker to understand and be able to articulate as it will flow downstream to strategy.

Maybe the management doesn't understand but my point is it's irrelevant. I've been in management situations where I've understood perfectly well and ones where I have zero clue, my requirements for you selling to me remain exactly the same which is I'm using it as a gauge of how much you understand.
>Is it so hard to just express that it’d be cool to take a neat thing and expand it?

If people feel the need to do such a thing, they will do it without being asked.
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I wonder if "double talk" work here. After all this is similar to "what is your weakness" interview question, but the subject is Kim jong un instead of you
If you're anywhere near the pits, and the crew fires up the motor, and then just blips the throttle, the sound waves generated are like physical blows to your chest.

The only sweeter sound is a V12 Merlin coughing into life.

I snagged a ride in a P51 once. OMG. That machine just leaped into the air. I was smiling for a week.
That was not clear from your original comment. I read it as the company gave them the questions to presumably think about/prep.
I am in the process of recruiting a software engineer. You're on spot when saying "ask about human experience".

To add to your experience, I became increasingly suspicious of the "perfect fit" resumes. it's insane how so many people just put the right keywords. I think it might work to pass in larger companies where HR use automated systems to triage applicants.
There’s a few red flags here on the hiring side too.

I’ve given a lot of interviews, candidates will always try to come up with the best story as an answer to your question because “I can’t think of an example” is not an acceptable answer. It’s a demand you’re placing on them.

Also having experience puffed up on a resume happens around 100% of the time. The point of the interview is to figure out how much real relevant experience the candidate has.

OP was right to end the interview as they were an unprepared candidate and a bad fit, but low-key threatening someone with “word gets around” who’s trying to find a job and probably starting to panic about not having one doesn’t make him the good guy in this story that he thinks it does.

OP could have just told them not to use AI in future, but even that’s unnecessary as the lesson’s already been learned.

(I’ve also noticed that towards the end of the post OP mentions this, but it doesn’t line up with the actual call as described unfortunately)
Why do you assume the 8 years of experience were real?
ASRS-5 almost ruined my life. I would highly recommend anyone reading this to get a thorough evaluation for ADHD diagnosis before trying medication; or just use audio :)
I would also recommend "Merchants war" by Fredrick Phol. WWIII was won by Madison Ave.
Tobi absolutely has the personality of a cybertruck. No sane person wants anything to do with him.
It’s also good to upgrade certain components.

Firstly, upgrade from HDD to SSD. For random access, these are commonly 100–500× as fast, and even for block I/O 10–30×, and that will concretely speed up startup by a large fraction of that ratio, quite apart from speeding up other things later.

Once you get used to modern SSDs, as almost everyone on this site will be, I think you lose track of just how bad HDDs are, to run the OS from. My wife’s ten-year-old work laptop takes well over five minutes to boot up, log in, start a browser, load something like Gmail, and settle down so the disk is idle and it’s running as smoothly as it ever will; and sure, the aging i5-4300M CPU doesn’t help¹; but I suspect spending less than a thousand rupees replacing its HDD with even the cheapest and smallest SSD (acceptable capacity, in this case) might cut that to a minute, and spending a few thousand for a faster one would speed it up to below a minute.

(One fun thing about SSDs is that, overall, bigger is faster. At some points in history, for some makes, it’s been almost as simple as “twice as large, twice as fast”. This is, of course, a gross simplification, but I think not too far off.)

Secondly, if you have less than 8GB of RAM, get more. Beyond that it varies depending on what you’re using it for, but up to at least that point, it’s just an unconditional improvement.

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¹ PassMark lists single/multi scores for the Intel Core i5-4300M of around 1,700/3,000. Some units in recent generations from approximately the same segment: the Intel Core i5-1334U scoring 3,350/13,400, and the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H scoring 3,450/21,500. This basically means an absolute minimum of 2× speedup on any workload, and for most it’s more like 3–4×. There’s a lot of difference in ten years of CPU.
Cute project!

> Xilinx tech support page and a forum post explaining how to get the Xilinx ISE to run under Windows 8 or Windows 10. Unfortunately Xilinx no longer maintains this development suite, but has also considered it unnecessary to support their Spartan 6 platform in the successor software suite, Vivado…

Wasn't the Spartan 6 also supported by the open source toolchains? I just did a couple seconds of search and I could only find the yosys support, but no nextpnr. Sad. Xilinx/AMD should open that up
Just like the United States, Australia is a civilized, democratic, and free country, which is different from North Korea and China
>Neighborhood MILFs and Cougars?

If they do that, some angry commenter on HN will shout about objectifying women.