jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>pick a role where you're constantly blocked by other people

Excellent advice.

I love how HN still ends up thriving for perfection. If I compile all the comments in this thread I'll have the best optimized way to become the ultimate do-nothing slacker piece of crap.
I'm not an American. I was born in USSR and lived there until its long awaited collapse.
Yes, developers jobs are well paid in London, depending on the company, there are several places that take advantage of their developers and pay poorly.
My advice to most London devs is move company often until you find a salary you're happy with, companies need you more than you need the company.
Amusing read from way back - guy outsourced his own job and watched cat videos.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579...
I can think of two possible routes that would fulfil this criteria in different ways.

The first is to get an IT job at a government organisation that isn't heavily IT focussed, but needs someone on staff "just in case". I once interviewed for a job at a National Library for a 35,000 GBP/year role (with 20% pension). They had a system where someone could book a room to read old manuscripts, and there was a C# program that let people swipe in and out with a smart card. For some reason they needed a dev on staff full time just in case anything went wrong. That was the whole scope of the job. Apparently most of the IT people there had other personal gigs they worked on most of the day, and it was super flexible. I didn't take it because I wanted a job that would push me and force me to learn things, but I reckon there would be a few jobs like that in government that would give you what you want.

The other way isn't exactly what you asked for, but might appeal to you anyway. Recently I've been working as a software contractor, mostly doing 3-to-6 month contracts, mostly for companies that need extra resource to hit some looming deadline. It's intensive work for the duration of the contract, but the money is a lot better than being a permanent employee, and I've been finding that over the course of each contract you can save up so much money that you could happily take a few months off in-between roles if you wanted to do what you like. I'm using the time off (just starting what I envisage to be a 4 month break minimum) to try to build side projects, but you could spend 4-5 months playing sport or whatever just as easily. You might even find the contract route gives you the time to do your hobbies, and professional fulfilment too, because each is timeboxed into several month long stints. Personally I love it.
I assume you mean to use Singapore as an example of where strict laws and reduced violence have had a positive effect on development? As opposed to India?
Some commits cannot be cherry picked. This is because there is no coherent diff for them, like with merge commits.
Freezing up in an interview doesn't necessarily indicate that the person won't be able to communicate in a normal business setting.

Imagine you've been applying to jobs for over half a year (180ish days is the average time it takes for someone to find a job these days), maybe you've had a couple of interviews, maybe this one is your first. You have burned through your savings, maxed out your credit cards, and you are less than a month away from missing your rent payment. When you're in such a situation, every interview becomes the single most important event in your life. If you fuck it up, you might not be able to put enough gas into your car, which you very well may be living in, in order to get to the next one. Trust me, if you've ever been in this situation, it's pretty easy to get freaked out and sound like a fucking idiot in the middle of an interview. It doesn't say anything about a person's ability to communicate in a routine business scenario.
When I switched to Linux, I found that Zim

http://zim-wiki.org/

came close enough to Notational Velocity for my purposes. The key feature both share is giving me the ability to very quickly jump to a note by typing its name in. (With Zim you do this by typing cntrl-j.) I'm reluctant to try any note manager that doesn't have that feature.
True, though some languages are more inviting.
Great idea. I see this as a benefit for developers who do not have access to their own pc. Or to clients and/or qa who need to do a quick check.

Otherwise, developers can do everything that Browserling does and more with a combination of Virtual Machines, Multiple IEs, and Internet Explorer Collection, etc. Having developer tools is the key.
One mistake in the above: the right to participate in future financing rounds has nothing to do with qualified investor status, and everything to do with whether your agreement guarantees it. Good CEOs will often make sure all their investors are given a chance to participate (because it's the right thing to do and reduces the chance of one class of lawsuits) but it's only a guarantee if your documents say it is.
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Tell us more about you?
>The B-1 and B-52 also have low observability characteristics

I'd challenge the B-52 bit. The airframe had pretty well reached its final form by 1950. Radar was still in its infancy, let alone radar countermeasures. The plane is all radar-inviting angles (like the giant vertical stab), and there wasn't even an attempt to shield the engine exhausts from IR sensors, as IR homing weapons didn't exist at the time. I'd go so far as to say the B-52 is about as high-observable as an airplane gets.

Edit: Maybe you mean active countermeasures?
To those who don't yet have it on their shelves, source is available here:

http://code.google.com/p/cii/source/browse/#svn/trunk
What makes you think that human development started with primitive matriarchal societies? There are anthropological studies of thousands of stone age tribes, very few are matriarchal.

Wikipedia goes even further than my hedged and uninformed "very few" statement and says:

There are no known societies that are unambiguously matriarchal,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] although there are a number of attested matrilinear, matrilocal and avunculocal societies, especially among indigenous peoples of Asia and Africa,[9] such as those of the Basques, Minangkabau, Mosuo, Berbers or Tuareg. Strongly matrilocal societies sometimes are referred to as matrifocal, and there is some debate concerning the terminological delineation between matrifocality and matriarchy.

which is no doubt enough to keep anyone occupied for hours, but anyway, I see no evidence that early societies were matriarchal.
I'd argue that with all the Apple talk about open standards, when not just open up the app store and then let users decide what is good/bad for the ecosystem. Why have a controlled environment. Why have a control on whether the user wants to shoot themselves in the foot.
"They go somewhere, and they are instantly assumed to be less competent."

So, why are "they" the majority of the workforce, a clear majority of college graduates, and trending up in both cases?

At some point it's time to stop arguing about theory and look about you. It's over. The male-WASP free ride is over. Maybe we've hit balance, maybe we haven't, but if we don't want to shoot right past the balance we better start looking around a bit before blindly spouting arguments from the 1960s. At some point you get to active discrimination against male-WASPs. Note how I carefully failed to phrase that as a question. And if it's not time to at least discuss the matter in light of the facts of my first paragraph, when will it be? Give me a concrete criterion for when we know we're finished.

Had I asked that question 20 years ago, one imagines the answer would be "When parity is reached", but since we've shot past that and it's still not enough, apparently that's not the real criterion.

This is a broad problem with politics right now; nobody knows when to say enough! Enough money has been spent on education, enough pension benefits have been given, enough has been spent on the military, enough affirmative action has been done. There has to be enough sometime.

def enough_done_for(policy, effort):
return False

is not a policy, it's a recipe for suicide.
This sounds like the worst possible idea:

(a) You get to start out with client who, because of the adverse selection effect, is most likely to be demanding and troublesome.

(b) Your relationship with that client, which may appear peachy at first, is now poisoned because you've sabotaged your rate. Rates never go up.

(c) At the point where you're at your most vulnerable, you end up doing high-stake work for almost no immediate reward.

Let me just throw a couple things out here:

* People who buy professional services for their company are usually not spending their own money. They don't have the same personal relationship to what they're spending that you have to what you're receiving. Put differently: they're not as likely to be appreciative as you think they will be.

(I'm a co-owner of an LLC that buys professional services and this is as true for us, where I'm literally spending my own money, as it is for a Fortune-500 where money is entirely abstracted.)

* Your willingness to do a free project does not make it more likely that you'll get referrals. You think the principal of reciprocity is at play, like Cialdini says. But that's about giving people boxes of chocolates. It's not about sending a strong signal that your work is worth less than everyone else's. The good news is: if you do good work, people will refer you, even if they paid above market rate for it.

* If you can't find people to pay you for the work you do, it's better to fail fast than it is to drag it out.

I have no doubt that many successful freelancers got their start by giving away freebies. And in web design, maybe you need to do this to build a portfolio. I don't know. (Seems like there'd have to be a better way). But if you do technical work, I'd be very careful about starting this way.
Windows Update installs new software all the time.
Then you go to court and have to prove that Subway's food is not high-quality and delicious.

Of course, when you argue that their ham is flavored turkey, you will probably win.
Interesting, thanks. But, without meaning to excuse it, I do wonder how much of that was

a) tongue in cheek (given that it was an informal talk rather than an essay or article)

b) just a reflection of the general attitudes of the era

c) indeed down to personal prejudice

I'm guessing though that whatever prejudices he had must have been re-evaluated by the time he encouraged his sister to go into science
It's hard for me to imagine a world view where adding critical thinking to a subject might make it worse.

> It's as if English class now also included Latin.

I think a better analogy would be "it's as if English class now included critical thinking." Or "it's as if Science class now included critical thinking." Or "it's as if History class now included critical thinking."

All of those sound unambiguously good to me.
Most of the crowd was from out of town. Do you typically travel with household ingredients just in case?
No, 2000 was the last year. There was no year zero.
> the first thing that came to mind was that he was telling his supporters indirectly that they could do whatever they wanted since he wouldn't be in harms way

Wow, it would have never occurred to me to read it like this, but then I am hopeless at teasing out hidden meanings from what people say. To me, this is just so consistent with the overall picture of him that's been consistently painted in the media, and which he only verifies by his own behavior — that of a stubborn, spoilt, petulant child — that I can't but take his words at face value, i.e. that he's informing the world that he won't show up because of spite.

I am also amused that there seems to be a non-negligible amount of people who apparently care whether he will or will not attend the ceremony. To a foreigner like me, it just sounds so insignificant and puny.
As others have pointed out, Twitter put Trump on notice that another violation would result in a permanent ban.

I'm not sure why you felt compelled to mention "the left" in this context. Are you implying that Twitter wants to curry favor with the left? Or perhaps that if the left is happy, then it's a bad thing? I feel like there is some subtext that you might as well just spell out.
The latter I think is being underrated as a major contributing factor.. fear of retribution and all that.
Is this a parody or do you actually have nouns like names that you can use?
Twitter rules are so broad and states so vaguely, that half of the Twitter users technically violated them numerous time, and Twitter applies these rules selectively.
Last I heard they stopped federating, sadly, but still work via a Mastodon client.
Configuring it to open pull requests less frequently doesn't help, since dependencies still get updated one by one, rather than in batches. I've found it easier to just run an interactive yarn upgrade every so often.
Hi, I'm the creator of the tool, if possible could you share an example of how do they look with me? This sounds like an interesting diagram to include . (hugo at volarelabs.co) Thanks.
Around 2013-2017, I got a lot of certs issued through DigiCert, and their support team was awesome. The wildcard certs were expensive, but their support team issued a bunch of 'custom duplicate' certs that I would have thought was pushing the boundaries of what we paid for and never batted an eye. They were also willing to do take the time to issue certs through non-default intermediaries, even when it wasn't immediately available. Other CAs I worked with had very little flexibility at all, anything off the script was not ever going to happen.

If their service has changed, that's a real shame :(
Manufacturing fascination is a hard mental task, doubly so if you try to do it to find a substitute for something you're already fascinated in, but can't find time to pursue - you'll know you're trying to cheat yourself.
China is weakening Canada.
>Clearly not related to the placebo effect in this case, only the pharmacist knew what was in the capsules until the nausea started.

Right, and it could only be the placebo effect if those capsules contained sugar.
I ditched wordpress and the likes around 2012 and I've solely been building static sites since. I've tried most of the bigger generators out there and there's a lot of good new ones, each filling a different need.

What I've personally used the most is Jekyll, and while it's great, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it anymore in 2019, mainly due to the diminishing ecosystem.

Personally I've moved on to 11ty which is just insanely cool, easy and flexible if you don't hate javascript.

just my 2 cents.
Even after the invention of writing, music and art is still a vital medium through which to perpetuate vital information. Not all ideas can be distilled easily into words.
Wish I had documented my exact frustrations, but it wasn't not being able to choose the encoding...something more of the flavor of:

Most of the time I just trying to shuffle bytes from one place to another, and didn't really care about the contents of the bytes, but I hit numerous bug because of exceptions due to things like "external data wasn't valid utf8" (NOT helpful to throw an exception here), and bugs caused by 'str' vs 'unicode' confusion (made more tricky by lack of static type system).

The one time I did actually need to do some calculation involving unicode I got burned by behavior that didn't match the documentation, because my bullshit package-manager-provided variant of python had some insane compile time option that made it pretend utf16 code units were the same thing as actual utf code points, to which I can only say "ha ha ha...fuck those guys".

Can't speak to python 3, haven't used it, probably never will :)
I did but I interpreted the first clause as a precondition of the following ones. I see now.

It still seems unclear that there are legal ramifications. It simply sets out a list of consequences should you not follow through. I suppose they could attempt to come after you in small claims court if you refused to pay.
Content-free blog-spam.
Also, smooth pasta is embarassing.
Online, without personalization it's the other way around

Local and niche businesses can only advertise on Facebook/Google Ads because their clientele can be defined and targeted.
Without targeting we'll be watching ads for Coca-Cola and McDonalds and other brands that have 'mass' appeal.
If it's effective, I'd hope it would become widely available for future pandemics.
But if the death rate is "only" 1 in 10 (approximately) then doesn't that mean there are ~9 survivors for every terminally ill patient? It doesn't seem like the number of survivors would be the limiting factor here.
To be perfectly honest I am not coping very well. All of this constant bad news getting worse and worse is terrible, and normally I can mostly ignore news, but I can't right now, since they do impact my life directly, and often with very short warning.

I am Danish, and while our authoritise are less terrible than those in the US, that is not a high bar. We can't get the test kits needed, but our minister of health turned a huge offer down. We didn't close the borders until long after we had community spread, etc.

If there was something active I could do (ie not feel-good stuff like running GPU time for research) and somebody could explain to me exactly how we can get out of this in a couple of months, that would be helpful.

At this point I just don't see anything changing, except getting worse, for the next several months and, frankly, I don't see how the society can survive that.
Thank you very much for mentioning this. I have high blood pressure and wasn't going to read the article until I saw this.
I'm working on a web application to help kids in the Netherlands learn basic math: https://elkedagrekenen.nl/

I'm working together with my son's teacher, who is also working at a local school. It's for kids that might not have the privilege of getting private lessons. I'm a backend developer, but I fell in love with Elm and built the site entirely with it. I host it on GCP.

I'd like to build a template system to support multiple languages, but I'm not sure the so-called calculation strategies kids in the Netherlands learn are the same for kids in other countries.

If you have kids in primary school: please give it a try and let me know what you think?
What would you prefer? 20% unemployment?

Anyway, central banks don't really do asset allocation -- they buy the least risky assets they can. Their real goal is to keep the currency from deflating.
You’re basically asking for authoritarianism. Becareful doing this.

There are plenty of places you can find that outside the US.
But shoes? Gloves? Glare reducing eye makeup? Socks? Hydration drinks?

The list can basically go on forever. With no real "a priori" idea on where you have to stop to no longer find a benefit in equipment. Could even go back to "access to gym" or "access to trainer" and expect a level of influence.
Thanks for the numbers.

I mentioned the other day that "one of the bad things" about Bitcoin was that it consumed the energy equiv of Ireland.

Then heard yesterday that it's up to Argentina.

Sounded like order of mag change, and yep—🇮🇪 is about to again surpass 5M people, 🇦🇷 approaching 45M. Almost into top 30 countries.
This is off-topic, but when I was a Mac user, I always wishes Apple built a barebones graphical tool into the OS to view and edit SQlite databases. They pop up now and then, including via Apple applications, and it would be convenient to view their contents in the GUI without third party tools.
It's not easy to define species following a common basic definition that applies to all taxonomy ranks, specially when asexual reproduction takes place.

But this is not the case being discussed here.

With higher mammals that is not the case, and the definition of species is already well established: sexual reproduction results in fertile offspring.
The cost of textbooks is not primarily in the distribution method, it's the labor of content creation.

The cost of tuition is not primarily in where or how people attend classes, it's the labor of developing curriculum, mentorship, and research.

The cost of housing is not primarily in construction, it's the scarcity of land. High density construction does address this, but you even mention that laws are obstructing this. How is this capitalism's fault when democratic governments enact laws that are literally stopping it from functioning freely?
I completely agree. Recently purchased an air filter and it was a ridiculous amount of work to find a quality product. Even the supposedly data driven blogs didn't post the lower cost options, probably because of affiliate revenues on the high end models.

Besides the PM2.5 aspect (which, as far as I can tell, can be solved by pushing a large volume of air through a HEPA filter), there's also the quality and type of the carbon filter, which is what traps a number of other things such as VOCs and most scents. You also need to know the type of thing you're filtering - smoke, for example, you really need a carbon filter for, and if you really want to filter a decent quantity of smoke, you'll need to drastically oversize the filter (e.x. Get a large industrial filter for a small area.) In case anyone's curious what I got, I didn't need to filter smoke, so I got one of the larger Levoit filters and used it in a small room, and I'm happy so far.
Why wouldn’t you? The natural state of humanity isn’t to kill on sight indiscriminately. A good chunk of Latin America are descended from both native and European ancestry, in some cases more than half of some Latin American countries’ population.

There’s also a whole lot of loaded assuming here; who is to say the mixing is not of Neanderthal women and homo sapiens men?

The study simply observes evidence of interbreeding. There doesn’t really need to be a theory about why if we can observe the characteristics and genetics directly.
Lower risk overall.
What about ... building a thriving business that generates — gasp — actual profit?

Why would I as an equity-holder care if the company is generating a profit, unless that helps it exit? The only way I'm ever going to see a return is if the company exits. If it's profitable but cannot exit (from what I've heard, porn sites would be examples of this), then it's worthless to me.
I'd love one.

bigfolio.com

erik(dot)dungan(at)gmail
Do what you can with what you got. The training philosophy is more what I had in mind.
Clearly a response to the new node editor in Blender 2.92 which threatens Houdini.
For me? Yes it absolutely matters. While I would prefer action being taken, saying the truth out loud is important and something sorely missing in politics in general.
>OK, I'm sure the front end dev has to deal with a lot of things the game dev doesn't need to touch

Yep, like NPM and various dependency hells. Maybe that's where the compensation difference comes from?
Others pointed out here in the comments, and elsewhere everytime this subject comes up, that Incognito window has a very carefully worded disclosure when you open it that websites can still track you.

I think any judgement saying that Incognito/Private Browsing/etc are lying unless they somehow prevent websites from knowing that you accessed the website would be downright technologically impossible, short of perhaps Tor browser, and even Tor Browser doesn't make this kind of guarantee.
I'm sure she does.
It's a HTTP proxy built into Opera, not a real VPN