skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(I'm in a product development company).
>The better senior developers leave to product development firms that pay better and have better quality work and work life balance, leaving behind newly joined junior developers who know less, but will accept what Infy/Wipro pays and work ungodly hours.

Do you think the work in product development companies are any better? They just get paid more. Most of the US captives in India will never send their most important product line to India. It is just maintenance of a product line which will be phased out. Most of the big semiconductor companies, networking companies are like this. Most of these companies hire contractors from the companies that you mentioned. They would have some stupid 8-10 levels of interviews to show that they are doing some serious work. After joining it would be a miracle if you are working on some sensible code base.

In fact I have personally seen that some of the work which these service companies are genuinely good which the product companies will never get. Unfortunately it gets ruined by the horrible developers and management there.
Languages without a big tech company behind do not get popular, all the popular new languages ahve big companies behind Rust,Go,TypeScript
> Why didn't the journalist at least cite the source of the informatoin?

The source is cited in literally the first sentence.

"President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported solar panels has led U.S. renewable energy companies to cancel or freeze investments of more than $2.5 billion in large installation projects, along with thousands of jobs, the developers told Reuters."

I'm not sure if you read this article or are just responding to comments/the title, but this article is just reporting a few statements from solar developers and isn't trying to tell you how to decide to interpret anything. They wrote the total dollar amount of frozen/cancelled investments and quotes solar developers. This is Reuters, it's a pretty boring neutral article.
But is their use of the DMCA valid? PewDiePie's usage of their content was most likely covered by fair use.
Facebook’s database team has many smart folks.
I doubt that the svk guy had that problem either.

His problem was, instead, "I took a year off work to produce a VCS and then saw the throne taken by git. My work has been forgotten and nobody uses it--not even me."
> I also think that explicitly not keeping logs to protect users from law enforcement is shady to say the least.

"Law enforcement" covers a variety of entities, from Mr. Friendly offering fatherly advice to fresh-scrubbed teens in Neverwas, IN to the people who brought us COINTELPRO and other folks throwing journalists out of windows in Russia.

I think it is more accurate to talk about "not keeping logs to protect users from entities who routinely traffic in violence" (among other things).

Ethics is hard.
Maybe it's an OS thing. I'm on macOS, and FF feels much slower than Chrome or Safari (all using uBlock Origin). One big thing is HTML5 video playback, FF really drives the CPU up, even on a 15" 2017 MBP. Page loading is also worse, even on basic sites like HN.
A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization [Talk]
Click "Demos" first. ;)
Any commitment is only until a better offer comes along. Better is a bit loosely defined as there is a cost of burning the bridge with you by jumping (be that a day after accepting or after 5 years of working there), but at the end of the day there this is a business relationship and the extent of our obligations are only spelled out based on any contract we have signed, and our social obligations only extend to the extent that the cost of violating the social obligation outweighs the benefit. Any employee who doesn't see the other side as doing the same is eventually going to get burned by it.
Side View Is the Firefox Feature I’ve Been Waiting For
What the Crypto Community Should Learn from GitHub's Acquisition
Streamline 3.0 – 30,000 icons
Nothing at all. My biggest indicators are, amount of commit activity, the recency of said activity, and most importantly how widely used is it?

Think Netty or Guava vs MyCollegeDataStructureLibrary

I never star repos myself so I suspect stars don't represent real endorsement. But using people using a library is.
This comment reminds me of "the banality of evil" concept.

src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#The_bana...
Add to that, the last bullet point from page 2 of the official preliminary report[1]:

At 3 seconds prior to the crash and up to the time of impact with the crash attenuator,
the Tesla’s speed increased from 62 to 70.8 mph, with no precrash braking or evasive
steering movement detected.

That to me is a strong indicator that Tesla's AP2 can not recognize a crashed attenuator, probably one of the strongest argument that AP2 without LiDAR is unsafe and fatal (let alone of missing the redundancy in sensors and brakes[2]).

[1]: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/why-selling-full-self-d...
Social democracy is the least painful solution within the current societal organization. That or mass labor movements. Otherwise unfettered capitalism will simply exacerbate inequality until things reach a tipping point - if billionaires and people that control the media don’t begin to shill for more redistributionist policies in the next couple decades they will have indirectly killed themselves
Dear Elon, want to start a website that rates how fake-newsy government-produced accident reports are? /S

"FDA said my farm is producing salmonella-infected chicken. Downvote their report on this URL!"
I agree. I'm a relatively junior developer (<2 years) and was told to create a proof-of-concept UI before the web api or db were designed. When the team eventually moved to build the supporting service and db, so many headaches ensued as certain data contract decisions that made sense for the UI don't necessarily work as-is for the service/db. Learned this the hard way
When evaluating projects for business projects, I'm going to look at github stars as a rough indicator of popularity and community. The larger the number of stars, the less likely the project will be abandoned, and the more likely it will be supported in some way. The immediate next thing I look at is the date of the last commit and the issues. How recent were the changes, how responsive are they to issues, how long do PRs hang around without comment? Then I start looking at documentation and potentially the code to see if this would fit my need.
Ask HN: Why Can't Phone Carriers Stop Spam Calls?
I think it would have been even faster if they'd test with SQL Server because you can do things with SQL Server that you simply cannot do in PG such as stored procedures that return multiple resultsets, which saves a ton of round-trips.
What is a secondment?
Shadertoy – crosshatching
For me it was also very interesting read, and I also reached a similar conclusion.

Such language features are still too complex for the regular kind of software development many of us do, as the whole team has to fully grasp it.
See also: https://keygen.sh/
Concurrency Kit: An open-source library for modern concurrent software
Could you elaborate about the headaches in the weekend? I also noticed I can not do much during the day without coffee but I never linked my headaches to caffeine.
Why would we take this article seriously? It's a bit of sexist toss to point out that "tech bros" are the issue. (They use the term to imply that it's men and that they're the dominate population within tech.. which isn't even close to being true)

The issue here is people who are over-promoted in the media and lack ethics.

Also in the article:

It goes from the use of stereotyping to the whole liberal "companies are bad" argument.
What interest rate does your savings account get?

Most of my savings are for short-term things currently (tuition mostly) and so it sits in a savings account with one of the higher APY banks (Ally, Alliant credit Union, and the like). However, when it's money I wouldn't have to pay back somewhere soon, it would definitely go to index funds.
How much of sleeping is explained by metabolism reduction/calorie conservation?
Tho sarcastic, I upvoted you because you’re on target.
Unemployment in tech is exceedingly low, and there have been more openings than workers for a while.

And the latter point is essentially the other side of the same coin as compared to the point that I'm making: it's whether prior people join or leave the system as a whole that ultimately dictates diversity.

I agree that tech isn't a closed system. But moving diverse candidates from one part of the system to another does not actually increase diversity. Getting people into the system does that.
Sure, or vscode, vim, IntelliJ, sublime. There are a ton of options.
By affirmative action I just mean policies that apply lower hiring standards for certain groups.

I have seen those examples too, but I don't believe they are very effective in practice.
The New Elevation 4.2 Feature: Correlated Behavior Analytics (CBA)
The world has changed a lot since the 90s. Microsoft is a pretty developer-centric company now. People should just chill out and see what happens.
I use stars as bookmarks, but i also use the watch feature to keep track of stuff i find interesting.
It does but try finding a developer looking to work on Angular 1
> People are getting hung up on the "savings" part of this. It could be a checking account, it could be cash in a jar.

People are "hung up" on it because, per the linked article, the survey literally asked about savings accounts. I have more money sitting in cash at home than I do in my savings accounts. The only reason my wife and I have savings accounts is Bank of America's Keep the Change thing.
Yep, I was following my now fiancee.

There are a lot of great mid-size cities out there--a hundred of them to choose from--and they're all cheap.

There's this prevailing attitude by city dwellers that living outside of NY, SF, Seattle, or <insert your tech hub here> is death, but that is an attitude borne from a lack of experience about life.

Life is sometimes great in midsize cities, and in many ways they offer more for less.
I bet (mad) scientists/inventors like Frankenstein, Jekyll, Herbert West, Tom Swift, and Tony Stark became less plausible as intense specialization became more and more common.
I guess I'm just curious how and where spam callers enter the telco system, and why they are so difficult to stop...
I learned the history and now I know Apple didn't do it first as I once thought. Nice. Thx.
> "Secondment is the assignment of a member of one organisation to another organisation for a temporary period. The employee typically retains their salary and other employment rights from their primary organisation but they work closely within the other organisation to provide training and the sharing of experience."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondment

The more common usage I've heard of this word is that someone has been seconded to another group.
Except for the part that they forgot to pay Sun for.
How many people have viewed this repository and decided to save it for later. Basically, how many people have bookmarked this project?
So even without interest, that's a 7200 cost that will take 180 months to get back (15 years). And this is also assuming there is zero maintenance and you will never need to replace the panels. I'd rather not be forced into this "investment"
The article isn't very deep, only pointing out a phenomenon by way of examples and without too much analysis.

I'd argue that villains need power to have teeth and believability. Our definition of power changes over time- that's why we don't see too many communist rebel Che Guevara knock-offs, for example, as movie villains anymore unlike in Predator or Escape from LA. But if it wasn't tech CEOs then tinpot dictators and rogue generals always work, because they're always in power somewhere in the world. There's also the archetype of the sinister senior intelligence apparatchik or bureaucrat as highlighted in Mission: Impossible, 24, the Bourne movies, and a ton of others even before the Snowden revelations or the Iraq War, because that's another example of American conception of power.

I'd argue that tech CEOs also make for an easy target because their public personas are often defined by their idiosyncrasies (Jobs' turtleneck, Bezos' shaved head) and perceived social awkwardness. Sometimes, in the case of Upgraded, it just feels cruel to stereotypically awkward or neuroatypical nerds. But there's at least one major counter-example: Ex Machina was a great Hollywood exploration of A.I. and the Turing Test, and its genius CEO villain was played by Oscar Issac as a charismatic, or at least chummy, non-stereotypical nerd.
« It’s impossible for me to speculate or comment about what may have happened under different ownership/management. »

You keep using that word, "impossible". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Body Positivity Is a Scam
Recently they appear to be going back to his roots as a mad scientist more than businessman.

... When he isn't busy being a straight up hero (barf)
Why would I want a crypto token instead of shares, though? With shares, I have ownership in the company, and I have a number of rights. With a token, I have precisely squat.
I thought it would create a random image based on my commit patterns...

Cool nonetheless but I'm a bit disappointed.
If I am paying into SS in my 20s and expect to get, say, $1000 per month in my 60s, and I responsibly design my 401k savings etc around that promise, and then have it taken away because I saved more than the average person then I will have a $1000 hole in my budget .

Itd be no different than a bank keeping the contents of my savings account and giving me the excuse "we changed the rules"
Discovering the power of pain
No demo? What about the "see it in action" link on the page: https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/
Uh, the US is at war now in Afghanistan and until 2011 was at war in Iraq. The USD is fine.

If WWIII breaks out, I’m betting the Internet (in its current open and international form) will be an early casualty. How’s that going to work out for bitcoin exactly?
Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder: A Chance of Permanent Side Effects
This definitely seems like an interesting product, but if you're an anti-piracy company then maybe you shouldn't be using a pirated font. If you check the Product Sans CSS file you're including, you'll see there's a notice that the font is not open source.
I'll start by saying that intent can matter a lot in ethics. Intent is the difference between a tragic accident and cold-blooded murder. I'll also add that I think your scenario is ethical, you don't have any obligation to put cameras around your house.

What's the difference between your scenario of a house with cameras vs. a VPN service not logging things? I'll be honest here, I could list out a bunch of differences between those two scenarios (houses tend to have a reasonable expectation of privacy while internet services may not, the likelihood of catching criminals and the severity of their crimes, the potential for abuse, in the case of your house you could always serve as a witness to a crime so cameras might be overkill, etc.) but I honestly don't know which one of those differences is the reason why I find one scenario to be ethical and the other unethical, or if it's some difference I haven't thought of (or I might be wrong!).

I'll admit my opinion here isn't fully fleshed out. Another thing is that I consider Tor to be ethical, even though that's essentially a VPN that doesn't log anything (from the perspective of not being able to respond to law enforcement requests, I know there are significant technical differences). In that case, I think the distinction is that Tor is meant to help fight censorship in authoritarian countries, and the fact that it can be used for nefarious purposes is an unfortunate side effect that doesn't outweigh the benefits.

Anyway, I do think there is a line between valuing the privacy of users and shielding them from legitimate law enforcement requests, but I'm open to discussion on where exactly that line falls.
Can this wearable remind you to not get distracted?
A 'startup' is a high growth type business, typically funded by VC (or something like that) and has nothing to do with the regular kinds of 'small companies' which are things like restaurants, cafes, contractors, small businesses etc..

The vast majority of new, small businesses in America are not very closely related to our modern view of 'startups'.

No, a startup is simply a business that is in the processing of "starting up" its business activities. Tech, growth rate, etc., has nothing to do with it. SV keeps trying to redefine the word, but the rest of America just isn't going along with it.
100% agree. I think this would even apply to non-remote jobs too.

I used to work remotely as a freelancer and I miss it so much. I now work in-house at an agency and everyone here fails so miserably at writing. Almost all discussion is verbal, nothing is documented and so much double-work happens it's not even funny.

To make matters worse, the agency doesn't use any project management software. So all projects have seemingly imminent deadlines. It's miserable.

If our team was more apt to learn, adapt and document more, we'd probably be a lot happier.
I'm surprised at how much dislike there is for the stars metric, and I wonder if it's an allergy that devs tend to have for software development metrics (which is understandable when they are abused).

I try my best, at minimum, to star anything I use on github as a way of supporting it , and in addition to other factors you mention, take this number as an indication of the likelihood it will continue to be developed.

Some discounting and adjustment sometimes needs to be done for projects that managed to get on the front-page for something 'cool', but then that's where the other factors help.
USDCHF: Weakens, Sees Further Downside Pressure
> Microsoft doesn't care about the developers. It cares about having the dominant platform.

It'll need to start caring to a degree, and catering to them, in order to achieve this
The High Price of Stale Grievances
If you purchase everything from a savings account you are going to get eaten alive in withdrawal fees.

Note the survey question literally asked about "savings accounts". I would answer that question with a number below $1,000, but I still have a significant reserve and no credit card balances.
On the surface that's what it is, yes. It's a dark pattern with dynamic content though, and the linked articles explain it better than I can.
I went to the Quantum Leaps site to check out their run-to-completion scheduler(s), one of the rare RTOS alternatives out there. They seem to have an incredible vision, yet, unfortunately, the site and the books make you want to stop reading and go alone.
>Yep. It took me about six months to write a replacement of ActiveRecord with an identical API (for what was needed) that could scale to arbitrarily large number of writes

Sorry to ask, would that be open sourced?

>It was 5 application servers, 4 MongoDB servers for the timeline with some crazy data structures, one or two MySQL DBs.

That is a little hard to warp my head around, because pre-A16z 500px was a long time ago? Hardware should be much slower and Ruby was way slower as well. We have 2-3x faster hardware and faster ruby today, and the same hardware surely won't do much with Discourse and Gitlab scale.
I wonder how this compares historically, adjusted for era. Any idea?
I think that ties into the example from the article where the writer hypothesizes a software service that could be replicated by a FAANG, and the resulting discouragement prevents the service from being either created or replicated.

Just out of curiosity, what services would you consider insufficiently provided by the big tech companies?
Sorry you were downvoted for asking a legitimate question. Other commenters have spoken to the land piece, but not to the actual solar/storage cost side. Most of these insanely low bids are produced based on extrapolating the cost decline of solar and storage to the future point where the plants will actually come into operation. If they had to buy everything right now, they might not be able to achieve those costs per kWh, but plants take time to build, so there is an assumption of further declines in acquisition and operating costs over the next several years baked in (in this case, the target date is 2023).
The Millenial Moment
"Startup culture" is entwined with VC culture because the notion of businesses wanting to remain in an unprofitable state in perpetuity (i.e., in perpetual "startup state") was unheard of in the past. Most businesses try to move past the startup phase in their first few months or weeks of operation.
There's a huge difference between being first world poor, and third world poor.

Just my experience, but my first world poor friends, without exception are all bad with money. They have little understanding of how money actually works, have terrible spending habits, are incredibly risk averse, and carry a "money is evil" mindset.

If it's possible for you to live within your means (edit: putting aside illness, addictions, felonies etc), you can build wealth at a good rate in the first world. You may never be a multi-millionaire, but you can be financially secure and stable.
Have you heard of VOIP? Anyone, literally anyone, can sign up for a VOIP phone number from anywhere in the world. They might get "stopped" after a few hundred complaints, but that isn't much of an impediment...
I would argue that MySQL became popular because it was free, not because it was particularly better technology. We were, and still are, in that space (database engines), and experienced it all first-hand. It's really, really hard to compete with free, especially when you're talking about adoption rates and customer numbers with potential customers.
There's a setting for it, but it does not turn off many different types of these notifications.

I have it turned off, and the last 15 notifications are friend activity that has nothing to do with me.
>If you really did mean to imply that an ideal Santa Claus literally exists in a literal universe of perfect ideal forms

In philosophy, this is "Platonic Realism" quite different from "platonic", the lower case helps convey information. You make a mistake by assuming "platonic" explicitly conveys "Platonic Realism", given there are many "Platonic *" theories, such as "Platonic Idealism". Because of the ambiguity, as you correctly acknowledge, you are expected to understand it as the wikipedia article on "Platonic" suggests (as some sort of abstract object): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic

"Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called "Platonic" or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which do not imply acceptance of that philosophy as a whole."
> The scariest thing imaginable is a truly efficient government.

but, doesn't it depend upon what the government's doing?

if the government is efficiently preventing mining companies from pouring cyanide into waterways, regulating large Wall Street banks and building safe and ubiquitous mass transit to replace large swarms of polluting vehicles -- is that scarier than every other scary thing?
It's almost as if, no matter what these advertising networks do, you can always reason in hindsight that it profited someone ...

It's almost as if, because it's rumoured to have powerful, dark & unknowable Machine Learning behind it, people assume it must be doing something reaaaaaally clever, and we're just not clever enough to realise what it's truly masterminding.