skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve actually been in this exact situation quite a few times. I finally found a safe space to work where I’ve been able to prove to myself that I actually am a skilled developer.

PIPs have no appeal process. Many developers are forced to work on menial bugs while simultaneously being promised more freedom “soon”.

Every company is constantly hiring because every company has drastically high turnover. Burnout is a very real thing in the field, and it shouldn’t be considered the norm.
The thing is, an 'average person' has no real idea or mental model of what five years in prison actually entails. They haven't been locked up ever, even for shorter stretches, and most likely neither have their friends. Basically they know its bad, but with no frame of reference it gets left at that and filed away as irrelevant anyway since prison happens to other, bad people. So there's no way to make a risk calculation about e.g 6mo vs 5y sentences, they are both just vague bad things. Monetary fines work because people understand money and what losing a sum of money means because they deal with money all the time. I assume corporal punishment works too, since everyone has experience with pain?
"If you’re the typical, low-status, open-plan programmer, forced to interview for his own job every morning in “Daily Scrum”, then all the bad things that unions can bring have already happened at your job"

Seems like a rather cynical take.
Lens doesn't give you mutability. It gives you operations that look like mutations but are still operations on immutable data structures. And that is where the value lies.
> This is how the world looks to the average fish:

Fishes don't experience the world at all like humans do, so comparing one sense (visual) and drawing conclusions from there is just anthropomorphism. There's a lot more to detecting their environment than vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_systems_in_fish
Shortcuts.design
Glad I found this video: https://theannoyingsite.com/hasan.mp4
Did you forget to include the quote where they claim it causes cancer, or did you not include it because it doesn't exist?

You're trying to imply something you have no evidence for.
except their jobs
Reminder that the post is specifically about Software Engineers and not IT workers in general.
Developing iOS apps as a minor
Shunning of heretics was ostensibly done to defend the honor of God. The fact that it increased the power of the people doing the shunning was surely viewed as a means to a noble and right end, just as today.
Reminder that the majority (>51%, “most” as the article title states) of software engineers are not highly compensated. My points still stand. I have no doubt those highly compensated are comfortable with the status quo, and have quite a bit to lose from unionization. All the more reason for the majority to organize despite it being against the interests of a smaller privileged subset.

From the Bureau of Labor (“software engineer median salary”):

“The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $59,870, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $160,100. The median annual wage for software developers, systems software was $107,600 in May 2017.”
Scala, like, enables and encourages immutability, while making regular Java stuff and practices also entirely available (excepting a few Java varargs situations that perplex Scala's notion of arity). This article is, sort of, related to ideas on avoiding mutability anyway.
I have had a bunch of experiences in Europe where I get told what’s wrong with America. I like how America is so self critical and wants to improve itself. But most of these Europeans have no idea what they’re talking about. I had a Brit tell me how sickened he was that 40% of Americans were Christians that literally only support Israel in order to create a holy land that will survive the apocalypse. He was so convinced that when I returned home I asked my religious friends what they thought. I can’t find a single person who believes anything remotely close to that. And definitely not a part of the calculus for supporting Israel.
What about the phone line though? You need a 56kbps modem or something?
Even if only 0.1% of the population are true sociopaths, that still means 1/1000 people simply don’t feel empathy. What motivates this type of individual is often very different than the majority of people.

I don’t think I’ve known any sociopaths but I worked with pathological liar with grandiose visions of himself. He would compulsively tell stories that were obviously untrue, like getting a $100,000 tip for delivering a pizza, or his college professor telling him that he was smarter than all the students so completing a degree would be a waste (explanation for dropping out). He would also lie about the tiniest things routinely, even when it didn’t help him. This was in fast food, and he was the manager.

It doesn’t matter how modern society is, these sorts of people will always exist.
I don't think it requires going to court. This discovery is known as a "Norwich order", and while there's a burden of evidence to prove that the order is justified, it's not a "battle" and the ISP wouldn't be trying to argue against it.

There was actually a very recent SCC case [1] between Rogers and a copyright enforcer, where Rogers was appealing a federal court decision that Rogers itself had to bear the cost of fulfilling these orders. If that stood, it would give copyright enforcers carte blanche to pursue copyright suits against minor violators.

[1] Commentary here: http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/750214/Media+Entertainment+La...
Hey! :D

Yeah, so @rogowski in the community has prototyped 37% of it on the AXE github branch!

I haven't had time yet myself, it would at least be several months, but the more people that team up with him (you up for joining!?) then obviously the faster it could get out.

Part of my delay is GUN works & scales well enough without needing AXE for now, so we're focusing on creating better experiences for those millions of users, to then drive more adoption to AXE when things actually start costing more.
Sorry, I don’t know MAIOs are, but a JUUL is 100% as addictive, I’d argue more because of its accessibility and the fact it doesn’t have other side effects — a casual smoker turned JUUL-addict.
This is why I prefer being homeless in the Bay Area to going anywhere else to live for cheap, as people invite me. I spent like 4 days in a nice place in GA, in a downtown without baguettes, and came right back. I can shop at organic markets and coops everywhere. The high rent is a better cost than gas when housed.
If that’s how you choose to define ownership, fine. So what?
... implying that it is so fundamentally unsound that simply disagreeing with it counts as mockery.

but again whatever evidence you may have in your individual situation: the belief that "I'm getting a good deal" is exactly how a mark gets conned.
Classic mchurch. He's had bad experiences with some companies in the bay area. You can read his (many) rants about Google for instance.
Spent a pretty good deal of time leaning about cryptogrophy and security devices like Yubikey. I love technology but it is more of a hobby than anything.
keep in mind this program only compensates victims of adverse reactions, but that’s only one of many different types of iatrogenic harms that can be caused by vaccines.
Cool! And they should also adopt UK-like government web design principles.
> You can either drive 5 minutes into town and go to the Dollar General for most of your basic needs, or you can drive a half hour to the nearest city with a Walmart / Target / etc.

I'm intrigued by these time estimates. Living in a suburb of Santa Cruz (just south of the Bay Area), the choices are similar. Completely inadequate corner store (much worse than DG) locally, or drive to a location with real stores. That drive is a minimum of 15 minutes depending on the store you want.

But I feel like people in beach communities around the Bay Area would struggle with the idea that they're just as remote as hicks in rural Iowa.
Agreed. But I think aviators still use this term to describe "something I can't make out." I suppose it's the likely origin of the term.
I’m curious too, and a bit jealous.
In fact, I felt this coming since quite a long time. One day, they abrubtly shut down their Pi (serverless K8s) without a notification. Their forum was deserted. A little activity in Slack. Nothing but these.
That it's all the same methods is the issue. Honing a censorship apparatus on random people is how it becomes sharp enough to do real damage.

When you find a tiger loose in a city, the response should be to do what it takes to get it off the streets, not that we should be thankful that everything is fine because so far it has only been hunting puppies.
Oh yeah, that figure was the rate in pre agricultural societies.
Coinbase is the most likely company to turn out the next Elon Musk, PayPal Mafia
Ask HN: How to Roll Down a Stripe Atlas C Corp?
tldr: I realize the answer to this is "talk to a lawyer" but I'm curious of what the process looks like.

The long story is that I formed a corp using Stripe Atlas earlier in 2018. We were making plans and had done some prototyping, and it seems like a good step to solidify things. Following that my cofounder has had a lot of life changes going on, some negative some positive the are going to require them to move aboard. We realize that this isn't a great recipe for building a successful company so we're figuring out proper steps to close it down and maybe do something else in the future if we're ever living in the same city again.

We're on good terms so there is no current conflict and I don't anticipate any. We didn't issue stock, and didn't assign any of our work to the corp. But I'm unsure of what the process looks like to roll this down so that we don't have an unexpected tax bill or something like it come up later.
Personally I think that if organized labor is to have a chance to be remotely successful in Software engineering it needs to break away from the old assumptions that don't hold any more including commoditization. They might have some luck if they established sufficient ground floors (limiting crunch time and death marches, setting rules for what they can be expected to be required for late changes - bonuses for rushes being fine, etc.) instead of uniformity.

I am not familiar with the fine details of labor but I suspect the Screen Actors Guild would be a better fit as a template. The actors are anywhere from minor extras to superstars.
Pretty much every year on that chart is a low point for cigarette smoking compared the years that preceded it.

Note that 2015 is not when teens started vaping. It's when whoever collected this data started paying attention to vaping.

I'd rather teenagers weren't using any tobacco products whatsoever, but I'm pretty sure inhaling vaporized ecig juice is much better for people's health than cigarette smoke.
He isn’t really in Neil Armstrong’s shadow because he chose to be a highly public figure and Armstrong retreated to a private life. He is now much more of a celebrity with his punch and everything.
Mapbox Embedded Maps Collect Your Location Data
Fun fact, Fuse.js uses a copy of a Google bitap implementation[0].

They originally[1] mentioned this, but the license was removed[2] when the moved some files around.

[0]: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/blob/master/javas...
[1]: https://github.com/krisk/Fuse/commit/42b082fb1607ddc74e3d848...
[2]: https://github.com/krisk/Fuse/commit/ad2f06a39a483a75e7c697d...
> These sorts of policies hurt the poor, and to a lesser extent, small businesses, while helping no one.

Public choice theory tells us that they help politicians who would like to campaign on the back of "I signed a bill ensuring access to healthy food for poor people".
No. But I've

1. got it logged out on devices.

2. Wrote a script and used it to unfollow all the people and pages I follow.

3. Clicked not interested for a few days after on any ads or things that FB tried to still force into my news feed

1 month later I found I have no urge to visit the network anymore. I pop over there once a week or so when I want to check the FB page of a restaurant or to see events happening around me but I'm 100% in control of how I use the network.

I'd love to delete it for privacy reasons, but there's a lot of value to be had in the network which I can't truly be rid of.

Some other notes: FB's behaviour becomes pathologically "interesting" when it senses it's losing your engagement. You get to see just how many paths it tries to take to draw you back in. Right now it's down to what I believe is the last resort. My notifications are filled up whenever I choose to login to FB. And they are filled with "person X posted something". I never click them but I imagine that to someone still trying to wean themselves off FB, it'd be an effective way of trying to pull them back in.
> Crypto is dead

Agreed. I think 2019 will be the giant finale. Think tons of scandals, SEC shenanigans, and one big nail in the coffin to finish it all off (probably will be something related to how China has over 51% of the mining compute power).
I'm a software developer. I don't get overwhelmed by bigger problems anymore. I've gotten really really really good at debugging. I was good going in, but I've gotten a lot more experience. I am now able to confidently lead a team on a project. My ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical members has significantly improved. I care more about my technical skills, how I do my job, my professional image, and my career direction than I did when I started. When I first got started I had a very, "this is just a job" attitude.

My real first job was McDonalds, but I'm assuming we aren't talking about that.
Isnt it Microsoft windows registry?
Getting sort of off subject, but one of the things I liked about this set of mods was that they were entirely server side. It got a bit awkward in that it required text commands in the place of interfaces in a lot of places, but it meant that the difficulty of getting people to join was a lot smaller. I think at the peak it was still fairly small but a healthy 100+ on most days.

My first big bit of software development was a mod that ended up getting used on the server and that's still updated by some of the copycat servers that got created after.
This article, given the option of describing temperature increases as from "3 degrees to 7 degrees F", chooses to report them as "1.5 to 4 degrees C". It's as if the thinking is, "Yeah, Fahrenheit makes these numbers look bigger and almost every American is thinking about the heat on a hot summer day in Fahrenheit, and would love to avoid adding another 7 degrees to a 100-degree day, but ..."
Yes, but if you try to sell it, that gets noticed, and the copier has DMCA problems.

Also, scripting is entirely server side, so that's not copyable.
You can access the Reserve's information online as part of the Federal Reserve System's Open Government webpage implementing the Open Government Directive from 2009: https://www.federalreserve.gov/open/open.htm

Despite all that, the Federal Reserve is not a government institution, so such legislation would be similar to singling out your business to post all information in machine readable format online.
I normally like CityLab, but the tone of this article really grates on me. Calling dollar stores parasites? The article casually notes that without these stores many poor or minority communities would be true retail deserts, but it offers no workable alternatives. Only invective.

Every Dollar General I've ever been in has dairy, eggs, a competent selection of canned and dry goods (pasta, beans, etc), baking goods, and a good (if basic) selection of fresh fruits and vegetables.

It's not the dollar store's fault if the surrounding community insists on frozen pizzas and soda.
This cheap food tastes really great when you put expensive food on top of it!
Most of android apps use it as well ;)
I thought about it, but I came across some interesting groups that shared the same interests I do and I now primarily log into facebook to check what has been posted in those groups, responding to comments on my comments and commenting on other discussions.

Before I came across those groups, I would occasionally log in and see what on the newsfeed. Now I don't really remember the last time I checked my news feed.
I think OP is referring to carcinogenic effects linked to red meat - in some ways it‘s healthier because its iron is the easiest to absorb, in some ways it‘s not by giving you 20% or so higher risk of intestinal cancer if you consume more than a certain amount - don’t remember the details. My stance is, duh, everything at the right dose (like 30-50g per day on average would be my bet for red meat and red fish). Plenty of animal protein sources are AFAIK not linked to adverse effects as long as you‘re not overstressing your kidneys, i.e. eggs, white meat/fish, cheese.
Here's a quick overview of how OrbitDB works.

A "database" in OrbitDb is a single document or single log, with fixed at creation write permissions. So if you would want ten users to each be able to write their own log of data, but not touch the other's, then you would have ten separate OrbitDB "databases". Anyone can read.

Each new piece of data is an "Entry", and is written to its own IPFS address. Each entry contains a bunch of IPFS address pointers - to the last entry on that "database", to any extra entries you found out about, and to a bunch of previous entries (just to speed up reading). So given one entry, you can keep recursively crawling all previous IPFS addresses contained in them, to discover all previously known entries that make up that database to that point. The entries work a lot like git commits. It's a sweet DAG.

In order to get started knowing the state of a database, you have to have the latest "head" entry. To do this, you need some way of talking live to other OrbitDB "peers" hosting that database, and asking them for the latest head entries. OrbitDB does this through IPFS PubSub, looking for other peers subscribed to the same database, and exchanging latest head entries with them. Importantly this means that if no one is currently online with your database, then you can't get the current state of it.

OrbitDB (and IPFS PubSub) are definitely, absolutely not production ready. But that's another topic.
I refer to that sort of thing as "Necessity is one hell of a drug" - it makes it so easy and limits self reflection if you can claim that every horrible thing you did was necessarily. It isn't wrong - indeed it is now right. And like nearly all fixed output feedback loops it can go wrong very rapidly.
A 10th percentile software developer makes $65k [0], around twice the median personal income.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

EDIT: I see you have updated your post with the same stat, but you don't seem to understand what it means. Even the lowest-paid software developers are the class enemy that solidarity is built to fight.
Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales
1. Regularity (predictability)
2. Practice
3. Immediate feedback

i.e. conditions for learning
There is some evidence suggesting an association between red meat consumption and colorectal cancers. I don't think the link is well-enough understood to suggest it's a causal one, but I also don't think it's any longer supported to flatly dismiss any possible links out of hand like that.
There are many good reasons to unionize, but aligning the argument with Jira and daily standups may not carry much weight.

The #1 reason is that HR no longer represents the best interests of employees. They serve to protect the company, leaving employees with zero representation.
What’s the motivation for quitting caffeine? I’d expect a lot more people to quit smoking even though it’s harder because it’s horribly unhealthy, expensive, and increasingly taboo.
What can one individual do when 25 corporations worldwide are responsible for 51% of carbon emissions, and 100 corporate entities are responsible for 71% of emissions? [0]

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[0]: https://www.sciencealert.com/these-100-companies-are-to-blam...
I’m comparing income distribution (~$100k delta top to bottom, not including ISOs and RSUs) within the software engineering domain, not software engineers to non-engineers.
Oatmeal is not bland goo. It’s the black hoodie of breakfast. Gets the job done for a decent price to let you focus on stuff that matters.
That's a real shame, because we wouldn't have a federal debt if we didn't have the Federal Reserve. More people should actually know how it works.
I'm not sure which exact path for advancing humanity into space is the best. Perhaps there are better ways than colonizing Mars.

However, in general, there are immense resources and energy sources in space that can benefit humanity. Pioneering space will also require many technological advancements that will benefit people back on Earth.

There is also the question of learning about the universe. If, for example, there was bacteria on Mars, that would one of the greatest discoveries of all time.

I don't think your comparison is fair.
Totally agree. While I am traditionally anti-union (I have seen too many rubber-room situations and ridiculousness,) SAG or the WGA are actually good models for software engineers. It recognizes minimums, but doesn’t have maximums and “merit” is determined by whatever the market is willing to pay. So a superstar first time writer can make millions of their script warrants it, while journeyman script re-writes are assured getting paid scale. The teachers unions are exactly the opposite: you get more pay for seniority and the implication is that seniority necessarily means “more valuable” when that isn’t necessarily the case.

Although I am economically very far right, I could get behind a WGA model for software devs. I would be happy to join such an organization. But a teachers union style union.. no way.
It's pretty interesting to read how concerned society is about vaping. Personally, I put caffeine and nicotine on the same "drug" level. Though caffeine is so ingrained in our culture (in the US) that kids at the age of 16 drink 3-4 cups of coffee and no one is concerned about this. I agree that there needs to be regulation for the marketing of vaping (like any other substance) but I am way more concerned about opioid usage (like during wisdom teeth removal) and NSAID abuse than vaping abuse. I wish we can prevent all kids from using any sort of drug since their brain gets permanently hardwired before the age of 18, but that's life and you sometimes gotta let a kid live a little. I rather have my kids grow up in a place where they can make their own decisions as long as they're educated about it rather than all of us being tiger parents leading our kids towards a dystopian society of all health but no fun.
I recommend this post as well: https://medium.com/@gcanti/introduction-to-optics-lenses-and...

The author of the post is also the author of a TypeScript port of Monocle for Scala.