skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distributism kinda sounds like what we had when we were first building the Internet (and what we still have): we all owned the means of production (a computer) and everyone contributed their own ideas freely and as they saw fit (frameworks, coding languages, software etc) and we all loosely banded together to come up with our own "rules" to run things, which we now call protocols. Later on, yes..we monetized the brains by hiring them and creating FB, Google, etc, but in a way, it seems like a rough idea of "distributism" built the internet. I think those catholic popes were on to something.
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I make software. Unlike many developers, I don't specialize in a particular language or toolset. Instead, I'm comfortable working with most anything. Need a plugin for Adobe Lightroom written in Lua? A memory tester written in Forth? An AVR firmware written in C? Those are all things I've worked on. Something else? I'm comfortable jumping in to it. If you need a very conventional website built with Rails, Django, Flask, or Sinatra, well... I can do that too.

I'm looking for projects ranging from hours to months.

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> the problem isn't in goals and measures, but in poor goals and measures.

Part of the problem is that, in some[0] cases, all measures are poor.

0: probably many, but it depends on how you count[1]

1: which, for that matter, goes right back to the original problem
CF-Connecting-IP is what we recommend using.

See https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170986-H... for details.
The requirements to open yourself up to a discrimination lawsuit are fairly high.

Legal doesn't have 'interview experience - net promoter score' or any other interview quality metrics as one of their KPIs, so they're happy to mandate the nuclear option because it gets work off their plate.
What's a 0.1Xer?
I am not trying to start any flamewar, I am just stating why Django is not good imo, simple as that
That's sad. For the senior levels, you can almost make that much in St. Louis.
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The page says "base salary only". I agree with you though. IMX it seems like there's way more variance in equity than there is in base salaries.
One reason I liked flash: You could disable malicious ads with flashblock without breaking 90% of the internet. With the cancerous growth of JavaScript APIs embrancing and extending on all that made flash evil that is no longer possible.
>TCP, the foundational protocol of the Internet, was never designed for a mobile environment.

Amusingly, this is actually not true. TCP was originally developed to run on an inter-network over two networks: the ARPANET which has the reliability characteristics of a "traditional" network, and an extremely mobile network with lots of packet loss: ship-to-ship packet radio.

TCP today seems very poorly suited for the mobile environment, but it was in fact originally designed for mobile.
I think it's easy to get stuck in a bubble where all your co-workers are highly compensated so of course it's normal.
200K base is not uncommon (after all the median here is 150k), but total comp >200K is very common.
If money is more important to you than the culture/non-monetary things the current job offers, then leave. You can try bringing it up to your manager and get into a higher position, where a raise would be appropriate, but when people try to leverage other positions against our business for higher salary, I deny them 100% of the time unless we are talking about a promotion that makes sense.
"power always whispers"

Isn't this exactly the opposite of how power has worked for 99% of human history? In order to establish exactly who's in charge, rulers and those in power have:

- Toured their lands

- Displayed strength via military

- Distributed their likeness (coinage, statues, paintings)

- Spread their messages via radio/television

- Established themselves as the head of organized religion

- Required homage

- Positioned themselves as figures of veneration

Historically, powerful lobbies such as the church, noble classes and guilds did the same types of things.

In modern times, the same thing happens - Putin isn't particularly shy about his degree of power (but I suppose he is deceptive about his wealth).
I've had similar experiences with myself. After high school I was prescribed two drugs in combination (Lexapro and Abilify) that helped me deal with and get a handle on my (serious) depression, and that was really easy. When I told them that I hated the way they made me feel and wanted to taper off of them once I was stabilized... that wasn't so easy.

At the end of the day I had to issue a sort of ultimatum: I was going to discontinue those drugs with or without their assistance, but recognized the risks of doing so and would prefer to do it with their oversight. I did it "against medical advise, but with medical supervision".

Years later I asked for and was once again prescribed Lexapro, but at a lower dosage and for a different issue. Apparently it was either Abilify or the combination of the two that caused my issues before.
This mentality is just regressive. I find funny such evil and stupidity can be carried out in the name of fairness and equality. Well done.
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and your point being ?
you can tell the difference in an impossible burger?

the only difference I can tell is that I don't feel full and then lethargic afterwards which is honestly part of the conditioned expected experience of eating meat, so I feel empty, but I can accept that. maybe we can make people feel the same way after eating a non-meat burger, with a benign chemical.
For most people, psychiatry is overkill, sure sure.

But heck, look at the diagnostic criteria for Bi-Polar,

> The mood disturbance is sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in occupational functioning or in usual social activities or relationships with others, or to necessitate hospitalization to prevent harm to self or others, or there are psychotic features.

That line about "marked impairment in occupational functioning" is a common theme in the DSM. (Hypomania has a lower threshhold, but still involves risk to self) If someone is able to live their life, hold down a job, isn't a risk to themselves / others, then they should be directed to a psychologist or therapist.

Bloody hell, the DSM says this, again and again and again.

In the must be met criteria for ADHD:

> There is clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with, or reduce the quality of, social, school, or work functioning.

Major depressive disorder, again, with this requirement:

> Cause significant distress or severely impact social, occupational or other important life areas

The diagnostic criteria is pretty on point.

But even so, misdiagnosis is possible. If someone comes in and says that they hate their job and their spouse is abusive, the correct solution is a lawyer / career training (probably in that order?), not a pill!

If someone comes in and says "my life has no meaning", maybe it isn't anhedonia, maybe the activities in their life legitimately aren't of interest to them!

We all feel social pressure to fit in with the culture we grow up with. The great thing about America is, if we don't fit in with that culture, plenty of other culture's abound! But first people have to realize that they can leave the culture they are familiar with if it isn't bringing them happiness.

We all know that one engineer who decided to be become a brick layer, and who is now super happy! Heck one of my friends and old co-workers went from being a preacher to coder!

We all need to realize that laying bricks is just as fulfilling and meaningful as writing code[1] and not being judgmental about people's choice to leave one career behind and go into another.

My masseuse used to be in the corporate world.

One of the best Chocolatiers[2] alive used to work at Microsoft.

Parents, if you kids aren't happy living the upper class lifestyle that you dreamed of when you were working your way up the ladder, then support them doing something else! Tell them that they don't have to live up to your dreams, or fit into the societal image of perfection created by the culture one is surrounded by.

[1] Possibly more so, the bricks are going to outlive 99.9% of code that is ever written, and will likely be appreciated by far more people.

[2] I've traveled to quite a few countries and found her equal, but none that surpass. http://bruggechocolates.com/
Koch industries is "probably" high, also an extraction company. Cargill is another (livestock, energy trading) But you don't know profits.
I think that asking really simple fizz buzz style questions in this context is probably fine. The whole point I think is to screen out candidates who can't do these sorts of assignments in ~5-20 minutes or whatever. With a take home assignment you'll get people who spend two hours or on your 15 minute problem which is the kind of person who I think OP is trying to filter out.

I think even if you're not the kind of person who can think on the spot with someone watching you well, you should be able to knock out fizz buzz style question in that setting quickly.
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I've been a developer for quite some time, and professionally for over 12 years. Like many of you, I've been frustrated with the software development process and the manual toil we have around that process - we want to solve problems in software, not in the way we write, test and deploy it!

That's why I'm excited by what my team at Walmart Labs does - the Developer Experience Tools team exists to create an amazing experience for the developer both within the Walmart Organization and outside with our Open Source contributions (see: http://testarmada.io/).

We're hiring right now, for a Staff level engineer to work on a set of automated tools to make measuring Client Performance of web and native mobile applications a breeze for developers.

We use javascript, nodejs, reactjs, redux and graphql heavily, but we're very much of the opinion that you should use the right tool for the job so there are no unnecessary limitations.

Our Carlsbad office is AWESOME, and the location - reasonably close to San Diego, right next to the ocean - is pretty fantastic. The office is a new location, a big upgrade on the previous location, freshly opened in October with onsite gym, and a short walk to the beach.

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Would be amazing to speak to folks who want to find cool ways to take all the hassle out of developing software. I don't care if you have a degree or not.

You'd be joining a great team with some excellent fellow engineers. No recruiters please, No agencies. Please reach out if you are interested in the role for yourself!

dstevens@walmartlabs.com if email is how you prefer to ask questions.
Really like what I read here. Simplifying the language is a great thing and really shows that they want to keep the language as simple as possible. Furthermore I love the mentions of 2 other languages I love. Both Pony and Zig are great. Amazing languages to look at for inspiration.
It is almost so good that I almost have to ask the classic 1st of April question, this isn't a joke right? I really hope not.
The tax benefits and better rates (which I think is a myth btw, but it shouldn't effect the argument either way) would be there regardless of who pays. It's still a group plan, the question is just about who is paying for it.

So given that, the difference between "we offer free health insurance" and "we pay you extra and let you opt in to health insurance" is purely academic for someone who wants to be on the group plan. Both the company and the employee end up with the same amount of money in the end, and the insurance is the same.

The reason I'd prefer letting people opt in is because it gives employees more choice. Maybe they want to use a different carrier. Or they get free insurance through their spouse's work. Or they're on Medicare. At the end of the day, it seems really paternalistic for a company to say to its employees "here are the things we want you to have, and instead of letting you choose, we're just going to buy it for you." All else being equal, I prefer a world where employees get money and spend it how they want.

Having said that, since there's no way to do that while also getting the convenience and tax benefits of a group plan, we decided to compromise and go with the employer-subsidized group plan rather than giving employees total freedom.
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ETFLogic is a fintech data analytics and quant tools company. We help our clients - ETF Issuers, Asset Managers, RIAs, FA and Corporates - make better investment decisions with Exchange Traded Funds and grow their assets. ETFs hold in excess of $5 trillion in assets globally. That number is projected to reach $30tr by 2030. Investor demand continues to drive innovation and complexity in the ETF landscape.

We empower ETF ecosystem members to better understand what is “under the hood” and gain an edge in investment trading decisions. We are building quantitative tools, analytics and trading signals around ETFs and their underlying assets.

This role would, in part, further researching and development in key areas: intraday fair-value pricing, portfolio construction, portfolio optimization, fixed-income pricing, factor analysis, liquidity analysis.

Prior finance experience in these areas is preferred.

Our tech stack is comprised of JS, React, Python, AWS, kdb+/q

We are currently a team of five and looking to expand. We are well funded with a strategic VC.

Please reach out with your resume: info at etflogic dot io.
By private, he means not public (i.e. no shares that the public can buy). It can still be owned by 100s of people (e.g. "employee owned").
Games development as a programmer. Lots of writing new code. Parents were artists and I very nearly majored in English. There's a lot of lessons I took from traditionally creative fields.
I finally noticed that "Not Interested" is an option in the YouTube recommendations' qebab menus (vertical ellipsis ⋮) to immediately hide the suggestion, and since discovering that have been very happy to use that on all clickbait titles, including just about every usage of the word RUINED. It might mean that I'm slowly getting better recommendations, but it mostly means that at least for the periods of time that the recommendations are on screen I'm not staring at a bunch of dumb negative words and things that don't interest me.

I'm still close to using a browser extension to disable the recommendations system entirely as useless garbage to me, but at least this one tool helps some.
Are you able to use vue components?
I would love to see how you manage your app js code with this approach.
I would just add that if you’re new to Django read https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com - there are ton of detailed explanations that go deep in how Django can be extended. It’s definitely not the run of the mill tutorial blog that is only surface level.
You talk with them. You've probably worked with enough people that you can sniff out the fakes
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We’re looking for engineers to help us accelerate our development. If you’re interested in having a huge impact on a small team, this is a great opportunity. We’re well-funded, but we’re still only 9 people: 4 engineers, 1 designer and 4 others. I’m one of those 4 engineers, and I’m also the technical co-founder. Please ask me questions if you have any!

Our stack is Python + Django on the backend, TypeScript + React on the frontend, but we’re more interested in working with people who are smart and capable than people from any particular background. If you have strong opinions about using different tech, we’ll hear you. Like most startups, we’re built on lots of open source tech and we plan on giving back. We value building a culture of inclusion and transparency. We care about diversity and hope you do too.

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"The only criteria I have for good code these days is "Does it work", "Can I understand it"."

Which of course, are not trivial to achieve by any means.

Maybe also add "Can my coworkers understand it?" Which might be a very different metric.

"I would have read, in their place, books on type theory and OS design, Posix, in other words things that actually help me build stuff and get things done and that I subsequently had to read later."

If you want to get very far with any of those, you will need to write "good code", as you have defined it. So maybe a better way to understand good code would be to read the code of large projects implementing the things you want to learn about?
5 actionable steps to prepare data for price optimization with machine learning
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My main expertise is JS/Node. I worked with Node from 0.6x in production, recently started committing to Node.js.

I'm offering help with:
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Django has a strong focus on backwards compatibility and has seen steady popularity for a long time.
I've always liked veggie burgers. The best ones are as good as very good hamburgers (in a different way). Some others are not so good.
On the one hand, source control is really the most basic thing you can find anywhere. It's really hard to find an actual development shop without source control.

On the other hand, outside of a tech company and with less than a dozen developers, don't expect to find any source control. Consultants see a lot of this shit, they work in all industries including where developers don't exist, with a lot of thrown away projects.

Funny thing. Git probably made it worse in recent years by being impossibly hard to use.
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We are an ambitious group here at Oasis Labs working hard to usher in the next generation of cloud computing by building a privacy first platform with blockchain technology. From sharing medical records, to analyzing personal financial information, to training machine learning models, the Oasis platform seeks to support applications that use even the most sensitive data without compromising privacy or performance.
We are growing our Engineering team, and have a particular need for Software Engineers with experience and a love for tackling client facing issues and building large scale web applications. We use vue.js currently.

Our company was founded in July of 2018 and is backed by a16z crypto (among other great VCs). We are very much in this for the long haul. If you are a Software Engineer looking to do meaningful work and tackle some of the more difficult challenges in this space please send an application through! We have 32 people on the team and 20 folks on Engineering with a relatively flat org structure, loads of autonomy, individual ownership, and career growth.

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They are not “highly unprofitable.”

Trust me, oil companies are not doing this for charity. Of course, when the price of oil is driven downwards on purpose by the Saudis ramping up production (as it was a few years ago), these higher cost methods of extraction can become unprofitable. But the price of oil is again in a range where these methods are profitable.
I am still trying to figure it out how to setup a Wireguard server on Kubernetes/GKE to personal use. Outline and OpenVPN clients have some problems that's why I want to try Wireguard.
Creating a Quasar Framework Application with AWS Amplify
Same here! Though I never truly felt comfortable in Angular. React was a game-changer for me though.
The title is really better labeled: "How much software engineers on triplebyte received in offers in SF, NYC, and Seattle"
How in the world are you supposed to estimate products of large numbers if you don't know the products of small ones?
This is black money, dark money now - - based upon an industry that is heavily contributing to global warming, and is time goes on will be under increasing environmental pressure. As the world transitions to electric cars and solar/wind - - - - petro will likely continue in chemicals, asphalt and fuel for what, tanker ships and airplanes ?
Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council
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We are a 5 person engineering-focused team building logistics software for the cannabis industry. We've built the app from the ground up using Elixir & Phoenix and are excited about being apart of the Elixir ecosystem. On the front end, we use redux/react and are getting into some GraphQL. We are closing a seed round and are looking to expand our engineering team!

Our software helps cannabis company's manage production of their cannabis products, deploy large scale sales team, invoice customers, fleet tracking, and more. We have over $300M in transactions per year passing through our platform and want to keep growing that number. We're looking for another engineer to join our passionate development team to take on critical feature development and help get us there!

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