skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't experienced it myself, though I've read about it a lot. As far as I see it, the code is actually somewhere in the real world, on a whiteboard, on paper or on anything else. That means that, to change the code, you actually need to be able to touch that paper/whiteboard/whatever. If you have a visual or mobility impairment, you're excluded.

We're confusing two notions of accessibility here. Dynamicland is more accessible for a normal user who wants to tinker under the hood (compared to closed source apps). It's less accessible for individuals who need alternate representations of the digital reality. With Dynamicland, the code is actually stored in the real world and the computer merely interprets it. If you can't manipulate the real world, you can't manipulate the code. When you use a normal computer system, the program is stored inside that system and you can use any input/output device to manipulate it. That includes keyboards, touchscreens, screen readers, switches, voice control or even brain computer interfaces. Using them to manipulate something written on a whiteboard is impossible.

While I agree with the goal of making software and systems more open to the average person, I think solutions like Smalltalk, that don't distinguish between the code itself and it's manifestation and let you open any system and tinker under it's hood, along with better programming literacy taught in schools are the way forward. I agree that smartphone screens with their addictive qualities aren't the best option out there, but I don't think Dynamicland is the solution. Something akeen to it, using AR, or even better, Matrix-like VR when that becomes a thing, would be actually a much better solution. Sadly, we're not there yet.
You think a government payment system is going to be less complex? Won't demand correct documentation? Have you ever dealt with a government records system?

Billing codes are already standardized.
Someone else did not blame you, you made the choice for yourself.

You call it blame, but that's the wrong word.

> Edit: I spent a lot on a tiny flat just to live in a dense city so I can bike to work and heat my place as little as possible.

That didn't help anything though. If you didn't get that flat, someone else would have. In the net you made no change at all.

> I can't do much more to limit CO2 emissions actually

Isn't that kind of the point the person you are replying to is making? You can't do anything else, and the one thing you did do, didn't even help.

> but I'm certain that those who make $180k to do haircuts because fracking are responsible one way or another.

And you don't see how this kind of attitude makes things worse? This is a system issue, not an individual one. If any individual (even a huge number of them) decided "I won't", someone else will, so their action did nothing whatsoever.

This isn't going to change at the individual level.

The person you are replying to has the correct idea: Change things so that naturally everyone switches to the better behavior, without blaming or saying "your fault".
My impression is that the schools are endlessly looking for a way for kids to learn without effort and teachers to teach without doing any work.

It's like giving a jogger a car. He arrives at his destination faster and easier, but didn't get any stronger.
Cant speak for gp, but I'll probably go non-apple hardware when my current laptop dies. About the only thing I haven't seen better for non-apple laptops is the touchpad. To me, the 2010-2012 was slightly more usable than my 2014 rmbp.

Other laptops now match or better the display, and many have better keyboards, though all laptop keyboards suck compared to mechanical (buckling spring, or cherry mx browns) imho. TBH though, I mostly use a deskop, or my work laptop on a dock. I see no upside and a lot of downside to current Apple hardware though.
Yeah, I’m a happy meat eater and will actively defend having meat options at workplace cafeterias for example, but that is exactly the analogy that pops to mind. I would be grossed out eating meat cooked on the same grill as human meat, and expect vegans to be grossed out the same way by food cooked on the same grill as animal meat.
They're missing out, I love working with people with a varied background, it's great when someone has experience in other fields.
Have you considered that they have given the other side(s) a fair look as users and found them unacceptably lacking? From my perspective as someone who regularly uses all three major desktop platforms (Windows, macOS, a Linux distro with Gnome), I find macOS has given me the least trouble by far. I think it's fair and reasonable for developers to avoid platforms that they wouldn't actually use themselves.
Not sure that was necessarily a good thing. Were I a consumer in a country with a crappy car manufacturer, I'd definitely not be pleased that I couldn't buy a better car simply because my government was protecting the crappy car manufacturer's business.
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Why can't pneumatic tubes do this?
My impression of Impossible Burger v1.0 was that the pinkish/uncharred bits had an odd sweetness and moisture/texture that made it most distinguishable from a beef burger. With 2.0, the texture is a bit more firm and beef-like, and it seems they've put less emphasis on the 'bleeding' which I think has reduced the sweetness as well.

I had a notion that I intended to test with v1.0 that it would be more convincing if you charred the hell out of it and made it more like an overcooked burger, however I never did test it, and I also read that it didn't perform well (fell apart, etc) if too overcooked. However, I did really like the flavor and texture of the most charred bits of the burgers I did have.
> Do they have data about how their candidates perform after hire? 2 yr performance reviews? 2 yr turnover rates? How do they market to the recruiters who are their true "customers"?

Software engineering hiring, and Triplebyte as a company, at least think about, and make an attempt to evaluate these concerns. Have you ever seen how non-technical people (sales/marketing/finance) are evaluated? I'd argue Triplebyte at least moves the needle a bit versus in other fields.
I've been trying to follow the yellow vest protests but media attention has died down here is in the US.

How many people are protesting at this point?
Are the protests getting worse in damage and severity?
Is the French government actually solving problems or just cracking down harder?
it is more frightening how quickly citizens of most countries willingly give up their privacy and freedoms to their government over the promise of a cookie or promise of keeping other people away from the same cookies.

politicians in the West excel at exploiting fear and jealously to obtain more authority, divide and conquer.

The US would only end up in dictatorship through court packing or a moral authority faction taking over; by moral I do not mean religious. pretty much look at countries where politicians declare a group of haves to be illegal or unjust and you get the idea.
SD Reader was, in my opinion, more honest and willing to do municipal reporting requiring attention to detail than the Scripps/Tronc-owned UT, which was often a vehicle for whatever local real-estate magnates wanted to be in print.
> Or, in other words, you’re not for getting politics out of software - you’re for getting politics that you don’t agree with out of software.

Well yes, but I would be okay with the same being applied against me. Of course some basic level of politics is necessary (like licenses) if you want to count that as politics.

I won't go and put taxation politics, immigration politics or any other specific politic matters into my code or EULA. I expect this of other software as well. I don't want any unnecessary politics in the software when there clearly is no reason for it.
I agree. I'd also say Triplebyte's interview process is pretty challenging, more so than big 4 etc for entry level. Being able to pass it is something I'd consider a strong signal.
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Woah, how does Google Cloud still not support budget capping?

It has budget alerting, so the capabilities are obviously there, but it's never been added. Instead, there's just a vaguely insulting guide on writing a script to catch the alert and trigger a shutdown...
Me for like 7-8 years. Just building boring intranet apps (some are CRUD, some have a little workflow but nothing too complex) for a public sector organization with only a light touch of JS (some Jquery if needed) and everything else Django request + response.

It may seem boring but it is the most productive setup I've ever experienced; I don't think that there's anything more powerful for such things (except maybe some IDEs like PowerBuilder however I think that these are way too niche on their capabilities; they may be fast and easy to create the thing that they know how to create but god help you if you need to create something more complicated; Django on the other hand is a general purpose framework; whatever you throw at it it will happily eat)
I don't think that Burger King is getting a Kosher certification any time soon, so I would think that those who don't require a restaurant to be properly certified understand the risks that they are taking.
No, it is in the base of the system. I just did an install of the base system and it is there.
There used to be dumbphones for elder people with big buttons at retail stores not too long ago (at least at my place). Maybe these aren't advertised on the web.

Edit: don't know about US, though
Kudos to TripleByte for their efforts in making this kind of compensation information public! I referenced it during my last performance review discussion in an effort to negotiate for a raise that would bring my comp more in line with what was listed as the median in TripleByte's data.

I was pretty firm on insisting on a bigger raise based on that data, after which my boss's boss came in with the big guns. They had a spreadsheet of compensation data collected by investors in the startup, and this data was collated across all their (and other) portfolio companies.

It was broken down by total funding, company size, years of experience, role, all that. IIRC, it was Option Impact: https://www.advanced-hr.com/. I wish I could've looked at it more, such interesting information with specific numbers. Of course, that will never be made public, much to the detriment of the workers in tech.
I think it's a great opportunity for exposure for these new meat alternatives, and also a potentially great income boost that will help them expand operations and secure their future business.
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I've never gone so far as each model getting its own file. Interesting idea.
Here is one trial there are 100's of others on the same website.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01441440

P.S. My statement wasn't an anecdote.(I think you're using that word incorrectly)
> As for me personally, without deadlines I tend to procrastinate.

I agree. Deadlines are highly motivating and help me determine scope of work I need to do.

"Make a tool that does X. You have infinite time."

Me: "Great! Maybe I'll implement it in Rust, I've always wanted to learn that. Or maybe I just research for a few days what's out there. And I'll need to think about testing infrastructure of course and benchmarking..."

vs.

"Make a tool that does X. We need it by Friday so we can use it for Y."

Me: "Ok! I can probably whip up something quick and dirty in python that gets the job done!"
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For the sleep, try wearing blue light blocking glasses all day until you are able to sleep reliably. It sounds ridiculous but I read a study in the Journal of Bipolar Disorder a few years back (can't find a link right now) about this. I've given a pair to a friend suffering from a multi-day manic phase (with zero sleep) and it stopped it dead in the tracks, within six hours in this case.

It makes you look a bit dorky but it's better than not sleeping (or mania).

The product used in the study (and the one that I've seen work) is:

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When I read the comment, I thought about companies like Boeing, Airbus, Intel, ARM, Bayer... They sound very capital intensive but I think they could still be more efficient if they were broken up.

If you were to analyse these companies, they are already in fact be broken up into hundreds or thousands of small teams. The difference is that these small teams are not separate businesses; they are often not held directly accountable for their work and they do not reap the rewards of their own work (incentive is missing) and so the company has to spend a huge amount of resources to implement checks and balances to make sure that everyone stays in line and this slows everything down to a crawl.

Most people who work for big companies are focused on office politics instead of value production.

People who work for corporations are subjected to coercion (and managed through fear) on a daily basis under the pretext that it's more efficient in terms of value production... But in reality, corporate coercion is only useful as a mechanism for capturing value, not to produce it. The real goal of corporate structures is to channel existing output value into a small number of shareholder hands but it causes a reduction in the total output value and greatly reduces workers' ability to capture the value that they produce.
These comments are crossing into spamming HN. Please don't do that.
(off topic) Is there any reason you seem to have replaced the a in vegan with an asterisk? It happened twice so I am guessing it was not a typo? I am just curious? Is it like x86 or something?
The annoying bit is that people as a whole don't seem to account for all variables all that well.

Sure, your weekly grocery bill may be $20 higher, but due to better wealth distribution, your salary might be $50/week higher. Most people just see "it costs more" without recognizing that they still benefit, if they could only make the deeper analysis.
Haha, my dad advised me to sell stock in companies that embark on a massive headquarters project. It's not just a curse - management spends their effort designing the HQ rather than working on the business.
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I linked to the now infamous Django PR that removes the words "slave" and "master" and said I stopped using django since then (after writing it is a great framework).
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Mostly because HN has a custom markup solution and attempts to reformat single-line breaks, requiring the use of monospace for ANY level of control over formatting at all, and otherwise restricting everything to separated paragraphs that are difficult to read.

If I'm wrong and it allow either limited BBcode, white-listed HTML entities for markup, or some flavor of Markdown please let me know.

I would love to have ACTUAL bullet points and text that flow wraps per line, with any newline I enter becoming either a P block if it's a paragraph, or a <br> tag if it's not followed by a second newline.
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Thinking the same... my 5yo desktop at home is a hackintosh, and my laptop is a 2014 (iirc) rmbp (last one with nvidia graphics). 95% of everything I use is cross platform with Linux options (thanks electron). If I can't hackintosh my next computer, it will run Linux, and it might anyway. I'm just tired of Apple short-sheeting their computer systems. They're spending all their time on their money making iOS devices.
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I'm in a similar situation. My first degree was in Finance and I'm currently getting a second degree in CS.

I'll be finishing my degree this fall and will be 31. I work in Finance now in a sort of 'tech-adjacent' systems analyst and business intelligence position.

If I remember, I'll follow up this post in a few months with how my job search is going. I'll begin searching around June in the Philadelphia area.

I had a few interviews last year and have gone to one or two tech meet-ups, and I'm reasonably optimistic that my age won't be much of a deterrent. Most people I've spoken with like the diversity of my background and the obvious passion I have for CS. In a sense, going back to school while working full time is an "actions speak louder than words" situation. It takes a lot of effort to get through a second degree while working full-time, and I think that speaks for itself in terms of work ethic and interest in the topic (though it doesn't hurt to highlight as well).

That being said, I still have the nagging fear of ageism affecting my job prospects. I think my work experience will lend itself well, but I'm going about this without ego. I know I'm trying to break into a field competing with many other people, so it's probably going to be a numbers game in terms of applying. I'm also a little concerned about the Philadelphia tech scene as it's not as robust as one would expect for a city this size.

I know this isn't advice, as I can't offer much, but I can commiserate in having similar feelings and concerns. My guess is that your background will ultimately assist your search (though obviously not everywhere). The one piece of advice I can offer is to start applying early, if only to get interviewing experience and knock off the rust. You said you've been in your current role for 10 years -- has it also been 10 years since you've had a proper job interview?

If you want to chat further or even just bounce ideas around, I'm happy to chat further. What city are you based out of?
> Warp via Tor via Warp

Warp would see all your incoming packets and all your outgoing packets, so why bother with Tor?
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how did you write this message if you do not have internet?
Its no different than calling for the removal of an open racist from a position of power. The main difference is that transphobia is still a gray area, while racism is more or less a settled debate.

Unless racism is rooted out and specifically shunned, it will continue to exist. That's the main lesson from the civil rights movement. Today's battleground is Transgender people and Homosexuality.

> Wouldn't that also disqualify those who who call for her removal or is that an acceptable type of bigotry?

Just from a utilitarian perspective: what are we gaining by allowing transphobia to propagate in society? In my eyes, transphobia offers nothing of benefit to our society, so we should shun it and clamp it down.

Just as racism doesn't offer anything good to our society, transphobia doesn't seem to offer any real benefits. So lets get rid of it.
> Do you think that is only a problem in government?

Nope. But businesses fail when they succumb to fads, while government just raises taxes.
... which is not surprising they can register in near real time. ICP is not that expensive.