skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't care for this list, primarily because it's focus is that a job is a stepping stone to something else, never a career (guess the field is the career here):

> Don’t focus too much on long-term plans. Focus on interesting projects and you’ll build a resumé that stands out...

> Be a pleasant person. People want colleagues who seem pleasant and happy and good humoured. Washington DC especially operates more on social capital than on merit..

> Avoid stuff that could cause irreversible reputational harm...

> Work to solve problems that aren’t popular. Popularity of a problem is evidence that it is hard to solve, competition is high, and your individual contribution is likely to be small. In contrast, neglected problems often have low-hanging solutions that no one has bothered to look for...

> Some jobs in government may be easier to get than you imagine. ...Rather than consider a life in government, I suggest trying a 3 to 5 year stint, and see what you’re able to contribute.

Why do i see this as a problem? Individually, this is all good advice for the new engineer. But collectively, building your career in a field by using a Gov job or some other employ simply as a stepping stone is incredibly disingenuous. The whole thing stinks of any lack of self-reflection - here jobs are just what you do to gain a better hold of where you can exist in the field. It's very similar to chasing fame in LA, but this time it's DC.
I was under the impression companies engaged in medical image diagnostics train their algos on verified clinical data (i.e for radiology the training set would have Biopsy results). Is crowd labeling valuable for medical diagnosis?
> For millennia the majority of the human population has believed...

argument from antiquity.
> Find the biographies of people whose job you’d like to have and figure out how they got it. You can effectively reverse engineer their career path.

LinkedIn provides a biography of sorts for millions of professionals. Do a little Googling and possibly even reach out to some people and you can figure out how just about anyone got to where they are today.
JG here. No, just a damn good website for you all.
Reductio ad Microsoftium.
> all of my friends/acquaintances who work for Google (and in full disclosure, they're generally not engineers) unequivocally agree that Google could fire 30% of their workforce with no disruption in service/revenue.

Do all your friends who work there include themselves in the 30% by any chance? I assume not. And I also assume whoever you ask they will also say 30% could be fired, but they will then also all say it should not of course be themselves...
To me, I'm not sure how 65% followers vs 35% free-er thinkers means progress can't be made.

It's just acknowledging the reality in the difficulty of change.

I could be missing something though.
I believe the profit motive made it wrong, yes. It creates a fundamental conflict of interest in the allocation of taxpayer resources.

This might not have been a severe case, but NASA was absolutely right to come down on it hard.
Is it a novel language, or simply an existing language with its functions etc changed to emojis?

When I view it on different machines, it looks so different from each other, maybe they consider those to be language variants. On one of my systems, I get a lot of hollow blocks. Is that considered encrypted, or obfuscated?

Pretty severely impractical. I can't see how it is even worth the novelty since it is so hard to get a stable view of the code.
Facebook Messenger to add end-to-end encryption by default
Heartbreaking. But not surprising.

That the surplus of males in China will likely lead to military adventurism would make it our problem, too.
True, but that sounds more reactionary and less constructive than what I had in mind. I'd envision it more as an alternative access URL for Wikipedia, one that acts as a supplementary source when necessary but otherwise is indistinguishable from using wikipedia.org directly.
First of all, I guarantee a native Youtube donation/subscription/tipping service would already have far more users than Patreon even does currently (see twitch.tv for a great model) due the enormous network effect Youtube already has. Second of all, $1 billion and growing rapidly for a third party service. Nearly every quality Youtube channel I am subscribed to has a patreon at this point, and I can only imagine it increasing as a percentage of income the content creator generates.

> Can you still extrapolate from this that the tipping model is even anywhere near a threat to Google's ad based business model that they should be incorporating it?

No, but we can extrapolate from twitch, and guess that it probably would be.

> Many creators don't use Patreon in spite of or to replace ads, they use it as a supplement.

Because it is a third party site, there is no such option. It would be trivial to incorporate an ad-free experience for donations/subscriptions similar to how twitch does.
> Transhumanism is a fairy tale

Well, as a person who wears glasses, I can assure you to the contrary.
Ugh, I just wish there was a slick laptop like the Dell XPS line that both supported Linux AND had a Radeon (or just not-nvidia) graphics card.

I've been looking for a viable contender and it appears that it just doesn't exist
Parking garages empty? Have you ever been there?
YouTube sets a goal of having half of trending videos coming from its own site
NVIDIA provided drivers themselves including a CUDA runtime they still do for High Sierra and older OSes, with Mojave tho Apple locked them out.
Sorry, but I see nothing compelling here. If at this point your "customer stories" section includes quote from a VC, you don't have a real product. Good luck, but I'm afraid you are going to have a hard time finding real paying customers. And attracting actual human editors? Numerous people on this thread are already offended by your proposal. Next.
> I’m also pretty sceptical of ‘earning-to-give’ careers. That’s because it’s very unlikely that you can earn more money than you would have been able to direct in a funding organisation — there’s a lot more competition to become a billionaire than there is to become a leader or grantmaker at a foundation or important government agency.

I'm sure this is literally true, but I'm not sure what I think about it. when you're directing large amounts of money at a nonprofit, for the most part you are just allocating money that has already been donated; you are choosing between charitable causes, but perhaps not advancing the "production frontier" that much unless you are really good at spending efficiently or fundraising. but if you accumulate wealth of your own and donating it, you are actually increasing the amount of money that can be spent on problems. might it not be better to add $1 million to the pool than to decide how $10 million gets allocated?
So they're just assuming that the victims data will be their best lead?

How about everyone just keeps a secondary dumb phone to hand over when they feel that the police request is unreasonable.
Exactly. I don't think Google is making the wrong choice, given their size and prominence. I do think that making the right choice means that they inevitably lose their ability to innovate, and hence miss out on the next technology choice.
Well, one of the reasons is that that's what we've expected all along.

When Samsung announced a major expansion in early 2010's, many analysts predicted the price glut in 2015-16 that followed. That memory price glut (and a record loss by all industry participants) in turn discouraged capex by memory makers that resulted in the 2017-18 boom we just witnessed. So now, the windfall during the last boom likewise encouraged higher capex and production increase that is now driving down the price and their bottom line again -- the industry nearly completes a full cycle and is at another trough marked by decrease in capex and production cut. There is really nothing too conspiratorial about this business cycle.

Sure, I think every memory makers at one point got caught price-fixing, but you can't just say they are colluding again just because they are all cutting production under unfavorable market condition (ie, lower demand/falling price).
1) billions of users' behavior disagree

2) this is so vague and subjective that it's meaningless, what does it mean? Better off, how? By whose standards?

3) if the above were true, why would FB be obligated to explain it?
Re: your edit:

The First Amendment doesn't guarantee you an audience. It only guarantees you that the State can't constrain your speech without a damned good reason. It is utterly orthogonal to conduct between private parties, and it's specious as hell to bring it up in that context.

For example, even in the case where it effectively limits your ability to sue people for speech you don't like, the actual constraint is on the ability of the State, in the form of the court system, to be leveraged against an individual's speech, not on your ability to sue.
I like the idea of a sci fi story where someone sends a ship at faster-than radio speeds to recover old transmissions from earth.
Is SteamVR on linux anywhere near as good as it is on windows yet?
The big red "LIVE HELP" button on the left flashes before disappearing then animating back in from the left of the screen. Likewise, the counting-up animation of the number of vehicles available lags halfway through, maybe because other elements are loading in.

If you're going to do animation stuff like this, it had better be perfect. That said, I think it's tacky in the same way that the marquee tag was tacky, i.e. just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Oh, also, "LIVE HELP" buttons invariably connect me to some idiot chatbot. Being spamfucked by a chatbot is unpleasant in the same way that being startled by a retail employee asking if I need help is unpleasant. Generally, if I need to contact your business, I'll do so of my own volition. Might want to consider that there are other people who have similarly negative reactions.
Samsung faces 60 percent drop in profits, still plans foldable phones
I wrote a simple solution for this which is used in production at several businesses now: https://github.com/purcell/postgresql-migrations/
Yeah, they are doomed.
This is nice, I can see this being used for computer vision researchers and practitioners to train CNNs. Have you thought of implementing a reverse image search engine? That would be a great feature or project to work on as it can help users find images they are interested in as tags tend to be noisy.
Are you suggesting that somebody can only be one of pleasant or competent?
If the victim has reason to belive their data would lead to a conviction the police wouldn't need to ask for it
Hey HN mods, why was this buried? Posted 3 hours ago and now it's gone from the front page.
The Adam Savage's Tested reviewer on YouTube used glasses during his test.
Some recommendations in this one are highly specific (e.g., keeping security clearance as an option) and probably applies to the author's choice of field (something politics in DC) but not (?)most fields. I certainly don't want to work for anyone who requires me to have a security clearance. Everything I've heard about programming in a security clearance environment is a nightmare.

Also, I'm not sure how you get to 30 in software without having a full resume (1-pager, only relevant experience). You don't need 10 10% side projects and you definitely don't need to take unpaid internships.
Fail. It sounds like you are confusing this point away from self-improvement only to redirect it towards arrogance and doubling down with defensiveness.

You should always seek to improve yourself to perform and feel better regardless of the weak, sensitive, enviable people around you. Improvements that build confidence are internalizing qualities where arrogance, vanity, and acceptance are externalizing qualities. I have seen insecure people get upset when someone else takes risks with originality. Ignore the insecure people.
They are using it for things it’s good at, for others they use java. So this subthread is largely a waste of time.
I believe withings is no longer part of Nokia
> And the parts? Just went to iFixit, they‘re all there to buy. I‘m sure anybody serious about fixing these things professionally can source the parts.

You'd be surprised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkPUoUJPJAQ
I still dislike that they called the company Alphabet, because it's something that we teach our youngest. Commercialization starts early.
I've seen AirPods all over London, if you are looking for contrary anecdata. Not as many as the US, but plenty.
I do hope that his notions about Google's place in society goes with him. The things he wrote in 'A New Digital Age' were terrifying. Simply because they made a great amount of money, he viewed Google as the clearest guide for societies future. He advocated for Google taking an active role in attempting to shape social thinking. That might sound good to some, but I know too much history to be willing to support it. The unintended consequences that come from any attempted society-wide engineering are universally horrific.
True, true. I'm not arguing against them by the way - I think they are a good thing. But I'm just being curious about the 'stats'.
wow rude again, that's not 'assuming the best intent of the commentator' and is against this site's code of conduct

> [I] understand that people usually mean "the years that give a quotient of 196 when divided by 10".

since I'm not a pedantic sicko that gets off on telling people they're wrong and lording my hugely advanced intellect over them, I use human words for genuine natural interactions.
> I always find it strange when an issue isn't addressed but instead denied by making it seem small

That's not what I was doing at all. I was calling your standard impossibly high, using an intentionally minuscule number to show that every driver violates the idea that "any amount of time[...]isn't cool"

And obviously if you waste so much time you get honked at you've done something wrong. So far I've avoided being honked at for that reason.

But there are ways to use a phone that don't waste time! If you keep the cross light in view and put the phone down when it turns yellow, that's plenty of time to focus on the road situation.
It's also a form of SEO. Get people to open the Amazon app more often, and (on iOS at least) Siri starts to prioritize it in search / quick launcher.
You don’t have to be a developer to turn a great idea into an app
You should always strive for both.
Backlash Brews in China’s Startup Culture Against Grueling Hours
It's not just the SSID, the public IP address also needs to match (which is harder to spoof), see my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19792374

The external server is needed to create a persistent chat that stays around even after every participant has left the network.
I am curious what use would sqlite3 module be in Lambda function? Lambda has no persistency so you cant really use sqlite no?
There are airpods all over London (and all over France and even on my smaller side of EU).
I largely agree with you - I definitely think more experienced folks should take more pride and ownership in their work - but I'm not sure this is bad advice specifically for a brand new employee. Looking back on my career, my first couple jobs were stepping stones, even though I didn't think of them that way at the time. I took them very seriously and lost sleep over my projects there. But I didn't need to. I wasn't very important or useful to those companies; I was just learning, and making lots of mistakes as I went. I had a lot of stress and self esteem problems about that. Looking back on it from the perspective of my current expectations for brand new employees, my feeling is that I would have been better off to have chilled out and recognized that I was providing cheap imperfect labor while ramping up the ability to fill the quota of useful people in a few years time.
>because it's impossible to withdraw money at all.

I heard this meme being repeated since forever and it never made sense to me. As I understand it, you could exchange USDT for real USD at any participating exchange. Not being able to convert USDT would mean not being able to withdraw from any of those exchanges, but there's no widespread reports of this. Also, you could convert USDT to USD at Kraken, and they definitely don't have any withdraw problems. Finally, if you really couldn't withdraw USD from an exchange, it would become evident because BTC priced would skyrocket as people scramble to find other ways to withdraw their cash. We saw this with mtgox, but not here (there's a premium but nowhere close to mtgox levels)

edit: clarified which part I'm replying to
Youtube is their content business division and already has tipping, superchat, subscriptions, ecommerce and premium channels. It also has ads and is highly profitable.

You're vastly overestimating what people will actually pay for and underestimating how big and critical the ads industry is.
I really like the laptop stickers idea, I might try it out!
An anecdote and a statistical analysis walk into a bar
The idea is to create a persistent chat so UDP and other forms of pairing are not suited to sustain the session.
can you go into more detail here? It sounds like you have anecdotal experience where you find people who focus on being pleasant aren't competent.
Any facts to back that up or are we just doing anecdotes?
Neat... though searching on "F-14" returned a lot of yoga images instead of the naval fighter (searching "F14" returned what I was looking for).
They recently tried to auction one at 22.000€, but apparently it was too much. Still for sale, though.

https://www.eppli.com/de/Product/DetailByNo?no=981734
"postal covers" (the article title) would seem to handle that.
> Faking it with pleasantries is toxic, a form of lying with misdirection.

If you consider being pleasant to be the same as being a decent person, and not just being polite, then I'd argue all of those things make you not pleasant.

Even if you're incompetent if you were decent you'd admit to your faults and work on improving them to a required level. No decent person would willingly just let their team down.
Why have any internal gasses at all?
Its a plugin meant to run inside VST hosts like ableton, reaper, or logic.
Even Apple had the famous episode of releasing an update that bricked phones with replacement parts that weren't sanctioned. They reversed it after much public outcry.

For less common hardware the situation is just as bad. Agriculture equipment has been a pain point for many to get repaired, as the parts are much harder to find and the limited number of certified repair shops can be pressured to stop servicing equipment deemed end of life by the manufacturer
I was certified as well, anybody could do this sort of thing it's just a scam to take money away from you so you can get a shitty IT job somewhere. Interesting that they lobby extensively though - I had no idea.
The internet did change everything, despite its being used to spread misinformation. They are orthogonal.

It is no surprise that an ISP operating in China will be subject to Chinese law. The last-mile method is not really relevant.
> Ad revenue is growing slower than in the past.

It's also a second degree derivative, which is inherently noisy. A single data point isn't enough to show a trend.

> Security is stupendously hard.

It also wasn't a breach. Breach implies it was exploited. They actually found the bug and fixed it, and there was as far as they could there no signs that it was abused.

Google has some of the best security security researchers out there. Look at Project Zero, they've found the majority of the largest zero days in the past few years.
It is a wonderful privilege to have the money and people available to pursue those options, but it is a privilege many do not enjoy.

Meanwhile, for many of those many, learning a new language is more than a fun pastime or intellectual challenge, it is a matter of economic or even physical survival. Duolingo's mascot likes to breezily inform me that most people using Duolingo in Sweden are refugees trying to learn Swedish. Don't those people deserve more emphasis on practical mastery, and less on social engagement? Do they have the money and opportunity to pursue quality interactions with native speakers?

If digital tools could provide reasonable sub-levels of mastery short of full conversational fluency, like ability to read a newspaper, understand a news broadcast or sitcom, babysit a child, or hold a business conversation in an office, I wouldn't complain. But I'm not aware of any digital teaching tools that prepare a person adequately for any of that.

Fine, digital tools are inadequate for reaching full conversational fluency. But should we then let them off the hook for not delivering any level of practical skill in a reasonable amount of time?

Is it really impossible for them to do any better at delivering real-world value?
You mean like the guy who started an electric car company and is responsible for pushing the mass adoption of electric cars forward by at least a decade?
Espn will shut down its flagship magazine
One here. I'm concerned with being the cause of animal suffering and not concerned if my vegan food was cooked on the same surface as meat.
Personally, I prefer working with less competent pleasant people than more competent unpleasant people. You can find useful stuff to give less competent people (and help them become more competent over time), but it's hard to avoid unpleasant people affecting the morale of a whole team.
> Back in my 30s, [about half] of the things on my resumé [...] didn’t pay me any money. Those projects sounded fancy and helped me to get good full-time jobs later on.

The rest seemed reasonable, but this is not actually doable for a lot of people who need a regular source of income to live.
Only if you ask for permission from Tether, first. If you have power to seize the bank accounts, however...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tether-usdt.asp

"On the contrary, we have been informed that these Crypto Capital amounts are not lost but have been, in fact, seized and safeguarded. We are and have been actively working to exercise our rights and remedies and get those funds released. Sadly, the New York Attorney General’s office seems to be intent on undermining those efforts to the detriment of our customers."
But is a browser-based audio environment ever going to have the low latency and robustness requirements for something like live performance?
Show HN: List of UI Libraries
So, I'm a software developer, so it's not like I'm against software. I also work remote, and it's fine. But...

Sometimes you need to remove a restriction, in order to find out why that restriction was important. It's like if gravity goes away (https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/end_of_gr...), and you discover you were depending on gravity to do a lot of things for you, even though it was a drag when you have to get up in the morning.

The Great Weirdening that the author discusses, is not unrelated to the fact that every little pocket of greed, hatred, or delusion can reinforce itself online. Also, that one nation after another finds that it has no consensus anymore, no political center of gravity to use for keeping it together. And if you can't get to consensus by talking, eventually, you get to it by violence. I'm not sure the Great Weirdening is going to be all that good. It may be that having colocated physical spaces and shared media helped us learn to get along with people that aren't like us, and it may be that is a difficult but important skill to have.
Yeah, but "sales are down because the 2nd largest economy in the world is tanking" is very different from "sales are down across the board because people don't want to buy our products as much".
That's probably true of most large companies.