skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Unlikely but possible
Technologies:
Programming (PHP, Python, Racket, PowerShell, JavaScript,
SQLite, commercial BASIC (yes, really, and recently too), Vim)
Web Publishing & Dev (HTML, CSS, Apache, MySQL, PostegreSQL, MariaDB,
Microsoft IIS and SQL Server, Textpattern, Ghost, WordPress)
Windows/Linux network admin (Ansible, Active Directory, Windows Server,
Terminal Server, CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian, shell scripting, Linode,
DigitalOcean, Joyent, AWS, SonicWall, Untangle, Ubiquiti, VPN management)
Hosted and on-prem Exchange admin
VoIP admin & procurement
Apple DEP and MDM
Print publishing (LaTeX, CreateSpace, InDesign)
Source control systems (Git, Fossil, SVN)
Bookkeeping, financial reporting (double-entry bookkeeping, Wind2 FMS,
Deltek, PeachTree, Quickbooks, scripting to automate accounting tasks)
HR (ADP, Paychex, 401k and health insurance administration)
Residential construction (rough and trim carpentry, siding, roofing, tile,
concrete flatwork, cabinetry, window replacement, project management and
accounting, formerly licensed GC)
Engineering document management (AutoCAD, BuzzSaw/BIM 360, WoodCAD, SolidWorks)
Resume/CV/website: on request
Email: joeld@protonmail.com

I would prefer a stable position with long-term responsibility for operations.
Air quality.

Even if there was no efficiency gain, electric cars move pollution out of city streets and into less densely populated areas.

If electricity is produced using less polluting methods like hydroelectric plants, then there's net benefit.
Governments and corporations are nothing without your Average Joe, in fact, they are just a collection of Average Joes. So I fail to see the analogy here.
Speaking of logic: Trains are way more energy efficient than planes. So even with the same "strict carbon tax", it would be cheaper to go by train and better for the environment alas.
Methodologies are pretty good about that in the short term. If Agile were bad at that, then it wouldn't have spread. I think the problem is more Agile in the long term. It's a more general problem faced by longer term software projects.

The answer might be to have shorter term software projects. Make everything more modular, have a standard backplane into which everything can plug into, and enable competing short term projects. I think today's trend is to make corporations into ecosystems, and this change might be able to shape incentives positively.
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Agile in practice is a way for Corporate to have its cake and eat it too: get the results and productivity associated with outstanding programmers, using the programming talent they have/can hire, with a minimum of risk exposure. Part of this is the attempt (also seen in other corporate quality efforts like ISO9000) to distill skills into process: to produce a book of rules that, rigidly enforced on relatively unskilled workers, will cause them to perform at the level of highly skilled workers. Hence my repeated quip that "Agile is attempting to emulate a good programmer with an array of average programmers". Unfortunately for Corporate, It Just Doesn't Work That Way.

Now I believe that Agile was started with good intentions, but today it is much more a motte-and-bailey doctrine. The motte being "Agile is the values in the Agile Manifesto". The bailey being "Agile is Scrum and SAFe, and all these meetings, ceremonies, and process are a necessary component of Agile". And I think this is why people fall into no-true-Agile discussions and eventually end up disappointed with something that showed a lot of promise. Agile started off a plea from programmers to Corporate, and it caught Corporate's ear. But once in Corporate's possession, it was deployed to serve Corporate ends only.
https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal
Which makes for an interesting dynamic, since it's the people with the most experience for whom the chat is least ephemeral, and the people who would benefit most from having scrollback who are least likely to have it set up properly.
As if Jony Ive's focus on "smaller/slimmer" isn't largely to blame for several of the big misses.

Unreliable butterfly keyboards. Unservicable/unrepairable hardware. Magic Mice with recharging ports on the bottom (rending them useless while recharging). Useful ports being subtracted in order to satisfy the "slimmer/lighter" fetish now requiring a dongle for interconnects, a general disinterest in MacOS compared to Apple's focus on iPhone/iOS/tablet. A phone that loses signal if you hold it "wrong." etc.

All cases where Apple chose purity of design over real-world performance.

Jony, welcome to the club you helped build.
The domain is different in a way you don't understand.
This is great. #kAllowFrequentTypos
Location: Madrid, Spain
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, worldwide
Technologies: C, Python, PHP, Docker, Azure, Serverless, EagleCAD, Altium Designer, Autodesk Inventor
Résumé/CV: http://ricardosa.nz/cv/CV_RICARDO_SANZ_2019.pdf
Email: me@ricardosa.nz

Hi, I'm an electronics guy shifted a (little) bit to the software world. I consider myself a fast learner and I put that ability to use whenever and wherever I can. I'm willing to relocate worldwide and I'm ready for any adventure. I love designing and building stuff.

Previous job was at a startup designing and building an IoT product for rental and real state in Spain.

I'm willing to hear and discuss any offers.
Location: Washington, DC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (full-stack: Django, etc.; & ML/Deep learning: Python scientific stack, PyTorch), JavaScript (Vue.js), C, C++, PostgreSQL, AWS.

Résumé/CV: PDF @ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IkJrJq0hpdsXG-Dsv5iqRSK93Tl...

Email: dewhite4@gmail.com

8 years experience working with software development and data science/ML (+ PhD in Computational Biology)

I'm a fast learner and a hard worker. I've been working on both academic and real world problems for the past few years, and am currently hunting for a full-time industry.

I am open to any opportunity to work with great people on interesting problems.
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Wheels is a last-mile, shared electric vehicle platform changing the current landscape in dockless mobility.

From an engineering perspective, we are focused on solving three key problems: (1) move fast to drive growth but design systems that can scale, (2) build a team of extremely talented engineers, and (3) build a culture where engineers are empowered and responsible for the products

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I think it's cool but I'd be totally self-aware and fearful or making the idiot post in the thread for HN to judge :p
Just chime in and say that hybrid vehicles have a fifth to a tenth the NOx emissions of regular cars. Currently there are a lot more hybrid cars available than EV's.
It is when stakeholders throw curveballs.

"We want you to do this."

"Sweet, easy enough, I'll just use X, Y and Z, no problem."

"Oh but sorry you have to use A, B, and C instead. Oh and it'll need to connect to D for reporting, and we'd like it to sync with E which we've never done but they have an API so it can't be too hard, right? Oh and it needs to fit this design we've already approved that's about as far from native to the platform you're developing for as it could be and has a ton of UX issues that require fundamental changes to fix, which you'll uncover as you work. That's about as easy, right?"

"...."

[EDIT] oh and also one "minor" feature we're going to toss in later is actually big enough to build an entire company around so you'll have to waste a bunch of time talking us down from that while we quietly lower our opinion of you, and we've accidentally described a few things which are basically impossible by egregiously violating e.g. CAP theorem or being what's effectively a highly-available distributed filesystem that needs to fit without our timeframe and budget, which is 1/20 what it would take to maybe build that and that alone.
Despite the press of the young player-base, Fortnite fills what you describe for me. The building mechanic creates so much opportunity for think-fast, improvise, and outsmart your opponent moments. Plus, playing solo means you don't have to interact with anyone if you don't want to.
I hope you hired a good lawyer and made them pay handsomely for this. They would have deserved it.
What are some good channels to visit in 2019? I feel like most of the ones I used to frequent are dead silent now. And my small friend channels have since moved to Discord.
The AARD code specifically references SFT manipulation and testing, so I'm going to go with 'yes, this is probably exactly the anti-DR-DOS code'
This is what I do! I disagree on 'garbage', though, I would say that you sound like you estimate very well, and that factor of 2.5 uncertainty is reasonable given all the unknowns in this line of work.
Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way
There are algorithms that beat most humans, because humans don’t play randomly. Conversely there are humans that can beat the human-beating algorithms reliably because the algorithms don’t play randomly either.
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An actual carbon tax on carbon would tax both trains and planes fairly. Planes use much more co2 per capita and so the result would be comparatively cheaper trains nonetheless.

Though I don't think most trains are electric, and I think they do have a fuel tax.
ANY new EV company gets these credits? Really?
One way software is different is that you're always doing things you've never done before. Because if you've done it before, you can just reuse that code.

This is probably not how the refueling nuclear aircraft carriers projects work.

That said, it's usually not quite as completely unknowable as your last sentence. Then again, it frequently is.

The real tension is about trust. When people think engineers are lying about their estimates.
I have the latest Macbook Pro, and I hate the USB-C. I have a keyboard, stereo, and 4k monitor; none of which can be plugged into my laptop without a dongle.

In fact, I do not yet have a single device that I can plug directly into my laptop. And this years after they made the switch.
Sure it is. What home user even realizes they can change the clock time any more?

Consider: can you change the clock time on your phone? I've never even considered doing so, personally. Seems like it'd screw up the GPS, if it was possible.

Anyone whose first computer was a smartphone isn't going to think of changing their computer's clock time. To them, the time is a network feature, not a local feature.
Even those estimates are good for people who have no clue if something can take 2 weeks or 6 months. They're not garbage.
In each of those cases there's absolutely a process (albeit a long and arduous process) for secession. It's a process truly democratic countries need to have.

Don't forget that Scotland very nearly did leave the UK, with the government's consent, in 2014 (but the referendum didn't pass).

The Catalonia case is a bit murkier, since the Catalan government did not actually reach an agreement with the Spanish government before they went ahead with the referendum. Also because of irregularities seen by international observers during the referendum, the Catalonia referendum result was generally not recognized.
It's incredible how much damage the financial industry has done to America over the past two or so decades. GFC, healthcare financialization/rent-seeking/price-gouging, and decimation of our industrial base. How much more of this can we take.
Although blade strikes are easy to diagnose as a killer of birds, I'm sure the pollution released by coal/oil/gas power plants kills many birds too, not to mention all the other wildlife and humans.
>Quit with the local optimizations already, and realize trust is the №1 issue.

So how do you trust someone who would outsource your position if they believed it would save money and reduce their work load? Management and employees have an inherently adversarial relationship that is poisonous to trust. I think it can still develop at times, but under our current culture where everyone knows someone whose job was made redundant with little recourse for their employment, you might as well be asking for a coconut to grow in an active lava flow.
That is the purpose of the credit, to spur new companies and innovation from old ones.
Mockery? Hardly. The real intention was to use an analogy to prove the absurdity of the comment.

There was no absurdity in the comment you answered on. Apple pitches the machine for a general "professional" audience, especially as it is the only modular Mac offerring. But in fact they only designed (and more importantly) priced it for a very special subsection of the professional audience. So they should be more specific in their pitch and also offer a modular machine for the rest of the professional users.

And your original comment would have been more constructive, if you had tried to make your point explicitly, as you are doing now.

Your definition of professional is not the same as everyone else’s, and it’s ridiculous to try to fit everyone else to your own mold.

I am not doing so. The original poster (and I agree) just also wants a modular Mac machine.

Basically, stop using the argument “no REAL professional would ever...”. It’s a worthless argument.

I have nowhere said that, please stop putting words into my mouth.
Hi! We definitely don't run slowly this often, our dashboard is published here: https://dashboards.gitlab.com
See also Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
What?! If I don't know about it, just imagine how many "average" people like me who are out of the loop when it comes to ocean animals. How can the world powers come together to sign a ban on this? This is awful.
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> I painfully miss twitch games like quake that instead of pushing you to memorize and perform accurately, you instead had to react and improvise quickly and think on your feet.[0] It's a different set of skills that seems to have fallen out of favor as of late.

What? Two of the top four~ most played games on earth right now are battle royales.
I've worked about 10 years at FAANG companies and I'm yet to meet the experienced and expert devs who are good at estimating things. I think your characterization of "inexperienced and clueless" devs is off.

The reason I think my example illustrates a problem is it's moving away from agile. I shouldn't estimate X without understanding it? Okay, I'll take the time to figure out, look around corners, etc. I realize I need Y and Z. I've got to estimate those, to estimate X, so I start working with other teams to figure these things out, and drawing up plans and schedules and who's doing what when to get all this stuff delivered. Now we're basically at the waterfall model where we're planning everything out before doing it.

The other problem is that all the process is genuinely a waste. If we need X then let me work on it rather than do all the planning and scheduling nonsense. The schedule will be wrong anyway. If I have problems, need help, etc with X then I can raise those concerns and management can react in an agile way.
The jetson nano also has 16gb of emmc storage.

I wonder how the whole software ecosystem compares tho.
I've seen the exact behavior I described; this was the fastest misleading headline I could find in a quick search.

I'll reply on thread next time I see one, which is likely to not happen in the next 24 hours. Hopefully, you'll take an open minded read to see where social and mainstream media accounts are biased for outrage and clicks over information content and will notice these on your own as well.
> Yes, shared among participants.

Honest question - how does this work across thousands of employees, some of which are almost guaranteed to be bad-actors at one point? Or is that just not a problem that's trying to be solved? What are the impacts if someone leaks that?

> There are plenty of messengers with E2E encryption and group chats with working search.

I don't know - are they on the (user) scale of Slack? How many people can you add to a group in WhatsApp or iMessage? (I honestly don't know, but I would suspect Slack lets you have more people in a 'group' than them).

Again, I have only a very cursory knowledge of how iMessage does E2E encryption. Obviously Slack would need to choose a different approach, but I wouldn't look at other messaging apps for examples.
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Phoenix 0.1 (Pescadero) Release Notes and FAQ
In case you're actually curious, we do publish our grafana stats here: https://dashboards.gitlab.com
I don't think the USA has a legal process for secession.
> repeatedly say "remote is more productive"

Even if the CEO and the board are truly, honestly, sincerely pursuing actual productivity (which is far from granted), there are lines and lines of middle managers below them who have realized that achieving the illusion of productivity by cramming people elbow to elbow in a cacophonous open office and demanding daily or even hourly status reports is far easier than achieving actual productivity.
"react and improvise quickly and think on your feet"

You might like my game. Bomberman meets RTS.
https://youtu.be/Zr0A8VcBnYk
The Oral History of the Super Soaker
Really? Why would they emit more CO2? Can you expand?
same, I have been following before they changed the name to Numenta. Interesting stuff, will listen to this podcast soon
Does having four threads per core cause more problems for speculative execution attacks? I seem to recall that one of the fixes proposed for Spectre was disabling hyperthreading.
AI classifies people's emotions from the way they walk
How do you know they didn’t bring a gun? There’s no reason to feel safe around someone who recently made a credible murder threat.
I have this same issue on a work-provided macbook pro. They want to standardize on laptops for the dev team, but I spent months just getting up to speed on using the damn thing, and I still don't feel comfortable on it. And when my personal laptop and desktop and file server are all linux, the switch is annoying and makes me less productive on both systems (take a bit to switch from "OSX mode" back to normal after getting home).