skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key numbers from the study [1]:

44% of U.S. workers are employed in low-wage jobs that pay median annual wages of $18,000... Most of the 53 million Americans working in low-wage jobs are adults in their prime working years, or between about 25 to 54, they noted. Their median hourly wage is $10.22 per hour.

I'm trying to reconcile this with the household median income of $63,179 for the US. The only way I can make it work is if most of these workers have a spouse who makes significantly more than they do or if they are working multiple jobs (i.e. more than 40 hours per week).

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wag...
Surprised that there is no fish shell in shell section. Also I miss pentadactly in my Firefox so much nowadays.
Zero. H1B, by definition requires a specialty and a sponsor who can fire you (I don't know the exact phrasing but this is what prevents someone with an H1B from starting their own company)
I agree with you, but the implicit bias test has been crumbling under the replication crisis.

https://qz.com/1144504/the-world-is-relying-on-a-flawed-psyc...

https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-...

From that last link: "Both critics and proponents of the IAT now agree that the statistical evidence is simply too lacking for the test to be used to predict individual behavior."
Yeah you could say they are close to jumping the shark... it remains to be seen what former Google employees do next. If Google continues to dump money into salaries and stock then they might not have much to worry about. Personal assistants, knowledge graph, Alexa/Siri/"Ok Google" are definitely the future. Apple seems to be winning in the car but Alexa is winning at home.
Nope, it's mostly code. It's a gnarly PR that atomically delivers a feature (and removes the feature that the new one replaces), but this looks about right for my weekly productivity overall, except I usually submit it in smaller PRs, and the delta is mostly lines added.
"An update on Larry and Sergey"
Depending on jurisdiction this company exposes itself to legal liability.

Sounds more like a sweatshop
I had the exact same reaction but clicked it anyways. I really appreciated them not doing that. All the past articles I've read always included an image -- I can't help but feel the author/editors thought it would be funny or are being dismissive of this fear/aversion. For me it is also triggered by the sight of sick fishes when their scales are puffed up. Images of large numbers of holes triggers a strong fight or flight reaction in me.
Attempting to hire dev resources that do not have Computer Science degrees and a SOLID grasp of CS fundamentals is a suicide mission. The FAANGs have already figured this out. As a bootstrapped founder you should strongly consider that behaving like a FAANG makes you much more likely to be successful like a FAANG.

What are you going to do with these Reverse Bootcampers when one of your paying customers demands a Web Scale API implementation of The Blue Eyed Island problem? What happens when the pager goes off in the night because the recursive palindrome finder service is stack overflowing? Personally I really don't want to be on the phone with an angry customer trying to explain how the sub-optimal time complexity of my products sorting algos is "good enough" or giving other excuses ("..results typically come back in <400ms").

I'm sure you can get a bunch of junior folks in and train them to repeatably perform common dev tasks, bang out some functional Javascript, maybe even take some data from a form on a website and query a database with it but unless you're willing to get a crop of campers and pay them to memorize Cracking The Code Interview (6th edition) then I feel like you're probably just wasting your time.
Genuinely curious if this has been done, but considering that a $1000 is not a lot of money which suggests you are not running a big operation, why not use it and tie the rest to a card with a limit such as from privacy.com? Granted Amazon might deny such cards, in which case, if you really want it, you can set up a new debit card whose account has say a maximum you can spend?
Except it isn't their responsibility. Clearly they don't have trouble making profit so why would they spend billions of dollars trying to urge people who may or may not even want the job to try and do it?
I’m a drop out too and have made my way to manager where I find myself training juniors many of which also do not have degrees. Unfortunately it is night and day between the ones who do have degrees and those that don’t. At this point I am now strongly recommending cs degrees to anyone seeking a career in programming because the theories do come up in any serious work, particularly full stack engineers who must have strong understandings of databases, type theory, statistical analysis, etc.

I would LOVE to create a large curriculum in house that aims to teach non degree holding individuals these skill sets because it would have tremendous return on investment. Be we are a small company (<100) with limited resources that can not afford to have a six month on boarding process to Do it properly (and I am not a professor).

It is an unrealistic burden to any small or medium org to do what is required by your comment.
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https://www.wired.com/story/wired-25-sundar-pichai-china-cen...

Having Pichai in charge is deeply disturbing to me. If he has had a public moment that demonstrated deep moral convictions that were put before the obvious market benefit of the company I haven't heard about it. (But feel free to provide links)
Agree. This is not our usual problems such as "I don't like the granola bars they serve" or "My tech lead is incompetent". Run from this company now.
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This is great feedback! I've been considering adding power-user keyboard navigation like you're describing, as I too would love to have these sorts of interactions.

I'd love to know what other sorts of keyboard interactions you would like to see. I will look into this and keep you posted!
> he took the reigns

Friendly amendment: reins
Thanks for the response.

I'd strongly recommend trying to clarify "chemicals" and "plants and seeds" as those are incredibly broad categories that encompass many use cases that stripe does not find objectionable as per the restricted-businesses list you linked. "Pharmacologically active, explosive or poisonous chemicals, plants, or seeds" may be suitably restrictive for your needs.

The "weapons" restriction would also be great to get some clarity on: a large proportion of makers do projects related to cutting tools, replica weapons for cosplay, etc. I think showing how they make blades/saws (that can be used as weapons, but often intended as tools or decoration) or replicas or sporting equipment are not necessarily something that Stripe would find objectionable.

I suspect that stripe does not restrict content related to the discussion of these items, but rather the use of these funds towards the purchase of these items. "build journals" may be permissible, but perhaps more of a grey area. I think their chief concern is the sale of these items. Ex. showing how you built an archery bow and tested it on a sport target seems quite distinct from selling the bow itself. Explaining and demonstrating the chemistry of exothermic reactions is very different than selling firecrackers.

Some clarity would make me more interested in using your service, but I currently am not inclined to sign up as a contributor or recommend your platform as it seems you could somewhat-arbitrarily decide to exclude ~90% of my favorite creators without warning after they have cultivated contributors on your platform.

Lack of clarity can be really disruptive for creators: as getting kicked off of a platform and disrupting an income stream they've come to rely on can be very disheartening - and I've seen this happen to a half-dozen creators on various platforms. Vague terms can lead to many makers to exist in a grey area with the threat of removal at any time, which I think is somewhat harmful.
Note that its also possible to approach things as a competition without driving all the fun out of it. You just have to:

1) Admit that you're taking it farther than necessary because you get joy/fulfillment from the competition.

2) Appreciate and welcome the non-competitive hobbyists.
At least we have Twitter...
I’m not trying to imply anything nefarious is going on. I am genuinely interested in the story.
Have some discipline and don't use it. Let the rest of us have it.
5 years of VPN admining here.

The openvpn community is pretty nonexistent. Core is about 10 guys (half on loan from the for-profit company) and they're multiple years behind on where the development should be.

2.4 release: currently 3 years old, decently robust, but limited.
2.5 release: 38 of 51 blockers still open, no release date in sight.
3.0 release: roadmap was written in 2010, no release date in sight.

OpenVPN 2.5 is where we'll have per-user tls-crypt. tls-auth/tls-crypt in 2.4 means when the PSK (that all clients share) leaks, you have to rotate a PSK for ALL users all at once. Or you could not use that PSK at all and just get DoS'ed over UDP all the time.
OpenVPN 3 is where they're looking at being multithreaded. Let that sink in for a minute, because the devs haven't. You share one core with EVERYONE who's connected. openvpn is, performance-wise, a glorified openssl-pipe-to-nc at that point.

These are features that any server admin should be dying to have, because they're what let you scale from "my cute little tunnel from my home to my cloud instance" to "endpoints that can scale."

Tuning to get solid performance means getting the client config right with a lot of low-level tweaks, a lot of iperf and network-ops knowledge, shipping it out to the userbase, and hoping it works in their situation. Tuning later because you screwed anything up is hit and miss: some features you can 'push' out and fix, some you can't. The devs can't imagine tunnels where someone who isn't as immersed in the code as them doesn't control all endpoints and all configs, or where there's no burden to walking around and changing every user's config. I'm years into this and I'm still finding things to adjust or submit patches for, to make my users happier.

OpenVPN has one thing that other VPNs severely lack: a ABSOLUTELY SUPERB hook system. You want to have actions trigger scripts, they got u fam. You can do a lot of serverside and clientside magic because of that, integrating with your SSO and ACL management. Wireguard is much more in the beautiful-in-its-simplicity-but-that-still-means-simple 'static definition' camp (for now).
> wherever you try to improve the pipeline, you cannot expect to make things better than they are at the input of your pipe segment.

You absolutely can. You can do so by not overindexing on traditional pipelines that have large amount of discrimination in them, such as top CS schools.

IE, if you are more willing to interview people from less discriminatory sources, such as bootcamps, then you can get around other, worse pipelines.
Tagging is simple*. The real killer is the things you can't tag, like bandwidth. Be sure to use multiple AWS accounts if you want to split bills (or at least track bills) to sub-groups like per department. Give each of these groups their own account (or set of accounts, preferably, if we're talking a business.. maybe even different accounts for Dev/preprod/prod, if this is a major cost and the project is worth it)

For tags, you can make any tag you want and summarize bills by tags... So anything take can be tagged is trackable.. But things like bandwidth are not.

It's also hard to enforce tagging when you can't automatically destroy non-complaint objects, so again, separate accounts help here.. if the sub-department wants to know their spend better, THEY are more likely to enforce the rule than A top-down policy from a disconnected IT group... And you can't simply apply a gonna "all things must be tagged" enforced in the AWS level because some items can't be tagged, or the tagging has to happen after creation (for instance, by SDK/cli, you can't create an ec2 instance with tags.. you make the instance, then tag it. The GUI does this behind the scenes so it looks like one step)

So again, for major booking boundaries, use different accounts. After that point, it's on the delegated entities to use tags appropriately... And it's often different for each group anyway.
> <i>wierdos whot spy on you</i>

LOL. I agree with a lot of your points but this one really hit home. On this one, the spying, I always wondered how odd or awkward it had to be internally to push new methods, techniques, or initiatives for "improving user experience" (I.e., spying). I interviewed for some Technical Solutions Engineer role at Google a long time ago. I really wanted the job but when asked a couple questions about how I'd technically achieve some goal related to spying on users and I always found myself hesitating, looking at the interviewer, and thinking, "is it ethically okay if I say this?" I can't imagine how the work environment transitioned at Google over the years from "do no evil" to actively fostering spying on users. I have to imagine it happened because there were few if any laws around user privacy while Google was up and coming. But I know Google has good internal controls for privacy, but I have to imagine there were many unethical or borderline conversations in the name of better spying on users data. I'm still trying to get away from Gmail because I know everything I send/receive is parses but the struggle is real. This is in addition to Chrome and an Android phone, not to mention Google search results. What's the risk of all this spying? In sum, what is at risk is the loss of free will. People who don't care because "they have nothing to hide" cannot see the forest for the trees. Then again, I need to make some changes myself. As an ancient Chinese proverb says, "To know, and not to do, is in fact not to know."
You can see how toxic the discourse has gotten around this kind of issues if you get 20% of the article dedicated to disclaimers.
> Probably an UTF-32 layer could be implemented on top of that

UTF-32 is, in all but extreme niche cases, a supremely wasteful and inefficient way to store and process strings, even in light of the cost of variable-length codepoints. The longest UTF-8 sequence is now four bytes anyway, so UTF-8 is never ever less compact than UTF-32. The only conceivable practical use of UTF-32 is a case where the upper 11 bits are used to tag characters with metadata, but in that case you'll have to mask those to display them anyway.

In practice, if your application must be aware of codepoints, it most likely should be aware of extended grapheme clusters as well, and those have an arbitrary number of codepoints in them.

UTF-16 is closer to being useful in some locales, but the marginal benefit (one byte less per BMP CJK codepoint) is, in my view, outweighed by the incompatibility with ASCII. Even a small number of ASCII strings in a given transmission will wipe out any advantage UTF-16 could have in CJK locales, and most transmissions these days have enough ASCII to do so. For example, today's Japanese Wikipedia main page is 102,620 bytes in UTF-8, and 182,480 bytes in UTF-16, despite most of the visible graphemes being CJK characters (which require three bytes in UTF-8). The Korean Wikipedia main page has larger text, and less of it, so the difference is even more stark (81,072 bytes in UTF-8, and 146,630 bytes in UTF-16). Even after aggressive gzip compression (with zopfli), text-heavy UTF-16 Japanese and Korean HTML documents are about 10% larger than their UTF-8 equivalent; and this is before you've transmitted any CSS or JavaScript.
What's really interesting about Franklin electrocuting chickens is that electrocution went on to become the predominant method of killing chickens in the US poultry industry until 2017 when the largest purchaser of chickens, McDonalds, switched to using asphyxiating gas because activists were upset about the electrocution. Non-McDonalds chicken though is still killed the "old fashioned" way - through electrocution pioneered by Franklin. The electrocution doesn't actually kill the birds, it stuns them and makes them rigid prior to a giant saw cutting off their heads.

Here's a video of a typical poultry plant, though this one is in Mexico it's identical to US operations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMSNGZh60zY

(Warning: do not watch if you can't handle it it's exactly as described.)
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The "malfeasance" was how they negotiated ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money for their private enterprise.
And if second gen Latin Americans vote more conservatively and if more blacks start voting conservatively is that a good of a bad thing? (Compared to how they voted for people who are now lauded in the press and by Obama as good conservatives like Bush and Romney)
What about Stephen King? It seems he has mixed feelings about it today; regret, but he's also not sure he would have been so prolific without it.

I say all this as a person with zero cocaine experience, but lots and lots of caffeine experience. Stims don't make you better (usually worse, actually), but they do have a relationship to quantity of output.
I wish something like this had IPMI. Would make for an easy and portable demo cluster to learn on.
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I'm fine with crumpets but the thought of lotus pods is too much.
> Metaflow comes with a built in scheduler.

This isn't a scheduler that will trigger 'flows' though is it? If I search "Scheduler" in your docs the top result is a roadmap item, and searching "Cron" turns up nothing.

Is it true that right now that to run a DAG "every day at 3am UTC" requires an external service?
(Politically inconvenient differences across various human subgroups aside) if you're trying to deal with this situation as late as hiring, you already fucked up.

There are unresolved social issues in terms of racial disparity in America (and this comes with an inherent inter-generational cycling).

The place to start dealing with this is per-capita equality of resourcing for primary and secondary schools (and make sure the kids are fed).

Even if that weren't a political no-go from the initialisation perspective, the 20 year latency on emergent benefits means that any progress will be demolished at the next swing of the political pendulum.

Short of the extinction of regressive political ideologies in America, this is an intractable problem.
If you've not seen it, Thomas Sowell incisively comments on the wish for the impossible in The Quest for Cosmic Justice. There's a full book, but the original speech gives the main point:

https://www.tsowell.com/spquestc.html

Definitely worth a look, even if you don't think it applies here.
If it's the picture I'm thinking of, it's actually a photo of a girls knees after she was made to kneel on frozen peas as a punishment. If you Google "Kneeling On Frozen Peas" you can find articles about it.
I don't think in general people are bundling everything up as bias; many people are bundling up everything as sexism, but that is a superset of bias.

A silly example: if your job description said "We only hire men" (and this weren't illegal), then even if your entire interview process were unbiased, you're probably going to end up with fewer men.

There is an argument that individually and as a whole, the tech community has been sending a message of "not for women" in various ways. If this is true, then the communities complaining about the pipeline problem could both be unbiased and a significant cause of the pipeline problem.
People find the thought of a company with a clear mission appealing but there's no clear advantage of having a mission other than maximizing financial value.

The company mission is just one of the Sillicon Valley tropes, another one is the idea of "changing the world".

Having a mission might be useful for focus and clarity in thinking but if it's taken as something more than that, it's just an artificial constraint. If you can use the company capital more effectively in a completely different market, you should do that, regardless the mission.

I feel that the mission is often constructed backwards from the products. I.e. at Google they looked at their products and came up with a broad description of the user need (organizing the world's information).
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Well for a prime example, try driving around the nation's capital sometime. The roads really are 3rd-world. And that's not the only city disgraced with horrible roads. On top of that, there's bridges literally falling apart. Do you really need examples for this?
So that's the only defining bit of personality? That you're a woman? What about your personality? Up-front / discrete? Introvert / extrovert? Mannered / rude? So many other traits? I'm pretty sure there are man with much more similar personality to you than just a random woman. You've just been brainwashed to have a single bit when judging people, by the same 'diversity' advocates. There is no one like you, and that is not a bad thing. There is no one like every other single person. You don't need someone like you to know you can succeed.
There should be a scoring system for wokeness. That will really open the throttle.
It's mystifying, absolutely mystifying, to me that Slack shipped that editor when both electron and chrome show such obvious problems.

What sort of out of control process let this get out, and also let them ignore bug reports for so long?

This significantly lessens my opinion of Slack and their internal culture. In prior threads there were rumors that Slack employees were hesitant to give negative feedback internally, due to culture. I don't put much stock in rumors, but I'll be paying attention now to that possibility.
About "don't be evil": It's still very much in there.
From: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

The problem was that it was moved from near the top to being near the bottom (though it's own paragraph). Sadly there were lots of very inaccurate headlines like this:

> Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
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That sounds suspiciously like a straw man. The actual meat of the argument is what matters, not the simple fact of the comparison.
> because if these were truly easy jobs someone would have figured that out and won by hiring cheap developers with non-traditional backgrounds.

This is literally what is happening at many companies, quite often. I know so many female developers who have, in the past, said things like "Oh, I'd never work at Uber". And because of this, Uber has to pay their engineers a lot more money, because they can't attract any female employees.

Skiping on diversity initiatives is not just immoral, it is dumb. And you will lose money because of it.
>I'm pretty sure that's what they said they used to make it

That was said about the devkit.

Gerber files are supposed to be released in a few years, after recouping development costs.
I always thought of that as a pun between “reins” (a thing you use to control a horse) and reigns (what a monarch does).
The amount of advertising (every single youtube video for the last 3 months), and lack of any excitement amoung gamers, hardcore or casual, does seem damning.
A dim/dark light bulb to complement the bright light bulb.

The mouse pointer symbol.

More than one breed of dog.
Doesn't that make you suspicious?
Mckinsey has business everywhere, with everyone. I'm not surprised.