skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s only a “dick measuring” contest if either you tie your self worth to salary or you think they do.

It is such a contest no matter what you think or do. I'll let this mini-thread articulate it better than I ever could: https://twitter.com/HeidyKhlaaf/status/1228605658393718784
if you read to the end of the article, it's been update to say that one of the police agencies with a logo on the poster IS actually admitting to producing the poster! And these are not rural bobbies but in theory an "elite" specialist force. So when you snitch on your child, these clowns will be the "experts" conducting the investigation. You have to hope that the kids caught in this dragnet encounter someone at the CPA who knows what a VM actually is otherwise they'll be taking a plea bargain which gives them a criminal record and prevents them ever using their technical skills for a productive job.
My experience is that implicity is a huge problem as it's too often taken for granted and precisely not valued. Only when you stop doing people realize that since Jeff is on long leave server aren't updated and we've been hacked or that Lucy quited and everything seem to crawl to a halt because she implicitly was doing housekeeping on the database.
It might not have failed you yet but be sure the day it does there a good chance it will be spectacular.
Have a meme, because we're clearly not citing reliable sources in this thread: https://i.redd.it/usuxsd2ex5cy.png
Learn to DevArt: Learning to draw shapes with CSS for website makers. Me in CSS
I do work on embedded systems and it works there too. Much better in any kind of project though is if you can get a management team that actually sees the value in it.

I still consider it pretty much mandatory to build core system improvement into feature estimates but by being more explicit and interactive about it you can get good feedback to refine your own estimates of what parts are even worth improving. It may be that the product line that uses the subsystem you want to improve is about to go a new direction, for example, and the better thing to do is to start preparing for that subsystem to go away.
The slavers businesses gotta make up their money somehow /s
What.

IR radiation is bound by the same laws as all other forms of radiation, most namely the inverse square law.

You would have to be radiating monumental amounts of energy, more than say a red dwarf, to be detectable from "millions of light years" away without fading into the cosmic background as noise.

Think about it this way. With the naked eye you can see a bunch of individual distinguishable stars around ~4000 light years away. These stars produce more energy in a second than mankind has ever produced.

But our closest neighbor, Proxima Centuari, you can't see with the naked eye. Its a red dwarf. And while it still produces unfathomable amounts of energy AND is the closest star to our own. You can't see it.

TLDR: No, a Dyson swarm would not be detectable from "Millions of lightyears away"
As someone who has done frontend dev on the web, I find SwiftUI refreshingly good.

Using SwiftUI is the first time ui programming on iOS has clicked for me.

For anyone getting into this, I suggest you take a look at apple's very well done tutorial series before using other sources:

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/tutorials

I spent about 3 days to go through the entire series and the time investment was well worth it.
Seconding KiCAD. Their software is fairly intuitive- especially if you're used to Linux- and it's super helpful for making sure that your designs are logical and stuff, and you can also use it to figure out how to best breadboard your designs as well.
My god it’s so true. I’m a robotics engineer and I’m an advocate of what I call “reduce the human cost of living to zero” through automation and democratic arrangements. The idea being that we can make it cost very little for society to support non-working people, such that work is not compulsory for survival. It’s similar to a basic income but it’s universal basic services where we try to get the marginal cost to zero (we can IMO make it cheaper than a basic income).

I get so many people telling me “but people would be miserable, they need work to be happy and have purpose.” UGH YES I agree, but I never said I would ban employment! I just want people to be able to take a year off now and then, or work half time, or volunteer or do non-capitalist work and be fine. People seem to think that if we weren’t desperate for employment we’d just sit around bored all the time. That’s not what wealthy people do! Human beings are far too creative to just sit around and do nothing. Eliminating compulsory work is about increasing freedom. We’re smart enough to find something good to do with that freedom.
You are not alone. I am just in another small pond.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22320016 371 points, 145 comments, was on the front page quite a bit
My source was communism, as it was actually in the communist bloc, rather than communism in theory. The capitalist west not only did better at generating wealth than the communist bloc, it also did better at spreading it to more people in society. (Not well - just better.)

But if we want to compare communism in ideal theory, we have to compare it to capitalism in ideal theory, right? At that point, nobody has any actual data.
It can take hours to pinpoint the location of a specific transmitter with skilled equipment operators.
You remain employed during this time off, there is no re-hiring involved.
After learning that there are people walking around with no inner monologue, I am no longer surprised by these debunked universalities. People share a lot less in common than what popular culture would have use think, again no surprise when considering the effects of popular culture.
This is why we need to evolve to a more human centered capitalism. We need to put stakeholders back ahead of shareholders. We need to realize that growth is not limitless and to stop worshiping it. And we need to stop measuring our success as a nation based on macroeconomic metrics like GDP and focus more on metrics that indicate the wellbeing of our citizens. We can not abandon capitalism but we cannot stagnate either.
My problem I can do this when I'm alone or when it's a real pair coding. During an interview when stress and adrenaline kick in. I'll make a silly mistake and after that, because I'm judged by the other person my brain locks up. I'm feeling like a total fraud.
Kind of sounds like you could be in a leadership role. Do you like working with people?
This applies to anyone, whether you're syrian or american; learn the language and find a job. Those are key to getting citizenship.

A friend moved here from the states for a job, so he had the job ready before he came. He learned enough swedish to speak it daily within 2 years. No problem getting citizenship.
I once took a remote job in which my first task was to write an electron app that would take camera photos every minute and upload them to an S3 bucket. It would also log the time when it was started and when it was closed. There was also talk about using basic facial recognition to establish when a human was in the photo or not. This would then be used to outline your daily start and stop time, and determine when you leave/return to the PC.

I have never noped out of a job so quickly.
Just so you know, salaries in Bangalore are comparable to that of SF if adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity. If you don't believe me, feel free to look up levels.fyi for both and match the conversions through: http://salaryconverter.nigelb.me/
there were recent reports that some tensions were growing recently, in the past it was said that there was near zero issues. Take time to investigate
Cool. It’s completely free? What’s the model? Is it open source?
You are not alone. I am also a big fish of your kind, was living another pond until recently, I started my own business
The system is harvesting methane from Earth and converting it to carbon dioxide (another greenhouse gas, but less potent).

If the system uses the Sabatier method to produce methane from CO2, then it's using solar power (I can't imagine doing it in any other way sanely) to convert CO2 to CH4, which is then converted back to CO2 by the rocket. Net gain of no greenhouse gas.
The issue with using general "Earth-like electromagnetic communications technology" is the inverse square law.

Our own communications aren't distinguishable from the cosmic background radiation even at our closest neighbor.

The only way we would find something is if they pointed a VERY powerful noise source directly at us, or us at them. And even then, we are looking at maybe a 100 lightyear bubble (~600 main sequence stars).
I disagree and think saying it's intuitive is doing people a disservice. It's not intuitive at all, but it's more intuitive than the alternatives and it won't take you very long to learn how to use it.

If you don't get it immediately, don't worry, that's normal. Just watch some tutorials and you'll be good to go in a few hours.
I would be surprised if the majority of the people who downvoted the comment have actually lived in Sweden. It's more likely it was because the comment wasn't (initially) specific, or because it didn't match the universally positive image they have of Sweden.
Glad to connect. Please do connect via email at ramsundhar20@gmail.com
I'm not in the medical field either, but based on my experience patients are either asked to wear a mask or turn their head away while the port is being accessed until it's removed or there is a dressing in place.

Step 7 : https://www.specialove.org/wp-content/uploads/joomla/58f-PRO...
> If you bought a coprocessor,

Those were the days you looked at the TRW multipliers (packed in 64+ pin DIPs) advertised in trade magazines like auto buffs might at V8 engines ...

Intel sold their own 8087, until it was digested into the vast expanses of CPU chips opened by scaling.
So, just to be clear, these are your complaints:

- You couldn't fire somebody who went on maternity leave

- You had to provide benefits to your employees, even temporary ones

Seems like the laws are working to protect employees as intended to me.
I used to live in Umeå, so I can tell you from first-hand experience (as an American). It wasn't easy. Everything people say about America's immigration policy being "racist" are also true about Sweden - with exemptions only for those seeking asylum. The Nordic countries in general actually aren't that easy to immigrate to. In my case, I basically had to prove a level of wealth that for 99% of the population of the world wouldn't be possible. (It was actually recommended to me to BUY a house before I was allowed to permanently move!)

By comparison, moving to Germany was a breeze and I still have a valid German green card to this day. In retrospect, this is almost obviously true when you compare the demographics of both countries. Sweden is more homogenous than Germany by far despite offering social benefits that are substantially more valuable.
That's because SV outsources their development work there, artificially inflating prices. In reality, India has a 'tech industry' in the same sense that Africa has an 'AI industry' - there is industry and it is vaguely related to AI, but tagging images does not an 'AI industry' make.
You're coming off as a disgruntled employer. Sweden is trying to make it better for employees. Which most people like. You're in the minority.

It sounds like you're one of those people who'd prefer smaller government too. Just like in the US.

I'm sorry but I'm just a bit shocked because I didn't think Swedes had lost their socialist spirit so much. Clearly you're a product of the Bildt era.

That freedom of choice he advocated in health care for example has already backfired multiple times where the end user/consumer has suffered.

Your vision of Sweden would only benefit yourself and your own kind, business owners and employers, in the long run.
Ive been working four 4-6 hour days a week for the past year. I’m in my opinion quite productive. I think we need to stop thinking in terms of 8 hour days. An 8 hour work day is a lot! Same with five day work weeks. With four day work weeks you get perpetual three day weekend and that makes a huge difference. Actually recently I started working Monday and taking Tuesday off so I can attend a Tuesday night hack night at the local hacker space that I would not be able to attend on a work day.
People are really upset with this comment because they think you're implying OP didn't do any work or that OP doesn't deserve it.

It doesn't much matter to me whether OP has "earned" their position of power, only that they had an enormous boost early in their career.

Just because $44k seems like pocket change to some people on this forum doesn't mean it's still an incredible amount of money that offers a fair amount of power on its own.
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> Some of the best tech management advice I received was to never get explicit approval for refactoring from your immediate boss - whether you're the line engineer or CTO. Instead, you pad dates as needed to get the refactoring work done implicitly.

This is the thing that I cannot agree with what so ever. Companies do not employ developers to write beautiful code. Companies employ developers to write code to support business. Every single code base that shipped contains warts that became obvious as soon as the final commit was one, which means that refactoring is a cost and costs need to be accounted for and prioritized according to business objectives ( which at the end is making money -- the money that pays developers salaries ).
I have starting looking for software engineering jobs for the first time in a few years, and I'm looking at it through a more socially conscious lens than I did a few years ago.

I'm not opposed to commerce or people making money, but so many of the startup I see are based on business plans that just seem dystopian.

Software can solve real problems, but right now capital seems to be choosing some really unsettling applications. Things like using ML to inform "behavioral nudges" for asset manager, many of the healthcare tech startups, and all of the surveillance and spying tech.
Who Programs You? – Day T-2
Ultimately, we might be running into the issue that the impact is spread over time and cannot be condensed into a single ROI number ?
I used to feel this way too, but then was talking to family that was visiting from other parts of the world where no one they know owns a laptop or desktop computer, but everyone has a phone. For much of the next wave of computer users in rising countrues around the world, the phone is the first and only computing device that a person owns. They grew up on smaller screens and digital keyboards and have no care to move to what they consider a less convenient form factor. It really helped me better understand why some of these global messaging platforms are focused so much on phone based systems.
That’s funny. I work at a billion-dollar corp and agree with almost everything said in this article. This is not about “devs doing everything”, but about not replacing your value stream with busywork and misguided delivery metrics. It’s very much on point.

I cannot imagine someone willingly adopting “no metrics”, “shiny objects”, “no retrospectives”, waterfall isolated processes, etc. so you must be just exaggerating? what exactly are your new efforts like?
I agree that the issue is a problem of management. Though without oodles of cash to wash away missteps, poor management would be much more obvious. The ability to distill user feedback into the minimum number of valuable feature enhancements is what sets successful product orgs apart from failed ones. When cash is largely not a constraint, the tendency is to build exactly what each customer has said they want rather than try to come up with succinct improvements. The result is often bulky products that cost a fortune to maintain and only appeal to small number of customers.

VC is good if used correctly. But dumping wads of cash into a company to develop a product that isn’t capital intensive (like web or mobile tech) has the tendency to create bloated product orgs which optimize for the wrong things.
And I am arguing that approval ratings and protests may not be highly correlated or have causational relationships with the amount of social services.
> This is why we need to evolve to a more human centered capitalism

If it's human-centered, it's not capitalism. If it's capitalism, it's not human-centered. You can't have a “more four-sided triangle”.
Cool idea.

Here in the US we go the opposite way: even if you do find some way to take enough time off to accomplish something significant, there's a good chance your employer (legally) owns it.
being (sustainably) fast and producing quality code often go hand in hand. If management doesn’t know Cowboy Chris generates most of the debugging time, that’s a management problem.

A good management team is aware of which people are fast in short sprints but end up tangling things up on longer efforts, which people take time to build steam but never hit that slow-down, and which people fit other patterns (for example, the extremely rare fixers who can take Cowboy Chris’s shit and funnel it into something useful, or the even rarer speed demons who can sprint like that forever because they are like Chris but they work cleanly too)

Good engineers, given the chance, will find and stick with those managers too.
A World Without Nuance
From the article: "'“Dad, maybe you just don’t make enough epi?” asked my son, who was 9 years old at the time.'"

"epi" = "epinephrine". Indeed a possible explanation!

FWIW a cup of coffee is excellent emergency treatment for anaphylactic shock:

https://www.faroutfirstaid.com/blog/anaphylaxis-coffee-time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/781053.stm

For those worried about "coffee allergy" I would note that there are less than a handful of recorded cases of anaphylactic shock due to caffeine -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313757/
Startups are not the primary customer of cloud providers. Enterprises are - and arguably that's where all the money is.
Put in a bit of a different view point here. I was the generalist a while ago too. Worked at a consulting firm that did custom builds with small teams, so not only did everything technology wise but also interacting with clients. So did part of developer, account management, sales, dev ops etc roles. Also did everything from backend to mobile in different frameworks and environments.

I thought the same, that I was a generalist and I did also enjoy the variety. But a couple of things:

1) while I thought I was proficient in everything I actually wasn’t. When I went to a big company where I focused on a specific area is when I discovered how little I knew about the topic and how shallow my knowledge was.

2) I discovered that I enjoyed diving into a specific area and being a specialist there was also fun. Gave me a different kind of rush and ego boost, knowing I can solve deeper technical problems in a specific area.

3) you can’t be both broad and deep in everything. Best is probably aim for a T shaped skill set.

I guess short version is, maybe give specializing a go. You might discover that it’s both enjoyable and sets you up well professionally.
Why didn't you just structure your company differently?

Have a main company that does stuff, which hires subcontractor subsidiaries. They have one employee each.

Then, when she took maternal leave, you could just have liquidated the subcontractor - problem solved.
How realistic are we talking here?
If it's growing like it should be, why would they be cutting her role (e.g. it wasn't performance related, so they aren't going to backfill).
Don't we all have axes to grind?
Oh totally I am of the opinion that the US needs to step up its IP protection. It only makes strategic sense to protect your competitive advantage.

I'm just pointing out that every other nation seems to have gone through a phase of "cheating" to get to where they are, to the point where I can't even say with 100% certainty that it's possible to become a technological superpower without doing it.
The general rule though is that the clients are asking for X, actually need Y, and get delivered Z - isn't it?
They're also the reason why Sweden has an utter joke of a tech industry while the United States are world-leading within the field.
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> If you are not going to hire 100%, do not invite to interview. It's should not be a trial game

What does this even mean?
When I worked at Xero, AR automation was by far the most common partner / integration to approach us.

There are thousands of solutions in this space, focused on every niche imaginable, with a huge range of products.

Everything from simply reminders, to outsourcing, to discounting / incentives, to debt collection.

I’d be very surprised if you can’t find a suite of tools that automate / optimise the portions of your AR process that you’re having difficulties with.

https://apps.xero.com/au/function/bills-expenses
(Most of these are multi-platform, or completely independent applications, they do not require using Xero)
How do you know what to do? I don't like being a big fish but I have no ideas for my own business.
Awesome! Is this used anywhere in production?
Of course we are talking about cancer here, but for healthy people I don't think the blood sugar levels during ketosis are ever considered dangerous. And even though you aren't eating much carbs, your blood sugar may never get low at all, because you aren't burning them very much either.

As for keto diets and cancer, there's been a lot of studies claiming all kinds of things. I have trouble trusting diet related studies, as they constantly contradict each other and probably have far too few subjects versus the number of variables, which they often can't control. But as for the theory, I think at least for particular cancers it is believed they need sugar to grow, so can be starved by a keto diet.
SoftBank sounds like they didn't get the memo startups involved in physical world don't really work because you can't "disrupt" complex logistics networks
Nobody with that skillset in modern labour market can be "ruined" financially. Yes, you may loose all your assets and even get into some debt, but as long as you're capable of working, you won't be really ruined.
are benefits still paid by the employer?
Force10 network switches (owned by Dell now) use NetBSD for their FTOS and have for quite some time. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
This is orthogonal to my question.

Yes, direction can be set independent of engineering. But a string of failures, at best, shows a string of misused engineering resources. Which just leads back to my challenge of why do they think they know what a successfull candidate is?
That hasn't been my experience. In Python 2 your program would appear to work fine initially, but the first time your data happens to contain a non-ASCII character you would get a mysterious UnicodeDecodeError somewhere far away from where the actual problem is.

In Python 3 it just works again, like it did in Python 1.5, before the whole str/unicode implicit-conversion mess was introduced in Python 2.
Of course it did. The notion of some capital intensive robot to make pizzas is and was absurd on its face.

What problem was this company solving?
Why are you unwilling to name the business, one with over 1000 employees. It would have been understandable if the company had 10 employees not 1000. Your claims fail the sniff test.

The downvotes on my comment show pretty clearly that there is sockpuppeting going on.
It is really rich that those on HN who are paid 6 to 7 figures would seat on their high horse and disparage OP for complaining about labour law arbitrage from the perspective of an Nordic entrepreneur and yet would be the first to throw a fit if their jobs get shipped or outsourced to Mexico or some other emerging economy.