skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does someone with a CS degree get a non-coding tech job?
Motivated by the other post I read here, I noticed that there were a lot of people who have anecdotes on their colleagues or managers etc who are apparently completely removed from coding in their careers and yet manage to find themselves in technical leadership positions such as lead architect, etc.

i'm someone with a business degree, as well as a computer science degree. i've tried, and do not enjoy, coding. i don't mind it when doing assignments for school, it's fun because it's very guided and structured. when i tried doing it as a job, i hated every minute of it. somehow managed to find myself a job as a technical project manager where i was paid more but did no coding at all, and i like it. however, i'm finding that my career prospects at this time seem to have stagnated.

i'm very keen to move up to either product management, or some kind of technical leadership role like lead architect, where i get to make some serious decisions. most importantly, i believe these positions pay the best and would allow me to extract the most value out of my two degrees.

how should i try to find these kinds of jobs? how should i market myself? i know that these job postings often ask for actual coding experience, but that's precisely what i'm asking here: how come so many people seem to get there without it, and how can i do it too?
Closed source is a huge red flag.

Ideally, nobody should use any form of closed-source crypto any more.
Disrupt the forum regularly? Toxic users tends to prevail against newcomers.
If it's intimidation, threats, etc. then it isn't free speech, it's violence. That's why maliciously yelling fire in a crowded theater isn't covered by freedom of speech, the action is intending to violently harm other people. That's also why placing a bullhorn next to someone's ear and blasting a screed through it in a way that destroys someone's hearing isn't a behavior protected by freedom of speech (it would be considered assault, it's an act of violence; the person could easily express their screed without harming someone in that manner).

The mobs on Twitter frequently cross over into committing mass acts of criminal behavior through threats and intimidation, organizing to harm people. They don't hide it, this criminal behavior is all out in the open. Hurt this person next, no no no hurt this person. Threatening to harm people is violence (it doesn't have to be a physical threat to be violence), not freedom of speech.
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A lot of things are hard to do in DynamoDB but for the scenarios it excels at there are not many peers.
But that's begging the question, isn't it? If the UK recognizes Sealand as another country, then of course the difference is split. But the UK clearly doesn't, so it will just consider Sealand part of its territorial waters, and every other country (that doesn't recognize Sealand) will side with UK here.
Right, and as we have seen there is no way for sites like medium or facebook to operate without falling down to censorship of expression.

Maybe they shouldnt be allowed to operate?

Maybe this is why we cant have nice things.

Maybe, we need to come up with some other platform type where moderation is by the people for the people.

Regarding what we have now, its a dictatorship.
If I were to guess, it was downvoted by people who are offended by his closing statement "I feel your pain on the loss of Slate Star Codex". A sizable percentage of people agree with eschaton's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719748) and will downvote anything that suggests having SSC disappear is anything but a positive. I'm only guessing though, and would appreciate hearing the actual reasons from those who downvoted it.
> At the end of the day, users haven’t abandoned FB and that’s what advertisers care about.

This goes, especially, to older people who couldn't care less and just want an easy platform to post political memes and gossip about the weird guys who come around the neighborhood in big trucks and snatch everyone's garbage from the curb.
One of my coworkers at my last job was involved on writing a piece of such "bossware" (although nothing as extreme as the examples in the article). It used some WMI interfaces to track what users were doing. He seemed to express at least some level of uncomfort with it, but ultimately wrote it anyway.
That'd be it. My Thinkpads let me permanently disable it.
Exactly. I was just about to post that, I'm going to be buying a few discographies tomm. Specifically, Carpenter Brut's stuff who released a really crazy film based [1] on its music video for Turbo Killer [2]. It's worth checking out if you're into rock-sounding synthwave with 80's themed psychedelic visuals.

I'm also buying like 3 more to support artists.

ABout 7 years go now, Soundcloud enabled Bitcoin donations, and about a team of 5 guys includin me went on a tipping frenzy and tried to get adoption going that way. It was funny, because reddit allowed for direct Bitcoin donations there via a bot and you could name it whatever you wanted. So we did the same on Soundcloud, it's funny because I log into my old soundcloud account at the History of them is still there.

Anyhow, I tipped like 20-30 guys on SC and even got some runway from an early adopter ($100?) to take it further and met a few EDM guys coming into Hollywood/LA area for a few sets and tried to explain it to them as none of them picked up there funds. Apparently, Soundcould didn't do a good job of notifying them that they had money waiting for them so ultimately it failed.

I ended up giving the Bits I had left into people who set up full nodes on the network. But I always thought, especially as a DJ myself, that supporting artists with micropayments would be a good solution. Youtube now allows for tipping in their chatbox as I saw a few in house performances/sets be tipped by followers and fans, but it was always over $1+, which is awesome, but entirely impractical if you want people to send what little they may have on hand to listen a song/remix/dj set/podcast for most people unless you have a very dedicated and quite frankly affluent followers. I'd rather have a 100k-million fans tip 10-50 cents then the four or five die-hards give $10 so I can continue to make content. Paetreon, Gofundme, Kickstarter and such are just needless middlemen at this point and hosting content is super cheap with even multimedia with a $5/month vimeo account.

Anyhow, happy hunting tomorrow, I'm all digital now so I can buy and support a lot more music/artists I otherwise had to ignore because of format.

1: http://bloodmachines.com/

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g
When I was in high school, I had to read a novel called "The Ice People". In it, the Moon's current appearance was explained as the result of an old nuclear war between two human factions on the satellite body.
Is that the same argument?

The country of Japan might not change its flag for whatever reason. That's their choice, and for them to sort out.

Using inclusive language is different because I'm not forcing anyone to type Japan's flag. The origin of Japan's flag doesn't equate "things that are not okay" with skin tone. Your black coworkers today, if they descended from enslaved people brought to the US, have a very high probability of having a white ancestor who was a slave owner—it's part of their identity. Or maybe your coworker was one of the millions of Americans who were forced to work hard labor because of the exception to the thirteenth amendment [0]. It's truly personal. Imagine if "blacklists" were "irishlists": if it was just the origin that was racist, would we be having the same conversation that the origin and the intent can be separated? It's not necessarily hateful to use the "old" term—how could you have been educated on inclusivity when the word is common jargon? But is it racist or hateful to say "I'm actively choosing not to use an equivalent but inclusive term because I prefer the one that I have learned is discouraging or hateful to others"? Yes, probably, in the same way that confederate flag aficionados claim that it represents something different now, or it's the way things "always" have been. In fact, the term probably didn't exist in computing when your parents were kids.

Inclusive language costs nothing [1] and most importantly, it's something that _you can control_. The difference is Microsoft regulating use of the Japanese flag, which they cannot change and which isn't celebrated as a racist symbol, and making the default branch on all new internal git repos "main," which they can easily change, costs ~nothing to do, and avoids terminology which isn't used to be hateful but which is derived from hate.

[0] the old "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

[1] I wrote and landed a PR to change "whitelist" to "allowlist" in 20 minutes. Another team codemodded >1k instances of "blacklist" away in a day. Ymmv, but it's easy to simply stop using an old term and start using a new one, replacing the old one over time.
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I interviewed with all the FAANGs except Netflix over the last 5 months through internal recruiter contacts on LI.

Probably half the interviews I’ve had over the past decade have come from LI, and I think at least 4 or so jobs (including my last and most recent) started there.

It was largely useless in the aughts for me, but not lately.
i think it's because their main line of business is selling software & services (it's not about pushing adds)

they got it that there is more to loose from being pushy - once they were no longer on top of the heap. Doing 'no evil' is a great reputation builder and good for the bottom line (if your business ends allow you to be nice and pleasant, that is). Also reputation becomes very important when you are into selling services (like cloud hosting)

Actually not many established companies of this size are able to make a transition like this one.
This is a huge increase in pricing for all our customers using Algolia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200620142025/https://www.algol...

The previous Starter tier pricing was a lot cheaper. Most important point to note is that additional searches were closer to 10k/$1 vs the proposed 1000 (additional 100k operations: $10/month). Yes, these were 'operations' not searches' but the mapping between operations vs searches doesn't appear to be anywhere near 10-1.
>Well I already talked about how most Americans have money in the stock market, so there is that immediate benefit of seeing your savings increase.

This is inaccurate. Your savings don't increase until your portfolio is liquidated. If it's liquidated at a time there is blood in the streets, you might has well have taken everything out ahead of time, paid your taxes and been done with it.

The only reason it's "good" to avoid Depressive price movements is because every single academic has demonized the creative destruction resulting from pruning overly wasteful business models. It's unthinkable that people should have all their money anywhere else but in the hands of people virtually guaranteed to not be interested in improving your local community.
See SLAPP
Zoom already basically did this, but they removed it: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200401215500/https://support.z...

Very old blog post on it: https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-tips-for-educators-attendee-attent...
> performs more than twice as fast as the standard library's bytes.Buffer

Nice!
> I think this is where our conversation begins to fall apart because there are cases that warrant an angry mob, but usually not.

There is never a case where the actions of an individual warrant an angry mob.

Never.

That is the test of morality. Not how well you treat your friends, but how you behave towards the most vile and despicable people in existence. Unquestionable evil.

Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The worst and most horrible criminals.

All of them deserve a fair trial for their crimes, and equal treatment under the law.

Not because we are being "soft" on them.

But because we are better than them.
Plenty of things to talk about in that piece. For one the idea of this app seems entirely bizzare. A membership only app on which extremely wealthy people chat?

I had to seriously laugh seeing Horowitz invest millions after his "time to build" piece. We wanted flying cars and we got 140 characters, and now we wanted skyscrapers and spaceships and we get a digital nightclub for nerds.

Secondly I think it shows very clearly how much the superficially liberal, tolerant, woke entrepeneurs of this generation resemble old business tycoons. As soon as journalists shine a light on their behaviour, the masks come off.

I remember a piece I read last year on class dynamics[1]. The author characterises today's class war not as the working class vs the rich, but as the rich against the professional and managerial class. The 0.1% vs the top 10%. I think this was a pretty good observation and it's becoming more and more apparent. Journalists, public representatives, Engineers with a sense of ethics and so on are coming in increasing tension with the actual owners of the companies they work for. It is on display at Facebook but also in this article.

[1]https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-wa...
I find it odd that people are irked that she wanted to defend herself against defamation on her own time. Not company time, it was during her leave --as if she owed anyone something?

No, it was an opportunistic move by people who felt slighted by her. It was a calculated move that works in this climate.

In another era these same people would have accused her of being a communist sympathizer --whatever works.
> That's one visible parameter. There's PLENTY OF SPACE for firefox to show the rest of the URL, but it won't; instead, a bunch of icons are unhelpfully crammed into the same horizontal layout.

Right click on the "crammed" icon area, pick "customize", and then you can drag and drop the icons crammed into the space into another bar (or out of the UI entirely if they are icons for things you never use), which should then recover much of the lost space.
Nope. It’s all over.

Absolute Computrace starts at $29 and is resident in most every OEM BIOS manufactured in the last 20-25 years.
Just curious how you're measuring the memory leak in this case? Can you explain how that's being determined?
You're assuming that veracity of stories about the grandiosity of Salomon's temple. There is no evidence to demonstrate that there was a fantastic, wealthy temple built by Solomon. If there was one, it could have been a simple temple fit to a small town built by the new rulers of the Israelite tribes.
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This is a matter of perspective.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

The post I was replying to was shallow.

Asking if people have rtfa is also against the guidelines. So its a bit rich to assume I havent read the guidelines.

And no, there isnt a guideline agaisnt profanity but its what bought you to my comment isn't it?
oh? how many of those interactions were you intentionally trespassing with the intent to either capture or kill the dogs owners?

dogs dont know anything about uniforms. they read body language and smell hormones, pheromones, etc. it sounds like you work with dogs, so surely you know it is significantly important to approach unfriendly, angry, or anxious dogs WITHOUT a focused, anxious intent expecting violence - like a cop would, breaking into someone's yard.
Not even going to be in the top 50.
When I read the title, I was thinking of Henry Kissinger.
Eternal has neither before nor after, so afterlife needn't enter into it. The Kingdom of God is within you.
GAB, Parler and Diaspora - all still exist.

You're not going to see me there, though. Because "by the people" is always a complete shitshow.
4chan anons should have made a real flag of a nation as some sort of meme for slavery. That “white power” thing feels half assed now, just feeding the racists.
It's unclear to me what the best course of action for him actually was, given the Streisand effect. I tend toward thinking that taking down the blog was an emotional outburst at the NYT not respecting his request, and that he could have probably gotten a good outcome, both for his community and real career, if he accepted the press and maybe tried to negotiate the use of his real name down to a single instance, e.g. Scott Alexander, born Scott Alexander Scott. But I see it more as a fit of pique than anything else, not an intentioned effort to cause an internet freakout.
The real problem is how we don’t own our things anymore. We don’t own the car or the heated seats - they are licensed to us under non-negotiable terms that are awful - how many stories in the first 3 pages today about apps snooping our clipboards and microphones?

Where do private property enthusiasts stand on this? Do they support the idea of these contracts as voluntary, or oppose them because it erodes the whole concept of private property and ownership?
I live in a higher dimension and my mood always collapses
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Oh, look, another response from Thorentis. blacksqr wasn't the person who brought up the First Amendment; it was Sarah A. Downey. For the millionth time: People who complain about a lack of free speech on privately-owned websites and refer specifically to the First Amendment should be criticized every time.
You just need one perm and 140 approval. And most companies are ready to start processing your green card in 3-6 months after you start at the latest. It is not as convenient as getting up tomorrow and walking away. But, it is definitely not as dire as you seem to be.
It doesn't have to be though. Especially on a platform that only has one UI toolkit, controlled by the vendor.
Who has taken over the entirety of public discourse? Where?!?!
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I kinda wish I had an intel board atm, because the more I read about ME the more I want to toy with it.
I know people in the West are socialised to think that propaganda is something Other People do (preferably ones that can be thought of as Bad) but I'm afraid I have to inform you that displaying political symbols (such as flags) _is_ part of spreading propaganda. Why exactly do you think that there is an entire etiquette surrounding the proper display of a flag, or that flying particular flags has been variously criminalised around the world (such as flags associated with socialism/

At best you can say that one is simply being an unwitting vehicle of propaganda, but to claim that the public display of such a strong political symbol as a flag is not intended to spread and reinforce what it represents is just absurd.
In most markets, yes. But, you're actually competing for talent in markets like Bay Area or Seattle. So, if you're worthy enough, you'll have employers fighting for you.
I'm surprised that no publishers are included in the "Companies and Organizations" list. Asciidoc is a supported tool for Manning authors and probably others.
This is an important but deeply tragic point. I have friends who I would bet heavily will be unwellbeing their entire lives.

Even if it is true though, is it worth the total loss of hope that would accompany the resignation to the endless night? To me it seems worth the ups and downs of hope and defeat, if only that it promises some points of positive change whereas if you resign yourself to unwellbeing then you will limit the positive upswings you’ll experience.

Either way, it should be acknowledged that there is a small minority for whom these techniques are but an Advil to a splitting migraine.
I find the style just fine and that article is pretty easy to get through, it tells a good story. As an aside I had the pleasure of an afternoon with him and Mary & Tom Poppendieck back in ~2003'ish as an audience member at one of their talks. Super interesting folks with a good stack of war stories to tell.
The main issue for me is that they only work in the url bar not the search bar. For the same reason people are upset about the favicon thing I don't want anything (mis)typed in the urlbar to be sent to a search engine. I've failed to find the correct setting to make this happen a few times before but just looked again and setting keyword.enabled to false prevents it from searching from the url bar (the setting is confusing and not related to the search keywords feature).

I did try firefox search keyword anyway once a while ago but it isn't that easy to configure and the setting were lost not too long after I started using it (I don't remember the details but I think my profile was corrupted by ecryptfs and the keywords didn't import to a new profile or something like that). Not importing them isn't a horrible choice (if that is what actually happened) considering there doesn't seem to be an easy way to even list them, but there should at least be a distinct import/export for keywords. The search page of preferences has a keyword field next to search engines but it doesn't seem to actually list them nor can you add a keyword from that page. All in all, it doesn't seem like a feature Mozilla cares about at all, although it would be a nice feature with a bit more work. Use from right click search on text selection would be another thing that would make it much more useful.

I tend to use ! in two circumstances, one as others mentioned when a DDG search didn't return what I wanted (and I am fine with letting DDG know that since it is the exact same search I just searched DDG) and secondly when I am looking for something on a particular site. Some of the second case would be best done via Firefox keyword search but the advantage of DDG is that they have a lot of obvious names going to the obvious place so rare specific searches are much more convenient than doing anything to set up a list. Since I very rarely use such searches, there isn't anything DDG could learn about me from avoiding just those searches going to DDG. OTOH, using site searches more frequently would be a win for privacy.
If you're limiting this to just the U.S., maybe, but I'd say the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a bigger blunder.
For SPAM wiretapping they open sourced their framework: https://engineering.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haske...
I was under the impression that BMW already did that, and not many people were willing to pay extra for the turn signals package.
> Assuming the worker has local admin on a typical Windows PC.

Big assumption. I feel like most places that would install bossware wouldn't give you local admin.
Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized
Some of those investigations were more than theoretical,
as the Jicarilla Apache well know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy
In the US you are required to have your drivers license while driving, but I do not believe there are any blanket requirements (since it would vary from state to state) that you must be able to furnish identifying documents at all times.