skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Roughly speaking, you should identify what type of outcome you want and then work backwards to identify what skills you might need to get there."

I've tried this logical approach. It tends to make me miserable, since I lack the intrinsic motivation to follow through with my plan and then end up angry at myself for not having enough perseverance, or discipline, or whatever. Or even better: half way through my plan I realize that I don't even like the path I'm headed down, and that I only chose it based on a surface understanding of the field (like a child who thinks they want to be a doctor, but has no idea what that actually entails).

Something I've found that works for me is to just work on whatever I find interesting at the time. If you're a curious person, then what you find interesting will change from year to year. And since interests are generally not completely random, and tend to branch off from current interests, then over a period of a few years you'll find that you've automatically developed a set of complementary skills. And the best part is: you didn't have to plan anything, and you enjoyed what you were doing the whole time.
A landing page that's completely blank if cookies are blocked by default isn't the greatest sell, especially for a dev tool.

Cool idea, though, once I could see it.
I think this does not mesh well with their mission.

They are the Internet Archive, the archive of freely (in the past) available stuff that can't be found anywhere else, in most cases. This is much more fragile than old books which likely exists in thousands of copies anyway.

I do not admire their stance, and am unhappy that they are recklessly jeopardizing their unique thing to make a case where they have a very big chance to lose, without any circumstances forcing them to do so.

This is not how you serve as a warden of a valuable archive. (I know, I know, it's their right and their choice.)
There are many many people without CS degrees at Google.
I'd like to see a Open Source password vault which relies on open hardware storage for passwords. Clients only get rate-limited amount of passwords when the hardware is prompted to give, e.g. from physical button confirmation on the hardware, finger print. Point being that clients don't hold the passwords, just the usernames.

Problem with Bitwarden etc. is that if your computer or one of the devices gets compromised, then all of your passwords are lost at the same time. With hardware based vault you can mitigate this somewhat, with rate-limiting, physical prompt etc.

I have 1600 passwords, I use perhaps 10 different per week. If I get compromised I loose 1600 passwords, but with hardware based system I potentially loose just the 10 I used within the last week.
We need to retain competition, otherwise AMD will be the new Intel and we will have gotten nowhere.
If tech companies don’t adjust for cost of living and you move you can save money on housing and get more space.
Sure, I support the right of people to do both of those. I'll compress the moral argument:

A: Support for liberty means I don't want to restrict who works with whom.

B: Veil of Ignorance means I don't want circumstances out of someone's control to result in use of A to discriminate in hire/fire.

C: Individual freedom is important.

D: Societal success is important.

The nuance is not quick-expressible in text, but that's the short form. I believe principles are only useful if they lead to desirable outcomes, so I have no problem special-casing exemptions to these, but I don't think political opinion is worth making a protected hiring class. This is a point where I disagree with California employment law (which does make political affiliation a protected class) and agree with Federal employment law which is more circumspect in its.

On the other hand, I wouldn't fire a person for political affiliation, generally. If it would almost certainly sink my business, then I would.
Most lists I've seen on the topic show Amazon as having the 3rd most trafficked search engine (after Google and YouTube)
I’m not sure those are centrist positions. On the first one, I disagree with you on the science. On the second, you explicitly pointed put why centrism is bad (and with important qualifications, I sort of agree with the point you were making there). With respect to guns... meh that might be centrist, but it’s not really specific enough to base actual policy and constitutional law on - the history is also much more complex than you imply. With respect to race, I’d suggest you’re painting with an absurdly broad brush that doesn’t reflect the actual ideological spectrum.

In my opinion, trying to be “centrist” is more of an aesthetic choice than actually related to ideology.

What I will give you is that any community where honest discussion of actual, specific issues is impossible is toxic... but in practice I see that critique most often wielded by dishonest provocateurs.
Signed up, read a couple threads. I didn't see anything in the conversation that was particularly civil, or notably higher quality than other discussion forums. Perhaps that will evolve with time.
How will this affect commercial real estate? I've already noticed an uptick in "for lease" signs on commercial buildings throughout the major city I live in...
Fringe benefits should always be expected to be transient (meals, commute transportation), and it isn’t wise to include them in total comp calculations (as they’re easier to do away with than your comp).
Let’s not paint with broad strokes. I’m sure the people who are too selfish to wear a mask or limit their activities in any way are also selfish enough to be ok with someone else paying their bills. But there’s also a lot of people who want to earn their keep and they want things back to normal so they can get back to work.

One of the more dangerous narratives in American politics is theory that social programs are bad because they breed leeches. So we’ve been cutting those to the bone. Now one of the scariest aspects of the pandemic in the US is how little to no social net exists for people who are down on their luck. If shit hits the fan , it could get really ugly for a lot of Americans.
I don't know how widespread it is, but I definitely have seen it in some of my social network. People who were previously making more than unemployment, but not much more than the new covid-doubled unemployment, are straight-up refusing to go to work, because why would you go to work for the same money?

Granted, these aren't high-flying careerists, given that "double unemployment" is more than or similar to what they were already making. But still. It's a rational response.
"Moderate" views are just the status quo, so of course that's the case. In an oversimplified 1-dimensional view of politics ("both sides") where you have a left, center, and right, you will always be criticized by the other two.
I can take public transportation which is $2.50 a day. If I don't then parking downtown is $150 per month in our current building, but no one is allowed to go into the office. We're getting a new building next year when we do return to the office and parking will be $250+ across the street or $300+ for garage attached to the same building. That's what it costs me to run my ancient, inefficient 220 volt window unit and keep an uninsulated wooden garage apartment cool in the summer. I will gladly go back to the office when it's allowed.
small note: Banks do not want to forget fraud, the rollback would be akin to a git revert. Even if the history presented to the customer makes the fraud vanish it won't be forgotten by the bank.

With government requirements I'm assuming you mean something like gdpr. Datomic supports actually removing data via excision. it's just not the default behaviour. I personally prefer a system that doesn't forget by default whilst preserving the option to do so.

you can also support destruction of personal data via other means such as key shredding.
Just opening a PR ? some time you have to step a way from a laser focus on JIRA and GitHub.

As a newbie at a FANG its going to take at least 9 months to a year to get that familiar with such a large code base.

And most of being a developer is not KLOC's or its modern eqvielent Fuature Points
London is notorious for low SWEng salaries; you might not have any other choice than to contract somebody in Ukraine who didn't escape somewhere else if your own employees get higher paid remote gigs in the US...
I think working at a crypto startup has changed my life because I see stuff we store about our clients as a total liability...
I can totally appreciate the desire for simplicity in work, and having a single objective number is about as simple as you can get.

But there's a difference between simplicity in jobs like flipping burgers vs finance, and that's power. If we work in a job that is both powerful AND simple (like many in tech & finance), it's likely many unintended externalities are being created.

Externalities, because they affect others, have strong political ramifications. So if you're working in a field with a lot of power, and you're having simple to nonexistent conversation about externalities, there's a good chance you're contributing to the problems you're trying to avoid discussing by virtue of wielding power blindly.

Perhaps those externalities would be better solved at their source of the workplace rather than let fester in the public sphere. This is a sort of 'ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' argument for why its important that workplaces engage in these discussions, and why the shareholder value maximization approach is too reductionist for corporate entities of any meaningful size or power.
I'd rather spend that time on other things tbh
Guess I must be wired differently, but I look at that extra time and think “what more could I do?”, rather than “I’m convinced this is the output required of me, thus I will do no more with my new found time.” shrug
Would that really be any cheaper for the business than just renting an office?? Flying people to nice destinations and putting them in expensive hotels along with their families is $$$.
Actually Google is getting shittier and crappier every day. Btw. I usually look for things on Amazon, they search engine has the same issue as Google's. Only spam (they call it ad) in the first N positions. I would seriously pay for a service which has no PII data collection (still can measure the effectiveness of your engine), no ads and relevant results.
It’s funny how many people who know nothing about telescopes have been saying that recently...
If all Apple cared about was faster chips, they could easily call up AMD and move their platform there. It'd be a lot less work for them.

Moving to their own ARM chips lets them gain tighter control over the platform, and not be beholden to Intel or AMDs roadmap or desire to implement specific features Apple wants.
Great observation. It’s a shake down because they have leverage over you.

Edit: it’s truly a test of elasticity
Well you're right about one thing at least.
I agree that the socialization part is not actually "wasted" time and I would love to do it as much (or as little) as I want per week (ideally one or two days, instead of five days per week on a forced basis).
Pure CSS wiping gradient text reveal
Your vendetta doesn't make something real.
But can you find someone? At what rate?
Neither monospace variant looks good in a Linux terminal or a text editor. Linux is very peculiar about rendering fonts, and this font is likely designed for macos. I noticed that this font doesn't have powerline symbols which makes it even less usable in the terminal.
Why, exactly? What do you think the consequence for sharing those opinions would be?
> someone who only knows how to plot a graph in python (for example).

Hey, I've been writing Python daily for 12 years and I struggle with that!

First you have to get matplotlib installed. That often works nowadays, but you have to be sure you've installed numpy first, and on a bad day you'll find yourself looking at some sort of C compiler error and copying stuff from stackoverflow to make libgfortran be found or whatever.

Then you try to remember the bizarre way people import matplotlib. Your mind briefly flits to memories of blog posts explaining that matplotlib has two parallel APIs, and you start feeling annoyed about that. Then you start feeling annoyed that one of the APIs is based on matlab; why should a key part of the python ecosystem be apeing matlab? It's not like anyone has ever thought matlab had APIs, or anything really, worth emulating. Anyway, it's something like `from matplotlib.pyplot import plt`, or some nonsense like that. So you spend a few minutes failing to remember, and then googling for it with a rising sense of frustration.

Then you get this error:

_RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework, or try one of the other backends._

And now you're really quite annoyed. What the fuck is a framework? It's some MacOS thing but it's always been clear that it's a non-UNIXy concept that you don't want to and shouldn't need to know and you kind of suspect it shouldn't even exist. But holding that opinion would require finding out what it is.

So you google for how to overcome that. And then... there's some weird thing where you have to put a line in the middle of your inport statements before importing matplotlib... and finally you wish you hadn't been so stubborn and had just used an IPython notebook, but you just kind of hate them despite how beautiful and well-engineered they are. They can't be version-controlled, you hate typing code into your browser, you always end up with an incomprehensible mess of mutable state, etc.

I used to use R and, back then, I enjoyed making plots and did so efficiently and reasonably well.
Some help can be found with typed CSS:

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/rtfeldman/elm-css/late...

https://github.com/reasonml-labs/bs-css

Or even a typed alternative to/subset of CSS:

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/mdgriffith/elm-ui/late...
I got the sentiment, but maybe the downvotes are because that's really not relevant to the discussion
True, but given that Strzok's own notes were recently released and they'd found no coordination with Russia at all, it reads like a conspiracy theory.
Good luck..
Will your conservative neighbors be annoyed and maybe ignore you if you bring up climate change, or will they actively try to get you fired from your job?

I think the Left is getting flak for doing the latter.
"extreme leftist" has become so watered down that I basically assume people just mean "liberal who is aggressive on socially progressive stances".
The day a RISCV SOC on par with the Raspi 1, is the day I never buy another ARM board. It'd be nice if the whole SOC is open cored like the CPU, but I'll take what I can get.
I had the best of both worlds, I went in once a week - but I loved going in. I met with my team, talked with our people outside my division. Grabbed some good "city miami" food, no "suburb miami" food. It was like a mini-vacation, every week and it energized me for the following week.

Hard problem to solve. Other people in the company had to go in every day, and I'm sure they LOVE not having to commute, and for good reason.

Companies can't really "rent an office space" for one day a week can they? It's not realistic. I wonder what will work look like in the next 2 years. I'm glad I had a chance to experience the office setting for a year at least.
At least with my own company, the approach has been pretty reasonable.

They know they're saving money in the long term on space, and they're splitting that with employees pretty fairly. $1500 up front for all existing employees and all new hires to provision a space to work remote, and a $125 a month in reimbursement for internet/phone/electricity, no questions asked.

Frankly, it's made the transition pretty positive for all parties. The company saves a ton in the long term on rental space, and employees get a nice perk.

There are still folks that would prefer not being remote, but most folks are pretty happy without a commute.
I'm fascinated by how each of these restatements in some ways say the exact same thing but also strongly imply very different moral choices. Another restatement might be: "If you don't die on this hill, you leave me to die on it."

I think the key difference between Tutu's phrasing and "if you're not with me you're against me", is that the former presumes some people don't have the luxury of choosing sides and they are requesting support from people who do. If you are, for example, Black in the US, you can't really choose to not make racism a priority, since you will experience its effects whether you like it or not.

"If you're not with me you're against me" doesn't imply anything about the speaker's own agency. In that sense, I think it's a less compassionate thing to say, because the listener chould just as well ask them to change sides. Tutu's framing makes it clearer that not everyone has that freedom.
also most people on your team has met in person, so there's that momentum too. It's a complete different vibe when teleconferencing with people you've met several times than with those you have not.

And I don't think a quarterly on-site is enough.
One could argue the point of inflection was here:

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

https://youtu.be/KrefKCaV8m4
First Sale doctrine evenly applied to digital books would allow you to freely resell the ebook you purchased. It probably wouldn't mean allowing you to make infinite copies and distribute them freely, abolishing the market for the actual book.

Yes, that's not the technical definition of FS doctrine, but that doctrine was written before this technological context existed.
What is happening with AMP ? The pages load faster. They made it clear they will reward page load times in ranking. They have made no such shopping related claim here.
I keep to myself because I don't trust people to take my slight differences of opinion with appropriate calm. I've been burned one too many times by "you don't agree with my concept/idea/candidate you're a literal fucking monster." No thanks, I could have been your ally but I'll just stay home.

I should add, this goes in both directions and I see it from both sides of the political spectrum. I consider myself an independent. I try to judge all issues individually and fall into different camps depending on what we're talking about, but political dialogue has become so toxic that I've gotten to the point where I just cast my vote and move on.
Google Maps is very much real life. And it was very easy to mess up. Big usability achievement.

In fact I think it's underrated. It truly changed my world. Earlier I was always nervous when driving and frequently speeding. It's so liberating to be able to call a friend and say "uh I'll be 8 minutes late, sorry".
It would be silly to use the X-37 as an anti-sat weapon: it's too expensive. Think of how cheaply SpaceX is putting up Starlink! A single Falcon 9 could probably put up a bunch (20? 30?) of antisat weapons that only ever raise or lower their orbits and fire .22s at their targets. The idea is to disable targets with as little debris as possible.

With larger anti-sat sats you could actually latch on to the target and de-orbit it for zero orbital debris destruction. This requires many more, much larger such devices because while it takes relatively little delta-v to raise or lower an orbit, it takes a lot more to match an arbitrary target's orbit (to which more fuel has to be added for de-orbiting).
> Ask yourself - why do regular people still buy Intel PCs?

Regular people don’t buy PCs at all and haven’t for a couple of decades.
Just google for "ARMv8".

(Also, it's not like ARM was a single instruction set before either. For quite some time ARM had two totally different instruction encodings, the "usual one", and Thumb2, with microcontrollers usually only supporting the latter.)
Mapquest was already successful before Google maps.
It's hard to hire remote employees in different COL areas without opening yourself up to legal liability, if people are able to bounce around and hold onto COL salaries disproportionate to the local area.

Ex, if a bunch of white and asian bay area employees relocate to Florida, taking their salaries, and then Facebook hires some local hispanic employees at 1/2 the rate... well, you can try to explain exactly what happened after you get sued, but that doesn't sound like a lot of fun. And even if you legally get away with it, you are going to have a lot of REALLY unhappy employees.

Not to mention you're opening yourself up to a real game, where employees move to the Bay Area for a year to get hired at a high salary, and then immediately leave for 2x the salary. All you've done is turned salaries into a game that benefit highly-mobile employees.

So I definitely understand why this feels shitty, but I honestly can't see it working any other way for large corporations. You have to have some kind of local salary adjustment you can stand behind, when you're remote-first hiring.
How would this work when both parents work different jobs and children in school?
Donald Trump said Mexican immigrants are rapists. If my coworker supports Trump, do they agree with this? I'm Mexican, do they think I'm a rapist? I know a friend who is a DREAMer, i.e., they are undocumented. Are they a rapist? How does my coworker's belief that Mexican immigrants are rapists affect their ability to work with other people? Should I have to wonder these things about someone I'm on a project with?
Is it really controversial to say that people of color don't like racism?

I guess I do hold controversial opinions. Please don't cancel me, 2020views.
Many adult Canadian Inuit are from a time when they were forcibly removed from their families and raised in residential schools which applied corporal punishment liberally, and sexually abused many of them. Christians routinely complained that the natives refused to beat their children, and couldn't be trusted to raise their children 'properly'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

How about an electric chair? https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential...

https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-people...

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_sc...
He used to be an EVP at PayPal :)
I am aware of such people too. Their worldview is skewed. But that doesn't mean we should look down on them. Before knowing what I know now, I was extremely ignorant too. It's possible for anyone to fill that gap
We need ateliers, not offices.
It's 100% okay to not be completely informed on an issue! If anyone is accosting you for that, then that's not okay or constructive. I'm not asking any more than that you be understanding that when our freedoms are under attack, ie currently, you are willing to make a choice and not complain because a lot is at stake.
Or being apolitical just means you don’t have time or inclination to obsess about the political origins and implications of every atomic micro-decision in your day because doing so is a tremendously tedious and unproductive burden that frequently yields no meaningful insight or behavior change. Not every one needs to be an activist about every thing.

If a person feels strongly about some special political cause, fantastic, they ought to make their case convincingly. But the idea of castigating others for not putting in the time or enthusiasm to share their superior moral clarity is exhausting.