skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was much I disagreed with in this post, but I had a hard time even addressing a single point, as I felt that it was a bit all over the place. I decided to first try to condense it a bit. In the end I realized that I understood the author a bit better. I still don't agree, but I get where he's coming from. Here's my paraphrased summary.

So the author originally found much satisfaction in his exploratory, entrepreneurial, and hacking activities, as it offered a counter-balance to the corporate culture that he perceived as shallow and alien. It didn't matter that his ventures ended up as failures, he found something worthy out of the process.

Sometime later he had a change of heart and decided to pursue a "career". He was then confronted by a clash of culture when he realized that all his tinkering didn't matter to HR.

Now, he's a manager and he understand HR's perspective on reality. He gives you a glimpse. His time spent working on projects was a waste at best and a liability at worst. Companies don't need innovators or free thinkers, they're afraid of them. What they need are good soldiers unburden with ideas of freedom. Exploring new shiny stuff does not make you appealing to HR, your capacity to endure the grind does.

The author offers some philosophical digression where he posits that side projects, much like the theoretical stuff that you learn in school, serve to expand your mind, but don't let them delude you into thinking that you can make that enriched vision serve you in the real world (of employment I suppose).

True valuable experience comes from getting a first job and to do that you should brush up on your DS & algo theory and do coding exercises. Don't expects all your shallow side projects to come to your rescue at your next technical interview.

The author concludes that if you want to make things easier for yourself, you should get a job. It will free you to be yourself, to go fishing, to have a life. If you still want to work on some side projects, you'll do so because they truly matter to you, not because you think they will be strategically helpful in your career. It will suck becoming dependent on a company, but it's the price to pay to be safe from the relentless competition in the job market.
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There's a Pareto optimal middle ground here, because companies that pay more don't want to pay a lot more. They want to pay enough to beat their competitor's offer. All companies involved aren't interested in that number going higher than it has to. This is why cost of living adjustments exist in the first place. The pandemic didn't invent remote work.
Indeed. I. Some countries the utterly insulting government marketing is basically conferring inherent sin to the population. Implying guilt for all outbreaks lies at their feet.
What the article author doesn't get: Serverless cloud platforms and APIs are the 21st century equivalent of OS APIs and libraries. They're still maturing, but the abstraction has moved up a level. Most people don't care (and fewer want to) what OS or other low-level stuff is running their code.

Today, we're still too focused on what's going on inside the boxes - in the future, more people will realize that the important part that brings value is how the boxes are "plumbed" together. We're already seeing the beginnings of this with serious no-code/low-code platforms, which are ideally suited for these kinds of services environments. (Soon, they won't all be cloud-based, either...)
User/application density is the real potential win for serverless IMO, that no one ever really talked about (to my knowledge) and noisy neighbor was the problem to be solved. The real world indicator would have been hosting costs going to zero and 10-100x apps multiplexed onto the same "real" server substrate. Instead everyone is perfectly happy paying for cloud vm instances. In hindsight I guess "function as a service" wasn't the complete solution I thought it was.
It‘s not a new microservice, it’s a new name of grid computing with more than 20 years of history. I have been working with a grid in ~2001, running Java-based GUI apps on thin clients from a distributed cluster of several sparc machines. Was an interesting concept with unclear economics (likely useless with the internet connection speeds of that time). It’s not difficult to imagine it as an alternative to GSuite with much less resources required on the client.
I think he's saying if you really need a larger vehicle once a month or so to the point where you'd have to rent one, buy the larger vehicle.
This article is close, but misses the mark. Talking about how UX researchers must grow up having more empathy sounds like an assumption that's pretty hard to back up, considering I can point to plenty of software engineers that got into the profession because they want to build a better world for others.

I have a double degree in something that's effectively user experience. The one thing I heard in school over and over again is that when evaluating the usability of software, "you are not your user." In other words, you can never assume that your own experience with software is the same as the average user's experience. This is doubly true for software that you've written yourself, since you have an intimate understanding of the mental model that other people have to somehow acquire on their own.
Did you mean aren't clear cut? Autocorrect?
Over the past 4 years of using guava in a few services, I haven't needed to do anything more than bump the version number.

At least for the basics(immutable collections), it's stable enough
Also shows a major failure of Linux community of those times - open source got big thanks to MIT and similar, not GPL.
That's one job. That's not the kinds of jobs I'm talking about.
And did that network care about side project all that much?
The degassing method at Lake Nyos [0] is also interesting. They installed pipes reaching down into the water layers that contain lots of carbon dioxide and used a pump to move water up. As the pressure decreased, less gas could be dissolved and created bubbles which rise and take water with it[1]. After an initial powered pumping, the process is self-sustaining and continuously transports unproblematic amounts of carbon dioxide to the surface. This prevents built-up of dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide dissolved in the water and a disaster as it happened in 1986.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos

[1] similiar to an air-lift pump in a pond
I find a lot of joy in the 5% that I can host friends, though.
He did say the interviewee can ask questions freely. My question would've been whether to count symmetrical positions as distinct, but otherwise I'm not seeing any particular ambiguity.
watchOS 7.0.2 contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Addresses an issue that could cause the battery to drain more quickly
• Resolves an issue that prevented some users from accessing the ECG app in regions where it is available

This update has no published CVE entries.

Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Re: “$129/life”

I had to laugh when the pricing says it’s $129 PER life.

https://www.usertrack.net/hotjar-alternative

Edit: I just dived into the demo. Nice work there! Great product.
>The main point of life is not optimizing for optimal spending, its optimizing for enjoyment.

The trouble comes when optimizing for enjoyment today causes pain tomorrow.
As an introvert, I've found it to be more complicated than that. There's a minimum level of interaction I need in my life (covid has challenged this at times), and interacting within small groups, especially with people I know well is a lot less draining.

I started working remotely a few years ago, and actually started seeking out social activities, something I rarely did when I worked in the office. In normal times, working from home allows you to choose where to spend your "social" energy rather than burning it all on work.
Isn't there some sort of security built-in, like "if suddenly the bill becomes 1500% the norm, kill the instance and start serving 404s"? (I know nothing about cloud, honestly curious)
> Police were heavily outgunned.

I believe the problem wasn't so much that they were "outgunned," but that they lacked longer range weapons of any kind. So that problem could be entirely solved by issuing some fraction of officers hunting rifles to carry in their patrol car's trunk. No need to kit them out like infantry or give them APCs.

The police's advantage in numbers and organization would take care of almost any other disadvantage WRT weaponry.
They don't. This blog is pretty badly designed.
That's how they're winched onto the flatbed though anytime they're broken. The manufacturer provides that eyelet to prevent damage to suspension parts from using straps on a "bad" spot.
Generally I find that trying to solve problems begets more problems (i.e. side projects beget side projects). Choose a tech stack and start building a Reddit clone, and you'll quickly hit roadblocks and get ideas.

Started a new side-project on the weekend (after a long long hiatus of just focusing on day job). Phase 1 was simply getting the stack up and running (PostgreSQL-backed, Python gRPC service taking gRPC-web through Envoy to a React front-end). Took some fighting through the setup to get a full-stack existence proof, ideas that arose during the working session:

side-project TODO #1 - Write a blog post about getting this all setup using current versions and push a public github repo with the setup to help other out.

side-project idea #2 - Build a micro-PaaS where a customer can define a gRPC interface, Python module implementing that, and with a single command, push this to a live serving endpoint.

side-project idea #3 - I need a state machine as part of my application logic, TODO: write a Python non-ephemeral state machine library that, with a simple Python internal DSL, backs state machine persistence onto a PostgreSQL table, handle automatic schema updates as the state machine is changed / versioned.

Literally not enough time to do any of these things though :)
Ask HN: What and how many electrical engineering is needed for technical CS?
How much and what kind of electrical engineering is needed for technical Computer Science/Hardware-enginering?
> To be fair, it makes some sense: cars are one of the biggest killers of kids, and they're a much bigger risk in the suburbs (where most streets are wide and fast) than the city.

On the flip side, I see far more reckless driving in the city than in the burbs. Blowing lights or stop signs or excessive speeding are all more common in the city often directly in front of police. That wouldn't fly in the suburbs, and moreover people sort of expect traffic laws to be followed within reason (people still speed, but it's not normal to go 70 in a 45). Further, I have a strong suspicion that there are more hit-and-runs in the city than the suburbs. In the burbs, streets are wider and the speed limits are higher, but they have push-to-walk buttons and almost everyone stops well before the light turns red.
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Experts in something are rarely able to see it from an outsider's perspective. It's pretty much a universal for humanity. People who can absolutely do exist, in quite large numbers, but they're not the norm.

Maybe software gets targeted for this more often because a one-person (or very small company) project can reach a lot of users? Physical products need more money / manufacturing / staff to reach, say, 100k+ users, at which point they've got more than a tiny handful of people contributing to it. Or maybe it's just a fairly adjacent news bubble so we notice it more ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If anyone could pass these tests via hard work then we would have millions of Indian and Chinese people able to pass them, but we don't. Instead the ratio of people who can pass them from there is roughly the same as everywhere else.
Most 1033 materials are simple things like ammunition and office supplies, which wouldn't have any maintenance contracts. I'm sure if a police department got an APC they'd want it to be maintained, and I highly doubt you can just take an APC down to the local mechanic, but to my knowledge there's nothing in the 1033 program that forces them to continue a maintenance contract.
Do you really think the people who can't make next month's rent substantially overlap with the frequent air travelers?

It's definitely not the case among my peers. If anything, the people who traveled a lot have just been saving a lot of money during covid while they WFH and are unable to spend it as frivolously.
I suspect "clear a certain kind of bar" is the biggest part of this.

Imagine you're a recruiter at Facebook. You reach out to thousands of candidates, convince hundreds to come in for interviews, and almost all of them fail because the interviews are hard and test skills that need to be specifically trained. If you convince a Googler to come in for an interview, they probably have a nearly 50% chance of passing since they've already done it at least once.

The recruiters are not exactly incentivized to bring in people who will be great hires. They are incentivized to bring in people who can pass the interview.
Certificate pinning helps remedy this, to an extent. Anyway, it's not just Cloudflare that can do this.
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Yes, that's kind of my point :)
I don't release software to the cloud without running it on my computer first.

I'm attracted to 'serverless' about as much as I'm attracted to 'version-control-less' or 'testless'
impressing recruiters is downright stupid. Let's be frank: recruiters are bottom-of-the-totem-pole, lowest-common-denominator, bottom-feeders.

My friend, this isn't personal, but a fact: you're privileged.

I sense you've never been in a position where you have $3,000 in the bank, your wife is depending on you to get through college, and you have to get a job or you lose your apartment.

Out here dropping stories about Evan Spiegel; gimme a break. Most people don't know any CEOs, PMs, or hiring managers.

The funny part is, I agree with your premise. You are indeed presenting the best way of opening doors. It's worked for me, and has opened many doors.

But only when I was in a better position. Till then, it was one of the worst things I could have done. Focusing on playing the hiring game would have put me in a much stronger position.

The comment you made is slightly out of touch. There's nothing wrong with that, but I think you'll maybe look back on it in 10 years or so with a wince.

In the situation I described above, where you absolutely need that job, all the people you mention have a good chance of forgetting about you due to day-to-day politics. Guess who won't? That recruiter. Because they get a cut of your salary.
Selling an online course without Teachable/Thinkific
That's the most stupid thing i heard lol, I'd rather drag my body across 87 miles of sharded glass and blades than do that.
If you used the service linked in the article, it would cost you about $60 to get a car for a 5 hour 50 mile trip every month. If it takes you one hour instead, you're saving $90 an hour. And since you just have to get to the closest suitable car, 1 hour is probably more than enough.

And I think most people would trade an hour driving for $50.
Of course I'm reading this!
Often my designs suck because I've been busting my ass to get the system to work and haven't had time/energy to take on the UX design as well.

I find it irritating to be criticized for a design that's meant to be a placeholder.
But Nadella was there during the Ballmer (not Ballamer) years

I have to imagine that that was an innocent typo. Do you think so? Or do you think that it wasn’t, and so pointing it out helps to discredit the author?
Conversely I've worked with lots of designers who also suck at UX.

I think the first paragraph nails it. The people who are good at UX are the people who have the benefit of testing designs with users and iterating on them. Either for the problem at hand or with the benefit of past experience.

As an industry I wish we could get past the idea that your job title denotes your ability in one area or another.
The Sun Room
I'm walking to work with a large coffee in hand. It is cold, and I am happy.

Because I am in the sun room.

I bring a task onto my mental desk. Considerations, insights, possibilities start spilling from it immediately with no effort required.

I seem to have micro thoughts within larger ones. Little jokes I make to myself, flashes of pleasant memories, ideas for tangential projects while the larger loops churn away.

I love to code here, though one must keep an eye for refactoring hubris when sitting in the sun room.

In this room I have the idea to start naming familiar states of consciousness like rooms of a house. The sun room, the doorless room, the infinity cupboard, the hole.

Sadly I've only found coffee for opening this door but daily use quickly builds tolerance in me.

So I'd very much like to know, has anyone else has found a key to the sun room?
Don't have kids.

Study algorithms for interviews for Big Corps.

Know where you're spending money on. What % goes to food, what % goes to hobbies, etc.

Have low-cost hobbies.
Well, I think it is ok to want a porch and a yard even if I am not using them constantly. I don't want everything in my life to be perfectly economically efficient. That is not a goal for me.
Were those people taking vacations in the first place? All the white-collar workers who fly to AirBnBs in better climates are still pulling in a paycheck working from home.
> Unless I'm reading it wrong

The quote in the article from the civil complaint makes it sound like the malware itself used MSFT trademarks. If there's another "it" you're reading besides the article, where said quote is shown to be taken out of context, please link.
Agreed, we are living through a mass hysteria event. The shared delusion is that through moral acts one can somehow avoid exposure to an endemic human coronavirus.
Side projects remind me a lot of extracurriculars in college admissions.

To the extent that they show that you have really accomplished something difficult they can be very impressive and differentiate you from other candidates. E.g. in terms of high school extracurriculars, if, say, you've reached the title of chess grandmaster that's impressive, if you went to chess club practice a couple times a week and were just decent at it that's not going to help.

As a software engineer, if you've built a site with millions of page views or written an open source library that many engineers have heard of, that definitely opens doors. (Though even then, maybe not in the way you're expecting. Any given recruiter still might not care or might not be able to remove the red tape for you just because of that. But you'll likely have certain unique opportunities become available). If you've thrown together a few sites in your free time and then moved on to other things, it's not that impressive.
They're also clearly not focusing their efforts on EEE now - why would they embrace Apple and get office to work on their platform if that was the case?

Microsoft Office for Mac was first released 31 years ago. It’s nothing new and hence is orthogonal to anyone’s subjective impression of Microsoft’s engagement in EEE.

Microsoft has been the largest ISV in the Apple ecosystem by far, for decades.
Because (almost) everyone else does, too.
True in the strictest sense is test best kind of true.
Exactly. If companies tried to do this then people could just get a virtual address in an expensive city say New York and go and live somewhere cheap, say Guatemala. Also let's say out of 10 big software companies 8 offer same pay wherever you are, 2 location based. Which one are you gonna work for?
[REMOTE] Platform.sh is seeking a Customer Support Engineer
This position will be responsible for assessing the nature of product or service issues and resolving support problems for customers and partners through support tickets, live chat, and occasional voice calls. Don’t let the word “Support” fool you - this is not a typical call center role. Our customers are technically sophisticated and once a question gets to us search engines have failed to provide an answer. On any given day, you’ll be applying your knowledge of Linux with technologies like MySQL, DNS, CDNs, SSL, Redis, various programming languages, replication, integration with other systems and much more. Expect to learn something new every day.

Successful employees will collaborate with other team members, meet deadlines and test new ideas, tools, and tactics. We are looking for motivators and go-getters who will improve our processes, our products and ourselves. As one of our Cloud Support Engineers, you are our front line; when our customers think of how great Platform.sh is, they think of you.

This role is permanent and full time, 5 days a week including Saturdays and Sundays as 2 other weekly days off will be allocated

Qualifications
3+ years combined of:
Linux system administration
Web development using PHP, Python, Ruby or Go. (However, this is not primarily a programming job)
Experience using git
Managing DNS
Functional knowledge of TLS and encryption
Demonstrating exceptional communication skills to provide clear and empathetic customer support

We are a worldwide distributed team and are looking for a candidate who can perform well working remotely. To be an effective performer as a CSE here at Platform.sh, you’ll need to be able to effectively collaborate across time zones while operating with a high level of independence and autonomy.

Apply here: https://platform.sh/company/careers/job/?gh_jid=4833534002
A good kitchen designer should be able to ask a few questions to get you started, know what combinations of things go together, etc. The user is not the designer. They don't know what makes good design.
Eggos, a Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal
I read RSS from the terminal. I don't like having to open a full browser to read an article, but using lynx can be unpleasant because you need to scroll past many pages of menus and other clutter. So I made this to clean up the articles before opening them on lynx.

The code is not original, it's more or less a translation to C of the Firefox Reader View implementation. It should be safe because the html parsing happens inside a sandbox.
Covid patients may be protected for up to four months, according to study
For even more context to this: when you're a child in NYC, the public school system gives you a free MetroCard as soon as you start elementary school. They're meant to be for commuting, but they have a small enough eligibility radius and extra rides to make them generally useful. Once I got one (I was maybe 8 or 9) I was more or less independent, as were all of my childhood friends.

This is in stark contrast to people I befriended in college, who were (1) largely reliant on their parents for socialization and exploration until they were old enough to drive, and (2) incapable of handling the general mishegass that happens in urban environments without me as their tour guide. This doesn't make them bad people or dependent in some profoundly handicapping way; it just goes to show that a frontiersman's notion of "independence" is perhaps not the most interesting one in 2020.
Thanks for pointing that out! :)

I think it's like that because there was previously shown the monthly pricing ($7.99 / month) but then I decided to use the lifetime one (even though it's higher than the monthly pricing of Hotjar, so it might not be as clear).

I assume this means that you can not leave userTrack be inherited by your descendants!
An IQ test wouldn't tell you about programming ability though or clarity of writing. I don't think an IQ test would be an inherently bad idea, but if this test is similar and tests programming and communication, it just seems better and therefore like it couldn't be replaced by an IQ test.
Locally? Because nationally manufactured home deliveries are a small fraction of what they once were in the 1970s. Adjusted for population they are down to 10% of their peak.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/mhs/tables/time-ser...