skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I feel it is hard for me to disagree with the overall sentiment of what you are describing.

But I'd like to offer a little glimmer of hope from someone with too many gray hairs to count.

Computers are still machines, and we still tell them what to do by programming them.
It is still possible to stay out of what you describe above, it is still possible to work on low-level code, on real products, on things that matter to people and companies.

The reality though is that the mundane things are where the money is though.
While we all enjoy "cool" things, millions of companies need their accounting and payroll running, their truck drivers planned, their work schedules planned, ...

So you might find that more interesting things happen in e.g. industrial engineering companies or electronics companies, more so than in web companies. It's an entirely different world than what you describe above.

Hackaday might be a more interesting hangout than Hacker News for you ?
So let's not lose our excitement and sense of wonder, after all it's all bits and bytes and we tell them how to behave.
> But "lock in", IME, is only something people fret about on HN.

Lock in is a _very real problem_, but often you hear on HN scare mongering that making any decision at all is "lock in".
> And while that sacrifices openness, most people buying laptops just don't care.

This is it in a nutshell. I used Linux as my web development platform because I could immerse myself in Unix on both the server and client (Something you still can't do well in Windows FWIW). When OS X moved to Intel, suddenly I could live and breath something very close to my server side Linux setup on my desktop and have a fuss-free OS. Open is nice, but performance & just being able to get my job done effectively is much more important.
They way I've seen this done is you version the namespace of the stored procedures (and include the git commit). So at any given time you're definitely only calling the exact function you want.
Only one which is kinda disappointing for a modern laptop.
HTTPS over Nginx reverse proxy is 50-300x slower
This is a really bad take. Plaid is a 'monopoly' just as much as Stripe is. There is nothing stopping a company from doing the hard work of integrating thousands of banks using a single API. Furthermore, the fees Plaid charges are literally pennies, companies like Transferwise use them to do most of the bank transfers and yet still manage to offer the lowest rates for cross border payments.

One final point: the future relevance of 'bank integration as an API' companies, such as plaid, is really murky. With the advent of Open Banking regulations, real time national payment systems etc the difficulty of integrating various banks using a single API will be drastically reduced.
Geez that was bleak. And I don't think you're wrong, either.
Oh wow. I don’t see any unmasked people at grocery stores near San Francisco. I saw one woman who had her mask down and the store called police because she didn’t put it back on when asked.
> "... there is no reason for them to distribute the vaccine."

If this were true, then it would apply equally to all medicines with the same risk levels.

But it doesn't.
I expect (very much hope) it will. I haven't contributed to the Linux on M1 fund yet, but I am seriously considering it, particularly if I get an M1 Mac. I likely wouldn't run Linux until after Apple retires MacOS for the M1, but want the option.
I don't recall ever seeing a promise like that made. But supposing it was, there's a time in everyone's life where they have to learn that nothing is forever. This is especially true of promises made for no compensation.
I think maybe we're asking for the same thing. I want to be able to write commands and small scripts smoothly but have nice integration with graphical tools. Oberon, Acme, and Smalltalk all are environments that try this to various degrees...
Is this really a concern?

Pruning gene lines from the gene pool only benefits the surviving individuals if it leaves resources on the table for these survivors to be fruitful and multiply, growing to exploit their new niche.

If there are variants of COVID-19 the vaccine doesn't protect against, is there any reason to think they would have been crowded out by the original variants? Wouldn't their ability to bypass immunity to the original version apply equally well to the immunity gained as a result of sickness as to the immunity gained from a vaccine?
I don't think so at all. I have worked hard, and had a lot of fun at now two of the FAANG's. Sure the reward has not been like winning the startup lottery, but if you told myself 20 years ago I would have this impact and earn this much money I would not have believed it. I totally suck at politics, and have seen others rise quicker, but doing good work does get rewarded in my experience.
What makes China un-reliable?
Its not like it tries to invade countries in the name of freedom.
POWER: Yes, https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html

RISC-V: Not really. The closest thing is probably https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
>Plaid's killer feature has always been their private access to APIs that the banks won't give to anyone else.

These private apis will soon no longer be private due to Open Banking/PSD2 (europe) regulations. Plaid's biggest competitive advantage was removing the complexity of various data formats and APIs of banks. This variance will soon be gone in the coming years.
Yes, but in my experience you need both. If you are not willing to put in some time at leetcode it might not go well. Of course you can still get lucky, but better to be prepared.
> The feedback Dean cites that led to the retraction doesn't at all sound like something that required the protection of identities, and certainly nothing that required keeping that feedback secret.

Perhaps the reviewers were afraid of being dragged on Twitter and possibly having their careers destroyed as a result.
you left out an essential part of the quote:
=> don't quote me on that.

Sorry but you are either taking the piss or you are just not interested in a reasonable dialogue. Of course you can overdose from anything if you intend to overdose, but what I meant was how easy is it to overdose accidentally, which should be obvious...Now I'll quote you: "Oh COME ON!"
If saving lives was _really_ the goal, you would push for making tobacco illegal long before risky vaccines.

Tobacco has already killed magnitudes more people than covid ever will.
How many more years of clear correlation between value and chain difficulty must pass for you to recognize that there’s something in there?

Also, bitcoin is scarce because it’s hard to get more of it, what the hell is your definition of scarcity? It seems to change from one comment to another.
It can all be summed up in two words: corporate greed.
It's exhausting. Constantly walking on eggshells for fear of being misconstrued. Ruminating over past communications exploring the myriad ways in which your words could have been interpreted. Feeling like you are cognizant of everyone else's (hypothesized) misunderstandings but unable to address them forthrightly because misperceptions can't be so bluntly corrected through direct action.

Eventually, yes - the frustration subsides into a cold, resigned, sense of fatalism.

Spoken as a minority who really can't find any labels they identify with.
What's the watt / battery comparison?
URxvt on a 144hz gaming monitor is excellent.
Parsing Clojure namespace forms using Raku Grammars
Hard to believe. Actually I am surprised companies even asks such a simple question anymore. When was that?

I have done several LC easy and mediums, have done internships and published papers and didn't even make it to phone screen at every FAANG or other companies whose names carry some weight in future interview opportunities.
> Display: 15.6″ 1920×1080 FHD, Matte Finish

I really wish system76 would start giving options for 4k displays. I have a FHD display from them, only a few months old, and it's noticeably worse than my old macbook pro display.
Just get rid of passwords.
>The WHO seems to be owned by China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM

From the video title alone:

>Senior WHO official dodges questions about Taiwan’s WHO membership

Isn't that... expected? Even the US (and most other western countries) doesn't recognize taiwan as a nation for the purposes of WHO/UN membership, so what's he supposed to do? Try to make a political statement and say "taiwan is a country too!", and piss off china in the process? What would such a statement achieve?

>praises China

That's also expected of an organization that's basically reliant on other countries to cooperate (provide infection numbers, virus samples, etc.). Praise is cheap, and scolding China is counterproductive. China's heavy handed measures to contain the outbreak might be a gross infringement of civil liberties, but from a public health perspective it was highly effective.
This would be a good conversation in person, this format just is going to take too long to resolve.

I just want to gently suggest one thing:

>Instead, it's used by these people because their real opinion just cannot be openly stated in polite company any longer.

This accusation (X because Y) also tends to be generally unproven. I do it at times but I think it's a trick we play on ourselves to neatly package a person up into a 'they' who's who's opinion or position is immaterial. Once they are in that box of irrevocably flawed zombies, why bother listening to them at all? None of their positions have any fundamental merit, nothing they say is worth considering and if they are inconvenienced or put out by anything I say or do whatsoever, fuck them truly. They are the inconsiderables.
all great ideas swyx. We'll start with something basic for storage (probably min.io), but hoping to solve some of these more advanced scenarios once we're up and running.

> scheduling and durable functions would be cool :)

agreed!
https://github.com/supabase/realtime looks very interesting. Can this be used to replace Debezium & Kafka for syncing Elasticsearch?
I think the best endgame is financial independence... having enough invested capital so you can live off the proceeds. FIRE.
> Without containment measures, you no longer have hospitals (either they're full, or the staff are burned out and quit, probably both) for any life-threatening conditions.

Doesn't seem to be the case so far in Sweden. In fact Minnesota's per-capita rate of COVID deaths just surpassed Sweden's even though they've done much more in the way of lockdowns. Seem to be some confounding variables at play here besides "are you locked down or not?"

> They can in fact simply decide "I'm done" walk off the job and go live in a cabin.

This is a fantasy scenario. Most nurses are probably in no financial position to do this and leaving to find another job is a dicey prospect right now. I agree that we should not put the hospitals or their staff under undue stress which is why it's such a crime that COVID is being used for cover to furlough staff and impose budget cuts.

The degree of hospital overcrowding seems overstated at the moment: https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1334565211148152832
They will also delete your data if you stop paying. So, if this got you to quit gmail, fastmail is not your destination.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/accountexpired.html
That is amazing to hear zwayhowder and am happy to hear that made a difference for you! I need to overhaul that article you referenced at some point as I have a different system in place. It still accomplishes the same goals, but is just a bit neater. :) I will have to check out Jurism too.

Best of luck with your research endeavors!
Me too. I interviewed at a few places in March for senior roles and there wasn't any algo gotchas. Some coding, I think mostly to make sure I could code. But a lot more emphasis on architecture and team skills.

So maybe there's the gap between senior roles and mid/jr/new.

But my question then is, how are senior folks training/picking folks to replace them? It must not be happening in the interviews, maybe on the job?
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I guess this observation doesn’t really apply to the FAANGs quite as much. They have such an insatiable demand for labor that it’s much easier to work your way up to more money consistently over time.

I guess you just find the level you want to coast at. I haven’t won the start up lottery either. But I have been able to be fully employed as a contractor with a very good hourly rate for quite a long time. Which probably means I’m coasting right now. But I still manage to bump my rates up every so often, so maybe not.
It's a distinction with a difference. And no, I could not make the same argument about Planet Money, since that show is produced by NPR.

If you say "American public radio", do you also include Democracy Now? Do you include shows produced by other local stations, including the ones that do not get distributed? NPR is not the totality of "American public radio".

Understanding the structure of public broadcasting in the USA is critical to understand why it works the way that it does. NPR is a distinct organization, even from CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting), even if its sensibilities are echoed in other public radio organizations (like MPR/APM).

As for your points about Adam Davidson, I don't find that shameproject.com page particularly persuasive. It's clear that Davidson's worldview does not align with that of the people/person who wrote the page/manages the site. I don't find this particularly remarkable or even particularly interesting. Davidson's worldview doesn't really line up with my own either. But there's a bunch of stuff on that page (the quotes in particular) which lack context, and a lot of other stuff that consists mostly of deeply subjective assessments and assignment of motive to Davidson without much evidence.
What's old is new again? The public markets are too fiddly, so companies seek financing/liquidity on a non-exchange exchange?

Investors can buy and sell small shares of private companies on a "private" market in public view?

Seems like the SEC would be grumpy about a public non-public market?

What are the listing requirements? Is there an equivalent of the 10-K?
> If getting your health insurance through your employer creates dependency and gives your employer more control over you (and it does) then why is it a good idea to give this power to the government?

Does your government have due process? If it does, how would that government use an obligation to provide you health insurance against you to influence your decisions?

People quit jobs far more often than they quit countries, and employer provided insurance does tie you to more strongly to your employer (e.g. I knew someone who needed a heart transplant who would literally die if he went without insurance, because he depended on a heart pump).

Also, you have to get insurance/healthcare from somewhere, and in a democracy the government is far more accountable to its citizens than an employer typically is to its employees [1].

[1] This is very clear in the typical case, but less clear for people with rare in-demand skills (like software engineers).
The US military paid occupation soldiers in Berlin in scrip too.
That video "has been taken down by the uploader", according to YouTube.

Got another link?
thanks for the heads-up - will fix.

It's on Thor's github right now: https://github.com/thorwebdev/nextjs-subscription-payments
Is this going to only be open to accredited investors?
Cool, reminds me of descript (https://youtu.be/Bl9wqNe5J8U?t=56). I personally, wouldn't care if it run in the browser or on my mac as long as it works.
How is it unexpected, you pushed your inbox to limits, its not like it happens overnight, if you think google is lying use an IMAP client and check it yourself, also google storage is spread across all the services, check if you are backing up your phone or photos(unknowingly).
Do you know all of these Adobe products and what they do?
Basic accounting.

All they have to do is give everyone on the board millions in raises and the company "made no profit".

Don't be so gullible, it's _trivial_ to hide or remove profits without affecting income.
Why is this on HackerNews?
Sometimes it's the most practical way to share photos and documents, especially when iphones are involved.
Plane performs emergency landing on I-35W
We wanted to add timescale into our platform but unfortunately their license doesn't allow it (which is completely fair). Once we bring out a better self-hosted solution you should be able to point it towards your own Postgres server with Timescale installed.
"how to find talented engineers using a rigorous/repeatable interview process"

There's not much evidence that they are doing the best at hiring for those wth 7+ years experience by using said interview styles.
Thank you, that is encouraging to hear. If there is anything specific you want to see more of please let me know.
I refuse to take any such tests, and I've had no trouble finding employment. In a world where recruiters are blowing up your inbox, the ball is in your court.

One time I interviewed somewhere. It wasn't a perfect job, but I would have taken it if the offer was good. After the interview they called and wanted me to take some kind of test. I said no. They called me at least two more times to see if I wouldn't reconsider. That made me think wow, they must really like me from the interview. Why not just make me an offer? But no, they didn't call back after I firmly denied them. Maybe they learned a lesson, maybe not. Not my problem.

And that's the final lesson. If a place has this kind of hiring process, that is already a red flag that this is not a good place to work. Even if you took the test and they made you an offer, it would not be a good time working there.
http://essej.net/sooperlooper/

If it appears "dead", that's mostly because it's essentially finished. It has all the features you've mentioned above, and then a whole lot more. All open-source and GPL'ed. Also fully controllable from e.g. MIDI pedal boards or OSC applications.
I actually wrote my entire thesis in VSCode with LaTeX workshop! I have friends who swear by Sublime - I can see why! It's really powerful. Traditional GUI editors are great for when I was working on my thesis but I opted for a lighter solution as I do a lot on my laptop at once. The fewer CPU intensive programs for my workflow, the better.
In order to prepare for eng manager interviews a couple of years back, I quit my job and spent several months on Leetcode and system design. This is with 8 years of management experience at the time and many years without hands-on coding. I landed a FAANG job as a result, something I would have 100% not been able to accomplish without the prep, so I suppose it was worth the effort.

The not-at-all-surprising end result is that my role has no coding or system design expectation, nor is there time for that even if I wanted it. I'm exactly the same person, doing a not-entirely-dissimilar job to my prior experience, yet I would not have been considered a desirable candidate had I not jumped through these hoops that bear no relation to actual responsibilities.

Now that I'm on the inside, I don't see any particular conspiracy to select for people that are willing to jump through hoops. Yet I have a hard time reasoning out why else my candidacy would undergo such a drastic transformation otherwise. It's a sad state of affairs indeed.
Daryl Davis is certainly a wonderful inspiration in his patience, compassion and effectiveness in reaching racists. However I'm not sure about using him as a model for how activists should behave. What that's essentially requiring is that activists should patiently reach out until the people oppressing them learn enough to stop oppressing them.

In some cases this is possible. The Klu Klux Klan is comprised of broken men who dance in costumes at night. What about the racists who do not do that? Who enact their racism as government policy? Or as housing discrimination? Or through their art?

How long will it take to reach them? To quote James Baldwin^[1]:

> You always told me it takes time. It's taken my father's time, my mother's time, my uncle's time, my brothers' and my sisters' time, my nieces' and my nephews' time. How much time do you want. For your progress.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUlE5ldPvM
You’re comparing taking off your shoes for less than a minute to putting on a mask anytime you leave the house?
Oh, you definitely need both. But there is a misconception that Leetcode skills alone is enough, but for more senior roles you get judged on more than that.
> 1920×1080 FHD

Not even a 4:3 display! 1080 vertical is almost useless for coding. Seems much of their target market of Linux enthusiasts would have a lot of coders wanting better than that.
This laptop looks like it's actually designed for Linux developers instead of designed for Windows gamers and advertised for Linux.
This is a repeated wrong statement.

Every AWS service can decide their deployment strategy on their own - there is no mandate on which region gets updates first. And starting in smaller regions is recommended.
Using Google trends can help you with better keyword research
We tend to catch the liars when we talk to them about the particulars of their experience; it becomes quickly apparent that they are being dishonest when they cannot answer technical queries.

I've used this process for about ten years now, and it hasn't really burned me yet.
Tried this once. Wife noticed me get up and decided to start her day earlier. Youngest child heard me and ended up on my lap while I was trying to work.

I went back to my usual staying up until 2am or so. Virtually zero chance of getting disrupted then.
I'm typing this on FreeBSD. If the most interesting part of a Mac to you is the BSD layer ... Well, I doubt that. People like Mac for the UI and Cocoa stuff, plus hardware and integration thereof.

The way you've substituted "BSD" for macOS really doesn't make sense. Yes, there is BSD code in MacOS, quite a bit of it in fact. But they're not the same thing.
https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/system-desig...
Have you try Emacs? an example (https://people.umass.edu/weikaichen/post/emacs-academic-tool...)
Zelle is real-time, while ACH is not.
> Plaid is literally the only way to do ACH without microdeposit verification.

The only way to do that in what context? When I had a very tiny freelance IT consulting side business in 2011 (and maybe some of 2010), TD Bank was happy to sell me ACH origination access as part of my business account.

Yeah they charged me $10 per batch, so not great for a micro use case, but more tolerable when there are a bunch of higher-price-tag transactions per batch. They didn't require me to do any verification of the other account - they couldn't since the other account didn't have to be mine. I just had to agree to follow NACHA rules and I could put in any account number and routing number I wanted. It's amazing how much access a random individual is easily granted to pull and push money... (Obviously I didn't abuse it, and the blowback following a complaint would have been severe if I had.)
>> Personally speaking, I dislike all amphetamines

IIRC, neither cocaine or caffeine or amphetamines, they are stimulants, but do not fall under the amphetamine class. :) I could be wrong.