skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess, he is likely a front-end engineer and I can kind of sympathize with some of his gripes because I've dabbled with front-end/full-stack work myself (benefits of working at a small company and getting to wear different hats) and it seemed absurd to me how much churn there is in the field and how much extra effort you need to put in to remain relevant from an employability standpoint. If your place of employment still uses 5-10 year old tech (and that would be perfectly reasonable) the skills you develop at work aren't necessarily making you more attractive to current employers. Even though I was never going to be a full-timd front-end developer, I couldn't fathom having to put in the extra effort outside of work just to keep up with developments and the latest and greatest in the field while trying to manage a healthy work-life balance.

That being said, I don't think that is really the issue here for this person. It reads as someone who has no real passion for programming or his craft and went into the field for perhaps the wrong reasons. I love coding and software engineering. I've loved it ever since I was a child and started with GWBASIC. Even though I went down a different path and ended up with a PhD in Physics, I ultimately couldn't be happy without coding in my life and I ended up self teaching myself almost everything I know and making a career switch (ML Engineer + SWE) and I simply can't imagine doing anything else. I'd still choose this path even if I earned half my salary because I enjoy what I do. But I felt exactly like the author in my prior career which over time felt more and more like a grind and something I did just to maintain the status quo and help support my family.

The person who wrote the article just needs to make a switch to something they are passionate about, or something that they are equally dispassionate about but provides more compensation (don't recommend that trade-off personally). His issues have very little to do with the field of computer programming itself.
Similar shenanigans happened in California during the brief period of rating schools by student's test scores. The tests were not annual, so poor performers would repeat a grade the year before the test. Then schools were rated lower for having kids repeat grades. They did the encouraging poor performers to be absent on test day thing as well, so the state subtracted points for poor attendance and had a second day for kids who missed the first.

On top of this, anecdotally it seemed that the marginal schools were made worse because they would spend time teaching to the test, while the higher performing schools didn't feel compelled to do that.

There are still knock-on effects today after having stopped that. Our daughter has been consistently behind by 1-1.5 years in assessment testing in every subject from grades 1-6. It took years of fighting to get her retained.

An actual conversation ended with the person we were talking to admitting that the best thing for both the school and our daughter would be to retain her, and that the only reason they were refusing was because "it is against policy for us to retain any student for any reason other than a long-term absence"

Fortunately once that was said out loud we made progress through the system again. Prior to that there was all sorts of apologia for the policy, and how retaining our daughter would cause irreparable damage to her psyche; as if her knowing she was the "dumb kid" and having entire lessons go completely over her head was not at all damaging...
Yes, but the parent comment said " especially on the M1", implying that that was the case on Intel too...
Read When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson. This is the worst thing that can happen.

Having lived through hyperinflation, I do believe that printing trillions (+40% last 12 months, +75% since '09 crisis) has negative consequences.

There is no free lunch.
> The way I see it is that one should master their stack. If you work over and over again with the same stack you will know it well. You will be able to move mountains with it. But it takes years to arrive to that. It takes implementing multiple projects the same way over and over again.

This is 100% how we did things for the last 5 years. We used the exact same basic tools & APIs, but iterated on how we integrated them together by way of our code.

We took what most people would call a "toy" stack, consisting of just C#/AspNetCore/SQLite (and recently Blazor), and turned it into something that can serve thousands of users in production across several B2B customers. We don't use any sort of containerization or cloud tech. Our software can be deployed by unzipping a file on the target environment and running a single command. You would be surprised at how much speed you can get out of SQLite when you have had 5 years to live with and experiment with its capabilities. On top of its extensive internal testing framework, I have several testaments to its stability sitting in our customers' environments right now. We've got OLTP SQLite databases that are getting close to 1TB in production without any signs of distress.

So, instead of focusing all of our energy on shiny things, we focused on building a 100% integrated vertical with (mostly) boring tech so that we can fully manage the lifecycle of our software product with the product itself. We have a management web interface built out for everything we need to do for building & operating the solution. We are very close to being able to partner with other organizations who can run the implementations on our behalf because the software is so easy to manage now. This is the type of real-world horizontal scalability the CEOs are after.
Not for reading on a screen, but they're invaluable for making print copies, which I do in order to bind them into books. (Which has proven surprisingly easy to do!)

Lately I've been working to do my reading from paper, rather than from the same screens that bring all manner of distraction. So these days I always look for a PDF first, and I'm glad to know about the project you linked.
I legit was looking for something to do this Friday during work. Going to try it out for sure!
Reading about natural gas, it sounds like storage in underground natural geological pockets is common. And also in tanks, but liquified/LNG which is 600x more dense.

As for coal, it sounds like they already typically receive coal in 120 train car shipments daily which is close to your 12000 ton figure. I imagine keeping lots of spare train cars around isn't a big engineering task.
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Well, there's the even more secural interpretation "who said I don't respect/recognize myself? Those 'morals' are just ideals and don't exist, meanwhile I have the world".
Yes and schoolchildren who die of Covid lose a lot more years than that. Even most teachers or students' parents would be losing more than that each. Keeping schools closed may cost lives, but I don't see how opening schools in a pandemic is going to kill fewer people?
GP's point still remains. Even if you do charge corporations $5 kWh, that's likely not enough to solve the power deficit. After all, corporate offices aren't exactly power suckers (a 1500W space heater is equal to at least a few dozen LED office lights), and the heavy users (factories) are usually the first ones to go when there's a power shortage. Price signals are still needed to ensure that people are sufficiently motivated to change their behavior. Leaving prices unchanged will basically mean consumer demand remains unchanged.
Here’s a contra view.

If you had a back bone as a consultant your period 2 report would start with “unresolved issues from last time”, so you would very quickly have to resign due to your ethical baseline not being met. Therefore same outcome.
Well, one of those is more fun to endlessly ramble about on Reddit so of course Bitcoin will get the attention!
Bitcoin uses the same amount of energy as Argentina. I think is fair to raise the issue.
right, but why is that the case?

I honestly don’t know but it seems like some kind of different attitude towards technical work could be one explanation.
This should be labeled 2018

The North American crypto mining landscape and trade has evolved alot since this article, it is the most robust in the world as the hardware shifts from location to location to prevent becoming waste
It is really interesting to see the crypto topic become so polarized. Either you think it is this amazing revolution that will be the future or you are a "No-Coiner" and you are against crypto.

During the DOT COM bubble things were not this divided. There were certainly plenty of people pointing out that giving a company 100M just because they own a domain name may not end well, but it wasn't this heated.

I assume this is because of social media. A lot more people have voices to point out flaws in the other side's arguments and then everyone gets echo chambered into one of two sides with the arguments that best support their side.
I'd just like to make sure you've at least considered the hypothesis your words are strongly suggesting, namely that you specialise in producing tech debt and you quit whenever that debt crosses some critical threshold. If it's not actually like that, then great!
people who say programmers need "passion" in this field always strongly smells of gatekeeping to me
WhatsApp explains what happens if you don’t bend to its will by May 15
This is not true. Your extracelluar matrix is vital for your survival, as well as the gases dissolved into it and in your lungs. Your bones, while they have stem cells inside and have osteoblasts scattered throughout an extra cellular material. Do the cells build all this? Yes, but not everything inside of you is strictly speaking made of cells.
We still don't do much more customer-facing, we just do a lot more internally. Just judging actually useful features, I'd put a lot of DOS software on favorable grounds compared to your average immutable functional serverless Kafka-backed hexagonal 12 factor SOLID web app.
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Governments have been justifying internet restrictions since before Facebook was an idea. If Facebook had a policy of absolute tolerance of political speech in Uganda it would have been just as easy a segue to "security reasons... misinformation".

Even the developed and democratic world doesn't look to the US, still less US corporations, as an actual inspiration for its policies on speech.
> People who don't earn much

It's very, very important to note that the author is not a person who "doesn't earn much".

Looking at Figure 6 at https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor... it looks like UKP 55k/year is around the 80th percentile for "professional occupations". The only groups that earn more than that on average (median? not clear) are various senior managers, doctors, lawyers, pilots, and train drivers (the latter surprised me). Being at 70k in two years would put the author -- a lowly programmer -- on a level with "information technology and telecommunications directors" (emphasis mine).

For whatever it's worth, the "finance and investment analysts and advisers" the author envies are listed at 37k, which is less than "programmers and software development professionals" at 44k.
Bitcoin is mostly mined using excess energy, or "cheap" energy, which improves the efficiency and costs of energy production, making it surprisingly "green".

Bitcoin requires less energy on a per-store-of-value basis than Gold and Silver.

Bitcoin requires less energy on a per-store-of-value basis than credit cards and the banking system in general.

Yet Bitcoin is frowned upon by environmentalists, as if Bitcoin was a company and they could use political power to shut it down.
I'm not sure where your getting that assumption from. Like others have said thinking I want to defund all space programs. No, I am not saying that. I don't see money in such a linear view, all or nothing. There could be multiple projects on hand however as it currently stands there is only focus on one with the vision of "Get people on Mars"

I'm just weighing down to what is more important now:

A lunar gateway, a space elevator. Or trying to harness the sun, clearing plastics from within the ocean? Fixing the planet we are on now, or living in space? It does currently show that people are more inspired by space than environmental science. Anything environmental is declared boring, it is boring. It doesn't yield the same practical results. As I mean you don't see the same result in the same sense as a new rocket, footage of a new planet. But regardless or not it is, which is more important?
You need another GPU for that. Not really practical.
the IEEE probably won't do anything. We've been trying for 2 years to even get an e-mail reply from them on the issue, let alone say anything useful. See the whole story here:
https://pbzcnepu.net/isca/timeline.html
How do you safely handle the debris falling to the ground?
And then vertically integrate / automate and cut out middlemen.
Not much, what's up with you?
I think it was the combination of cheap technology (at least the blank tapes), and a low tech threshold. No reliance on software - you could just chain together VCRs and splice together a film.
I'm fucking jelly right now, you rock at fatherhood man!
Basically the same story as discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758863

but I don't think I saw any great answers

... and not discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25323103

(Personally I found the second article even more important.)
> boutique grocery stores, where you can return your $10 quart bottle of milk for the bottle to be reused.

You’re misrepresenting the price substantially – that’s 5 times what Whole Foods charges and while they’re upscale they’re more mainstream than boutique these days.
It’s not carbon-neutral as long as it interferes with renewables displacing carbon. I’m totally fine and will jump in crypto with both feet the day it stops pissing so much energy in the wind
> I don't understand this position. violence will always exist but we should blame the politicians?

Yes! Sure, violence will always exist but that doesn’t mean that kids should have to be subjected to it. I was bullied in the “dragged outside of a teachers view and then beaten until I couldn’t move” sense and you know what happened to them… fucking nothing. Like actually literally nothing. Everyone in the school knew all the times it happened including the teachers and administrators but nobody had the power to remove them from school. One of my teachers took pity on me and offered to give me “detention” whenever I needed it. That’s what they could do. My parents fought for years to do something with no avail and then moved me to a private school.

So yeah these practices create inequality because anyone lucky enough to have the means to get out does. As an individual family my parents couldn’t fix my local public school so they did what they could. Therapy was more expensive than the private school tuition.
It is pretty embarrassing for someone in tech not to set up properly.
they’ll continue incremental changes until the heat is off and then go back to not caring
Title should say (2018).

Good article, especially for my extended family who live in that part of WA and have been wondering what this is all about.

Does anyone know if this is still holding up? I would assume that minors are currently cashing in given the price has increased so much very recently, so new mines are only just now coming online. On the other hand we should be due for an explosion of mining difficulty.

I was talking about this with my wife just a few days ago actually. I think that one of the base risks to bitcoin is that as the power demand continues to skyrocket, nation states begin to ban bitcoin mining, or more harshly regulate it to control power demand. You could imagine mining shutting down in more and more countries, until there’s a “last man standing” somewhere with almost all the mining activity, and hence a highly centralized and highly vulnerable blockchain.
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The money was given out pretty indiscriminately (on purpose, they didn't want vetting to slow down the process). There has been massive fraud, but on the otherhand the benefits made a real difference to a lot of people at a time when that mattered. I think keeping the money "in escrow" is a good idea. I know I'm above the income limits for some of the benefits, but still got them. I expect I'll need to pay them back just as part of normal tax fillings.
Oh, umm. I admit to not having read so far into the article... :(
So, large, popular, commercial airplanes, are passing their mandatory and thorough pre-flight safe-to-fly inspections, but then having catastrophic failures within minutes of take off.

It must mean that pre-flight inspections (to quote George Carlin) an illusion of safety? ie Not fit for purpose.
You can do exciting things using boring technology and vice versa. I personally enjoy breaking new ground, and the tools I use are not important.

Doing more exciting stuff with older tools is also somewhat more satisfying, at least for me.
That’s what we’ve been doing during the pandemic in the DC area: it costs about the same as buying organic milk at Safeway to get glass bottles delivered from a local creamery, along with cheese, bread, etc.
Mining cards are run near always, while gaming cards are usually pushed only a small number of hours per day.

I have no data to back this up but anecdotally this makes a huge difference in wear.
Yeah people harp on and on about the amount of energy instead of the source of energy

turns out those entire countries in their favorite analogy also use a smaller amount of energy than many industries

the source is more important either way
Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Myanmar Against Rohingya Genocide Accusations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/world/asia/aung-san-suu-k...
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That fuel still has to get there somehow, so the cost is still being paid.
I made a vertical one just by making it very thin:
https://gliggy.github.io/tallandthin.png
I’m a beginner but is your energy comment in perpetuity or at current point? Specially in 2734 or whatever due to the verification of Bitcoin transactions each requiring energy, as long as the transaction cost of non-Bitcoin was lower than Bitcoin in the long run (maybe the “you’re long dead” long run run) wouldn’t coin use more energy? Sorry for n00b question
Spellforce 3 (and likely others from the series) has carts that move resources between outposts. These can be attacked. It's not exactly what you're after, but more than most other RTS games where resources can be deposited anywhere and picked up anywhere.
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These are becoming such clickbait articles
Is that a flash card thing? I think if you’re actively trying to “retain” knowledge like that you’re probably doing something wrong.

It's a spaced repetition flash card program. If you just want flash cards, you use quizlet.

For context I studied biochemistry in college with the intention of being pre-med and that is how I did all my studying, creating notes and flash cards for rote memorization because memorizing trivia is what’s required to succeed in that path, but I think it’s the wrong approach for furthering your education as a software engineer.

Understanding is always preferable to pure brute force memorization. For one thing, going through flash cards will be much faster, easier, and less frustrating.

If you don't understand a concept, it's going to create leeches, which suck up study time.

I still take notes today sometimes (because the act of writing helps me absorb information), but I’d never go as far as making flash cards.

It helps you absorb information and convert it to knowledge, yes. But decay of knowledge is a thing. Flash cards are just the format. What it allows you to do is formulate questions or prompts which allow you to practice active recall. Active recall of information is one of the gold standard for studying.

If you do want to go really deep on a topic than my recommendation would be read about it / study it first, then go implement something in that area (even if it’s just a toy) if you want to make sure you really understand it.

Simply reading is one of the poorest strategy for learning. Active recall is much better. I agree that implementation and actual practice of skill is a good use of time, which might fall under the category of active recall.

Anyway, I am still trying to find how anki fit in my overall system for learning programming / software engineering. One of the thing I lacked is technical vocabularies for describing what I am seeing or doing, which I think anki can help with a lot.

Some people has success with it, but not for me. I suspect that it has to do something with the low density of cards/notes I added to anki.
Yes, this is my experience. Especially for things like investment accounts.
It's interesting reading the comments and seeing a fairly clear divide between developers and operators. Tooling exists to make horizontal scaling much easier these days without going all-out with k8s.
They must be using an eFUSE to differentiate between a gamer and miner GPU , would not make sense to have differing SKU's.
Texas, California built different power grids, neither withstood climate change
The biggest hurdle became finding a good quality VHS player. My dad had one that worked flawlessly for about 20 years. I gave up on VHS because everything brand off the shelf kept destroying tapes, within months of purchase.