skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this role for a number of years at a consultancy.

My role was to try to develop new areas of thought leadership for the company. What new technical areas should we be pushing into? How could they develop into new markets and services? What should we be out in front trying? How can we be part of defining the field we're working in?

Basically I was the person given a lot of autonomy and trust to be "out in front" on these areas, envision where our field/market was going, and begin the process of defining prospective services/offerings we could make. Others might refine or go in a different direction with these.

Also one other thing I did was to work closely with the most important and strategic clients. Some of these we were partnering with to develop new capabilities in the market. Others were just clients with deep pockets doing cutting edge work.

I got the team excited too. I wasn't a manager, but I was a motivator for getting people excited about the possible direction. I was a focus point for lots of ideas generated by the team, and developed a vision that ensured we rowed in the same direction (and said "no" to the ideas that weren't in this direction).

I coordinated with other parts of the company to make all this happen. With the COO/CEO type folks to understand the budgetary constraints. With sales/marketing to understand whether my efforts were paying off. With engineering to figure out how to realize my marketable ideas into products or services.

*One big takeaway from my experience*

At a small company, so much is driven by the mix of personalities. Don't get too hung up on what any particular job definition is, but find the intersection of personal skills and what the company needs to define a role. I've seen people called "CTO" that actually do slightly different than what I've listed above, because the mix of personalities and type of company dictated a different breakdown of roles. So small companies, these role definitions can be fluid, and you need to explore what the right thing is for you/ your company.
Were you aware that the Marine Corps took down some Iranian dones using their MADIS system.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/18/heres-new-mar...

This was a bit novel in that they strapped a wheeled MADIS (an anti-drone "gun" on a humvee chassis more or less) to the deck of a naval ship and used it successfully to take down a potentially hostile drone. I know that the US Marine Corps and US Army take counter-UAV operations very seriously via electro-optical (laser), microwave, and various "other" electronic means to disrupt / destroy drone operations.

The army selected eight systems to fit the bill: https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2020/06/26/army-selects-ei...
They used to be. I can't remember the exact part now but the TOS used to ban anything that wasn't iOS's own JavaScriptCore runtime. They changed it a few years ago.
Yeah, I used "handholding," but that's really an unnecessarily pejorative term for providing direction and knowledge transfer to less-senior employees. I.e. senior employees and managers actually doing their frakking jobs.

What advice would you give to an intern's mentor to improve the remote internship experience?
Find a few comets with a lot of hydrogen (ice), attach a rocket to it, send it to Venus. Problem mitigated.
A lawsuit over what? I'm not sure if it's a wise business decision for Medium to make these kinds of seismic shifts all the time, but you can't generally sue your boss for making bad decisions.
To me this is just another piece of evidence that traditional "journalism" is dying or maybe dead. (And what I mean is big media organizations that hire writers who's job is to gather and report news).

This is of course getting lost in the big-tech-vs-unions narrative - but at the end of the day the traditional journalism part of Medium was not going to keep the boat afloat, union or not. And as Ev alludes to - the problem is trust.

I think Substack is the future for real actual journalism, and I think Ev is right that individuals are where the trust is earned nowadays. I think Substack is the only place we're going to see actual critical thinking and analysis, and maybe the only place for real breaking stories that go against the common narrative.

Anecdote Time:
I have several friends who are journalists at major newspapers. They used to be people who loved to fight authority at every turn. They were critical of all politicians regardless of party, and would never take a corporate PR team's statement at face value. I'm not sure what happened - but they all follow the same set of talking points now. Not one is skeptical of anything the Democratic politicians do, and I haven't heard one of them criticize a single thing the current administration has done.

So really - what future do journalists have if they all think the same? What future do they have if they let the same corporations and politicians write their stories for them? No wonder trust in media is at an all time low.
Concurred. I have had checking out Notion.so on my TODO for over a year now while simply using Google Keep despite all of its problems.
I really want to grab one, if nothing else to take part, but man I just don't have the funds for a Gen 1. Maybe Gen 2.
Cruisin' for Nonconventional Fusion with ARPA-E
The sooner you do it, and the more joviality you can approach it with, the less mad they will be. Hence the parent's admonition to not "[...] let it boil over until you're so upset you can't talk to them rationally."
This is a symptom of low wages and subsidized roads. People can't afford to live near where they work, so they commute. People that commute speed because they're short on time.

We're all still trying to live by the punch clock like it's 1950 and everyone needs to be at their factory station at a certain time, all together at once. It's collective insanity.
What’s the reasoning here? Facebook will change the way they operate when people boycott paying the $0 to use their open source projects?
And I guess the unstated conclusion is that they wisely spent a chunk of that money on hiring people with a long history of FDA compliance, regulatory guidelines, international export regulations, and product management?

(I suppose my point is that I would have expected such teething problems from a young company like Moderna, but they seem to have done everything right.)
Once the event is over, I suspect people will review the page and decide that this has no place in the opening section. Then it'll move down to its rightful place.

Right now it's more a matter of racing to be as up-to-date as possible, rather than actually weighing the merits of having this in the opening section.
"Traffic calming" features are retrofitted to roads all the time. Things like bringing the curb outward (often creating divided bike lanes in the process), speed bumps, and adding center islands to intersections.
I guess I've learned since the pandemic and finding a new job during pandemic that being at the office wasn't as fulfilling as I once thought it was and that those social interactions were rather fake/short lived and the bursts of creativity I did enjoy were destroyed by upper management deciding everything we did would be thrown out for something new.

What I want is not another day sitting in a god forsaken office after sitting in crappy traffic but rather the ability to go have a coffee, grab some lunch or just hang out and "Talk shop" with people regardless of being direct co-workers, friends, peers and whatnot. Those are the kinds of people who called me, messaged me and asked me how I was doing. THe only other former co-workers who keep up with me are ones who quit and found new jobs too - it's like since we're not still suffering we're no longer friends and all too often we see that as fulfilling social interactions without question.

I guess with hindsight I actually see the "office" as anti-social - it creates bad/poor behaviors, people find solace in common suffering and 9 times out of 10 all of my co-workers were actually dicks who only showed up to work to avoid their unhealthy home life and again, with hindsight, I see they tried making me ancillary to their unhealth work life too.

hard to explain it in a small text box, but I guess i just see the office environment as extremely fake, demoralizing and depressing - even though i've had some great memories through it - i'd rather not be captive to sitting in a cubicle chair and actually develop much more rewarding, enriching and valuable experiences that translate to more productivity and creativity in the end.

Often times i don't even get to choose my co-workers and if I did, those teams are often short lived and i think that corporate disruption to things that matter on a human to human level is something we're refusing to challenge/change because "it is the way it is". I get thrown on a new team, and its not new friends, it's now colleagues to suffer with and build empty relationships.
The “free software” requirement as defined by Stallman doesn’t require it sure. My argument is that it’s not a logically consistent position.

It would be wrong for EA to take a GPL game and modify the code without keeping it GPL. But somehow it’s OK for them to modify all the art assets to get the same effect of making the software as a whole effectively proprietary. Unlike console applications the art in a GUI program is critical to its function.

It makes little sense.
Pretty much. At this point it's just a paycheck, and such an easy (large) one that I can't possibly justify bothering to find any other line of work. Even if doing something else would make me happier, ultimately work is just work and optimizing for the least effort/highest reward is really the only criteria for it IMO. It leaves more room to find your meaning and passion in life outside of what you have to do to pay the bills.
> Why does it seem like people feel the need to make anything they can about race?

Because there is no other reasonable, understandable reason to ban "working on your own car on your own property". Unless it disproportionally hits certain races--which would at least help explain the root motivation of the law.
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Why the github repo https://github.com/minad/mimemagic is archived ?
You complain about urine pollution and yet you're doing the noise pollution yourself...
How to find startup ideas, and validate them as quickly as possible
>Why is there an ordinance?

Even ignoring money and property values, the answers (for most ordinances, not just this one) are gonna all be various ways to put lipstick on the "behavior not befitting the people who can afford to live here" pig.
Lol. A throwaway to defend infinite repeats of companies whose only strategy to profitability is subversively capturing every detail of a person's life in the hope they'll buy more stuff (only after clicking their obnoxious ad). Oh please.
IANAL so take with a grain of salt, but legal action is very rare under the GPL, and it's also expensive. In a case like this also I think it would be a tough case. I wouldn't worry about it, at least not currently.
> seems to have nothing but positive impact for workers.

Having been IT in an international company, I can tell you that we were not fond of some of the European unions because they would push back against anything that anyone over there didn't like. This included things like "you guys need to stop using Windows 7 on 5-year-old laptops and start using Windows 10 like the rest of the company". I guess maybe from their view that was still a "positive impact for workers", but they were a huge pain point.
Terraforming of Venus
The reason this is happening is not obvious without reading https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/issues/97

> I've historically been the maintainer of shared-mime-info for around 15 years, and script/freedesktop.org.xml looks like it's a copy of the database shipped with shared-mime-info, which is released under the GPL, with shared-mime-info's translators work merged in, and the GPL header removed.

> The license that you're shipping mimemagic under (MIT) isn't compatible with shared-mime-info's.

Seems like quite a reasonable request, even if folk don’t like the results.

..and to be clear, I’m quite sure that rolling back to the commit before the license change does exactly nothing to address the issue.

You don’t magically get your MIT license back by forking before the license change was added, that’s not how it works.

If the previous version contains GPL code, it’s GPL. It doesn’t matter if you slap an MIT license file on it, or used it in “good faith” presuming it was MIT license.
Web browsers lack an equivalent to Google's Safety Net, which banks are increasingly insisting on for security's sake.
Problems with captive portals incoming.

Even in the past I had troubles if I couldn't come up with a non-https site to be redirected to the captive portal successfully.
isn't it a little late to do anything with that knowledge if the user is already gone from your site?
Doesn’t that happen naturally as circumstances change and therefore needs too? I’ve never had an issue with this. In fact I’ve helped transform my company from my home. It’s barely recognisable to the company I joined (in a good way). People are happy and employee churn is way down, we’re still shipping new features, sometimes even with new technologies, sales are up, revenues are up even breaking records during the pandemic, stock price is up etc etc

If creating new knowledge and processes is important to you you just have to invest time and money into it. I’m not sure what worker proximity has to do with this? To clarify (a simplified version of) my management approach is to find the current organisational bottleneck and remove it ad nauseam. This can drive immense amounts of new knowledge and processes creation.
> Mother of all that's holy what are you all doing At FSF?

Winning the FSF's Award for the Advancement of Free Software? https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/mar/22/fsf-award-bkuhn/ https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-awards-winners-announ...

This happened this weekend, well after that post was written, well after he resigned his FSF roles. The FSF - the same board that chose to reinstate Richard Stallman this weekend - gave him that award, simply because he's that important of a contributor to the free software movement.

Any argument that Bradley Kuhn doesn't belong at the FSF or doesn't care about free software is just simply not based in reality. (Listen to his acceptance speech, in the first link, if you're not convinced. He strongly believes that GPL is a line in the sand!)

And if you think that a bunch of GNU maintainers have forgotten about the message, I don't know how you can say that RMS is successfully "keeping the philosophy alive and inspiring." The easiest people to convince should be GNU maintainers themselves! If they (allegedly) don't believe in it anymore, is that not the clearest sign that RMS has failed as a leader?

If you don't think that the guy who wrote the AGPL and has spent his entire professional career fighting for the GPL is part of the free software movement, if you don't think that the GNU Project is part of the free software movement, if you don't think that Debian is part of the free software movement... who is?

> I mean, show me a bad Pull Request. A destructive design decision. A broken thing. Anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

Richard Stallman deliberately made GCC poorly designed and refused to accept the technically superior approach of LLVM, despite an offer to make LLVM a GNU project and transfer the copyrights to the FSF. This paved the way for corporate interests to take over LLVM, and they've built a compiler that is just about ready to beat GCC at everything, and it's under a weak copyleft. This has been a massive strategic loss for strong copyleft.

If it weren't for the cult of personality around him and the idea that he can do no wrong, that alone ought to have caused him to step down from a leadership role. But because it's clear that no technical misstep will ever affect his reputation (GNU maintainers have plenty of others stories like that one), the argument isn't technical. It should have been, but it's too late for that.
Won't the image proxy make it look like all emails to Gmail addresses are always opened, essentially making the tracking useless?
This is like saying, "denial means someone is probably lying"
> If there is a demographic discrepancy, it is worth asking why.

The answer is minorities are notorious bad drivers. The Indians across the street from me do not know they can turn the wheel while in reverse. Every day, for the past year, I see them making 3-4 point turns to get in and out of the drive way.

> It raises questions of systemic injustice.

Of course it does. Ignore the true cause, and find someone in the "system" to blame. As long as they're white enough.
Free seating in the norm in a few big corps already. The era of assigned seats and desks is pretty much in the past except for old style orgs.
Don't Focus Only on the Code
Hi,

First, transparency: I work for a company offering remote jobs to developers. Not trying to promo and really really not trying to be spammy, but we lately have a problem that we needed to address somehow.

Namely, we have a vetting process in place to, well, vet candidates so the companies looking to hire can get a person with real-life skills as fast as possible on the project.

But during the vetting process, we seemed to be stumbling into obstacles where candidates who seemed like they know how to code kinda … break to a halt. We were trying to figure out what was the problem, as the code itself (usually) wasn’t. It was other types of skills.

What happened was that a candidate didn’t know how to explain what he was doing and why, or was way to timid and reserved during the interview, or overly arrogant, so the employer was turned off … and all sorts of different issues. You name it.

So basically, there are three scenarios:
- people who pass the test, engage with employers, and get employed
- people who are skilled, but have problems expressing themselves during their interview so they let everything grind to a halt, even though the code isn't the problem
- people who pass the interview, but then on the final interview fail to connect with the employer as they have trouble expressing their best self.

So what we did was to compile our experience into a guide that will hopefully help those who feel like their struggle isn’t with code.

Once again, it really isn't meant to spam, but be a resource and help people if they have problems with this type of thing.

So yeah, if you feel it could help out, read through the guide. You can find it here: https://bit.ly/3lU7hkE

Hope I managed to explain myself properly, if not, I will respond to comments, gladly :)

Any feedback is more than welcome.

Have a great day.
I imagine even with legal support, many industries could work around them anyway. Except for jobs that rely on local workers, I can't help but think that the long term reaction to unionization in, say, the tech world, would involve (more) jobs being outsourced to other countries.

Sure, you could try to outlaw that, but these regulations always seem to have loopholes. You'd need unions with basically no borders stretching across continents, which I frankly find terrifying.
That's me. If I know that neighbor is doing something unreasonable, like leaving his garbage bags in the common hallway or listening music too loudly, I suspect he's just an antisocial asshole and the conversation will be rough at best.
No, it means you can quit and get severance. It's acknowledging that this isn't what people signed up for and taking responsibility
Pronounced pie-pee-aye, and not pee-pee, pie-pee or any of the other ways I heard it pronounced at work :)
It’s true that American companies are hard to beat on their fields such as workers exploitation (Amazon), privacy violations (Google, Facebook), anti-concurrencial practices (Microsoft, Google), censorship (Twitter, Reddit), tax evasion (Apple, all GAFAM actually), etc. Real amazing job indeed.
Consider that larger vehicles also have larger blind spots that might obscure a pedestrian walking into a dangerous area.
> It seems to me that if we all weren't constantly dividing ourselves by an increasing number of characteristics that are not socioeconomic class, then we would have an enormous group of people working towards the problems that result from socioeconomic differences.

That's why some on the left believe that the elites (of both the NYT and Fox news persuasion) welcome and encourage identity politics. Marxists would say class is the important divisor and the rest is a distraction.
What is the easiest way to use VS Code remotely in Browser?
I am going to take an online course that uses VS Code. I use OpenBSD. I do not want to have to install Linux on my local machine just in order to use this IDE. I have a VPS account with a cloud provider and can spin up a Linux VPS easily. I tried doing that and installing coder from git hub. Coder purports to allow you to serve VS Code from a remote machine with UI through the browser. I tried doing that. I get a log in prompt when viewing the site. When I type the correct log in I get a blank white screen in my browser. Nothing loads.

Ideally what I am looking for is a prepackaged VS Code Linux image / iso that I can just install and be instantly up and running. I don't want to waste time on BS just to use a glorified editor. Digital Ocean apparently had one available a year or two ago but now the link is dead...
Companies like this hire based on how much they suspect they can push the employee to produce beyond what they need to pay them.

Recent immigrants are fertile territory. They don't know the laws really and are just so happy to have a job in the new country etc. They will put up with a lot of unpaid overtime.
Taking that a step further, we often actively discourage looking at OSS contributions during resume review for the same reason we don't offer take home interview assignments: it's biased against people who don't have a whole lot of extra time at home. When we have done either of the above, the singles who work part time have a bunch of time to perfect their work suddenly have a lot to show over the single parents who may be working full time or more.

I say "often" because OSS contributions can still be an indicator of something, but it's not really clear what. Maybe it indicates drive to contribute to OSS, maybe technical ability, maybe no hobbies or commitments outside their day job. In our experience it's often the latter, but even so, it's biased against people who don't have the time to contribute even if they desired to do so.

So we typically just stick with the resume for actual experience and college coursework, if any, but not the college itself. Using these heuristics we've managed to build a pretty strong pipeline of people with all backgrounds of education or experience.
TL;DR

This unfortunate chain of events is rooted in licensing violation: https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/issues/97

Mimemagic got its MIME tables source generated from `freedesktop.org.xml` file, which is licensed under GPL2, and the resulting source was released under permissive MIT license. All prior 0.3.6 mimemagic versions violated the GPL2 license.

The author of mimemagic couldn't change the pre-0.3.6 versions so they simply deleted them.

Unfortunately "the fix" has broken the dependent projects and such have to either:

1) upgrade to GPL2 compatible mimemagic 0.3.6 or 0.4.0, which conflicts with MIT licensed projects like Rails or

2) build/use other MIME resolving library with has permissive license or

3) fork mimemagic under MIT and implement dynamic loading of `freedesktop.org.xml` which wouldn't violate the license.
I've seen a lot of candidates put their GitHub link in their CV. When I go to check it out its usually full of half completed Django tutorials.
I maintained a financial data pipeline written almost entirely in Perl. Literally thousands of scripts accumulated over decades.