skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that actually an argument against something though? If change x allowed devs on the apple store to make more money, why would that be an inherent reason to oppose it, for example? All the arguments that I've heard focused around that angle of attack fail to address this issue; there's nothing wrong with miners making money, and in fact it's the design of the system that they should make money, that's how security is paid for. Even the originator of the BTC permanently limited to 1mb meme admits this and constantly uses it to push his own position by claiming that an artificially constrained chain is necessary in order for a "fee market" to develop so that security is directly compensated by usage, whilst ignoring that the original design was indeed to have it directly compensated by usage, but in volume rather than artificial scarcity provoking a "fee market".

In terms of bias on the BCH side, you could argue that because of conditions after the split they've had to take some hits and make rough decisions in a rocky landscape, but even those I think you'd be hard pressed to really disagree with in light of what the options were at the time. When it comes to pre-fork though no; it's simply unequivocally the case that they were right all along. They were outright censored on the main forums from making the very simple points of both technical and historical fact in support of the position that the goal was always to scale on chain and the math works just fine for it, and even having actually executed that and pushed the BCH network to 256mb blocks on scalenet already, the cultists over on BTC just ignore this and pretend like their position has any more merit than it ever did, constructing progressively more idiotic justifications as time goes by and it becomes clear that their narrative of it being impossible to grow a chain faster than a fax machine is exactly what everybody who knew what the underlying numbers were knew it to be to begin with.
> The Car Rental Center at SFO is the worst in the world so far as I know

How so? I've used that car rental center a few times and have had no problems with it. (Then again, that's the only car rental center I've ever used, so my opinion is essentially worthless.)
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Java Is Underhyped
(1) Stop applying to the "popular" companies.
(2) Stop quitting something every time it becomes hard.
(3) Stop thinking you've paid your dues and deserve more already.

So take a deep breath, reset your expectations some, and humbly jump in at a less glamorous company and stay there for a couple of years. Long term you can still live the dream or whatever, but it sounds like you're trying to skip over some really important learning/experience stages (a good tech career involves far more than some tech expertise).
As I said in another comment, those numbers are a bit off. The PS2 had 36 MB of RAM (32 main, 4 graphics), and the Gamecube had 43 MB (24 main, 16 audio, 3 graphics). In any case, much less than the Xbox.
There's definitely age-ism at both ends of the spectrum. Companies really love to hire starry-eyed juniors who will work overtime without asking for extra pay. They depend on their willingness to do this, and to 'prove themselves' because, well, they need to. It's very common for new engineers to fall for the sunk-cost fallacy of 'well I haven't been here long enough to quit yet, but I'm learning a lot and things are bound to get better'.

There's also a wealth of employeres who will hire people for below-market pay, and those are exactly the type of people who need to prove themselves and can't really afford to leave the job. It's kind of a catch-22, and hard to empathize with people in this situation once you've earned your stripes and feel you're past it.

The problem with OP is that they haven't been able to get the kind of job where they really respect your abilities. But they haven't gone through the grind to show prospective employers they're worth that.

I get it, that grind is really demoralizing, stressful, and stacked in favour of the employers. If you're actually capable of doing work that commands higher pay, but you don't have the network, the social skills, or the qualifications (including work history and references), I get why you'd feel jaded. I was in the same boat 6 years ago and still haven't fully shaken the mentality its left me with.

Anyway, just wanted to remind those of you who have distanced yourselves enough from that period of your lives, or who maybe skipped it altogether with recognition in the form of a degree or open-source contributions, that ageism definitely swings the other way as well.
I know this probably doesn't mean anything, but thank you for following your conscience.
Check this out -- really good discussion of bits and SNR: https://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml jump to the 11:00 mark to find out just how many 'equivalent bits' those old cassette 'mix tapes' of yours had...
god that Drucker drawing at the head of the article, so gorgeous.
The self-same perfect and wise and gosh-darn handsome founders included an amendment mechanism. You might like to take your complaint up with them.
A promotion is not a reward. A promotion is an offer for a new job with higher expectations and more responsibility. If you struggle to meet the expectations of the current role, lack agreeableness, or are unlikely to be able to do the next role up there is no way that you'll get a promotion. Sometimes patience is key.

I'm currently mentoring a person who is transitioning into an engineering manager and this person has a noticeable stutter, but is an incredible candidate. If you don't like your southern drawl, change it. I'm from a place with a very strong accent but you'd never know it.

If you're getting a rejection to an application like "overqualified" or "not a good fit" it likely means your resume wasn't tailored to the position or there is something unbelievable about it.
Not proper research but this is as visual as it gets: https://xkcd.com/1732/
> It's unfortunate that the stink of old PHP is so powerful and that salaries are still lagging so far behind.

Could it be that there are less Rails developers than PHP developers so the Rails developers get higher salaries?
> However, most of them don't think...

That’s not the impression I get. They seem to have all kinds of broad beliefs.
Are these behaviors set in stone, or might the Matrix-IRC bridge be changed?
> What is my purpose? To pass the butter?

Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.

(For those who didn't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0CD3fvLp0)
Telegram is horrendously insecure, it’s equal to or probably even worse than Facebook Messenger. It should be avoided like the plague by anyone seeking strong privacy protection.
Homeschooled doesn't imply social skill deficit. Sure, some homeschooled kids have social skill issues, but some public school kids also have social skill issues.

In the end, a healthy, non-insular, loving, connected family (either family of origin or a healthy/happy group into which one is welcomed and spends lots of time) is the only necessary requirement for healthy social skills, and it's often sufficient as well.
When you're enrolled in college it opens up opportunities for internships, software eng is usually decent pay. Consider research, you don't have to interact with business people - academics are more understanding of autism spectrum behavior. I wouldn't expect career progression to be fast taking this route, but at least you'll get some experience.
Every time I have a friend chasing money rather than happiness, I send them this...

https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...
Maybe read this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

Everyone has said this a bunch already, but it's painfully obvious that your recruiters don't like you for some reason. Try reading that book, or some other self help book to try and game the interview (or maybe actually improve your social skills).

And also try to get honest advice from a friend or stranger. The problem might be something obvious and easy to fix that we can't possibly see over the internet. Like maybe you smell bad, or your haircut is weird, or your clothes are unprofessional. It'll probably be extremely awkward, but it will be worth it if it helps you get that job you want.
Looks like it's written in web assembly too.

https://earth.google.com/static/wasm/9.134.0.0/earthwasm.was...
Yeah honestly I prefer the "automatic pastebin" behaviour, because the alternative is that walls of pasted text end up destroying channels. The Matrix bridge is mostly just doing what we ask regular IRC users to do; viz., use a pastebin for large content.
It's a bit surprising to me that my comment above is the top Google Search result for "pro-user design". I'm surprised both because Google has indexed the comment within 10 minutes and also because I would have expected the term to have been used quite a lot already.
You asked for brutal, so here is my take, with no sugar-coating.

I don't hire people to promote them in two months. If I thought they were going to be up for promotion that quickly I'd have hired them at the next level up to start with.

Similarly, how can you feel like you're not getting appropriate compensation when sixty days ago you agreed to that wage? Everyone contributes a lot, that's what they're paid to do. Most large orgs of the type you've listed have set promotion cycles and nothing you do short of buying the damn company is going to get you special consideration for that.

Also, ageism doesn't really work that way for lower-level jobs like you've described. People in tech are not afraid to hand responsibility to a young employee who has demonstrated responsibility. Related: you cannot possibly demonstrate responsibility in two months. Two months is essentially zero hours of tenure. I don't even consider an engineer fully onboarded before they've been here a year.

I think you need to focus on strategic thinking rather than ladder-climbing at your next job. Get a foot in the door and then start asking yourself how your contributions can align with the strategic goals of your org, then work along those directions. Keep your sense of entitlement tamped down, because most managers do not want to hear it, but pursue opportunities within the org as they come your way.

At this point you need to hold a job for at least five years just as damage control for your resume. By then I think you'll have a better sense of how to handle these places.
You sound really smart although dropping out makes it harder to get hired. Perhaps, consider starting a company?
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>>> Mad Magazine had an enormous influence on me

Same. It's almost incredulous to me there was a time you could go down to the local news stand and purchase some thing like Mad. Subversion on a mass scale. Aimed at basically elementary school kids.

A single highlight from Frank Jacobs epic career: 1976 "Keep on Trekkin'", A Mad Star Trek Musical ;)

http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2008/11/1976-mad-sta...
And then 100 years from now it will be worth $5 because no one will care
No on minds someone that is weird and quiet. The weird and noisy is a problem. Try keeping to yourself (it's hard, I know) and let your work speak for you.
End to end in chat?
They blacklist articles in chat already.

So there is some level of man in the middle already.
Amazon's warehouse jobs pay about the same as the customer service jobs but have decent health insurance. They hire everyone that passes a basic background check, no interview or anything.
the intention is to make it a web standard, so the end goal is to put it in all browsers
Customer support for AWS can convert into other roles pretty easily, just apply for internal transfers for adjacent roles or move into devops etc at another company.

But if you have programming skills, I agree you're far off going directly for dev roles instead.
Who says they are? Speculators are betting on what costs will be, but the people selling to them are (tautologically) doing it based on what it costs now. Some speculators win, some speculators lose, but I would say they’re necessarily performing arbitrage.
And OP, ask them to help you find long term positions. It sounds like your resume shows a lack of commitment and it'd be good to show you can stick with something for more than a year.
Just chiming in to say, while this is mostly true, it is not always true.

I had a stint of about 2 years of job hopping every 3-6 months at the beginning of my career. Worked great for me every time.

The trick is to get the new job while you still are employed, not quitting and then looking for something new. Employed = attractive to other employers, but still a bit of a red flag. Unemployed = just a big red flag.
You're also young. Plenty of well-adjusted people with jobs and families did idiotic things when they were 20, too.
I fell in love with computers by wasting hours messing with Windows settings and internals. Thinking now, it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of space for that sort of stuff in most people’s routines, especially if they’re stuck in a browsing wheel of boredom. My wheel right now is just Reddit and HN and back and forth, and it’s insanely difficult to unhinge myself from it.
Thanks! I actually appreciate the nuanced correction. I used insider trading as the term not specifically because the information was non-public but that it feels like they have inside knowledge since they are able to directly affect the markets. Maybe there is a better term for this? I don't think this still falls under what you said.
Dude, you don't sound like a creep. Well maybe you do to dumb fags. You had a legitimate reason to spoof your number.

But yeah. It's gotta be your social skills. Doesn't matter how smart you are; if you're dumb socially, unless you're John von Neuman, you're fucked. And, yes, definitely set your sights lower than the fucking NSA. The fact that you didn't acknowledge or give context to the absurdly high bar (given that we don't know shit else about you) implied in your choice of companies really does make one think you're socially retarded.

Go and fix that.
That may be true, but I've had good luck asking recruiters for feedback after getting bad news. They usually give some good advice or feedback - over the phone, of course, never in writing. Typically they say something like "You were really strong in X but the hiring manager is looking for someone with more Y." One recruiter told me that the HM had given me the thumbs down saying I was "insufficiently succinct" in my answers! But even there, I had good rapport with the recruiter and he was able to suggest other roles within the company.
I've evaluated Rocket Chat, Mattermost, Zulip, and Element+Synapse at various points over the last year and a half. That included compilation and deployment on AWS instances. I've done leg-work.

Matrix's official server and client are often touted as a competitor to other team and community-oriented chat platforms by its proponents. As a signal competitor it's solid enough, but in the community space it fails to be competitive.

I'm really hoping to see Matrix mature more, and codify moderation apis in order to keep the protocol client/server agnostic for all standard use-cases.

The Matrix documentation itself admits that the community-management portion of the standard is underspecified.

https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation/#removing-users-ro...
I find that people tend to bristle at #1, in part because they tend to think about 'the document' instead of the giant pile of documents that will be produced over the next 3 years, and the fact that sooner or later you're going to be skimming multiple documents to figure out which one had the fix for that one problem or explained why on earth we made some dumb decision a year ago. This is most obvious with Wikis but it applies to an extent to all documentation.

Remind me why I'm here in this document, because I might be in the wrong place.
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I don't feel in control at all. In fact I realized I tend to engage in this mindless refreshing when I'm exceptionally stressed out, which I know is pretty much the opposite of helpful.

And I wish it was as easy as just having fewer links on HN. I'd just go to Reddit instead.
Just based on original statement, you sound like one of those guys who thinks he's some hotshot hacker and won't play nice with everyone else. When you're like that, you have to bring lots of value. Downside protection like "I stopped us from having broken anti-fraud" is really kind of not that interesting as a story. People want upside story.

At any point of time, almost every company is teetering on some massive exploit. That's just how it is. Finding one isn't this big thing if the risk is mitigated in some other way (maximum exploit size is $10k and we'll wake up the OC eng to turn off writes and rollback). I'm not interested in this binary failure-is-worst-case nonsense.

Listen, people aren't that interested in knowing that they can be fooled because most people apply some default amount of trust to the world. "Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist". Dude, come on. This is boring stuff. Just knocking on the door isn't enough to be interesting. This isn't a Hollywood hacker movie.

My advice: Work on being productive. No one cares about all this 'exploit hacker' shit you've got going on. It's not interesting. It's not profitable. It's boring. So go finish your degree somewhere. Write some code. Find someone who you can write some code for. For free even. Move up from there.

EDIT: Jesus Christ, reading other comments, want to be promoted for finding some random issues like this in the first two weeks? Yeah, no. Here's a hint: everyone sees these things. It's not some great secret. Other people are also able to do one more thing: multiply by probability of external exploit and amount of loss.
Yeah, I'd guess that you're on the spectrum. To be quite honest, I see my younger self in your actions. It took me a long time and a lot of work to recognize bad ideas before acting on them, and I wish I could share notes... but I never could learn from other people's advice, only from years of deep reflection after fucking up repeatedly.

But it's good to hear that you're seeing a therapist. I didn't figure that one out until my mid 30s

Edit: I'm not one to crab about downvotes, but if y'all downvoting the parent post could kindly quit that. This person has shared some deep vulnerability here, they're asking for help and doing the work. This shit's a process
It looks like they could be fixed as the bridge code is open source. For example here is an issue around messages being split incorrectly: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1...
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> Your writing is not strong,

I don't know. I think he has pretty decent writing. Kinda reminds me of William Gibson. It may be stylistically unusual, but it's definitely better than the median SWE. At least in terms of clearly conveying his thoughts.
was already submitted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26157969
In a post called "PHP in 2021" we really can't omit https://bref.sh/ -- it allows running PHP apps on AWS Lambda effortlessly. With all the serverless craze, it's a very important piece of the ecosystem. After writing PHP apps for two decades, I am absolutely stunned how easy it is.

Amazon blogged about it at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/the-serverless-lamp-sta...
About half of top Shopify execs exit
Huh, I haven't seen that happen. That sucks, man.
Here hoping for a “non essential services” solar flare!
It probably makes sense for some but these are a few months old high end chips. You wouldn’t find a working 3080 core in a recycling pile since it’s worth over a thousand dollars
Counter/Timer peripherals on even low-end chips can help here.
why do you trust google to do it?
Bumping the timer spreed is not the creative part, creative part was zeroing on the issue. For software guys used to reliable hardware and no prior knowledge how to debug hardware bugs this is hell.
Most quality of life features just make games a bit boring though, like WoW-style waypoint markers where you don’t even read the quests or talk to people anymore because the game tells you where to go.

Skyrim is especially bad imo because it all takes place in the same biome with no sense of “wtf is going on here?”

My advice to people here: Get OpenMW and start playing Morrowind with a notepad open that you can alt-tab into for notes. I never beat the game until last year.

If the pace is too slow, fine, just open up the console and find the command to double
or triple your walking speed. It’s a game best enjoyed slow otherwise, as you unfold the mysteries of the world. I think it definitely holds up to 2021.
I've tried asking companies for feedback. Some respond, and some don't. I think that most don't due to legal reasons. I did move to Austin when I received a lump sum of money, and hanged with some people IRL. Some would ratify that I'm awkward lol. But there was a lot of good vibes while I was in Austin. Now that I'm back where I grew up I find that I'm more depressed, and surly. State goverment here is more Laissez-faire, and there's a lot of crime.

Reason that I mentioned that I mentioned Bill Landreth was that I think that I'm kinda like him. I got in to programming, RE, VR, soldering etc. when I was very young. Like 8 years old. I knew some folks that Wired articles were written about etc. I hanged out with a Head of Research guy at IBM who told me himself that I know some stuff that he doesn't know, and have told me that I'm smart. Which sounds cringy now that I type this. But I'm not delusional lol. I was the second person at 18 years old to be hired full-time at IBM in a certain program.. The first guy works at Armonk. I can send proof, screenshots of interview emails with DKIM etc. if anyone would like to verify my claims. Trust but verify as former president Reagan liked to quote.
It's true for shares at issuing. After that, typically, the company sees no funds from shares changing hands. Folks buy shares because they want dividends or capital appreciation. A few to show up at AGMs. But after the shares change hands once, the idea that the Noble Capitalist Heroes Of Galt's Gulch make the world turn by purchasing shares is false.
Only in an IPO or other public issue really.

What happens is your money goes to whoever owned the shares and they use it somehow. That same money could theoretically be used to buy shares infinitely, except for fees, and the company would see none of it.

The effect on the company though is demand will drive the price up. Shareholders like higher prices so tend to reward CEOs who get them. This (hopefully) leads to an efficient company where they try their best so shares go up in value due to present or expected future performance which is good for the economy on the whole compared to having a bunch of inefficient companies.
> i can tell you did not attend college.

I minored in English, and OP writes better than most of the English majors I was in writing workshops with.

edit: To elaborate, this was at a local university in a U.S. city where 70% of the population were native English speakers. None of the people in my writing workshops were ESL.
You can technically add an iptables match rule to only forward DNS packets whose contents match a ".internal" DNS query, but it sounds like a recipe for disaster. It would be better if they wrote an actual iptables protocol filter for DNS (assuming one doesn't exist) but that's so much work for so little benefit.
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