skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, depends on the company and the state you're working in. It's all anecdotal, so take the following with a grain of salt.

I've worked for startups in Washington and California. In Washington, there was an invention clause in my contracts, but in practice it was a) practically unenforceable and b) as long as you divorced your work identity from your personal identity, nobody cared. This meant not having a way of tracing an anonymous handle or email to you working for the company. In California, I've never seen an invention clause in my contracts, but they were also much better at divorcing your work and personal identity systematically (forcing you to use a github account specific to the company, not mentioning this handle on your personal account, etc.).

In any case, keeping your work and personal work completely separate (no competition between work and individual ideas, no shared hardware) is a good idea and won't raise as many eyebrows. Some companies will be more aggressive about owning what you do, so if it matters to you then ask about the clause before signing the contract.
The in-repo docs have a general walk-through for getting started: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/tree/main/docs.

Shadow's primary use-case is simulating the Tor network. Shadow's tor plugin has a step-by-step for getting a tor network simulation in particular running: https://github.com/shadow/shadow-plugin-tor/wiki
Maybe because the article is titled "Introduction to Machine Learning for Finance" ?
Clay Christensen used to tell a story about the atmosphere at HBS reunions over time. It sounds like this person learned early on the lesson that HBS graduates learn by their 25th reunion.

Edit: https://youtu.be/tvos4nORf_Y?t=470
why is walking 90 minutes a day for a year impractical?
Keep your s3 config in version control, terraform apply, if it doesn't work revert the commit and terraform apply again. The DSL isn't that hard: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...
Hey, how about unbanning me?
I can't imagine what people in America are fleeing from. The US is a paradise of tranquility. Utopia from sea to shining sea.
I've read through this multiple times and I am just missing your point.

I am not US based nor a faang worker.

My point was about how difficult it is for a blue collar worker to push back against anything, and while I appreciate that it may be difficult for you, or any other programmer, have a look at us lower slobs as well.

You strike? Okay discussion? We strike? We get attacked physically and online with groups we cannot help but be drown out by
This is such a hollow article. Am I missing something?
That's a fair point about clean room implementation. However, I can see IBM shooting themselves in the foot suing a kernel developer over an email address change, if said developer quits beforehand.

Such an action would only decrease developer goodwill towards IBM. Needless to say, IBM is already not one of the "cool" companies to work for.
Lots of people here are saying the UI and images detract from the site. I think it is possible that people who are into cars are different than people who are into hackery, and that perhaps this criticism should be discarded.
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There are boatloads of 12 megapixel or better point and shoots in the used market that will produce excellent pictures. A much better experience than a phone because it's a dedicated device. And because they usually have a substantial zoom range from wide to tight.

With only a slight bit of patience, you can pick up something like a Panasonic Lumix ZS-6 for $30 on US eBay including shipping. Long battery life, fits in a pocket.

I removed the hot-mirror, epoxied a 720nm filter to the front and use mine for infra-red.

Only slightly larger, the Sony NEX C3 is a tiny APS-C camera, not much bigger than a point and shoot. It was the second iteration of the NEX3. Paired with the slightly more recent 16-50mm pancake zoom, it is a great everyday carry with 16mp.

To me, an rPi camera is an interesting idea and for a specialized use, its programmability would be an advantage. As an everyday camera, it's a bit absurd beyond telling people about it. YMMV.
Hilariously, my grandma was the one who taught me this when I was a child. I used to always tie double knots, and then take my shoes off without untying, and the double knot would be really hard to undo. She taught me that tying the first step in the opposite direction, the single knot doesn't come undone. Happy to see this on HN :)
I agree with all of your points here, but I think there is an important distinction to be made between passive and active safety features. All of the examples you give are active features, which means they require continuous error-free sensing to remain functional. Passive safety has inherent advantages.
> 1. Housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment.

One is technically wrong. It can't be both a good investment and remain affordable. It can be both affordable and a good investment in the present, with prices rising over time generating a good return and making it increasingly unaffordable.
Most artists are not making money off NFTs and here are some graphs to prove it
"Win at what you do" is one of those rah-rah go-getter mindset phrasing that has infected the Western world. Do you "win" at being happy? Having fulfilling relationships? Is everything a game/competition, to be measured with winning and losing?
Hours? It was like 6 or 7 emails. How many hours does it take you to write a 5 or 6 sentence email?

Don't be upset people are rightly criticizing Hacker News.
IBM is understandably gun shy about keeping a tight rein on Linux participation given the have been sued for the decade plus over misappropriating Linux code into their code.

Having done license clearance there "blue washing" in the vernacular, I know they are pretty committed to toeing the line when it comes to keeping IP rights clarified and identified and not mixed up. :-)
> However, that local, who isn’t making California money, that is working a local job and making local money and is hoping to move up in housing for their family is priced out because housing pricing has doubled or even tripled.

Wouldn't be remotely a problem if they just built housing to meet the demand. Go take a look at property values in Bozeman and then look at the empty land all around it. There's plenty of room, but the zoning laws destroy supply and enrich current home owners.
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I had the same reaction. Yes, it’s good to try to find meaningful work (a point well made my the author). Selling your Harvard diploma doesn’t seem to have any relationship to that point, other than giving an excuse to repeatedly remind the reader that you went to Harvard. Which seems contrary to the message of the piece.
I find these posts interesting because quitting a company and immediately writing a post critiquing them, even if it's a soft critique like this post, is something that I would never do. I understand why people write these posts. They're certainly useful for me and many others. But unless the company did something profoundly immoral, I would not publicly criticize it on a large tech forum. Maybe I don't have enough chutzpah but I don't really see any good coming of it.
Is there a reason to do this via crypto vs...any other way?

Aren't there rules / laws about selling equity in a company?

What good are these small sums?
> I think Google got better at indexing documentation as well

I think this is it. I also thing documentation in general has gotten a lot better at answering questions rather than being just an autogen api doc site.
Greg Brown sang about it in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO2EuOLGJKM
The etymology doesn't help.

It was an intentionally misleading word for Tesla to choose.
I have a theory, without any knowledge one way or the other, that the admins have the ability to temporarily push an essay they find interesting to the middle of the 1st or 2nd page for a temporary period of time, and then let it naturally gather points from the users who see it.
The only general purpose, open source operating system that can now compete with the commercial giants, Linux, is now mainly driven by corporate backed contributors. If all corporate backed efforts were to stop overnight, I doubt it could keep up with MacOS/Windows/Android with just community contributions.

The entire hardware/software industry is controlled by giants. Disrupting this can no longer be done by a group of hackers as it was possible in the late 80s and early 90s.
I would start by watching at least a dozen seasons of Dragon's Den (any country), or Shark Tank. While they're 90% entertainment they're also 10% education. Sure,, there's lots of details that go beyond anything they can show on the program (the ten minutes of each segment is actually pared down from multiple hours). But we can all learn from what gets the money people hot and bothered. What businesses do more than one dragon/shark fight over? What businesses fall flat on their faces? What owners get buy-in while even their businesses are poorly regarded? What personalities succeed? Which one's fail?

IMHO you've got the horse before the cart. Please, don't start a business without a concrete plan and a problem to solve.
That local may well have a better paying job because more people are moving into the area.

Also, it's the US mountain west. There is a lot of space there to build more houses.

Housing isn't a zero sum game unless you have poor zoning.
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Thanks, can be repeated enough. Cars and single family home sububanization are perhaps America's greatest 20th century self-inflicted wound.
> take stuff out of context in the hopes of getting a juicy, negative soundbite

Pretty much anyone who goes through someone’s posting history to find something then post it out of context to make someone look bad is someone who is not acting in good faith. Usually, the motive is to be a bully.
The post is just trying to help people cope with knowing that they're behind. It's not a good approach to life.
It's informative to think about what is missed in the listed dependencies (https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...), such as C and Fortran libraries vendored within NumPy and SciPy, packaging infrastructure like pip, interactive tooling (Jupyter, editors/IDEs), compilers and build systems.
Sure. But that was 70 years ago in USA. The affordable housing ship has all but sailed for our generation.

Except apparently in tiny towns where we’re now ruining it for the locals.
Directshare.io: Free file-transfer web app
While browsing Reddit, I found this free file-transfer app that's pretty fast actually. The developer made the code closed-source as inferred from the comments but gives an explanation about its security though.

This is not made by me though, hence no SHOW:HN prefix.
That's the message, but it's usually not good advice, and it's condescending to tell other people how to fund their life.

We'd all rather be rock stars (full-time musicians), but the market only supports a small number.

Asking random strangers, "What's your mission in life?" will mostly get you weird stares.

Programmers are fortunate to earn enough money to have options, but most people don't - their goal is survival on an average of about $50,000/year in the US.

Occasionally programmers post on here asking about alternate careers, and I haven't seen a good answer that doesn't involve earning a fraction of their IT salary.
I'll bid if it comes with a guarantee that the author can never say he went to Harvard again.
Let me rephrase: doesn't everyone want to win the game they choose to play? If you don't then maybe you picked the wrong game.

If you choose to strive for a fulfilling relationship, and you succeed in achieving that then yes, you've won.

I only use the analogy of life as a game because it resonates with me. There are other ways to phrase what I'm saying.
Not Rpi, but much more of an integrated design. The PineCube (from Pine64) is basically designed to be just this -- a home security camera with completely open software.

https://pine64.com/product/pinecube-dev-kit/
"... Over time" is usually implied in most policy proposals.
So you can stay in California and hear the same complaints.

Where am I allowed to live everyone? Lol
As someone who lived in a small city in the American Mountain West, the boom does have consequences. Sleepy farming towns are becoming endless suburbia, hiking up prices as developers spill over from the Lehi 'Silicon Slopes' area.

Midway, for instance, a town on the Wasatch back situated in a location that feels similar to Switzerland, has gone from about 150 diaries to 2, as expanding housing developments buy out the high-valued farmland.

You'd think with the influx of money, and reduction in competition, it'd be easier for the remaining diaries to compete. Not so: the price of milk has remained basically unchanged since the 70s, but the cost required to run a farm has kept increasing.

So why not cash out? (A few farmers in the area have actually cashed out and moved to Idaho, and they're pretty much set for life.) Long story short, Midway is a beautiful place to live, and the remaining diaries form a pillar of the community - it's just not something the remaining diary owners, who have been farming the land for generations, want to do.

To stay in business, the remaining diaries have pivoted to artisan cheese production, with plans to produce other high-valued products, like ice-cream. Tours and locally-sourced farm stores are an additional source of income.

Of course, these are just my own two cents. I don't mean to come off overly negative about the situation. As much as I'd love to work for a FAANG, retire early, and buy a large house in an idyllic mountain town, I'd hate for that same town to loose its historical roots and what makes it that special idyllic mountain town in the first place.

Source: I'm a software engineer who lived/worked as a cheese-maker for a dairy there.
This makes me wonder if the whole North American cultural phenomenon of the age 40+ male "mid-life crisis" is the result of people independently discovering the same thing, from their own experiences and perspectives.
I can't wait until people are required to move back to cities for in office work. Small towns are becoming faceless neighborhoods of urban areas with a SouthWest or JetBlue commute. New residents want to ignore their neighbors and put up gates to their home. Small towns have heart because people interact with each other and work to make the community better.
My honest opinion is that any ML related to finance that you learn outside of an investment firm is mostly a waste of time. The amount of data and nuance that successful models encompass is staggering. Unless you do something like scrape WSB and predict the next MEME stock, ML for finance makes no sense. You need credit card data, 10ks, tick data, economic forecasts, interest rates, fed moves, etc. You can carve out a niche, but if you do, forget about finding something on the internet that will tell you how to do that.
Good on him for taking a break. It'd be nice if that was an option for everyone. Sadly in the US it can be quite expensive with a family to support, even in tech.

As to old work following him on to a new team I can see how being a SME is difficult to escape within the company. One would hope being the expert would provide more leverage to dictate the terms and boundaries of ones working conditions, though that's not always the case

Not a lot of detail in the article about exactly why things went down. If I had to guess the plan was too ambitious and didn't include enough talent native to the market before they committed. Which could explain why they leaned so heavily into the author.
This is a bit adjacent. I find one thing that I struggle with making anything when I see so many people I like doing seemingly amazing things, and I try and figure why I haven’t done amazing things.

I’ve come up with a (somewhat dumb, but useful) mantra: The only difference between people who do things and people who don’t, is that people who do things, do things.
It’s a ridiculous rephrase of the “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” quote.

Also a reminder to myself and everyone else: it’s okay if you’re not working 80 hour weeks. It’s okay if you don’t make a company that is a billion dollar sale to a FANG. It’s okay if you take regular vacations. It’s okay to not have a side hustle. It’s okay to put your career second.

Do what’s fulfilling for you. Do what you find interesting, energizing, and fulfilling. And if you can only do that on the weekends and evenings, that’s okay.
In this case it is related to the company's product so that exemption would not apply.
I don’t rely on autocomplete quite as much as some people, although it for sure helps.

I do think that a big part is that the two things I spend most of my programming time on, one Clojure project and one C++ project, I’m just pretty familiar with at this stage. I’ve been using Clojure for ten years and the language hasn’t changed all that much, so I don’t need to look things up often (besides the occasional reference material on clojuredocs). For libraries, I check their readme’s and just read the code. I’ve actually never really used SO for clojure, now that I think about it. The Clojure project I’m working on is also a little bit niche, so I don’t tend to find anything useful on SO for it.

For C++, I keep cppreference at hand and only really use SO when I’m trying to figure out weird things, or newer features I’ve not yet used much. Again, for the libraries I use, it’s a mixture of documentation and reading headers and it’s rare that SO helps there.

In my previous job, I was mainly working with AWS services, terraform and some python (using boto) and, again, I had everything I needed from their documentation. Before that, it was Java with some Clojure, but again, the challenging part was the domain, which was nothing that SO could have helped with. Everything else, we had under control.

Maybe I got better at reading documentation?
In fairness, These aren't really tiny towns and haven't been for a generation. It's classic sunbelt boom-sprawl-puke. (Never mind Colorado isn't actually sunny at all.)
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>2. This is how gentrification works. Many of these folks are coming because they’ve been priced out of wherever they’re coming from.

Yep. If you want to blame someone, blame local governments in California and their chronic refusal to build adequate housing, citing dubious progressive buzzwords to push policies whose outcomes always curiously seem to further enrich property owners and screw over everyone else.
Everything you said sounds reasonable. Tasks and hours are related to the specific work at hand, and mitigations are then given, as temporary allowances, to employees if extra work is demanded that are outside of "core hours"

I was just trying to highlight that I personally hate "core hours" and that if I'm on a marathon coding session from 9pm to 4am, and I'm intermittently unavailable from some arbitrary time (say 11:15am to 11:50am) and then I get a bunch of messages from bosses saying "where were you??" and I then explain that I was actually writing code, point to some commits and say "see? I did all this stuff" and they say "you are expected to work from 9am to 6pm" it feels like a slap in the face. I think good management should accept that people aren't robots (unless there is an outage, fair enough) and consider people's working preferences in their decisions.

Anyways, I'm sure you have some awesome war stories with deployments/maintenance events. You should share them sometime :D
This is still my goto colour everytime I want to see if a css rule is actually applied to something.
No procast locks HN for you after some time (to avoid procrastination, as the name suggests ;). Max visit is the time you allow yourself on the site (starting on the first visit) and minaway is how long it is blocked. It's in minutes, iirc
I made a newsletter to highlight/analyze stock news sentiment trends each week
> Housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment.

It certainly can be.

However, the combination of 0% Fed Interest Rate and low property tax rates kills the "affordable" side of that equation.

The 0% Fed Interest Rate means people can go way higher in mortgaging the hell out of themselves than if the rate was say 5%.

As for the property tax, raising the property tax rate limits the price of a home because even if someone could swing the down payment on a McMansion, the annual property tax payment would start biting into how good an investment it is. So, the developers would start building houses that assess at where the majority of buyers sit.

Of course, the same people who complain about getting gentrified also generally oppose raising property taxes even slightly. Oh well.
This neighbor must be some kind of tech reviewer or IoT QA engineer working from home. Would be cool to hear their story.
I think that wasn't the point. "I'm selling my Harvard diploma", in my opinion, fits under the category of clickbait because it makes you (me anyway) curious to find out more - why is the author selling his diploma?

If the author had just shredded the document and written a generic article about prestige without mentioning his associations, I fear that title would do less well.

But yeah I agree with your point that buying/selling a piece of paper doesn't transfer the knowledge, friendships, networks that one can build in college.
Curious what risks you see in it? Burning bridges? Becoming the guy who publicly critiques his employers?

FWIW, his thoughts are clearly spelled out as his own experience.
I guess so. All time greatest will be Columbus's discovery of America.
What is your solution? Have internal passports? Government owned housing? Price controls?
Obviously the defaults are going to be more popular than my non-default preference, and I would even agree that if there was no default, and people were forced to choose, they mostly wouldn't choose what I want.

However, if you can tell me how to get visual studio to do this, then I would be incredibly grateful.

In my opinion mixing spaces and tabs is completely fine because they are for different things. Tabs for indentation, and spaces for alignment.

Why no auto indent? Because the editor doesn't have enough information to do it correctly (e.g. perhaps you are about to paste some code which is already indented as you want it). I am not saying you should have the same preferences as me, but I am pretty happy with this behaviour, and perfectly ok with pressing tab after enter (or even pressing space 4 times - again, this is just my personal preference and I know that there was a time in my life when I would have looked at this with disgust).

So - how do I configure VS to do what I want?
America isn’t even 250 years old. That’s, what, five generations? Do remember that most American “settlement” of these areas was specifically designed to drive out the real locals, whose basic planning took on a seven-generation timescale.

With a lot of problems of this nature, especially social issues, the key is to “zoom out” to get a clearer, more sane picture of what’s going on. Humans were made to migrate, and these “locals” can adjust.
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I see an issue with the volatility of investment being paired with the volatility of crypto currencies. It’s like gambling turned to 11.
Colorado is reasonably sunny, just not in the winter when the sun sets before you've finished your first cup of coffee (I kid, it's at 4:30-5pm in the winter). At least here in Colorado Springs the sun set at 7:40pm today with our latest sunset being around 8:30pm in a couple months.
These responses bring back memories of Yahoo Answers.
ok thank you we'll check that. I do think our night time styling could be darker, for sure. I use Dark Reader usually for most sites and appreciate sites not being too bright in the eyes at the wrong times.