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Interesting question, as I just handed in my two weeks notice for my day job of nearly 20 years (so I guess I'm a senior engineer, but I suffer from imposter syndrome and think I still don't know what I'm doing after all this time).

I'll second the interesting work and keeping people busy, as the job was boring me to tears. Part of it is on me, as I was having problems giving 100%, and that's unacceptable to me as a professional. But if I was being tasked, I don't think it would be as much of an issue.

I'll also second bare minimum raises. It's not about the money, but rather that the Trinity study found that inflation averaged 3% YoY. If salary isn't going up by at least that much, you're cutting my pay every year.

While I can sling bits in just about anything and have system administrator experience to boot (running my personal domains and mail servers on the open Internet for decades), I have to insist that my personal development seat is Emacs running in Linux. Apart from the fact of it sucking less, I'm so experienced with them both, it's a waste of my time to force me to use other tooling. I can (and have) cross-developed software for Windows, OSX and vxWorks (and soon to pickup Android and maybe iOS), but I've done it all from Emacs under Linux with no issues. I have no issues learning new SDKs, toolkits, frameworks, languages, etc, I just have 20+ years of Linux and Emacs experience under my belt, it's one of my skillsets that is a feature.

And last, I'm never going to work in an office again if I can manage it. No, I don't care how awesome your team or office is, I'm happier, healthier and more productive at home. Other tech firms have realized this[0], figure it out or I don't want to work for you.

ETA: Ooh, another big factor is leave. I don't need money, in fact I'm probably a bargain, but I want to work less hours, not more, and in my free time I rescue people off mountains. But this requires I be in a state of semi-on call, able to drop things at a moments notice to go rescue people. I always make up the time later (or take annual leave), but part of what I like about software development is the "episodic" nature, where I can cut to something else for a day or two, then come back to the project fresh.

[0] - https://stackoverflow.blog/2013/02/01/why-we-still-believe-i...
Since Substack is currently down, the following Ars Technica article on the same subject (AFAIK) is a good alternative:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/how-indiana-jones-fou...
I'd say we don't let the good be the enemy of the perfect. This is what the article said and at least include more people with disabilities than it did before, isn't that good?

- They have a lower limb deficiency (for example, due to amputation or congenital limb deficiency).

- They have a leg length difference.

- They are of short stature (<130 cm).
I agree. I love using the language for smaller things, but since I don't use it at my day job it's really hard to get well acquainted with the common tooling/libraries. When I try starting a new project I always end up spending hours just getting my environment in a good state.
"We do not retaliate or bully people. It’s strongly against our company culture.”

"We treat every developer the same,"

- Tim Cook.

I also think the 9to5's account [1] goes into much more detail of those measures. They are also the rare few site that digs into every released documents in great depth.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/05/netflix-apple-in-app-purchase...
Those who need the $10/year can decide to instead give up their personal data using the ad-funded model, which I explicitly did not say should be abolished, because I don't believe that. I was making an argument against the idea that microtransactions are themselves somehow infeasible/bad - nothing more.
As someone that is employed full-time in the UK I must say you (and others in this thread) have piqued my interest. I am still quite early in my career but the ability to choose contracts (and possibly even the tech stack) sounds like a dream.

Do you or anyone else have advice on how to get started with becoming a contractors?
> discussion-malware

I've never heard this term and I like it. Relating software-of-mind to actual software can be a powerful intuition pump.

Another useful metaphor (which we already deploy in software) is epidemiology and evolution. We already relate "memes" to "genes" (actually the distinction is very fuzzy, as genes are just information). We call parasitic replicants "viruses". We call things that have been co-opted by parasitic replicants "zombies". We already broadly recognize that some ideas are cognitohazardous, and that people can change for the worse on exposure, or even "die" in the sense that the person you knew can vanish forever. It's firmly in pop-culture - there's a whole Futurama episode where Bender finds religion and becomes deeply annoying.

And yet, we are deeply reluctant to carry those lessons over, so strong is our aversion to free speech infringements. But our unwillingness to commit to some sort of principle of shutting down speech, means that sheer pragmatism is forcing us to silence people in an unprincipled way. I think we are long overdue for a new philosophy on this topic.
Unrelated to PG's post... I had no clue what MightyApp is so I went to their website [0]. When I scrolled to "Work without the fan noise" section on the homepage my fan started to work pretty hard. Haven't checked if they intentionally got the fan to work, but it was a nice coincidence.

[0] mightyapp.com
Offer a 4 day week. I've been searching for a role which fits this description since I left Uni and I finally found one

It amazes me that more companies don't offer this benefit (even for a 20% cut in salary!) when the demand is so high

It annoyed me so much I decided to make a website listing Software jobs with a better work / life balance:

https://4dayweek.io/
That makes sense as well. It's not unexpected that a one-off F1 car is faster than a mass-produced Mustang.
Virtual Skipper 5 is better
Not having ads is also unethical. Imagine trying to spread a novel idea / product to a society or an oligopoly that wants to oppress you
> “ People are not claiming that it is a bad idea because it is infeasible or not valuable, but because it is dangerous and also because it sounds technically ridiculous. (thin client inside thin client)”

This is the kind of asymmetric dismissal he’s talking about, and it’s not very good.

Dangerous? We run everything via cloud services and encrypted communication. “Sounds technically ridiculous” - so did probably every modern technological idea when it was new “you put your database in some other company’s servers?!”.

You’re mostly proving PG’s point.
> But give a person the choice between all those things and an extra $100k income, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what they'll choose. At least most people.

i suppose "most" can mean a range of things. but i think that if money was even top 3 for somebody, we'd see them studying for FAANG interviews continuously, and applying over and over. in all my years i've run into maybe one person who behaved like that. maybe that's more common behavior than i realize? (google is the only one of them that's had a real presence in my area for >10 years.)

it's important! and i think management definitely likes to underestimate the importance, but it seems to be balanced with a selection of other interests. many of which management could provide for ~$0 or <$0, so they're worth mentioning in (what i feel is) the context of this Ask HN.
My rant with that is that the normal, regular user won't configure the fall-back solution. Nobody remembers to write down those numbers-and-codes; when they do, they don't keep it safe and leave the paper over the desk.

When you travel abroad, is out of battery, break your phone, etc, etc, you're 100% out of your digital life until you can overcome the 2FA limit. And this happens in the moments you need it most.
Oracle Cloud and Premier League
A different way that I do it:

Settings, Accessibility, Accessibility Shortcut, select “Reduce White Point”

Now triple-clicking the side button will toggle a much lower brightness setting.
I have one of those too on my work laptop, it's the most convenient thing ever. Not great if you have multiple computers, but it's great for a single one.

Then again, your Mac already has a TPM chip you can use.
As a neurodivergent individual, this trend worries me. The path to equity does not include a Handicapper General. Equity should always be done by boosting, never handicapping.
You are welcome (poster here :-)). And thanks to you for maintaining a great, and useful, piece of software. I recently needed something like Firefox Send that could have files uploaded for longer than 1 day but no more than 7 days and Send (and your public instance) was perfect for such task.
Yeah I always thought that the “marketplace of ideas” meant some just weren’t worthwhile at all and shouldn’t be marketed anymore. (Flat earth, Phrenology etc.)
Is there a POS stablecoin blockchain with smart contracts in the works? Why couldn't it be done? Because founders wouldn't be able to hold 80% of coins so they can cash out like Vitalik, CZ, or Justin Sun?
Take a look at Sologenic. Sologenic is a fronted for the DEX. AFAIK they have no legal obligation to limit who is using it at all. The DEX as as its name says is decentral, they can not control it. They just make software that lets users use it. They can also not directly take fees because the DEX does not have fees (you make things decentral to remove the lurking middlemen who takes the fee)
IDK how Sologenics business model looks like (they are pretty new) but I assume they will make certain features in their apps cost something. Possibly can be payed directly with crypto.
KYC rules usually dont apply for such stuff. Fiat on-ramps have to deal with that. Hence using an existing system that already has the infrastructure is preferable.
1. It seems to me that a common question many would like answered is: whats the simplest way that I can serve http requests without incurring the wrath of the GDPR?

2. It was my understanding that GDPR compliance is extremely expensive, is this not the case? Perhaps it is very simple.
Upvote for mentioning a 4 day week - couldn't agree more

It amazes me more companies don't offer this benefit (even for 20% salary cut) so much so that I just launched this: https://4dayweek.io/
A while ago, I switched from Slack to use Keybase and it was doing great until Zoom bought it. In fear of it being shut down at any time, I never came back.

Tomorrow would be exactly 1 year ago since that announcement and Zoom haven't touched or done anything with Keybase yet. So who knows.

Holding those Stellar Lumens was really a good idea after all, which I indeed did.
Targeted ads and analytics are not opt-in by default. This leads to shadow profiles and my data being handled by corporations I don't trust. I don't need facebook and all its stalkers to know where I live, for instance.

Not to mention targeted ads just don't work for me. They always show crap I'd never use, within my domain of knowledge, and never show interesting things outside my domain. Overall I'm more than glad to block ads because I gain nothing from them. They are a liability. Anonymization I don't believe in, what's the difference between my SSN and a MD5 of my SSN?
I wonder how CH users breakdown geographically in the US. Things here on the west coast, at least in Oregon, are very much not open at any normal capacity and won’t be for at least several more months, assuming no more spikes.

I wouldn’t think they’d be seeing such a sharp decline in interest based on a few states allowing normal operations.
> CoD/warzone is the most streamed battle royale on twitch

And is an Activision title.

> HS is strong on mobile

The category is still niche compared to other big titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_mobile_gam...

> OW is arguably a MOBA/FPS hybrid

Fair, but isn't doing well. Will be interesting to see how Valorant does.
"appeasing guilt with charity donations" implies something like "ads -> guilt -> donations". That the donations came years before the ads is pretty good evidence otherwise?
I went down this rabbit hole, and it's very confusing. If I recall correctly, Chrome doesn't actually pick the font when you say "sans-serif". It asks the OS for a list of fonts and picks the first one that matches some set of size criteria for a rendered string.

That's why "font-family: cursive" ends up being some crazy font on different operating systems, often, not what I would call a cursive font.

I get Comic Sans on Chrome/Windows10. I'm told you also get something ugly on MacOS, but it's at least something "cursive": https://jsfiddle.net/cfva2ehw/
OH WAIT.
https://www.mtpr.org/post/industry-experts-talk-about-challe...

I knew I remembered this. There was a damn "labor shortage" in Montana before the pandemic.
I had a particularly hard time recently due to this when my phone broke and I couldn't replace it for a week or so. It all got figured out in the end, but not being able to access my Google account and all that entails was more of a problem than I expected.
> Why should 18 years olds in the EU/US receive a vaccine before 75 year olds in other countries?

Because a nation state has a duty to protect the safety of its own citizens first and foremost. If a government continuously puts the needs of other countries over the needs of its own citizens, who is going to support a system like that long-term? Perhaps a handful of upper-middle-class idealists, but not most people. Right or wrong, that's just not human nature.
> I think a lot of Americans can't comprehend that if you build from a permanent material like brick or stone the house will just sit there for a thousand years.

That can depend on how stable the land is. My sister's US brick rental has many large gaps in the masonry. One side of her front door frame sags over 2 inches.
I appreciate that EFF is concerned about corporate speech control, but this is completely inadequate:

> if a candidate for office is suspended or banned from social media during an election, the public needs to know why, and and the candidate needs a process to appeal the decision

In a case like this company should be investigated (same way as a foreign agent meddling in elections), potentially fined and denied a licence to operate as a social media.
The late great Bill Hicks perfectly summarized my feelings towards advertisers/marketers.

There is nothing wrong with ads per-say, it is the real time bidding and targeted ads that I have problems with.

And of course malvertising such as the one which compromised my sisters laptop with a fileless rootkit a few years back.

Ads and analytics are not allowed on my home network.
Now I remember: pianobar.
2017 was very different. Crypto type stories frequented the front page with technical marvels. Then a few things happened... 1) we evaluated 2) this scamconomy arose 3) the bubble burst.

I was excited then, when it was new to me, but then I learnt the truth about blockchain
You ignored the first bullet of the three, which was: "They have a lower limb deficiency (for example, due to amputation or congenital limb deficiency)"
Not from liveleak, but a couple of years ago I read an article about a guy that got stuck in a cave a few km from the entrance after falling head-first into a crevice, and eventually died because nobody could get him out. It gave me nightmares for weeks, and even to this day just thinking about it makes me shudder. It's almost PTSD, even though I only read a second-hand retelling.
The same seems to go for Sapiens, albeit to a lesser degree, possibly as a result of being released more recently in 2015 vs the 90s.

Jared Diamond is actually the cover quote for Sapiens looking at my copy!
Here's a gif with all the different screenshots: https://up.l3m.in/file/1620316360-stackoverflow-fonts.gif

The macOS font is the only one which has a bar in the Q.
I give half of what I earn to the most effective charities I can find

That's not at all justification for practices that harm society, especially when that harm takes fewer resources to achieve than charity donations can make up for. It's like saying "I'm willing to work for a company with massive pollution because I donate some of my salary to Greenpeace."

Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but the fact that the author put this justification first is an implicit admission that they feel what they do is wrong in some way and try to offset it with donations.

The thing is, I think advertising is positive

It is difficult to think otherwise about something attached to your paycheck

I think advertising is positive... if I'm causing harm through my work I would like to know about it.

One really great example of harm is propaganda delivered via political attack ads that polarize the population by provoking anger, fear, and hatred.

Ads. You pay with your attention.

You aren't given a choice in most cases to choose attention or $$. You also pay with more than attention: your privacy, personal data, and tracking of online actions. Many off-line actions can also be tracked by purchasing data from other sources and matching to the data collected online.

Non-regressive

This would be a better point if many media outlets didn't still use paywalls and ads together
2FA sucks for so many reasons. Privacy is destroyed and losing your phone is multiplied into an even bigger disaster.

But just say "no" to Google and a lot of the issue goes away.
Rust 1.52.0
So for some context, "flying on instruments" is considered much better in flight. A fair number of novice pilots kill themselves because they get lost in clouds and get emotional and think they aren't level anymore.

The instrument tells them they are level, but they get paranoid and either stall or crash because they don't trust that the machine is more reliable than their emotions, even when it's drilled into them.
Ask HN: How can a Sales Engineer (formerly a Dev) get back into Development?
I've had a 4 year career in back-end software development before becoming a Sales Engineer for the past 3 years. I feel that I'm basically at a point where if I continue Sales Engineering any more, my odds of getting back into a professional Dev job will be 0.

My skills are for sure rusty, but I'm still fairly sharp in programming, and I actually have done a lot of test automation which involved quite a bit of code (my company sells services and software for test automation).

I'm looking to change because Sales Engineering is high-pressure and I'm a serious introvert, so delivering presentations all the time has been causing a lot of stress. Development also gives me a deeper satisfaction than selling does.

I left Development as a mid-level Software Engineer. Should I apply to jobs that are mid-level still?
> Greenidge also said that the company plans to replicate its vertically integrated model — cryptocurrency mining at the source of energy production — at other power plants, with a goal of at least 500 megawatts of combined mining capacity by 2025.

This seems abjectly horrible from an environmental perspective.
Pandering again.
Let people with disabilities stay on Earth and continue posting on HackerNews.
Hmm whats the UNI token for then?
> Language doesn't matter, but platform can/does to some

Very much this. I can put up even with FORTRAN - hell one of the most interesting challenges I had recently was figuring out how to call C++ from FORTRAN.

But I've been living in Emacs for almost two decades, and longer than that in Linux. I have to insist that my personal development seat is Emacs on Linux. Yes, I can target Windows and probably anything else from Linux (iOS is a challenge, but I'm looking into it), so I don't see the "need" to develop natively.
Technically, those are short people, too.
I reinstalled it recently because the whatever-coins associated with my account were worth more than €500.

The app itself and their GitHub repo feel abandoned, so I wouldn't be surprised if they announce its discontinuation.
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> Then as time passed and we learned more

Yeah, lots of time has passed since people started to use masks to prevent a spread of infection. Like, 100 years?
U2F is obsolete. Greenfield deployments should be of the standard, WebAuthn, instead.
Given how few people we can afford to send into space, is it too much to ask that we send the best people we have? Leave the identity politics back on Earth.
are all more user hostile for my use cases

Sure, your use cases. Not other people's though, and we don't get a choice.
Because people here try to understand the technology and its usage before riding the hype train. Most people investing in Ether for example have no idea what it even means. But when you ask them they would spit answers like "it's going to revolutionize finance..". When you ask them how, they have no answer. When you ask them for specific applications that they know of outside of the stupid NFT, they send you to Google. Yesterday someone on Youtube gave an example about a fridge that will order you eggs and milk when they run out, and everything will be done on the blockchain.

Not a crypto hater. I even invest for fun and because you cannot deny the opportunity to make money rn. But don't expect people to ride the train blindly. I do think that crypto isn't going anywhere. But the current valuation of these coins is just absurd rn.
End Suicide Stigma
This account is talking about how many things in Crypto are non-credible but at the same time they also just "blab" their opinion on Twitter without any factual backing.
I didn't mean that as justification for cutting off benefits, it was unintended it if sounded that way. In fact I think Jerome Powell, Chair of the Fed has been quoted as saying he's not too worried about reports of employers complaining about hiring because he's looking at data on actual wages - and if the employers were participating in a labor market he would see increased wages as competition for labor.
Ads are bad because of their implementation, not as a concept.

The “alternatives” are not paywalls vs. ads, the alternative is to be a less awful ad provider.

Unintrusive text is fine. Static images without flashy animations are fine. Even watching something like a funny TV commercial is great because it seems worth the time.

Yet somewhere along the line, somebody decided it was “fine” to shove overlays in my face, stubbornly keep things in place during scrolling, auto-playing sound, etc. And all that crap is before even factoring in the gigabytes of bandwidth stolen from me to download and run JavaScript that ultimately serves to be a creepy stalker around the Internet.

So feel free to work on ads without shame as long as the ads you work on aren’t shameless.
As someone interested in all of cryptography, I cringe every single time when we call blockchain "crypto".

Sure, there's cryptography in it. But you don't call a mail or http server "crypto". There's similar tech in git, we don't call it "crypto", we call it VCS.

Calling this "crypto" is just trying to add a mystic aura for stuff people don't understand, to further muddy the waters.

We have a word for this technology. It's not "crypto". It's blockchain.

Sure, it's your shorthand for "cryptocoin" or "cryptovalue". Which are again newspeak for blockchain, and we could argue that given its limits and usage of the last years they should be called crypto-investment, at best.

Which is still like ordering a pizza and forcefully referring to it only as "food". I want a pepperoni-food please.

Sorry for the rant, but it really feels like it's just a way to further embellish something with dubious values like the post points out
Maybe I'm too cynical but Clubhouse always felt like a weird pyramid scheme. It was huge solely because a core group of people said it was huge. VCs hyping a VC investment to a sky-high valuation and bringing lots of VC-aspiration little people along with them as reinforcement.

And I guess it worked, they got a valuation of $4bn! But now what?