skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This basically just describes the offices of most small- to large-sized tech companies that aren't part of West-coast tech culture (some of which has spread beyond the West coast, but does not dominate like it does there).

There are lots of them and they may well represent a larger proportion of dev employment in the US than either stodgy-old-established-bigtech (IBM, telcos) or ones that are a part of the aforementioned West-coast tech culture. They tend to develop industry-specific products (or, often, a whole bunch of industry-specific products) but are definitely tech—and often even purely-software—companies.
Replace "ironic" with hypocritical and I think it's still pretty fair. Less so, strictly.
Oh yes, Speeder.

Thank you!

-Cliff
This is all user action. It's the usual tug of war between flags and upvotes.
The way this is implemented, with the ability for an application server attached to a replica to say "error: this needs to perform a write - hey CDN, replay this request against the region with the database leader in it" is SO clever.
I worked at a non-profit with a lot of happy ex-FAANG people that wanted to do some social good for a while. It definitely happens!

EDIT: (I just answered the inverse of your question didn't I?) People definitely grind leetcode for a FAANG gig after working elsewhere.
Just my opinion, but you might find something your brother is interested in that intersects with programming. The interest should drive the learning, so it becomes a hobby that keeps his interest vs becoming a "job" or chore. e.g. If he were into video games and game modding, show him how to write the mods or hacks to give him more control over the game. Start small and simple.
Exactly this. The sudden all-remote arrangement last year wrecked my first big summer internship in every possible way. I take responsibility for a good deal of how it affected me emotionally and my subsequent lack of productivity. However, I also wasn't given the physical hardware lab projects I signed up for or any meaningful support. I felt deeply disconnected and unengaged, but pressured to pretend everything was okay.

At this point in my life, I'm one of those people who is screaming to get out of the house. It's a place of comfort to me for sure, but also distraction and stagnation. Couple this great start to my career with having a critical third of college plus youth in general being ripped from me, I think its pretty clear why I am against pure WFH. People in different situations and stages with different needs will want different arrangements, but I am not going to apply for remote positions as a new grad.
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Yeah, I guess they sold quite a few VERY expensive machines in that neighborhood, and there were raging arcade game controversies going along at the same time, so seeing kids do 'productive' things with computers - like program simulated galactic war games - seemed like a responsible thing to do.

In my case, that guy gave me a raging passion for computers that has led, 40 years later, to ridiculous things happening.

The "Computer Age" place stuck around for only a few years afterwards .. the cognescenti of my hacker club at school discovered TANDY and Dick Smith as places to test new hilarious routines .. and, meanwhile, some of us got modems.

Good times. I think my Mum still had that floppy disk around in her memoirs, somewhere. Something about how she righteously retrieved it from an old, much loathed, school principle, who had zero idea what it was, or what it would ever mean for the world that a 10 year old kid had simulated galactic war games on his person, in lieu of math homework, or so.

Anyway, yeah. Great sales guy, would time-travel and witness again.
You don't know what's important until much later. That's what makes archiving difficult.

Also, important to whom?
So, 2 hours a day. That's 10 hours a week. That's 40 hours a month. That's 480 hours a year, or about the equivalent of 3 entire months working 40 hrs/wk, sitting in traffic, doing nothing productive. Napkin math says you lost a lot more than ambience.
Who could have predicted machines would be very good at multitasking. As of today they are STIL writing code AND creating more wealth through gold hoarding AND smart contracts at the same time!
by mixing offers with tax returns, you are creating way too much noise.

if you want to educate people and also raise awareness, you get a lot of pushback from people that do not believe anyone is making these amounts, people will literally debate the point because they are barely making $90k, and then your site comes along and the only source I can give shows people making $500k but really their compensation package would have said $320k annually. These are unnecessary hairs to split with an audience that understands none of it. They wouldn't believe the $320k or the reported $500k.

I think your site should either choose one standard, or add further metadata to what compensation people are getting/reporting. A scatterplot or graph that showed offer vs annual compensation would help. Reaching back out to people that uploaded offers to upload their tax document would help.
Just a note about directly managing Postgres here: we launched Postgres like, a minute ago (a couple months in normal people time). For a pretty long time, you couldn't do any real persistent storage on a Fly instance; we were still mostly targeting edge applications, where people slice components of their apps off to run closer to the edge.

I think it's safe to say that while we still love edge apps and are committed to them long term, we've switched gears towards full-stack applications (that is, we've gotten a lot more ambitious about what we want to be a good platform for). So this stuff is shaping up pretty quickly.

Postgres (and volume support) happened at about the same time as private networking did (Postgres was our first internal application for private networks). In January, we started doing user-mode WireGuard, so that `flyctl` runs its own TCP/IP stack and speaks WireGuard directly, without involving the OS (so you don't need root to use it). User-mode WireGuard gave us `flyctl ssh console`, and is also the way we do direct `psql`. There's more stuff in that vein coming; hopefully, it's gotten a lot easier to manage Postgres as `flyctl` has gotten more capable.

Where we want to be is for it to be trivial to run something like Postico.app to talk to a Fly Postgres database. You can do that now, but it's not yet _totally_ trivial. Hopefully you can sort of look at `flyctl` (it's open source) and see how that'll work.
Hate exercise? It could be genetic
Maybe that was true previously but these days you can just download a disk image for Windows ARM ready-to-go from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins...
It is possible, much in the same way that making friends at school does not require you to be glued to a textbook all day. But it requires self control and thoughtful boundaries.
It really depends on the use case. We use Kubernetes for hosting managed data warehouses. EKS cluster spin-up time is a one-time cost to start a new environment for data warehouses. It's insignificant compared to the time required to load data. Other issues like auto-scaling performance are more important, at least in our case.
Their compensation philosophy is to pay at personal top of market for most roles. That said, compensation packages can differ significantly on a case by case basis depending on candidate experience. What they may not capture in title / level, they capture in variance of salary.
Mini-media-remote: Raspberry Pi server to play internet videos on TV via phone
>Wait, so are you saying there's an ethical problem with triggering the expression of a strictly viral protein known to cause damage in and of itself?

:) We're discussing the expression of therapeutics. But, it is true that if you could control the process there would be no ethical problem. But it never is so simple. The cute analogies and diagrams (I do think they are useful for beginners) don't convey the real risks of the technology. Its really hard to wrap your brain around it, at-least for me, even after working in vaccines for close to a decade now I can only grasp a very limited amount of the complexity of our internals.
Same for me.

That said, there are different levels of cheating. If I knew Laravel but I lie in my resume that I know Zend, that is not a big deal. If I lie to a patient that I have done brain surgery when I haven't, then that is on a whole another level.

I know someone who used to be a QA person. She had a baby and didn't work for a few years. When she went back to work, she said she was a business analyst before, got the job, did very well. Now she is doing BA work for multiple teams at the same time. Was it wrong for her to lie? Maybe, but she didn't hurt anyone and everything worked out in the end. So maybe not?

Also note that a lot of people are forced to lie, because employers are not flexible. Say I want to code Ruby but I only know Python. It is not a big deal for me to pick up Ruby, but most employers won't even give me an interview if I don't lie in my resume about Ruby. Blame the system and not the players?
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While I agree that that would be nice, I'm not sure that this is really as common as you say it is. Do you have examples?
Does Turing College actually offer a degree?

Knowledge is important, but an actual degree is still a major consideration, since it does still determine pay bands and such at major companies.
My pay stinks (from what I can tell looking around on the net and at some former friends from university) and I'm going to have to move to the office for the first time soon. I'm unmotivated to work at home, and I'll be even less motivated at this pay to go into work and write C and Python all day on projects that don't interest me in the least.

I don't want to have to move.
Wayback Machine censors many websites(like 4chan) from being 'saved'. Wayback Machine also removes previously archived videos/websites in certain cases. They are not neutral.
Click on it and find out?
Just discovered the site - love it! Big step towards transparency which companies do not want us to have.
Yes, plasmids are the the most common, but there are many other methods too.
Well not caring for the Beatle is like not caring for Mozart. Bad taste is always an option in a free society.
Cube farms of the 80's/90's were the worst. Cube etiquette was in its infancy. Loud talkers, ice chewers, farters, snifflers, oversharers, too much A/C, too little A/C, awful ergonomics, 6'x4' compressed cubicles, shared cubicles. Then there was the crappy cafeteria food, enormous parking lots with 15 minute walks to your car if you showed up after 8am, ... oy.
I've been kicking around an idea like this for a while. The train of thought that brought me there was the recognition of a distinct memory hierarchy in today's common distributed applications that parallels the one in your computer.

So your computer has memory banks that (as a rough first approximation) each get ~10x bigger, but with ~10x greater latency. The neat part though is that global consistency for writes happens with L1 and L2 working together, so pretty damn high up in the hierarchy. In contrast distributed applications typically at best will have a write through cache where global consistency happens all the day down at the actual data store. Exploring the idea of distributed MOESI where one client, because they had the permissions to write something in the first place, can then be the owner for that database row as it's still being flushed out seems like a great basis for a distributed system that might not even need the dedicated datastore at all anymore, but a sea of clients participating in coherency and replication. Albeit this has oodles of consistency and availability problems that very well might kill the whole concept, like how MOESI would absolutely fall over when trying to hotplug CPUs at arbitrary times.
So just.. leave the bad actors out of the narrative?

It feels like if one does that, then you come back and say "but who is doing [bad thing]? where is the evidence?". You can't just leave the people causing the problem out, as if it were some how rude to name the people pissing in the pool.
>"...with time he became immune to the disturbing sounds of trains passing by..."<

Our family once moved into a larger house in an older part of town. It took only a single night to accommodate to passing trains. But the sound of rain falling on the galvanized tin roof was magical - we tried to lie in bed and listen every rainy night but nonetheless failed!

Apparently the brain accommodates remarkably well to simple floaters. Recently, while selecting DVDs at the local library, much to the alarm of a nearby patron, I found myself swatting at a large moth attempting to land on my left hand. Almost immediately I realized the "moth" was inside my eye! A month has passed and this floater, which (according to my opthalmologist) consists of two segments of tissue hinged together at one end and which flaps like a butterfly when my eye moves, now appears as a single smaller floater. With time, perhaps it will be rendered invisible.
Ooh ... I visited there way back when. Down where that bike is parked there was a coin-operated cigarette machine. And they sold Benson & Hedges ciggies (which were the passwords that the hackers had chosen). Sends me way back, Belter.
I think the rule should be they are forced to maintain the price shown, unless the actual price shown is in the same font size on the same page and the teaser period is clear.
Last year, I was in same situation as you. I don't have wife and kids per say. There are two things you could do - may be a tech co-founder in startup that would add jet fuel to your career. Jet fuel because either you will crash and burn or go to the next level. However I wouldn't recommend that to you as you have a family and it is difficult to do that with kids and wife.

The other thing I would say is, save up some money and invest in thing other than tech. In my situation, I wanted to own a restaurant, so I build a cafe in the Rishikesh, India. That gave me a side mission in life, I became more content with my career situation and pushed me to be better and happier.
Yeah, it did for me. But I only used it to make sure it matched Credit Karma tax and filed through there.
All I said was that they use separate clusters to "isolate domains" which is a pretty vague description on purpose -- I did not intend to claim they do it for different deployment environments as you've described.

It's fairly subjective what types of isolation define "multi-tenancy" which is why there hasn't been progress made despite SIG and WG efforts in the past. While you do not believe network isolation should be included, there are plenty of developers working on OpenShift Online which may disagree. OSO lets anyone on the internet sign up for free and instantly be given their own namespace on a shared cluster full of untrusted actors.
Let me know (jgc AT cloudflare DOT com) if you need help with Tunnel.
Financial Independence is a big thing. (Not just retire)

Do you have kids? Have you thought about generational wealth?
These are the things that are in people's minds. If you want to understand more visit subreddits like /r/FIRE or /r/bogelheads or /r/personalfinance?
There’s no resume entry for polymath, and what you’re describing is a developer who is at least a mediocre polymath. Not all of us are.
I think people wrong associate high pay with bad WLB at top paying tech companies
> It's not even "tech"

Intuit most certainly is a tech company. They make web and desktop software. This semantic argument is a distraction.

https://jobs.intuit.com/search-jobs/

> If computers and internet were not a thing

Cool counterfactual. Not relevant in this discussion.
But that's precisely my point: everyone needs everybody else to exist in the world stage. No one is exceptional even like you said when status-quo changes. Rising powers are all over the globe and they are not guaranteed to stay afloat. I cannot predict the future of course but I don't think the decision makers in China are that naive.
Giving free tuition to a bunch of kids who probably already are extremely loaded seems like a waste. There are hundreds of colleges around the country that have low endowments and kids coming from disadvantaged backgrounds who will be in debt the rest of their lives. Further, tuition is way cheaper at these schools (like a fifth or a tenth) so you’d really be making an outsized impact. Donating to the Yales of the world is a massive ego booster/vanity project and a terrible use of funds.
Jay - that looks surprisingly like my signature. Wonder who counterfeited it...

Cheers, -Cliff
I feel that the challenge of Lambda school, as well as other vocational schools, is that their courses are too specific for too short a period with too easy assignments. Take this curriculum for example: https://lambdaschool.com/courses/data-science#curriculum. Stats fundamentals: 4 weeks. Predictive modeling: 4 weeks. Etc etc. I mean, really, 4 weeks for stats? Will the students have enough time to learn fundamentals on counting with such short time？Will they truly learn what a random variable is and why that matters? Will they learn what joint probability distribution is, what test of hypothesis is, and what pdf, cdf, and pmf are? Will they learn what an unbiased estimation is? All these concepts do not even scratch the surface of real data science work. Unfortunately one will not be able advance further without firmly grasping these concepts. And I'm just talking about problems at undergraduate-level. In addition, can we realistically ask the students to work on moderately challenging assignments given such a short time? If they can't, why would I, as a hiring manager, risk my team to hire a graduate from such schools? One may argue that a motivated and smart student can overcome such obstacles and get her foot in the door by attending such schools. But then the challenge is flipped: not many such students need to attend such schools.
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but is that even possible?

Why should it be impossible? Arguing that it's impossible for an AI to outperform a human on almost all tasks is like arguing that it's impossible for flying machines to outperform birds.

There's nothing magical going on in our heads. It's just a set of chemical gradients and electrical signals that result in us doing or thinking particular things. Why can't we design a computer that does everything we do... only faster?
If you are happy, dont touch anything, would be my internet advice.
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BSD's have also taken a pretty strong stance against GPLv3 - again for violating their principles on freedom.

I can't dig it up right now but someone can probably find it.

But the BSD's used samba for a while as well.
One level, but different compensation. For SWE IC, it can range between 300k and 700 (plus in some cases). The same for higher levels, there is a big variance in comp. You can use up to full salary to get options (not shares) at 40% (used to be, I don't know now).
Aphantasia alone won't stop you from using memory palaces. If you can remember what you did this morning and where you did those things, you can use a memory palace. It's more about locations and events than visualizing pictures. There are some discussions and examples here:

https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Aphantasia_and_Memory

https://forum.artofmemory.com/tag/aphantasia
Once you get to higher levels of income it sounds cliche but certain doors open up. You start rubbing shoulders with “influential people.” Now that money is no longer on your mind, you realize the value of your time over everything else. It’s a different perspective on everyday situations.
I don’t think money is a prerequisite to have this mindset, like you said, you don’t want for anything more. but once you get a taste of the luxury it’s hard to go back

Mo money mo problems.
I wonder how much of this dynamic applies to us in the technology space?

Within our job market, are we seeing similar 'great resignation' patterns? Anyone with direct insight?
I agreed with you all the way until the last part about symphony, that is how you lose the attention of managers and leader types. majority of software is not a symphony rather a race car held together by ziptie and ducktapes just well enough to give a feel of something big in behind the curtains.

this is especially true if you consider the incremental work projects take on. THAT incremental work IS forecast-able. problem is often all the information need to be able to make that forecast is not in one place & the discovery process is often left unaccounted accidentally or on purpose to commit to tighter deadlines. add to that changing requirements and you have the state of software estimation we are in.
If you have ever heard any sports announcer/commentator go on and on about "the fundamentals" - well, here you go.
As he points out little things quickly add up into big things.
Don't take my word for it - search out just about any interview with a successful athlete about their career and I guarantee at least some, if not a significant chunk of it will dwell on the topic of "fundamentals".
Don't worry, I'm sure "AMVOOM The KGB, the Computer, and Me" will be listed anytime soon.
> besides retiring super early

The less obvious one is save a shit ton of money so you never have to worry about big healthcare expenses, whether it be illness or injury. It's amazing how quickly life can go from pretty good to pretty not good when you're unable to work for a while, especially when your health insurance is tied to your employment. One bad bike accident took me from a six figure income at the beginning of my career to struggling for over a decade, including a stretch of homelessness.
Unfortunately that seems to be the case. Outside of a few changing hot button topics they have basically free reign,and 99.99% of people will never hear about their actions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

and the business->government pipeline when Eisenhower's advisors all used to work/currently work for The United Fruit Company
Is it contagious?
Unfortunately Bret Weinstein who was once a good independent thinker has fallen victim to the classic human need for a tribe and become your standard right-wing media guy, with the full "package" of positions (when you see someone who has the standard left- or right- position on 25 absolutely uncorrelated issues, it's solid evidence that they are just parroting what they hear).
really you should treat your entire cloud deployment (sans state where impossible) as cattle
Yes, it's very much in beta! And if that's a concern for you, then I'd stick with Sapper or Elder.js or another.

That said, I think the replies covered the concern pretty well. For me, I don't really have any concerns with it. I don't find it very opinionated nor restrictive, but I come from a Rails background where I'm used to convention over configuration, so maybe I'm biased towards reasonable defaults.
Boy, if you think that's a spoiler, don't watch the trailer. "Spoiler" != "Plot Summary".
Fixed, because of your help and advice. >Thank you!<
-Cliff (who stumbles over .htm and .html files)
And the mainstream has become more interesting as a result. It's not uncommon to watch anime now, D&D and video games are no longer niche, people's interests are becoming more diverse as media is no longer being gatekept by communities, geography or publishers, and everything becomes available to everyone. People might see that as a negative, the Eternal September effect eating their favorite thing, but I see it as a positive.
I’ve wondered about this myself - might you have any more information or be able to point me/us to any particularly good data sources?
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