skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, you could trade crypto for cash. there are some trust issues though (will they run off with the crypto AND the cash?) and the fees are high
What is it that happens?

Do you get to the interview and then they see your grey hair and treat you like Grandpa?

Do they just not call you for an interview at all?

Is it the leetcode and focus on the specifics of very new and flashy tech that is the problem?
It could be a breach of contract, but it would be up to a court to decide if that part of the contact is enforceable.

Guessing it's not illegal to solicit someone under such a contract, but potentially a new hire could be ordered by a court to stop working at the new company, or a 3rd party could make claims that the outputs of their former employees are owned by said 3rd party.

IANAL
haha okay fair enough!

I hope you have learned your lesson in adding pictures to a long blog post :)

Jokes aside - I did enjoy reading through it and thank you for educating me on macaroons, CATs, and biscuits.
I wouldn't call it not legal, but it indeed can violate the terms many employees sign when they join a company. I think it's a matter of how they frame it. If they frame it as actually doing some work for the company then I would say that would be illegal for many. But if it's framed as an interview then maybe it's OK. Not a lawyer, I assuming it's gray area.
I wonder what you attribute the ageism towards? I wonder what actual or perceived traits trend with age that hiring managers are trying to avoid?

I'll venture one idea-- Once you have enough experience you start to be able to see the emperor has no clothes situations. Not being naively positive about everything can be interpreted as being overly negative (at least in the bay area). Funny enough it might just be the "negative" ones are more accurate (Depressive Realism) .
In our society programming is only for young people. You always have to have a backup plan for job when you will be older. Mine is olympics games.
I don't think they can undertake Xbox/Playstation. Nintendo is a niche while Xbox/Playstation another. I guess they just want people to buy newer consoles and games, which make sense for them.
It's absolutely ridiculous that Macs don't come with a 3 year warranty by default.

I've bought maybe a dozen macs in the last 15 years (for myself and the family) and while some have lasted many years without issues, some have died on me on the second or third year.

Because the initial investment is so high you're practically forced to add extra Apple Care to protect it because there's a 20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years.

And don't get me started on design issues and recalls which take years. When my 2011 MBP died because of Radeongate it took Apple 2 years to start a recall and replace the GPU. The honest thing to do would have been to take the machine and offer 60% of its value in credit towards a new Mac. Instead, Apple replaced the GPU on a machine that was already a couple of gens behind and I couldn't sell without practically giving it away because (rightfully) nobody wanted the 15'' 2011 models. That MBP was probably the worst investment of my life.
> Regardless of what Apple does, law enforcement must always manually review suspected CSAM before requesting a warrant based on it. So the idea that you could SWAT someone with some hash collisions on innocent images is just not possible.

A quick search found four clear cases where law enforcement has favored technological false positives over evidence:

Ousmane Bah:
https://www.businessinsider.com/teen-sues-apple-1-billion-fa...

Robert Williams:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facial-recognition-60-minutes-2...

Nijeer Parks:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/tech/nijeer-parks-facial-reco...

Michael Oliver:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/detroit-facial-recognition-wr...

The one on Ousmane Bah really frustrates me- not only was he on a date at prom during the theft, he was in another state! "Nothing to hide" does not mean "nothing to fear" and allegations (even false ones) of possessing CSAM will ruin lives.

At the end of the day, what it really comes down to is trust; personally, I do not have enough faith in due process to not ruin innocent people. But I'm just some guy online, I will readily admit I don't know anything about anything.
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Same! For those on Macs, the alfred-toggl workflow is a godsend: https://github.com/jason0x43/alfred-toggl

It's much faster than the native Toggl app, and it lets you do things like restart timers (not possible through the web or native apps). It's a surprisingly full-featured workflow.
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Europe is a big place. While I think my employer (UK scale-up) reserves the right to decide when you take holidays, I've never seen this enforced, even over Christmas.
No tts in Firefox for Android, sadly. That'd be really useful. Is there no way for Android apps to use the built-in system tts?
There was also a massive PR campaign against it. I grew up in the 90's and there was an insane amount of anti-smoking messaging to kids my age.
Who gets to decide what is a lie? Which is the lie: "Biden won" or "Trump won"? Depends on who is in charge, depends on who gets to decide what "proof" is, depends on who controls the "news" (there is no such thing as news anymore, it is all infotainment click-bait nonsense)
To be fair, civilians have no way to defend themselves against any even semi organized army.
How far does that extend when interviewing? Some companies claim all code written. In theory that might include your leetcode.
Doesn’t always happen to me but under load yes. Also: letters appearing out of the order I typed them.
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> Steam doesn't have a way to get old ROMs.

Licensing hell.
Passwords are hashed because users constantly reuse them between sites. If they didn't do that there would be no reason to hash them.
Taleb -> Extremistan.

It's super toxic for society since it's literally "winner takes all".
Don't even get to the interview stage. My tech skills never got assessed.
The HN submitter appears to be affiliated with the company, though, and the text here does seem chosen in an editorial way in order to drive engagement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304777
Refreshing. Great ad design and to the point. 8/10. I would give it 10/10 if you included compensation range.
Apple is basically the BMW of computers at this point.

it's a shame, it would be nice to go back to a point where there was more quality/durability inherent in the product.
If you may indulge me as someone who's not martially minded, may you please give a few examples of what could be the regrets of not joining?
Admirable, but in practice this is tough. We have always been age-agnostic and all our engineering hires are remote. I don’t explicitly ask, but can get a sense of how old someone is in the phone call portion of interview. My takeaway from doing hundreds of these interviews is that even after correcting for experience levels, age correlates with inflated expectations: salary, paid vacation, benefits, etc. This alone has been our hurdle to hiring people 40+.
> After speaking to a friend, they told me I had probably received a “lemon” unit (i.e. faulty from the beginning). To be honest, I’m not quite sure where the term comes from.

The term comes from the automobile industry, where a "lemon" is a new car that has some kind of issue so severe that it cannot be reasonably repaired under warranty and the buyer can try to seek a refund or replacement vehicle.

Wikipedia says that the term originally comes from early 20th century slang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(automobile)
> They are not intended to be compared exactly.

Apple's private set intersection which leaks the keys to decrypt the images coniditional a neuralhash match requires an exact match.

They probably didn't realize they got different results on different toolchains/devices, since they target a mono-culture and the whole subsystem shows fairly little careful thought went into it. They could easily make an exact integerized version which would be consistent.

It would still be broken. :)
regarding “lemon” unit (i.e. faulty from the beginning). To be honest, I’m not quite sure where the term comes from. - It's origins are pretty interesting: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/12/02/origin-of-lemo...
Don't know what they're like these days but my 2011 Lenovo Thinkpad works great! Solid laptop, replaced the keyboard once aside from that still going strong.
This is why I've always been so reluctant to drop big money on a Macbook. I feel like I'm chained to that AppleCare, whereas on a PC I can probably try to service it myself
Safari became unusable to me I might be a tab hoarder but I can’t be the only one. Sometimes it takes a minute to come to foreground again.
That statement could be illegal.
Gee... I wonder why they got that GovCloud Contract...
Have you tried https://github.com/KusakabeSi/wireguard-go-vpp ?
> the scale.

I don't think anyone expected this album to be a commercial success, much less one of the most iconic rock albums in history.
We hire old people too! We've found that experienced people are a perfect fit for a startup

https://www.wrapbook.com/careers
I was about to comment on that precise quote. Not a good sign of the political culture, one hopes it's an isolated incident. I mean, this sounds like something an official from North Korea might say.
As what some would call an old person (~50), I love this. There is so much knowledge in old workers. Not all is relevant, sure, but there is so much that is timeless stuff that every young Engineer will learn, sooner or later, though varying degrees of suffering. If we could put away arrogance (from both young and old) we could do so much to advance the field.
I'd suggest you submit a pull request, but then you'd get this response from the PR parser:

"Nelua is open source,
but not very open to contributions in the form of pull requests,
if you would like something fixed or implemented in the core language
try first submitting a bug report or opening a discussion instead of doing a PR.
The authors prefer it this way, so that the ideal solution is always provided,
without unwanted consequences on the project, thus keeping the quality of the software."

See https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/blob/bb5e71784f4065d25...
Why do I feel uncomfortable with this listing?

Maybe it's because I'm a 20 something dev in Silicon Valley? Maybe it's because I don't trust anyone who calls themselves experts in anything? Maybe it's because I work with plenty of "older" devs in Silicon Valley? Or that I think the two-jobs-at-once hiring process is horrible?

I probably shouldn't feel uncomfortable with it, but I do. I guess the ad isn't for me, though.
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Similar role? Or at a similar company?

I would expect my company to be unhappy if I were to consult for a competitor on the side. There's probably language in the employment agreement that prohibits that, and even if there isn't, it's still the kind of thing you should avoid due to conflict of interest.

But I'm not sure about an agreement not to take a similar role. If the employment agreement says that, I'm not sure that it's legally binding. Even if it is, you may be able to weasel around it with "but it's consulting, not a full-time position".

Note well: IANAL. If you're concerned, get advice from a lawyer rather than from some rando on the internet.
Like I said in the post, Dell refused to offer any sort of service while I wasn't in the country I had purchased my laptop. I don't know if that's changed, but that was a complete deal breaker for me back then.
If you type on a Mac on display in an Apple Store, does it behave the same way?
Good sociology papers are just as scientific as physics or engineering papers, they are just as a percentage in their field more rare.
Correction: SiriusXM owns Pandora, not Spotify.

https://investor.siriusxm.com/investor-overview/press-releas...
Still haven't finished shipping the product, but the newest thing I've been working on is a site/app for analysing asset prices (stocks, commodities, land/homes).

> What is your tech stack?

Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, Redis, Hotwire, Stimulus, TailwindCSS and Echarts for visualizations. Heroku hosting because I don't want to deal with devops and hosting costs are the least of my worries (data's expensive these days!).

> Why did you choose it?

My background is in economics, trading and business (among other things). I picked a tech stack that makes the parts I have the least experience with (web development) easy and the Rails ecosystem really can't be beat. The 'default' Rails tech stack is also nicely curated and seems to just work.

For the parts I do know very well (economics, financial analysis) Ruby is a great language. Python/R have a few more packages (and I've used R quite a bit) but I'm rolling my own business logic anyway and I prefer Ruby as a language to both.

> Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?

Progress has been surprisingly quick so hopefully!
I believe this is all addressed in my original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293381. If you have specific questions/concerns, I'm happy to address them, but I don't see the point in repeating myself.
pretty sure old these days means you remember dial up modem noises better than whatever music was on the charts at the time.
> Jobs, Churchill, Gates, Musk - I don’t understand.

One of them was an asshole. The other one was... a white supremacist to say the least.

"Churchill was particularly keen on chemical weapons, suggesting they be used "against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment". He dismissed objections as "unreasonable". "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes _ [to] spread a lively terror _" In today's terms, "the Arab" needed to be shocked and awed. A good gassing might well do the job." [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/19/iraq.arts
Important distinction, "legal implications" can mean that an action is unlawful, or that it can result in a lawsuit. This is of the latter sort. If you use your employer's hardware, or your contract forbids secondary employment (or "we own everything you do on or off the clock" type clauses), then there's a risk of your employer's lawyers coming after you.
I have a counter anecdote to your anecdote in that only 1 out of the last 5 remote jobs I've held required travel and I was allowed to skip it for that one job.

It really is chaotic for some workers with families to expect 5+ days being away from the home. From taking the kids to school to picking them up, getting groceries, managing after-school activities, helping with home-work, etc. and putting the pressure of 24/7 care on an already strained parent for an entire week is not always easy. Some parents also do coaching for the school sports teams. Ordinarily you're working 8 hours a day and available for the remainder of the day. On a "business trip" you're gone the full 24 hours; the impact becomes even more amplified with that.
> SiriusXM also owns Spotify

Sirius XM (nasdaq:SIRI) and Spotify (nyse:SPOT) are two different companies.

Sirius XM bought pandora in 2019.
I find the name "New Shepard" super ironic...

as if he ius the second coming to warden his flock into the folds of the oligarchitect's fenced 'garden' of consumerism.
Thanks, appreciate qualifying a bit what is considered “old”. I am 41, but only 4 years of software development experience. So only applied for junior positions yet. I don’t think I faced ageism applying to jobs, but I rarely applied to SV jobs (I am not from the US).

What do you think is the reasoning people having ageist behavior use to convince themselves they are not bad people? That old people won’t learn, or won’t be “tecahable”, or “manageable”? That old people will be slow somehow? What were you able to grasp from the experiences you had?
Ontario and BC have extremely hot housing markets and the demand is off the charts - a lot of tilers and plumbers in BC get sucked into reno contracting companies and simply have enough work to keep them busy for years. I don't think there was an exodus to Alberta - tradesfolk bring in serious cash in Canada so they can definitely afford to live in hot areas... I'd be more curious if it was actually early retirement that was driving things with tradesfolk building up enough of a nest egg that they can afford to retire early.
Feeling low too :(

A lot of non-technical people getting in position of power by smooching and then imposing whatever random buzzwords they read in a tweet.

In my company, all my devs are working on filling out TPS reports and management wonders why no development is being done. Also they don't understand difference between DevOps and Developer, so ever developer is expected to know how to manage Kubernetes and CI/CD pipeline. And they give a lip service to security and compliance but don't really allocate resources, so makes me feel so dirty.

Going to quit in 2022.
I am very much a cryptocurrency skeptic, but you could imagine a token which is only used as a medium of exchange. I.e. you convert your USD into the token immediately before making the payment, and the recipient converts it back to USD milliseconds later.
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No it's not a superpower. They'll just throw you in a gulag or the equivalent and wash their hands of it. After all, you do not exist.
Indeed but things like smartphones already had mass appeal in Europe and Asia, from the likes of Nokia in Europe and NTTDocomo in Japan.
Never had an issue, I encrypt everything fwiw.
any concrete examples of the broad ageism claim?
I thought it was funny that being unable to replace Dell battery while traveling in Japan is seen worse than having crashing and overheating macbook for 2.5 months + all the other problems.
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8.11.21%20-%...

FYI, the US senate also prepared a bipartisan bill (Open Markets Act) to enforce big techs to allow third party payment system and app stores, which is a stronger measure (but within a reasonable level) than the proposed S.K. bill. Given the bipartisan nature of the bill this has a decent chance to pass with a slight modification.
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"intends to use them [new weapons] first against Ville-France, then establish Germany's worldwide rule."

from a novel written in 1879!

Also interesting, that the main protagonists originate from an inherited fortune of a lost hindu prince
I've also thought this would be an interesting approach, even explicitly.

The laws on age discrimination are about discriminating against old people, but not about discriminating against young people.

If age discrimination is real, that means that people are not valuing older people properly - they're undervaluing them. You could have roles that are explicitly only hiring people 40+ and that restriction would be legal (at least as I understand it).

I think this would be interesting to try.
Yup, it didn't make the transition to Fenix. That was such a cool feature. Maybe I should downgrade.
So essentially give banks a way to make money so they don't gamble away the economy on derivatives and such?

Either that or just ensure they never get big enough to be 'To big to fail'.
We did this at the last startup I founded.

While it can be difficult on the paperwork side, it's nothing short of amazing. It helped us find high quality fits for the team AND we actually had a better understanding of skill levels.

We also used it to educate ourselves on what each employee would need in their on boarding and personal development plans.
I had to wait for parts as well. For example, Taiwan and Japan didn't have a Swedish top-case so they had to order one. It took about a week. But I could keep the laptop while they were waiting for the part to arrive. Once it arrived I went back and they fixed it within 24 hours.
"The Earth is flat" is not true. If you think the Earth is flat you are wrong. If you tell people the Earth is flat you are lying.

I don't like the idea of regulating speech this way, but I am starting to wonder if there's an alternative.

I hope I'm wrong, but right now it seems like the emergence of information age digital propaganda has altered the balance of power in some fundamental way. I am deeply concerned about the continued existence of societies that are both free and open.

I get the sense that we will be forced to either give up a lot of freedom to restrict speech and discourse or give up all our freedom when unrestricted speech and discourse is exploited by a populist totalitarian to take power. Of course one of the things this new totalitarian regime would do immediately is shut down the systems of free and open discourse they exploited to gain power to make sure nobody else can repeat the same trick.
If anything, perhaps the current tech job market is moving away (for now) from junior developers. Assuming it is also exacerbated due to teams being remotely located.

While searching for jobs, I look to avoid the "Senior Trap", when everyone on your team is senior, then by default, the new person is the new junior developer, regardless of actual title. While searching for a lead role recently, I have found companies where almost every dev is a lead. Startup, flat org. That is the Senior Trap ^ 2.
There isn’t anything wrong with it
Can someone explain to me why anyone would use a consumer VPN versus SSH tunneling through to a nation with secure data privacy laws if you know what you're doing, other than convenience or the number of countries you can connect to for Netflix purposes maybe?
Thanks!

Some ad blockers are very aggressive at blocking affiliate links. uBlock Origin blocks all track.webgains.com links and even closes the tab if there's a redirect, which is probably what is happening with the first link. I'm adding a feature that will call an ajax request first, and if it's blocked then I will simply redirect to an untracked link. Unfortunately I will lose potential commission this way, but at least the website will still work for everyone. It should hopefully work if you disable your adblocker.

As for the Metrofone link, it's just a redirect on their part. I did a curl request to check this:

> GET /pclick.php?p=29805977293&a=119158&m=6506 HTTP/1.1

> Host: www.awin1.com

> GET /basket/add/contract/iphone-12-5g-128gb-black/three-100gb-new-24-month-14.00/free-delivery?source=awin&awc=6506_1629914525_c508aa142e90213248adbdee4b995550&utm_source=[redacted]&utm_medium=AWIN&utm_campaign=[redacted] HTTP/2

> Host: www.metrofone.co.uk

> GET /contract-phone-deals/iphone-12-5g-128gb-black?basketRedirect=true HTTP/2

> Host: www.metrofone.co.uk
I don't think selling smash bros 64 again will hurt their nintendo switch sales very much.
In my experience, having been a homeowner in Alberta first, then Ontario second - it's similar to software development...

Most tradespeople prefer to work on new builds, large amounts of stable work, without the hastle of renovating existing structures and all of the hidden issues that are quickly exposed once the surface has been taken away. (So... technical debt...)

As a contract IT consultant - sure, sometimes I take small "side-hustle" contracts if I am not swamped by my primary gig - but, I couldn't pay all mortgage if I was reliant on just taking small/odd jobs. Same goes for tradespeople.
I think you can get it via Aurora Store, which you can get via F-Droid
Damn. I have no great experience and can get interviews in a day or two.

And everyone I talk to complains about no experienced tech people.