skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone totally ignorant of this industry... how can those problems be fixed? Is it an issue of using higher quality materials, or some factory process change?
Just look at what other professional services firms charge (lawyers, mckinsey, etc) and there is no reason why the "top" tech consultants cannot charge something on that order.

If you count Ideo and Frog Design and BCG/Bain/McKinsey's tech branches as tech -- which I do -- then they already do.
What's the "modern coding interview" trying to achieve? The other day, a guy showed me a 30-line convoluted, deeply-nested, redundant, and contradictory conditional statement and then rolled his eyes at me when I took longer than 5 minutes to parse it. Maybe I'm slower, but my quality is just fine.
A rewrite is always the wrong way to deal with a bad architecture. Evolve the architecture in place.
Infation and the national debt, not a concern yet
macOS doesn't support Samba anymore. If it did you almost certainly wouldn't have these issues.
> But why restrict tags to have only users and not let include groups

? Tags are associated with a role. Someone in the "Engineering" role can apply a "source-code" tag to a file. There's no such thing as a group, but rather everyone fills a role.
Any ideas how to improve this app ?
Thanks for the feedback
I use a book light with my Remarkable. It works well, but I'd still prefer an integrated frontlight, as long as it didn't affect the writing experience.
2 year warranty mandated by the EU. If it breaks after that I'll throw it away. I just don't see the problem. I know some will think this is a troll comment, but given most people don't care about reparability when they buy a new phone, maybe you should stop trying to push it.
I don’t think the general public understands delta is much more likely to put you into the hospital with severe symptoms. The news media are clearly to blame, but aside from hoping they reform themselves and eventually regain some of their squandered credibility (unlikely), the important question is what can we do about that?

Maybe not call it COVID. Instead we could say d-COVID or something similar to impress upon the masses that delta COVID is not the same as COVID. There still would be the media credibility problem, but people who get d-COVID would help out by telling their friends and family, “no I got d-COVID, it’s worse.”
To put how slow that is into perspective, it's slower than the speed limit on most residential streets in America, and it's about the same as the school zone speed limits that are only used at the beginning and end of each school day.
Except we currently have both of those. Publishing in a journal anyone will bother to read, and getting the credentials to work in a lab doing research anyone will publish, are both gated by a tyranny of the scientific majority. Then they're still charged to actually read anything they publish.
How the ‘Right to Repair’ Might Save Your Gadgets–and Save You Money
Agreed, it's very much an attempted form of manipulation by hardcore pro-vaccine people. There's a line of logic among anti-vaxxers of "I'll take my chances", and studies like these -- which show that taking your chances with COVID, surviving (which might be overwhelmingly likely), and then going on your merry way gives you equal or greater protection than the vaccine. Hardcore pro-vaxxers would much rather the narrative be "the vaccine, and only the vaccine, will protect you."
Maybe they don't really want to fill it.
Won't do much, it still looks at me from above because the monitor is so big.
I’d be happy if some organizations started accepting a credential in lue of a coding interview, and just did a design/architecture and cultural interview.
I worked at a big retail company a few years that was desperate to make investments in tech. Probably didn't help that HQ was in Silicon Valley. They ended acquiring a 3D company for a similar purpose to Gap only the company was actually a total mismatch for what they intended. They produced 3D models, but not actual usable software. The tech leadership internally advised against the acquisition but the CEO did it anyway. Then we had to pivot them to basically build what we wanted from scratch with no clear market need. AFAIK, it's been languishing for a few years.
Perhaps they're referring to 90 days of storage?
In medicine you spend a decade making yourself employable. The on your own part is a luxury and a curse, in that we don’t need patients to practice on.

The closest comparison I have is professional musician.

you’re supposed to love the language of music. If you don’t, good luck.
there is usually a separate department that does that kind of release.

the author is listed as a 'Freelance editor and writer and content provider for Stanford University' on LinkedIn, assuming it's the right 'Andrew Meyers from Stanford'.[1]

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-myers-0275b47
Yeah I can't believe they still have the same solution as 2005
Alternative Milks
Sorry if this is a bit cynical, but isn't the general idea that game engines are pushing towards that you need to code less not more?

I've been writing VRWorkout in GDScript for a bit over 1 1/2 years so far and there haven't been any major roadblocks.
https://github.com/jamesf91/RemarkableSync might work for you.

Big plus to the relatively open ecosystem of the remarkable is that it's not that hard* to implement yourself. (*hard being a function of tech familiarity here, if you can run/install linux, you're probably fine tinkering)

In my case, I have a few custom scripts that push my notes/notebooks up to a self-hosted Bookstack instance (https://www.bookstackapp.com/). Not something a commercial company is ever likely to make, but workable on a remarkable.
> applies himself constantly (works after hours, weekends, during vacations). He writes at least 5x more code than me

These are not good things. Ideally you should want to ship as many features with as little code as possible, more parts mean more ways it can break. Working nights and weekends isn't good either, the schedule or scope need changed if people feel that's necessary. Please don't work during vacations barring emergencies, there's nothing good that comes out of that.

I worked with someone like that too, and even though I'm pretty sure we made about the same, I made a lot more hour-for-hour, and my boss found my work perfectly satisfactory. He got more accolades, but I got more time with my family and friends. He also took more time than he thought to get things done, which deteriorated the situation further for him. I hope he's happy at the role he moved on to.

In the face of something like this, I'd maximize my reliability. Sure you'll ship fewer features, but make sure you finish the stuff you start when you say you will, and make sure it absolutely is tested, documented, and functional.

Hope that helped!
China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
When I read these comments I get the feeling you're not actually open to suggestions and less inclined to offer any help. Your situation might be tough but everyone here is offering their advice free of charge so it would help to stay open minded.
Computer Algebra in Julia
A good explanation of a couple of these terms were found here: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/mismanaging-th...

"This waste is also related a tension: intransigence versus capricious trashing. Responding to change quickly is a core tenet of agile development and often thought of as the opposite of refusing to change. However, responding to change is more like a middle ground between intransigence (unreasonably refusing to change) and thrashing (changing features too often, especially arbitrarily alternating between equally good alternatives)."
See, you keep saying "value they created" rather than "value they extracted from others in society".
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/08/27/national/modern...

>An investigation by Moderna, Rovi and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., which is in charge of the vaccine’s distribution in Japan, is ongoing. The foreign material is “a metal that reacts to a magnet” and is believed to have entered the vials during the production process, the Asahi Shimbun quoted an unidentified senior health ministry official as saying.
Same here. Never liked using console text editors, in particular. When editing remote files, I always prefer using something like sshfs/WinSCP + Sublime Text.
It's not hard, you say? Give us some pointers then? I'd appreciate a legacy code janitor job for a few years while still collecting $10k a month. I need the break from stress.
Assuming infation is similar to inflation I would strongly disagree. Those with cash, many working class people, have had their purchasing power eroded greatly this past year. To say it’s not a concern yet is absurd, quite frankly.
I reviewed around 5000 candidates last year for TypeScript frontend and backend positions. Global, remote only. I received ~600 applications for an Angular position in one week.

The hiring percent was below 0.5%. There are a lot of candidates, but most of them could not fulfill our core requirements a new team member must be able to accomplish. In our case it was TypeScript itself, unit tests, integration tests, working in a Linux environment. Salary requirements for the same position varied $1000 - $20000/mo. Because there is a lot of supply side (read: developers available), one can be picky.

More details and statistic here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hiring-remote-angular-nestjs-...
Why would it be pseudorandom? If the brain is natural, wouldn't it just be random?
And certainly one must ask: in comparison to what?

Is it far more difficult for a median skill software developer to find a job than the equivalent person seeking employment as an accountant, electrician, or plumber? I doubt it.

The persistently very low unemployment rate for software developers rather speaks volumes about how not difficult it is to find a job. The interview processes are obnoxious in the field? Sure, that's a reasonable claim and seems to widely be the case.
The PR dept butcher is what you mean, this is a internal press release.

I won't necessarily assume that it was really a PR /media debacle, I have seen researchers encourage such reports for exposure / project funds etc.

After all we wouldn't really be discussing this if not the overblown title.
I agree 100% with the general ideas that "we ask stupid trivia questions when hiring people" and "nobody wants to hire Jrs". I'll toss out one other thing.

The people hiring people SUCK at finding people and waste everyone's time in the process.

The amount of Java / JavaScript confusion that persists among the people who are involved in just finding people reeks of incompetence / and maybe worse.

Head hunting corps, even random company recruiters / HR seem more interested in bringing in mass volumes of names / resumes / warm bodies regardless of how qualified they are. Then they filter and I guess justify their work?

I think of it as the Hiring People Industrial Complex where it feels like the end goal is not actually having even the slightest chance of getting a job, rather the goal is to have a process, go through it, and that's it.

I get so much spam for jobs that aren't right for me, not even in the slightest. I'll even do calls with them and explain that it doesn't really fit, and they still want to move forward to some other inane level of the process, but I know I've got zero chance.

It just eats so much time.
I disagree it is just for click revenue. Outlets like salon and NYTimes don’t need to worry about click revenues, their ad capital has been growing more than ever.

My cynicism comes from the same angle when I see every other week some health benefits from drinking coffee coming out of some studies pushed by the same outlets. Surely it has nothing to do with a billion dollar industry funding and pushing benefits of drinking coffee through these outlets right.
> Even worse is hiring someone merely mediocre and not actively harmful.

How is hiring a mediocre developer worse than hiring a charlatan?
> I don't think you could just have a completely different picture create a collision though.

Allow me to introduce you to my posts on github: https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX/issue...

Where I post good looking examples of standard test images altered fairly subtly to give the specific hashes.

The apple neuralhash is broken as a 'hash function'.

It's much much easier to modify images to just have a different hash. A simple blemish on the image-- or, with whiteboxing using the hash function, no visually noticeable change is required at all.
The chemist part of my brain is immediately nervous seeing Na metal + Cl2 gas anywhere near each other
It's a bit of a catch-22 though, isn't it?

If people can make sound independent judgment, we don't need a law constraining what private companies must allow on their services because private users will find the censorship reprehensible and will voluntarily leave. We need the First Amendment to constrain what government can do because people cannot voluntarily leave a government; the same is not true for their Facebook account.

And if people cannot make sound independent judgment, and their desire to fit in will make them give up all sorts of rights... How can we trust them with the freedom to say and hear unfiltered information? The first demagogue who comes along and convinces them they must do what he says or they don't fit in will have the whole user base in their power, right? In such a context, it is perhaps necessary to allow the media its freedom of the press to transmit what is true and refrain from transmitting what is false.
> are you saying they don’t censor anybody that doesn’t reiterate the same thing the left is saying?

Yes, and there are plenty of examples of it, too. Republican governors and politicians, and right-leaning people of all levels of fame, with very few exceptions, continue to have a presence on Facebook and communicate there with their followers. Pick any Republican governor or Senator: they will be there.
Apprenticeships in a trade tend to be such that with sufficient hard work and determination, anyone can fill the trade requirements. The problem solving skills of software development don't seem to fit that model - there are some people, no matter how much you train them, don't seem to be able to move beyond "follow instructions" to "give tasks" when it comes to developing software.

The second part is that the trade has a bonded period. Depending on how that is written, this becomes more difficult to enforce with at will employment. It can also lead to companies taking significant advantage of their bonded juniors. I mean... if you think this is a good model, revature is out there.
Fair enough. If it's strictly either/or and your interest is in getting exposure to Functional Programming, then go with Scala for sure.
> How do you prove that any paying job between a paying company and their employees aren't coerced and that the company isn't abusing their employees?

You can't/don't, but regular jobs are not usually associated with trafficking. And three tends to be less privacy - people don't care as much to file their brothel visits as their cafe visits - wrt regular business, the IRS is known to be formidable if all activity is known about.

> If it's illegal then the workers have no legal resource

prostitution is the job many locals don't want. A similar situation might arise in say, illegals trafficked in and having their passport taken, but this is considered less of an issue do to competition from non-coerced labour, and that labourers are harder to threaten by single "pimps".
“Sunrise Sort”: The Only Fully-Unstable Sorting Algorithm
I did a double take when I saw the navigation menu links like "Make money blogging". Is this 2004?
The ESRB should have a stronger stance on the issue, but they've been pretty lax. The most recent thing I found was them stating loot boxes would be specifically listed under in game purchases, backing April 2020. If the general consensus is that more restrictions are needed and the ESRB doesn't act, federal government is likely to step in. For example games that allow for gambling with real currency should be rated AO according to their guidleines. At best they could be no lower than T.
We have got parks.
There is an incentive for developers to build an over-engineered solution for a CV feels like it is now a principal-agent problem.

There is then a feedback loop, as companies then have to require developers with CVs that have the technology.
> violence, aggression or non-consent
GPL doesn't force you to release your changes to the outside world if you don't distribute it.
I have things like CanvasBlocker, uBlock Origin, Tree Style Tabs, etc, and disabled third-party cookies. But nothing that should actively interfere with it. wrt containers, I have Multi-Account Containers, Containerise, and Temporary Containers. It happens every time I go to a URL that has an associated container I've made (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook etc).

I might try resetting my container plugins to see if I can clear it.
It feels like we live in a pretty good time for writing TUIs, CLIs and also small self-contained tools (thanks to languages like Go, which have a lot of libraries, are easy to use, but also compile to statically linked executables).

What stuck with me was using the Typer library for a Python tool that i wrote: https://typer.tiangolo.com/

It made regular shell scripts into a fully fledged CLI with nested commands thanks to just a few decorators that were sprinkled in the source files, as well as the occasional slight signature alteration.

Developing a GUI feels awfully complicated in comparison and i'm amazed that there don't seem to be all that many (if any) frameworks for creating GUIs in a similar way - by annotating method calls as actions that correspond to the actual GUI elements and letting some smart parsing logic handle the rest for you.

I feel like perhaps the world would be a slightly better place if desktop software could also be distributed as libraries of callable code, where you could automate button presses programmatically and there would be a 1:1 link between what you can do in code and manually.
When you say incompatible, are you talking about the cache not working or something else? How are you working around this using workers?
The classic article on this is: The Net Negative Producing Programmer

http://pyxisinc.com/NNPP_Article.pdf

The bibliography is also something to track down and read if you're interested in the subject.
about:profiles doesn't do what you need?
And there are factual errors like the pump noise for nuclear plant cooling, that was a problem 40 years ago for some countries that were not able to design a convection-based system.
I've been wondering about the plastic retainer I wear in my mouth every night. Could it be releasing microplastics?
To implement Nextcloud to the same level as Sharepoint, big money would need to be spent. Remember this data can never be lost, and needs little to no downtime. Building your own cloud service is no cheap and easy option. Epically when its a bank. Even a custom solution built on opensource tech was used, they would be responsible to keep it updated. That in itself is a massive task.

There is a reason why Azure and AWS based cloud systems are pretty much a standard. There isn't a solid alt.

O365 Exchange keep you free from worrying about keeping your server up to date. O365 Teams allows for not only communication but collaboration. Teams integrates with SharePoint allowing for project sites. O365 Sharepoint & Onedrive allow for extremely flexible data storage and data shares. With all the permission options you'd ever need. You can move your AD Login's user folder to use your personal Onedrive account, a highly effective tool.

There just isn't good options to replace O365. Google's GSuite is a crappy alt for Admins that couldn't figure out 365's complex admin consoles.
If this e-ink device is usable as a secondary display for my laptop, I'm in.

I'd love to get work done in sunny locations, like gardens. But these LCD screens make me squint. e-ink would be THE solution to this, but the e-ink displays are too expensive, to well supported and not very big.
I can’t understate this enough. A client will often go with a platform solution that is 80% of what they need than the bespoke one simply because it avoids 3-6 months of procurement delay. Even if you develop a novel infrastructure technology, AWS’ implementation will be better in the eyes of a corporation because it comes from AWS.

You’re right; these platform services are often more expensive — but the critical thing is that the company gets a management benefit from this in that their existing tool stack around things like IaC or CI/CD will mostly just work. They can easily use the security standards and setup they already have without having to run the solution through a full security review or build a bunch of tooling around a third-party product.

The only exception to this is when we’re talking about revenue-generating activity driven by the business. Often differentiating tech is needed there, but it’s also the same situation with platforms like SAP and Salesforce sucking most of the oxygen out of the room. But infrastructure is a particularly bad place to be as a software vendor right now; even the “success stories” like Snowflake are running into headwinds competing with platform services.

TLDR: time to market is the main reason pushing people to platform services. This is making it increasingly difficult for ISVs / SaaS — even large ones — to make inroads to displace their competition.
I think all of these might have to do with the brain's alpha waves. You get into a "relaxed" mode where much of your brain activity is suppressed, which I guess means your brain's resources can be focused on the thing you need to solve most at the time.
Can confirm this is achievable with consulting, though of course not easy. I left my job in 2013 to do consulting, after being inspired by Patio11 (hi Patrick!). It took just one year to hit the six-figure mark, and another few to be in the half-million range.

There was a clear path to $1M — I peaked in the upper six-figures — but I chose instead to travel more and then start a family. Amazingly my income remained steady even in those "relaxed" years and also through the pandemic. Eventually consulting stopped being fun and felt more like chasing a high score year after year, so I joined a startup to try something new.

So I never did reach $1M. Though if we count equity compensation then I was a stone's throw away, if not over.
Without the paywall:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210829143611/https://www.nytim...
Biotechnology already has some answers! There are plastic eating fungi out there, plastic eating bacteria and plastic eating worms (who have plastic-eating bacteria living in their intestines)
You don't have to be Tim Cook for the usual "save/invest x% of your take-home income" advice to pay dividends. A 22-year starting a job in investment banking or Big 4 management consulting will do just fine without needing to start their own business.
(Regarding footnote "3" of the post):

Nice! Next time when I encounter an "Enter license key:" dialog, I'll simply try some simple registration codes first.

I'll start with clever variations of the value "1", e.g. 00001, 00010, 00100 ...