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> I’m referring to a true consultant role, where you are paid to bring expertise, give advice, and drive technical change.

There's the hurdle; only a small percentage of engineers will consider themselves good enough to fit that role. And of those, another percentage has the social skills to move to a consultancy role.

Don't get me wrong; I've done the "hired hand" version of consultancy, thankfully for a better company than the ones that can supply a hundred hands overnight, but still. I found it a valuable experience because of the higher level of expertise, the learning opportunities, and the variation in assignments.
I’ve been a consultant for about 15 years of my career. I like to make the distinction between “product developers” and “project developers”. It’s just a different mindset. For product developers, there is a benefit in spending more time to make sure your code is correct and optimized — mistakes cost more when you have a large user base (or are trying to attract one).

By contrast, project developers have no such incentives. Their goal is to finish development within a time box and meeting certain acceptance criteria. Often they’re building tools that are high value but low user counts, so mistakes / bugs are more tolerable and users can be trained on workarounds.

In my opinion, it’s largely a personality difference. I personally get bored working on the same thing for too long, so consulting works great for me. Some people hate the context switching of moving to a new project every few months or are just meticulous and slow developers, and they make great product developers. That’s not to say you shouldn’t try both sides of the fence, but you’ll usually land on the side that best fits your personality and working style.
Smartest thing we see out of the west in forever. The french design was just a handout.
We can indeed. You left out this part:

After Mike had received his degree from the University of New Mexico, the family moved to Houston, Texas, so that he could begin working as an engineer for Exxon.[22] Jeff Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade.[23] Bezos' maternal grandfather was Lawrence Preston Gise, a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Albuquerque.[24] Gise retired early to his family's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Bezos would spend many summers in his youth.[25]

[...] He accepted an estimated $300,000 from his parents and invested in Amazon.[47][51][52] He warned many early investors that there was a 70% chance that Amazon would fail or go bankrupt.

The one thing many CEOs have in common is early access to resources and tinkering opportunities which aren't available to most of the population.

Which is the exact opposite of your point.
Excuse me? $100/month and it's a nice alternative? Guess I was expecting something open source so was a bit flabbergasted.
I would like to think putting everyone’s eggs in one basket to be used for unstated purposes would bother most people, but it really doesn’t.

I think they’re right though. I’m inclined to think that chat in general facilitates a staccato of quick-takes that paralyzes reader and writer from forming complete thoughts. Adding some activation energy to communicate seems to encourage more thoughtful statements. Twitter is an obvious argument by contradiction of this.
> a beautiful reader mode UI

What do you think is beautiful about the UI? What other beautiful UIs inspired your design?
This is hands down the best exhibition of the topic that I've ever seen, and perhaps one of the better CCC talks too! It's for a long time been my go-to reference whenever I encounter someone frustrated about the opaque version of the story retold in newspapers.
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I wasn't making a legal argument. Just pointing out that crying about "censorship" or "freedom of speech" when YouTube doesn't platform misinformation is just as ridiculous as doing it when you get repercussions for yelling fire or making death threats.
> more karma is available for bots to farm.

Are there bots 'farming' karma? To what end, what's the point?
Or doubling the money supply in a year. Not exactly an unrelated event like a hat drop
I used to use this quite heavily, but about a year ago the move away from YAML made it too hard to keep a declarative config that can be checked into source control...

Ended up giving up and just have a dumb home now.
> "We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckley

That's not what her web site says.
https://stocksfarm.net/vacancies-2/

> There are currently NO vacancies at Stocks Farm.

> Thank you to everyone who has applied for roles. Due to an amazing amount of applicants, we have been flooded with enquiries. We have closed the April jobs and will reopen for August some time in the summer.
The threshold to be in the top 1% in the US is 11M. A US citizen needs 4.4M to be in the top 1% globally. More than 8% of US families fall into the millionaire category.
It is not only Instagram to blame. It started with camera manufacturers marketing towards the semi-pro wannabe and GAS crowd, than moved towards semantic groups in Flicker, than smartphones introduced computational exposure and easy way of taking photos and all of this culminated in Instagram Influencers and Filters.

The UX of Instagram is created by default to serve the normies as an outlet of vanity and virtue signaling.

The idea that social network has no option of uploading from desktop (unless using webdev browser mode) is absurd and clear design dark pattern.
Reddit is at the whim of hyper political, power hungry mods. On top of that, everything is superceded by hyper political, power hungry admins and the same for the company itself.

Forums sometimes had those issues, but the centralization of Reddit is the problem.

The sooner Reddit dies and forums become decentralized again, the better
Hey Rishi, The Landing page was pretty blank (the twitter embed part) when NextDNS is enabled. I think any other AdBlockers will block it. You might want to check it out.
Less clutter, simple is beautiful I guess if I may say so as a maker

But if you think it's not then sure please let me know your definition of "beautiful", I'll try to work on it :)
Refusing to platform covid misinformation isn't hiding the truth. It's just refusing to platform dangerous misinformation.
There's one difference though. Unlike product designers, software engineers will never be in the spotlights. Not at Apple, anyway.

E.g. tell me how many times you've read an article about Jony Ive versus about an important software engineer at Apple.
This "World Passport" document is on the official EU list of fantasy passports to which a visa may not be affixed: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/list-known-fantasy-and-cam.... No EU country recognizes it.

I just checked the scan "confirming" that it is accepted by Poland and that proof is a temporary 14 day visa issued in June 1990 in Berlin embassy by a 65y old communist diplomat/spy (according to publicly available documents). With a stamp of "Polish People's Republic" - a name that was changed to "Republic of Poland" at the end of 1989. I guess that was a moment in time where anyone in that embassy could happily stamp an outdated visa on anything for $50.
I read the feature list and I don't really see anything that is not already on the standard twitter web ui. What are the actual addition feature-wise?
>If the vaccines are keeping a majority from serious illness from a Covid19 infection, where are the patients coming from to overwhelm the hospitals?

In my part of the world (US south), they are coming from the half of the population that refuses to be vaccinated. They are still overwhelming the ICUs and EDs. Non-essential procedures for the rest of us have been rescheduled etc. It's just another wave, who knows how many more we'll have?

So from where we're at, any decrease in immunity still presents enough of a threat to the healthcare infrastructure. Lung cancer and heart disease aren't shutting down other units of our hospitals so they can move nursing staff to ICU.
> track record to deliver business value

A strict interpretation of "deliver business value" implies that your candidate needs to have worked on the right piece of software to begin with, and have an idea how their work actually affected the bottom line.

That kind of thing is mostly outside of anyone's control. If you ask your candidate to demonstrate how they've "delivered business value" in the past, you're basically asking them how lucky they were.
Same in a bar. I go in to shoot the shit. But often times now, I will see people spend their entire time scrolling while sitting at the bar. It's sad. I switched back to a flip phone almost 1.5 years ago and while I do miss certain things, the overall experience of just not having the option to scroll is so much better for me in terms of being present.
You might want to look how other libraries in different programming languages implemented them. There are also sometimes pseudocodes or reference implementations in Wikipedia.
ChowJS: An AOT JavaScript engine for game consoles
Why yes let's make it more secure by taking power away from the developers, that'll surely work.
Have any Professional Engineers working for VW been fined or sanctioned in any way for malpractice?
It is open sourced, that pricing is for them to manage an install for you. From the about page:

> We offer official Discourse hosting, or install Discourse yourself in the cloud in under 30 minutes.

> Discourse is 100% free open source forum software, now and forever.
Kavanaughs selection for the Supreme Court was covered heavily even in Europe
How to reduce chance being blocked while web scraping search engines
Thanks for reporting, it doesn't use Twitter's script but the API data, thought what you're saying is possible

If possible, can you please DM me the console screenshot at https:/twitter.com/thelifeofrishi
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Ask HN: Least odious social network for teens?
If you had to let your kid have a social media account, which network would you feel least concerned about, and why?

Note that although "alternative" social networks are interesting, it's having their friends on the network that teens care about, so I'm mainly interested in your thoughts on the main social networks that teens use, like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.

(This has immediate, practical application to my family at the moment, but I know that many others must be struggling with this: as tech-savvy individuals here on HN we are aware of the harms and the way these companies deliberately manipulate their users, but unsurprisingly, my teen doesn't seem to care, and I expect he's in the majority with that viewpoint. So if I'm going to give in a little bit, what's least harmful?)
and then you have the godawful bots. Try to join a server, get spammed by 5 different bots that want to verify your identity. And so many different rules when you just want to ask a question. Kafka would be proud
> Both as a cautionary tale to anyone getting into photography, and as an explanation for why I stopped.

I think "cautionary tale" is a bit hyperbolic. It seems to me that the author's motivations for getting into photography and expectations of what it would bring to his life have as much if not more to do with his experience than Instagram.

If you get into photography for the purpose of garnering attention and praise from others, rather than, say, telling stories you find important/interesting or chronicling your experiences visually, your odds of being disappointed are incredibly high. Everyone is a photographer these days thanks the camera we all carry in our pockets and as a result the supply of photos far exceeds the demand.

Note that this is not to say that Instagram hasn't had a negative impact on photography. As an avid traveler, I think it's both sad and amusing that people take basically the same photos of high-profile tourist sites to post on Instagram. But of course that shouldn't discourage anyone from taking photos when they travel if they really enjoy doing it, which is probably the only good reason for the average person to take photos anyway.
just answering this exact question, quoting the parent comment
"after-work, after-school hours" which is for the vast majority of people in the afternoon
I tried, I really did. I make a pretty great salary, but the company I was working at started to tank (this is pre-pandemic). So I reached out to my network but everything was pretty dried up at the time, so I looked at one of those sites that let you post your rate and skills and people could hire you. I had it up for a month and I got 1 hit from someone that wanted to learn Docker. I exchanged a few emails and in the end instead of hiring me he really just wanted to pump me for information. So after that I just reached out in my network a tad bit more and found my current position.

I'm never going to attempt it again. It's just not worth the frustration.
Ask HN: How has your leadership team rationalised a return to the office?
I've not heard a specific reason in my case. I suspect it's due to office rent and the expense associated with the desire to keep the space. Might be different for those of you working in other fields, but as a lot of software engineers frequent this site, I wondered what their experiences were.
In India, if one converts to a Christian, one is supposed to 'escaped' the caste system, and therefore loses all the benefits of affirmation action.

This is especially true of non-Dalits but still lower castes.

The reality however is that the person is still shunned in their tight social circles.

So, for such individuals (and I know personally of many) -- they do not change their names, in fact they do not even marry by Christian traditions publicly because they may get outed.

There really is no number of how many such 'secret Christians' are there, but I would guess this number will be in the lakhs...
Sadly the cheap solution is to exempt the Lizard from the shitbox.

One of the things MPs asked for in the UK when it passed metadata retention laws was an exemption... for MPs. They were told it was impossible, although not with much detail. In reality it is impossible because (although it's often framed as a law about retaining specific metadata about specific individuals) the reality is the only order signed says retain Everything about Everybody, much simpler but just a little harder to sell as proportional to the supposed threat.
> As I've said repeatedly, it's different because staking means that the same people control both the current coin supply and the means of creating new ones.

This is the first time you are saying that, and you aren't explaining how that is relevant to PoS oligopolies. What was said by me and by rtkwe, on this matter, is that due to this characteristic of PoS coins the only way, we can think of (you've ignored both of our posts on this subject so I'm assuming that you agree?), a staking oligopoly can remain oligopoly is by controlling the majority of coins and not selling those coins which in effect means that a PoS oligopolies don't make any money from being oligopolies. In fact maintaining a staking oligopoly would destroy all the money that was invested in creating it.

In my opinion, and I would love to hear yours if you ever read and parse this, that discourages creation of oligopolies since there is no profit in them.

> A mining cabal can't stop other people from mining

They can't stop them from running their machines but they can stop them from producing any blocks that are accepted in to the chain making it unprofitable for anybody not part of the oligopoly to mine. Unlike with staking this doesn't prevent the mining oligopolies from making a profit since it requires no manipulation of the markets to retain their position as an oligopoly.
VW is behaving fraudulently in the matter.
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

The plans shown on the pricing page are managed plan. You can install it on your server without problem.
Using Third Parties to Automate Our Due Diligence
The Birth and Death of a Framework
The prosecution fought against a change of venue.
Attaching a popularity contest to any hobby can make it soul-crushing.
Hi, Twitter.com doesn't have these, I literally checked like 20 seconds back :)

- Undo tweet, you get time to discard/re-send last sent tweet
- Analytics, you get stats of your tweets so you know which tweets are working and to increase engagement
- Quick media preview, preview photos/videos in feeds in full aspect ratio quickly on hover, Twitter.com is still trying to fix the issue :D
- Reader mode for links, my personal favorite, links in your timeline can be viewed in a beautiful reader view in the app itself
- Save links for later
Sure, you can have my money just by making reading better e.g. -

List of who I'm following is basically buried,
if I had a couple of "balloons" at the top of the feed with top 5- 10 people I follow (according to some algorithm) and I can click then read, some sort of that would be swell.

I don't care about the general feed, I care about insightful people, currently it's easier for me to do it via bookmarks of select profiles, that's my twitter client.
Wasn't there an individual recently that used medical procedures to avoid trial?
You can sell high-karma accounts or leverage them into mod positions. For whatever reason people take high-karma accounts to be a signal of quality (or at least activity). Mod positions on large subs are used to signal-boost corporate social media campaigns (ever notice how a bunch of fast and furious memes always pop up across a ton of subreddits a month before the movie comes out?) There’s money in that and it’s basically the same role and business model as a social media influencer on Instagram.

Some people also do it for the lulz, it’s not that hard to build a bot using markov chains (there are plenty of Reddit comment datasets you can image match to the same meme, which is an interesting engineering project for someone wanting to learn those methods).
You’re right, it does have health pieces. It’s a band aid. We need M4A!
This is true of a few other services too like Instagram and Twitter. Firefox containers are useful here, but it's a bit harder with native clients and mobile.
Question. Are those people scorning you because you are thorough down to details, or because you are thorough down to details _at the cost of something else_?
I don't know why this is being downvoted; it's a true and salient point. The only nation in which European intercession seems not to have warped native social structure for the worst is Japan, and only because it's hard to get much worse than "allowing for summary execution of lower caste individuals for small slights". In Africa, Asia, and North and South America, it's easy to point out many examples of Western "involvement" leading to horrific human rights abuses based on social class that would not have existed before.
I started in 2008, we moved in in 2016, and there's a lot of work left to do. I admit that it's not a full time second job though. Once we moved in it turned into mostly weekends.
It's cool and in fact "pretty", but I think you need some sort of visual "demarcation" between posts.
> The situation reminds me of February 2020, after the first COVID deaths in the US, with comments on HN by managers talking about complete carnage in the sales forecasts, but the markets floated along, ignorant of reality.

When I buy VTI, I am not concerned about sales today, tomorrow, or even 2 years from now. I have cash and bonds for that. For my equities, I only care that their underlying companies are going to exist in 10, 20, 30 years and are going to be relatively successful in the marketplace.

Of course, it is possible things are going to hell in a hand basket and none of these companies will be around in 10, 20, 30 years, but I am betting I will have bigger problems than the resell value of my equities if that is the case.
There was only a D-pad and two buttons on the Master System, no Start or Select. The console itself had a single 'pause' button that I suppose might have been wired into the joystick circuit though.
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So what is the main difference between Instagram and something like Flickr? They are both social sites/apps that revolve around photographs. But Flickr always seemed more about photography and less about selfies/influencers/likes/etc…

Maybe the author would be better served by a community closer to Flickr than Instagram? It’s no longer as popular, but for the purposes of sharing photos with the world, maybe it’s a better fit? Instead of giving up photography, the author might want to think more about why they got started in the first place. It probably wasn’t to get likes. So maybe there is a different way… or different community that would be a better fit for what they want to accomplish.
>I don't understand why this isn't a bigger story. Why isn't the stock market reacting at all? GM, Ford, Toyota are shutting down car plants because they can't get parts, and the financial system shrugs!

Because the stock market doesn't care about any of that.

If reason commanded the financial system, pretty much the entirety of manufactories would never had moved to South Asia.
They moved not because it was in the interest of the people or the several countries, but because it was more favourable to the shareholders, and all these "businessmen" who have no loyalty to any country.
Looks like twitter isn't happy about all the users viewing your page:

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There is a reason for that. Spying hasn’t changed that much in the last 50 years.
I see, makes sense now. Did not find any mention of it while scanning the site though. Seemed like it was a paid service only.
Faking interest sounds like a great tactic! Is there a book about these? I suspect marketing graduates should learn these tactics during their studies.
It's better than Discord, but still not great. A lot of helpful information ends up lost because some people do full purges of their accounts. It's awful to find a Reddit thread that used to have the answer to your questions but now just shows half of the posts as deleted.
I started doing it purely for fun and intrisic interest. Instgram slowly shifted my motivation to something that aligns more with their goals without me realizing.
One could say the same about plenty of awful programming languages.

If the blog post was titled "Go is unusable in production" then sure, he'd be wrong. But he's simply criticizing the language design. (Mostly, I might add, in the hopes that it will someday improve; the author writes Go professionally, he's not just some random hater.)
Second this. If inflation numbers keep going up 5% per month, the cost of literally everything will keep going up. There are labor shortages in a lot of industries which means employers need to compete on $/hr or workers will go to where they can make more. Not out of spite or greed, it will cost more to feed their family because those costs will have gone up.

This also means the housing prices will probably continue to go up as well.
My friend had a house built by a company and he had many issues left over even after getting all the issues he noticed taken care of. I just had a full house remodel done by a good friend who is a contractor and am noticing things that aren’t perfect. I guess I’m just wanting to point out that my experience is that getting perfection is hard no matter which route you take.
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