skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been in professional software development for 15 years, at both startups and a fortune 15. I have worked as both an individual contributor writing code, and am now a Director of Software Engineering at a large CDN.

I have zero formal computer science training. I have a BA in Philosophy, and haven't taken any classes on programming or boot camps or the like. I am completely self taught.

It was only an issue for my first job. I used a large personal project I created as proof that I could code, and I got the job. After that, it has never been an issue that I didn't have a degree.

I have also hired many developers over the years, and I only really look at schooling if they don't have any professional experience or if the work they did at school is interesting in some way.

Maybe not having a degree will be a detriment at some point in my career, but my lack of a degree has never even been mentioned to me as an issue after that first job.
Google pioneered this on mass-scale, I dont doubt it
Ashley Williams is maybe one of the causes of this as she's on the core team and has said horrible CoC violating things in the past (but it was for a different CoC).
I recognize the PR author as the author of some of my favourite Rust projects. He is a prolific programmer. Good software from BurntSushi, in general.
How do you get your writing seen though? It’s largely by being promoted by your friends and acquaintances when you post something, which requires... networking.
I thought this would be one of those 'my employer forgot I exist' posts, but it's actually quite different. When it comes to jobs that can be easily automated, I'm torn between the feeling that a person's potential is being wasted on an easy job, vs the feeling that they may be unemployed if somebody automates their job.
I'm 30 and that paragraph about OSS vs F500 resonates with me. I don't know how far it goes towards explaining all of my own tastes in OSS community, but the corporate sterility is definitely showing up to different levels in various places. It's the kind of thing I find offputting in and of itself, without even knowing what it's being used to enforce.
If your partner has to take unpaid leave you might both agree that it's better for you to care for the sick child. But you're still stuck with it.
The dark patterns are so ridiculous I almost get a little enjoyment out of it like playing a game. When you sign up for a domain name it's a mini mission to get past the 5 separate screens of upselling and clicking the small Skip link and not the big green Continue button. If you're not paying close attention you get to your cart and there's extra crap in there, and you have to restart the level.
I think you don't produce or record music with it
The commas that cost companies millions – BBC Worklife (2018)
I'm not sure if the Library of Congress website can survive an influx of hacker-news traffic on their video streaming. So I'll leave a brief summary here.

This 1952 cartoon is a very good explanation of the theory behind the New York Stock Exchange. The first few minutes are a bit of humor to set up Mr. John Q Public who is trying to save up his nest-egg for retirement (roughly the first 3 minutes). This naturally leads him to look into stocks, which the video then explains what stocks are.

The remaining 8 minutes of the 11-minute cartoon then goes into the theory of stocks: how stocks raise money for a business (a hypothetical oil-barrel company). First, a private equity raise with a bank ($3-million), and then later, the company IPOs on the NYSE directly for even more money ($20-million). The numbers are small by modern standards (showing off the last 70 years of inflation), but the concept remains the same: investment banks get earlier rounds of investment... and eventually an IPO on the stock exchanges brings in even more money.

There's also a good segment about what exactly goes on a ticker-tape, who looks at ticker tapes (the various partners of NYSE across the country), who places orders, and what happens on the NYSE floor (how buyers / sellers meet up). Modern computers do the same job and faster: broadcasting the last price sold on the exchange, and automatically matching up buy / sell orders with each other. As such, the ticker-tape analogy with humans is actually a very good mental model for what these computers are doing.

Though many things have changed in the last 70 years, it seems as if the stock market still plays the same role and function today as it did back then.
That's pretty much a waste of 4 years unless you can afford that luxury.

I started working before getting my BS in CS (and worked during it) and there was nothing I needed for my job. I really enjoyed a few exams (especially Logic and Automata) and I thought they were nice brain bending subjects.
A few exams (especially on databases and programming) were trivial because I knew that from the inside and out.

The only reason I did it was that it was cheap in my country, I had to spend only 12k€ (if we exclude the collective 80 years of taxes my parents had to pay before that) and at the time more companies were requiring a degree.

Just start coding while you can and software developers are in demand.
> People will also deny that Wine is an emulator

Of course they will, it's even in the name!

Wine Is Not an Emulator
Using full desktop apps with an external screen is definitely one part of the convergence. Another part, as you say, is a possibility to use desktop apps on the phone screen. There are many already working apps, including desktop Firefox and more: https://forums.puri.sm/t/list-of-apps-that-fit-and-function-....

Upd: here is GIMP for you: https://social.librem.one/@eliasr/105589789106877911.
> is there some kind of "commerce clause" type loophole for this

The EU is not just a commercial organization. It is an actual political union. The English-speaking press tends to hate mentioning this, but it is the truth. The treaty of Lisbon says that the goal of the European Union is to create an "ever closer" union between the member states. Every member state signed up for this.

> I would've thought that this was outside the scope of the EU

Few things are outside the scope of the EU.

> was power constitutionally transferred to the EU parliament at some point?

It is a very complex topic, but the short answer is "yes". Member states agree to translate EU parliament decisions into national law at their own time. They have the ability to veto any initiative through other channels.

> If a member nation refused to obey an EU law (or whatever it is), what sort of punishment or sanction could be applied to them?

This things are usually dealt with through diplomacy. There is a lot of tolerance. Often nothing happens but many types of sanctions (usually economical) are possible.
Yes. A large number of people who are not software engineers or mathematicians currently think "crypto" means "cryptocurrency", and don't know what "cryptography" is or think about it at all in and of itself. They think about cryptocurrency a lot, and call it "crypto".

I see it all the time on my social media feeds.
> ... almost nobody wants to go back to office, at least not on a daily basis..

Last I checked, that's not really true for any of those companies. Where did you pick up the "almost nobody" part?
I often hear a thought process to the effect of:

> Why learn something in depth when it can just be looked up?

And the answer is that you can't daydream about something or think about it deeply unless that information is easily pulled up from your memory. Daydreaming, out the "default mode" of the brain organizes and helps is too understand information. If I had taken the care to study and memorize information regarding, well, everything in school, via a tool like Anki, I would have a lot more information that I could use to connect disparate ideas together. The brain can't do this to the full extent possible unless that information is memorized.

That being said, it's important to know that memorization has a cost in time. The time for a single data point is low, but 20-30k data points in Anki is a serious time commitment.

If it's important to you, memorize. The benefits are huge, and it will help too ward off mental declines later in life.
Ah, that's encouraging, at least.
I don't understand your comment? care to explain why do you think that?

I can show some source to help put some weight to my arguments

Here is one of them concerning fusion energy:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a36630528/ch...

Stem cells / gen therapy:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29284300/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33937929/
Good to know, I've mostly worked at startups/smaller companies so it's been a little less flexible.
The Great Irony-Level Collapse
The same way you verify if a deed is authentic: asking an appointed “Oracle”. In this case, sites like OpenSea act as verifiers. Who tells you the Louis Vuitton bag you’re buying is authentic? Do you ask the shopkeeper? How do you know they’re not selling you a copy?

If you opened a bar in Tampa and called it the same as someone else named theirs, and stole their branding, you’d be exposed to the same copyright laws one would in Florida, with or without NFTs involved. That’s a completely orthogonal issue, NFTs aren’t a mechanism for copyright enforcement, they’re just a ledger that’s easier to verify because it’s public and distributed.
It will not only fail technically but most likely stuff like that won't get through/will get turned down by the ECJ
It's kind of like thinking "you can't outlaw physics" is a genius retort to speed limits.
ALWAYS take 2 * the cash!
I understand the article to be saying that there is a water spring in Panama that is fed by a source in the Galapagos Islands. Is that correct?
There are some lawmakers that are a bit delusional in their thinking and they believe that 'if only they could read everybody's email, listen to every conversation and follow everybody's movements' that they could make a serious impact on crime and terrorism. They don't realize yet that Europe is part of the same universe as the rest of the planet and that we don't get to try legislate that Pi is 3 here in the same way that it didn't work in the US.

Cryptography, in particular strong cryptography has become essential for business, a good chunk of our economy now has a cryptographic element to it. You can't expect that to survive without giving the baddies the same level of access that the government is demanding, besides that, the amount of noise they will have to deal with far outweighs any possible advantage.

At best there will be some drop in crime because of people being more aware of the chance of being caught but in the past such differences did not seem to make much impact. People will do what they will do, irrespective of the chance of getting caught.

All of these things are operating as points between two different extremes, the 'good balance' usually lies somewhere in the middle between the protection of rights on the one end and the ability of the authorities to do the jobs we entrust them with. A lot of these technical ideas originate from the perspective that if it can be automated it will be cheap and if it is cheap then they'll be able to fund it. Whereas good intelligence is super expensive, it requires boots on the ground in greater numbers than is currently possible within the budget constraints that there are. Europe is in this sense much more stingy than say the USA and that alone is a big driver behind all these digital tricks.

Also: do note that this is a proposal.
It's the best they can do for the rust community.

Pointing out some specific things is hard as it's most likely not one specific thing but many small things plus some "that's enough" bigger thing(s) and because it likely has various negative effects including:

-people focusing on that specific thing, instead of the general problem (unaccountability)

-people overreacting, e.g. starting a witch hunt with serve negative effects for the community

- ... (other more vague/implicit things, like leaking of private information)
France is not doing so well, and has been in an economic funk for 20 years. Unemployment is 9%.

The French work the same hours as in Germany really, but the mentality is so different it's worth denoting. I lived in France and adore it, but there is a cynicism/malaise that actually kind of makes me a bit wary of the place.

Downtown Montreal is full of French citizens who came for jobs.

I do understand the sentiment however, 'hours worked' in most major economies is as low as it has been since the dawn of the industrial era. We are generally not overworked.

I think we may be just had a rough 4 years and need to shift our perspective a bit.
The wasp is completely digested. You're no more eating a wasp when eating a fig, than you are eating grass when eating beef.
If you feel that the statement needs to be future proofed, feel free to add "at this time" when you read it.

I think the point still stands with this condition and will for the foreseeable future.
>Species and ecosystems can adapt over 10,000 year time scales.

Adaptation is change in behavior that can happen within an individual's lifetime (<100yrs) and evolution takes a lot lot longer than 10,000 years. Pretty much all the species existing today survived the last glaciation (ice age) in their present form.

The "Marxism" catchall boogieman in conservative media is ill defined, but I have not seen any evidence that the climatic change will be so rapid that it will cause humans to go extinct. That seems wildly hyperbolic to me.
So we shouldn't care that a site for techies has turned into a megaphone for people with obsessive compulsive disorders encouraged by a mob mentality? It's a medical science thread. Why does someone with nerve damage have to justify themselves to you in every single thread about this? Do you go into food related threads and argue with people in there too? These arguments are tone deaf and like I said earlier; exhausting.

They have no place here. Go to /r/philosophy or something.
Organized crime ring, not looting. And this is happening nationwide. Also, why is this on HackerNews
The commute often is the fault of the employer, if they decide to locate the business in an area will little housing or little housing that the employees want (for example, an area with only extremely expensive apartments or a bad school district).
this cynical post misses the fact that corporate executives also decry invasions of privacy when it hits they themselves, their dear ones and their inner circles. You can bet that there is privacy available, but how, from whom, under what terms, and of course how much money does it cost.
The current speculation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29307015
The problem is that it doesn't do a super good job of explaining why non-nerds -- or arguably, nerds! -- should care about "convergence" in this regard, and how it improves over existing solutions. I mean, I'm over here in Apple-land, walled garden etc. etc. etc., but there are a lot of applications that I have that exist in both macOS and iOS versions. This is true for most of Apple's own apps, and actually true for a lot of third-party apps, too: in a practical sense, I've had "convergence" for many years now.

Sure, these aren't usually literally the same pieces of software running on the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad. But from what I can tell, that's not literally true on Purism, either, because the software is going to have to be recompiled for different CPU architectures. So now we're actually a lot closer to what Apple's been doing the last few years with Catalyst (and kind of slouching toward a grander strategy with SwiftUI). And again, not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't actually care in practice how much code is shared between the versions of my prose editor I'm running on the desktop and on the phone, given that they function the same way and edit the same files. (And share them all completely transparently, because they're using iCloud. Walled garden etc. etc., but this is a real selling point.)

Purism's real argument is free-as-in-freedom software. And that's a good argument. But I think they need to get a lot better at reaching the "casual but concerned" audience, and that means getting better at writing press releases and product announcements. Speaking as a professional writer, the PureOS 10 announcement page is really, really bad. You may not think it's fair to judge the quality of the product based on that, and it isn't, but it's still going to happen. (Judging from the comments here they also need to get better at, well, shipping hardware, which is an even more serious problem, granted.)
Guess what's coming in 2022?
https://archive.md/6y09W
You are playing the "yes, but" game. Learn to avoid that.
I realise that you are talking about behavior as a registrar, but it's somewhat ironic that you mention google and no unethical behavior in the same sentence.
They're using Purism software mostly.
I agree there isn't much real demand for high density housing as much as reluctant demand. What I mean by that, is that no one actually wants to live in high density areas, but they go for it when it gives them access to a desirable location they otherwise can't afford, or if they genuinely want that lifestyle, which I would argue is age-based more than anything. In reality, most people don't like the downsides of high density like crowded public spaces (for example parks), dealing with the habits of bad neighbors (like playing loud music at odd times), increased crime that correlates with urban areas, poor schools guided by populist policies, and so on. If you're young, you might put up with those downsides to get back access to bars or more social networking. But as you age, the value of those things drops significantly for most people.

As for walkability - its utility is vastly overblown in my opinion. Your note about childless adults rings true for me, and the only parents I know who care about walk scores are the ones who are themselves urbanist activists (few in number). Even then, when it came time to purchase a home, walkability was not a decision maker for those couples. To me, that was a signal that even parents who were very anti-car in their political sentiment ultimately didn't put enough of a value on the pro-walk/bike lifestyle to prioritize it when their money was on the line.

I also think it is impractical to not have a car. If you want to live a rich life with access to diverse activities, instead of being boxed into a 15 minute radius or your metro line, then you need a car. Who wants to deny their children the memories of day trips and the thrill of exploration? And if you have a car, then you already have the vehicle you need to live in a more suburban neighborhood, where you can enjoy additional space and safety while still accessing commercial areas in a time efficient manner.
no, link?
you've missed the shitshow about renaming GIMP a year or two ago.

I tried looking for it now, but it seems the threads got purged
The take that "since we can't completely understand how a system of a few hundred neurons works, we can hardly expect to figure out a brain of 86 billion neurons" is a little irritating.

1. A similar argument might run: we can hardly understand all the complex interactions that are going on at the molecular level at the seashore, so how can we possibly model beach erosion. But the truth is that we don't always have to model everything to begin to understand how a system works, at least under a wide range of situations.

2. But also, it seemingly ignores that a lot of those 86 billion neurons have the same functional roles. On the one hand, its one way to build redundancy in the system--probably important for a creature living more than half a century and intimately involved in long-term care of offspring, but more neurons can offer more precision (e.g. a large population of neurons with varying tuning curves can you give you more precise estimates of values).
You can just open the newspaper for that, no need to eavesdrop on everybody's interaction. This doesn't make any sense.
GitLab team member here

We believe we have mitigated the incident, but continue the work to monitor and make additional corrective measures: https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/1462838897499508737
Maybe it's time for the EU to end. Peoples of Europe are tired of EU beaurocrats eroding their rights and going against their interest. Or it's time for the EU to be reformed.
Keep looking for new opportunities and keep growing. It’s very easy to focus on your work and develop strong expertise at one place, but this benefits your employer the most. Make sure that you focus on doing the things that help you.
Two 12-volt sources in series yield 24 volts to the circuit.
> In my eyes someone is allowed to be as hateful as they want as long as they contribute good code.

I would argue that you don't literally mean that - or rather there are situations you could find yourself in that would result in your changing your mind on this.

Although it's possible you're being slightly disingenuous and what you really mean is more "The thing I currently suspect is happening in the Rust team isn't something I would regard as serious". I suspect that's behind at least some of the responses on this thread.
That's frequently the nature of "community" projects. They're based in a particular idealism wherein authority is a patchable bug and direct democracy can scale infinitely.

In reality, they are just free-for-all power struggles. What starts out as anarchic fun and inclusivity among ~1-100 like-minded people scales into dysfunctional sectarianism.
Frankly, you're reading HN, you can cope with it; a lot of people can't, and do confuse them as adults.

An extreme example - there was a paediatrician murdered (? At least something severe happened) in the UK after a newspaper published his name and occupation in connection with some more mundane story, and some idiot saw 'paed' and assumed all words with that prefix mean the same bad thing, or whatever.

Many people can't reliably tell you whether they bought something in a shop, or brought it home from a friend who gifted it to them.
the basic legal structure of the EU works like this. The EU does not create laws, it creates what's called directives. National governments are bound to create domestic laws implementing said directives. the EU has the mandate to overrule nation states on what to do but not how to do it, and in reality the system leaves national governments quite a lot of leeway, intentionally. (The EU also can create 'regulations' which are directly binding, comparable to an act of parliament)

And the EU also has mechanisms to impose penalties for countries that fail to comply, but in practice this is rarely done for political reasons.
No, they don't: https://puri.sm/faq/what-is-gnulinux/.
I own both teitoklein.com and teitoklien.com
Due to that typo issue

people dont mistake it with kline, its usually with klein

Appreciate the suggestion tho :)
Of course but they probably want to know about it before it happens ;) Dark forces stirring up riots are indeed a thing, the same way QAnon is.

I absolutely don't agree it's worth sacrificing our privacy though.
The EU's overbearing character has been visible for a long while. It is the primary reason I supported brexit. It is working towards turning the union into a single country, has bitten off more than it can chew, and is looking increasingly despotic and dystopian.
Render's $20M Series A
It does somehow feel like they built the office real estate equivalent of the Airbus A380.
If they catch all the Assange's that's worth for them. Terrorists aren't the real terror for the powerful.
> Then don’t make a whole big public announcement about it.

I don't understand. How do you resign from a public project without resigning from that public project? If it is not about the resignation but about the message, do you think that a "we are resigning as a whole team that was made pbulic and we do not provide any public reason for that" would work any better?