skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Throwaway because this is pretty out there and not something I'd like associated with my professional identity)

What does a welder, carpenter, or plumber do when they've hit 35 and mostly mastered their field? Answer: come to terms with the fact that their mastery is not very much in demand, they will never make more (inflation-adjusted) than they do now, and either plan for retirement or find a new job (usually management or small business owner) where their hard-won skills are mostly wasted. It's not that there aren't super-hard welding jobs that only a master welder can do; it's that master welders outnumber those jobs by 1-2 orders of magnitude. Almost all of the welding can be accomplished by almost all of the welders; once you're good enough to do it, that's it, you're topped out.

But software is totally different from the trades, right? I don't think so. We imagine ourselves to be more like doctors and lawyers because we make six figures and have conferences and work sitting down. But I think that's an illusion; we're a trade, and the only reason 45-yo devs make more than 35-yo devs is because our field has been growing in size continually for its entire existence. 45-yo devs demand, and get, higher salaries and titles because the industry would rather pay them extra than make do without them. But, like welding, almost all of the software we need can be written by almost all of the developers. (If you think this is wrong, get your head out of FAANG/AI/ML land and think about the legions of programmers working at govt agencies and non-sw corporations. How many mortgage application portals have we as an industry produced so far? 10,000? 100,000? And yet, we keep remaking them every two years. That's not art and it's not science, that's a trade.)

Point is, software titles work the same as in other fields until you hit III, and from there they veer off in to crazytown where there are no rules, because no other trade needs to pay a 45 year old significantly more than a 35 year old. (And you've probably already noticed that even software tends to lose interest in people once they get past 50. If the size of our field ever stabilizes, that number will only get lower.)

So, there is no real answer to your question. Principle/Staff/Architect means different things at every company because every company is handling the "how do we keep this old-but-still-good programmer around" question differently. Some program a lot, others don't; some are tied to one team, others float; some mentor, some sit in an office and read research all day, some kind of fuck off and do nothing beyond attend meetings and dispensing wisdom. It's all over the map and there's not much you can do except apply for a bunch of high-paying jobs and ask a lot of questions during the interview.
GDC7 should not be downvoted for pointing out that 1918 Spanish flu affected youth, whereas Covid-19 predominately affects the elderly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Mortality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covid-19#Mortality
No worries!

> However, I bet someone like Gülen would get red carpet immigration treatment even if the CIA wasn’t involved

I guess we will never know that because CIA is indeed involved and we can't have an alternative reality :)
To be fair to Gibson, the Shemzhen SEZ had just about been started when he wrote Neuromancer. As I understand it Japan at that time had an underground electronics scene in Tokyo - though of course nothing to the scale of Huaqiangbei.

I wonder if the market is still functional post Covid. Been a few years since i visited it. Definitely one of the wonders of the post modern world.
It should be that way... governments shouldn't be picking favorites or holding out for bribes.
A Docker container for your digital identity on a RaspberryPi
Hopefully this question isn't too basic for this forum, but what's the difference between spirituality vs. being religious?

In contexts like this I can't tell what definition(s) are at play.
They aren't extending their jurisdiction, perhaps you misunderstood my point. If the company has assets inside the jurisdiction of the country, then the country can seize those assets, regardless of the size of the country. You can see this in many instances across legal systems, I'm not sure if that's a standard feature of all legal frameworks but I think almost all that are based on English common law can do that.

If Indian courts aren't able to seize assets/impose judgements inside their jurisdiction, then yeah customers wouldn't have much recourse, I'm not sure what recourse customers generally have in that case then.
If you want to e-sign lease agreements, you don’t need any special software. You can just have the signee type their name in the signature space and email the document back to you. The date of the email will be evidence of the timestamp, and the email records are commonly accepted in court. That’s just as legally binding as Docusign. The reason people use Docusign is to keep track of a large number of legal ageeements.
> Is it incorrect to believe the car brakes at full braking force?

For me, that is incorrect. I would not consider it dangerous at all.

For me, it was more like lifting off the accelerator for a split second if I were in full control.

One time that my car did brake aggressively was when an 18-wheeler was gradually easing into my lane (not on Vegas drive). It was probably a slight over-reaction, but probably one that would have saved my life if the truck had veered into my lane (likely dodging something or sleeping truck driver).

I have heard of people getting the aggressive braking phantom brake experience, but I haven’t. It’s also trivially easy to address just by pressing the accelerator — the driver is supposed to be paying attention.

Fwiw, this is a deal breaker for a Tesla for one friend of mine. She has motion sickness that is frighteningly easy to trigger (autopilot or even just me driving, and I’m not an aggressive driver). She’s a bit of a motion sickness snowflake, and she readily admits as much.

Predictions seem to be the following:

1. Driving into the shadows of 18-wheelers.

2. Driving into the shadows of overpasses.

3. Driving on roads that are reflective and have weird patterns on them. I don’t know how to describe this. My buddy and I consistently experience this a time or three going up the mountain towards Tehachapi between Bakersfield and Barstow. My guess is that this problem is or should be solvable by machine learning (same phantom braking at same time of day at the same place with driver override).

My biggest complaint about autopilot is that it aggressively turns the brights on at night. I’m not sure if it is outside of legal or reasonable use of brights, but I just find it easier to take full control — I try to be a friendly driver.

One last thing that I didn’t mention in my original post — using autopilot in stop-and-go traffic is an absolute dream. It takes a ton of hassle and stress out of that type of driving.
With most companies I have worked at - the Principal Title has been reserved for someone who fills multiple technical roles and is more hands on than a director with the engineering staff. That being said, the title "Principal" is also indicative that you are influencing multiple teams with your technical decisions.

Just my take on the situation. Don't focus too hard on the title. But what it is that you will be doing. This very different company to company.
I'm learning a lot today.
This happened to my wife too and her IG profile was used to create a deepfake on onlyfans
Who you know is more important than what you know.

For your first 15 years you can be a body, moving up the ladder doing what they want and getting better people will hire you because engineers are in demand. But after 10 years you start running into diminishing returns and by 20 you really can't grow that way. Note that this is about the time you hit 40, but that isn't about age.

At 40 you can hang on, your raises should (but won't!) Track inflation ,but no more. Many do this because they are happy, or don't want the next step.

Your other option is to be better in other ways. There are many answers. You can be the one who mentors all the junior engineers. You can join the relevant ISO committee and write the standards your company will implement. You can be the expert in something hard that your company does (I'm the goto guy for our start all the threads in sequence without deadlocks scheme) you can be the person who goes to all university events telling people how awesome your company is. You can be the person who introduces new technology (be careful, I know a company that spent billions on something that resulted in better quality but things that took a week in C took 2 months: the champions of that are gone)

There are hundreds of others. You need to figure out what will get you recognition. Be careful, I know of companies that didn't have a problem because some unrecognized senior person did the work, they let him go for not being productive in things that mattered, a year latter there was a whole department doing what he was doing. You need to ensure someone is tooting your horn.
Yep. Although with the right language, even on cheap hardware, that limit might be 1,000 or so.
>"Most recently in the US, half of 2015 and most of 2009"

Basically negligible compared to general trend
I do have a twitter video available (no youtube unfortunately, sorry!)

https://twitter.com/hyperchroma/status/1464656712544174083

I'm not sure if the trailer loading is an issue on the site - could you check the console for me and see what it says?
"data is fungible?" i think the author does not understand what fungibility means. if something is fungible, that means that any unit of it is exactly the same as any other unit of it. fungible data would be random data, which wouldn't help you predict or model anything.

i think zillow also did not understand what fungibility means. real estate is not fungible. in fact, it's anti-fungible- that's why there are huge diligence processes that exist around most real estate transactions. maybe floors in an office building may be fungible, but residences are definitely not- with all their quirks, customizations and problems.

this whole argument that they failed because the ceo of zillow didn't have big balls is pretty putrid. pair this with the word salad of misused words and twisting of quotes and i'd say this is probably one of the worst pieces i've ever seen posted here. i feel worse for having given it any time at all.

the simple fact is that the ceo of zillow didn't know what they were doing, had a team that (supposedly) applied facebook's infrastructure scaling prediction library to house prices and then attempted to apply a market making mindset to the real estate market at scale. not only is this probably something nobody should try to do, considering we contribute so much in tax dollars to first time homebuying incentives as it's recognized that the housing market is where j q public can start to build wealth, it's also probably something that nobody could do (well, at scale, with machines) given that housing is not fungible.

sure, financial instruments are fungible, maybe even late model cars, but definitely not houses. doesn't take a scientist to spot that.
Does it have integration with "popular music streaming services", as nowadays it is rare for users to have their music in mp3 format.
> DocuSign has a hard to penetrate moat

It's the same reason Coinbase, Square, Stripe, Airbnb (among many others) are worth what they are (ie rich multiples on sales). Their domains are extraordinarily difficult to do very well and now that large competitors are in place (in those segments) it's borderline impossible to take a big chunk of the market away from them. They're entrenched, potential future monopolist tech monsters.

The market loves these types of stories, right up until the growth inevitably declines to/near single digits and then they get a boring eBay valuation (circa ~2003-2019).

The short of it is, a lot of the future returns have been pulled forward.
that's a great idea. * i also thought could just load a jsonp file with the string in it but no matter what, maybe can't get around it, when i put the string as image.src = '' it puts it into chrome network under media
Ah, I was trying to find that article earlier today. (I searched "Sean Spicer data science Twitter" to no avail, ha.)

Actually that piece also hints at an uneven understanding of these issues across the organization:

> In one tweet, I semi-joked that what happened was lower and mid level employees convinced upper management that the algorithm was 99% accurate by hiding the caveats of what “99% accuracy” means.
That's nice to hear: but do you often see the colon used that way?
I hope this is making the rounds as laughing stock, because the claims are just ridiculous: the 'new, easier' method is not new nor easier.
that's a great idea. found this sounds like chrome has a not great way https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17530197/how-to-do-netwo...
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> 'how can we stop our police from murdering our brown citizens‘

Speaking of not misrepresenting: it’s not murder if a person is killed lawfully.
I am flipping through your FAQ, and it looks like the only way to log in is through Twitter or Facebook. Are there any plans for a more general OAuth implementation? I'd like users to be able to log in to my organization's website and then have that login work for Polis.

Maybe only allowing FB and Twitter was an ironic choice (a consensus app requires divisive platforms to log in), but I would certainly like a third choice.
You don't need it, but it has a lot of little things that you wouldn't implement but since you have them you use.
What do you think makes it different from the others then? Is it the keywell?
The trouble is you get advice in a context, and that context might not be known.

The context for your advice is that writing long sentences is/was popular poor style. Especially for young and new readers of English.
There's a common, but far from universal perception that ending a single-sentence text message with a period conveys an angry or serious tone. That may extend to multiple short sentences in some contexts; I'm uncertain.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/909969004/before-texting-your...
> The public accusation is vague and is not substantiated.

You're confused about what the public accusation is. It's not about whatever shitty thing someone on the core team originally did; it's about process and structure. Their complaint was that the moderation team can't moderate the core team, because the latter claims not to be under the purview of the former. Does that really need further "substantiation"? And what's "vague" about it?

And no, the details of the original shitty thing don't matter; the same (lack of?) process and structure would apply to any such incident involving one or more members of the core team.

(How can any of this be so hard to understand???)
By understanding the language, so it can do magic things like "rename this field (including uses of it)" without changing other uses of the same string. As a separate operation from general find and replace, of course.
How did you build this app? I'm learning to code, and am always fascinated by the programming languages chosen and why. Tech stack etc...
I’m not really a fan of Tom Cruise, but I thought he was pretty great in Magnolia.
For developers operating a high-risk or widely-used code, most of them opt to using multi-factor authentication, which disables this feature.
Do they? I saw they have an APL version, but I don't think there is anything like a Symbolics (such as the "Squid Game" keys)
To those comparing to other softwares: It is closer to [Multimarkdown](https://multimarkdown.com/). As a pandoc GUI, it should be compared to [PanWriter](https://panwriter.com) which is open-source is grown from within the pandoc community, where you can contribute to make it better.

Edit: also try the VSCode extension [vscode-markdown-it-pandoc ](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ickc.vsc...) which applies the markdownit extension in PanWriter to VSCode’s markdown extension.
The X11 protocol itself[1] isn't actually that complicated: it's large and old, but the fundamentals are mostly consistent and the modern client bindings (libxcb) are even generated automatically from a machine-readable protocol spec[2]. Various extensions and standards composed on top of X11 further complicate things, but most of them are graceful client-side enhancements rather than required components of a functional X11 client and server setup.

[1]: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/x11proto/proto.pdf

[2]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/proto/plain/src/xcb.xsd
If you own a smartphone Adobe's free document scanner is quicker and easier to use than a normal scanner. And it's totally fine for legal documents like contracts (having just used it for that)
I like Typora but I am a vim tragic so I have found a 50/50 vertical split with vim in one window and a chrome window using https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim to be my current favourite for editing. I also use https://github.com/mzlogin/vim-markdown-toc which live updates a table of contents.

This plugin is great as it scrolls with you and live updates based on the content of the buffer, no need to save to reload. Normally I would not advocate for a vim / terminal solution as I find I'd normally rather a GUI, but these two plugins are so good that if you already have a good .vimrc then its pretty seamless to use this solution.
Well, to be fair. I'm pretty sure Bitcoin is a sham. And there are PLENTY of people who believe Tesla shouldn't be going up in value.

But both are rocket ships.
GBN is the UK’s brand new Fox News clone. I’d ignore this unless you see it from an additional more trustworthy source.
Apologies for the duplicate post - sometimes either the reply button doesn't seem to work (post doesn't show up) or I end up double-clicking it rather than single-clicking. There seems to be a time limit on deletion and editing unfortunately.
There's a lesson here; never try to infer too much tone from email messages.

Or chat channels. Unless you really know the person well.
"Too smart" is a very subjective statement. We have Abbott and I'd argue that anyone who voted for him is mostly braindead. Beto isn't my dream leader but at least he's not openly hostile to anyone but a very specific type brand of crazy/religious extreme.
Unless it pertains in some way to their core business, which for the most part will only be the tech driven ones.

And something like documents signatures is so inherently based on trust that unless it was built by a large company and made open source.

Instead, the pathway to trust was decades of slow growth and bootstrapping (of trust) from a small startup DocuTouch, acquisition, investment in legal analysis and lobbying, a few key early partners, etc... And then you find yourself as the defacto trusted vendor.

Note that I'm putting aside questions of security etc. Assuming no wide-scale high-profile breach or fraud, actual security in this space is secondary. Legal acceptability is more important, especially since any moderately complex contract is going to have other stages and processes that ensure the correct parties are the ones signing the contract. Or at least be no worse than similar risks IRL.

Legally binding, court-accepted levels of trust are simply orthogonal to the goals of open source software. However, we're now at a point in the acceptance of digital signatures that a startup that happens to open source its code could still disrupt the market. The most around any such business would be the expensive legal expertise and legal bills required to defend their products in court when they are inevitably questioned in contract disputes or possible frauds.
This is the same folly as Long Term Capital Management.

You're not going to be able to reliably model asset prices at the resolution and accuracy needed to front run the market for a long period of time. This case was worse because the "Zestimate" directly created a feedback loop that moved the underlying asset prices higher.
Because slow governments didn’t manage to set an open standard for what they require so that every little court can verify if the verification approach is valid, so once again there’s a need to trust a brand name, rather than having fair competition.
> start up and wear a ton of hats, but you probably won’t get high cash comp.

I'm not sure start-ups are any freer on the dogma, so you'll still run into this unless you find a start-up that matches your own. Worse still -- start-ups have serious pressures that make debating dogma look like not carrying the load.
> Here in the UK a lot of bathrooms in pubs

Wow! I've never known a pub with a 'bathroom'.

Whist those in the USA use euphemisms such has 'bathroom' (mate, where is the bath?) or 'restroom' (I don't need a rest, I need a shit), here it is perfectly acceptable to ask the butler in Buckingham palace where the toilet is, or the bog for that matter. :-)
While I personally have no direct use for it, forwardemail looks like an amazing service.

I'm just wondering about the commitment that you will never increase prices - that seems kind of unsustainable? Even if cost goes down over time, inflation tends to move pretty fast these days, quickly eroding your real earnings.
thankfully, people will post links.
Hot take: The ANY column type will never be used. Users who want to take advantage of it will just avoid the STRICT keyword on the whole table (maybe even the entire database). Users who like STRICT typing will reach for a JSON column for their occasional weakly- or sum-typed needs.
A better business would be to sell an API that is legally sound for signing documents. Then everyone could implement the functionality in their own tools as a feature.
If Github had planned downtime every 3 months people would scream bloody murder, so the point stands that github's uptime is almost surely better than someone who selfhosts.
Yes, just copy or save to gallery and it’s done…
From a purely legal point of view with the current laws, yes. But it's especially in this context not actual misrepresentation but rather the point of discussion.

They criticize the process of people being killed that they find to be unethical/ unlawful. From their point of view the 'killing' of a citizen in those cases is murder. What is and what isn't murder is maybe from a 'legal' point of view clear in those cases (in the discussed country) but this neither applies to all countries nor does it account for the ethical view of this 'killing'
Print-to-pdf usually does the trick. (The issue is that the signature is done on a second layer, not any issue about noise.)
I’ve combined it with my scan app in black-and-white setting (no shades of grey) off my screen to pass German companies that don’t accept digital signatures. (It looks like the good old fax they love and can’t replace)
seems to be -- there was a major new version out in february this year i believe. still works great, even though it's kind of weird to switch between spatialite and postgis.
>The only money entering the system is investors and fees drain that out of the system

? Fees are generally extremely small. All the money that enters the system is from investors and from players. The fees are minimal and have almost no effect on this.

>Without people spending, not investing,

Those are the same thing because both players and investors can cash each other's money out. There's literally no distinction between both things.

>the system is doomed to hurt people who are left holding tokens when everyone else has cashed out.

That's the case with every stock that currently exists. When a company fails there will be bag holders who lost a lot of money. Ideally the company doesn't fail and keeps making games forever.
That's terrible and completely believable. There's nothing the Texas government hates more than people of color, except women... and LGBTQ... and atheists... and liberals... and the disabled... and millennials... and anyone not born in Texas
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