skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have some Texas sharpshooter fallacy, and some exclusion fallacy going on here.

Destroying the world was never the automobile's mission. Like many inventions that have benefited mankind, it has come with unintended consequences, both positive and negative.

I would not discount the negative effects the automobile has had and will continue to have. However, I would argue that the effects of the automobile's existence are so profound and far-reaching, we are incapable of arguing whether the world is, or will be, ultimately a better or worse place as a result of its existence.
Double doors where one door doesn't actually open are one of the most frustrating designs I commonly encounter.
Our US based startup has engineering in India (20 engineers) and the biggest challenge is finding engineering leadership.

It is hard to hire in the bay area, especially leaders who have experience shipping high quality products (systems), so we built the team in India.

Many young companies like us struggle since a lot of the talent (definitely in the bay area) is locked up in the Faangs where poor fiscal/monetary policy in the US has inflated stock part of the compensation so much, that it makes no sense to leave.

So it is hard find principal engineers to do great work because they choose to go to large companies and get poor work for money.

The bar is high for us though, we’d look for engineers with specialized skills (compiler, database internals) and leadership on complex products. The middle is the dead zone (engineers with N years of experience wiring apps)

Not sure about the European market, but maybe you can try to go to a smaller company?
Thanks for posting this question. I’m interested to see what responses you get here.

I’m a little younger than you (35), but can see a similar situation nearing for me soon. I’ve gone as high as I can at my current company as an individual contributor. I also was a team lead for a year with four direct reports. I love coding and building things, but I’m really starting to think I need to start making the transition into management or technical strategic leadership before I’m viewed as being too old to be an engineer. I have good social skills, enjoy public speaking, and get along with a wide range of personalities, so this transition wouldn’t be too uncomfortable for me. I can always code or do side projects on my own time.
Almost 9 years 9 months here, 5 cities, 4 countries, 3 timezones. :)
Personally, I would treat the GP's mindset of "inventing workflows" differently than your mindset of redesigning at "poorly designed processes".

Yes, a poorly designed process sucks but it works at some level. That means the rough flow of it is figured out. Yes, there are exceptions and complications and all kinds of odd things but it's fundamentally different. It's not "from scratch" as you're taking an existing working-but-broken process where you know the input, know the output, and rethinking everything in between.

In an "inventing" scenario, you have what you think should be the input, a notion of what the output should be, and you're trying to build towards that notion.. without the validation that you're thinking of it correctly.

The first is a harder social problem (aka getting people to change) while the second is a harder technical problem.
True, and one of the others is mine - not really sure I can claim I read it! Still ... one.
Because there's a societal need to ensure that the housing stock is safe and effective. We invest (or should) a lot of our taxes into local amenities to ensure that housing is provided the best environment. Transport, schooling, roads, etc.

That housing should also be up to a similar standard in terms of its externalities like pollution and energy efficiency etc.

We have regulations for air travel, for car emissions and efficiency, why should housing be any different?
Neat! I just shared with my girlfriend – and I expect we'll use it :)

Also, a very, ~very~ minor gripe but the little flashing, color-changing heart keeps catching my eye and is a little distracting. One man's opinion!
I see quite a lot of recruiting for staff/senior-staff/pricipal roles, both within FAANG and without. It’s a bit harder to know what this actually means outside of FAANG, but my (very first) impression is that plenty of midsize companies have roughly similar positions to the better known FAANG staff+ roles.
Maintain the Silicon Valley Vision
Which totalitarian world government can enforce such testing & quarantine of the asymptomatic?

How long would elections, the right to travel, & the right of protest need to suspended, worldwide, for this plan to work?

(Personally, that plan sounds even more expensive, to me, than a total "let 'er rip" strategy.)
Oster clippers. If it'll shave a heard of sheep, you will never break it.
Julia actually makes this problem way better for 2 different reasons. the first is that you don't need nearly as much C/Fortran when you are working in a fast language. the second is that Julia has binarybuilder which is a really good system for delivering reproduceable binaries that can be distributed. To show how well this works, try adding the Cuda Julia library. it just works without any of the issues python has.
In Rust, a block that ends with an expression without a semicolon returns that expression. It lets you write terse things like

let x = if y { a } else { b }
I'll dispute that RPG is fairly easy to understand. It wasn't designed as a general-purpose language, it's more like an alternate universe proto-SQL that was twisted into a general-purpose role. With few historical precedents to base it on as of 1959, its designers were flying by the seat of their pants, and it will be expressly alien to any developer who came of age after the early 90s. It's also a product of its time; six-character identifiers, eight-character filenames, and don't get me started on the fixed format (when I describe this to my developer friends, their eyes bug out of their head). Maybe if we're talking exclusively about the modern C-inspired free format, but IME most RPG code was written well before RPG IV, and any company that eager to rewrite their code is going to have rewritten it in e.g. Java instead.
> a market-maker for homes at a large scale…a house-flipping company

These are different things.

Archetypal market making involves simultaneously buying and selling an asset. Flipping involves buying, improving and later selling. One might be able to deal with the heterogeneity of houses by operating at scale. (Zillow attempted this.) One might also deal with the delay between buying and selling by hedging. (Zillow never seems to have thought about this.) But the improvement function makes what Zillow attempted fundamentally separate from market making.

They weren’t paid to provide liquidity. If anything, they paid a premium for scale and immediacy. They were a real estate operation masquerading as a tech outfit. WeWork in different stripes.
Automated tools get in my way of thinking. I turn off intellisense, auto-formatters, etc...

I'll run auto tools during check-in, but not during coding sessions.
You are forgetting about pregnants and bigger people. They usually have a hard time getting into the stalls.
I'd love something like this with a PCI slot, I still have my Voodoo 3.
Just curios, what's the accumulated damage over decades of caffeine?
You don’t even need to pay. I’ve been using the free version on 3 devices and I’ve never gotten to max out the number of requests
I'm aspie and I eventually learned to treat my condition by being "an alien sociologist studying humans with the goal of emulating them well enough to pass as one". For most of these topics, I've leearned to recognize them from "features" (why yes, I work in machine learning...) and found what behaviors seem to make people happier or unhappier, and adjusted my behavior accordingly.

It hasn't been easy. I can't really recommend it. I had to do it because at the time (when rain man came out), people didn't really understand that there are people with far milder forms of autism who learn to cope (at some amount of personal strain).

Many years after high school, my ex-girlfriend said something to me that enlightened me greatly. "That one time when we were sitting together listening to music, why didn't you make a move? In retrospect, I should have initiated". I never ever initiated anything with a woman because, to be honest, I hate rejection, and I can't tell flirting from actual interest. Over the years I've learned women's signs that they want a man to make a move but I also wish society would just switch over to "anybody can initiate".
This is awesome! We (mostly my dad) and I made a very similar website as well: https://flickseeker.com/
Creating your own consultancy is one way out of this. Hiring few junior devs and mentor them to become good at what they do is pretty rewarding both in revenue and your social impact.
When school districts are coming up with lists of books by black authors or with civil rights subjects to ban them and cancelling black author appearances, and parents are explaining that they support such measures because they don't want their kid to feel guilty for being white or that it's all Critical Race Theory, it's a bit disingenuous to pretend that the only objections being voiced by parent groups is that selecting black authors is a bit arbitrary.
(Funnily enough I don't see such massive pushback when teachers set kids the objective of reading a book with a European author, or a book written over 100 years ago...)
Not what I said or meant at all. I’m arguing about the proper use of the “intelligence” noun here. Does this really show a “capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. ”(Wikipedia)? I don’t think so. All I see here is a simple list of steps that a machine keeps on repeating.
- WD40
- Duct Tape
- zip ties
- Pilot's "Better Retractable" ballpoint pen
- Rhodia reverse book dot book note pad
- Thinkpad x220, x230, and x250
- MacBook pro 2015
- Nokia 5110 and 3310
- Henckels Professional Chef knife
- Emacs Orgmode
- Microsoft Paint
- Microsoft Excel
- Lego
- ipod shuffle 4
The app seems neat, I do wonder how did you get the IMDB ratings? Did you hard code it or did you find an api which gets their rating?
Disagree strongly. Had I seen something like this when I was younger, entire categories of social interaction would have made far more sense.
Does keeping as much of the codebase as possible in Python (or keeping the fast parts in C++) actually make things easier for the userbase, or do they just care about having a first-class interface in Python regardless of the implementation language?
Yes I could. No issues. Save to photos on iPhone.
It doesn’t even matter if it’s hard work. Flippers take advantage of a market inefficiency, and just like everyone who does that, they make the market less inefficient. That’s a good thing even when it’s easy.
Unless there's a need to build to a higher standard with longer maintenance periods, so that housing stock can have a longer life. Houses exist for decades, better to build for that without needing maintenance but perhaps costing more initially.

Developers will always attempt to skimp on quality to save/make more money. Even people building their own home will sometimes try to avoid compliance. That's why the regulations are there.
I'm not going to engage in a flame war over this, but suffice it to say that this is pretty much exactly the misunderstanding I was referring to with that quote.

Most data Facebook collects is of the form (user saw this post, user clicked/did not click this post). That data's value is tightly coupled to the process Facebook used to decide whether or not to cause the user to see that post. The data only has value in the context of iterating on that process.
3 acres could definitely provide one with most enough to live on if one keeps animals, preserves surplus, and expands their definition of seasonal. "Four-Season Gardening" by Elliot Coleman, a great book on the subject, shows a green house strategy that involves no added energy (in Maine, no less). I imagine thoughtful addition of active control could improve output.

The hardest part is growing enough protein, which is why livestock is sort of a necessity for subsistence living unless you live someplace with accessible and abundant fish or game. One past solution was collectively owned and worked acreage devoted to beans, milk or similar, though I suppose it could be argued that leads us back here, eventually, once someone gets the idea to sell the surplus of that. (It did once, already)

TL;DR
Check out "Four-season Gardening" by Elliot Coleman for interesting ideas on expanding your growing season without adding electricity
Speaking of functional programming and GPU's - check out Futhark :D. Very on the fringe but very interesting.
I agree, but it's probably closer to 20 years IMO, which makes sense given that Python has been around for 21 years longer. By 2009 Python was already in widespread use at Google/YouTube and (I think) Mozilla, plus startups like Reddit and Dropbox. Hell, Steve Huffman wrote "Lots of people have written web applications in Python, and there's plenty of code from which to learn" as one justification for Reddit's Python rewrite in 2005 [0]. No one is saying that about Julia today, it's seeing very little use in the private sector at this point.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20051230163903/http://reddit.com/...
I have some back pain that increases when I drink too much coffee (for a few days). Stress intensifies it, but not nearly as much as coffee.

Interestingly, walking and running improves it too, this one looks like unanimous here.

Unusual exercises increase the pain a lot, but unless there is some extreme level of twisting, the pain decreases as the exercise gets familiar.

Also, for chairs, I found that the most relevant feature is a correct sized seating depth. That's actually a large problem, because the size is standardized in labor conventions so every chair seems to have the same.
> Can you not imagine how useful it is to know user data e.g. what neighborhoods receive the most clicks, what type of homes generate the most favorites, how long people view one listing vs. another, … that is unrelated to public MLS data?

Click data is much less valuable that the recent sale price data available in MLS. Using 90s style dwell time and click counts would likely yeild a lot of very noisy data. False positives from people's browser reopening with 15 tabs looking at different houses. False positives from social and paid advertising boosting a particular home or neighborhood's numbers. False positives from enterprising real estate entrepreneurs doing everything they can to get the clicks up in areas they own property to drive up prices. Meanwhile, the recent sale prices tell you much more, with certainty and are very expensive to manipulate.
You are right that alternate return labels have been included in more recent FORTRAN standards.

Nevertheless, this feature is much less useful in FORTRAN than in laguages like PL/I, because the FORTRAN labels are restricted to numbers.

Unless you use a preprocessor, you cannot give descriptive names to the error handlers, so the equivalent FORTRAN code looks much uglier than in PL/I.
Total collapse? Ha, thanks for the laugh. Snark aside, it’s nowhere near total collapse. It’s not without its problems of course but things are relatively fine compared to other package management solutions in use with other languages.
The second phrase is not an independent clause, which is the issue.

> the only punctuation mark that regularly unites readers and writers in deep-seated repugnance

There is not a subject and a verb; this is a fragment and does not stand alone. Prepending "it is" to the second clause would make this a proper sentence by making the second clause an independent clause instead of merely a noun modified by an adjectival prepositional phrase.

Edit: I nerdsniped myself and it might not be strictly accurate to call it a prepositional phrase; 'that' is technically a conjunction in this case used to link its own subordinate clause, but that subordinate clause still does not complete the clause fragment whose subject is
"[punctuation] mark." It's still just a modified noun.
I suspect you’re part of the privileged class appropriating the voice of others to give a false halo to your ideology.

> Those horrors includes personal and mob violence, lynchings, rapes, other random murders, institutionalised economic apartheid, privilege (and its close ally, corruption), the reduction of public debate to reactionary dogwhistles instead of future substance - and ultimately, with tedious predictability, torture and mass murder.

These are all the fruits of Woke — and why it’s dangerous to allow those kind of harmful authoritarians to silence debate.

For example, in just the past year, the US far left has:

- engaged in street violence, including arson and murder

- created government grants based on race and sex, recreating institutional bigotry

- engaged in widespread censorship, from COVID to social issues

- called a black immigrant a secret “white supremacist” because their only political tactic is dogwhistling about racism

- kept hundreds of people as political prisoners for a year, without trial, for the crime of trespassing

What you’re describing as dangerous is the neo-fascist Woke.

> If it's justifying and accepting racism etc, I don't see that it can - because if you're on the wrong end of endemic social violence you get a very different view of your culture to the people who live in the comfortable and privileged part of it.

Capitalist liberalism easily beats collectivist authoritarianism on this front, given that the latter has led to three mass genocides in the past 100 years, killing millions each time — Russia, Germany, and China.

I don’t believe that you’re making these comparisons on a peer basis, but comparing capitalism to Utopia while ignoring the faults in other systems.

> And this is not an abstract debate, but something that is going to affect your lived experience, possibly on a daily basis.

People spreading Marxism in the US while Uyghurs are facing genocide in camps are no different than people who tried to spread fascism in the 1930s and 1940s.

You say the words — but you don’t seem to live by them.

Rather, they seem like a “spicy sauce” to cover that you’re spreading the ideology of a country committing genocide.
Evidently not as useful as Zillow expected!
[W]hy couldn't you serve as a market-maker for homes at a large scale, especially with the unique insights Zillow could have based on their datasets.

Indeed, I believe this is what OpenDoor does. From The Economist article [1],

"They [OpenDoor] charge a fee for the services they provide: buying and selling homes immediately, with zero fuss. The quick in-and-out makes them more like marketmakers than property investors, who buy to hold.

...

"A former Zillow employee told Business Insider that management had been hellbent on catching up with Opendoor, the front-runner. In order to compete, the employee alleged, the company pushed to offer generous deals to potential clients. It called this “Project Ketchup”. Now it has its own fake blood on its hands."

[1] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/11/13/a...
What Does It Take to Port 16-Bit Windows 1.0 Apps into 64-Bit Windows 11 Apps?
I've had to for some academic work. Some interesting and promising work that did not catch much attention and was last implemented by some post grad student for proof-of-concept in the Win3.1 era, using some contemporary and very specific dependencies
I'm mid-40's, and at every medium-to-large company I have worked at, each promotion == more meetings, more bureaucracy, and less coding. Developing software is where the fun is, so for me the best route has been working at very small startups.

Essentially no meetings and I design and build stuff all day every day and it's great.
It's not about safety, it's also about amenity and suitability and sustainability. In some areas, density is important given the population, in others its not.

Parking requirements are about local traffic management as well. Set backs are about ensuring natural light. Some local regulation is about NIMBYism or HOAism, that sort of thing is where reform might be better addressed.
We have used "AI" to denote the computer player in games for as long as I've been alive, and I'm pushing my late 30s. This is not new ground, and I'm a bit surprised you're choosing this hill to make your stand.

e: This is precisely why there's the distinction of "artificial general intelligence"
> Coding has no minimal respect, very limited impact and deadend salary progression.

Let me know where you’ve worked so I can avoid these places. I’ve worked for plenty of orgs where tech and those in tech add massive value and impact and therefore are held in high regard.
You're right. In my little joke I implied something else than you said. It's a low/middle complexity piece of control software.
You may be living in a simulation, but Elon Musk definitely is
It feels like you are agreeing with me only to go back to defending the thing you call sick? My whole point is that we might not be able to change the system, but we can at least refuse to accept it.

Other points touching on ideas you raise:

1. If I understand correctly, has a 20% premine system of AXS that represents ownership of the platform. Even if it didn't have a premine, this is the same as having a public corporation owning the platform. If Axie was a co-op where every player had 1 vote and would share equally in the profits, it'd be a bit differen, but otherwise, you can just buy tencent share if you want t participate in the success of the game
2. You are describing any game with tradeable assets, e.g. Pokemon. Right now, millionaires are making more money with pokemon unboxing (or maybe that fad died already), and similarly whoever has the best starting position will cash in on Axie...as long as enough people FOMO in
3. Which goes back to the dual fundamental sicknesses of capital tendency to concentrate and corrupt if left unchecked and profiting off of these easily exploited human desires without providing value in return. If you enjoy playing a game, you will pay for a game. That's fine. But we call artificial sparsity, spaced random rewards etc. dark patterns for a reason. Acting like the business model of e.g. brother's a tale of two sons and Axie are the same is disingenuous (and DotA existed without needing a company running the skinner Box...)
That was my first thought in reading the "JavaScript backend" thing.
If a part cant take off cargo and the orders are stuck, the factory stops producing?
> The reason they attempted this one is because they thought they already had good enough models to avoid taking large losses.

Risk aversion and launching a new business strategy do not work well together.
I'm 100% pro bodily autonomy but what other issues are similar that Texas has and that would be an issue?