skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think the people you are describing do not realize themselves that they do not need to work? You claim to be part of them, did you need that essay to realize it? You just stated you created a couple of startups during the last 10 years, so you seem to have already quit your job a long time ago.
It just isn't the language that people learn as their first language (via college or bootcamps). Plus it's not a gaming, data or machine learning language so it's not the kind of language that people come to from some other motivation. So I would say it hasn't had great organic growth for 5-7 years. That's practically a generation of programmers at this point.

I think all the big shops have most senior ruby devs locked up. If one has any meaningful rails and ruby experience under their belt they can stick their thumb out and land a job immediately.
It appears to be even more restrictive then that: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

> An employer shall not rely on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer employment to an applicant or what salary to offer an applicant.

That being said, how do you enforce a provision like that in the face of every company having all information on every candidate, seeing that mind reading hasn't been invented yet.
I can't imagine any company doing this over that question. It cost them a lot of money to hire and start training you. And it isn't even a capability related question like if you lied about your education.
>Russia and others have done a great job at sowing dissent.

This has been debunked by non-corporate journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, etc.

After 1.5 years of investigation, unlimited subpoena powers and 10s of millions of dollars spent, nobody can name 1 american citizen who has been convicted under the original premise of the Russiagate, which was criminally conspiring with the Kremlin to interfere in the 2016 election.

EDIT: While we're at it I'll also address this comment you've made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29776626

>Regardless of whatever happened in the past the fact remains that the government was almost overthrown on January 6 and the instigators (the top leaders) have not been brought to justice.

700+ people are charged with crimes associated with Jan 6. Not a single one, not one has been charged with insurrection, inciting an insurrection, attempting to overthrow a government, sedition, treason, etc.

They're all just common crimes: Trespassing, violent assault for the ones who used violence, interrupting government procedures/processes, etc.

If this was an actual insurrection, or a seditious act, or a coup, why is the Justice Dept. under the control of the Biden administration, not William Barr or Donald Trump, not charging anybody with those crimes that are alleged to have taken place?

Why are they charging them with common crimes that happen at protests and riots instead?

Could it be because that was all that event was?
That's precisely the value proposition for employers.
More worrisome should be lightning.

Or even dying due to bedsheets.
Let me propose this scenario and ask you a question:

I purchase a copy of some paid proprietary software on a website. The website requires no registration and only provides an embedded PayPal payment link.

After the payment, a copy of the software is delivered to my PayPal email at 10:00 PM.
Inmediately after that, I get up from my desk chair and go for a walk, maybe do some grocery shopping. All around it took 30 minutes.

It's now 10:30 PM. Back at my desk and computer, I launch the installer and accept the EULA.

Between 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM, in those 30 minutes, what did I own?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach
Ah, you're absolutely correct!

In [4]: class Test:
...: def test(self, a, b, c=5):
...: return a + b + c
...:

In [5]: inspect.signature(Test.test).parameters
Out[5]:
mappingproxy({'self': <Parameter "self">,
'a': <Parameter "a">,
'b': <Parameter "b">,
'c': <Parameter "c=5">})

Then, any idea how you would address the GP's original point? How should "self" be detected if it can be called something else?
Where is Anonymous when we need them?
Yeah but they're not regular users who are just interested in reading the content. And probably neither are the RSS scrapers.
But is the Kilowatt dollar idea based on irrevocably wasting the energy, i.e. on useless hash puzzles?
For those curious, I requested my Employment Data Report. Here's what was in it:

Pages 1-2:

Dear xxx,

Thank you for requesting your Employment Data Report. Your Employment Data Report
includes all employment data sent to The Work Number by your employer(s). An
important document titled "A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting
Act" is also enclosed. Great care has been taken to report this information correctly.
Please help us in achieving even greater accuracy by reviewing all of the enclosed
material carefully.

Verifiers who have procured your data in the past 24 months -
[list of organizations, including Credit Karma, JPMorgan Chase, American Express, ...]

The information provided in this document is an unofficial report, intended for personal
use by the employee-recipient only. It is not intended for verification purposes. Using this
document for consumer verification purposes could constitute a violation of the
Fair Credit Reporting Act and result in a monetary fine. If someone is asking you to
provide verification of employment or income, please direct them to www.theworknumber.com.
If you need further assistance or wish to dispute any information in your Employment Data
Report, please contac -- page errors -- Please reference case number xxxxx.

If you wish, you may also contact your employer(s) at the address indicated in each employment
record below.

Sincerely,
The Work Number Service Team
Attachment
MM, MS

Pages 3-17:

[pages and pages of complete up-to-date (2021 EOY) salary information,
bonus breakdowns, title, employment status, division, state-specific
disclaimers, and freeze instructions]

Snippet about freezing:

A security freeze request may be sent via mail to:

Equifax Workforce Solutions
Attn: Employment Data Freeze
3470 Rider Trail South
Earth City, MO 63045

You may also send a freeze request to:

Email: TWNFreeze@equifax.com
Phone: 1-866-222-5880
Fax: 877-879-8182
We will provide you with confirmation of the placement of your freeze.
Please note that although some state laws may allow us to charge a fee,
TALX Corporation never charges any fees to place or remove a security freeze.
Grid tie pricing should be reimbursed first, at spot retail rates. Anything above your grid fees should then be credited at spot wholesale prices. All electricity customers should be forced to pay the grid tie fee, without special peak consumption fees for solar users.
"confirm your identity by providing a phone number or email to receive a one-time passcode"

<slaps forehead>
Keep in mind that the solar panels work year round. Not sure how long that battery week last in an outage, but you can recoup a lot of the investment the rest of the year.
That is a problem with society being severe, rather than the autistic individual
Could you please make your substantive points without fulminating or calling names?

Perhaps you don't feel you owe entitled pricks better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a b2b co., this is how they appeal to their clients. This is their product.
Hopefully sitting on a jury in any of a half dozen states.
Maybe you can register a 1 person company and share your employee details for access to the platform.
Africa CDC says severe lockdowns no longer tool to contain Covid-19
You don't need to. Your employer can give this info to whoever they want, and many give this data to Equifax or one of the other credit agencies.

Also, you might give your bank employment details, and your bank will most likely send that info to a credit agency as well.

There's not much of an escape.
They could save a lot more Co2 by making sure the site this goes into don't have any 1MB images that nobody will look at for more than 1 second.
Nobody at Google making $200k has to share a two-bedroom apartment, even in the Bay Area. I was easily able to afford a $2000/month 1-bedroom in Mountain View in 2014 on a salary around $110k, and the same apartment today has only increased in price by 30%, whereas starting salaries have increased much more.

Is it more economical to share a 2-bedroom apartment when you're starting out? Of course, and many new grads share apartments both for money and, just as importantly, social benefits in a place where you might not know anyone else.
You see what you seek. I saw amazing creative output by many many people. It is telling that you reference religious texts as evidence for something.
Please do not cross into personal attack. We don't want this kind of thing here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Only black truffles. White truffles..the alba variety (more expensive) is shaved and can be had raw. You can cook black truffles.

Some 10+ years ago, I scrimped and saved and bought white truffles for something like 400 quid in London. I had only omelettes and pasta and risottos for days and I stretched it and stretched it. I didn’t want to try anything else fancy..just a blank slate to imbibe the aroma of white truffles. A Hungarian Tokay and a very pungent raw Camembert. I could only afford McDonalds soft serve and fries for a week after that but it was totally worth it.

As I am typing this..and I am obviously imagining it..I can almost smell it ..it’s like the aroma of those meals are still clinging to the inside of my nasal passages.

I used to work Michelin kitchens…and classical recipes were always revered..but there was always someone who’d want roast chicken with black truffle slices under the skin. A tame version of the original..roast chicken inside a pig’s bladder. I have had many humiliating experiences including shaving a piglet with a razor in a bathtub(not to mention Glorious 12th shenanigans which were probably not legal..who knows) , but never have done the bladder balloon bag for truffle chicken.

Others can be simple and not fancy at all. Or a consommé with black truffles in it and a puff pastry dome so a plume of truffle steam hits them when they break the dome. These are text book recipes..old fashioned escoffier stuff, but there will always be someone who will wax lyrical about them.. I wonder which generation will lose the nostalgia of it all.

When I came back to the states, I had a few usual suspects under my sleeve that I repeat again and again. The most popular one was seven hour gigot d’Agneau with robuchon pomme purée and a cream of garlic soup. The Americans refused the lamb because it was falling off the bone(that was the point) and suspicious because it was ‘still pink’. And insisted on truffles in the pomme purée even though none was available and I only had fake truffle oil at hand. That was the last meal I cooked and I stopped cooking meat all together. There is something about America that can’t get past beyond a well made burger. It’s very insulting to my craft. It makes me very sad because I love to feed people..but I also realized that I love feeding people only because they loved me.

Sorry..went off on a tangent and then down the mushroom path.

Fwiw re the OP, I think I know that Sonoma farm…I remember when they planted and many were skeptical. they planted in a hazelnut orchard. It’s the most suitable one for California. It’s not worth planting new growth oaks as they are protected under state law and can’t be felled if need arises. Further..oak disease is ravaging California..sudden oak death is clearing off old growth oaks. It’s all very depressing. But I am very happy that there are truffles in our own CA backyard. They use dogs now to dig them up instead of pigs, I heard…because pigs will gobble up everything. Thousands of dollars worth of truffles in one snort.
At least, there can be found some on the theory and methods.

Regarding a direct comparison, it may be difficult to do such a comparison by just running some code on data sets, which the one group of algorithms has been heavily optimized for with excessive funding, while the other has been not. Even more so, as such a review would have a difficult time to asses any of the critical features, like chances of memory loss. Comparing technologies isn't as easy as running them side by side.
> So you're trapped in a mental prison and proud of it?

Starting your reply this way is not effective if your goal is changing minds. But it isn't, is it?
Please don't post this sort of snarky internet attack to HN. It's not the culture we want here, and it's against several of the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a good use case for the web3 ecosystem, or at least for those working on the decentralization, personal data ownership and control parts.

It should be obvious that it is important to employers to be able to verify the claims made by people who are applying to them for jobs. Claims of employment or education or credential or skill or whatever. That's what zero trust is all about, isn't it?

That need is the reason that this data is (centrally) collected and then shared. There is a massive mutual benefit incentive on the part of employers- and on the part of the SAAS providers to employers- to share data on the employees and to benefit from data of others being shared.

And yes that may be seen to violate the privacy of the people who had an employment relationship and who received money over the course of that relationship, but employer corporate persons are at least part owners of that data- of what money and what dates and so forth was paid to what human persons by them.

By what means does a web3 protocol based on verifiable credentials enable those who have requirements to perform verification while preventing centralization and preserving the rights of the humans whose data participates in these protocols?

That's the mountaintop goal. What's the path to get there?
It's like when they didn't want to codify SQLite as Web SQL so they tortured everyone with an extra layer of crap they added on it.
Because the cdc also employs veterinarians who are much less busy with covid

The cdc is huge…they do workplace safety to. A good portion of them have gotten sucked into covid but really it’s mostly been the people who do infectious disease, vaccination, or public health communications type stuff

That’s not to say the staff at cdc are not just completely burned out from it…
I'm not sure it's so much about shortcuts.

Suppose you're a judge in a contest. The contest has rules. If you apply the rules the same to all the contestants, that might be considered a disadvantage when you have the opportunity to apply the rules more favorably to your friends. Whereas the other guy who interprets the rules to favor his friends creates the expectation that the friends will return the favor someday.

But the advantage isn't always an advantage. If the other participants view you as biased then they won't even show up or pay entry fees anymore. Then there is no more contest and your friends lose even the possibility of winning.

It's kind of like asking if there's a disadvantage in not being a sociopath. Turns out, maybe not.
It appears you might be able to have this information deleted if you’re a California resident and the CCPA protects your data rights:

https://myprivacy.equifax.com/personal-info

I’m not a California resident. Can someone who is try and report back? Sounds like a follow up blog post/instructional tutorial is needed if it works, and calls to state and local reps that this should be opt in.
The linux OOM killer should take a lesson. It seems to like killing sshd, when all it really needs to do is grep the process list for "java" (or more often these days, "python")
To be fair, the author does not go so far as to call themself an intellectual either. The word is applied to the people they surrounded themselves with, and the project they started, but not to their own person.
Is it possible to have a fast reactive framework without virtual DOM?
Unlikely because she left him alone
The whole "verify your salary with employer" process is BS. Lenders can verify income by requesting your tax returns, and N recent pay stubs (source: I own my employer and have verified income this way, since obviously they are not going to call myself up and ask me to verify my own income). This is only about reducing their verification costs. If there needs to be a giant database of everyone's income, the government should run it, and they already have the data.
Asserting most people choose the "smart" path as much out of fear of failure as by making a calibrated decision seems more like projection than observation.
Attackers Exploit Flaw in Google Docs’ Comments Feature
"I can't believe you could ever do this to me, Employer! You - you said we were like Family! I mean, it seems just the other day you, me and the CFO were tipping cheap IPAs and bonding at the foosball table ..."
Mark Begor is the CEO of Equifax since April 2018. The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't settle on something like mithril.js
Agree, way too long!

I gave that much of a heads-up of my leaving (not a formal resignation, as it happens) for a few reasons including:

1. It's a C-level replacement, which takes _months_

2. I cared deeply (and still do) about my team and the company mission, and wanted them to succeed: "the more notice the better" seemed right to me (it wasn't)

3. My career plans were to move into a new field which would require various courses, lots of reading, conferences, etc. – although I knew I was leaving, I hadn't even started speaking to potential next employers or investors when I told my CEO I was leaving

Putting all of that together is how I ended up with the 10 month blunder, but the post is less against 10 month notice periods, and more for matching the notice period to your handover, whatever that would be.

I feel your pain on working out those 5 weeks you mention! Awkward for everyone involved.
Some disaster

> Although it is still unclear how many Thiel Fellows were actually successful, "Mr. Thiel says companies started by the fellows have raised $73 million, a record that he says has attracted additional applicants. He says fellows “learned far more than they would have in college.”

Source:
Wakabayashi, D. (June, 2015). College Dropouts Thrive in Tech. The Wall Street Journal@College Dropouts Thrive in Tech

;;

> Notable recipients include the following people (year they were awarded the fellowship is indicated in parentheses):[20]

> Laura Deming (2011) – founder and partner at Longevity Fund
Paul Gu (2011) – co-founder and head of product at Upstart[21]
James Proud (2011) – founder of Hello, which made Sense, a sleep tracking device[22][23]
Dale J. Stephens (2011) – founder of Year On, formerly UnCollege, a gap year program with training in work skills and life skills[24]
Dylan Field (2012) – co-founder and CEO of Figma[25]
Taylor Wilson (2012) – the second youngest person to produce nuclear fusion[26]
Ritesh Agarwal (2013) – founder & CEO of OYO Rooms
Austin Russell (2013) – founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies and the world's youngest self-made billionaire as of 2021[27]
Vitalik Buterin (2014) – co-creator of Ethereum[28]
Simon Tian (2015) – creator of the Neptune Pine, a crowd-funded smartwatch
Cathy Tie (2015) – founder of Ranomics and Partner at Cervin Ventures[29]
Boyan Slat (2016) – founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup[30]
Robert Habermeier (2018) – co-creator of Polkadot[31][32]
Erin Smith (2019) – creator of software to detect Parkinson's Disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship#Notable_recip...
Google Voice Authentication Scam Leaves Victims on the Hook
Just checked and Salesforce (my employer) is not listed. One less element of privacy given away
Won’t eqifax tell you if someone requests the data therefore you can tell if the law is violated
But because we want to do scrum or agile ‘properly’ we need estimates.

The Scrum guide only mentions sizing as a responsibility of developers, not how it's sized.

As a developer that moved to product owner I've seen both sides of the coin and certainly had my share of "estimate theatre". For me the most important consideration now is predictability of being able to deliver value, to support my communication with upper management, clients and stakeholders. I do need to have an understanding of what's complex, uncertain or will take a lot of time, so I can weigh it against other priorities and I rely on the developers to provide me those insights. I don't believe this predictability comes from having perfect estimates, it comes from knowing how much can typically be achieved by the team and the trust the team has in it's own abilities. User stories of course need enough detail to know what needs to be done, but I disagree that you'd need to "do the work to know how long it takes".

The problem described in this blog is very recognizable, but I suspect it's foremost a problem of "management" trying to control things.
I hear you, and what I wrote was cynical, because it's safer that way. I totally respect that you treat people like they want to be treated, and that you want to treat people with dignity. That's what we all hope for. You sound like a good boss. That's fantastic.

But, as a small counterpoint, you say:
>Is that the same as saying there's no situation where people will be laid off or let go? No. But it would happen for a good reason.

This is what I mean. The company has to do what is right for the company. And ultimately, it's employee be damned no matter how good, or loved or respected they are. You'll still be let go, and your life may go into disarray as a result. THe manager may lose sleep, but that won't stop it from happening. It also doesn't mean the company will hire you back, support you, or even give you a package on the way out other than a box to hold your personal belongings. It's gotta be that way.

All I'm saying, is that the employee has to know this, get it, and be willing to play the same game by the same rules. We're often taught to think that we owe the company or our former coworkers something, when we don't. If that means being less than truthful in an exit interview for example, or not sharing info with my manager so that I can make a move, then so be it. Employees have to do what's in their own best interest first.

I think many workers don't think this way and stay in dead-end, abusive, no-win situations out of a sense of loyalty that ultimately, won't and cannot be returned.

People two levels above me never asked my permission to lay me off. That's for sure.
This kind of belies every company's excuse for not having comp transparency - that it's proprietary information they don't want competitors to know. Not only do they share these details on specific employees, they also provide percentile data to HR consultancies that use that to help set salary bands. Ever wonder when a company says they pay X% of market? They know that because everyone is sharing this info and they're doing it too.
It's amazing, but they did:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-...
There's no need to involve 'web3' (whatever that even means) in this.

Simple crypto is all you'd need to produce a verifiable employment record; each company has a key and signs a document conveying whatever information you want (x person employed for y years etc).
Please don't post personal attacks or call names in HN comments. It's not what we want here.

Maybe you don't feel you owe the "author" better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Pure luck" is the source of almost every success story. The embellishments and particular details are often told quite well to cloud this.
Can a prospective employee use this data to gain an advantage in salary negotiations? If not, then this doesn’t seem fair at all.