skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been a dev for over 20 years and have never had to do leetcode to get a job. You either find a place that doesn’t require it (more places than you think) or rely on your network to get jobs (which is probably what OP is referring to).

No I won’t get a job at a FAANG this way, but I’m not particularly fond of megacorps.
I hadn't commented on this thread previously, but I did flag it due to the title. It just wasn't honest.

Selling a double digit % of the company to investors and then calling it bootstrapped while promoting it here is hard to defend.
The thought crossed my mind, that they are doing it on purpose: to make the whole experience of switching jobs as unpleasant and traumatic as possible, so that people will stick to their jobs. However a conspiracy is highly unlikely, given that there are so many players involved.

More realistic explanation: they try to make an 'American Idol' like process, this gives them the feeling of having chosen 'the best'. Now it probably takes some standardized task to do that kind of competition, as it is necessary to maintain the claim of having an objective hiring process.

I was once told, that in the olden days there was a different kind of hiring process (that was not about programming jobs, actually, they didn't have that job at the time). It would go as following: the owner would invite the candidate to join the crew for lunch, if the candidate eats a lot, then he would count as a good worker. Actually that would make a good test for 'culture fit'...

BTW, the article has a link to a free course on hiring practices, thanks for the link! https://course.jobsearch.dev/01_introductions/01_course_intr...
Everybody decides where to draw their own line. For some it's Raytheon or Bayer or Boeing, for some it's HSBC, for some it's Facebook. Doesn't matter, you can't invalidate a person's moral compass with whataboutism. There are plenty of small and medium businesses that aren't terrible.
I view ad targeting as good for the world: they help make my life better by aiming me at products and services relevant to my interests and needs, sometimes when I didn't even know such a thing existed. It saves poor reinvention of the wheel in so many cases.

And FB-the-social-network is also great in theory: groups help you make friends and go deep into very niche interests. Without it, I would be a more normal, less interesting person. Now, with the join of a group, you can immerse yourself in a hobby even if absolutely nobody in a hundred miles shares that interest. It helps people go deeper on what they care about, thus becoming 'weirder' or a more fulfilled version of themselves. And helps people get ads they care about.
Spoiler: it’s not top tier.
> US is captured by the teacher's unions and other special interests.

As someone who both taught and studied educational systems abroad, this feels like such a weird take. The best schools in the world are found in the Nordic countries, Finland in particular. All have teacher's unions and schools are overwhelmingly public (even most private ones are heavily dependent on the public). The advances they're making in education are not primarily based in technology but rather in teaching methodology and curriculum design.

Generally, though, the superior outcomes should be attributed mostly to more structural differences in their approach to education:

1. Valuing teachers monetarily and culturally (probably the most important thing). Teachers are not so overstressed and overworked and are generally a higher caliber person than you'll find in US schools.

2. Taking a "whole child" approach, setting up services throughout the government to help stabilize children's homes. This really eases up teaching because there are fewer problem children.

3. Joining educators and educational researchers at the institutional level. If you've spent a few years teaching it becomes apparent to you that educational PhDs in the US, even from prestigious institutions like Stanford, have not interacted with children enough to have an intuitive understanding of student's emotional capacities or of classroom dynamics, which renders a lot of their work worthless. This stands in stark contrast to senior researchers from Finland who, so far as I can tell, all have that intuitive sense.
It's been a recent revelation of mine that any amount of film length over 2 hours needs a really good reason to exist.

The more length over that you see, the less likely the narrative winds up being any good.
Isn't the point of the article that things are getting better compared to how it used to be?
I believe people who want to cut oil and gas pollution have been aware of the escalating cost of inaction for some time.
As a minor nitpick on your post, i don't think holding an opinion on any particular topic makes anyone an 'activist' - just as i'm sure you are not a pollution activist.
I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted.

https://sandstorm.io got a lot right. I wish they'd paid more attention to upgrade burdens.

[1] https://github.com/akkartik/mu
Why do adults in America care so much about kids’ movies anyway?

I’ve seen many Pixar movies. They’re objectively fine. I appreciate the technical achievements of wringing out the best from whatever Renderman version they were made with. The storylines are competent takes on the eternal theme of “family and friends are important”. Sometimes there’s a good silent short film within the predictable plot.

But are they movies I’d voluntarily watch again on my own? No. I’ve seen all the Toy Stories and can barely remember the characters. It’s so formulaic, nothing leaves an impression.

It’s odd that grown-ups are so affected by these entertainment products.
Sure. What I mean by top-tier pay is essentially paying well above average to fewer, higher quality people.

I’d rather have 2-3 expert engineers making 2x pay than 10 mediocre engineers making 1x pay.

There is a sweet spot where you can scale with one expert in each domain, and if that “expert” is well compensated they can replace an entire engineering dept.
Won't work if they care, as there are other verifications: IP addresses https://developers.google.com/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot..., domain name https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
It's sad that you are being downvoted. Nothing that you said was factually incorrect. People just want to squelch you because they don't like these facts and what they imply. Ideology is making things terrible for everybody.
My impression was that they used some slightly chattery Cherry MX keyswitches combined with a controller with a poor debounce routine. (The electrical output of many switches "bounces" quickly on and off a few times when changing states. This can cause dropped or doubled key presses if not accounted for by the keyboard controller.) I’m not sure if the batches of Cherry MX switches they had were bad, or if some amount of chatter is inevitable given the switch design.

From their marketing it looks like they have changed to (Kailh-made?) switches that use a light sensor instead of an electrical contact. https://trulyergonomic.com/ergonomic-keyboards/best-truly-er...

I guess that’s one alternative to implementing a better debounce routine.
Cars Are Too Easy to Steal
Expressing a negative opinion of a governmental policy is not verbal abuse.
that's if the tech is not total garbage, which most of it is, imo.

It's a cruel world indeed that imposes such garbage on your mother, and
tasked you to force feed it to her.
"The exact same thing" is hyperbole of course, but the US was playing the "great game" of the Cold War just as well as the Soviets. Where the Soviets many times directly interfered by sending troops (while the US was less direct, with the exceptions of Korea, Vietnam, etc), the US preferred undermining existing regimes they didn't like in South America -- their "backyard" -- and propping up right-wing dictators trained in the School of the Americas (Chile, Argentina, etc).

The Soviets were way less subtle and way more direct, but I believe there are geographical reasons for this.
The public square is still the public square.

If you want a digital public square, you should put your tax dollars to building a public version of all these social media sites

A corporate version is always going to prioritize profits over democracy, and is right to do so. It's their moral imperative
There’s an art to conveying a position on a topic without alienating one’s audience.
> The reason you sound salty is because you evaluate candidates based on whatever perception you have

No, I’m making very real concrete moral judgements about you based on who you chose to associate with.
Same experience here. Also happening on other search engines such as duckduckgo. Have to append keywords like "wiki" to searches.
The problem is that more and more orgs have "ethical standards" downloaded direct from the nytimes editorial section.
Thanks for your reply. But one reason the linked thread affected me so much is because many of the replies were not subscription or ad-based. Ad-based software does not impress me in the slightest. Many of them were B2B which I realize is a market more willing to spend than home users, but plenty of replies sounded like they refer to perpetual licenses sold to normal people.

> As a developer you see the platform software

Yes, that does account for linux / sqlite, but I'm also an end user of dozens / hundreds of applications, none of which I've paid for. At this point almost all of the software I install is free and open source on both desktop and mobile.
Such optimism!

Don't you think it's more likely in a post keyboard/computer-literate world Search web sites are displaced by vendor-provided App search boxes?

You wanted news? Here's the CNN proprietary app in this beautiful walled garden! Enjoy the ads and total loss of privacy! [This app requires the following permissions: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US]
Considering OP was a bit vague with:

if some_verbose_condition && some_other_verbose_condition
do_the_thing unless excluded_case || other_excluded_case
end
Rubocop changed this to
if (some_verbose_condition && some_other_verbose_condition) && !(excluded_case || other_excluded_case)
do_the_thing
end

I don't really know what the proper solution is. I present one possibility here. "verbose condition" may or may not be complex, I don't know. But it's definitely a candidate for putting in it's own function and making tests out of it if there is complexity, or if it's just hard to read.

I'll agree there are too many of the following in Ruby:

def red?(color)
return color == "red"
end

As we don't know what his conditions are, we don't know if a function makes sense or not. There are times when you want to see the conditions up front, and times when they are a mere afterthought and relegating them to a function in the guard clause is best.

For whoever is downvoting just because they don't like the style of code in a discussion of abstract code, there is always:

do_the_thing if a && b unless c || d

Nothing like double guard clauses for double the lint fun.
CISO's get paid a ton of money to be that sacrificial lamb. At the same time, since it's widely known that the post is a sacrificial lamb post, there is really not that much to lose.
Basically doubled would be what some folks would call a statistic.

Crap you found via Google -- so likely crap I could find if I cared enough to bother to look. And you didn't bother to do pull quotes to support your position.

Color me unimpressed and unswayed. In my experience, good passive solar design makes for more human comfort, not less, than our modern tendency to build crappy cardboard boxes and tack on HVAC.

Source: I have been living without AC in the US for some years now. I've spent more than four years now living in old buildings and it's such a shame we just don't build them like we used to. Life is better if you can achieve a comfortable temperature most of the time without AC.
i am not sure that this is doable, especially when you have to find a job in order to pay your bills.
Why a lot of programmers don't like using the IEC/SI standard for file sizes?
Sure. It was very low cost. Much in the same way discriminating against FAANG employees is a low cost high efficiency strategy.
> The climate change activists who want to cut oil and natural gas production should consider the consequences

The cause-and-effect graph is much, much more complicated than you might assume.

For example, having to compete with cheap renewable energy would force fossil fuel prices down to match, making fertiliser costs cheaper.

If fossil fuels no longer needed to be used to make gasolene, then the unused production could be redirected into chemical feedstocks instead, including industrial and agricultural chemicals.

Costs are probably rising because of reduced exports, not the other way around. This can happen for all sorts of reasons, but is usually OPEC countries price-gouging because they can. If they have to compete with non-fossil-fuel energy sources, they can't unilaterally set energy prices by reducing production or exports.

Etc, etc...
I wasn't invalidating it any more than they were invalidating my opinion that facebook isn't the devil with their response to telling me that is the dealbreaker. "It's that simple".

Note this wasn't the poster I initially asked the question of. It was someone else just coming in and trying to tell me "it's that simple". My reply was not whataboutism, it was explaining why it's not "that simple".

And it wasn't a rhetorical question, I really want to know, from someone who does have this very simple "line", whether it's okay to use Apple or Google or Facebook services or products, whether it's okay to work for companies whose owners or executives own stock? Whether it's okay to vote for politicians who take money from them or who themselves own the stock?

This isn't whataboutism, it is exploring the consequences of this moral position.
I installed beekeeper[1], an electron AppImage, this afternoon on a 11th gen Acer spin 713 chromebook. You just need to have linux support enabled in the Dev settings. Only newer, higher end chromebooks have the linux support feature. I prefer dbeaver, but there appears to be some kind of GTK dpi scaling issue with it.

1.https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/
Kyle Simpson (getify) is a top notch JS/programming educator. His explanations and descriptions are very clear and precise. But man... as much I appreciate his style and content, I still can't get myself to enjoy writing JS after trying to get into it for years at this point. I still appreciate all of his stuff though.
Methane is needed to make hydrogen, which you can easily make from electricity and water. It’s just cheaper to make from methane so there aren’t facilities to make it using green energy.
You do you, and I wish you all the best.

Doesn’t change what I do however. You can also just remove FAANG from your CV.
Got a "The invite you provided is invalid or expired.". I guess it's used up.
This is a good thing, fertilizer is heavily overused, poisoning waterways. Yes the cost of food may go up as a result but the current farming practices are unsustainable.
I've heard people say a couple things about this that I don't know are true. One is that fathers don't get custody because they don't ask for it. The other is that most custody arrangements are worked out before anyone ever steps into a courtroom.

Does anybody know if these things are fact or fiction? If either or both of those are true, it seems like you can't really blame "the system" for these results.
I can't plot a course for my house that keeps me from freezing. Boats can, if course planning and timing allows, be kept within a habitable climate range more easily than a house (unless your house happens to already be built within a region that doesn't freeze solid five months a year - mine is not).
And naturally those ethical standards only apply to others, not themselves.
I know people who have just about one garment per day of the week and they rotate them. That is it. Not because they are poor --they just don't like change and like the same thing.

And, indeed, before the '50's, many Americans had a couple of changes of clothing for the week plus their Sunday clothes. So even we're not that far removed from that time.
> Customize Results

I feel like Google could be 10 times better if it allowed the user to block/boost pages.
As if someone with 10 years at Facebook would concern themselves with such trivialities.
Goldcorp Data Mining Challenge (2000)
I had the realization when, while in high school, I got talked into seeing Dances with Wolves. Way too much Kevin Costner and itt just was not fun to sit there that long.
My uncle left his wife and family to follow this guy.
It's not a rise in subscriptions, but a rise in software services. Much of the software we use today is a cloud-based continuous service. In the past, software was mostly an unchanging application run locally.
I just use query, but I only type with 3 fingers on each hand and move my hand if I need to. I've always felt holding my hands rigidly over the keyboard was going to give me rsi no matter what the layout.
It's possible for now but you lose all your history, settings, etc. And my Google Voice number has been primary number for a decade or so and thus has a lot of important stuff that I would like to keep.
It depends. Orchestrators like Nomad can give you a lot of leverage as a small team. It's not very difficult to manage and can give you lots of redundancy, control, and a path to scalability while utilizing best practices so you don't have to think about it. There are lots of ways to do this and not every app needs this but as you begin to get traction, you either have a choice of outsourcing your devops or bringing it in-house which happens way before you are even a big company. Nomad solves the problem of the latter.

Also, I'm curious why you didn't just end up sticking with Nomad now that you know it.
It probably depends a lot on where you're at in your career, but it's pretty obvious that the blog resonates with a lot of people here. For many it probably resonates better than the struggles of a bootcamp grad.

It's not really fair to belittle stories like this with a "you know nothing of pain" mentality. Your startup founders and bootcamp attendees would sound similarly sheltered if set against stories of starving children in Africa. Should we all refrain from talking about our pains because someone else's pains are worse?

Humans struggle everywhere, with different things, and it's helpful for us to learn from people who've been through similar.
Yes, because we need cheap fossil fuels not a planet that supports human life. /s
The two that run this site are fantastic graphical artists and designers as well. Ran into them at merveilles.town and checked out this site years ago. I'm not sure if they're still active there.
> I don't know how I could charge someone else for software without feeling like a big poser.

This is how every doctor, lawyer, banker, consultant, carpenter, mechanic,
etc. feels about what they're billing for. I suggest you get over it.
Starting a company is not fun for most engineers. Way more fun to get paid (a smaller amount, but way above "average") to hack at a company that has already found product-market fit. Replit doesn't have a Facebook-size audience, but it's still millions of people who you can reach with your work.
NightCafe Adds Clip-Guided Diffusion
To their own failure. It's a dumb pipe with lots of bad microtransactions and traps added.

The best features of AWS are the dumb ones. EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda.

The truly horrible ones are ones like Athena etc. where you are better of hosting your own solution on the dumb features. No self-hosted data services fails queries because the query has taken too long, and charges you for the privilege.
I'm glad someone is making money. I'm not. I spent 5 years writing a unified workflow for folks writing a research paper/thesis/dissertation (Epiphany Workflow, Apple's App Store).

It begins with collecting ideas from websites and files, moves the ideas into an outliner, then supports organizing relevant ideas according to a report outline, and finally, supports reviewing relevant ideas while the user writes each section of the report.

I gave away 850 free copies that were good for a year and sold a couple dozen copies. I'm trying Reddit ads now. Zero success. It's daunting. I'm struggling and depressed. It's a damn good application, but I can't find a way to reach my audience.
> Well, if you use Gnome, for example, good luck getting the developers stick to your prefered features either...

Gnome was one of the first environments I quit, with extreme prejudice. Even now, years later, mentioning the word Gnome made me feel a little bit of anger.

> Well, you can have that, but in exchange for a quite simplified and barebones experience.

That's right. I don't need much more than what Windows 95 offers, plus workspaces.

> And then you'll still have the same problems with the apps you use, like browsers...

My IDE started doing this, but luckily I could just go back to an older version.

For my browsers, I have indeed been frustrated, so I switched to a browser which doesn't pull that kind of shit.
It means poor people will suffer. Overpopulated paces may suffer more. Places experiencing bad crops as well…. It’s not something to celebrate in detachment. [the market, and thus price of food staples, is global]
Congrats on launching.

What I see missing from the list (and I’d personally give up half those features for) is Email. The fact that Microsoft gives me Email, Teams and Office apps for $5/month is what makes it a no-brainer for me. The email integration is a must have these days for me. Maybe you can partner, white label and resell someone’s?

I just signed to Zoho Apps moving from Google. Mainly for their e-mail service. (For family email)

I generally don’t care for the approach of offering so-so versions of a million things, but this works incredibly well for Amazon so onward.
The climate change activists believe artificial fertilizers are too cheap & consequently lead to destructive practices, so they may be happy about these consequences.
I don't understand which security implications you're talking about.

I'm on a well-secured network, behind a NAT, only browsing trusted websites. Where are the security issues coming from?
I'm in the same boat. I think I'm likely going to stand up a Nextcloud instance on a VPS for calendar/contacts/docs and move mail (somewhere). Paying by user/mailbox is really not a good deal for the way we've been using it, so it will either be someone that charges based on domain/traffic/maibox size or something self hosted for received mail with a pay-per-message smtp smarthost.

It's really not something I'm happy about needing to figure out all of a sudden.
Vipassana changed my life
I'm definitely nowhere near 25 years.

My perspective of "hard" LC problems is that they are typically distributed over a system anyways, where the optimal parts make the whole. That, or they are domain-specific analogs, like complex solvers, or involve graduate graph theory, etc.

What is your perception? I haven't done LC in about a year and a half.
There's no paradox, because nobody is being directed to live "like that". It's a story of some people's life that some of us find interesting, not a manifesto, nor a demand that others like they do.
Except that they acknowledge its performance was dependent on the details of the simulation and failed with a different recipe for making universes, so in fact it was dependent on not just the code, but the settings.