skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ye sure ... Upwork, Elance etc are a wasteland of pennywise and mistrusting clients.
If the hiring process uses Leetcode style questions, then yes, it's necessary. It's the game they play and if you want increase your chances to be hired, you have to play by their rules.

You have to weight those few hundred hours of hard work. You can prepare for FAANG interviews and earn 100k+/year or you can do your side project and earn ???/year plus your current job or you can improve your skills and resume and look for another non FAANG job that pays 100k+/year and doesn't use leetcode.

Clearly you have prejudice against leetcode style process. To participate it's better that you be neutral or at least acknowledge that it's part of the game that you have to play. You don't have to like it, but if your mind think it's the worst thing in the world, it'll be much harder.

I recommend you to up you linkedin profile and try to get some interviews around the world to get a feeling of what it's like. Do it without expectations, so that is doesn't stress you much.
It depends maybe on the circles you interact with, but in some circles, people are not taken seriously which try too much to adhere to the conservative business dress code by wearing a suite with tie.

This is actually a common meme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/fbwnd0/im_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ajthjb/thi...

https://www.quora.com/What-do-people-think-good-programmers-...

How developers dress really depends on the company and the culture there. E.g. in Germany in many of the conservative older companies, wearing a suite is mandatory, and esp also in all those consulting companies. Also in many of the privatized companies like Deutsche Post, Deutsche Bahn, etc. But then, in other more modern software companies, people would make fun of that.

The idea that you must adhere to some clothing dress code rules is really against the open-minded principles of software developers.
You not liking it is a "you problem". The reason people keep insisting that declarative is better, is because it just is. Assume a program that is much better than you can ever hope to be at optimization at compile time. A real AI, much more intelligent than you and any other human being could ever be. Would you still describe the minutia of how you want to do things? Knowing full well it won't do that. And will chose a better option. Or would you just tell it what you want to be done, and not care about how it achieves this?

If it can achieve whatever you want to be done, is it not more logical, natural, and human to just describe what you want the end result to be? The answer is an unequivocal "yes".

You've already received the answer. Here in this thread, but also, I'm guessing a great many times. You just refuse to accept it. As I've said, "a 'you' problem".
Actually having to google something so basic makes your experience suspect. That's almost as bad as having to google for loop syntax in a language you say you know.
Why do you consider him mainstream, because he has a million+ viewers?

>He’s horoscopes and crystals for people who think they’re intellectuals.

In all honesty, I think you're proving the point that online hatred needs to be curbed before it becomes overwhelmingly destructive to society. Who are these people who so obviously wrongly think of themselves as intellectuals, in your mind, when they really are nothing of the sort? ALL of Joe Rogans listeners, or just the ones opposed to government-enforced medical procedures?

> The true con in all of this is ..

.. is that its possible to espouse hatred (calling Joe Rogan a con, people 'think they are intellectuals', etc.) for an out-group and not be called to task over the reasoning behind that hatred.

Do you hate Joe Rogan because he's mainstream, or because he espouses a view that is not mainstream while appearing to be a mainstream media personality? How is it possible to hold both positions?

Personally, I am not pro-Joe Rogan, I enjoy his podcasts but don't agree with his personality and find his views on some things utterly intolerable, but I am anti-hate speech, which we have seen has allowed the commitment and further justification of so many actual crimes in Americas' socio-political environment recently. Surely there comes a time in every American's mind where they need to balance the strength of their states freedom-granting instruments (the Bill of Rights) with their desire to tone-police the cultures they don't like into oblivion... isn't this how the Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya/Syria/Yemen mess got started in the first place - Americans deciding they don't like the voices of some out-group?
>I’ve been a software engineer and now architect for 15 years.

Can you do your work remote?
Absolutely not.

Search more, you will find 10-50 people companies paying way above the usual faang-style sweatshops.

Last couple of years crypto-hft was the place to be, but that's changing. Anyway, they are there. Do not conform or you become useless.
Plenty of interviewers have mentioned leetcode by name to me, and some have even said "you may recognize this problem from leetcode" and they proceed to paste in the requirements :)
> He’s not some “rando” sticking it to the man. He’s not some guy with a mic and a laptop recording a show and putting it online.

That's the point. He's not a rando anymore but he absolutely was (at least as a talkshow host). Joe was indeed "some guy with a mic and a laptop recording the show" as you describe (here, check the first episode https://www.facebook.com/JoeRoganClips/videos/the-very-first..., sorry for FB link, but I can't find it anywhere anymore).

> he’s getting paid millions of dollars by a corporation to speak exclusively on their platform

He may be getting paid a lot for his show by Spotify, but he's no corporate media. From what I see he's still as genuine as he was before the exclusive deal. Joe has a family and he made it big, which pissed off the "we tell the population what to believe" crowd.

> He’s horoscopes and crystals for people who think they’re intellectuals.

What this tells me is that you haven't listened to that show at all. You couldn't be more wrong on this, it's pretty much as far away from that type of BS as it can get. Mainstream media is at this point the horoscope/crystal people.
This argument makes no sense to me. Yes some people and companies break the law. That is completely and totally orthogonal to whether the training exists for a given reason or not.

They also train people to not commit insider trading. It still happens. Does that mean the training exists simply to help them figure out how to not get caught insider trading, or to avoid an evidence trail?

You aren’t going to successfully train people en masse in something like antitrust law in the course of a few hours. That’s why law school isn’t a single day.

I’m not defending any illegal behavior here, I’m defending the training that says "please be careful with what you say" does not exist mainly to try to hide some useful evidence trail, which was the claim.

The level of cynicism in all this is impressively high, and the level of knowledge about antitrust is very low
the standard answer would be, yes but you must have a respectable reputation, as the parent commenter has I assume.

it just bugs me to read these comments that makes it sound so easy to earn that much in upwork or similar platforms without context or disclaimers
The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)
You're right, it isn't always better. But generally in a lot of problems these days we already have a load of generic methods for the implementations, and you just want to specify the end result. There's enough resources that we don't care how the thing is done, the engine will probably do it in an acceptable manner, so you save a lot of code just telling it what you want.

It's really just a preference for convenience over control.
I definitely did not intend to say that Naomi Wu is like a flasher, and I appreciate your implicit request for clarification.

I meant that I frequently hear both men and women criticize specifically women for nudity, especially when the critics are from the US, and I very rarely hear them criticizing men for nudity. When men do get criticized for nudity, it's usually in a circumstance where the nudity is being interpreted as a threat, such as a flasher, which is a very different situation than posting a video of laser-cutting a dressmaker's dummy.
Oh, they all arrived here as flotsam some way or other - through love or war, basically.

(The catch being that we currently do not have any remote employees and it is nigh on impossible to hire someone from outside the Schengen area unless they've already found another way to legally stay here. That usually means either being granted asylum or marrying someone, I'm afraid)
> To re-use another HN poster comment: "now do cloth dryers".

I mean, regulators _very much are_ doing clothes dryers; see the EC's Great War on Inefficient Appliances. Traditional vented dryers are probably not long for this world, at least in Europe (they'll be replaced with heat pump dryers), but I'd expect other developed countries to follow.

Clothes dryers are getting better through government intervention and technology improvements. Our Lord and Saviour the Blockchain is getting dramatically worse. It's not surprising that people see them differently.
When people ask for something to be lightweight, what they really mean is "keep the things I need and remove the things I don't..."
A lot of these "why you don't need kubernetes" articles should really be "do you really need containers for your 10 user app?"
> Why should one have empathy with people who deny other peoples' basic human rights simply because of their gender, sexual orientation or religion?

Because it's easier to stop them believing that, if you understand why they're doing that in the first place. And understanding why they might believe that, is empathy.
Despite decades of hacking attacks, companies leave sensitive data unprotected
In case of Wikipedia, I'm not even mad. Their mobile interface is better than the desktop one.
That might be an argument you'd like to take to a proper debate. What we're arguing about is whether having such a debate constitutes "dangerous misinformation".
Very difficult to have a one size fits all unfortunately. There is a lot of variance around what a secure platform should do across government.

There are already a ton of snowflake "single platform for X department" deployments.

That said, I applaud the effort and hope it becomes the norm.
There are numerous legal restrictions on speech, including against false advertising and slander. Further, free speech has not been considered "holy" in private spaces for the history of the US. This modern discussion of social media and moderation is completely novel and cannot draw from past feelings on free speech as a principle.
The lower dosage only started being a thing once the spike in myocarditis was becoming too apparent to deny. Under 18's were eligible for a time to get the full dosage, before they scaled it down. If I remember correctly, Ernesto Ramirez was one of those kids that took a full dose. But yes, you are correct. I still don't think any amount of this vaccine is work the risk for under 18's with no serious health issues.

Edit- wow, on a stale thread, my comment was immediately downvoted within seconds of being posted. Is someone using a bot with their account?
"but whoever is on the "other side" is having the same conversation with their kids, and showing them tools and resources they've developed over the years to decide what information to trust and, to the kid, it's just as convincing!!"

I wish. And sometimes they do.

But there are lots and lots of people who have various religious/ideological dogmas. They do not show their kid the scientific method - they preach their truth to them. Because they feel they are right.
> But most of it is selling that next productivity upgrade that we communally all seem to obsess over here.

True, this is the "tool fetish" that is associated to any activity, for example obsessing over sneakers when the objective is the routine job (and maybe, not jogging at all); the same principle applies to notes taking.

One could even extend it to being "excessively interested" in programming languages, when the objective is actually building products.
In theory it would, but the practical answer is that for non-English-language community in 2010 migration to Reddit could not have happened.

The community in question was Russian, so it migrated not to FB, but to VK, which is essentially the same. It did not migrate there because members found VK to be a better platform for their community though - they just started using VK to communicate with their peers, were spending their time there and gradually stopped visiting forums.

Reddit never gained much traction in Russia, and in 2010-2012 it was for the nerdiest of nerds. One was way more likely to frequently visit some forum than Reddit back then.
This is my disappointment as well. Mathematics for robotics is quite challenging due to control theory and non-linear optimization, which do not seem to be the focus of this course.
Upwork is flooded with low-quality freelancers just spamming very low-hourly-rate proposals on everything, and the clients typically lack the expertise to vet candidates appropriately.

The ranking system is gamed to death and is meaningless - all those low-quality spammers are highly rated, so having reputation helps very little.

The spammers driving the rates down also mean that even if you do manage to get a higher-paying gig, the client may have significantly higher expectations than what's reasonable (as they were fed a distorted view of the market).

It's pretty much impossible to live on in Western Europe or the US.
That sounds an awful lot like panic not incompetence.
Man, scrolling through this thread-- 100k a year is not gonna cut it for me.

I need 200k minimum these days and I would like to end up closer to 400k. Why? Houses in the area I want to live cost money, and these salaries may not be around forever. So extra money is needed for a cushion and for investments.

The dollar is weakening, and real assets/income-producing assets are only becoming more expensive. 100k is the new blue collar, sadly.
Michael Patryn of QuadrigaCX is back - as 0xSifu from DeFi protocol Wonderland
How did you get Photoshop and Final Cut Pro to run?
> It is not sexualized because it is just a body part. It takes a man to do the sexualization, so the sexualization isn't the boob, but a man's who is doing the sexualization.

I agree with most of your comment, but I just want to point out that women are also harsh judges of other women who don't fit cultural norms in how they dress or behave. It's not just men sexualizing women and trying to cut them out if they don't fit, it's also women policing other women in this way.
i found it pretty good playing destiny, yeah, but i’m kind of terrible at pvp so, you know, ymmv.
Same in Germany and Austria. It's not unusual to see fully naked actors on TV, even on the afternoon program. That's because we can see a difference between nudity and (graphical) sex.
“ Neither the left or the right is arguing that climate change or COVID does not exist”

What!?
90 days is just silly. Also anywhere there's a vaccine mandate, except in parts of Europe, that doesn't count for anything - when a confirmed recovery should be equal to vaccinated status.
I completely agree. To me the idea that the people in positions of power or authority are principled and really concerned about misinformation - about covid or anything else - is laughable. And that goes for the managers at Spotify, media personalities, celebrities of any kind, etc.
Like another commenter mentioned, I have different types of notes: procedural (how did I fix X), thought processing (I want to design Y, what's the best way to do it), and non-code documentation (this setup works this way because person Z requested it).

I regularly refer back to procedural notes (I'm a contractor with multiple projects on infrequent maintenance for years), almost never refer to thought processing notes, and rarely refer to non-code documentation.

However, while my rate of reference to procedural or documentation notes is fairly low, the value I get from that reference tends to be very high - for instance, "how did I solve that problem with the database that took me an entire day to resolve, because online docs/examples were sparse?" or "my client is asking why feature A was implemented in such a silly way; it's because they insisted it be that way, five years ago". For me I think the trade-off of regular note-taking is worth it.

I suppose I could delete my thought processing notes after I've used them, but they're already archived and don't clutter my note space, so there's not that much point.
I suspect it's a form of procrastination.
The article makes it like we should be trusting these institutions and that we don't because something not current has created the distrust.

Amazingly the authors essentially trust the consistent and consensus message coming from these platforms they say have ruined our trust. There must be some good cognitive dissonance backing that up.

Censorship is not required to defend honesty.
Vaccination does not prevent one from being contagious. On the contrary, vaccination could lead to more risky behavior.

Which of these two people are more likely to spread COVID:

1. An unvaccinated person who rarely leaves their house and avoids contact with people as much as possible.

2. A vaccinated individual with an asymptomatic infection who regularly engages in social activity, confident that their triple-boosted immunity will protect them from serious illness.

So yes, the choices of others have an impact, but I don't think it's clear that getting a vaccine is the thing that universally improves the outcome for others. It's individual behaviors more than vaccination status that impact the health of others. The choice to get vaccinated (or not) has little impact on one's chance of shedding the virus. But the change in behavior thanks to vaccine-induced confidence leading to more risky behavior could actually have a negative impact on the health of others.
I've read the articles: none of them explain how this is dangerous, and none of them have a compelling case that Joe Rogan or his guests intentionally lie to their audience.

What they do is make arguments against their points, many of which aren't verifiable or are just opinions.

I'm all for removing things that are empirically and logically "dangerous misinformation", but we have to actually prove it empirically and logically first. Can you do that?
An alternate perspective is that she dresses how she wishes, and other people ascribe that sex appeal regardless. The most outrageously attired of a group of similarly skilled people is likely to draw the most fans and detractors, whether that was their intention or not.
> A face is not immodest. A boob is not immodest.

"Per se", perhaps. Your reasoning goes like this: sticking up your middle finger or shouting "motherfucker" in someone's face isn't insulting. It's the recipient that makes it an insult. Therefore, it is perfectly civilized to do either.

And we're not talking immodesty. While different cultures may have different limits, that doesn't mean they're too subjective to even pay attention of.

And showing your body is not a quest female empowerment, if only because it would leave the lesser gifted in the shadows. Calling it a quest female empowerment is an absurd word game.
Any time I search the internet for a solution to a problem with an Apple product or device, I intentionally exclude discussions.apple.com domains from my search results. I have never found a solution there, and the forums seem to be dominated — and I mean DOMINATED — by two or three ‘experts’ whose bottom-line is that Apple’s products work, so you must be doing something wrong.

One guy is convinced that uninstalling Chrome is the solution.

The go-to first response is “run Etrecheck,” after which they’ll chastise you for having installed anything they don’t recognize. And god help you if you’ve installed CleanMyMac. The only solution is to reinstall macOS and never do that again!

(They all seem to ignore that CleanMyMac X is now notarized and sold in the App Store...)

Stackoverflow > Apple’s community support. Every time.
Theoretically yes (of course) but Bash can make it tricky.
/path is different from /path/. They can serve the same content depending on web server config, though. For an example of how they can be different, check https://news.ycombinator.com/newest vs https://news.ycombinator.com/newest/.
Jeff Dean Ted talk: AI isn't as smart as you think
> If anecdotally there doesn't appear much difference in your circle, that's much weaker evidence

You can't compare studies looking at the population average with someone's specific social circle. Young people have a near-zero chance of getting severe disease anyway.

"substantial protection against severe disease with omicron" is irrelevant when the chance of severe disease is so low.
I agree with most of what you say. However, one thing I must point out is that climate change is a complex problem with no easy solutions.

As much as it sounds like we should "just turn off the oil" that would in fact lead to millions of deaths.

It's possible that there are problems that are unsolvable or at least a best outcome doesn't exist. Extinction maybe inevitable.
The data protection requirements themselves are not onerous at all. But the path to compliance is scary and complicated to anyone who isn’t a lawyer or is retaining one.

What’s needed is a “fast track” compliance package for individuals, small businesses and online communities. Something like a cookie cutter privacy policy along with a rule book for simple applications without trackers and where all PII is personally and transparently entered, edited and extracted by the data subjects themselves, like in your example.

That’s good enough for most applications, and great for entrepreneurs to not have to think about GDPR until they have enough momentum to warrant getting lawyers.
I think one aspect your reasoning does not properly respect is that running things in container is not all about scaling, but also about easy of deployment. A 10-user-app probably doesn't need k8s, but the advantage of packing it into a container and just starting that container (on a single machine) is very nice. It's so easy to have multiple apps with different languages (or even language versions) on a single host without worrying how to install 3 different PHP versions on that machine.
Innovation and Domain Knowledge
It's perfectly possible to be both an informant and a hacker.
Right, thanks for the clarification and it does in fact make sense. Sobering times for those of us who don't want our F/OSS products used by the war machine.
Only if the lack of fear is because an authority figure has managed it all for you. This creates the bigger problem of a lack of self-regulation and automatic trust in authority.
Ask the speciesist ;)
"Only citizens can post here" is among the most censoring systems out there today. How many legal non-citizen residents are in the US? "Oh these millions of people cannot speak" is a hilarious statement coming from a "free speech platform."
>K8s is designed to solve a different problem: scaling up the traditional model of programming.

Yep. K8s is a hell spawn of ITIL (a decades old IBM's take on BigCo/government IT infrastructure management). Google has been practicing ITIL, Borg comes out as a result, which takes K8s shape outside of Google. That is one of the main reasons why management likes K8s - ITIL was created by managers for managers. The approaches like SSI for example shift the balance toward developers/engineering and thus instinctively resisted by managers.