skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was not starting such a discussion. I'm baffled by your comment and can only assume you're reading my comment through an American lens, which is half foreign to me (only half because I'm exposed to so much of it on the Internet).
https://matt.might.net/articles/

Not strictly a software engineer, but a computer scientist (and so many other things), and an extremely smart person in general - worth reading even if you're not interested in academia.
The intent could very well be to get people to volunteer information you otherwise can’t directly ask. “Life story” is such an odd way to label it if they just want to know your career path to date.
A better way of putting it is the author has made that claim. That doesn't necessarily make it true. Likely several factors went into the levelling decision. If anything, the (assumedly) limited years of experience were a factor. It may be what was communicated to the author. It may simply be how the author took it even if it wasn't explicitly stated.

But what I do know is that (again, on the FB/Google scale) being levelled as an L4 with 5-10+ of experience does happen and it's usually (IME at least) appropriate. YMMV.
You can have 10 years of experience, or 1 year of experience repeated 10 times.

This is a good adage for why 'time served' is not a particularly useful way to judge someone's level of experience, but you can't invert it and say it means time served isn't important at all. Someone with 1 year of experience might have the same experience level of someone with 10 * 1 year, but they obviously don't have the same experience as someone with 10 years of real experience.

"You can have 10 years of experience, or 1 year of experience repeated 10 times." is only useful as a way of differentiating between two candidates with 10 years experience; it can't be used to suggest someone with 1 year of experience is as experienced as someone with 10 years. They're only as experienced as the bad 10 years experience.
Ah yes, AEI. A bastion of neutrality with no agenda against public schools.
On the whole I don’t think the risks are that high but if you do get hit then it’s going to be serious.
Apple leverages iCloud backups to have visibility and LEO-compatibility into what you're doing on the device. Generally speaking, your day to day activities are carefully protected with good protocols and security design.
Me, myself and I: https://michelenasti.com
Nearly 7 years now, a casual before then. (For context, the sub just celebrated its 10th birthday last week)
You don't actually need to give a reason, at-will means you can be fired without cause.

For those abroad, remember that most of the time health insurance is tied to employment in the US... so when you get fired your costs also skyrocket (especially if you're the insurance source for your family).
You could ask the same about Fox - which is hardly ground zero for sanity itself.

Does it represent a movement, or a TV channel?

If it's a movement, by what process was it elected?

Point being I doubt anyone at Fox was unhappy with how the Doreen interview turned out.

Did they ask to interview anyone else from the sub?

All this really does is highlight the difference between online opinionation - always easy - and effective activism. The latter is much harder and absolutely needs informed - ideally effective and professional - handling of public presentation and messaging.
A Pinephone.
> Grade crossings are fine for passenger multiple units (have pickup shoes at both ends of the train and a gap either side of the crossing) but not great for locomotives.

And the same issue also applies to every instance of pointwork.
> I can't imagine that buying or building machines to build op amps or voltage regulators isn't within the reach of lots of manufacturers.

The thing is, these things used to be built all over the place. However, consolidation, environmental concerns (the Silicon Valley is one of the US' most polluted areas due to decades of semiconductor manufacture) and market forces have destroyed lots of the capacity that used to exist, and now everyone is stuck and waiting. Not to mention that the people who operated the old fabs are gone for good, either in pension or in completely different careers.

Bringing the old fabs back or constructing new ones will take years. Capitalism is great for driving down costs in peace times, but usually the cost-saving comes at the cost (sic) of losing resilience in crisis times, and forget about "perfect storm" events like the one we're currently seeing with corona, coin miners, the shift towards electric mobility and the Chinese saber-rattling against Taiwan.
> I'm sure many would happily drop 32bit games support for that.

Really? There are still many x86-only games on Steam, tons of which probably won't ever be updated. And if Valve does not make that clear on the Store pages then they will receive part of the blame and support burden.

I think what is more likely to happen is for Steam to come with it's own 32-bit dependencies that marshal to the 64-bit system GL/Vulkan/etc. The client itself might be ported to 64-bit too but that would not even be needed at that point.

This is already partially the case today - the Steam runtime contains most required 32-bit (and 64-bit) libraries and Steam is already (optionally) using containers for games: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/t...

Presentation on this from 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbWbBYAolo
Communication goes both ways. It is a very reasonable assumption that a life story is about your whole life, not just your education and professional career.

The recruiters should explain what they mean if they are redefining terms, especially since people regularly interpret it differently.
That's not the point. Yes, Uber et. al. made a desirable product, but it's not a sustainable one. As Uber feels the purse strings tighten, they now have to raise prices to roughly what taxis were charging before. The last time I hired a car from the airport to home, it was actually cheaper to hire a guy at the taxi stand than to call a car.

It would be all fine and well if that just meant that some investors ended up subsidizing movement of people for most of a decade, but those subsidies caused real damage. Diverting people from public transit, municipalities subsidizing rides rather than building infrastructure, entrenching worker precarity via things like Prop 22.
Years of experience may not be a direct indicator of how you work as an individual contributor, but it is a very good indicator of softer skills such as handling workplace conflicts and mentoring junior devs.

As a senior dev it's on you to communicate and voice what you want out of the job. 6 month is the perfect time to pull aside your manager and ask/talk about your path of success.

Of course, leaving isn't a bad solution, but you should also realize there are other solutions. And being a senior dev means being able to weigh the tradeoffs and figure out the best path forward. However, the author failed to mention or reflect on the alternative solutions in the post.
> This reminds me of "Defund the Police", wherein supporters would try to convince others that the slogan did not literally mean what it says.

I have a hard time figuring out whether:

1) all the people who are saying "no we don't really mean defund the police" are just the moderate elements battling it out with the extreme elements (eg. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...)

2) most of them actually want the police to be abolished, but they're doing a motte and bailey[1] whenever they're confronted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
> The people pushing these regulations know that they would go nowhere if they tried to attack sales commissions directly and now the stupidity is bearing fruit.

That’s a very strong statement to lack any citation. The intent of the regulators was clear. If a Apple is going to be petulant, the regulators can just come back and tell Apple to lower their commission across the board, which will inevitably hurt Apple more than if Apple had been reasonable about this.

I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion at all that the regulators are just going to give up and go home, crying about how Apple so cleverly outsmarted them.

> I'm absolutely in favor of regulations that make it so platforms can't skim percentage revenue off the top but any regulation that does that will attract the ire of literally every business that sells things.

When it comes to other businesses, consumers have choice. If one company charges too much of a premium, consumers can go elsewhere. If I go elsewhere from Apple, I lose access to all of my purchased items. If Apple would refund me every dollar I paid, then maybe that would be viable, but Apple wants to have their cake and eat it too.

Imagine if switching from Walmart to Safeway required you to give up every item you had ever purchased from Walmart. This is why Apple is not the same as most businesses charging a commission.
Shopify has a pretty solid rep for having good work life balance, and in general. I routinely hear stories of people taking pay cuts to work there because of how well it integrates into life.
For me, the biggest difference between Legos when you and I were kids and now is that the sheer number of different pieces makes it too often nearly impossible to find the piece you need when building something from "the pile".

My kids also have a lot of Legos (by volume, more than I ever had). When engaging in free play (i.e. not building a new set from the instructions), I find that the things they make tend to be much smaller than many of the things I built when I was a kid.

I think this makes sense. When I was a kid, for the most part I had a bunch of bricks, a bunch of girders, a bunch of plates, and a bunch of smaller, more specialized pieces, but the latter were used more for adding detail. So it was relatively easy for me to find the pieces I needed to make something decent sized and them embellish it.

When I look at my kids pile of Legos, it looks like 90% small, specialized pieces. As a kid, I remember spending a lot of time looking for that one piece that I knew I had if I could just find it. But nowadays, that situation is far, far more common.

The specialized pieces make for great looking creations on the outside of the box. In theory, they should also allow for great looking creations during free play, but in practice it ends up being too much trouble to find the pieces you need. And at that point, a new set looks even more enticing than spending all your time searching for pieces, so...
> Casio used it in graphing calculators like the AFX 1.0 and 2.0.

Wow! Didn't know that! I'm impressed there is even a VT-100-compatible terminal for it.
Ditto. Chrome on Windows. It is the perfect example of Doom Scrolling. You Scroll And Scroll, yet nothing new appears. ;)
If we're assigning blame for nihilism and Iraq, let's not forget that WaPo, NYT, CNN, ABC, FOX and the rest of the pro-war media bear orders of magnitude more responsibility than fucking 4chan.
I get your confusion, there is one screenshot API that abstract the compositor but it lies in xdg-desktop: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da...

The portal for xdg-desktop takes care of the implementation and is the responsibility of the compositor.

It's already used by Flameshot for example.

There is several xdottool equivalent as well:
https://github.com/atx/wtype
https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

This one is specific to wlroot based compositor:
https://git.sr.ht/~brocellous/wlrctl
There was an average price by piece comparison a few years ago but I can't find it back.

The gist of it was that price by piece didn't change that much, while sets are getting bigger and more complex. I'd also wagger that we now have a lot more smaller pieces that make these kind of calculations more flawed.
From the link:

> Do you know how many of these 400 bug reports were actually platform-specific? 3. Literally only 3 things were problems that came out just on Linux.
Why is that bad? It's his blog, writing about himself for his feelings?

It wasn't per se a large org issue, or such - or a "scandal" that is so commercialized into #movements today.

He just didn't like the work, expected more, didn't get a good offer (it was downgraded from his perspective) and in the end didn't think it was worth his time to stay.

That's a reasonable decision to make. Many people stay for the branding but hate the product.

I stayed as companies not liking the work, or the brand but just for the money and opportunity on my resume.

The people made it fun too, for a while but once the people change and the work becomes work work, it's time to go and I did.
You should worry about it but I think you are worrying too much.

Every time you share your personal data there is risk as you have described, but the long tail of risks can be mitigated by stuff like 2fa at your brokerage accounts, frozen credit score, etc.

No institution can protect itself from hacking -> your info is already out there all you need to do is harden your brokerage accounts.
They’re worthless because you don’t like their outcome? There are others, this is a very well researched space.

You don’t have to and shouldn’t take my word for it. Study after study shows that radical ideas can successfully be removed from a platform though censorship.
I'm curious as to how a shareholder views this in light of the hit the stock took earlier in the month when MAUs fell by a -- compared to the population of the EU -- tiny amount.

Being forced to process the data in the jurisdiction you're doing business in seems like a strange spot to make a stand.
The world itself leans left - at least compared with the US Left/Right divide, and younger people (who are more likely to be on reddit) lean left.

Obviously the site itself leans left.
That's what he said isn't it?
Support for the artist exists when someone first buys the NFT from the one who minted it. But nothing prevents investors from trading NFTs among each other. How many NFT trades are "artist-to-buyer", how many nft trades are "investor-to-investor"?

And if I buy a piece of art the classic way (buyers contract), I can put it in a gallery, or whatever, and "show everyone that I support the artist" that way.

And even without buying something, no Blockchain is required to support artists: people have managed to do so since long before electricity was discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage#Arts
https://danluu.com
I apologize! I can no longer see your original comment, but I may have simply misread it.
I’m impressed and surprised. Can you share what the product was?
Companies that don't change tend to go under. Lego has to innovate just like everyone else.
> If it didn't happen so often maybe we wouldn't have so make kids growing up with a deep-set hatred of jobs. You don't need to be Freud to make that association. ;)

These kids need to travel to find out the reality of the world.
Yeah, that's what I did.
> you'd need unsafe in Rust

Unsafe is part of the rust language. Theres nothing wrong with using it if you know what you’re doing. The value of unsafe is that it boxes your unsafe code - so you can direct extra care to those functions when writing, reviewing and auditing. (As opposed to C where memory corruption could happen anywhere, so you need to be careful everywhere.)

I could imagine a separate language on the programming languages shootout which is “safe rust”. It’d be interesting how the best unsafe and the best safe programs compare in speed and size.
Somehow I think a label like that would be prized in that place.
Or the Blorkchain is forked.
You couldn't write a more Vice headline
If such a movie even mentions SHA-256 I think that's above average on its own.
I think that's completely fair, but are we really talking about people with 1 year of experience as if they have 10 years?

I'm not saying experience doesn't matter at all, just saying that it's a poor marker for seniority.

FWIW when hiring I tend to avoid thinking about years of experience; else I allow some implicit ageism into my assessment; my definition of senior has very little to do with actual technologies and is more to do with how you use those technologies and if you have experience being self-motivated to deliver something with business value.
What a remarkable straw man argument you’ve defeated! My actual claim is that all other things held equal, people in general prefer to have higher fitness levels over lower fitness levels.
“I see this as an absolute win”

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Zuckerberg!
Radiance – A Web Application Environment
Waka. Time Tracking for Developers
David Lynch's YouTube Channel
Seconding this. Apple is also the only provider that lets me consistently pay with those Visa gift cards that almost never work when charging a credit card online.
That’s because movements that began on the left are regularly appropriated by neoliberals seeking to crush any radical idea. It’s not a coincidence.
And 60% of the US population fall for this marketing? Google makes 80% of their revenue from ad sales and they can’t convince more than 40% of people to buy their supposedly superior OS? Are the US so full of dummies compared to the rest of the world that we are succumbing to Apple’s nefarious marketing?

People have been saying that the only reason people buy Apple products since the iPod was introduced in 2001. The rest of the industry has had 20 years to catch up with Apple if it were that easy, they couldn’t?

Also Google has how many active and failed messenger apps in the last decade?
Tips for Getting Your First Job as a Programer – The Junior Dilemma
Perhaps ironically, this attitude towards backwards compatibility is a big part of what held PHP back for so many years and part of the reason why PHP 6 was abandoned during development and PHP 7 used none/almost none of that work.

Instead of introducing a warning and informing the community that a feature was going to change or be removed in an upcoming major update, for years PHP just added new functions. You ended up with `mysql` and then `mysqli`. You ended up with the `mb_*` functions. And in order for developers to properly interface with all of these duplicate functions that may or may not be installed on your system, you ended up with jQuery-like libraries that would wrap certain portions of the PHP language and try to make them easier to work with. The comments on this (and most PHP posts on HN in general) are pretty crappy in large part because of decisions like this. It's also why the language basically died for like half a decade in the late 00s.

It's an absurd way for a language to evolve. At some point, you MUST fix the issues break backwards compatibility. You put out documentation and upgrade guides instructing developers on what needs to be done to facilitate the change. And as developers, we accept that we need to make sure we check that documentation before upgrading and in exchange, we get a better experience for developing new applications in the future.
"...other humans that you don't trust"

I often care about online multiplayer, but only with my friends (who I trust not to cheat). I don't want to install a rootkit for that.
The ladders technically start from level 0. Google actually had L0s whose job, as best as I could gather, was to take things from point A to point B during, say, an equipment install.

The SWE ladder however starts at L3. With extremely few or zero exceptions, no SWE is hired at L0-2.

The idea is that people at the same level in different levels are at roughly the same level of responsibility.
> I think a coat might be in order.

Ow, you should experience one of the tropical rains in my hometown (Yucatan peninsula). There's NO way you will stay dry through your public-transport experience once it starts raining. In fact, if you take the bus and it starts to rain before you have to get down, you would normally accept that you'll get soaked, no matter how many coats, umbrellas and other water-repellent mechanisms you have.
Quantum Complexity Tamed by Machine Learning
You can of course take a TDD approach with Laravel. I think I know what you're getting at, but I do find the Laravel has a lot out of the box now that I would otherwise have to write from scratch. I suppose the Spatie packages (for example) fill some of those gaps. I hadn't heard of Laminas before
OK, so do you think that you can never ask a person what position they hold when discussing that very topic?

If they believe that racial guilt exists or is deserved is relevant to the conversation of if it is or should be taught in schools.
This is literally the best cookie banner I've ever come across, unironically.

Maybe you're less used to seeing them because you're not from the EU, but most cookie banners / popups have at least one or more actual obnoxious user-hostile patterns going on:

- Actual really hard to find decline / accept selected button, sometimes obfuscated behind a small, badly colored "More information" link.
- A list of 60-120 "partners" (no joke) with no way to see what functionality they actually provide
- No decline button at all
- Pressing decline (or "agree to selected") makes the modal popup spin a spinner for 60 seconds while supposedly processing your request. Pressing accept makes it go away instantly
- 4-5 categories. Required (/Essential), Functional, Marketing, Statistics with no clear explanation of what will be impacted when you disable a category.
- No way to accept cookies from Vimeo embeds, but not accept cookies from Google (YouTube) embeds

I could go on and on.

This site on the other hand doesn't even have analytics or any of the scummy stuff the cookie consent law was designed to thwart, they clearly provide an explanation of each category and your options, all the buttons are the same size but clearly differentiated and was actually the first site I've ever(!) accepted all cookies from.
They used to say "tell me a little bit about yourself." At least for a literal-minded developer the "little bit" added some guard rails against unnecessary verbosity.
Ron Wyden letter to stop IRS facial recognition
This is what Shopify has to say about the Life Story:

> For the Life Story, you can expect an informal 60-minute conversation via video with a Recruiter from our team. Interviews at Shopify are two-sided conversations. We are genuinely interested in getting to know you and we want you to get to know us, too.

It seemed so out of the blue to be asked the typical questions contract recruiters ask about programming languages and years of experience in those languages.
I thought this section was quite interesting. Seems like there is little movement on some of the hottest political topics.

> Conspicuously missing from the top of the list are several issues central to political polarization and partisan sorting (Baldassarri and Park 2020). Abortion ranked 237th overall, gun ownership ranked 124th, gun regulation 251st, help for the poor 167th and 229th (two forms of the question), and health care ranked 149th, 150th, and 227th (asked three ways). Their low rankings are not an artifact. Change and conflict are separate. Future research will have to decide if lack of change promotes conflict or conflict stunts change, but from these results we can say that the liberal drift of Americans’ identities and attitudes, especially as reflected in cohort replacement, left several hot issues unmoved.
Never did I say that and I never will. Repressive regulation is almost never the answer, it's the last resort because it carries so many problems with it - not just racism, classism and other discrimination, but plainly the fact that repression does not solve the underlying cause of the problem you want to repress.