skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my take too. With 40+ years experience in software development and system administration, I don't know what to make of someone with obviously limited experience expecting to get a "senior" title or to pick and choose what they will or will not work on -- based on the programming language involved. That the author tracked time spent in each language, worried about the meaningless job title, but then decided that maybe they aren't interested in e-commerce (Shopify's core business) shows a junior-level attitude.

When I studied photography I wanted to use new lenses, cameras, flashes, light meters, film. My teacher, a professional photographer, told me one day that amateur photographers obsess about equipment. Professionals think about lighting and composition. That stuck with me. Junior programmers obsess over languages and tools. Senior programmers think about architecture, data structures, team cohesion, requirements, business value.

I'm sympathetic to younger programmers who enter the job market faced with the stupid algorithm-oriented interviews, which are a kind of hazing ritual performed by people with such poor people skills and confidence in their own judgment that they fall back on pointless whiteboard tests that give the interview process the veneer of rational objectivity. Instead that kind of process just insures that everyone who gets hired has the same personality (or lack of).

A lesson to take away from this experience: The interview and hiring process may look like a serious attempt to find the one perfect candidate for an amazing job. Actually larger companies tend to hire lots of people who look promising, ignoring their work experience and desired career path, and just sift out the people who don't fit or can't produce. That's not new either. I started my career as a junior, hired along with more than 50 other juniors, assigned two mentors and allowed to sink or swim. Three months later only 15 of that group were left. Later in my career I mostly got hired through word-of-mouth and referrals, sometimes I was the only candidate for a job that wasn't even advertised, and usually I didn't go through HR at all. If you're still going through a funnel to get a job you are almost by definition not senior.

Note to the author: Almost every place I have worked in four decades, with a couple of horrible exceptions, let me run errands, take care of my kids, take as much PTO I needed, asked me to take time off if I was sick, and generally showed a lot of flexibility with what's called work-life balance. Only badly-managed groups and companies don't do that, and it's not a new thing. Given the ever-increasing demand for skilled programmers companies are forced to bend over backwards to attract and keep good people, so a manager who wants to keep their team will accommodate.
Do they tend to let you take unpaid time off or is that not a thing at all?
The lack of epistemic humility feels like such a regression.

We have basically gone from Feynman's idea that science is the belief in the ignorance of experts to the idea that anything that disagrees with experts in a field is misinformation and possibly should be censored.
They probably already generates a lot of revenue from scanning user's emails. If they were to make Gmail a paid service, they would probably lose a lot of people. Moreover, they are not necessarily competitive against other established paid email services.
So you get the 2 acre plot 15 minutes from town, but no one else should?
I live in NYC, but grew up in one of those old towns north of Boston (Salem). Generally these sorts of old towns were originally built with a very walkable downtown area and over the years may have added areas that were more typical of the post-WWII suburbanization. A town like Salem has also gentrified quite a bit from when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, so it's probably completely possible to live in the downtown center and really not need a car at all. If you live in the newer, more suburban parts then your reliance on a car will increase.

Personally I prefer large, dense cities with lots of public transit and the access to international culture you get from being in a place like NYC, but a place like downtown Salem is probably really nice to live in if you're happy being in a small community.

Either way, the fully car based living most of the country relies on has always seemed ridiculous to me (I've never had a license or a car).
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it's the classic tale of junior eng thinking of themselves as senior :P
"He wasn't the man I thought he was" is a misjudgement by party A and doesn't seem at all equivalent to party B actively deceiving someone by pretending to be an entirely different person with a different name, back story, interests, profession and so on, and then having sex with them. It makes me feel queasy that anyone would think they're even in the same ballpark.
How about jeff@amazon (or the new CEO's email)? That has sometimes worked.
Yeah, Jazz is heavy on theory too. Especially for improvisation and jamming, you really really need to know what you are doing and which tone will match what the group is doing at the same time.

But to play folk or rock music for example, you do not need that much of it. If you can read music sheet, you can reproduce the song. You can kinda create similar own going by intuition. But, creating the stuff Bach was creating absolutely does require tons of knowledge.
OP lauds their WINE-like extensions, but there is much more they are doing.

Not least of which: Making STEAM run perfectly in linux so that linux-native games have a seamless installation / management platform for linux-native machines.

Then of course steamdeck, which brings linux to those who would not otherwise try it and further incentivizing developers to target linux native.
Yeah given how high it made it I was expecting a more interesting conclusion than "Eh, not as much js as I'd thought there'd be."
>My point about "Make America Great Again" is anyone can be like "I don't get it what does it mean though?" which happened a lot from liberals and left for this slogan specifically. Conservatives get the benefit of being easily aligned around their leaders and values, so sure "Make America Great Again" works really well in that context where everyone wants pretty much the same thing.

I absolutely agree with you here, and this is the point I'm trying to emphasize. Slogans have to be aspirational and adaptable and unassailable. "MAGA" is all three. "Defund the police" is really only aspirational and sort-of-adaptable. Its weakness is that it's easy to oppose it and look like you have the moral high ground (i.e., being a crime-fighter). You can't attack "MAGA" directly without sounding like you hate America. That's the brilliance of it.

>"Defund the Police" had a specific meaning which was to actually defund the police but, as with any actual implementation, when you get to the specifics people have a lot of different views and opinions. I don't think you combat that by making a better slogan, I think you just deal with it. The handwringing over what "Defund the Police" means was a huge distraction IMO and mostly bad actors who disagreed with the premise fundamentally and weren't looking for real ways to implement policies.

This is where we disagree. The policy specifics don't matter. Not at the slogan/rallying level. "Defund the police" has a pretty clear policy roadmap, even if it could take on varying shades. "MAGA" is completely devoid of policy, and that's what makes it such a strong talking point. Anyone can attach whatever aspiration they want to it without getting mired up in boring details. This results in widespread acceptance.

>Okay, what's the exact, unquestionable slogan you would use here? Good luck.

I never claimed to have the correct answer here. All I'm doing is pointing out how horrifically bad "defund the police" is and offering field-tested examples of slogans that are so much better at inspiring action, for better or worse (e.g., MAGA). Something closer to a jazzed-up version of "government accountability" or "police competence" would have all the desirable properties of "MAGA" that I've described: aspirational and adaptable and unassailable. "Defund the police" ain't it.
If Valve makes it possible to play many/most games on Linux then an influx of Linux converts may incentivise more native development.

Certainly the current market has not created those incentives, whereas a massive backcatalog w/ a (potentially) popular portable device may move that ball forward if it means there's a built in market for it going forward.
I feel very confident that search and email are the last two services they’ll shut down.
The use case of Matrix is more to do with the client than the protocol. For example FluffyChat (https://fluffychat.im/) is an up and coming client that is designed exactly the compete in the market of the other phone messengers you listed, while the protocol itself is very much more ambitious and multi-function.
Point me to a US company paying 150k that doesn’t cover your health care. The majority of companies also have very generous vacation (unlimited in a lot of cases).
Using Wireshark with the Crazyflie Drone
> Perhaps I'm just old (31)

You're not.
Whatsapp. By FAR.

First, it doesn't let me create a userID & password. I cannot create an account on my tablet or computer. I cannot start using it anonymously. I cannot have multiple accounts for multiple purposes/groups. It insists on being installed and tied to my phone with my phone number - how ANYbody can talk "blah blah encryption blah blah privacy" when it's tied to my private protected hard-to-change personally-identifiable phone number right at the beginning is beyond me to the level I feel I'm in a twilight zone.

Second, it is completely unusable unless I give it full and privileged access to my contact list. WHY? I want to chat with 3 specific people. I want to give you address/userID/token of those 3 specific people. But no - it won't work at all. This is where discussion of "yada yada privacy yada yada encryption" further loses all possible meaning.

Third, I cannot easily use it on multiple devices. I have two phones, Galaxy Note 8, and half a dozen laptops and computers and tablets I use daily for various purposes in various locations. I have taken it as granted for the last 30 years that I can check my email/ICQ/AIM/MSN/Hangouts/FB/WHATever on any of those that I choose to. But nooooo... not Whatsapp. Why? Because Privacy & Encryption. L-O-L.

It is the most regressive piece of code I've had the privilege to have forced upon my by both techie and non-techie friends and family alike, and it makes me livid every time.
> There are tons of jobs no one wants to do, but everyone needs done.

If these jobs truly are necessary, then wages would rise to the point where people would be attracted to do them. If truck driving paid as much as FAANG software engineering, I assure you there'd be no shortage of truck drivers (even if it required grinding a trucker Leetcode).

Higher wages further incentivize automation, or alternative means of coping. Truck driving for example will most definitely be automated within the next decade or two. If chickens became so expensive, then more people would opt for vegetables and subsistence farming (actually I heard it's feasible to have a pet chicken in one's apartment. There's your morning eggs).
> The total comp is what mattered.

Assuming you're going to stay at Amazon for a long time, yes, total comp is what matters. If not then base pay matters because you don't get to keep most of the stock if you leave after a year or two. Amazon's vesting schedule is pretty bad. Just 5% at the end of year 1!

https://avieradvisors.com/amazon/amazons-rsu/
Plenty of software developers would kill to work for Amazon, sure the work conditions and prestige is not as great as the other big companies but Amazon still pays pretty darn well.

The big issue is the developers Amazon wants to hire are not the same as the developers who want to work there, so Amazon is basically paying a huge premium to attract people. That said let's not kid ourselves, the majority of people at Amazon are happy to be there, get paid very well, and are reasonably competent.
Ah, agreed, but we're talking about two different things—direct transaction costs versus allocative inefficiency/missed Pareto outcomes. OneChronos is about unlocking Pareto efficiencies—situations in which two or more parties can trade to mutual benefit. An easy example is a (scaled down in price differences, scaled up in size) version of the complements example above, e.g., an ETF arb trading the basket against the underlying with a small tolerance for tracking error. An institution that can take the basket or the underlying as a hedge or as an investment position can interact with the arbitrager, creating economic gains for both parties in the process. At institutional scale, efficiency gains measured in bps and compounded exponentially add up.
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I don't think that will happen. Possibly that they offer some paid upgrade. But I don't think they will ask everyone to pay.
There is merely a step away from arguing for 'wrongthink' as a policy. Ideas should be examined, thoroughly and openly. Staying away does the opposite to the goal you may want to achieve.

Suggesting that ideas can corrupt is especially troubling on HN, which is supposed to be more focused on rational/logical discourse.
This. And/or not helpful in convincing people to work for a salary.
The mistake is thinking politics on Reddit changes things. "Optics is everything" is how NFTs and cryptocoins work, it's hype and attention, and it's the media and the net. Optics is literally the media. Even mainstream movements do protests to get on the media primarily, to get attention. Politics as marketing.

But it's not really how life works. Any real political movement should realise that playing the optics game is doomed, and explicitly avoid such things.

"The revolution will not be televised" was a good slogan for example...

This Reddit story gives me some sympathy to the moderator. I think they were being honest, but they were glamoured with fame and media. And it revealed how the vast majority of redditors are just live action role playing with no actual change in themselves or their world. The drama around it and the new subreddits are all just another scenario in their online roleplay.

The idea that 4chan used cartoon frogs to meme a president into office is something that is seriously believed because it enforces belief in the media, in spectacle, in attention, in optics itself. 4chan doesn't take it seriously however, and I find it both funny and a good example that those who believe in optics should believe that optics works.

Optics is everything to optics.
Much more than that, in my mind, is linux-native steam installations.

I can now play many games directly on my linux laptop without tinkering with anything. It's fantastic and has done more to make me optimistic about linux as a desktop / gaming platform than anything else.
There's been a crypto backlash for a long time, and it comes and goes in waves.

I don't think we've hit peak-crypto yet.
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I had a 2015 thinkpad, and even on that model the keycaps were so thin that two keys split in half due to normal use after 5 years. They were so thin that I couldn’t glue them together, and lenovo as it turns out will not sell you replacement keycaps, only replacement keyboards. Luckily there are third parties which sell the keycaps.
haha, a number of years ago I stepped on my W510. It fell out of bed and under the covers without me noticing, it fell screen down and I stepped right on the display flat against the floor. I didn't put my full weight on it before I realized it was there, but I figured it was toast anyway, surprisingly it was fine!

I really miss the Ultrabay as well. I did the same thing, used to use it for a second HDD for extra storage.

Really though I miss the old old days when you could get an ultrabay battery. What do I need in a laptop more than storage? Battery life. I had a Fujitsu Lifebook which had an "ultrabay" (their version of it, at least) and that was the feature I used most for it.

It seemed to disappear all at once, I wonder if it was FAA regulations around flying with batteries that killed it or what.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this article was about twice as long as it needed to be.

I will throw out there that, despite all of the flaws and issues with Psychology as a field of science, it does seem like everyone involved, mostly, did the right thing here. I did skim it, but I didn't really see anyone do anything other than have sour grapes over how it went down, so I feel like this article and situation generally is a good example of a flawed system working out; deferring to truth over ego and orthodoxy.

Some groups would have circled the wagons to protect against this outsider, but that's not what ultimately happened here. Good!
I strongly disagree with this take.

The whole point of science is to acquire knowledge that eventually gets communicated outside of the scientific body producing it. If the papers never leave the ivory tower, or never lead to other papers that do, it's just navel gazing.

When a scientific community has a chunk of their work that everyone in the tower knows is bullshit but never gets corrected, that metadata doesn't leave the ivory tower. What happens instead is that papers like this flutter out the window, get picked up by journalists who don't have access to tribal knowlege, and then get spread wide and far. The information appears legitimate because it did come from a trusted scientific body. It just had the necessary context that it's actually bullshit left off.

Every scientific community has an obligation to ensure that the papers they publish and advocate actually mean what they say they mean. If nothing else, because not doing that ultimately tarnishes the brand and undermines the trustworthiness of that community.
They don't do that anymore (for advertising purposes anyway) and a lot of companies have stopped sending purchase details in emails anyway (like Amazon) to prevent Google from building up a database of purchases.
I have found this particularly amongst my Christian friends and relatives. In general I know more than probably 90% of them. I have asked about events, people, themes in the bible and they come back clueless and just quote whatever they heard at church out of the mouth of the priest/preacher. It seems like they are comfortable with other people injected their morals and how to live life every rather than seek out education and personal development.
Generally, they were just beaten and dropped out as soon as possible hating the school.
I tend to be quite skeptical of opinion pieces in our age of polarization but on this one I happen to know and trust the author. She's been a physician for our family and if we still lived in the same location we would still go to her.

Some good points:

>Many parts of the U.S. issued mask mandates in 2020 when COVID-19 was new and poorly understood. It was sensible to take maximum precautions in a chaotic and frightening situation; many thought it a small sacrifice to make while scientists toiled to gain a greater understanding of the virus and to develop vaccines. But two years later we know much more about the virus and how to stop it, including abundant evidence showing the lack of efficacy of some of these measures (cleaning surfaces, masking in schools).

>Lifesaving vaccines are now also widely available. As a physician, I’m well aware that medical knowledge is constantly changing. As our understanding grows, our practice changes. This should be a time to peel back layers of mitigation that we now know to be ineffective, yet many school districts are doubling down.

>U.S. policy is an outlier: the World Health Organization advises against masks for kids under 5 and only selectively for kids under 11, and many European nations have kept schools open without requiring masks.
The signing bonus already remediated that.
> but as a GPU programming enthusiast I dislike anything that gives Microsoft more power.

I don't see how this gives Microsoft more power, if anything it takes it from them. People are not dependent on Windows to run Windows games, and developers can target Wine directly if they wish.

> And of course, let us not mistake Valve's intensions. They couldn't care less about Linux users. They are simply leveraging Linux as a low-cost platform to get into the console business.

I've been watching Valve since the beginning and that's not quite how I read it. I do think they're pretty neutral on Linux, that much is true, but in general Valve has consistently fought for openness in gaming. Pretty much anyone can sell on Steam, Valve will let you bypass the 30% cut and sell Steam keys on other stores if you want, they created the OpenVR SDK while Facebook did everything it could to close theirs, etc. Their moves on Linux aren't about having a console, it's about having an alternative to Windows so Microsoft has less control over their (and the rest of PC gaming's) future.
> From the author's account they seem to have extremely supportive managers.

Would you shit talk your previous company/managers with your name attached to it? Especially if you were early in your career?

Probably not.
The Next MacBook Pro 13 Doesn't Sound All That 'Pro'
The title made me think he had died!

The link is actually a post about two books about RMS (edit: not even new books, just new to the blog post’s author).
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We’re don’t know so it’s impossible to judge without additional information. If it was a cheap marg bar and they cost $5 each, a $10 tip is generous and helps offset possible minor inconvenience. If it was a place where one boutique margarita costs $22, then that’s just stealing and being an asshole customer, especially if it comes out of the bartender’s wages and gets them in trouble and possibly fired. Hopefully the truth is closer to the first case!
You also have to look at how much $$ is printed year to year and how much inflation hit IT sector.

After finally deciding to switch jobs I got twice the salary of previous employer when I hoped Ill get 20-30%.

Market is not catching up to goverments pomping out new taxes and inflation.
Maybe they are evil geniuses?
This comes to my attention at a really convenient time. As a teenager, I initially got interested in Computer Science due to cryptography. Over a decade later, I've gotten into the subject for the first time since then.

For the last few days, I've been writing my own encryption for fun even though it's 100% not secure enough or powerful. My belief is that even though it's not super useful, the experience of attempting to write one is teaching me a lot more than I would have by simply studying it.
Superstonk has pretty much been a qanon-esque community since day 1. I still hold 10 shares of GME (bought at $220 oof) _just in case_. With that said, every now and then they come up with something that makes me do a double take. Right now they're obsessed with direct registering their shares. I'm guessing they think that if they can lock up the whole float they can force a short squeeze. Also if ryan cohen issues an NFT dividend.

But I can assure you that the members are 100% serious.