skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently published a blog post[0] about this with an excerpt from my book[1]. I wrote a whole chapter on feeling like an imposter, so here's some thoughts on what you can tell them:

- It’s common for software developers to feel overwhelmed with the pace of things during the first few years of their career.

- You shouldn't feel intimidated by coworkers who are smarter. In fact, you can leverage their knowledge and experience to learn faster.

- It's a feeling, not a syndrome. We should move away from using the word "syndrome" because it's not a medical condition at all and that word has a negative connotation to it. It's just a feeling like stage fright or anxiety, and it's temporary and will eventually pass.

- It’s okay to admit that you don’t know something, or that you hadn’t considered some obvious edge case. In fact, admitting that you don’t know something is a sign of maturity.

- Identify your knowledge gaps. Write down things that you know you don't know. This could be things like topics, phrases, or acronyms that you’ve heard repeatedly, but don’t know what they are. Programming specific things could be OOP principles, scalability strategies, security practices, agile methodology, design patterns, kubernetes, etc.

- Close your knowledge gaps. Take 20-30 minutes each day and teach yourself one thing from your list of things you wrote down. After a few weeks you'll be much more knowledgable on topics you previously had nothing about. It'll help build confidence in conversations and open up new ideas and new things to add to your list.

Hope this helps. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat more about this. Like I said, I wrote a whole chapter about this and many more on helping junior software engineers build up their soft-skills. My email is in my HN profile.

[0]: https://www.exponentialbackoff.com/posts/how-to-beat-imposte...

[1]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior
Scapegoated you mean. There's been no shortage of pleading and complaints from residents, police refuse to comply. To call it "begging" on the police's behalf is a farce.
I think you have misunderstood the reason behind the move towards the 4 day workweek across Europe.

It's literally more productive for less hours.
If 3 dudes are entitled to piss in the ocean, then yes all of Apple staff can march to the shoreline and do the same.

> If 3 dudes are entitled to have racists discussions in the privacy of their home, then Apple should be fine to do the same in their HR policy in their HQ

Yes actually, I think people should be able to discriminate based on whatever criteria they see fit. Why is discriminating based on height/attractiveness OK but race not OK?

> If 3 dudes are entitled to hunt 1 deer, then Apple should be as well entitled to hunt 1 million deer.

I'm not aware of any restriction on Apple employees applying for deer permits.

> If 3 dudes can build a shack without having to deal with fire inspections, then Apple should be able to build an office or a million shacks without fire inspections.

I think zoning restrictions apply to locations, not people.
It's basically a rigged game from the start - Including YC. It's also quite ridiculous to compare yourself to those people. It's symptoms of survivorship bias all over again.
Shadowbans are different from permanent bans or suspensions the OP has gotten. You at least you know you are banned when you're permabanned/suspended. Reddit claimed at one large incident of outrage over shadowbans that shadowbans were only intended for bots and that no actual humans should ever be shadowbanned and that they would rectify it after messaging admin. My account randomly got shadowbanned a few months ago and I got crickets via support/admin. They really don't give a shit and it shows in the quality of the content and comments.
All risk is not equal, all reward is not equal. Some people can't afford the startup process.
Moving tabs into history doesn't address why people are keeping tabs pen. The presence of the tab reminds you of something. If you move it into history, you have to go looking for it, which only works if you remember that you saved such a tab in the first place.
More and more TOS contain Mandatory Binding Arbitration. Once Mandatory Binding Arbitration is invoked, no other law matters. It supersedes other state and federal laws with respect to contracts. The contract will then be judged by arbiters who can be blacklisted by the company if they rule against them too often. State law is not permitted to prevent mandatory binding arbitration.

The fairness, reasonableness, or conscionableness of the rest of the contract is then not reviewable or adjudicate by a court of law. The arbiter will decide the fairness.

Due to clickwarp, you are not required to understand or perceive your loss of rights for them to be lost.

Corporations love them.

So, yes, they can be "gotcha"s
Request for clarification: does "you" refer to yourself or the legal entity? If the legal entity, will a python upvoting bot in a jurisdiction where programs can be citizens satisfy contract terms?
Ah, okay. I probably never knew about it, that was after I left Pixar. (This is Jim W. from Studio Tools, by the way. Great to see you here on HN.)
Hi, thanks for the link! I just tried this on EFS but it doesn't give the expected answer. The program uses NFS NULL calls. I'm guessing we haven't optimized those yet given that they are typically only used at mount time, but we'll have a look to see what's going on.

One of the most common operations on NFS are OPEN and GETATTR. The following example measures the latency of OPEN (GETATTR would be similar):

$ python3 -m timeit -s 'import os' 'os.open("/efs/test.bin", os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDONLY)'
500 loops, best of 5: 554 usec per loop

Results will vary a bit depending on network routing and the region.
Hard to tell if this is sarcasm. However, I totally agree that learning about operating system packaging is a rewarding exercise. In developing jDeploy I had to learn a lot of details about OS packaging. Very interesting most of the time. Very frustrating at other times when all you want to do is build your app in a form that your users can easily install.
A race to the bottom it is.
Belgium to give workers right to request four-day week
Capitalism isn't why SpaceX beats competitors. Rather, money's not the motivator that drive Elon Musk and his company. Defense contractors are a form of capitalism too.

The market can impose some discipline, but it's up to the humans in the driver seat.
In the space we[1] operate, there's no shortage of competitors. Over the years, I've seen that those who can unlock marketing see a lot more success, even with a shittier product.

As a developer-turned-founder, a lot of marketing feels sleazy. Was it always this way? So much link-bait, fluffy posts that are really big ads, shallow content just for SEO, upvoting-rings on platforms, etc. There's so few who seem to put in an honest effort. I'm sure part of this is because Google is letting all this low quality stuff rank.

From day one, we've focused on honestly taking care of customers. Pushing customer visible bugs to the top of the list, following up when requested features are released, reprioritizing the roadmap to accommodate growing pain points, etc. It has has paid dividends over the years in the form of very strong referrals. Which are effectively pre-sold trials.

[1] https://enchant.com
That’s good, I have not experienced betting same to shut the lid on any Dell Latitudes or HP Probooks, and the last Lenovo I tried was Yoga, which also did not have it.

Perception is everything, I just do not understand why Microsoft leadership would not make such a convenient, useful, and publicly visible feature a top priority.
If I recall correctly the audio tag RFC first came out in 2000 but I'd be shocked if any major browsers supported it.
Finding the place to enter and save and confirm a password sounds a lot harder than just putting in my first name, last name, email and a password in the first place.
I hope this works. Do you have rich parents?
The community guidelines are a pretty good start. If I were to take a guess, your comment came off as more of a complaint than constructive feedback. Your point may have been valid, but the delivery was just “off”.
You just have to apply for it for each domain you've added and they approve it within a few days
I hope this experiment showed corporate America that most line & middle managers are in fact quite useless.

Now it's time for the leaders to recognize that those who get shit done should be rewarded equally for it. Everyone has experienced this new world of working and seen first hand who these unsung heroes are keeping the lights on, and they aren't the loudest in the room taking credit for everyone else's work.
I was refering to ability to manipulate local files from Firefox, that existed 6 - maybe 8 years ago - long long time ago, when this filesystem API did not exist.
Why were you using Tor?
Thanks. I saw the issue (presumably) you posted, and am setting up a VM to try to reproduce. Should have this fixed shortly.
Roman law is zero part of contemporary legal education in the United States, which absent intent of the student to seek historical knowledge out of personal interest, usually reaches back no further than Brittish Common Law.
As always, a party's political beliefs are more complicated than being pro-[thing] or anti-[thing]. To steelman the GOP, I'd say that they're against welfare for individuals because for the most part they're transfer payments that don't require any "work" to obtain (short of filling out some forms). They think that's bad because it encourages laziness. To my knowledge farm subsidies aren't implemented that way. They're implemented as price supports or loan programs, so you still need to actually produce something to get that government money.
>There's tons of incompatible dialects. I think that shows the problem with what you're saying.

To my knowledge the major dialects in use are:

- One True Awk (aka bwk) (https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk) - this one is bundled in all *BSD/macOS

- Gawk (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/) - this one is bundled in most Linux

- mawk (https://invisible-island.net/mawk/) - bundled in some Linux distros (?), known as the fastest byte-code compiled implementation.

All three have very good compatibility, but Gawk is super-set over POSIX standard. I have some evidence here, since I regularly test [1] against these implementations and even some others, like GoAWK.

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/actions/runs/1830978431
Alan Turing, Trees, and the Wonder of Life
Depends on the type of work, surely. If it's menial tasks and labor is plenty, you can afford your workforce continuously burning out, since it's fast to train and easy to replace. It's exploitative, but as long as it makes the market happy...

For highly-educated jobs where people need 6 months of onboarding and institutional knowledge matters, it's probably more efficient to reduce churn.
Tomb Raider's Linux Port from Feral Interactive Delisted on Steam
I was hit with a warning for threatening violence when I said something, in response to all teen moms should have their baby taken away, I said “like Indians have had done for decades in Canada? I don’t think they should be taken away but rather supported and checked in on by case workers to help with the stress of raising a kid.” I was literally showing support not to take a teen moms kid away and offer them more social support but got a warning. Wft.
Falcon Heavy was repeatedly delayed, but as you mentioned, Falcon 9 got repeatedly upgraded during that same time. They decided to allocate the resources to 9 instead of Heavy. However, they're not going to be doing that with Starship. I think they'll get it orbital before the end of 2024.
There is no freedom of movement across borders. There is plenty of work for truckers inside of Canada.
In marketing there’s owned media, earned media, and paid media.

Google initially focused on the first two. They promoted new products like Gmail or Chrome on their search home page, and in the press. It worked well for them because they were already a newsworthy company with a lot of web traffic.

Today, they work quite hard at all three.
> But hats off, cool project!

Thanks!
Co-founder here. It's fun to see your work on the front page at 6am, and I guess I'll stop lurking now. I'm happy to try to answer any questions you may have.
payU, BLIK and other processors mostly solve this but they seem to be popular only in some european countries. They also beat paypal easily.
Start with basics. What’s rich? Parents who let you live in the basement rent free? Because that’s a huge leg up yet something most middle class can offer.
Every service that lets you sign up with Google, Facebook, whatever should require a secondary authentication method, period.

They should be very aware that this could happen and their customers need a backup, that’s on them.

As for emails, contacts, photos, downloads, that’s on us. We need backups like you have but the vast majority of users wouldn’t even know where to begin with this.
Super simple, easy to use. A few recommendations:
1) add support for am/pm, along with the option to disable the leading 0.
2) Add the ability to change accent color + app icon
3) Home screen widgets

Note: I did not test premium features so I can’t give feedback on that. If you have custom repeat, that’s good enough for me. Your app doesn’t have enough features to justify a subscription IMO, but it does one thing well. I honestly wouldn’t add more features unless you want to complete with other big names.
They did put "doing agile" in scare quotes to suggest it isn't really true agile development. They're claiming it, but not actually doing it right.
Once you don't have to worry about not having to pay rent, not having to pay electricity etc then your appetite for risks grows. To get to that point you either need to start from a rich household (parents) or get to a certain age, have some money to support you (from previous work) and then go into entrepreneurial experiments. This is a big reason why you see older entrepreneurs embarking into that journey.
If you have the time to join groups that you find interesting, but are not directly related to your topic of study, do it. You will spend the rest of your career increasing your skill set in the domain you chose, but university can be a unique chance to get to learn from all the other domains. In my experience, and your milage may vary, nobody asked about my grads after I graduated. The skills I gained by joining groups outside of CS helped me go much farther than spending that extra time studying I think ever could.
> How do you deal with maintenence and stuff? Do you need on-site engineers?

I worked on a similar product. It's just like shipping desktop software, but the people installing the on-premise server are much more savvy than someone who needs their hand held pushing a few buttons.
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/
It's the same mechanism as Morning Pages - write exactly 3 pages right when you wake up, whatever is on your mind. It's tremendously helpful to move you past whatever you're stuck on in life.

You can write "I don't want to be writing this" over and over if you like. But it turns out that you usually have good things to say.
It's deterministic in the sense that QM gives you an exact answer about what happens at the quantum scale for any interaction, without any probability involved.

However, the exact values that QM predicts are not real numbers for speed etc, they are a complex numbers describing a wave, with different values for different positions in space-time. These numbers precisely describe how the wave-packet will interact with other wave-packets.

But, if you want to do a classical measurement, then the only known relationship between the wave description and the outcome of your experiment is the Born rule - the amplitude of the wave at a point X in space-time is proportional to the probability that the particle will be detected at that point.
This looks interesting. It sort of reminds me of an open source obsidian. I tried obsidian for a while but ended up switching to a dropbox directory full of markdown files. Felt likely slightly less friction to start a new page in vim, and also be able use ripgrep to find old ideas.
The reason Falcon Heavy was delayed is because it is based on Falcon 9 which was still rapidly evolving. They couldn't decide on a spec to freeze it on and begin serious development because of how much F9 was improving. By the time it slowed down enough to begin work on FH, F9's performance and started to cover some of FH's originally envelope. I don't think it was really a case of Elon time as much as F9 proved to have a lot more room for development than they thought.

Starship is a different can of worms. Its radical and innovative in many ways so there are a lot of work that needs to be done. This is definitely where Elon mis estimated how long it would take. It took them nearly a year to get the fuel tanks right. Then it took them a few prototypes to prove the belly flop concept. I wouldn't be surprised if the same proves to be true for the heat shield.

The easiest part about Starship is the booster because its not doing anything F9 isn't already. Just at a much larger scale. That of course isn't easy either. But it does but things into perspective somewhat.

And after all of that, my money is still on it beating SLS to orbit. Starship may be audacious but SLS's goal was never to get into space. In fact the longer they can drag it out the better it serves its purpose as a social welfare program.
Do you have an example of a website with a comment hierarchy that works well for you? I'm pondering writing an alternative frontend for HN with accessibility in mind--I don't have experience with that, and am not affiliated with HN, but am willing to see if I could make this work.

Would you also appreciate an easier way to find replies to your own comments?
Rich parents means you eat better, have access to higher quality resources, have more time for fitness, more time to go to the doctor for preventative issues.

Rich parents means you don’t have to work two jobs or work while studying. Means you have free “consulting” on life decisions from the perspective of the upper class. Means you access to new things like computers, phones, cars, etc.

It’s a huge advantage to come from a successful family. It means you don’t have to spend the majority of your time in survival mode but can instead invest in growth opportunities.

I would say there’s an enormous advantage coming from a rich family but it’s not the only requirement.
EU vaccine passport paves the way to digital identity, but pitfalls lie ahead
Very cool.

I also did a small web project with my 9yo son, while my 1yo daughter stayed on my lap.

He mentioned a website name, tiramacacos.com (means take-boogers). I said we could do something about it and in a few minutes we had the artwork and some minimal html to support it.
>I wonder if there's any evidence that we can sustainably support 8 billion people.

it depends on the type of lifestyle you're willing to have and how much % of the GDP you're willing to pour into it. I'm sure you can sustainably feed all 8 billion people if we poured 50% of our GDP into food production and we only ate rice and beans.
There is a law in Iowa that sets the date of our party caucuses earlier than the earliest primary. Our primaries are not first, rather it's the party caucuses here that are held as the first selection event in the Presidential race.

I am a rare Iowan in that I recognize that this system is dumb, and bad for the country. It's great for me - I have had the privilege of hearing in person in a small group setting every Democratic president since Jimmy Carter. I've talked with a couple of them. I can tell you from personal experience that Joe Biden's reputation as a "hands on" or "physical" campaigner was spot on - he embraced me as firmly and as intimately as any man every has (I am very rural looking, white male nearly his age, for the record). But for all that, the circus that is the Iowa caucuses is a stupid way to start the candidate selection process. I'd be happy to see the back of it.
To be fair with the book, that's what he describes as what he thinks a team should be. Not only there is margin for having more than one team, but the rest of the book completely ignores it and is about real people on real teams.
I'm not a fan of this headline style but it's not really telling you how to interpret the story any more than "It's fine that ideas get forgotten in notes apps" or any other normative sentence would be.

It's just kind of a cheesey way of making a surprising normative claim.
> I wouldn’t sign a contract without reading it.

Sometimes it's not about how long does it take to read it, but even how it is interpreted by one of the parties, or if it includes clauses that are unreasonable.

For example, contracts signed by seniors who didn't have the knowledge or mental faculties to understand what they were signing, may be voided.
UAE switched to 36 hours workweek in January
IDE as a Presentation Tool
This is revisionist. They could not sustain a united front, it quickly deteriorated and was diffused with people supporting various agendas. It was important for the message to reach people in order to ramp up support and for the movement to sustain itself, that was a colossal failure.
Yes, because rich people already know that getting rich is not about being rich.
B.S.

Just Trudeau making up a Boogeyman to scare Canadians into giving him more control and giving up the little freedom they have left. Trudeau and Freeland should be brought before the Human Rights Tribunal.
I recently learned about the kik strategy for handling child porn via Darknet Diaries[1]. If you can't actually tell anyone at kik about child porn, kik can't know about it and if nobody at kik knows about it then they're apparently not required to do anything about it.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/