skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think SOME longevity in congress/the senate is a good thing (You get more done). I really wish we had something like an age cap.

It's really crazy that the only way it seems like we can get these senators/congresspeople out of office is death from old age.

The fact is, your mind DOES deteriorate when you get older. That's why so many phone scams are special built to target older people.

A change I'd make to the constitution is that "nobody over the age of 70 can hold a governmental position".
React and Preact really are nice. I’ve been building native and web apps and services since y2k. Preact, combined with Typescript is probably my favorite tech yet.

Though, I’ll note that I do really miss VB6 and C# Winforms for RAD.
Average 4-year private school would cost 200k, if not more if you're going to any private T100. Average person in this community also wouldn't go to CC.
How come wealthy people don't drive at 200mph at all times then?
Which book in particular? Are you talking about "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" ?

I'll happily tack a book on the reading list, but he's written much more than one book!
One of the advantages of wireless headphones is that you can take a shit while still listening in on those mostly (or even entirely) useless meetings :-)
I've successfully hosted my own private mail server [1] on a Hetzner system for the last 6-7 years. It's a steep learning curve, and a rather large time sink in the beginning to set everything up, but it's been running smoothly ever since.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428882
Your logo is a fox to everyone though, doesn't really matter what the intent was.
Well they knew that going in, so I'm not convinced that's a factor.
Yes, my wife has also been punched working in the hospital. She now does nursing by phone where people are still really awful to her, but at least they can't assault her.
I wonder what specific opportunities he felt he was missing out on. I've been working in software for 17 years without a degree and have never noticed the lack of a degree stopping me from anything. I've never had it come up during interviews.
Out of all the tools you mentioned, pledge and unveil are the most pleasant to use from a developer and operator's perspective. I'm hoping something something similar will arrive in Linux without it becoming xkcd 927.
Actually `gq` does not require a locally installed Go compiler. It interprets the supplied Go using Yaegi.
I love their new silicone charging cables. Nice texture! And their 25600mAh battery is incredible for long trips where you can't find a plug. Anker's had a pretty impressive streak of good products over the years and I hope for many more.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your modelling. Unfortunately I will need to read more on this topic, because I do not understand the intuition behind the priors "uniform prior of alpha_prior = 1, and beta_prior = 1".

The way I would generally approach such a problem is by running monte carlo simulations. Assuming the true rate of nurses quitting is X, what is the chance that a random sample of 200 nurses has the expectation of quitting >= 90%. To get the lower bound of the confidence interval, I will run this simulation for several values of X, starting at say X=60%, increasing until I get >95% chance that a random sample of 200 nurses has E(quitting) > 90%. Do you think this approach makes sense ?
My heat pump is a Trane heat pump from 2018 and it goes into emergency heat mode when the temps are below 36, which is off and on for most of the winter. I wonder if I should have it serviced to make sure it's working correctly.
Yep, try doing that in an electron context and you quickly learn why a lot of this software still runs on mainframes with UX from the 80s, hard T1 lines (if they’re lucky enough to be off ISDNs), faxing things all around since that’s considered “secure”, etc etc. A lot of startups can’t touch this stuff due to regulatory hurdles. When the first step is “go change the law”, it’s a non-starter.
They have a feature called "provisioned concurrency" where basically one "instance" of your lambda (or however many you want to configure) stays running warm, so that it can handle requests quickly.

I know it defeats the conceptual purpose of serverless, but it's a nice workaround while cloud platforms work on mitigating the cold start problem.
You seem well suited to not getting tattoos! :)
They obviously found a good niche, people don't want to be overcharged for "premium" accessories and the cheapest stuff is usually useless or dangerous.
It is what he called late stage capitalism. He might have been wrong on the solutions, but he nailed the problem quite well.
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I don't think you are arrogant but you sound very rigid and simplistic in your view of work and life. Strive to do better and strive to help those around you do better. You don't need to have fixed standards and then freak out when people don't meet those standards.

At the same time it's okay to move on to different teams and different companies looking for a really exceptional situation where everything goes great all the time. But realize most of your career will not be under those conditions. And that's okay, you can still learn and grow, and get paid to do it, even if there are problems.
100F in North Carolina usually has a higher heat index temperature too due to humidity. I thought we'd be prepared for it coming from Southern California but it really is just a different kind of hot. And it's hot.
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I am not too sure about accessibility of all subjects. More esoteric information is still locked away deep in forums, youtube videos, or maybe paid online classes. For example a few years back I quit my job and spent two years slogging through trying to learn ruby and ruby on rails. There are countless tutorials and videos detailing how to get simple stuff going but more advanced stuff seemed to only be available if you end up in a Rails shop and learn hands on with experienced developers. All the interviews would catch me off guard asking about more intermediate ways of writing code in the "Ruby way". As someone who wrote Java, if the logic seems right to me, how would I know if I am doing it the "ruby way"? Same goes for Rails(things like active support are not covered by many learning locations).

This also bit me yesterday in a completely different fashion. I was attempting to replace the battery of an iPod Nano 3rd generation. This device is notorious for being very fragile to disassemble and repair. I managed to solder in the battery connectors only to start seeing the board heat up immensely. In removing the wires I burned one of the vias. Now I spent hours looking for a schematic or some info explaining what each via was for. I had to resort to looking up various youtube videos and asking on discord...no dice.

There is something special of having a structured curriculum that is trialed and tested so that you can go from a to b. I don't know if Khan Academy is that but local school curricula may be still relevant because of this.
Part of growing as a software engineer is knowing when things really matter and when things don't. When I first started out, in my mind there was a "right" way to do things (my way of course) and a wrong way. Sure, the wrong way could work, but it was ugly and bad code (in my mind). I would fight constantly to ensure things were done the "right" way.

Then I ended up being in charge of new engineers. I would shoot down their ideas, and essentially force them to do it my way. Eventually I realized that I was hampering their growth for stuff that didn't matter as much as I was thinking, so I relaxed a lot in how I approached things.

My guess is that a lot of what you consider important isn't really that important -- particularly at Amazon, where your co-workers probably have a better idea of where the priorities are. Also keep in mind that even the best of software tends to accumulate technical debt and fixing that rarely bubbles up to a high priority. Which isn't to say you shouldn't push to fix issues you see (indeed, that is often why interns are hired -- to take care of the stuff that regular staff doesn't have time for), just that you shouldn't automatically assume you know more.
Some perspectives still hold that degrees are critical, but unless it's from less than a handful of the top programs in a field, the degree is barely worth the paper it's printed on. Degrees are useful to get into corporate work, but having industry experience, a competent body of work, recognition from your peers, and a demonstrated work ethic can get you into almost any type of job at a competitive rate of pay.

In some cases, degrees can be harmful by elevating incompetent, ignorant, entitled graduates to positions they shouldn't have, particularly in middle management. Getting a degree is not paying your dues or putting in time toward something useful. It can be, but it depends on the individual, so degrees fail as a shibboleth for utility.
I would probably look back at github (or gitea if self-hosted and you're looking for simplicity), bitbucket is a pile of features that almost work, but you're constantly reminded that you've seem better.

Commit control after PR decline/merge is one of them for me.
It also probably doesn't help that doctors are jacks-of-all-trades medically - there are simply too much complexity to thoroughly understand the nuances of every obscure condition and interaction.

However, I think acknowledging when one doesn't know something is a skill many could benefit from improving...
You can't sue if a product doesn't work as intended and results in harm?
They are soc 2 compliant - so it must be OK ;)

I mean, they can prove on paper that they are secure. Who cares about reality any more.
Cool! If you don't want it any more, I will give you $3500 for it!
I'm really not following your argument here. It seems like you are saying that free speech is an important principle more expansive than what is currently codified in the constitution, but that because some parts of society have "abandoned" this principle (as if there was ever universal agreement on your interpretation of the broader principle) that now even enforcing the existing law would be too ad-hoc and a violation of the principle. This really seems like a throwing out the baby because there are a few remaining drops of bathwater on it kind of situation.
Libertarians are moderates and not part of the Right. They only look like part of the Right because we have no actual far right groups in the US and because of our tradition of liberty.

If you talk to literal fascists they don't like corporate personhood either.
Yes, but that is what they signed up for - i.e. they knew it going in, and that has not all of a sudden changed.

I couldn't do it, and god bless them, but that is unlikely a cause of people leaving the profession - that would be like a computer programmer saying they were leaving the profession because they suddenly found out they have to stare at a screen most of the day.

I also find that '90%' number suspect as someone that works very closely with the healthcare community - there is a lot of turnover, and its hard to hire nurses right now - but almost always when someone leaves their job it is because they went down the street and got a 25% raise, i.e. they didn't leave their profession, just their job.
You can't deny though that there is an incentive for some, especially hedge funds with massive crypto positions (who are known for not being above doing nefarious things with foreign government officials), to bribe legislators of countries open to the idea to adopt it, to improve their financial asset. Whether or not that is indeed something they're doing, as I mentioned, is pure speculation.
I think what you're experiencing in group projects at school is similar to the work world, probably more amplified because any school project has a lot lower risk than at a job where one could get fired.

I think large companies, including FAANG, have more parts of the org where slacking off is tolerated (not suggesting your coworkers are but there can be a sense of "how does this help anything?" at larger companies). I would suggest seeing if you can intern at a startup or smaller scale company if possible. It will help give you some comparisons to your other internships.

Internal tools are usually guilty of shoddy/lazy work because, well they are internal. Nobody sands the 2x4s that make up the insides of a house's walls. The companies money spent on engineers is usually spent better elsewhere. This is a key for job hunting in the software world - you want to be working on a product (brings in profit) vs. being in a cost center. You'll be treated better, paid better and probably be around people that are also more passionate about the work.

I went to a state school for CS where it was a new department having been under math a few years before. This was before google existed, or maybe it was in a garage at that point. Money didn't occur to me, I just liked computers, was always tinkering to get games working and picked CS. I've seen a fair number of people pursue CS/software because of the money. With that being the motivating factor, they don't last long or they progress into careers tangential to programming like PM, business analyst, etc. and are successful.

What you're seeing is just a part of life in the working world. Keep in mind that people may have things going on outside of work that consume a lot of their energy (kids, divorce, deaths in family, etc.) and it will affect their work.
"Excuse me everyone, I'm going to the toilet to take a shit so everyone please put on their headphones, cheers!"

Yeah, definitely 0/10 on the awkwardness scale.
I am sure that the policy that forced nurses with natural immunity to be vaccinated or lose their job has nothing to do with.
The article premise is the purest of false dichotomy. Profits and Free Speech are not opposite cause and effect - how did American manage 250 years to archieve both together???
No. There's no 'free speech' obligation for a platform to promote your speech. Or to promote itself beyond what it sees as its own audience and mission. As you note, the value of niche forums is the high signal/noise ratio--topical discussions stay (more or less) on topic.
A counterpoint is that Musk is able to attach the best talent through his personal brand. His companies have all been outperforming as well, out innovating
That, and also workout during compilation. Which does also seem good for concentration, so win-win?
If that were true Pepsi and Coke would compete their profit margins to 0 for almost identical products. However they both make tens of billions of profit a year.
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Yes, well the school in question is in the USA, so the specifics of USA's accreditation system are clearly what's relevant...
"BS from an accredited university" indeed, for most jobs.

The boss of my first internship at Cisco majored in Geology.
A good path to explore, but requires more data points than two from 60 years ago... Let's try this approach:
[0] steady with huge uptick since the pandemic
[1] steady decline with uptick in July 2021
[2] sparse, but slow incline since July 2021
[3] shallow dip ~2013, slow include since

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=n...
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=n...
[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=n...
[3] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=n...
This is a timely post! We're actually working on merging Distroless with Alpine for the best of both worlds. You can check out some of the progress in Apko and the new Distroless GitHub org.

https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko
http://github.com/distroless

Blog post: https://blog.chainguard.dev/introducing-apko-bringing-distro...

Disclosure: I helped start the Distroless project years ago and now work at Chainguard.
> Today, on the other hand, a lot ... of people in CS are probably there because they heard that it's a field where you can make a lot of money... They don't necessarily derive any intrinsic enjoyment from ... technical excellence.

This hits the nail on the head.

How do I cope? I'm very particular about the team I work with. You can't choose everyone you work with of course, but to some extent, you can.

I've interviewed at FAANGs where the interviewers were clearly dead inside and don't give a damn about what they build, and are either coasting or optimizing for promotions/resume.

I look passion in my prospective colleagues attitude towards work, which I find to be a good predictor for whether I'll enjoy the environment. My anecdata suggests this also works towards better product success on average.
Agree, I'm definitely not making any statements as to whether or not the burnout is real. I just think that a lot times the assumptions we make when we apply statistical concepts (like standard error) to real world data don't hold up.
> promoting trans kids

I had too search for it. I found a PSA that I think you might be referring to: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/disney-networks-among-outlet...

Do you take issue with its contents?
Are the iPhone 12 and 13 so bad that Apple has decided to cater to only these device, rather than the older models that are more likely to need servicing and parts?
Same thing with My Documents.
Yea I am aware of that, my apology, I should have mentioned that I was asking more about getting EU blue card, they have a score system for foreigners and a degree/master could count towards that if we want to work as a IT worker in Germany/Austria

Another comment mentioned it as well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182122

I would be glad to know whether the Master program from georgia tech is recognized in Germany/Austria
I would disagree - when average Joe loses his job due to a recession they are going to need some form of entertainment to fill their now wide-open schedule. People here might find torrenting and piracy pretty trivial but the average Joe is going to find it a much bigger hurdle than simply logging into Netflix and pressing go.
> The problems stems from people believing they are consumers of healthcare, on equal footing with the practitioner they are seeing. They're not, objectively.

Objectively, the patient is the only one who has 500,000 hours of experience with the unique and very complicated system we call a body, and is objectively the only one who comprehends what they're feeling. They're also the one who experiences the consequences, they're the only ones with literal skin in the game. How much is all of this worth?

It's a difficult thing. The answer is some mix of giving the doctor and patient power.
right, and while nurses do have to do some things I would consider gross, more often than not, it is the lower paid medical assistants and CNA's that get the real awful jobs that does not require a nursing degree - i.e. changing diapers in nursing home, bathing people etc - won't find too many nurses doing that in the nursing homes around me.
You can buy or swap it directly from someone else who has crypto without a middleman, and there are services that provide this option for free. For instance this guy bought a car for Bitcoin in Ukraine. ^1 And it saved his life! Depending on the country you may also use it directly for groceries.

The technology is kinda like the telephone in 1880's. A lot of peeps were very sceptical towards it and thought of it as merely a toy, not least because it wasn't widespread and thus the use case for it wasn't well known.

^1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gZtDDaWvPk
> I believe you can even be personally liable for HIPPA security violations as a user or dev of a healthcare system.

Welcome to being an engineer, if that's what you want to call yourself. The engineer who approves a bridge design can be held liable if it collapses due to a design fault.
"The US also subsidizes in terms of .. energy almost every western country"

These claims are outrageous and totally unsubstantiated.
How does US subsidise energy of France or Japan?

"Most healthcare in the west is subsidized by the US."
"The US market is far more lucrative, so companies do R&D and make capital from the US. "

You are subsidising the companies, not my healthcare.
And they pay out this money in dividends to shareholders. I am sure they are very gratefull, maybe you should ask them for a rebate.

Stop subsidising them and overpaying - do you think healthcare costs in Europe will rise? If you do, I've got a wager.
I don't think you're arrogant. You will find low standards many places you go in the world and seeing an opportunity for something better isn't inherently arrogant.

That being said, as many people have pointed out, understanding why compromises were made in certain cases is important. Sometimes compromising on things like code quality is actually the right thing to do for the business. More often than not it isn't and this get's thrown out as an excuse for low standards.

Go see more types of environments. As a consultant who has got to work on probably approaching 50 teams in my career, I'd say maybe 10 or less were decently functioning and 5 or less were truly well run. Which means you may need to look through a lot of places to find a group of people who are able to manage themselves and maintain high standards. It's worth the search though.

note: never worked in FAANGMETC. I've never seen high coding standards in non faang enterprise (banks and hospitals).
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I remember that one. We lost power for an entire day in Southern Spain, everyone went out to buy AC units and put too much strain on the grid. I was young so I may be remembering something wrong but that's what I was told.

Looking at that page I see Jerez hit 45.1 °C (113.2 °F). That's the closest city to where we were at the time.
> scam Amazon sellers

Man I hate that. Only reason used devices are a turn off. Battery has 100% capacity, cycle it, nope 60% actually "brand new, OEM".

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Hey, thanks for the detailed response, your last point is a very insightful one (not to me, though). What I have a problem with, is that generally the anti-IQ crowd (not you, since you do understand the nuances) tend to take the stand that IQ tests are imperfect or even wrong hence they also extend that to concluding that intelligence itself as a concept is flawed, basically the blank slate concept.

Now the last point that you mentioned is a very important. Most average people who make decisions (eg employers) are average themselves so that they fall back on what they know best ( sometime it's IQ tests, in the software world it's leetcode) and what they know best is not necessarily the best. So why blame the normies? (And I'm not denying that a lot of harm comes off it.) What is the alternative for a normie? As a general concept similar methods of gauging people (by normies) on other aspects (like trust) is also flawed, but that is the best they can manage.
See "The Managerial Revolution" by James Burnham.
"a technique for reducing the memory footprint of programs in compiled languages with C-like structures"

I figure that's not the primary reason for structure packing, but rather for fine-grained control over writing to very specific memory layouts (think global descriptor table) as structs.
I would say the drug cartels are about as close to free market capitalism as we have today. They are largely unregulated because they can either buy off the regulators / government, or fight them with armies.
Feels pretty similar to any typical fastcgi implementation with pools, scaling up/down, separate spaces for initialization code and per-request code, etc.