skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I resent these polished stock footage slideshows whose content could be summed up in one sentence.
I would suggest some of the decentralized (non-corporate owned) social platforms like Matrix, Scuttlebutt, Mastodon, Gemini, Hypercore (DAT/Beaker Browser).
They do it because advertising works.
Sony rejected China’s demand to scrub Statue Of Liberty from ‘Spiderman’
The fact that these types of threads are filled with inaccurate FUD bordering on lies makes me even more convinced that practices like this are indeed necessary.

Just like with Google, yes, you can setup 2FA on GitHub without giving them a phone number. It's very, very easy.
What about infrastructure teams? Not all work is product work.
That should teach them....
In grad school I pursued (at the time it was considered experimental) a minor in "Sustainability Management". This was like 10 years ago and there was nowhere near the amount of stuff happening in the space then as there is now - it was basically "how do we get corporations to reduce their emissions? LOL good luck" and "how do large scale renewable energy projects make it? Only gonna happen with government help". I was a little disappointed with it at the time but I'm really happy that the field has awoken and that tech is getting involved - I would love to see how "higher" education in that space has changed.

> What do your do with a degree in climatology?

I write code, ironically. I'm in the camp that believes degrees aren't _totally_ about what you learn but more about advancing your reasoning and thinking skills and learning how to interact with people (not to say you don't learn anything in school, you definitely do but IMHO it largely depends on what you study).
They do now - as in a whole session just with behavioral questions. You're told about it up front.
Yeah from what I've heard you ideally want to hit 70-80% of your OKRs, and people game it to make sure they fail at one or two so they don't get accused of being "too easy".
https://ghost.org for

https://davidkunnen.com

https://stockevents.app/help

https://stockevents.app/blog
To fight that flakey situation of bad APIs, one decides to build a business based on flakey screen scraping instead? With financial information? What could possibly go wrong?
Half of me wishes we just got rid of titles and just adjusted pay based on the value perceived/demonstrated to the company YoY. People would probably be more inclined to work harder and on more challenging stuff if their comp was more outcome driven like a sales type role.

Incentives make people do the weirdest stuff. It becomes pure politics at a certain point and largely a cool kids club of who you know to sponsor you and being generally well-liked. I'm not going to kiss ass for a title. I'm going to demonstrate I earned it the hard way. While most companies don't recognize that path as much anymore, it's not very hard to get the title at another company.

The people who bring the most value to each team are often the unsung heroes who don't get promoted fast either. Good leaders will take notice however.

The book "Staff Engineer" by Will Larson has some good bits on this topic.
All subscription-ware. Applications should be single purchase and done. Services warrant subscriptions. Storage, streaming data, those are services. MS Word is not a service, it's an application. Subscriptions are great for making devs more money while keeping prices down (at any particular moment in time), but then the cost adds up over the years or you choose to not renew and lose access to the application despite having spent tens or even hundreds or thousands of dollars. Fuck that.

A good pseudo-subscription-ware approach is taken by the dev behind Working Copy (git app for iOS and iPadOS). You can get the app which is, IIRC, free. You can optionally pay to upgrade to a pro tier and get access to all features at that time and for some time after. New features are added, some of them go to the base, some go to the pro level. This creates two tiers, and after a year you won't get any more pro features (IIRC, timeframe may be wrong). But you don't lose access to anything you already bought. And eventually (after years) many pro features move back into the base anyways, so unless you want to support the dev or really want a pro feature now, you don't have to pay anything after the first purchase.
IMHO Lotus Improv/OpenStep Quantrix is the epitome of elegant software.
In order to have an economy of scale, first you need scale. But Stanford does not stand out in terms of the size of its faculty or enrollment, certainly not to the degree it does in terms of money. In fact, Stanford has fewer tenured faculty members (832) than UC Davis (1,126):

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/stanford-university/...

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo...
Ok... so? Use a different notation, duh. See my point about letting edge cases drive the bus off a cliff.
I mostly agree with you, but I don’t mind minification when appropriate, as it can serve a functional purpose with tangible end-user-friendly benefits (less downloaded over the network = faster response times).

But if you want to be friendly to the tinkerers, you could always host both the *.js and *.min.js versions, and have the webpage just pull the latter - anyone who wants the unminified source can remove the “min” part from the URI, while the majority of end users will still benefit from pulling the minified js.
I agree with your conclusion, but I think there’s a fair argument to say that an extra week of leisure in your 20s is worth more than an extra week of leisure in your 50s or 60s. That is even more true if you’re working 48 weeks/year in your 20s and zero weeks in your 60s.
All running on a Lenovo ThinkCentre 9000 running unRaid (with just one drive =P):

PiHole, it's the first thing I add to every network I set up. Can't live without it.

The *arr -stack (son-, rad-, baz- etc)

Plex for media at home and on the go (Plex Pass). Maybe I'll look up Jellyfin at some point, but for now Plex is superior.

Home Assistant + zigbee2mqtt + NodeRED + n8n for home automation and other tasks.

Mosquitto + Redis for communication and database use for my own projects.

Tailscale node for accessing my home network as a bastion host.
Makes sense. I still remember how much eye glasses "g" and fancy "a" confused me while learning to read.
Ask HN: Examples of Simple Profitable Websites?
static, nearly static, blogs, super simple services, etc...
The internet should be making friends for us.

Find me everyone who GETS ME. I want a thousand or more
Functional can be tricky to debug, as the frowned-on "intermediate state" of imperative programming makes for great x-ray examination points during debugging.

The backlash against OOP is partly because existing OOP engines are limiting in many languages. Passing, grouping, and custom-scoping of "blocks of code" (BOC) should be more flexible so that we are not forced into hierarchies or spaghetti scoping. We need new languages that make managing and scoping BOC more flexible. I want to define the scope, not let Nadella or Bezos do it. The distinction between a lambda and method would then be fuzzier. BOC's would no longer be forced to be one or the other. (One these days I may make a proof-of-concept language.)
It's completely wrong that performance doesn't matter for the server side, in fact it's the complete opposite.

Javascript is a fine language for client-side software because the client is paying for it (and the client's computer, tablet or phone is running idle most of the time anyway)

Firms that run web services pay dearly to run their servers on the cloud, expect to run at a high utilization fraction, and if they ran their infrastructure on a slow language like Ruby they would be paying cloud bills 10x what they'd get for infrastructure written in Go.

The people who make the decision are paying the bills and that means they make a very different decision.
Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll definitely take a look at Bubble.io. I’ve heard plenty about “no code” but I haven’t looked at it.
ESG scoring agreed is a work in progress currently gameable with greenwashing strategies (carbon credits)

What I am referencing is ESG for fundraising at institutional level which is the money that actually drives the world

Major pensions are prioritizing selecting managers with legit, objectively good esg policies and road maps with hard and enforceable targets that are tied to compensation
Yeah it’s your usual “hire a bunch of underpaid and under skilled-for-the-job” “engineers” at the beginning of your startup that write piles of crap code that then become knowledge pullers of the business. When if you paid good money in the first place you wouldn’t need that knowledge in the first place.
GitHub will require all users who contribute code to enable 2FA by end of 2023
Denmark's 'Energy Islands' Pushed Forward to Escape Reliance on Russia
- ShaarliGo [0], my own scratch to a maybe more common itch

- lighttpd webserver

- ZeroBin [1] pastebin

- Gogs [2] git hosting

- qr code generator [3] (some lines of bash)

- static ios OTA test deployments [4]

- Minecraft Server Spigot 1.16.5

- dokuwiki

[0] https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo

[1] https://github.com/elrido/ZeroBin

[2] https://gogs.io

[3] https://qr.mro.name

[4] https://codeberg.org/mro/iOS-OTA
Plaid founder here. Stripe does not integrate with any bank API's directly (AFAICT). They wrap two aggregators, MX and Finicity to build this product. (Also, not sure what MX products they are using, but MX itself is an aggregator of aggregators, including others such as Yodlee.)

On pricing, Stripe's listed rates are 30-200% higher than Plaid rates (perhaps due to high vendor costs). That said, if anyone does have feedback on where Plaid pricing is prohibiting new use cases, we'd love to hear! I'm zach at plaid if folks would like to discuss.
Hi! I have been wondering about whether investing into home assistant would be worth it to control my media center as well. Do you happen to have handy links to any resources you found helpful?
The whole reason why the market still demands HGST. There is a whole segment / sector / section of industry that refuse to call it anything other than HGST. And they are willing to pay for it.
I may have been unclear. By retirement job, I meant a job that I took during (read: after) retirement, not the one I’d walk away from at the moment of retiring.

At that point, financial arrangements are presumably already all set.
Pulumi Universal IaC: Announcing New Support for Java, YAML and AWS CDK
No, this wouldn't get someone promoted, because it doesn't actually solve the problem. The problem here is that the triage process is a mess. Fixing that, so that bugs don't bounce around for months, would probably get someone promoted, or at least be a significant factor.
Author of "Hacking Healthcare" here. Myself and Fred were able to contribute to the discussions on our cover selection. I suspect some animals are probably much more in demand than others. Our editor was Andy Oram and he was outstanding. He is no longer with O'Reilly unfortunately.

Having worked with different publishers in different contexts, 90% of your experience will be as a result of your relationship with your editor.

I get asked sometimes by new authors, should I write for X or Y or Z. My answer is to always try and see who your editor will be and how well you think you can work with them.
demo names as a service. you send your locale, we send you the localized john/jane doe names and other info like 123 Main St and 555-1212 type data.
I'm kind of in a similar situation, but instead of working I did a PhD in a field a bit far from computer science and eventually realized academia is not a place I want to stay in. Right now I'm thinking how to do the transition. I'm thinking of maybe doing data science, that way at least I can transfer some of the knowledge form my work in academia instead of starting from scratch but it is a difficult decision.
It reads a bit unintentionally exploitive as well. You're essentially asking employees to put the companies growth ahead of their compensation.

This passage specifically:

> For as long as possible, make the success of the company the primary motivator, rather than promo

How do you simply make the success of the company the primary motivator? IMO, you either try real hard to pay/promote them based on the success of the company, which feeds into the promo culture problem, or you find people to work towards the company's success without explicit promises of rewards, maybe by alluding to potential rewards you may/may-not give them (aka maybe exploiting them).

One alternative is you can find people who are satisfied with their place in life, and willing to just crank out work regularly without promises of increased rewards. IME, people like that AND skilled enough are very rare. It would be very hard to build a company of solely those people.
Indeed! Plaid is integrated with ~every bank that has an API, and in many cases we've actually helped the banks build API's themselves.
My todo list will keep me busy until I'm 3000 years old. I might not be hit by a bus, but I have no reason to think I will ever get to the end of that list. Money can buy things required for the list that are not on the list, but I have to work to get them. In many cases I spend less time working then I would just doing it. I could make a canoe from scrap wood and row to New Zealand, but in a week at work I get enough money to pay for a plane ticket, while paddling across the ocean would take months (people have taking canoes across the ocean so I know it is possible - though I'm not sure how risky it is)
This twitter post points at the pdf rendering [0] of the communal log book that facebook researchers kept while training opt-175.

[0] https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/tree/main/projec...
I guess you know less talented people then.

We’re not more than a single breakthrough from being able to make photonic accelerators — and there’s already worked out algorithms to accelerate ML once those circuits are available.

I’m confident in 2025-2030.
Sure, I guess when I am using that phrase I am using it in response to people who are suggesting that there is existential and/or civilization-collapsing level of risk within our lifetime.

Significant climate devastation to me means significantly degraded quality of life or difficulty staying alive.

You can definitely isolate a lot of things that are being impacted by the climate changing, but even if the entire Hoover dam can no longer produce electricity it will not reach those levels to me.

I don't think these are "non-issues."
Not directly, no. But given the fanatical devotion of apple fanboy’s one wonders.
> compared to the hip-hop music industry which is like the Wild West to the tenth degree

I feel like everyone (myself included) thinks "Oh, that company/industry has their shit together", spoiler: they don't. One lesson I have to keep reminding myself of and relearning is a large company (even successful ones) doesn't not immediately equate to knowing what they are doing. Imposter syndrome is a huge issue inside the tech industry, I imagine it's even worse for the people on the outside looking in.

Maybe a part-time web development job would work for you? Get your feet wet without having to go full-time right away.

My comments about certifications really boil down to "Don't expect a certification to result in a job or even better standing among other applicants". Being someone who is enjoyable to talk to/work with goes way further in my book. I'll take a "1x" programmer that's easy to work with over a "10x" that's a jerk or has no social skills. Also your "self-taught" skills are probably a lot better than you are giving yourself credit for. I'd bet money you would do better than the majority of new CS grads when it comes to actually producing.
I updated the text, maybe lost my formatting when I pasted it from my notes app!

A small project on my own is a common theme I’m noticing here. I will get into that once I decide which direction to take in tech.

Thank you!
Some (many?) companies have an 'up or out' requirement where each position has a time limit to get promoted, unless it's a 'terminal position' which is ok to stay at.

When I was at Facebook, this was administered by using the next level review guidelines after you had a position for N months (depends on the position), and if you don't meet those expectations, putting you into the firing pipeline (PIP, etc). One of many reasons I was happier when I stopped having people reporting to me.
It's all about how you twist it. If you say "I built 2 new services that could have just been a feature in an existing service" then you'll probably get a bad review.

However, if you give a reason for building the 2 new services (eg. more extensibility, enables a new flow, easier to use for other teams) then all of a sudden the complexity is justified and you'll appear to have solved a hard problem. No one is going to look super deeply and ask if those reasons are valid and if you even need the extra extensibility or if other teams will use the service.
He picked bad examples by going with the dirt cheap Walmart-grade brands, but the general idea is valid. Closer comparisons would be what you find at Target.

Bombas are fine, but you're paying Darn Tough prices for Target quality.

I haven't tried Tommy John, but a similar player in that space is MeUndies. They're fine too, but you're paying Ex Officio prices for, you guessed it, Target quality.

MVMT watches? Literally $15 AliExpress watches for Seiko prices.

Made In cookware? On par with Costco's Kirkland stuff, but closer to the price of All-Clad.

Could spend half the day doing this. Ritual vitamins, Greats sneakers, Jack Erwin dress shoes, Burrow furniture, Native deodorant, Quip toothbrushes, Bevel razors, et al. Not even sex toys are immune thanks to Maude.

What separates these from legacy brands is just that: they're not legacy. They've got slick, responsive websites that used bold colors and geometric sans-serif fonts until around 2019 when they switched to soft pastels and didone fonts. They donate to a charitable cause with every purchase. They accept Apple Pay.

The market segment that this appeals to is the middle of the Venn diagram of millennial yuppies who:
1) consider themselves appreciative of premium, well-designed goods (i.e. not Hanes socks)
2) consider themselves too savvy to waste money on overpriced luxury goods (i.e. Pantherella socks)
3) aren't inclined to figure out which products actually have good price-to-quality ratios (e.g. Darn Tough socks)

So they default to the ones that have been marketed to them where they are, like via ads on tech podcasts and NYC subways (e.g. Bombas).
I'm don't see the connection between what you wrote and masculinity.
> They have a habit of solving problems that just aren’t problems for experienced readers, while causing problems for experienced readers.

If I had a dollar for every "new way of doing XYZ" made by someone inexperienced who just doesn't want to learn the way we're all doing XYZ just fine...
Promo-culture cannot be ignored because with each level, your total compensation often increases by 50-100% at many big tech. You can absolutely expect people to alter their actions to whatever promo-culture demands. As the article says, one answer is to simply align the incentives which is to make promos based on customer satiesfaction and adoption. The issue is this: when you release new product, your adoption/satiesfaction/revenue increases infinitely because denominator is zero. Often media blitz follows which raises the profiles of small team and increasing their market value than usual bug fixer. The new learning experiences of new-product teams and ability to do aggresive hustle on impossible schedules also adds into their market value relative to Joe, the minor feature developer. These people become important because one of the growth criteria for big tech is ability to diversity, aka, release new products and excite the hopeful investors. So companies are forced to associate product releases with promos. Current promo-culture at big tech is not a bug but a feature. I think very few understand this dynamics.

There is one extremely bad aspect of promo-culture not discussed in the article: Many promos in higher level have requirement that the person must become the people manager. The idea is that at certain pay level you must be able to "scale" you impact by directing others as opposed to doing things by yourself. In tech, this is extraordinarily flawed idea. Scale can be achieved by being manager but also by being individual contributor. People like Jeff Dean has contributed far more as IC than probably most VPs at Google. I don't know how many brilliant technical ICs have killed themselves by trying to be people manager to get that alluring promo.
Maybe this man-on-the street account of using Bitcoin in El Salvador will help you understand why people are so bearish [0]

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-bitcoin-travel-probl...
> Simplicity is much harder than complexity.

Amen!!! The skill of practical parsimony is way under-valued. Warren Buffett said one of his top "skills" is saying "no" to financial gimmicks and peer pressure.

Somebody e-shoot the packrats.
One of the recent ones I did was a Pi-KVM.

https://imgur.com/a/AVxuR0d

Im honestly considering deploying these at work to replace some aging (and expensive) dell, java based ipkvms. I like it enough i made a second one to attach to a small headless desktop. Mainly just as a cheap quasi-OOB management.

Mine use h.264/webrtc or html5/mjpeg and on one i even hooked it up to a smaller kvm to give me a 4 port switcher via the webUI. Pretty slick and all told was under $400 for a 4-port model. A single pikvm, including the case and everything was about 100 bucks.

With some systems (ie: supermicro) and a ribbon cable, you could rig up ATX controls as well.
Stanford's last major foray into this area was "The Global Climate and Energy Project"... a major sponsor was ExxonMobil. As you might guess, that didn't really do much in the way of producing renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels... more like a green PR initiative. Somehow I don't think oil companies are thrilled about everyone driving EVs and seeing their market share collapse.

https://gcep.stanford.edu/about/exxonmobil.html

I rather doubt this one will be any better. A better option would just be to put $1 billion into a company dedicated to catching up to China on mass-scale monocrystalline PV wafer production for durable, high-efficiency PV panels for both rooftop solar and large-scale installations. Unfortunately neither California's natural gas industry nor the investor-owned utilities are thrilled about that either. Rooftop cuts directly into utility revenue, and replacing natural gas power plants with solar + storage plants makes Sempra and friends very sad.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2018/04/21/the-weekend...

The United States is more of a petro-state than most people realize, and a rapid transition to renewables (i.e. 3% reduction in fossil fuel production per year, matched by an equivalent increase in renewable energy production per year) is too much economic disruption to contemplate, it seems - although that is what is needed if you wanted to address the climate problem. American academics are not going to do anything on their own about this, as they don't control the funding.
You can always move to the same level in a different company to readjust your pay.