skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been at Google for 12 years, and this has not been my experience. While it is a popular narrative, it is by no means dominant, and is fairly specific to individual teams. I got my second promotion leading the Google Maps Desktop Latency team. We demonstrated impact solely by reducing load latency and increasing performance while advocating for latency consciousness across the product space and implementing latency regression tests and monitoring. Google has some of the most complex infrastructure in existence, and there are thousands of engineers that are getting promoted and finding gratification in maintaining and improving this infrastructure.

My experience at Google has been characterized by collaborating with the smartest and most driven people I've ever worked with. And I worked at several companies before Google. I think a side-effect of this personality type is that the engineers themselves want to make a difference, whether through maintaining Google's complex infrastructure or launching new products. And while it may be easier to show impact by launching a new product, it is by no means a problem unique to Google. Startups find it much easier to show impact by launching and buying users, rather than measuring how useful the product actually is.

I have come to believe that, lean-startup style, a good engineer should be able to demonstrate how the work they are doing is important to a company, a product or a product's users. With a little bit of thought around how to show that the work you are doing actually is valuable to your organization's OKRs, you can get promoted doing whatever work appeals to you the most.
Please make your code available on github!
Absolutely capital dogshit move, a direct slice at the jugular for user freedoms, for letting people do computing in their terms.

The presence of bad actors keeps being used as ammunition to destory possibility, to end softness, to make computing hard & inflexible, and it's the same genetic makeup as the constant cowtowing to fear that let's 'think of the children' be the deciding & only opinion policy gets passed with.

Loathsome detestable & massive setback, colossal unwinding of Android's spiritual advantage versus The Loyal Opposition Apple. If both platforms collapse into anti-choice, what happens to Apple's defense that it's users can go elsewhere? These shackles we permit to be set upon us, this prohibition of sideloading, the anti-generalization of computing can only be defended against by principled stances. For eroding possibility is forever to the megacorporate bottom line's profit. What a degrading trashfire move, Google, responding to the bad at such vast setback & penalty for the very very very good. Unlocking & exposing applications in new & amazing fashions is one of the highest & most virtuous goods, one of the best things we can do- reenable some unknown, go further- and this move speaks of a desire to embrace old stasist ossifying & cold death, to make us all rot forever with whatver is or was.
A PhD is definitely not required to work on this kind of stuff.
So Discord, but it isn't free and has more limitations
Oh this sounds fun!
Isn't this a bit of revisionist thinking? I don't know that cameras of that quality were commonplace in 2006. It's not like you could just pull out your iPhone. And most digital cameras weren't much better (i.e. I wouldn't trust being able to read handwriting from their pictures). So then what, you supply each interviewer with a roll of film and a company darkroom?

It's also easier to write your own notes down this way too.
We've been using Pulumi in the nitric framework https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric for a while now. Originally, we used native solutions like CloudFormation, then looked at options like Terraform. Pulumi ended up being our favorite by far. The docs are awesome and using the features of a language + editor you're already familiar with are pretty appealing. Autocomplete, typesafety, automated testing, etc. make it really productive.
They have to continue meeting the requirements of their level (in this case L4) but there's no expectation of growth beyond that level.

Even the old system, where there was a formal expectation for every SWE to grow to L5, wasn't uniformly enforced. One person I know joined as an L4 SWE twelve or so years ago; they're still an L4 SWE.
It means that they don't see it as out-of-scope or undesirable, but still didn't implement it after all this time. It indicates something in terms of product management and/or code extensibility.

Not that an open source project owes you anything, of course.
Killing trees with that recycled paper I know… terrible
> I think it’s important to point out that this is what the Fed has been waiting for since 2008. We needed inflation. Now this debt gets washed away.

Can you elaborate on that? It seems related to my observation that balance sheet reduction ideas partially handle themselves.

The Fed and the rest of us are still operating on the general expectation that the borrower repays. The Fed holds collateralized debt backed by mortgages being repayed, they hold corporate bonds, and they hold US treasuries. A default of course would be largely inconsequential and only mildly embarrassing for the Fed, as there are no Federal Reserve shareholders affected by the Fed's performance (although there are shareholders).

Aside from being able to point at their balance sheet and say "see, numba go down!" I really can't extrapolate too much more from that. It is convenient that the Fed's own market manipulations assist in the declining asset valuations to make that number go down faster. But its merely an observation.

The balance sheet expansion beginning in 2008 was mostly the purchasing of these mortgage backed securities, but more than half was from covid relief packages that Congress forced the Fed to participate in (but lets not pretend a scared congress wrote those packages overnight, that stuff was prewritten opportunist end game moves, accelerating the existing macroeconomic trends that were just waiting for a catalyst)

Given so many purchasing sprees and balance sheet increases have occurred since 2008, I can't really focus on 2008. The maturing assets are being repaid and most(? maybe?) have a fixed interest rate thats already set in stone, so I can't really worry about this idea of the Fed's hands tied or actions related to this. Yes, if the mortgage holders have a disruption in ability to repay - and the same for the corporations - then the Fed.... has faster declining asset values? I don't know if they really care about the performance.
All mobile OSes are dogshit.
They also used to be called McMyAdmin for anyone who remembers them from the older days. Was a pretty popular admin panel for Minecraft servers and is where they started. Then they eventually expanded into other server types as well and basically put McMyAdmin under the AMP umbrella. AMP is definitely a good option for a Minecraft server, but is also a good option for many types of servers out there. It's still actively developed and they add support for new types of servers all the time!

Personally I've always been happy with the McMyAdmin license I had, and ended up also getting an AMP license later.
Ah no. Those 100 posts you see on your feed are not random. For your statement to be true, it would assume that social networks do not use algorithms to pick what you see.

The unfortunate truth is that fights creates audience engagement which drives up user retention and thus stock prices. Financial analyst look at how much time a user spents on each platform to issue a price forecast.
What about self-adjusting computations, incremental DAG, reactive demand programming, datalog?
My brother was in the USMC and was a bit jealous that the Australian Navy guys had pubs on their ships.
Not just custom - Seiko used to (still does maybe) provide manufacturers with bare movements, even with the company name on it. That means you'll find "no name" watches from the 60s onward with Seiko movements. That makes servicing, repairing and replacing them much easier and cheaper. Same with ETA.
Weighing Up the Evidence
The DAO model is more the ownership and governance portion where you own a portion of the forum and thus are incentivized to participate in it's success.
WhatsApp was operating at a loss when Facebook bought it in 2014 and this is when it had 600 million users. Now it has over 2 billion. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/amp/
Hortiflix [PT-Only]
Felt like something I would see here in HN. Sorry for the only-portuguese link.
To not make my list exhaustive and list my most used applications.

- Vaultwarden. I see this in a shockingly small amount of lists. Selfhosted password manager. It’s been absolutely amazing and works with the Bitwarden apps.

- Proxmox. Specifically LXC. For courses/sideprojects/whatever, I just spin up a clean Alpine/Arch LXC and use it for remote development through CLion/IDEA/PHPStorm or VSC. It’s been great and saves me from installing a bunch of stuff and weird dependency management on my laptop. Which is also an M1 Air, so doing it on a linux server is much nicer.

- Nginx Proxy Manager. Quick and easy reverse proxies to all my containers/services. Both local and internet facing.
The way WhatsApp used to make money was through a subscription model. It cost $1 to download and then $1 a year going forward. Facebook eventually removed the $1 fee and made WhatsApp a free service,
I paid that Dollar!
> For example, I think they’d still be able to do the pay once model if they abstracted they storage to work with Dropbox/icloud/OneDrive/whatever.

I get why they don't but I often wish more SaaS companies had a bring your own computer & storage model. It doesn't make sense for 95% of customers and the 5% of us who might like it and have the tech chops to use it would just complain about having to pay more because we are outliers. But I wish it was offered!
At a cnc shop in the Midwest I worked as a full stack we dev / software developer and got exposed to all kinds of technical and social engineering problems. From working on CAM programming algos (comp geo was a trick to learn tho) to distributed systems to ux of internal software.

Basically what I'm saying is go work for a non software company doing B2B work and make "magic" happen. Infinitely rewarding and can pay remarkably well if you provide value.
It’s similar to baseball. A goalie can come in and preserve a win but only gets credited with the W if they’re in goal when the winning goal is scored. So an EBUG can win without receiving the W in the stats column.
> I believe in law and order.

Where do you live? Seriously, I'd love to emigrate somewhere that gives me this comfort.
That picture of the "NYC Banana Fire" was so perfectly random that it is my new favorite picture ever.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/158/nycbananafire.png
OK, if we’re piling up here :)

> This mechanism protects the fragile tips of the balance shaft from braking when the watch experiences a sudden jerk.

“Breaking”, presumably.

More generally, am I the only one who finds that the temporal aliasing in the fast repetitive animations just before the balance is introduced looks funny to the point of being misleading? Might be my combination of mobile hardware, though, I wouldn’t normally expect it to synchronize to the framerate to this extent, but I’m seeing that it does.

(I appreciate the immense effort it would take to make this account for aliasing with motion blur or similar. I just went “huh?” when fiddling with the speed slider there, because it really was confusing at first.)
Going to be interesting to keep an eye on that urban vs non-urban mix.

Major urban centres around the world (eg. Barcelona, Berlin, Vancouver) are facing severe housing affordability challenges, and as part of the solution have enacted regulation against sub 30 day vacation rentals in apartments intended for long term rental to people who live and work in the cities.

You'd think that these regulations will keep a lid on Airbnb growth and force the company to place more emphasis on non-urban and tourism oriented towns that have less severe housing pressures.
- Filestash: the file manager I made for myself

- Dispatch: IRC client

- Grafana: to create graphs for all sort of stuff

- Gogs: for private git repos

- minio: a selfhosted s3 compatible

- Apache: to host some files I want to share and a few api endpoint as a dirty lambda alternative

- Radicale: for caldav cardav with agendav for webclient

- Webmail-lite: for mails
They won't go away - but maybe McResources will.
Mod_perl was too much of a hosting liability for that to have been a possibility. You had to really watch your step with mod_perl not to expose shared memory to other processes running on the same server. Mod_perl is also much more complex than PHP or even Perl CGI. It was always considered senior Perl dev territory whereas PHP was aimed at the lower-tech DIY market.
Questions of the timing of the Politico story need to look beyond the decision itself to what other news (documentaries, primaries, economic reports, whatever) are having the oxygen sucked out of them by this leak.

Since our goverment behaves like so many Olympian gods in a perpetual bunfight over the news cycle, one must understand that defelection has a lot to do with the timing.
I imagine it has to do with the fact that lots of python libraries are mostly c/c++ or fortran, while Julia packages are usually just Julia.
Linked at the very end of the long, long page (which, incidentally, is long).
I’ve had the same idea and totally agree. It would also be great for when you have multiple switches controlling one light like in a hallway.

A voice-coil motor like from a hard drive arm could work well: fast, quite, and could work like an analog dimmer in the middle positions.

I think if cost was no object, driven switches would be the ideal user interface. It’s basically what high end audio mixing boards use.
For reference, $25 * 40 * 52 = $52,000 per year. The minimum wage you're describing is much lower.
Oh I see, their lander is mining Bitcoins with my browser to subsidize the product. /s

Seriously, that page took 10s to load, pegged my laptop CPU and got the fans spinning. WTF?
>Real people. Real life. In real private. With no ads.

They just took a fat chunk of investment, what's their business model to show a return?
Ah, sorry. That's not what I meant -- in hindsight it does feel a bit clickbaity. But it doesn't look like there's any way for me to edit the title on HN.
Taking a 90% less salary (than the US) to lower your tax rate to 10% seems ill-advised. Salaries in Europe are horrendous for developers, they get screwed.
For me, its so I can use Moonlight to stream games from my gaming desktop PC to my iPhone using a Backbone One controller.

Handheld Elden Ring is amazing :)

Though my use-case is extremely simple, and so I just use bare WireGuard
You can't see how improving educational programs specific to climate change benefits the public?
PalmOS/webos forever! ;)

I never actually used it. But I like the idea. And I believe the web platform is a good existential hedge against the undying forever turning-to-crap-iness that so widely defines the trend of everything else. For now web standards still have a lot of good geeks advancing good moral causes and capabilities-- amid some less than excellent causes, yes, but even these make their way through gauntlets of review, through committees.
I once had a "There is water dripping on me; can you move me to a different seat and also tell me whether I should be concerned about that?". The flight attendant wasn't too thrilled about that one, probably because it created extra work for whoever had to figure out that it was just condensation. That's the only negative interaction I've ever had with a flight crew.
Facebook doesn't sell the information. It uses the information to improve the experience for their users, to prevent abuse of their services, and to allow advertisers to do more specific targeting with their campaigns.
The Arrogant American became the Arrogant German (1990s / 2000s), and is now often the Irate Brexiter.

Being identifiable (appearance, langauge), significant in number, and crossing some threshold of observably obnoxious behaviour tends to leave impressions.

Within the US, you'll often find neighbouring-state stereotypes: "massholes", Texans (particularly in Colorado), Californians (Oregon), New Yorkers (city, everywhere), Yankees (the South), Southerners (the North), city slickers (country), country hicks (cities).

Much of this is inherent tribalism and not matching local patterns of speech, behavioiur, specific local knowledge, and the like.
If you cheat on your partner you are also a "shit person". Do you think employers should reject candidates if they know they cheated on a romantic relationship?
Tickoprint is another app for android that works great
Cryptoverse: Venture capitalists catch crypto fever
One thing I don't get is why people keep buying new material. It doesn't make financial sense to me. Suppose you're a 4th ed. DM and have bought a bunch of supplements, and so have your players. Then 5th ed. comes around. Now you're supposed to throw all your books, and investment in them, in money to buy them and time to read them, and understand them, and make scenarios and campaigns and characters and whatever, in the bin and start fresh? Why?

I got the same question about Magic: the Gathering, which I play a lot, and Warhammer (which I mainly collected to paint the minis, though I played also). Why would you buy a new edition of a game every few years?

The answer I think is- you wouldn't. Which is to say, all those new editions are sold mainly to new players, who have no investment in the old editions and no attachement to their style of play or whatever.

Which in turn is to say that making a new edition of a big, expensive game like D&D every few years is takig a big, juicy dump on the players who bought the earlier edition, probably betting on the fact that they now have jobs and kids and no time for gaming.

So I understand there would be a pushback on that, and that's partly how I understand the OSR scene/ genre/ movement, whatever. My personal choice is to make my own games, and play them the way I want to play, and not care about D&D, past, present or future. It's free and creatively fulfilling (making your own game) so what's not to like?
Not even remotely close. As OP posted: there are too few low-level people left. This skillset commands much better pay than "upstack"
Hunter Biden’s laptop? Perhaps.
That's awesome, would you mind sharing your nix config. I have never used nix and would love to see an example
> I’ve been dreaming lately of a tor-like network that’s based loosely on the idea of tailnets. Rather than blockchain bullshit, you’d have a direct ring of trust with friends, and then you could set up access policies to forward packets for people you don’t trust, but who know someone you do trust.

This is basically just `git pull` on steroids.
Go to the bulb settings itself, "power on behavior".
> We are mostly all commenting from the privilege of skilled labour and all the freedoms and benefits that come with that

I’m concerned more about the impact on small business owners who depend on cheap labor.

Surely we don’t want to have EVERYTHING be Walmart/Amazon/McDonalds…

A more suitable solution would be to address expenses we all face, like healthcare, that could benefit small business entrepreneurs as well as employees

Besides, it IS possible to elevate beyond minimum wage with time, effort, and politics.
It is very low. The equivalent of $25 USD/hour for a 40 hour work week in the UK would set you back 24% in total taxation.
The trouble with profit-sharing is that however tightly written the agreements, you're at the mercy of the entity controlling the value chain, since they can cookie-jar any surplus out of existence.

The film industry is notorious for this, so much so that such sharp practices are named for them¹.

To be clear, I'm not accusing PragProg of anything of the sort, but on general principle I'd be super wary of any such deal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting.
Around, working on cool things at companies that can afford this increasingly rare skillset. Google employs a lot, Apple does too, Facebook does as well. Most startups cannot afford us, and just keep trying to sell us on "impact" and "get in early on equity".
Certainly a labor of love. Well done!
By "Google" do you mean "the USA's legal processes"?
My argument for minimum wage has always been a philosophical one - human life and human labor has intrinsic value and any company's bill of materials ought to include labor. The 'market price' of a human life is, say, rent and food and medical bills (grossly oversimplified but the philosophical point is the same). Anything less than that is an undersell, equivalent to selling a food for less than the cost of farming it, or selling a device for less than the manufacturing cost. I.e. nonsense in the general case. Companies have been allowed to undercut worker's value for centuries under the threat of homelessness and starvation. That's not a free market. That's robbery.

Companies are the only entities we allow to just take, setting their own prices, without quarrel, because laborers don't have bargaining power when selling their labor. Hell, the interview process should be proof enough of that. Oppositionally, I believe in human dignity - I think a worker should be able to bargain. Frankly, since us regular people can't just go up to the store and say "well, I don't wanna pay full price for this item, so I'll just pay less for it - what're you gonna do about it anyway?" (we'd get arrested) I don't think a company should be able to either. When you frame it in terms of an open market, the current labor situation sounds obviously and patently absurd.
> “…strategically bought…”

That’s a key phrase here. Did others do the same? If they didn’t then why not? And if they did, then they are surely profiting from the shortage as well. I wonder how long this can go on for… I mean if you can make less of something, and make 2x or more (in your example) profit from it then I’d guess some businesses might not want this kind of arrangement to end.
They're similar in that they both have a way to build a desired state for your infrastructure and some code for executing the changes to make that happen.

In Terraform you describe the desired state using a fairly limited language called HCL which looks a lot like a config file.

In Pulumi you describe the state by running some code in a normal language and building objects to describe the state. This means you can use features of normal programming languages to abstract your state more thoroughly - stuff like functions, data structures, loops, etc.

AWS and Terraform actually have a similar thing to Pulumi called CDK which uses a normal language to build either CloudFormation or HCL. This gives a lot of the benefits of Pulumi, but lets use use a more widely used tool like Terraform underneath.

https://www.terraform.io/cdktf (still in development)

https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
I found 1Passwords UI/UX and development tooling choices... not ideal, as of 1P v8. I miss the native apps, and the latest iOS app/integration had far too many bugs initially (I just use autofill alone now, on my iPhone. Not ideal, but good enough)