skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s just business. If walking away from a fresh offer and starting role is burning a bridge, let the burning bridge light your way. The business will not return the loyalty, and one is woefully naive if they believe the business will. Look no further than VCs telling founders to cut deep now. How’s that for reputation? You get the labor market you cultivate.
I spent 10 years working as a software engineer on a product that I was originally a customer of.

I found it really weird that so many engineers and product managers in the company never really used the product the company produced at all.

I don't think that engineers should really be product managers, as an introvert I certainly didn't have the patience to sit in all the meetings that the PMs took every week, which is why I leaned on real actual PMs to do that. However, senior engineers ought to develop at least some Product Management Brain and spend a bit of time literally just using the product like a user and not as a developer.

I don't think software development should be the only thing developers do, at the strict exclusion of all else. They need the ability to be deep in some code and go "wait, is this complicated garbage actually what customers really want?" and throw a mental exception and go have a chat with the PM and determine if the requirements have gotten wildly off course. The mentality of "PMs determine the requirements, I just write the code" is a recipe for a really poor product.
It's funny because No Exit, and that article which is the abridged version of it, was published eight years ago. The industry has been in this steady-state for a while until COVID hyperinflation upended everything.

https://slate.com/business/2014/05/no-exit-by-gideon-lewis-k...
Slack was bought out by Salesforce.
They're primarily in text (print/web) though.

I'd watch a news channel with FT/The Economist style content translated to TV, I think...
I realize my sentence was unclear. My onshore team were all males, all offshore (all India, Bang8, Bang7) QA team members were female.
Yes, can confirm from personal experience. Better someone else than yourself gets screwed.

Anyone who had had the rug pulled under them knows how immense the dollar cost can be, especially when you have already arranged a relocation.
Wise words, as usual. Angular certainly has a lot of value for larger companies not interested in having big technical stack differences between projects and teams.
1) highlighting - most unnecessary thing people invented, except values and :things: in ""
2) LSP client provides these things exactly as other programs do.
GNU means do everything different because otherwise it is not GNU, so maybe thats not good thing after all.
This push is so strong even Steve Jobs started to Think Different after cloning BSD in 199x...
Because you are better than they are?

edit: Since I can't delete my comment now, I just want to apologize that I read your message too quickly and missed the 50% salary difference part. Come on, there's ethical and then there is crazy, of course you leave and take the other offer if it's 50%, that's common sense and any hiring manager should understand it. But that's not really commonplace and you can handle it in a professionally ethical way.
Bravo! you and I have very different way to decompress during a vacation
Varo also is trying to make a profit for its owners, whereas a credit union's owners are the depositors.

But there are online-focused credit unions, too.
For David Simon fans, there's a new mini-series called "We Own This City" that also covers a similar situation in Baltimore.

Highly recommended, albeit a short spiritual successor to "The Wire."

https://www.hbo.com/we-own-this-city
Speaking of Guix and dotfiles, you may like Guix Home, a tool to manage one's "home environment": to deploy software and associated config files.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/keeping-ones-home-tidy/
OP said he immigrated to 3 different European countries with a felony record.

East Asia would not be my choice for legal residency as a felon. Although I would note if you're not applying for a visa, they rarely actually have mechanisms to check your criminal record unless someone influential takes a specific liking to you.

As I mentioned there are a number of nations that only require background check from countries you've lived in for the past X years. Therefore if you live somewhere else for X years you can then leapfrog to that country.
The premise of the article and the usage of the word and concept of "monorepo" used by many organizations is misguided.

A monorepo is not just a bunch of projects thrown together into one repo. It's the philosophy of having all code of a bigger organization in one repository.

When smaller teams inside of companies start creating "monorepos" for a hand full of projects, they end up with many "monorepos". This approach combines the worst of both worlds: you get the tooling complexity and scalability problems of monorepo combined with the inability to make atomic changes over multiple projects. You get none of the benefits.

If you are thinking about moving to a monorepo, do it in a way that

- has everything required to build a deployable unit into the repo, no dependencies to other repos

- under no circumstances have code in another repo depend on code inside the monorepo

- avoids ending up with dozens of monorepos
The world is not infinitely large, and this field definitely isn't. Bad reputations are hard to repair.
Who are you trying to fool with this? All web3 and cryptocurrency projects trace their lineage back to the Bitcoin paper, and they include or interface with some permutation on a blockchain modelled totally or substantially on Bitcoin's blockchain. Projects of that nature fall under the term crypto. Pretty sure you could figure that out just from the Super Bowl commercials.

Critics of crypto are almost always objecting to its use as a financial instrument, or as a way to technologically convert social relations into markets (as in the case of "play-to-earn" games turning MMO guilds into a peasant-lord economic relation, fun fun fun). There are already substantial, standing arguments against all of the meaningful permutations/additions to the blockchain technology (NFTs, DAOs, stablecoins, proof of stake...).

These arguments are not necessary because in practice every crypto project to date has been a scam, an inefficient implementation of something that already exists (either slower, more wasteful, or not fixing any of the problems that it points out in its traditional equivalent), or is just an unregulated security. The self-proclaimed geniuses that develop crypto projects have spent the last decade rediscovering all of the pitfalls that led to the present-day financial system they so badly want to disrupt, and losing gullible people's money doing it.

The core of crypto, in my opinion and explicitly in Bitcoin, is "trustless money" but crypto is only trustless in the abstract. We have to have trust that the developers of our coin didn't make any mistakes. We have to trust that the coin will not just fork if a rich guy loses money (like Ethereum did in the 2016 DAO attack).

If we want to build something complicated we have to trust that the smart contract developers are not malicious and made no mistakes. Obvious counter to this is that they are open source, but we're not talking about trustless money for programmers. Some will say that "the market" will figure out who to trust through adoption but in empirical reality this has not been the case.

I am not an economist, but basic observation also tells us that an asset that fluctuates as wildly as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is also not good as a currency. Transaction are also slow and expensive, and any crypto project that purports to solve this problem may want to check out a similar little technology called "Visa".

We can hate the way central banking is done, but developers really need to come to terms with the fact that we have had far too many technological fixes for social problems. Many crypto projects promise many things, but I ultimately trust a central, predictable authority (even if it's corrupt) more than some guy operating in a field that, time and time again, just takes peoples money and runs.

I want to see crypto remain 100% legal but get taxed fairly, because everyone who is pretending it's the future will immediately liquidate their assets and leave.
Considering how the usual "severance" package in this type of scenario is a "fuck you" and a kick in the ass, I'd say any amount is pretty generous.
I expect that it will continue to be the preferred mechanism for paying criminals. It genuinely improves on the experience for both criminal and victim vs alternatives like wire transfers and cash. There is a decently large market for paying criminals (illegally but also legally, eg ransomware), so some base level can be expected to continue.
The macOS app Raycast has a “Floating Notes” extension that I frequently bring up with a keyboard shortcut for smaller messages. The text gets persisted and it is very lightweight and floats on top of other windows.
Before that, I have also used Sublime Text (and I use it for many other things except coding, which is kind of ironic).
I think the distinction between printer and publisher is being lost here. KDP is a publisher, and a very cost-conscious one at that. You would have a very different experience with the editorial process of a different publisher, as most don't use Amazon-level automation.
Yeah, although inherent to nature would necessitate some kind of a proper death. Without it, these ancient goliaths linger around with no sense and no purpose (HP, IBM, etc).
my spitballed guess- people who were working retail type jobs werent able to during the pandemic and then realized, hey, this is optional. I survived without working a shitty job for poverty wage. Why go back?
Which is practically everyone. Coinbase has been on a ridiculous hiring spree. Last I looked there were very few long time Coinbae left at the company.
I don't think it's new, but a lot of people got a taste of what life is like when they aren't breaking their back for minimum wage thanks to the pandemic
Completely and totally unethical slimeballs.
> We acknowledge and take responsibility for the experience of those impacted.

No; apart from a bit of severance pay, the responsibility is on your former hires to restart their job hunts or plead for their previous roles. "Taking responsibility" is not a declaration but an action.
> The problem is "affirmative action" is just reverse discrimination

Have you ever noticed that this opinion isn't the only one out there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#Origins
Nobody wants to hear it because it's a knee-jerk, throw-your-hand-in-the-air reaction. Taking this stance boils down to questions like "what's the point of life", whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, and whether you're individualistic or not. You know, trivial things that everyone agree with and no one has strong feelings about.

Hence I don't think any real solution can come close to something as fundamental a change as "just don't have kids". To a lot of people, this equates to "why do you even bother being alive?". Folks are already annoyed if you ask them to segregate plastics by types, how do you think your "don't have kids" suggestion will pass? It's not a real plausible solution to the climate problem, all it does is infuriate 50% of the people, while solving no problem and changing no one's mind.
Wow, thanks everyone! I am a bit overwhelmed :)
> We will apply our generous severance philosophy to offset the financial impact of this decision.

What does that mean for people who accepted but have not started?
I was getting into synthesizers and a friend of mine had a few. He owned a DSI Evolver. Just a fun little MIDI desktop synth. My friend lost one of the knobs or something and called the technical support 800 number in the manual. He was more than a little shocked that Dave himself was the one who picked up the phone. He said they had a nice conversation and Dave ended up shipping him a little baggy of knobs for free.
Yeah, some of the measures were curious, such as unique keywords per 10,000 papers. It isn't clear to me what we should expect if science was doing fine -- more unique keywords total, yes, but per 10,000 papers? Why?

In general, I think the paper needs a stronger argument about what a null hypothesis should be and why that is violated.
It's unfortunate that it doesn't translate Japanese, and reading Japanese-only resources is a common hurdle in the retro game modding/development community.
That was WELL under 20% of their workforce. I think it was 1 or 2%.
I feel like life in general is getting harder.

There is less chance of escaping past mistakes, or more chance that a mistake will ruin you. There are more things you have to stay on top of benefits and finance wise. There are more options for many things, which leads to more analysis of what's best. The systems we use every day, from cars to computers, are more complex.
So, now we can't use Teams to have the "water-cooler" moments that supervisors claim we need, but really we are having them on Signal or IOS and they just can't measure that. Organizations really, really, really hate transparency.
Yes, that would be sue-able over and if you could prove the pact you would probably win (promissory estoppel). But in the ordinary sense you can typically just rescind whatever you want and as long as it is not for a protect reason, you are good.
Why? I am not dealing with a person. The ethical reasons for being honest don't extend to groups of people acting like psychopaths.

Don't let profit driven corporations brand themselves as "family", or any other concept which deserves moral consideration.
my spitballed guess is that it really is nowhere. anyone out of work for the pandemic and able to survive by living with parents etc. is just still doing that. Why put in 40hr/week when the pay barely even makes rent
My read of the root comment is "don't get tricked into thinking the company / manager cares about you and that you owe them something". No point in being naive and personally committing to a relationship that the other side is not committed to in the same way. It's not a question of ethics, it's a question of properly assessing the commitment that's being made
Is expoding offers worse than being fired on the first day at your job? If not then why does it bring so much hate? At least more hate than just firing people. Honest question
I wonder if it's because coffee as an appetite suppressant causes colorific reduction in people - effectively, they eat less. Fasting has recently been proven to also lower mortality risk by a large amount.

> Coffee suppresses your appetite because it contains chlorogenic acids which are a type of phytochemical compounds that help control hunger pangs and suppress your appetite. Because of this, you don’t need to drink caffeinated coffee to integrate it into your weight loss program; decaffeinated coffee will do just fine.

Source for the quote:
https://energeticlifestyle.com/how-to-use-coffee-as-an-appet...

Pubmed source which corroborates coffee as an appetite suppressant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683100/
> I spent a few hundred hours trying to figure it out, but ended up liking 2000 better. The complicated mechanics in 4 destroyed much of the fun.

A few hundred hours is an insane amount of time to spend on a game where much of the fun was "destroyed".
Much like many employees take PIP as a "well fuck that" and plan their departure (indeed, when it's discussed here that's the common advice), I can't see companies not taking an employee's "maybe I'll leave" notice in the same way.
Google Translate code is present on many web sites to provide automatic translations of text. Could your translate code be uploaded to a server and embedded in web page to provide the same functionality?
I'm as surprised as you to announce that as of yesterday the answer is yes: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-plot-twist
>let the burning bridge light your way

welp, this one's mine now. thanks :)
Don't have your personal ethics be subject to someone else's ethics, because if you do that, then it means you don't really have ethics.

In general I agree with this, but the situation described usually happens when offers have expiry windows. I'm sorry, but a job offer is a major life step for me, and when a hiring manager frames it like a TV infomercial with a countdown timer, he's dealing on a lower moral plane. After all the time we both invested in this process, I don't deserve a slick sales maneuver. It's like how I would not stab anyone either, but when you raise a block of wood overhead and menace at me, it's self defense. I have my long term career arc to preserve, including opportunity costs: unsolicited hostile negotiating tactics thrown at me will meet a defense.
> Sounds like the system would be simpler if we removed root and gave capabilities to the sudoers instead.

A good portion of the top ten democracies are 'disabled root' (constitutional monarchy):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#By_country

As a Canadian I'm not so much "against" switching away for constitutional monarchy, but rather any proposal needs to ensure we stay high in rankings. See also (2021> Pts: higher is better):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World#Country_r...

(I have no comment/idea on 'useful' these metric actually are.)
eh screw that. having ethics doesn't mean being stupid. I reserve my manners for people and organizations that deserve them.
Yeah i don’t do any of the things you said when using the companies computer and I WFH
It is okay to ask for people’s WhatsApp / Facebook and so on to talk about this sort of stuff
see here https://nodecraft.com/games
Thank you for taking the time to give me feedback!
Indeed the quotes are wrong and I noticed the focus(?) bug as well on the phone. I think there are also some CSS-related bugs in safari, that I still need to fix.
>>My issue is how do we respond to businesses who are clearly exploiting the crisis for monetary gain?

Yep, and not only that, what I see in those pictures are many young, military age healthy males that are hiding out in 'safe places' while other men and women are literally putting their lives at stake to save the country and the lives of the residents - while this group is pimping their business. Doesn't feel right to me.
> Once the startup takes investor funding, it’s irrelevant what those inside the startup want.

It really depends on the ownership structure, and that will depend on leverage at the time of fundraising. YC companies are unlikely to give up control until Series B (but like all things your mileage may vary).
At one of the mini maker faire's at OMSI (a science museum in Portland) in past years, there was a guy with a penny sorting machine he had built.

The machine would sort pennies by shininess, and direct them into the appropriate column based on a target greyscale image. The idea was to have a machine that could sort pennies to make a mural based on picture. (If a penny doesn't match the desired color of one of the columns, it would be redirected into a reject bin.)

This game boy camera seems like an ideal input device for such a machine.
You are basically saying its ok for a white dude from a family of homeless to be doubly discriminated
(1- because he does have money to go to college
2- because college reserve seat for non-white people)

And you justify it because statistically if you take a random white people and a random black people the black person would deserve it more.

While this is true this logic is morally wrong because you punish or reward an individual not because of this individual merit but because he happens to have the same skin color as other individual.

It's as absurd as saying there are not enough professional basketball player that are redhead so we should have quota of redhead regardless of skill level.
Yup, the point of the “scientific method” is that it works regardless of petty personal politics, so long as empirical evidence remains the standard.

To some extent it depends on the weakness of humans for status and competition, because they are powerful motivators to drive advances.
Ask HN: What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?
Does she say, "My son created the color on the Start Button!" or, "My Daughter created the button that opens the Beast Limo's partition behind the driver!!!!" (The Beast is the US President's vehicle.)

Just what does she say? I imagine the answers can be humorous!

PS Take "Mom" to mean Mom, Nana, daughter, Son, or whatever seems appropriate for the comment!
I believe the AWS console uses, or used?, angular, as one can see the ng-* attributes on their elements but I wasn't able to readily find a specific file to confirm or deny that's still the case
Well here is the conclusion of the post

> Simply put, instead of expecting someone (e.g., product managers) to tell you which product features to develop, you should be able to tell what are the most critical problems your users or product are facing and find the best solutions that fit into your product and engineering strategy.
I don't see anything particularly wrong with either way, I guess. If they have to rescind offers to be a profitable business, so be it. Sometimes I will have to renege in exchange for working fewer years.

I'm joining a business, not the Knights Templar.
In addition to buffering within the process, Linux (usually) buffers process stdout with ~16KB, and does not buffer stderr.
Wait...you mean the Chinese aggregator?
It's incredibly easy for an all-wood structure built in 1920 to be completely gone in a hundred years, especially in a harsh climate.

Sure there may be wreckage of it, but it's lost to time.
> Bad reputations are hard to repair.

I hear this a lot but the job market indicates the opposite. Given sufficient skill and availability everyone is hireable. In your world Jacob Applebaum is giving back rubs to Damore under a bridge somewhere pulling on two ends of a food stamp.
It gets complicated if you want to leave your old job on good terms and give your 2-week notice.
> No doubt lower caste members have disparate outcomes compared to Upper Caste but this is not due to "Caste Discrimination".

This sort of opinion forming based purely on personal anecdotes is why talks such as the one under discussion are needed. You've convinced yourself that caste discrimination doesn't exist just because you didn't happen to encounter it in your personal limited experience! Please listen, read and learn from first hand experiences of those that live it every day. Even today.

Click on this on any random day and then come here saying caste discrimination doesn't exist https://twitter.com/search?q=dalit%20beaten%20&src=typed_que...
It says AdWords is built on Angular. But I think it is built using dart version, which is very separate thing?
There used to be a Linux kernel booting on the iPhone 2G and 3G, but I think it missed too many drivers for hardware acceleration, baseband, etc, and it didn't go anywhere useful... hopefully this one won't end up the same, but somehow I doubt it.
You reply doesn't really engage with my argument at all, you pick a single word and head right for bombast and innuendo. If that's the sort of thing you want to write on job ads, it's a solid point against the idea.
Thread created! I wonder what replies we will get?

Ask HN: What does your Mom tell people about your work or employment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601004
What is their next best alternative? Rescinding offers is a way to show loyalty to those who already work for you.
Thank you! I feel super cheesy most of the time, writing those.
Spend the 2 weeks in silence but prepare good handover documentation to soften the blow at old company