skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the alternative though? Paying to keep people in prison forever?

Unironically yes. The cost of executing someone is higher than keeping them in jail for life[1].

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Is_the_death_penalty_more...
Zendesk to Be Acquired by Investor Group For $10.2B
I'm definitely not opposed to goodness, I'm just not convinced by this line of reasoning this is.
-- FWIW: Interviewed here about a year ago - interview process was by far one of the better ones - their community guy Jason was super super kind & their CEO seems to also be a really good human --
I don't have any resources to share, but it's great to see that people actually care, your buddy has a great team!
In many environments, "For that reason, I decided to use semicolons" will cause all of your code to be automatically rejected, because https://standardjs.com/rules.html "No semicolons" is enforced at the SCM layer.
> when signatures changed in an unstable dependency

The problem is not OCaml here.
Well, if you interview senior staff, with the same techniques you use to interview junior staff, don’t be surprised, at the results.

I interviewed senior engineers (for a marquee corporation), for 25 years. I have some actual experience, here.

I never made any technical mistakes. Everyone I hired was technically, up to snuff.

The mistakes tended to be in how they worked in the team.

> it would be discrimination if someone else was subjected to a different interview process than yours.

And I really have to take exception to this. Every interview I ever did, was tailored to the applicant. There's absolutely no legal basis for this stance. There's a few "obvious" discriminatory things ("All our girls start in the typing pool," etc.), but people aren't cookies, and "cookie cutter" interview processes are for "cookie" positions. Our HR was very clear on what did, and did not, count as legally discriminatory behavior. HR was run by the Corporate General Counsel, and we managers were required to understand the legal ramifications of our duties.

The OP was talking about senior staff. These are folks that will have Responsibility for significant projects, will need to act as leaders and mentors, and will be the ones to take "point" on the corporate brand and public profile.

Treating them as "cookies" is, in my opinion, less than wise.

If you pit me against some kid, right out of college, that has been spending three hours (of their current employer's time), every day, for the last month, practicing leetcode, you'll get someone that is very good at doing quick, meaningless tests. It won't tell you much about how they'll perform in the breach, or when asked to architect a large-scale, heterogenous system (which is what I'm fairly good at). Not sure how un-discriminatory the process is, there...

In any case, it's all water under the bridge, now. A few companies didn't get me. I doubt that anyone is crying in their beer over it, and things turned out well, for me. All's well, that ends well, eh?
I'm in my late 40s and I remember the joy of printing out banners with Print Shop on a Commodore 64 using a dot matrix printer. It was fantastic but it's been pretty downhill since there. Video to show what I mean:

https://youtu.be/BIltpheSZPs

In the modern era, I've just bought a cheap Brother black and white laser printer and called it a day. The toner lasts F-O-R-E-V-E-R.
The tools I've used since 2001:

- Fogbugz

- Unfuddle

- Pivotal Tracker

- Bugzilla

- Redmine

- JIRA

- Linear

- Basecamp

- Spreadsheet

- GitHub Issues

- Codetree (I ran this)

- Zenhub

- Shortcut

Probably missing a few. I've settled on Shortcut for now (formerly Clubhouse). It's a good balance between the "bag of bolts" JIRA approach and the "one way to do things" take that Pivotal Tracker has. Shortcut gives you sane defaults but with enough customization to suit reasonable workflows.

One trend that I don't really get is dev teams using general purpose tools like Trello or Asana to run their software projects. Sure, it's possible to do. But I find it much more sensible to use a purpose-built tool that understands the kinds of first-class objects (Issues, PRs, Comments, Workflows, Workflow Stages, Tasks). Makes life a lot easier.
I wrote stuff in the 90s that's probably still in use. Conversely I have built who systems recently that have been superseded after a couple of months of use.
Like the way conservatives discuss coastal cities?
The US doesn't have "engineer" as a protected title (*) and I think that's a good thing. We shouldn't gatekeep behind expensive and time consuming doors.

(*) except for PEs, which except for a handful of industries no one really cares about
It is pretty astonishing reading the rhetoric on HN, overwhelmingly from web developers who basically want a single target. They are quite literally the anathema of the web spirit, but it's basically IE v2.0 -- during the IE 3 / 4 days there were lazy devs who told everyone they should just run IE and be done with it.

It is astonishing reading like Safari is some derelict junk when the edges are laughable trivial stuff. "But it doesn't support some random, irrelevant standard Google tried to railroad through last month..."
Even at that, the chances of being robbed (national averages, at least) are pretty low - through 2020 they were the lowest since the 1970s. I realize the pandemic caused some spikes, but I can't find numbers for those and if those spikes brought us anywhere near the peaks in ~1980 or ~1990.
Hey, it's not a feeling. It's a fact.
Mass produce this. Feed to everyone. Global hunger solved?
I am mid 30s, and the Brother MFC black and white laser printers have been solid since I was 15.
Are you sure it's really "small in capacity"? I was curious so I opened one of the cartridges my printer reported as empty. There was still plenty of ink in it...
I use RSS to follow HN and a few web comics.
My point is a general one - the printer market is doing exactly what all elastic markets do.
This is surely not sufficient. The probability matters. "You can always win the lottery" is obviously not enough to claim a system is equal.
Sitting in Houston right now, I know that you're claim of "nearest point of interest is 8 hours away" is so fking wrong. Houston is like 2 hours away from Austin and is a metropolis.
As a developer with expertise elsewhere, such write ups always amaze me. I used to think of hardware as unmodifiable black boxes, but over time my point of view changed to consider almost all consumer electronics hackable to various degrees, you just have to know how.

On this note, I wish someone hacked the Shimano Di2 firmware to enable the RD shift amount of gears different to the stock value (10,11,12 and so on). Judging by this video [1], the hardware is capable of that (or was, the RD-6770 was superseded a while ago).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAW5DvLSkak
Tinyasm 8086/8088 Assembler
> I've never worked anywhere that didn't expect an immediate response from Slack.

Interesting; I've never worked anywhere that DID. Wonder if it's a regional or company domain thing.
> Seems like wealth follows a roughly Gaussian distribution

You mean your toy simulation of wealth follows a Guassian Distribution.

Most people I know are not randomnly giving dollars to the entire population pool, they are mostly giving them to already wealthy corporations.
Well if we're gonna dive into that...

Texas is anti-human, unless you happen to wealthy, white, male or the first two and a woman who agrees that "her place" is in the home. My wife is always on edge here. It's violent and people are becoming more cruel as the politics more and more support our worst inclinations.
> Anything bigger and lobbying power becomes an issue.

I thought that was the point the person you responded to was making.
> Google Analytics 4, its successor, does not log or store IP address at all.

The fact that it receives the IP address at all renders it illegal in Italy, and probably anywhere GDPR is in force. And IP address truncation doesn't get you anywhere; it's Google that does the truncating, so the whole address is actually sent to Goo, by which time it has departed from GDPR jurisdiction.
The mild weather of the Bay Area is $
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt

- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Algol60 A parser and code editor with syntax coloring for Algol 60 written in Qt

> do you regret those endeavours?

No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me valuable insights.
I use Firefox bookmarks too and sync so new devices are easy to setup. The "Bookmark search plus 2" add on allows you to search folder names and shows which folder a bookmark is stored in.
>> The grindset is frowned upon. Some of the coffee shops don’t allow computers on Sundays, and people will scoff at you for skipping weekend social events to work. Austin entrepreneurs also care more about profit than growth.

These are all definite pluses in my book!
If you're a regulator, having all of the transactions on the interface between institutions and individuals pinned to PII, following money around the public ledger becomes significantly easier.

If you're, say, a drug dealer only taking bitcoin, the police just have to buy some of your drugs and watch where the money goes to have a pretty good idea of all of your clients, your entire business history, and the names and addresses of your customers. It is perhaps sometimes technically possible to have good OpSec and launder the crypto so it can't be traced, but this is really hard and not making big mistakes is as well (and people breaking laws are often pretty stupid about it).

Unless you are very competent and very paranoid, the advertised benefits of crypto are very hard to achieve.
People will buy roughly the same amount of almonds whether they're produced in California or Ohio[0]. Claiming that we have to attribute agricultural water (ab)use to the consumer is just absolving the producers of any and all responsibility for destructive, short-sighted decisions about where and how to produce.

[0] Or any other place with a reasonable natural amount of rainfall. Nothing special about Ohio for this purpose.
Stop using these token casinos. Selling you unregulated securities and creating bag holder "communities" is all they are good for. They know how gross they are so they're going to kowtow to the regulators so the regulators don't make them register all those securities. It's gross self preservation. There are much better options.
That is so ironic.
My manager uses excel, yes he is the reincarnation of the Office Space guy.
If your only concern is self interest, you should consider what happens to the "elite" in a revolution.

The phrase "civil unrest" is far too tame; it doesn't even begin to conjure the horrors that people are capable of when they get angry enough.
I've seen a few guides on youtube on how to replace or clean them out, then a paid service similar to unlocking phones to pay a hacker to reset the counter.
Is the device in question a Garmin?
I think part of it is cultural. At $PREVIOUSJOB we used a lot of Indian outsourced devs and they were quite big on the "hello" thing. Could have been what the outsourced company told them to do, too, but they did stop after being asked to, mostly. QA seemed to hold on to it. They were predominantly women, so not sure if that played into it.
Anecdata: I'm way hungrier later in the day after exercising. If you look for reddit posts on cutting/dieting you can see a lot of people reporting that the extra food craving from exercise can frequently be bigger than what you burn with it.
This is an example where philosophical questions get detached from reality. While it can be an interesting thought experiment, intuitively you already know the answer, and if you would live through civil unrest yourself you would stop doubting that answer for sure.
Not including the racist discrimination example, I'm not sure that this is a bad problem. I believe there is a tendency for us to leave the schooling system and start viewing interviews as though they were our new exams, where failure is your own fault. I argue that interviews are the starting point of a new relationship, so the closest analogy is actually a date. If you're on a date and express your values and the other person rejects you for it, it simply means you don't make a good relationship - even if it's just because the other person has unfair demands.

So don't project programming ideals you don't believe in. If they can't reconcile different opinions, it's their problem. You won't have the conviction or experience to do it convincingly anyway.
As someone who has enjoyed Minecraft for many years, running servers for friends and friends of friends since high school, this is quite disturbing.

Simply put: I do not care what someone else thinks about someone's behavior on someone else's server. Regardless of the nature of their behavior.

If someone says something nasty on someone else's server, and that player gets reported by another player on that server, and this results in a ban, now the 'offending' player cannot play on my server. Even though I could not care less what they said in that other server!

I've always moderated my servers as I see fit. But now the code my servers execute will betray my wishes? Thankfully, private servers are often running modified code supporting plugins, and I am hoping that the community further subverts this process with things like this: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/no-chat-reports

It's pretty sad, but frankly expected given Microsoft's goals in the market with regard to authoritarian ('parental') controls in their investments.

I will never again join any other server except those I run myself, because I don't want to end up banned from joining my own private server. This does still leave a slight risk of being reported on my own server. But at least it is far less likely, since we're all friends and like each other. We all interact how we want and we love each other for it.

If all else fails, I will have to switch my servers to online-mode=false, and add an authentication plugin to verify usernames 'manually' (instead of my server asking auth servers upon player login). This may require my players to use 'cracked' clients that will masquerade as any chosen username without consulting auth servers. It's a last resort for sure.
I think the work they're doing to migrate to SHA-256 also includes not hardcoding the hashing algorithm so much into the code, so that it has some forwards compatibility if they need to change again in future.
>As in, a body shape that's only achievable with hours of intense training a day, probably with an expensive personal trainer, diet plan etc.

It's all steroids. Hours of training and some super rigorous diet plan is all a ruse. It's steroids.

People have recovery time, hours of intense training a day is physically not possible, atleast not in the way which would build muscle for the type of shitless shots.
> All it had to say was that rust tells you when you keep reference to on stack variable after it goes out of scope.

The author isn't just telling you that Rust is awesome because it tells you something, he's acknowledging the frustration in learning how to listen to the compiler.

It's kind of like Jerry Pournelle describing the ups and downs of USB by documenting an epic journey that all started with trying to scan some handwritten notes for his next novel using a Canon scanner he borrowed from Alex that he's just now getting around to reviewing, because the pins of the parallel port are too bent to use the old Epson. Okay, so maybe it was a little overcomplicated.
Yes and yes 1000yes
I seen this post thank to rss
What made the learning curve higher for non-technical members on Zulip than it was on Slack? It’s been a few years since I used Zulip, but I don’t feel like it had a particularly different level of complexity.
From subjective experience, it seems like the natural turnaround for “this isn’t my Austin anymore!” is about 10 years.

I lived there for 10 years. I left because I couldn’t afford it any more. :-/
I'd counter that only on Hacker News would you find somebody who insists that a single person must be right about everything about a complex subject because he has some fancy titles. In other words, appeal to authority.

Yeah no. All of the no. Reality is king. If somebody with some fancy titles and a few podcasts tells you that they sky is green when anybody can walk out the door and see it, are you going to believe him? Authority figures and those with supposedly prestigious titles are sometimes completely wrong, and nobody should be believed blindly.

But those figures are usually at least trying. I think rather less of the person whose knowledge consists of listening to a half dozen podcasts from one guy and believes that qualifies him to go around the internet lecturing people about how ignorant they supposedly are because they don't bow down to the one self-proclaimed expert that they somehow stumbled upon.
> You really need wifi for airprint as its not clear that OSX will have much usb printer support in future.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the complexity of printers (actually, almost certainly I am), but isn't OSX support on printers just "let the manufacturer handle it"?

I'd imagine the least amount of effort they could do is support postscript via USB and leave it at that...
Did anyone eventually end up signing up at catstories.ai?
How often do you print? I have read those things need to be run very often to keep them from clogging or breaking down.
I like David's writings and I say this not as a criticism, but this article has been written by every newcomer to Austin since Texians and Mexicans first arrived to the chagrin of some very onery Comanche.

Having moved to Austin in 1994 (when rent was only $250) to start my studies at UT, I discovered the town of Linklater's Slacker. I could bore you with tales of once-was Austin, like when SXSW wristbands were $35; every former Austinite has similar stories relative to the period of time in which they lived there.

Underlying all these stories that seemingly describe some mythical land of milk and honey is one common thread: opportunity. Austin allows you to be anyone you want to be and affords you the opportunity to do whatever makes your heart full. Austin allowed me to serendipitously become a very successful software engineer and I will never be able to answer the question whether it was me or my environment that played the larger role in making me who I am today.

I no longer live in Austin proper, rather the Texas Hill Country, just to the west. I am quite sure that from my vantage point, I can still see new Austinites like David experiencing the same wonderment I did almost thirty years ago.
I got the e-mail too; probably for the best, but for a good while now I couldn't send money to Coinbase, probably also for legal reasons.
We’re pretty happy with Clickup as the non-tech people also know how to use it. Also a lot of the automations and integrations are pretty well done.
How on earth is this relevant to the post?
I find that even where immediate responses are not required where I work now (and, honestly, everywhere I've ever worked), the Slack status works pretty well for when I'd like to have some "me time". I usually set it to something business or "current fad" friendly, like "in my flow state - not monitoring slack or email".
Daily - it's how I got this article.....
A desktop application to learn singing. It inputs your voice from mic and shows spectrogram realtime and shows note you are singing on the graph. Also provides reference note sound on headphone so that you can sing the note accurately. Also provides random notes variations to practice.
RSS is actually the only mechanism that I use to subscribe to any news source, including YouTube channels.

If a news source does not support RSS itself and there is no workaround to get it otherwise as RSS, I will not subscribe to it.

For reading, I use Feedbro in Firefox and Flym on Android.
I take it you have not heard about the waste ink pad counter? Once that is up, you either have to buy a new printer or take it to a service center.

https://epson.com/Support/wa00369
I agree mostly — most days the most action my printer gets is printing out amazon return labels.

However we have an MFC and we scan items fairly often.
The BBQ is good IMO.

Agree on the weather. I've been to Austin a number of times. A number of years back, I had back to back events during the summer and spent the weekend rather than going home. I enjoyed myself well enough but remember it was very much an exercise in managing activities so that I wasn't too active in the heat of the day. Remember going to some nearby caves, and to hill country, and then watching the bats in the evening.

Also lived in New Orleans for a few years and recall summer days were mostly spent going from AC to AC.
People have been saying that since I left Austin 5 years ago after living there for 15 years (as a San Antonio native).

"Don't Dallas my Austin" (and its sibling from the 80's "Don't build and they wont come") is the kind of mentality that put Austin exactly where it is wrt affordability and infrastructure
How is it any surprise that different people don't agree on this?
Yes. When Google Reader died I just moved to other apps. I’ve tried a few over the years. Feedly, Inoreader, etc. Also, podcasting still uses RSS. Every podcast app uses it directly, or more often these days, indirectly. iTunes and Spotify podcasts databases are still originally populated from RSS feeds.

As a developer, I mostly use Django, so I use the included syndication framework. The major pain point in that library is that adding additional tags that it doesn’t already support, especially if they are complex, is a pain in the ass. of course, you only have to do it once and then you can re-use your subclass in other projects. It’s still not great. Ideally it would support a very wide range of popular tags out of the box, i.e.: the podcast ones.
Pro-tip: Libraries.
I left Austin so I’d like to share a counter perspective. I still think it’s one of the best big cities in the country but that’s the problem, it’s a big city now. Austin went from 500k people to well over a million now during my time there. It’s impossible for a place not to change with that many people moving. Everything the author likes used to be even nicer before. Used to be more casual, more affordable, better music scene, less traffic, etc. I also don’t believe it’s a great place to raise kids anymore: epidemic of homelessness, more crime, crowded streets, too hot for extended outdoor play during the summer, etc. I used to meet a lot more people with “normal” jobs in Austin, e.g. mailman, teachers, nurses, etc. but over time they couldn’t afford to live close by and everyone I met had tech/finance/startup jobs. The establishments definitely got gentrified and cater to no-kid professionals now. Parks are now full of beautifully sculpted people playing frisbee where it used to be tie-dye wearing teenie boppeers or big Mexican families grilling. Ultimately, Austin grew to be a mono-culture of socioeconomic status in my opinion. No hate, Austin is a great city but just grew up into something that didn’t suit me anymore. It’s a weird thing when the place you live changes so quickly around you that you don’t feel you belong there anymore.
I'm pretty sure the context here was entire countries switching, not single school districts. The money is there.