skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, haven't seen "engineering" elitism since university. Software is the nervous system of a business. Everything from accounting, to payroll, to inventory tracking, to sales, to marketing, to communications, is achieved in today's world by interfacing with dozens if not hundreds of software programs and systems. Impossible to achieve with hardware alone obviously, you need operating systems, you need data centers, need custom dashboards and BI, you need ACH/SWIFT routing interfaces to make payments go through, you need file management, you need chat software to communicate with employees and customers, you need software nearly every step of the way. It's complex as hell. And the complexity of making all those systems work together just compounds that complexity.
What does a data engineer making 300k do of its days?
Land Sailing and Sand Sailing
I think we can get a good package management system for Python if we get rid of PyPA.
If anyone from Snap is reading this.

I can't login to web.snapchat.com because I don't remember my password. I can't reset my password because (1) I don't have an email on the account (FaceID), and (2) the number on my Snap account is from like 4 years ago (FaceID). In order to update the email or update the number, I need a....password.

Someone should fix this.
Down and Out in London and Paris is a great, great memoir. It's 50% Kitchen Confidential, 50% tramping in England during the Depression. I really can't communicate how readable and fun it is.
They also point out that HLL doesn't have false positives but it does have incorrect counts (I don't really see how that's different tbh), and later say it has the same "absolute correctness" as an association table...
That take is far more of a Rorschach of your views than anything to do with the topic on hand.
No, we weren't just talking about Netflix and not capitalism. Not in the original thread you first came to, and not in your replies either.
I recall something from 100+ years ago when they had a plan to import hippopotamus to louisiana, turn them loose to breed in the wild and market it as "lake cow bacon".

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

Probably a good thing that there is not a population of thousands of feral hippopotamus going around.
Sounds like a great place to pick up women ;)
So you have to be a CIA spy to post a workplace review. Nice.
Seems like people are interpreting whatever they want from the original chart by Raja Koduri at the VLSI symposium...plotted with absolute numbers you see that EE enrollment is pretty flat. What has happened is that the number of CS majors has exploded. Kind of makes sense that there SHOULD be 10x programmers for every chip designer? Unless we want the hardware to become the application and for every programmer to be an EE??

https://ee.stanford.edu/about/fast-facts

https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/by-the-numbers

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Excellent explanation. But I think plenty of technology has been misunderstood as of late.

I've been in this industry two decades, but it's only in the past 5 years that I've noticed entire teams of absolute morons entering the field and being given six figure jobs without understanding what their job even is, much less how to do it properly. (And by "properly" I mean "know what a REST API is")

The industry is awash in quants who took a four week course in Python and are now called "data scientists"; backend software engineers who don't know what the fuck a 500 error is; senior developers who graduated a year ago; engineering managers who "hire DevOps"; product managers and DMs who don't know how to use Jira or run a stand-up. It's like all that's left is people who think they have "impostor syndrome" when they actually are impostors of professionals.

I tried to find a new job recently, and I couldn't find a single org with at least 50% of the staff properly understanding how to do their jobs. Of course half of them were bullshit VC-funded money-bleeding terrible businesses, and the other half were fat cash cows that through their industry dominance became lazy and stupid. Maybe we just hit peak tech, and all the good teams were formed by boring companies long ago and don't have new positions open. Or maybe all the good people cashed out and retired.
Aha! A fellow org-mode-rooted blogger. I see your "How to blog with Org-mode" post and raise you mine: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/

:D
I’ve had carne asada makizushi, but I feel like that’s the exception that proves the rule.
From the first comment, you called me a reactionary, regularly been condescending and assumed I didn’t know anything. This is indeed a personal attack:

> After responding to a lot of your comments it seems like you don't have a great grasp of US history.

As you said, we likely see history through a different lens because of what we read / experience. Im familiar with Goldwater, the strategy shift was “required” after the democrats shift. Aka there’s two parties they’re always vying for votes. That’s the nature of things, my point was it wasn’t either party in particular. They shift over time based on the voting base they’re trying to capture to maintain power.

I can say that without any emotional attachment or support or endorsements. I’ve frankly endorsed nothing in these discussions, mostly pointed a contrary viewpoint out that hasn’t been mentioned.

Generally, the comments such as

> States Rights has always been an anti-democratic rallying cry, and the main mechanism that the Republican party uses to stay in control is by limiting who can vote.

Was in fact a false statement throughout history. It’s also an extremely bias and dangerous narrative being spun. Today, states like California claim to be a “sanctuary state”, which lets them capture extra electoral votes. Or Colorado ignoring drug laws. While the republicans do discuss states rights. The democrats are at least as willing, if not more willing, to wield power. Look at representative districts in Illinois lol. Yet all we here are “republicans are going to steal the election, blah blah blah” garbage. Both do the same thing.

Regardless, the condescension is think in this conversation is breathtaking

> You are either being intellectually dishonest because you are too cowardly to take a hard stance on your regressive views, or you're just unaware of history.

I don’t need to actually take stances to have discussions. I enjoy mulling over ideas and considering others viewpoints. Unfortunately, this has devolved to name calling.

Regarding:

> It appears that you've exhausted your arguments at this point. You have no refutation so now you're claiming I'm biased when you are trying to make a "both sides bad" and "you're biased" argument to claim victory. You also failed to respond to my

I try to respond thoughtfully. At the same time, personal attacks are beneath you. There’s a lot of comments, I don’t respond to all because I frankly can’t. The bias is being pointed out not to “claim victory” but attempting to point out a hole in knowledge. It’s difficult to have an honest discussion when one party is calling the other a “reactionary” or “regressive”. There are factually wrong statements:

> States Rights has always been an anti-democratic rallying cry

Such as the above ^ states are closer to a democracy in the US. The federal government is a republic, state governments are closer to and can be a direct democracy (e.g. Californians propositions).
Same. In USA here... I'm guessing they're rolling it out gradually across the Snapchat+ subscriber base. We'll see if it's available in the morning...
> The current production system is driven by the need for growth.

I would say our current monetary system is driven by the need for growth. But our current monetary system is a political tool, not an economic tool.

> After that it was clear that demand had to be artificially stimulated to meet the needs of the production side.

No, what was clear, at least to anyone who hadn't drunk the kool-aid of Keynesian "economics", was that the US government (and other governments weren't much better) was completely clueless about how economics actually worked, and so its interventions were making the depression worse instead of better. (Btw, this was just as true of Hoover's administration as of Roosevelt's.) All of the talk about having to increase "aggregate demand" was just a manifestation of the cluelessness. The real problem was not lack of demand but mismatched supply and demand: the government's messing with the money supply had led to a massive misallocation of resources, so that many things were being produced that nobody wanted and many things that lots of people wanted or needed were not being produced, or not being produced in sufficient quantity. Whenever that happens there will end up being a crisis when the misallocation can no longer be sustained.

What the US government should have done in response to the stock market crash of 1929 was...nothing. That's what the US government did in response to stock market crashes in 1920-1921 and 1987, neither of which led to a prolonged depression or even recession.

> Desires are not natural

Really? My desire for music and movies is not natural? How about my desire to post on a site like this one?

I think you have a very simplistic view of both economics and human desires.
Interesting, never heard of these but they look like beavers or otters. Pure speculation but they look like their meat would be game central.
But then Elon might ignore the ruling, and it's not clear what happens, or long it takes.
Thx for the memories... I worked with OS/2 1.2 & 1.3 when I worked at IBM as a young engineer. It was never my favourite system, but I remember it fondly.
I wonder what percentage of RSS users read all their articles in their reader (if possible). I use RSS the same way you do but I've assumed I'm in the minority.
That's how long it takes to get a ruling, but how long will it take them to enforce it?
I can imagine getting a large amount of flaming for this idea, but wouldn't the logical extreme just be to basically define a container for a JS canvas with embeddable resources? In a more restricted form of course, to be sure that it will always render the same, and all compliant computers will have enough power to render it.

You could do things like 480p training videos with ultra-crisp text, and snow/fire/etc effects.

You'd probably have to prevent it from having network access or else you'd just be asking for the videos to rot over time, but you could give them an embedding API or even access to a few small bits of data, so you could have a YouTube video that changes with seasons and location.

If you were strict about the no network access thing you could give access to all sensors, since the data would never leave the device.

YouTube's already got some limited interactivity features, DVDs had them, why not all videos? It would mostly be a novelty, but you could also do really cool stuff like use Bluetooth beacons to skip around to certain parts for an interactive tour, although you might have to enforce downloading the whole thing before playing if you wanted 100% no privacy leaks.
Seemed like a pretty short outage. I was in my email, and things were fine, but suddenly the webapp lost its connection and couldn't reconnect. I wandered off for about 15 or 20 minutes to do something else, and when I came back it was fine again.

Outages are inevitable, but it seems that -- at least this time -- Fastmail's response and fix was incredibly quick. I moved to Fastmail from Gmail a few months ago and have been really happy so far.
I'm sure it's both.

They're not going to run tests in a market they don't think is predictive of a broader population. Also, US-centric companies tend to be US-centric. (Netflix is based in Silicon Valley.) Running a test in a small Latin American economy feels less risky than somewhere like the US (or even Europe), where mistakes will be loudly noticed by personal social ties and the English-speaking media at large.
There was a letter Einstein wrote to his wife [0], in which we see a different side of Einstein.

People are complicated beings.

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[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/06/arts/dark-side-of-einstei...
Same here.

Soon after graduation (~y2k) I know another, older EE who just retired early because it just wasn't worth it to work (and his SO made good money). The salary he was going to get with 10 years experience as an EE was about what I got straight out of college.
This only works in dry places
You could be in favor of, opposed to, or neutral on lockdowns, and still be very much against people ordering lockdowns for everybody else and then going to unmasked parties. That - and not the mere fact of the lockdowns - deserves to be Newsome's political death knell.
It would be interesting to see how estimates vary based on the starting value that is pre-populated.
I guess this has something to do with a lot of manufacturing having moved to Asia.
Here in Germany it is flipped arround. As a software developer in Berlin I can only dream about the salaries I could get as mechanical / electrical engineer in South Germany at one of the big car manufacturers.
Maybe this is a foolish statement coming from my never having used Glassdoor, but why the fuck would an anonymous review website even keep PII in the first place?
This is a very nice demonstration of turbojet. While it has not been claimed as such in the video, this is how most of the modern airplanes DO NOT work.

Modern airplanes use turbofans which has an extremely high bypass ratio. In a turbofan, the turbine mostly rotates the various stages and creates very little thrust.
One of my favourite ways to "blog" is to first write a long email and send it to a friend or three. Sending an email gives a sense of "done", and gives pause to consider one's thoughts. Then it usually becomes easy to decide whether I'm cool putting it up on the ol' blog too.
Can confirm. Making ~$145k salary, with $40k in bonuses.

This is with 3 years of experience in Full Stack Web Dev SWE, and zero years in DevOps (but some basic experience with containers, cloud, and general linux server config).

I was hired as a Web App SWE, but was offered the chance to train in DevOps and took it, in order to grow additional skills. Full stack web apps are mostly CRUD. To learn the ecosystem around them... in terms of Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, and Customizing Containers... I consider that incredibly valuable.

My company needs DevOps but is having difficulty hiring for the role-- it's in high demand but low supply apparently. So, they're letting me become one of their interdisciplinary DevOps/Full Stack people.

I'm very happy as I am learning new things, working with a great team of enthusiastic, positive-attitude people, and upon my first promotion I imagine I'll make around $250k or so.

I don't know of many other professions where this is possible, while working 100% remotely.
If one does a good deed, but does so with the intention of telling others about the good deed to gain social status, is the deed still good despite the ulterior motive?

Isn't the point of starting a business to make money off a product that is useful to people and makes their lives better, hence people willing to trade their money for that product? If healthy living can be a product, what's wrong with monetizing it?
This is where web3 might finally have some use. Truely anonymous decentralised network for reviewing companies. No entity to subpoena and no server logs or user data anyway if they could.
> On problem 2, Chinmay underlined my use of the royal "we"

I've heard that you can only use we if you are The Queen, an editor, or if you have a tapeworm.
Does exercise play an important role in Seventh-day Adventist healthy living, or is the healthy lifestyle more about diet, and not smoking/drinking/drugs?
Um, no. Don't look at the ground, you should be looking forward.

Pushups are 90% mental - if you can do one, you can do fifty, you just have to believe that you can.

I prefer keeping my elbows close to the sides of my torso for more focus on shoulders and arms than chest.
I am not a historian of course, but by that time I don't think serious politicians had illusions about the upcoming war between Russian and Germany.

Russia was not in alliance with Germany. The Non-Aggression pact with Russia was similar to the pacts Germany had with other countries. For example, Germany had a Non-Agression pact with Poland, and Poland took pieces from Czechoslovakia when Hitler took Sudetenland in 1938. This didn't prevent Hitler from attacking Poland.

The Soviet-German pact was just buying time in preparation to the future war.

The Soviet Union had been seeking to create a collective security military alliance with France and Britan against Germany, because it considered the war with Germany inevitable. But after the negotiations failed, Soviets made the pact with Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

We should remember, this Orwell's text is a newspaper article, so may be a propaganda to a degree. For example, Orwell himself multiple times called his work for BBC a propaganda - see his resignation letter to BBC and the famous quote from his diary:

> Our radio strategy is even more hopeless than our military strategy. Nevertheless one rapidly becomes propaganda-minded and develops a cunning one did not previously have. Eg. I am regularly alleging in my newsletters that the Japanese are plotting to attack Russia. I don’t believe this to be so, but the calculation is: ...

https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/14-3-42/

In this article what is interesting to me is how he explains that Hitler poses as a Christ or Prometheus, a self-sacrificing heroic victim. (Because I am not familiar with Mein Kampf and Hitler's rhetoric in general).

The rest - not a revelation. BTW, he attributes the "Better an end with horror than a horror without end" to Hitler, but that's wrong, the phrase has a different author.
Apparently this is the review they sued over - https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/sv8yyv/kiwi_toy...
I would recommend talking to a professional. There are psychologists and equivalent professionals that specialize on this and they may be able to provide you some guidance.

Not sure this helps but believe in yourself. The fact that you are even willing to talk about this already shows a level of self realization that few are able to achieve.
This Google shows all the companies listed within Google’s index with the “Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action” flag; just kept removing the companies for the SERPs using the negative search operator until none were left. No idea why Glassdoor doesn’t just have a list of all the companies doing this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Glassdoor+Alert:+Employer+Le...
Time is a flat circle.

But not really: time is an upward spiral, which just looks like a flat circle from the wrong perspective. Sometimes the distance between coils is so small as to vanish. Our job is to shove the coil up as much as we can while we are here.
I've flown w/ the 14" in economy and didn't have a problem. You do have to be alert in case the passenger in the seat in front of you reclines suddenly (snatched the lid of an x60 out of the way just barely fast enough once), but it should be OK.

Now that I'm thinking about it I didn't have a problem w/ the 15" Intel either, and the dimensions are pretty similar. I'm pretty slim and short though; I don't feel like a T-Rex typing.
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The late term abortions may be technically legal in certain circumstances, but since the laws drove out all of the doctors who can perform them and closed all of the facilities it becomes a de-facto ban.
Haha, I love the start as a form of riffing on bizzare things you come across in the wild.

The year is 2022. You're head DBA at the hot new social site, SupaRate... Your startup is seeing eye-boggling growth because everyone loves sharing their positive AND negative ratings restricted to UNSIGNED TINYINTs.

Why Unsigned? Because! How do you know if it's positive or negative? There's a VARCHAR(256) field for that, duh.
Sure. I see the distinction. I stand corrected.

My point is unchanged: the legal position in effect from Roe until the Dobbs opinion was that the constitutional guarantee of personal liberty through the 14th Amendment would include abortion. Congress, being a party to the Constitution, had thus already spoken on the matter.

The new decision overturns that position.
k8s doesn't get you scaling, in fact, it can get in the way, but if you play your cards right, it gets you high utilization of the CPU and RAM for which you pay, more than doing something simpler via autoscaling or whatever, because it's a solution to dynamic workload distribution, which is a difficult thing to build yourself.
That's why the text starts with "And should men quarrel and hit a pregnant woman" meaning that they are judged as having done it on purpose because he intended to hit someone, he just hit the wrong person. It's not considered accidental.

And look at the next verse 23 - if they kill the mother they are judged as a capital crime.

The Bible does not consider a fetus a full person, but despite that it does not permit abortion.

On a practical level Judaism takes a middle of the road approach and [sometimes] permits abortion before 40 days from conception (or 57 days as is more commonly measured, from LMP).
And cars kill a lot of people too...
The issue with CNC machines is that one error in your code can and will easily crash one part of the machine into another part of the machine and thus break it. Often requiring a technician from the company and a bunch of spare parts to fix it, which, trust me, is never cheap.
So giving a CNC machine to just anyone without proper training is quite a bad idea.
The government doesn't make it a liability. If someone sued you because you choked on something, that's a civil matter. Nothing to do with government.
I pay for two streams; I'm going to use two streams however I please. If Netflix doesn't like it they can kick me off and I'll go back to pirating their content. Either way I'm not bothered.
Kill and maim.
I predict a massive backfire on this one.. I know Netflix is struggling but as competitors (see HBOMax) get better and better now is not the time to both raise prices and give people a reason to revisit their active subscription. I know plenty of people who only continue to pay for Netflix because they share it with a bunch of people. They don’t really have any killer content right now and as far as I can tell no streaming service has figured out how to deal with people who just cycle between services… This is not the right problem to focus on right now.
I’ve been wondering if SWE pay rates have been artificially high for a while due to easy lending - it will be interesting to see if your prediction comes true. Probably a lot of SW companies out there right now are dependent on discretionary income which puts them at risk in a tough market.
They aren't planning on suing for a breach of NDA. They're planning on suing under defamation law, which alone will cost the former employees tens of thousands, if not hundreds, to defend; if they can't defend their case - and as the article says, opinion is not automatically protected under New Zealand law - it appears that they will be suing for "increased recruitment costs", which sounds like it could be construed to run to arbitarily large numbers.

The point is to terrorise anyone out of criticising them, ever.
> How else do you expect to make money other than premium services?

I don’t, I want something that can host for users as cheaply as possible. I’d make it open source and be fully transparent about the fat client design and whatever else.

I pretty much want this site, but every user has an RSS feed, can see each other’s, and a front page with rankings.
Arguing with anonymous people who already made their mind in a unfavourable way for you is a lost cause, not just on glassdoor but on every platform
Presumably they're using some form of DRM that only works in Chrome.