skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems very good.

1. This looks like Notion, which is good. Notion succeeded by being pretty.

2. It feels...I don't know the way to say it, but the appropriately level of solid (I don't accidentally drag and drop stuff), fast, and just easy to use. No non-modal mix of commands and typing makes entering information frustrating. It feels like typing into Notepad. It's frustration-free.

3. I would like if the dashboard showed unscheduled tasks (as a collapsible section at the very bottom, below Completed.)

4. I have TODOs of the form "Deploy XYZ" and ideally they would be "Deploy XYZ - https://github.com/foo/bar/pull/1337" -- but this adds a lot of clutter to the task list. If there were a way to add details or attach notes to tasks, that would be helpful. (It would also add clutter, so be careful. Just a "Details" link next to "Schedule" and the tags might work. Make it open a note on the right, perhaps?)

5. The "Schedule" link below each item makes me think I haven't scheduled the item, but I have. It should say "Today" (when I'm looking at today on the dashboard).

6. The importing of calendars scared me as it populated a giant list, including my coworkers calendars that I've subscribed to (but have set to not display), but turned out fine. Only the ones I have set to display in Google Calendar display in Emery by default. The import UX maaaaybe could be better / less aggressive, but it works.

7. The dichotomy between "schedule this for today" and "add this to a specific time on my calendar" still exists, and frustrates me, but the ability to sort the tasks helps.

8. It's good that this is opinionated. Stay focused and reject most feature requests, including mine.

9. You got me to enter my credit card before I even got to play around with it. That's impressive, but you are definitely cutting your top-of-funnel with that requirement. (Maybe it pays off by increasing conversion at the free trial->paid step, or maybe you only want true believers at the beginning, but the payment form would usually have turned me away.)

10. Can I export my data? In seven days, am I going to have to manually copy-and-paste all my notes and outstanding TODOs back into my old system if I decide this isn't for me? This risk also makes me hesitant to go all-in during the trial period. (An export wouldn't fully solve this, since I'd then have a messy JSON file or something to deal with, but I'd feel a little better about it.)
If developers could make a small mistake that caused this, imagine what could happen when The Merge goes through.
Will Nancy Pelosi visit Taiwan?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/pelosi-taiwan-risks-...
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, to the USA. I am a diversity visa lottery winner, I will hopefully have a green card this September.

Technologies: React, GraphQL, Node, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Gatsby, Next.js, Scala, PostgreSQL, docker, python, Odoo, Linux, vim, Serverless, reverse engineering. Looking into rust and go.

Résumé/CV: https://codeconik.com/Yasser_Kaddour_Resume.pdf

Email: yasser at codeconik.com Website: codeconik.com

I had a software consultancy business that sells and integrates diverse open-source self-hosted solutions, my main product is odoo ERP, for which I developed lots of modules to adapt it to the Algerian market and the needs of my clients. I also worked on startups as a full-stack web developer.

Since I am emigrating to the USA and leaving my business behind, I would like to resume my coding career and work on challenging problems as a software engineer. I wish to work for a company that tries to make a difference and work on global issues like climate change, sustainable energy, poverty, health, well-being, education, democracy.

I speak Arabic, French, and English.

Any feedback that is not a job offer would be very much appreciated!
Why is the cloud still so popular even though stories like this one are so common now?
RISC-V Bytes: Stack Use After Return in C, Go, and Rust
Yes. 24GB of RAM and 4 OCPU.

Source: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free
That’s exactly right. Real wages are not keeping up with inflation. Inflation is confusing everyone who isn’t used to seeing it. It’s ludicrous to think we are not in a recession just because more people retired in the last few years due to COVID and exited the workforce to artificially keep the unemployment rate low. Participation in the workforce declined something like 10% - I don’t have the time find the exact number. But we still have a lower overall workforce than pre-COVID. The 100K per year jobs are declining in availability but there’s millions of jobs at fast food and retail available. It’s obvious that it is purely political as to what makes a “recession.” Meanwhile lots of tech companies have lost 70-80% of their value. But the largest companies, apple, google, and Microsoft are holding up, we all know the small businesses go first.
There have been many options for learning operating systems design and implementation for years and years.

There's Tanenbaum's Minix book. Besides "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" he also has "Modern Operating Systems" and "Distributed Operating Systems". He also has "Computer Networks". He has a couple editions of "Distributed Systems" with van Steen.

There's Comer's Xinu books, he of the "other TCP/IP books" besides Stevens. Stallings, as far as I'm aware known mostly for networking and security books, has an OS principles book that's seen half a dozen or more editions. Silberschatz has about a dozen editions of his book. There's Nutt, with "Centralized and Distributed Operating Systems". There's "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" by Arpaci-Dusseau and Arpaci-Dusseau. Elmasri, Carrick, and Levine have "Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach".

Then there are all the advanced OS topics books, learn-as-we-build books like "Create Your Own 32-bit Operating System" by Burgess, and all the books about working inside individual operating systems like v6 Unix, System V, Solaris, Linux, BSD, or even going back to MS-DOS and AmigaOS on the pre-Unix micro side.
All you need is a couple bits, but yeah, making sure it’s the neutrino your buddy sent and not some other one is where it gets complicated.
> Are we not allowed to talk about a problem if some greater problem also exists?

Being facetious, are we?

Talking about petty nuisances related to trying to solve the greater problem while not even mentioning what the greater problem is usually an indicator that you don't see the greater problem as a problem.

The greater problems being racism and transphobia in the context of this discussion.
Zulip | Senior Frontend Engineer | REMOTE or San Francisco | Full-time or part-time | https://zulip.com/

At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Our product serves as the communication hub for businesses, open-source projects, educators and communities around the world.

We’re looking for a senior frontend engineer to join our small core team and help define the future of team chat. In this role, you will *work closely with Zulip’s product and design leads to drive work on a major initiative to redesign Zulip’s core surfaces.*

We are also hiring for other Engineering and Marketing roles. For full details on this role and other open positions, check out https://zulip.com/jobs/. Apply at jobs@zulip.com.
If you're not willing to pay more, it means you don't actually see the change as providing any value.
“Software has inertia.”
The American Chemical Society and Scite Partner to Develop Smart Citations
Ads market may be peaking as would inevitably happen. I’m increasingly seeing google and Facebook make idiotic decisions that clearly improve ad revenue at the cost of user retention.

I recently started searching cpp documentation and the only thing that comes up is copy pasta sites. I need a new search engine, and I just deleted instagram last week. YouTube now runs multiple back to back video ads.

Maybe this is just a pause, or a momentary restructuring- but all markets peak eventually.
I don’t understand how Oracle can convince companies to sign with them considering their behaviour.
I consider myself just a "Web Developer". That's it. Do you need frontend? I can do it. Do you need backend? I can do it. Do you need a deployment script or a CI pipeline? I can do it. I'm in my 40s and I've been doing this since I was 17, so it's not that I'm special. I'm just old and spent a lot of time learning everything I can learn.

I'm terrible at designing, management, or "product" management. But I'm pretty decent at all of the others, stronger on some areas and a bit weaker on others, but I can do all of what's required to ship a working web application/site to our customers and I have a pretty awesome salary because of this.
> EA isn't really a dominant thing in the market maker space

The article doesn't say it's dominant, it says "There is a weirdly high overlap between quant finance and Effective Altruism in general, and between Jane Street and EA in particular (it is emphatically not 100%)"

I know quite a few EAs who work or worked at Jane Street, much lower profile than SBF. What the article misses is that a lot of EAs specifically went into finance because if you're looking to earn money to donate it's one of the places you can earn the most, and not because of "where they advertise jobs" or "overlap in outlooks".
Isn't the same thing for oss contributions, npm packages, etc.?
My home currently has those all over, built in 1992 in Canada. Not a mobile or manufactured home.
I used to read Dilbert when I was a kid in the 90s, which perhaps made me a weird kid. With that background, it's actually quite strange to see the examples of recent strips this article presents -- because they show the pointy-haired boss as the "reasonable" character. His role earlier on was almost-always as the deranged influence of management, causing problems for others. (I feel that a similar joke ~20 years ago would probably have used Dilbert as the viewpoint character, frustrated at his coworkers' abuses of the system.)

Seeing him framed as the audience-identification character suggests things about Adams' shifting viewpoint, I guess?
Perfectly fine for what? I live in Europe, everybody has Internet at home, and if they're out, they have 4G on their phone.

When would one need the coffee shop wifi, especially non-techies that go there just to have a coffee, not to work? Honest question.
In my language it is called inner quitting and there are studies about it by psychologists specialized in work dynamics. It was diagnosed very often in people in public administration.

Not the same as quitting of course and seen in contrast to someone that tries to do a good job, not necessarily being a workaholic either. But there certainly are jobs where this is just normal operation.
If you don’t own it then you can be cut off at someone else’s whim. The cloud is to the cloud provider’s benefit not yours.
New Interpretation of Productivity Growth in Pandemic Era U.S. Economy
> It's just conservative talking points because in the real world, nobody actually does that.

I present you Sergia, our (in)famous 60 years old trans.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5544173/Argentinian...
It's hard to vote with your wallet on a free tier, to be fair.
Free tier user and no statement if he had a payment method attached to his account.
>Literally no STS launches did.

Do you mean no STS launches were DoD payloads or do you mean no STS launches required DoD specs? I'm not saying the "cost effectiveness" promise of the Shuttle was met, but there appears to be evidence that neither of the above claims are accurate. For example, STS-38 was a classified DoD payload [1] and there are book chapters dedicated to fact that DoD specs drove the shuttle design [2]. The gist from [3] is

"the support and budget for space decreased, increasing the need for NASA to work closely with the DOD. Their partnership prompted many compromises that were made on the vehicle’s uses and design, which resulted in a broad set of requirements"

Those compromises were largely to accommodate the DoD payload and range requirements. Whether or not they were ultimately necessary we can't know because much of that is classified and unverifiable. But they still drove the design and eroded the cost benefits that NASA wanted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-38

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137438546_11

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296652080_Space_Shu...
I literally saw a new job posting from Google yesterday.

Either way, hiring freezes usually happen before layoffs. The freeze allows the numbers to naturally reduce as people leave and they aren't replaced. Then they can move on to laying off the remaining number of people they need to reduce by.
>>The problem I see Dilbert running into is the comic previously was aimed at corporate culture

This is the corporate culture now. Or at least a caricatured view of it (as it always was).
I'm dabbling in that world right now. Along with the fact that, well, I'm dabbling in that world right now... no. They're doing different thing. You won't have ML models creating UI code (and I mean, actual UI code to draw widgets, not just assembling UIs) or any number of other tasks. They're doing new things. And we have plenty of time to learn, just like I haven't been left behind by any number of other things. It won't be like the web.

(In fact I've been generally unimpressed by the people I've seen so far. The ML math is complicated, but there's a whole lot of "just fire this at that without understanding why" in the actual practitioners. I've found I have a better understanding of what is and is not possible and why than they seem to rather often. This comes back to my extended education background, though; my training is old but less obsolete than you may think, a lot of modern ML stuff isn't some totally new thing just invented yesterday, but a couple of slight tweaks to established stuff that worked really well combined with finally having the CPU firepower to use it.)
I'm struck by how big the code fix is; 200 line diff, at least 100 lines of code with new logic.
I agree with this to some extent. However in case of firms like Jane or Citadel or Quadrature you have to have a well documented, long track record of accomplishments in various orgs before your CV lands on their desks.

These companies hire from a different pool than you described.
> I am mindful, these days, that I'm 51 because I know ageism is a thing in tech.

I hear this a lot, but that hasn't been my experience. The demand for me far exceeds the supply of me.

> ...when I start to talk about things and find solutions, that disappears.

Exactly. If you can prove within the first 30 minutes why you belong in the room, they aren't going to want you to leave.
I like ADS-B Exchange and all for being a (purportedly unfiltered) data stream based off community volunteers uploading data from SDR stations (I even briefly ran a data source), but it's missing data for the middle of the flight.
That is not a good thing. Nor do I think it’s completely true anyway. I have the advantage of a strong analytical background (PhD physics) and over a decade of experience in software development. The “data kids” struggle with the parts that actually make their jobs possible (engineering) and that part is not undergoing any kind of paradigm shift at this time.
Amazon's climate pollution is getting way worse
Yup, headless components/libraries are perfect for keyboard, a11y, focus handling, state handling, etc. Usually they don't render anything at all, they just give you html attributes, event handlers, etc that you apply to your own markup. This way you can let these battle-tested libraries handle the hard stuff and you can focus on what's actually unique to your project, usually just styling.
Think legacy.

But not too legacy. A friend of the family got his first programming gig (in the early 80s) working on some old in house main frame system at a fortune50 company and spent the next 20 years doing that. When they retired that system in the early 2000s they fired him and he ended up having to take a job at a gas station, since no one was interested in hiring someone who had spent their entire career working on some main frame system that no one had ever heard of.
I usually find when people discuss fit, it's helpful to ask specifically what behaviors indicated which personality traits that the co-worker is trying to filter out. Asking for precision also shifts the discussion from something general like fit to specific things like which traits is this company trying to select for, and whether or not the other interviewers agree that a behavior indicated a specific personality trait.

I don't have studies to back this up, but I find personally it helps give an avenue for co-workers to argue against bigotry without accusing anyone of behaving in a bigoted away.
https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/commit/b7231c7d02cfb65d291af...

This newly added function, add_implied_include, which was committed as a part of the patch gives me the creeps. I do not claim to be competent enough to work with a utility as important as rsync, but looking at C code written like that makes me grateful for that fact.
Use one big server
Yeah I mentioned that younger people are less likely to have children, so they have more time to be devoted to work. I'm not sure why you are taking so much issue with what I said. Perhaps you misunderstood what I wrote.
You can take a vow to never get angry again

"If you think about it, isn’t anger the most pointless of the emotions? It’s beastly, isn’t it? When people act in anger, they really are betraying the animal within, all “red in tooth and claw,” as poet Alfred Lord Tennyson put it.

[...]

We have brains that, for the most part, we can control. We’re not just mindlessly going about our day being led astray by impulses that control us. We can learn ethics and have morals to guide our behavior so that we can always remember to never intentionally cause harm or discomfort to others.

We can have a say and make choices about what we experience and how we react. We can use our logic and reason to mitigate the effects of strong emotions in order to have better outcomes for ourselves and those around us."

From:
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/a-vow-to-never-get-angry-ag...
I am 98% anti-crypto, but this is awesome.

Thank you man!
The caption for the image in the article expands on the theory a bit.

The idea is that as the ice melts, less weight is on the poles, which causes them to rise up. It’s proposed that the overall effect is to make the Earth more round/spherical lowering its moment of inertia. This effect is, at least in this theory, seems to be stronger than the effect of moving water out to the equator. It wouldn’t surprise me if the water that’s moving around simply isn’t massive enough to cause an effect the size observed. Same with the oil that you propose.
C xor C++: Situations where the same code has different meaning in C and C++
What is Up With Dilbert is Scott Adams is a Boomer and the older he gets the more obvious it becomes. I used to love a lot of the older Dilbert but lately it's just ... irritating.
"Not a good fit" is a perfectly good reason not to hire someone, but not if you can't, or are unwilling, to define what you mean by it.
If you zoom in on the FRED graph, you can see the recent rebound participation rate peaked in March, and has started a (slight) decline in the last quarter.
I could barely make it past the title without objecting on principle. There's a quote below the title:

> If true equality between male and female persons is to be achieved, we cannot ignore the threat to equality resulting from exposure to materials portraying women as objects for sexual exploitation and abuse.

So exposure to this stuff is a "threat" which I presume they intend to combat. The implication being what people are allowed to expose themselves to is supposed to be regulated. This is advocating for censorship and I will never agree with that on principle.

I kept reading that document and saw several insinuations that pornography causes a lot of things, including rape and violence against women. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Sounds a lot like so many similar claims like video games cause violence and school shootings or rap music causes violence.
A quick Google indicates there is some confusion about whether Edson was a black or white man?
Indie Relaxing Sounds App Cheepy Is Published [Great Buildinginpublic Example]
Cheepy (which we developed as #buildinpublic 2 weeks ago) is live now!

With our application that we developed together with @kemalserbet and @galiperkin, you can use it to get away from the stress of the day, relax before sleep or just focus.
To the best of my understanding, bosses do generally stick around as well. I believe their leaving signals that it's OK to depart.

That doesn't dismiss the concerns about deference to power though.
Pelosi's flight into Taiwan
Wow, what an absolutely horrible take. The free tier is supposed to be a representative introduction to what you can expect from paid tiers. As long as you aren't breaking the TOS there should be no reason for suspension, and if there is a suspension, it should be handled gracefully and respectfully, as literally promised by their own friggin' TOS. The paid tier doesn't have a separate TOS either.

Oracle dropped the ball big time, and they should go out of their way to fix this ASAP. If I were their customer, which I am not and will never be, I'd be migrating my shit right now.
You're still too young. Wait til you've worked five years and you know everything. ;-)

That's what I've seen. Young folks learn latest language/framework/tool/etc and decide the old stuff the grey beards use is antiquated. Then you get real old and realize there is nothing new under the sun (usually) and there was a reason the gray beards were doing it the way they were.
Japan's electronic industry was build with tariffs, import restrictions, currency quotas, ownership limits, strict financial regulation, central planning and indirect subsidies.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43294946

tldr just like China today you couldnt just import western electronics to Japan, or gasp own a controlling stake in Japanese companies.

And this was the result:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/09/30/j...

"JAPAN AND THE BIG SQUEEZE September 30, 1990. HOW DID Japan destroy the American television industry? The secret history of that strategy reveals how Japanese manufacturers and the Japanese government first created an anti-competitive cartel ..."

"Japan's raid on the American market dates back to 1956, when the largest Japanese manufacturers formed the Home Electronic Appliance Market Stabilization Council, an illegal production cartel. The intent of the cartel was to monopolize the domestic market for television receivers, radios and other home electric products and to exclude foreign imports. Once their home market was secure, they would launch a drive against the far richer American market."

Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c
Just as a look at the other side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meHYBhcpdvQ - The Stealership Trap - Why We Need the Dealership "Rip Off"

This is for motorcycles but the jist of it is that the situation with dealerships is convenient to motorcycle manufacturers. I suspect it's semi applicable to cars as well.
We all did shop class and home economics where I’m from. It was wonderful.

Learned a lot about basic cooking and nutrition in home economics. Bet I still use many of those skills to this day without even realizing it.

The shop class stuck less. Perhaps because I spent a lot of my younger years learning mechanical engineering from my dad and got to “help” with power tools around the house we were renovating at the time.

Using the lathe was epic, though. My rocket came out extremely unbalanced.