skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert and try to judge based on what I personally experienced, and I get your point. But I also know this is not how businesses operate. Having seen it from the inside, hearing those conversations, I know business decision makers would rather hire somebody locally than from abroad (from different jurisdiction) - if overal cost of hire was the same. But if you can get the same work done and pay less, then this is objectively worthy thing to be done. I have seen huge corporation pivoting towards outsourcing everything to India (software development, accounting, customer support, everything) because it was way cheaper than run those centers locally. This is becoming less and less fruitful since India had seen their wages going up in the past years, so at some point this trend may reverse.

I bet there are others who have different and maybe more grounded opinions, I only share what I experienced myself.
Hopefully I'm not being snarky here, but if you looked at another country with a smaller economy, and then saw that they employee fewer people, would you be equally confused?
> Might've been funny once but degraded into political polemics for the last decade or more.

What are you talking about? Doonesbury has been a proudly, and heavily, political comic since the 1960s.
> Aside from the debate about 'formerly' entering a recession

"Formally"?

* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/formal
You imagine that adaptation always occurs to normalize a species subjective experience of daily tasks?

You are just making evolution goal directed to suit your argument. It isn't
Good point. I’ll begin requesting a shuffled menu. :)
And following that logic, people shouldn't have come for the terms slave/master in computing, and others.
I’m sure the idea is to take advantage of joint and several liability ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/joint_and_several_liability ). If Pornhub and Visa are declared to be severally liable, the woman will be able to collect the entire judgement from Visa, even if the court says Visa is only 1% liable and Pornhub is 99% liable.

Visa will then be able to sue Pornhub to pay its share. In theory, everybody will pay the amount they were supposed to, but the victim will get the money sooner by sending the bill to the party with the deepest pockets.

But often, the parties most at fault go out of business, so the party with the deepest pockets pays the whole judgement and the people who actually caused the injury escape punishment.
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> The average age of first child has been increasing but is still relatively low at 26 for women and 31 for men.

That's for the US as a whole. It seems to be higher in the cities one usually associates with tech.

The average age of first child for women in San Francisco and New York is 31-32 [1] [2].

I couldn't find the average for Seattle, but I did find that 57% of first time mothers in Seattle's county are 30+ in 2016, compared to around 33% nationwide. In San Francisco 76% of first time mothers are 30+. Boston, DC, Portland, and Denver also had majority 30+ first time mothers. [3]

Age of first time mothers tends to correlate well with education and wealth, which also tend to correlate well where tech companies are located. Women with college degrees on average are 7 years old than those without when they have their first child.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/mommyfiles/article/women-sf-children-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-bir...

[3] https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/northwest/waiting-to-hav...
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This is a Pythagorean Tetractys. It is a mystical symbol that shows how 1+2+3+4=10, which supposedly shows the presence of harmony in pure numbers. Harmony in numbers was believed to manifest in the physical cosmos (eg, Harmony of the Spheres). This Tetractys relates also to musical harmony (which was famously formalized by the Pythagoreans). The top dot shows that, when you press a lyre string in the middle, you produce an octave. The two dots show where you can press a string to produce a musical fifth (3:2), and so on. The presence of zero is represented esoterically in the open string, which has no dot. Whether or not this was actually discussed by the Pythagoreans cannot be known—and clearly the concept of zero was otherwise unknown to the Greeks. But, who knows what might have been: the Pythagoreans were nearly all massacred by their enemies in the 5th century BC.
This comment looks like an example of reaction formation.
One thing I've noticed about those Twitter accounts with huge number of followers in the entrepreneurship topic(or perhaps any topic) is that they tweet about just one thing consistently; Everything they tweet about, incl. memes are almost always about their 'thing'.

Twitter rewards that consistency by organically promoting such accounts under 'topics', I guess it's easy to classify the tweets if the account stays within topic.

The followers are following those accounts for that 'thing' too and consider the follower count to be an accreditation for their subject matter experience. This works great if FOMO is involved and Entrepreneurial advice has boat load of it.

Good for them, Their business and perhaps may be their followers too.

But I personally tweet about everything from mental health to linux kernel; When I feel like it and it's evident from that I have just ~500 followers with 13 years of Twitter account. I don't follow anyone as I don't trust the conformist feed algorithms, I have lists for subject matter experts which I follow according to my needs and I engage(like, reply) to the tweets from my followers using my custom tool.

I guess my account is an exact contrast for someone who wishes to be a successful Twitter marketer; Which is a shame considering I'm an indie too.
Funny, when teaching networking we would be able to visit each others local webservers across multiple campuses and subnets (!) on EduRoam. Fun times.
The changes required are only minor. There's no real 'war' needed. Which only makes it sadder.

Like, carbon tax on flying, generally considered a hard to decarbonise sector, would maybe add 8% to the price. Is that a war? Even if the government didn't return it to the people directly, or use it to offset other taxes, say they just somehow magically destroyed that money, that still doesn't seem worth a war to me as a voter/consumer?

https://www.rff.org/publications/data-tools/carbon-pricing-c...

Though, if you happen to sell the thing with the fossil carbon in it that gets the carbon fee added, which would immediately incentivise people to look into cheaper alternatives, maybe it tantamount to a declration of war.

https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price
50 year old greybeard (in winter) here. I worked with a lot of smart female engineers over the last nearly 30 years. I'm wondering what they call themselves now (and I'm wondering if we can get a better name in general)?
No is a boolean operator, not a number. "Do you have any bread?" ... "No. I have no bread." It's the opposite of yes, or some. No or none isn't countable, it's the opposite of any positive quantity, that's why the concept of zero was so counter-intuitive.

It's far more common to say "I haven't got any bread". There's no word or phase in there that's proxying for a number.
>I really don't want this to turn into a case where payment companies are reluctant to do anything that is mildly controversial and could be turned against them at a later point.

This has already been happening. Look at GoFundMe and Patreon.
fr it's not visas fault. this is just as stupid as letting sandy hook families sue gun manufacturers. it's just looking for a scapegoat. "somebody must pay!" so they keep looking until they find one. somebody gotta write the 50 million settlement check.
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The study mentions that having two parents is a factor in adult outcomes. I agree
I now stay away from hiring below 30s.

Tons of effort to train them. I feel like raising children for a long time. Also, higher incidence of behavioral problems: they can be immature and bring drama, feeling entitled, they may lack sufficient social experience (it takes some time until they learn how to properly respond in a given situation, play well in a team, etc), don’t know well how the industry in which we work operates etc.

I get better bang for the buck with more experienced folks. Much less headache.

I think hiring young people is partly a cultural convention.
Would it be possible to compile the compiler to wasm and then use it in the browser to compile the user code to wasm in the browser and then run that?
I've managed to do all my meal prepping for years without an app, and I don't think I'll be needing one now.

There are recipes I sometimes consult online, but otherwise, I have most of the information in my head.
I kind of agree with this view. The problem I see Dilbert running into is the comic previously was aimed at corporate culture and specific jobs and stereotypes. In a way, it was punching up at more powerful, impersonal forces.

Now, he appears to be punching down at people less powerful than him (individually) who have been fighting to get recognized.

Despite these rather nasty policies governments and companies have implemented, it hasn't fixed much and just polarized the issue.

And now Dilbert come in targeting harmful and ineffective policies and hitting a lot of innocent people in the crossfire.
So you're saying he's taking a reasonable stance in reaction to these totally real pressures?
it depends on the EU country. this would be illegal in france for example, considered a "hidden employment contract" (which it is)
Probably because it's the Smithsonian.
>It could be convincingly argued

Go on. Argue that please.
Many years ago I did helpdesk support. Most important thing that I still use: The moment you see that the problem is caused by something out of your control/support tell the customer. After you done that tell the customer you are willing to help a bit but can't make any promises. If you then don't succeed in fixing the problem the customer is still happy because you tried fixing a problem that is not within contract. If you don't tell customer at beginning and you give up by saying, "well this is actually not something for me to help you with" you end the case in a negative emotion for you and the customer.

Other tips:
- get somebody else to help you with support
- reserve time for support, like an hour a day at a fixed time
- don't leave support cases linger in background. something small can/will become a monster
What Is Quiet Quitting?
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> negate a recession

What do you think GDP actually measures?

A hurricane that kills 1000 people increases GDP for instance.
I hate the visa/Mastercard duolopy and the way people attempt to use the networks to regulate things. Card networks should be an open carrier to all, not subject to political whims. It's just too dangerous to have payments anything other than a utility.

Child porn is very illegal, but the people who provide utilities to people who commit crimes should not be held responsible. There are thousands of people and businesses who "made money" off this, from the electric company, to the US government, to the Starbucks barista who got a tip from a worker.

The credit card duopoly is designed for regulatory capture, and it's a huge problem.
Maybe I have not explained it clearly, sorry.

I usually generate my passwords with pwgen (you can install on Mac with brew and use this command pwgen -s 20 -1 -v -y -c -0) then store in plain text within an encrypted folder on my NAS.

In some cases, I use 2FA. In some, a lengthy "mumbo-jumbo" passwords that are easy to remember. :)

P.S. This is just an old habit and I have nothing against using a password manager like https://keepassxc.org/
> I am a staff engineer under 30 with a degree from an Ivy League.

So does this make a difference or not? If not, why do it, and why bring it up? If so, merit exists.
I suppose this is "old man yells at clouds" material, but I feel like engineers should be practicing for their future jobs, not for interviews.
Ha - yep. Just making my way through my coffee... definitely meant formally.
Are you thinking of something like this?:

https://www.unison-lang.org/
One thing I find with young and exuberant people and their assumptions about old greybeards such as myself is that they are somewhat immodest about their knowledge. I’ll readily own up to not being an expert on some new tech and they will act as though they possess all the new hotness until we get into the thick of a project and we discover that my “cursory” grasp of the new tech actually goes significantly deeper than theirs. Sure, you’ve done a few projects with technology X, but I’ve actually bothered to find out how it really works under the covers. Both are valuable, but I’m getting you out of a jam because I’m willing to walk up and down the stack and debug problems at any level, whereas you’re stuck in the hot abstraction of the day. You’re welcome.
So when they're taking African freshwater it's an evil African company?
Not that I have any form of sympathy for these companies, but I think it is safe to assume that regarding cryptography, what's done in research labs and what's put in production at the same time is not at all the same thing, even in the same company.
It really makes me wonder what the common experience is for others not just in tech but Corporate America in general. I myself have run into anti-white and anti-male phenomena, unconscious bias pseudoscience training, diversity pledges, and so on, as have now others in my peer group. Dilbert's commentary has so far been entirely appropriate based on my experience, hence it's puzzling to me when people think there's something particularly conservative about being concerned or critical about these societal changes. Are said changes overblown? Do these people merely think that employees or companies taking positions on "whiteness" see it as totally normal and as something no one would have an issue with? It's just odd to me.
It's maybe based on pros and cons estimations, but SWOT ultimately represents a systematization of internal company ideas for long-term strategies.
Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes (only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Full-stack, JavaScript, Smalltalk, Swift, Rust (more in my dev story in personal site, link below)

Résumé/CV:

http://sebastiansastre.co

https://github.com/sebastianconcept

Email: sebastianconcept@gmail.com

Not in a hurry. I’m exploring career improvement opportunities where I can be sure that if I invest my passion I will feel parts of the results of it. Not interested unless you have something in the higher side of 6 figures plus benefits.

I’ve helped (twice) companies to scale their applications from millions of users to an architecture that can scale x10 that.
buscoquadnary, you are confusing two generals.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800-1891) and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848-1916)
I agree with you, but at the same time. Like, you have to admit that Blindsight is not going to be a book for everyone.

I think the book is fantastic. I've read it at least three times, and I expect that I'm going to read it at least a few more times.

However, I'm not showing it to anyone who hasn't already displayed an appetite for hard scifi.
Don't be that misleading. That's the rust compiler.

You should analyze an executable created by the rust compiler instead.

AFAIK only glibc and libgcc are linked dynamically in a program written in rust, and there's a way to statically link these.
These private companies aren't legislating morality, though. As a private business, they have complete autonomy over who they choose to partner with. If a Pornhub deal falls through, they have no legal obligation to continue processing payments for them (especially if their lawyers are documenting the problems).

Cryptocurrency doesn't solve this, nor was it really invented to address this issue. Decentralization is a nice side-effect of a low-trust network, but it also completely sabotages any moderation efforts on the platform, and preserves an entire population's porn habits in an openly-availible, transparent ledger. I don't think your average Pornhub visitor will be terribly excited to adopt this radical new technology since it presents a scenario where their purchases could be completely deanonymized.

> It shouldn't be up to Visa whether to cut off funding to anyone in particular.

It's not. Chase Bank or Mastercard are welcome to jump in and take Visa's place if they think the platform is a safe place to make money. It sounds like this is more of a Pornhub issue than a Visa one though, so I wouldn't expect it to get fixed very soon.
now the authors have updated your purple book in 2016: https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&fiel...
You often dont have to show intent.
Oh, I absolutely agree – there is an overhead to hiring remotely (especially if you need to operate another business there, like Google does in Warsaw), so if you have to pay someone the same and cover that overhead then it's a bad business decision to do this at all. Timezone/cultural issues also come into this.

So yeah, I'm not surprised that businesses (try to) do this – but in the current situation it's worthwhile (and possible) for the hires (especially contractors) to try to go against that and argue for higher pay. Even if the actual SV salary is not within reach, you can at least try to stay within the same order of magnitude – and more often than not, especially at the end of the interview process, it'd be cheaper for the company to hire you anyway than to start over with someone else.

That's all in my narrow experience of working with smaller companies – in megacorps with strict levels/salary rules like Google it's probably another story. And that's also why Google is not (any longer?) the holy grail for Polish workers.
Yep. I was once advised by HR to "try not to offend anyone." I asked the HR woman, "How do I know what offends any particular person?"

She looked genuinely stumped.
> Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

> The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children.

> “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...
I doubt the researchers who invented this encryption algorithm are security engineers in charge of keeping those companies' software safe.

Even if they were the same people, the skill sets of each job are quite different. Being flawed at inventing new algorithms doesn't mean you're flawed at applying state of the art security to existing software.
> So, what’s a better way to learn? Instead of beginning with Bayes' Theorem, you might start with the story of Annie Duke. She’s one of the best female poker players in the history of the game. How did she become so successful? She used probability theories, like Bayes' Theorem, to make good decisions about how to make good bets. This strategy rocketed her to the top of the poker world. In 2010, she won the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Her lifetime earnings amount to over four million dollars.

> Now, all of the sudden, I bet you’re much more interested in learning how to make decisions using statistics. You’ve wrapped all the numbers and theories around a person with a good story. You have someone worth mimicking.

No. No. No.

That's not using the story as a learning tool, that's only using the story as a teaser. Might, maybe, in some cases, make me interested in learning something that I wasn't already interested in. But if the story is boring, and I guarantee many of the teaser stories teachers would have to come up it will be boring, it makes me bored even before the real thing starts.

And such teaser stories sure as hell don't do anything to help me understand the subject matter.
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> you can generate $50m of revenue by working 2 hours a day then you're brilliant

Or you're working at a useless user hostile company that's coasting on tools and ideas from a decade ago while failing hard at everything it does today.
I think it would be much harder to do that, since it probably requires modelling physics at some level, while AlphaFold is really just mining statistical correlations of structures and sequences.

Yes, there are open implementations of nearly-AlphaFold at this point.
Almost. Behind "WE/US" is the society which builds and runs sports facilities (operating quite often at loss) implements sport education programmes for children and youth etc. So, no it is us being represented by the few talented ones.
I have my own opinion on Airflow's pain points and created Typhoon Orchestrator (https://github.com/typhoon-data-org/typhoon-orchestrator) to solve them. It doesn't have many stars yet but I've used it to create some pipelines for medium sized companies in a few days, and they've been running for over a year without issues.

In particular I transpile to Airflow code (can also deploy to Lambda) because I think it's still the most robust and well supported "runtime", I just don't think the developer experience is that good.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen: “You can't be disappointed with people not being better”
100 lines of code seems misleading. How many lines of dependency code?

Deno relies on V8, which I'd wager is on the order of a million or more lines..
I'm pretty sure it was also featured in the first episode of Russian Doll. The screen wasn't zoomed in enough for me to verify it, but it looked very similar. Maybe if you watch it in 4k you can tell for sure.
I have no idea what will happen myself, but it all feels a bit different. I think a lot of what's going on are still shocks from the pandemic, supply chains, and geopolitical stuff.
People would try to invent new better algorithms, presumably.
If this is going to work you need to tell us what prompted this conversation so we can see how plausible it is to pretend you didn't know it was offensive.
They sent you back!
> The big problem we encounrted is that its unit of management (I believe it's called a "job" but I'm rusty on this) is too low level. Our pipeline processes a lot of data and we have millions of jobs per day. Once Airflow has an (planned or unplanned) outage, 10s of thousands of job start piling up, and it never recovers from that.

That sounds more like an architecture-at-scale problem than something that is Airflow's 'fault.' Airflow may never have been the right tool for the job but it's getting all the blame.
Why contenteditable is terrible (2014)
I've tried a lot of different app, and mealime is the only one that clicked with me.

1. I'm reminded to pick meals on Sunday
2. I select a couple of interesting recipes and it creates a grocery list. The recipes are varied but not too varied to induce choice paralysis. Dietary restrictions are automatically applied from your account settings.
3. It has its own cooking mode with great features like "every step tells you exactly how much of an ingredient you need" and "hold your hand over the screen to progress" so I don't get crap on my phone.

I've been using it for over a month now and am still happy with it.
Your process sounds exactly like mine, down to the weekly shopping list, so you're going to like the app I built for myself: https://mealdj.com/

The documentation is a work in progress, but given that you already have the process down, that may not matter!
> I've learned as much from recent college grads as I have taught them so it's definitely a two way street.

Can you talk more about what you learned ?