skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, but it can be explained by the aging management (middle or high or both) at your company. Correct?
Anecdotally, I get the sense at my company that most people are unhappy, but seeing it as a number is quite shocking. Wow.
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Just came to say that I am loving rbaron’s write ups - thank you introducing me to them @frxx.
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Aren't most surgeries recommended after consult with a specialist physician? I don't think I've ever heard of someone just going to see a surgeon and getting surgery without that sort of due process

With the exception of some plastic surgery I would assume
While I agree that Flash Boys was below par, what's wrong with The Big Short? I thought that was well done, accessible, and largely accurate.
F-shaped skills sound like π-shaped skills.
It kind of makes sense to keep people in the pipeline as it were. If you shut down the whole apparatus, you have to spin it back up when hiring is unfrozen. But if you keep the machine running, you're ready to hire the instant you can.

For them that is. Sucks for you and me.
Who needs food or a roof over their heads right??
The recent FT podcast Hot Money went into some detail about how much control the payment card companies have over the porn industry.

https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3...
Looks like the Great Resignation is going to be followed by the Great Realization, eh
I am at near 30 years in tech and let me told you one of the first commercial customer I had about 25 years ago.

This customer had a factory where it sorted potatoes. They had a huge weight scale where they would weight truck coming in, full and then going out, empty. The difference was the weight of the potatoes.

The problem was that scale was mechanical and calibrated by officials, which means nobody was allowed to tinker with it. You could read the weight on a big VFD 7segment display, that was it.

They wanted to automate the reading of the weight. Everybody told them it was impossible because of the calibration. But I had an idea. I took a webcam (which could only take photo at the time, no video, I think it was photo man or something, serial based) and I put a colored filter in front of it which would only let red pass and did OCR on the result. It worked for 6years before they got a digital scale.

I've been doing this kind of weird thing my whole life. I find solutions.

Now I have more and more grey hair in my beard and I start to feel a bit "out of the loop" with all those new things (docker, kubernethingy, JS zillion of packages...).

I am a bit scare, I fear the moment where I will just be a relic.
Every time I hear NEOM The Line I think about a very tangentially related video game called Spec Ops: The Line, set in Dubai. It’s a pretty interesting game from the Call of Duty era, although the gameplay is a shrug. Might be worth playing if you think this video about it is motivating or you want to look at destroyed Dubai vistas for a few hours. https://youtu.be/kjaBsuXWJJ8
Agreed. Unintentional ambiguities are a problem of PEG parsers. Ironically, the old Python parser also failed to detect ambiguities.

There is a strong aversion in the Python space for unambiguous formalisms. A parser that resolves ambiguities by earliest match first seems to satisfy the dynamic mindset.
Under English law, truth is not a defense against a complaint of libel. This is why over the years a lot of offended parties have chosen to sue in England rather than the US. (In case it's not clear from this, I don't know the rules of libel in the rest of the UK; but it seems to me that the venue shoppers have ended up in London.)
Even microwave is slow, they are using shortwave radio for certain signals. Maybe neutrinos are next?

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr...
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I never quite understood why shops use those electronic shelf labels.

Most of them can't be updated by someone in the store headquarters remotely. Someone has to take a bluetooth programmer device around and program each one by hand. And if they're doing that, they might as well just take a handheld label printer or sheet of labels.

Benefit of the labels is they're clearer than e-ink, brighter, and more colorful (more sales)
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There are multiple reputable non free VPNs, why are you jumping to the conclusion that all VPN users are on a free one?
I only ever see the term 'full-stack developer' used to describe what is essentially web front-end / UI work. This makes the term a bit of a misnomer in my opinion. I suspect it's more marketing (or possibly skills-laundering) than anything else - in the same scheme as what was once the "janitor" has become the "facilities maintenance manager" or similar.

People with the most experience with developing across the entire software stack tend to just call themselves "developers" (or alternatively "burnt out").
They’re in wikitext, which looks to be considerably less semantic than the crawled data. I’m not sure that’s the reason, but it could be a reason.
I just have a company in Poland, sign a contract with US company and send them invoices every month (which, to my knowledge, they don't really always even need?). I don't know how it's set up on their end. No one yet has asked for a US-based entity.

As to finding them, I've found some here on HN in Who's Hiring thread. One of them (I'm a notorious job hopper, so there were many) found me on LinkedIn.
This reminds me of how one of the most disorienting feelings is when you've taken five steps on a journey of self-improvement. Miles ahead in the distance, you see your inspirations. Looking back, you see that those first five steps already put you in the 99.95th percentile of all humanity.
Would love to hear a description of your Obsidian approach, plugins, etc. I am brand new to it but it looks promising.
He missed a trick at the end of his answer to "Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?"
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Isn’t the fact they aren’t a monopoly what gets them to change? Bill Ackman was on CNBC this morning ripping into them for like 15 minutes of prime air time on this issue. The CEO of Visa is nowhere to be heard from. I suspect the end result will be to revoke PH as a customer. Why? Because Mastercard and Amex exist
https://www.dagster.io/blog/software-defined-assets

Of course, nothing stops Airflow or other tools fron thinking this way as well.
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100% agreed. By analogy, an article titled “pthreads’ problem” should be about shortcomings in the POSIX multithreading model, not an article saying that the implementation of machine-level parallelism is irrelevant because Kubernetes exists.
That is what it sounds like honestly, as if the payment provider has to go check on available security footage what the screwdriver was used for (in this case, they could have checked on the site and, potentially, by having their employees look at a lot of porn, found an instance of child porn somewhere) and then discontinue providing services to the store until they put background checks in place for customers. A lot more reasonable for porn than for screwdrivers, but to sue a party so far removed from the person who actually uploaded that child porn and is ultimately the main responsible party... then you can also sue the hosting company, the company that opened up the street to put in cables to transmit the child porn (they could have checked what it's used for), the ISP that was used to access it, et cetera

This is really just suing everyone to see what sticks, no way that this goes anywhere... right?
But it's not new stuff, mostly. It's just the same old stuff in a new package.
In the grand scheme of resumes, job posts and getting hired it just means you have experience working in both front end and back end technologies. Pretty much it, anything else is just noise. Know php and react? Congratulations you are a full stack developer.
Before I left Google, and in the BeforeTimes(tm) Schmidt came to our Google office in Waterloo and did a little all-hands thing and spoke. Not in a capacity as Google mgmt or decision maker but as himself. It was interesting.

One of the things he said that stuck out to me was basically "I am baffled how these really large teams you have can work I can't imagine software development working well beyond a handful of engineers before the telephone game problem kicks in" [paraphrased].

Me too, Eric, me too.
The “native” controls of Windows 11 use WinUI. The Settings app demos most of them.
> Specialization is for insects, and engineers without ADHD.

Specialization is not just for insects if you want to do things like go to the moon or formulate a polio vaccine. It is the unfortunate nature of tough problems that they require a very deep, nuanced understanding to solve.
Some very nice answers here already. I would extend the definition of "a stack" to any plain where some wizardry is performed that is not trivial to learn. By doing this I am suggesting that a full stack developer or a generalist or a an entrepreneur are actually quite related.

These are the people who can see the big picture and have "enough skills to be dangerous" in each field. These skills are user experience, user interface, getting things done, communication, programming in various languages, architecture and devops, debugging and bug fixing.

Of course on the lower level there is API design, writing type safe code.

And on the even lower level there is optimising SQL queries, writing Chromium patches, designing network protocols, defining new EcmaScript primitives. These are extremely specific skills and people who can do them might have more narrow and deeper experise.

It ended up being a bit o a ramble, hope it hints at a useful perspective.
I find Python quite easy to read but I still prefer C-style code without significant whitespace. Those braces make it far easier to spot block level errors, especially when using some form of auto-indent or a linter. Semicolons are less important - I hardly ever concatenate lines of code - but they don't bother me either.
This seems to be a pre-trial motion where the plaintiff's allegations are assumed to be true.

> MindGeek told the BBC that at this point in the case, the court has not yet ruled on the truth of the allegations, and is required to assume all of the plaintiff's allegations are true and accurate.

With that context it doesn't seem too unusual, as "you can sue most anyone for most anything" is the norm.
>freeze

Yeah, unless you're a staff engineer :P

The fight over STSMs is only getting more brutal. More like a freeze on training engineers up to become staff members
When my cofounder Irtefa and I were PMs at Cloudflare we actually searched for a tool like this and when we couldn’t find one we liked, we went out to build it ourselves.

Our first attempt was a product that let product teams leave feedback as annotations tied to DOM elements, but what we learned is that product teams have a hard time trusting those comments as the underlying DOM does change (screen & viewport size, os/browser, geo/language, recent deploys, logged in account).

From there we went on to build Jam (https://jam.dev) - letting people quickly comment on what they see in the DOM and send a perfect snapshot with way more context than a screenshot (with even console logs and network requests attached) to a link to share or even a Jira ticket.

If you give it a try, I hope you find it’s much faster than screenshots and feedback the old way (we used to do feedback in a spreadsheet as PMs ), and would love to hear what you think! :)
Ah yes American supply chain responsibility following the great American institutions like Nestle, Johnson and Johnson, Amazon, and my personal favorite the United Fruit Company.
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Pretty sure doesn’t cut it. You’re wrong. It wasn’t as easy as OP make it out to be, that the glut of third-party games killed the 2600, but it wasn’t Atari’s own games who cratered the price of a 2600 title and took the whole console market down.
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Agism is real, but probably unintentional. By definition, most people hire subordinates, and in their mind they picture someone some number of years their junior. When an older person applies, they just don't fit the image they have created in their mind (assuming they don't feel outright threatened).

It might even be that agism has the opposite effect once you are established in an organization. If you are qualified, experienced and engaged, you might be first in line for promotions because then you fit the image.

The best advice to fight agism is probably to use your network. If you've been around the industry for many years and made friends along the way, that might level the playing field.
Grow your network by going to smaller conferences (2018)
I think that may be true if you focus on breadth rather than depth.

I work mostly on Windows, so maybe my case is special, but I'm still using knowledge about 8086 machine language I learned 40 years ago when I'm looking at a memory dump from a crash report today.

I occasionally dip into web-based stuff and although the top layers are different, underneath is usually HTTP / TCP / UDP / IP. What I learned with Ethereal in 1998 is still pretty useful today.

Truly new stuff doesn't come around that often. Maybe it's the difference between thinking about fashion and clothing.
There must have been a different mindset in the early part of the 20th Century. "The Boy Mechanic" [1] book series from Popular Mechanics are of the same pedigree. And a little later, the German "The Way Things Work" [2] twin set of books (sorry, not the newer books by Macaulay with the same name).

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=the%20boy%20mechanic%20...

[2] https://archive.org/search.php?query=the%20way%20things%20wo...
As I posted above.. I have family who work there. They were not a "referral or something".

I also worked at a hedge fund myself, and i was not a "referral" either.

They post positions online, apply. if you have the skills they are looking for you can get in.
This is what happens when a developer does HR ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

But of course you're absolutely right, we don't pay 40K for senior level developers either.
> lots of people asked so we looked into it.

And what did they find? That the term was routinely used within the LGBT community and never remarked on as offensive [1,2]? Or did they neglect to apply even the minimum of scrutiny, and simply took the word of grievance experts and hypocritical politicians as gospel, and presented it as a majority, widely-held belief in their dictionary?

I should note even the implication that 'preference' implies choice is utterly made up - I prefer chocolate to carrots, and blues to polka, yet I cannot choose to change those preferences. Whereas I am currently oriented south, and it is trivial to change that and re-orient myself to face west instead.

> some other people making less scrutinised remarks

Not just "some other people" - Joe Biden used the term while running for president. A presidential candidate's statements are usually closely scrutinized.

You are fooling nobody who does not want to be fooled.

[1] https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbt-websites-now-say-sexual-...

[2] https://thepostmillennial.com/sexual-preference-is-not-an-of...
Seems like this misuse of the legal system would be a good way for a judge with bias against porn to drastically destabilise the industry. I'm not at all surprised tho considering it's a US court.
The difference is the store you bought the screw driver from isn’t knowing and willfully enabling heinous acts on an active and ongoing basis. Nobody would place anyone responsible in this case. Visa is fully aware of PH and what they are doing and choosing to continue enabling the business.
Aren't you contradicting yourself?
Eventually it becomes overconstrained, too top-heavy and a new simpler set of abstractions are adopted. It feels like we are probably close to this happening now.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn is a view of what I’m talking about but in the world of academic theory instead of technology architecture.
Yes, indeed that's true. But they get upset if you tell them that their genius new idea is just an old idea they didn't know about ;-)
It's funny in a thread about ageism, the blatant sexism of the term greybeard has yet to be discussed... just sayin'
I've been using airflow for about 2 years now in production. It's been mostly good - the few times things go wrong, it's a huge pain in the ass to figure out why... but it's significantly better than just straight cron on Linux. Airflow 2 has improved a lot of speed and catching up issues from airflow 1.x

I don't have time to investigate other solutions like dagster and prefect and migrate jobs to it for testing.
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> blaming their poor performance on this downturn

Do you think their poor performance is primarily due to something other than this downturn?
Visa cut off Gab.com, on their own initiative, for incidentally carrying posts by the Pittsburgh shooter. Why didn't they exercise the same judgement against PornHub for incidentally carrying vids of child sexploitation?

They opened themselves up to this line of legal reasoning.
Did Arch users have this problem? I think OPs point is that rolling distros like that keep all packages closer in line with where the upstream is and avoid these kinds of issues. And if there are versions that have problems you can easily choose from any historic version far more easily than on Debian. Now of course it doesn’t save you from having to troubleshoot your own issues which very much is a time sink.
The people I know who are still inside (Google) seem optimistic that maybe the company is taking a pause to deal with some of its bureaucracy and internal politics issues and with people's complaints about perf. I suppose that's good.

From my perspective: They've got way too many people doing a lot of meh work and feeling really ... important about it. And it's on the whole asphyxiating the industry.
>Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Perhaps something can do something of value with it when the new trademark expires.

Please expand upon this, give me your idea of victory and value.

The plan was to turn the IP over to community governance, so people like you who seem to care could have a voice in governing how the property is used. On one hand it seems like you might want a voice in how the IP is used, yet you also seem to think that giving community governance over the GeoCities IP is "another shit crypto project." It is far easier just to privately own and operate the property as a centralized entity & remove the decentralized governance component.

Has there been another crypto project that resurrected abandoned IP and turned it over to community governance? I'd love to review those other projects and see where they went wrong.
Hypothesis/h is a (Pyramid) web app with a JS widget that can be added to the HTML of a page manually or by the Hypothesis browser extension, which enables you to also comment on PDFs, WAVs, GIFs:
https://github.com/hypothesis/h

From the W3C Web Annotation spec that Hypothesis implements https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ :

> Selectors: Fragment Selector, CSS Selector, XPath Selector, Text Quote Selector, Text Position Selector, Data Position Selector, SVG Selector, Range Selector, Refinement of Selection

> States: Time State, Request Header State, Refinement of State
If it's truly important, it will filter to you naturally.
Programming and mathematics are many things. Sure, it might be hard to see how maintaining a web site has has do with mathematics, but if you need to design a novel algorithm it is worth actually working out the proofs to show that it works (and if you want to publish it in a journal that is often essential).
Yes. Does not solve host OS issue. Still have to keep that up to date.
Two recs:

- There is a (short) book called "A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology" by William Cohen which is a little pricey but very dense and helpful with a lot of concepts.

- Combine that with David Goodsell's "The Machinery of Life" which has a lot of great illustrations and practical examples.
I think the parent comment is saying that it's impossible to arrive at a specific folding endpoint because that state is dependent on continuously changing environmental variables.

Take a look at the configs for Amber (molecular dynamics simulation -- https://ambermd.org). QC might help map the space of inputs that would converge, but it probably couldn't identify a hypothetical 'done folding' state for any given protein.
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It's an app that I have built with my team over the last few months to streamline the cooking at home process.
Yeah can’t comment for local employees of local companies. Just have knowledge of UK & US companies hiring/outsourcing to Poland. It was cheap, not so much anymore.
I notice that the electronic labels are more common in poorer countries. Perhaps they help prevent fraud in some way (eg. shop assistant 'accidentally' misprices an item, and then their friend buys it?)
If it is just you, you are fine, and I'm not sure other tools would have that much benefit.

Trouble with Airflow starts when multiple teams and user types start to share it.
Definitely. I'd like the name of this project to be changed to be a name, not a common word. Thanks.
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