skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I though the shift from "orchestrate jobs" to "keep track of state of assets" that Dagster is trying to do is pretty important. But it sems it might not be enough - it still keeps clunky (pythonic) interface and I don't know how well it does multi-tenancy.
If you need a system built and you can only afford one person.
Ugh, too real. Being solo at a company can be great! It's also frequently very terrible. The lack of backup can be very draining and having to keep up with the entire surface area of of new tech makes progress slow.

There is only so much a single engineer can hold in their head and use efficiently.
DoH encrypts dns requests over the local network.

HSTS helps with local phishing redirects, as the browser ought not load a 3xx request over http for sites with HSTS enabled.
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In that Colugo video the speaker says “they actually built a show around this shot”. Any idea what show he’s talking about?

Also tiny cameras have come a long way since that video was made.
> Where are you getting these measurements from?

I made them myself with a kill-a-watt. The consumer grade PC's idle at ~60W, meanwhile the Dell PowerEdge R710 I have here with me idles at ~250 W.
So, you guys think that for continuing, my team should:

- upload the recipes we have before showing more people (several hundred in our docket)
- fix the links situation to contain the actual hrefs
- change the loading screen
- be more distinct on makelists
- Content-heavy and searching better enhanced for recipe tags

Anything else?
Thats interesting - I have two phones (with different numbers of course) and I almost get no spam calls (maybe a bit on the company phone but its still very low number). I must be doing something right here :)
Ageism in tech is strange to me, like, we think old scientists, doctors and writers as better than their younger counterparts, but for some reason it's different in programming.
They cut about 100k jobs.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/29/amazon-shrinks-staff-...
Is it possible you didn't actually have that much insight into what they do day to day? I'm currently running a small company (<10 people) and I was working as a developer (including lead) for about 15 years before that & the skills required are indeed quite different. There's a lot more planning and decision making, the impact of your decisions are much greater, a lot more uncertainty and your people skills are a lot more important.
60 year old here, still writing code for a company that provides Cloud services, today I'm hacking away on some Scala. My role model and hero is Roger Faulkner, the creator of /proc who died at 76 "with his boots on". An elder statesman who took no shit from anybody, and a true gentleman to boot.

https://thenewstack.io/remembering-roger-faulkner/
In my experience that the frontend/backend separation was something that came out of developers who only wanted (or only knew how) to work on specific areas of the system and got business to adapt to that. Business and non-technical people eventually accepted, but many still long for the days of full-stack devs.

And I'm with business people here: coordination between multiple devs is definitely an overhead that impacts businesses and heavily limits possibilities of experimenting and iterating with ideas.

The separation is also often a kick the teeth of Agile ("we gotta do the backend before frontend starts") and performance ("just call those 5 endpoints N times, we don't have time to make an aggregated endpoint, should have told us before"). You can still have specialists for micro-optimisations and fine-tuning that SQL query, but the initial implementation phase really suffers from the separation.

There's also lots of "prejudice" and pedantry around the term "full-stack", and that's almost always from less experienced developers or students (which is why you don't see it here in HN but see a lot on Reddit), but that's another discussion.

It's even worse with developers who had some design training, IME. "Oh you say you had design training but I'm 100% sure you're absolute garbage in either that or in database modelling. Or perhaps in both!"
Fair point, it's about back vowels becoming front vowels of the same height.
That's because it's not played as MIDI. The site is built with modern tech.
> because there is no such thing as a person who is equally adept at the front and back

That seems almost completely impossible, right? I'd call myself nearly equally adept at both as I have spent all of my career doing both in equal measure. Certainly there are others like me. I work with several. I have worked at past companies with many more.

I have never understood why some thought it so strange that people have multiple skillsets.
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I read something similar recently about the difference between "maximising" and "satisficing". It's helpful to have the terms on hand when making an ostensibly tough decision between similar things.

That last paragraph-sentence was very difficult to parse. I think it must be close to 100 words long!
The article makes a case, to me at least, that Unix’s “everything is a file” mindset may be increasingly a liability.
You've got it wrong, obviously the witches put the mummified mice in your walls. You need the mummified cat to keep the witches at bay.
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It just means programmer. It's exactly the same as a programmer in the 80's, someone who does (or can do) the whole application from metal to screen.
> I think if I could see their desk it would be buried with old food wrappers and coffee cups.

Yes. These will pile up for days too before one big cleaning. Or at least did when I went to the office.
> and a healthy market should reflect that.

You are begging the question. Why should a market reflect that? Why is that preferable to a daily auction (throw in a stochastic cut-off time to thwart HFT even more)?
A fair amount (DNS, etc) is still in the clear, yes.

I still see a good amount of clear text web traffic when I do packet captures in airports and the like.

Usually image or media files, but the odd time I see some badly conceived automatic update process pulling an exe or msi over plaintext HTTP.
> company's 14,000-person workforce

It’s really surprising to me that there are 14,000 employees at this startup company. They make a single truck. I hope they are able to be successful but I suspect there will be many more layoffs.

For comparison, Tesla has 99k and GM has 157k.
The list of competing frameworks hasn't really changed in a long long time. And often people have to know only one of them to have a very stable frontend career, and 99% of the time it is one of the top 3 (React/Vue/Angular). These 3 have been staples for what, 7, 8 years now?
I found a mummified cat when renovating a house in Northern France. Always thought the cat must have eaten rat poison/poisoned rat and therefor mummified. How are these preserved? It didn't look embalmed in anyway.
You brought up the A10 and the POGO's report to support your point. All my replies have literally been responses to the evidence you've provided for your position, so it's odd that you now think those points are irrelevant.

We probably have the same qualms with the MIC. I just don't think the evidence you use to support your claim is particularly valid, and tends to point towards ignorance on the subject. Combined with the circular logic presented and an inability to state what it would take to change your mind, it makes your position more dogmatic than rational. It’s not just a binary “we agree or don’t”, but the thought process that led it because that’s what will ultimately make me rethink my position. My issue isn't the conclusion, it's the way you came to it.
Welcome to entrepreneurship. Dealing with humans is difficult in general. Plus you are dealing with some pissed off customers. Even harder. This is what you can try -

1. See things from customers POV.

2. Maybe you’re not willing to accept what is built is not perfect & have issues. Once you're self aware it will help manage issues better. You need to move from denial to acceptance phase.

3. Our brains are wired to be defensive. Try to acknowledge or trigger whenever you’re defensive. Hard to explain but it’s like anytime you get defensive an inner force tells you YOU ARE BEING DEFENSIVE.

4. Best way to deal with an angry customer is just to agree with them initially, this will calm them a little & from there you can have a more productive conversation.

Good luck!
Fresh young folks work more for less and have less “distractions” outside of work. Less opinions, more likely to fall in line. When you need bodies ageism makes perfect sense.
I'm gonna guess that corporate resources were allocated to the production of this video, as opposed to someone trying to churn out content for a second rate youtube channel. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good new stuff being made, but I think there's increasingly more junk content.
Then most people wouldn't be purchasing name-brand AAA software and would likely settle for FOSS or indie apps. Even better, you wouldn't be expected to be using said commercial solutions.

Subscriptions incentivize selling programs that are in a perpetual unfinished state. We lost the opportunity to call a project "feature-complete". LZMA2, H264, and RSA/AES were developed years ago, yet 7zip, netflix, and ssh still need regular updates for some nonsensical reason.
> I consider this pretty solid evidence for the original claim.

Which is odd, because neither the physiologist nor the activists decided anyone was trans for "just playing with Barbies".
+1 for Paprika

It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list.

I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the app and, boom, I've got a shopping list. Super easy. I've put a lot of recipes from cook books in to the app.

We only use it for dinners and deserts, as breakfast and lunch are more predictable and repeatable.

Edit: another thing I like is that the app doesn't (yet, i think) require a subscription. to use it, after a trial period, is a one time payment
You're not gonna like this answer but every time I've had some issue like that at work the answer is: file a ticket with your local Xilinx field applications engineer.

Are you a hobbyist? Ha, have fun. Digging through the Xilinx forums is also productive.

Edit: I see you're strictly working with only free/open source tooling. I commend your patience. I also don't see the point. It's not the right choice for either learning or getting things done at the current moment.
Their data is based on a survey. According to LinkedIn, the following number of jobs per company have been created in the past week:

Google 7k+

Apple 2k+

Amazon 39k+

Meta 2k+

If anyone has that premium feature (I don't have it anymore), you can check how the numbers changed over time.
> "Whatever task your business needs me to do with a computer, I'll figure it out."

My tag-line on my old personal website was inspired by Pulp Fiction: "Hi, I'm Winston Wolf, I solve problems."

These days I go with "jack of all trades" and "software engineering generalist."
I'm a 50+ greybeard (literally) and here's my story: I once figured I could improve my chances of getting a job if I shave my beard. I knew I looked much younger without it, people would get my age wrong by some 10-15 years. And so my 6 months-long search for a job that time ended in success on the first interview after I shaved it. The first one! I remember the faces of the guys who hired me when they saw my personal data on some tax form that I filled later, after the contract was signed.

Ageism in this industry is real. I think the root cause of it is investors, it's where the origins of this phenomenon are. They prefer younger entrepreneurs who in turn hire people like themselves, and so it propagates down the hierarchy as the company grows. It's transitive. In fact this is true for all types of discrimination.

I switched to entrepreneurship and feel the same effects here. Good luck raising money or even finding a co-founder. It's tough. Not going to shave my beard though.

I have no idea what could be done here other than for the aging tech people to unite and form their own companies, investment funds. Just like the other discriminated groups do - women, then racial and other minorities.

Edit: I should add, I was talking about a hands-on engineering job, not management. I love coding and not going to quit it because of ageism or pay or other circumstances.
You're totally right on †his. I realized that we need to put on recipes and give a better view. Also, apologies for the slow responses. I'm not spam, I just was asleep.

I think we're going to start uploading our recipes and improve some of the link functionality, plus change our search based on tags, so that we can make it all better.

This is a new product and we made a stupid assumption to show the functionality without recipes uploaded yet. But we realize now that the recipes are the thing that makes the functionality make sense.
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Young people are generally more willing to work long hours and long shifts, and generally are less skilled at negotiating their salary. Companies see more value in someone who may be less skilled overall, but is more willing to devote themselves to the cause, so to speak. Older programmers tend to have families and other interesting hobbies, as well as more experience at the salary negotiation stage, so companies would oftentimes rather not bother with them.
Someone early in my career described “F shaped skills” to me, building on the older T shape [0] you may have heard of before. The idea being that the vertical stem of the F represents the very wide, but (somewhat) shallow, skills you may have. The two horizontal strokes represent multiple areas of very deep understanding and expertise.

To me, and I would describe myself as one among other things, a “full stack developer” in the “web developer” sense is someone with F shaped skills in web development. Able to to get by anywhere on the stack, but with deep understanding and expertise in both a particular backend and a front end tool.

An F shaped full stack developer is someone you can rely on to work on you whole stack, but with particular emphasis on a key front end and backend area.

Many people deride “full stack developers” as “jack of all trades, master of none”. I couldn’t disagree more, full stack developers are the artists of the web, the true creatives, pushing development forward and inventing new things.

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So, do you think it would be a good idea to have a "Copy & Edit" functionality where somebody could copy a recipe (even one of their own) and make changes based on it?

I never thought about this, and I think it might be a brilliant idea.
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It might be because in tech your knowledge of tools becomes worthless as soon as a new tools and ecosystems become fashionable, which happens quite a lot.
We used to do eMeals

After a couple years, we unsubscribed, but kept all the PDF weekly planners we'd paid for

The prices may not be correct anymore, but the shopping lists for the meals haven't changed :)

Alternatively, you can just do what my family did when I was a kid - tuna casserole night, spaghetti night, hot dog night, pizza night, etc
Not knowing anything about how Google works internally, this is very much how it looks from the outside.

They just don't seem to be able to make products that anyone wants. And the products they made before which people did want just drift in a generally worse direction as they fiddle with them randomly over time.
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what is "chicken crust pizza"?
A useful conversation.

I majored in CS 24 years ago (am I old now?) and have had my fingers and toes just about everywhere in the last few decades.

I think your definition is pretty good but I think the primary question/problem is that too many people who don't really understand what it means just throw it around — especially in management/hiring/hr/etc.

At the end of the day, if you wanted to be nit-picky the response would be "what stack?" because no one is the master of all stacks and all things. I have worked with some amazingly talented people in my career and everyone has gaps, unless you're constantly learning and never building.

Maybe the real question/concern is that they're going to expect you to do N jobs and only pay for 1.

What you should really look for when you hire people isn't what they claim to know and ace on a "is X a native type in Y?" they question but instead how they think and how they can learn. Developers who are curious and want to learn are far better imo than ones that claim they know everything.
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I do see the benefit of parents having time to raise their kids in society. But I have also seen explicit comments on HN that people don’t have kids because we don’t have enough benefits. If the goal is simply “give people a year off so they can have their one kid and then be done with it”, so be it. But then we shouldn’t be advocating for these policies as a solution to anything besides giving parents a long paid vacation.
If you're a small game studio I guess you're very much included in the professional artist category. Hell, back when we were slicing up templates to use in table-based layout I used photoshop every day and even being a 100% web developer I would put myself in that category.. not artist, but professional user ;)
While I agree that CGMs may not be perfect, and they are worse for some people than for others, I still stand firm on the opinion that they are life changing.

- My understanding of how my blood reacts to various foods has increase by orders of magnitude

- My level of comfort with my blood sugar getting too low, especially when I'm sleeping, has vastly increase

- The number of times I've gone into a low blood sugar reaction and had to have an ambulance called has dropped from once a year (sometimes more) to never.

Sure, it's wrong sometimes. I don't use a pump. I do manually test my blood sugar (finger prick) wheneven it feels "off" compared to what the CGM says. But overall, my life is so much better with the CGM than before it that I just can't say enough good things.
So, I just saw a comment from another person and I think it could be pretty powerful. Are you agreeing that there should be some sort of "Copy & Edit" functionality for pre-existing recipes that you could then enhance/change?

I think that could bring about better enhancement procedures.
As for scaling portions/weights/etc. I know that we are working on something for this, but we wanted to start building a large recipe-based before building the tools for this. (We need more data for that)
Nothing wrong with calling yourself full-stack. If you're seeing a lot of job offers that are just "client-side web dev with a bit of backend node" and that's not what you wanna do, just ignore them.
I personally wouldn't bother using "full stack" as a search term when actively looking for jobs though (not that I've done a lot of that in recent, um, decades...).
> but in general it's probably not most people's expectation that you can define a class, make sure it doesn't subclass any ABCs, but then still have it "match" an ABC.

Abstract Base Classes were an attempt to formalize python's duck typing. Matching things that don't inherit from them is their whole purpose.
We responded along the same lines, but your response was much pithier. Thank you for reminding me to edit my jabbering.
There were plenty of joint NASA/DoD missions that were performed using the Shuttle. Why do you think NASA, an agency built upon freely sharing scientific information, occasionally had classified payloads aboard the Shuttle?

"Between 1982 and 1992, NASA launched 11 shuttle flights with classified payloads, honoring a deal that dated to 1969, when the National Reconnaissance Office—an organization so secret its name could not be published at the time—requested certain changes to the design of NASA’s new space transportation system."[1]

NASA has a long history of working with the military. The first astronauts were all military test pilots (Armstrong gave up his military commission so NASA wouldn’t appear overtly militarized).

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/secret-spa...
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