skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Gates was a programmer and used to run Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg was a programmer and still runs Meta/Facebook. Larry Ellison was a programmer and still runs Oracle.

Maybe you're just pointing out that if you're running a company (beyond a certain size) you are probably spending all your time running the company and therefore aren't really a programmer any more. But isn't it obvious that Spolsky doesn't mean "person whose main activity is writing software" but "person who knows how to write software and has done a substantial amount of that"? Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison are all programmers in that sense.
People must lock BTC in the "channels" from them to each of the peers they ever want to transact with, in the amount of what they will spend with them in the future. This should produce approximately 10billion*10billion channels in total (so 1^20 whateverellion channels for all humans). Then magic internet machine will solve this Traveler Salesman problem for each transaction.

After people realised that this is a crap idea, they have reinvented banks, who take people's BTC and give them IOUs instead. Then only banks have to deal with the "channels" and "locked" tokens in a centralised way, lessening the overall complexity.

Few understand :)
I did as well for that exact reason
Yes of cause? If your friends want their content to reach you they should have paid Facebook. It’s an Add network not a social network.
I doubt it. The printer vendors paid the license fees decades ago and the patents have since expired. While researching this comment I read an article from 1997 about how Adobe changed the spec to be able to extract more revenue. Whatever patent they used as a stick has since expired.

I can't really find a definitive answer, of course, but all of the basics are from the early 90s, with some obvious followup "oh shit we need money" patents from 2000. (Obviously, 2000s era technology seems obvious today. I don't know if it was obvious in 2000. Things like "4 digit dates" were a new idea back then ;)
>Shouldn't Apple be here too, given their public stance on privacy?

Keyword, "public".
The Future of Progress
> Also, you’re in London so start meeting people - go to tech meet-ups, go to marketing meet-ups and tell people you’re a freelance developer.

That's a good long term plan, and one I really do not enjoy, but that's a shortcoming of mine I am aware of.

The question is "where can I find job now?", not "how can I avoid this situation again?", though yours is very good advice.

(Also thanks for the CV/resume tip. But if one is confused by me using an American English synonym for CV and doesn't notice the header of my PDF says "London, UK", I wouldn't be optimistic about their hiring process.)
Most amplifier reviews are less informative than the Knob Feel YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KnobFeel
I love this. Is there something like this for Word? And/or for the LibreOffice equivalents, which in many cases are a better user experience than the MS originals.
> As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on
marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an
Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.

Just wanted to add some additional context from the PDF you linked.

The civil rights act of 1964 should make racially-based decisions in workforce hiring/firing illegal, but here we are, nearly 60 years later.
As I mentioned, I use it to send text messages using the termux API. I can type out a text once and use the script to iterate over a list of recipients (adding a 1 second sleep in between so my carrier doesn't block/throttle it). It can also be used to read and respond to messages in an automated fashion, with branching logic based on whatever I want.

I've also used it for other things like automating the downloading/unzipping of audiobooks, pushing photos/videos (or metadata about those) to my web service, and more.

Basically, I use it for whatever I want to automate. I don't think of my phone as an "appliance." To me it's a general-purpose computing machine that conveniently can sit in my pocket and go with me everywhere.

I've never understood why people want to embrace the idea of them as appliances. They are fully capable of being general purpose, they are just (intentionally) limited. Makes me think of a bird (born with wings), where someone intentionally ties the wings down so they can't fly even though they have all the hardware needed for it.
Colors (and gradients) per-stroke rather than per-glyph. (Coloring all of an "A" versus the three or more strokes that make an "A", for instance.)

The most obvious examples are emoji which may need hundreds of strokes in many colors to be properly colored as we see them in most places (that aren't HN). Many emoji were rendered as bitmap images on many platforms to be able to get the colors correct prior to font support for color fonts.
Except they do take race into account. Have you never been on a hiring committee for a tech company? There's a just-barely-legal imperative to prioritize all nonwhite/nonasian and nonmale candidates. In some corporations, this goes as far as mandating that an equal number of nonwhite/nonasian candidates as white/asian candidates make it to the final interview round.

What makes you trust someone who says they aren't taking race into account when that same person okayed having objective racial biases baked into the hiring process?

Humans have a known exploit called "lying". It's well-documented being abused in the wild and there are no patches. Keep that in mind whenever someone is telling you something that is in direct contradiction with their actions.
I never really liked exploring music on Spotify the back catalog was non existent for DJs putting out amazing stuff in the 90s and 00s. You get like 2010 all the way to current year. Worthless.
> Have you seen the dollar’s buying power recently?

Yeah, it's been going up relative to almost all other currencies and especially BTC.
You can get weather on route from Climacell, now tomorrow.io, which offers delivery and logistics route planning based on microcells.

https://www.tomorrow.io/
TikTok search results are reportedly swarming with misinformation
Crucify me for being woke, but I feel like getting upset at this statement is overblown. There is no way that there was a 'white people quota' or anything like that (which would not be 'anti racist'). Charitably, 'anti-racist' just means not turning a blind eye to the real and/or perceived racial outcomes of your decisions. If most of your QA testers are Vietnamese and you cut your whole QA department, it can come off as racist even if on paper you were just focusing on QA.

In practice it probably just means some EA looked over the layoffs and made sure the optics wouldn't be horrible. I see this as more of a blow-hard CYA statement that they made sure there is no potential for a class action lawsuit. Putting it in the press release as a bullet point is pretty silly to me though.
I am subscribed to their site, but it's been mostly frontend engineering offers since I signed up in July.
The outcome is identical. I am able to navigate to the thing I'm looking for, without needless time-wasting.

Like any business, Youtube's free to deny me service if what I'm doing is sufficiently detrimental to their business.
I should have clarified. I'm a contractor, not an employee, so I don't get employment benefits (these benefits I provide myself outside of the employment system, so I'm very happy with it).

For my specific case, the job is very stable, since it's not predicated on temporary requirements. I've been a bit more than a year like this.
As a health care professional, you choosing to be anti-vaxxer tells me a lot about your judgment in the field I’m seeking your expert advice and it probably means that you don’t care about coming to work with Covid and getting other people sick.

If you’re an anti vaxxer coworker, whatever. Your judgment about the vaccine doesn’t affect their ability to write good code. But if they were an Oracle fan…
Contracting is mostly a matter of relationships.

Contracting with US companies from the EU will be easier or harder depending on the number of relationships you have with potential clients and the strength of those relationships.

It will also depend on specific market conditions of course.

And the overall economic climate.

Good luck.
Another fan, here. They're the spiritual successors to The Dregs.
Bunch of new accounts commenting doing it too.
In the love shack, baby
They used to be very similar.

Recruiters in the US don't really seem to work that way. Instead, they have contract shops, and hire you as an employee, or 1099 (contractor without the money).

I am very disappointed in what has happened to the technical recruitment industry. It used to be full of older folks, that obviously made great money. These days, it seems to be all young folks, and they don't seem to make anywhere near as much as they used to.
By hiring additional 'resources' to train and onboard and manage all these new hires

It's *CKing crazy. Reminds me of government
I might be accused of ageism, but honestly, I think the ratio of young and very young programmers to mature ones is what makes for all the tribalism and drama within the community. Of course, there are old folks who still behave like they're in high school. I think it's a nature of the profession to attract such people, so we won't ever be completely free of them, but from my observation - most older (since when 40+ is old, right...) programmers tend to be much more level-headed and way less emotional with regards to tools they use.
Not strictly consumer, rather a niche space, but we're still shipping Swing based apps, and our customers neither know what the UI toolkit is, nor do they care.
>If you're affected by layoffs described this way, you then question whether that was because of who you are.

I mean, this isn't a question. They're saying it outright. When picking who to layoff, race was a factor. If you don't like it, take it up with people making those decisions.
Especially when the fraudster says "you can keep $1000 for your trouble if you do it today!"
Yet another website that's outspoken about removing loli/shota turns out to be indifferent to ACTUAL CHILD ABUSE... what a shocker.
Show HN: Heat Pumps, Hooray – A heat pump calculator for your home
> not controlled by violence

You've obviously never fired an automatic weapon in a data center.
Not sure if I'd trade $250k for bankruptcy with the earning potential of a decent software engineer in the US labor market? It's so-so though.
Well, does that allow you to have the rest of your backend GPL licensed and simply not distributed? Nobody has a right to see the code unless they have the executable, and you're not giving anyone the executable, so...

Kind of unfortunate if there's a leak though.
> without offering synchronized version

What does this mean?
That is why we see layoffs like these. You just layoff the people that didn’t successfully self onboard and/or are unqualified but slipped through your screening.
This creates three problems. The first is that some white people who were affected will believe it was because of their race. The second is that minorities who were not affected may be assumed to have been kept because of their minority status.

But the most harmful is for minorities who were laid off. That signals that they were really subpar, even more than the average laid off person.

It seems like this policy has two negative impacts on minorities and only one on white people. Some would say that's a disparate effect on minorities, and the policy is therefore racist. /s

edit: these are just the perception problems. There's also the fact that it is possibly illegal and unethical.
How do you search over logs if it's an index-free design?
> I'm pretty confident that there are very few engineers at FAANG that can't be replaced. I'd also expect there are very few engineers at Epic, Activision, Blizzard, Naughty Dog, Sony, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Valve, etc... that can't be replaced. Sure, if 30%-70% of the team left on any particular project it would probably die

The thing is these two things are linked - one engineer leaving and 30-70% of a team leaving. The quantity of who leaves does not matter as much - a project may be able to handle 70% of consultants, interns, junior and regular programmers leaving, but might die if the 30% (or 25%, or 20%) leaving is entirely senior/staff/principal.

One of the lead programmers who has been at the company for many years leaves. He is friendly with some of the other senior programmers and says he thinks the company is slowly going downhill, and he got a new job with better money, and with a saner schedule, work environment and work-life balance. Maybe one of the other senior people leaves for the company he left for. Then other senior people start leaving.

It's like Steve Blank's essay about how a company deciding to start charging fifty cents for soda led to an exodus of its best senior programmers. One lead leaving can be a catalyst for others leaving. So they are in a sense irreplaceable.

If a company is an oligopoly like Verizon/AT&T or the like, then they are privy to revenue and profits they don't have to compete for, and for companies in that situation people are more replaceable. Not for companies that have to be competitive though.
> It's "funny" how sometimes the "audiophile" equipment people use for hearing music is way more expensive (not better, necessarily) than the equipment used to record said music. Particularly cables.

The simple fact is most "audiophiles" are rich people showing off their wealth. It has little to do with actual audio reproduction.
Bluey is great. My six-year old now uses "For real life?" as part of his everyday speech.
Any recommendations for an overview resource that better explains your statements?

Both about the YF-23 design being better, and about why the B-52 design is so good.
The OP is emblematic of the "cocktail-party level of understanding" that leads people to discount how hard it is, and how much blood, sweat, and tears it takes, to build anything complicated, like a plane: https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/
As the co-founder of Apache Jakarta and first hearing about this Jakarta EE thing just now, which also seems Java (tm) related, it seems like a weird overlap in naming.
I think a modified and militarized Boeing 777 (or 767) would be the ideal replacement for the B-52, though I realize a lot more goes into bomber design than just selecting a successful airframe.
>> what do you ride

I sold my S1000XR (first generation) and was all set for a Tuono V4 but i really didn't get on with it. I'm 6'3 so a 2nd gen S1000XR looks likely next. I'd love a shot on the new Triumph TE-1 when it launches though.

>> I've been tracking a mostly-stock R6

I think that's the most popular bike here too, if i had space for 2 bikes, i'd do the same as you and have an R6 for track.
Clearly a Civil Rights violation. I hope everyone impacted that isn't "marginalized" sues them for millions of dollars.

We either have equality codified as Civil Rights law and respect that or we don't have it all and we are free to associate with people we want to in every respect. But you need to pick one.
Assuming this is the US. There are lots of online only banks. Also I think Paypal offers banking services. Most discount brokers offer banking services like Etrade, Ameritrade and they allow people to signup online.
I'd recommend doing some reconnaissance by looking at the 32 bit driver. What does the package contain? Prod at any binaries with binwalk, strings and maybe even Ghidra if you can to try to gather information.

If you don't understand the higher level bits of what's going on in the driver, it leaves room for a gap in understanding what exactly you might need to write to replace the 32 bit parts of the driver. If the driver works with cups, it'd be good to try to understand how exactly that works. (I'm being somewhat vague here since I don't personally know.)
Clickable link to Loki on GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/loki
I didn't try it for a couple of years, but last time i tried it booted to SpringBoard at least. ^^
I'll believe this was actually racially blind when Twilio releases a count of each race that was laid off, and the sum of each race for employees in the company prior to the layoff. It's very simple for everyone to verify whether there was racial targeting outside the statistically probable bounds of random selection from the parent group.

I have no problem with people being woke as long as we're both working towards a provable shared reality with data rather than rhetoric.

Humans lie. Sufficient amounts of data analyzed by a suficient number of people do not.

Assuming it was possible to look at the data I call for above, would you be opposed to the public dissemination and analysis of it?
> Throwing people out on the street is tough, but at least we destroy people's livelihoods ~progressively~.

> All CEOs are bastards.

Imagine turning a perfectly valid criticism into some weird anti-capitalist thing?
Generally they are pretty quick to send invites when asked.
Then get a full-time job, that way you can work in the job most of the time and enjoy it.

You'd not have to take care of the uncertainty that is around being a freelancer. These details are taken care for you, so you'd just focus on your work.
Don't they provide unique aliases? That's a competitive advantage over protonmail in case of surveillance.
I really couldn't say because I can see how that language can be used to defend whatever decision you want to make.

Whether you fire star-bellied sneetches or non-star-bellied sneetches, you can just blame the algorithm. "Yes, the star-bellied sneetches were disproportionately affected and while that is tragic, we did carry it through a lens, so you know, we're good, right?"
That's a standard practice in languages that don't have namespaces. C and Emacs Lisp have both proven to be "working out" for decades despite using prefixes instead of namespace support.
> or has strings which are provable but untrue.

Where are you getting this from?
I generally would like to see CEOs take responsibility through action, not words.

Is the CEO returning their salary, options, stock? Is the CEO giving that returned salary so someone else can continue working?

This isn't just about Jeff, but about broken leadership in Corporate America, which more often is about "Skin in the game" until its their skin.
It is still a question. There could people who are clearly not performing and then are let go that just so happen to not be a part of the "protected group". People are not being let go because of who they are, it's just a part of the calculus. It may not be the significant factor.
I would sample a few universities. First, a typical state school like Arizona State University, or Penn State University. Take their curriculum and spreadsheet it out.

Then, take a look at some more higher-tier universities. Could be UC Berkeley, Stanford, or MIT. Note down their curriculum in your spreadsheet.

Then, try to sample a European university, or Turkish university (MET maybe). Note down their curriculum.

Between the 2-3 samples you have, look for non-negotiable courses you must take. This is typically the courses that are common among all of them. From there, you can filter for further electives that are available, or other courses that may be more "with the times" so to speak.

This way - you can start hammering away by selecting Textbooks, MOOCs, and other online coursework that could be open-source or paid, and work your way through it.

This would be my approach if I wanted to do it completely for free, without any paper or substantial evidence that I am educated at the end of the journey. Regardless, this approach will surely help you when it comes time to actually pay for the education - you can fly through it with ease.

Also, don't ignore hands-on soldering projects, FPGA projects, or other digital logic projects to supplement your theory. They're fun and can add a lot of context. Even something simple like overclocking computers and writing some C++ projects can be a great supplement.

Food for thought, hope it helps.
> If you don't like it, take it up with people making those decisions.

Take it up with your lawyers. I can't believe they admitted it in an official filing. It's like they're begging to be sued.
I think you've just had a bad experience with recruiters. To me that's exactly what they do, helping you find the best position and taking a cut for it
> Neither feature testers (does it behave as expected) or security testers (is it secure as it does it) are expected to write fixes. Writing fixes needs to be planned in the sprint and is better worked on by an expert on that system.

...on teams that are structured that way. That is far from a universal thing.

But, yes, I'm with you that it could be just cost cutting or something weird with the team pushing back on some things. As I said, I have no idea, but there are universes where it makes sense to make those changes.
As someone with an AGPL sticker on my laptop - why does that make you sad?
I assume this is for mRNA vaccines, although I didn’t see it mentioned in my scan. This is important as there are multiple types of vaccines, using different mechanisms- non mRNA vaccines might show different results as they, well, are different “stuff in the tube”.

Nor have I see studies relating the risk of covid itself vs the vaccine. The same spike protein is presented in either situation, except the virus would be expected to be more distributed throughout the body. Hopefully, the real risk to young folk is small no matter what and the risk of contagion from those infected but unaware is now small as well.
Are you asking how do lighting STAKERS make money if lightning transactions are so cheap? Right now they don't, people are doing it to bootstrap the network. But in the future, they will be able to make it on volume. Staking is nearly costless. There were 369 billion purchase transactions for goods and services worldwide in 2018 [1]. At a penny per, that's a lot of scratch.

[1] https://www.cardrates.com/advice/number-of-credit-card-trans...
We have no idea what it means and you can rationalize it all you like. Quota or not they likely fired a white person instead of a another person because of their skin color. Or it’s just cheap talk and means nothing, those are the only two options.
Wow, a single PHP file, I wasn’t expecting that ^^

Looks cool though, I’ll try it soon :)
> Open Source is not a panacea for a project's leadership having shifting goals. It definitely doesn't hurt, but when you're talking about taking on incumbents like Unity and Unreal, it won't be easy to recover if "W4" starts losing focus because VCs want to do VC things.

vs

> An ignorant hardheaded fool, with head in the sand like an ostrich

You can tell who in this conversation has an intelligent take pretty easily.
Same here. I'm pretty liberal on a number of issues, but this kind of language is extremely off-putting to me. If it means that the layoffs were explicitly racist, that is disgusting.
How about the fact that most startup CIO/CTOs (and enterprise cos) know that they under-invest in on-prem, because it's a cost center, and fighting that battle politically isn't worth it?
C'mon, she's actually a 500 year old dragon.
Fastmail is an Australian company. Granted Proton isn't based in the US either, but their whole schtick is privacy, whereas Fastmail is "just" a commercial email provider. Note I have nothing against them, just saying there's no particular reason for this US legislation to be in their focus.
I meant dubbed (edited, thanks).
They do it because they can, which in this case means that enough people will put up with lots of ads.

Sad truth about humanity is they don't care.