skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you move a judgement call of that kind to after the offer stage, then the offer letter becomes a lot less meaningful.

That may be true, but if a potential employer gets current employer references before any offer is made, the candidate is at serious risk of unemployment (let go and no offer to replace it), or an uncomfortable change in relationships at the old job. The risk to the candidate is high.

Besides, many offers are lowball without much room for negotiation. Why would a candidate take the risk, not even knowing if there's a good enough offer contingent on the reference?

If a potential employer asked for a current-employer reference from me before making any offer, I would terminate the process even if I expect a great reference, because it shows the employer doesn't care about (or doesn't think about) the fundamentals from an employee's perspective, and that is a big clue that it's likely to be an awful place to work in other ways.

A good employer doesn't act as if employer and employee are in equal positions with the same to lose. I've been jerked around by too many employers and potential ones who don't care about effect on their employees, sometimes at large financial cost to myself, so these days I'd just drop the company if they seem oblivious to how things affect the candidate. There are plenty of good ones who also pay well, and those are also the ones I'd rather help succeed.

If it's just about the amount of the offer or level of the position, they always have the option to revise it up after they get a reference they like.
> all of that are technical choices, that can be debated on their own merit without the need to attribute malevolent intentions to the developers

The ramifications of those technical choices on the software ecosystem are so well understood [0], that there is no point in discussing "their own merits" in a vacuum.

What's most relevant to my professional and waning hobbyist interests are the shape and trajectory of the software ecosystem as a whole. To talk about systemd without talking about how it's developers interact with the software ecosystem is to talk about nothing.

[0] I graduated before systemd was a glint in Pottering's eye, but we somehow still covered it in school. Not only coupling vs cohesion in the abstract, but also how various design decisions (including init system arguments of old!) interacted with the ebb and flow of unix-like OS evolution.
You can't quantify success in a PhD with a single variable.

Of course, but I'd bet the farm there's a very strong correlation!
Had an 15" XPS 9550 a few years back. With standard everyday use I needed 3 trackpad replacements in 12 months. To Dell's credit their support and onsite repair was excellent.
I would love to see more law firms do this, or at least use Nextcloud instead of the sketchy "secure file storage" clouds they utilize today. Even if I asked the firms I interact with to purge my files, neither I nor they could prove that all backups of the files are purged. Having control over the full chain of custody of files would be a big improvement in that industry in my opinion.

That said I would not expect many law firms to do this. A technical person is required and all the firms I have dealt with squeeze every bit of money out of everything they can.
I’m sure this is alluding to the common anti-immigration sentiment, where all crime is blamed on refugees that are constantly othered and hated.
I've been playing Pokemon recently with GBA and now DS emulators on my android phone. I knew about emulators before but never connected that I didn't need to be on the waiting list for Analog Pocket to get one. :)

I cook dinner for 1-2 hours 3 times a week. I take long drives on the weekend. And sometimes I record music. I was collecting new kinds of plants for a while but my cats keep destroying them.

Just because there are people shouting about side gigs and "hustling" (oh, how I dislike that word at this point), doesn't mean that's actually what everyone's doing.

Just do what you want to. :)
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Programming wasn't an elites task back then lol. I guess I can't disprove his statement about being peasants now, but they are completely wrong about the 1970s.

Just ask the programmers back then;
https://youtu.be/AxSdWhkMB_A

It sure does not sound like an elite career to me. It was just regular people working with the constraints they had at the time, not because of some super intelligence or leet genius focus on perfection.

If anything, projecting yourself (not you in particular!) into some mythical lost elite, as opposed to the current stupid pleb sounds like pure cope imo.
When we’re talking about widely observed practices across broad swaths of activity (this case hiring practices) then we can, ought, and need to move from assuming incompetence to assuming malice. That saying was always meant to be tied with another saying “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” And the other quote about doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result is a good definition of insanity.
It's really, really easy to sue somebody in the US. Even easier when you have an attorney who will take something like that to court on contingency since it's such an easy payout.
> There is no way we can build globally competitive and innovative business in this milieu. How do you do full hard-reset and reboot on an entire culture?

Leave and build lifestyle businesses. Not every business has to be globally competitive. Create more opportunities for freelancers. Basically, there need to be attractive options for employees outside of working at globally competitive companies in order to force the change. After all, from the already existing global businesses' point of view, the current methods are working fine.
I am pro lawful military. The problem we have, that our leadership opportunities in America are compromises of our collective ineptitude as a civilization.

This aside… competent, moral, intelligent persons willing to devote their share (to “bear the terrible burden[1]”) to make what exists of our civilization work are imperative.

IMPERATIVE!

Say what you may of incompetent and treacherous leaders we let pass, the body of power in America still exists within human beings who must serve this higher exclusive purpose.

Do not do it for the menial paycheck or the abusive lifestyle sacrifices, do it that those of yourselves may inherit this Earth, and make your next generations it’s own.
I think you need the trailing slash so you can add the global flag?
As someone working at yWorks on yFiles, thanks for the kind words :-)

Having used Graphviz extensively over the years as well, the cost of yFiles is certainly unfortunate, but I guess we simply serve a different markt segment than Graphviz or D3. (On a somewhat related note: Our online graph editor, yEd Live, support parsing a subset of Graphviz' syntax and that enables running at least some yFiles layout algorithms on Graphviz graphs. No export back, though.)
To be fair, some state schools do operate on just GPA. I recall my HS had that GPA/SAT scatterplot available for past applicants: UVA had a flat cutoff at ~4.1 weighted GPA, and the SAT literally didn't matter at all.
I've seen people who make quilts regularly get in-person pressure to turn it into a hustle. It's not the internet, it's people.

And they're everywhere.
HN USER hobbies are usually spending Time on HN and working on a part time $$ project.
APAC nations are now trading more with China than with the United States.

Tangental but related: the markets in China responded negatively to Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power.
"uneducated farmer" are those who can survive on a piece of land dependency-free. They know weather, season, plant, animal, chemistry, machinery and many more. Us engineers without 30mins of internet are less useful than a sprouting potato. I'm not sure what the author meant.
Except in your example, did the employee turn in the the work that was assigned Monday morning on Tuesday morning, and say “I’m done what’s next”, or did they lie and turn it in Friday and say it took all week?

If you want to get paid by the hour or unit rate, be a consultant.
Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so.

There are companies that download the entire salary database and sell 'lookups' in their database. This way you can look up anyone you want and no one gets notified of anything.
I didn't know about small hardware stores being forced to close. That's the arbitrary part then. If it was a question of space, they should've been allowed to continue business with curbside pickups.

Religion and community are important. But congregating inside a church building is not something that needs to be prioritized during a pandemic. Schools and daycares first.
Well there's no silver bullets. If you're on HN you're probably more engineering inclined than 90% of the population anyway and could figure most of the big stuff out.

These types of articles are for the general population which may not realise things about insulation. Or energy, or phase changes etc. And generally sent interested in how things work, or efficiency, except to the extent it costs them money.
Freedom of expression is a big deal in Sweden. Tryckfrihetsförordningen (the other constitutional part besides Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen) dates back to 1766. It's the oldest law ensuring freedom of the press and freedom of expression.

Heja Sverige!
> Also, the timer is way too short for anything more than a word or two. The third one is a whole bunch of words. That's too much.

Unless game objective is also to train typing, you are right.
BASF to Downsize ‘Permanently’ in Europe
One interesting 486 "machine" is the ao486:

https://opencores.org/projects/ao486
https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486

I believe it is the highest version, completely open FPGA of the x86 architecture. This may be some kind of argument for maintaining Linux support?
You might be an outlier!

But it sounds like you did not graduate high school or apply to college. If that’s correct, I would not have the context to know since the baseline of inclusion into my experience is people who graduate high school in some form - GED included, AND who provide test scores.

I’m really sorry to hear about your stepdad, wincy. I hope things are ok for you now.
Personally I wouldn't want to work for a company that doesn't state its requirements up front and likes to play games like explicitly marking things optional when they're actually required
If you elaborate on specific use cases that will be useful.

git as a DB I think is not that useful. I'd guess in most cases you'd be better off with sqlite.

regarding the collaboration use-case I think it's also not that interesting outside of the usual code stuff.

Maybe some git-inspired features can be made such as diffs or merge requests but I don't think you'd neccessarily need the real git for that.
https://archive.ph/tOxHg
Practically speaking yes, and it’s probably ok to do that for personal use. Where things get shaky is if you want to use it professionally — even if you buy an old license key off of eBay Adobe could decide the license is no longer valid and sue you.
And this one: https://xkcd.com/2304/
Why is BBC running this sort of article now?
> Has the financial situation forced everyone into always looking for a side hustle or way to 'escape the rat race'?

Inflation has risen and minimum wage hasn't kept up with it. Unions are dead in the US. Boomers got their college education paid by the GI bill, Millennials got their college education paid by excruciatingly huge loans that are impossible to get out from under even by bankruptcy. Some of those have been forgiven by the federal government, with the utmost reluctance. Keeping up with the bills is not easy.

You can afford to have a hobby if you're making enough money to not worry about paying your bills. If you're constantly on the verge of going broke then yes, every single thing you do ends up being examined for its money-making possibilities.

And then when you do, you have to deal with the fact that the social-media giants that are where you have to go to tell people about whatever hobby you're trying to turn into a side hustle are immensely reluctant to let anyone divert eyeballs off their sites; they'll actively hide posts with words like "patreon" or "commissions", or links to your own site where you can get people to look at your stuff and consider giving you money. Oh yes and those social sites are of course also highly optimized for addiction, so your own scarce free time is colonized by mindlessly scrolling FacebookTwitterTiktokInstagramEtc and not really having a good time but being too amused on a moment-to-moment basis to get up and do something that's actually fun.

tl;dr: Yes.
I'm confused, is the data coming from official government database itself or companies are just allowed to gather data coming from various random sources?
The barrier to be accepted is very low. And there is another, lower "mark" as well called "Sekretessmarkering" ("Privacy mark") which can give you similar benefits and has even lower barrier.

Or are you saying you did apply for this and it wasn't successful?
> In the late 90s and even early 2000s the common wisdom with guidance counselors and even local recruiters was that programming and software design were dead end

My career advice as a teenager was that there wasn't any point doing software, as Microsoft had made it all already with Microsoft Office.
The absolute worst is iCIMS. It's probably used as an obedience/submissiveness test by the recruiters. If you make it through the application process
you've shown that you're desperate enough for this job.
I think you've overestimated how many people look for jobs because they "really want to work" for a particular company. Further, you're asking candidates to eat the opportunity cost associated with spending time on one employer's application process.
I feel like for many of my friends who aren't in tech their primary hobby is media consumption. TV and film certainly enabled this in the beginning, but the internet helped 100x it.
I'm always amazed at how people in the US/Canada shower, with the water running constantly. It not only seems like a waste of hot water, but how do you even soap yourself up when the water is just washing everything away immediately?

Where I'm from, we take Navy showers[1], where you only use water to rinse things off. Basically:

1. Run water on you so you get wet everywhere, turn the faucet off.

2. Apply body wash and shampoo.

3. Turn the faucet on and rinse everything.

4. Done.

The actual water-using portion of this is less than a minute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_shower
Well, clearly they did get it. It could very well just be a thing the police rubber stamps.
Nice! Jazz bassist here. One thing about I like about jazz is that no matter how much time I put into it there is always some way to improve and some way to get better at it. Even the folks that I play with that are substantially more gifted at jazz vocabulary are consistently working to hone their craft.
Sure people have hobbies, you just happen to be listening to the wrong people ;)

I personally like to play with lua mods for surviving mars, garden, hike, woodworking, I don't know if reading is a hobby, let's say pastime.
Grades and gpas are based on tests too, but on crappy tests without any psychometric validity, often correlated with race and broken in a bunch of ways which standardized tests are not. How many high school math teachers run irt or dif analysis on their tests? Meanwhile, standardized testing companies spend a lot of money and energy trying to remove race from their tests. It is as though smart people have been working really hard on this problem for many decades and found an optimal solution. The solution is standardized tests.
> In 1970's, the number of people who dealt with programming was significantly smaller than today. It's a matter of fact. And people who worked with computers back then were highly educated and pioneers of the technology, there was no room for half-hearted effort or "let's copy the first result from stackoverflow.com".

And yet probably the same percentage of what they wrote was utter crap [0]. The illusion comes from having more people writing more code for more reasons now. Sturgeon's law still applies.

On top of that, the industry rewards those who:

* "Produce results" insetad of those who pre-empted a bug 5 years in advance by building something to be robust [1].

* Job hop every year or two, and thereby disproportionately rewarding those who work on their CV.

* Are personal friends and family of higher ups [2].

To claim the major reason why software is in its current state is largely/solely because of all the "farmers" is harmful ignorance, at best.

> programmers who are meticulous, detail-oriented and who genuinely recognize the problem first are in minority

Perhaps the biggest problems in(/with) technology today aren't of a technical nature. If even somewhat true, then those who are "meticulously and genuinely recognizing the problems" aren't necessarily even programmers.

[0]: This is hard/impossible to know one way or the other due to survivorship bias. A lot of software from the 70s is just gone.

[1]: Instances of this are hard to even find, naturally. Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that.

[2]: Hardly exclusive to IT, but still a significant factor.
With Google's devices I think and hope that the code accounts both on the web side and the device firmware side for interrupted communications or latency due to whatever external factors (e.g. another page that is running in the same execution context sending the single JS thread into a loop or lock).

With non-Google devices... these might run into problems when the device expects a certain response latency or minimum bandwidth. YMMV I'd say.
> I'm a serial hobbyist.

Same. I blame my brain's need to chase the dopamine rush.
[1] like it or not, outside of your convenient comfortable existence; power is savage. Life feeds upon life. The terrible burden falls upon those who mitigate savage powers with a civilizing accord.

So bear your terrible burden, a little (your own chaos) or a lot (that left unattended and now contaminates the world.)
And yet people wonder why the MRA and MGTOW movements are gaining ground...
Brilliant. How did they miss this opportunity and double down on VR?
I am doing everything for myself
They are going to China and betting on Xi to keep the country in control. Good riddance, BASF.
Aren't the most valuable employees the ones that hate mundane and repetitive tasks, who find a means to make their work easier? A job is of little value if the man performing it has no interest in improving it.

If I pay a man to move boxes from here to there, should I fault him for asking where the pallet jack is? Certainly not! When he was done with that, I had other things which he could be doing for me instead. I'd rather pay one man handsomely, than two adequately. A man who doesn't have a disdain for the inefficiency of the thing is the one I aim to replace.
Do you people find their artistic hobbies to be relaxing? I actually find it to be some what stressful and difficult. Painting is constant problem solving.

With art, I would imagine people find it useless without sharing. So you feel like you need to publish or get into a gallery etc
I recall working on a project a few years ago that had it in place. The end client was a hundred year old company, with bricks and mortar stores, that needed a boring, stable solution that had several key features. They would take only the older version that we built for the escrow, so that if things went sour they had a workign solution that they would have the source-code for that could be given to another company.

On the one hand it was a pain to work towards, as the requirements had little immediate value (new features needed lengthy documentation, lots of features had to be stripped out, long (manual) test checklists, etc) but on the other hand, it got you thinking about how to build software that would need to last longer than the company you're in. Made me realise that feature creep/bloat was what was holding the product back, not the Next Big Thing(tm).
I haven't bought a Dell computer in many years, but I love their monitors. I started with the first 1920x1200 they offered probably fifteen years ago now, and have been through a series of them culminating in the two 27" 4k panels I have on my desk now (P2715Q and P2721Q). In that time I've never had a problem, not even a dead pixel that I've noticed.
It has a lot to do with not understanding the other person's motivations. If a person's hobby doesn't interest you, but you can see the lucrative value of said hobby, one might be compelled to suggest making said hobby a career.

I think this is a prevalent phenomenon because most people don't actually have hobbies if you disqualify food and entertainment. Some of them will have a passing interesting in something, but unless they spend some money on it, that can hardly be called a hobby. People who have actual hobbies probably understand why another person doesn't want to make a career out of their hobby, but those who have no hobbies likely don't get it and see the hobby as the seed for some kind of dream job.

The way society views hobbies has gotten worse due to things like hustle culture, the artificial celebritydom of social media, and the devaluement of being hands-on with things that comes with living in a highly industrialized society.
I dunno; they say

> At first glance, the errors looked like they were caused by a different system that had started a release some time before.

And with somewhat noisy error rates I'm not sure even annotating graphs with releases would have made it unambiguous.
I knew a software engineer who used to live in sweden. One day he had a payraise. Out of the blue his landlord raised his rent. Apparently she somehow found out about his payraise and now i know how. She even told him that she knows he can afford more. He left sweden for this reason and racism. Before you believe all them nice stories about scandinavia, be sure to talk to people that lived in any of those countries as they all have some very disturbing practices.
Which means the title is pure clickbait, doesn't it? More than that, the title is pure falsehood (as shown in the submission at the time of posting this comment).
Best laptop I ever owned was a maxed out Dell XPS M1530 (2008-2013). Wonderful hinge design, WUXGA screen, that thing was a workhorse. Unfortunately it died due to issues with the nvidia gpu warping off the solder joints. I fixed it temporarily by baking the motherboard and got 6 more months out of it.