skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not sure your point stands any scrutiny. Titles such as principal engineer or staff+ levels are not granted by seniority or at an anniversary.

OK, fair enough - instead of guessing, I went and pulled up some current job postings:

-Staff Product Designer @ DoorDash: "You have 8+ years of experience as a product/UX designer in a relevant industry"

-Staff Product Designer @ Opendoor: "Experience: At least 8 years of relevant experience as an individual contributor on an in-house product design team"

-Staff Product Designer @ Mozilla: "5-7 years of professional product design experience"

-Sr. Staff Product Designer @ CNN Digital: "12+ years professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer

-Staff Product Designer @ Ro (Roman): "8+ years of
experience shipping high-impact and successful digital products across mobile and web at consumer-facing/focused products and brands"

So to me, the OP question wasn't "What makes a Staff designer?" it was "What happens to designers as they get older and don't want to pivot to management/PMing?" The answer I was attempting to give was "It looks like there are lots of Staff/Product+ roles opening, which may be good fits for such people." Maybe the main hangup you found was my reference to FAANG/FAANG-adjacent companies, and I may have been off the mark there.

And make no mistake about it, I won't hide it - I'm definitely wish-casting here as an old guy in the design industry myself.
Tiny homes: What the working class can afford now.
Oldest complete star map found inside medieval manuscript
Middleware is a concept far older than java.
I wish I knew more of the LSP surface area in order to know whether a "meta LSP" was feasible. IJ has something similar with "embedded languages" that it either ships knowing about, or a user can annotate an AST section with a comment (in the outer language's syntax) indicating the inner language; SQL language support in Java is the most recent example I can think of -- both of these situations allow inspection of the inner language:

// IJ knows that "executeQuery" only accepts SQL string literals
// and the string is both highlighted and checked that "count" and "thing" are legal
statement.executeQuery("SELECT count(1) FROM thing");

// the following line designates the inner language
// language=SQL
String someSql = "WITH thing AS (SELECT whatever) SELECT * FROM thing";

With a language server, I'm guessing it would have to take the 2nd route, since I don't think language servers get into the business of knowing the semantics of the libraries against which they are completing
This is actually not correct any more. 2019's housing stability and tenant protection act changed it so that the preferential rent must continue as long as the tenant keeps the apartment, subject to the same percentage increases as the legal rent.
Just FYI I got in touch with them (I had purchased the app in 2014) and they told me to pay up.
I don't like this viewpoint at all. Spoken English and written English are different languages, full-stop. You can see this in effect when someone is giving a fully-scripted presentation or talk---it just doesn't sound like speaking, no matter how conversational the text is. This is in large part due to the issue of word choice: speakers must choose their words quickly, so they must transmit their idea using lots of small, common words, while writers have time to think about word choice and select the one that transmits the exact connotation the writer is going for. And that's not to mention the nonverbal cues which add a ton of richness to spoken English. Writing allows you to take time to look over your words which lets you re-gain that richness with poetic devices which really allow your words to flow in a way that would sound unnatural and forced in spoken language. I would go as far as to say that if your writing sounds good spoken, it is not very good writing at all.
Pfizer plans to sell its Covid vaccine at a 10k% markup
What Is Agon Light?
Recent and informing Changelog podcast with OP and Textual author, https://changelog.com/podcast/511.
It can be done if you insert data dependencies everywhere and know which CPU it's running on.
They know how many people are ordering that much RAM, and probably have some guesses about how many actually need it. Apple won't mind losing 5% or whatever of their Mac Pro customers if it means not fundamentally redesigning their SoC architecture.
Are you the author/developer?

I always ask for screenshots, but in this case it has a nice selection of examples in the landing page.

Are you planning to add a feature to add textures to the images, like using liquid ink on an old piece of paper, or fake wavy hand draw lines like xkcd? Can it export sgv or other vectorial format?

I'm not going to buy it because I work in an unrelated area, so perhaps a better question is which features do your userbase ask the most?
https://pldb.com/languages/fact-lang.html
Ask HN: Kaggle-like competitions for reinforcement learning?
Last year in my college machine learning class, we had extra credit projects to build reinforcement learning models that were graded on their ability to play Flappy Bird. I just graduated this year and I would like to do more challenges in reinforcement learning, but Kaggle only seems to have challenges for supervised/unsupervised learning.

I am looking for something like Kaggle, but instead of competing on predictive accuracy in classification, you would be competing on net return in a simulated environment. I have seen HN discussions[1] about bot vs. bot competitions, but I haven't actually found any in public.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29985837
The better than 95% of writers bit bugs me. It feels like looking at all of written history and saying everyone else was doing this wrong because they don't write simply enough.
Not OP, but metrics have a bad reputation for being poor proxies for actual performance since they tend to be game-able.

What are some metric-centric OKRs that have worked for you?
Forgive my digression but for years I’ve seen small efforts here and there to elevate the concept of a “stack” and promote it as the level abstraction to use when discussing web apps and the like. What’s up with that?

Grab any 3 commonly used pieces of technology whose names can be used to form a fun initialism, append stack to the end, and soon there will be experts speaking at conferences dedicated to it. JamStack is an example you mentioned. I’ve heard others over the years.

I disagree that it’s a useful unit of thought. No one I know or work with ever talks about “web stacks” this way. Am I missing something here? Is this just some kind of niche? Who’s marketing these?
one of the most effective ways is to use your yard alot, and control the entrance to your shoveled plowed area, mainly its the sun, and the easy path through.

unless you have willow, or orchard trees...
It’s different that than vendor lock-in.

For example you have security. CGI with multitenants is hard if not impossible. At least for the tenants that will want to use this.

Then there is scaling, resource consumption, and predictability (for planning).
This rumor states that Apple is testing a configuration with 256gb of RAM, not that it’s the highest build-to-order configuration of this to-be-announced machine.
In some cultures, being asked if you belong here is considered passive aggressive, and in some cultures passive aggressive is the worst form of rude.

Tribal knowledge is always a danger. Which part did you guys think I lost the plot? Why code that runs slower is a feature for cryptography? Assuming people know what a side channel attack is? Why the co-creator of one of the longest surviving cipher systems who spent his career breaking other ciphers is relevant background information? Something else?

The summary for the linked package is:

> This is the compiler for the Flexible and Constant Time cryptographic programming language. FaCT is a domain-specific language that aids you in writing constant-time code for cryptographic routines that need to be free from timing side channels.
Why We’re Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS
I have never worked outside of office hours.
The engine is open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

We did not create our own engine to create "lock-in". On the contrary, it would be a huge win for us if we could simply run FastCGI or Node or whatever applications unmodified. We'd be able to onboard a lot more customers more quickly that way! Our product is our physical network (with hundreds of locations around the world), not our specific development environment.

But none of that tech scales well enough that we could run every app in every one of our locations at an affordable price. Meeting that goal required new tech. The best we could do is base it on open standard APIs (browser APIs, mostly), so a lot of code designed for browsers ports over nicely.

(I'm the lead engineer for Workers. These were my design choices, originally.)
And to make a point that perhaps is restating yours, or overlaps with yours, I think some good writing is "dense" the way that certain foods are calorie dense.

You can intentionally write in a way that's different from your natural voice if your goal is, say, information density, or expressiveness that conveys personality or that makes the experience of reading more enjoyable, or to allow writing to shimmer with all of its contextual entanglements.

Of course people can attempt to do this and make a reading experience worse, and I think writing how you talk can be a helpful rule of thumb for certain use cases.
Merb
Yes that's likely.
But the idea is that even if that's the case, it is still better than no PGO.

Edit: I'd like to add that if the 10-20% mentioned is measured on the benchmark that was used to do the pgo, then that figure might indeed not be representative of the real gain.
In the 80s and 90s (when I grew up) there was still a sense that technology was capable and going to be empowering people and making lives better, healthier, more convenient. Even though in many ways this wasn’t really true at the time either, the rise of social media and digital advertising as the primary examples of “big tech” I think really changed how people internal and external to the industry think about how technology intersects our lives.

When you think about science fiction and the promises of technology and then look at what we actually got (mostly platforms to sell us things) I feel like it’s natural people are discouraged.
Yes, it's great because static/static+some dynamic bits fits a lot of use cases and it's quite simple to deploy, manage and maintain.

It's nothing that new though, Firebase (part of GCP) and Netlify have had that for years. CloudFlare just have the right combination of marketing, reputation, pricing and tech to make headlines with it again.
This is the only thing I’ve missed over the years after switching to Apple. The androids I owned would keep the hotspot enabled all day, apparently without killing the battery.
I highly recommend Ty Webb's talk on PMF.
Man it looks great these days! Only issue is... it turns out I like using the terminal because I don't have to worry about building a UI, haha.
More useful would be a website where everyone receives the same $1 million to propose research to cure cancer.

Could use some myself.
Aggregated Live Blog of Global Events
Toyed around with this for a while, but some new tech makes some of it easier.

When there’s a major domestic or global event playing out, I find myself flitting between multiple live blogs, tweets and Reddit in order to get up to date information. The live blogs of individual publishers, understandably, don’t update terribly frequently (aside from sports).

So I was debating building a system that aggregated multiple live blogs, relevant/credible twitter commentators etc. and then creating a much faster/frequent feed for a live event.

Anyone think it has legs? Am I the only live new dopamine addict? Anyone want to help?

EDIT: should have clarified, isn’t pure aggregation, the aim would be to summarise/write a one liner for each source quoted. So not just a feed of feeds, but value on top.
Have you tried `M-x flymake-show-project-diagnostics'?
Because most people buy Androids that are much cheaper than iPhones. Buy an Android phone that's priced similarly as iPhone (e.g. Samsung Galaxy S series) and the quality is just as good.
In case anyone is curious, the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am... linked above suggests that the NSPA's goal was in fact to hold a march in Chicago and following the Skokie decision, they apparently did in fact hold a rally in Chicago.
Looks like the people who are grandfathered in are people who paid for web access. If you purchased the Android or iOS app (like me), you are not grandfathered in and do not get a free plus account.

Source: https://blog.pocketcasts.com/2019/09/18/major-new-update/
I think the advice could easily be summed up as "write at an 8th grade reading level".
I don't have time to look at the included video right now. But based on the excerpted points, I think for modern SOCs there is a good point to all of this. Modern computers are not just a fancy VAX, but they're not truly conceptually like a mainframe either.

The key with a mainframe architecture is abstraction between the components, separate memory spaces, no memory mapped IO, etc.

I'd also say that the Unix (Linux) we use today has more to do with UNIX/32V and 3BSD, than with the Unix that ran on either the PDP-7 or even the PDP-11.

Multiprocessing came into Unix fairly early too, within a year or two of the introduction of the VAX. All that effort was rolled into SysV later.
I wonder how people deal with a situation where they build a platform like this and it gets adopted by e.g. political group opposing current regime in their country.
A friend of mind built a pretty nice platform, until these groups started using it. He just didn't want to end up in the ditch somewhere so he closed the platform.
The money from ads wouldn't even pay for servers, not to mention legal aid or hiring staff to deal with "unwanted" content.
Even if you build an open source platform that anyone can self host, you can still run a risk someone being upset about it, that you are making it "easy" for certain groups to spread their propaganda.

It feels like today it is a too risky water to dip toes into.
On most of the projects I am involved with, if the modules haven't been cleared for use, the CI/CD pipeline will fail, regardless of working on dev's machine.

If only all projects were as conscious.
> Microsoft was halfway there

I see that more as “on a way there, without knowing how far they were, and even without being sure the road they were on would not reach a dead end”.

What makes you think they were halfway? Even if there are good arguments now that they were, could they have known them at the time?
> Some Image Name.png

... Urg, that.

If I ever implement a bespoke file system format, it is going to be encoding-level impossible to represent file names with spaces. Not FAT-style[0] "the spec says to replace that with a underscore" or something, but more "the on-disk character encoding does not contain any sequence of bits that represents space".

0: (non-ex-)FAT stores filenames in all caps, but the data of disk is ASCII, so you can just write lowercase letters in the physical directory entries. (I've seen at least one FAT implementation that actually uses that to 'support' lowercase filenames.)
> one polished Linux-based operating system

This one is more clearly related to an area I know a lot about (expressions of personality dynamics in products and organizational philosophy), so I'll start there.

Linux as it stands today is more about a divergent, possibilities-first engagement with big-picture concepts.

What you are looking for, in that realm, would be a specific _distro_ and its maintainer, not a Linux-wide decision. That is the closest you will get (and it's a pretty amazing state of things at that, tbh), and I would recommend you reach out to some distro maintainers that seem to think like you do. For example, (what was that James Bond villain again? ah yes) Zorin OS is similarly minded, but,

and this is important,

your post raises the "I'm a critic" flag in terms of personality archetype leanings, so it's more important at a stage like this to look for _possibility_ than _where things stand_ with a given distro. I'm sure you could find plenty of ways in which Zorin _currently_ sucks, for example!

If you want to budge the needle, so to speak, you will either have to find people who will not wither under your eye for quality as voiced through critique, as Jobs did, or find a constructive way to be open and amenable in your work.

Also, regarding Linux in general, look at the opposite of some of those terms, too, like the opposite of divergent and possibilities-first: Linux as a whole is not "about" the convergent probabilistic conceptual work you are describing. (i.e. let's aim at the single, refined collection of things we are pretty sure would be really appealing to a lot of people)

On the other hand, Jobs' personality was way more closely geared to that. Steve Jobs had an inner mandate to create the puck everyone else would wish they had skated to.

What you are expressing in your question is about your personal preference for a mindset that is similarly concept-focused, which seems very close to Steve's.

However, one thing we know about conceptualizers is that they are, especially in early stages of being disappointed with things (the start of their typical hero's journey, that's their equivalent of the village that's been ransacked and torched), vulnerable to the illusion that others either must see things the same way they do, OR those other people lack an eye for quality, taste, and vision. They have access to both the auteur's gifts and the liabilities that come with them.

However, to take on such a long-term goal, the fact that not everyone buys or wants Apple products should be evidentiary, instructional, or hopefully at least a constructive curiosity.

For example, I don't think of "quality" when I think of Apple, these days, even though I have used their products for a long time.

Just some thoughts, good luck to you in gathering ideas.

PS Watch the "Z Channel" documentary if you want another story that's similar to the Jobs-Apple mindset in a lot of ways.
Damn, thanks for this info
Having .html file extensions is very old school, and its removal is one of the popular/default redirects on all http servers that support it. Site generators also hide it through various methods (e.g. having a folder with the path name with just an index.html where a dynamic redirect isn't possible).
That was in reference to regular mail. USPS was one of the first fed agencies and mail was one of the few original functionals of the central government. On top of USPS being one of the largest agencies, there is also legal protection against tempering with mail and usps has its own enforcement branch.

In case of email, it probably should simpler. Gov only serves as an address book, essentially. But does minimum of tech implementing it. Given how domain MX records work, does not seem possible. So i think email relay is the closest thing.
Who said WASPs are racist? As a group, they’re probably the least racist people on the planet. Their conflict with Asians and Jews isn’t about race, but culture and worldview.
Scottish Islands in Dark After Sea Internet Cable Disruption
We just don't want to support MiTMFlare with our traffic and money.
i think this type of beaming tech would be a prior to dyson sphere

dyson sphere still needs a lot of huge engineering upgrades at scale

in order to reach there humanity will have go to through series of such mega scale projects
I think an aggregated feed of live global events is interesting so long as it is 100% unbiased and void of any additional commentary.

I would exclude Twitter for that reason. Just say what’s happening, don’t add “context”
There is an alternative. Just blog without an audience. Don't keep any web server logs (or don't look at them). Delete the analytics.

That depends on your individual preferences I guess. I think having an audience is at least an indication that you're succeeding at it. Otherwise you have a diary, not a blog.
Which is why DevOps, sorry system admins, then have automated tooling for detecting those kind of workarounds, and then we get a sad developer that has to fix a broken pipeline deployment.

In case of places that take security seriously that is.
Covid vaccines are a great revenue stream.
Check out Andrew Glassner’s Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, it starts with an overview of color.

http://www.realtimerendering.com/Principles_of_Digital_Image...

Also these days there may be better and more focused resources online if you know where to look.

http://poynton.ca/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html

http://www.cvrl.org/

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color2.html (https://www.handprint.com/CE/book.html)

https://www.realtimerendering.com/

http://paulbourke.net/miscellaneous/colourspace/ (Old but still useful)

The original compositing paper (which didn’t address issues of perception or non-linearity): https://keithp.com/~keithp/porterduff/p253-porter.pdf
No, if you read the article, that is the breakdown for the average fully developed public restroom in SF. $1.7m is not the cost for a single commode.
Why don't you teach me? How are SAT scores distributed, that raising the mean by 175, from 966 to 1141, does not change the area above the Ivy League admission cutoff, but raising it by another 75 points to 1216, increases that area by a factor of 6.6x?

Certainly not by the normal normal distribution - unless there were truly dramatic differences in the standard deviation. Do you have any evidence that there are, and are in the correct direction for your argument?

Or you could look at e.g. Harvard's own documents and see that they required higher SAT scores for whites, and highest for Asians [1]. Of course they do not count Jews separately in those figures.

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/widget/2018/10/21/sat-by-race-gra...
Yeah doesn't look sustainable
Yep, that’s sensible, if not easy. What about rumours? Is there value in adding news that the major publishers can’t, given the diligence they must apply, but here could be brought in, albeit with a clear UI that makes it clear it’s unverified.
No, you should not discount three important factors that alter how the Republicans and other similar forces around the world see this situation, and consider that they actually have powerful internal interests that act, effectively, pro-Putin.

1. Russia is a powerful petro-energy exporter state. Energy industry remains the
cornerstone and engine of the global capitalist market. Worldwide profits are underwritten by it.

2. Major limitation or inaccessibility of Russian energy undermines profitability worldwide. The American energy sector might see Russia as competition, but it's also not that clear. There's fear of the regulation and disruption of the energy economy that this war (and climate change policies as well) have brought.

3. Russia is a conservative, effectively far right state whose ideological foundations accord with GOP foundations: Little separation between church and state & conservative social values. In Russia, as in the United State, feminism/abortion rights, gay rights, trans rights etc are framed as "western decadence/western decay" by Putinists. A similar focus is taking by Trumpists, Bolsanaro, etc.

TLDR there's harmony in interests between the GOP and forces in Russia; on both cultural / ideological issues and on economic interests. It's complicated, certainly, but there are strong forces in the Republican party and in the far right in Europe that are implicity, if not explicitly, either pro-Putin, or very interested in "settling" this conflict in a way that gives Putin most of what he wants.

(Mr. Wanna-be Howard Roark - Tony Stark or whatever Musk is mouthing the latter line now)
I like Pages, I hope they'll support hosting multiple projects from different branches of a repo at some point...