skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, don’t think I’ve seen a comment from you as not-a-mod! But what’s so cringe about lifering? After having jumped from job to job every few years, I’m so tired of doing the first couple years of a job over and over and over. I’d rather get deeper into a product, build deeper automation and analysis, participate in building more of the culture. Maybe that doesn’t happen in practice and tech churn still keeps people on a hamster wheel of constant rebuilding, I wouldn’t know :/

But hey, thanks for all the great work here!
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Can I load up whatever images I want? The dream would be proxying Magic cards for playtesting. If you could load net-decks and shuffle via an app over NFC somehow, that'd be amazing as well!

Lots of possibilities here!
Infringement is not theft under any legal framework that is beholden to Berne
I suspect that a lot of people would be happy to be a "lifer" in the right situation. (Good company, good work, good colleagues, good respect, good TC.)

A barrier is that situation doesn't occur often. I think it could, but not many companies seem to be run that way. The stereotypical tech company, for example, seems to be driven by growth at all costs, and there's a kind of mercenary thinking by both company and employees, towards each other. Which is intertwined with the weird dynamic in which folk wisdom is that companies will pay more to hire someone than they will to retain.

Another barrier is that a worker opting out of this -- to go to a mythical modest little oasis company run by a CEO with a heart of gold who will live forever -- can be difficult, due to the large number of high-TC other workers in the field. In the US, if a worker is making relatively a lot less than others, they're at a disadvantage for housing, healthy living in various ways, opportunities for their children, etc.

So even lifer-inclined people will be motivated to play along with our current situation of chasing FAANGs, hierarchies of people all targeting promo criteria and metrics rather than company and team success, job-hopping whenever the right bump of TC and title comes along, rehearsing for fratbro interview rituals, etc. (Maybe with a bust cycle of a lot of VC exit schemes, we'll start to get better, but a lot of workers and companies have known nothing else, and there's a lot to unlearn.)
Those still exist today, check out the tildeverse and their family of niche shell boxes:
https://tildeverse.org/
Late 40's, been at this company for about 18 years.

Mostly because i believe in the company and its future.
The future we're building is a solid one.
I think these are different “theys”. Foundation was Skydance TV, this looks to be Apple directly. Or at least no production company is named in the article.
> Intel and NVIDIA locked their GPU linking technology (SLI)

Are you sure about that? Ten years ago or so I had an ASUS motherboard for AMD processors that explicitly supported SLI.
I use Safari's built-in "Read Later" action.

If I want to save a page forever, I bookmark it. If the title isn't descriptive I change the title or add keywords. To find a bookmark I search my bookmarks.

I don't organize bookmarks into folders because it's unnecessary.
Java has (had?) such beauties as "InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedStates".

Now imagine a bit of reflection on that to do some string manipulation.

Good times!
Look into Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire. Could do it with 2 pogos.
> FTX/Alameda is more Enron than LTCM.

FTX makes even Enron look like saints. FTX took money that wasn’t theirs and spent it. Theft on a massive scale. There’s not even a veneer of legality or deniability.
Although the OP is phrased in terms of the individual (are you a lifer?), I wonder if the question wouldn't be better asked about organizations: what places are actually worth staying at?

It's a function of both variables, of course.
Whoa thanks. Both look cool. I'll check them out.
Because of the f150?
What's your point? The question about sample sizes is arcane trivia?
When to Use gRPC vs. GraphQL
The person you're replying to didn't mention this, but I find the main utility of static typing to be that all variables and functions either have explicit types or their types can be inferred by the IDE.

Great for readability when I'm wondering what type this parameter is supposed to be and what I can do with it.

You can obviously have documentation of types without static types, but static typing means you have ever-present compiler-verified documentation of types. Not always enough, but it's a lot more helpful than just having nothing.

Having exhaustive unit tests doesn't necessarily help with this.
Wrap fishing line (monofilament) over the coiled up antenna and across a electrical resistor that gets connected to a battery/capacitor as it is deployed.
Resistor heats up monofilament line melts antenna does not go "sprooooing!"
because there is no sound in space.

https://www.pdxaerospace.org/
“If No Freedom, I'D Rather Die”
I imagine 0 yoe at FAANG would pay enough to support a family :-)
Isn't it so crazily irrational how our economy works? We have more educated people and more technology with each year, more resources available than ever before in every sector, more and more work being finished on millions of projects, more scientific advances and drugs released and rockets launched and buildings built. But somehow, the machine that was moving along just swimmingly is determined one day by the various talking heads to be doing "bad", and then panic sets in, people fire people and sell stocks and companies fall apart, but its for no good reason. The business cycle is like a flock of pigeons sitting on a telephone line, getting startled by nothing, flying in a circle for a minute, only to sit back on the same telephone line and eventually get startled by something else.
Military SIM Developer Tired of Its Game Being Used to Fake War Footage
I think this is a compelling idea, and I did some experiments with it a few years ago, but I don't think it works.

I think you have to rewrite all your code in C++ to get smaller pointers, e.g. see my comments on Zig and Sorbet (C++) in this thread. Also some on this wiki page: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Compact-AST-Representat...

I don't think there is any way to retrofit existing software with this technique. In addition to the issues you mentioned, you would have to deal with pointer arithmetic (interior pointers), Base* and Derived* semantics (covariance, arrays, templates, etc.), composition with other pointer-like types, etc.

Not to mention dealing with external code that doesn't traffic in compressed pointers
> what’s so cringe about lifering

The answer to that is probably just "attachment disorder'. There's nothing wrong with stable relationships, and the way you describe your preferences sounds completely healthy to me. It definitely does happen in practice, even if it's not the default, so don't give up!

(I post not-a-mod comments semi-regularly, but they drown in the ocean of "if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd sure appreciate it ̶g̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶r̶̶".)
I don't agree with the parent poster, but I would say that there is a large portion of frontend devs that "don't understand css" at a very deep level. For every 1 that does there are a good 9 or 10 that just get enough to get by.

That said -- you need to know the average amount of CSS to be successful using tailwind.
I worked at a bunch of smaller companies before and I'm now 5 years into working at a FAANG. My team and org have the most competent management I've ever seen and I have no interest in rolling the dice on another job unless something changes here.
A bit tangential, but what can you share about the computer rental industry? When did it die out? What sort of customers were there? How long until computers would leave the rental circuit? Would they just be sold?
there's not going to be a radically free-er market in housing.

zoning regulations and the whole path dependence of the last centuries restrict choices to very few ones.

as long as the network effect of cities, the macro effects of the global economy (the dollar propped up, suppressing exports, which wreaks havoc on everything that's not finance) and various other factors (school districts, car dependence) have so oversized influence on where people can live.

and for the foreseeable future there are going to be very high-level coordination problems which keep the market in a pathological state.
This is a really cool product! I'm so glad someone is finally trying to solve this problem.

Not having control of your secrets is a big problem. It is why I continue to use TOTP for some things.

Maybe lean into the practical problem this solves and how it empowers the user?

I am going to suggest this to people. But I feel like I'd have to explain to them what it does, and why it is cool. I remember a few years ago when Keybase took off a few years ago. I think Keybase did a pretty good job of presenting itself to it's audience.

I know plenty of people who understand what a Yubikey is, but might not understand what this app is.

Personally, I love that I could keep backups of my TOTP secret keys in encrypted qr codes on paper in a safe, if I wanted to.

I think it is deeper than just the technical part of it. I think people really like anchoring their accounts to something that they can "see".

It would be really easy to let you import and export your secrets to physical media. And there are some interesting options with chaining your secrets to other hardware tokens (that you are in control of).

Of course it gets very tricky when suggesting anything security related. I don't want to tell people that they shouldn't use hardware tokens. But I think that relying on hardware tokens can be really inaccessible, which can itself be make a system less secure.

Best of luck!
America needs to shoulder some blame for provoking Russia.
No, things have become easier now. There're tools called SSG (static site generator) like Hugo where you write markdown and get beautiful pages. Its flexibility is optimal.
Sanction them until their oligarchs turn on the executive.
IBM? Oracle? SAP?

BTW did you know the above are the number 2, 3 & 4 largest software companies in the world respectively[0]? Also I suspect "doing nothing" is a bit of an exaggeration and/or OP isn't 100% privy to what these people actually do. It's probably a relaxed pace but not literally "nothing" & their experience and knowledge still make that valuable for the company.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software_c...
fuck them for acting like it is still the colonial era and they get to dictate their will to the rest of the world.

the EU law applies to those unfortunate enough to reside within its borders. nobody else has to give a damn.
Foundation is good.

It just ain’t foundation the book.

But it is probably impossible to film anyway.

But Asimov himself ruined foundation in the 80s with the awful sequels and prequels. Nothing like the original.
Maybe, but a private right to land owership doesn't exist either. Just because someone built a farm there two hundred years ago they got to sell it to someone who sold it to someone who sold it to my landlord? I'm fine with someone owning a building they built, but they should have to rent the land from the public at market rates.
I agree, thought that was the best bit.
Utility companies and gas stations are feuding over who will own and operate EV chargers. According to rural states, some charging stations could lose money for a decade or more. New companies offering charging equipment and services are dealing with the equipment's unreliability.
What a great show…classic!
4 years in. Lifer by default because the risk of bad culture in other companies is so high. Even if you get good vibes in the interview stages. I would put it at 50% chance.
Here's the kind of thing that was being said in my country at the time: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55056016 . The vaccine is described as "effective" and "immunisation". Looking that up in published health authority documentation: "Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation." "Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected."

The message that was broadcast, and the message that was understood, was that this was the same kind of thing as the other things that are usually described by the word "vaccine": something that makes you immune, that reliably prevents infection, such that vaccinated people don't need to take any other precautions.
Conclusion:

> From a far enough distance, it’s easy to understand why some of Musk’s peers might look at his scorched-earth approach to human resources with admiration. But go even an inch deep on Twitter 2.0, and it’s clear that the person in most need of a late-night performance review is Musk himself.
> For companies which should be putting security at the centre of their business, they apparently have no idea that they're normalising phishing.

Yeah, this appears to have stopped, but was somewhat common a few years ago. My standard response was 'you called me, tell me who you are and I will call back on the official line'. They couldn't object to that. It was obviously some plan to 'ensure user privacy' that once it became known to one or two people with the authority to do something about it and the knowledge to know better it was quashed.

Now if only they would allow you to enable 2FA options that aren't SMS and also disable SMS. They don't understand that SMS is a terrible 2FA system isn't mitigated by 'but you can enable other things' if you cannot remove SMS as an option.
Musk critiqued with examples of clamping down on free speech (thread)
A multitasker can add value to a project. This is why many businesses prefer profiles that can perform a variety of functions, responsibilities, and roles. However, it is difficult to perform multiple tasks efficiently at the same time, just as one person cannot cover the work of several. The benefits and drawbacks of multitasking are discussed below.
> I think you'd need to have sources that prove that specifically crops grown for human consumption

I think you don't understand the issue.

Vegetarians (and vegans) don't kill less animals, they simply don't eat them (or at least that's what they say...)

> The point is that all those things could still be coming from crops

The point is that eating meat, unless you are from the US, does not mean you're killing billions of animals for fun.

American domestic cats kill billion of birds and other small animals every year.

Why are vegetarians obsessed only with non vegetarian people and not with domestic cats, which they love?

Because it's a religious fight, not an ethical one.

They want to blame someone and found this.

Anyway: scientific method implies that if you say "vegetarians kill less animals" you should prove it with numbers, as humans their activities kill billion of animals every year all over the World.

Vegetarians are not outside of the human realm, they live in societies as we all do and the major source of animal killing and suffering is not eating some meat, that's only selection bias at work.

It would be the same as saying: plants produce oxygen, if you only eat plants you're robbing our planet of breathable air, you should replant every plant you eat.

But every normal well functioning human knows that it's stupid to divide people into good and bad.

That's exactly what vegetarians do.

If you believe in veganism, it's OK, religions are allowed in our societies.

If you believe "vegan facts" from a vegan website is the truth, I don't know what to say to you, you can't fight made up beliefs, I got the Pope in front of my house, I know you can't beat blind faith.

But, the claim has always been that vegetarians don't kill less animals, not that they kill more. Which is arguably true. You won't find vegans in poor countries, you'll find denutrished children starving to death, they'd eat some meat if they could, just to survive. Veganism is a first World problem and as many other first World problems it's completely disconnected from reality.

When you'll eat an entire plant of wheat from roots to the top, we can talk about eating only vegetables.

Until that day you are only wasting resources, as any of us western humans do so well.

On average each year every American eats 3 chickens. Are you sure vegetarians on average don't cause the death of 3 birds each year? Can you prove it? Can you prove the industry you rely on for food is more ethical and kills less animals?

If your objection is "but I don't eat chicken so I kill 3 chickens less than the average" remember that other people could reply "I don't eat vegetables as much as you, so the damages produced by the agriculture industry are much more on you than on me"

Waiting for the data, please refrain if you wanna answer with more propaganda.
I wonder what color the sky will be (a television tuned to a dead channel). Will it just be pitch black or bright blue with NO SIGNAL, HDMI, TV1, TV2 in bright white letters?
Was this stuff really so long ago that we have to talk about it in such a patronizing fashion?
Are you sure it is impossible?

https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/?q=diffusion+image+editing&ran...
Arms need to come from someplace. In the case of the Khmer Rouge, those landmines were made by the chinese government 1. Sanctions could therefore land on china for not accounting for mines they created. For the case of governments that truly have no responisble parties remaining afterwards, say the land is littered with IEDs, then the UN should have funds set aside to go towards these efforts, just like how they have funds going to other humanitarian efforts. But when its possible its best to charge the offending governments if they are still around than to have the world subsidize them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_Cambodia
> Have there already been cases of websites making their visitors unwitting peers, similar to e.g. JavaScript cryptocurrency mining?

vk.com used to do that for popular videos, maybe still doing that.
telegra.ph and rentry.org are the easiest to us over tor. Others require some kind of signup, or block tor, prose.sh looks cool, but ssh is less anonymous than tor. Maybe you can ssh through tor, but that seems like a heavier lift.
Talking about a film adaptation of Neuromancer isn’t new, I don’t think. Yet, in spite of having no film adaptation, it’s had an enormous cinematic influence. I guess I wonder if anything is really missing if it’s just left alone to do it’s own thing as a book?
If I’d thought this was something other than a joke I would have hired Frank Chu to do a murderbot poster for the hearing.
You are right but you failed to answer my questions.

Please link to the CDC data. Otherwise I presume it doesn’t exist.

And you failed to address that both trials never tested infection rates.

Just because I got dates wrong doesn’t excuse you from addressing those two questions.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781403
Only in comparison. I find the regular outages of the message sending bit particularly annoying. (To be fair, could well be Kaiser's fault)
Pretty much any image you want, but it's only 4-color greyscale and pretty low resolution.
I'd have to make a nicer UX than the current "scp the images onto the raspberry pi" setup I have now.
> You're saying that vegetarians don't know this?

Arguably some don't.

Read again: some.
I use JSON Schema written in JSON5. That at least fixes the commenting problem.
Interview with a GNU/Linux user in 2022
counterpoint: FTX only robbed people doing business with FTX. Enron robbed all of California. Tens of millions of households had to pay sky high electricity bills because of Enron manipulating the electricity market in California. The damage was about $40-50 Billion dollars. FTX owes less than a tenth of that.
I try my best to use tailwind JUST as a utility library, and really utilize the @apply postcss function. I don't want 1000 classes in my HTML, I want to make re-usable classes filled with the tailwind styles from it's utility classes.
> Non-Tech Perspective - Tech people are difficult to work with because they are more likely to say "no" to new ideas.

This is really important. Many tech people (to non-tech) come across as finding ways things WON'T work as opposed to providing solutions. I see this happen all the time.

Good tech people mature and realize this and that eventually leads to leadership roles.
He got more votes than any Democrat before him in Texas. And he got Texas from the lowest turnout in the country in the 2014 midterms to the middle of the pack, and the closest vote in 40 years. And in the governor race he had the best Democratic showing since 1994.

Sure, he's losing, but by narrower margins than anyone before him, and in a solidly red state.

> DeSantis did the same but was an incumbent with strong support.

Beto got 4% more votes (44% vs 40%) in the 2022 governor election in Texas than the Democratic candidate in Florida, despite Texas traditionally being more red than Florida.
Loctite? It’s an adhesive, not a lubricant. More akin to resin or cyanacrylate, not graphite.

Edit: that said, I do have a tube of graphite on hand. Please tell more about this microwave experiment…
I think a catch-all top level exception is totally fine and not ugly at all!

That’s why my Python APIs never fatally crash, they just log an exception and move onto the next request.
If you like your job and feel somewhat secure you'll get employment for the next 2-3 years it makes a lot of sense to stay put. That said - thinking you're a "lifer" could be naive though - no one knows what's coming. Things can get worse for your company, or things can be OK but they still shut down projects or move them oversees or get bought. This happens all the time. And the opposite is also possible - things in the market can improve in 2-4 years at that point you being "early 40s" won't scare you so much and you'll want to move. No one knows and there's little sense in calling yourself a lifer.

P.S early 40s ain't old, happy hacking!
Link: https://archive.ph/iZuof

Maybe I read it wrong, but the article says it was preapproved by a small committee and now requires approval by the full board.

Also there is a typo in the title: supervisorss
Apple should just bring in Ben Stiller to do weird out like he did with Severence.
The point they're making, I think, is that FTX bought various shitcoins from other people in exchange for USD. Value can disappear, but that's not what happened to the actual dollars they spent.

I'm not positive this whole thing was some kind of planned conspiracy, it just seems like idiocy and fraud catching up with them. I don't think any competent fraudster would get caught in such an embarrassing way.
If it's all about "what you bring to the table", older folk will always be at a disadvantage due to their obligations to things that isn't just the company (and disabilities as well). This is the bordering on ageism, brought on by meritocracy thinking that everyone starts from the same spot.
It is illegal for GCP to give that information to Chrome. pretty blatant antitrust violation
Would the “guitar solo” part of songs fit this definition, or not really?
Nope, you can't move posts. You can redirect your followers, but only if you still have access to your old account. If your mod unfairly bans you you can't migrate away.
Im early 40s but didn’t join the workforce till after the Dotcom bubble, graduating in 2004. Apart from 2008, it has been pretty plain sailing economically
since starting in the industry. This feels like the worst downturn so far.
I don't know many software engineers who have the ability to design and implement robust production systems.