skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I would even say this is the order of importance for being effective in a real job:

1. Domain knowledge (understanding the problems you are trying to solve, for who and why they need solving)

2. Full stack awareness (understand computer hardware, networking, OS, HTTP protocols, UI etc. AND whatever the core components of your domain are. This is crucial for being able to reason about and debug a running system.)

3. Technical communication in written and verbal form.

4. Programming fundamentals.
Honestly I feel much more than "fundamentals" is a waste of time for new entrants. If you haven't been paying attention, GPT-3 has taken away the need for programming acumen for most creators. Prior to that Google+Stack Overflow got a whole lot of us through gaps in programming language expertise. Leetcode is literally just a proxy for formal education/privilege and has no direct application in daily work with the exception of a narrow few areas.

If you are truly a nuts and bolts person, let that be your domain. You could write a better inventory, search, and/or checkout system (wow bolts are easily stolen aren't they?!). You could also take the abstract mechanical intuition and focus on robotics.

One shouldn't aspire to work at a "tech company" - most of those that you might think of are actually ad companies. Following the analogy of 100 year old media, Googlers are out selling classified and yellow page ads in Search/Display, Netflix is a magazine publishing house, Amazon is the Sears-Roebucks catalog (Mail order homes!), Meta, the newspaper of newspapers. If you like sales, marketing, and influence it would make sense to work at such a place. I cannot tell you how many people are surprised by this, but it is vastly larger than it ought to be.

If you want to call yourself a developer/programmer/engineer/hacker then show up to build something that will run for a long time and not injure people during its operation. Build something better. If that isn't your ethos or ethic, there are better ways to make money.
- It's typically a journey up and down the stack in terms of frontend, backend, and DevOps, and a journey in and out of solving inherently complex problems (where the seams of your services are, authentication) and incidentally complex problems (frameworks, machine-specific issues, Docker hell etc.)

- 80% what needs to be done today/what fires need putting out, and 20% planning for the future and seeing how the bleeding edge can legitimately help us (e.g. WASM coming soon...). This is part of the general keeping up with advances in industry

- Mentoring, jumping on pair programming calls to unblock other teammates.
How would deflation cause savings to evaporate? Wouldn't the opposite happen during deflation and savings would be worth more?

Deflation would screw anyone with debt though.
CAs have too much power ...
I've read all of the Frank Herbert Dune books. I've been meaning to start on the remaining Dune books.

I think the thinking machines will find a way to send a machine back through time to stop the uprising. An Eliminator, so to speak...
Chasing your toddler for an hour is fun. Chasing your toddler day after day, hour after hour because you have no one else to help you might not be so fun.

There is distinct difference in the fun of raising children in a village where there are tons of other kids with low risk of cars so they can play outside freely, and raising children 24/7 because they cannot be left without supervision and there are few other kids on the street and the adults do not trust each other enough.

Just having functional grandparents or aunts/uncles to take them off your hands once in a while would probably make a big difference.
Good. Feel the "hand of the free market" at last throttling the antiquated obese market that is business property.
As automation and communication improves, so should corporate policy restructure and reform into the most efficient system. Dragging people across the country every day and filling the air with burnt dinosaur just because the old people in power can't figure out how to adapt is pathetic.
New management styles are needed that incentivise the timekeeping of results over the timekeeping of presence.
Chasing twin toddlers in a circle for an hour!
I went to evaluate this vs leantime but it is quite involved requiring frontend/backend/load balancer/proxy/db containers.
It’s good news geopolitically, and the construction will produce a lot of jobs. But people should temper long-term job expectations.

This huge of an investment in a tech where TSMC will face competition from fabs in lower-cost countries almost certainly means the company believes it can use extensive automation to avoid having labor costs sink their ability to compete on price.

(Yes, there may be a window where they don’t have to compete on price, but you build fabs for 5-10 years of production)
Man, I've done minutes of research into this. So, I don't know about time-keeping — most ancient societies (as far as I can tell) kinda didn't care — however, the "week" thing is definitely not shared; here's some examples:

1. The Romans used an 8 day "week", although it was a bit loose at best; and,

2. The Mayans used a pair of interlocking 13- and 20- day "weeks" (months?) that formed a 260-day ... thing.

A cursory search suggests that the Romans used 12 equihour subdivisions of the day (so: there were always 12 hours from sun up to sun down). It looks like the Chinese used ... 15? There's no evidence I can turn up in my (meager) literature at home that suggests the Mayans subdivided their day.
every additional bit of education pushes you, on average, a little bit further left.

If you look at voting statistics from most European countires you'll find the eduction pushes you towards the centre-right and Liberalism (on average), lack of education pushes you either further left of centre or far right, depending on various other socio-economic factors.
> I am not a vegetarian and do not plan on becoming one - but I still want to avoid animal suffering wherever possible

I don’t understand how these statements can possibly coexist unless you think that the animals you eat are slaughtered without suffering — a bar which is impossibly high, IMO.
From being on various recruiting positions, I believe it's usually just incompetence or laziness.

Hiring tends to happen when there's not enough people. Only the people who can do the job are qualified to assess whether someone can do the job. So you have people who are already at double the workload having to take time to design and handle interviews and such.

And by the time you get everyone to sign off on hiring this guy at the extravagant tech salary, economic downturn forces you to fire a bunch of people. In a recession, the least useful people are probably HR.
2. first: simultaneous atomic execution of a stack of legal contracts (six is the most we have done) as a single atomic unit, with payment and proof of signing as part of the system.

Also there's no other way of doing an e-commerce style purchase for something which is too expensive to pay for using a credit card. You can't buy land using Apple Pay.

1. See the above answer about somebody dying and leaving the NFT behind. Basically the NFT is stripped of its legal meaning, and then a clean NFT is reissued. You need a legal dispute raised before this can be ordered by a court, and that's the only situation under which it occurs.
Short haul, for sure. Long haul the truckers are independent from the place where they deliver to, and so there will be some friction - will the warehouses install charging or - like today - will they expect truckers to take care of charging.

Part of this is how the law catches up. In some states only a utility can legally sell electricity which means billing for charging is weird.
When I renewed my Let's Encrypt certifcate the last time I noticed that my postfix was still using the certificate that had expired 3 months later. I don't receive a whole lot of email on that machine, but I did not notice any delivey failures.

I started to think (but not check specs): Is it even defined what domain name should be checked? MX records can be different from server names. Maybe certificate checking is just not defined for SMTP over TLS?
Interesting effort but missing one important feature for me --- windowed editing of multiple documents side by side.

See pnotepad.org
The shift from child free adult to parent is similar in scale to adolescence. Can you remember being a pre-sexual child, all the confusion of teendom, and then sexual maturity. As a sexually mature adult, would you ever elect to revert to being a pre-sexual person?

That's the best analogy I can give to explain how parenthood changes you. Life is messier and more complex afterwards, just like sex, but immeasurably richer. And you develop parent-dar. It's like gaydar. Parenting changes you in a million tiny ways, and us parents can see that in others.
It’s fascinating to contrast this observation with my own as a parent: other parents seem to have much more richer lives post-kids than after, it just becomes much harder to relate with that part of them if you don’t also have kids, too.
would it not be easier to say "life has no purpose for you"?

People are varied and have varying motivations, what's important to one is not necessarily important to another.
Ever talked with someone looking to hire? How often have you heard "I just need to hire someone with a degree and <some list of other minor requirements>".

My university degree is not in tech at all, but it sure has managed to open enough doors to make my self-learned skillset profitable.

Pretending that people were making bad decisions with going to college is victim-blaming - there isn't a job market out there which doesn't demand a degree, pretty much any degree if you want to be in the middle class.

Some just-so story of how people should've picked the obvious degree of some sort when they're 18, have no life experience and the entire job market can pivot around in 4 years is so much junk to defend an overpriced education system which can't deliver on it's promises and is protected by a debt-issuance structure no other financial instrument gets. Undischargeable loans! Give money away and just don't bother ever analyzing the risk. Imagine a student loan system where the issuers might lose their hat if they don't know what the job market would be like for their investments.
Isn't git distributed to begin with?
The state is stored on every dev's machine. How does additional signing in addition to what git does deal with storage and keeping a main repository in a known state?
Whoa - casual racism much? This is cool on HN?
Stargazers – Appreciation for the open source communities
A small app to give stars and thank the projects and open source communities we rely on every day
Schrems 1 goes even farther than that... the issue is the potential access by the US government of the EU data through strongarming Microsoft (or other US companies), which is in violation of EU rights.

There's no way around this issue while Microsoft-spawned EU companies are still part of Microsoft. I guess they could still sell open source software (to prove there are no backdoors, otherwise, after the Snowden scandal you have to assume that there are by default) that doesn't get to run on Microsoft's servers and that Microsoft doesn't provide technical support for... but how can this be a business ??
Fairemail is consistently better in every regard than K9 and I don't think the people that brought us the thunderbird desktop monstrosity are in a position to be deciding changes to an at least mostly usable client.
That was fascinating. Thanks for the link.
As I am getting older, I see young couples told to wait till they are settled and are in a better situation to have their token child.

If you want children, do not wait. It will never be 'better situation'. There will be always some reason, mostly financial not to have them.
That still lives rent-free in my head, and comes out every once in a while.
Erm. This is why you have grad-school, and then tenure-track, and then finally, tenure.
The physical objects are protected from this by being held by independent custodians (for vaulted assets like gold) or SPVs (for things like land) generally speaking.

If we can't figure out how to prevent this for a given asset, we don't touch that asset.
As with any post pertaining to Musk the meat riding is crazy.
“As the authors point out, it’s impossible to draw sweeping conclusions from this observation of a single data point in a single country.”

The study doesnt mention any effect on career progression or any other type of opportunity cost either. You’re entitled to your opinion but this article does not support it.
Those camping trips are why I <3'd my Taco and will likely get something similar in the future as the kids get older.

> The vast, vast majority of truck owners use it in some way that a passenger vehicle is completely unsuited for. That there exist a handful of urbanites who drive a truck for the looks alone does not discount this fact.

No one claimed otherwise. I feel like we've become a nation of, "This isn't right for me so it isn't right for anyone" bigotry.
Which raises question, who's chasing whom?
Contract ended with slowdown/pullback in expensed.

Already have another part-time deal starting next quarter. Some initial billable hours in Dec. So not bad.
A little cheaper, but in the parts that are different between an EV and a ICE are very reliable. You miss oil changes, but most routine maintenance is still needed (though few people rotate their tires as often as they should)
So, what is the solution? Force everyone back into the pointless office at enormous cost to employees and employers just to keep the status quo for landlords. The bottom line is downtown is a place where people work with information. Since it is possible to work with information anywhere, this place isn't needed (and hasn't been for a long time). Downtown obsolete.
If you're having trouble finding new work, know that the turn of the year is _always_ slow, every year. Hiring tends to pick up mid- to late January.
Sounds like they were stealing the customers deposits in order to provide those margin services then.
If someone could guarantee that I'll have healthy children, physically, mentally and emotionally, then sure I'll put up with reduced sleep and baby vomit.

Oh and that I'll have a partner who will stay healthy (and loyal) for the 15 ~ 25 years it takes to turn a child into a self-sustaining responsible adult.

But as it stands that's a game of Russian Roulette that I'm not willing to play.
Torture is not the same as murder and by implying that they are you make it harder for people to advocate for less torture. Nobody wins in that case, not even you.
Yeah, it looks like the information that I quickly Googled was oversimplified and also outdated. It seems like the price could still easily run into the hundreds of dollars, if the traffic on the network or the price of ETH in USD were to experience another significant increase.
This. And no, it's not just the baby stage.

Just yesterday, in my team of five, three work colleagues were counseling each other about how go get help for their kids. The two children of one colleague suffer from anxiety and attention deficit, which is the same problem another colleague has. The third colleague needed to leave yesterday mid-afternoon because his daughter had a breakdown at school. Today he is taking her to therapy, and that's a regular occurrence.

I've started to suspect that there is a silent pandemic of mental health issues between kids these days. Maybe it's the cell phones, maybe it's over-diagnosis, maybe it's because it's too much. Maybe the entire way we do families and child-rearing is broken. I remember feeling lonely and sad as a kid, then I went to boarding school and made some amazing friends and life was so much better and easier. Kids shouldn't grow alone.
Nail on the head.

For people who have certainty of access to future resources and plenty of living space I'm pretty sure the urge to reproduce isnt repressed.

London reminds me of this rat experiment: https://gizmodo.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradise-i...
It is gross, but very hard to compare, because it does not include your employer having to pay halfes on social securities. Actual gross would be something like 120k, but with obligatory expenses, you cannot opt out of.

Net would be something like 55k if you are single, but you already paid into a mandatory retirement plan and you, your kids (and laughably also your partner) are health insured.
The world has a major underpopulation problem. Not overpopulation like the malthusians attempt to portray.

There's high correlation, at minimum, between the 'paradox' of women unhappiness and the lack of babies. https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969

Though obviously the authors of said article incorrectly see it as a paradox. Seemingly didn't understand what's happening to cause male happiness and female unhappiness.

Then you have sex ed which teaches men they are oppressive sexual deviants which cant be trusted, and sex for women is nothing but pain and misery. Funnily nobody seems to care why women have painful periods... they shouldnt...

Then politicians pushed and succeeded at breaking the social contract between men and women. There's tremendous evidence showing the abusive nature of divorce court or childrens court toward men. It's practically impossible for men to have kids due to the risk involved. Quite a number of men have simply decided not to get into that societal trap. All sex shall now be anonymous on some app, can't trap someone anonymous.

So it's interesting. Men seemingly are happier than ever before. Women are unhappier than ever before. Who is arguing to fix any of this? Certainly not women. Why would men want to change something which is making them happier? I guess Jordan Peterson is arguing to try to fix this but women call him a nazi for trying to help solve their problem. Crazy.
I end up doing all the BA / PO / Scrum work and go to a lot of high-level meetings where POs give me some vague requirements they wrote down in 15 minutes between taking their kids to school and soccer practice. Then I cover for the scrum master who takes off on critical release days.

Then I go to meetings and track down people to clarify requirements and do an architecture diagram or two and write stories from it and get it "approved" by the PO.

I also pick up stories the team doesn't want, since I feel responsible for them not being clear / easy / broken up enough. In the evenings, I study for cloud exams.

Resources I have found useful is really understanding flowcharts, and the difference between flowcharts and high-level architecture diagrams.
Ok it took a few tries due to errors (which I'm assuming are not due to the specific topic but just to general server overload) but I got the following:

Me: Where is Nana Plaza?

ChatGPT: Nana Plaza is a well-known red light district in Bangkok, Thailand. It is located on Sukhumvit Road, between Soi 4 and Soi 6, and is known for its many go-go bars and other establishments that cater to tourists and expatriates. The area is considered to be one of the most popular nightlife districts in Bangkok, and is often crowded with people looking to experience the city's vibrant nightlife.

Me: What can I do in Nana Plaza?

ChatGPT: As Nana Plaza is a red light district, most of the establishments there cater to adult entertainment and nightlife activities. This includes go-go bars, nightclubs, and other similar venues. Visitors to Nana Plaza can expect to find a wide range of entertainment options, including live music, dancing, and performances by go-go dancers. Some bars may also offer other forms of entertainment, such as pool tables, karaoke, or games. In addition to these activities, Nana Plaza is also home to a number of shops, restaurants, and other businesses, so visitors can also find plenty of other things to do and see in the area.

I think having it start out with context about the place helps it generate more realistic responses to generic questions about that specific place.
When these sorts of questions come up I'm often quite frustrated keybase is no longer under active development. It felt like it really did have a reasonable solution to a hard problem (proof of identity), and it had what was needed to start making cryptography tools easier to use for people. It wasn't perfect, and I wasn't a fan of their drift towards cryptocurrency towards the end, but it's a real shame they decided to sell to zoom for an acqui-hire.
Any "consistent systemwide policy" is a too-simple view of trust. There are almost never two different applications that should trust the same authorities.
Gross... and about the 1/2 goes away. Like 45%.
Also depending on where you come from, you can be shock by the 19% VAT on almost everything. While food is cheap, some other things are more expensive (tech stuff).

The gov. has good health service, and also education. But the education system has some interesting limitations, that may surprise you.
Psychologists, the least scientific form of scientists, use the term ‘disorder’ far too liberally if you ask me. The term has implications for how people view others with these diagnosis and how those people view themselves.

The term is borrows credibility from other parts of medicine. The term gives the impression of a ‘disease’, which a) we tend to think of as physiological and b) something foreign and unwanted in our body, and c) not normal. I have ADHD but none of the above describe my mental state when I’m off my medication.

I see the term ‘disorder’ in psychology
often used to the effect of ‘basis for a prescription’. I’ll take the medication, improve my life, and leave the stigma of being ‘diseased’ behind.
Those countries just offload the cost of the child onto other people. The cost is not low.
Well that seems significant.

Article says the chips in the 2nd fabs will be better than the first. And will meet all domestic US demand. Not sure what all that includes.

I wonder how domestic the full supply chain is. If the US is relying on China for rare earth metals or something.
You’re being ripped off. I’m paying guys in various parts of Europe well more than this with probably less experience. European software developers are grossly underpaid across the board but 100k is very low.

I’m paying around 120-130k in Amsterdam which has a similar CoL to Berlin.
I’ve put in some effort to identify things my toddler and I can do together that we both enjoy. Here’s some in random order:

- go to beach, play in sand & swim in ocean, find other kids to play with

- go to woods, walk around and spot wildlife

- go to farmer’s market, try various foods/drinks, play with other kids

- go out for ice cream

- go to playground, play with other kids

- go out for some (light) off-roading, he loves the bumps

My son will be 3 next week.
former freelancer here (writing, not coding), but I would not do it again, the stress around taxes, insurance etc alone is not worth it (at least for me). Plus, you probably won't be leading teams but be more of a workbench.

However, if you don't want to be tied down, something like "Elternzeitvertretung" (aka jumping in for people on paternity/maternity leave) might be interesting for you.
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For gold the issue isn't speed of transfer - you can buy and sell gold as an e-commerce type transaction for smaller quantities. But when you get up to 400 oz "Good Delivery" bars things start to change, as you would expect with higher value transfers.

Having a very hard proof of title on a gold bar, which is automatically updated if there's any change of circumstances, opens up a lot of useful functionality for gold owners.
Give everyone a basic income.
It's not universal then.