skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't actually ask for personal advice in either the other post or this one. The other post was to raise awareness, start a discussion and possibly generate some sympathy toward job seekers. This post asked for general advice on finding developer jobs toward the lower end of the market and on working with recruiters.

A tech equivalent of some of the advice given is when someone asks for help with library X, and a bunch of people recommend they use library Y instead. That might be good advice except if the first person has unspoken reasons why they have to use library X. This happens all the time.

I don't hold it against anyone for trying to help even if they're answering a different question. It comes from a good place and it might help someone else, and I sometimes engage with it, but in the end it's just not very helpful to me personally.

I'm not sure we can talk about HN as a monolith but I think there's a bias here where posters who are successful in their careers run into the just-world fallacy in the hiring context. If someone is struggling then they must be doing something wrong, or they just aren't good enough. It can't be that things sometimes aren't fair, and that the best way to help is to answer what's being asked even if the situation is something you're having trouble understanding.

I've described myself as mediocre to keep the conversation general and to head off accusations that I'm sabotaging myself with a huge ego. However, based on lots of objective evidence and my own subjective opinion, I'm actually a good developer. Based on past experience, many of the employers who have turned me down sight unseen would have been happy with me as an employee had they given me a chance. As I've said elsewhere though, there are issues with my overall situation that I'm unwilling to discuss here, and things aren't always fair.
Having reread it, I think you might be right.

> it's only admissible for hiding machinery from the general public.

I had originally read this to imply that somehow it's OK for a casino to hide its machinery from the general public, but it's not OK for TikTok to hide its machinery from the general public, but maybe "machinery" here is intended much more narrowly, and OP thinks it applies neither to casinos nor TikTok.
That’s what this is about. Food producers are allowed to comply with a “may contain X” statement, or adding it to the list of ingredients. Previously, sesame was allowed to exist under “spice” or “natural flavors”. Now, there’s an explosion of “may contain sesame”, probably due to the difficulty of tracing sesame through their supply chain, and it may honestly be everywhere. For example I think if buns are cooked in the same facility as sesame buns, you gotta either add it and include it (which is what’s happening now) or create a lot of controls to ensure no cross contamination, and bakers may not be set up for separate cook areas, etc.)
Faux Self Driving
Sorry, but as a professional programmer, the entire point of your existence is to achieve business goals. Why would a business pay you to do anything else?
For you and anyone else who might be curious, it has its roots in formal math / logic! This page has a good rundown:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency#Si...
Assuming 250 million daily active users, that's $6/year/user. It seems a little high for an ad-supported business. Revenue was ~$20/year/user ($5 billion in 2021).
>I'm thinking there is no realistic level of subsidy which could make it rational for Bob's Bakery (with 1, maybe 2 or 3 modest retail locations) to build a separate no-Sesame production facility. And a separate no-Peanut production facility. And a separate... And how could Bob afford the extra staffing, property taxes, utilities, etc. for all those?

Sure? If the standard is "0.5% of the population gets perfect medical grade alternatives to literally everything including purely local tiny producers of a common food item" then no that's not going to happen. But if the problem is merely having at least 1-2 national brands on the major super market shelves so that everybody always can buy something safe and nutritious (if not the most exciting), well that strikes me as doable. After all, it's not as if these products had sesame in them anyway, and they are plenty popular with everyone. Some of them are in large enough national volume to justify their own production facilities at the national level. It's "just" a capital expenditure hump and coordination problem for those, which is precisely something the government can help with. Both with the capex side, and with things like taxes of course (which you brought up). I think this is actually easier then some, this isn't like a medicine where only those who need it will consume it, it's making something mass consumed already.

So maybe the real first step that should have been done would have been to actually get all stakeholders together and get a consensus on what the real final realistic goal is here, then craft law to help realize that in a deliberate manner.
Seems logical if you disproportionately treat poor and old/retired people you have to spend more per capita than a healthcare system that treats much younger and therefore healthier people.
Billions of dollars for Apple and Google are within the realm of no-nonsense moonshots given that their core business is very solid.

Tesla had to use all their weapons including fraud, exagerations and lies because their core business is the worst business in the world: manufacturing automobiles.

So they have essentially nothing to fall back on if FSD fails.
This isn’t stack overflow.
Thunderbird? Marty, I'll need to fix the time circuits, we've travelled back to 2006!

But seriously, what's next? Switching to IE from Chrome? Back to MS Office from Docs? The more things change the more they stay the same...
That is not full self driving
For anyone looking for an alternative, let me pitch pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/). Think of it like it like the vim/emacs of the password storage space — it’s minimal, highly portable, easily expendable, has a minor learning curve, but is well worth it.

Pass essentially takes your passwords stores them in a regular file and encrypts the file using GPG. These files are then stored in a folder that uses git to do version tracking of the files. All this means that:

- Pass can easily be distributed (you can sync your password across devices via GitHub, Gitlab, or your own ssh/git setup)
- Passwords are encrypted using GPG, so y unless someone has your private key they’re not decrypting anything
- It’s open source and there is a client for basically all operating systems
- If you can’t install a client or need to access a file, it’s just a regular encrypted text file so you can decrypt it using GPG and edit it how you see fit.

Things that suck:
- Setup isn’t as easy as lastpass: You’ll need to generate an private key/public key pair. While this is fairly easy, sharing that key to your other devices can be hard especially mobile.
- Your passwords are now protected with a key file not a single password (most likely it’ll be a keyfile protected by a key) so if you’ll need to make sure you back up that key.
- It doesn’t just work, if you want cross platform usage, you need to setup your own cross platform distribution method. Although the pass community basically uses git for distribution so it isn’t horrible but not as seem less as other products
If you're trying to "give" rehab to someone who does not want it you may in fact be "taking away".

That said, there are other ways to help those with addiction beyond giving them heroin.
The metric to judge assisted driving technologies is primarily safety. Driving is not safe and I suspect will appear insane to a future generation. Which generation and how soon is another question. However, what the US needs to massive investments in rail, which address both safety and traffic.
FYI, this is frequently caused by an Explorer shell extension. I'd look at if you have any of those installed.

Unfortunately a lot of random utilities will add them, even old stuff that might not work right anymore.

Any why? Because lots of app developers seem to think that you'll want to quickly open anything with their app via a right-click popout...
Interesting that nobody suggested a non-tech solution "Kindly ask this person to change his/her surname.". I think this may in the long run not only save several hundred hours of IT departments work but also save this person potential troubles with government systems, health systems etc.
I prefer not arguing about anything over the holidays but maybe that's just me.
FSD = fraudulent sales and disappointment

I can’t believe Tesla has gotten away with selling a feature that doesn’t exist, and will never be delivered, on so many cars for so long. Tesla began selling “full self-driving” in October, 2016 and a month later marketed it with (now known to be heavily controlled) video of a car driving itself for two minutes. Owners of those initial cars have probably paid them off by now and still don’t have a feature they were sold.
I would guess it's far lower than 1 out of every 30 for most people. The number of cars I see towing anything on the highway or in town is miniscule, and the share of all trips above 30 miles is just 5%.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10318

I wish this data was segmented further, because 30 miles each way is no problem for an EV! But still, a longer trip doesn't mean you can't make the trip - especially with the number of fast chargers increasing, it just means you have to stop to charge a bit longer than if you'd stopped for gas.

(But as an aside, I really wish car share systems were more common in the US. It feels silly to have everyone driving around in oversized vehicles when they're only occasionally needed.)
Well here is the thing.

At work all we hear about is "put the customer (user) first" which is great. But in reality you get 'dinged' if you really do that. In the 80s and very early 90s, I would work directly with the user to give them what they want. The users would see real progress so was kept happy, no matter how long it took. You just had to prove to them why you are having issues. Not a big deal.

Then the methodologies came in, far more than I can remember. Now, god forbid I forget to keep Jira updated. Also, I have not talked to a real user in many years. The outcome, the real users are frustrated because they get their statuses from their managers who attend meetings that show meaningless 'high-level' presentations.

The web site should add a line for "high-level", meaning "I am too dumb to look at details, here is a pretty picture". When I hear "high-level", I know the meeting will contain no real information.

You can see this with Opensource too, in the Early Days of Linux, if a user had a problem, Linus or someone close to him, would respond directly and it would get fix rather quickly. Now companies run the show, so we get things we really do not want. But to be fair, I think Linus still tries to cut through the bureaucracy when he can, with little success.
If there is a large number of new users who use Mastodon as on-to-one Twitter replacement, it's not going to work because Mastodon does not support Twitter style communication well.

If you just start following people, there is no algorithm to learn preferences and sort junk out. you must just stop following people who post several times of day trivial personal matters, or invest more time to scrolling.

People who don't use #hastags don't get noticed easily.
Any disagreement, if you pursue it long enough, reveals one of two things. :

If participants are skilled communicators and can stay calm and listen to each other, what gets revealed is a different set of lives experiences. This is rare and exremwlr valuable.

If participants are not skilled and do not stay calm (as is most often the case when talking about things we care deeply about, cannot experience directly, and cannot control, ie most of the world), what gets revealed is a bunch of anger and hurt feelings.
I just want either a zoom constant so we can know how much the browser is zoomed in or out, or a scaling type size unit that will take zoom into account. In the former case we could set font size as vw multiplied with the zoom factor.
Is this what Hacker News us about? Mocking mental illness?
California is a bit of an outlier in that regard.
Traffic would get somewhat worse.

People would be willing to commute somewhat farther because they could spend that time reading the paper or working instead of driving the car.

Errands that used to be annoying enough to delay get more frequent as well for the same reason.

If we get to a car share model, where you subscribe and pay per mile, that might offset some car use.

Really we need all of the above - self-driving, less personal car ownership, and other transit options.
Because they're doing it on hardware that they control.
> Majority of trips don’t exceed the capabilities of a Smart car.

Correct, that's why I drive a Smart car.
No, encryption is very different from obfuscation, even if the former is often used in the latter
- Distributed corporate liquidators (reacquire assets from remote former employees when your web3 startup runs out of funding/gullible folk)

- NFTs commemorating the “decentralized” companies that used to host NFTs that disappeared along with said companies

- Black market for about a year before everyone goes to prison

After writing that, it sounds ridiculous to say this, but: I actually would be pleased if something useful and good for the world came out of this whole mess. There’s been so much youthful energy and excitement put into the cryptocurrency space, and if it turns out that the kids are right and I’m just being a curmudgeon, great! Good for all of you!

It’s been over a decade, though, and the least harmful piece of crypto I’ve seen is Helium, which is probably about to get steamrolled by 5G.
Did you read the article? Neither does the author, he’s being cheeky
Yeah, nothing else does that stuff. Which is I think the big disconnect in this discourse. People who want to take the anti- side can lean on "It's not complete!" as an argument, because it isn't. But in terms of capability, it's way ahead of the competition[1] And some of us want this feature and want to pay for it! And it works!

So... I'm actually fine with renaming it. People shouting "fraud" on the internet want somehow for a different name to magically make the product bad. But the product is great.

[1] Yes, including Waymo and Cruise, who work only on carefully calibrated geofenced areas. My Tesla will take the highway when it needs to and honor a five-way stop sign. Waymo won't even make an unprotected left turn.
If you don’t have a friend, I thought this MKBHD video from a few days ago was a fair appraisal of the current state of FSD:

https://youtu.be/9nF0K2nJ7N8
Interesting point about induced demand.

Though it can be easily fixed, particularly given the lack of user control over cars with FSD: For self driving cars all public roads are toll roads.
So much time spent reinventing push/pull
The Manhattan project wasn't exactly pure theory.
In my experience, the commitment to read every day is more important than how much. If I’m in a spacey mood, I can still power through a page in a meaningful way. Plus, sometimes I’ll get momentum from that and then the next few pages will pull me in.
That'd be entirely a StackOverflow answer.
> Their software does see your master password. It may process it locally, it may not. If it's run in web client inside browser, that may change at any second. This may happen due to attack, their mistake, their dependency vulnerability or plain lie on their part. Fundamentally you need to trust them.

All of this applies to KeePass, minus the browser extension bit (which is trivial to avoid by not using the browser extension). The only difference is that you can theoretically firewall KeePass from the network, which I'll grant you would make a difference, but the fact that you reserve that for the extra paranoid suggests most don't do that.

> because there's no single party that is even able to screw up you to the point of leaking your passwords

Again, only true if you block network access. If not, you have as many points of failure as with Bitwarden, because only the client needs to be compromised to get both vault and password.

> Also - why pay recurring fee for yet another cloud storage, when I just need plain encryption software.

Bitwarden free is plenty for me right now, so this doesn't play into my calculus.

Personally, I'm not interested in making the switch if I'll have to fiddle with firewalls on all my devices in order for it to be more secure for my current solution. It's not that this conversation is made me think less of KeyPass, it's that I'm yet to see a convincing argument that Bitwarden is worse than what I would end up with in practice by switching.
Somewhere unrealistic ambition has been mistaken for stupidity. If everyone was “realistic” our progress would move so much slower. Breakthroughs happen because of people like Elon.

Assuming stupidity is a bit over the top.
How do you determine what does and doesn’t affect other people?

At some level, everything anyone does affects everyone they interact with. You and I are affecting each other right now, in some small way.

It seems like what lots of people do is say, “some of these causal effects are unimportant to me, and so I can approximate them as being zero.”
This made me chuckle, imagining us starting a Manhattan Project for allergies because Delta didn't distribute their customary snack packet one too many times.
For this timeline there are for me at least 2 easy ways ... each point is relative and got before and after elements and both positioned absolute (one becomes the dot - the other the line).

You have to think through what you need and how you can reach your goal with at least effort as possible (in this case with virtual elements). If more complex graphics should be painted you have to think about alternatives like SVG.
You always should ask yourself "how can I paint this or that"
Learning CSS is IMHO something which takes a while. This means that you should look at how others did something.
Than you some day got a gut feeling how something should be done so and so.
There is no golden path in CSS mastery other than exercise exercise exercise and look and the ideas of others and copy them.
CSS is hard but cool and many people hate it but if you know what to do CSS is a great tool.
Let that sink in. And you know what is not arriving anytime soon? Even “cat-level” AGI is just not going to happen within next 20 years at least.
When Andrej Karpathy left earlier this year you knew FSD wasn't happening anytime soon.
As both a programmer and manager of teams of programmers, this take is wrong.

Don't use "we" when you mean "I".

If I interviewed a programmer who had this view point, they wouldn't get the job.

Good (not necessary) processes manage risk. Risk needs to be managed whenever money changes hands in exchange for goods and services. These processes ensure you get paid.

It's a profession. Just as a builder or architect shouldn't hate plans and drawings, programmers need to care as much about the surrounding engineering processes as the "hammer and nails" act of coding.

It's the difference between a professional engineer and an arrogant, hobby hacker.
Make it a 100x slower?
The ministry of truth in action
Developer successfully emulates first version of iPhone OS on computer with QEMU
I don't know anything about your land or crop, but farming tends to be a regional activity so you probably have neighbors in the same business who know at least how the job is usually done. You need knowledge from them. How that shapes up, I dunno. Maybe you want to hire one of them to run your operations; maybe you want to lease it and watch what they do; maybe you want to work for them for a year or two to learn; maybe they'll just tell you what to do each month if you just stop by and chat.

I stand to inherit a farm (of a very different sort: dry plains, mostly growing wheat) and I plan to do the same thing my father does now: lease it to a local.
This is a non-solution. You cannot expect someone to change their name simply because some developer confused null and string (pretty lame error, IMO)
I use my own domain with fastmail, so if they were to fail, I could at least keep using the same address. Although I would need to find another provider that supports wildcard addresses going to the same inbox because I've found myself using the pattern companyname@ my domain for each business I give my email to. It makes it easy to block emails if a business doesn't let me unsubscribe or they share my email with spammers.
> Though it can be easily fixed, particularly given the lack of user control over cars with FSD: For self driving cars all public roads are toll roads.

I disagree. Politically it would be hard to convince the majority of people (which would be the default state until some inversion) that a vehicle that is capable of self-driving should have to a surcharge per mile, given that it could also be driven manually. The only recourse would be to make all roads toll roads, which obviously won't happen.
May you have a good live and less hate in your heart, really i wish you the best,

Happy holidays.
> it would have been much cheaper to hit up the farmers market to get the same amount of stuff

It seems to me generally true in the modern world that it's cheaper to buy mass-produced goods than to make things yourselves. There are exceptions, but they're increasingly rare.
Don't forget WET environment.
Due to the closeness to the surface and the era most of the tunneling was done, there's not just high humidity but actual water in the tunnels and stations quite often.
The fact that it took California passing a specific law is ridiculous.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising/pro...

This was as easy as it gets for the federal government to tell Tesla to drop it, but for some reason neither Dem or Repub administrations are acting on it.
Ford blue cruise does automated lane change.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a41117967/ford-bluecruise-...
not sure if the first two have been 'shopped, but the last looks legit:

https://preview.redd.it/rrd2hci4j5f41.jpg?width=960&crop=sma...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQFdckqW4AAwQ6A?format=png&name=...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Tr...
I can't tell if you're amazed because it's slow or because it's fast.
It's very unclear to me who really thought what.

I'm sure there really were true believers who got sucked in by the rapid advances in ML and figured "How hard can the last 20% be really?"

You had companies that figured they'd better their bases because they could afford to and FOMO.

You almost certainly had some number of cynical grifters pitching a story for their investors that they knew was nonsense.

And you had a lot of people who saw all of the above and figured that it must be all true.
How do you query and/or join over a decentralized network without it taking an hour ?
Hmm.. all these things will end up with politics. The politics is about values and beliefs: not something independent of life.
The easiest way to prevent “politics fight” is to try to understand and know others person background.

If you want avoid big arguments then just talk about weather (and even that can get crazy). Maybe sports?
I'm sorry you've had bad experience of being managed.

That isn't the case for everyone, and not a reason for "black and white" thinking where you take the extreme position of rejecting the tools used badly against you ... rather than placing the individuals accountable.

It isn't the tool's fault, be that meetings, agile, estimation, jira or anything else.
I'm still mystified that tesla isn't mired in lawsuits over this: Some tesla dealers were telling customers that within a few years their self driving tesla would earn back its purchase price from acting as a robotaxi.
Tailwind is way to go.

Atomic CSS solves many problems though that also means you learn.