skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of disciplines where highly skilled persons advance to first line management and continue to perform the skill that launched them. But there are diminishing returns as you move up management. Part-time management of a relatively small team coupled with part-time hands-on engineering for the same team works fine. Management of an engineering team requires being in the team's work, and coordinating between contributors anyway, and taking direct responsibility for some elements can contribute to that.

But beyond first-line management, two things are true that argue against having people both be individual contributors, and managers: First, maintaining your skills at full fluency for actual coding and engineering is a major commitment. To be a contributor in any significant system, you need to keep a lot of details fully current, and that's harder, the further away from the day to day building your primary responsibilities demand you be; second, no project, program or product manager wants a part-time senior manager, who is likely to be dragged away from day-to-day concerns at any and every turn, and who can't possibly keep current with the details of the project at the lowest level, responsible for some component in the critical path of their project or product.

As an executive, responsible for multiple programs and products, I needed managers who were completely tuned into the bigger picture of their particular program or product family, and how it fit into the overall strategy of the company or division. Without question, you want people in these roles who understanding engineering, deeply and capably enough to be able lead, inspire, and read their teams (the one skill every manager and executive in charge of technical engineering needs is the ability to judge the plausibility of what their teams are telling them, because the roll-up of expectation and promise mismatched with ability is project and product disaster), so former developers are probably a good fit. And if they want to code as part of their development time, somewhere out of the management path, that's great. I did, all the way through the rank of CTO. But I never put my organization in the position of relying on me delivering anything in terms of actual code.

(BTW, I don't think the author's comparison to surgeons is at all apt. Every surgery is a stand-alone project, and if you're a capable surgeon for a given surgery, and can arrange your calendar so that you do enough to maintain that edge, then you can do them, and leave them, and not in any way dilute your attention to management. That said, where I worked before retirement, where every leader of a clinical department was an M.D. appropriate to that department, and still practiced medicine, they all also had full-time, dedicated administrative partners who actually did all the "pure management" while the M.D.s provided primarily strategic direction and leadership.)
How is skipping bail not an automatic jailable offense?

Anyway I looked up Washington law and it seems the problem is that everyone has a right to bail, even those who are a great risk to public safety. Judges should have some discretion here.

Cash bail is a horrible, unjust system, but some of the replacements that have popped up are no good either, especially because they make people think that cash bail is the solution and you end up with society regressing.
Oh, the irresponsibility of journalists with respect to the Shuttle runs far deeper than that. They largely acted as cheerleaders for a program that made very little sense. They largely didn't ask the hard questions about whether the Shuttle was worth doing at all (spoiler: it wasn't.)
I used to think like this but as I've gotten older I've seen the value of transitioning into management. I had aspirations of going beyond staff but I don't think it'll happen in my lifetime. I've peaked, and the cycle of getting close to the next title, getting laid off, and getting put back down at the bottom of the current title is exhausting.

Your best engineers should produce value. It's often a good idea to have your best engineers (with the ability to manage) manage. They can train the next generation of best engineers and act essentially as coaches. That's a tremendous value-add that far exceeds the results one engineer can produce. As an additional benefit, if they're anything like me, not programming for 10 hours a day means programming becomes fun again in your personal time. I generally disagree with this concept of the "savant" programmer. In my decade+ of work I've seen quite a few of these. They're never as good as they seem and often more trouble than they're worth. If a programmer does not display strong organizational and communications skills they shouldn't be advancing beyond mid in any serious company. This type of person generally costs more than they're worth because you have to silo them for anything to get done. Not worth it. If such a "savant" can't develop the proper communication skills perhaps they'd be better in academia.
The title is THE most accurate summary of the content.
Farming is about sales and marketing.

My FIL bought two farms as a hobby, and he essentially has two choices: selling to middlemen for peanuts or going direct-to-consumer. DTC is problematic for obvious reasons - you have to do last-mile delivery and "how do people buy when they don't know what's available."

Middlemen buy low from you so they can sell high from someone else, and have market-making ability.

So before you do anything, try to figure out who you're going to sell these crops to.
Not surprising when you look at California's home prices.

The median home sold from Marin County to Santa Clara County is $1M+.

That's the same land mass as from Times Square to the Maryland border.

https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1440035534693232640

California is NIMBYism at its worst: the far left opposes more housing, the far right opposes more housing, and the center is sick of traffic from more housing.
I did with Fastmail and a custom domain name. Very easy (Fastmail has a Gmail import tool), highly recommended.
Although magazine and newspaper feature writing is not necessarily inverted pyramid.

Something resembling inverted pyramid is often a good style for news because a reader can stop at any point. But historically it was at least as much for editors as readers because it meant that in layout the could cut an article--especially wire service copy--at pretty much any arbitrary point.

And as for headlines it varies. A magazine like The Economist for example, in their print edition, often goes for cleverness in headlines (although they also have a dek that summarizes the article in a more straightforward way).
I have a serious problem with the ARRL, so much so that I get a strong feeling of fraud.

Check out the 990, they spend a ridiculous amount of money on government relations and lobbyist, but they haven't accomplished anything in decades.

https://www.arrl.org/files/file/ODV/990%20TAX%20RETURN%20%20...
Okay I know the article is about the origin, not the accuracy. But I just can’t help pointing out all the hilarious holes in it.

“But the new Ford 150 today!” -> Chevy truck team: “curse those foul journalists!”

The criteria that you just need someone to not want you to print it is an amazingly low bar
Would love a website for this, timeboxed 3-5 minute chats, like chatroulette but ... just normalish people.
There have been past stories here about people who were paying for that but found themselves in situations like OP's anyway, and it didn't help them to resolve it.
I don’t think that’s correct. I think VMIN solves the OP comment.

“Unit vmin refers to the smallest dimension of the viewport. Just like is the case with unit vw, unit vmin needs recalculation to subtract the scrollbar from the viewport width.

https://www.terluinwebdesign.nl/en/css/incoming-20-new-css-v...
Yes, true freedom, where no one can do anything because the entire situation is a melt-down mess!
Reading your link, the bounty was real actual thing that happened, it's that the farming of snakes isn't something that was proven to be happening. The link actually says that deaths increased due to an unintended consequence of the bounty system, just for different reasons than is usually mentioned.
I have a feeling that I know this argument. The argument is that FSD is general purpose and Waymo is geofenced?
It’s worse than meaningless, it’s misleading.

Also, that’s not the title I’m seeing when I click the link, it’s — California’s population shrinks for third straight year as high costs stress households — which is a lot less editorial.
I think bail is immoral, mostly. It should be replaced by a system where being let free is the default, but if you are deemed a threat to public safety, then no amount of money should secure your freedom (and you should have a right to contest such a ruling and a right to a speedy trial etc etc).
> It's always weird to read things like that because I definitely mistreat my cables, and I've had lots die, but my Apple ones hold up very well.

Just wanted to say, you aren’t alone. I don’t do anything special with mine, I’m sure I mistreat them as much as the next person, but like never have the kind of damage I’ve seen others have or complain about.
I've been running my own mailserver for the last ~8 years off a home server.

I'm lucky enough that my ISP provides me with a fixed public ipv4.

I use postfix as an smtp server and dovecot as an imap server (pop3 is disabled). I run them on Red Hat Enterprise Linux via a developer subscription.

So here's the deal:

1) learning postfix, dovecot and general email stuff does require some time, but essentially it's an one-time effort, email protocols do not change that much over time. you might split the effort over time and configure bits part by part. needless to say, the bit to learn as soon as possible is how not to be an open relay (that is, not to relay spam).

2) deliverability is the main problem. many services (mostly gmail) blindly assume that you're a spammer because you're sending from a residential ip address block. this is a form of discrimination in my opinion. needless to say, no matter if you setup spf and dkim, gmail is still going to deliver your emails to spam folder.

personal pet peeve: whenever i open my gmail inbox (used to do that due to having an android-based phone) it was full of promo emails that google willingly delivered to my inbox. yet my legitimate email are delivered to spam folder. i hate the gmail team passionately.

3) i have an mx backup via a virtual machine on aws, the smallest cheapest instance available. it was a quick fix when power went out at home and i was on vacation, but it's been worth keeping around for the last ~3 years.

4) maintenance is effectively a non issue. i just go through the configuration file when updating the base operating system to make sure new versions of postfix and dovecot still accept my configurations

5) server-side filtering via sieve is just awesome. when i was ~16 i used to reconfigure my filters in thunderbird every time i reinstalled my laptop, nowadays my emails are always delivered by dovecot to the correct folder (i'm using maildir to store mailboxes)

6) you do need to take care of backups. but mailboxes are essentially text files, they do not require special care and their compress ratio is very good. i keep my emails on a snapshottable filesystem (zfs), and that comes in handy when doing maintenance (worst case scenario I rollback).

7) for incoming email, when you set graylisting, spf policy verification and dkim verification, 99% of the spam is rejected by the server. i actually get most of my spam from my mx backup host, which was configured in a hurry. but i add an "x-from-mxbacup: yes" header when pulling that mail from there via formail and do filtering on that via sieve in dovecot. works okay.

8) antispam servers are clunky, i decided not to run one and just reject mail on the basis of greylisting, spf and other checks. it works okay.

9) after a while i gave up with deliverability and started using amazon ses as a relayhost. Nowadays i've got a small dedicated server with a public ipv4 and a configurable reverse-ptr dns. I should be looking into that again, but nowadays i'm fairly busy.

In general I'm very satisfied.
My guess: they mean mailbox.org, which almost matches the domain and has a plan costing 3 euros/month.
The new law could presumably have changed that, though. (And it does seem like something of an absurd precedent to me.)
My friend, I have news for you :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBq9NcITh6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtn4PpZEB8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R19QQiM5Mw
Personalities aside, I would still bet on the (second) richest man in the world.
An "unenforced" law is more dangerous than a repealed law because it provides the opportunity for selective enforcement. A perfect avenue for discrimination of protected classes, parallel construction to bypass due process, and other such abuses of people's civil liberties with impunity - all stemming from pushing people into the precarious status of "you technically violated the law but we'll ignore it as long as..."
what incentive would there be for someone to participate? "social media" like this or reddit is the closest you'd get
literally 2.4GHz WiFi in any apartment complex or condo
What is written on some bit of paper somewhere is irrelevant. What matters is what is being enforced.

If you can wave cannabis around in front of a policeman and have no fear of repercussions than it is legal in practice.
> Even ordering a burger is tricky, why are there sesame seeds on a burger bun?

Sesame seeds are flavor enhancer, just like salt. The "simplest" salt-less bread simply replaces salt with sesame seeds. Of course burgers will use all the tricks they can to improve flavor, hence the sesame seeds on burger buns.
> Apple doesn’t have the patent on this.

But they do: D558,757 and D670,286. Don't people remember Apple v. Samsung case?

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD558757S1/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD670286S1/en
This is my thought too. We are reading articles like this at the onset of a new law because it plays well to crowds who want to have Online Opinions about government oversight.

If the problem is as bad as these articles claim, then these facilities will need to clean up their act or willfully hand over a slice of the market to competitors. We've even already seen this play out in the bread industry with gluten. A bunch of new brands started taking shelf space away from the big brands and a few years later those big brands have their own gluten-free lines. The same could happen with sesame in time. To form an opinion on the new law this early is a recipe for sour milk.
I want to add that the current feeling the country is getting worse, in my opinion, is pushed by right wing media.

One of the main themes of conservatives is that then is better than now as well as holding back change their supporters push the notion that things are getting worse (regardless if it's true or what specifics) to help them get elected
Spoken like someone who neither knows anyone with disabilities, nor realizes that they, themselves will likely be disabled at some point in their lives, and will both want and need accommodation at that point.
> Ya know how a <textarea> is resizeable by default?

Ah, yes, I knew that.

(mind silently blown)
I suspect there is also a desire to avoid creating cases that might reach the Supreme Court and challenge enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act based on several potential constitutional issues. This is a not just a fringe legal theory, but one endorsed by several supreme court justices in their dissents to Gonzales v. Raich. I think there is a good chance that if the right case made it to this supreme court, the federal government would lose.

> Relying on Congress’ abstract assertions, the Court has endorsed making it a federal crime to grow small amounts of marijuana in one’s own home for one’s own medicinal use. This overreaching stifles an express choice by some States, concerned for the lives and liberties of their people, to regulate medical marijuana differently.

> If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up with interstate commerce), then Congress' Article I powers – as expanded by the Necessary and Proper Clause – have no meaningful limits.

I would also note that the Cole memo was rescinded in 2018 by Sessions and decisions about enforcement were pushed back onto federal DAs. I do not believe that Garland has reversed Sessions memo so the blind eye policy is informal.
It’s kind of amazing that we are going into 2023 and this isn’t a thing yet. We need it yesterday!
Also explains why Texas is growing the quickest. It turns out that population is basically the integral of new home starts. Who could have predicted this, except every YIMBY I know who has been screaming about this for 25+ years?
CSS Relativity?
Why is he so against short sellers and Bill Gates in particular?
https://archive.ph/miSbe

Argh.
The practice of having most 'final' decision making at some SVP level is stupid on its face. I can see a need for tie breaking between two teams, but the person who spends 4 hours a year thinking about a project needs to butt out generally.
Yeah, they have an over 99% conviction rate…
At what price point?
Tesla is offering $7,500 credit and 10k miles of free Supercharging
New Model 3 or Model Y between December 21 and 31, 2022 for a $7,500 credit and 10,000 miles of free Supercharging.
I'm sure it is better than the previous system, otherwise QEMU would not be migrated to Meson.

But, you're describing a 11,000 line program without the most basic abstraction mechanism known to man - user defined functions.

What are the benefits of not having user defined functions? none, zilch, nada.

The Meson team is grasping at straws trying to claim that having user-defined functions would make it Turing-complete. Without recursion, it won't.

Try to imagine how you would structure those 11,000 lines of code if user-defined functions were available? Would you really write it without extensive use of functions?
Finland is in the top position in the world happiness report in 2022. Followed by Denmark and Iceland in second and third place. Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Israel and New Zealand, were among the top 10 'happiest' countries in the world [1].

Except for Israel wouldn't you say though counties have some of the lowest religious participation? What about nationalism?

I'm not trying to prove the opposite of you view as this doesn't show causation but I think it sufficiently counters your view
no, they are just told to "leave it" at least in the usual safety dance that is always done by the crew has absolutely no mention of sticks and carrots - at least in the EU

unless it has changed in the last few months, or if I somehow missed it
For Neovim users, see also Firenvim [0]. Which I've been using for quite a while now.

[0] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
My 13 month old son is allergic to everything. Eggs, diary, tree nuts, lots of fruits including avocados. Obviously peas and peanuts.

I don't need rules that encourage adding allergens to foods that previously "contained traces". My wife and I know how sensitive he is to every allergen and if we need to avoid traces (hazelnuts) or not (milk)
If Fastmail bans you then you can just move somewhere else because you'll still own the domain.

Stories of people having domains unjustly taken from them are rare, especially on "traditional" registries like .com/.net/.org
Those examples are being enforced.
A long time ago I created a separate Google account for every of their services. I have the passwords of all of them, but as soon as I try to log in they ask me add my phone number "to make my account more secure". There is no way to click it away or say later. So de facto I am locked out. I won't give my phone number to Google and I don't have a dozen of other numbers. Google is like forced prostitution. You must sell your privacy to their advertising business.

Edit: Have not tried again for quite while. Maybe they change it some day? Well I have given up all hope and try to avoid them as much as I possibly can.
Wow what did I say. Guess I’m not hating the right things?
I've had a Google domain for several years hosting my private email, I'm migrating everything to protonmail (including my Companies) in 2023.

FYI- It is the exact opposite. There is zero support without multiple support tickets, their UI is full of antipatterns. I get to pay and not only do they scan my emails (they claim they stopped that practice, sure) they also won't allow Google Workspace (formerly GSuite) to utilize features like Google Family. I have a tertiarty public account that right now I can't access because I'm travelling and have run afoul of the Google gods and in the Admin console zero way to force allow a login. And I'm paying for that wonderful granular control.

I for one hope the wave of GPT based AI wipes them off the face of the internet, they are valueless. Their search is a joke now. They've been adversarial to the user community for years and reminds me the terrible taste of a monopolized- because lets face it that's what they are- ecosystem with ZERO concern or care about their end user. <insert lilly tomlin phone company skit here>
> MS Excel and Word have all the outlining features I have ever needed, which isn't very often

This says more about you than it does about the usefulness of outliners. Not that that's bad, but it's important not to classify them as trivial just because you don't use them. Outlining software is exploding in popularity. Some examples include org-mode, Workflowy, Dynalist, Roam Research, Logseq, and Remnote. It's also fine to dislike DW, but it's not accurate to diminish his importance because you don't personally use outlining software.
Thanks. I like my ego too.

Seriously, though, I agree, the phrasing I used was a little over-wrought itself. My apologies. My point really was that if Pullman believes that Durrell's book was "too rich" to be re-read by him, he should understand that the limitations in Durrell's work that lead him to that conclusion are over-present in his own His Dark Materials.
That would be a funny departure from the typical Emulator + ROMs use-case that is retro gaming.
VHS or Betamax ?
I think he has another good video on TSLA and tech hype in general.
Hey, thanks a lot.

Just dump any information you can, I know nothing about this so any bit of info is good. Leasing is not really an option because finding someone who will lease would be hard, we don't do that here.
I've long wanted to interfere in the publication of ads. I think they're harmful to society.

Turns out that by not wanting them to be printed, I've converted them to news. I did it guys, I killed advertising.
To put it in perspective, Henry Ford accepted a medal from literal Hitler. Re-platforming misogynists, racists, and fascists isn't that big a deal by comparison, is it?
> or the reputation of your IP is poor

I'd add that it's not just the reputation of your IP, but the reputation of your whole /24 block. That seems to be where a lot of filtering based on reputation takes place. I've got my corporate email server on a VPS (running FreeBSD with exim) with a hosting company that cares about its reputation (and charges a bit more for it) and email delivery is never a problem. I've also got a identically set up but personal email server on a crappy little cheap VPS which does have a static IP and hasn't had any spam on it for years, but plenty of other IPs in the /24 block get filthy with spam. My IP gets blacklisted quite frequently because of it.