skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and No.

If I worked for an outside consulting company that would be true - with the inherent risks you stated.

Working at AWS in ProServe, our compensation structure is the same as SDEs - 4 year initial offer, large prorated signing bonus, 5/15/40/40 RSU vesting schedule. It’s different for sales.

The bright side is that there is always work. Worse case, I can be “hired” by another internal team that needs someone to implement a solution to show off a new service.
Analysis reveals the effects of antigenic imprinting on repeated immunization
This was my immediate thought also - as I embrace my ADHD as success, not failure. After 10 years of web design/dev work I found myself spending more time in SQL than design and left to study classical animation. At 20 years I have managed to cobble together a useful, successful, maybe even desirable wildcard career in edu kids media, collecting accolades along the way that I couldn't care less about.

I like to think of my ADHD as the superpower of subconscious thought. When I wrangle the focus, things percolate quickly and I will create very interesting work at an incredibly high production value. This happens both alone and with a team and I believe it to be related to a wide and varied skillset--master of none.

Success happens so frequently that I have been able to learn some conditions to gain focus so results are fairly repeatable. My work gets a lot of eyeballs, folks see this value and will put me on new projects or simply come to me for validation of their ideas.

Still, I'm not the easiest person for neuro-typicals to work around, and after 20 years that is unlikely to change much. I keep my job because I'm always needed - I can always do the thing that needs to be done, or help a team to deliver. It helps that I'm also kind, and fun to be around. But, as projects mature I am eventually phased out for a larger team of stable redundancy and I have to cope with losing the thing that I built and love.

My joy comes with learning something very new and very challenging, casting light on the unknown by diving head-first before others think. My career is successful because I am skilled and able to take on the risks that others are afraid to spend the time or resources on. I am somehow already prepared, interested, and on staff.
Yes, remote only if at all possible. I'm surprised that non-tech companies care about looking busy, since tech is a cost center for them and I would guess they're hiring grudgingly at best.

I've looked mainly on LinkedIn and some smaller job boards, not Monster or Indeed or Dice or any of those.

Another thing is that I'm avoiding complex applications, the ones where you're immediately asked to create an account and once you do they ask you for a ton of information like every job you've had in your life. Are the jobs you're talking about often gated behind these applications?
While fun and enlightening, my Toyota SR5 EV conversion was twice the cost of the used Nissan leaf I had before it, and apart from the stunning good looks (IMHO) has crappy range and all the other drawbacks of a 1990 car. My BMW 528 conversion I started in 2019 will probably never get 100% finished as I always seem to need another fix to get something to work properly, last year the wife got tired of my efforts and bought a Model 3. (Sigh!)
What? VCs want the insanely optimistic no-interest rate environment. Giant speculative investments, overvalued IPOs and insane acquisitions are how they get rich, and those things all coexist with huge salaries for engineers.
Yeah... to my even bigger surprise, ex also was nowhere to be found!
Kudo's for reminding everyone of the idea of hard truths and the kind practice of sharing them.

We could all get better at facing unpleasant reality; so much more damage is done by being avoidant, mainly to our own character.

The key question is why recruiting is maladaptive, whether the market is hot or cold.

The answer lies in why no one has really addressed the question: recruiting is spoiled by a culture and practice of secrecy.

The goal is to be fair and avoid recruits gaming the system, but the practice ends up nurturing toxic judgments, tending towards the paranoid and the extreme. Paranoia excludes supposedly non-compliant untrustable people evidenced in resume gaps, and extremism excludes supposedly toxic people evidenced by ancient social media posts.

Like defense procurement, the secrecy that is necessary ends up concealing and preserving toxic practices. In both cases, programmatic application of objective standards could dis-intermediate, so the recruiters/procurement bureaucracies resist and claim essential wisdom.
OP is more on the extreme side but doesn't sound too crazy depending on where someone is at in their life. Obviously if you have a kid you can't do this so it's irrelevant.
Tried using a Mac, hated how the UI got in the way all the time. A few weird quirks with docker were annoying too, including slowness.

Now run Linux with LXDE on my 16GB laptop. Everything works well and it's blazingly fast. The UI is simple and functional, but not as beautiful as the MacOS UI.

I guess in the beginning we want all the bells and whistles, but with experience, all we want is control. Linux gives me that control to a much greater degree than a Mac.
I wonder how many places there are with only Tesla chargers. Usually I find that an EA charger will fill gaps in the Tesla coverage out west, they're sort of complimentary. And since a Tesla can charge at a supercharger OR a CCS charger, they don't really have a lot of leverage to indiscriminately raise prices.
I purchased a Lenovo laptop back when Macbooks switched to the touchbar design and I've been very happy. The latest M2 Macbook Airs are tempting for the longer battery life, but I rarely need long battery life anyway.
> fb ... tiktok, or youtube, or instagram, or reddit, or HN, or emails, or rss feeds, or food, or video games

Is the question: which of these is not like the rest?

Furthermore, you deny two things: firstly, that the influence of facebook is real, and secondly, that other forms of (social) media can have a different effect. E.g., RSS is totally unlike facebook. And let's ignore you mentioned food.
It really depends. This is a low-level decision that is best made by someone who understands the goals of the company. That may not be a satisfying answer but it's true.
I'd actually prefer to be the other way around; Apple laptops are superior to anything else I can buy, but I hate the operating system.

The Macbook Pro I have issued from $work is far superior in comfort speed and usability to my expensive Ryzen Thinkpad that I purchased in the summer. I just don't particularly like developing/working on OS X.
I use a Mac for a lot of my development because it is Unix based with tons of compatibility for modern software.

On my Windows desktop I use WSL for my development because it is Unix based with tons of compatibility for modern software.

I do not use Windows to develop (outside of Godot Game Engine sometimes).
This was the hottest year yet for the UK
After using both, I honestly don't understand why devs use MacOS over Linux (my favorite: ZorinOS).

The advantages of Linux are too many too count and has a lot of customization that can provide some edge. I don't prefer customization anymore, just simplicity but it's a good thing that the options exist.

For me, I think these are the main issues with MacOS that ZorinOS doesn't out of the box:

> No screen edge tiling, spend more time managing application windows

> Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts, cmd and ctrl are used interchangeably for no reason (Biggest issue). Why do I need to do Ctrl+Tab to switch tabs but Cmd+T to create tabs? Why is History not Cmd/Ctrl+H in browsers? I need to memorize more shortcuts on MacOS for no reason, when it could very well just do it all with a single modifier key.

> Hidden dock doesn't appear unless I smash my cursor on the bottom edge. Dock Autohide is very finicky, ZorinOS' way is much more graceful and natural.

> No HDMI volume control

> Maximizing an app takes you to a totally new desktop

> Switching desktop animation is a bit too slow

> No window closing animations, but has window opening animations. Feels really unpolished

> Single click on dock to maximize the app but clicking maximized app doesn't minimize it. Why?

> Ctrl + Alt +T doesn't open terminal, it's like oxygen to me.

> Can't set VSCode to open with Ctrl + Alt + C.

> Can't set custom global shortcuts at all, even windows can to some extent

> Can't highlight text in terminal or anywhere to paste with middle click mouse button.

> Ctrl + C to cancel a command in terminal but Cmd + C to copy text in terminal. Ok, then why Cmd + T to open a new tab in terminal instead of ctrl?

> The shell startup time is too much on MacOS. I have to wait for a second for the shell to load before I start typing my commands. On Linux, pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and writing commands right away feels so good!

> No package manager by default, brew is honestly very slow compared to Linux solutions.

MacOS isn't unusable of course, I'd prefer it over Windows anyday but it just introduces a lot of UX friction Linux desktop just doesn't.
I’ve never seen anyone clean their A/C system.
Very interesting, I like its design better. Could you comment on whether bupstash supports ACLs (POSIX, xattr, etc.)? According to issue #25 it does, but I couldn't find documentation on how to exclude it when restoring, viewing it, etc.
In 2018 I did the same thing, but I asked my friends for the list of languages (they didn’t know what it was for) so I ended up with far more esoteric languages: https://github.com/judofyr/aoc2018

In the end I lost the motivation once I only had the “regular” languages left. I was also solving them as quickly as possible (in Ruby) to get on the leaderboard so it was kinda boring to also solve them again later on.
I AM GLAD I HAVE STARTED, I APPRECIATE THE FAILURES SO FAR AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE SUCCESS AHEAD.....
...it's the coldest year of the rest of your life.

Had you said that last year, most of the U. S. would never take you seriously again.
Hmm, no I think there's a very good reason why Lynch is considered the master at this kind of thing that's pretty timeless or at least still holds up. There are a lot of imitators, but they often fail for the same reason that adding more explosions to an action movie doesn't necessarily make it more exciting. It won't be "shocking" like it was when it first aired, but there's a lot of subtlety to it.
Mein Gott, some people just want to see the world burn
Love most of the advice I see here, but there's a few quibbles I have here.

> You’re going to have to grind Leetcode. Yes, even the dynamic programming problems.

One trend I've been seeing is the MANGAs have been moving away from leetcode crap - in my org at one of them, I think almost the entire org is against leetcode questions as an insufficient form of candidate assessment.

> Come up with a more, uh, positive reason for why you’re interviewing instead of disclosing that you were laid off.

Honestly, as an engineering manager on the hiring side, I haven't seen any negative perception in these times when candidates disclose they were laid off - its become so common as of late & often not due to the candidates' fault that it's a non-issue for us. I know a manager trying to extend a formal offer to one such candidate who revealed that they were laid off. I especially appreciate honesty in a candidate when they admit they don't know something & try to set the conversation around working with the info they have as presented to them, creating space for an open conversation around questions being asked instead of viewing it as a Q&A session. Those tend to be the candidates who get the highest marks from me.
Did you feel guilty typing this comment?
I suppose you could apply that to the "top 1%" group as well .. people are constantly entering and leaving that category.
> We're not hostile, we come in peace.

Bearing gifts of free blankets!

Since you're calling this the "wild west," I sure hope you know your history.
You need to maintain these systems. Otherwise refrigerators, sinks and toilets also make you sick.
I'm not sure it's a good trade-off to interview constantly even when you have a job just to remove a bit of the learning curve if you lose your job unexpectedly.
Less cold related deaths? More habitable? More outdoors?

Norway have a lower amount of excess deaths related to the winter than most others countries, even much warmer countries like e.g. Spain.

Being outdoors isn't an issue. It's not that cold in Norway. It's Norway, not Antarctica...
Everyone using Docker on a Mac is a Linux user; so, that's not terribly surprising. I personally ditched MacOS in my personal life for Linux a few years ago and haven't looked back. Modern Linux is pretty damn great. I have had nearly zero problems in like 2 years, with the worst being having to restart pulseaudio a few times on one particular update.
OK, I'll file with my US Govt pen.
I've often wondered how exactly Paw Patrol's ample budget is allocated and under what authority they operate. Moreover, does the mayor using them for her personal errands constitute an abuse of power?
You keep trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I believed such a thing.
Were his parents actively involved in it?
Actually those two: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34161569
Faster Apple Builds with the lld Linker
> As a group of workers, some of the lowest paid service sectors like hotel workers and restaurant workers saw some of the biggest real wage gains [1].

Not to ignore your other point, but an 18.4% increase (to $482 a week) is only a big number if you ignore that many were and still are making peanuts. Someone making significantly more receiving a 5 or 10 percent increase will receive substantially more "real wage gain" — and that's the point of the OP. In terms of real money, the top 1% and 0.1% receive a far larger slice of the pie.

> That tracks with a 40-year-long trend of wages for the top 1% and 0.1% rising by 206.3% and 465.1%, respectively, between 1979 and 2021, while wages for the bottom 90% grew by a far more modest 28.7%.
That does highlight your assumption, not mine, considering I never said anything like that.
I'm a developer and I use Arch btw
Ash HN: Why are “rented” eBooks at the library a thing?
I've never understood the concept of "renting" or "borrowing" an eBook from the library.

What is it's purpose? What problem does it solve?

I get that eBooks may need to expired access after a given amount of time, but I'm not sure why.
If a user is running a non-standard installation, I would generally assume that they're competent using a package manager.
What's the long-term fear, here? That Apple will suddenly reverse their stance on iPhone transfer speeds, and design a new super-fast transfer spec for iPhone in 2025? They can still do that. They can do it the same way they did with Thunderbolt, where they work with other industry leaders to propose a standard to the USB-IF consortium. Once everyone is happy with it, then they can roll it out to their products. These are the standards that should be designed democratically, not privately.

All this nail-biting around USB standardization is worrying in the wrong direction. It's like saying that all of our cell carriers should get to choose whatever spectrum they want, because if we don't give them freedom then we might be stifling their innovation. Sometimes, there are more important things to worry about.
If everyone uses resistive heat during that 1% of the time that it's -20F or below, the electric grid goes down and then no one gets heat. Consider what just happened in the southeast with TVA and rolling blackouts. That was precisely because it was too cold for heat pumps and so everyone's resistive heat engaged at the same time. I don't think your EV range comparison is a particularly good one. You can control your stops on a road trip, you can't control when it's colder than -20F outside.
This blog post outlines a higher-level vision for how I think we might engineer consciousness and I hope to update the blog with the outcomes of different experiments, but the code itself lives here: https://github.com/Miserlou/Helix
Alpa: Large Model for Everyone
I used almost all Apple products from 2004 to 2018 when i decided to get off the bandwagon. I started with getting off the iPhone cause I wanted a fingerprint sensor and no notch. (OnePlus 7 Pro had what I wanted.) I hated the touch bar and wanted real F keys because I use those extensively in my IDEs. I also hated fixing my laptop once or twice a year cause keys broke. From an OS perspective, iOS upgrades permanently broke apps for me several times, which were not updated by their providers. For macOS, 10.8 was great and I eventually got to 10.12, but I had devices that work just fine but were 32-bit only. Then Homebrew even stopped supporting old versions, whichnwas the last straw. All in all, Apple just became more and more hostile to me and I am done with them. I keep an iPad solely for Foreflight, but I am sampling Garmin Pilot too. (Does not appear to be in the same league.)
2023 will truly be the year of the linux desktop.
It's hard not to get a Mac laptop, hardware wise they're really good. Is there a good way to install Linux on a new MacBook for example?
Thanks for the link. A point could be made that these limits remain intact for more defensible reasons, regardless of the original motivations.

That said, I don't think the current US system is sustainable or even coherent. Hopefully it can be improved to minimize harm for all involved.
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Your house belongs to you. The earth, or portions thereof, does not exclusively belong to a group of people just because they happened to live there currently.

In any case, in many of these countries ( including the US) where people are rabidly advocating for curbs on movement, the majority of the population brutally displaced people who had lived there for thousands of years. By your own logic they have been breaking the law for a long time.
The Semi isn't using Tesla's proprietary or NACS connector, however, it's using MCS.
Sick Day Part 2
Or the miracle that is the love of a good woman, a loyal dog, and the comfiest sofa I've ever sat on.
"We brought along the people we thought were the best, who we got along with, who would get the job done"

I really appreciate the sentiment. In my experience such networks have been self-serving and mostly exclusionary, rewarding loyalty more than competence.

"You need to make some changes" is not particularly helpful when you're outside the fold. What's typically unstated is something about loyalty, esp. not disclosing the mistakes of others.

The best advice someone could give?

1. Achieve impressive things

2. Never give anyone a reason to dislike you
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Usually Infosec forces the use of MacBooks over Linux laptops as they find the latter harder to secure.
Out of 36 books I read this year, these 4 positions have the biggest impact on my life:

The gene: an intimate history by Siddhartha Mukherjee - fascinating book about genes and medicine. Author explains ~150 years of experiments and findings in genetic science without going into technical details.

The child in you by Stefanie Stahl - it is one of the most important books I ever read. This book helped me understand myself, discover and overcome some of my traumas.

Nonviolent communication: a language of life by Marshall Rosenberg - very good handbook for improving your communication skills.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - when I think of this book word "charming" comes to my mind.
>"Workflow engines"

I actually had quite opposite about this particular area. At the time we were to develop particular product for a client company. The product would've greatly benefited from using workflow engine. I did some shopping around, talked to sales reps and have discovered that we would have to shell out at least $350K for our particular case. So I've proposed to the boss that I would quickly build one that would cover basics. The boss has agreed and I built it in about one month. It worked fine for what it was intended for.

After a while we have approached a vendor (the one we would have paid those 350K for their wares). We showed them what we have built, how it was used. They were impressed enough and we became sales and implementation partners. They have routed a gobbles of jobs, training and installations for us to do.

As for original home built engine - over the time we have replaced it with the one from our partner without much troubles.

Win win for everyone involved
I have ditched MacBook Pro for whatever-brand with UNIX-like OS as well, due to decreasing user control of OS X which started happening around the time it was renamed to mac OS.

MacBook stopped feeling like my (quite expensive) hardware doing what I want and became an (even more expensive) device controlled by Apple often forcing unwanted changes on me.

I miss MacBook's touchpad but am happy with the trade-off.
Prolog at Work
We are at an interesting point where now we're saying that the boolean logic of transistors can't do logic. Only a while ago we were saying that the rigid boolean logic of transistors couldn't do what large models are now doing.

I predict that it is only a matter of time (not even all that long) before we have models that hypothesize logical invariants and disprove them or possibly formulate proofs.

The distinction about having a soul or not--what is the purported pragmatic advantages of having a soul that contributes to intelligence? I haven't thought about it much but I think of a few things: (a) my memories/sentiments surviving physical demise and somehow thinking/feeling again, (b) an existence beyond our physical world which doesn't contribute to intelligence in and of itself, (c) some sort of hive mind/collective which unless isn't bound by the speed of light isn't that different than interconnecting processes.

When we say "general intelligence" do we really mean "be human" which is not interesting. Why is having a soul assuming humans do, an impasse for AGIs? As far as I can tell it's only about preserving some (pragmatic) aspect of human > machine. This has fallen in area after area and will continue to happen until we quietly drop the preconceived notion.
Again, a capitalist is someone who deploys capital to provide a product or service. Not someone who is at the top of a supply chain. This is only the definition in Marxian 19th century economic theories. Saying that it's the historical definition shows lack of intellectual diversification.

Supplying yourself X & Y goods from the market to produce Z good or service does not make you a labourer. By that logic is someone who owns a car factory NOT a capitalist because he needs to supply himself steel from another capitalist whose factories produce steel? Or is the steel factory owner NOT a capitalist because he needs to provide himself with tools from another capitalist? That makes completely no sense.
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