skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a similar experience. I was really excited to tutor at my bootcamp after graduating, but after enough people no-showed for tutoring, or turned up with blank homework assignments and making no effort to look things up, I just stopped. It was a waste of my time - I wasn't doing it for the pay, I was doing it for the experience and the connections.

I'd love to go back with the confidence to be more selective about who I take on, but I'm not sure if there's a structure for that. And it's okay if someone is really struggling to understand code, but I'm not interested in working with someone who is struggling to understand effort. That's something they should develop before starting to learn programming.
Moving goalposts are we?
> How could we rephrase speeding laws so they make sense, instead of this black and white stupidity ?

Ironic considering the lack of nuance in your first sentence. You seem to think that if the guy had wrecked his bike because he was speeding that he would just blink out of existence with no cost to society at all. Do you really think that the only negative externality from speeding is a risk of physically harming somebody? Or are you saying that preventing physical harm to others is the only reason for laws to exist?
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A correct anticipation of the future is a big part of all successful projects.

However, that is mostly do the effort required to change course. If we reach a point where it's easy enough to regenerate everything from scratch, will it be so important to correctly plan ahead?
photography perspective: Lets say hunting (any species) is most effective when the hunter has a wide field of view from a small pupil. So any hunting carnivore animal, will hunt better under non-ideal light if their pupils are smaller, which requires more sensitive eyes.

Higher sensitivity should lead to wider range of sharp focus, that should lead to more hunting success, more dinners, then more descendants.

I suppose on the prey side being able to see the wolf later during sunset should result in becoming the wolf's dinner less often leading to generally more descendants.
US is mostly apple world
He posted a very high res photograph of the base on his blog, I saw it on Reddit and I'm sure its floating around still. Basically taking aerial reconnaissance photographs of an active military base, not hard to understand why he got raided.
If it were only so simple
I tried to get started with Guile a few months ago, to write a little command line app. I'll admit, I got pretty lost trying to figure out libraries/modules/how to use R7RS etc... This looks like a good getting started, though I'm not sure if Guile is still the right choice.
If the cookie law is anything to go by, the real question is enforcement rather than the letter of the law.

The cookie law is quite well written and makes it clear that the obvious dark patterns are verboten.
You aren't allowed to use intentionally deceptive toggles, or to make it much harder to say no than to say yes. The law is very rarely enforced though, so such dark patterns are rife.

I suspect something similar may happen with other Internet-governing regulation.
It would be self-defeating for these counties to leave Oregon, but Salem / Portland should do more to extend an olive branch to the east. These counties are sparsely populated, very agricultural, and generally very poor (a few rich land barrons / ranchers, and then everybody else struggling to make ends meet).

The core problem is that the I-5 corridor really knows nothing about these counties, has no interest in understanding the issues in these counties, and frankly have engaged in utter hubris - we're educated, urban elites and what's best for the Willamette valley is best for the whole state . At the same time, those eastern ranchers et al are convinced those hippy dippy liberals from PDX are the anti-christ. So you've got two cultural groups completely speaking past each other. It's an even uglier divide than the same basic issues we have in Washington State.

While I can't excuse my rural brethren for their often simple and crass political views, I really do wish Salem / Portland politicians would throw them a bone. Land use management, water rights, etc ARE different on the east side of the state. I've seen Salem force these counties to do things that make no sense and are crippling to the economies of these states. So sure, these counties are poor and backwards - and often it seems like Salem wants it to stay that way. While I supported many policies from Kate Brown (and Jay Inslee), they both seem to like to fan the flames over here in the east rather than work to bridge the divide - and that's really frustrating. Will remain to be seem how Tina Kotek approaches this as gov, but my guess is it will be more of the same.
> General Works Council seems to be something like a separate "union within the company"

It’s less adversarial. In America, industrial unions sprung from a time when unions fought capitalism and management were criminals. That stain persists.

Tech companies’ stock awards are close to the German model. Add a Board seat elected by the ESOP and you have a tight approximation.
The fact that somebody writing on HN doesnt know this shows you how low information the world really is.

We generally assume too much about the shared knowledge basis. There would be much less friction if we could improve on that
Part I was a snake cult wresting the Secret of Steel from barbarians so everybody could use it.
This has to do with the labour costs, too, though. Poorer countries have lower purchasing power, but also lower labour costs, reducing the cost it takes to produce a Big Mac.
One more note: uuid is not easily copy-pastable, due to dash `-` in it. I prefer to use it's raw bytes and encode with base32, which is copy-pastable.
"An elegant social network, for a more civilized age."
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> I don’t know anyone 10x faster than their peers in solving well-defined programming problems

Does anyone else find this statement triggering?... I feel like 90% of the things I solve that others can't or struggle with are not "well defined problems" which is why they are hard to figure out.
I really thought he was going to use Twitter to manipulate stocks or crypto values. Instead he's loudly rearranging furniture and I'm worried there's little more interesting than that going on.
"I take full responsibility" indicates that, at least on the PR side, that there is responsibility to take, ergo that's an incident.
I doubt many Africans have the same education and/or qualification as most Americans.

This is no judgement or suggestion for improvements, but it is the reality.
The biggest signal in Google's site ranking must be user clicks without returns (IE, user found something they wanted, clicked on it, and didn't come back to Google to search more). That would be good at filtering spammy pages, and shows things that are already known to be popular at the top. Rather than using link structure, use user clicks.
Great! I am sympathetic to arguments around limiting state and/or Federal powers. But the reality is that that is actually less and less often the actual goal. Instead, the goal has become to have "the other side" dictate what goes on, often by trying to incorrectly portray it as an equally large "disenfranchised" side. We can tell this is the case because there is less and less discussion about "protecting minorities viewpoints," as we can see in this very article that can't help itself but to try to portray this issue as "half the population" throwing up its hands and wanting to leave.

This inevitably leads to the actual problem we have in this country: minoritarian rule (that should be obviously worse than majoritarian rule, but again, gets disguised as the "actual majority" or "equally populous opposition" getting a say). If you look at the composition of the supreme court and the senate, along with the contribution to the electoral college from states in presidential votes, it's pretty clear that what gets dictated is lopsided to smaller percentages of opinion, not larger. At the current rate, we are on track to have 66% of the senate representing just 30% of the population by 2040: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/28/b...
Any profound experience (and many a mundane one) causes permanent change. We call that "memory".

But people who are borderline schizophrenic should never do LSD. They may tip into full-on psychosis. They should, however, take MDMA, and experience quiet, maybe for the first time.
The British Crown hasn't had real power since 1649, but please continue complaining about nothing.
If it’s any consolation, I do believe being in that situation has made me a better manager/mentor.
I think for code you might just have to get used to typing slower. There's not much you can't do with one hand. If your keyboard has QMK you can program some custom shortcuts or macros to help with difficult key combinations.

For real writing (emails, slack messages etc), I'd say dictate it and then just use your keyboard for edits.
I have to disagree with you there, for all the reasons mentioned above, but also it makes generating queries and tooling so much harder.

If you see a user_id column, you know it's going to link to user.id. if you see email_id, you know it's going to link to email.id, etc, etc. There's a lot of value in having a predictable schema.
I'm having the opposite problem. Sometimes even my replies to someone with a Gmail address go to their SPAM box. What kind of a filter decides you don't want to see a message from some you messaged first?

FWIW I have my own domain and switched to Google as backend long ago, and yet I still occasionally have this problem.
IIRC, Richard Wolfe, advocate of worker-directed social enterprises, mentioned that old school unions like SEIU are now funding startups, small businesses, etc. Maybe like a Small Business Administration and credit union for union members.
don't discount your experience/knowledge of how NOT to build/run a business/startup
For flipping a breaker they are rated for thousands of cycles.

It's only tripping the breaker that requires a replacement after a few cycles.
Your entire line of comments seems to miss the entire conversation.

In Germany, they do find it economically viable and important for line level employees to have direct representation on the company board. Talking about the CEO or other management classes being on the board is missing the conversation. Suggesting that because US companies don't believe in the economic value is missing the conversation. Suggesting that people are saying that this type of board composition is illegal is also missing the conversation. No one said it's illegal, but it's equally not a legal requirement either like it is in other places.

The conversation is that this composition doesn't exist, by and large, in the US, and people think it should. People seem to believe that it does have value to the business.

So yes, it does seem like you're creating semantic arguments because your points miss the conversation semantically.
"There’s one solution that each and every book on writer’s block offers: write five words. Any five words. Follow this advice, Mr. Ashbery, and you’ll never have writer’s block again."

(From "Uncreative writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age" by conceptual poet and "word processor" Kenneth Goldsmith)

Edit: Oh, this historical paper is slightly different angle, but also relevant, helped me quite a bit:

Upper, Dennis. "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”." Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 7.3 (1974): 497. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/pdf/jab...
I see. Thanks for the reply. I originally interpreted your comment to mean your spouse is covid cautious and will not budge on certain decisions related to that. This is not what you said though and this reply made your intended meaning clear. Best of luck navigating these things. I'm newly married and am certainly in store for similar areas to pick tradeoffs.
>"Is spam getting harder to filter?"

I look at it a different way, spam and filters are locked in an evolutionary arms race and at the moment spammers have found an adaptation gives them an advantage. In due time the anti-spam filters will adapt as well. It has always been a difficult problem.
My understanding is a large driver of this is import and VAT.

In the usa, taxes are added to the price at checkout, but in Europe, it’s before.

Also, European countries have higher import taxes on tech.
How can you equate spending on diversity with spending on the KKK?
As for DB ids I prefer to have some integer internal DB ID, only for foreign keys, and additionally something like UUID for client-side.
You need to multiply the market share by the wealth of the participants.

What fraction of the world’s wealth (easier to measure than influence) runs on Android? Elon using iOS has more influence than how many impoverished billions?

This is why German and Japanese are often localized before other languages with more speakers.

Not saying it’s right, but just pointing out the reality. The world runs based on the decision makers, who use iOS.
I think there have always been a few aggressive, angry-looking cars. Case in point the 1950 Buick Super Eight https://imgur.com/a/OvwFNQa
I wonder what is the oldest angry car.
Legalities aside, it's morally wrong to hack a server, disregard reasonable disclosure, and publish (even to a selected group) an in-depth list of personal information; all for political reasons! (at least going off what their Wikipedia page describes as their motivations).
Excellent honesty.

The stock options/golden handcuff is a real arse to deal with. Slogging out at a place where you really don't belong (or want to belong) is as you've so clearly described, a massive shitfest.

Sometimes, the money, or promise of money isn't worth it.
I know, right? Parties were way better when we forced everyone to stay in the closet.

You know - the good old days!
Jumped a string of IT work which lands me as Data engineer after 35 with no relevant work experience.

But I was lucky to enjoy the previous IT gold rush since 2015. I probably won't be able to do it now.

Luck is the determining factor in my case so wish you good luck. A lot of people are going to share the same zero to developer after 30 but you need to read carefully.

As an old saying, an elevator takes 3 people up to the top floor. People ask how they managed to move to top, one says he was doing pushups in the elevator, another says he was jumping and the third says he was reading some books.
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I really just don't understand this mode of discourse. I do not have a proposal for solving any major societal problems, nor should I be obligated to provide one in order to propose that not spraying someone with water is better than spraying someone with water.
Generational divide on tech bubble and crash
In HN I see a lot of optimism but this may be misplaced.

For those of a certain age and older, the signs of a bubble and consequences isn’t surprising at all; but communicating this has been rather difficult.
original google chat in gmail was fine. since then it's evolved but compared to slack it feels like google isn't even trying.
Congrats on getting yourself unstuck, OP. I left a job I was bad at and hated in 2021 to hike the Appalachian Trail. One of the best decisions I ever made.

> I was driven to actively contemplate suicide due to my boss and his shitty attitudes and issues but no one actually seemed to care.

I'm sorry to hear you were feeling this way. I hope that you have people in your life who care, even if not at work.

I also hope that in time, you can come around to the idea that your boss did not cause you to feel these things. It is a choice, even though it might not feel like one, to give other people control of our feelings. One of the things I like most about non-violent communication [0] is its emphasis that we feel things because our needs are or are not being met, and it's up to us to A) identify our needs, B) seek out situations and people that help us meet them, and C) not expect particular people to meet them if they can't or won't.

A workshop facilitator said, about his dad's inability to meet his need for emotionally honest dialogue: "I don't go into a hardware store expecting ice cream." That stuck with me.

Good luck.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263894
Having come from Ruby (where you were also a visible member of the community) I really do prefer Rust's model where the standard library is kept a bit thinner and additional functionality that would have been part of the Ruby (or Golang) standard library is kept separate.

The benefits are I'm sure not new to you. Updates and releases can be completely independent of Rust itself, and by not being in the standard library maintainers are able to deprecate and remove misfeatures when needed as opposed to having to support something that holds back a library for forever.

The one downside though is that there is the unfortunate reality that—by leaving important parts of the ecosystem to random crate authors—important and heavily-used crates which would be part of other langs' stdlib can become unmaintained over time. This hasn't been too large a problem so far, but I do wonder if more could be done to promote community adoption of crates that are perceived to be more core to the ecosystem. The nursery is probably a good approximation to what I'm looking for, but without necessarily coming along with the implication that it should ever end up in `std`.
Obviously overcoming the inertia to leetcode a while and go through the interview ringer on top of everything else that's going on in their life is WAY harder than just.. rolling out of bed whenever and logging on until the end of the day.
I think people have far more complaints about Gnome than Mac and far more people use the latter.
What do you define as inception? Is forming the LLC as a solo dev taking contract work inception? Or is it when it hits 100 employees?

Committees and such already exist for companies. It seems like you’re suggesting more of regulation for companies.

Total comp for highest paid exec, that sounds closer to price ceilings which I don’t think the government should enforce (which, with a worker cooperative, the gov needs to step in at some point for enforcement)

This is the core of employee at will. Fight against that instead of changing the entire corporate structure. Other countries don’t have employee at will, and have min severances and such that are enforced. That sounds like it would produce closer to what you’re looking for (since it also incentivizes companies not to hire as wastefully)
This is perhaps a controversial opinion, but I don't think that you need this at all to do programming. This is just syntactic sugar! Type some parentheses and move on.
That's a valid point. Also explains why an iPhone still costs the same since its not locally built.
IME, both can be right. Different people have different relationships.

If a manager sees a report as a troublemaker, slacker, or someone overstepping, things can get difficult for the report. And likewise if a report doesn't respect a manager, or thinks they could do better, or acts competitively, the manager will have problems managing.

Also IME: if a relationship between manager and report starts in the wrong foot, with impossible expectations, or even without proper recognition of each other's roles and talents, it's something that's very difficult to fix, but there's no way around fixing it. Time only makes it worse.
Indeed, and this is precisely why I hate writing in dynamically typed languages like Ruby or Python; they hinder me from thinking about the shape of the program clearly.
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People don't know their neighbors anymore -- everyone's acquaintances are online and the guy who lives next door to you is a stranger whom you barely nod to on the street. To have a party you need a bunch of people that you know and like who are in the same geographic vicinity.
GitOps is great, of course, but it's possible to go overboard. Most kubernetes deployments in the wild seem to use argocd or fluxcd where every app deployment results in a new commit.

The shortcomings of storing information in git? It's not queryable, for one. Something like etcd would be better for shorter-lived information like app image version. Second, it doesn't work well with larger codebases where there are multiple writers.
Owl eyes have really cool adaptations (see https://abcbirds.org/blog/owl-eyes/). If we can somewhat detect single photons, it seems very likely owls could do it much more repeatably.
These “journalists” see someone training image classifiers using Mechanical Turk, which awards a wage in excess of the local economy in the third world, and imagine to themselves this is how all models get trained because they don’t understand ML, they don’t understand market segmentation, and generally don’t understand technology or business.
> I don't see how this is better

Case in point:

> you can add helpful comments to pipeline code if needed

The pipeline with explanatory variables explain to you what the steps are with code. Using pipeline you need to add comments to explain "what" you are doing.
> Of course it does

I'm a Harvard-trained lawyer with over 15 years of criminal litigation experience, including in homicide. I have a former client right now serving a sentence for involuntary manslaughter (he was originally charged with murder).

You don't need to listen to me. I have neither the ability nor the desire to force you to listen to me. But I promise you I know what I'm talking about.
Damn I really needed this today. I've been stuck in such a rut lately. I don't have a situation quite the same as yours, but it's the same in the ways that matter: I feel stuck and I just want to leave the prison.

I don't really know what to do. I have tons of skills, across multiple domains/industries, yet I can't seem to get a job. I'm in that weird middle ground of having too much experience for entry-level positions but not enough for anything more. Employers literally won't give me the time of day, and I'm decently certain it's not my appearance or attitude in the interview (could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that way). I've had several potential employers comment that they'd hire me but they don't see why someone with my experience would be after such a mindless position. I need money to live is why. Then I apply for the higher positions, and they don't like the fact that I don't have a degree or employment history in that field.

I do work, I'm a carpenter aside from being a hobbyist sysadmin/programmer, but it's drying up. People don't have dispensable income anymore and aren't having work done. When they do have work done they want the absolute minimum to save on time and money (my paycheck).

Two years ago I had to tell people they'd have to wait a month or two before I could start on their job, now they have to tell me we can't start today. We used to talk about "where are we meeting tomorrow", now we ask "are we working tomorrow".

On the other hand, I'm making progress learning how to do sysadmin and programming stuff. It's kind of it's own little prison. Why am I even doing it? Should I just focus on my current "career" and be a better carpenter, or should I realize the loss and focus on becoming a tech wizard instead. I'm at the point where I want to start setting up servers and whatnot, but is that a wise investment in my current situation? A homelab is basically a resume, so it could help me land a good job, but it could also just financially ruin me even further.

Sorry to make this about myself, just felt very relatable.