skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the right answer.

It sounds like you’ve maybe seen your resume in front of you and you’re reflecting on how it didn’t go the way you’d hoped, rather than the value in it.

Talk to a career coach who can help you write it from the perspective of focusing on your wins.

I don’t know you or your background but I doubt the story of your career is “I did a startup and it failed and I should’ve seen that coming and now I’m lacking confidence”.

Get the resume rewritten:

- Job functions.
- Tech/skills learned.
- Explanation of how eager you are for the next challenge.

Buddy, if you’re old in your 30’s then I’m ancient and I refuse to accept that. If you went to grad school then you’re probably at most 15 years out of school. That’s means you still have two thirds of a typical working life ahead of you. More if you’re lucky.

Make a plan and get yourself back out there.

By the way, I’d absolutely hire a late career switcher, because you’ve likely got more responsibilities than someone straight out of college. This might sound counter-intuitive (you can’t be easily exploited with 60 hour work weeks the way a starry-eyed grad can), but you also likely can’t afford to waste anyone’s time.
shut up dummy
Or, "I understand the frustration, failing exams sucks whatever the reason. In this case though, 1+1=2".

The delivery matters, even more so when the person is in a difficult position. Also in this case we don't _know_ that they are wrong, we only think it likely based on assumptions. It's probably more likely that OP said "random" out of frustration, and they've since removed it from their post.
Property rights aren’t a law of nature, but we’ve all come together and decided that we want them. I’m sure there are ways for groups of people to try other models on their own.
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There's no such thing as a legal pot user, but it does have a nice ring to it while the state tax man is collecting money to make people believe that.
No doubt, but I think that only reinforces "gross mismanagement and active negligence", and again, the CEOs should be out as a result, for cause and therefore without their "my family and I are even more permanently wealthy" severance packages.
In all likelihood, your peer group had many fewer obligations 10 years ago than it did now. Fewer people with families. Fewer people in management positions. They now have more obligations and less energy. And as people go along in their lives, they tend to have fewer and fewer strong bonds outside of the family, which they prioritize. That's normal. What isn't normal is how many people have their free time eaten up by non-hobbies. My dad's generation was certainly more handy with general repairs and carpentry than mine is. Fewer shared hobbies equals fewer shared experiences. A guy who you know nothing else about can still talk to you about the best way to install drywall. These are prompts for potential friendships that we no longer get nowadays.

Back home in Louisiana, we primarily have three types of get-togethers.

The first is a seafood boil, which usually happens in the spring and early summer months. Everyone takes turns paying for and hosting a feast for friends and family, and everyone in the family groups are invited. The kids do kid things, and the adults sit around and eat, drink, and be merry.

The second type is festivals. These are community-wide events that all happen on different weekends, usually in the autumn. The Des Allemands Catfish Festival will be scheduled on a different weekend than the Luling Alligator Festival, which will also be on a different weekend than the Destrehan Fall Festival. Most of the same people show up to these festivals, so you can always run into and enjoy the company of someone you know.

The third type is Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras isn't a day as much as it is a season. While the media tends to focus on the drinking and debauchery that occurs on Bourbon Street, the vast majority of these parades are small community organizations that just want to give everyone a good time. If you're on a float, you're having a party. If you're catching beads, you're also having a good time with your community. People will schedule the time and location they're gonna be at the parades and be there to have a few beers and catch a few beads. There's even an entire hobby that revolves around the collectible memorabilia from those parades.

So... congratulations. You've made it to older age.
Right, because The Poors don't have lives to live that also care about things like privacy. They just exist in a horrifying life-or-death, dog-eat-dog scramble every day in their slums. (/s)

Seriously, can you be any more out of touch and dismissive of the concerns of people who haven't been making six figures ever since they left college?
I remember a few years ago when Elon Musk got a huge payout for hitting a production target with Tesla. It was basically a huge bet that paid off because they mandated tons of overtime.

I did the math and realized that if he took half of the bonus and distributed it evenly to every single Tesla employee, from VPs down to cafeteria staff, it would amount to around $40,000 for every person in the company. Of course Elon pocketed it all.

Later that year and for the following year Tesla would be embroiled in labor scandals.
What?? I actually think it maps pretty well to the reality. I have seen it at a personal level in my social circle and at a broad level of civilizations.
> ...haven't you ever looked at the current tech industry and thought to yourself "something is not right here?"

Yes, but I've thought something has been wrong for near enough a decade. Like I said, I'm a layperson so I'm looking for a source that isn't other tech bros recycling each others' hot takes.

> Tech has been a massive game of shuffling around VC money to create the illusion of a massive part of the economy...

This is how I've understood how tech has operated. Spotify, Uber, etc.

I just don't have the subject knowledge to work out for myself whether you're another doomsayer or not. I appreciate the detailed comment (and I'm reading the sources) but I think it misses what I'm looking for.
We do the more boring part of tech, IT management. One of our best hires was someone who went from managing their family bar for 20 years to taking a couple of IT course/ programs and being introduced to us.

Life is really long and hard and complicated. But most of the time you can make it work.
Bit of an aside:

Most people in PhD programs misunderstand the actual objectives (I sure did). They assume that the academic environment is just like the undergraduate one they have come out of. That is false.

To better understand the new rules that they are operating under, I suggest looking to 'literature'. The two best examples that I have found to illustrate the real 'rules' are:

1) The Horatio Hornblower series. It follows the career of a noble, poor, yet educated British naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. It follows Horatio from midshipman to Admiral.

2) The Sharpe series. Also set during the Napoleonic Wars, this series follows the Army instead of the Navy. You read of the career of an orphaned son of a whore commoner who is elevated to officer rank. Much conflict with the inherited nobility and chafing occurs with the commoner protagonist.

It is quickly discovered by the protagonists of both series that to survive at officer rank, the lives and interests of the enlisted must be second to the demands of career. Much deeper discussions about this occur in both series.

The key for a PhD student is to observe the fighting and jockeying of the officers between each other over career. These dynamics, even through fictional books, are identical to the fights of academics even today. How the protagonists deal with these challenges should be a lesson to any PhD student in their own careers.
> watch as their use becomes so hilariously common that it's now painfully obvious that the default behavior is wrong

Hm. :) Hindsight being 20/20, perhaps "synchronous" was a bad default for a language embedded in an application space where the lifeblood is "network communications over unreliable channels."

Still, seemed a good idea at the time(1)

(1) ... at the time, they were doing a cute tech demo, there were alternative scripting languages under consideration, and I don't think anyone expected JavaScript to blow up to become the only viable option.
If your data is public and can be scraped anyway, obviously a serial identifier doesn't matter. If your data is sequestered between accounts or has tenants all sharing the same database or API, that's just one accidental permission error away from being able to scrape every single record. If your customer's data is meant to be private, simply easier to generate unique IDs for each record. Plus it makes it incredibly easy for competitors to see the size of your business simply by signing up for an account and looking at the IDs.
To be honest, your biggest limitation is going to be your mindset, not your age.

The fact that you can't see a path forward for yourself and using phrases like "execs who had no interest in leveling me up" (hint: it's your job to do that) and "I was a moron", does not bode well for your chances.

You're going to have a hard time getting hired if this is the attitude you project, and you're going to have a hard time improving yourself with the negative mindset you seem to have adopted.

I know it is cliche, but you need to adopt a growth mindset (Google it, it is a thing)
Where did you pull that number from? That's off by a factor of 1000 or so.

https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/equity/mercedes-benz-group says the market capitalization is 70.29B Euros.
The issue with your arguments in response is the issue with the entire way DEI is structured in industry. It's not that diversity is unimportant, diversity of /thoughts/ and /beliefs/ is critical to building products that appeal to the widest audience/target market. It's that the way programs are implemented focus on the wrong things, and worse are based on this type of wishy-washy thinking.

Your argument amounts to a completely unsubstantiated what-if "[What] if there's a brilliant swe that feels uncomfortable at a company because of how they name their branches..."

Here's a counter-argument: Productive driven people don't get distracted by irrelevant and petty things like what the repository branch is named in the private repo that no customer ever sees. This is the type of petty nonsense that bureaucracy loves though, and bureaucracy kills innovation, creativity, and productivity. The entire issue with DEI isn't that opponents think diversity is bad, or that we're against hiring people from diverse backgrounds, it's that the way DEI is implemented is a cancerous bureaucracy that kills companies and teams.

It's just another form of the massive spread of administration/non-productive management across large organizations within the West. There's now close to (or in excess of) 1:1 administrators to faculty in most universities in the US, and the majority of the administrative hires are in DEI. These bureaucracies work to advance the bureaucracy, not to advance the mission of the organization they purport to represent. The massive waste of money on administration in hospitals, insurance companies, universities, and large corporations does not make these organizations improve patient outcomes, improve education of students, reduce medical costs to society, or improve products in the market that people rely on in their day to day lives. It's just a huge pile of burning money supporting the existence of roles that effectively detract from the overall productivity and quality of organizations.

This isn't just DEI, by the way, it's all forms of unnecessary bureaucracy. It's one of the reasons why we need stronger anti-trust, because this is an inherent cancer to large organizations. The only solution for which is to have smaller organizations in the first place, so they can be razor focused on their actual core mission and not burning mountains of cash on administrative boondoggles.
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Netflix’s 2023 movie lineup is looking kind of lean
Anyone know if there's a decent way to get a printed copy?

Or barring that, can anyone suggest a good device on which to read it and jot notes, for someone who normally prefers printed books?
Is that sarcasm? I can’t tell
stock buybacks are more tax efficient than dividends, but I disagree they are remotely the same thing. There is plenty of empirical evidence that a stock buyback does little to the stock price in the long run, and I would much rather have the decision what to do with the money even though its less tax efficient.

An NFT is a good way to put it.
I am close to 50 and I get invited to parties a few times a week; in and around the summer and December, that becomes daily. The past 30+ years there are very few weeks I haven’t been to at least one. Of course the term ‘party’ can mean many things to many people, but you named a few and those I go to. And also sometimes to raves in the mountains nearby, and sometimes to bands.

I do work on friendships and social life; I select new places to live based on the liveliness of the place, but also the willingness to connect (which doesn’t happen everywhere; too cliquey).

My friends from school/college have different lives and didn’t fit (maybe like you are experiencing), so I make new ones to fit with my stages in life.
Sometimes intermediate values either don't have domain specific meanings or the meaning is obvious from the function name that returns this temporary value.

Then naming it is just noise.

If your bake() function was rather named createBakedCake() than naming returned value bakedCake just increses reader fatigue through repetition.

Same way

Random random = new Random();

in C# is worse than

var random = Random();
What if you're in a pitch-black dark room of mirrors? Would it make it more likely notice the other person through photons?
I think throughout their existence they tried hard to be more than that. If they settled to be just an advertising business, then easy, you become an equivalent of Lamar Advertising, you post an equivalent of billboards for over a hundred years, perhaps run a few servers and settle for that. An advertising company doesn't need to try to break into cloud computing business and do all these things that Google is actually trying to do (whatever the degree of success).
I re-started my career later still. No matter how low you feel you have sunk, I sank that low, or lower.

In my experience it was friends and connections that I mistakenly thought were lost and cold, respectively, that helped me land a role that changed my career trajectory. I also had to clear a major mental hurdle about what I intended to do with my life.

For context, look at photos of yourself from 15 years ago. Remember how old you felt? You were so young! This pattern repeats.
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If every example of a place that has a high standard of living for workers also does not have a minimum wage, then it's fair to say that a minimum wage does not matter in terms of worker welfare. Germany only recently got a minimum wage. Norway has no minimum wage. Denmark has no minimum wage. Sweden has no minimum wage. Switzerland has no minimum wage. These are considered the most desirable countries in Europe to work in.

And it's true: a high minimum wage does not matter when it comes to worker welfare. A minimum wage does not increase a worker's leverage with their employer. A strong social safety net, which enables unionization, does increase a worker's leverage with their employer and thus improves the worker's standard of living.
I’ve never had that issue, or even heard of that issue, but I’ve only bought insurance from relatively large insurance companies, maybe it’s an issue if you try to save money by going with a small one with no network.
Extracting `envStr` is definitely the highest impact change for me. I dislike temporary variables too when they don't represent a meaningful intermediary result, but in this case I see them as a lesser evil. I agree that `styled` is more about personal preference.

This is why I'm happy to see the pipe syntax proposal, it avoids unnecessary temporary variables while simultaneously aiding readability.
I like talking to strangers rather, and outdoor, on a walk or a trance music festival, that should be fun
You know another milsim game that does paid DLC right? ARMA. They deliver actual content in their downloadable content (new campaigns, new settings, new factions, new vehicles, whatever). And sure, maybe some of that content's not for you (some I've bought, some I haven't), but nobody can deny there's meaningful content in every one of their DLCs.

Emote DLC is like they tripped over their own shoelaces on whether to do DLCs. Both going back on their promise and delivering weak DLC.
> Devs feel entitled to WFH, and shorter work days (via WFH) and managers are nervous.

_Shorter_ work days? If anything mine are longer, even considering time I no longer spend commuting.

Any Dev "entitled" to shorter work days seems unlikely to have a long tenure.

Source: Am manager, who codes 50% or more of my time. Nobody I work with feels "entitled" to work less.
> The common belief of worth is where similarities between bitcoin and gold end
Sure, it's also enough.

> You call bitcoin a SoV but further down describe it as a form of money.
The primary functions which distinguish money are as a Medium of Exchange, a Unit of Account, a Store of Value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money

> I'd like to read a bit more about what defines "better" in your opinion.
There is definitely a list of features but I would argue that being hard money is the most important feature. Meaning hard/sound where the nominal amount of money does not change.

Bitcoin in definitely hard but Ethereum does even better by being deflationary. As network transactions are slowly reducing the total amount in circulation.

Other nice features of Bitcoin/Ethereum vs Gold/Dollar are: digital, non-seizable and no third party risk.
Azure launched 13 years ago in 2010. Before that, Microsoft had Windows and Office.
Personally I'd love that, and also pay for it.

If it also reduces the incentives to implement dark patterns to boost "engagement" and collect personal information, that's just cherry on top
I don’t understand why should people “leave that shit at home”? I’m not defending the parent example of a friend being progressive and criticizing others while engaging in similar wasteful behavior, but if you really believe in something, doesn’t it hurt to see the opposite? I suppose most people’s views in the US are superficial and team based in which case then I agree.
Quite often I rewrite the code from

```

return validate(get_response(value))

```

or

```

value = get_response(value)

value = validate(value)

return value

```

into

```

res = get_response(value)

new_res = validate(res)

return new_res

```

Why? Easier to read and when Sentry throws an error I have each value from the call stack. Much easer to debug. In the example 2 you can accidentally move a line and not notice the error.
> Does he really believe this?

I believe it: the Google of 2008 would have been completely buried by the flood of ChatGPT-generated bullshit SEO spam. What they have today is the best version of Google to date, so it's still floating, not just as high as it once was in less adversarial times.
Depends what you mean by "start over." I've had three 10ish year careers in adjacent but really pretty different technology related roles since my late 20s. (And another different one for a few years before that which I switched from by going back to grad school.)
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Wouldn't full responsibility be paying for these people's salaries over the last 2 years and finding new work for all 12,000 people yourself?
Well, I live in Germany and that's less than 1 month income for me. Which is pretty common for a senior+ engineer/data scientist. Not for a single person with a technical degree 7k would be 2-3 months income, lol.
> You're fishing for a justification for this man to assault a homeless person because he didn't want them there.

I would slightly disagree with that - it's not just because he didn't want the homeless person there, it's because the homeless person was breaking the law in ways that directly harmed his business. I think there's a meaningful difference between the case of just not wanting someone to be somewhere vs. actually being harmed by that person, and this is the latter case.

> The same sanctity of law that should spur the police to stop her from causing a disturbance is the same that should charge him for assault.

This is true in theory, but we know in this case that the sanctity of law you're referring to doesn't exist, because if it did the police would have stopped her. Why should he do anything based on a principle that is demonstrable nonexistent, particular when it's nonexistent in the one case that he really, really needs to rely on it?

Everybody's saying nobody should be harmed, which is true in theory, but he is being harmed. Even though everyone purports to be against harm, their proposed answers are all that he should allow himself to continue being harmed (that includes any suggestion that he should sue - given the nature of the legal system, trying to resolve this with a lawsuit guarantees that he will continue to suffer harm for years).
As an older trans person who's been subjected to targeted hate speech in public, I used to be pretty uncomfortable with younger trans people using it/its pronouns. It's understandable, let's give people some grace.
I'm there now. The endless cycle of staring at the bedroom ceiling trying to muster the will to get out of bed, the anger at the existencial inertia, the tiny voice inside my head that says "jump" while staring at the abyss. Glad to see you made it out, guess there's still hope out there.
Thank you! 100% agree - realistically, given their scale, the tradeoff made sense. The UI would have been fairly un-intuitive for users had they left the option to do both device-bound keys and passkeys.
Yeah, it was decriminalized because jaywalking was a crime invented by the auto industry and there's no real harm in it, provided that a person crosses a street when it is safe to do so (this is part of the new law, it's still illegal to cross when you cause a risk of crash).

On the other hand, traffic rules protect public safety. Even and automated enforcement (provided that there's no entrapment for revenue, something that is dangerous and does happen with, e.g. red light cameras) causes people to have safer driving habits. After all, driving is not a right, it's a privilege to operate heavy, dangerous machinery in public. Drivers should be held to a high standard of safety.