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Ask HN: How do you value experience nowadays?
Hi !

I was wondering, how do you value experience nowadays ? When hiring talents or judging peers ?

Big companies who think they're more important than they truly are often look for workers with experience, or will do them pass leetcode style coding games.

But personally, when I hear than someone has done exactly the same job for 5+ years, I can't help but to think 'boring' (with rolling eyes internally). I believe the corporate world feels about the same, as it wants ppl who have a success story, and a stonk progression from not a developer to CTO of his multi billion tech startup in 5 years.

How do you combine the conflicting requirements from a lot of years on exactly the same job, and of having had a career and flexibility ?

Deep down, I feel like all this experience thing is a trap, and a distraction.

When you are a junior, companies turn you down because they want experienced workers.

But when you are a senior, in your 50s, and have 20+ years of experience, companies consider you like a dinosaur who can't evolve, and prefer a new hire who is humble and curious.

So experience isn't the issue !

How would you balance these requirements ?

And how do you prepare for the end of your career ?

What would you actually focus on, if not experience ?

And how would you interview peers ?
Don’t think I’ve ever seen an alternative to ngrok that includes their “Inspection Interface” - that is such a useful feature for debugging.
Hey, I used to make that joke all the time (even when I was normal weight)!
To be honest, they have good reason. Being written in a strongly typed, memory-safe language is a huge advantage. Obviously it's not the primary thing to look out for, but I do prefer tools that are written in it.
The genetic cause doesn't explain why ratio of obesity went from 10% to 60% in one generation. Fat people didn't have that much more kids.
These kids have been mooching off of adults for way to long.
Should've been more clear - I've had to update significant portions of Textual and rich to enable propagating custom line-endings from the top level, but most of the code I touched was in rich.

As for the CRLF/LF issue, I paired textual with AsyncSSH, and was successful in making an SSH service hosting the app. However, connecting resulted in a text soup that I initially assumed was the fault of AsyncSSH. After some time, I realized it was due to the line-endings being defaulted to LF by rich (a reasonable decision in any other scenario.)

On both points, I'd be happy to share some snippets, but I'm halfway around the world from my home computer currently. If this is more than just a passing interest, I'd be happy to follow up upon my return.
Most people do not care about their phone camera telling "the truth" because they are operating under the base assumption that cameras do tell the truth, and that their phone camera is honestly Very Good™ at capturing the true image that they're seeing with such a level of detail. That customers are not aware of the level to which professional images are processed is no justification for these features being sneaked in.

If these features were openly presented as some kind of augmented reality or editing it wouldn't be an issue, but as it stands it is no different from, for example, presenting an entertainment television network as if it were actual fact-based news, and justifying it by arguing that viewers are not looking for the truth but for something that makes them feel that they know the truth.
I wonder if they're using canary deployments. Only one in ten failures I hear about has affected me.
I'm 185 cm (6'1") and 73 kg (161 lbs), for a BMI of 21.3. I still have more than 0% fat, but I'm certainly slim. I don't have to fight at all to keep my weight as it is, and I'm healthy.

You say 30 BMI, but in my experience unless you are lifting a lot of weights 25 is the upper limit. Ten years ago I hit 25 BMI, and despite feeling "normal" there were already the first signs of being fat: thights always red, sweaty all day and way less resistance than today.

I lost 15 kg (33 lbs) not by doing crazy exercise, but by cutting 100% of shitty food and eating beyond necesity.
Rather remarkably, Llama 7B and 13B run fine (about as fast as ChatGPT/bing) if you follow the instructions in the posted article.
Even if you have 10 banks, losing 10% of your working capital is a huge deal, no?
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Profit before human or worker rights? People working in these companies in Germany are fucked up because of all the killing and handling of dead animals.

And how do you need to be to want kids working in anything before they completed their education (minus a couple easy summer jobs). Some American legislators are scum.
Can anyone provide a link that carefully outlines this? Eg did they just recently buy a ton of ten year bonds? That would sound nuts as everyone knows rates are rising right now. Would love to see details.
If that's even an option then there's no reason to be having this discussion. These companies were irresponsibly putting all of their eggs in one basket and now I'm being asked to bail them out?
Paper compatibility with pens is really a multivariable problem of paper x pen nib x ink choice, BUT I think you may also underestimate how crappy mass-market paper is in the US.

Fountain pens are exclusively hobbyist items. Children are never taught with them, and that kind of penmanship hasn't been a normal part of childhood education in the US at any point in my lifetime.

If everyone is using a ballpoint with paste ink, the paper can get progressively crappier and crappier for a long time before anyone notices.

When I buy notebooks in the UK, though, I find that lower-end notebooks tend to be nicer than their apparent equivalents in the US.
I'd totally understand that when you're returning the waffle maker and they're like "hey, that one probably sucked, here are 12 others", but yeah, it's weird. And that's coming from a guy who absolutely does buy backups of the things he likes, because how would I survive if my electric foot warmer would die and I had to wait 4 days for a replacement?
Yeah but it's tricky to decide and list all of the exact tasks which are allowed and which are prohibited, and keep updating it each year. Plus ensure that it's actually enforced, when kids might want to do the dangerous stuff or be pressured into it and it's not like there's an inspector right there watching everything.

A blanket prohibition on construction sites just seems simpler and much more enforceable.
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To help stay on top of things from multiple sources, I've set up a quick stream (updated every 15min) with the discussions happening around the web.

If you'd like a daily digest via email or a live RSS feed, let me know.
Check a comment in the Reddit comment thread. The author of the post repeats the experiment with a blurred and modified picture of the moon that has craters in wrong places. The phone produced a photo of the moon that is less blurry, but also has craters in wrong places. This suggests it's not just using a canned image.
4 years ago, Google had proposed a massive housing development of their own, which some then compared to bringing back "company towns". My reaction was, we must be in a pretty crappy state where company towns are an improvement (over the current housing situation).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215407
Because how could a democrat white house possibly justify paying money to a Musk affiliated company? That’s how bad politics is now.

If Musk were actually the asshole people made him out to be, he would have just pulled starlink until payment. He didn’t. No one seems to appreciate or even realise this on the musk hater side.
I think the govt may have been able to help with this issue.

But it would have taken the govt getting into the whole risk & diversification & bond laddering & liquidity issues at a very granular level. You know, the whole shindig about huge risks to the banking sector and responses? That, all over again.

I'll say from my perspective they were under-regulated. We can't have dumb banks throwing all their deposits into Fixed-Income with similar maturities putting their deposits at extreme risk of devaluation and interest rate risk with no hedging or laddering, and no good response to liquidity demands.

I question the professionalism of the bank's investment crew given we knew about the interest rate rise several years ago. NIRP/ZIRP could never continue indefinitely and they knew it, and we knew it.

We knew it!
Note that roles can vary hugely across different organisations.

Where I work, what this article calls a "Product Owner" would be called a Product Manager. And what the article calls a "Project Manager" is similar to what we would call a Product Owner. We also have Project Managers who oversee delivery across several products.
Have you used the Apple Music app lately? They have been following Spotify's cue more and more with every successive design change. Getting to a simple list of songs takes 4-5 clicks from the home page. All emphasis is instead on podcasts, radio, new artist promotions, curated channels and playlists and other similar stuff.
I just don’t understand why folks on the internet are so passionate about the depositors being hit by this.

I'm not at all passionate about the depositors. I dislike them but understand that screwing them would ripple across the entire world. I dislike banks and corporations but having many/most suddenly bankrupt would not serve me.
There are other inversion vectors in our society people seem to believe. They are numerous but for just one example, calling black people “white supremacists” is but one example.

These constructs are usually the opposite of what they claim, like “healthy” in this example.
You don’t see any risk of contagion? We have a fractional reserve banking system. If even a small percentage of depositors try to withdraw all at once, that can bring down any bank.

Right now, everyone in the country with uninsured accounts is being incentivized to pull those deposits and pull them fast. We don’t know how things will turn out, but there is obviously a major risk of contagion.
not the point at all
pepperoni. it was good.
> Word and Google Docs inaccurately convert hyphens into en dashes

In Word's case, and I think GDocs as well, it is a switchable autocorrect setting, that mostly (not perfectly, because you can't do it purely structurally without semantic analysis) does it correctly, not inaccurately, AFAICT.

> En dashes are ugly bastards that have very little benefit. Word and Google Docs inaccurately convert hyphens into en dashes, and I never have gotten a satisfactory answer why. I used to see en dashes to connect a compound modifier to yet another word, like “billiard-ball–size hail” (that’s an en dash between “ball” and “size”), but I could never trace this “rule” to any style guide.

I’m fairly sure that the Chicago Manual specifies this rule (my older Chicago Manual isn’t handy, and the non-exhaustive information in the public FAQ [0] doesn’t cover it, though it does address the closely-related rule on using an en-dash to connect a modifier to an open compound.)

> Another popular case was a proper noun connected to another word, like “New York–based author.”

I’m pretty sure that’s not because New York is a proper noun, but because it is an open compound.

> Computers require contortions to create em and en dashes

They require a tiny bit of setup to make it easy, outside of the applications which already make it easy.

> Also, I’m on mobile so can’t verify, but it looks like the author is using an en dash throughout his post when an em dash is called for.

Some style guides call for an en-dash (usually, set open) in the places where the more common rule is to use an em-dash (usually, set closed.)

[0] https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...
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https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse | Well researched cosmic history, excellent voice-over talent

https://www.youtube.com/@VoicesofthePast | Stunning first-person historical accounts, same excellent voice talent

https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab | Astronomy, cosmology, etc

https://www.youtube.com/@CSIStarbase | In-depth research on SpaceX's Starbase in a fun format

https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut | In-depth rocketry

https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley | Everything space

https://www.youtube.com/@GrindHardPlumbingCo | Crazy car builds, machining

https://www.youtube.com/@rctestflight | DIY radiocontrolled projects, lots of Ardupilot

https://www.youtube.com/@ZackFreedman | DIY electronics, 3d printing, love his wacky style

https://www.youtube.com/@StuffMadeHere | Incredible DIY mechanical engineering projects
There's a long distance between "the pentagon is involved in a military operation (or even war)" and "the defense production act is invoked". The pentagons role is not solely to prepare for total war scenarios.
Absolutely, why not, if people prefer cheap bunk beds?
Yeah, if I needed a front end dev I’d ask to see your portfolio. And for a senior role it has to be strong.
I would use

open Cargo.toml | get dependencies | transpose | rename dep version | each { |row| if (($row.version | get -i version | default "" ) != "") { $row.version.version } else { $row.version } }

not sure whether that's the best way.
I wish there would be exceptions to child labor regulations, but just the opposite kind: I could already do programming at 8 quite well, but I started professionally only after I was 23 because of all the rules. I wish I supported my family more by doing knowledge work.

Now the work introduced here has nothing to do with knowledge work, and it just takes away time from building a carreer, so of course I’m against that kind of child labor.
I used AMEX via ANA transfer to get over $0.20/point value on a pair of business class tickets from West Coast US to Japan this last year.

I’d say that was good value.
I think the parent is asking: Why do we seem to be celebrating obese people?
Maybe the Pentagon is promising enough MAU that they think it should be free ;)
That's a good hack but what's wrong with drinking plain water?
These legislatures in this states also don't want to lobby the federal government for a relaxation of hyper-strict immigration rules that ld increase the available labor pool. So (according to them) we're simultaneously full and experiencing an invasion of foreign workers, but also have so few people to fill jobs that we need to let teenagers work in metapacking.
Very doubtful. Just look at what happened in many cities across the US during the summer of 2019 because of the actions of a handful of degenerate cops in one city. Now just throw in "rich bankers," "silicon valley," "4 corporate officers cashed out millions in the week prior," and "CEO was a SF FED director up until the day of the implosion" and you can do quite a lot to whip people into a frenzy, if crafted properly.
I like (ha ha) this quote by Auden:

> Bad art is always with us, but any given work of art is always bad in a period way; the particular kind of badness it exhibits will pass away to be succeeded by some other kind. It is unnecessary, therefore, to attack it, because it will perish anyway... The only sensible procedure for a critic is to keep silent about works which he believes to be bad, while at the same time vigorously campaigning for those which he believes to be good, especially if they are being neglected or underestimated by the public.

In other words, most bad things will be forgotten eventually anyway; the tragedy is when a good thing is also forgotten. So, it's more useful to call attention to what you like rather than waste time spotlighting what you don't.

In my own life, I noticed that, no matter how much I like something, I'll forget 95% of it after a year anyway. Most movies I've seen, most books I've read, video games I've played, whatever: I can tell you the outline of the plot, and a couple things I found interesting. Everything else, all the little details, are gone. Over time, I've just learned to accept that frailty, and now I focus only on spotting the few interesting things I want to take away from a work, whether or not I liked it as a whole. Those things are, in effect, the work's legacy for me. And if a work gives me one interesting new idea, or new image, or whatever, then it was worth my time in the long run.

I also think that, at least some of the time, when we say we don't like something, we're trying to tell people something about our identity and affiliations. We're really saying "I'm not the kind of person who likes this thing". So, the review is not of the work itself, but of what we view as its larger semiotic or cultural position, with respect to our own. We get caught up in proxy wars, and sometimes make unfair evaluations of works of art based on characteristics they can't be blamed for having. Grading them on a test they didn't know they were taking.
You sell them at a discount of (duration * 3.x%-1.5%), so that the hold to maturity interest rate remains at the market rate of 3.x%
Your ideas on this topic are so bizarre. Are you arguing here that the bank owners and employees were not paid? That they didn't pursue a strategy they believed would give them higher returns, and failed?
Also, this:

https://www.moneycrashers.com/dif-insurance-massachusetts-de...
I also lost money on the bonds in my portfolio, who will make me whole?
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At the other end of the scale not everything can be solved with the HN standby of bash scripts and a SQLite DB and things being slow or unstable isn't "technical debt" but an actual problem that can kill people. Not everyone who is working on non trivial solutions is doing it just for the sake of looking clever.
Hotstar must die for Disney+ to live
That kind of effect was studied and used in antiquity, as pneumatics. Aristotle's point of view did not hold sway everywhere or for all of that period; afaik pneumatics started with Empedocles and the clepsydra, and obviously the atomists favored the vacuum.

I've kept out of this conversation because I'm too ignorant, but it seems worth saying that while "it doesn't fit with Aristotle's scheme of the world" may be a good enough explanation for most premodern western thinking, it's hardly all of it.
Depends on what the market is valuing it today.

My prediction is that the result of the auction will be a merger whereby SVB stockholders will be compensated in stock of the acquiring bank valued at a few dollars per share down from ~$300 a month ago. Depositors made whole, stockholders lose 90-99%, creditors get paid. The purchase likely sweetened by a sizable cheap Fed loan or guarantee, or maybe the Fed buying some of the distressed assets at nominal value.
du -s * | sort -n -r | sed 10q
Well, that world would be closer to a true free market. The legal protection of limited liability makes modern stock markets work, but it is absolutely a massive benefit given from the working+middle class towards investors (of course there is an overlap between those groups). It’s my first argument any time I hear someone complain about capital gains tax being double taxation on top of corporate taxes.
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Which they would have been _anyways_... Seriously, the FDIC insures 250k$ IF and only if the banks assets are insufficient for _that_. In other words, as long as SVB has enough assets to pay out 250k$ per ~account. All the FDIC is going to be doing is the administration [1] of the distribution.

Whatever assets are left beyond the first n_accounts * 250k$ will be distributed among the account holders with extra balance. Some of _that_ money will also be distributed tomorrow morning. So in fact all depositors with more than 250k$ balance will be "looked after, but not made whole" TOMORROW. The question remains ,IF there aren't enough funds to make everyone completely whole, what happens then. There is _zero_ indication in those statements, that there would be money added to the pile that will be generated by the auction of SVB's assets.

[1] not sure if there's a fee for that, but it would be negligible anyhow
Thanks! I have a Linux laptop with 16G ram and a 10G NVidai 1070, so I might be good to go.
There is the convenience of not having to buy the stuff... A bag of oats goes a long way and keeps for a long time...
Discussion around the Relay GraphQL client
> Why do you think the conditions are still bad?

Since the jungle was published, more recent research has been published to show that simply having a meatpacking or butcher factory in the community causes more violent crime, sexual assault, and drug addiction.
Arcades had transaction costs too. They sold quarters in blocks. You couldn't just buy 1 at a time. Which is precisely how MC/Visa operate. Big players like Apple can sell songs for $1 because they pay for a minimum level of payment processing so their unit cost is less than the 2.9% + 30c or whatever the standard charge is.
That sounds like a conflict of interest. I haven't read his article but would expect this to be noted at the top.
>Inquiry into bank finances

If only we could centralize the investigation of bank finances and judgement of whether they are healthy enough to use into some sort of agency, staffed by domain experts, with the power to demand relevant documents and shut down unhealthy banks. Nah, that would never work, let's just make it the depositors' responsibility.
It's not white labelled Plausible. The creators of it are on Twitter if you are interested in following their journey (i.e. twitter/TheBuilderJR). It's built on Tinybird, Supabase, and Next.js, while Plausible is built in Elixir using plain Postgres and Clickhouse, and Phoenix.

A lot of relatively new analytics services tend to have similar looking frontends these days I've noticed though.
That’s an insane argument to make while using the tech that came from SV to make it.

“Sustainable” businesses are not how American economy differentiates itself in the world, what you’re asking for is to crush the way of life yourself used to in America, to make your own life substantially worse.

It’s nonsensical, bitter, and petty. If that’s the argument you want to make, grow up.
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As someone in the "kinda fat kinda fit" category, I'm a bit disappointed by the amount of people so quick to brush off the semi-bullshitness of BMI.

I believe it's a good measure for statistics over population, since it's easy to measure and tend to work for a large number of people.

On the individual level tough, you really don't need to be a world-class athlete for BMI to become less relevant for you, contrary to what some commenters seems to imply.

For the last 10 years I've been to the gym around 2/3 times a week, walked a lot more, cut down the junk food, and yet I'm 10/15 kilos heavier than at my 'fattest'.
I'm far from being a powerlifter or a professional rugbyman, yet when I see people around me, I'm usually the beefiest guy in the room.

I do believe that some people went overboard with "body positivity". In the same time, as a french guy living in Paris where the expected look varies from 'slim' to 'extra-slim', I'm glad to see more things for people with an even moderately wide frame.
The first thing I found is HeyCLI - https://github.com/HeyCLI/heyCLI_client, but it's not exactly there...
Not FDIC insured is a big one.
People are worried about what this means for confidence in regional banks.

The prudent thing to do right now is to pull your money out of your regional bank and move it to a GSIB and call it a day. This endangers regional banks and concentrates deposits into the large players.

You can stand your moral ground here or you can risk a string of bank runs and systemic collapse. It might not even make a difference anyways with how slow we’ve been to act.