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> They were told they were building a castle, but instead they built a prison.

The industry term is "golden handcuffs".
Testing services on cloud.
I agree with u
Amazingly fitting name - in German, "dumm" means "dumb"/"stupid"...
On nearly every article about digital nomads I see people hunched over working on a laptop sitting on a non-adjustable chair, or working on their laptop on the couch. Natural light also seems to be lacking in the pictures from this article.

I admire their lifestyle but having experience with RSI I will never work somewhere that doesn't have a height adjustable desk, ergonomic seat and at least a laptop stand to raise it to eye level. Preferably an external monitor.

Assuming these people have an above average income for the region they are in, can't they afford to rent a co-op space somewhere that allows them to work in a healthy way with good posture?
If you have no standing (as a junior) then sure, but as a senior, you can simply ask previous employers. If that’s not enough then indeed, I will refuse. I am not going to solve some crappy leethcode crap just because they are paranoid.
Interesting to compare medellin with some American cities that are having similar issues - small mountain towns in Colorado for example have a lot the same problems but at a much smaller scale.

But I do find the gentrification causing each city to look the same sad, a neighborhood I visited in Mexico City looked identical the the richest shopping neighborhood in Denver.
Isn’t it a total assumption to jump to the conclusion that being asked to write code in an interview means people think you’re lying? Try thinking about this from the interviewer’s perspective. They need to find out how good you are, and they need to know if your self-assessment is even using the same units as the next candidate’s self-assessment. Spoiler alert: they are different scales. Your idea of you having experience and doing well is very different from my idea of me having experience and doing well.

BTW don’t forget that some of the candidates you’re competing against are actually lying, and they’re claiming things on their resume that if taken at face value will get them the job over you. Do you really want employers believing and hiring based on what people can say rather than what they can do? Be careful what you wish for, because if that came true, getting hired would be harder than it is now.
> It's far more this weird sort of cargo-cult hazing process than any actual sort of reasonable assessment

This is 100% what it is. A "We went through it so you do too." sort of thing, combined with the fact that management can't interview everyone and SWE's aren't good at reading people to determine if they're lying.

I have a friend who's a manager at a FAANG and while there's a lot of good, smart people there, there are many, many people who are terrible at what they do and are very difficult to deal with.

My company does not do whiteboarding and makes an effort to get to know the person. We rarely get bad hires. Maybe 1 out of 100? Give me 10 to 20 minutes just to talk to someone and I'll tell you if they'll be a good employee. One of the first things I do is assess if they're lying on their resume. If they're not, then I'm comfortable believing in their skill set.
Sometimes, but I take the view of “control what’s normal” as much as I can. I want them to react to weird stuff like it’s weird and unfamiliar.

I do talk to them about things at different levels as they get older. They will have to manage it all themselves one day, but I’m going to keep them away from it as long as I can.
You can use parental tools to disable these apps. Demanding thar whole world uploads private IDs to sites to check age because you refuse to parent well is absurd.
Related on the same site that just got posted today:

> This change is pointless make-work inflicted on the broad open source ecology by GNU Grep. GNU Grep's decision to cause these long-standing commands to emit new messages requires everyone else to go through making changes in order to return to the status quo. This is exactly the same kind of make work as other pointless API changes, and just like them it's hostile to the broad open source ecology.

* https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/GNUGrepVersus...
It's also not rare to find wrapper scripts that check "was there any output to stderr?", and if so, consider the program to have failed.
Warnings are not errors, but also not output, so there isn't a good way to report them in the stdout/stderr model (but stderr is still better than stdout).
Backpack Language Models: sequence models with an interface for interpretability
true, in western europe small towns are often really nice
Writing correct distributed CRUD is hard. I have interviewed quite a few people who didn’t have a clue about how to insert into a table without creating data races.
This just gave me a thought.

Perhaps if the EU eventually does something to sufficiently cripple Apple there, maybe Europe can be a hospitable location for a competitor besides Google to get a toehold someday either in smartphones or whatever the successor is. The duopoly sucks.
The difference is that Europeans an Canadians are willing to bribe their homeless people to stay in line. It is called coasian bargaining and welfare payments are the only widespread application of it that has had any semblance of success.
Becoming a physician is a choice. Choosing your specialty is a choice as well (to an extent). Staying a physician is also a choice. And an immense privilege.

I have great respect for physicians I have worked with in IT for years. However I do not have patience for this sort of argument. You can always find another job if you'd like to, like everybody else. And unlike the majority of the population, you can set yourself up to have the financial freedom to do so.

No "sane" person "hates" doctors. They just don't pity them.

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BTW, the tech FOMO is just FOMO. Grass is greener. Software engineering can be very exciting (just like medicine), but also very boring (just like medicine). Compensation is a really bad metric. If you value your time off, then don't become a physician. Sounds to me like some people just can't ever be fulfilled (usually the more privileged)!
FWIW and like it or not, libreoffice is the best or only way to do some of the things it does.

I don’t actually use it directly as an office suite really ever. But I do use tools that use its libraries, like unoconv, or that depend on it for other things, like Nextcloud.

It’s a beast and a burden, but if you need to deal with Office documents of unknown provenance, programmatically, it’s a valuable and relevant set of tools.
They do. I do, and the interviewer who hired me for current job also did.
They do control the desktop. Nobody else is close to them
This is awesome! Anyone know of a UK equivalent?
Flatpak is a non-starter for me. The runtimes required by my office would mean 2 KDE versions and 2 Gnome versions installed as flatpak runtimes in addition to the KDE running on the host, which quintuples the security space I need to monitor.

Sweeping package management problems under a rug doesn't actually make them go away.
There are, but I (and many seniors) am easy to verify. If you know who I am and talked to previous employers (probably friends or at least people you met at conferences or fairs) or know me already from meet-ups but the rigidity of the hiring process has me do some dance, then please, find some other stooge.
..this comment saddens me. fyi i am not an american
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Answers aren't deterministic.*
Especially in ChatGPT, it's impossible to compare.

Quick pass:

- questions are different.

- answer = function of several variables, most importantly, entire chat. then temperature, top-p...

- models haven't changed.

- entirely possible chatgpt's temperature, top-p etc. changed but model didn't

see images of gpt3.5 at 0 temp and 0.3 on this tweet, 0.3 makes up an answer like february, 0 gets "sorry, as an AI..."

https://twitter.com/jpohhhh/status/1665007972114743297?s=20

* unless temp = 0 and all previous messages in the chat are the same. On ChatGPT, you can't even see all the messages in the chat System messages aren't visible
Are rich people more intelligent? Here's what the science says
Fun hypothetical, but where I work we don't have that many candidates for any position, so it's, so far, never been an issue. I didn't think I'd need to say that "YMMV" but in case it's not obvious, YMMV!

Usually there's about a CV passed by me or others per week, an interview maybe every 8 weeks and a hire every 6-12 months.

Advantages of not being in a country or industry that offers SF FAANG/MAGMA/whatever salaries, perhaps.
Here's a data point: anxiety from the interview (you depend on unfamiliar people judging you) is different from troubleshooting a technical incident (it is more on the exciting side).
Don't (at) Me: URL Obfuscation Through Schema Abuse
Well, if that kind of simplistic strawman argument is what defends the "scientific consensus", we could do with less of it...
This is discussed in the posted article too.
If you're collaborating with other people (with some narrow exceptions), the idea of sending around point-in-time snapshots of documents feels horrifying. And, to your point, LibreOffice is from an era when providing a plausible alternative to Microsoft desktop products was a big deal. It really isn't at this point. Mainstream users use cloud-based options and specific power users use Microsoft Office.
Ask HN: Did Anyone Else Here Simply Not Do Well at School?
Despite being a smart person, I've never been the kind of A type personality who does well at school. The environment just doesn't suit me. I don't know why. I've been told I have ADHD, but I do fine and manage time well when I'm in an actual job setting with stakes.

I'm in college now and have just been told I won't be receiving my CS degree. I came in as an English major because my grades weren't good enough to enter the competitive CS program at my school, so I just took CS courses on override. But here too, my grades were not good enough and I won't be allowed to transfer into the major. I'll have to settle for an informatics degree, and after graduation get a CS degree from WGU or something like that.

I suppose I'm looking for validation from anybody else who had a tortured academic path. I'm a little sick of being told I am not good enough because I don't meet the metrics.
Seems off they consider AP left leaning and then classify The Hill in the center.
If you enable javascript and click About it says:

> For the Badge is a

Then crossed out:

> ~Grassroots Movement~

> ~Scientific Endeavor~

> ~Humanitarian Society~

> ~Literary Masterpiece~

> ~Knitting Club~

Then normal font:

> Complete Joke.

> We don’t develop for the money, power, fame, or codebabes. We do it For the Badge. It all started because of an obsession with two words: “build passing”. It all ended with this: badges, for badges’ sake.
Sex between men is not illegal (even technically) in Singapore anymore since Nov. 2022.
Yes, it's a tightrope for sure! If I drink too much caffiene in a day, or have it too late it will also trigger one.

My other big one is cocoa. Too much chocolate anything will guaranteed give me a migraine.

Also not exercising. If I'm sedentary for too many days in a row I will get a bad headache.
This has happened on a smaller scale (maybe 2x the cost instead of 10x) here in Austin over the past ~10 years. Less nomads and more permanent moves of course, but it's distorted the local economy in the same way

Housing can't keep up, local businesses have been replaced by same-y luxury ones, and longtime residents have had to move (or some just become homeless) because they can't afford it anymore. It's been a shame to see. Economic influx isn't always a good thing.
A previous job had unlimited "dto" (discretionary time off). Before I accepted the job I told my manager I was currently getting 5 weeks PTO and asked if that would be inline with the expectation. He told me he saw no issue with me taking that much, or even somewhat more. Sure enough he never turned down a time off request. The closest he even came was making sure that someone was available to be on call thanksgiving and Christmas weeks.

It's not always bullshit. I actually kind of regret leaving that job for more money and the unlimited time off was a big factor. I went to only having a few weeks, accrued over the year and ended up having some major family issues that lead to me budgeting my PTO. I could've always taken unpaid time but I would never have even thought twice about taking the time with the DTO.
It never ceases to amaze me to see how often what is necessary becomes a necessary evil.

Dialogue is a necessity for the correct development of knowledge. To engage in dialogue we have recourse to language and a vocabulary of discourse. As knowledge is gained, dialogues branch off and specialize. The system of thought inherent to the ~unique arrangement of the elements of these dialogues partition thought into acceptable (an opening) and unthinkable (a closing).

Throughout history you will find minds that navigated these intellectual currents by stepping away from their dominant belief system and gaining knowledge of the universality of meaning, and saw hidden (filtered) vistas previously unseen, and then step back into their home grounds to contribute to the development of the field, in a positive manner, adding new elements into vocabulary of the dialogue. They extend it, and create the possibility of synthesis in the future.

Equally, you will find that the further necessity of establishing schools, cults, churches, and institutions, which lend social prestige to its members and satellites, introduce incentives contrary to that of pure love of knowledge, and this attracts a certain type of people, beyond the already present danger of vanity and self regard.

What is to be done about it?

Helpfully suggest that tolerance of this necessary evil may be the remedy for your gripe.
Ashley Madison tanked from a data break, and there's an ever growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges that were hacked and ended. It may be that for some businesses a data breach is manageable, but that's not always the case, though more importantly that kind of attitude towards the seriousness of data breaches and vulnerabilities is not wise.
>I happen to know how to do it, but it's not easy anymore.

Yes, but it's also more robust and modular than the easy "mixed mess with direct access to everything" that was the way you added such stuff before.

>UX is a disaster, structure and content are mixed. So for users its hard to understand what's content and what's structure.

Not sure what you mean with this. How is structure and content mixed UX wise? If anything I found it more separated than before: a title for example is it's own block, not just an element in a mess of HTML inside a textarea that has the whole post.

I've had given the block editor to users with experience from old WP and new WP and they didn't have any problems (or at least not any more than they'd have with the old editor).
It could suck less if candidates used an application system that gave candidates more visibility into the job search process.

Like require employers to summarize the most important thing they want (1, 4), require a response or the employer pays the candidate a fee (2), shows the number of applicants to a position, the last time a resume was reviewed, the last time a candidate was interviewed, the number of candidates interviewed (3), does not require the candidate to signup to apply (5).

If software like this was written and worked well and shown to candidates, and candidates didn't jump on it when it appeared, then candidates may have only themselves to blame. If you want something enough you need to also do something about it.
Who else’s is tired of these trillion dollar companies talk and talk and have no products?
So, unless something changed over the last day, I'm in singapore and just accessed the site, so although I don't doubt the government would make onerous demands because that's what they do, they aren't blocked right now it seems.
A couple of decades ago, I was being interviewed for a position as the support developer. The interviewer asked me to tell what a piece of code was meant to do. I responded by by telling him that without context, the code was quite unclear. Strangely enough that was what he was looking for - someone who could recognise that the code needed further study before answering.

Subsequently I was offered the job and took it.

In a later interview for another position, during that interview it became very clear that they were wanting someone who would follow IT policy and NOT look after the end-user. I then couched my responses to focus on what the end-user needed.

Subsequently I didn't get offered the job for which I was very happy.
I have a hard time believing that a handful of digital nomads are responsible for rent increases and the other changes mentioned in the article.

In the US, you can find people from nearly every state who believe that Californians are responsible for driving up home prices. This article feels like an international version of that same myth.

As for digital nomads, my experience hiring or working with digital nomads has been universally negative for many years. All anecdotes, of course, but every one of them treated the job like a side project that they’d get to whenever they had some free time during a permanent vacation lifestyle. Some of them produced good work if you could micromanage them enough to make sure they were actually working, but the rest of the time felt like a game of chicken where they were constantly trying to push the limits of how little work they could do or how many meetings (rare but important at the time) they could miss or have their “camera broken” while they obviously tried to half listen in from some vacation spot. I’m sure there are good digital nomads out there, but I’ve been burned enough time that I prefer not to work with them unless it’s on a well-defined contract basis with clear project-based fees.
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> Don't you think that it's much more plausible a scenario where the regime needed a lot of cheap work…

It’s pretty clear that in at least a couple periods of Stalinist history, extreme paranoia led him to imprison or otherwise dispose of enemies in great numbers, e.g. 1937 and again with the Doctor’s Plot toward the end of his life. The late 30’s intensification is, after all, know as the Great Purge and not the great worker shortage.

Anne Applebaum’s scholarly account of the gulag is a great read on the subject. I think she would probably agree that the it wasn’t an either/or issue. Labour demands for industrialization were a driver as were Stalin’s own delusions.
I don't think it's possible for the pi to also act as a host on its other USB port if you do this, is it?
In modern hardware you may not perceive the difference but in older hardware the difference is more noticeable.
> What you're describing is premature optimisation.

Have you bothered to read my post ? I don't know how I can make it any clearer ?

1. NixOS were dependent on DONATED service(s)

2. It is not sensible to assume the service will continue being donated forever, that is just foolhardy.

Anyone who has ever run a business or has been involved in charitable work knows this. NixOS appears to have just learnt the hard way instead.
I have an RSS Feed reader where I randomly subscribe to blogs which I find here or on other places.

Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis.

Tech:

https://lobste.rs/
https://www.infoq.com/
https://simonwillison.net/
https://inside.java/

Art:
https://www.artnews.com/
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/

News:
https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)
Is this not a palatable alternative to shrugging your shoulders and saying, "I guess we're just fucked"? Determine root causes and pursue with full vigour, utilizing all available tools. Even if you fail, you're sending important signal to stakeholders.
If someone came up with a system design in 10 minutes, I wouldn’t want to hire them.

Deep wisdom here, indeed. Don't you dare say this during an actual interview, though -- especially when you're asked to do the system design part in 10 minutes or less. The last thing these companies could possibly want is to have reality to intrude.
Office suites cover quite a bit more use cases than LaTeX or markdown. Civil clerks worldwide use Word daily to create dense forms for people to fill out. That is a major pain in the ass to achieve with the tools you mentioned; you basically need a developer on call to create a template for you. Office suites enable almost untrained users to achieve that autonomously. Excel empowered hordes of complete laymen to do basic programming and perform database queries. I don't like office suits either, but credit where credit's due.
There’s a Snowball device for this kind of migration, which would be much cheaper.
I will paraphrase LKY: it is more kind to execute one drug trafficker than allow him to destroy thousands of families.

I don't disagree with him.
What I've heard from those I've talked to who have open sourced things successfully, they always talk about open sourcing things that work like plumbing or are foundational to what you do, but keeping the core of what you do yours.

I feel a similar inclination toward premade solutions, if something is the very core of your business or is the primary differentiator of your business then building a custom solution or creating an internal department is appropriate, if it isn't then buying a solution or using other people's software is usually the better choice.
Triphala is a supplement and comes from an ancient Indian medical practice, Ayurveda. The ingredients in it are very strong antioxidants. But check with your doctor(s) for your situation.

Franlab did a cool video on her handling of tinnitus https://youtu.be/CYKxDGukU0s
The warnings that M. Siebennmann hit (since this has come up again this year) were going to standard error.

If you write to standard error in a cron job, mail gets sent to root. All of the cron jobs using fgrep and egrep were suddenly mailing root, every single run, even when nothing went wrong.
Bush Senior was the head of the CIA before becoming president.

Not Prescott Bush, who allegedly tried overthrowing the democratically elected U. S. Government, the other Bush senior.
Equifax operates in an industry with a strong network effect and the data they lost belonged to the targets of their data collection, who are neither the people who submit credit reporting information to them nor their paying customers.

Other companies can be much more screwed. Suppose your customer list gets leaked, including their contact info and how much they're paying you for which services. First of all they're pissed at you. The next thing that happens is a competitor downloads the data and sends each of your customers a custom email offering their services for 10% less than they're paying you. While they're pissed at you.

But also, suppose you're Equifax and the people who breach your systems, instead of leaking the data, just delete it. Including the backups. Now you're out of business, because you have nothing to sell.
And actually, there's an even more devastating problem with being a dictator who surrounds themselves with yes-folk. Dictators don't like information that contradicts their perspective, and the yes-folk learn that. So eventually the dictator is only getting information that confirms what they think, and the org becomes incapable of adaptation.
I don't think we know what intelligence is or if it even exists as we conceive it.