skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 90% of the time when I read descriptions it is excruciatingly obvious to me that whatever code the chosen candidates will end up writing at this job will be completely removed from any important problem not only humanity, but even any individual human has ever had. Startup culture is shamelessly at the forefront of this industry’s ‘produce more code and ask less questions’ policy.

I would suggest that part of the problem is that many developers wish they could work on meaningful projects with good people at the pay rate that they are currently getting at $FAANG or with the amount of equity they'd be getting at $STARTUP.

In practice, employees treat meaning, independence, agency, and work-life balance as currency and are willing to take a pay cut in order to secure a meaningful job. Better jobs are out there (I found one), but if you're currently working for an adtech company or an AI startup you will almost certainly need to be willing to look at a much lower salary than you might be accustomed to.
Just to have a pile of them to run my fingers down while picking one to play. I started with a small list and then recreated my childhood. Then it was all those “always wanted to play that” games and the finally modern homebrew.
I have similar feelings with leetcode.

I love software engineering, but leetcode makes me hate software engineering.

I just want to build cool stuff. I don't want to implement LRU cache and another leetcode medium-hard in under 40 mins from memory.
But alleviates the market of people who are in densely populated areas that aren't particularly precious about living there.
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I can see how it’s annoying to have to submit some kind of IT request every time you, as a developer, need sudo to install something. It may “help” but there is a non negligible cost to the company to source all those requests. The risk/reward in productivity vs falling for an actual, successful phishing attempt is probably a no brainer for most companies.
Have you tried buying somewhere in Scotland recently? Nowhere (in cities at least) sells for less than 20% over home report price. You can't get a mortgage for anything over home report price, so a £189,000 (median price) property requires almost 60k in cash up-front.

As of 2022, the median salary in Scotland is £27,000. It's pretty unaffordable for the average person who doesn't have money from their parents.
I’m not seeing anyone point at monetary/trade policy here. Every western government is running the same playbook of loose monetary policy and (at least in aggregate across the monetary unions) large structural trade deficits. We buy manufactured trinkets, and what do those countries do with the money, when we’re not offering enough goods and services to balance the trade? Some of it goes to eg US treasuries, but presumably, because we’re running inflationary monetary policy, a lot of it goes to buying assets, like property and companies. (I would dig up a foreign investment balance chart, but the gist is that the US went from investing in everyone else/buying up everyone else’s assets to the opposite happening).

We’ve basically been living well above our means for quite a while, paying with the wealth we’d stored up, and now our assets are getting bid up past the point where much of our populations can afford it.
First time buyer mortgages are 35 years, you’d buy as a couple so it’s two incomes, and 1% is £180k

Also either your description is wrong or the valuation is wrong. 1 mile from e.g. Orpington would be around £500k for a 3 bed house
Inject you with some sodium thiopental and then further use a $5 wrench as needed for motivation. ;)
There are people like you. All is not lost.

You may find the world of “Civic Tech” better aligned with your values. Look into organizations like

Code for America, Center for Humane Technology, the U.S Digital Service, 18F, The Berkman Klein Center, and the Public Interest Technology Initiative at UMass.
>To be clear, are you using the strict definition of "red light run" (ie. entering an intersection when the light is red), or the somewhat looser definition of "entering an intersection when it shows as green for the other direction"?

What do you think? Use the context clues from the previous post. Short light cycle. Cars speeding 40mph to make the light 10+ cars running reds. Does it really need to be more explicit?
You can think of the #lang line as a kind of compiler instruction with that file as scope. There's much more to it but that's a good starting point. If you have an application and want to add types doing it one file at a time is a good strategy.

Besides the #lang line you can also use 'require to bring in libraries, so a single file could contain GUI as well as web server code. #lang isn't constrained to one language at a time either, if they don't conflict you can just add more to that line.
Why venture capital should embrace divergence
Key points:

VC Industry Evolution: The venture capital industry is evolving into distinct early and late stages, functioning almost as separate asset classes, unlocking new value by embracing their differences.

New Approaches and Strategies: Innovations like continuation funds, prototyped by firms like Lightspeed, are reshaping VC by shortening liquidity horizons and optimizing fund sizes and investment strategies.

Structural Bifurcation: VC is dividing into early stage (pre-seed to Series C) and late stage (Series C to exit), each with its own characteristics, investor base, and liquidity mechanisms.

Economic Considerations: The industry is reconsidering fee structures and the effects of rational market evaluations on returns, especially in the context of recent market shifts that favor fundamentals over inflated valuations.
Have you tried Transit App ?

https://transitapp.com/
Low interest rates _should have_ allowed builders to build more homes too, but they haven't.
what game Dev stack do you use?
> Sometimes the compromise may be less money but a more fulfilling role

Once one reaches a point in their career where they have options this is almost universally true. It's in fact the reason why some jobs pay more, because they need to for people to do them instead of something more fulfilling.

I've had jobs where I thought with a few changes this would be awesome, but eventually realized it's those few differences that mean someone is going to pay me well to do it. Depending on many things, this may be worth it to you or not.
Some of the sought-after addresses in London are in brutalist developments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Estate
It's mainly due to the square/cube law. Small things, including animals, can fall from great heights with little damage.
Yes, many people present a choice between “code quality” and speed, but this choice is false because tickets are not independent.

Choices made with the current one affect the speed of the next.

Sure you may make a tradeoff between speed and quality in a particular task, but that does not hold over a week or month of work.
I have no problem with it. I'm fortunate in that my own parents took advantage of it and I'll likely inherit it with my siblings.

Part of what I was meaning is that a lot of people did take advantage of it from the boomer gen but they're staying in homes bigger than they necessarily need, maybe just a 'bump' of old activity that will even out over the next 10-20 years.
> Personally, I'd prefer a self-funding mechanism, alone because governments (not just in the US, it's just most pronounced there) seem to be completely incapable of actually governing, and preferring to cut costs even where it's actually life-critical.

The FAA is in fact a part of the US government, which self-funds its operations via taxes, such as the surcharge you've just suggested (and if you ever look at your flight tickets past the airport codes and flight times, you might notice that passengers already pay several taxes that fund the Department of Transportation and airports themselves).
in 1950 in the book "the human use of human beings", the famous mathematician Norbert Weiner pointed out your exact sentiment. Complaining that instead of solving problems, or doing anything new or interesting, people were using these "computing machines" to increase the efficiency of the parts of the capitalist machine that caused the problems in the first place.

Nobody listened, and nothing has changed.
This sort of breakdown seems to be happening across multiple industries. I mean, look at Boeing.
Somehow the post seemed to miss the amount of time I seem to spend on "busy work" in coding. Not meetings and that sort of thing, but just boring, repetitive, non-thinking coding.

Stubbing in a routine is fast, but then adding param checking, propagating errors, clean up, adding comments, refactoring sections of code into their own files as the code balloons, etc.

There's no thinking involved in most of the time I am coding. And thank god. If 11/12 of my time was spent twisting my brain into knots to understand the nuances of concurrency or thread-locking I would have lost my hair decades earlier.
I noticed the islands too (apparently only islands above a certain size "qualify" - of the Canary Islands you only get Gran Canaria and Tenerife, of the Galapagos Islands only Isabela, of the Azores - nothing), but all European "microstates" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_microstates) are also not shown, some of them (Liechtenstein, San Marino) not even as labels.
And the fact that humans have feelings does not mean we can’t use them as slaves when needed.

See? Ethics are like that: there must be something we give value too, if we want to stop somewhere and build something. In that case, the core value being raised is that the ability to be aware, suffer and have emotions is morally valuable.
I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this. I feel less and less sure of my abilities the more I see wonderful stuff like.

I can’t imagine the effort involved in this. Someone did mention this takes advantage of prior work just rerendering in ascii and mapping to procs but that’s not a negligible amount of work. How long did this take? I feel like I know nothing and I’ve been in this industry for more than I’d like to say.

This is awesome but I feel incredibly stupid.
> Only thing I care now is a paycheck with ridiculously high salary.

... and also about minimizing the amount of stress experienced. Mostly through simply doing the bare possible minimum, but sometimes also doing a bit more to prevent stress down the line.

Caring-just-enough-to-not-care-a-lot-later-driven development I call it.
> One reason is that it has one of the best cross platform native gui solutions out there.

I'm always a bit skeptical of these statements. How does it define "native"? Does it use gtk/libadwaita on Gnome and Qt on KDE? What about windows, does it use Win32, WPF, WinUI2 or WinUI3, all of which could be considered "native"? What about platform-dependent layouts?
>just says that you want people to carry on doing that work

Or that we don't want them to starve. We are talking about the US where their isn't really an effective solution to help people without jobs.
Or simpler than that, surprise, work is less fun than hobby.

Even if you work for yourself doing what you love, even say it's making furniture or whatever, there's always going to be things like customers want the 'wrong' things, or won't pay extra for the nicer exotic material, etc. doing purely what you love as a hobby with no work aspect is always going to be better.
Yes, but while thatd be a lot easier for epub (vs PDF), you can fundamentally do that for any other format too.

You could even - technically - take a picture as an input and then render it via background color rgb() using divs pixel-by-pixel. thatd still fall under that description.
Huh, I guess this is just totally misaligned with my lived experiences working for startups. It's the only environment I've ever worked in where engineers are allowed to do engineering. I don't just write code, I get to be the architect of a broader system.

If you don't want to work for a company that makes meaningless bullshit, then... don't. There are plenty of companies making things that are actually useful to society. Go work there instead.
You would just film almost _directly_ across the river and shoot on the South Bank, one of the major brutalist outposts in London. It's lovely.
60K maybe if you want the best interest rates.

In this example we're now talking about first time buyers (presumably and as a couple), wanting an 'average' priced home (could start lower) earning 4K above minimum wage.
Yes, exactly, and you skip an agent.

The agents take more resources than the services on some of my machines, which is lunacy if you ask me, but we have to check those audit boxes and the security team isn’t very capable…err…creative.
With Javascript disabled the aspect that is a pet peeve isn't some broken functionality of a site (which one would expect) but when a considerable amount of sites add a blank overlay until JS and/or cookies are enabled.

And not the scenario where JS is responsible for loading the content but literally when it's just an arbitrary blank viewport-encompassing element covering the already loaded content—all so the site can then add some animation and remove the overlay when they feel the content should be shown.

It's ridiculous for functionality. When I overhauled a wiki for a project it similarly added such an overlay and I promptly removed it. Nothing on the wiki beside the search was functionally broken without JS yet it required both JS and cookies to be enabled before a user could view anything.
> Completely disabling JavaScript is a no-go these days

Wrong. I use a browser in a VM when needed, and I don't do that very often, maybe once or twice a day. No ads, fast static text, low cpu, very safe, it's pretty damn good.
They mean this: https://youtu.be/_LJi5na897Y
The gentrifying parts of Brooklyn + Queens (and the Bronx!) have gotten better—-no thanks to tweedledee and tweedledumb. But the parts that were already middle class have gotten worse, just like Manhattan.
Long-termism and effective altruism are labels that are on the surface attractive, or at worst benign if wrong-headed. But in many instances they are destructive: telling people Mars can be colonized by humans, and that being "multiplanetary" is sensible diverts attention from duller but vastly more pressing issues.

The real answer to colonizing Mars is something a lot of people would find disturbing: A species of post-human beings would have to be engineered for the role of colonist. That's just for starters. But the scifi version is what gets sold to the public.
The Difference Between Startup Valuation and Round Pricing
(1) more than just a grain of truth, more like the elephant in the room; net migration into the UK is more than 4 times higher than France, and population density is currently almost 3 times higher, and rising.
You can always zoom to a level such that there's nothing there. And if all that is there is a few small villages, then "nothing there" isn't far of the mark anyway.

If you include smaller cities to 'fill in blank spaces', then either:

a) You'd have to drop a bigger city/suburb elsewhere. Not display a 1M town to be able to display a 10k town in thinly populated area elsewhere? Hmmm...

b) Or the app get bigger. Which defeats the purpose of having a tiny world map.

Want more detail? Just use some other app.
In my opinion, you shouldn't need to prototype all of these options .. but you will need to stress test any points where you have uncertainty.

The prototype should provide you with cast iron certainty that the final design can be implemented, to avoid wasting a huge amount of effort.
I have seen this done. It was funny to watch from afar.
I think this issue is in stasis until the older generations of homeowners pass away. They have made their opinions known, many times. They do not want more housing.

The only question is if younger generations of homeowners remember their experiences as renters and follow a different path.
Soulseek is still pretty good.
Governance is always a brake pedal, not an accelerator.

Friction stabilizes a system--at no point am I advocating anarchy--at the cost of gain.

When engineering, never lose sight of the trade-offs.
Are there ways to work without quantifying things? Sure. However, anytime you want to systematize something, you need to quantify them.

Still, the GP wants to know if there are ways of working without assigning “arbitrary” points to stuff, i.e. systematization for its own sake. You can certainly quantify things in a meaningful way for your problem.

While scrum and SAFe may be the right approach when working to find a technical fit to a customer problem, where estimates of “complexity” linearly map to some unit of time (conversation factor). These agile implementations fail completely whenever there are non-trivial, system level, non-functional requirements to satisfy. If you don’t have a platform supporting your work, and you’re in the act of building it, you’re no longer doing programming, you’re doing engineering.

In this case, the “systematization” that can be adopted are knowledge based approaches. DoD systems engineering has adopted “knowledge points” as an approach, which ties work to capabilities, which can be utilized at a program level. Which capabilities you have achieved is a metric that demonstrates work, and ties to things you actually want, as opposed to made up metrics, like points, which really tell you how good you are at estimating, but nothing else.

Other approaches are priority based. If you’re in a more service based environment, where work capacity is constant and goals change, a kanban board can be used to limit work in progress and prioritization can be set by either a risk based approach or a using cost of delay.
My understanding is that the restrictions aren't on the local councils - they can choose to approve more housing, like what Croydon did a few years ago. It's just most councils don't.
Does this use or relate to eBPF in any way?
Because in a hobby you are your own master and in a job someone else is your superior and orders you to do things. If you are lucky many of these things are what you would like to do anyway.
Copying isn't free though. Every front-end application built on Electron or running in a container that duplicates half of the OS stack burns more memory on my computer, forcing earlier upgrades of either the entire machine or RAM with each year that passes.

It's free to produce, but the cost of running more copied software always increases.
Xmind and draw.io
> patients fill out forms on an iPad

My favorite part of this is that most of these setups still ask for the same pieces of information over and over again. Sometimes even on the same page.

Or stuff like "todays date". Really?
Hope it's okay to self-plug here (seems highly relevant): what you say is a big reason why I organize the Handmade conferences for a living and why they're free of sponsors [0].

An implicit goal is to grow popular enough to the point that enough programmers collectively agree they should have a say in the "corporate world," such as demanding that we slow down "pumping out" new features and make greater investments in software quality.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/about
so much this. Certbot is a monster with incredible amount of dependencies.
i must be a nudist because every day is javascript naked day
I’m coding for my own projects and care about code quality a lot and maybe too much, however in my opinion as a collective our biggest weaknesses is that we are political about everything. If we have a job or a goal this should be our main decision driver. That sometimes means to push back for quality but sometimes just getting the job done. Our goals should be aligned with the companies goal and still we need to accept hierarchies.

Stubborn coders can kill a company but coders that can suck their ego will be paid a lot more over time.

Not saying you have to, whatever feels right in your life’s philosophy but if you take a job the job is determined by company interest and not your interest. You are free to leave if you don’t like.

I honestly think this is best for the society as it makes us productive.
The run stable-diffusion webui and get base models off civit.ai
And Via is like if Uber wanted to dismantle public transport.

Knowing how they are using the data from citymapper, I've since uninstalled it.
Thanks. This focuses on the most common daily need, with really clean design and display of information, and live updates as a flourish. Definitely sparks joy.
There are certainly web apps that could not function without JavaScript. This initiative is more of a protest to shoving functionally useless JavaScript down your throat when you browse a news site or read an article.

JavaScript should progressively enhance those types of websites, and not be a strict requirement.
Did they steal his credentials in the phishing test? Or was failure simply clicking the link?

These are very different scenarios.
This is SOO Good! Thank you for making this.

Just as an idea: I think your demo should include an optional "Locate Me" button that requests geolocation perms and prints the lat long point on the map.
It looks like the traditional get-older-vote-Tory path is broken, so it wouldn't surprise me if this happened. Pity it'll be too late for me to benefit though.
Makefile-graph: Parse Make's internal database and generate a graph
I’m specifically referring to introducing steps into the manufacturing process with no oversight, which the (now flagged) post was saying Musk couldn’t foresee.
Or, like, learn C and get a job in one of thousands of companies whose products have relied on it for decades.
> when was the last time you got complete, consistent, and unambiguous requirements?

This made me cry/laugh. Very astute.
The innovative use of drones to capture a never-before-seen moment in nature?

Nature/science meets technology/science.

I found this fascinating.
'We can do this, we're birds, just flap...'
Not a car company
That doesn't tell you how many different engines there are that support it though, only the amount of marketshare covered. Compare it to web-bluetooth (which both Apple and Mozilla have rejected and is hence not a standard): https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth, which shows 76.24% (as of this post's time). Chromium-based broswers have it, others do not, hence it doesn't really matter what the actual percentage is, only which engines support it (and currently, of the big 3, only 1 does support it).
An interesting article and discussion points. Like all theatres of tech, there are great companies and terrible companies to work for. The terrible (big) ones usually pay very well, but they want their pound of flesh and you are there to generate revenue.

One thing I do know after 30 years in tech - recruitment is completely, utterly and fundamentally broken!!
There are absolutely other choices. But those choices won't work for the vast majority of people.
Nope. Academia has a very sad bottom line as well.

What OP needs is enough financial stability and political will that they can do whatever they want. This can be slowly achieved by grinding at a corporation, taking political control and grinding or by violence / threat of violence.
I’m specifically referring to introducing steps into the manufacturing process with no oversight, which the (now flagged) post was saying Musk couldn’t foresee. I’m not talking about recalls, which obviously do happen.
I don’t think this methodology works, unless we are very experienced.

I wanted to work that way, when I was younger, but the results were seldom good.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

-Attributed to Nasrudin
Online dating spells the end of Britain's lonely-hearts ads
https://archive.ph/6Vv3g