skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would the strategy be any different at 40 for a software developer than any other age?

1. “Grind leetcode”

2. Study System design

3. Prepare for behavioral interviews

4. Apply for jobs that pay in the range acceptable to you.

I didn’t take my own advice at 40 and positioned myself for strategic cloud consulting + app development jobs. But that was a very narrow needle to thread. I wouldn’t suggest anyone else do it.

Besides cloud and AI are so saturated that’s really not a strategy.

I’m 50 now and spent my career until I was 40 at no name companies doing enterprise dev as mostly a “ticket taker”.

- 40 - early hire by a then new manager creating a “tiger team” at a satellite office

- 42 - first job as a lead where I oversaw integrations when the PE company was acquiring companies to get ordered to go public. My first exposure to AWS, even though I didn’t know much.

- 44 - first technical hire by a then new CTO who was tasked with bringing all development in house from a third party consulting company. I volunteered to lead all of the AWS initiatives, learned AWS and became the de facto architect

- 46 - AWS reached out to me about a remote position in the Professional Services department. I specialized in cloud architecture + app development - “application modernization”. Mid level position

- 50 - “staff software architect” at a third party consulting company
I hope so! I am rather literal-minded, usually speaking plainly, which means I tend to read others as tho they speak in the same way.

Thanks for the heads-up, friend.
I would say all of the most popular media. Both sides do it but I sure notice it a lot more on the left. Maybe that's not fair because 80% of the media leans hard left.

As for examples, this is the most obviously damning one I can remember: a pregnant nurse (white of course) was accused of stealing an e-bike from a black man standing in a group of several other black men. The NATIONAL media wasted zero time going to her employer, talking to her neighbors, basically putting her in danger over what was at worst a misunderstanding. The pundits were out there talking smack about "weaponized white tears" and that kind of horrible hateful rant against white people and especially white women. Here's one of the updates where she tried to get people off her back: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100201/Pregnant-N...
Has anyone synthesized the sound of a Zildjian cymbal from scratch?

ie impulse response hit depending on intensity scaled 0 to 1 > makes the sound
I just poked through your questions. There's a lot of overlap. Some areas (e.g. imaginary numbers) are only covered in further maths, but the calculus all looks good, for example.
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> I mean we wouldn’t want companies to fall afoul of some law because they had to take their forums down due to some privacy ruining bug in the software. Or because the old forum server sitting in the basement died. Or because the third party software they used for the server went out of business.

With the exception of maybe a transient bug, isn’t this exactly the point?

“We wouldn’t want a company to run afoul of [data preservation law] because they [neglected maintenance]” seems like the directly incorrect intent. We would want to compel the business to migrate or modernize any hosting to keep it active and viable. If their vendor goes out of business, they should’ve paid more or migrated the data.

If we’re discussing a local club then sure, they’re a victim to hardware failure or business changes, but this thread is full of billion-dollar-businesses. They can spend a few thousand dollars on a forum every few years. When I worked at $FAANG, my service had millions of users and cost like $10K/mo in hosting. Surely the Autodesk forum in read-only mode would cost a much less, and almost nothing if migrated to static HTML.
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Pensions? Not in the US - they're practically extinct [1]. Of course that means that people can be blamed for not saving in their 401k-s, which is also convenient.

1: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/19/pensions-are...
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I've honestly only experienced the opposite; their captcha is reasonably easy to bypass, and I've successfully automated access to a few sites "protected" by the Cloudflare captcha (behind a VPN, no less).

> I use a heavily customized Firefox config on Linux.

If you really care about privacy, you should blend in to look like everyone else. Avoiding being tracked raises alarm bells. You have to let them track something; but no one ever said it had to be you.
> Although very beautiful and functional, they require proper sanitation and careful maintenance. Being, in fact, the wood is a living and porous material, it is not advisable to sanitize the cutting board daily, as this could risk the proliferation of germs and bacteria.

https://www.euroceppi.com/en/blog-en/why-cant-wooden-cutting...

Makes sense to me, I never process meat at home on a wooden board. Only plastic and dishwasher after use.
> I dream of someone taking the internet archive data, capping it at 2010 or so, then making a search engine out of it

It sounds like you're describing CommonCrawl.org, and yes, it's already popular with AI companies.
Is this a list of some college dean's pet peeves?
When Oracle bought Sun/Solaris, they took down the public Solaris forums which made my job working with illumos forks very difficult without all the years relevant Solaris 10 questions and answers. In that case, it was a naked attempt to force people to license the then new Solaris 11.
TBF he has a blog.
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1. The result of the 2020 election is a big one

2. Supporting Germany's AfD, which e.g. backs "complete closure" of EU borders

3. Recently started advocating for a far-right loser in the UK (Tommy Robinson) who has multiple convictions including assault, assault, assault, mortgage fraud, contempt of court, and use of a false passport to enter the US

4. Continuing to insist that the Twitter Files showed that Dems stifled the Biden laptop story even after Matt Taibbi (who Musk hired to release the Twitter Files) wrote: "there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story."
I think the "information want to be free" crowd is very consistent. They want the information to be free. They don't want artificial scarcity.

Sure they'll use IP as a means to an end, but that doesn't mean they believe IP is a good idea in general. It's just one of few tools that exist to solve it.

In an ideal world all software would be forced to be FOSS, and we'd have to come up with ways of funding it that aren't based on artificial scarcity.
> I think it is commonly considered that for most metrics iPhone is better

I would debate that.

One thing is that iPhone is one, whereas Android is thousands. It's easier to trust an iPhone than a random Android phone. But there are certainly really good Android phones that are cheaper than iPhones. It's just hard to estimate the quality, again.
I read through the series my first time last year and as I was nearing the end I felt a deep sense of melancholy at not being able to continue on for another 20 books. I’m usually a science fiction and fantasy reader, so I was not expecting the Aubrey-Maturin novels to become one of my favorite series, but here we are.
I think you might be thinking of the LGPL, where it’s fine to use a piece of code if you dynamically link to it (and maybe something about providing relinkable object files, but I’m not too clear about that). The GPL, on the other hand, mandates that any code that interacts with GPL’d code must be GPL’d, unless it can be easily replaced or such and such (i.e. your non GPL code calls a GPL binary via fork & exec or the like).

I’m not an expert in this sort of thing, so a more knowledgeable person may chime in.
Its not. I have had honey installed on a separate chrome instance (mainly use FF). I was not aware that the extension pulled this, otherwise I would have never used it. There are some creators I follow, whose advice I somewhat trust and I have used their affiliate links to purchase a product. I want that creator to get the commission because they sold me on the product, not honey.

Also, just because something is standard industry practice, doesn't somehow make this behaviour any less egregious.
OP mentioned that they run a heavily modified browser, I think it means compiled with changes - docker means stock Firefox
Yeah, sounds just like something I'd say. :/
Sorry, I get what you mean, but I was wondering if you might be willing to share some examples?

I'm a frontend dev who occasionally hears this complaint from certain users. If there were some way to be more accommodating to them, I'd love to learn! For example, some people hate the "modern" use of a lot of whitespace with less text density, or mobile menus on desktop (I hate that too), etc.

I don't think any UX designer sets out to purposely try to overcomplicate things, but there are good designers and bad designers out there, and also, most of them are young and don't have the lived experience of older computer users and don't remember older UIs. I would love to share comments and tips with them if I knew what the specific issues were.
This is why it's so important to have local copies of things you value. Movies, shows, games, Youtube channels, everything.
Dipshits write handwringing clickbait articles about it?
This is internationally recognized as a part of Moldova. It seems (correct me, if I'm wrong) that there is a general consensus among the UN that is a place from a country illegally occupied by the army of other country for decades.

> It's quite telling that you don't care about civilians living there.

I'm just telling a possible consequence of this situation.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Do they care about civilians living there? If they care, why are they still occupying the place since the 90's. Why still there, if Russia signed a treaty agreeing to withdraw its troops no later than 2002? (to break later their own promise). And in 2016 again. And even after the UN said "withdraw the troops right now" in 2018. If they don't care, why should we?

I assume that the majority of natives from the area (that don't descend from Russians), should have the right to be left alone in their own country. Why only the ethnically Russians should have rights there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_presence_in_T...
Ah, but do you have a white paper?
> Yes, anyone who isn't hysterical about the possibility of old people dying is autistic.

That's an interesting perspective. I don't share it, however. My perspective is this.

After several decades of autistic folks being deeply embedded in my life, I've come to view the spectrum as a normalcy that all of us reside on. Our challenges aren't equal but our list of possible factors is.

In that view, HFA is a shorthand we use to indicate someone exhibits enough degrees of enough factors. I see HFA as a pointer to a cluster, not a person.

Two of those factors are a dearth of connection and authenticity. I believe our poster exhibited both. The reason I referenced HFA: It's the term I know that also points to a strong presentation of both of those. If you have a better, I might adopt it.

Regarding a dearth of connection, it's something I'm intimate with. I've managed to develop some empathy but it's like trying to grow a garden without seed, soil, air or sunlight.

But if someone is there, I know they've already brought what they have to the table. I need to adjust my expectations.
> So then why not warrant against it if this is so certain?

They do. 8 years / 100,000 mile warranties suggest that ~3 sigma lifetime is at that level. IOW, Tesla likely believes that >99.5% of all cars will not need a warranty battery replacement by that point. To hit that level, the average car needs to do a lot better than that.

> Also, ICE gas tanks don't get smaller over time.

If measured in miles/tank, they definitely do. The gas mileage a 10 year old car gets is worse than the same car when it was new.
Just packaged Ghostty for Debian.

https://github.com/clayrisser/debian-ghostty
There's also the third category of projects receiving funding.
I heard that vague snippet from the podcast in the video. From my time in the affiliate space (which was a few years ago), Honey would not let merchants delete a code unless it was an employee or internal code. If it was publicly available, they refused to delete a code without providing an equivalent exclusive code. Maybe that policy has changed? If so, that's definitely bad, but I have no way to confirm that and I don't see any proof.

But they are allowed to claim attribution even if they don't find a coupon. Merchants know this when partnering with Honey. Most of the time, even if users don't find a coupon, they still get cash back which is funded through the commission.

Like I said, the affiliate industry is pretty wack and that's why I left it, but this is far from a scam.
UUID7 is excellent.

I want to share a django library I wrote a little while back which allows for prefixed identity fields, in the same style as Stripe's ID fields (obj_XXXXXXXXX):

https://github.com/jleclanche/django-prefixed-identity-field...

This gives a PrefixedIdentityField(prefix="obj_"), which is backed by uuid7 and base58. In the database, the IDs are stored as UUIDs, which makes them an efficient field -- they are transformed into prefixed IDs when coming out of the database, which makes them perfect for APIs.

(I know, no documentation .. if someone wants to use this, feel free to file issues to ask questions, I'd love to help)
Just Packaged Ghostty for Debian
Why are over 1/3rd of US states on your remote work blacklist?

When I asked your virtual recruiting assistant why my state was on the list, the response: “Great! Take a look at the 3 recommended positions I found for you.”
In the same way that murderers should get some credit for opening people's eyes to the reality that there are other murderers.
Don’t forget the Russian and Turkish Baths in the east village (NYC) - my favorite instance of a familial dispute resulting in a business splitting. Now it is two businesses occupying the same physical location, but different temporal locations: when you get a pass it’s only valid for certain days of the week depending on which brother’s business you purchased it for.
Reminds me of this famous paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202
This is solveable. For every high frequency poster, show them in the feed at the time of their oldest of a batch of posts in duration X. Reveal all these posts with ui at that point in the timeline. Tune duration X.
Reminds me tangentially of the saying attributed to Mohammed - "Trust in God. But tie your camel first."
I don't see that much opensource coming from china.

For example the popular arm rockchip offerings are so bad at contributing to mainline linux or even sharing documentation that the single person supporting them dropped it due to lack of fund and being unable to get any contact to share documentation.

IMHO, chinese opensource does at best the same thing many western companies do:

Opensource the things that are not you secret sauce/income, or things which would benefit you if people adopt them.

With the added caveat that china in generally is notorious for not abiding by patent laws and copying.
I explained this very clearly. The exercise of course has to consume calories. But that doesn't mean they have to be calories in excess of your base metabolic rate. What happens is that your base metabolic rate decreases more or less commensurately with the amount of extra calories you're consuming through excercise. If your BMR was 2000 Cal/day when doing 0 calories from excercise per day, and then you start exercising for 300 Cal/day, your BMR will decrease to about 1700 Cal after some time of maintaining this routine.
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If anyone wants to play arround with simulating it, here is a Dockerfile I use:

# Dockerfile
FROM ubuntu:24.04

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential clang libclang-dev llvm-dev cmake libspdlog-dev vim git curl wget time default-jre default-jdk
RUN git clone --recursive https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/xs-env
WORKDIR /xs-env
RUN sed 's/apt\S* install/\0 -y/g;s/source /. /g;s/sudo //g' -i ./*.sh
RUN . ./env.sh && sed 's/\/master/\/master/g;s/$/; cd \/xs-env/g' -i ./update-submodule.sh && ./update-submodule.sh

RUN . ./env.sh && ./setup-tools.sh
RUN . ./env.sh && . ./install-verilator.sh
RUN . ./env.sh && sed 's/^git submodule.*$//g;s/env.*$//g' -i ./setup.sh && . ./setup.sh

RUN . ./env.sh && make -C XiangShan init
RUN . ./env.sh && cd DRAMsim3 && mkdir build && cd build && cmake -D COSIM=1 .. && make -j 8
RUN . ./env.sh && make -C XiangShan emu CONFIG=DefaultConfig WITH_DRAMSIM3=1 MFC=1 -j 8

RUN . ./env.sh \
&& sed 's/unknown-//g;s/rv64gc/rv64gcv/g' -i $AM_HOME/am/arch/*.mk $AM_HOME/am/arch/isa/*.mk \
&& sed 's/define MSTATUS_FS.*$/define MSTATUS_FS 0x6600/g' -i $AM_HOME/am/src/*/isa/riscv/boot/*.S

WORKDIR nexus-am/apps/hello
RUN make ARCH=riscv64-xs

# $NOOP_HOME/build/emu --no-diff -i ./build/hello-riscv64-xs.bin 2>/dev/null

Make sure you have 64GB of RAM. I only had 16GB, but allocating additional 48GB of swap worked.

There are probably some redundant steps, but this worked for me last time I tried.
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Tesla FSD (Supervised Self Driving) is arguably a robot with fast precise responses, in a computationally constrained environment. This is using a similar end to end neural net architecture and is being generalized to their Optimus robot.
https://archive.ph/cQRzP
you could use nmap or tcpping as the probe . smokeping supports any diagnostic