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This list somehow doesn't have "converter" (to refer to a television remote), which was the first word to unexpectedly baffle my American coworkers the first time I said it, to my own surprise.

No one here wants to admit that personal safety is a major factor in avoiding some forms of public transit in many cities in America.

This model has the chance to succeed based on that alone.

IIRC in the USA there are features allowed to be installed aftermarket that aren't legal to be installed as a dealer option (like front side-window tinting)

Doesn't the same concern apply to your passport?

I guess the term would be "conspicuous consumption".

As to why Koenigsegg doesn't get the rep, I'll take the outside opinion that it's because their name is too inaccessible whereas "Bugatti" slips easily into rap lyrics.

What would you call "corp dev type wages"?

Exactly. I feel constant ascendancy and the opportunity to do so would be a fortunate thing.

For OP, I feel there might be qualifiers that preclude such opportunities, like total comp or location. If you're looking for comp above the mid 100s or very low 200s at max, you're gonna struggle to find jobs that meet your criteria. On the converse side, these opportunities can be found in mid/low COL locations, so that number goes a lot farther.

This is the main reason why I have skepticism towards any claims of imminent AGI.

HN's title character limit is 80 (and the title is exactly 80 characters), so it was abbreviated to fit.

Tiktok is popular on a global level. They'll just block access to US users with a link to the details of the ban, and let things stew up the heat until the US budges.

It's not being thrown away, it will work as normal in every other country except the United States.

To quote directly from the linked article:

"The law’s supporters have, at times, minimized the ban’s impact on the First Amendment, citing the mistaken belief that TikTok users can simply move to another platform. From a constitutional perspective, this is nonsense. The government can’t justify shutting down The Washington Post because readers can simply buy The New York Times instead."

But they're not asking ByteDance to just divest a portion for US operations, are they? It's successful in many countries, so it seems kind of radical to force them to sell everything just to continue operating in one country.

Really? From my reading of it, it seems to focus how such a ban would inhibit the speech of US citizens who use the application, not TikTok as an entity.

I will say: Tiktok is very popular in many countries other than America. Forcing a company to sell its entire business just to continue operations in one country seems flawed, even if the US constitutes a major share.

In a strange way, if it was a blanket China ban, it would almost feel less arbitrary than this, which was crafted to target ByteDance.

The fact they packaged it inside a funding bill that would have been politically unpopular for Congress to oppose also makes me speculate that they felt it wasn't strong enough to stand up to scrutiny on its own merits

The article title implies an opinion the direct opposite of his feelings and the blog content

Not in their traditional form now that the zeitgeist of the ZIRP tech boom is over. The waves of media stories about tech layoffs have probably dampened the hopes of those that would have been previously inclined, and the economical conditions mean that less have the luxury or means to spend months unemployed or part-time.

I have see a surge of bootcamp-esque places in tech destinations that seem to be offering a "find the spark again" (and/or "fill the resume gap after the layoff" if you're a cynical prick like me) that seem to cater to the already educated/experienced crowd, which I feel are potentially viable.

As someone who did a year-long bootcamp-esque program in web development at a community college, followed by employment in tech (during which I picked up a BSc and MS in Comp Sci part-time while working), I can say that a very good bootcamp program can teach you to code in a very skilled manner, well-and-above what you pick up in a BSc in CS.

And unless you work early on at a place with a big emphasis on properly educating and mentoring juniors off the bat, you can have a big leg up with raw coding skill imo.

Was this Insight Software? I usually wouldn't ask since you didn't volunteer the name, but seeing as throwaway is in your username I'd figured I'd ask.

"because you want to work for Google" /s

I agree. Click here also provides better context if the CSS doesn't clearly indicate a hyperlink or if the user is unfamiliar with html link styling, and in cases where the web browser veers into non-standard territory.

The past decade and ventures like WeWork and Theranos have shown me that profitability doesn't necessarily have bearing over a certain timescale.

You can keep the bus rolling for a surprisingly long time before the wheels fall off.

My natural instinct to return to the "default" view (as in, how the page looked the very first time before I interacted with anything) was to click the header text at the top (that says "deal with it"). Same as you click the "Hacker News" text at the top to return to the default home page view.

Just as something to be a quick "oops, didn't want to use that image, I want to go back to how the site is when I first visited it", and essentially wipe the state.

The history stuff is secondary, since that was my second instinct after trying to find and hit a "home" button, just from my personal UX perspective.

I recommend reading the book "The 48 Laws of Power". Learning how the game of power is played on these sorts of stages was very elucidating to me.

I remain skeptical, and I agree with Ed's observations, but I also starting to think that the AI bubble is the only thing holding back a widespread tech depression currently, so I try to remain mostly passive on the topic.

That's fantastic stuff!

Minor UX notes: - clicking the header doesn't navigate back to the "home" screen - singular page history (so the back button doesn't take you back to the previous page state)

Combined it made it not intuitive for me how to "get rid" of the selection I'd created (I eventually figured it out, but the previous two points were what I intuitively tried first)

Aren't datacenters usually pretty hardened buildings? I would think they're okay but disconnected.

There's a chunk of people who will pay to see a movie at a big multiscreen theater, then go from one movie to another and see a whole days worth of movies for the price of one.

As you said, a "weird" movie doesn't keep their attention, so they just distracted themselves with their phones to kill the time until the next movie.

As an aside, the funniest instance of this phenomenon I ever encountered was when I was at an evening screening of an incredibly embarrassing idol anime movie at an AMC and two extremely out of place people walked in partway through, lasted about 5 minutes and then had to bail when one of the singing numbers started lol.

The areas with the super high TCs seem to have a lower base % and higher stock %.

I'd like to know if the derived dollar values are the historic actualized or the current value. Because historically there was a real fortunate time to have your RSUs skyrocket, but now that things are stable/declining is the TC still that high?

I'm assuming the PO isn't technical so git-log, git-blame, etc. are over their head.

Which itself begs why they'd need this level of detail on the codebase.