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Whether or not your manager is capable of helping you shape your career is an open question, for sure. But 20 people, over an 18-year career, and not a single one of them bring it …

From a game-theory perspective, if players rush the field with AI-generated content because it's where all the advantages are this year, then there's going to be room on the margin…

Who will take the coal from the mine? Who will take the salt from the earth? Who'll take a leaf and grow it to a tree? Don't look now, it ain't you or me

This reminds me of the American Science & Surplus catalogs we used to get in the mail. Hand-drawn pictures of each product along with cheeky copy for almost all the little motors a…

Starts so strong with "governance structures, accountability, how their data is used, jobs being lost, etc," refutes that what we mean is some sci-fi scenario when we ask about eth…

Sectoral unions are a key to this kind of strength in labor. But the political landscape in the US, both in the form of laws already on the books and the "us vs them" mindset that …

Not every day you click a link on HN and see Minutemen in the header image on the article. Chalking that up as a win and a sign to go do something splendidly useless with the rest …

“You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.” - The Dude

I built automated tests and frameworks. You can get pretty far in a career in test automation while still learning and getting better because people perceive the code as important …

Great, now I can feel inferior comparing my work to other people's failures in addition to their successes.

This person worked mornings, evenings, and weekends for a year for (optimistically) a $2400 USD annual raise and calls it passive income.

It's overlay ads, for folks who don't want to click through.

I think you’re finding arguments in what I’m saying that I’m not actually putting in there. That’s fine! I respect your point of view.

Advocating for laws that promote reasonable childhood independence benefits families where all the adults have to work more hours to get by, leaving their kids in safe but unsuperv…

I think it's smart to frame this as an anti-poverty issue. People often imagine "suburban" families falling victim to overreaching child neglect laws and enforcement. In fact poor …

> She, like many of the independent workers we spoke with, was also lucky enough to maintain health care coverage through her spouse. Gotta think that if coverage wasn't set up the…

Take improv classes. You’ll learn how to listen and how to carry on conversations about other people’s deals. You might even find more confidence about your own sense of humor. You…

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I use Weather Strip, which has a unique and slick interface for the upcoming week’s forecast. I’ve never seen another weather app quite like it.

LastPass, which can’t be spelled without a-l-a-s.

Half day!

HN comments tend to have an anti-leetcode tone, but that’s rooted in resentment at the reliance on those types of problems in the hiring process. The problems themselves are benign…