jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So what, even if Amazon pays slightly above a minimum living wage, the working conditions are extremely bad (e.g. no adequate toilets, extremely long walking times towards the break room, drivers being forced to piss in bottles, employees being pitted against each other by a relentless algorithm without respect for differences in age, body strength or whatever).

Given that the social security system in the US (and to be fair, even in Europe) is pretty lacking and Amazon (as well as Walmart) is setting up shop exclusively in areas with high unemployment, it can very well be said that people have the free choice to work at Amazon instead of another employer that treats their workers better, so yes it is perfectly valid to call it "de facto indentured servitude".
That is absurd. He's not saying "I have an idea, and with a bit of help we might reach extraordinary numbers", he claims "better faster leaner than everybody else".
Interesting use of slashes
Because it’s not a profitable problem for telcos to solve, and telcos have lots of lobbying power to ensure Washington doesn’t make them stop. They value the pennies they get from routing these calls more than all of our financial futures combined. Good thing we have a choice and so much competition here!
Is there a search alternative that isn't just using Google or Bing underneath? DDG is just Bing and all the recent filtering and what not that Bing has been doing also applies to DDG. Many things that used to show up on DDG no longer do.
I'm reminded of an interview I saw with Ayn Rand a long time ago. I can't find the exact interview anymore but I did find an interview where she describes the general idea [1]. It is a central tenant of Objectivism that we should be doing more for gifted children based on the assumption that gifted adults contribute more to society.

We see echoes of this philosophy in our culture of belief in 10x engineers. I see it in Jeff Bezos' management philosophy of doubling down on success or in Google's philosophy of killing off under-performing projects. It is the mantra of VC capitalism where we'd rather kill middling projects that are limping along in the hopes or redirecting capital to the one 100x return behemoth.

I find Rand's ideas repugnant myself but I always admired that she plainly and unabashedly spoke them. Nowadays people who believe that kind of stuff are much more subtle.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1HD8KXn-kI
Yes, definitely! I've raised chickens for many years in the city, always 2-4 hens. You get enough eggs for yourself, and they're pretty easy even if you do some light traveling.

Some breeds are better with humans, while others rather be left alone, so if that's important, I'd recommend seeing how they are when you pick them up.

The main challenge is keeping them safe from predators, and it's a bit of stress when you're at home and think you hear them squawking and have to run out to check that they're safe.
Make it Clear by Patrick Henry Winston [0] is slightly related to this. I learned a lot of things from it.

I first got to know about him through his now famous video- How to Speak [1].

[0]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/make-it-clear

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
> Make sure you start high then request a 5% raise Every year! If you wait five years and request 25% it's Never gonna happen! If possible, try to get 2.5% every six month.

It's worth noting that due to compounding, these are not mathematically the same.

In 5 years:

5%/year: 27% raise from base

2.5%/6mo: 28% raise from base
I think in particular that there is value in spreading memes that 1) the possibility of anonymity is vital to a free society; and that 2) abuse of anonymity undermines that possibility and thereby undermines freedom.

Obviously we don't deal with 2 by breaching anonymity - that is destructive to our ends. But that doesn't stop us spreading the meme.
I've used hadoop at petabyte scale (2+pb input; 10+pb sorted for the job) for machine learning tasks. If you have such a thing on your resume, you will be inundated with employers who have "big data", and at least half will be under 50g with a good chunk of those under 10g. You'll also see multiple (shitty) 16 machine clusters, any of which -- for any task -- could be destroyed by code running on a single decent server with ssds. Let alone hadoop jobs running in emr, which is glacially slow (slow disk, slow network, slow everything.)

Also, hadoop is so painfully slow to develop in it's practically a full employment act for software engineers. I imagine it's similar to early ejb coding.
The NRDC has a listing of various products and safety concerns at:

http://www.simplesteps.org/greenpaws-products

I'm using NexGard(not listed - just approved in 2014) and seems to be working fine so far - but since its new there isn't much data on it. I preferred the oral over a topical so I didn't have to worry about topical applications transferring to the home, others, clothing etc.
To be clear, the Biden administration issued a regulatory rule freeze memorandum, and that's one of the things that was frozen. Has any decision since been made whether to implement the rule?
This is how both TeX and m4 do quoting by default so presumably common when they were created (mid-eighties and early seventies respectively IIRC)
Coq’s name _was_ meant to be offensive to English speakers. And the team does want to avoid names that are offensive in other languages, as EVERYBODY does when choosing international brand names.
Idolaters gonna idolize their idolatry.
TheoremUse does indeed mean (⊢Φ)⇒Φ in powerful foundational

theories. TheremUse is not a problem because the [Gödel

1931] proposition I'mUnprovable does not exist in

foundations.

Do you think that you can derive a contradiction in

foundations by utilizing TheoremUse?
my comment absolutely added to the gradient, productively. the gradient of all the other responses and just in case those responses didn't allow the author or anyone else to extrapolate what's wrong, then my comment makes the hysterical absurdity of the current approach clearer

just check out the rest of the thread instead of this unsolicited meta-critique for something a lot of people would find useful
I think disallowing short option altogether is not a bad convention. With only `-long` and `-long=xxx`, my command line parsing is simply

foreach a in arglist
if a=~/^-(\w+)(?:=(.+))?/
$opts{$1} = $2;
else
push @pos_list, $a

There is no need for the dependency and complexity of `getopt` library.

And for the user side, no more cryptic ninja arts. The only trick user need to learn is the shell alias and functions.
I disagree and agree with the sentiment. As someone more familiar with Linux, I sure would prefer to be able to assume a similar style.

But the biggest thing I'm happy about WRT Powershell is that it's consistent (and pretty well documented). At least it makes sense. Batch scripting really didn't.
I fully agree with your points. I think I may have been sloppy in expressing my criticism of the original article. At a certain level I think my comment was 'sociological' - the aliens, as intelligent creatures, should have a strong intuition that humans as other (somewhat) intelligent creatures can't be spending so much time and attention on something that is nothing more than a coin toss.

This sociological intuition should drive further inquiry into the mechanics of the game.

> if they are limited to that extent, then they are not going to determine that it is a game of rules, no matter what their philosophy and no matter how much they suspect that it is

Indeed, in that case the aliens are forever stuck. However, IRL you probably can't be absolutely sure that you're forever stuck, so in this case the 'philosophical' attitude might matter. An anti-realist might say - to hell with it, no worth trying, we'll never get better predictions out of more complex theories. A realist however, might pursue a theory not because it makes more accurate predictions, but because he/she has an idea that the theory is truly closer to the truth than the idea of a random coin toss. This intuition might take you through a dark period towards a higher reward (see moving from a local maximum to a valley, towards a yet unforeseeable global maximum).

PS:

flubert has a nice excerpt from Jaynes' Probability Theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648965
"I wouldn't be very happy if I were expected to contribute to travel or lodging while "co-working on vacation" - or if the trip used up any vacation time."

This is the kicker. It sounds like an absolutely fantastic opportunity...so long as you still get your normal vacation days to take as you want.

If this is meant to replace vacation time though then it's simply another contribution in the race to the work/life balance bottom.
A more accurate parallel is posting images from social media to gay porn sites. Nothing is wrong with gayness or foot fetishism, but one can make a reasonable argument against using images for sexual gratification without the subject's knowledge or consent.

Personally, I don't think it can or should be policed. Any image could provoke a sexual response, and there's nothing to do about that short of not publishing images.

(also, some might object to your apparent conflation of homosexuality and fetishism).
Great article- I appreciate how pleasant both parties were!

Some of us, admittedly, like women with nice ass. I think feet is less creepy if you really think about it. But to each to their own!
No one is forcing _anyone_ into subjecting themselves to experimentation. You have the choice to opt out of social situations where your presence is a danger to others and where those people would like the option to exclude your presence due to your free choice to remain a likely disease vector.

You DO NOT have some right to impose yourself on the rest of us. We do not have any requirement to associate with you or to tolerate your presence. If you represent a risk then we have the right to exclude you if we think you are choosing this path to be a free rider rather than due to some medical necessity. I would say that the amount of self-declared selfishness here is shocking, but if we have learned anything over the past few years it is that a sizeable fraction of our society is composed of people who are best avoided if possible.
I've worked closely with the developers of a couple of such apps and in those cases it was a mainly that Oracle had some non-standard features that made implementing certain core features in the app a lot easier and faster for the developers.
The trend has already started. E.g. in Germany, some cities prohibit older Diesel engines within city limits.

This has lead especially commuters of low-wage jobs quickly being forced to buy a new, more environmentally-friendly car (and their Diesel car just lost a lot of value in the market), so they have no option other than switch to gasoline engines - which are usually OLDER cars than they used to be with WORSE pollution statistics.

Buying a new car is not affordable to them. Public transportation is a lot better than in the US, but still will not solve the issue completely, and where it is a viable alternative, it's expensive both in time consumption and in money spent.

With a new law that was meant to lower pollution (and the jury is still out on if the goal was achieved, as during the corona crisis, pollution sank overall), we've created worse conditions for the underclass and lower middle class.

This is how you destroy support for ecological policymaking. If you want a better world for yourself and your children, you cannot achieve it by making it worse for others and the present.
If you get time, make a blog post somewhere with this info on it, so other people can find it easily !
72MB? On a development machine? Are you on dialup?

Poetry doesn't fragment the ecosystem. Unlike setuptools it uses pyproject.toml, which can be read by other tools, and is the correct way of storing package configuration.

A package built using Poetry is installable without Poetry in the exact same way as one built using setuptools.
It has been an hour and still leaking sensitive site structure
Your analogy is insulting, patronizing, and inapplicable.

Unmotivated workers have existed forever. No methodology is a panacea.
Saying they treat their code as secret sauce is a pretty damming accusation for scientists. I've seen a few other cases where relatively closed groups of otherwise top-notch scientists claim an interesting discovery [1,2], and then turn out to be wrong. It rarely ends anyone's career and the fiasco tends to fade in a few years, but it leads to a bit of a media circus, for better or worse, and is mostly distracting for the field as a whole.

I know nothing about this collaboration, but if what you say is true this isn't good science.

[1]: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3643

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/NaI
you guys remember when old looney tunes and old tom & jerry were appropriate for kids programs? nowadays they are not. a few of them are now on youtube right next to the recent "appropriate" ones. so yes, that line is very blurry...
As the host of a few web properties, I've always been very discriminating when it comes to third party content (including trackers). In fact my broad rule of thumb is to avoid it. You don't need it to have a successful business model.

I'm disappointed at webmasters who push garbage from their sites.
You're new here. I suggest you read the rules of you haven't (it's to get an idea for how comments are handled and expectations). Comments tend to get downvoted if they do not add to the conversation. I'd give it a bit of time to learn how HN works before making up your mind. I get downvoted all the time, but if you're posting comments of value you can expect your karma to increase over time.
Note that their images don't scale properly so if you browse on mobile and it looks like you're only seeing half a chart try opening the image in a new tab. I think this is because of the way they're including SVGs.
This is not black and white. The point is that there is some cutoff between full welfare for all of life's luxuries and literal table scraps. Some of us think spending a month worth of food stamps at Walmart on junk (where there are cheap healthy alternatives) is past the line of the minimum that people deserve for free. And it may be anecdata but anyone who's been to Walmart on EBT day has seen plenty of people making this choice.
Proof-of-stake has been in use in other non-Ethereum cryptocoins for a very long time [1] [2]. In Nano's case, there's no transaction fees paid to stakeholders (nor their delegated representatives).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercoin

[2] https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Nano
> tons of code that only increases the attack surface

Ethereum itself was the original sin in this respect. In Bitcoin, for the most part, the economic value at stake in a block is (1) the block reward, (2) the transaction fees, and (3) the amount transacted. (1) + (2) + (3) is therefore the maximum amount that can theoretically be "moved" if a block is invalidated through an adversarial fork, since someone else can claim the miner rewards and every transaction could possibly be double-spent. Anyone who wants to be assured of transaction immutability can, at the very least, calculate the total value that is at stake and wait until at least this much PoW has been layered on top of the transaction.

Not so with smart contracts. A paper I read yesterday showed how smart contracts can be used to execute trustless, crowd-sourced DoS attacks on rival blockchains (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/775.pdf). It's ridiculous. Once you open the Pandora's Box of smart contracts, you can throw your consensus guarantees out the window.
I agree, I think it’s an alternative to answering your SVP with:

“You remember how our entire team left last year because they were fed up? Those were all the people with knowledge of the system.

You also remember how you gave us a budget of 50k to hire replacements? Well, we used it on one developer, and he’s left university this year, so doesn’t even know what jQuery is, much less how to work on that system.

That’s why changes are slow.”

Much preferable to not shame him like that and just summarize it as “It was built 4 years ago with jQuery.”
I have a hard time agreeing with this. In my experience people's single most interesting thing to talk about is themselves. Once you notice that, you see it everywhere. It's such a lure, it's almost irresistible. I've made it a habit to ask them a couple of open questions and then just let them have at it. In a few situations folks lost business with me simply because they were too preoccupied with talking about themselves to simply ask "so... how about you? what do you do?"

It follows that whenever someone has an obsession, it comes up naturally while they talk about themselves.
> in a world where everyone thinks you need a multi-galaxy hyper inverted Kubernetes cluster with DeepMind-level AI to auto-scale to infinity

In a world where you are promoting 100k views for $5 a month perhaps the people asking you for advice will be given a chance to consider the faster alternatives for exactly $0

Basic off the shelf webhosting with a half dozen middlemen taking their cut can handle that perfectly well :/

Sorry to be blunt, but it's entirely true.
There was no one around to confront. All I had was a goopy hand and a dirty chair.

I looked at my hand as awareness set in, and then I stood up and walked to the bathroom. Then I told the librarian, and she gave me some paper towels to clean the chair. I couldn't think of how getting angry would benefit me so I didn't bother.
I've been waiting on this since I got my iPad back in June.

Needless to say this was an unexpected little surprise to start the week.
i was surprised to see the parent post voted down. it seems to me that i presented some facts based on my own personal experience, a different opinion than the original article, and a specific recommendation.

what do you think triggered the downvote?
The combination of a Eye-Fi wireless memory card and a cell phone that acts as a wireless router might do just that already. Anyone have any experience on this?
This idea and more are explored in the final report of the W3C's Social Web Incubator Group:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/FinalReport
There are some good recruiters out there. And, they can be particularly helpful if you are trying to make a field change (i.e. break into finance) when you don't have any background in it.

Also, not any job will work. Many tech recruiters don't get paid unless you stay at the job for 6mo-1yr, so there's a definite incentive to make sure the job is not a total misfit.

But, yeah, if you're a new college graduate or just making a shift within a field you are already successful at, a recruiter is probably not worthwhile.
Why is google a better match for twitter than microsoft? Google appears to have tried to "become social" a few more times than redmond and failed regularly.
I post on HN and spend some time or IRC or similar discussing programming during "work hours" (though I have bizarre self-inflicted hours). It's actually become pretty crucial to my work flow; I am able to get some down time while still keeping the gears running. Short but somewhat-frequent lurking sessions keep me motivated and on track without burning me out.
I thought this was a clever way of incentivising people to authorise Dropbox to access their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

I don’t suppose I would normally have posted to my Facebook wall about Dropbox, nor my Twitter account, but now I have.

Presumably the cost to Dropbox is quite minimal (768MB extra free space in total). It’s made me think about ways in which we could offer similar incentives at $dayjob.
You're implicitly assuming that production is "hand-bound". It could also be bounded by natural resources.

For example even if the number of mouths to feed increases, the number of farmers cannot increase beyond what there is farmland for. So the hands will be competing for who gets to plough the fields, in exchange for a meal. Too many hands along with too little land, and the losers starve.
That is quite an outlandish statement, encryption is absolutely not outlawed in France.

The government is however, currently brewing an awful local version of the Patriot Act just as the US seems to be dismantling it.
The main reason Fortran is so extensively used today is not because of the merits of its new features but the incredible amount of (intrinsically complicated, but even more because it is highly optimized) legacy code. I guess that most of that 50% running in HPC is FORTRAN77 written many, many years ago, with a bit of Fortran90/95 and only an insignificant fraction of Fortran 20xx.
In any sense. Why should we assume that our creator is sane? Perhaps they sell toy universes at the counter in grocery stores and we are in the hands of some cruel teenager in our host universe. Perhaps they run simulations to find a particular outcome of evolution. Maybe we are in some sort of digestive organ of a god which feasts on evolutionary structures which perform complex computations.
fwiw the h1 barrier was the lack of a scheme indication in an h1 transaction - not really the alpn ids (which can always be registered if need be). But without a scheme the server just needs to infer http vs https from the port/address and that wouldn't work with alt-svc
Thanks so much for posting this! I just sent a package from Toronto to New York (a short direct flight) so was curious why it was showing Memphis as the current location. Perfect timing. In case anyone is curious: https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=77323599...
He may be right that the overall affect of immigrants is positive, but the benefits go to people who are already doing well and the costs are paid by the people at the bottom. I don't see how anyone can complain about about income inequality on the one hand and advocate unrestricted immigration on the other.

The US should adopt Australia's point system based approach with a preference for the young and well educated.
Doctors, lawyers, nurses, and the majority of other professions have very powerful guilds which ban the practice of their trade without a specific license only obtainable within the country of practice.

You don't see local hospitals posting H1B openings for physicians, because the American Medical Association would eradiate them off the face of the planet.

Want to practice in the US as a foreign trained MD? You have to apply to retrain here, with very specific restrictions, and compete against thousands of other expats. You will never be competing directly against American MDs.

This is in direct contrast to the tech industry, which has exactly zero licensing bodies with the ability to dictate who can practice within the profession. Hence, H1Bs galore.

People always make the mistake of comparing highly regulated industries to tech. They couldn't be further apart. A commenter on the Pao case raised this exact point: maybe women are too smart to get into a dog-eat-dog industry like tech! Women sure as heck have no qualms about law, medicine or nursing! Three professions with excellent guild protections and career stability once an initial licensing hurdle is passed.

For better or worse, tech is the wild west of professions. All things considered it's absurdly risky to get into, but for the few superstar talents, it's very lucrative because there are no barriers to entry. For the above average vet with 40 years of experience though, it can be a nightmare, as an eager H1B will sign up for indentured servitude any day to escape third world poverty.

I wouldn't recommend the tech industry to my kids. Too much volatility and risk. You're better off having a steady profession, and pursuing bootstrapped startups on the side. If your idea gets traction, you can always stop practising your profession and return at a later date. That's the beauty of guilds like the AMA, you'll never be thrown under the bus for a quick buck, because the status of an MD cannot be devalued.