jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do firmwares like cyanogenmod offer the ability to revoke privileges to certain apps by just providing them with garbage data? If they don't already, I think it would be an interesting area to explore.
I just saw this post so I'm commenting very late... I feel that I'm better than ever at software development, and I've certainly come a long way. The problem is that I thought I'd be much further along than I am now(fwiw, I have about 6 years of working experience, and have been programming since high school). Maybe I feel like I'm behind as a result of so many new technologies that have crept up, but I still feel that a lot of the time at work is spent outside of software development on other things.
Your assumption does not hold water where my kids go. ...Fortunately They are in small classes and the school has 3 math levels per grade; one for the advanced students, one for the struggling students, and one for kids that fall between these 2 camps. It is great!
"Be fair - this is a huge pay increase, and by the average standards of pay in Poland is truly gigantic leap."

I don't know, that's why I asked. Someone going from €1000 in a job to €2500 self-employed here in the Netherlands has made progress, but not remotely as much as it seems at first. Of course it seems that kreci is also working much less, so per hour he's ahead, I'm just trying to make a real comparison.

I'm not trying to put kreci down here, I'm just saying that the earnings of a business owners are not even close to the gross profit of the company.

"<health insurance 2500 PLN / 900 USD / 630 EUR/ year>"

That seems very cheap. http://www.justlanded.com/english/Poland/Poland-Guide/Health... lists the self-employment contributions, for the special discounted rate that is only valid for the first 2 years, at 300 PLN = 108 USD = 75 EUR per month. After that, it's three times that. It's not clear to me either if this includes unemployment insurance. That costs several thousand euros a year in itself, easily (here in the Netherlands, I don't think it's 10 times cheaper in Poland - 50% cheaper at the very best, comparing the other numbers).

"<holiday allowance>"

20 days / year is 7% of the total amount of working days, assuming the 20 includes everything - holiday, public holidays, sick days etc. That has an influence on total income, and 20 days including everything is not a lot.

"<pension>"

http://pension3.com/pl/ says that just under 20% of a persons taxable income is by law required to be put into a pension fund (for employees, that is). Depending on how kreci has structured his business, he may not be obliged to do so (I can't really tell from the page, either). Anyway it's fair to assume that at least 10% (and probably more) of a person's gross earnings needs to be put into a pension fund (or alternative savings vehicle) to be able to get a pension comparable to what employees get (70% of average salary it seems). Quite a bit more than you're implying.

Look, I do think too that he should be congratulated. I just don't want to see him think he's rich all of a sudden and then be screwed when the tax man comes around, or when he gets sick, or whatever. But I guess he thought about all of that, he seems like a smart guy - and in that case, I wish he would include those numbers in his reports so that people can get a more accurate idea of his net earnings, rather than his companies gross profit. The two are related but not even close to the same!
Wspaniałe wieści! Getting into paid apps on Google market might the next big source of income. Is it still unavailable in Poland? If you would consider a proxy publisher/partnership in North America pm me and we can always discuss it. cześć.
You also have to understand what people who buy stock photos need. (Pretty girl in a headset, yes. Five coeds of a variety of races sitting in a circle on a lawn, yes. Black guy and white guy in similar suits shaking hands, yes. Ethernet cables splayed against a white background, yes. Still life of a banana and a yogurt cup? Probably not, regardless of how beautifully you can execute on that.)
If I were writing a health food article, I might disagree with your last example.
The loss of 3D touch on the Xr seems pretty disappointing. I use that feature quite a lot on my iPhone 8, especially for moving the cursor around in text messages. It seems like the Xr would be a lot less efficient for that, unless they have found another good UX for that.
Tax processing software aside, how might this do on the NY times crossword puzzle? On the one hand, the answers are more constrained because they have to fit, but good clues are impossibly cryptic for the average human to parse.
My friendly neighborhood sysadmin says that Puppet is a good one. I've been using Fabric for some of these tasks. Also, just a shell script would do it depending on how sophisticated you want to get. I suggest getting a cheap VPS (search lowendbox.com, no affiliation) and practicing there. Or just set up a "fake" server using VirtualBox or some such.
I think that the best idea of what the security group did was comparable to calling up a company that does not provide a directory and the group showed you can easily create that directory but didn't publish it
I find it hard to believe that a person could get the same engineering education on their own than at a good engineering university. From a practical point of view, I see what you mean, in that, an HR department weighing two candidates would probably prefer the one with a(ny) college degree. Frankly, that almost goes without saying. However, I think the same is much more true in engineering. I'm not only talking about programming shops. After all, computer science/computer engineering isn't the only form of engineering. There's material science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aerospace engineering, etc., and I simply can't believe that a place like Boeing would seriously consider you for an engineering position unless you have at least a bachelors in the relevant field.

Software is a rare field in that one can become competent without having a "related" college degree. You can certainly ship products without majoring in CS. On the other hand, I don't think you can build planes or bridges without a degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering.
Yeh I know. Tbh I think they could easily pay the diidend and the clean up bill. They aren't going to need $20bn tomorrow.

Also; collapsing pension funds affects the unretired too. Potentially it could leave millions in the cold - so that complicates it more.

And I would point out it has not been established who was at fault (though clearly BP must pay)
False. It's called conspiracy [to break the law] and it's illegal in almost every country, including the United States. Even if you never intend to carry through with your plans, it's still very illegal.
I think it's easier for smaller companies to make these kinds of changes. In big companies, there are always multiple levels of management that must be consulted to make a decision.
You just have to balance the cost of those users with what they bring to the table: network benefits and viral benefits.
Not sure if you are seeing this as a good thing or a bad thing.
It is a completely different article by an actual respected researcher in the field.
Computer memory access is efficient when linear. That is, when the next thing you need is located directly after the last thing you needed, in memory. In JavaScript, arrays are conceptually sequential, but this is only an abstraction for the programmer. In truth, the array elements are scattered around in random memory locations. This means that when you iterate over an array, the CPU cache misses on every iteration, and the CPU has to wait for the next data to load from memory.

In a language where arrays are not sparse, but rather dense, the whole array is allocated as one contiguous stride of memory. Iterating through it is very fast, because the CPU cache hits every time and the next data you need is always ready, as it immediately follows the previous in memory.

Additionally, ECS wants to pack data even further, so that unneeded data is not interleaved within the memory stride at all. Every byte you "skip" is wasted space in the CPU cache, and eventually accumulates into a full cache miss, which stalls program execution.
Data that Facebook is fighting hard to make sure people can't collect. Just like how they were poisoning the well while suing academic teams just trying to get information on ads data.
Thank you for writing this I really enjoyed it, read the whole damn thing! I am happy for you and it helps put things in perspective for me. I look forward to reading more in the future from you
Perhaps it is my family being minority immigrants with other caveats. Snooping by employees is rarely done. It most likely isn't going to mess you up too badly either.

On the other hand, the number of people I know who are either deathly afraid or just normally afraid of the government and its agencies like the ones you mentioned is high. This is definitely going to be a minority of people. My family and extended family aren't common cases.

I don't see either as big deals though. Not enough to have people not stick with bigger apps that have network appeal.

I don't believe disruption of anything but more of the same in different clothing happening. I'm a pessimist though.
At least for some taxes Patreon allows you to specify what percentage of your pledge is for physical or digital goods versus “community” and taxes are apportioned appropriately. Though unsure if that applies to VAT.
This is an ambitious project but I wonder if there'll be a market for it even if the product is well executed.

1) It seems like you'll need to have some understanding of how web applications work to use the UI, and if that's the case you probably already know how to do trivial things quickly like creating submission forms.

2) Related to 2), browsers and the JS community are getting pretty good at doing things like components and modularity. Building apps should continue to get easier for developers.

3) It could work well for apps whose scope is contained in your feature scope, but when I need to do anything custom outside that scope I'll be out of luck.

Basically it comes down to whether the time that cloudboost saves me on web dev is going to be worth the extent of restriction on product. The lower that extent, the more it's worth it. Good luck to you guys.
Considering I still regularly wake up and sleepfully check the bed for a baby that has been in his crib the entire night, I will attest 'yes.'

It's proof positive that I'm always subconsciously thinking about the safety of my son, and this has interesting analogs (to me, at least). When I had issues with my startup (again, pre acqui-hire), my sleep quality suffered mightily. When we had a new customer or a new contract or a well-received release, I slept better.

My hope is that I'll acquiesce a bit on the subconscious, constant fear for the nightly safety of my son, my sleep quality will continue to improve and in the near future I'll be a benevolent billionaire. Meanwhile, another long night :)
> You can have lots of plausible theories about what venture capitalists as a class can do to get good returns, until you take the 1980s into account. Then you can only have one: the only thing VCs can control that will improve their outcomes is having enough guts to bet on markets that don’t yet exist. Everything else is noise.

I'm curious as to why the author believes VCs need to improve their outcomes.

Venture capital is a compensation scheme disguised as an asset class. As long as there is enough dumb money willing to permit VCs to lock in a decade's worth of fee-based compensation with each fund they raise, VCs have no incentive to go rogue and "bet on markets that don't yet exist." In fact, they have every incentive not to.
+1 for using the term "weaponize".
It gets even better. Look at this innovative traffic light for cyclists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiznpGdVsiY&feature=share
There's also a lot of taxi companies who are being sued for misclassification, so I don't really think their actions hold much value as a model for legal compliance.
Here's a more recent paper (March, 2021) which cites the above paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04689
"Predictive Coding Can Do Exact Backpropagation on Any Neural Network"
I'm kind of the opposite. We should have 0% personal income tax and a minimum corporate income tax.

A personal income tax incentivises the state to surveil the economic activity of individuals and play games with nudging people to do X or Y, and puts the burden of tax filing and the consequences of not reporting (which some people just can't do correctly).

Contrariwise, a corporate income tax can be thought of as a "user fee" for the privilege of the corporate veil and limited liability. If you don't want your mom and pop shop to pay corporate income tax, simple: don't incorporate, and be responsible for your personally responsible for your employees' well being. And thus it becomes a driver of small business growth and a progressive taxation (the beneficiaries of bigcorp profits are going to be disproportionately wealthy). If you can't afford an accountant to keep track of what taxes you owe, don't incorporate. Etc.
I knew your comment would be one of the first. lol.

Even without that I illustrated that it is not difficult to make a quick distinction that you can make more money not working than actually working. especially at a job that is hazardous and physically difficult.

Funny though that a job working around heavy machinery and dangerous chemicals (water works) is also going to put those workers in a high likelihood to be out on disability from the water job in question anyway. Not to mention that the government of the US itself has self admitted that the disability program is filled with "rampant abuse" and even casual investigation has shown roughly 1/3 of cases are fraudulent. Not that this diminishes those legitimately on disability.
Countless is also entirely hyperbolic. Approximately 1000 people were killed by police in 2019, and the vast majority were violently resisting.
So it is fair that one tiny country sets a near-zero capital tax, and enjoy free trade of food and services with all the big countries around it. Any corporation would move to the tiny country, of course, where nothing happens except tax and accounting.

How fair.
This is a case of "let's go with what works, because the downsides are worse", and we can simultaneously kick off studies of other approaches.

When those are proven out (or not) changes in the protocols can be applied then.

Blindly changing the protocols without proper controls/studies done in widescale deployment and hoping for the best is a great way to screw things up.
I think scandium alloy is cheaper? I had scandium lacrosse sticks. they were half the price as Ti. And lighter.
I'm sorry that that remote socialization doesn't provide any sort of respite for you. I can imagine (but can't truly appreciate) how much harder that would make this pandemic.

I'm happy that you have at least some in-person contact with friends and family, and hope you can keep doing that.

Best of luck, friend!
I disagree, I have a averagely-sized phone and greatly appreciate the fact that the browser bar is at the bottom, since there's basically no way for me to reach the top of the phone without changing my grip.

It seems to me that it's only possible to reach the top (and even then just the top right, not the entire top part) if your phone is less than 3.5" tall.
Aha - according to this Reddit thread [0], the main repo for Ant Design has moved to a Chinese equivalent of Github, and can now be found here [1]. No news on the documentation/website yet though.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/ljt54q/ant_design_...

[1] https://gitee.com/ant-design/ant-design
People keep saying that there is a conflict of interest - but no one has pointed out where this exists. Yellen was the head of the Federal Reserve, she is an in-demand speaker. The precedent exists that merely providing speaking services does not constitute a conflict of interest. Everyone, of every political stripe, goes on the speaking circuit when they hit a certain level. If you want to rail against this, be my guest as you and I would be in furious agreement, however....

> The Press Secretary chose to reason about her accomplishments to explain the large sum of money (I don't think any Americans are surprised that former bureaucrats profit off of the system after participation.) I think some would call that "dodging" because she's not really directly answering the question.

... this is not a conflict of interest, and implying that it is a conflict of interest is NOT the press sec's job. It is not dodging to reject the premise of the question and explain how advice might be handled in a hypothetical case. Was it perfectly explained? No, but it is telling no other media outlet really thought the response was odd.

> This same concern was presented by the Guardian prior to any GameStop drama and before Biden was President:

Is the practice shady? Perhaps. Is Yellen doing anything wrong by working on the talk circuit? No. The precedent is well established and you would be hard-pressed to find an accomplished and competent bureaucrat who has worked directly for POTUS who hasn't either left for directorships in the private sector or worked the talk circuit. The practice is not considered conflict of interest and until that is changed this just has all the appearances of a cherry-picked example which, coincidently, targets a woman in a traditionally male position.
I follow you on Twitter and think some of your ideas are great. That being said, a lot of the COVID graphs you retweet ignore population density and contend that COVID isn’t a pandemic. (Some suggesting it’s the same as a cold.)

Also, flatly saying that mask mandates don’t work is wrong. The evidence is (and has been) that they are effective if used properly. (Don’t touch them, wash hands, and single use or clean them.) Unfortunately, lots of people don’t use them properly and that lessens their effectiveness. You have retweeted things implying that masks don’t work.
Not as far as we know. This is nice but not perfect. Eventually a QC will be able to reverse a public key fast enough to double spend in-flight transactions before they're finalized.
> The thing is, there are no perfect language, just like programming languages.

There has got to be some name for this argument tactic. It's so trite and useless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259764
I've always been curious how one applies as a social engineer or hybrid SE and tech guy for a security consultancy. It seems like something that I'd really enjoy doing (having never done it and also not having particular great people skills). I don't know how the business works at all but I'd love to be a plant at some company (or a fake customer) to test their security from the inside.

It's not something you can easily learn on your own (I'd guess).

Since I worked in ERP I'd also be pretty interested in security testing business software. I can see a myriad of issues both technically but also on a human and for lack of a better word "process exploitation" level.

If anyone has suggestions on writing a job application without any actual security testing skills I'd be interested in hearing them. Basically all I can think of is "I know some technology and can program, I have some business background (specifically ERP), I think I'm a quick learner and I'd probably work for very little assuming increased salary as I get more valuable"...sounds like something I'd instantly put in the trash if it hit my desk though :P
You can see them in the youtube video, but good point -- a lot of folks don't watch those. Let me add them to the article.

edit: Added. Thank you.
Well, ya, it isn't really volunteering.
And there are so few places I know to work that I really don't get to pick where I work, it is just whatever one I find I do.
Someone actually bought those.
Without the government it would be a hodgepodge of walled gardens based on different protocols and standards with everyone trying to make a 'platform play' to lock it down... exactly like what you see today with OSes. You'd also have complicated fee structures with every little service charged differently since telcos would want to charge a la carte for access to individual protocols and endpoints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gauge
Indeed. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
Gonna disagree there. The game lets you run on 5 different hardware configurations at once. Is this really a problem?
TBH this sounds exactly like Roblox. MMO being the key part there.
I agree, so it’s a safe bet you are in the minority.
Many photographers don't earn what the "average" HNer does (if there is an average). My comment didn't really address the HN crowd.

The warranty aspect is a great point though, if a commercial photographer did this and lost their client's work because e.g. the pins broke off, I fear their clients' response.

The answer here comes down to what the individual is able to justify to themselves, be it via a cost-benefit analysis or merely "I'm a solo/hobbyist photographer, I could build this tomorrow evening during downtime and save some money, let's do it." :-)
The definition of “food security” is a propagandistic construct.

> What accounts for the differences in rates by race?

Yes let’s ask questions too spicy for Hacker News in public school math class.
This needs more camera manufacturers adding CFExpress over SD cards. However, there are a large number of other devices such as audio recorders using SD, so this could be wishful thinking for now at least.
In western church tradition. In the Eastern church it’s next week.
We've got it working in the simulator, but the device is always different. For instance, before the iPad there were four possible device orientations. Landscape left and right, and upright left and right. They added two, face down and face up. So any code that if blocked between the original four broke. A lot of apps were thrown by that when they got the device.
These days it is possible to eliminate almost all blocking calls in Linux apps. File opening was a long persisting one but io_uring fixes that. Async sockets and file i/o to already-open fd's have been around forever.
> The labor tax is theoretically adding value to the economy while capital gains is basically money you made because you had money.

Capital adds value to the economy too, thats why people will pay to rent it.

> I've never understood why the capital gains tax is lower than the labor tax.

One good reason is that if the capital gains tax is higher than the marginal profit, then that business doesn’t exist. If we taxed capital at the rate that we tax labor, there would be one or two ultra-hyper-wealthy people who employed everyone, and the rest of us would be serfs working for bezos or the government, or on public assistance.

> It seems to me it should be the opposite if you want a productive economy, encourage more people to put their money to work instead of playing games in the market.

Investing your money is putting it to work, that is precisely why it earns a return.
We hope and think that PIV can replace all the practical use cases for PGP. Specifically among those mentioned, `age` for file encryption, and either FIDO resident keys with hmac-secret for password managers, or something like `passage` (fork of `pass` using, again, `age` for encryption). For SSH you can use FIDO for newer OpenSSH, and either `pivy` or `yubikey-agent` via PIV. Cheers!
At least dogecoin has a static and predictable supply inflation and doesn't glorify slave owners and indian killers.
I really like being able to 'tent' my keyboard like the Kinesis keyboards[1] - the higher the better. So I'd love a split model if one is available.

[1] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/02/11/review-kinesis-free...