jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix: $210,157/year/avg. Netflix seems to have some high salaries, even for the bay area.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Netflix-Salaries-E11891.htm
"If there's a chemical imbalance, drugs can help. "

Medical statistics seem to show otherwise. For people who undergo a first bout of depression, most people who don't medicate get better in 6-18 months and then never relapse. Whereas those who medicate have a much higher chance of relapsing multiple times later in life.

source: Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker.
I am abnormally lazy in that respect. I've been known to get up, walk across the room, turn off the alarm clock, walk back to bed, sit down, think "hmm, 5 more minutes would be great" and then go back to sleep, responsibilities be damned.

My first job out of college was a start-up in the financial industry; strolling in at 11am was highly looked down upon, and so ended my budding career as a finance whore.
If I recall, there are more possible chess games than atoms in the universe. So even if you were to quantify toughness as number of possible decisions, it would still be completely off. However, in both those games, a lot of the plays would be ridiculous.

It's easier to try and measure toughness by the time/effort it takes to be competent or the best. In this case I would say chess is hands down much tougher.
You can lay claim to a .com.au if the domain name is "closely and substantially connected" to you as the registrant. This includes things like selling a product or offering a service with that name.

auDA ruled a few years back that "domain monetisation" falls within "a service that the registrant provides" (with a few exceptions).

Sales/transfers of domains were a bit painful back in the day but have been relaxed now. There are restrictions (from memory, you can't register a domain and then sell it within six months) but it does make speculation a bit easier for domainers.
I feel like the problem with this is that sleeping with someone for money is not inherently unethical, i.e. it hurts no one. Certainly, if you were to replace it with "kill a person", the spread of answers would change significantly.
As soon as you start doing calculations like this to determine how many co-founders you should have it's almost a guaranteed you're not going to be successful.

Build something people want with people you love to work with. The rest will work itself out.
It works the other way too. On a local portal, I get at least one php coder position offer a month, even though I don't do any web stuff (I'm a voip devops, let's say).
This isn't Steve Jobs' doing. I don't know how far back it goes, but whenever Jobs does these presentations, he lets the people in charge of various projects present them. So Scott Forstall presents new platform features. The guy who redesigned iMovie presented that. Same for the iWork suite on the iPad. Jonathan Ives also gets plenty of credit for being Apple's resident industrial design genius. They're even more prominent in the videos Apple puts out, and Jobs isn't even in those.

Now all the people who work under these guys aren't getting the spotlight, but this is the norm pretty much everywhere.

I know that Jef Raskin is frequently cited as the real father of the Macintosh, and Jobs probably failed to give him his due. That was a much younger Steve Jobs, though.
It depends heavily on what you're doing, where you're located, and how much you're raising.

For example, I would recommend Jerry Neumann (reactionwheel.blogspot.com) to anyone doing anything in the advertising technology space in New York City. Jerry is deeply thoughtful about the space, knows everybody, and is more than willing to help out in any way he can. But if you're doing something other than an ad technology startup in NYC - well, Jerry's still good, but my recommendation doesn't mean as much.
I grew up in the Canal Zone during the Soviet scare. (I'm a former colonist.) One thing we would point to as a reason why the U.S. was better than the Soviet regime was our concept of due process and the constitutionally backed freedoms. I never thought I would see the day when Americans accepted the things you describe.

Growing up I often wondered how it came to pass that Germans accepted Hitler and his abuses. My girlfriend's dad fought for Hitler (she's German). His comment about that time was, "We just didn't think and then found ourselves in a war." Hearing his comment and seeing what has happened to the U.S. has made me understand these things much better.

People don't think. It's easy to scare people. It can happen anywhere. A society is only as strong and vibrant as it's citizens are and things can change dramatically from generation to generation.

I was interrogated when coming back from Germany in August. It pissed me off to no end. I didn't file a complaint. I took it. I have a comfortable life and it didn't seem worthwhile to make a complaint that goes nowhere. It's likely that I will live elsewhere soon.
BTW I'd take some of these figures with a grain of salt.

For example, in the UK I set up Mandalorian Security Services Ltd in the morning and by the afternoon I was up and running. The company I used guaranteed a 48 hour turnaround time and uses 'off-the-shelf' pre-registered companies then renames them.

Likewise the costs of setting a company up in the UK are nowhere near the $120k mark. Again, the whole process cost me about £120 including all the necessary documents, filings and everything else. My annual accounts for the first year including VAT returns cost about £500, so with that and postage, VAT registration and everything else you're going to come out with change from around US$2,000.
Hi there, nl.

"As far as the NoSQL thing is concerned, I think it's interesting to note that IndexDB's semantics closely match those of BerkeleyDB, which started life in 1991. Work first started on IndexDB in 2006 [2], long before the term NoSQL was invented."

I don't think anyone believes that NoSQL is a new concept, regardless of the lineage of the current name (just as "AJAX" existed years before someone called it AJAX).
Fantastic news! Schemes like this drive our economy and cultivate success in so many ways. Really looking forward to supporting Springboard.
> A person can do 10 or 20 interviews and have none of them (even the ones who seemed good) get an offer.

That's actually fairly common in the Silicon Valley. It's 10 to 20 people on the market, not 10 to 20 programmers selected at random: some are specialists in fields other than the ones you're looking for (or their resume is misread by the recruiter e.g., someone who has experience with enterprise search but is being interviewed for a web search position), others lack certain specific knowledge you do want, yet others are looking for a place where they can be "promoted to their level of incompetence".

A rate of 1/10 or 1/20 (5-10%) is actually very good and indicates an ability to recruit and screen well.
Do you also use it beyond just prototypes? Or do you find it too limited?
at least the chunky bacon vibe was original and creative. Now there's fucking zombies everywhere.
However, they failed because of systematic falsehoods being injected into the system by managers -- who were afraid to tell the truth...

Hedrick Smith gives many examples of this kind of lying in his book _The Russians_. While that's certainly part of the problem, I think you're missing the deeper issue that the parent is pointing to: the amount of bandwidth necessary to do efficient economic calculation is far greater than what can be done by a committee of nomemklatura and their computers. They simply don't have the fine level of data detail and massively parallel computing power that a distributed economy provides.
One could argue that it's the nature of democracy to equalize stupid people to smart people.

Of course, there's a subtle distinction between treating all people the same, and giving in to 'fools', that is left as an exercise to the prospective citizen.
Nice game - how much work is something like this?

I like how the controls/movement are precise yet just forgiving enough.

Only thing, I'm not hearing any music (Chrome 11 beta, OS X).
I remember this being a common fear in the UK during the 90s. I cannot report on whether such vans actually existed.
Telegram desktop is a Qt Widgets application.
This is a good approach. Country must be able to control content served to their citizens. And that ruling should not be extended to other countries. Citizens can either elect different president or use VPN.
Depends on what you mean by “using”. It is conceivably possible to compile a webassembly interpreter like wac[1] with cosmopolitan, which would then run on all OSes and bare metal, yes.

[1]: https://github.com/kanaka/wac
Any recommendations to somebody who wants to learn C "properly" in $CURRENT_YEAR?
So... Zuckerberg should fund a coup in Turkey?

There's an easy common argument for these things: restricted mass information/communication is better than none, or better than the lower amount you'd get with a home-grown platform. Seems a pretty good argument to me.
I don't use a TV anymore, as I use my pc to watch movies and series.
But for my mother, on the futures I'm thinking buying a cheap big computer screen and plug a chrome cast or something similar.
His research focus outside of computer science was stylometry and statistical analysis of authorship. I suspect contextually he was saying it was obvious from a form of analysis. He was a Jewish athiest and completely uninterested in the biblical scholarship questions. His collaborator, rev Morton was a parish minister in the church of Scotland. He used to joke you could be a very good scots minister without worrying about God very much.

Golb's son idolised his father maybe too much. I wouldn't be committing crimes to defend Sid's stylometry results.
per se https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/per-se
Nothing against standardisation.

But like many things on this earth, sometimes the less logical and more confusing is what ends up being the accepted norm.

Why metric and imperial? Makes no sense, is confusing.

Why left side right side driving? Makes no sense, is confusing, causes accidents.

Bits and bytes had a standard, it was widespread, understood, logical and useful for those who most had to deal with them. Then one group went out, very likely seeing dollar signs, and decided to be different. They should be the ones adopting the incumbent, logical standard, not the rest of us adopting their less-useful new one, and definitely not ending up with two conflicting standards with a single lowercase letter separating them.
The problem is when your job is to get stuff out the door as quickly as possible. I just quit a job where I was writing primarily in a proprietary extension to a proprietary dialect of BASIC that has all manner of weird compiler quirks and just plain poor architecture. I knew there were ways I could do some better stuff long-term, but implementing them was completely outside the scope of the limited projects I was undertaking.
Yea, I for one would welcome fast, comfortable, ubiquitous trains. Also, it would be nice if America could really embrace ideas like work from home or Results Only Work Environment in jobs where that makes sense. In my current job, there's no reason I couldn't do 98% of my work from home, except that management is scared that they'd lose control, which is really ridiculous on many levels. This is a new era and some organizations are managing people using techniques from 50 or more years ago. Techniques that have been scientifically shown to be a bad idea in certain jobs.
You've made this celiac crave pancakes again. Bad.
Raphaël Poss adapted Tenqwar to the artificial language Lojban

http://vodka-pomme.net/projects/tengwar-for-lojban/
Pretty sure that MacFUSE has NTFS support. Or, no, wait... didn't Apple add NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard? Yeah, they did. It requires editing fstab though.
Said day for all of us
Since we are talking about polymorphism, here are several blog posts I wrote on this topic:

http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/blog/2009-05/what-is-abstract...

http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/blog/2009-05/run-time-polymor...

http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/blog/2009-05/compile-time-pol...

If you find it interesting that is great. I enjoyed this blog post.
I couldn't find the article in 30 seconds, but I recall someone from Google, Android or one of the carriers (i.e. someone qualified to talk about it) who acknowledged the battery issue and pointed to exactly this as the culprit.
> as a teenager, he watched as the Soviet-backed communist party secured its coup d’état in 1948;

Good read describing as things really were, but this part is not fully correct - communists got to the power legally by winning the elections, in 1946 in Czech part of Czechoslovakia and in 1948 in Slovakia.

People were naive, uninformed and generally saw soviets mainly as liberators from nazi occupation (which was true). Few knew what stalinism brings, without exceptions and those few either were quiet or didn't matter enough.

As soon as they got full power, democracy was effectively disbanded, political opponents either executed or jailed, and things like 'famous' uranium mines in Jachymov started operating like execution camps for undesired (something like soviet siberian gulags with added benefit of handling radioactive material without any protection). Ironically all this uranium was given to Soviet union for free AFAIK, and it was worth billions even back then (I guess some sort of ransom for very active 'protection' from evil capitalism).
It’s fairly simple, actually: leading bytes have a specific bit pattern that continuation bytes don’t. A single-byte character will have the topmost bit unset (0b0xxxxxx), and for a multi-byte run the first byte will have the top two bits set (0b11xxxxxx) and any succeeding bytes will have the top bit set but the next bit unset (0b10xxxxxx). This means given an arbitrary byte you can always tell what it is, and you can tell when you’re at the start of a next character by looking for those first two bit patterns.
I don't recognize this. I use poetry all the time, without setup.py and the local installs are editable. I have published half a dozen packages which don't have a setup.py and they all work fine.
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I'm also doing a hybrid: GCP (3 nodes; euro, iowa, asia), IONOS as backup in central US, AWS as backup in asia.

Then I have two home 1Gb fibers (when my summer house gets fiber this summer hopefully).

I wrote my own distributed database so all data is everywhere at all times = no extra work. (after the initial 3 years of making it robust :D)

I would say go for the opposite of "use as much standard as possible" and make everything yourself, from scratch (except OS and language);

that way you can slowly but surely make it perfect = 100% read uptime even if one home fiber blows up.

People that describe this as meaningless don't understand what responsibility is!

Own (as in nobody can take something away), understand and change; in that order, on repeat, forever...

(until you die and your children pick up the slack because you thought them what responsability is)...

People will learn to respect responsability when it's too late.
One probably has more negotiating power with TSMC the bigger you are, which increases pressure for companies to merge.
Would it be possible to make an "mRNA vaccine" that produces tailocins, or entire bacteriophage viruses?

It seems that we're learning how to turn human cells into software-defined factories, but I have no idea how complex the products can be.
This is also my experience. Since getting a watch (with LTE) I’m much more willing to leave my phone in the house or car on walks or when I’m out. I have a phone too - it’s just necessary for when I travel for work / if I need to do anything while away from the computer.

I guess it’s phases of connectedness - an iPad let’s me be more mobile than my computer. My phone let’s me be more mobile than my iPad, and my watch covers the rest. Do I need this level of connectedness? Probably 3x per year. But those three times are absolutely critical and it gives me peace of mind if I’m on vacation - if my watch isn’t ringing I’m free to do whatever it is in front of me.

I did the digital minimalism thing (and need to do it again soon), but a watch is a nice forcing function. And calls have to be short because they are on speaker phone (or EarPods / Bluetooth, which overall is a good setup).

If apple keeps going the way they are going, I will need a very strong argument to get my kid a smartphone in 10 years when I can get them a watch that allows them to make calls, send limited texts, and not get wrapped up in social media / taking photos all the time.
I was unaware that mods can see the users who upvote a post. That seams borderline too much power of for a basic reddit moderator.
No. It means the opposite - not paid well.
I’ll just mention I have been using vultr for about a year now and I love it.

There are no hidden charges and the service is just amazing as I use vulture to host my automated HN newsletter that delivers top news headlines straight to my inbox
Perhaps this will encourage or lead to more people protecting their privacy and avoiding cross-service linkage?

It isn't a given (and certainly would be hugely problematic to assume) that the same human sits behind the same username on each service. Absent strong linkage and enduring proof of that link, this will be weaponised (register same username on Gab and post hate, then report the user to Twitch). That's an obvious attack vector, and I assume they will be wanting to see proper links.

The game theory rational response for all users is surely therefore to not link or associate their online social presences together.

While I guess this might not work in modern social media culture of trying to gather a following everywhere on multiple platforms, this disclosing those accounts ("follow my Instagram and Twitter, like my YouTube videos, etc."), it perhaps will normalise less linkage (or leakage, depending on your perspective) between platforms?

If you depend on twitch, but don't want someone to try get you deplatformed based on something elsewhere, one of the best ways to prevent that would be to not have any linkable off-site activity. Then there's nothing for them to ban you for.

Or am I just reminiscing too much for the old internet before social media took off?
Once you start using Sieve, you can also start doing more fine-grained filtering of mail to locations and archiving things which you care about with a couple of bash scripts and systemd timers/cron jobs.
Well I've seen culture change in a day. If you have enough power and can unilaterally change an incentive structure you can get people to fall in line really quickly.

When I worked at a bank we had pretty predatory selling practices and a fitting culture. This was starting to catch the eye of the media and government so the Bank exec stepped in and said the parties over and If anyone doesn't conform to these new rules then they're out on the street. That day, the culture changed, and everyone was happy to changed because they didn't want the existential consequences to happen to them.

There's the softly softly approach over years and then there's the speeding u-turn. Both can work. The latter just takes more grit.
This is the kind of shit that really keeps me in the Apple ecosystem and helps me forgive the things they get wrong.
He could reasonably be predicted to have said this, but this is still a terrible post for HN. At minimum I would expect "Multiple sources confirmed" for this to be better than rumor.
> his incentives are still infinitely better than those of any government because Facebook's status is built on consent rather than coercion.

Is your position that all governance is coercive and thus inherently unethical? That seems like a philosophical position fundamentally in conflict with living in the modern world.
I think that's what's happening here - the PSF will be hiring someone to work 100% on core CPython for a year.
Suggestion: To avoid the bad publicity, never be the largest donator.
Hello there, nice work. I like how relaxing it is... Watching someone somewhere contributing. I'm going to leave this running on my 2nd monitor full screen.
It doesn't help that zuckerberg reputation is absolute dog shit. We are talking about a man that many considers is a threat to democracy. It wouldn't be out of character for him to be petty and vindictive.
> The trouble with digitizing analog mediums (especially vinyl) is how much your equipment can alter the sound. Given a different tonearm, cartridge, amp, etc, the same record can sound very different.

Would a scan done with a laser turntable[1] be better? The wikipedia article mentions that it produces a much better capture than regular tonearms, although they are much more susceptible to dust.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
It's not just you. But this may not be indicative of the slack experience.
Knowing the possibilities of sota AI algorithms and its limitation I would say that I would never replace any human with CEO if it comes to an process in which you have to make decisions.

The main issue with 'AI' is that it make an judgment by the data it was feed on through the training process. So there is no spark of creativity which will result in behaviours which are far away from expected value.

Unpopular opinion:
I know that hype train change its direction and know we are stuffed with buzzwords like 'Ai algo solve mathematical problem', but the question is how the test dataset was prepared and where is the border between excellent memorization and average creativity. Because assuming that we have an infinite number of resources we can teach any algorithm literally anything in limited amount of time.
I live in Australia so it might be a bit different in your country. The work started for me as shorter term contracts e.g. a recruiter would say "I'm looking for someone on a 6 month react JS project". I would provide them with a day rate and go work for the client as a standard employee. Overtime this has led to me meeting a lot of people, getting a lot of experience and building a client roster of my own.
I tried to write my documentation, CV, presentations, etc in markdown for a few years. It's ok I guess but I was forever dissatisfied with the result presentation.

Finally made the jump to latex and I feel cheated for believing it is too complex and not touching it for all those years. For example https://latex-beamer.com/ for presentations is extremely simple, you can be productive with it in 2-3 hours. Give latex a try, forget markup languages.
> LF is line feed, thus new line.

LF is line feed, thus next line.
The CR
is to
readjust the write head
back to the
starting position.

A line feed alone is not a new line because some or most of the line is already used up. The B '*n' and C '\n' introduced the notion of new line, which outputs both a next line (LF) and back to the starting position (CR).
Not on home internet. I have the 4G version and used something like 1.5TB last month with no slowdowns (mostly just streaming 4K content)
Hearing about a drug that hijacks the body's appetite makes me feel like we're in the prologue to a zombie movie.