jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've never had a salary review without asking. They only give me raises for my first job when I was being paid less than a fast food manager, or when I quit. I think it's not that common to regularly give raises and bonuses.
After writing embedded Rust, loving it, and then losing that job, I've gotta ask what you're up to these days (mostly so I can live vicariously through you). I am dying to write Rust in the embedded space again. :)
By that logic, no preventive measures should ever be taken. But individual measures have varied costs and returns, and it is worth considering those and selecting measures that make sense.

Would you never screen for cancer because you can use chemotherapy?
My impression is that internet speeds are lower in the rural setting because it's more expensive to lay cable over longer distances. My nomination for unused bands is fast rural internet.
I hope RECAP[1] comes to Safari.

1. https://free.law/recap/
We have a pretty tight oncall (5 min response time).

A previous employer wanted to drop the response time from 15 to 5 minutes. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back and everyone refused to do on-call until we got new contracts which paid for on-call quite generously. Management pissed and whined of course but a year on, the on-call payments were dwarfed by the savings made.
He's closed his practice so I'm not sure why he would care that much about the value of the PR?

You're right that he's probably "only" written off a fraction of the headline amount but that doesn't feel like it matters much in this context.
Is this something we should wish for? It’s my understanding that for SARS-CoV-2 a lot of people seem to have t-cell immunity because they’ve been infected with other families of coronavirus. Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t vaccinating against all of the coronavirusus prevent this from happening? Thus, eradication of all viruses would result in a new virus being much more deadly in a population when no one has had a “previous” less deadly “version”
GLaDOS was voiced by a real person [0]. Her voice had some effects added but mostly just her trying to sound like a computer.

[0] http://ellenmclain.net/
Lovely concept. Have a look at the work Commonwealth have done on digital platform cooperatives. https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/digital-co-ops-and-t...
One way to look at it is a restriction on post frequency, but the reason why modern social is so harmful is because unlimited post frequency means unlimited read frequency.

It isn't restricted post frequency, it is restricted read frequency.
It's also hard because some of those "lavish" expenses are a necessity if you are famous and make your money from things like looks. Very famous people may need security in various forms that ordinary people do not need (bullet proof limo, security guard, housing with security). Oprah has said if she wears the same outfit twice in two months on her show, people have a fit about it and many stars have to pay for personal trainers, expensive haircuts, etc just to keep their "job."
Oh! We need an internal integration with HN so we can identify each-other on here :-D
Using a new clean profile does prevent that strange behavior of Firefox, but I'm still curious about the reason
Sweet.js brings hygienic macros to JavaScript and follows directly from Scheme R5RS mechanisms AFAICT.
There is no GitHub or StackOverflow for mechanical engineering, civil engineering, high-voltage electrical engineering, biotech lab work, etc.

Would you hire an accountant for your business who was just enthusiastic and good with Google?

You know there are other degree programs other than CS at most universities right?
Is it forced on everyone? It's not just one huge room with no partitions inside right?
Constant time subscripting is a myth. There's nothing(*) useful to be obtained by adding a fixed offset to the base of your string, in any unicode encoding, including UTF-32.

If you're hoping that a fixed offset gives you a user-percieved character boundary, then you're not handling composed characters or zero-width-joiners or any number of other things that may cause a grapheme cluster to be composed of multiple UTF code points.

The "fixed" size of code points in encodings like UTF-32 are just that: code points. Whether a code point corresponds with anything useful, like the boundary of a visible character, will always require linear-time indexing of the string, in any encoding.

(*) Approximately nothing. If you're in a position where you've somehow already vetted that the text is of a subset of human languages where you're guaranteed to never have grapheme clusters that occupy more than a single code point, then you maybe have a use case for this, but I'd argue you really just have a bunch of bugs waiting to happen.
The GP explicitly suggested visiting. Once the issue was mentioned, it was fair and useful to remind people of the risks of being held hostage. I wouldn't have piped in if it wasn't mentioned.

I assume good faith and hope others return the favour, so I won't be backhandedly blaming people for running a campaign. It's an open forum, not a social bubble, we should expect to find people with different opinions here. Some of them are even wrong on the internet!
the problem with going to bars is that everyone who hits on me is not really my type. most of the 'offers' i get are from fatties and uglies or losers, and would not result in a relationship even even if i decided to sleep with them. these people simply increase the noise at the bar and don't add value to anyone.

oh my god it's just like, so annoying, you know? faux outrage
This would have been more awesome 4 years ago when I would have been asking questions instead of answering them.
Great moral: "Information, properly delivered, is power."
Direct link to the printed letter (PDF):

http://j.mp/cancer-ray
I wrote an article last year about the "how to" of making a living writing open source: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/80180/building-your-caree... ...or, actually, a series of articles. Maybe it'll help. (Because it's not just "who's doing it" under consideration, but "how.")
Seconded. This also gives you a good model to emulate for class structure/app design.
I guess google is everyone's scapegoat. But hey, they're free and easy. They were just begging for it.
In that specific case it looks like Apple did in fact made the right decision :D. 2 > 1
So who from google is going to try to assuage our concerns and tell us that it's all misdirection that they, and thus we, shouldn't fall prey to? Or is anyone from the company not compromised by a candy-coated exterior?
I guess when you say things like this:

> I certainly have more respect for someone who does sleep training because they think it's best for the child, rather than for themselves. Of course, everyone will say that's why they're doing it

> I also think the reason people don't dig deeper is that they, perhaps unconsciously, would rather not discover something that is uncomfortable and inconvenient for them

> I just hope they won't do something that they know is worse for the kid because it's easier for them. In my opinion, sleep training generally falls in this category.

> People do it because they're exasperated and neither parent is willing to do something hard

> They generally don't do it because they genuinely believe it's best for the baby

> If your parenting philosophy is not based on any research or learning about what's best for your child, but instead on what's easiest and most convenient for you

> our self-absorbed approach to parenting

> because you might reach conclusions that conflict with a self-serving parenting philosophy is just another excuse.

it makes it seem like you are attacking the character of those that disagree with you.

> Your argument seems to be that questioning the morality of anything an otherwise well-meaning person does and might be sensitive about is “shaming” and “insulting” and an attempt to “control” the person. That strikes me as very opposed to the principles of free speech and open debate.

I am saying there is a difference between casting aspersions about the character of people who disagree with you, and trying persuade them that your position is correct. I see you added a link recently for some of the evidence that you found convincing. If the purpose of you posting here was to change peoples minds, that probably would have been more effective.

And no, I don't think ad hominem attacks are the same as free speech and open debate. And I don't think resorting to them so easily instead of other types of argument is a small thing either.
I'm a fan of DO too. In terms of "what's missing?", how about the equivalent of AWS Lambda@Edge or Cloudfront EdgeWorkers? ie, a NodeJS runtime as close to the end user as the nearest CDN edge.
If you want to make that generalization, you should have some good sources to back it up. Do you have some stats saying that e.g. 99% of pro-death-penalty people want the accused to "suffer"?

Otherwise you're just throwing shade on people you disagree with, and that doesn't make you look good.
> The gig workers hate it

... but for some reason they keep doing it.

Also, I assume the consumer is very happy that he's getting a venture capital subsidized food delivery service.
Absolutely. There's no storing value in something that regularly swings 20%+ on a given day. The only people who are saying this are holders of Bitcoin. It was originally designed to be a decentralized currency, and now it's not. There are much better & safer value stores, even traditional rare metals.
Fuck that noise.

Full Disclosure:

I am the largest shareholder in Voxeo. I never went to college. I'm allergic to dust mites. I'm a habitual abuser of allergy medicines. I've listened to nothing but The White Stripes for three months and it's altered my DNA. I routinely squash the hopes and dreams of our youth by slaying them in Call of Duty. And I only own four hats.

Full Clojure:

visionik=> (apply str (interpose "." ["Voxeo Shareholder" "No College" "Dust Mites" "White Stripes" "Call of Duty" "Four Hats"]))
Any business will have its share of disappointments, and some industries are notorious for the projects that get canceled. The gaming industry is a lot like that too. I know of someone (a very good programmer) who spent 9 years working for major gaming companies, and every single one of the games that he worked on was canceled before launch. He was very well paid, but he eventually became burned out and disillusioned, simply because he was never part of a successful product. Mind you, he did not face long hours or poor pay, he simply faced 9 years of working on products that never saw the light of day. And that depressed him.
I think I'd be uncomfortable with this not because of approaching random strangers but rather approaching them with false pretenses. You're essentially fooling people into listening to your ill-formed business plan by lying to their face about non-existant siblings in non-existant danger. Whatever happened to being honest with people?

"Hi. Can I buy you a cup of coffee in exchange for some feedback? Five minutes is all I want."

People will either blow you off as a scummy salesman or listen to you. You can sleep well at night with the knowledge that you didn't make someone late to work by toying with their emotions.
His Disney stock is from the Pixar sale, not active investment. Smart of him to keep it all this time (probably an easy choice given the dividends it pays), but he ultimately has it due to the innovation at Pixar, not investment acumen.
I run a movie blog and have seen MASSIVE dropoffs in referrals/engagement on FB - As it's just me running the site, and my time is zero sum, I have shifted far more of my focus on email newsletter marketing as it drives far better traffic. I tried paying to promote a few posts but the ROI was definitely not there relative to ad revenue.

I have heard from countless other publishers I know who are doing many similar things as to not get trapped in the FB ecosystem.
I think it's a poignant lesson for a startup. Help a customer today, and tomorrow they'll be your biggest supporter ever. Indeed, in every hackers life, the idea of helping others now will come back to help you. Lots of cultures have this idea, a three-fold return or the golden-rule.

While it's a bit of a stretch, I think it fits nicely into the hacker mindset.
Isn't the core problem here "he sat on it and didn't release"? Money-making idea or not, if you don't release it doesn't matter whether you've told people about your idea or not.

I completely agree with your last statement, "if you sit on your ideas at all, someone will do them instead." - But, I think that's true even if you haven't told people about your idea. Someone else will have the same idea, sooner or later.
I didn't get that from his comment. I used Java at a startup (shocking I know!), and most of my Google searches returned stuff for Java 1.4.

(ex. I just googled system.out.println and it pulls up Java 1.4.2)
perhaps...
> How much different from MD5 can that be?
Answer: Very.

(MD5: 128 bit | SHA256: 256 bit) ::
(2^256/2^128 = 2^128) => 3.40282367*10^38 of a larger keyspace.

I know nothing about the specifical implementation details of either hashing method (and I eagerly await tptacek to offer a far more comprehensive response) but I'm sure the difference in keyspace alone is enough to make this practically impossible.
I come at it from a non-commercial perspective; at most I've had two hives at a time. I was mostly speaking from personal experience of winter losses; it's really heartbreaking.

Commercial hives are indeed relatively mobile, as they're temporarily stored on trucks to move from field to field. It's possible that it's simply untenable to keep bees indoors on a large scale. Hives that are too close together for long periods of time will attack and raid each other. There simply might not be enclosed spaces large or affordable enough to hold wintering bees.

But someone who does commercial bee-keeping could probably give you a much better answer.
Does anyone know what a HP MSA2000 G3 is? Google vaguely hints that it could be a laptop.
I interpreted this headline as "Software that engineers should write," as in "Engineers, please make the following bits of software."

Which in a way helps prove one of the article's points: writing and programming are alike in their need for precision and clarity. :)
I think that's a bit disingenuous as to how single party politics work.
This is really cool, and I'd like to encourage work like this. I currently don't think I can recommend this to others because:

It isn't immediately obvious who is running the site. whois info lists a Canadian privacy company. The site doesn't have an about page. Github has contributor info, which may help. Tax returns need to be private and accurate. If it's hard to verify that the authors are even in the US, it's had to know if this is a scam.

I think the project is still young, and the above is likely something addressable. Partnering with some accountants may be a way to fund further development/maintenance through referrals. Good luck!
Finland to name one.

"As part of Finland’s celebrated transparency, any member of the public can call up the local tax office to enquire about a total stranger’s annual income and tax contributions." - https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/in_finland_all_it_takes_i...

Also tax and income data for everyone earning over 100 000€ a year will be posted publicly online (with an option to opt-out).
Passively assimilating the people who follow your competitors isn't a bad idea.

However, you can quickly target people who evangelize your competitors by tracking which of those followers who re-tweet and follow competitors on other social networks.

Those are really the users that you want. Identify them and give them a reason to get behind you.

Mass following any group of people on any social network won't increase your reach. Targeting specific groups of users, identifying what they want and giving that to them will.
Can you cite research about the safety of roundabouts? I've heard this argument a few times and don't believe it. What's the evidence?
One day, aliens will use our oceans as heat sinks for their great galactic computer. And even then, ZFS will serve them well.
I am impressed with your approach (and like the hosting business model you blokes seem to be employing at feralhosting.com).

Put you in my address book in case I ever develop for a UK-audience site.
The other points seem pretty valid [1] but points 1-3 and 8 appear to be prime candidates for category extensions. I'm aware of their drawbacks but they could be applied here with little inconvenience and they dilute an otherwise interesting article somewhat. (I almost gave up reading after reading the first 3 complaints in what appeared to be pure API bitching)

[1] I have almost zero experience with "grown-up" Cocoa and plenty with iOS, but assuming their factual correctness, they seem valid concerns.
"Gruber seems to make the assertion that a platform only has worth based on its exclusive 'killer apps'. He goes wrong there and never really recovers. Android's strength is not its suite apps, it's its flexibility."

It is baffling how you managed to read the article and still evade his point even though he addresses your rejoinder directly. Gruber says,

"At this point, I’m guessing, Android fans are ready to exclaim that the fact that Android supports things like home screen replacements (or other system-level tools, such as touchscreen keyboard replacements) — and that iOS does not — is precisely why they prefer Android, and/or consider iOS to be an unacceptable toy, or what have you. But, again, that’s not the argument I’m making. I’m talking about third-party developer exclusives — and the only ones Android has are ones that Apple doesn’t want."

Your opening salvo is baffling, because Gruber says, "I’m not saying Android is in trouble. The opposite, in fact: I think it’s going to continue growing — in terms of handset sales — despite this. And maybe as Android handset sales grow, this situation will change, and developers will start creating exclusive killer apps for the platform, drawn by the size of the market."

His main point is that Android is currently weak as a software platform. People don't choose Android because of its superior applications but because of its perceived flexibility/hackability. Developers don't see the Android app market as particularly profitable. The opposite holds true for iOS. He describes this as being a new phenomenon, the "app console market" which is a market that Android currently doesn't feature in.

We can extrapolate that if the situation with Android doesn't change, then Android could become the new Symbian, dominating a quasi-category of feature-smart-phones but with iOS and WP7 taking the more profitable segment of the market.
We can only move forward when words like "nigger", "savage", "nazi", "polack", "redneck", "commie" or "yank" provoke no reaction. We don't have to like or approve the past (and certainly not be proud of most of it), but we must limit ourselves to learn from it and not seek retribution for crimes rooted generations ago.

If we don't, we will perpetuate cycles of injustice across generations and invite the worst of our past into our children's future. We must constantly draw lines and learn from our mistakes, even the ones made centuries ago.

We must also be careful on how we preserve our culture and our ways of life. The NA/AD culture shock that's in the root of this present discussion shows us how little progress our species made in deciding where to place the assimilation/integration divide. We try hard to be multi-cultural but, in the end of the day, we are much closer to naked apes than we may be comfortable thinking. Most of the battles we must fight were bred into our brains and we must fight them within ourselves.
Thats just how salary works. I've never looked at it as "You're getting paid to do N hours of work", but rather, "You're getting paid get X work done."

In the UK your employer cannot force you to work more than 48 hours a week, but written into my contract was a clause waiving that maximum. I dont think I've ever worked less than 60 hours a week. The weeks where you work 80+ hours, you just try not to think about the hourly rate...
The British company that made the parachute's fabric has a great little piece about it here [0]. In 15 years they went from a demo at a symposium in the US to a canopy that could achieve a 98% reduction in the re-entry speed of a massive payload.

[0] https://www.heathcoat.co.uk/perseverance-landing/
Also in finance. We've moved the vast majority of stuff to the cloud in the past couple years, including most critical infrastructure. There are a few things that they might not move, like highly secret models and the like.

Prior to two years ago, we were basically all on-prem.
there are payroll companies like https://justworks.com/ that have entities in each state to deal with the wage tax issue. that's the "easy" way as far as i know.
Litecoin est la 7e pièce la plus précieuse selon sa valeur maximale sur le marché. La crypto est actuellement évaluée à 43 dollars et, de ce fait, de nombreuses personnes sont intéressées par le commerce ou l'achat de LTC.
Not resilient to disease maybe but I'm sure webdevs will be overjoyed at having a much easier time porting sites. The power dynamic that matters is political not technical. Google doesn't really get to exert control over the web with their rendering engine or V8 it's the actual high-level browser policy that matters and Firefox doesn't actually have to follow any of it.

Firefox gutted all of their internals with project Servo. If they had instead integrated Blink would it have been any different?

I always think it's interesting what things people want to have diverse ecosystems with competing implementations (browsers) and what things people consider that an unnecessary duplication of effort (Wayland compositors).
You missed Tulip-Mania and questioning what gives something value in the first place.
Broad statements like Thiel's shouldn't be taken too literally. I don't think the main point is the broad statement about the trends themselves.

The main point is the classification: Flying Cars vs 140 Characters or Bits vs Atoms. FB is worth almost $1trn. No real technical achievements or advancement. If fb didn't exist, something else would be the friendster. Tesla, Apple, MSFT, Google, etc. are closer to the flying cars end of that spectral dichotomy. We could debate where.

Thiel attracts antagonists in the same way like leftists do. Paypal, Palantir, his capital allocation theories & such are not very performant on his own flying cars VS 140 characters test. It's a hazard of being an idealist. The traditional question a leftist authors get (chomsky, etc) is about selling his books on amazon.

But yes. There certainly is a lot of failure in western economies, especially in the "public-private" realm. These aren't constructive failures, and this sort of stuff is deeply limiting. You know, cutting edge aerospace engineering is risky. Let's take easier examples. Why can't we procure buildings or do basic infrastructure without scandals and runaway costs?

Ancient civilizations managed to build incredible aqueduct systems, public buildings, etc. We've regressed.
He hires others to drink for him.
Scripting for access? How so? I thought it was only queries and forms.
With these simulated environments, do we have the processing power to run them at 1000x or 10,000x to speed up the learning? Or is it already processor intensive enough that it runs at nearly wall-clock time?
I've wondered for a long time whether being hardworking is a "talent" that some people naturally have more of. Self-control being heritable would be some support for that idea.