jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The poverty line in the US is ludicrously low when basic health insurance costs $300-400 a month for the not-fucking-your-life plan, birth control isn't covered, and a gallon of milk costs $5.

In Austria, a person doesn't even pay taxes until they earn over 1200 euros a month. Until the whole silly Greek affair, that was the equivalent of $21,000 USD for an individual.

And... they still get retirement, maternity leave, unemployment insurance, free childcare, and great health care.

Not to mention, despite a 20% sales tax, raw food ingredients in Austria cost less than the equivalent I paid in Maryland 2 years ago when I left.

Additionally: Healthcare in the US is a hidden tax.

Yet more, how many people do you know who receive social benefits in the US? I have known quite a few, most notably a woman who was deeply involved in an abusive church and marriage and had 10 children with her husband before realizing she was in a very bad situation. Her family and his family disowned her, and what did the government do? Denied her food stamps. A woman who hadn't worked since she was 18, had no college, and 10 children!

So yes, I think paying 50% to Austria is actually cheaper than paying 40%+ to Uncle Sam, while also having to pay $600/mo for COBRA because I was denied by private insurance, and still hoemmorhaging money when I hurt myself. US taxes? Really not that low.

Except, as I said, for the very rich, and the large corporations, and people who can afford/have the balls to maintain genuine tax shelters.
I hope it replaces the notoriously hard to use gdb. I actually like doing things on the commandline and am used to using minimalistic tools like vim, but gdb's obscure commandline behavior makes it very hard for me to use it for any real project.
> It is however extremely painful to learn.

I can attest to that, physically.
I never understood BSD on laptops. It's like oil and water.

The realm of many things BSD is great at does not include power management or hardware support so you will be guaranteed to be unhappy with it.
At 2 square meters per grave in densely populated areas they're going to sooner or later have to bury people stacked if they don't want the dead to crowd out the living.
Radicals are taking over conversations about literally everything, while the majority of people are being left out of the discourse.
I find this to be an insane unproductive trajectory, which only breeds mob mentality.

We need honest, REAL and LOGICAL RATIONAL discussion of social policies and dynamics. Not ad hominem, subversions etc.

I just wish I knew how we could get people to that point. . .
The main differentiator being that he wants companies to grow to be great (and valuation is a measure of that success), whereas traditional VC's and even entrepreneurs are looking for high valuation/exits as success, whether the company is truly great being irrelevant.
Are you a user? If so, and you've been such for over a year - have you paid? I've never been charged, and to my knowledge nobody I know has either. I don't get if we should be getting charged but they just don't seem to bother. I get an annual notification saying I've been extended and no more information.
From my view of the world the "pre Apple" app marketplace was much worse. With our J2ME apps (doing apps since 2002) we would have to distribute to 30+ different middlemen (Telcogames et al) each with differing submission requirements, invoicing/non payment issues and the kicker was only getting 20-40% (at best) of the revenue (with the price not being set by us). The holy grail being placement on operator stores with the ever fickle decisions of their games teams.

The amount of non payment, uncharged downloads, operator/distribution backhanders and outright fraud was striking. With Apple we get paid on time, I trust the download reports and it is ‘quite’ clear what the submission rules are.

The Apple (and Android) appstore just reminds me of a very pure form of business in which the barriers are low, not everyone can be a 'winner' , and Surgeon’s law applies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law)

I do however agree with your conclusion - neither you nor your app matter to Apple but that isn't unique to you/your app - it is just business.
This question is pretty much like a vim user asking why he should use emacs (or viceversa). Sure, they cover a lot of common features each, plus their big differences.

Sublime is just another alternative. No real reason to use it if you prefer what you already have. It's just a matter of trying it out and seeing how it works for you.

Note: I no longer use sublime. vim+ctrlp+other plugins has replaced it for me.
You're putting a lot of effort into refuting an anonymous troll comment. :)
I want to take issue with "it would take little effort to find 100s of projects at universities across the world that are better versions of these projects", both as a trained biologist (neurobiology), current postdoc, and former entrepreneur.

I share your intuition, I really do. I even said similar things in grad school (and still do, sometimes). But the reality is that:

1. These are not supposed to be projects, they are supposed to be companies creating products. The gulf between "Nature paper" and "something someone will buy" is incredibly long and arduous. Plus, these are VC-backed, meaning there's an expectation of timeline (short) and return (high). These aren't "take $20m from darpa and engage in another four years of R&D" type endeavors. So while they might look trivial scientifically (although I do not think that they do), they have to be working sooner rather than later.

2. "Better versions" is also a tough thing to assess. The people involved matter a lot -- thus even technically superior solutions from very smart people might still not be "better versions". I know many grad students who are much more knowledgable than some of the top data scientists, who nonetheless would fall on their faces if they tried to do a data science startup. Similar for life sciences and biotech.

I think the people who poo-poo academia are largely setting up strawmen -- even Peter Thiel (whose first VC firm, Founders Fund, backed both of my startups) admits that there's a substantial role for government and academic activity in enabling long-term technical innovation.

As biologists, we know just how hard it is to make _anything_ work in this space. Most new drugs fail, most clinical trials fail, most pathways end up being hard to target, etc. etc. Often building a company in the biotech space is like trying to build a microprocessor company where we're still not entirely sure "how the silicon works".

The challenge for YC and other VCs is to identify technologies that are "almost there", and help turn them into companies and products. That's very hard, and I'm not really even sure that we (as academics) are any good at it either.

Will some of them fail? Sure. Will some of them leave the startup scene and maybe go back and do a postdoc or work for an industrial research lab or do another startup, much wiser? Of course. But that hardly seems like a horrible outcome, especially if the scientists learn a lot along the way.
I still can't see a problem here. A business with a single customer exists in an almost complete vacuum and doesn't influence the market. What's more it's very risky as its revenues aren't diversified. It's completely dependent on its only customer.
Matasanos is the Spanish slang for doctor (literally, means "healthy killer").
Why would they do a press release, before selling it? I dont remember anyone ever putting a "For Sale" board, for a software property of Delicious' scale.

It is just they are covering up for the bad press, IMO.
Yep Scheme was what I was using with SICP.

I've heard of Common Lisp in passing, does it have a more friendly syntax?
Steve Yegge famously talked about Google's "interview anti-loop", where you get two interviewers in your process who wouldn't have hired each other, so the things one of them values are actually negatives for the other, and viceversa.

I don't know if that's still a problem at Google, but it could explain why some people don't pass the interview process even though they are reasonably clever.
Feel free to change every "you should" to "one should" in your head.

I understand that this is a sensitive subject, but there are people reading this thread who are about to become parents, and they need to know the truth.
I agree about the narratives. That being said, the recent events — those in the historical record of these lands — should not be dismissed simply because “everyone lives on land taken by someone”. I mean, are you proposing to ignore the nakba?

In my opinion, it is one thing to say we that should move on from what happened centuries ago to indigenous populations in the Americas and another thing entirely to say let’s ignore a settler colonial movement which operates in the modern era.

Regarding what you mentioned on the anti-semitism of criticizing Jewish people: what should the approach be for good-faith critics? Say I want to criticize the modern day policies of the Israeli military/government which create a reality of Jewish supremacy in the occupied territories, how do I do it? This is the unfortunate reality of today and we should be able to speak out against it without being labeled as anti-semites.
It's crazy to be sinking assets.

But I'd suspect this will pivot, and this is the tech the world needs.

Massive amounts of the earth is ocean deserts. If we can green them for profit, along with that you will get a lot of CO2 being sequestered through waste, while also freeing up land for ecosystems.

If we ever want to remove CO2 from the atmosphere this is the only way to do it I've ever seen. Something biological in the ocean.

Cool start-up.
I say we ban it just so we can all see that it doesn't work, and then the politicians will continue to ignore that.

Sorry Rockstar!
Did you use floating point or fixed point numbers?
Probably an unpopular opinion, but doesn't it exposes workers to OPSEC issues? I mean, if it is a strike, there must be a way to identify how is it being organized/ co-ordinated via some social media/ messaging apps leaving them wide open for other nation state actors to identify who-n-who of CSE. That is assuming CSE employees are not profiled actively before this.
Author here. Here is the full code if anyone is interested: https://github.com/pyramation/totp/blob/master/packages/totp...
How long until there is an Unmozilla'd Firefox distribution?
-1 on Redwood. It's not ready yet.
It's a fine line between pleasure and pain.
Yes, this seems like the critical distinction.

Caring about the monthly repayment is important.

But so is caring about the interest rate and the principal.
I'm not an expert and not in a position to fully judge the legal argument, but I am aware that this is a contentious issue, and it appears to me from Assange's lawyers' arguments that it's not so open and shut. But given the judge's really absurd rulings on other issues (such as whether Assange is a journalist or whether or not he'll face a fair trial), I'm not inclined to automatically believe her interpretation is correct here. If she is correct, though, then the UK has not implemented the treaty, and more importantly, journalists in the UK are in serious danger if they report on foreign governments.
Are you talking about the browser or other environments?

There is a proposal [1] for adding sockets to WASI.

This blog post [2] has some more background info.

Outside the browsers, you can always provide extra functionality yourself though by supplying host defined functions as imports. That looses the benefit of a standard API, but is fine for custom deployments.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/pull/312

[2] https://radu-matei.com/blog/towards-sockets-networking-wasi/
> Shifting sunrise forward an hour would result in a dramatic quality of life increase for most people.

These claims need to be backed up by data as there is a conflicting claim that potential sleep deprivation caused by the offset would negate these benefits.

The fact that school already starts too early, makes me doubt that changing to a permanent DST would magically fix that. In fact I would argue that it would make the problem worse. Much more robust is to move to standard time.

I think most people actually prefer sleeping through the first hour of sunlight, and would continue doing so given the choice. I think it is only exceptional that people wake up earlier to enjoy longer part of the day, e.g. during a vacation. During the everyday life I think most people would naturally prefer starting their day with the sunrise (as opposed to before). And in fact I believe there are health implications in forcing people to do otherwise. Not with everybody, but with significant enough portion of the population that it would be unwise to force it on everybody.

Your point about school hours being independent of the rest of the population is naive. Parents life syncs with their kids as they prefer to be working while their kids are in school, cities set bus schedules according to school hours, businesses open in accordance to when school is over, etc. Peoples lives are heavily depended on school hours.
> The bad guys here are the phone vendors, not the Termux developers IMHO.

Here is Termux devs reply to Termux user:

> ... Time to upgrade your devices...[0]

Who is bad guy here according this quote?

P.S. It would not be so bad if devs just says "we don't support such devices", but instead devs declared to upgrade device in reply to user...

[0] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1407#issuecommen...
There's always a use for less latency... HTF (high frequency traders) are in the nano-seconds. There's probably other areas where lower latency will always matter.
Skof is the president of the Ottawa Police Association. He's comparing removing people from a protest vs. removing trucks. He goes on to list one or two other logistical issues with trying to clear the trucks out.

My point is that you can resist government forces when you have the right tools. (Or when the police are on your side).
Zoom is probably here to stay but won't achieve dominance as the standard for video meetings the way I think investors speculated early pandemic.

Pre-pandemic almost no remote companies that I knew used Zoom. It was almost exclusively google meet with a few use of other, lesser well known services. Zoom did some great early pandemic marketing and was able to quickly capture market share, especially in the "meeting with a 1000 attendees") type calls. I've known plenty of teams that switched of zoom into other platforms relatively quickly. I suspect that zoom will replace Oracle's webex and similar products for "business meetings" but will not achieve dominance in day to day meeting space.

People already have solutions for the majority of their video chat needs:

- small office meetings: Google meet/slack video
- family calls: FaceTime (or equivalent)
- socialization: Discord

I suspect Discord will grow a bit as younger people enter the work force. Since they've optimized around gaming/livestreaming their screen sharing video is remarkably more crisp than either Google or Zoom.
Sorry, who is this for?

Is this for individuals who want to be poached?

Is this a title mocking companies that get their talent poached and what they are doing wrong?

Is this for devs trying to recruit other devs?
That’s just the API. I no longer work on HN, but as of 2016 it was still flat files (s-exprs) on a ZFS dataset.
That is terrifying. I learned physics from his textbooks - ussr samizdat. I googled allegations against him and all I saw was a wall of vague text from a cardboard cut, predatory sensationalists, all cross referencing each other
It really just seems like a mental illness to have a billion dollars and still try to get more money. Like you should be on medications level of mental illness.
I feel like this is a weird statement. Unless I'm personally involved in the abuses of Amazon, I can't feel bad for the victims?

I've never been murdered but I feel bad for murder victims as well.
In addition to what everyone else has said, even the most serious of the serious hard news reporters have never read the news in a completely dry monotone. Humans actively filter such boring stimuli; it isn't immoral to do so, it's inevitable.
Anyone who likes Last Week Tonight should also check out the Bugle podcast Oliver hosts with Andy Zaltzman. Satire at its best: http://www.thebuglepodcast.com/
There's been significant (to put it mildly) turnover at BlackBerry since it was in a position of strength, so IMHO it's not exactly fair to call the company hypocritical. I should hope all the new people have some new ideas and maybe a different philosophy.
That is hilarious. Good luck with KDE.
It also doesn't work very well. Rich people just end up buying two cars.
> I can't imagine needing to see more than 4 windows at the same time. Seeing three / four windows is already more than distracting enough for me.

KDE + bismuth user, with dual screens. Terminal, IDE, window for the application I'm working on, browser for the documentation of the framework or tool I'm using. Sometimes an extra browser window for miscellaneous searching. Sometimes MS Teams is in the mix there too. Oh and as you mentioned, terminal is usually tmuxed into 2 or more panes.

And if I do need to focus down to one maximised window, meta+m to toggle "monocle" layout which maximises and removes borders.

But, I have ADHD and find that if something isn't visible in front of me, it's basically non-existent from the point of view of my working memory.
By working on proprietary technology I (and many people) use daily, which I couldn't make myself, e.g. car infotainment, kernels and drivers. Pointing at something and saying "I partly made that". Being able to touch what you develop makes the rubber hit the road.
This looks pretty interesting to me. Self-hosting a webapp origin server on hardware in my house, fronted by CloudFlare... hmm. Food for thought.
The whole gun industry revolves around this. Can't have automatic weapons (unless you buy a preban for $10,000-100,000), fine we'll make a trigger that resets after every shot and your finger will be primed for the next one. Barrel is under 16"? There is this thing called an arm brace (legal for now... sigh). Barrel is under 16" and you want a suppressor? Well if you weld the suppressor on, pay the tax stamp, technically it's over 16" so you're good.
I am not.

I have an Oculus Rift, thankfully bought I had to tie my Oculus account to my Facebook account, but it is still Facebook.

If Facebook is gone, my hardware which I bought in Europe stops working.

My device is well out of warranty but what about people who just bought a Quest? Will Facebook recall all their headsets? I am pretty sure you can't break hardware like that in Europe, where a 2 year warranty is the law.
Also, I'm not an expert on Haskell, but to my knowledge, popular Scala FP libraries such as cats or zio are basically ports of Haskel into Scala.
I'm from the generation of people who "grew up" with Facebook (~40 fwiw, so I guess I'm one of these "older" people).

There are of course folks older than me who use Facebook but they all got to adulthood before Facebook even existed.

I can't imagine any of my peers being overly worried about facebook going away. We figured out how to communicate with our friends before facebook. We'll figure out how to do it again.
It's the same foolishness as supporting mandatory water rationing instead of raising the price for water during a drought.
Minimalist as in the README does not specify that it refers to the UI though.. If I read minimalist software I would assume a more holistic interpretation unless otherwise specified.

Maybe replace minimalist with modern for a more correct description of software with 100s of dependencies? (Joke!)

Nitpicking aside, The app looks good and I do like this TUI trend!
I think a more interesting thought might be - many if not most cities have been built next to water, and now the purpose of the water has disappeared.

Since the rise of container shipping, lots of city infrastructure near the water has been made obsolete. Loading docks, warehouses, manufacturing and all the rest have been replaced. Now you have a container parking lot and a gantry usually in a cheaper location with uncongested rail and freeway access, which is no longer directly in an urban center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization#Effects

"This fundamental transformation of where warehouse work was performed freed up valuable waterfront real estate near the central business districts of port cities around the world for redevelopment and led to a plethora of waterfront revitalization projects (such as warehouse districts)."
Ah I remember when Mandrill was hit with the XID thing, painful day.
> When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required

Until something's gone wrong in the process and they need to call you to clarify/fix it. (happens regularly to me due to address suffixes not propagating correctly through crappy systems)
Because it was simple in the time of lax security, not in the time of current security measures...
Generally water soluble vitamins have low retention time while fat soluble vitamins have high retention and are riskier to supplement.
I don’t see how it is hypocritical. Privacy is not a norm, it is a privilege of people like Zuckerberg.
I have a Samsung fridge. It singlehandedly convinced me never to buy another Samsung appliance. The reputation is legit.
Larry Summers has been wrong numerous other times and this is pure confirmation by settling on one where he hasn't been. Broadly this is the basis for macroeconomics jumping from one "analyst" to another with the benefit of hindsight. Just look at how many diff predictors for recessions there are - the yield curve was supposed to be the best one. When a recession does occur, economists will prove to the one that was correlated to predict the next one.
In August 2009, I suffered an aortic dissection. This was repaired via Dacron stint during open heart surgery. I was "dead" (no perfusion) for 43 minutes.
Regarding 23andMe, I'd reconsider that view.

They are sitting on a treasure trove of medical and genetic data. And they have begun to monetize this data, which I believe was their endgame all along.

More here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/01/06/surpris...
Operator, I'm having a heart attack! Please direct me to the nearest centralized location of the fee schedule, so that I might begin studying my options.
Off topic: does anyone understand why SO is shutting down their Jobs Board?

I get they were acquired, but why would you want to shutdown a revenue generating business has been able to uniquely capture the attention of a highly skilled worker who's difficult to hire.
The Principal Engineer community in Amazon has a list of tenets. I think one of them puts it very eloquently.

Respect What Came Before
Is this a bug or am I missing something here? Looks like I'm out of vowels...

https://imgur.com/a/D57IgjE
> I think funders are generally fair game to consider when looking at someone expressing an opinion that directly impacts the funders.

You mean like folks pushing the net neutrality proposal?
So when you were claiming my gaydar was "broken", you knew you were lying?

At this point, I simply don't believe that you've met gay people who argued against supporting gay marriage on the basis that we have to get government out of the business of marriage first. It's a highly dubious claim, and you seem less than entirely honest.
This goes for the same in the United States I did some work for a light manufacturing company and the motors, electronics, and small misc parts in the product came from China, the metal base of the product from Mexico, The part that was made in the USA was the assembly.