jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The medical equipment company I used to work for had a 5% discount that they built into every sale - people rarely paid full price, so sometimes just asking 'can you do better?' on high cost items will at least get you this "auto" discount.
Also, the Fedora logo doesn't spin when you click it.
Isn't 'marketing' just 'lobbying' to the general public? It's all a bunch or propoganda and unscrupulous behavior made possible by abusing amassed wealth. I suppose being lobbied has more perks like nice dinners and free drinks...
> are more important than the language used

Yes, many organizations have made the mistake to switch language in hope of solving their problem with a messy code base when it was their own bad practices that where at fault all along and then consequently just repeating bad practices in another language.

It is not the language that is the limitation, it is the programmer.
First of all, I think it's great that you don't want to find a job that you enjoy. That would be scary and difficult, and who really wants to face their fears, or make a "normal" amount of money, or be a "constructive member of society" ? Sounds annoying. (And with all that meaningful work, there'd be less time to drink mountain dew and live a pretend life in a computer game)

Second, look for jobs where your only task is to shepherd some black box and make an occasional change. DBAs, Systems Administrators, Quality Engineers, Middleware Engineers. Plenty of jobs where your only responsibility is to make sure some random commercial software is just... running. If you do it right, you can be working 2 or 3 of these jobs at once and nobody will notice.

Third, look for contract work. Contractors generally are expected to suck at their jobs, and even if you do a piss-poor job of it, they'll just move you to another contract soon afterward. All you have to do is make the bosses happy and you don't have to be productive at all. (This works better in larger contracting companies)

Fourth, put your resume and e-mail out there in public resume-hunting sites. You will get bombarded by random e-mails from headhunters for jobs you aren't qualified for at all. Apply for those positions. Lots of hiring managers are morons. You're bound to get one, it's a numbers game!

Finally, once you get such a job, make sure to come back to HN and complain about how bad your job is. Nothing's more inspiring than under-achievers lamenting their lot in life.
It sounds to me like you're experiencing burnout (possibly lockdown-related) and/or have worked unsatisfying jobs and/or for not-so-great employers. I worry that the strategy you declare you intend to pursue, while pragmatic, won't lead to long-term happiness or fulfilment. We all need to feel useful and have a real mission for at least some of the time. Hopefully you could find something, maybe part-time, at a government agency, non-profit, university or college. The fact you don't care about salary works wonders in your favour. If there's a job out there that's fulfilling and not stressful, but pay is such they struggle to get and retain people, you could be on to a winner there and find your "mojo" again. I think plenty of people on HN have had such motivational ruts in their career and come out the other side. I personally do a 4-day-week mid-level job despite possibly being "capable of more", due to caring responsibilities and desire to pursue other hobbies. Good luck, I think you're brave to ask this question on HN and its a nice alternative discussion to workaholism / protestant work ethic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_current...
https://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4 covers a bunch of these (no homophones though since it seems to be about speaking rather than writing).
Given that outrage is very attractive. And facebook aims to attract you. It's safe to say that they will slip in outrage every chance they get.
I disagree. You go the same speed, just further away.
I'm using a variety of devices with similar results - pixel 4xl, windows, Linux with Firefox and chrome and chromeos.

Usually on wifi and sometimes tmo lte

my family in India is 90% of the time using lte
People did say Zheng He was a 7 foot tall Muslim eunuch from southwest China, with a sixty inch belly. That's not all:

"The seven Treasure Fleets dispatched between 1405 and 1433 were the grandest projections of state power the world had seen. They did have to fight three times to secure the Straits of Malacca, then as now the world's busiest waterway...Chinese sailors walked the streets of Mogadishu, which did not seem to impress them ("if one's eyes wander one meets only sighs and sulky glances", one of Zheng's officers wrote)...and Mecca, which did.

The Treasure Fleets had sailed south and west a good 9000 miles, but some researchers think this was just the beginning. With their compasses and charts, tankers full of drinking water, and huge stores of food, Zheng's ships could have gone anywhere they wanted; and that, the former submarine captain Gavin Menzies claims in this bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered America, is exactly what they did.

...

Historians, however, remain unmoved. Menzies, they conceded is quite right that Zheng's logbooks are lost; but why, the historians ask, does the enormous mass of surviving Ming dynasty literature...never mention any of these discoveries?"

- from, Why The West Rules For Now
Related to your experience, here's a picture of Einstein's office at Princeton: https://time.com/3494553/the-day-albert-einstein-died-a-phot...
It's what happens when there are many contractors involved, each intertwined in a complex relationship, each needing to schedule around each other and each with half a dozen sub contractors under them with the same complex requirements.

So 200 square ft of tile takes three months because the tilers are hired by the tiling company who is hired by the contractor hired to finish the walls who was hired by the main contractor who was hired by the construction company. Along this long chain someone schedules tiling on the same day the electricians are wiring up the lights. They reschedule and crew arrives only to find the materials are missing, no one knows who ordered them or who to talk to. Once they sort that out and get the materials delivered the project is put on hold because someone stubbed their toe on a box of tiles and a stop work order is issued. A safety inspector arrives with the cast of CSI miami to figure out who to blame. Meanwhile, while everyone is busy blaming each other, the tiling contractor steals the materials for another job and everything goes right back to square one. Now multiply this story by the number of individual items to be coordinated... All this while, the crew has to be paid for their time even though they couldn't work. Absolute madness.
Maybe this would change if someone would pre-package a build environment with source code, a nice gui and fancy abstract visualization of the compile process.
It's not at all a ridiculous thing to say... Men and women have significantly different experiences using dating apps, and if you were able to release an app that solved the problem many men face (being completely ignored for years), you would probably capture a large segment of the market.
The UX is getting better every year. It's like saying the internet was doomed to fail because your grandma couldn't use it in 1990
Do me a favor and watch some of this class by the future SEC head
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...

I dont think the current thresd we are on is useful and you are misunderstanding my point of view. The class above gives some background to my points of view on Bitcoin and Blockchain.

Ultimately, I think blockchain is an interesting technology that necessarily has value, hopefully our regulators can understand its nuances and find ways to channel it to provide more security to every human around the world, (like vaccines or education) than the currently impeded(for whatever reason, its gotta deal with alot of red tape and hundreds of noncoordinated jurisdictions) financial systems.

There is value in having centralized and decentralized finance. The world rewards/will reward recognizing that.
If you're going to say that, then you ought to accept that labeling the employer action creepy and disturbing is a great 'trick'.

If we can remove location-based pay as a negotiation tactic, merely by creating social disapproval because its 'invasive', and the like then that's wonderful for us as as employees.

Why shouldn't we work together to hobble employers at the negotiation table? They have enough power as it is.
Most musicians recognize that the subjective assessment of instruments is deeply problematic. We have not been offered a good alternative.

I'm not a violinist, but a double bassist. The process of choosing an instrument is nothing short of nerve wracking. My last bass shopping episode took me more than a year. I'd love to be able to know with certainty that the sound I'm hearing is real and not biased by my expectations. With some of the instruments, I had to make minor changes to my technique, to accommodate physical differences in their geometry and setup. In one case, I asked the dealer to install a different type of strings, which he was glad to do.

Now, do we know that different basses sound different? That would at least be a safe guess, given that they are deliberately made to sound different for specific uses and player preferences, and there are radical differences in construction and dimensions. One of my basses is carved from solid chunks of wood, the other is made of plywood that is formed to shape in a mold.
I don't really understand why we're talking about this. There's not any realistic regulatory approach to preventing companies from paying based on CoL. And absent such regulation, the market forces are far too powerful to be counteracted by internet comments, no matter how strident.
I was specifically suggesting for the non cafeteria ones that the the parent comment from a current student. Not to replace existing programs. I went to a private school. Public schools had free schools lunches in India too. But even then if parents could afford it, they always sent home cooked packed lunches.

Because the population is so culturally and linguistically diverse, there were as many types of regional cuisines too. Especially in urban areas where people migrate for jobs.

Indians can be fiercely protective about their language and cuisine because as cultural markers that are constantly under threat to be homogenized as a ‘single Indian culture’, parents liked to start early with food and language spoken at home. This was my observation from living in India many years ago. Perhaps this has changed now.

Also making the weekly menu for the upcoming school lunches was the fun part of bonding with my grandmother. That was also how I learnt to love food and cooking. I don’t think I would have first gravitated towards food and then later into farming if it hadn’t been for the hours I spent with my grandmother planning those lunches.

I realize that there is a little bit of nostalgia in my reply but it is also a good business opportunity with healthy side effect for hungry kids who must have access to nutritious and healthy meals. I am sure that opinion is global and won’t change with time.
Yes, this might be of interest if this thread had anything to do with MongoDB.
Memory protection, ease of development, fantastic libraries and clarity all come to mind.
You can get outraged that updates do not list every package affected, or you can have your software used by people who think both Internet Explorer and Firefox are actually called "the Google", but you cannot have both. I think MS is making the right call here: assume that a user who has expressed desire for a toolbar, via installing it and requesting an update, wants it in all browsers.

The four people in the world who use both IE and Firefox and wanted the bar in IE but not in Firefox are capable of tweaking that setting themselves.
I have found that having a good network helps. People who know you can recommend you to their contacts. You should hang out at the local barcamps and other events and let people know that you are available for freelance work.

Building a website and writing a blog helps too. Lots of time people have contacted me through my blog for work.

Best of luck
My first attempt was "Who shot JFK?" The first answer I got was "President Kennedy shot dead JFK", which is at least a novel theory.
Very highly unlikely. Apple only has to pay $0.33 licensing fees for every A4 processor it sells. This cost is so close to zero the saying "why buy the cow when the milk is free?" should apply here.

Not only that, the antitrust concerns would tie Apple up in court for years. This would be like Microsoft buying Intel in the middle of the DOJ investigation. Not gonna happen.
I understand the history, but it hardly seems relevant to the current situation. Having the seat of federal power exist in a state-less region makes sense, but having half a million people live there too doesn't.

And why no Senators? It's not like DC would be the least populous state, yet I don't see many campaigns to strip Wyoming of its senators.

Seems like most of the opposition is from Republicans who recognize that DC would almost certainly elect liberal Democrats. And that's just ridiculously unfair.
Good schools can be very useful for this. Personally, I know at MIT, most of what I took away didn't come from a classroom (of course, some of that's my fault). The community around a school can make all the difference.
So I set Duck Duck Go as my primary search engine a long time ago but I have this bad habit of just typing "go" into my url field and Chrome autofills "google.com" for me and I hit enter. This will break me of that habit, I can just as easily type "du" and go right to http://duckduckgo.com. Thanks Google, I needed that.
because in a complex piece of software you can be working on totally different details within the same bigger picture. I might be working on a bug in authentication while you tweak the order processing logic, but we're both working on an ecommerce site.
I think you just have to deal with the raptor head for the .25 seconds it's on the screen.
I wonder if they'll offer virtual gift-wrapping for $1 extra? I bet they'd make money off it.
Please do this. I would love that to practice on.

Like coderloop / the facebook puzzles but web application stuff
I couldn't even be bothered to stick around long enough to find out what it is.
I don't understand why people use pie charts. They are confusing, misleading, and don't fit nicely into square divs.
People underestimate how unproductive (or nefarious) one can be in office.
I remember this. I could watch it forever!
Any cosmic-level communication would probably either be so simple that it could be explained as natural phenomena (given that we can't go there and study the mechanism in detail) or so complex that we don't even recognize it as containing a message.

Interesting numbers like pi and the golden ratio occur so often in nature that we would incorporate them into a naturalistic explanation rather than supposing they had an intelligent origin. And there are probably still many fundamental numbers/relationships that we haven't discovered yet, so they would look like noise (as would the digits of pi if we weren't already familiar with it). Broadcasting fundamental constants wouldn't work. Likewise if they were to broadcast more complex information such as their genetic sequence. However, someone on Earth might eventually recognize a signal containing a human genetic sequence.

That sort of leads up to a vague theory I have about communication: There is no way to encode information that guarantees an arbitrary intelligent being, no matter how smart, would be able to interpret it. We will have to develop a common language over time through deliberate interaction and feedback.
It auto fills in the data for the user, and the user manually submits the Craigslist listing. Nothing illegal with that...
You're welcome to bring additional data as long as it's publicly available.

http://kaggle.com/view-postlist/forum-29-rta-freeway-travel-...
You can also take a look in the comment under this post
where the same text is discussed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1931517
I think they just construct the url for the Airbnb member and fill in all the details. (Just a guess. Not on Airbnb.) The user would have to be the one to click the confirm.

For example, https://post.craigslist.org/nyc/H/sub/brk is the first step in creating a posting for temp place in Brooklyn. I assume they have a way of defaulting the other form values.
The single largest benefit of App Engine is that Google does the sysadmin. I would prefer that Google's highly paid, top 1%, employees are responsible for the servers than whomever I could afford to pay. ;-) If your application fits with the App Engine paradigm, then it can be a great and inexpensive platform.
One difference between the threat model of the original query and your response is that if someone hacks into BigCo and accesses the digital records between you an BigCo then they know about all of your transactions with BigCo. If they hack your home document system then they know about your transactions with BigCo and with every other company you have ever done business with. The level of paranoid protection being suggested is probably not warranted, but unless you can think of a good reason why you would need to access these docs remotely it is probably a good idea to keep the drive with this data separated by an air gap from your systems when it is not in use...
Sucuri's blog is really good: http://blog.sucuri.net/
I'm in a very similar situation and about a month ago I posted this exact same question here on HN.

Since then, I went ahead and built a functional job board for part-time jobs for students/parents/etc.

I'm currently looking for some early adopters who have part-time jobs to post (for free!), so if any readers have part-time jobs to fulfil, email me at hello@ruigomes.me.
Even though I'm currently booked for months, it'll help people in the same situation I was a month ago, and in the situation the OP is now :)
It wobbled around a little bit but the main idea that mathematics like software is a human construction and that just like all human constructions it is susceptible to encoding historical accidents as truths is a good point.

The other theme in the article about algebra and minimally acceptable abstractions for accomplishing a goal is unfortunately nowhere to be found in software.
I switched to a thumb-operated trackball. My fingers like it.
This could be equivalently titled "20% of the most well known psychology results are impossible to reproduce".

Also, among the ones that did, there are the Kahneman ones, and _he_ was the one to point out that most experiments are never reproduced so there was a higher chance that his results would be reproducible.
Everything, with the exception of pacifisim, you say is logical and rational, however failure of the revenge/"justice" strategy is either by design or emergent from stakeholder conflicts of interests.

Why not promote pacifism? Existential security of the US is guaranteed by military supremacy, average daily life security of the US citizen in comparison with other western countries is quite low.[0]

I think that the main problem of the US society's approach to punishment/justice/war is rooted in deontological ethics, which stems from high religiosity and "american values" propaganda.

Adopting a more consequentialist ethics approach would help to switch social consensus from punishment to rehabilitation, from doing what is "right"(definition that is coopted by politicians and media) to doing what is useful.

One can only dream. I believe that AI originated societal change is more probable than massive perception shift, though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics
The old Google Maps had/has a real distance measurement tool. Shame that the new doesn't, at least not yet.
I use intellij at work, but they gave me a macbook pro with 16GB of ram and a SSD. It still manages to beachball once in a while, but the functionality is worth it.

At home on my desktop (4Gb of ram and a HDD) I switched to Emacs + ensime. It has a subset of the functionality of Intellij (some refactoring, jump to definition, type inference, autocompletion) and Emacs commands are hardwired in my brain. It's lighter than Intellij, you could check it out (and add some vim emulation since you seem to be a vim user!)

edit: there are ensime integration solutions for vim ( eg: https://github.com/megaannum/vimside )
Don't worry, I recognized your name from the PAPL book and I think some Racket stuff. But anyway, I know who you are. :-)

If I get it to crash again, I will definitely contact you and file a bug report.

I guess the self-hosting compiler blurb on the GH repo did not really hit me. I will definitely try it offline and give it a whirl.

So what is the recommended browser then?
zip is almost certainly the most used archive format, but that doesn't mean the the 'zip' command line tool is more used than the 'tar' command line tool.

Even though I've probably run across more .zip files than .tar files (and certainly more archives of in the zip format) in my career, if undoubtedly typed 't-a-r' on a command line many more times than 'z-i-p'.
Regarding the 83b - 30 days from what point exactly? We signed the docs granting shares on a vesting schedule, but we haven't actually had our lawyer issue the shares or recorded it in the ledger. We signed the documents well over 30 days ago.
Actually, there's a much better writeup in the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1222-orbitz-aa...
I've worked at netflix for about three years. I'm a software engineer and work on personalization. In the time I've been there, not one of the 40 or so people that I know well or work with have been fired. One person I was acquainted with was fired - no one found it surprising. Note that IT was a hellhole with firing about a year ago. Two really good people got dropped. I know more people that have quit - 3, but 1 has come back.

re: pay I make far more than I've made at any of the 4 FT jobs I've had in 15 years. I'm paid a bit less on an hourly basis than my highest rate charged when I did consulting. I'm good. I was expensive.

re: benefits. Netflix matches 401k, they have an ESOP, they have a unique option plan, free (decent) lunches, snacks & drinks, etc.

re: health care. I'm single, my very good insurance program came out to less than $30 per paycheck since I've worked there. Next year they're changing the way insurance is done - every employee got $10k extra pay. This is intended to be used to cover the full cost of insurance, using my current benefits as a baseline it's a bit less that $8000 per year. People with dependents will almost certainly pay more. Many might be unhappy, I personally think it's fair.

re: fear. I have failed many times. I have succeeded more. Perhaps I'm just an smug asshole, but I've never once felt fear for my job.

re: innovation. I've personally spent more time innovating than at any other job I've had, including my last in a corporate research "lab".

The glassdoor review that I wrote after 6 months - http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Netflix-RVW...
Agreed. During my first two or three weeks of VFFs, I was icing my calves after each run. I'm comfortable now, but it took some time.
It’s still instantaneous normally, even on old systems like the 2012 MacBook Air I still use. I’d look in Activity Monitor / Console to see if it’s something like being memory-constrained and the switch is forcing a lot of background activity.