jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As an employer in an EU country (Croatia), I know exactly how much each of my employees' after tax income is, including everything you've said (and adding stuff like some debt payments if there are any, etc).

It's all withheld by employer - employee never sees a penny out of it. Although they always get full documentation of exactly what's wihhheld, in my experience almost nobody ever reads it.

Note that there are some adjustments employees can make a return for at the end of the year, which takes into accounts stuff like dividend income, tax deduction on mortgages and similar.
This is another case of government manufacturing criminals.

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers."

- Ayn Rand
A real estate agent informed me recently that east palo alto is bad news. Gangs, etc. Is this really true?
Which data sources have persuaded you that the realistic and likely increases of 3 or 5 degrees are more probable?

"In 1979, the Charney Report from the US National Academy of Sciences suggested that ECS was likely somewhere between 1.5C and 4.5C per doubling of CO2. Nearly 40 years later, the best estimate of sensitivity is largely the same. This has led some to question why there has been so little progress on estimating climate sensitivity."

Is this quote above now no longer true? If not, please provide a link.
Angular tries to be a 1 stop shop and internationalization is a major feature.
I'm interested in this also. Would love to hear if you find something/someone good.
Not in Berlin/Germany. Takes 2 days
Oh, cool. I really need this. Thanks.
My field doesn't really exist right now. The highest performing people I know are just as unemployed as the schmucks like me.
Not Tiddlywiki, by any chance?
100 million Americans have been infected with covid?

50 million Americans getting the flu in any given year is pretty typical, although flu season is a couple months longer than a quarter.
I always wanted to play "Prince of Persia" but I was too busy writing code for a living. Is it possible to play this game in a current platform, may be in Ubuntu ?
One benefit is to learn how to admin a Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes knowledge is becoming an important job skill, and if your current employer does not use Kubernetes, you'll need to learn it on your own.

> Which IMO, most businesses don't even have a compelling reason to switch from the old 3 tier monolith architecture.

Compelling reasons include self-healing, autoscaling, and official support from all major cloud providers. In my experience, it's actually easier to adopt Kubernetes at a smaller company than a larger one.

It's also becoming harder to hire developers who are willing to work on monolithic codebases. It's been a while since those were the state of the art, and a lot of people with 5+ years in the industry have never seen them before.
That is literally beating the market. It includes downturns.
Image posted, see comment for link.
I'm not sure I understand this.

SOA == microservices, basically. Arguably one could say that Microservices = SOA minus ESBs, which is what necessitated the new term. IOW, don't hide your mess of dependencies in a black box, expose and manage them where they're needed.

The granularity of the service is generally determined by the size and responsibility of the maintaining team, and will vary from company to company.

With regards to tooling, I'm curious what you're referring to. Some selection of tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Boundary certainly can handle both applications and microservice chains, no?
RPC is much better suited for a microservice architecture. Leave HTTP for the leaves. (I wrote a comment about it elsewhere in this discussion).
The iPod used to be a luxury item. It wasn't until places like Wal-Mart started the disconnect of labeling departments "iPods and MP3 Players" that it turned into just another gadget you'll probably find in a stolen laptop case.
1975 in BASIC on Dartmouth College's time sharing system. I was 13 at the time and the local schools had installed a handful of mechanical teletypes (chukka chukka chukka chukka ding chukka...). It was a beautiful thing!
Thanks. That's an excellent blog, added to my bookmarks.
Seriously yes - after I figured out how to use and care for cast iron I wondered what the heck made me buy nonstick pans in the first place. The main downsides are the weight of cast iron, or if some clueless person in your house throws it in the sink for a few days.
Me neither, not really into science fiction; probably qualify as bright.

The reality is that just as ESR has done over and over again he has cast the hacker persona as a reflection of himself. If you read his writings on hackers then he's really describing himself and imagining that everyone is like this. Here he's saying that the 'geek persona' is another ESR-type.

I found this very annoying when I read the hacker description in The New Hackers Dictionary because there were thinks that I just wasn't:

1. Learn to write your native language well.

2. Read science fiction. Go to science fiction conventions.

3. Train in a martial-arts form.

4. Study an actual meditation discipline.

5. Develop an analytical ear for music.

6. Learn to play some musical instrument well, or how to sing.

7. Develop your appreciation of puns and wordplay.

So 1, 5 and 7 are things that I'm in agreement with. I have no interest in 2, 3 or 4. 6 would probably be fun.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Actually it doesn't have to involve imitation to be mocking.

True, that is one sense (like in "mocking bird")...but it can also be just general derision or taunting, like in " The jelly donut sat there, mocking me."

/language nerd
It also shows he obviously had somewhat of an unhealthy obsession with the "Stencil" typeface :)
Exactly. All's well (for the most part) in the major cities, but if you're not in one of them you're damned. Basically, it's BT network for sneakernet for you. Good luck finding a BT reseller that's not got bandwidth caps or some sort of shaping. (I know they exist, but there's not many of them - and if you do want those things, you'll probably need a business line).
Similar very recent case in Sweden:

https://www.thelocal.se/20191119/man-found-dead-in-stockholm...
There are lots of things that Firefox does to enhance privacy that Chrome does not do.
Why only in 5 years? Shouldn't something like this already be normal in China?
There is a limit to the cost of computational resources, the cost would decrease until a certain limit and then that cost will apply until the heat death of the universe.
GNUstep does reimplement alot of Cocoa stuff
I've come around to the idea that the old 'directory style' search engines is a feature that I'd quite like to see again. If a search engine is only available as a search listing then you're entirely at the mercy of the algorithm. With a human-curated directory of links there's some checking going on, and it's much harder for someone to game their way to the top of the listings.
Elm has some of this built in. Not a debugger per se (you cannot add breakpoints and step through the code), but since everything is pure and there is only a single state, you have a single source of truth and a function from that truth to your view. One can replay the different transitions, and see the whole state of the program at those times.
Similar situation here, I use spotify for music during D&D games (you can find some amazing playlists on reddit / dnd forums), but now 20% of what's in my mixes is generic fantasy and halloween background ambiance.
Nice project! The callbacks on event listeners reminds me a lot of javascript and can get messy. Go handles this with channels. Why did you decide not to use channels to emit events?
Port-forwarded proxies over ssh work better than OpenVPN.
> Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had an iPhone and was communicating with operations,

I don't know what is more stunning; the blatant racism, or the fact that nobody seems to care about it.
Justifying dual standards with questionable evolutionary psychology, frankly, is just not convincing.

If I found my wife flirting with other men online, be it via a "fake" service - whatever that may mean, its a serious violation of my trust and damages our relationship on a significant level. I don't care what hamfisted biological theories you toss out, its hurtful and disloyal. We're not all Sheldon Cooper.

>adventures to provide for their tribes.

I don't live in a tribal society and I suspect neither do you. I can't have 10 wives or 20 mistresses nor challenge people to honor duels. In fact, the state demands I'm non-violent, have only one wife, and society puts a great deal of pressure on us to stay monogamous. We have next to nothing in common with cavemen and the tribes of old.

I live in a modern society and play by its rules, that includes taking monogamy seriously in my marriage. My wife doesn't get the luxury of being immune from this because she's a woman and my feelings towards monogamy aren't invalidated because I'm a man.
This became my default position after years of misguided Linux activism, which was partly philosophical zealotry and partly a desire to avoid becoming tech support for yet another one of those horrid Windows machines with their choked system trays and their dubious antivirus packages. Eventually I just started telling people "You can have free unlimited tech support from me if you let me put Linux on it. If you insist on Windows, that's your choice, and I wish you all the best, and don't come crying to me when it breaks, which it will". Made my life much less stressful.
Imagine that you accepted the Bitcoin transfer to sell somebody’s car for them to a known interested buyer, acting as a quick middleman, but then refused or failed to arrange the sale. There is still room to argue about what exactly the “trade” was and whether it was theft. The Bitcoin doesnt simplify resolving it. There were companies filling offices with people to do this exact “scam” years ago in Canada and I never heard of anyone getting punished because there were no contracts or bills of sale to refer to. Having a record of payment (via credit card) didn’t help anyone
In case OP doesn't give you exact numbers, you can probably make some guesses:
1. ~10yrs in a couple of these companies means they're likely at E5/E6 (+1 level if Amazon)
2. All those companies have had fantastic stock growth over the past decade and they compensate heavily in stock
3. Play around https://www.levels.fyi/ for those companies

So likely >500K W2 take home in recent years
Yes, in a functioning economy. Here we are discussing what happens as an economy breaks down - as people stop being able to pay their debts, for various reasons.
It probably never will. WSB went from 2 million subscribers to almost 9 million in a week or two. Its 'roots' will always be outnumbered.

https://subredditstats.com/r/wallstreetbets
Can you please explain to me how learning category theory is relevant to, or would enhance the work of, a research mathematician who works on, say, harmonic analysis or probability theory?

What is the actual loss to these mathematicians?

Also, your claim that category theory is a foundational theory (in the sense that set theory is) is just mistaken. Homotopy type theory claims to be such a theory, but homotopy type theory should not be identified with category theory more broadly.
Another approach here is for the streaming services to tweak their takedown algorithms - if they detect a police officer in the video don’t automatically take down the video. Lobbying for this is probably themost likely to yield results. Police opposition to such a move would expose their real intent at which point shifting the focus back to the police actions becomes viable.
> A tyrant and despot doesn't have to decrease your "martial capacity" but simply make sure theirs is more than yours. If a tyrant/despot secures control of economic resources this isn't overly difficult.

And one major way of doing this is by reducing your combat power, and by securing control over the means of providing defense.

> Furthermore: rising up against a tyrant/despot is only possible if the population is very united;

Historical counterexamples proliferate.

> This will actually make benefits of being well armed a liability as now you have a tyrant/despot and also can't walk safely in your neighboorhood.

Fortunately possession and carriage of armaments mitigates both those ills.
Just because some noises are unavoidable doesn't make it less inconsiderate to knowingly inflict them on people. Music in particular has relatively long duration, is by nature harder to ignore than many of the incidental noises you mentioned, and is easily contained in headphones.

Your last sentence is a common fallacy: just because I pick a certain set of annoyances on a scale of trade-offs (in this case, the scale of living in an apartment to living in the wilderness) doesn't mean I am required to unquestioningly soak up all those annoyances. If that's your logic, you could never speak up about any problem you could in principle escape from, even if that escape would result in bigger problems. This "leave if you don't like it" approach to criticism, where leaving is very expensive and especially where the solution is very cheap, is also not ok (as it more obviously would not be ok in a political context).

I'm not asking for a lot. Just use headphones.
Just what is the conclusion of this market insanity? Some of these stocks clearly have no value. I had a friend of a friend who at a whim bought a million or so of some penny stock that went up 10X in a matter of days and cashed out.

Is this the future of retail trading? An expensive game of chicken? I think many people, including myself to extent, believe there is always some NX stock around the corner. The FOMO is intensifying I guess. When you have stock like $SNDL almost double in literally a day it seems rational to spend your time trying to find the next one than to do the tried and true method.
Etcher seems to be an USB flasher. The linked issue says that it phones home on startup, but there's no analysis regarding what it sends. This could be usage tracking or an update check.

While the reporter is correct that some users don't want this to happen, it doesn't look that unusual or dangerous. "Secretly spies" is unnecessarily inflammatory, I would say.

Looking at the GitHub history of the reporter, he seems to be opening quite a lot of issues like this one (asking projects to stop recommending Etcher or complaining about Netdata). He's also advertising his own standard for disabling telemetry across different applications: https://consoledonottrack.com/. That idea has some merit, maybe, but I don't really like such an aggressive approach.
> I’ve never understood why people⁰ care so much about trackpads. ... would be better done with a specialized non-keyboard, non-trackpad input device

So you want a specialized input devices for every task on a mobile device. That's an interesting choice. And I guess you also want to carry all these specialized devices around with you?

> browsing¹, which IMO should be a slightly glorified text task where Pentadacyl/luakit/qutebrowser/etc.² vi-style keybindings³ are best

Ok. Say you see a headline on HN that looks interesting, and you go to click on it. Wait, no, you...uhh...tab tab tab tab tab over to it and press enter to go to the comments page (like we all do) and start reading the comments. And, oh look, you want to respond to one of them. So you...uhh...tab tab...uhh...tab...tab tab tab tab tab tab tab...tab tab? Or you could just point and click.

Your proposed critical tasks of shifting the viewport and appending text to the current cursor location meet approximately 0% of computing user needs. The vast majority of all computer interaction is putting the cursor in the right place in the first place. The keyboard is terrible for that, external devices encumber portability, vertical touch screens require significant muscle control and effort, and trackpoints drift and do fewer things while being worse at all of them.
Why do you want to be outraged?
The effort is in progress https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-have-fo...

They seem to locate parents for 1/6 of them within a month where trump administration just thrown hands in the air that nothing can be done, when court ruled that the children should be reunited.
Hardly a glowing recommendation
> people who need to be engaged

Who needs to be engaged with? On Twitter, you choose who to follow. Why in the world would you have an obligation to listen to random strangers who want to argue with you? Imagine if you were in a restaurant talking with your friends, some stranger sitting at another table overheard you, and then decided to come over and butt into the conversation? And when the stranger is told to go away, they complain "You're talking in a public place where people can hear you, what did you expect?" And somehow the stranger feels that they're wronged by that.
What drives the valuation is pure speculation, partly by massive vested interests, and then of course by the masses of cultish believers who own a couple coins and are in on the Ponzi mania. The same things that excites people in Amway.
"Why the downvotes", while usually legitimate, also guarantees a slew of upvotes.
maybe _that_ is why they need to escalate to 25M of expenses next year!
I recently switched from Vim to Emacs and org-mode was the selling point. But Emacs Lisp and M-x tetris are also good reasons I suppose.
To be fair, I think lrm was responding more to the random walk, TA is bullshit mindset than to what was actually posted by mechanical_fish.
I recently had a long conversation with a Nigerian who came to the US in high school and is now working in Europe after doing a law degree and an MBA. I was asking her about some of this stuff, including the question of whether the email scammers could be converted to productive entrepreneurs given the chance. Her response was very pessimistic. She said there are many that come to Europe, often legally, and simply continue the same scams there, rather than try to do anything legitimate.

These kinds of issues in Africa seem like a hard nuts to crack.
I haven't checked, but I reckon the asking price for ransomware is figured out in USD and then converted to crypto. Presumably the pricing model is pretty sophisticated for maximising revenue.

EDIT: 20s Googling: "(2013) Bitcoin instability over the past few months has prompted CryptoLocker's masterminds to reduce the ransom to 1 BTC, 0.5 BTC, and then to where it is currently: 0.3 BTC."
This sounds like something that should be built into Slack. Some heuristics could be applied to whether or not a message is really indeed important, and only notify me if that's the case.
I haven't yet encountered the horrible, deplorable organization that both MITMs its SSL traffic and filters on HTTP method--but I know it's out there, just waiting to ruin my day and diminish my faith in humanity.
The Constitution in general protects much less when the borders are involved. I meant to say that the US government can open any mail it feels like if that mail isn't a first class letter, without needing permission from a judge. Additionally, even first class letters aren't protected if they cross the border; the government can inspect anything it feels like that crosses a border without needing permission from any judge.

Unless someone forged the notice (unlikely, as you point out) some government opened it (it could also have been the government of the sender or any transit country). All those notices are the government voluntarily letting you know because someone in the government thought it would be better; if the FBI wanted to open a package because they vaguely suspected terrorism they could do it without needing to stamp the package or give any notice if they wanted.
I'm pretty sure RF people have no wires .... (ducking into a Faraday Shield...)
I still consider it an attack.

There's lots of security reasons why a company would want to do that, both in protecting from malware and protecting from loss of company IP. Still, a huge trade off between privacy and security, and I am not willing to make that trade.

Maybe I would do it on my own connection, where I was both the MITM'er and the "victim", but the whole ssl system is built upon trust. It's a shaky foundation (do you trust all of the root certs in your browser?), but let's not start poking holes everywhere in it.
Email is a powerful tool in any startup, but is damm tough to get it delivered, opened and read. This is a must read.
Actually, we didn't mean disrespect to any of the other presenters (we're friends with many of them), or other startups. All of these guys are doing challenging work that requires superhuman efforts. We just pointed out that most startups are applying existing technology to business problems in new ways, while we're inventing new technology (which means that in our case there's not only business risk, but technology risk as well).

We thought that the kind of people that would be interested in working on what we're doing probably wouldn't want to work on typical web startup problems, so we wanted to make that distinction with the first point.
Yes, two dozen. At least a dozen friends, girlfriend, parents, co-workers, etc. It adds up fast.

It's done right from an experience perspective, which is the point Gruber was trying to make. Using the feature is dead easy, meaning it's done right. The example of the other phone he gave was not dead easy to use, it took the user hours to figure it out and when he did the experience was still awful.

If the feature worked over Wifi AND 3G/4G it would be EXACTLY THE SAME. No different. It's the feature itself we're talking about here, not when and where you can use it.

If you want to blame someone for the feature being held back point your fingers at AT&T. Or at least blame Apple for taking so damn long to jump ship and offer it to more carriers, but not for shipping a broken solution, as their solution is what looks to be pretty flawless.

Your exercise: I don't know what Gruber would say, but I can take a stab at it. I'd bet it would be along the lines of, "Good to see another feature in Android giving the iPhone a run for its money, competition is good." or "It's great Android can make video calls but it would have been better if they adopted the FaceTime standard so they could call iPhones as well".
Firstly there are market research firms which specialize in doing this kind of research, it tends to be expensive but if you have a local business library you may be able to use it to get free access.

For your J2EE example I'd have a look at the existing products out there and see how many users they have (if it's open source look at their download figures, if it's commercial see if the company accounts are publicly available). Remember you don't need a precise figure, an order of magnitude will do for judging a market size.

For your web based staff planning application, I think you need to be much more specific about what your product does. If you can't figure out which business your product will apply to then you'll have a hard time selling to them. Start by thinking how you'll identify customer to sell to and the generalize from that.
Is there an effective way to know which vitamins you're missing? Can full blood tests help tell you which vitamins you should be taking daily?