jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed, there does seem to be a pretty asymmetric view of the effects of free trade by the VC crowd and the media.

Case in point, there has been an almost complete radio silence in the tech and mainstream media about the wage suppression related class action lawsuit that is ongoing. There was a brief flurry of reports at the beginning, but ever since Aug, when the judge rejected the proposed settlement, there has been no mention of the lawsuit at all.

The only people who keep the issue alive are the rank and file tech folks as witnessed by the comments section of any article related to tech wages and immigration.
I was going to mention this also. I'm currently working around it with conditional comments (serving /fonts/ie/9+/index.css, etc).

Anyway, thanks for your service, bookmarked... (I've been thinking of doing something similar). Good luck with finding a solution to this problem...
This is something I realized just a few days ago, looking back.

11 years ago I left a Silicon Valley software company's IT department, where I was making $85,000. Doing standard IT work. 11 years ago.

A lot has happened since then, but no I don't think wages have been going up at all.
There is a very reasonable case to be made that H1-B's in particular actually push domestic salaries up at the expense of foreign salaries.
My understanding is that they cleverly targeted the vaccine at a protein the virus needs to get into cells.

Change it too much and the vaccine doesn’t work, but neither does the virus.
There was a time when college was about exploring new ideas and being open to be challenged in your own.

The only rules were to not take offense at a difference of opinions and not devolve into ad hominems and personal attacks.
Has Andrei been keeping up with C++? Most of the time I hear about him recently is in context of him being a core D member.
Everything is correlated when shit hits the fan. Gold has stored value since forever. These days every investment is highly speculative.
It could be both. The goal is to evade the innate extracellular immune system while priming adaptive immunity. I don't think we know enough about their RNA modifications to say they put all their focus on one instead of the other.

Traditionally, mRNA vaccines were not very effective. There's definitely some magic "trade secret" sauce in these vaccines.
Not trying to be obtuse, just trying to understand your point: What advantages do CNN/NYTimes have due to IP laws specifically?
Thanks for the share. Poor front-enders forced to write JSX to make websites... If only there was html-first generator.
You said 'pause the global economy', and now wish for me to substitute in any other effective plan, which kind of begs the question, doesn't it?
Regarding your aside about frozen meals, I'm sure I read a comment on this site from a food scientist who claimed that very high quality frozen meals were technically possible, but no one could overcome the consumer perception that it wasn't worth spending money on frozen food.
On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNbIEJvjUA

(The media.ccc.de server was a bit slow for me.)
I currently think about a tool that does a liiiiiitle bit of what a static site generator does – but based on already valid html input. https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/r.0c8792b90b31b50a91455713a36...

And just help a little bit with consistency in terms of keywords & navigation so as there can be a bit of structure in the chaos.

Maybe one could even go so far to add a xslt (html -> html) and amend that navigation etc. late in the browser.
There are old established methods to guarantee sufficient security for message encryption, it's rather trivial and idk why every other new product has to reinvent the wheel. Key Exchange on the other-hand is hard and much more likely to be the failure point.
I would second this. The Harvard Center for astrophyics had a public talk every month[1]. Then after, everyone would go on the roof and the telescope club and some grad students/post docs would stand by a dozen or so telescopes all pointing at items of interest. They're love and knowledge of the universe was infectious.

May this pandemic wind down..

[1]https://www.youtube.com/user/ObsNights
Yes, good analysis and would have hoped that an alarmist article would grapple with that data point. I think there’s a very good chance the strain is behind our second wave too.
Higher Unemployment = More people chasing fewer jobs = salary should fall
Lower Unemployment = More jobs chasing fewer people = salary should rise

If the cost of labor does not rise due as it absorbs the previously unemployed workers in to the labor force, it blunts the inflation effect for goods and services as those costs don't get passed on to the consumer
Those 3 trillion dollars that the Fed injected into the financial industrial complex in April [1] (by way of increasing asset purchases) really rescued this economy! It's fractal bubbles, everywhere.

Who's gonna be left holding the bag? The people at the bottom who have (meager) savings in cash. Their assets will get inflated away by endless QE.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
This is exactly my question as well. There's no way it's cheaper than planting trees and is probably orders of magnitude less efficient. And the plants itself must be producing an enormous amount of waste of pollution itself.
The engineering of Gab (politics aside) is probably worthy of a front page HN post. They run on Mastodon and their entire codebase is open source.
"someone went around applying every micro-optimisation in the book regardless of how nessasary or appropriate it might be"

This feels like a strawman. I have yet to see an instance of this in my 10 years. The much, much, much more common case is people justifying half-assed shoddy work with YAGNI.
it is easy to test this you know. send yourself something when abroad or from foreign bank. at the same time send some bitcoin. see what arrives first or at all.

> I don't know what bubble you live in, but the opposite is true: you can't send bitcoins to anyone you want.

the opposite to "you can not send money to anyone you want with fiat" is "you can send money to anyone you want with fiat". which is false. hence initial statement is true. there is no bubble here.

friendly advice. read more.
> Edit: shocked (not shocked) you were an early COVID vaccine skeptic, justified your belief with poor interpretation of statistics, and now that a huge amount of data have validated initial findings, you have instead decided to double down on your original gut feel!

I won't defend the comment author's (apparent) anti-vaccine stance.

However, it's almost universally frowned upon to dig into HN users archives and lambaste them for things they've said in the past. That has been the case here for essentially the entire time HN has existed.

It's properly considered borderline cruel/mean and is entirely unnecessary. If there is something worth debating about what they said in their present comment, that should very obviously be the point of focus in the discussion.

In late 2018 some guy on here basically told me I was an idiot and had no idea about investing for predicting that Facebook's stock was a good investment after the irrational drop it had suffered at the time. I was right, they were wrong to an almost humiliating degree. Now, if I go dig up that post and follow that user around HN torturing them with their past comment/s, it would be considered to be in extremely bad taste in HN-etiquette. And I think it's easy to understand why: given the volume of comments and the long archives, HN would rapidly implode into just about the worst pile of garbage on the Internet if everyone went around hitting everyone else for things they said in the past, focus would shift to weaponizing the archives to attack users based on past comments (which would chill discussion dramatically and poison the well).
Why can't a Chinese company clone their product and kill them?
The carbon that makes up the cardboard was carbon that was once in the environment. I’d rather landfill it and remove it from the carbon cycle than spend resources attempting to reuse it.
>Casualties = 3 * (strength of attacker / strength of defender)

Talk about out of touch. I can't imagine being so deep in your own head to think that this is the sort of thing that is comparable to Einstein's theory of relativity, or Mendel's genetics. "Not in the same league, but at least in the same sport". Unadulterated hubris, the whole article.

And what is the frontier that he thinks he has carved out? Games as art? Mathematics as art? And he doesn't recognize anyone else as making strides in that area?

If he has something to say, then yeah, he sure did blow it, because he is clearly incapable of explaining himself in a way that anyone cares to understand. More likely, he's just a guy who ran out of ideas 35 years ago and can't let it go.
Is it me or do those Windows 3.1 screenshots look much more readable than the modern ones?
I read, TypeScript code is sometimes faster, because it tends to favor monomorphic functions.

Can I assume that V8 moved that gain to JS?
When I see similar faces that look a like from different people I wonder if they have similar eigenfaces?
I prefer to live in a frictionless world :) It looks like it was rope on metal (http://jaccuzzi.ch/photos/700/1722_264_03.jpg) with a coef. of friction of 0.2. My gut says the friction force will be at most half horizontal. That puts friction an order of magnitude lower than T, though that is more than I expected. (edit: damn, it rounds the corner from vertical to past horizontal so my symmetry argument doesn't quite hold.)

Apparently the bridge carried cars at one point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gueuroz_Bridge) so the wall was rated for vehicle impacts, which is good.

Why they went over the top of the walls I don't know, I think they wanted to measure the ropes exactly instead of adjusting it the day of. Like, that was where they drew the line of "unacceptable risk"? I agree a loop through the drain holes would have made their lives easier in a bunch of ways, except the tripping hazard would have made it a very risky project...
Indeed, the military felt strongly that it was reasonable to increase the chance of causing Armageddon by accident, in order to hold sacrosanct their ability to cause Armageddon on purpose, and resented attempts to reverse that equation.

It's weird how you say that like it was wise instead of horrifically insane, though.
Not to be cynical, but what's in it for Apple?

Obviously someone at Apple decided this makes business sense. What's the thinking?
I think this would be an excellent solution. Combine it with some semantic similarity analysis, and the vast majority of newbie questions could be replaced with "Here's a link to a pre-written answer that almost certainly addresses what you want".
So your perspective is, "meh. We can't do anything about injustices to humanity so we'll just roll with it?" I find your analogy flawed by comparing viewing pornography with water. I don't see how they compare.
They firebombed a single building for "months"? That sounds excessive. /s
If you think an article has been incorrectly flagged, you can contact the HN moderator at hn@ycombinator.com and I think they can disable flagging on the article.

I agree that there's no plausible justification for flagging this article - it's on-topic and from a reliable source.
I think it turns out that it is relatively easy to divide any culture into two polarized groups if you have learned how. There is a certain set of intrinsic values which can be grouped together through something of an engineering process to create maximum polarization, and there are fields which have now figured out how to do it.
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I'm not sure if it could be largely characterized as security theater. The videos from the Capitol demonstrate just how outmatched the police were: https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1347031398176223233

There were clear examples of failures like the police letting them in or taking selfies with them. We'll see what oversight gets applied to the Capitol police... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/capitol-riots-polic...
I'll take the second option.

Signal works pretty well for anyone who isn't my family.
This is such a bullshit HN comment. I don’t like WhatsApp/FB either but critical mass is important.
Because they both use new memory standards to force a refresh in their CPU platforms to cause more churn and revenue.
That's not terribly different than gmail (which has integrated google talk) + an adroid phone.
The second question sounds like a restatement of the first. If users find your service becomes more valuable over time, why would they stop using it? (Conversely, if users stop using your service, did they really find it increasingly valuable?)
People are aware of Facebook’s Cassandra system, but now they’ve built something new called hBase...

As in Apache HBase? Not to be too pedantic, but that's not really something that Facebook "built". I'm assuming that was an error on TC's part.
Wow! Amazon is absolutely killing it. I wonder if this will be the inflection point when GPU computing really takes off.
Email is low and IM is high latency? Seems backwards.
from the article
Many are aware of Facebook’s Cassandra system, but now they’ve built something new called hBase (working alongside the open source community again)

Someone knows what this means?
Did they switch to hbase the _existing for many years_ database solution, or did they build something else on top of it (is there a trace of this in the hbase community?) or did they build something else from scratch and incredibly hit on the same name?

I wish techcrunch was a bit less.. techcrunch...
> Banks do not produce, they have no income from dividends, so how they earn?

They provide capital without which you cannot produce anything.

They make money by difference of rates between deposits and lending.
You're vastly underestimating the uniqueness of search queries these days. Various sources within Google have said that 25% to 50% of queries entered into Google have never been seen before at all.
The drone delivery at least seems to still be a major ongoing effort on Amazon's part:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/30/amazon-tes...

Amazon's been making a lot of press lately leaning hard on the FAA to shorten up their paperwork lifecycle for outdoor testing in the US, as well as eliminating the regulatory requirement for line-of-sight flight.

If drone delivery is a dead project, Amazon doesn't know it yet.
The problem is this revolution involves creating artificial minds that don't have any of the biological constraints that our minds are subject to. An intelligent machine doesn't have to sleep and can be taught to do pretty much anything a human can more quickly and more efficiently. What happens when the jobs that the new technology creates can be filled by that same technology? Thats the problem we're facing this time.
Just like how if anyone wants to purchase a Kindle book on the iPad, they can do it via Safari (they could make it more convenient by pinning it to the home screen as well)
Good.

Honestly, in the eyes of the USFG, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are like a ticking time bomb. The longer it takes them to act, the value of BTC increases, and it becomes increasingly hard to do anything about it from a federal level since more and more people have real assets invested in these currencies.

The interesting bit is that the most cited complaint against BTC in the popular media is its use as a facilitator of illicit goods, which, due to bitcoin's design, is actually impossible to enforce. If you're already buying drugs and what else online, another law saying you can't use bitcoins aren't going to stop you (other than making it harder by shutting down popular services like Coinbase). The superficial reason for banning bitcoin (reducing illicit transactions) will likely fail completely.

Furthermore, even if all governments ban bitcoins, as long as people have access to encrypted storage / networking, it's unlikely that the value of BTC would drop to zero. It's still a pretty efficient way to handle illegal transactions.
> If you go to the interview, and you didn't embarrass the recruiter for suggesting you [..]

This is exactly why recruiters need to do a little bit of research beforehand. If they're recommending you as a candidate for a job, aren't they putting their own reputation on the line a little?

Unfortunately, I realize it doesn't exactly work like that. But isn't that the over-arching flaw in the whole headhunter ecosystem?
I love his conflicting concerns: "I am most concerned that as Bitcoin is inevitably banned in other countries, Americans will be left holding the bag on a valueless currency"

Then later in the letter: "[Deflation] makes Bitcoin's value to the US economy suspect, if not outright detrimental".

So.. he's concerned that bitcoin is either extremely inflationary (going to zero) or extremely deflationary. But he's not sure which.
I wonder how much of the mobile market cross-platform toolkits have. I've used Titanium, but only for exceedingly simple apps. Anything else is done with the native tools. I know there are apps that require complex device-side logic but, most of the time (at least for me), almost all of the logic runs on a server and all that's left is user interface management.
"Most liberal" is hard to define. I prefer DW-Nominate score which ranks Schumer as the 20th most liberal and Manchin as the 53rd.

http://voteview.org/dwnominate.asp

http://voteview.org/SENATE_SORT112.HTM
What are some general guidelines around network speed to follow?
A better solution to cut the flow of low-quality recruiter spam - delete your linkedin profile. If you have your own website, that's going to be a far better conduit for attracting interesting job offers and professional contact.
Dart is Google's JavaScript. JavaScript was developed exclusively by Netscape and forced upon the web because of their dominance. Everyone agrees in hindsight that it was bad to do it that way. And now today Google is attempting the same thing.
You hash the bits that are the "thing". If it's one of these digital dresses the article talks about, there's some format for encoding that dress so it can be loaded into whatever environment supports an avatar's ability to wear it. So hash that. I don't think look and behavior are separable, they're both just attributes of the thing which are respected by whatever environment renders it.
> almost all were likely built with waterfall.

Stop using weasel words. Find real, confirmed examples or keep mum. "Likely" isn't worth a rebuttal.
China, as long as the Communist Party in power (and doesn't get through any political reform), will have a very strong interest in keeping the current NK regime. Sure, sometimes NK is annoying, but most of the time, NK is a tremendous leverage for the current China regime to negotiate with the U.S. and SK. However, things do get more dynamic once the succession of Kim Jong Un comes into play. If China were 10 years ago (Jiang in power), I would expect that some China supported military leader in NK will topple off the kid and start some kind of economic reform. But as for now, the China regime becomes more conservative and IMHO, even itself isn't holding much belief in economic reform, I doubt that would be a likely scenario.
I would not underestimate the productivity of millions of starving people. China is very competitive despite most of their population living in subsistence. It is an endless pool of cheap labor.

Combine the technological advancements of South Korea with a pool of 'cheap' North Korean labor and you've got the makings of an economic powerhouse. Not that South Korea is not in it's own right.

North Korea is poor because of the way their resources are squandered, not because of the geography or the people. North Korea could easily feed itself if it stopped buying missiles and developing nuclear weapons.

Consider this:
This world in arms in not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
At the risk of being negative, can I just say that for me, as a consumer or customer, when companies start offering lifetime deals for a one-time fee, it's a huge red flag.

Why? Because often it's a desperate move done by a company to generate cash flow. It's not ultimately sustainable either. Theoretically you could be providing that same service 10+ years down the track. You might (reasonably) assume some attrition in the time but you get my point.

Too many times I've seen this done as a company's last move before filing for bankruptcy. Disclaimer: I'm speaking generally here. I know nothing of Mixpanel's circumstances (financial or otherwise) and certainly don't mean to impugn them, their management team, their founders or their employees.

Providing a free service is different. Typically this is done as a "freemium" model where you hope a certain percentage of free users will later convert to paying users. People know this and have a different level of expectation than for something they've paid for, even if that something is a nominal one-off fee (you and they may also disagree about what constitutes "nominal").

As a paid service, due to consumer protection, etc you may have to meet a higher standard but IANAL.
"It just works - exactly as documented." -- I guess that's the one thing that Java is really good at.

I would even say you could go as far as saying it one end of the spectrum. Where you have frontend web apps (html/js/css) on a variety of platforms[1] on the one end and the big corporate backed languages and frameworks on the other end.

[1]: This can be a real pita. Though it's being mitigated more and more by adding compatibility layers on top (jQuery et al).
Verbosity and increased complexity in Java comes mainly for two reasons, none of which is about minor syntactical issues.

Java doesn't abstract very well beyond objects and classes. This becomes pretty irritating in stuff like event handlers, where you'd really like to use something like a lambda/delegate, but the only option you have is an inner class. This might change in the future, but right now some minor language features would make it much easier, and you'd avoid hard to track down annotations and reflection.

Also, Java library design often tends towards the obfuscated. [...]Adapters, [...]Implementations and [...]Factories, the usually bloated read/write beans, checked exceptions…

Having said that, there are lots of really good libraries and frameworks who don't fall into those traps (well, at last not too deeply). And maybe Oracle will bestow onto us some sparkly new bits that will cut down on some boiler plate and will alleviate the need for IDE wizards/code generators or stuff like lombok[1]. In some areas, languages like Perl, Python (or even Lisp) will still have advantages, but it would be nice if Java programmers could at least catch up a little to C#.

[1]: http://projectlombok.org/
There is play framework, which is very good and comparable to RoR.