jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> That's a wild prediction not based in fact

Correct, it's a prediction based on the job market numbers, I wouldn't call it "wild" though.

> There's an insurmountable skills shortage in tech and always will be.

This is incredibly optimistic and in my opinion very naive view of tech. I've already started seeing wages for junior and mid level engineers decreasing because of the flood of new bootcamp graduates.

> Appetite for automation, efficiency and software solutions is practically unbounded.

Sure, doesn't mean that 10x increase in the labor pool won't effect wages.

> software salaries are sky high because there's no union

Source needed.

> so his salary can be halved

You can't say mine is not based in fact and that pull numbers out of your ass, too, ya dingus.

> Teachers unions ruined education

Source needed.

> dragging salaries down of high performers.

Do you consider yourself a "high performer"? A 10xer? It's hard to judge ourselves accurately, isn't it?

> The best teacher in the US is paid identically to the worst teacher. No wonder education is a disaster.

I would think to blame a great many things for this before I'd put the blame at unions, which have been losing power in the states since at least the 90s, probably earlier. Republicans have been gutting education spending the entire time, too. But sure, it was the big bad unions that did it.

All I'm saying is that tech wages are good right now, but they won't be this good forever, and we should use our current leverage to at least try to situate ourselves into a more solid standing. If you don't think unions are the way to do that, that's fine, but you can't disagree with the numbers. There's an huge flux of new SWE's entering the workforce right now, in 5-10 years it's going to start being a significant factor in wages all the way up to the top skill levels.
I think the magic formula to "nice" peanut butters like jif/skippy are:

- hydrogenated: oil doesn't separate, at the expense of your health

- sugar - on the Dr Rhonda Patrick episode of Joe Rogan, she said sugar+fat is really bad for you

- salt

That said, I agree with you on the organic stuff. You either get an oily mess or cement.
The podcast and the YouTube videos on Wolfe really make me rue Google's modern algorithm that obscures 1990s and early-millennium content. Pretty much all the mysteries of the BotNS were elucidated on the Gene Wolfe mailing list (which was archived) and a handful of fan websites. It would be much more efficient use of a reader's time to go through these instead of podcasts or videos, which aren't information-dense media and are duplicating effort and yet falling short of earlier commentaries.
Google Webstore has a one time fee of $5. Surely there is a more reasonable middle ground.
> Could you shed some light on that?

First off, I had a brainlapse, their order numbers were 6 digits. I'm not entirely sure what they max was in their system, it was just that's where they were at in the series.

And they didn't have that many orders per year, less than 10k, as one order could be for say five containers of goods. So it was not like they'd exceed 9 digits in the foreseeable future.

Or so we thought...
Great news! I'd only just updated the Purple Please theme[1] for Jupyter Lab 2.0, will have to look at doing the same for Jupyter Lab 3.0. It looks like they've made some improvements to extension development too which is good to see.

[1] https://datacrayon.com/posts/tools/jupyter/theme-purple-plea...
What amazes me is that I do not know this already. With other IT in F1 concerns - e.g. Tata group a few years ago - you hear all about it. But with Blackberry? Not a thing. How hard can it be to write in interesting story?

Anyway, thanks for the info.
Too bad the post was flagged.

My intention was to spark a discussion on the high-level ideas, but it seems that many are more interested in the implementation. That's fair. The challenge in this case is that "what it is" matters less than "where it's going" or "why it exists".

In a nutshell: First choose a thread of action - narrow your view to one set of things you already do. Then when you act, you record that you took that action. Add more threads-of-action as you wish, organize as needed. That's the beginning of Benome. This pattern remains throughout as the fundamental.

This simple pattern allows Benome to become an interactive visualization that combines your past behaviour with probabilities for you future behaviour. A very simple example is that if your chosen thread of action was when you buy tomatoes, and then you choose to share that thread with someone who sells tomatoes, they'd know when you were ready to buy. But that same pattern can be used for many more applications than simple commerce. You can leverage a detailed awareness of your own behaviour into many personal advancements.
https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/2r72ox/nobody_t...
I don't think I would ever bring a loved one in an hospital with a religious name if I have the choice.
iTunes Match brings its own issues to the party. I've had songs that I own, with 'explicit content', that I've hand-ripped, converted into radio friendly abominations that are, frankly, unlistenable. Maybe that's just Apple's 'family-friendly' values shining through; that might be appropriate for some, but I don't have a Big Brother in real life, and I don't want one messing with my music collection either!
First of all, the app looks really good right off the bat. I also like that you're instantly on the calendar, no busy landing pages.

I do have a few questions, just in random order as they pop up:

1. Some users really dislike, or can't, watch a video explanation. Have you considered adding some introductory text? You can add it on the right just below the intro video.

2. The video starts with a minute or so explaining how to use a calendar app. Honestly, I think most people know by now that things can be stretched, can be a few hours or a day, etc. Why not skip those "basics", and go straight to the more interesting bits?

3. Minor nitpick - your tagging is done using the "@" sign. Why not go with the "#" sign, like Twitter? "@" is now a pretty widely used method of specifying a person. For example, say I want to record the event "had dinner with @nitz", it shouldn't consider it a tag.

4. The first big question I had, and I think most people will have, is "Why use this? What's wrong with Google Calendar/Outlook/etc?" The first thing you want to explain, on your page, is why someone should use this instead of those other calendars. Even if your answer is only relevant to 1% of viewers, make sure they realize it.

Just some thoughts, hope they help.
I think "easy to set up" combined with "less crappy than expected". Although SQLite isn't very crappy at all...
I would love to see this happening. I could then port gitmodel on top of your lib and get a NoSQL DB, easy to sync with a single user desktop app for the iOS platform (in conjunction with Wax).
Good job, and example of the flexibility of simple web app + decent API - you've given me a great service, and I can hook it up to my own workflow exactly the way I want, rather than hassle you for features that only suit my own use case.

Would definitely code up a proper home page that explains the features (and perhaps why it's not a direct replacement for something like Google calendar). For instance, the CSV reports are really important for me (and I'm sure others) for whipping up those invoices at the end of the month.

EDIT: not sure if putting the current date as a fragment on the default URL is a good idea - it makes it hard to bookmark.
Is there any chance you could get an SSL certificate for this app?
The students are accused of plagiarism by a teacher who is essentially plagiarising test questions. The students are accused of cheating - I contest that the professor is too.
Recruiting from bars? I would expect that if the rates are good, he gets a lot of referrals. And aren't there business networks and agencies he can tap?
I don't think this is different at all.

His comment wouldn't lose anything, but rather win in terms of readability, by removing those 10 words ("and I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for this"). Those words are simply unnecessary and unobjective. They don't provide anything except making the comment sound more sensational than it actually is.

There are good reasons for this guideline, and I think those reasons apply to everyone, including patio11 and pg.
I think it all comes down to fulfillment.

Few of us particularly like how much time we spend on HN/Reddit or go “yeah really glad I’m spending my precious time in this way!” yet we do tend to feel fulfillment from activities like reading a novel or trying to write one or many of the activities we pretend are just the same as playing World or Warcraft and watching Netflix.
To be fair, Netscape lost because their product, at the time, was inferior. Netscape blew IE out of the water at first, but IE kept getting better. Netscape 3 was excellent, but when IE 4 came out, it was just better. Then came Netscape 4. 'Nuff said.

Lotus couldn't make the transition to Windows, and so lost to Excel (and perhaps Quattro Pro... it's been a long time and I don't remember details). This had nothing to do with copying APIs. Of course, it probably had everything to do with Microsoft's anti-competitive advantage by having access to Windows internals and undocumented features, but that's another matter.
In my experience the limiting factor in response time is the traversal of the FS/OS structures in your step 1. It seems unlikely that anything this program is doing would be any slower than what you are describing.
In shell, "if" just looks at the exit status of the next set of commands.

if ls /path ; then echo foo ; fi

works just as well as the sugar wrapping "test" ( [ ] ) or extended builtins.
> Call OSHA

Yeah, OSHA recommends 76F as the maximum indoor temperature [0]. And there's indoor air quality guidelines too. It's not difficult to file a complaint [1], and I'm pretty sure any reasonable complaint is checked out. Even if the employer isn't fined, having an OSHA investigator come by will probably lead to some changes.

It also seems possible that an office with obvious jet exhaust fumes will be out of compliance with the fire marshal, who's more than capable of putting a chain and padlock on the building entrance until the problem is fixed.

[0] https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab...

[1] https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint
It's not misleading at all, there is no doubt that there is a direct link between the AZ vaccine and these rare thrombosis cases. This link has been evidenced in several member states of the EU (see e.g. my sibling comment [1]) roughly three weeks ago.

What remains unknown is the mechanism that triggers this rare event. However, there are some promising theories and potential treatments!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713481
If the O-1 is already admitting the top 1%, then we're already closing in on solving the ostensible problem.

At least inside an order of magnitude (1/5) at a naive guess, but probably much closer, in fact, if we run with two assumptions this piece rests on:

(a) The small top portion of a given talent pool have exceptional intrinsic abilities that give them a power-relation advantages over the rest of the pool when it comes to productive enterprise.

(b) Taking a small highest portion of a very large talent pool is going to give you the largest source of power-law productive talent.

If (a) is true, one would assume the top 1% of external programmers is going to be as much better than the next 5% as the top 20% is than the next 80%.

If (b) is true and we're already looking at the worldwide market, the top 1% is already a huge boost to the pool, almost certainly bigger than the number of open jobs on the market (if 5% of the top 1% of the world's smartest are programmers, then that's a number bigger than the ~4 million unfilled positions of any kind in the US). The top 5% is redundant.
I should have said that I didn't want to run any embedded players, Flash, HTML 5, Javascript, or whatever.

Thank you for the link!
The 'new' GM bought a bank. They do a bunch of financing:

http://www.gmfinancial.com/
You touch on why I don't like increased immigration, which is the stealing aspect. The problem is you take prospective entrepreneurs and great developers from other nations and slave them to US companies at threat of deportation. It is hard to be anything but a wage slave in that environment, which is exactly what companies want, and while the outside developers might have a grass is greener effect going on, is really not in their best interests. There are a lot of places to go if your home country is shit, and you can make a much better deal than an h1b.
Not everything about agile software development is bad. Planning poker is a great team exercise if you replace the planning part with a deck of playing cards, poker chips and beer.
Yes, they did use Assembly.

When implementing an OS avoiding Assembly is impossible. Even if intrisics are used instead, they are just another way of using Assembly like instructions.

There are lots of informations in this book, "Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made".
>If Tesla continues to follow this route it will have lasting implications for the automotive industry.

No it won't.

This upgrade concept has been tried in many consumer products over the years and it hasn't caused any ripples let alone waves. The fact is that people like buying new products. It's an opportunity for them to re-evalute their product choice. They like the experience of having something different. Many reasons that aren't simply financial/practical.

And it especially doesn't work with cars. The interior of a car wears over time in a way that is impossible to make new unless you replace it. And many of the newer technologies e.g. autonomous require massive changes to the internal system. Add it all up and it becomes very cost prohibitive to upgrade rather than simply replace.
I WILL SELL THE STAMP!
That's also the same reason many people look down on (modern) artists. The use patience to do something everyone else would do in a more efficient way.
I work at a company with ~30 employees, and I can tell you that you're not always right.

There's certainly a lot of gossip and speculation, but at 30 people there's enough division that it's not automatically obvious that any given person is doing something worthwhile.
They're not only raising prices because they can, they're raising prices because they should. Higher prices will allow them to invest more in upcoming technologies like 4G networks.

- I don't mind paying more if I use more.
- I do mind, however, if someone paying the same as me is ruining my connection.
The "suicide" strategy is much harder to pull off effectively. The team to go to that strategy would need to "win" by more than five goals. If the other team can score only enough to keep the difference less than five, then they win by the regular rules.

This would mean that a team attempting the "suicide" strategy from the outset would need to be much better in that paradigm than the other team. If we assume that the skills involved are similar, this would mean that they could probably win anyway using the normal rules. Adopting the strategy partway through the game -- say, when behind by three goals -- could be effective, but if the other team knows about this, they would keep the difference to only two goals.

It would result in either a heavy emphasis on defense, or a strategy of scoring one goal and then passing the ball around for the rest of the game.
What I've read is that as long as your plan is on auto-renew you can keep the $30/unlimited but it will not be available as a new package. In other words, if you stop auto-renew and then enable a package you will have to choose one of the two new plans.
Here's some insight: It's hard to find successful startups that are truly 100% bootstrapped. 37 signals entire purpose for doing these posts will be undermined if they can't find a good number of companies that fit their theoretical profile.
This would have been a perfect opportunity to cite the paper about the efficacy of parachutes: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Let's imagine American tech bails out from oil contracts in those countries - overnight. What happens? Russians will replace them immediately, or Chinese. That won't help those countries in any way. There is no quick process to get those countries jump over hundreds of years in general education and gradual development of business and manufacturing culture.
Note that wells are kilometers deep and well measurements are usually done every meter, so 1000 datapoints for every measurement, say, temperature, pressure, density, etc.
Impact matters but I think stress comes into play when you feel like things are going more wrong than right. And I wouldn’t say that most high paying tech responsibilities are anywhere near life or death decisions. But are much closer to comfortably fun and compelling challenges.
It did not made it meaningless, it made it mean that people didn't opt in for tracking. And of course nobody has.

Which is what it should have been to begin with: a “do track” header that no sane person would opt in for.

The whole “people consent to everything unless they go out of their way to say otherwise” thing is a farce.
Earlier today in another thread we were joking about GaaS (Goatse as a Service) but now maybe I think that's not so crazy an idea after all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26104087

Your YC application practically writes itself.
This would replace, not be in addition to, the gas tax.

Cheaper, less fuel efficient vehicles (like an old work truck) would effectively taxed less than a Prius, although I think weight per axle is also intended to factor into this.
I think the point was that threatening is not allowed by the medical board. If you have a legitimate complaint, I guess you are free to report the lawyer.
This one seems to have a lot of features and is pretty!
Yeah, in an update to the story TechCrunch says that picture thumbnails returned on the main page are gone.
There is! Actually over the internet there is a market for everything. And this tooltip thingy is so useful. I wouldn't go the extra mile creating a tooltip for my site but wouldn't hesitate to pay for one that looks and works awesome! Increases the beauty quotient of a site.
I'd be fine with being treated like a commodity as long as that commodity is a type of bullion.

I find that the term "commoditized" refers to goods or services that one, are all identical and b) are really, really cheap, like most commodities in the late 90s.
Your password file is still encrypted, so would-be attackers would still need your master password. As for developing a cloud solution... who knows. Maybe they considered it orthogonal to the goals of 1Password to develop and maintain that entire infrastructure.
Yep - but I figured that was the answer on how you are meant to handle things :)
What is interesting here is that the U.S. govt is not a monolith. TSA is clearly ignoring the will of Congress, which voted in 2009 to block the scanners. They are also certainly violating the 4th Amendment limit on government searches. Both the Congress and the courts may yet have their say on the matter of the porno-scanners. Not to mention that the states should play a role-- already local DA's are challenging potential TSA violations of sexual assault laws, and state legislatures and even city governments are looking at banning the scanners.

The genius of the American system is the separation of powers, both at the federal level and the states. Ninety years of progressivism has greatly centralized power in Washington and atrophied the Framers' design, but there's life in the old federalist system yet...
Well, the title used "Seven Deadly Sins". I'm not sure that using "The Seven Great Rational Evolutionary Strategies" has the same ring to it - although, the more I think about it, the more I like it.
The heading changed.
A blurb was added.
The content was re-ordered.
Price is now in bold.
No longer any mention that the deal expires.

Believe or not, I didn't even realize the emails were advertising the same product.
On your point #2 on the side of reason, you seem to be saying that the references to savages are understandable as a product of their times, which is frankly false.

The references to savages are a timeless indictment of imperial powers like those referenced in the book. The woman in question clearly has not read it, as it is really on her side.
actually installed that earlier, little annoyed that it doesn't work as a repl. At the same time I kind of dig the "smalltalk" "inspect/do it" approach. Probably a good compromise though for working on larger functions considering you can't really save/load files (though you can save the "world" as a whole just not "save as" to have many different worlds.)
Spot on. For added weirdness, they've split the parts of the child company into another one called Mozilla Messaging that gives away Thunderbird.

I definitely agree that the corporation appears to wear the pants in the relationship, but there is still a lot of link up that is organized by the foundation, especially with the Mozilla developer network stuff.
Watch out though; atoms aren't garbage-collected, so don't "atomize" user input.
Scala day instead, please?
hey halukakin. so very sorry to hear about your kid.

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our vision is to realize every cure for every community. rare diseases is where we are starting.

and thanks Sri for the shout-out!
Oh, commit to me!
Don't underestimate how far you can get with simple Holt-Winters exponential smoothing to generate a forecast and then note deviations from same. With the Taylor (Taylor 2010) mods to same you can get up to three different types of seasons.
For something less than an AppleTV, that is indeed appealing.
HN was causing problems for me earlier (as seen by by duplicate replies above that I eventually put in as an edit...) but I wanted to say thanks.

Also I wanted to make two suggestions if you're looking for features to build:
1) Highlight "important" annotations in the console in some way.
2) Allow option for submitted notes/screenshots to be forwarded via email both as archive and for searchability etc.

Thanks for sharing!
I like the way you commented on his comment.
I love Amazon to death. I have no idea what you mean by "Amazon version of something", but I just purchased an MS ergo keyboard from them a few weeks ago instead of going to best buy.

As far as I'm concerned there is no "Amazon version of something", there's simply an amazing service providing so much value that I'm more than happy to wait a few days to get it from Amazon than to buy it retail.
> It even has a cute unboxing experience (The box plays the intel jingle when you open it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdyudYdIPc

That's very cute, however if it's the box that actually plays the sound isn't it terribly wasteful, ecologically?
If you're worried about the security of your data, use a secure backup service.

If your backup service provider can read your files and you don't trust him to not do that after you're no longer a customer, why did you trust him to not do that while you were a customer?
At subsistence levels, it is not unlikely that all but the most basic human learning would be lost to active memory in a generation or two. While the species will persist, the ability to live as flailing gods will not.

I wonder, how do we preserve our science across such gaps in ability to sustain it. Should we even bother?
combine the mangling with the message. Meaning, change the real result to "Result omitted in free version"