skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that if you get hit by a car, the entire world doesn't spend the rest of your life pitying you and hanging their car-related baggage on you and refusing to acknowledge they are doing so. If you get raped, every bit of sexual baggage of everyone you know will be dumped in your lap in the name of "sympathy" while people actively refuse to allow you to move on.

I'm a let me brag and show off by showing you my scars kind of personality (a la Lethal Weapon* ). Men can do that and impress people. I routinely get pity.

I have been on HN nearly 9 years. No one ever goes "Damn, girl, you are one helluva badass that you can discuss a topic like this calmly in such a large forum that is overwhelmingly male." No, in this very thread, more than 4 decades after the abuse ended, someone has told me they are sorry my therapy was a bad experience, though I in no way indicated it was.

How much evidence do I need to provide that I am remarkably comfortable with myself, my past and my sexuality before the world stops heaping pity upon me as an endless emotional burden I cannot escape? The answer appears to be that a rape victim is not allowed to move on. They are not allowed to stop being an object of pity.

I find that monstrous and incredibly counterproductive.

That in no way denies that I was traumatized. It merely asserts that a still ongoing issue is the negative way other people choose to view me in defiance of all evidence to the contrary.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOsA4nH8yE
As income potential increases, so does the opportunity cost of raising children. If you're making $50k/year, you're not giving up month-long European vacations by having kids. If you're making $500k/year, you might be.
While you are right, it is an exceptional scenario to earn that kind of money. So it is statistically insignificant to calculate absolute income minus rents etc.
This is fundamentally Steve Sailer's model of affordable family formation vs the blue state model.
> Wages have never been higher

Except that "in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today." [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...]
Ironically, the hiking home prices benefits this generation the most as well.
I use nvims terminal because.

1. I don't want to learn a bunch of new key bindings to switch between terminal and editor windows. With nvim, I can use the same process that I use to switch between buffers, to switch to a terminal window.

2. I can use the same process to copy to/from terminal/buffer windows, and use the full range of vim registers in the process.

3. I can name terminal buffers in the same way I name editor windows, and use the names to switch to the terminal window.
Relevant:

https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2283#comic
Given how bad Microsoft is at Windows packaging (the next version of Visual Studio that can be unpinstalled cleanly will be the first) I'm not too surprised.
Ugh. Sorry!
This will be fun to play with
FWIW, I wouldn't recommend using the number of shares as the benchmark for comparing offers (across any two companies, startups or otherwise).

Actual share counts are quite arbitrary. It's common for startups that are going public to do a 10 to 1 stock split shortly beforehand. Using your algorithm, an offer from that company would 10x more valuable the day after the split!

Much better would be to compare the expected value, by multiplying the ownership percentage by some estimate of the value of the company.
Another Theo
I think it’s pretty arrogant to conclude that the human race is somehow exempt from the concept of a carrying capacity.

Wages are higher because of inflation, the floor has moved, and it’s relatively meaningless as the cost of rent, healthcare, and food has greatly outpaced such growth.

To put it bluntly, your semiconductors are insignificant if we can’t house and feed our population.
> I would gladly earn $1 million per year and spend 75% of it on rent

No, you wouldn’t. As income goes higher, long-distance transportation becomes (a) more comfortable and (b) smaller as a fraction of income. De-camping to Washington State and commuting to San Francisco doesn’t make sense at $200,000; it does at $1 or 2 million.
When you test it out, make sure you try:

:set inccommand=split

It's pretty cool, but I just prefer the nosplit way since it's less obtrusive. :)

It ends up being similar in use to how many modern editors have multiple cursors.
It's intern season. There's plenty of manpower available to parse that.

Judging by their replies they seem to be saying that they walk right up to the letter of the law in many cases. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that they're contradicting themselves.
Local vs. Remote (1 week/month at out-of-state office)
All else being equal, which would you prefer:

1. Local job with reasonable commute.

2. Remote job with out-of-state company, but requiring one Monday - Friday office visit each month.

Compensation is the same and airfare/lodging covered for the monthly office trips.
I wonder if either openmoko or pid.codes actually check that the open hardware in the applications actually exist and work as advertised.

Like, I could create a stub project and publish it under an FOSS/OSHW license, but nothing in it actually works yet. Wouldn't it be a waste to allocate a PID to such project?
How to build a movie search app with React and Elasticsearch
Maybe this explains the appeal of single-file Vue components. Having the template, logic, and styles together in one file makes the overall component much easier to reason about.
California Water Wars
There is a Brazilian show on Netflix, 3%, that explores (caution: spoiler for Season 1) a sterile elite ruling over a dystopia.
I've always liked those paintings!
Sunflower Lecithin Powder, 1 Lb by Now Foods
> You can always use Chromium (premade build or make your own build), get the benefits of Chrome's security without the potential tracking.

My understanding is that statement is false; let's be careful not to mislead people about these issues. And in that spirit, I should make clear that my understanding is based only on the following, not on direct knowledge:

* The ungoogled-chromium project, which aims to remove from Chromium the privacy threats from Google:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

A number of features or background services communicate with Google servers despite the absence of an associated Google account or compiled-in Google API keys. Furthermore, the normal build process for Chromium involves running Google's own high-level commands that invoke many scripts and utilities, some of which download and use pre-built binaries provided by Google. Even the final build output includes some pre-built binaries.

* There's also the Inox patchset, with similar aims:

https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset

Inox patchset is applied on the chromium source code and tries to prevent data transmission to Google to get a minimal Chromium based browser

* And finally, Iridium, a browser based on Chromium:

https://iridiumbrowser.de/

Chromium (which Iridium is based on) is a very secure browser, yes. But it does call home to Google and we did even more to enhance security to the maximum extent possible.
> No, you wouldn’t.

I can say with absolute certainty that I'd be pretty damn happy with $250k post-rent income.
A scam and cult lobbies Congress and ignores the fact that the reputation of the NYSE is at stake for supporting this scam.

Facebook Twitter and Bitcoin make Colonialism look good.
What it does is request a block of hashes from the server with a given 5-hex-digit prefix (ie, 20 bits). Then inside the browser it scans the block for the exact hash.

Code at https://github.com/OktaSecurityLabs/passprotect-js/blob/mast...
Staying up-to-date as a software developer with a daily learning routine
Most of them are in a better state then alone in a strange city, with nothing but the clothes on their back. They often have jobs, and may be living on couches or in a car, or have a bank account, or social support (Not enough to keep them in a home, but something.)

The homeless that are sleeping rough for 9 months tend to stay homeless. It is a horrible way to live, and it breaks you down really fast.
You're probably right, it's just my first time encountering this.
Makedo is awesome, and I agree that the saw isn't very good.

We got this saw: https://www.amazon.com/Corrugated-Cardboard-Fluorine-Coating...

It's amazing! It cuts really well but is dull enough that I have no worries at all with my 6 year old using it as she pleases unsupervised.
This stage of the demographic transition is a huge problem, IMO. The more I think about it, the more it seems like a ratchet (as in, it only moves in one direction):

Basically, two incomes are useful, so both people in a relationship pursue careers. Now they have more money to compete on the housing market. This seems like a good move, so others follow suit. At first this is largely a win for people who pursue this route. But, as more people do this, it becomes necessary in order to compete for real estate in good neighborhoods.

Now there is an advantage to be had by putting off having a family even longer, or having even less children. So people do this. But as more and more people follow suit, the advantage evaporates. And so on and so forth until you have demographic implosion.

For the life of me, I can’t see a way out of this in the short term. Maybe a wholesale transition to remote work?
Milgram's work is on the power of authority, so your quote showing that behavior did not follow the desired results without the professor present is also consistent with Milgram.
China, close to family and side business opertiunities. I got a night time support gig.

Even with kids, as we approach summer time, it's time to travel! None of this 2 week crap, take the full 2-3 months. Rent place via air-bnb and go live somewhere else, and see if you like it. I just always have a hotel for the first couple days when I arrive just in case of any SNAFU with airbnb, never go cheap on internet, and always have multiple ways of getting online.

Remember internet now isn't some 'nice to have' thing, if it's down you aren't billing, and if you aren't billing you are just throwing money out the window. I have 3 cell phones, each with a 4g+ chip from a different carrier, and I paid the extra cash to get a business grade internet hookup, because I want that 24x7x8 response SLA.

The best part, of course is the absolute freedom, the worst part can be the social isolation. I've found using shared office space from time to time being okay, or living somewhere more... bohemian than the typical urban environment a nice escape. My kids are 4 & 2, but they start kindergarden at 3 in China.

It's a big world, and a small world. Get passports, travel, see the world. If your wife is up to homeschooling then you can be free to go wherever you want to go, as long as they have iternet.
> I'm a let me brag and show off by showing you my scars kind of personality (a la Lethal Weapon* ). Men can do that and impress people. I routinely get pity.

No, not about being a victim of a sex crime, they can't; at least as much as women can't, maybe even moreso.

> The answer appears to be that a rape victim is not allowed to move on.

A “brag and show off by showing you my scars” person is one who has not moved on from the sources of those scars. Yeah, that kind of failure to move on may get a different typical response by both gender and source of the scar, but you can't both have a need to show the scar and complain that other people aren't letting you move on: you aren't letting yourself move on.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but that is the literally the worst thing the ihob.com domain owner can do and will no doubt give IHob an edge if/when they file a UDRP complaint.
It's because Canada's dairy is better than America's. No bovine growth hormones is probably the biggest benefit. I also know a good number of people who were fairly upset when unlabelled American dairy started being allowed. Personally I don't want America's inferior dairy products in my stores.
That's an excellent point about the terrible H1B grace period policy. A lot of good companies have an informal policy about that, but I agree it needs to be more widespread. Do you know if any companies offer that policy publicly?
Great job, Techcrunch, on not providing any sort of analysis whatsoever.
We did start out using the TinyG firmware but have since replaced it with our own code.
Wow. Is this because of the new revelations about their data sharing activities?

It's high time people stop trusting FB altogether.
Wow TIL. I even looked it up and $13 buys you enough cold-patch to fill in a few holes it looks like. Thanks for sharing, if I'm ever bothered by a pothole I'll just fill it myself now that I know!
Copperhead just died
Choosing to be an example of recovery is not evidence I have not recovered.

I'm well aware men who were raped or molested are treated even worse.
Right. The community part - which is still alive and well in its rebranded form as LineageOS - was doing the most important work anyway (or, even if that's a loaded statement, the community part was extremely productive and still is).
I think the dispute is more wether 75% rent is a likely choice in the million dollar scenario.

(vs the contentment with remainder)
Buy an android phone and install LineageOS, it's Android but without Google's crap. I use it daily and it's great.
Very nice. I just requested the ROCStories data so I can experiment with this.

I enjoyed several talks at NACL 2016 that referenced the ROCStories data, but didn't really have the (personal, not work) compute power to do much. OpenAI's nice contribution fixes that.
Cool idea! Clear and nicely organized too :)

Wouldn’t it be more readable and less error-prone to have separate commands for turning hex mode on and off? Such as `hex on` and `hex off`?
I worked at a startup of a semiconductor fab early in my life, which was not quite the same as what you mean but I think the reason still applies. I wanted to see how these messes get made. After working in old organizations with lots of legacy problems, I wanted to see first-hand what the process was that led to these situations. It did.

Having worked as a contract programmer at software startups, I can say that the main reason would be, to have more power to direct how the software develops, instead of just having to accept so much of it as a problem on top of which too much as been built, and which cannot be fixed.

However, I worked at a software startup only as a paid-by-the-hour contractor, because frankly the attitude towards early employees time is appalling, and I have seen this in how many, many other people got treated at other startups. There really isn't enough of a potential payoff for early employees to justify the hours that they are made to work, and in many cases it is done mostly because it is so easy to demand that and no justification is required. Founders are by nature egomaniacs with ruthless focus on their business, and that can turn even very good people into the sort of person you don't want to work for (unless you're charging by the hour).
How much pressure exactly? How is it sustained?
One other option is that I trust the courts. Another is that I don't trust law enforcement or the courts but I still think that an imperfect rule of law is better than not being able to have warrants at all. These things don't have to be absolute.
i wonder how Jim Crow affected these employment and housing markets.
No, during Zuck's testimony he frequently deferred on answering questions, so he could get accurate information to provide later.

It is not unusual to provide written and more detailed answers to questions after testifying. This number of times he deferred was a perhaps a little unusual though.
Citi offers 2% cash back on everything with their DoubleCash card. It's the highest general purpose/non-category-specific card as far as I know.
I hope John will divide up the book later.

I am interested, but as a guy working more on backend systems, frontend and mobile will not help me very much. I don't want to pay $40 for majority of content I cannot make use of.
Yes, we are moving out our enterprise account from github to bitbucket. Actually it is already done. Right now we are in the migration phase where we are updating all the links in legacy install base to bitbucket.
Basically during the entire post.

"misery is an art form, and the satisfaction people seem to find in it reflects the creative effort required to cultivate it."

"making yourself miserable is a craft all its own, requiring imagination, vision, and ingenuity."

"There’s power in making other people feel guilty."
Metro Bank did a bait-and-switch. They attracted initial customers with the 'no foreign transaction fee' pitch and later started charging them 2.75%:

https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/bank-accounts/i-want-some-...
As far as I remember, I've never been raped. Maybe as a young child, but that's just unknowable. But I have had a few sexual partners who were rape survivors. What's difficult, I gather, is how it messes with the ability to be sexually intimate. So much about enjoyable sex depends on letting go of conscious control, and that's often difficult for rape survivors.

I mean, it was just luck that kept a large dog from killing me, many years ago. And ever since, I am never comfortable around dogs.

Edit: Damn, I forgot the point. Which is that being uncomfortable with dogs is far less problematic than being uncomfortable with sex.
I found some it useful for me.

Hacker News paydirt!
"you can buy a small and cheap USB C to DisplayPort adapter with power passthrough (< 20 USD)"

*may destroy motherboard
I’d guess that, in practice, the ratio is more important for birth rates. Humans seem to be wired to judge their position in life relative to those around them. So, you make more, but then you end up around other people who also make more. And now it doesn’t feel like you’re making that much money. The crazy thing is that this seems to hold true almost all the way up to the 1%.

IMO, the winning strategy is to be weird.
Protip for those of you who are rolling in the $$ and considering this:

The locals hate it when you do this because you screw with their low CoL so please don't shove it in their face by being politically active as well.
I believe that you didn't mean it to be that, but experience has shown that it turns into that with high probability if the discussion is allowed to proceed.
Believe it or not, I didn't even consider that. That's definitely a better way to do it.
> That's not nothing.

WA passed a law to ensure it. That's not nothing. Waiting for a decision and hoping the status quo sits (I mean it's a great story to ride on the coattails of and tell your constituents you did something), is nothing.
Not the OP but I would appreciate the PoC anyhow - as I’m sure others would.
Where does your friend with $650k TC work and what is their role/level?
I think the voice of my comment didn't come across properly, but if you read the 2nd half, I was trying to express my cynicism about that position. That's why I referred to it as "risk ignorant".
Ask HN: Ever had a near total inability to focus on code?
I've recently been struggling with an almost complete inability to code. I can see what needs to be done but cannot focus more than a few minutes on getting there. My current task is to rip up big chunks of a SPA I just built and rebuild per new business requirements and I just cannot move forward. What's odd is that I have been capable of nearly inhuman levels of focus in the past.

It's like a mental block and it's been going on for weeks now. I struggled with this before but powered through it. Now I am making virtually no progress and am actually growing stressed and, oddly, somewhat angry about the whole thing. Just the thought of tediously assembling all of the glue required in the app nearly depresses me.

Has anyone experienced this and what did you do? I don't know if it's just burnout or what.
It provided $.ajax({method: “DELETE”}) however... so...
On the other hand, life is a Malthusian struggle. Better to belong to a growing tribe than a shrinking one.
>And exactly how many of those occurred less than 9 months after the wedding? Being pregnant and unmarried in 1958, even temporarily, was not a happy place from which to start adult life.

People survived just fine. Life isn't all rainbows and unicorns. Raising a kid as a young couple who are only together for the kid probably sucked a lot less in 1958 because there was a heck of a lot less economic pressure (and bad finances make everything else worse).
And everyone in the middle pays for it. Again, ISPs are forced to upgrade to deal with Netflix traffic. Saying that isn't the case and the market sets the price is willfully ignorant. There's a reason there are no more small ISPs available in the urban areas where they used to be plentiful (in the late 90s to early 2000s), but even if you keep pretending it's a series of tubes, someone has to pay for that capacity who isn't sharing the revenue.
True. This metric is as good (or bad) as any else, a percentage of the company included. You can't predict dilution or stock split (the only startup I joined early enough to have the strike price of 11 cents which went IPO, did a _reverse_ stock split). But somehow the number of shares granted in a company of 20 ppl with stage-A money and 0 revenues is within 10% of the company with 3000 ppl and doing 300M in revenues. And also within 10% from the company with 200 ppl and 30M in _profits_.
Go figure.
According to the HackerOne report[1] there was no response from the maintainer and the last package update was 3 years ago. And yet the package is downloaded several million times a month (meaning it's definitely used in something -- I imagine looking at the reverse dependency tree would cause some concern).

This is something that bothers me a lot with most of these home-grown package ecosystems. In distributions we remove packages from their main repositories if old maintainers are no longer available and nobody is interested in becoming the new maintainer (we do this in openSUSE all the time). Does the Node (and Rust, Python, Ruby, ...) community have this sort of process for deciding that a project is no longer adequately maintained?

One of the benefits of having macro-packages is that it's always clear whether a package is being maintained -- if there isn't a release for a long time then it's probably no longer maintained. But with micro-packages there are thousands which are so trivial they require no updates (see left-pad, ansi-{green,blue,red,yellow,cyan,...}, and so on) that a very large number of projects depend on. Not to mention that distributions don't generally have projects with thousands of dependencies each -- so removing a dependency and everything that depends on it will not destroy the entire package ecosystem.

[1]: https://hackerone.com/reports/319467
I feel the opposite. As soon as it's possible to replace biological neurons with artificial one, even if they aren't perfect replicas, I'm in. I'm pretty sure the mind is an emergent phenomenon robust to slight variations in the lowest levels of hardware, and I'd like to live for billions of years. (And if the tech lets you process faster, it could feel like trillions.)
> For somebody living outside of San Francisco's bubble or other expensive and overrated cities like New York or London, 150K is actually better than 400K.

There's no way that's true. You can easily save six figures per year on 400k total comp, no matter where you live. Saving 100k per year on 150k is much more of a challenge, especially when health insurance and taxes are accounted for.

Point being, you need to measure net savings. And you don't want to adjust that by cost of living.
Just to add another data point. I'm a Google L5, and make nowhere near $400K. My RSUs would have to quadruple in order to even get close to that. I think your idea of a normal L5-6 salary here is a vast overestimate.