skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While the H1B visa program has a complicated impact on the labor market, in this analysis we look at one common misperception about the program: that it represents a source of “cheap” foreign labor for U.S. employers.

To the contrary, we find that H1B workers today are paid slightly above similar U.S. workers in the same city and job according to Glassdoor data — about 2.8 percent more on average. Whatever the pros and cons of the program, low pay for H1B workers isn’t something we see in the data."

From the article you linked.
What “local” is going to chat with The NY Times about this. More importantly, what local would dare question it? That’s the difference between the US and China right there.
Yeah, well... that still requires you to write custom JS. The thing I'm imagining would be based only on markup - which sticky ids exist in both pages. But the idea is really similar, thanks for the link!
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Scientist?
"Everybody is somebody's terrorist."

Not at all.
Ethereum Creator Blasts Centralized Crypto Exchanges: “I Hope They Burn in Hell”
I tried it multiple times but the contrast is too low for me.

I've been using a custom RailsCasts-derived (no red!) color scheme for many years, here's a version for VS: https://studiostyl.es/schemes/kodkod
Sorry I might not have made it clear, I just understand the reason why people scorn you for your opinion. I think your opinion is at least somewhat valid and has merit. At the very least I think that it is worth debating and shouldn’t be met with scorn.

As a few have pointed out the slippery slope argument is a bad one. They are right. The slippery slope could be a logical fallacy. But logical fallacies often lead to scorning and anger and fights and such.
There has been a war-on-science going on for quite a while now, if there is a dark age coming I would fully expect that to be the real origin.
Ohare to one of the nyc airports operates on about a 15 minute schedule. Midway is more like 35 minutes.
I agree, but the old DEs feel old to use, because well, they're old. Mac still feels modern.
I still think you're still off by two or three orders of magnitude of difficulty.

I have no background in plumbing - in fact, as a new homeowner, I just learned what a compression fitting is ($#@%!). I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drain-waste-vent_system and... it seems pretty straightforward. I could build this, if perhaps with a few more trips to the hardware store than a professional might make.

On the other hand, I work with databases every day. I wrote ROLAP engines in the 90s. And yet this is probably the first time I've ever used the term hierarchical database in a sentence. If you said "here's this hierarchical database, generate a report for me", it would take me some hours to figure out what kind of db it is and how to actually use it. If you asked a layman I think you would get a blank stare.

Not to belittle the craft, but there's something intuitive about plumbing. Software is something different.
Don't want this stuff to happen? Bootstrap and self-fund. If you take other people's money, you're subject to their rules.
I have attended meetings discussing IoT and at one, the observation was made many of the cameras are deployed by private individuals, not the state. Private individuals want to surveil their own surroundings.

I can't explain why, I don't live in China. But I do notice many buildings in the cities I visit have thick strong window bars even up above the 5th floor. Maybe there is a strong concern about local petty crime?

I certainly don't disagree there is state surveillance, but I think you should be wary of assuming all devices sold in China as IoT web connected cameras are state cameras.
I understand the impulse to distinguish the two but there simply isn't as much distinction as you perhaps would like to believe. An apartment or a job aren't strictly financial, and while credit bureaus construct your scores out of mainly financial transactions at the moment, they have started out as much more, as I've mentioned, and they've always been looking for other non-financial but correlating variables from your life activities; can't find the link right now, but there was recently an internal whitepaper on such an algorithm using non-financial data.

And again, the US government does care about dissent and goes to great lengths to build files on what it considers potentially subversive forces that are essentially political dissidents. The same controlling impulses are there. And since the scaffolding is all there, the only things safeguarding against a dystopia are, firstly, the clear-headed and astute attention against various soft forms of social control, secondly the maintenance of decentralization as a virtue, and lastly the robust exercise of checks and balances that are nominally provided institutionally, and not, as your answer seems to imply, the intricacies of how certain scores are constructed.
This gets at the crux of it, if you take "timeless" literally:

UI is culture. And what made culture is timeless? The undergraduate discussion group might hit on Shakespeare, the Pyramids, the King James Bible, or Portal II. In the end there's no common ground except that the value of culture itself is context-sensitive.

Anyway, it's all a red herring because "timeless" in this article is misused; the author just means "classic"
For empty comments you will get downvoted here. Wait until you see some topic where you can provide an interesting reply.
At least in the US, the cargo bike market is still tiny. There are very few used cargo bikes to be had and the likely purchaser of one is the type who will ride it for decades until it finally costs more to repair than it was ever worth in the first place.
...and if you want to go full-caffeine Alexander, his Nature of Order volumes are great, too. He's my favorite author/thinker/practitioner to chew on.
Yup agree. Classic is a much better expression as it doesn't falsely imply some sort of objective criteria.
I'm not assuming that - there are undoubtedly a huge number of privately owned cameras in China, as there are just about anywhere else in the world that people can afford to put 802.3af/PoE cameras stuck somewhere on a wall, fed from one cat5e cable, that cost $65 to $120 a piece. But as for cameras in major public locations with pedestrian traffic, I would bet that a much higher percentage of cameras in China are actually owned/controlled by a government entity than in the US.
The octal dumper od is pronounced oh-dee, the assembler is ay-ess, the archiver is ay-arr.
OTOH, the delayed execution command is “at”, but that is a full word anyway.
Doesn't work unless you have an extra container div.
It's usual to pay ~ 10% to the people who are needed to make the deal close. The founders, who have common shares and/or options, knew the terms when they started. If you think any of this is unfair, don't take external funding.
I don't mean that arguments should be ranked on perceived soundness, as determined through democratic voting, but on actual soundness. It may be impossible to remedy this problem through any purely democratic system, but it remains a problem nevertheless.
Have you considered democratizing moderation? If many people agree that a claim is a duplicate of another claim then it's probably a duplicate or at least the community wants to treat it as such.

Also instead of removal just make it less visible. With a big arrow pointing towards the main discussion. If people still choose to discuss there then they must see value in doing so.

PS: thank you for making this
> MVC was a hack of a pattern that developers adopted to get server side rendering architectures to even work.

MVC wasn't even developed for networked applications, but for desktop GUI applications; it was later adapted for web applications,

And server-side rendering existed and the worked before MVC was a popular pattern to use for it; MVC was a step forward in making applications doing it maintainable, but want chosen to get it to work at all.

> Good developers recognized its many flaws and when front-end development became decoupled from the server, tried and true practices and patterns such as modularity, reusability, and separation of concerns were adopted to the front end

MVC came from application of exactly those principles to desktop development, and was adopted precisely to bring those to web development. Sure, it wasn't the end of the road in that, but it wasn't done kind of reversion from it, either.
I certainly don't change the locks and I'm surprised that people have such adversarial relations with their landlords.

My landlady has the keys, organizes the cleaning lady to come (and gives her the keys), I'm pretty sure she even once dusted and washed the dishes in the sink herself when she was watching over some crew cleaning the ducts.

The whole benefit of renting is not being burdened with owner's problems. Hard to achieve when they can't access the apartment.
I think it's a form of overcompensation. We all know deep down that we're pampered and privileged and frankly not contributing as much to the world as we're taking out of it. Thank you, supply and demand and barely-free-enough markets! But instead of just accepting that and making our peace with it, many of us try to make up for it with our choice of sports, hobbies, or accoutrements. There are way more techies obsessed with martial arts or brewing or sports cars than even other demographic factors such as income would predict.

I think it's the same with trade and craft knowledge. Any techie with any exposure at all to the more traditionally "manly" trades (I'd include things like military/police work or firefighting here) tends to flaunt it as a way to show that they're more worldly and "authentic" than all those other techies who have never known any other life. I used to do it myself, except that my "trade" was the simple one of actually being poor. Then I realized that it was just another kind of virtue signaling, and it lost its appeal.
During the last dark age there was a war on religion, and precisely because control of religion was a major cornerstone of power. Being into Pagan, occult, non-mainstream Christian (e.g. Catharism, early Protestantism), or Judaism could get you jailed or killed in gruesome ways.

The "war on science" is not about stamping out science any more than the inquisition was about making people atheists. It's about eliminating lines of scientific inquiry that can be used to challenge power.
The electric aircraft is taking off
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But your advice is still basically "Don't work for a startup", because I still do not know of any startup that would incentivize employees with preferred shares.

I think much better advice is to (a) be sure you have a good understanding of the cap table, and what the liquidation preferences are for the preferred investors, and (b) have a general sense of how likely it is for your shares to be diluted over time.
This is one of the reasons I'm a fan of Powershell, it's incredibly discoverable. Tab completed (with cycling) parameter names, names like Get-X/Set-X with consistent name mappings between them, pipelining with objects so there's no string parsing footguns, and Get-Member.
I would say to forget about problems involving algorithms and try to build projects with a very concrete use case. Maybe you should just quit trying to be a programmer that can pass a whiteboard interview at Google, and start trying to be a programmer that can provide usable software that solves a problem for a regular company.
> If that treatment plan disturbs you, have you made your advanced directive plan so that the same thing doesn't happen to you?

OPs statement as I read it, their grandmother fully chose the best option she thought she had at the time and it disturbed OP, so not sure of the point about pre-choosing.

I guess perhaps to say, they would prefer not to be killed just because there isn't a decent shot? I'd prefer a hospital system that didn't do that, but I guess until we get one maybe it might be needed.

And as always, rather than planing for death, what about planning for life.

Work on the thing in your life that might cause the issue in the first place. Planning for death is giving up in some regard.
Single-node docker – Managing services on one server with Portainer and Drone
I wouldn't take the parent's statement as one of moral equivalency. I see it as a reminder to notice similar trends within and not rely so much on exceptionalism or the existing milieu to carry you through without effort, forever. Even Chinese society was at one point perfectly free, even if you have to go back two thousand years.
Look out, it’ll just be a guy in a shiny box who makes tutting sounds whenever someone uses the word “fuck” and they bill by the picosecond.
I think the last high point (in terms of popularity) for the International style was around the redesign for iOS 7. Since then designers have moved away from it. It’s still not a revival of iOS 1-6 style skeumorphism, but there is more emphasis on things like drop shadows. Even Windows 10 seems to have backed away a bit from the Windows 8 style (though the Metro design seems more Scandinavian than International).

I think responsive design and the variety of device sizes make Swiss design rather difficult. Swiss design is all about using a well defined grid (see Josef Müller-Brockmann). Responsive design, different device sizes, dynamic text size, accessibility features, etc. make this very difficult to implement. Not to mention limitations in technology and APIs (e.g. the difficulty in grid layouts before flexbox and grid).
No particular opinion on kratom, but the problem historically with other drugs that produce a dependence is the dependence can exceed the amount someone can afford. The politician argument is that this will make them steal, etc

So I’d be careful with “only $x a month” as an argument.

Anyway if it is addictive it’s hard to imagine it being more addictive than oxycodone and that is totally legal and aggressively pushed by companies that know exactly how addictive it is, so mostly this goes back to the standard government motto of only making drugs legal if large companies can make a huge profit off it. Anything that can be easily grown by average consumers (like weed) doesn’t meet that requirement and so tends to be illegal.
Thanks for the link, that's really awesome!
I agree that further research on this topic would be excellent! But we should keep in mind that what's really important is not to reach consensus, but to ascertain the truth.

More generally, though, I would be interested to hear how you would define "reason" and "rationality." These are difficult questions, and I'm interested to hear more about your approach.
There are JavaScript frameworks from two years ago that are considered ancient, so don't let this get ya down, grandpa. ;)
How Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing would manage your income
I'm an avid cyclist. Every style of bike is accompanied by stereotypes about the rider. Most of the stereotypes are harmless. For instance, one of my bikes is "hipster." To some extent, bike styles are also marketed according to demographics -- like most other consumer products -- so the stereotypes are not unexpected.
My 81 year old mother has dementia. It is a terrible disease. She has no short-term memory at all and it makes caring for her extremely difficult. Also, as the disease has progressed, she has gotten into crazy hallucinations and almost hurt herself and my father many times. She puts him into all kinds of bizarre situations when out in public by often screaming for help and telling bystanders she is being kidnapped/held against her will, which makes life for my father a living hell since he already hates cops and government authorities, and now he has to talk to them and explain his situation all the damn time. It's...a...living...hell--for her, for him, and for the entire family and she can't die soon enough because death would be far better than having no ability to be productive and able to care for herself.
Why do intelligent people think it's wise to take a stand on a medium as crippled and incendiary as Twitter? Regardless of the merits of your views or where they lie on the political spectrum, you're basically putting on a seal suit and diving into a tank of hungry sharks.
Why didn't you teach them how to use Invoke-WebRequest instead?
I agree that the slippery slope could be a logical fallacy. It really just describes why the parent post gets scorn when he brings up his idea. Lots of people believe logical fallacies and get upset because of those fallacies. Heck, look at the current US presidential administration.

By the way, there are a ton of people who actually do believe that taxes are a slippery slope to socialism! The employment one is funny. But I think there are people who believe consumerism or capitalism is a slippery slope to criminal activity like prostitution. People are so funny.
I'm sure the end of Visual Basic (before the .NET impostor) was as much of a big if not bigger deal for many people as HyperCard. :p

The discontinuation of many of those things personally affected or disappointed me at the time. I distinctly remember mourning some of them:

- Losing people who only ever used Comic Chat and didn't make the migration to other services.

- The end of offline Encarta at a time when my internet wasn't very cheap, fast or reliable.

- Owning some great PC joysticks but not being able to utilize their full haptic features with newer APIs, before the joysticks themselves went out of production, when Microsoft's console division cannibalized their PC gaming division.

- A cool vector graphics editor [0] that worked better for me than Adobe or Corel getting discontinued after 2 versions.

The point of this whole thread is developer confidence, and I have felt betrayed and abandoned by Microsoft many times but I have yet to experience that during my time on Apple platforms.

Apple's current APIs are impressive and very forward-looking, and the only times I felt that optimistic about Microsoft was just before they broke their promises.

Cool link by the way, I hadn't known of Jim Woodring before today!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PhotoDraw
> In this timeline, employees got a few more years of cash salaries.

I think most of their employees would have easily been able to get jobs elsewhere.
I'm not sure that getting "bogged down" by such questions is always a bad thing. Often these fundamental issues are, ultimately, the most important.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256/

Colony, the TV series is a great representation of our dystopian future.
No. If there's an emergency they can call 911.
Probably just a trademark dispute and changing of names (from Lift to Argo), but that's only a guess.

Perhaps to differentiate it from Lyft, since ride sharing companies are getting into the city bike rental biz?
Anyone that thinks they are protected by a blogger's silence should think twice about it.

Bloggers are not journalists. The source that got shafted and all future sources need to know that bloggers will not necessarily follow the same rules as a journalist.

At a very primal level, bloggers don't have the financial and legal resources that most professional journalists have. Leaving them open to financial and personal ruin and still having to go to jail if they don't reveal their source. Why would a blogger take the consequences of not revealing their sources? In essence, bloggers will break very easily.
I would certainly feel better flying if I knew the plane wasn’t also carrying potentially thousands of gallons of fuel with it.
> It lets me have a completely different environment to try things out, wreck, and abandon things without ever touching the branches that are important.

These are all completely valid reasons to branch. They also don't apply to most of my projects. And for the ones they do apply for, I use Git.

My small projects tend to be relatively simple, and often contain a lot that's not code. (Some contain almost no code at all.) For example, I've had people recommend branching to keep track of different versions of the same paper they're writing. But this immediately struck me as a waste of time. I'll be submitting only one version of the paper. Why keep multiple internal versions?

I am not convinced by the argument that I can have a branch for each person I ask to read the paper. Merging in the handwritten changes they provide me is not hard. Branching would just be extra work in this case.

It can be nice to try different organizational structures sometimes, but I've found it easier to simply have a different TeX file in that case. (Or better yet, multiple TeX files for each part, and then a set of master TeX files that organize the paper differently.)

If someone has a good argument for distributed version control in this use case, I'd be happy to hear it.
As a fan and user of Powershell, I'm going to recommend not using the aliases for the unix commands.

For one, they won't act the same. For two, Powershell has a much more consistent and well-named set of commands, which also have their own short alias names by default, and of course you can make your own aliases.
This is my first project in unsupervised NLP, so let me know if there's anything obviously wrong with the article or methodology.
I suppose that strong bar on 5th floor may be a means to keep people inside, not prevent invasion from outside.

That is, it might be a safety measure preventing falling from a window. E.g. windows in my apartment used to have state-mandated bars because my daughter was small, and had to be prevented from falling from a window.
Where is the NYT article about the US' dystopian dreams?

The NYT writes plenty of articles about US surveillance gone-too-far. Even a naive query like this: https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=surveillance turns up plenty of exposure on the issue.

At least in the USA, citizens can openly criticize and publish their government's corruption and failings and concerns about the surveillance state and abuses of power. Americans can do this without fear of unjust incarceration or worse. And the USA maintains, with all its flaws, a democratic process which requires its politicians to answer to the public and risk not being (re)elected.

China doesn't have (and never really had?) these features. I think this is important. I write this as a non-American and one who often criticizes American policy.
> It costs $126.06 per day to house an inmate at the Sacramento County Main Jail, said sheriff's spokesman Shaun Hampton.

I suspect this doesn't include the cost of land, something of particular concern in the same areas where homelessness is most concentrated.
>Western culture simply understands the reality of the situation.

What is the "reality of the situation" in regards to death that they are so privy to?
Because there’s a large gender skew in prison population?
Right, but at ten weeks, all you can do is abort, which means it's only practical to screen for a few different genetic flaws this way, particularly if you expect some of them to be bad Mendelian inheritance and not some kind of rare structural flaw. Suppose you want to screen out four recessive traits and each one is inherited with probability 1/4, the probability of rolling a good combination is (3/4)^4 = ~30%. If you want to screen out ten such genes, the probability of a good combination drops to ~5%. With embryo selection, you can perform all the trials in parallel instead of sequentially at ten weeks per trial.