skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but in this case it was really just a name change, the team that worked on Caml Light renaming it OCaml as they added more features, and stopping working on Caml Light shortly after.
> Variation in wealth can be a sign of variation in productivity

Yes, Jeff Bezos is 2 million times more productive than the average person.

Maybe we shouldn't listen to the guy worth, at least, hundreds of millions when it comes to wealth inequality.
Would you mind to share some sources backing this theory?
To be fair, "You got caught smoking pot a decade ago, and therefore we cannot trust you to write Python code" isn't the kind of judgment a successful company would pass. That's the kind of thing a doomed company would do.

However, if you got caught stealing a bunch of electronics from a past employer, you'll have a seriously hard time find a job anywhere where they have to trust you with money or property.

Honestly, people who commit crimes against their employers do this to themselves. How could you ever be trusted again when your strategy at the beginning was to shit where you sleep?
The effective tax rate is so disproportionate as to be obviously punitive. Relative to average earnings, it'd be equivalent to America imposing a social media tax of $2,000 per year. It's clearly not a good-faith effort to raise revenues, but a de facto ban on social media.
Peter? Thanks.
I'm very happy Fuchsia is open source, so forks & custom ROMs will still exist.
Primer on Amazon Associates and WordPress
"Extraordinary ability in the fields of science, education, business or athletics means a level of expertise indicating that the person is one of the small percentage who has risen to the very top of the field of endeavor."

Peter, does this get Extraordinarity usually demonstrated through high salary and or patents or something else? What is the typical threshold there? Knowing this would help to convince my employer to invest in this process.
You would be surprised how many poor people have cable TV. It may not be financially prudent but some think of it as a necessity.
I always thought that the 99 percenters should become the democrat counter to the republican tea party.
Apple is pretty extreme and yes, I was trying to focus on just net revenue so after everything else, free cash flow on a standard accounting basis.

It just makes the argument stronger in my opinion, if you're bringing the company more than $1M/year in free cash flow why can't they build you an office everyone can enjoy working in?
I wonder what the GDPR implications of this are.
I am thinking of using something like this to enable serverless lambdas, but in ahead of time compiled languages.
You'll never guess where I'm writing from. But, once you've gone through the pain of following GDPR, there's a chance you'll treat everyone the same.

The GDPR means that they can't just hoard whatever data there is, keep it forever and do whatever they want with it. The user needs to agree to how the data will be processed, there is a default expiry of 5 years (IIRC), and you can always just ask to retrieve all data and/or have it all deleted, with absurd fines for non-compliance.

So, you don't have to trust the next CEO. Making it so that Mozilla never knew you existed is a simple GDPR request away.
Digital Ocean also refuses virtual Visa card. Maybe there is higher amount of fraud with such cards or maybe they want a credit card so they can charge you even if you don't have money. Of course, I would never agree to this.
That's what happens when one gets too old. One can't pretend to live in the future at 70 and therefore can't anticipate trends - reason why BH hasn't kept up with the S&P500.
because they can negotiate a better deal despite the illegal no poaching agreements.
Yup. Read about James Damore. Don't take people's words for his essay though. You can find copies online to read yourself to see if it's as bad as others would want you to believe.
FTFY: I'd much rather be 34 than 87
Can Health Care Be Disrupted? Warby Parker Offers a Clue
As funny as your remark about the lack of interest on HN about the Kardashians, that is exactly the point of the article.

His provocative statement points out a problem you, me & HN will be subject to too: there can not be any exclusion anymore. And that (exclusion) exactly is what makes HN / Monty Python so great.
There was for Modula III. DEC SRL in Palo Alto did a nice verification system for Modula III. But Modula III went down with Digital Equipment Corporation.

C/C++ has too much undefined behavior. Ada died off. The scripting languages don't need it as much. Rust had potential for proof work, but went off in a different direction. There are modern proof systems, but they're rarely integrated with the programming language.
Are you implying that the websites being built in 2008 were as sophisticated and complex as the sites in 2018?

Have you considered technologies like React Native which mean you don't need to maintain 4 different entirely separate codebases for your 4 different frontends?
Each employment example you've provided is tracked by the BLS, along with others. Refer to table A-15, or "Alternative measures of labor underutilization"[0] and this[1] release which expands a bit on what they mean. There's also a more detailed FAQ that discusses how unemployment is measured.[2]

There's no single, simple metric that can fully encompass everything when it comes to unemployment. So they rely on six different metrics, which tend to correlate closely. When they don't, it's obvious in the alternative measures . When politicians talk about U-3, they're comparing it to the same measure in previous periods. Politically, the trend is the focus. In no way is this a case of "statistical smoke and mirrors." Brightlines have to be drawn, and U-3 does just that in way that's fairly straightforward and usable by the public at large.

More importantly, trying to focus on U-6 (for example) as your main unemployment rate has significant drawbacks. While these different cases are all related to one another, the economic policy proscriptions for targeting general unemployment aren't necessarily the same as trying to ameliorate involuntary part-time workers (U-6) who want to work full-time and would if the opportunity presented itself.

Finally, BLS also collects wage data by area and occupation[3] that addresses your final concern. It just doesn't get mentioned as much in the press, or by politicians, because wage data isn't easily boiled down into a single number; it's a bit more involved to deal with. It's still used in econometric modeling and to inform fiscal and monetary policy. It's not something that's ignored.

0. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

1. https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

2. https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

3. https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm
Great. We'll look into it and how do we reach you?
« A door seal’s gonna cost as much as a new machine sir. » Every repairman.

It’s a difficult economic issue. Suitably skilled repairmen only exist medium economies, where we produce enough income to teach youngsters soldering, but when the economy is not developed as much as to have marketers take the power over the makers (think Juicero). In the Western economy today, repairmen are more salesmen on the field than actual people capable of repairing anything. I’ve never seen one actually repairing an appliance.

I have my doubt whether it’s really the machines getting built in such a way that repairs are impossible, oftentimes it does seem like a little more search could have found the defective wire, but let’s be honest, if they want to survive in a big city, soldering won’t pay enough. And that’s where the economy is surprising. Somehow those repairman jobs have higher hourly rates than replacing the machine, meaning shipping a new 50-kg appliance across the world is less costly than shipping a repairman across New York.
Hyperbole-Driven Documentation (HDD)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17472194
How much would The Zuck's pile be if he actually tried to cash it out? I think if Zuckerberg and Buffett cashed out of their holdings over six months the drop in FB stock would result in the very diversified Buffet having one or two orders of magnitude more money at the end of it.

On-paper wealth isn't real. If you can't roll around on it or stand it front of it with an assault rifle to defend it, then it's not real.
The monarchy of saudi arabia may be trillionaires.
Musk / SpaceX float “tube” plan to save Thai soccer team
This is usually one of the first things I try to add to projects that have stranded because of reliability issues or because there is code that nobody dares to touch for fear of upsetting some fragile balance.

It can be quite a bit of work but the pay-off can not be over-estimated.
One minor update: the Product Security Engineer role is actually open at either our Emeryville, CA (SF) or Morrisville, NC (RTP) offices: https://grnh.se/w007hqa21
Inflation is more a tax on wage income than existing wealth, because investments will inflate in addition to their productive growth returns.
Among the ‘Putative Parents’
Lime gone from Indianapolis
Part of what Trump was successful at doing was to channel some of that latent rage. But rather than at companies or rent-seeking individuals (like himself), he made it about immigrants.
That's what I meant, although I failed to be explicit about it.

Although, the enforcement would be on delivery for social media (i.e. ISP reports social media traffic), so cable TV that detects if your TV is on during documentary broadcasts would maybe be a better analogy.
This is a very strange CVE; the risk of exploit is effectively zero and the remediation effort and attention is equal to a routine version bump.

I suppose this serves as a nice PSA and fire drill for the security team.
Unfortunately it's the young generation I'm worried about. 4 in 10 undergrads mistakenly believe "hate speech" is not protected by the 1st Amendment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-chilling-study-sho...

You're free to say "Fuck this, I don't want to argue anymore" if you like. The mistake is believing that makes anyone still talking a "harrasser" in the legally actionable sense.
“Stylish” extension with 2M downloads banned for tracking every site visit
This is how real estate works in a high demand market. Houses are intentionally listed as lower than their true market value in order to create a bidding war between possible buyers. Seattle does the same thing.
buy property, rent it out, raise rents above the inflation rate. simple.
Sensory illusions in aviation
It's less the occupation and more certain traits/factors that cause problems, including being a founder or having an ownership interest or being in a managerial position. Also it's really tough to get TNs approved for those in business, marketing, or financial analysis positions.
While it's true that Xi Jinping (to whom you are presumably referring) is probably dictator of China for life now, he can't quite use the country as his personal piggy bank in the way Putin can.
> I'm mildly surprised this discussion hasn't brought up the artificiality of daylight savings time

I'm reminded of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

Time zones are artificial too, but the benefits of coordination outweigh the advantages of sticking to a perfect solar noon.

The thing DST does pretty well is keep sunrise to within an hour of 7:00am (plus or minus, depending on location) year round. Without DST, sunrise varies by 3 hours in the US.

> daylight savings time seems to be an enormous confusion factor

It certainly requires people to adjust, two days a year. There is certainly some small amount of effort related to publishing calendars and having a few people forget, I suppose. At least, that used to be common before smartphones and the internet. It seems to be fading over time.

But what is the enormous confusion are you referring to?

It seems like these days, since nearly all clocks and phones are digital and net-connected, we could, if we wanted, have a continuously adjusting schedule. That wouldn't reduce confusion, but it's no longer crazy either.
give that shit away asap
We usually switch our E-2s who are losing their E-2 status to O-1s or green cards.
The big advantage of CS is the accessibility of the domain. You cannot take that away and hope nothing else changes. That, of course, means any idiot or 8 year old can just pick it up and run with it. They may become less of an idiot after a while, but this may not be desirable or expedient, and it's great that that's not much of a problem.

I mean, this is a bit like saying, why doesn't every physicist do everything by just coming up with a random differential equation for their problem then use fixed points to deduce the long-form non-recursive version and isolate out the wanted variables into long form ? It's, after all, usually by far the simpler process, especially since everyone can come up with a few differentials for any situation. Coming up with the correct long form directly, however, is absurdly hard. So if you simply learn to work with differentials, that's the way to approach essentially any problem. With a tiny caveat ... "learn to work with them" is 6 months of study and intensive practice, and that's assuming you already know a lot of math that isn't exactly high school level either, including a significant list of "tricks" that you just need to know by hard. But what you can do with it is amazing.

But the level of knowledge and understanding required is just too high for anything resembling general application.
Why? Zuck is 34 years old and a billionaire. Buffet didn't become a billionaire until his 60s. A point can be made for being obscenely wealthy for the extra 30 years allows you to appreciate the fruit of your labor while still in the prime of your life.

If this is a "virtue of work" thing where Buffett is somehow "better" because he "earned" his money I don't buy it. Being the son of a wealthy politician and using that influence and money to procure MORE wealth and influence isn't somehow more noble than creating one of the most powerful companies in the world.

But I mean, if you're more into the whole "old money" crowd, that's your choice I guess.
You're reacting to the word impoverished. You have "extracted 50 cents from them," is that better? I'll change it. Don't get distracted.

Edit: Also, there's short-term and long-term enrichment. The widget I sell might be a capital good that earns an income for its buyer, or it might just as easily be something that only depreciates or even destroys other wealth. Whereas the money I've collected can reliably be made to earn an income in any number of ways, which is why I always argue that the money is usually inherently worth more, and nobody on HN seems to agree with that.
It's only valuable as long as people continue to use it.
I hate this guy. Even the way him and his wife are making donations is aweful. Naming an hospital with their names while they are still alive? Pathetic and not cool at all.
Yeah, still doesn't make any sense to me. That request is asking for implicit references (a small syntactical change as far as I can tell), which is different from what you asked for and doesn't seem to match up with what the OP wants either.

Without examples or further clarification, I don't think it's possible to understand what the OP actually meant.
I understand this is opinionated and "personal", but on the off chance that this might make React less intimidating, let me chime in and say that you can do professional work (and build pretty much any reasonable application) without:

- really understanding "semantic HTML" (if you know what div's and span's are, you're ready to get to work),

- understanding flexbox (you can, and many pro developers do, just use a CSS framework, and they're especially nice in React because they're delivered as components, so all you really need is the documentation for the layout components of the framework you pick),

- design patterns --- in fact, I might argue that you're better off not reading about design patterns, which are kind of an architectural blind alley,

- CSS preprocessors, which are neat but inessential,

- CSS architecture,

- Redux --- more nascent React developers have been derailed by the suggestion that they need to grok Redux than by anything else in the ecosystem; you don't even need to know what Redux is to build perfectly good React applications,

- async actions, which are another aspect of Flux, which again you don't need to grok,

- react-router, which is a disaster of an API that abstracts something you can build in just a hundred lines of code or so, and can in fact do without altogether,

- lodash and moment (this is nitpicking, since neither of these demand more than a couple of minutes to pick up, but just to be clear: you don't need them, especially in ES6).
They point is that they're FANG employees and they probably make FAR above what most anyone else can be expected to. 30-40% of their monthly income is means that anyone outside of FANG is priced out. They feel the pressure but hey, they'll be fine. Anyone short of FANG will really feel it.
I like the way this is structured. I get it.
Ask HN: How did you end up in a job you actually like?
I posted a while back about feeling stuck in a rut with my job.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477473

Things haven't really improved. I've switched teams. I'm doing work that is very necessary, but it's extremely tedious. I talked to my boss and he was on board with my moving to something more interesting, but he's gone now. I am supposed to do something more, but at this point I just don't feel like putting more time into this company. I've been here almost 3 years and I feel like I've regressed as an engineer.

I come on HN and I see a whole lot of interesting stuff going on. How do I get there? What did the people who work on all these interesting projects (e.g. conduit is at the top right now) do to get there?
It’s the hoi polloi they are hoping are asleep in this case.

But IMO no amount of hand wringing will stop this inevitable total surveillance short of a constitutional amendment.
because there is code that nobody dares to touch for fear of upsetting some fragile balance.

Exactly. Where invariants pay off is maintenance. The original programmer intent has been forgotten and is not visible in the code.

I know a big project which hit this wall. There's delicate C++ code with internal inconsistency bugs, and the company can't fix them.
I'm sorry, but why aren't there more people outraged and disgusted that so few people hold so much wealth? It seems like people not only think it's not a problem, but we gleefully track stats like this. I've seen people argue about who "deserves" to hold the richest person title. People pick sides like it's sports. Seriously, what am I missing here?
It's using the type system as a language in which to perform computations. For example, you can do type level programming in c++. As an easy example, 'std::list<x>' is a function that maps the type 'x' into a type that represents a linked list of 'x's. You can type systems compute many interesting invariants.

For example, in a language like Idris, you can define the type of arrays of length 'n' and with elements of type 'a' as 'Vector n a'.

Then, if you want to append two arrays together, you can use a function:

append : (x : Vector m a) -> (y : Vector n a) -> Vector (m + n) a

The '+' operator here is a function that takes two types ('n' and 'm') and returns another type that represents the arithmetic sum of 'n' and 'm'.
Very similar to the conversation around the gender wage gap as well.
> Could you clarify what you mean by that?

A call to dispatch is significantly more expensive than the update of a JS object

> Ideally, a `mapState` function should just grab a couple values from the Redux state object and return those.

Ideally it should, but in practice it is really much more expensive than getting a value in a JS object

> If a component needs the store data to be transformed in some way, we recommend using memoized selector functions [0] to cut down on unnecessary work.

I used Reselect before removing Redux. Beyond the fact that it adds a lot of boilerplate it does not help if you do need a lot of data updates.

> So, in a well-written app, your `mapState` functions shouldn't be bottlenecks.

It shouldn't but a few dozen of updates per second through Redux on a mobile take a toll on its performance serious enough to not be able to keep 60fps in a WebGL context.

I decided to remove Redux after noticing the performance overhead per function call in the Chrome performance profiler, so I know that in practice "dispatch" and "mapState" are not comparable to just editing or grabbing "a couple values from the Redux state"

My ex-coworker had the same issues because he needed to display a lot of items handled collaboratively with smartphones. In both of our cases we have a high rate of data updates, even if we optimize like crazy we are never going to fall under 4-5 update/second per connected user.

So yeah Redux can run well for webapps with a slow/regular pace of update but for more performance sensitive apps you do pay a Redux performance tax.

Again I still use Redux on some projects and I like it but the limits are there. So now I don't hesitate to do without it first and to use it when I need its abstraction.
Yeah i guess. Just too used to seeing people riff on the dollar being fake and so on...
Yes to your last two questions. And regarding your first question, being outside in and of itself does not impact the validity of the approved I-140 but changing employers does.
What an odd place to load plugins from.
Please explain how this is propaganda?

Tech has been surging at 8-10% YoY, while the rest of the economy sits closer to 2%.
I've always thought we should get rid of the time switch, but keep it at the "daylight time" value rather than the "standard time" value.
I don't quite know about any VoIP taxes, but I am quite certain that no place puts taxes on the VoIP traffic itself over internet as a carrier.

Services purchased that use the internet as a carrier may be taxed as any other financial transaction, but in that case, the internet itself is still a neutral medium that does not discriminate traffic. Being non-discriminatory does not mean that you cannot pay Netflix a monthly fee, with VAT and other applicable taxes, to give you an account.
Why is anything news? Because people are interested in it. Nothing has meaning, everything is made up, we all die in the end, none of this matters.

Let's just go all the way down the the philosophy hole and say we should all just kill ourselves now since that's faster and more efficient than actually living.

tl;dr- Because news is news.
This doesn't really matter. You can do it at scale too, just spin up your NN on any of the cloud platforms available. Instant scale. The fact that amazon offers this recognition lowers the barrier hardly at all.
Nope, it's simply about less risk. Of course we know now that Zuckerberg is wealthy, but Facebook could easily go under or lose a lot of value. If the entire market were to crash, then either it will stay that way (in which case everyone is poor), or (as history shows), it will bounce back up in a few years or so.
If the individual has worked outside for a related company for at least one year in a managerial or executive capacity and is or will be working for the related US entity also in a managerial or executive capacity.
Hi Peter, I am an alien on a J-1 visa without the 2-year rule. If I get married to a US citizen, how long should I expect to wait before I am able to work for an employer that is not my J-1 host institution?