skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Additionally, he operates a real estate "investing" school that advocates and instructs semi-legal, morally questionable predatory practices.

Yeah, it's 90% trivial platitudes about "buy low, sell high" and "invest your money wisely", and then a few pages about how he actually made his money (if that part is true, anyway): Haunt foreclosure auctions to flip the houses. Skeezy.
It's a blog post, but you can try / edit the demo. Appropriate for Show HN?

I'm actually working on better tooling for OpenStreetMap, but taking the longer road (to put it mildly) redesigning and documenting everything, starting from pushing pixels on screen.

I know it will take years. Hopefully others can already put some of the techniques to good use in the meantime.
I agree that we need more empirical investigations of software 'diseases' and 'cures'.

That being said, practical medicine is much less scientific than many think. There is a lot of master/apprentice learning going on, just as in software engineering.
I'm not sure how much room for hedonic advancement there is when average wage raises are almost exactly equal to inflation.
no, repeated reminder will pop up in set time and if there is no input it pop up again in five minutes and then again and again

in Business calendar i use 5 times 5 minutes but you can set whatever frequency and amount of repeated reminders, seem almost no calendar apps have this killer feature
You can get an instant quote from nine different services at PCB Shopper. For a run of 10, you'd be looking at $12-$17 per board for something like the Leonardo. That falls to about $4 per board for a run of 100 and $1 per board for 1000.

https://pcbshopper.com/#assembly
That's so true. Employers in general complain that they can't buy filet mignon for the price of hot dogs, and that's suppose to be the employee's problem.

To make matters far worse, the industry in general pays lip service to on-the-job training and some employers also avoid junior/inexperienced developers, because they don't want to train anyone.

And don't get me started on the absolute cancer that are HR/outsourcing/body farm companies, the type that hires 3 HR technicians to dedicate themselves to bullshit naive techies to work for 50% of their actual market value and fire them as soon as they aren't indispensable.
I wonder if it's quite as simple as being reducible to salary as a single (or majority) variable. I tend to think people are willing to work a poorly paid job if there was some kind of light at the end of the tunnel (career advancement, primarily). (As a casual outside observer, and with all due respect) My bet would be that a pervasive sense of pointlessness or helplessness in society is an equal partner along with low entry level salaries in the case of Greece and many countries that face similar struggles.
I've used this occasionally and I am a fan! Very intuitive.
> You're suggesting I don't have adult intellectual capacity, right?

You're certainly acting that way.
So in a sense, using wider vectors should be done at times when you’re certain to need heavy lifting, much like a GPU, but at a smaller timescale.
I should update my vectorization library so that it doesn’t simply use the widest possible.
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With lit-element you get native elements that are similar to react elements. And only parts of the dom that changed actually do mutations - like with vdom.

https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element#minimal-example
My thoughts exactly. This is a 40 page high school essay.
Also taxes are extreme in Europe. You work hard to earn this money to make future for yourself and yet you have to give away sometimes more than half of it, so that people who don't give a flying toss get their benefits. I so hate socialist Europe...
Is there a github for DeepLog?
I thought Bread and circuses refers to the opposite. give the people just enough bread and circuses to keep them from rising up.
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> Nowadays there is no inflation

If you ignore most people's largest expense: housing costs, the price increases of which are "adjusted" away in inflation calculations.
Right. Reading through code is just executing it on a high level, and very fuzzy and forgetful, virtual machine in your own brain.
I see this a lot in the UK, and it's why I'm now a contractor.

You will have 10 years experience, a relevant degree, security clearance and no boundaries when it comes to overtime.

We will pay you £35k!

The sad thing is, they will fill that position, with someone not very good, with low expectations and no confidence in themselves. And they will get mediocre work, which they expect.
That's completely fair. They're struggling in a lot of ways. They've always insisted that they're simply not underpaying for any external reason and claim that's what everyone is worth. But maybe the truth is that their model can't afford to pay engineers properly. Which is a pretty bad model for a tech startup. Because then all your talent leaves, which all but dooms you.
I find this is way more prevalent in the US than in Europe.
Yes, but not as higher sales.
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Yeah, it's not like people suddenly changed thirty years ago... It just doesn't make sense to work those jobs.
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> The unemployment benefit is 400+ euros per month. So tell me who in their right minds would go to work for 500 euros or even 800 euros, whilst they have to spend petrol to get from and to work, work prolly 10+ hours a day, in the sun most likely cause thats what means tourism industry,

There are always people who don't just want to live off the dole.

Also a lot of the people who complain about crappy entry level wages (that they're unwilling to accept) also complain that they are rejected from higher jobs because they don't have any work experience.

> ... get told by 'BOSSES' on what to do,

That's kind of the norm at any job. I'm curious what alternative you propose, a commune where workers decide on their own what they'll be working on?

> ... and get treated awfully.

That's not acceptable period though specifics matter.
If you read the article you would know that labor wage increases are laughably low compared to share buybacks.

Raising salaries 10% would barely even touch cash returns to shareholders
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> All tech companies in Finland are like "We can't find enough competent coders!" and newspapers are publishing that as is.

To me, if a tech company claims in a newspaper that it cannot find competent coders, to me it says that they are uncapable of detecting talent. Which means "we have a really incompetent human ressource team". This is clearly not something that I would like journalists to print if I were a company owner. :-)

On the other hand, journalists should change their headlines towards "We can't find enough competent coders for xxx €/$!". Giving this information would be a strong service to the reader.
Ask Bryan Cantrill. He is a first grade debugger.
It's bizarre. Even Amazon Seattle pays 2x the salaries of Amazon Vancouver, even although they are separated by only 200km and are the same company! I ask every Canadian developer I meet, why are you still here? I like living in Canada, so I work remotely even although I don't really like remote work. Instant 70% raise.
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Strange that this article didn't even once mention the only 20th century punctuation innovation that actually stuck :)
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> Can you read this article?

Use Tor Browser.
:s/Europe/EU/

I'm in Switzerland (Europe), don't get the https://imgur.com/a/zlWOByh
i see this more frequently in recent days but only here on HN, i guess it's same media house as LA times because you end up on same domain
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Artist Sterling Crispin has a VR painting program [1] that explores this allowing you to paint different colors to each eye simultaneously.

[1] http://www.cyberpaintapp.com/
> + enough of their wants

Placing your wants in check does wonders to keep cash in your pocket. If some people burn through their cash to feed their conspicuous consumption then obviously that doesn't mean they are poor or in need.
you know there are news websites based in Europe right?
This is absolutely correct however the one dichotomy is that we are also the collective shareholders (obviously not majority). People love seeing their 401K go up 15% annually year over year. That is only happening because of this funneling.

Collectively we need to stop wanting it both ways. We want cheap goods but then complain about offshoring and outsourcing of labor. Look at dollar stores: Their boom happened almost immediately after Clinton re-opened trade with China. Wal-Mart went from "proudly made in the USA" to cheapest crap they can buy. It annoys me when some people talk about changing X but neglect to even try to think about what change that might cause for Y and Z.
Here are some slides
https://github.com/charles-typ/DeepLog-instroduction
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Oh shush, taxes are not 'extreme' in most of Europe, and you get a lot for your money - healthcare for example.
Other then the design being a tiny bit different I can't see what KeePass Dx offers that differentiates itself from Keepass2Android?
> you have to give away sometimes more than half of it

Where?

This is the tax in Germany for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/ES...
Yeah I've had a number of jobs I turned down because I simply don't want to live in the US. There's just something about the calm nature of where I live that's worth a lot to me.
Is this basically a CI tool? It looks very similar to Gitlab CI or Concourse or Jenkins Flow. If so, odd to not see that initialism anywhere; "pipeline" is pretty generic.
Perhaps. Some bosses are idiots for sure, I've had a few in the past - and even now I'm my own boss :)

We need more studies to back up this claim though.
Thank god somebody said it. We are in the golden age of cheap travel and leisure, perhaps the golden age of all ages (and certainly of all past).

People spend your easy money and enjoy youth IMO.
Same in Estonia, some companies complain they can't find competent coders, and that we have to import from India...
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I added the footnote to emphasize why I thought The Boring Company was not relevant expertise, which you seem to have ignored or missed. Considering that Musk touted what SpaceX could do for the trapped people, not what The Boring Company could do, I also suspect that Musk recognizes the difference.

My contention isn't that Musk didn't make a good-faith offer to help, it's that Musk didn't have anything useful to offer. The end result is that would come across as something like this: https://xkcd.com/793/.
In the UK I guess it depends a lot on the region, those are not, for example, London rates, right?
Let me rephrase my question: How do you suggest a profit driven company can justify employing people to create new knowledge if that knowledge and all its derivatives and representations are immediately available to everyone else without any restrictions?

I am very skeptical of patents as a matter of principle, because banning people from using their own original ideas just because someone else happened to have a similar idea seems extremely unfair and prone to misuse.

I am also skeptical of putting copyright interests above all else (although I'm not against copyrights in principle), going as far as building a global surveillance state and imposing draconian penalties in order to enforce extremist copyright laws without fail.

I am also skeptical of very restrictive no-compete clauses in employment contracts or any sort of anti-poaching activity by corporations.

And it's exactly _because_ I am skeptical of all the above approaches to protecting investment into knowledge generation that I'm very hesitant to also oppose keeping trade secrets.

Creating new knowledge has to have some direct economic benefit above and beyond the general benefits of human progress (which is also important of course).
> a commune where workers decide on their own what they'll be working on?

Even a commune where workers "decide on their own", has bosses. They are just not called bosses. See any of the '70 and '80 communes.
You don't need to be not-GDPR-compliant to display ads and do user tracking. Just inform the user and give them the option to opt out of tracking / storing data. Ads won't be as optimized for the user, but they'll still be there.

And of course they can offer a subscription.
Possibly with the exception of COBOL, I think you can write write-only code in any programming language.
“How bullshit insane our brains are”: sensory and motor systems edition
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If you're a senior software engineer, come to Sweden. You'll at least get 6000 usd/month as an employee. Management usually has a background in tech, you get lots of vacation, parental leave, etc. You're not expected to stay longer than 5 pm and working from home is common. There are many interesting jobs in finance, telecom, automotive, entertainment, medicine, defence, and there are plenty of startups.

I work as a contractor in Stockholm (long term assignments; basically like employment but I pay my own taxes), and I can save ~80k usd per year (after expenses and taxes, no family though, but I live in the city center). To get paid more, I either have to specialize hard or move to Silicon Valley.
Item one: I wouldn't subscribe to any old school newspaper from the anglo-saxon world because they make it extremely hard to unsubscribe. About the same respect for their readers as their targeted ads they can't give up on.

Item two: I wouldn't subscribe to a newspaper just because i read articles linked from HN occasionally, so I'll just pass on LA times.

Item three: whenever someone comes up with a working micropayment platform, I might throw them 2-3 cents if they get linked on HN. No more.

Yes, I haven't read the original article. I won't even through the free links. They don't want me, they don't get me.
> I know I'm reducing my lifespan by using them, ...

You are? That's something I've not heard about before. Methamphetamine is neurotoxic, but not dextroamphetamine, which is what Adderall is.
Here you go: https://outline.com/vKj7vM

Basically, whenever there's a website like this that annoys me, I just copy the URL and Outline it: outline.com/$url

No clicking through annoying dialogs, or having to use a vpn.
Personal taxes in Belgium are huge, to the point that most companies will give you an awesome leased car to compensate for a lower personal wage.

The state caught up on that eventually, and you now have to pay a monthly fee for the car of a couple hundred euros.
If it wasn't for "socialist Europe", our health care would be shit (see the US where people die on the streets because they can't afford an ambulance), my brother would be homeless and probably dead, my dad would've been without any income at age 60, years before his retirement, my sister wouldn't have been able to attend university, and I wouldn't have been able to attend college and land a job in Amsterdam where I ended up out-earning my dad within a couple years.

This "taxes pay for lazy fucks" meme needs to die.
The difference in pay between contractor and permanent position in the UK is almost weird. The job is exactly the same, often for a duration of several months to years, and full time, except as a contractor you get paid like 2 or 3 times more. There are advantages to work in a permanent position but that doesn't make up for the massive loss in revenue.
Thanks for the info, looking forward to your new project!
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> and yet you have to give away sometimes more than half of it

It's not being given away. How are the roads, police, schools, defense budgets funded?

> so that people who don't give a flying toss get their benefits

I just checked. The US and the UK both have a 4.1% unemployment rate. Many of those people are unable to work at all. our social security net means that if you're disabled you shouldn't end up honeless. Note it also pays for healthcare, so there's no chance of me being bankrupted from being hit by a car.
That's right and I don't see anyone claiming that they do.

Food stamps are an in-between solution which are neither direct distribution of commodities nor cash.

You seem to prefer we move towards more direct distribution; I prefer to move towards cash. Differences of opinion like this are why we have a democratic/representative process to end up deciding.
You conveniently ignored the 8% drop in AA stock. Doesn’t matter if that was due to dividend reduction or spooking investors, it’s still a big drop.
It's also reasonable to judge it by how good it could be, and by how far it misses that mark.
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Isn't the whole point of a ligature to visually change a suboptimal representation of something to what it's supposed to represent? E.g. changing != to ≠ visually while the compiler still sees !=?

www isn't representing anything so a ligature doesn't make sense. Same with the comment ligatures, the << and <<< comparisons (shouldn't <> change to ≠?). Even the thinner escape \, which I understand the reasoning for, is probably overkill.
Well have fun paying off your student debt and ridiculous health insurance
'undocumented stack du jour'
love it!
"Go is a language that's easy to use, but a challenge for beginners to use well, especially if you try to force [insert another language] constructs into it."

Strongly agreed. There's a lot of languages out there with very rich feature sets, and the way you get jobs done is to go find the right feature you need for your current problem. With Go, you need to learn the language and extract every last drop out of every language feature. This is exacerbated by the fact that the feature set isn't what people expect, e.g., object composition is not what they are used to, and while interfaces are simple there's still some art to using them properly.

Despite the vast, vast distance between Go and Haskell on the general-purpose programming language landscape, I found my experiences in Haskell to be quite useful in Go, because while they were specifically inapplicable to an imperative language, the general practice I got from Haskell of taking a bizarre set of programming tools and learning how to make sensible programs out of them even so was quite useful.

(It isn't necessarily the first language I reach for for personal tasks, but it is a superb professional programming language, offering a nearly-unique blend of the ability to get the job done you usually need to do for a wide variety of standard programming tasks (but not all!) while resulting in source code that is still comprehensible to almost every programmer. It isn't my favorite overall, but it's the best professional choice of language I have in my belt, which is often precisely because it does not permit me to indulge in flights of clever fancy that solves a problem in 25 impenetrable-to-the-next-guy lines of code. I know a lot of people may not love to hear that, but it's a factor you really have to consider when you are being paid to solve problems.)
Ask HN: What do you have on your desk?
What's on everyone's desk here? Personal or work desk, or wherever you code! Do you use any items that help you focus and/or improve your work?
Am I the only one who thought the name had something to do with Djibouti?
Okay, so let's just get on with starting at an incredibly basic level then!

Consider the Ericsson MC218 / Psion Series 5 (https://www.google.com/search?q=psion+series+5). The software (EPOC, forerunner to Symbian) could drag windows (whole windows) around the little screen faster than the LCD crystals could keep up/redraw.

I had a look inside the unit (find the photos at https://www.applefritter.com/content/pocketable-ultra-low-po...) and found only a 36MHz ARM7TDMI inside. Presumably the CPU was doing the window redrawing all in software.

It's really reassuring to me that such a slow CPU gave the LCD a run fo its money, because let's face it, doing $tons_of_pixel_manipulations on a CPU always chews power, so if you want battery life you're going to need something that works well at the low-power end of the spectrum. (The Series 5's monochrome LCD was 640x240.)

So, well-designed software would meet the power consumption-versus-feature challenge halfway. Such software doesn't exist yet though, and it appears this status quo isn't going to change anytime soon; the (financial) investment required just doesn't seem to be materializing.

I'd say the main problem is market effects, and consumer interest. "Yeah 70% of CPU time goes to drawing the screen" is NOT particularly attractive.
The thing you describe is the narrative of the evil capitalist owner exploiting poor workers.

Here's a thought experiment - those (tourism businesses) owners are making lots of money, so why not create such a business yourself (maybe with help of some external capital) and pay better wages and treat your staff better and pay taxes? Your clients will be much happier with you while having to pay the same. Other capitalists are probably happy to get a piece of the cake.

Of course, you cannot blame workers to not work in this industry right now, but obviously there are still enough people accepting that type of employment, otherwise salaries would have improved already.
>I'm not convinced by reason #1 because words are distinct even in speech.

Perhaps you only spend time around trained actors who enunciate their speech. Because let me tell to most people I know ramble their speech into one long string of sounds. Go listen to a recording of a language you know nothing about and tell me what the words are. Oh, and not a news cast, but everyday conversation between friends having a good time.

You speak English so you know it's "the dog jumped" and not "thud awgjumpt." But if you yell both of those quickly there's not any difference.
Just a few notes:
After a few years of full time employment I received a bit over 300 euro a month I believe, for a full year, when I was fired myself.

And I believe the maximum amount of time where you can be eligible for unemployment benefits over here in Greece is a year or so.

I believe a large cause for the apathy in people who you'd expect to work these jobs is the fact that working a job like that doesn't move you forward in any way.

Back in the day, you could work for a few years and survive on your salary and hope to open your own business.

Now what's the dream for these workers? They can never afford to save up on their 500 euro a month. They can never get a loan to open their own business.

The best they can hope is that they won't be discarded and their job given to a more young-looking person down the line.