skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we are to compare eras and discover what's different I would suggest we ought to compare broad numbers not anecdotes. Even your example is suspect.

The real median income at present in the US is 31k meaning half make less. 45k puts you at the 59th percentile better than almost 2/3 of people. Clearly not everyone who wants to is earning 45k.

A median earner with a spouse and 2 kids is liable to take home less than 1100 every 2 weeks after taxes but your 45k earner will have more like 1400. They will get 3 paychecks in 2 billing cycles but will have to live on 2 most cycles.

Median rent is almost 900 a month. Health insurance for a family is going to run 500 usd says that their food will be 150 a week 2 crappy cars maybe 400 a month. Utilities at least 200. Communications at least another 100.

We are already at 2700/2800 without including clothing or detergent to wash them.

The real question is where is the person supposed to save the money to move from the apartment to the house in the first place. At 45k you are too well off to qualify for a lot of benefits except in areas that are very expensive to live in, but still too poor to support a household.

Incidentally areas where you can buy a three bedroom house outside of the crime ridden hood tend not to have a huge number of jobs so everyone go and move to Ohio isn't a tenable solution for the present economic situation.
> Why does this seem like the VC version of "...but I have Black friends"?

Well, if some VC wanted to do a version of "...but I have Native American friends?", I don't think there would be many objections.

I think the worst thing in life is just being ignored.
Can you elaborate on the dangerous/dark nature of this? Big Pharma does a lot of things wrong, but at the same time private enterprise (big pharma in this case) can be a very effective vehicle for making medical breakthroughs scale to become available to patients.
Looking at other game publishers, Doom Eternal/Fallout 76 might not be on Steam and the newest CoD: Black Ops 4 will only be on Battle.net. GoG is DRM free and getting a lot of indie dev games.

Valve needs to sell more games, and this is the easiest way to do it. They haven't completely given up on Steam Machines/OS, so better Steam play options just reinforces that freedom-from-MS initiative.

I think it makes sense in a couple of ways, especially considering how good Wine was getting, and the availability of good GPU drivers on Linux.
It wasn’t deliberate! Taylor Swift’s initials are TS and she was born in 1989, so she is just unharmonious by coincidence.
> You can do whatever you want with your iPhone too, including rooting it

Not according to Apple.

> Why not force them to sell from other outlets, since they’re a monopoly in your fantastical estimation?

They're not a monopoly because the other stores already have products that are adequate substitutes. People can buy a different brand of laundry detergent from a different store without having to replace their washing machine.

> If I wanted to use the phone lines, I could pay whatever they wanted or train carrier pigeons.

Not true -- if you wanted to use phone line all you would have to do is go to Canada where they have non-AT&T phone lines and use them there.

Obviously it isn't very practical to leave the country every time you want to make a phone call, but how is that any different than needing to buy a new phone every time you want to buy an app?
Archive.is blocks DNS lookups from Cloudflare’s public resolver.

Edit: No idea why, just sharing context I have.
Bitcoin does not maintain the higher value due to "more gamblers", it only has value due to "more holders". Gamblers can come and go and affect only the volatility. But people who stay and hold for years and sell only a small fraction to pay the bills.

Sidenote: that last statement is often confused with "rent seeking", which is not the case at all with Bitcoin. Because it's virtually impossible to make more Bitcoin with your Bitcoin. There's no any sort of business that can give you a better return at the lower risk. So you don't live on the "rent", instead you live off "wasting your savings", although if you were patient enough for them to appreciate a lot and you spend <10% a year, you have a decent chance to keep the total value growing and not shrinking as time goes by. But you need to be frugal.
Yeah but I don't get paid by the hour and the bus was technically "personal time". I worked on the bus only in 5-10 truly urgent situations per year.

I've also noticed that I now stay at the office later than I used to when I was on the bus, because I can go home whenever I want. So I am giving the company some "free" hours and am happy to do so. Feels like a choice not a mobile jail.
NT sends CPU chasin' pointers between layers and layers of (filter) drivers in IRP madness.

But yeah, it's so great on NT I can set that 16 kB of IRQL passive level driver code pageable. Massive savings, and I'll only need to make sure I never ever run any of that code on IRQL dispatch or higher. If I mess up, the end user has a pretty blue screen to stare at.

I guess the impact of a pageable kernel was more important 10-20 years ago. Nowadays I rather allocate nonpageable memory just to avoid the headaches of not being able to actually use that memory at typical IRQLs a driver requires. For example DPCs run at dispatch IRQL, no access to pageable memory.
If the food is the only thing that should matter everyone should be ordering for delivery.
The service counts so much as the food in my opinion.
Sorry to interrupt the eager participation in this engineer recruiting effort (wow, iPads, cool!)

Don't forget that the people who run Chic-Fil-A support a toxic version of Christianity that, among other things, holds that God himself is going to punish the United States because I'm allowed to get married.

(Also, in case you're a few years ahead of the current western ethical consensus, they torture and kill a massive, genocidal number of chickens every year in order to better monetize related public health crises.)

Maybe don't work for them if you value modern society.
> Apple adds no value there

I like having all my subscriptions in the same place so I can easily see what I'm paying and cancel.
$3.2B self-driving car company Zoox has ousted its CEO
>* 5-6 weeks of paid vacation annually.

>* Paid sick leave.

>* Months of paid parental leave.

I believe these issues should be legislated rather than negotiated. I believe that is how it's done in the majority of Western Europe as well.
I’ve worked with multiple American and Canadian interns who were far more technically proficient and productive than senior level foreign labor.

Everyone knows that people subconsciously prefer to hire people who look like them. This affects Asians too. It’s self evident that organizations with Asian hiring managers prefer to hire their own people. I know this won’t sit well with some people here, but it’s observably true nonetheless.
> Of the people I know who have had excellent career paths in software/computing none have a track record of open source contributions.

Right, that’s how they built their career in the past. All things being equal, it will become gradually harder to build a career that way in the future. I already know several major employers who look at a candidate’s github activity as a factor in the standard hiring process. And that trend is only accelerating.
Would you want to run a business today on dialup? Connections have got more reliable, as well as faster.
You can install new apps onto android from other stores like amazon or download straight from the web. Fortnite just did the latter by avoiding the play store and selling their app direct from their website.

For IOS though, fortnite launched it in the IOS store because there is no real practical way to get users to install their app outside of Apples app store.
I'd start with writing tests. That way you're more likely to notice if you break something in a distant part of the code.

Also see if you can make a to-do list. This will help make your request concrete to management. As you cross items off it will help them see that you're actually getting work done. And, it could help to motivate you if you feel like you're "just rewriting the code".
Some of these are neat, but it seems to me the problem with making your building look abandoned is that passers-by might just conclude it is abandoned and not come closer to take a look.
I understand people say things like this because they're the edgy, hot take - but the Onavo VPN software is absolutely not malware. It's a performant, free VPN that people use in exchange for some anonymized data. There have been no known leaks or breaches.
People that can't afford housing don't buy Ferraris and they spend money on higher education because that is sold to the entire populace at large as the way to get ahead.

Further good jobs use it to distinguish between those who are worth looking at and those that aren't even where the education isn't truly required to do the job.

Also we really don't want to admit to ourselves that the biggest step up would be to go back in time and drop out of the right uterus.
Great work being done by true veterans of the Open Source community.

Don’t you think this is the actual model that we should be pursuing?
Thank you for confirming this. I read the other post and was actually worried I was dumb for a second because I couldn't see the parallels at all.
> Why isn't etherium based solutions gaining traction even after repeated backlash by these big platforms on multiple fronts.

Because the problems that need to be solved aren't technical ones and won't be solved with technology. They are meatspace-based cultural, economic and social problems.
> Securing visas for (and hiring) foreign workers instead of citizens, in itself, is not criminal or wrong -- and absolutely the thing to do when the foreign employees bring skills not available locally.

It is criminal if you use and H1B and claim the talent is not available in the US. http://www.dol.gov/whd/immigration/h1b.htm

"The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States."
First is understand that ugly or hard to maintain code is not necessarily doing a bad job. The organization has a lot of different goals, and cheap maintenance is only one of them.

But from your post it sounds like your immediate problem is you don't like working on ugly code. Thrn I'd suggest trying to get transferred, rewriting jto from scratch (at most companies this would be a hard sell, and probably a money pit), or find a new job.

Complaining about the code is only going to make your workplace more hostile.

If you do decide to go for the rewrite option try to make the case from a financial aspect. Calculate the cost of maintenance, the cost of the rewrite etc...
There is some interesting research* showing that deforested soils take more than a thousand years to rebuild their carbon sequestering ability. So even if there are more trees, we may have done long term damage to the environment:

https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/169969-peter-...

Paper here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0192-7.epdf

* I should disclose that I know the person doing this research!
Most of the people without any higher education are the ones in the bottom half of the population making less than 31k.
It's another work on top if you want to make it work, perhaps? It's not like you'll register and the money will start flowing in.
Don't be too cool to paper trade ;)
Considering that US is getting into debt on an accelerated schedule and runs wars all over the world non-stop since WW2, and has biggest military budget, and otherwise resembles the roman empire at its peak, do you think that musical chairs game will never end?
We invoke "open source" in many more ways and places than dry terms like "express patent license" and "copyleft license". The latter have near-zero community, marketing, or ideological meaning. They aren't the names of movements to identify with.

The push and pull between what doing open source is and what open source is supposed to mean has always gone two ways. If the status quo serves your needs, it's natural to cast "open source" as a rigorously bounded definitional category in the vein of "copyleft", and to downplay its social aspects. From a frustrated developer's point of view, it's natural to cast "open source" as a community first and foremost, and elide theory.

One point of view says, "We have this great definition to reference and rely upon, and you're trying to skim value and prestige off it." The other says, "We have all these people to celebrate and work with, and you're trying to claim their support while ignoring their needs."

Two extremes.
Updated the ruleset with regular couriers! Will be a lot different from the earlier matches. I'm guessing humans can win if they find "cheese" plays that the bot has not found during it's practice.
> The CBP can and sometimes does conduct inspection on precleared passengers at the actual US port of entry.

How? I'm pretty sure that when I've flown pre-cleared from Canada and Bermuda, the arrival was to a non-international gate, opening directly out into the airport rather than via the side hallways that take you to border control. So if they wanted to check you on entry, what do they do, meet you at the gate?

Or am I just misremembering all this?
It's not that hard to make a living, if you write custom software instead of selling products. The niche I'm aware is development of modules for Odoo (a kind of SAP alternative); I've worked for such a small bootstrapped company for years, and 90% of what we wrote was A/LGPL licensed. Most clients don't care if you release useful generic parts of the code as OSS modules, nor if you use such modules from other developers.

I know companies following this model all over the world: Spain, Brazil, India, Argentina, Venezuela, etc.
So if they roll a six they go for it?
Being the first nation on the globe to bring in eugenics based compulsory sterilisation laws, which influenced Nazi ideas. Some survived surprisingly long after the war, the last until the 1970s.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
This whole post and thread are an effort to recruit engineers and accumulate good will within the HN community. Pointing out that the company is rotten is extremely important, as is anything else that can undermine the project of manipulating talented, powerful hackers into working on the project of generating profits that power an evil social agenda.
Can anyone who drives for Uber/Lyft/Grab chime in here? Do you know your peers?
To be clear, are you saying the United States was responsible for socialism’s failures?
Actually, it's pretty important for the NUC to get good airflow so it doesn't overheat; insulating it would be a bad idea! I haven't had any temperature-based issues with it, in part because most of the time the car is running I am in it, so I keep the temperature at temperatures I am comfortable in. And the NUC's temperature range is pretty wide as well, which is good, because weather here ranges from -10 F to 110 F.

Probably the only real concern I'm afraid of is condensation when heating up the car on a cold day, but it hasn't been an issue so far, perhaps because the computer is not near a window.
> In both cases, high usage games tend to make enough to justify the economics of continued support and development.

Sure there are some runaway indie hits that make money to cover the development. And Linus Torvalds gets paid $10 million per year to work on open source. But nearly all indie game developers never make anything from their games, same as OSS authors. (Indie games are an the appropriate comparison since we are talking about independent OSS authors, not Facebook developers working on React).

In any case, I am not arguing that all of these endeavors are equivalent in all ways. My only point is that all of the fields have an oversupply of creators. The result is that creators don't have leverage over consumers. To really spell it out: if OSS library creators try sticking the commons clause or other "innovations" on their projects, most businesses are just going to go find another library that does the same thing, without the restriction.
The entire comment, like so many others, is just pure nonsense. This is not about understanding the reality it's about validating a narrative and so you get completely made up "facts" like Disney being forced to partner up when nothing of the sort has actually happened.
For context: OpenAI is playing against a professional team this time, unlike the event a few weeks ago where the humans were skilled but not active pros or used to playing together.

This team isn't the strongest (they placed 17-18th during this TI) but OpenAI will play again tomorrow and the day after, presumably against progressively better teams.
It's painful to scroll to the bottom and see all the suppressed comments about Chic-Fil-A's ethics. Hackers are powerful. Don't give yourselves over to people who would harm your society. If you make a business like this more profitable, you're literally putting money into the coffers of political organizations that seek to take away my rights.
For those coming to the thread later: the parent comment pointed out a certain fact[1] about the corporate activities of Chick-Fil-A that doesn't directly relate to the contents of the article.

The basis was the observation that such articles are,in essence, a "work-for-us" ads, and in that vein, informing the readers of other, broader actions of a corporation is relevant, especially when it pertains to ethics.

[1]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chick-fil-a-gay-marriage/
I just had this discussion with my SO while traveling n Japan. Here google maps give a really good indication, but you really really have to check out restaurants with under 4 stars. We found several gems that had under 4 stars because these places where just really busy. From reading the reviews these places the bad reviews where all from really condescending assholes that would even sometimes claim that the waiters were racist. These people giving 1 star because they couldn't get a table or some other shit not connected to the food whatsoever. Other times we would go to places where the food where mediocre but service and facilities where superb and thus having 4 star + ratings. I don't mind waiting, and i don't mind sitting in cigarette smoke to get an authentic quality meal.

I really wish that google maps, yelp etc. would have 2 or 3 categories being

Food, Service and Facilities

5 stars are just too simple, i feel the same way about Netflix thumbs up and thumbs down. Are we really so fucking simple minded that we can't handle nuanced ratings ?
I just have a hard time, especially after last election, taking these polls at face value. Not only is 1000 people difficult to base wide sweeping opinion on, I think a lot of people are answering about whether they would be in favor of it for themselves rather than believe it should be outlawed or are actually fervently against it like anti-whaling groups are.
I used this app before, how is this a malware ?
Unfortunately, you are right. I did not mean to imply that everything is fine for the whales.

Some species recover much more quickly than others, and in the mean time, we continue to mess up their environment, be it by overfishing, global warming, noise pollution (or just plain old pollution) or ships running over whales like cars run over rabbits.

All I meant to say was that at least some species have recovered rather impressively under these conditions. Which is far from perfect. But imagine mankind had just continued hunting whales on the scale that was common sixty or seventy years ago - there probably would not be enough whales around today for Japan to kill 177 of them.
We already know what the current state of Linux gaming is like. Almost nobody apart from 20 percent of indie gamers make Linux ports, there are no AAA games apart from rarely a few ports from Feral every year, its not going anywhere. In the meantime with DXVK i was able to play several DX11 titles as if they were native. This is the only way to go.
My very limited experience with Chinese "commoners" outside China is that they view Xi Jinping as an adored celebrity, if not a god figure. "Very very great man!"

Same with some Filipinos' opinions of Rodrigo Duterte, who said all the bad news being posted about him were "American propaganda."

Have other people here asked a Chinese expat what they thought about their government back home? What kind of answers did they give?
gp actually answered that with "especially if you want to live like it is the 1940s".

There is a quiet denial about how luxurious modern living is. People just flat-out underestimate how much work it takes to keep the infrastructure of the modern world in place and humming - traditional infrastructure, IT grids, distribution of goods and services (particularly maintaining an enormous fleet of wheeled vehicles).

I know a lot of people who are poorer than I am but spend more, because they just don't clamp down on things like car usage, sending money to their children, pets and ordering a daily coffee. The only thing that will force them to live a simple lifestyle is literally having no money.

Sometimes people maneuver into a position where they have no choice, because they make bad long-term lifestyle choices early on, but so far the evidence is that human demand for stuff and services is infinite. People use their spare hours to gather and consume more.
Nice twist with the live updates.

I believe the transitions still need some tummy rubbing. Traversing pagination causes current / next page to appear stacked up and then the current page disappears. Also, navigating between categories (new, show, etc) causes the whole list to disappear and reappear.

On the assets front, nearly 1MB is a bit much for this app. Http2 is a plus, as well as gzip, but the js should really be uglified, there is very little excuse one can make for shipping source code without minifying these days.
> Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland

Under what definition are these socialist states?
It doesn't really, or if it does, it demonstrates awkwardness, not endorsement or a plug. Beside that, they they posted the faq just as DannyBee started asking them questions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815389

and specifically asked them who drafted the thing, among other things.
Wonderful, now someone lucky can update the Wikipedia [1] entry for Denisova Hominin :-)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisova_hominin
Do you know what your clients look like? You know the technology you like to work with, but can you characterize the people who would contract out that work to you? Can you describe the kind of projects they pursue?

If you can narrow down your niche by identifying these factors, you can make your cold outreach more effective. You might even be able to market yourself through targeted advertising or by attending community events and conferences centered on your clients' interests.

The other approach is to go back to work but at a contracting/consulting firm or design agency. There, you'll accumulate a network of clients which you can mine for referrals and work later on. You'll also learn more about what it takes to sell and deliver as an independent freelancer.
Most developers already dont produce Linux ports. Even indies. So thats the current sad state of affairs. We tried. It does not work well so it was kind of obvious a WINE based solution would have to come sooner or later.