skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't a shortage simply where demand exceeds supply?

I suppose you could put it that way, but it is important to remember that as price rises, demand wanes. As long as price is able to rise, then the demand will keep offering higher and higher prices until the supply presents itself. In the meantime, as offers go higher and higher many will drop out of the market. A shortage occurs when that price is unable to rise, leaving a situation where nobody exits the market. This is the only time that demand exceeds supply.

> In that scenario there will always be some companies lacking no matter how much they pay.

Everyone has a limit. I know of a lot of businesses who cannot afford to pay more than $10,000 per year for a developer. Needless to say they are developer-less. This does not mean that the supply of developers is lacking, it simply means those businesses were never in the market for a developer in the first place.

I don't have the money to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new Ferrari. That doesn't mean the supply of Ferraris is lacking – they are more than abundant for those who are truly in the market for one – it simply means I don't have enough money, and thus I'm not really in the market for one. We, for obvious reasons, don't count people who simply have dreams of buying something. Every 10 year old kid dreaming about owning a Ferrari is meaningless just every business dreaming about hiring an employee is equally meaningless. Demand is far more nuanced.

> but in the past you certainly could be limited by the number of people in your village as well.

If we take it to the logical extreme and assume there is only one person available for hire, the business which offers the best deal will hire that person, and if nobody can offer a better deal, they're just dreaming. Supply doesn't exceed demand in this scenario. The price rose to the point where all other demand vanished.

A shortage occurs when price cannot rise. Suppose our village with one worker has a law that says the worker cannot be paid more than $30,000 per year. Every business in town is quite willing to pay $30,000 for this worker, and now there's no market solution to determine where the worker should go. This is when demand is able to exceed supply, and when you have a shortage, relying on some other method, like a lottery, to determine where the worker ends up. Such scenarios aren't completely unheard of, but rare. Especially when it comes to labour as most people aren't in favour of placing limits on one's earning potential.

Medical doctors are an interesting exception as we don't feel (where I live, other parts of the world may be different) that the rich should be able to pay a doctor more money to incentivize looking at their stubbed toe while someone of lesser means is having a heart attack without a care provider. Instead, both people are obligated to pay the same amount, and the doctor will judge based on severity who gets the service and who has to wait or be left out.
It is a good outcome considering the speed of light and existing technologies. I don't know what you rightfully expected if you were hoping for serious improvement on that number, other than breaking the laws of physics.
I put together a micro-pattern for working with WebComponents that I really wish were cross browser compatible as it is. It works in Firefox and Chrome and it is partly how I wish the web would move forward.

There is no technical limitations to making encapsulated portable pieces of html, css and js, yet it seems a very uncommon practice to make libraries of small re-usable components, even if they are boutique to you or your company. I think that is partly down to how we go about specing out and producing websites, and partly down to the fact that many don't realise you can already do it.

https://polylab.co/projects/polyblocks.html

An important part of that is well encapsulated CSS, and theming on top of that, something I have written a little bit about as well.

https://polylab.co/articles/ccm-contexts-and-components-css....
This is a problem only if the person is bothered by their lack of "success".

For some, being a dilettante may precisely be the life that they want. The problem is that if you are perceived as "smart" people all around you will push you to "succeed" in traditional ways, either because they want a share of the profits of such "success", or because they see someone not doing the boring grind as a moral failure, or out of concern that the dilettante is "throwing away their potential".

I'd say that if you are "smart" then it should make your life freer and not more constrained.
I do not mean to promote the validity of Freudian psychology, I'm pointing out that the term "butthurt" is part of a universal human "thing" that has been going on and acknowledged for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. I.e. "Asshole", "blow it out your ass", "stick it in your ass", "pound sand up your ass", "shit head", etc...

I had never previously made a connection between that term and anal rape and frankly I'm irritated that ForrestN put the idea in my head.

Now, I know what it's like when you have a pet peeve about public discourse. For me, I wish people didn't use the term "cakewalk" or phrase "piece of cake", even though they do it innocently, because I once went and looked it up and it's fucking horrible. (If you go look it up, brace yourself, it's really ugly. It has to do with American slavery. You've been warned.)

I have this idea, I call it "The Grey File". It's like an idea for a sci-fi story. In the near future history will be controlled and whitewashed. All of the crazy bad stuff we used to do is almost entirely forgotten, but records are kept in a kind of museum called the Grey File. It's built in the middle of the desert, or on Antarctica, or somewhere inaccessible, and it's staffed by inmates: perverts who get off on corrupting innocence. It's kind of a prison for them.

The thing is, I can't tell if this idea is dystopian or utopian.
This looks fantastic. Well done!

How well does it work with teams?
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'll fix the issues as soon as I have the time.
Agreed. I think there's a lot of overhead stemming from the use of C and C++, and all the idiosyncrasies that stem from their specs needing to be vague enough to cover all that exotic things, for software that's realistically never actually going to run on them.

It's not that the ability to write code that is so portable isn't useful. For something like a library of algorithms (e.g. compression - think zlib), there's actual value to be derived from having a single ultra-portable implementation that can run everywhere. But does something like Evolution or LibreOffice really need to never assume that CHAR_BIT is not necessary 8, or that int might be less than 32, or that int64_t might not even be defined? I would say that of all the C and C++ code that's running on modern devices today, the vast majority could safely assume flat memory addressing, 8-bit chars, 32-bit ints, two's complement, IEEE floating point etc - and nobody would even notice. In fact, a lot of it likely already does assume some or all of that, just not explicitly.

It would be nice to have an ISO-standard superset of C that catalogs such assumptions. Basically, a "non-DSP, non-mainframe" version of C, that's portable across all modern non-exotic platforms, and provides definitions for as many things that are UB or implementation-defined in standard C as possible.
Is Visual Studio going to be available in an ARM native format? I understand you can emulate x86 applications on Windows On ARM, but it would be nice if they provided a native performance experience.

I also feel like Microsoft and Apple are both doing cool stuff with the ARM space... but it would be cooler together. The iPad Pro is incredible, but iOS is so limiting. Windows 10 on ARM seems nice, but none of the hardware seems compelling, and no one makes a mobile ARM chip that's even remotely competitive with the A12X.

Since Apple is never going to let Windows 10 run on their iPad Pro, the least they could do is bring Xcode, Terminal, and external storage support to iPad Pro... but who knows if that's going to ever happen.
Some Chipmakers Sidestep Scaling, Others Hedge
No need. People do it them themselves. "On The Media" recently did a segment on Colorado, and the migration from California.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/california-nightmare
Audio book startup raises $1,7M at $10M valuation
A C++ header file is much more than just serving as an interface to an implementation. Sure it can be used in that way, but it doesn't have to.

Have you checked out the standard library's header files? If you do, you'll see they are full of templates, and constexpr functions. In some sense, the header file is where most of the code is.

Have you also checked out the concept of a single-header dependency? Due to the myriad different ways to manage dependencies, those dependencies that consist of just a header file is extremely convenient to have. This is the logical conclusion when you can put increasingly complicated things in header files.
Nvidia has an effort to promote production of high frame rate 65" gaming TVs for the living room. They call it BFGD, Big F[ormat] Gaming Display. Unfortunately they keep getting delayed.
Fedora 29 has a “firefox-wayland” package that runs the latest stable release of Firefox (63 as of now) on Wayland (instead of XWayland). I’ve been using it for a long while and it’s been great!
They are somewhat selective of course - they have stated it explicitly. They also say they time releases to cause the most impact.
> Also- you seem to care so much for Manning that you went the extra mile to avoid using her preferred pronouns by using "this person." Amazing.

This is a ridiculous assessment. In the same sentence GP refers to Manning as "her", twice.
To be clear, white bread is thousands if not tens of thousands of years old. I don't see how the 300 year old baguette could be considered "not real".
Facebook will reduce reach of ‘sensationalist and provocative’ content
The incentives are already in place and it's never been easier to learn on your own than it is now.

I've read elsewhere that even if people want something and have someone in reach that has it, 2% will ask for advice and 2% of those asking will follow through with it. I've also seen 10% and 10% of that, i.e. 1% total.

Whatever actual number may be, it's very small.
Very nice. Will be using this for HSK prep if it's possible to choose vocabulary from different HSK levels. Does it allow for that?
Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears
Well, then you might look into this guy who modifies x200/x201's with 8th gen Intel chip sets.

I think this is a good starting point to find more information about it. Its called the x210.

http://www.cnmod.cn/x210
Men talking about their problems are seen as "whiners" and have various other insults heaped upon them. So they choose to live a life of "quiet desperation" which leads to suicide.
This is common knowledge. Did you think he was code reviewing Woz while they were working together? Jobs was the salesman, Woz was the engineer.

Since you couldn't be bothered to Google it yourself, here's an archive of Woz's personal website.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130208163637/http://www.woz.or...
WL has a much better reputation for authenticity than NYT. So far nothing they have released was found to be fabricated or doctored.
> So if we turn dialysis, heart surgery, etc. into free markets, there are going to be people who need those treatments that cannot pay for them.

Isn't that exactly what happens now?
> involves me sleeping mostly upright these days

Wait, what? How does that even work? That sounds fascinating.

Also, are you Minbari?
My friend bought his on Amazon.

Edit: removed link.
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I just use cpp to #include files. Granted, it's barebones and not very extensible.
I am not going to argue that mission statements are not bullshit, but I don't think your argument is persuasive. Just because you will compromise some values when push comes to shove doesn't mean those values were completely meaningless... it just means they were not as important as another value that they came into conflict with.

For example, I value pacifism. I think non-violence is almost always the right choice, and feel we should work towards a world of peace.

However, if I saw someone attacking my daughter, I might use violence to stop them if I felt it was the only way to protect her.

This doesn't mean that I don't value non-violence, or that my non-violence stance is meaningless. It just means that my value of keeping my daughter safe is more important to me than non-violence.
Let's not forget just how terrible the taxi industry was before Uber came along. The bar was really low. A large part of their success is attributed to their initial business strategy and subsequent legal and regulatory achievements.
Weird. Are you saying the average Amazon or MS engineer has less prestige and that they are worse, if the companies are worse on average?

I personally couldn't get into Facebook or Google. What does that make me?
Swisher holding some of the richest people in the world to account for their impact on billions of people isn't anti-tech. But it is telling that "pro-tech" is being conflated here with "pro-Silicon Valley capitalism."
> New Zealand has been under a lot of pressure to weaken Pharmac, the national drug purchasing agency, as part of the TPP agreement. It hasn’t happened yet and hopefully never will. The current system is far from perfect but we pay a lot less for funded drugs here in NZ due to Pharmacs bargaining power.

That's not bargaining power, it's price controls. You can have price controls even without single payer. But price controls are terrible -- if the price is too high you're paying too much, if it's too low you get shortages or providers have to cut corners to hit the price target.

In the pharmaceutical market this falls squarely on the side of shortages, which are then invisible because nobody is aware of the drugs that don't exist because the developer estimated that the government wouldn't allow a high enough price to recoup the R&D cost and then didn't do the R&D.

It's prisoners' dilemma at the national level -- if you defect by legislating drug prices, you pay less for drugs while other countries pay the higher rate required to fund their development. Then you say "look how great defecting is, why doesn't everybody defect?" Well, yes, that's the problem. Somebody has to pay somehow.

It also makes no sense to have drug patents but then regulate prices, because the whole point of the patent system is for the market to set the price of the drug at its value over the status quo during the term of the patent. If you're just going to regulate prices then you might as well instead just get rid of drug patents and replace them with X prizes. Then drugs would be much cheaper even without price controls because they would all be generics. The problem then being that then the government would have to be good at choosing what to pay prizes for, and they probably wouldn't be very efficient at it even before corruption set in.
Am I the only one who really dislike lazy load?

I want the image to be there, not to load when I scroll down. It should only lazy load images that is 2 screen below my current view.
This isn't working for me in Mojave; you haven't had a problem?
Ah so this is why I saw the Diamond and Silk stuff on the media for a while.
This is awesome. Type inference is an endlessly fascinating road to venture down, and each programming language presents its own set of challenges.

I've built a type inference system[0] for PHP and it's incredibly satisfying when it does what you expect.

[0] https://getpsalm.org
This looks really nice and it's working incredibly quick for me.

I have a couple of maybe stupid question.. I'm having trouble understanding the workflow. When I open something like https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/

This is the issue page for a user, right?

And then when I go to

https://todo.sr.ht/%7Esircmpwn/sr.ht

(oh, the tilde copy-and-pastes weird into the comment window.. not sure what that's about)

This is the "issue page" (in Github speak) for one of a user's repositories. But how do I navigate from there to the actual repository? The 'git' button at the top takes me to generic landing page? I found this link through the announcement page : https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn but I dont get how to navigate to there naturally.

Or how to go from the git back to the todo. I get they're decoupled features, but surely there must be a way to go back and forth.

Also when I open up the 'tree' section, each line starts with file permissions in the style of 'ls -la'. Is this b/c the system is fundamentally tied to POSIX? (I've used git with no problem on Windows before - so I don't see why it would be)
Please enlighten us as to what happened.
Ok I will bite. When?
You can buy into them. They are allowed to sell on secondary markets.
Instacart started strong, but I've experienced a significant decline over the past 18 months. They lost my business.
Sorry to be that guy, but a weird machine is a defined computer science term. I got the wrong impression from the title, as I'm guessing, did others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_machine
According to trip advisor they're not in the top 10.

http://ir.tripadvisor.com/news-releases/news-release-details...

So if BBQ is your criteria, consider Tennessee?
WAY worse job security. It seems like every month there's a big Twitter thread about which developer laid off dozens as soon as they finished a project, with no warning or severance.
The ios version is actually ready right now, I'm just putting off filling the "paperwork" and some tiny fixes. You can try it out through expo: https://expo.io/@haint/autolang-zh
Some people find sex pleasurable and emotionally gratifying. If you have a soulless job etc and you also aren't getting other pleasures in life, I can see that being a factor.

I mean, that's kind of a nutshell version of the issue. Human psychology and sexuality are complex. But I think it's a worthwhile detail to consider.
DSPs are pretty good discriminators for supposed-portable code. On SHARC for example everything is 32-bits wide (except long double, which is 64). Chars are 32 bits. Bytes are 32 bits. That is, int is 32 bits and sizeof(int) == 1. I imagine that porting Java, where byte is defined as an octet, to this architecture must be a chore.
The large majority of medical costs are not a result of time-critical decisions. A surgery that currently costs $50,000 may be scheduled weeks in advance. If a doctor 200 miles away would do it just as well for $10,000, how many people are going to say "nah, don't want to drive 200 miles, I'll just pay the extra $40,000"?
The real issue here is that HSAs are criminal.. Do not work for a company if the only health insurance plan available is an HSA... unless you are young of course.
Healthcare? You could plausibly have great quality of life for healthy people, but once you get sick you lose access to it. If you're dead, you probably don't notice the quality of life living people have.
I tend to agree here. I can recall it being referenced in flame wars on various forums nearly 20 years ago followed by faggot and absolutely referencing anal rape. Thinking about the personalities that used the term and yeah, they absolutely meant it as such. I don't care what knowyourmeme or stackexchange has to say on the matter because they clearly don't speak to my experience with the intent of those that used the term.
They do have a monopoly because they hold a patent on the search algorithm. While 'anyone' can come up with a new search algorithm, are you really going to best the authority measure used in academia for a hundred years?
With closed source software companies, it really doesn’t matter if they infringe on a patent like this because no one can prove they are doing it without a full code audit
sizeof(double) is 1 if you're using Analog's compiler. You have to use --double-size-64 to get the bigger one.
Nvidia Q3 Results Reveal ‘Crypto Hangover’ Due to Disappearance of Miner Sales
Supreme Court Should Confirm Abstract Patents Don’t Need Trial to Be Invalid
If you're willing to put in the effort for some serious study, then try these 2 books. They worked very well for me.

a. About Face 3 by Alan Cooper

b. Contextual Design by Karen Holtzblatt

These two will set you up.
that isn't really a fair comparison considering microsoft makes a significant chunk of money from enterprise and that requires a lot of salesmen instead of engineers.
Exactly as you state (though maybe not intend). Those cheering him on didn't care about the reasons, lack of curation, content choice, etc since they were ok with who was maligned. Once those cheering him disagreed with who was hurt, it starts to "feel" different and concerns about reason, lack of curation, and content choice magically become important.
All EU privacy legislation, such as the recent GDPR, apply to government entities exactly as they apply to private companies.

(When your cynicism gets so bad that you just support your rage against everything with made-up facts, that effectively removes any incentives for politicians to do good. Why bother, when your actions never even make it to all the red-faced constituents screaming all sorts of invectives at whenever you appear in public?)
Its really amazing that you would try to defend free press in a discussion about Assange. Locking up Assange is an attack on free press. Trump calling CNN liars actually isn't. Obama calling Fox liars wouldn't be either.
Great! I recently set up desktop Linux, and was disappointed to find poor support for fractional scaling on HiDPI screens, which I’m used to coming from retina MacBook Pro. Gnome under X11 only has 1x, 2x and 3x scaling. In Wayland, Gnome has experimental support for fractional scaling - including 1.75x, the size I’m used to. However, Xwayland apps like Firefox stable (and chrome) render blurry with fractional scaling. So, very cool to see this major program get Wayland support and thus high quality HiDPI support.
That's a cynical position, and tends to be correct!

A real one does have a _huge_ effect on the culture of the organisation, above and beyond what is achievable otherwise. I've seen one be transformative at a former workplace. I hope you have the opportunity as part of your career.

That outlier quality is why they are seen as important, even if they get cargo-culted in most instances.

Maybe it's the flip side of the hustle mentality that the mission statement is used to manipulate rather than a genuine expression of shared values and goals?
Now please get an ARM Windows Andromeda device release ready. I need a new option in the mobile space and I would happily use one that is a full computer in the form factor of a phone.
Not having end to end encryption is sad.
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That's part of why I have Kaiser, too. I don't need to worry about providers of any sort being out of network (nurses, assistants, docs, labs, etc.)
I'm sure it's possible. But in my experience, nontechnical people are generally not the best people to lead companies where the technology itself is a primary success factor. In such a business, I believe it is essential for top management to have an instinctive feel for the potentials and weaknesses of the technology.

Admittedly, such companies are a minority, perhaps a small minority, of what are called "tech companies". A lot of "tech companies" are simply applying relatively-well-understood technology to business problems. But when the mission of the business requires pushing the edges of what's possible, it needs leaders who understand what that means.
Not for now, it only has a calibration quiz on entry to find out where you are in the vocabulary by-character rank (that probably correlates with HSK levels somehow) and start from there.