skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to still disagree here, top tech companies have massive profit margins and could easily pay their employees far more than they do now. It's all about how much you prioritize talent, this said I would expect a deflation of new grad salaries with an increase in senior/principal salaries over the long run as is comparable with other human capital intensive industries like banking and consulting.
Citing someone's Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is probably the worst kind of an appeal to authority.
Somehow they managed to escape into even more dissatisfaction. At least Time Warner had different plans and didn't spam me several times a week with letters. Now they only have one $70 plan and are sending me a ton of mail with "deals" that aren't deals.
I am still waiting for proper PHP support and the ability for Lambdas to use VPC to connect to RDS servers, leaving my DBs wide open is kind of annoying... they say its possible but I've had 4 engineers try and no one can get it to work.

These issues that Azure has already solved, make me wonder how much longer i will stay with AWS.
It’s Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?
How much money does YouTube pay out to someone per 100k views? I'm betting the answer is much lower than we suspect.
At first glance I thought it was the sw equivalent of the "slow food" movement. No such luck.
So true. I spent the bulk of my early SW development career in distributed systems that were complex enough that they felt like they had a mind of their own. What I learned back then is that my intuition was worthless. Maybe that's just me but the key to success was always to set aside your expectation of what your code does and instead spend more time instrumenting and collecting data on what was actually going on. This is especially true for completely asynchronous systems like networks or systems that integrate multiple independent subsystems. Things just don't happen in the order you expected when timeouts, aborted operations and retries bubble up and down your OS and application stack.

After 30 years I consider myself pretty capable in debugging such systems but one thing I never use is "intuition" as defined in the beginning of the article.
Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate
The only logical conclusion is the data must have been stolen as an academic exercise.
But we're specifically talking about highway commutes where driving dynamics don't really come into play. IMO, the higher position alone makes driving an SUV superior on the highway but the 2003 Jetta reference is what really makes the comment absurd.
how many are peeved they didn't get Julie's GPA? How can I accept its a terrible answer with 0 data provided. How much merit can I give to someone giving advice about investing when they gave me no data to indicate they are good at it.
The minivan-shaped hole in the market is being filled by crossovers.

But really it's a longer story than that. Minivans had previously replaced station wagons, and the crossovers of today tend to look like a cross between a minivan and a wagon.
You can just create a PCB with one additional layer and use that layer (top one for example if you make single-sided pcbs at home) for jumpers, then to add a jumper while routing a trace, switch layers, which will add a through-hole via, trace your jumper, then jump back to the initial layer through another via. When etching the board you omit that layer and later solder wires where the traces were.

It's quite flexible as you can add jumpers of any length and orientation that way, the only inconvenient is that jumpers aren't marked on the silkscreen but it's fine for home-made projects.
I don't know about US pricing generally -- but up here it's like a $20k CAD gap. They are not in the same bracket at all. Once subsidies are applied the Bolt and Volt are in the mid-tier middle-class buyer category competing with things like the VW Jetta or Honda Accord, etc. The Model 3 is a luxury car, in the same price range as an Audi A4 or A5, BMW 5 series, Mercedes, etc.
> Zulip (open core)

Isn't Zulip fully open source? That's what they say on their site: https://zulipchat.com/
And this helps the discussion how, exactly?
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The summary: if Coke and Pepsi are owned by different guys, Coke will take an action that makes them an additional $1 million, even if (especially if) it causes Pepsi to lose $1 billion. Most commonly, cut prices.

If the two companies are owned by the same guy, they have the incentive not to compete with each other since their owner cares about the sum of their profits. This is why one wouldn’t be allowed to acquire the other. But the effect is the same when a single index fund owns a large chunk of both companies. The companies are encouraged to compete not too fiercely with each other.
My T2 is not treated with insulin today, but it could be later if it gets worse. And I am indeed talking about history pre-20th century.

For example, diabetes used to be diagnosed by peeing on the ground and seeing if ants we attracted to it. According to whatever diabetes history book I checked out of a medical library on inter library loan.
My intuition tells me that these three conditions are correct. Should I trust it?

While these conditions intuitively make sense, the example that he used to support his conclusions feels very weak. If the only information I know about this person is she read fluently at a young age, I don't think I can make a good guess of her GPA in college at all. There's no "right intuition" in this case, because so many other variables are in play.
I think it’s important to establish different kinds of intuition. Intuition =/ stastistics. While I like Khaneman and his books are interesting, his arguments around intuition show a fundamental misunderstanding of intuition as I understand it and apply it.

If you try to use intuition for things which are better suited to statistical analysis, then yes he is correct. But what about all the other kinds of intuion? The intuition of an author knowing how to put together a sentence. A painter intuiting colors. A businessperson intuiting a good hire.

So many times in business, we have to rely on intuition because we simply do not have the time or resources to make decisions mathematically.

For example, I work in an industry (marketing) that is increasingly dominated by a school of thought of A/B testing.

The typical approach is create hundreds of combinations of different ads, copy, and creative and then see which one converts the best. I take an entirely different approach that I find much more successful and efficient that relys almost completely on intuition.

I simply create the ad that I “know” will do the best and run that one. Of course if it doesn’t work, I make changes, I look at data and results as part of it, but the majority of the time I run my business on intuition. Could I squeeze out a few percent here or there? Probably. But the time and money it would cost to come up with statistically significant data-driven
decisions is far higher than having an ad up and running for an extra 2 weeks.

I created a campaign this week with one offer, one landing page, one version of an ad. The landing page converts on day one at 77%. No testing. No looking at data. Getting it right the first time is a culmination of all my experience, all my knowledge. That’s what people pay me for. I could spend weeks A/B testing data, but intuition of what allows me to run my business successfully, and is the reason people hire me.
Seems pretty reasonable to me - he gives a definition of what most people probably think of as intuition and then goes on to improve that definition. A hostile interpretation could say it's a strawman but with the additional context I think it's a pretty good article
Google and other top companies don't just hire engineers from a small list of schools though, additionally, they hire tons of people from industry.

The majority of hires at FANGs went to state schools with huge student bodies and reasonable acceptance rates.
what do you mean by native debugging?
>> "What you fail to note is that Palestinians use this term in the context of demolishing Israeli ...policies"

That's true, but both of the Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, use this phrase to mean destruction of Israel itself, not just policies. If Palestine exists from the river to the sea, there is no Israel. The ADL noted this in their rebuke of Mr. Hill yesterday.

If both governing Palestinian factions use that anti-Semitic phrase in a way meant for the violent destruction of the world's only Jewish state, it's naive to think it's a harmless phrase directed at policy alone.

>> "Don't fall for what the American media will feed you..."

OK, now you're getting into conspiracy theory land. Why should we not "fall for what the American media will feed" us? Is it because the American media is made up of Jews?

When I was Nazareth, I spoke with 3 Arab teens. They told me precisely this: CNN is controlled by Jews, therefore we shouldn't listen to them. It's anti-Semitic, hate-filled nonsense if I've ever heard it. I'd expect such nonsense on extremist forums, but not on HN.
Here's something I'd very much like: syslog(3) and anything like it that takes printf-style format strings and arguments to log the format string and the arguments in a structured way.

E.g.,

syslog(LOG_WARN, "this thing %s didn't go well", thing);

should log something like this, using JSON just for this example to show the actual structure:

[<timestamp>,"<hostname>",<pid>,"<ident>","<facility>",<priority>,"this thing %s didn't go well", "<thing>"]

This would make it much easier to recognize structure in log messages and extract details (syslog(3) format string arguments).

Granted, this would have to have happened 20 years ago for it to be widely available now, but still, gotta start somewhere.
They get big and go public. Only a matter of time before the bad behavior starts to happen. Gotta keep that stock price up.

Not saying private companies can't engage in heinous shenanigans either, they sure can.
Which make even more money. We are going to see(hear) him on all those business podcast.
Awesome, happy I found someone that can use the product. What are you planning on using it for?
The rest of the article adds very little
I don't work in the networking space, is ipip synonomous with IP-in-IP tunneling? (I can't find a definitive answer in my cursory attempt).
The same users who have complete “control of thier computer” who don’t know what they are doing is what causes all of the crapware, malware, ransomware on many Windows based PCs.

I’m all for platforms being in a wall gardener by default where you have to jump through a few hoops to unlock an “advanced mode”.

And signing up for WDN (Windows Developer Network?) hopefully you would get signed drivers.

You can’t imagine the number of times my mom has done the perfectly reasonable thing of searching for Windows printer drivers on Google and ended up installing crapware from a third party site instead of getting the official driver. Signing requirements from MS would hopefully alleviate that and let advanced users try to figure out how to load unsigned drivers.

(Also tangentially, why are printer drivers still a thing on Windows anyway? Anyone who connects a Mac, iPad, or iPhone to my home network - if I give them access to the non-guest network - automatically can print.)
The Bolt still starts at $36,620, according to chevy.com/bolt. It's an amazing car in some ways but doesn't look very good. It's hard to imagine many people choosing it over a Tesla Model 3. Yes, right now you can't get the less-expensive Teslas, but eventually you will be able to.

If GM started the Bolt at $25K and offered nicely equipped ones for $28 or $29K, there would be an interesting competition against Tesla. But they don't.

BTW, like some other posts, I think the Volt is a brilliant car: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/29/steve-levines-the-powerho... and it's unfortunate that it's not proven popular too.
> You can't say "X doesn't work" when X does, in fact, work, and then expect people to take you seriously.
> You're adopting a moralizing stance here, one that says that gain without pain is illegitimate.

No, I'm saying that a pill won't solve the root problem. You make people skinny with a pill, you just end up with unhealthy, malnourished skinny people who insulin is all out of wack and who will still get heart attacks.

> For decades people have been making the same argument you're making, and it hasn't worked. It's time we try something else.

Are you suggesting that "throw a pill at it" hasn't been a solution for decades? We've had this belief that medical science can cure us of all our ills, and I think we are no realizing we can't. I've seen family members become shells of themselves after surgery after surgery causes them to lose as much as they got back. Pills always have trade offs, surgery always leaves scars. Maybe one day that'll be the case where a pill will solve all our problems, but it's not today.
don't forget to change gender and date of birth as well
Interesting take. Are there any works of dystopian fiction that someone here thinks could be considered anti-democracy propaganda?
Definitely in my future, I think! Perhaps my present, as well...
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I would not participate in the project, but isn’t it fairly simple to build a censored search engine while punting all moral responsibility for that censorship to the Chinese Government?

Simply build your index by crawling from machines inside the great firewall. Whatever gets indexed gets indexed; that’s up to the Great Firewall overlords.

Hiding search metadata from the CCP is another thing entirely I suppose, but do-able if allowed by the regime (simply don’t log anything).
Acloud.guru AWS cloud architect course, I did it through udemy, but they also have it through their own website. Well maintained, well presented material. Price can drop to $10 sometimes with free lifetime updates.
I expect UTF-16 to die eventually and let us have more than 21 bits of codepoints, but we'll never ever need even 30 bits, let alone 32 bits, of codepoints.

I have to imagine that you're just jesting :0
Do we need yet another e commerce platform?
> I guess this is one way to make a living. Is it sustainable? Is it gratifying? Is it scalable?

Is being a waiter, or a checkout clerk, or a fast food employee, or a Chili's line cook?
They also just don't seem to want to make enough of them or ship them to markets where people want them.

The fate of the Volt and Bolt together makes me entirely skeptical of GM's claims to making a transition to EV production

Supposedly, the shutdowns are expressly so that GM can devote more capital to the Bolt & it's future brethren. If they have Bolt supply problems, cutting production lines to free up capital sounds like a good move.

Personally I am excited about plug-in hybrids, but allegedly a lot of the industry is starting to think PIH's will be but a flash in the pan, being totally eclipsed by all-electric by 2025.
That's because Chevy, knowing they have the only Model 3 substitute product, is charging ridiculous prices for what the Bolt really is.
I love my Volt, even having had a Model 3 reservation and done a test drive. I'm not saying it's a better car in any objective sense, but its compromises are areas I'm fine with. Honestly, I can't believe the Volt wasn't more popular. It's probably being due to not educating consumers enough about it, being strange looking, and being a GM.
Growing pains are to be expected. They're probably working feverishly to scale as we write this.
Isn’t the author a white male?

If the author was a black woman, I think your substituted statement would be more of a commentary on how she perceives her own role in society.

There are many Black, Latino, Asian, and White writers that will comment on their own ethnic and cultural background in their writing.
As the system increases in complexity, you need more and more measurement/monitoring in order to gain intuition for how the system works. For example, watching Ganglia graphs of mapreduce clusters make it 10x easier to tune system parameters.
I requested _this_ page, then requested the CSS/JS. I then blocked future requests.
You skipped over a part:

> Anyone can sign and run their own add-ons, or offer those add-ons for others to use.

And this is consistent with what Mozilla says here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Dis...
Sarcasm? If you set up a .XCompose file you can type them any way you want. In my case they're mapped to <Compose> <^> <^>, <Compose> <v> <v>, and <Compose> <-> <,> (plus a few minor variations).

I always miss the programmable compose keys when I'm forced to use Windows. Charmap and alt-sequences are not an adequate substitute.
The ASP for light vehicles is 36k, when including a bunch of expensive vehicle classes, which should indicate what the average low end sedan costs to bring the overall ASP price down:

* ASP for pickup: 47 fullsize, 32 "mid" size

* ASP for an SUV: 60k

* ASP for luxury SUVs 44k for a compact (wtf is a compact SUV?) up to 80k.

* ASP subcompact SUV is 24k

Vs. the low-end cars:

* 15k for a Kia Rio
* 19k for a Toyota Corolla
* 12-17k for a Nissan Versa
* Honda low end 19k, the top end plugin: 33k
* Hyundai 16k-22k
* Mitsubishi 14.5k
* Ford Fiesta 14.2k, taurus: 27.8k
* Chevy cruze: 17-24k
* Buick starts at 25k

This ignores compacts/hatchbacks which seem to be on average around 5k less.

So a Tesla isn't a few grand more expensive. It's 2-2.5 times more expensive.
Such as a company knowing better than to keep their servers patched, to have a process to make sure their servers are patched, to have a process that shows a list of servers that are _not_ patched, etc.

There are a lot of really stupid mistakes made in a lot of these data disclosures that a competent IT team (and dev team) can prevent from happening. The current state of things is that there are hardly any consequences for losing people's data, just make a bulk purchase of credit monitoring and call it a day. This is cheaper than actually hiring the right people and implementing the correct processes.
Congrats! What fasting method do you currently use, or do you switch between the ones listed?
It's a side effect of having real number feedback on how you're doing. Management can't just make up their own metrics anymore, there is a third party that tells you how well you are doing, and that third party wants to see constant growth or they'll start dropping your price and the financial press will pick up on that and start writing articles about how millennials are killing the rail industry.

It takes real gumption for the upper management to say "screw what the greedy bastards on Wall Street think, we're doing just fine." Especially when their yearly bonuses are tied to what those guys on Wall Street think.
No, it was PS3s. Here is an article about it from the time: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/12/6406/ the Wii unexpectedly ended up being the real in demand system that Christmas.
That will be more than mitigated by the large number of people who'll have to fight off identity theft. It's also an intentionally low-balled number.

In other words, this is an irrelevant nit that serves no purpose except derailment.
I've heard others (including GM) dispute those numbers. They were very back of the napkin.

Yes, there's no way it's as profitable as a Silverado or Equinox. But the only really expensive part in them is the battery pack, and volume production of that could bring it down.

GM _did_ sign a deal with LG Chem to open a big new battery plant in Michigan. Not sure what the status of that is. I believe battery supply is the fundamental constraint on Bolt production, not demand.
>I'm pretty sure Android is growing faster than iOS, worldwide. And most of the users that get entry level or mid range level Android phones won't "upgrade" to iOS, they will just get better Android phones, since they already know the system.

First one is true. Mostly because Smartphone Saturation. The growth are in Low Pricing phones, 80% of the Smartphone in India are below $250. And Apple doesn't have phone below $400.

The Not Switching to iOS is false. While everyone has expected that, in reality Apple is still growing its user base, at a rate of roughly 100M in 18 months. That means roughly 25% to 30% of all iPhone purchase were coming from Android.
This doesn’t explain how amazon has removed capability for themselves to mitm the whole process. Or perhaps I missed that part somewhere?
If you mean WW1, there weren't.

There were three Africans (musicians in the German army). Yes, exactly three. Not four or five.

Indians were involved as part of British forces, but numbered well under 1% of men deployed. I wouldn't take anything away from them (good men), but it's inaccurate to say they were significantly represented by numbers.

You need to be careful about people (in this case video game developers) lying to you about history to uphold a moralistic narrative. The facts of history are not politically correct, they are actually correct (by definition), and this is a big difference.

See also: Absurd BBC depictions of Roman-era Britain where there are random black characters all throughout the society at every level of power and influence. A pure lie.

Basically what you get from media these days (95% progressive by survey) is comparable to what you'd get if the media was 95% evangelical Christians, but in another direction. Just keep the source in context.
> The Cadillac ATS and Alfa Romeo Giulia are almost universally regarded as dynamically superior to their 3-series equivalents, for a common example.

Exactly, my 2017 Focus RS is so much fun to drive and has a lot more power than any German car of equivalent price. I mean where else can you find AWD, 350 HP and 350 ft/lb torque with a 6 speed manual for under $40,000?
Re-educated he was, for sure
yup, Zulip is fully open source. I believe Mattermost is actually open core.
Slickdeals.net apparently has a huge untapped market to go advertise to...
> "There is no America, there is no democracy, there is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon … The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale, it has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve the common good, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."

Network -- 1976
I spent a fair bit of time trying out many of the different chat systems out there for our tech community. In particular I looking for solutions that could do a half decent job of combining synchronous as well as asynchronous communication. The main benefit of implementations that manage to pull this off is being able to handle real-time chat but also make it easier to catch up with the conversation history if you've been away from the conversation for a while. Other criteria I was looking for were sensible threading, mobile friendly, persistence of history and private channels. Integration with voice or video chat was a bonus.

Amongst others I tried: Mattermost, Rocket.chat, IRC(Cloud), Gitter, Discord, Slack, MS Teams, Twist, Hangouts Chat.

Two stood out, both open source (Spectrum wasn't when I started looking):

Spectrum: https://spectrum.chat/

Zulip: https://zulipchat.com/

These two along with Twist (proprietary) manage to deal with the threading and hybrid sync/async. Both the above also have exceptionally helpful people behind them.

The other special mention goes to Matrix (https://matrix.org/) and Riot (https://riot.im/) as their persistence syncing and federation work is impressive. Their threading and hence async story isn't as well developed yet though (https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2349).