skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make in the ballpark of these numbers for the last couple years, and while the giant stock grants have run out will still break or approach $300k for a few years I suspect.
My take on this is as such...

On the one hand, I have outrageous impostor syndrome - nothing I do seems terribly complicated to me and I definitely don't put in 80 hour weeks unless I'm on call; many people I work with seem to be smarter than me.

On the other hand, I do usually acquire a reputation of being very productive everywhere I work, and having freelanced before I've seen loads of outrageously bad code - literally every other project I was "rescuing"/"optimizing performance" with an existing codebase could supply thedailywtf with material for a month or two, and some could just be zipped and published there. So it seems like the bar is (was? that was a long time ago) actually pretty low.

Also, it's not necessary to be 3x as productive to make 3x as much - if there are 1500 NFL players, then the best (more or less) 1500 football players are going to get NFL salaries, whether they are "3x" the next guy or 1.3x the next guy. If there are 100000 openings in companies that can make $1m per engineer, 100000 engineers are going to be rather well paid, even if the IBMs of the world can only make $500k per engineer and thus don't pay so well.

On the fourth hand, I cannot see market not responding, like it demonstrably did with lawyers (I have a couple lawyers in the extended family), with oversupply of labor for such lofty salaries - especially as unlike with doctors and to an extent lawyers, there are no medieval guilds in place artificially restricting said supply.

On the fifth hand (sortof a duplicate of the third), as some have said above, and as with lawyers, it's still possible to have elite earners with oversupply of labor.

On the meta level, I'm not good at predicting the future (and I grew up in a chaotic country), so I'm considering this an unique streak of luck and treating it accordingly. In particular, saving a lot for thinner days ahead should they materialize; not buying as much house as I can afford; and postponing the two-year sabbatical I've planned to take, while the going is good. The way I see it, if the luck never runs out I can retire early; if it does at least I will be somewhat prepared.
It's a service owned/run by Square (https://www.trycaviar.com)
It looks like maybe they are pivoting to a blue apron style boxed meal delivery? Before they would deliver premade food (like restaurant delivery). You could order from a different menu each day as you wanted it. I used it a few times in the beginning. Slowly portions became smaller and more expensive, and the menu became very repetitive so I stopped using them in favor of restaurant delivery. I actually didn't realize they stopped doing business in Seattle last May until I saw this announcement and started looking around.
You should not start a company with someone you don't want to be around. You will have to work closely with him for years to come. You want that life? Find another option and leave him behind.
This Is Your Brain on Stale Air – Tom Scott
I agree, my point was not that AS3 > TS , my point was that AS3 > JS still and AS3 is old and it had no improvements in years. The GUI part is still behind though, you still can't CSS the scrollbars and you need a JS library, you can't CSS the select options and you need a library to create a better dropdown, you have no built-in or a standard set of Widgets simlar to the DataGrid or AdvancedDataGrid, working on some old projects CSS drives me crazy
Google isn't a single person saying sentences who can immediately change what he says in his next sentence. Changing Google results is not trivial, the search engine has lots of quirks and is a complex code. If you ask Google to change something, you need to submit a ticket, which is in line with thousands of other tickets. That ticket needs to get evaluated by a customer support team, which sends it to another team, which sends it to another team. Google is a gargantuan entity and things take time. It is very easy to see how this lack of change can arise from something other than malicious intent. I highly doubt Google is intentionally trying to taint this one man's reputation.

TLDR: Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
> In fact his display is at about 100 ppi, which is not bad at all.

It's only slightly better than the rather abysmal 91 ppi of 1080p at 24", which many people will be familiar with. It's really not good and a long shot from proper high ppi displays.
Yes, but only during peak hours, 4-9pm.
Is it a privacy violation for GitHub to suddenly publicly label Pro accounts?
This seems like a big thing to do with no announcement, I don't like it at all. It seems like a privacy violation. It also makes it seems to try to equate "paid GitHub user" with "professional software person", which is sneaky, manipulative and untrue.

Overall, I haven't been happy with the changes GitHub has made lately, I just want them to _not change anything at all_.
It's funny that the article it references for the price hike says, "First off, yes sure it’s a bummer that prices are going up, but it’s still significantly cheaper than gas."[1]

They're also trying to compare NYC an LA Supercharger/electricity prices to "national average price" of gas including, "several regions seeing prices under $2 per gallon." Their comparison is $32-36 to fill up a 100kWh battery back versus 12 gallons at $2.85 for $34.20. I'm not really familiar with that class of car (or electric cars), but I'd assume anything comparable would take premium gas. I found a gas station in Westminster, CA (shown in one of the pics) and a local Chevron is currently charging $3.49 for regular and $3.69 for premium. The gas station I used to go to in LA that's only a few miles away is currently $3.09 for regular and $3.39 for premium. It would have been nice if they're going to make a comparison, try to do an honest apples-to-apples comparison.

The rate hike and how the cost compares to gasoline is worth noting, but the electrek.co article it linked to had much better information.

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/01/18/tesla-increases-supercharger-...
The problem is not so much the browser implementation, but rather the server software and network infrastructure like proxies and firewalls. I already ran into problems with Http 2 or websockets in some cases. QUIC being UDP can only exacerbate these issues..
There was a version of Adobe PDFWriter for MacOS 9, you could just install that into the emulated OS.
All the examples could be done in ES5 using Object.defineProperty. Proxies do however have more traps available.
Assuming what gas price and what electric rate?

Must've been very loaded A4, too.
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/norvig/pytudes/master and https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/#pytudes to see what it looks like in the original repo

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Because nobody needed it for a legitimate reason up to now.
In California, the three largest utilities do charge hourly rate * hourly consumption. There are "Peak" "Partial Peak" and "Off Peak" periods defined by summer/winter and weekday/weekend. Paper bills as well as utility websites will show how much electricity (kWh) are used during each period. Websites will also show hour by hour usage.
If you named them like that, then sure that's less readable. But I feel there's a lot of straw man arguments in this thread; the main reason it's generally considered good practice to split up big functions is that humans aren't good at keeping a lot of context in their heads, so if you can provide a higher level abstraction then you can make it easier to follow.

If we pick a more realistic

RenderThePage()
{
FetchStateFromBackend()
ProcessState()
RenderTemplate()
ReturnHTMLToUser()
}

I would find that a lot easier to follow than jamming all of that code into a single massive function that did all those different things. (Not to mention, I'd find it easier to test all those things in isolation, too).

To take a completely contrarian position to that being put forth in this thread, I often find it clearer to pull a single hard-to-follow line of code into a function, just to encapsulate it behind a simpler named interface.
any plans to remove the carbon dependencies?
I wish it had killed waterfall, but the large majority of enterprise customers I have dealt with, see it differently.
Interesting that on the SAME day I received an email from the Dept of Public Health re: my complaint re: Munchery's food handling standards, Munchery announces that they're closing--immediately. It's a shame that, what once was a really good food delivery service, Munchery lost its 'successful charm'. The DPH stepped in because I complained that our meals were delivered way after scheduled time and they were NOT under refrigeration. Unfortunately, my meal contained raw tune which eventually led to serious food poisoning. After that incident, I didn't trust Munchery and never ordered from them again. Munchery began to overload their drivers with far too many orders which made deliveries late. This indicates a lack of sound infrastructure, greed, and a lack of concern for their hard-working drivers, as well as the customers who are receiving meals that are going to make them sick.
Sounds like a large share of the company for what sounds to me like a liability. A bad actor can sink an early stage venture very easily. I'd just try to build your network a different way. If you already know what doors they would open, maybe look for one of those people to join you instead. Seems like you could do better, and it feels like from your post that you feel the same. Trust your gut. Does the other founder want you to do this or are you both on the same page?
That is the right link. Unfortunately we haven't yet found a good UX solution to people sharing the "wrong" link which only works for their personal instance.

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I have created a side project similar to this, at the moment It is pre alpha with limited resources. https://notebooks.newrails.tech/
Yes, correct. If you have high energy usage during the day (like family at home all day) it may not be the best plan. Though I do seem to remember their other tiered plan had similar high rates once you break into the high usage tier for the month. PG&E has a calculator online that'll look at your usage and recommend the right plan automatically.
Probably still going to be your family's problem..
Indeed, but isn't that when you might want to actually use it, which is why it is peak?
I wonder what IP lawyers think about republishing works without permission into a network where nothing can be deleted.
Is this a problem 'instagram creators' actually want or need solved?

> improves engagement with your videos by automatically adding real-time captions

How do you know it improves it?
Founder salary closer to 200K
Less money means less equity given to investors and more money for devs. That said, if the founder has wife and kids in the Bay Area, unless you want to live in a hole, you do need an income that may seem "high" for a 23 year old living with 3 other co-founders in some condo. Soo.. for a founder with a family in his early 30s, this is the ground reality. The question is, how will investors view a salary around 200K and is that something to be "concerned" about when breaking the subject?
Are you a Turing Machine?
You don't buy high PPI displays for additional screen real estate. You buy them for the same screen real estate with much sharper, crisper text rendering.

You should always assume that you'll be scaling your image at 2x when using high ppi displays. Take the iMac 5K for example - it offers the same screen real estate as a 2560x1440 display, just twice as sharp at 220 PPI.
can't you sample way more than 8 bits a second from my brain through the keyboard? I mean, I don't think it'd take much work to get to 8 bits a second using a twiddler or something with one hand.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand what a brain computer interface gets you if it's not faster than hands and monitors. (I mean, I guess there's portability, but that doesn't seem super life changing to me; phones are pretty portable already, and I can do 8 bits a second on those, too.)
https://www.moore.org/, More information available on this link https://blog.jupyter.org/mybinder-org-serves-two-million-lau...
Super scientific Alexa Echo test [video](44 sec)
I live in a tropical country and I always prefer to sleep with open Windows. The only problem is the noise. I believe noise affects the sleep quality as much as well. Earplugs might be a solution but I don’t know any good brand which are comfortable enough for long time carrying.
So there is no possible situation in which you would say Google was lying in a search result?
> I'll be honest, I'd probably trust code that's gone through DO-178C more than I would trust code that's been formally verified.

Well... depends on the company/team :-)

But I think the instinct is fundamentally reaosnable because even the most abusive interpretations of DO-178C tend to demand a lot more attention to quality than even very well-run software projects in other industries.

> For the most part cars and medical devices and stuff don't use FM because there's pretty much no oversight.

This is starting to change, maybe. The automotive companies have been snapping up verification people (and letting them work on verification).

> But any FM stuff has to go through DO-330 and DO-333, which are just as rigorous and intense as DO-178C. The only stuff that has so far is, unsurprisingly, very expensive and very proprietary.

So, it's been a while, but I seem to remember DO-333 being written in such a way that if Tool X went through the process, and if you could produce a deep embedding of Tool Y's logic into that Tool X, then you could piggy back on tool X's certification by using the Tool X embedding. Which is still a lot of work, but hopefully substantially easier than getting a new tool approved from scratch. Also, I could just be mis-remembering or confusing a dream for reality... its been a while.
On public wifis they might not want you to do anything weird, so they block everything except "web ports", i.e. 80,443/tcp
Yes, from 2-9 PM on weekdays during "Summer" May through October, the rate is $0.47151 for PG&E (on the EV tariff). Shifting behavior to only charge EV, run dryer, dishwasher outside of those hours is fairly easy.

Due primarily to surplus solar power, later this year, the "peak" period changes to 4-9 PM and "Summer" changes to July-Oct.
https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about.html#who-pay...

At the current level of usage and compute resources it costs about $50000 per year to run the services, if you don't have to pay the humans that help build and run it. We are an open project, if anyone wants to join to learn more about Kubernetes, Jupyter, Ops, Python, Docker you would be very welcome. We hang out on https://gitter.im/jupyterhub/binder and https://github.com/jupyterhub/binder is a meta repository.

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Banks don't print money. Federal Banks print the money, which basically means it's the government printing the money.

> If amount of money is fixed, then this problem will go away on its own.

There was a time when this in was in fact the case. It was known as The Gold Standard and it basically required governments to back up their currency with an equivalent amount of gold.

The Gold Standard ended when it was abandoned by the USA.

Basically the USA did start to print money and they didn't have the gold to backup that printing press.
It depends... I think the Paypal Mafia had politically opposite views and it worked out because they didn't let it affect work. I think the most infamous example would be Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois: "Rabois came to Thiel's attention after he was found outside an instructor's home, shouting homophobic slurs and the suggestion that the instructor "die of AIDS.".
Most sane people build at least a few feet above sea level, so there's a margin of safety at the current sea level.

These houses will have to be rebuilt anyway by the time the sea level rises enough to be a problem and the retirees who currently occupy them have passed away. I suppose the next generation will simply build a few feet higher. Meanwhile, the government keeps pouring new sand onto beaches to make up for erosion. Waterfront properties in Florida do get flooded from time to time, but most people are content to blame more immediate causes such as poor drainage systems.

We as a species are remarkably good at pretending that nothing is happening -- this quarter, this year, during my term in office, or within my lifetime.
I still have this page bookmarked from when we were shopping for a Tesla. It explains it pretty well:

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...
No electric car here, but most of the places I've lived have had dumb meters that get checked manually each month. However, growing up in Florida, there was a rebate program where the power company could shut off one of our circuits whenever they wanted so they could manage load. I'm pretty sure it was wired to our pool pump and maybe a few other things (like our water heater?) So I imagine power management varies by each area's need. I've heard about day/night costs, and that seems like a smarter way to balance the grid, but I haven't seen that widely implemented in the US yet.

I've had "smart" water meters in a couple states. I doubt water has the same day/night load concerns electricity does, but they only varied price between summer and winter. I assume this was to discourage watering lawns.
Linux dependency managers are just that: they manage dependencies. Most Linux programs expect particular libraries to be installed system-wide. Chocolatey was modeled after this concept, with packages that need other packages, volunteer package maintainers, a hosted package repository, etc. All this comes with a fair amount of complexity.

Most Windows applications, however, are fully self contained. They ship their dependencies right inside the installer. The key insight behind scoop is that on Windows you don't need a dependency manager. You just use need something that can download and extract installers without all the next, next, ok nonsense and without needing admin rights.

So that's scoop. It downloads an installer from the program's website, extracts the files to a directory under your homedir, and sets up a few PATHs and symlinks.

It has no repository that needs to be hosted and maintained: after all, installers come straight from the source. And the definitions of which program can download which version from where and what should happen next are tiny JSON files managed on scoop's GitHub repo. Want to tell scoop about a new version of your favorite program? Create a PR.

Chocolatey is a great effort that has taught many Windows users that yes, we can have that apt-get goodness too. But I hope that Scoop takes over as the de facto install-software tool. It's so much simpler with very few downsides. Its design is spectacularly good.
Wouldn't that be a wacky turn of events, for all those studies showing that smaller class sizes produced better outcomes, to end up being mostly attributed to lower co2 levels in smaller groups.
Yeah but how long does it take to read a book? Even if someone was binging on War and Peace, or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one is addicted only for a few weeks or months at most- the internet is infinite.
Depends on what you want to do. Php and MySQL, available on any shared hosting provider, can take you far. In 2008 I wrote an online food-delivery platform that served a busy college town. Plain old php and MySQL. It's still running today.
This is probably a good move for Tesla. The reason Superchargers exist is to enable road trips, which are a tiny fraction of most people's driving. For anyone with enough money to afford a Tesla, if you need to use Superchargers often, you're better off with a PHEV or a conventional car, because even with Supercharging, you just waste so much time charging relative to gassing up. Even so, there is a certain profile of person that buys a very expensive car and then can't resist the allure of free electricity or the cool Supercharging tech. With so many new Model 3s, these people will clog up the Supercharging lanes, and make roadtrips in a Tesla even more painful. Simply increase the price ten bucks or so, and the cheapskates and tech enthusiasts will disappear and leave the Superchargers to the roadtrippers that have no other option.
I would think long and hard before giving someone ten percent of the company just for making the occasional phone call, when you will be expecting people to bust their asses for much less. I might do it if everything else so indicated strongly enough. But if the negatives seem likely to be as heavy as the positives? No way. This, mind you, does not constitute drawing any conclusions about whether he's a good or bad person. It just needs a straight pragmatic business decision.
How Mangal Kalash Stop Unwanted Losses and Create Happiness? Vastu Remedy
Sydney. This statistic was given to me this week, I actually figure that it's 1 person for every 3 vacancies but who knows.
Did you notice a difference? We have a small office with two people, multiple PCs, printer, etc. It gets warm and stuffy regardless of the season and climate control, and I have trouble focusing especially in the afternoon.

I'm thinking of picking up a plant or two and pointing a fan at the door to send out some of the stale air.
Yeah, I checked them when I lived in PGE territory. Savings on EV are not quite as trivial to realize in real life as they are on a marketing site.
> Inlining functions is not a readability thing.

Inlining for readability is precisely what the linked article is about.
Much of the savings was from rebate/tax credit programs. I didn't factor in maintenance at all since they are unknowns.

My original comment with more details is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18773680

Also my Audi doesn't have any Autopilot equivalent so I probably should have left that additional $5k out of the cost of the Model 3.
That's not entirely surprising. My BIL got a model 3 a few months ago. When he takes it on trips, he's never found a supercharger that can charge at full speed, because they're either overcrowded or broken or both.

Maybe by increasing the rates they hope to get people to use them less often and they'll have more money for repairs.
Does it solve my problem out of the box? If so, and it works out of the box, then it's a winner. All software has bugs, but if you have a specific use case, and it works for that, it's good for me.

If it is close to what I need, I submit a pull request against it. Depending on the reception and how people take it, and how easy it is to get it accepted is good signal on how easy it is to work with the project.

When doing the PR, you get a feeling of how the code looks. Is it straightforward? Commented? Do you like the style, do you see obvious errors? Any red flags should be noted.

At any point, if you think you can do better, you can fork it or start over from scratch and do it yourself, with a lot more information on what you need, and what the possible pitfalls are.
Show HN: I made a phone-controlled door lock using an Arduino and a 3D printer
I hear ya, but I'm hopeful this will improve over the next few years as QUIC gets used more in the wild. It really does bring some nice advantages.
Is it possible there is greater scrutiny during times of economic downturn leading to greatest discovery of fraud?
Machine Learning, AI, Cognitive
Yes, but by pumping oneself with information is to artificially induce complex problems. It's artificially inducing strain. Why excuse self-inflicted stress by saying that such stress occurs naturally as well?

Sleep deprivation is a major problem in Asian countries, but for different reasons:

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/21/singaporeans-among-most-slee...

http://www.atimes.com/article/hidden-costs-asias-walking-dea...