skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"World's 8 richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%" - Oxfam, 2017
"World's 26 richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%" - Oxfam, 2019

Not exactly the most convincing proof of "the widening gap". I'm not saying that the inequality hasn't increased, just that you need a different metric for showing it.
Or a portable player. No need to waste space there either.
You're right about Ghee. It is off the charts high in oxidized cholesterol. It's like butter on crack.
Reading this thread, I find both sides at extremes - one side from the Valley who's quite out of touch with the rest of the country. And the other side that is putting a fairly high metric.

1 acre is not at all unrealistic. I work at a well known tech company and live in an area where you can afford acre (and multiacre) lots. While owning a 1 acre lot with house is certainly not the norm in the company, it is also not at all noteworthy. No one gets surprised when they hear someone owns one. It's seen very much as a preference thing. Some people like apartments, some townhouses, some houses, and some larger lots.

And yes, they're mostly "tech types".

More realistically, in most parts of the country, a tech job will get you a 2000+ sq ft house built no earlier than the 90's. And in many of those places, a short commute to boot. Now I know SV folks often talk about how they don't need a house that big or one that "new"[0], the reality is once you're outside and can afford one, you won't find a good reason to buy a 1960's house, or a 1200 sq ft one. The preferences of SV folks are really post hoc rationalizations.

[0] Many of my coworkers reject houses built in the 90's - it's too old for them.
macOS' window management is still so remarkably bad. In fact it might even be worse than ever for me now; I used to be able to install some kind of "keep window afloat" hack, but the ability to do that disappeared with one of the version updates. I just try to keep everything in tmux these days and avoid the UI altogether.
I didn't say Rambo.

All soldiers go through basic training. Basic training achieves pretty much just "above-average" fitness.

Sure, the military has PT studs, but so does your local gym. Those aren't really representative of the average soldier.

The point is you can make your general appearance comparable to the average soldier's with a very minimal investment of time and effort, and zero additional equipment. A developed upper body and solid core does wonders for a man's posture and overall appearance.

I'm confident that prospect appeals to a significant portion of the male keyboard jockey population.

I live in a military town, most soldiers just look like guys forced to do pushups every day wearing well-fitting clothes. And I'm regularly mistaken for one, even though I spend all my time at a computer.
Perhaps not everybody is obsessive about "maximizing space" in this diminishing returns regard?
Hot take: many (most?) startups don't need talented senior engineers and won't even pay for them. They have products that do not have performance constraints or that would benefit from mastery of any one specific technology.

What startups need is engineers who can show up to work, understand requirements, point out potential shortcomings, write code on an approximate timeline and be willing to fix their mistakes. As it turns out, you don't always need a senior engineer to do that. You certainly don't need a 10x rockstar ninja engineer.

Where I've seen startups struggle in the past is fostering a culture of mentorship. When you're hiring fresh grads or people early in their careers, your employees will want someone to give them honest and personalized advice. It's pretty hard for people that are early in their careers to fill that role, so you may need some senior engineers to do that.

Overall, I think this article is a bit fanciful in the expectations it makes around recruiting. Sharing stuff like internal processes, team size etc are definitely helpful to the candidate but are costly to the employer. This information may be confidential or provide a competitive advance. They may also vary by team will definitely vary over time. Overall I think it's unrealistic to expect the company to be very forthcoming about this type of thing until they make the offer.

The interviewing stuff also seems to come from a good place but represents wishful thinking. Companies (even startups) hold significant leverage in 99% of interview situations and therefore are strongly inclined to err on the side of false negative. Their thought process goes like this: "sure, you may be amazing but because you're not willing to jump through my arbitrary hoops (6 hour coding exercise, 3 rounds of onsites, etc) I'm willing to hold out for someone who is equally as good."

I'm not saying any of this is good for the candidate, but it's unrealistic to expect companies to start to treat senior candidates any better given the way the labor market is set up. In fact, I'd expect this kind of treatment to get worse as the bumper crop of younger engineers trained in the late 2000s starts to level up in experience.
The narcissism of small differences: it makes us notice differences (and dislike the differences) between things that are mostly identical to outside observers.
>I am surprised how small is a number of people that use vertical (portrait) display setup (I do). I have always found vertical space much more necessary than horizontal space

Try DAW or NLE work...
Very few vegans eat whole foods, which is what was used in the study.
What's the deal with the license? This page mentions only the Eclipse Public License, while the actual Polarsys page and the GitHub repo mention/include three different licenses: the EPL 1.0 (!!!), Eclipse Distribution License 1.0 (BSD-like), and SIL Open Font License 1.1. Should I take that to mean it's multi-licensed and I can use this font under whichever of those licenses I choose? If so, what's the point of making EPL and SIL licensing options when the EDL has far fewer strings attached (and is more obviously compatible with other licenses, notably the GPL)?

Relevantly, the EPL 1.0 is incompatible with any version of the GNU GPL (as is the EPL 2.0 by default).
I started Motion Design using high-school Physics
You can always use a static .svg or .png in place.
100% will need to be tested.
Recommend a mixed font in Chinese environment YaHei Consolas Hybrid
The compliance rate was 89%, which is higher than that of statin drug therapy. If discipline was a factor, it was a very small one.
Do you really need those extra few days of milk expiration?

Absolutely. Even when getting the milk with the farthest away expiration data I rarely end up finishing a whole carton of milk until 1 or 2 days after that date. Without those few extra days, half the milk risks getting poured down the sink.

If the milk with the soonest expiration date was the only one available, would you buy it or just walk out without milk?

If I didn't really need milk that day, I'd almost certainly skip it. If really needed milk I'd buy it and possibly end up pouring half of it down the sink because I almost never manage to use a whole carton of milk in 3-4 days
I bought an Asus 1215B, sold with Ubuntu, a couple of years ago.

WiFi working has always been ups and downs, specially bad at the beggining when Canonical decided to exchange the closed source driver by an open source one, even thought it wasn't feature complete. I had to spend 3 months using LAN cable until the drive was actually working.

The Radeon on the Brazos APU is a DirectX 11 class GPU, but after AMD dropped fxglr, I lost video hardware acceleration, and the OpenGL feature level has been droped to a lower version.

So much for buying a laptop with Linux support out of the box.
For those who like Verdana, check this out.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/verdana-pro/9n8d67vhhdc2

Coincidentally, I wonder if the license allows it to be downloaded and installed on other OSes, like the old "Microsoft core fonts" package that included Verdana.
Check out opus encoding - should be way better
I'm not angry at you, but at the TV manufacturers...

Why the hell do we need overscan for anything that isn't an actual analog TV signal?
I wonder why so many of these people are choosing to spend time in their office 'cubicles' rather than travel the world and do good things. Like seriously, what is the barrier/problem here? Even if I had only a million dollars to freely spend, I would still choose to travel and make an impact where it counts.

We in the West love to complain about our 'problems' but a lot of us honestly don't have a clue what's happening elsewhere on the planet. And, of course, I am not talking just about the helping aspect of it, but also the opportunity to be exposed to some of the planets hidden beauty, places that only a handful of people will ever get to see.

Maybe it's because I am so free-spirited, and don't really value my own life as above anyone else's. Although 7.5B people sounds a lot, this Earth is nothing more than a planetarium. The grip that the Human Ego has on materialistic identity so absolutely bizarre.

I'm not saying every giga-rich person is like this, certainly, some are contributing to philanthropy and other projects, and perhaps I am myself mixing together two issues here, but this kind of philosophy interests me a lot.
>every once in a while you'll run into a variety of produce that only really works for fresh & doesn't lend well to processing. This mostly happens w leafy greens (we don't make … lettuce sauce)

I wish I could buy frozen lettuce. Lettuce can be cooked (e.g. for lettuce soup), and cooked lettuce loses the crisp texture, so there's no drawback to freezing it first. The idea that lettuce is only a salad vegetable is an irrational tradition, like the idea that there are foods only suitable (or unsuitable) for breakfast. I'd eat more lettuce if it wasn't so expensive compared to frozen spinach.
And that’s only true at four or five companiess at the most....

Especially if you’re married, I know a lot of developers whose spouses income goes straight into savings, investments, etc. but it’s another example of HN Silicon valley thinking that software engineering starts and stops at four companies. Married dual income couples especially can make out like bandits in any of those cities.

I live in one of those cities and depending on how you classify me,I’m either somewhere above the median or well over the 75% percentile. Our nice big, new (comparatively) cheap house in the burbs is less than 20% of our take home pay. How much do you think we put aside in savings?

Because assortive mating is a thing - it’s statistically likely that two college educated people will end up getting married and I’m trying to keep this as generic as possible. If one was a software developer making $135K a year in one of those cities and the other was almost any college educated professional making $65K a year. The net of the lower paying spouse could pay off your nice house in the burbs in ten years or less.

I don’t know of any couple who is in that situation (and I know a few) who would think about moving to the west coast just for one spouse to make $300K when their combined income is already above $200K in a much less expensive area.
For those unaware, raphlinus actually created Inconsolata.
I used WIN+R nameofexe since 1995 at least. So not so much progress in 20 year
It would have to be by a lot.

If they realise you owe say £500 they just send you a new calculation saying here's why you owe £500, we wouldn't tax X amount of your income by law, so, Y = X - £500 now we won't tax the first Y next year.

Pay As You Earn means most ordinary workers in the UK have all their income taxes collected by their employer automatically. The employer doesn't know why you pay the taxes you do, they just get told a code signifying how much to charge.

There's a cute trick to let HMRC verify that payroll accounting is legit without snooping personal bank details of people who aren't suspected of tax fraud. Basically there is a field with a blinded cryptographic signature in it in electronic payroll feeds, all the signatures should tie up to tax records without revealing who exactly was paid how much.
I always remember that Noah's Bagels would make certain to throw away excess bagels at the end of the day. It's probably, unfortunately, America-specific, but when I asked why staff said if they gave away "old" baked-goods and someone were to get sick they would be liable to lawsuit.
It still lost income. That money could have gone to New York, or another city, or another country. Instead it remains with Amazon.
I think it's also important for seniors to look at new ideas at a regular basis. People who don't, tend to overrate the "good old [insert language/framework here]". You should not stop improving yourself, just because you are already able to get stuff done. (Example: Java introduced lambda functions in Java 8 and many Java seniors are still not using them)
From my personal experience, a single 32" 4k monitor is far better for my productivity than 2 x 1080p monitors.

And even better one is 2 x 1080p in vertical position and one 32" in the middle is quite pleasant!
I've been on and off... The biggest issue I have with vertical is the difference in distance from my eyes to the text. Moving my head left/right is more natural than up/down.
It was just shorthand to say "in the ballpark of what the maximum you can do in one set is" (note the tilde).

I'm not suggesting you destroy yourself every day. Just that you continuously increase the number as your endurance improves over time. It levels off at some point, in my experience this never becomes a session taking more than three minutes. You can add more sets if you feel like it, or you can add other exercises, this doesn't exclude any other activities you wish to add.

It's just an excellent minimum hygiene-level of physical activity to maintain every day. The more burdensome you make your routine, the more likely you are to say fuck it.
Currently it's free under 4 and half price under 10. Considering that it's not expensive to begin with this is really PR more than anything else.
I acknowledge that - though I'm being presumptive and calling that "failing to maximize tool effectiveness."

I have to stay organized because I have a dumb and chaotic brain. If I used the default osx windows management, er, "system" such as it were, I probably would get done a tenth of what I get done today on my Gnome setup.
Looking at the tails is always going to be noisy. Gini coefficient should do.
Do yourself a favor and try to design a font from scratch using FontForge (free tool). Let us know what you learn from the experience, how long it took to perfect it and what was the end result.
Only 30% of people have cars within Paris and public transport is cheap.

There is little point in making public transport free there. This is still money to be paid one way or another.
It wasn't a survey. Imagine calling something pseudo science without even reading the abstract.
>And yes, I realize this is excluding deductions.

That's a big disclaimer.

I'm not going to argue for a hypothetical. I actually ran the numbers once. My state's income tax rate is high, but lower than CA's. For my income (above median), one year I actually calculated my tax for CA (as in actually got the forms and filled them out).[0] Despite the lower tax rate, the my state's income tax was higher. The reason? CA has a lot more deductions for people of my income or lower. CA can get you in all kinds of other taxes, but not income tax.

Also, just checked. Other than the deductions, for single people, you hit the second highest bracket at a little over $8K in my state. To get to that same bracket in CA, you have to earn over $50K. CA tax rates are low for lower income people.

[0] It's a long story why I did this - it was not fun at all.
In my experience, I've accidentally heated lettuce when making some kind of salad which makes it really bitter. Because of that, I've thought of lettuce as only fresh food. Is that not the case then?
at this point, Paris needs to either massively transform itself ( higher buildings, larger roads, etc), which means destroying buildings in the center, like haussman did in the 19th century, or motivate people to just go live elsewhere.
No because multi-mthods don't have a self/this pointer as such, rather they are dispatched at runtime taking into account the actual types of each parameter.
Not all regions are equally polluted.
Imagine that's part of the challenge. Since python is dynamically typed/duck typed, it's hard to audit all usages of a variable. I.e. If I see a py2 string declared, how can I be 100% sure I don't break downstream components by making it a bytes or py3 unicode string? Some might be using it as the former, others the latter.

You'd need insane test coverage, of all possible code paths, to be 100% confident.
That’s basically table stakes for a senior engineer no? At that point you should ask for a bit more salary and a better bonus structure or RSUs
Many monitors have mount holes on the back, so you can get a desk attached monitor mount, and then try portrait orientation.

I tried to run with a configuration like this recently, but it didn't work out for me.
It is a controversial suggestion that doing only one exercise as much as possible is not a good idea? Maybe these are relevant:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/muscle-imb...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_imbalance
IIRC even digital streams sometimes include extra stuff on the edges for various technical reasons, with the assumption that the TV will hide it.
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Hi, I'm the maintainer of the csi-digitalocean driver. Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately "resizing" is still not supported by csi yet (the resizer sidecar is still in development), hence there is no way to provide the resize functionality to the customers. Once the `external-resizer` sidecar is finalized, it'll be part of the csi-digitalocean driver.

When you say dashboard, which dashboard do you mean? Happy to look at it. Thanks again for the feedback.
Globus IMP navigation instrument
The UK has lots of power if they don't desperately beg.

They should expect a plain exit. With that done, a good deal with the USA is possible. The threat of that could instead get them a great deal with the EU, and they may even do well with both.

Desperate begging is the current plan though... that won't end well.
Quite a few supermarkets in the UK have started selling "Wonky Veg":

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/05/asda-put...

https://www.wonkyvegboxes.co.uk/subscribe/
No, the environment is a disaster because we all consume way more than the planet can support.
Is this really high DPI though? I think it has to do with font sharpness. What I've noticed is that Windows and Mac OS X both have poor font smoothing at normal DPIs - blurry fonts are the norm. When I swap to a modern Linux desktop however, the fonts look very good at regular DPI. The difference is apparent.

You can also prove the sharpness effect to yourself by using bitmap fonts - they will look great on regular DPI monitors on any OS.
> Even if I had only a million dollars to freely spend, I would still choose to travel and make an impact where it counts

Travelling to remote places and doing things that feel impactful is generally an inefficient way to do good. I’m not criticising it per se. For edge-case problems, it’s the only solution. But if you want to enact change at scale, you’ll be doing it from the same places other human institutions enacting change at scale are.
Who cares?

This focus on rich people is a distraction from eliminating poverty. It's a stupid and simplistic solution just to take money from rich people. I wish Oxfam would stop stoking these silly socialist fires.
The worst part of this trend is that now that the touch UX is handled entirely in software, the remaining physical controls often are as well. In my 2018 Subaru Outback, for example, the physical volume knob doesn't work until the system has "booted" completely, even though it might already be blasting music or radio resumed from the last time it was shut down. So there's those 2-3 seconds where there's no way to reduce volume, mute, anything.
I've only had one take home assignment task that really worked like that. I did pretty good at it and the interview.

I was co-owner of a startup at the time, the guy I interviewed called me up and said you did really good but I think you really don't want to work here - my wife said 'Wow, that guy was really smart' considering how some things went later it might have been better if I'd said no I really really do
IoT: the human-machine interaction that unlocks new opportunities
You need to be a senior programmer: that means 20 - 35 years of experience. Provided you have that kind of experience you will easily be able to command that kind of a salary, although only in Western Europe and the United States. Writing from experience of working in both.
"For programming I didn’t care about having a high pixel density" → close tab.
Best displays for programming I find useful are ultra-wide matte displays such as the LG 29UM68-P with a 21:9 ratio. I love having tmux panes side by side. Having a second one placed vertically allows you to easily read entire pages of source code all at once.
Poorest 50% probably have close to zero networth. Maybe some may have some sort of "house," or property, but that's about it.

Another good point they make: VAT (sales tax in USA) is over 20% in a lot of countries. That's in addition to income tax, pension (SS) contributions etc etc. Basically, you pay at least 20% tax virtually on everything. The governments usually collect that at the customs point of entry, and then it is passed down to the ultimate buyers.
Candidates accept PAC money all the time. It has nothing to do with coordinating. These are donations to a campaign. Here's a list: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

See how Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, raked in almost $8mm in the last election cycle? That's because he'd have been Speaker if Republicans had held the House. Those $8mm in donations would've bought companies like Goldman Sachs, MetLife, Altria, and others plenty of phone calls with McCarthy. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors...
Inequality is irrelevant, the trick is to make poverty non desirable but at the same time comfortable. It would give them basic decency to not be exploited. Education resources (books/online courses) should also be provided for free.
I used to feel the same way until I realised the caliber of both the cyclists and drivers in the ACT meant that permitting riding on footpaths would save a considerable amount of lives.
That's what I feature on the blog, but you'll notice the right-hand side of app.programmingfonts.org is interactive. That's kinda hard to do with static images ;)
i read about an awesome breathing exercise here in hn some time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527251
Aren't things cheap if you go well to the west, almost to the coast and away from a rail station? Japan has rural areas. If people would live there, they could afford to have large families.
Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop
Lettuce soup is traditional in some countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce_soup

I'm not sure if heating actually increases the bitterness of lettuce, or just the perception of bitterness because the softer texture makes better contact with your tongue. I personally am not very sensitive to bitter tastes, but if you are, you could use a smaller portion. Easy portion control is another advantage of frozen vegetables, because you don't have to worry about the unused portion rotting.
Vertical is very nice for programming. But not great for other things (like putting two windows next to each other). In the past, my favorite setup was two vertical 30" next to each other but you need a fairly large desk for that. These days I just use a 32" in landscape and it's fine.