skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so we circle back around to the pointlessness of all meetings.

If it is as-needed to hash out an idea or determine the best way to fix something or to scope and point... that’s fine.

If it’s every day, twice a week, every MWF, etc. there is absolutely no way it’s actually necessary every one of those times and everyone is going to eventually defer to human nature and wait for the meeting to bring things up.

Part of that is natural and well intentioned - I’ve got the meeting in an hour, I won’t bother them yet, I’ll wait for it.

Part of that is natural and self-defeatist - if we already discussed everything then what will we discuss in the meeting?

The actual solution is to get rid of the meeting. The real solution is to just wait and discuss it all there. It’s like why I don’t call my mother the day before I go over to have dinner with her - we’re going to cover it all in the phone call and it’s going to be awkward silence while we eat.

And finally, if a standup is the best way you’ve found to make everyone feel like a team... there is no hope. That’s a really, really crappy way to make people feel included. Though that is what passes for team building at more places than not...
yeah, I thought the same. I don't like websites that require the sounds because these are videos.

However, infographics are nice if done well. This one is done well
I couldn't see the article, I probably disabled javascript on that site some time ago.

Luckily, with reader mode I had access to the text, though the images were left to my imagination.
Ask HN: How do you reconcile with working on something against your values?
The majority of my wealth comes from dumb luck working at a startup for 2 years that has done well though I found was not a net benefit to society.

I do not work there anymore, but I struggle with what I've enabled as an early member of the team.

Has anyone felt this way? How did you make peace with yourself?
They didn’t get UBI forever, they got it for a fixed amount of time. If they quit working, they would be shit out of luck when they money stopped flowing. It’s not a very useful experiment.

Really this is just basic economics though. Money has decreasing marginal utility. The first stack of cash you get pays rent, then food, then later on luxuries. For low income workers, the opportunity cost of not working is not being able to afford basic things. If that’s covered, there’s no reason to do a crappy job for low pay. You don’t even need to assume laziness. If cashiers now have their basic needs covered and want to go invest their time into improving their education, then the cost of cashiers goes up. If the cost of cashiers goes up, the cost of food goes up. If the cost of food goes up, the original UBI is now too low, so the cashiers need to stop pursuing education and get some money again. If an equilibrium exists, it’s going to be at the point where poor people need to work, because somebody needs to clean the toilets.
The incentives are also very messed up, because of the way commission is paid. Freakonomics [1] famously covered this:

Commission is typically 6%, which is split 4 ways to the buying agent, their agency, the selling agent and their agency. So your agent personally takes home 1.5% of the selling price -- on a $300,000 sale, they are making $4,500.

The difference between selling your house for $300,000 and $310,000 after commission is $9,400 in your pocket -- and a paltry $150 for the agent. Are they going to take the risk of leaving it on the market for an extra week (and spending more time showing it, etc) hoping to make an extra $150? Of course not. (Spoiler alert for the book: unless it's their own home, in which case they leave it on the market for an extra 10 days and sell for an extra 3% on average).

Another incentive problem exists on the buy-side: your agent gets paid more money the more you pay for the house. It's literally working against their interest to negotiate a lower price, other than when it's above your absolute maximum.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/books/#freakonomics
Yes we all know that, we're not stupid and the OP clearly knows that perfectly well too, but note his use of the word 'exist'. Real programs don't run on server farms located in Plato's Realm of Forms.
And 2GB RAM, 2GHz CPU.
They do have them at American military bases. There's one at KMMC on Ramstein Air Base for instance.
> "but [can also] find cancers that were never going to matter."

I'm not sure, but isn't better to know that you have it and then investigate further, do more tests, perhaps do some period follow-up with a shorter interval?

Otherwise it's just betting: I bet that I don't have a lung cancer that will be agressive....
We don't live in a fair society, and I think we all know that. I would not have experienced the same degree of success if I looked different or had an accent, even if the quality of my work was the same. There's nothing meaningful I can do with that information though.
That’s why it’s a common sentiment among the “taxation is theft” crowd that withholding should be eliminated and people should be writing a quarterly check to the IRS.

It’s also part of why price tags in the US almost never include sales tax.
I've personally switched bus trips to uber trips, depending on a bunch of criteria.

The major one being cost. IME uber most definitely increases the number of vehicles on the road.
Who is Michael Ovitz is a great read on the formation of CAA and (what was then) the new world of packaging. This has been going on for decades.
I feel like #NoEstimates has been a thing. I think #NoMethodology or #NoProcess is the next cool thing (Some might call it #GSD).
Ask HN : What Are the Alternatives to Upwork?
Recently Upwork announced that it will charge for bid in projects and restricted individual without company email, I would like to know what are the alternatives to Upwork now?
For comparison, I ran this on a $80/mo OVH dedicated server (SP-32 Server - E3-1270v6 - 32GB - SoftRaid 2x450GB SSD NVMe)

$ sudo su postgres
$ createdb bench_test
$ pgbench -i -s 10 bench_test
$ pgbench -c 10 -j 2 -T 3600 -P 60 bench_test
starting vacuum...end.
progress: 60.0 s, 9192.5 tps, lat 1.088 ms stddev 0.924
Idle NY tax thought -- it's wild that you have to file a NY return just because the company you work for is based there -- seems weird that other states put up with that (not that it takes revenues away, but seems like it forces an additional paperwork/accounting burden on them)
For someone claiming to be so educated, how can you make so many false statements?

Perhaps you should have a personal experience with them before going around just repeating what you read somewhere or from your imagination.
Sorry, but are you suggesting you don't benefit from roads if you don't personally drive on them? I haven't had my morning coffee yet but that's how I read your post.
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And even then, would they not be building on the 10nm process to develop the 7nm process to some extent?

No, they are very different processes.
On HN they call it Karma
> So if you have a potential call chain of dozens of methods, your error return includes every single possibility?

Mostly yes, usually as a sum type.

Pattern matching is your friend.

> the errors are massaged

Why would I take the extra effort?

Unless it's my responsibility to handle it (i.e. it's part of the function's logic) I will just return it untouched and let the consumer decide what to do (if anything at all).

> or placed untyped

That's not possible (at least in the typed languages I tried).
Seems like you're scared of changing jobs because you think there will inevitably be a gap between your old job and looking for your new job--this doesn't need be the case. You can start looking for other jobs while you work, and interview. You've got nothing to lose. This is a golden age for developers and mid thirties is YOUNG, not old. Just make sure you also pick up some in-demand tech or at least update your capabilities to be at least aware of what's "modern" as a lot has changed in 10 years depending on your focus area.
You don't believe those cars are? I don't get it. What's to believe or not?
disclaimer, I own a TM3 LR

With regards to the 35k TM3, the SR+ is such a superior deal that its a wonder they can make money on it. However for those in the market for any car, if less an five percent difference is make or break you are already in the wrong price range.

What is interesting that the Bolt, Soul, Niro, and Kona, are all priced the same or higher than a SR with models exceeding even the SR+. I think Tesla should have just taken the PR hit and dropped the SR for the SR+.

Still Tesla's problem may actually be an industry problem, as in EV enthusiasm is not near as high as many claim it to be and the market will quickly saturate for the lower end, as in 50k and below.
This is a good comparison. Imagine actors reading Yegge's blogs or the Java "in search of a nail" essay.

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
We keep up with technical developments around the world and this is good news. Valve improving VR world in general and provides usefull services for technical growing. There are other features. The application of AR in clients’ output must possess a comfortable design and the limitations of the technology platform. An AR product depends on the involvement of users and the interconnection between the future consumer and the structure. I prefer it IMAO
I disagree slightly. It's interesting the connections, google chats, calls, etc that have spawned from someone just seeing a random comment or commit I've done on Github. I'm definitely not a heavier contributor and have seen the effects. That may be more than your definition of passive though.
They may be referring to the Republicans' decades-long campaign to suffocate the IRS, which has resulted in more audits for the poor and fewer for the rich, more easily allowing wealthy taxpayers to drag them on past the 10-year statue of limitations: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
That friction presents an interesting set of problems.

One aspect of the current housing crisis, at least as it exists here in California, is that young people increasingly rent instead of owning.

A generation ago home ownership would be a form of lock-in for “legacy” cities. High rents and low home ownership suggest that this lock-in is less of a factor.
There is still a legal apparatus around that domain name. It’s an asset.

Good luck trying to argue in a court that your Instagram path is your legal asset and not Instagrams.
They may argue for that, but they also argue for a dramatic reduction in taxes overall, in terms of the number of different types, the rates, and the total amount of revenue raised.
Liftoff is similar in concept to Gatsby... generate static HTML from a data source... but Liftoff is simpler to get up and running for its specific use case. It does not support tags, searching, or other features that are supported by Gatsby's plugins.

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
It does have some similarities, mostly in the sense that both are using a Python-esque syntax, but that doesn't mean they have similar semantics.

Some difference off the top of my head:

- Nim so far has been a GC-ed language (I know manual allocation is possible, and an ownership system is planned, but this was the default for most code so far). Lobster has been reference counted (and now compile time reference counted) from the start. Nims proposed ownership system is pretty cool, but still requires a fair bit of programmer cooperation, in that sense it will sit somewhere between Rust and Lobster in terms of programmer friendlyness.

- Lobster has a type inference algorithm that is able to go further than most languages in terms of allowing code without types to "just work". Nim has nothing even remotely like this.

- Nim is faster. Nim was designed for near native speeds from the start, Lobster started life a very high level language that slowly become more low level. There's nothing that prevents Lobster being as fast as Nim, it just will take a bit more time.

- Nim is more mature, in the sense that it has been around longer, has more libraries and tooling etc, and a larger community.

- Lobster has great support for programming with higher order functions: terse syntax, best possible type inference, zero overhead (compared to manual loops), non-local returns etc.

So in summary I'd choose Lobster over Nim if you care about Lobsters type and memory management or higher order function features, or if you like the idea of a language that makes games/graphics out of the box easier. If you just want to "get the job done", Nim probably is ahead of Lobster at the moment :)
What about the impact on the person for the false positive? Taking a new position can be hugely disruptive for someone, so making sure they are a fit (both directions) seems like the respectful thing to do.
> it would have taken a year to fill our existing open headcount

Maybe open an office in a different location or hire remote?
As an engineer who needs to work in order to eat and keep a roof over my head, my effective tax rate is more than double that of someone who doesn't need to work because they live off of capital gains, dividends or inheritance.
thank you so much for this comment - what a relief to see this among all of the "idc about statistics, my observations tell me crime is way up" and "crime is only down because of prop 47"...
I think if this was masquerading as journalism I'd agree with you but it's even categorized under "Essays and Memoir" which I think is pretty accurate. It's not objective news reporting as much as weaving a tale from a subjective viewpoint, conveying an interesting series of anecdotes.
Really? You can file for free with EZ file if you make less than $65K. Or do you consider people making >$65K poor?
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, as I understand it, applies quite broadly to voting systems. To put it simply, you can’t avoid it. You just decide what trade offs you want to live with.
you don't have to file a NY return if you didn't live in NY during the tax year.
But "≥800m" could be anything from "some 800 and even a 1.5k" (sub 5 minute efforts) to "mostly marathon and some ultramarathon" (multiple hours). Swimming tops out at 1.5k, which would be a sub twenty minute effort for world class athletes. The longer ones are clearly anaerobic efforts, but still a long shot from endurance disciplines. Except for those six individuals who might run utramarathons or 800 meters, we don't know.

The study is nicely apples/apples if those six are well within the track running range (800, 1.5k, 5k, even 10k would be close enough in duration to 1.5k swimming which is the longest subdiscipline there), but if there are road endurance runners in the group, they will likely skew everything from a comparison between running and swimming to a badly made comparison between athletes aiming at multi-hours efforts and athletes aiming at minutes or even seconds.
For this to be useful at scale, you will need to not just design this for good-faith users, but also against bad-faith actors. If this catches on, it will become a target of coordinated disinformation campaigns. Have you been thinking about what to do against that?
Great. We start a lot of companies while the lives of people in and also around those companies are destroyed by them. I don't understand this fetish for businesses that mostly destroy people's lives while not even providing a living wage in most cases. That's not something to brag about; that's something to be ashamed about as a society and a culture. It's not just the employees, but everyone's lives that are affected. We let these businesses pollute and get away with murder and when we try to change them, we can't because we let them write our laws and buy our politicians. In most places lobbying is called bribing and corruption. It still happens but at least it's not legal. If you think starting companies is the epitome of what a society can do, that's a sad state of affairs and a shortsighted view of the effects. But I bet you think you'll be the CEO and what happens to everyone else doesn't matter because you'll have a cushy life. Exactly the typical American viewpoint this article decries. Just a bunch of embarrassed millionaires (or should it be billionaires now?) indeed.
What bothers me about HN is how people here are afraid to criticize the Chinese government and their authoritarian regime. We should be fearlessly talking about it. What happens here is the “softening” of opinions either by A) Comparing with America B) Somehow justifying authoritarian governments by observing success and economic progress in Shanghai/Shenzhen.

I feel that Googlers inside of Google has the same type of environment but with combined strong business justification to oppose project DragonFly.

HN is one of the most intellectual communities in the internet, I love reading comments just about anything here. Except for this topic - I despise HN in this regard.

In the past, I was told by moderators to not post any inciting comments that are about China because it ends up being USA vs China. What a shame...While I agree that the conversation becomes toxic, what’s the point of a community where I cannot freely express criticism of a government that takes a lot of risk by real journalists to put stories like this in front of the world.
If you wanted to make taxes hurt and have political consequences, you wouldn't necessarily put them exactly on the opposite side of the calendar from elections. (Unless you also wanted to maximize the public's frustration about doing them)
I wouldn't call contributions passive.
Modern plants don't need to be decommissioned. All parts are fully replaceable. Additionally, the point about maintaining older reactors isn't entirely relevant if we are talking about building new ones.

With regards to capital construction costs, there are a number of factors in western countries that seem to drive up costs, and there is a lot of debate around the relative impact of unnecessary litigation that delays project construction, and the enforcement of safety regulations that were designed for older reactors.

There is no arguing which energy source China is investing in most - they have approximately 25 reactors under construction right now.
I think that the cost to the wealthy person is understated because of the opportunity cost of their time/resources. The fact that wealthy people don’t do this now without congestion pricing makes it unlikely that they would do so with an additional cost applied.
I'm disappointed that motorcycles/scooters and lane splitting aren't brought into the conversation more when discussions about traffic congestion come up. It feels like a win/win for nearly everyone to promote two wheeled transportation and allow them to split lanes or filter through traffic. Those who do not want to ever ride on two wheels still get the benefit of others doing so and essentially taking themselves out of the traffic queue. There's also been studies about how allowing lane splitting/filtering are ultimately safer for the riders too.
I am. It is extremely fit for purpose. What do you think is wrong with it?
Call me a pedant, but I'd say OP is enabling "consensus checking"

I find the present day's fact checking wave is a misnomer. In a world where something is false, but sourced, most of what we call fact-checking would only reinforce mistruths.

e.g.

The ratio of circumference to diameter is exactly three to one [1][2][3]

[1]: the Bible.
[2]: pious scholars.
[3]: low-tech experiments.

Would be cool to see someone think carefully about what "real" "fact checking" would be. First-hand sources? Links to instructions for replicating findings?

Consensus checking is of course also an interesting problem, albeit a pretty different one.
In the movie about 4 students winning the underwater vehicle contest, the MIT team was dinged for not defining the MIT acronym.

https://www.wired.com/2014/12/4-mexican-immigrant-kids-cheap...
I used to do IT work for a very large (>5000 employee) tax/audit firm. They sent out memos at the time telling associates to encourage Obamacare as much as possible in their communities, and to encourage amendments making it more complex, because then they got to bill $250/hour per person to help companies unravel that complexity... I am very glad I am no longer there.
Thanks a lot. I agree copper will probably not last long but maybe some HDPE flexible pipe would work.
There's been a lot of threads like this recently that discuss changing the hiring process to more closely resemble day to day work and working with an actual codebase.

My question is how does this work for new grads and people that haven't worked in the industry before? Are they using these new techniques to hire recent graduates/people that haven't worked as a software dev before? Does this kind of process adversely effect those who haven't worked as a software dev before?

I'm not trying to say that algorithmic/leetcode type problems are a better solution, but rather questioning whether this form of interviewing has some kind of bias.
The thing with internet content is that it's indexable and it's possible for every person interested to check it out. If you have boxes stored in some shed - it's much less so.
FICA alone is 15.3% starting from the first dollar earned. Add in local income and sales tax and I don’t see how anyone who earns money could be paying a single digit rate.
That’s been my experience reporting any kind of bug with the PHP core team. It really is a pain in the neck.
> All you need to know is what exceptions you can handle

Ah, so that's "all" I need to know!

And that's what typed errors do.
I appreciate your opinion, but I want to point out that our definitions of fairness and simplicity may vary. Much of scholarly work around elections systems strives to ground itself on particular formal criteria.
Or you could just let the language do it, as do Commonlisp and C++.
the control surfaces have less authority than the trim. original spec called for less mcas authority, but it was increased later without much consideration.
I’m in the exact same position as you (first year filing taxes in CH as a US citizen). I filed for an extension because I’m waiting for AHV to be resolved due to some ambiguities in my tax status (employed vs self employed), but I’ve read the paper form and it’s so straightforward. My friends here are so confused when I talk about US taxes and ask questions from that perspective—my questions make no sense because it’s just obvious how to do here vs the US where you have to hunt for every tiny little detail.

If you ever want to meet up and compare notes as a US expat in CH, let me know! Email in profile.
Emoji work because they're optional. If people were forced to communicate exclusively in emoji to use some particular software, most potential users aren't going to bother with the effort and will choose a competitor instead.
can you explain how taxes redistribute money? Because most of the beneficiaries of government spending are already rich.
An unusual class of molecules could revolutionise the electronics industry
For those wondering where this number came from, here's[0] an article with more details.

[0] https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/nys-leaky-gas-taxe...
Yes, that is how it usually goes, you exchange code performance for compiling performance but my point (a couple messages above) is that most of the time this performance is perfectly fine and it is only a tiny part of the codebase that may need the extra low level optimizations that LLVM and GCC can do (if it needs it at all). Of course this is a generality, the specifics depend on the project (chances are, the rendering parts of a CPU-based raytracer for CGI movies will need these optimizations much more than most projects, whereas a file manager most likely wont need them at all).
"open source" is not the right term and also is not a verb.

"transparency" is the word you are looking for. It's more general and predates "open source" by far.