skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that whole expenditure sheet is absolutely insane. $2K mortgage/$1.9K interest? You've gotta be shitting me.

I'm sorry but, if you're paying that much for a house (and everything else) that $300K is "paycheck to paycheck" then it's time to re-evaluate where you live. All of those costs could be cut completely in half, at the very least.

Budgets are funny, as every single person is different and yet thinks they have it figured out. I also recognize the irony in my previous statement.
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If your friend has proof of the "you're too old" response and is at all litigious, that's a slam dunk age discrimination lawsuit. Like, instant settlment.
> Yes they were expensive, but clients knew they could rely on someone from Oracle fix bugs or give guidance.

Not sure how true that is. Plenty of horror stories around of Oracle bugs not being fixed.
I get this experience on my own VPS with Dokku, mostly. I thought Netlify’s big bonus is their CDN and pricing?
Remember that the resolution of the data increases with time: ice cores, etc, give a resolution much less than second-by-second temperature data today.

Comparing rate change from millions of years ago to today over days/weeks/months/years is impossible.
Considering that Netlify is handling the #1 HN traffic just fine, I’d guess something else is at play.
Just do the same thing you did to handle the overpopulation scare in the 80s.
Not for personal accounts, but if you own a small business that does a lot of cash transactions, you will inevitably spend a lot of time at the bank.

Anecdata: My local branch nearly always has a line 2-3 people deep with 3-4 tellers when I need to nip in.
> Obviously this isn't the case, but I do find it curious that the market doesn't seem to prove a strong enough incentive for the people making hiring decisions to overcome their biases.

Or the biases just aren't there in the way somebody from the outside perceives them, or the market would very much take care of it. This kind of reasoning ("the fundamental market mechanics totally don't apply" vs "my perception is probably flawed and things aren't as easy as they seem") reminds me of most people's early reactions when they encounter bugs: "this must be a bug in the OS/compiler/interpreter" vs "I must've made a mistake/misunderstood something". With more experience, they usually find out that it's somewhat unlikely to be the first person to encounter a super weird bug, and very likely to make mistakes.
Older workers expect higher wages and are less willing to tolerate unpaid overtime. They're harder to bullshit with cheap "perks" like foosball tables and beer on Friday. An experienced developer might be better, but who cares when you can get two junior devs for the same price and they'll work 14 hour days during your quarterly "crunch"?

Bad managers operate on the assumption that writing software is like making widgets - it's just a matter of man-hours. They don't believe in the 10x developer, they don't even believe in the 1.1x developer; their employees are just meat in a seat.
Isn't that what science is based upon though? We can only make assumptions based upon observed results. You can extrapolate and then test based upon those extrapolations, and we can acknowledge that there are gaps, but I don't think someone saying "wow, that didn't meet my expectations at all" in any way discredits science.
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From a developer perspective, deploying a docker container with a plain http server is much more appealing than the hoops you have to jump through to use the lambda custom runtime stuff. I hope this gets AWS to provide a docker on lambda option.
We are talking about new nuclear reactor designs, not like the ones from the 50s. And frankly nuclear plants, even with their disasters, have killed very few people compared to all other sources of energy.
"You can only escape it with a perfectly rigid, perfectly spherical object, on a perfectly flat surface."

An approximate description of a train.
Bitcoin has earned a lot of the blame here:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mi...

>one transaction now uses as much energy as your house in a week

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/bitcoin-e...

>In November, the power consumed by the entire bitcoin network was estimated to be higher than that of the Republic of Ireland. Since then, its demands have only grown. It’s now on pace to use just over 42TWh of electricity in a year, placing it ahead of New Zealand and Hungary and just behind Peru.
It's not like we have been wrong about this a hundred and twenty-three times before.

In 2014, "science" was telling us for sure that the big lakes would go dry in just a few years due to climate change effects [0].

It is 2019 now and the same lakes that were disappearing, less than five years ago, are now reaching record levels [1].

If something is wrong, someone has to do something, right? We can't just sit on our asses and wait. Hey, government! Go do something!

[0] - https://thinkprogress.org/the-great-lakes-go-dry-how-one-fif...
[1] - https://www.weather.gov/mkx/highlakemichiganwaterlevel
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We didn't care that we were not able to create 1:1 replacement jobs when we stopped making buggies and started making cars. I doubt the system will care this time either. I agree with you that convincing people to support these changes would be hard, but fortunately the economy will shift regardless of what the losers want. Electric vehicles are simply better, as are renewable energy sources and other growing technologies. What I'm more worried about is people voting for authoritarians that will artificially prop up dinosaur technology like coal power stations.
Right, but a lot of properties you probably don't want animated, and modern frameworks also reuse dom elements sometimes, so it might create a lot of lag and weird transitions between elements that you didn't foresee.
Matt & Mike, so excited! Gonna check out the session and sign up for the alpha!!!
I have two definitions of politics, to help me think about this. The traditional and perjorative "theater meant to influence a goal" definition, as well as the "earnest, often unconscious, dynamics of a relationship." It is easy to want to avoid the first, but the second is ubiquitous unless you are a self-sufficient hermit.
Netlify Dev has a live sharing feature to let others view the site on your local environment.
> A little bit like the US maybe?

One way humans learn to be less awful is when they observe the same bad behaviors they've been engaging in on their rivals or frenemies.

The opposite seems to be true in corporations and nation-states: any bad behavior by a competitor is an excuse to adopt the same practice and lobby for lax laws when regulations prevent that; competitiveness trumping societal sustainability.
Get competing offers from a few big tech cos at the same time. You will clear 300k. So basically, master leetcode
It's worth noting that the course brings women even with men unless men take the course too:

Sorby’s program, for example, improved the spatial skills of male engineering students as well, boosting their scores on tests. Because they start out ahead of their female counterparts, their gains often put them ahead on spatial cognition tests after the course.
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That recruiter should have been praised for his honesty... I would have interpreted that as a warning for a company full of twenty-something imbeciles.

No one wants to be an unpaid part-time kindergarten teacher in addition to the normal job.

Culture fit is a problem with younger colleges only when "culture" implies "juvenile behaviour".
>(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google.)

Is that relevant?
I think #2 is the strongest case. Wendover Productions talked about that a lot, how you can have 6 different prices for the same flight. #4 is terrible, that's not competition, its warfare. Again Wendover talked about something similar. Icelandair tried going to Dallas, so American immediately began a Dallas route to make their competitor suffer. That may technically be "competition", but the spirit of it is malicious.

I think we should revert to the hub and spoke system. Have huge jets that do nothing but travel between hubs all day. Let the business people have their half, and let the cattle buy essentially last-minute bus-tickets to traverse the country. Then book your ticket from the hub to home. Even though that's inefficient compared to direct routing, a 2 or 3 hour ground delay costs the same (in time) as going from CHI->LAX and then backtracking to phoenix or vegas to your final destination.

Another thing I think could work would be "JIT" routing. where you dont even know where your connections will be, until the day you fly. then you could have sudden, "ad-hoc hubs" that suit that particular day's distribution of travelers. Each morning a huge rack of computers could solve that day's "travelling-salesman problem" of weather, demand, location of aircraft, etc and come up with an optimal solution. people wouldn't like this at first, becuase of fear of the unknown, but I suspect it would lead to monumental increases in efficiency.
He wasn’t being paid, he gave examples where he had to cover for the guy’s rent.
No matter what, you will always be using software and systems controlled by other entities. From you web browser, to the operating system, the data transport links, routers and switches in between, and when the data gets to the destination the software is typically written and maintained by commercial contractors hired by the government.
Docs are still a bit rough, but the README here should help:

https://github.com/netlify/netlify-dev-plugin#project-detect...
Cloud Run prevents privilege escalation by using gVisor as sandbox technology. Each container has its own isolated user-space kernel from the host.

(Disclaimer: I am Cloud Run dev)
I googled it and the quote "In a 15-minute taxi between gate and runway, a Boeing 747 can burn about a tonne of fuel." seems to pop up a lot. So not exactly nothing. So, reducing the average span off time between engine start and take off could quite literally save tonnes of fuel.

Of course they consume more after they take off and in holding patterns. But sounds like there's some gains to be made here.
Sure, but there isn't a gun to your head. Use mysql or postgres on each provider if you're worried about that.
he already provides link to cdn. it seems that the parent didn't like that it was too long.
As someone who has tried various Linux distros, switched to Mac, switched back to Linux, and finally settled on OpenBSD, I will weigh in.

I moved away from Mac due to issues with hardware quality, and also the poor quality of recent macOS release.

That said, I would rate macOS highly on it's usability for office tasks -- managing emails and calendar events, coordinating across different messaging platforms (iMessage is very useful), and so on. It's also best among all the platforms, in my view, with respect to consistency of UI across different applications.

If you're expecting tight integration and consistent UI design across a variety of (GUI) applications, you will likely find Linux (and BSD, for that matter) to be disappointing.

On the other hand, Linux is generally more pleasant to develop code on in my experience. This somewhat depends on your language of choice, but lots of tools are written for Linux first and ported to other platforms like macOS later (case in point: Docker).

Linux hardware support is much better than it once was. With a careful choice of laptop, you can get a fairly recent machine that will have working 3d acceleration, wifi, and suspend/resume out of the box under modern Linux. In many cases, I have found the hardware support of Linux to be better than that of macOS (I had a lot of trouble with suspend and resume on my last Mac, as an example).

I would suggest running Linux in some capacity (VM, dual boot, etc.) for a while to see if you like it and if you can make it work for your use case before dropping a lot of money on it.

I will say, having once owned (and now sold) a touchbar MBP, I would not recommend any of the models in that family at any price point.
It is not really about certain countries having more control than others. Germany has the largest population in the EU, and since MEPs apportionment is proportional to population, 99 out of 785 MEPs are German. It's a matter of demographics.
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I'm basically with you here.

There is a reality that no one wants to admit - for some sizable percentage of the population, a 'job easily replaced by automation' is the best they can hope for in life - they're either not smart enough, not driven enough, or have some other issue preventing them from being a rocket scientist - beyond that, there is a limited societal need for highly educated workers - but we have lots of jobs that need just need doing, and are every bit as important, both for societal cohesion and for the fact that they need done - we need to pay those people a fair and living wage.

It comes down to a question - are we as a society willing to pay people to not work - not just starvation - but pay them a fair and reasonable wage for doing nothing - or do we as a society expect to try to get as close to a fair and living wage as possible for everyone no matter how much value they add - provided they are doing some sort of reasonable amount of work - this is the real question posited by automation.
I'm torn here.

On one hand, I understand what you're saying. For example, I'm a big fan of Evangelion, and there's a decent amount of meta context to be aware about when going into that series.

On the other hand, I think we need fresh (and even naive) looks at these older works. Shenmue, Evangelion, etc -- they should be continually reevaluated and challenged. That's the difference between a living fandom and an echo chamber of folks smelling their own farts.
I have not and if that's true, that's fucked up and why I'm a libertarian.

In the context of this argument, I think it's worth distinguishing between private and public actions. People have the right to be racist, governments don't.
You can always work in the military industrial complex. Lot’s of gray hair, including myself. Most under 35 don’t know WTF they are doing anyway; sometimes amusing to watch them flop, then $$$ for me to fix their mess.
This would make a good study in Economics:

1. Given Large supply of Developers as compared to Demand.

1.1 What causes Poor Software Quality Control and Poor hiring practices(resume padding or tech hiring offloaded to non techies)?

Are things like Long/Odd Working hours, Poor wages(race to the bottom), Talent flight and High attrition rate, Poor productivity etc just enforcing a vicious cycle till things hit some sort of equilibrium(software that just works and is barely maintainable and business margin is based on things like PPP between countries)?

1.2 How do good things come about; Like Decent/Good Software Quality Control, Good Hiring practices? Perhaps these cases have just okayish wages but poor working hours/balance? And there is an implicit bias towards a Younger talent pool because of focus on productivity.

2. Given short supply of workers as compared to Demand I have seen similarities to 1.1 and 1.2, the only difference is that people have options and always gravitates towards better employers and work conditions; the wages are overall much better than case 1 period. There are still many interesting economic questions to be answered here, but likely different, more specialized ones as compared to (1).
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> I think it will be a shame if we have mass immigration and no borders - the rich differences between us will dissolve into one globalised, corporatised, undifferentiable and utterly debased culture.

I see this a lot and I'm skeptical of the argument's force. Arguably, this is already happening and has almost totally already 'happened' with the expansion of capital (particularly Western capital) and capital's nature as a homogenizing force in which every aspect of society must be commodified and sellable - any use of time which cannot be commodified is therefore useless time in the eyes of capital, and worse, an "opportunity cost". So the culture we are left with around the world is only the culture that could be commodified - that is to say, it is culture that didn't speak out too strongly against this unifying force. I'd argue that capital's indifference to the qualitative aspects differentiating one culture from another leads to a monoculture in the first place. When everyone is selling culture, those same sellers will switch to whatever is the most profitable at the time and abandon whatever they were selling before, even if it was "genuine culture". I'm not saying it happens all the time - some individuals have the nerve to stand up to capital, but few succeed. As a famous German philosopher once said, considered as a process of history, we can't hold these individuals responsible for the society they foster, however much they may try and subjectively raise themselves above them.

It doesn't make much sense to analyze the possible cultural effects of an "open borders" policy under the totality of capital - whatever culture looks like (and indeed how people act about it) in a post-capital world will be radically different to how it looks today. What would the pressure for homogenization and commodification be in a world without capital? At first glance, it seems like such a pressure would not exist.
>Every year, I have to dig up receipts for what we spent on daycare, what we spent out of our HSA accounts, etc. The government doesn't track any of that.

Aside from the daycare costs (as an aside, creche in Ireland is quite decent[0]), isn't all of that is still reported to the IRS? Your HSA isn't sitting in some dark corner that the government doesn't know about, ever since the Patriot Act, yeah?

I'm fairly certain it is reported to the IRS because Americans find getting bank accounts overseas quite cumbersome because your government strong-arms agreements that demand that Americans' overseas bank accounts are reported to the IRS. Surely, more domestic reporting shouldn't come as a surprise or shock.

>I guarantee you that if you make false statements using Ireland's online system for claiming tax credits, you're under penalty of perjury as well.

What do I get for a broken guarantee[1]? :)

This batering back and forth really only arrives at the conclusion that I originally posited:

Those of us in the PAYE system[s] would abhor having to do things the American way and this wasn't meant as an affront (and I apologise if anyone may have taken it that way).

Our tax agencies are responsible for keeping track of these things and the only things we're responsible for is reporting status changes and/or providing receipts for other proofs of burden (such as Independent Contractors who file as Directors of Umbrella Corporations and need to write-off business expenses).

[0] - https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/pre_school_e...

[1] - https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-e...
Consider an alternative angle - Companies, as rational actors, will eliminate automatable positions. Unless you're suggesting some sort of deliberate intervention to save these jobs, they're gone.

The next question is how do we assist those displaced by automation. There are multiple proposals including UBI and its ilk, but the most palatable bipartisan idea is to find them new jobs.

The idea of finding 'better' jobs with more agency, etc. is not immensely new - it draws from organization research on employee fulfillment and productivity.

Overall, no one is saying that any specifically displaced individual needs to take up <new job> in some sort of imagined totalitarian state - they're perfectly free to choose a new job from the market. The only question is one of skills and motivation.
Majority of large tech firms have dev. offices in EU and India so they sure can take advantage of this.
I guess Hacker News community doesn't like jokes.
Most professional software development is about working with a local (your team/the people you directly collaborate with) and global (your stack’s ecosystem) community as much as it is about writing code, so it stands to reason that a high visibility social characteristic like gender identity might affect other aspects of the professional experience.

Case in point, demographic information like gender identity is a useful feature to contextualize or find patterns in the data — like how the blog post points out that more than half of respondents wrote their first line of code before age 16, but that this statistic varies by gender and country.

If it really doesn’t matter, it will be borne out in the statistics (i.e. the gender identity feature will give you no additional information).
The dissidents of the future will be the ones who turn off spellcheck.
My understanding is that we're working on having Cloud Build support Tekton [1,2] (which is where the Knative Build API now lives)

[1] https://tekton.dev/
[2] https://cloud.google.com/tekton/
I don't think so personally, because the game is something that should be experienced. Just reading about it, is like reading about food.

I'm not saying don't read it, I'm saying if you want to play the game, consider playing it without preconceptions.
This can very much be a thing. Azure was originally built to look how many IT orgs deployed and managed their windows based infrastructure. It made it less scary to move into Azure, as opposed to AWS.

You can also see this in healthcare with Epic. They use absolutely bizarre names for everything to the point that it is hard for organizations using Epic to talk to organizations using other EHRs, or for employees to move between them. And since they have an absolute stranglehold on training and documentation, you basically have to go through them to be indoctrinated.

Folks have a real fear of change and learning is viewed as difficult and/or annoying. This can create considerable inertia that you can exploit.
I like it! Particularly as someone not that familiar with the geography of The Shire or surrounding areas, having only really read the books, makes me wanna break out a map and see how it lays out.

Sure enough: http://lotrproject.com/map/#zoom=3&lat=-1691&lon=1500&layers...
I jumped to Netlify after I had my static site on s3 and thought to myself "securing it through letsencrypt could be nice" and after 3 hours I couldn't get it working, so I ported the site over to Netlify in ~15 mins including the lets-encrypt integration and pointing the domain over.
Indeed. My connection coincidentally happened to slow to a crawl, allowing me to submit a comment, but not load a page!
The implication was that these groups probably mostly consist of scammers scamming scammers and may act to deter the kind of cybercrime which actually affects innocent people.
MEPs are not directly proportional to population, but degressively so, where the smallest countries have more and the largest countries have less representation than they would on a purely proportional basis. But this is about Sweden's vote in the Council, where each country casts a vote as a country, but that vote is weighted by that country's population.
> If a tool is misused, it's generally because it's hard to use correctly.

Citation needed.

Tools get misused all the time. If I use a flat bladed screw driver as a pry bar/chisel/whatever, that doesn't mean the flat bladed screw driver is hard to use.
This doesn't make sense to me.

I don't get the allure of AWS, but Azure definitely knows how to hook into Enterprise infrastructure. I don't know what GCP "doesn't have" for the Enterprise.
The ISS is crawling with nasty bacteria