skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they only have $120K budget, they are interviewing for relatively junior positions in this area and at this time, and thus they are mostly going to get young people interviewing.

I mean, a lot of times this is coded in the job descriptions. "rockstar ninja" "10x engineer" or similar words generally mean they are unable to pay experienced people wages and are looking for someone new to do the work of an experienced person.

A lot of people think this is bad, as it almost always implies overwork, but I have mixed feelings. My first programming job? I was 17, no education, and I was hired as a "Staff Programmer" but only paid slightly under $40K (this was in '97, so while that was great money for a 17 year old, that was... not market rate for an experienced engineer, much less a "staff" level title.)

In a lot of ways it was a great experience for me. My shitty C code ran on production and in turns vastly improved and degraded user experiences for literally millions of people. For a company that wants to 'roll the dice' - I was probably a good deal, 'cause I did some pretty amazing things. (in both directions, really... but it did work out well sometimes?)

(I can't find the quote right now... by Vixie; something about how many CERT notices he was responsible for, and how it showed that in his youth, he could code, but he didn't learn to manage risk until later.)

But, I mean, my experience of the valley (and SF is not silicon valley, but it is... adjacent.) is that startups hiring young people can partly be explained by the phenomena that startups aren't willing to pay market rate for someone with experience; even at my age, I see pressure to move to management.

If something bad happened and I had to work at a startup again, one of the big tells I'd look for would be the number of older engineers that are working as direct hires (not contractors); This is usually a good indicator that they are willing to pay reasonably.
How..?
Mr Robot Season 4 Promo
Mr Robot Season 4 Promo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIOApqA7qJY
> We track all the properties in our portfolio daily. Any on paper depreciation will result in us depositing funds into the 3rd party account. Whenever a property price moves above the original purchase price on paper, we will withdraw any previously deposited fund. This on-going process along with the hedging instruments are what allows us to guarantee the downside protection.

So how does it work if your system values a property above what it's actually able to sell for? It sounds like so long as you value the property at or above the initial purchase price, there is $0 set aside to pay out any loss of value claims. If the owner sells into a falling market, and needs to sell for less than the initial price how can you pay out? Why wouldnt they just take any price they can get if they have 100% downside protection?

Moreso - if the overall housing market is falling, how does the business survive if all of your customers sell at a loss? I can't think why someone wouldn't sell if they have 100% downside protection and can then move into a cheaper home.
It’s ridiculous to expect him to add an opportunity cost to a concrete cost in this example. They’re different units, even if they can be expressed nominally in dollars. He described both in their own terms, it doesn’t invalidate his claim.
And by extension the FSF and free software in general.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Nun#'The_past')
> this contributes to the notion that LISP/Schema/Lambda Calculus were "discovered", not that Lambda calculus has an explicit pedigree.

That notion is wrong (at least with a very high likelihood), and it's usually stated by people who fetishize the lambda calculus but know little of its long evolution. It's just your ordinary case (of hubris) where people aesthetically drawn to something describe it as inevitable or even a law of nature. And I know it's wrong in part because of the following quote:

> We do not attach any character of uniqueness or absolute truth to any particular system of logic. The entities of formal logic are abstractions, invented because of their use in describing and systematizing facts of experience or observation, and their properties, determined in rough outline by this intended use, depend for their exact character on the arbitrary choice of the inventor.

This quote is by the American logician Alonzo Church (1903-1995) in his 1932 paper, A Set of Postulates for the Foundation of Logic, and it appears as an introduction to the invention Church first described in that paper: the (untyped) lambda calculus [1].

The simpler explanation, which has the added benefit of also being true, or at least supported by plentiful evidence, is that the lambda calculus was invented as a step in a long line of research, tradition and aesthetics, and so others exposed to it could have (and did) invent similar things.

If you're interested in the real history of the evolution of formal logic and computation (and algebra) you can find the above quote, and many others, in a 300-page anthology of (mostly) primary sources that I composed about a year and a half ago [2]. They describe the meticulous, intentional invention of various formalisms over the centuries, as well as aesthetic concerns that have led some to prefer one formalism over another.

[1]: Actually, in that paper, what would become the lambda calculus is presented as the proof calculus for a logic that was later proven unsound. The calculus itself was then extracted and used in Church's more famous 1936 paper, An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory in an almost-successful attempt to describe the essence of computation. That feat was finally achieved by Turing a few months later.

[2]: https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
I'm surprised you don't know that Taiwan never renounced their authority over mainland China.
Hacker News Quine
Taken from a Reddit thread:

"If you're talking about this picture, it is tagged as "white" because of the background colour."

As usual, Occam's Razor applies here. Just imagine for a second that Google sent out a specific instruction to employees that they wanted to alter the algorithm so that a search for "white american family" returns mixed-race couples. Imagine the number of employees that would see a code commit like that, or otherwise be involved in the decision. Do you really think that not a single person would have blown the whistle?
> ...thought that they could model him as a rational actor

That's more optimistic than 'let's assume spherical cow in vacuum'
Project veritas leaked a candid, hidden camera chat with Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, where, essentially, she and an engineer shamelessly describe using ML to manipulate search results to better align them with the reality that they would like society to adopt, i.e., a strongly left leaning agenda. Among other topics, she specifically mentioned that Google is working against "another 2016 situation" (regarding the election of Trump). The clips in this video stand on their own-there is no context which mitigates the fact that Google is injecting political bias into its search results. In an interview with a whistleblower in the same video[1], claims of blacklisted autocomplete terms are also implied to be part of search curation.

Given Google's status as the defacto gateway to information for the majority of the first world, this kind of meddling with queries and query results should be cause for concern, regardless of one's political leaning. Ironically, the video was taken down from YouTube.

Note: I don't appreciate the bias of the following source either, but the content is damning on its own.

1.https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whis...
I shoot outside with manual flashes. AP would do me no good without eTTL which my flashes don’t support. It’s not all that difficult to use manual settings outdoors.
Direct link to the (open access) paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaax1157
Off topic here, but reading this text blob, would it hurt HN to increase line-height a smidge? Like to ~1.5x? That would be 13pt and SO much easier to digest.
If I bought Tumblr in a $3 million fire sale, I don't think I'd keep 200 employees on the payroll, but yes, it combined with the tax write-off and infrastructure costs it's reasonable for Yahoo to want to dump it as fast as possible—they could easily be losing $5M a month on it. I'm just shocked there aren't more opportunists in the market that would have bid the price up to at least something resembling reasonable. That being said, even an extremely well-executed turn-around could be 6 months until break-even, which would require potentially upfront $30 million in losses, in which context the sale price is insignificant, and so the question becomes who has web business expertise + $30 million in cash to burn and desire to confidently make a $15-20 million annual profit business a year or two out. Apparently, not many people/companies.
> Android setup screen is completely Google's prerogative

I believe the EU antitrust rule disagrees.
Pretty well designed machines
You can do it yourself via Stylus extension, I have solarized dark theme applied.
27 years old makes $5k/month reviewing health products
1337 - self-explanatory
Mastodon is great, and open. I like the community there more than Twitter's.
Sure, but they made sure to investigate this worrying case of HIPAA violation by asking department heads for comments and seeing if they are looking to find the leaker. In other words, amongst all the things to investigate around Epstein that particular one seems like an odd choice.
There was also a Chlamydia breakthrough. Good week indeed!
The 3d images remind me of something I put together a while back, showing the evolution of the object heap when performing graph reduction on simple lambda calculus expressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZebxyrCb1ug
PUBG’s latest patch is full of small features players have wanted for years
I dunno. I thought the foundations were laid in mathematics considerably pre computer. eg. from wiki's page on haskell curry:

"

The focus of Curry's work were attempts to show that combinatory logic could provide a foundation for mathematics. (edit: accidentally stripped the part here mentioned that was in 1933 ie. very pre-computer) [...]. The paradox, developed by Rosser and Stephen Kleene, had proved the inconsistency of a number of related formal systems, including one proposed by Alonzo Church (a system which had the lambda calculus as a consistent subsystem) and Curry's own system. [...]

By working in the area of Combinatory Logic for his entire career, Curry essentially became the founder and biggest name in the field. Combinatory logic is the foundation for one style of functional programming language. The power and scope of combinatory logic are quite similar to that of the lambda calculus of Church, and the latter formalism has tended to predominate in recent decades.

"

And I think there's more but it's hardly my field. Prolog is grown out of predicate calculus which has its roots in propositional calculus, which goes back to the ancient greeks.

The mathematical foundations of things can be surprisingly old. I saw a 3D wireframe of a goblet with perspective, and that was from the 1500's. It could have been done on a 1980's home computer by appearance.
Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book
>is simply virtue signalling

No, more like life style participation.

>I guess, in that case, the "unpretentious, lower class people who hate yoga" would have those tree huggers to thank.

We need many countries to make national-level policies about this. The Instagram people are a smug drop in the bucket.

>we still find ourselves in conflict at every turn. That's because you can't go too long without confronting the objective physical reality of scarcity of resources.

That correlation seems made up. Has there been an increase of scarcity-driven wars? Most wartorn places don't seem to be resource scarce.
I'm scared and feel totally powerless. Everyone around me who I've talked to about this either feels the same or thinks its a complete hoax.

The whole habitable planet thing was nice while it lasted.

But seriously, does anyone have any suggestions on how a software engineer can make any sort of meaningful impact on this? Or even groups of software engineers, as many of the people here feel similarly. This is a problem that must be solved.
I used to think VCs and startups were the next bubble, but the ridiculous investments seemed to be rarer these days. (though I still think many so called unicorns are overvalued)
He's referred to 2008 as the end of the long-term debt cycle, and the ten years since then as the reflation period.
Governments are slowly starting to take single use plastic seriously. A good list of government actions varying from Countries to cities is here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/07/ocean...

Private industry as well like Coke is going to put water into cans under the Dasani brand. It's not everything but it's a major step in reducing the waste caused my plastic.

But plastic is in other products as well like toys, electronics, etc... Individuals must be aware of this and need to make better choices or else this problem will just continue.

I am hopeful we can take collective action to clean up the environment and live sustainably.
I totally support facebook leveraging their tech and data, all i am saying is that it will be discredited day one given the media hostility against it.
In the "Start Now" section, don't make me type something in if you have the default text. Right now, the text appears to be there but clearly we visit https://storytime.dev//blob/master/ instead of https://storytime.dev/facebook/react/blob/master/
Two comments, both directly replying about his age to separate claims that no one is over 30, is "spamming?" And from this you can predict his age? Seriously?
"Having a different set of priorities" is just another way of saying someone is stupid or irrational. This base is supporting someone who is not acting in their best interests, because yes, their best interests are not a priority.

There's even a term for this in economics, called Animosity, which leads to economic imbalance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_discrimination#Animos...
It may be a good idea to move the story text closer to the code. On a large monitor, I have to move my eyes quite a bit and it feels disconnected.
Map Projection Transitions
Are Niche Job Boards Dominating the Recruiting Space?
You're calling an article 'useless' because you have to open it to know the unit? That's pretty extreme.

Would you be complaining if it was "Texas Power Prices Spike Amid Scorching Heat"? Or "Texas Power Prices Max Out Amid Scorching Heat"? I think both those titles are fine, and they give about the same amount of information.
oops! noted.
They are linked because plastic is produced from petroleum. Green house gases are emitted to extract and make plastic. The growth of plastics is highly linked with our increased use of fossil fuels.
Please, everyone, put your entire development environment in GitHub
Even more noobish 20-somethings, though.
I think the thing that a lot of people doing cold outreach really don't understand this. Pinging someone on LinkedIn with, "Hey we have a job!" is not differentiating you from the other 10 people that contacted that person this week.

But a good engineer already has a job. What makes your job's value proposition attractive enough that this gainfully employed engineer should engage with you?

One easy way to set yourself apart is to tell people what salary range you're working with up front. A good senior engineer is probably already getting paid well, so if your salary range is attractive, they're much more likely to respond. If they're not getting paid what they're worth, you may get their attention immediately. If your salary range is too low, your response rates will reflect that.

Beyond salary, find a way to communicate the most attractive and unique features of the job up front. Don't start with, "we have PTO, health insurance, 401k, etc." because almost everyone offers that. What sets your company apart? What about the work is compelling and interesting?
Almost every Windows computer in the fortune 500 company I work for has RDP enabled and if it wasn't production would grind to a halt.

To make matters worse I can't even run Windows updates on my laptop because the IT department has blocked it. I can only run updates at home.
I'd never get a job there as I have no denim in my wardrobe
> Normally as in almost everywhere in the world (apart from a few places like Sweden I think?)

Aren't you contradicting yourself when you go on to say that both the US BLS and Eurostat do include housing in their indices?

> statisticians either only include rents [or] “owners equivalent rent”

OK. So housing is part of the CPI, yes?

If I understand https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/ecb_statistics/escb/html/tab... correctly, Eurostat weights "actual rentals paid by tenants" at 6.1%. (edit: ECB, not Eurostat)

> none of it is house prices

This is the first mention of "house prices" in this thread. The index linked in the ancestor comment called itself "housing", not "house prices". Good for you if you insist on making the difference, but then if you make the difference you are not talking about the thing I was talking about, I think.

Also, some of it is house prices if house prices factor into the "owners equivalent rent", or is that made up out of thin air? Also, rising house prices cause rising rents, so indirectly they are represented anyway.
I agree, but want to emphasize that it's not necessarily sinister: they simply have no money to do the things they've promised. That's best case. Worst case is sinister.
And this is ironic in how much Tumblr itself simplified the blogging experience, by having several pre-built formats (e.g. photo, text, video). I had a regular Wordpress blog but found it so much easier to casually post photos to my Tumblr.
I saw the headline about the sale without the buyer in it and was sure that it had to be pinboard. That would have been something.
You and the others should consider that the reason the Spiegel gave was a lie. There is quite a heavy motive for doing so: the book is on the other side of the political spectrum, considering where the Spiegel lies.
Thanks. Bad habit to hammer that key twice.
That does sort of happen to those of us who need learn both traditional and simplified. If you learn traditional, you have a better chance of being able to read simplified with a little more effort than the other way around.
Off topic, but on phone the « flag » link is super tiny and close to date (permalink). I have accidentally tapped it while scrolling more often than I realise.
Do you use all public data like census, BLS etc. or do you have paid data as well?
How exactly is a single-stock future any more gambling than investing in that stock directly?
Yes, it's real news.

Firstly, you can go look at the docs. They're clearly real. In fact everything from Veritas that I've seen leaked has been real.

Secondly, such a major leak from a formerly leak-proof ship is itself news.

Thirdly, the fact that this thread is filled with attempts (probably mostly by Googlers) to smear Veritas and this guy is itself frankly very interesting. Lots of messenger shooting going on here.

It reminds me a lot of WikiLeaks: you can't stop people viewing the leaks so desperately claim Assange is a rapist who probably works for Putin, WikiLeaks is a "known bad actor", Snowden is a traitor who ran to Moscow etc. I feel like I've seen all this before.
Even on a small monitor I'm missing things because my eyes have to check two different places to see if they changed.
> Sell all their USD treasuries?

Last I read they were only holding about 1 trillion in USD treasuries. Selling all of that would not inflict much damage on the US economy or government. If there's one superior skill the US Treasury and US Fed have it's selling/buying even more massive amounts of debt than that. Markets are used to it. So, a $1 trillion dollar bond sale event might hurt for a short while, but it wouldn't really be all that heavy.
Your prior comment makes it sound like it was a light switch that people were reluctant to throw. I see the bloody and protracted nature of the Civil War as evidence for just how difficult it was to end - even in the 1860s! I'm grateful the North didn't give up. It's a miracle they kept at it.
Was this separate from the Chlamydia vaccination passing a safety trial?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/12/chlamydia-va...
Competition is a good thing, perhaps other unions can meet the needs of content creators better than this one.
Their shows are pretty freaking great, too. If you can't make ABGT in Prague, I'd recommend trying to go to ABGT at The Gorge in 2021. It's a marvelous venue, great crowd, and the music is fantastic (Anjunabeats first day, Anjunadeep second day).

Some of the songs are decades old, too, which helps with that feeling. Hard to believe that "Satellite" is 15 years old and "On a good day" is 10 years old. Wild.
> The decline of text blogging is also partly Google’s fault, in that lots of hobbyist blogs are now excluded from search results even if you try to search for the exact terms you know are found in the blog entry.

Interesting; I wasn't aware of that. Do you know whether alternative search engines like DDG have the same problem?
LISP 1.5 as described in the manual implements lexical scope, at least in the interpreter. I haven't studied the compiler too closely, I think there dynamic scope is more prevalent, but as far as I know it has lexical scope as well.
I like this mode of explaining code things by slowly building up & talking through examples. I have been doing this in talks for a while to go over code bit by bit without live-coding. Examples:

1. click "present" & advance step by step to see transitions https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KVMwffTe-aam8Mq7LwfZ...

2. Advance with spacebar: https://sequoia.makes.software/composer-talk/#/7/1

I describe the process here: https://sequoia.makes.software/techniques-to-avoid-live-codi...
That does seem to be the policy for copyright..
+1 to this. Not sure if it was just that 'play' was too fast (I agree with the other comment about 'play' probably not being super useful here), but on my 27" 2560x1440 monitor, it took me a few slides to notice that there was even text at the bottom changing. I thought I was just supposed to read the comments.
It sounds to me like you're mostly in agreement: situations in which you want full manual (including ISO) are rare. Most of the time what you care about is either the aperture (setting ISO and shutter speed to get the correct exposure) or the speed (setting aperture and ISO to get the correct exposure).

For non-pros like myself, it's unfortunately not common to shoot with a camera that has good auto-ISO: basically anything above ISO 800 is going to be unusable, and ideally you want ISO 100 or 200 if your lighting situation can allow for it.

So most of the time I find myself in semi-manual modes: where I lock the ISO to a setting that's ideal for the light I have, use auto-focus (unless it's failing to lock on the correct target), and set either the aperture or shutter speed to what I want. The camera then adjusts the other factor appropriately, but I still find myself using Canon's quick adjustment exposure compensation tool almost constantly because my Canon blows out highlights pretty badly a lot of the time.

For a pro I imagine the situation is usually reversed: set both shutter speed and aperture how you want them, and trust your camera to be good enough with the auto-ISO. It sounds to me like GP was basically right: in a non-controlled setting, full manual mode is pretty rare.