skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud this. Its progressive learning improving and continually stacking learned patterns. Congrats.
Hacking in Among Us
> Is anything you listed even remotely on the same level as "assembly language and pascal with s3m libraries to program a game"

Wasm and WebGL certainly are.
> Only difference is remote is not protected class, but that is simply an implementation detail.

Of course it's not a protected class, and that's by design. Protected classes are things you cannot change (with the exception of religion), and thus you shouldn't be able to discriminate based on them. You wanting to live in Kansas doesn't (shouldn't) afford you some protected status giving you an artificial pay increase.
My employer does have a luxury of focus in its product offering, though we do have a moderately heterogeneous approach in development, certainly compared to many of the peers that operate at similar scale.

Heterogeneity in compute location has a multiplicative effect on accounting, security, capacity management, network management and is dilutive in terms of expertise -- instead of being able to justify the worlds leading experts in one system, you now need more staffing to cover a wider surface area (and they all need to have collaboration overhead to ensure they arent working at cross-purposes in strategy or tactic.)

I think this belief in marginal benefit from "right tool for the job" is a local-optimization where the costs of coordination and overhead are not borne locally and so are generally undervalued/discounted.

My employer runs on a single cloud provider, but -- do to its scale and closeness to core competency of our business -- we do operate our own CDN infrastructure, and this is a decision I happen to agree with. As a result of this division, I am acutely aware of the impact it can have on an engineering organization and only in certain specialized use-cases would advise considering DIY or multi-cloud.
I use Yelp purely for discovery, and even then, only on Apple Maps (because Yelp provides the data for Apple Maps). I otherwise find that it directs me to higher-priced venues, presumably because those are the only ones that can afford the "value-add." This is not a rap on those venues, to be clear.
There's some really good core assembly footage in this old Sperry-Rand film: https://youtu.be/s39Dzei2Z2I?t=92
SANS training is worth the $$$$ prices.
I'm not saying it addresses the problem, I'm saying it gives their competitors less ammunition against them in court.
What about the same thought experiment with different items:

If $100k is what you're willing to pay for a Tesla Model S but it only costs $60k, it's completely ridiculous for you to walk into the store and say "Ok I would give you $100k if you charged me that much, but I'll pay you $60k instead because that's all you charge". If it makes economic sense for you to pay $100k for that car, then paying the lower amount of $60k that the store charges is just a jerk move.

Doesn't really make sense in this context. At the end of the day, salary is a lot more fuzzy than an item in a store with a set price, but it's still dictated by market forces like everything else.

> In practice I wouldn't do this. I'd simply walk away from a company that uses this offensive hiring practice on me.

That's great and that's exactly the thing that would change how the market works. If this does end up happening and enough people are in demand enough even living in low COL places, the market for tech workers will adapt and become more national. It feels like we're at a bit of a discontinuity point right now where nobody knows if labor markets for knowledge work will continue to be locally defined as they always have been, or are becoming more national. What will dictate this is people like you and me comparing our best offers, doing what's best for us, and seeing where we end up.

> it feels like these tech companies are saying "Yeah we're going to actively try to keep the wealth created by our business models concentrated in the coastal cities we like, and keep the rest of the country poor."

I guess can see that perspective, but it's really beside the point. This is the collective behavior of everyone driving the market like it always is, it won't ultimately just be up to a couple of executives to decide.

Trust me, us folks living in the coastal cities have our own pet peeves from our perspective that we can complain about all day too. We pay a lot more in federal taxes relative to the benefits we get than any other part of the country. We are nearly an order of magnitude less represented in congress and by our electoral college votes, because empty land is worth as much as people in the US. But again none of these things are really relevant to the topic at hand.
AMD has beat Intel despite being at a process node disadvantage in the past.

We do have an entire shopping list of ways in which Apple's ARM core implementation leads vs. x86 in their five watt iPhone chip.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
Their marketing is good, they do a primo job at conveying the message in a nice looking way, but the end result is still HTML littered with hundreds classes, that gets hard to maintain and impossible to refactor.
Pretty sure that one predates Ramanunan...
Nothing... except for the (very many) games that have already been made for iOS.
Read the article "carefully" including how it is tagged and view the twitter employee profile links.
All of these projects (even the failures and the flameouts) are 100% fantastic. Some I look at and think "That looks like shit!" Some I look at and think "I don't see the point." Some I look at and think "Wish I'd thought of that." But every single one of them, the shit ones, the pointless ones, the really neat ones, they all have value. Massive learning opportunities, the fact you published something, the fact you experimented. I cannot commend you enough for what you have achieved.

I get involved in "weekend projects" (sometimes they go a little longer than a weekend), and I find that without the pressure to deliver something useful it lets me explore whimsical ideas and learning opportunities I don't get in my day job.
I don't think we expect everyone to be reasonably moral, at least I don't live with that expectation - that's just setting yourself up for disappointment.
Yes, most people don't murder or rape, but we're still quite a selfish and survivalist creature. Although we know perfectly well the amount of suffering the meat industry causes, most of us are fine with consuming meat and dairy, as long as we don't need to see the images of how the meat gets to our plate. Mostly because it tastes good; red meat is actually unhealthy.
That's just one tiny example that leads me to think we're not reasonably moral.
I'm not saying we can't be taught morals, but we have a long way to go till we can say what's happening is "reasonable".
So.. I'm a little confused on how this is different from a college with a co-op programme (at least in that, students get paid) - and moreover I genuinely am a bit turned off by the fact that the "fellowship" is unpaid. That really kind of makes no sense to me - it's emphasised elsewhere on this thread by Lambda staff that the fellows will be able to contribute to the company. However, they are not being paid. Like, I'm unable to wrap my head around this - it's a fundamental rule of economics - you render a service for someone and you get paid in return..
Restaurants in our area (upstate NY) are doing good business selling to-go cocktails.
I never had a drinking problem, but quitting alcohol altogether has resulted in nothing but positive outcomes.

It's curious how my friends from college are largely in two groups now (not correlated to intelligence or motivation);

A) not really that interested in alcohol and focussed on work

B) focused on work but drink every night and still "party" all the time

This is seemingly an American phenomenon that's incredibly regressive and also seems to negatively affect women more than men. For whatever reason, women also seem more susceptible to the trap of drinking and partying excessively.
I'm guessing he/she had a good amount of "fuck you money" ! ;)
Heh, yeah. I think my reaction's still similar though - why shouldn't I be allowed to do that?

The alternative of course is to charge more per tile, or have a base 'access fee' + small incremental charge. Pay per usage doesn't work best for everything, IMO.

(And I'd likely still want to come back occasionally to check it hasn't changed, even if I cached every tile forever. (Which I probably wouldn't, if the hit rate was really low, like it was a one-off, and I'm being cheap about my API usage why wouldn't I also be cheap about my disk usage.))
How much longer? There is significant benefit to rolling out massive amounts of vaccine immediately. I know that any scientist worth their salt will almost always claim that more study is warranted. But we're playing against a clock measured in human lives right now
Could Feynman Have Said “Shut Up and Calculate”?
Correct. Google products used to be free, and noticeably better than the competition. Now they're just free.
Which inflation? There is no inflation.
And Kratom.
> It's completely ridiculous that you say "Okay I'll give you $100k if you live in NYC, but only $60k for the same work if you live in the Rust Belt."

We've been talking about this for the last 150 years. Workers are paid for their labor power, not the value they produce.

> If it makes economic sense for you to pay me $100k, making that conditional on where I live is just a jerk move.

Like laws of motion, the economic system we have naturally leads to exploiting this disparity.

> In practice I wouldn't do this. I'd simply walk away from a company that uses this offensive hiring practice on me.

Extend this to the labor pool at large. Some people have the ability to walk away from these practices while others don't. Ask yourself who has this ability and who doesn't and if this is the outcome we want.
+1 for therapy. Best $10K I ever spent. Over 18 months I ever spent.
A good compromise halfway is to have your own equipment in colocation, at a facility where your IP transit upstreams are <1ms away from the edge of the AWS and Azure ASNs. You might still have an appreciable amount of stuff hosted on AWS, Azure, GCP or similar.

Depending on your scale might even be able to peer with them directly if you're big enough.

Or, if you are big enough to justify it you can order direct 10Gbps cross connects within a number of facilities to AWS.
Mapped: Export in Every Country
> At least, I haven't seen a democratic system where 1% of the population gets 40% of the vote.

In a pure voluntaryist market system everyone gets 100% of the vote (i.e. veto power) when it comes to how they use their own labor and resources. If one has acquired more wealth then one has more options available and more decisions to make, but still doesn't get any direct say in how other people use their property, no matter how rich or poor they may be. This is far more egalitarian and in keeping with the ideals espoused by most democracies than the idea that every person's freedoms and property are subject to a glorified opinion poll.
Wow, that library looks amazing.

I happen to be using a tablet now (Windows 2-in-1 device); going through all the examples on their Github page, all of them work perfectly with a pen (stylus)! That's impressive; something most interactive web stuff I've seen can't get right (collaborative whiteboards particularly suck at handling actual pens).
But it's insane that running a for-higher data center is considered a high-margin business. (And testament that the customers are VC-gorged price-unconcious baby gremlims.) In a sane economy, data centers for higher would be a fully-commoditized barely-profitable common carrier with little natural monopoly.
:facepalm: - thanks, I'll (keep it but) edit my comment to reflect that correction.
How to schedule Python scripts on a Mac
Because Google and Microsoft are competing against them.
Foliate is very good as far as desktop ereaders go. It also includes the SE catalog by default.
Shows you how you shouldn't worry about this stuff till late. They saved $75 million while losing $3 billion of market value -- capturing market share is vastly more important than operational excellence.
Podcasts are just RSS feeds. Nothing stopping a app registering itself as a handler for the RSS mime type, at least on desktop/Android (I don't know how iOS works here). I doubt most users would have a RSS reader installed at this stage, so most users wouldn't even have a risk of getting it revealed as a list of links to audio files by using the wrong app.
We started with a blacklist to match against while(1), while(true), for(;;), etc, but we eventually found an eslint plugin (goedel.js) that nicely tells you if the code contains an infinite loop or recursion.
The thing is that if you don't use any of the proprietary services offered by the bigger players they look at lot less appealing. AWS with just EC2 is one expensive-ass server provider with murderous rates for egress traffic.
It's worth learning anyway, even just to help one's family videos not be so damned boring and amateurish.

Not everything has to be directly related to employment. It's nice to know how to cook a meal, even if you have absolutely no ambition to work in a restaurant.
Difference being that those are all severely underpowered devices.

If you combine the existing iOS games (some of which are actually kinda impressive visually) with an actually beefy machine that the AAA titles can easily target (shouldn't be that difficult), you have an offering unlike the others.
Yes, I've read about (and seen) restaurants in many areas now serving alcohol to-go, but their volumes are much lower, as they don't have a 'pseudo-monopoly on drinks with dinner'.

You have to remember that a single empty table (on a Friday/Saturday night) could be enough to make a restaurant lose money before the pandemic. The pandemic's effects are much larger than a single empty table.
> 1. This assumes it’s impossible to disincentivize drug usage via really harsh penalties enforced by state power. But look at China, where they have very little drug usage, due to extremely harsh penalties, and extreme social stigma. Individuals don’t get “mind expanding” or therapeutic benefits of drugs, but at least the society is not paying the cost of externalities of drug usage (see San Francisco’s Tenderloin).

And yet China is where literal tons of drugs like fentanyl and its derivatives are manufactured illicitly and shipped around the world.
Going after doctors doesn't help the root of the problem either. It just makes it harder for everyone else to get drugs when you need them. Living in a fear driven society sucks.
It's not magic. Yelp has already won at least one similar case [0]. And like a sibling commenter said, without enough money, you won't even get to court.

0 - http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/02/11...
That relative risk reduction is very signficant, not just statistically signficant, it is very practically signficant too.
I mean yes, I'm sure they're getting something, but the margins are so thin I don't think it's even worth considering. Consider a $50k car, dealer offers you 1% via bank. At best the bank is only taking half of that (0.5% is already ridiculous for a not-really-secured loan, considering new car depreciation), so over a 5yr loan the dealership makes... $1250. That's, what, one week of salary for one of their salesmen? I just don't think it's as much of a factor as we think it is. People talk about the dealerships handing out $10k discounts because "they make their money on financing" but the math just doesn't support that unless you're doing credit-card-interest-level loans.
Scrum Guide
I think the local guide system google set up is the only reason I bother to read Google reviews. It's nice to have the guarantee of "here's a review by what is probably a real person who lives near this business and reviewed this out of kindness/boredom"
In American English it can mean either. Usually the use you mentioned would be if you said "I'm having a moment" or something along those lines.
Anything more recent than 2018? Any examples of other companies doing this? I see in the article that it was a public filing from Dropbox. I’ll look into more recent ones when I have some time unless someone beats me to it.
Your comments don't appear gray to me, so not sure what downvotes you're referencing. But allow me to channel my inner HN and humbly suggest that the downvotes you're receiving, such as they are, arise from your assumption that if terminology is not "technical economic language," it is incorrect. You replied to a person who used a commonly understood term correctly and you claimed it was incorrect. Now you're saying that the terminology didn't come to have the current meaning until 2008. But I'm not seeing the connection between that and whether the terminology is appropriate to the current context. Why would anyone bother to cite you a source of this terminology before 2008? Nobody has even referenced a claim that the terminology is older than that. It's a non sequitur to observe that the terminology is young.

The long and the short of it is that the person you originally responded to was correct to call the behavior "socializing costs." You were incorrect in your response where you claimed that a subsidy is not "socializing costs," since that's exactly what the term means in common parlance. The downvotes probably come from your not recognizing and admitting your mistake.
I'm a big fan of Tailwind because I've realized that HTML isn't really maintained and refactored anyways: it's either composed or rewritten. Rarely do refactors happen in the same way as most programming languages.
I've gone through the following phases:

1. Write old school circa 2008 CSS.

2. Oh shit, it's a real pain in the ass to do layout and make a responsive grid. Let me use a framework. Sweet!

3. Hmm.. its kinda painful to write css selectors all day long. They're reusable but I am having to get out of comfy JS IDE setup to go change some CSS properties in a different file.

4. Tailwind arrives. OMG. This is awesome! Never have to leave the context. Just stack properties as you like and compose your components!

5. HTML looks completely unreadable. It's a goddamn mess.

6. I want to go back to 2005. No frameworks. Just write non-responsive CSS, one for each screen (yeah, you read that right. I don't want to compromise the layout for responsiveness. I'd rather handcraft one for each device size give or take a few pixels). Custom crafted like a piece of fine art. CSS grid/layout is a lot better with css grid and flexbox. Things have improves since the 960-grid days. No frameworks at all and its fucking liberating.

Edit: I currently use reset/reboot css to clean up default rendering + sass (only use variables + mixins). I am happy like a daisy.
Agreed, I've been meaning to update the list view and add better sorting and filtering. The current list view was created when we just had a few pages of ebooks, and it made sense then. Now that we have hundreds of ebooks it doesn't make as much sense anymore. But the problem is finding the time!
I'm not sure you would have been 'selected' then.
What homepage? This website makes one of those noob mistakes that many off-domain blogs do, in that their logo doesn't link to tailwindui.com.

I wonder why they used a blog off-domain in the first place. blog.foo.com is so 2005. foo.com/blog makes more sense.
Or, it could be like Amazon removing the ability to download your order history.

Read the forums [0]. The post I linked is the most on point. Other conversations you'll see people saying "it's a bug, they'll put it back up any day"....

.... That was about 4 months ago. and indeed the "accepted answer" workaround mentioned by some amzn staff went away during that time too.

[0]https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00007aXUYjSAO/di...
> Incompatibility with IE11, so you can tell the man upstairs "sorry boss it's out of my hands, blame Tailwind"

For those who don't know, IE11 is the last major release of IE. Between a major frontend framework feeling confident dropping IE, and Apple dropping Intel it kind of feels like the end of an era.
You're right, it appears that tech bro is insulting to the HN audience. Too late to delete or edit my comment, but maybe future readers can ignore the offensive parts of the post. I still stand by the focus on product and selling for projects that were largely about learning could lead to negative comments. I attempted to get some balance in my original comment but it seems like using tech bro negated any of that
Pay isn’t directly based on COL. It’s based on supply and demand. If there were thousands of baristas available to fill jobs at SF Starbucks, the pay would be lower. The reason pay is higher in SV is because all the same firms were competing against each other for the limited supply of talent. One could argue the supply is impacted by COL, but it’s still only an indirect cause of pay determination.
Dropbox is itself a cloud provider. A consumer/SMB cloud provider. It makes total sense they build up their own infrastructure, not only from a purely profit/scale point of view.

It's about their core values and identity, at least because in this way they are seen in the market as a big player and not just as another AWS reseller with some added benefits.
Economic efficiency has nothing to do with how the surplus is divided between parties. Powerful entities such as corporations can easily get most of the surplus their employees produce, and the market will not correct this. (I.e., you have no economical argument that non-protection of labor is needed for cheap commodities. Perhaps such an argument can be made, but yours doesn't cut it.)
The FSF didn’t choose the price, Purism did, because they’ve paid professionals to develop their software, without which the Pinephone might not have existed — all previous editions of it shipped with phosh (except Braveheart, which came with only factory testing software IIRC).
This is awesome. For years I've been looking for a modern library to deal with this.
This project is really amazing, so much love
The recent discussions here on the article Dr Hossenfelder is sceptical about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24940086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25092231
IE 11 is no longer supported :(
Actually, if your employer has a EAP (Employee Assistance Program), they do!
Fraud is what you're talking about doing and it is illegal. Also most states require payroll taxes so the company would be on the hook for the lie too. You'd be lucky if you only got fired.
Good to know, thanks. Maybe I'm pre-conditioned to look for idiom-bending uses in blog post titles!
I have been using rust-analyzer with vscode (on small programs) and it has been working reliably for me.
The Outrage Peddlers Are Here to Stay
This entire discussion is about how impressive Apple's performance is with their chips.

Why wouldn't Apple's console be capable (or arguably even better) at running AAA titles? The vast majority of AAA titles aren't platform exclusives.

On top of that, it would seemingly draw less power / generate less heat.

Hell, Apple could release a Nintendo Switch style competitor (that also actually competes with the Xbox and PS) that is purpose built for AAA gaming at home and on the go.
The problem isn't technical. The problem is the lack of stable, profitable business models around reviews that are long term compatible with being honest.
The agency that represents me, 10X Management, offers this service.
I am an alcoholic and for me it's more you replace any activities outside of work with drinking as a substitute for doing stuff. Later you realise you didn't just replace activities alcohol replaced people too. So in the end all I had to do was drink.