skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world can decide it values good writing and that writers deserve a decent income

It has decided. The sad truth is just that “good writing” just isn’t that valuable (as can be seen in how much people pay) if you don’t have some killer content to back it up. Good writing is requisite but not sufficient.

Just because something is a sustaining profession for a few people doesn’t mean it should be for everyone who does that. Do you realize how many photographers and other artists are in the same category?

> aka slave labor.

Something that is voluntary is - by definition - not slave labor. Nobody is forcing you to write.

There are people who effectively tweet full time. Is that “slave labor”? There are people to play games full time. Is that “slave labor”?

> And then folks get upset if you frame it that way.

I hope you can see why.

Finally, people don’t get mad at writers because they want to make money. They get mad when the writers’ hide the fact that the money has tainted and shaped everything they are saying. A review site that is shilling products because of kickbacks corrupts the entire thing.

Can you imagine your friend recommending you a doctor and then you find out that the friend actually thinks the doctor is terrible but got $1k for the referral?
SEEKING WORK, South East Asia (UTC+7), remote work OK, I am very flexible with working hours and can accommodate most time zones, experienced remote worker.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialise in devops/system tools, workflow automation integrations, and NodeJS web development.

10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

Most recently I’ve been developing social media SaaS and statically generated (a.k.a Jamstack) websites, built using GitHub Actions, deployed to Netlify.

Technologies:

NodeJS, Perl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Eleventy, Passport, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, JQuery, Backbone, Bootstrap, AWS, Digital Ocean, Netlify, Heroku, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Mailgun, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Letsencrypt, GitHub Actions

About me:
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Portfolio:
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Résumé/CV: On request via email

Email: markjgsmith@gmail.com

* Discounts on my published rate currently possible *
Should be closer to $50million I'm thinking
Location: Currently South East Asia (UTC+7), very flexible with working hours, can accommodate most timezones, experienced remote worker.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialise in devops/system tools, workflow automation integrations, and NodeJS web development.

10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

Most recently I’ve been developing social media SaaS and statically generated (a.k.a Jamstack) websites, built using GitHub actions, deployed to Netlify.

Technologies:

NodeJS, Perl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Eleventy, Passport, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, JQuery, Backbone, Bootstrap, AWS, Digital Ocean, Netlify, Heroku, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Mailgun, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Letsencrypt, GitHub Actions

About me:
https://blog.markjgsmith.com/about

Portfolio:
https://blog.markjgsmith.com/portfolio

Résumé/CV: On request via email

Email: markjgsmith@gmail.com

* Discounts on my published rate currently possible *
I think it all depends upon the choices you make. If you chose to climb the management ladder you get exposed to more political games and BS, but on the plus side you tend to get paid more.

I've made an active decision to stay close to the coal face and avoid where possible the political BS. We've got a pretty small dev team, with ages ranging from 21 to 54. We tend to work pretty well together, the younger people having a little more energy for playing with the latest shiny, with the older devs providing a degree of stability but embracing new things where they make sense.

The best thing about having older developers is that they tend to have a lot of intuitional knowledge, allowing the newer and less experienced devs to avoid repeating past mistakes.
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Deno Now Compiles to Self-Contained, Standalone Binaries
I'm 35 this year, not exactly old, but slower.

At this stage, I find that my learning skills have outpaced my slower mental agility. It's similar to how people start doing their triathlons in their 40s. I can speed read and have better comprehension. I sleep, cook, and eat better (having money helps vs being a broke 23 year old). I can listen to dense, technical videos on 1.25x speed or less professional videos with stuttering on 2x-3x speed and write down clean notes in real time.

Bill Gates allegedly reads 150 pages/hour in his 60s. So that's my target. Much of it is skills, not attributes, and it's something you have to actively improve.

You have to rekindle the flame constantly. Passion is easier to feed than discipline. "Sucking it up" is a good way to burn out. Think of it sort of like lighting up your marriage - you don't need marriage coaches or toys. You don't need to learn tolerance. You need to see things in the way you once did, and sometimes enjoy the little flaws.

A lot of the best people also have some methodology to learn YetAnotherProduct. Learn to deal with information overflow - find a way to rapidly filter out what's good, what's bad, what has potential. Identify which recommendation sources are good and bad. It's okay to evaluate on gutfeel, but take a scientific approach to it, and note why you feel that way, then revise if you were correct.
"Yeah... he took the red one" is a great line, delivered perfectly.
At $work we have internal packages of SpaCy and dependencies, not yet updated to 3.0 though. It was relatively easy to package using py2dsc from stdeb.
I'm a big fan of time tracking for personal reasons. Does this give something that timewarrior[0] doesn't?

[0]: https://timewarrior.net
The value is great for casual gamers, no expensive hardware, no updates to install, just sit down and play a game. The only downside I’ve experienced is the limited catalogue of games.
I am no longer at Google so I guess I can say my opinion (after ~10 great years). I believe there to be close to zero discrimination from higher ups, except the random sexual harassment of course but I think that will always happen in a place with power imbalances like the American right to work states and 100k employees.

I did see a lot of discrimination/harassment (a lot still being very rare, but a lot more than I expected) at lower levels. It was usually dealt with swiftly by HR. Unless it was a "superstar" of course.
> Dave Chappelle has a bit in which he talks about how this one pimp manages to "get extra mileage" from one of his (the pimps) whores who is on the brink of quitting, of breaking down. The horrible story, expertly delivered by one the greatest stand-up comedians and storytellers to ever live, is an allusion to what happened to Mr. Chappelle in Hollywood - an explanation on why he left and went to fucking Africa of all places, choosing to renounce millions of dollars, his cut from a show he created. The story is from a book written by an actual pimp:

> This story resonated with me, deeply....

So, what's the bit or the story that he's referring to here?
Pretty late to this party, but I was diagnosed with mild ADHD at 35, but had lots of signs when I was younger. At 9, my parents were recommended by the elementary school I get medicated, but didn't follow through.

To be up front, my ADHD is quite manageable through "tricks" similar to how the post describes but not as strict/many of them.

At 35, I always wondered what it would have been like if I had been medicated. Who could I have been if focus was easier?

I went to the doctor to get formally diagnosed and get my hands on Ritalin. For me, it was a double edge sword.

For 1 week, the focus was incredible.

I describe the feeling as if I'm a ball. Normally, I'm a ball on top of a hill, where I'm unstable and easily pushed off the hill. Text, emails, news all so easily nudge me and roll me down the hill. It takes incredible effort to stay focused and on the correct spot at the top of the hill.

While on Ritalin for the 1 week, it was as if I was at the bottom of a valley. Texts, coworkers, whatever tried to distract me but it was so easy to return to the thing that I needed to work on even when it wasn't desirable. Things like eng docs or management reviews. Basically, non-coding things.

Sadly, I couldn't continue. My high blood pressure (HBP) was simply too high, 140/100, and my heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest. The benefits weren't worth the drawbacks for me. We tried non-stimulant alternatives, but they weren't as effective and, to a lesser degree, still had HBP issues.
Thanks for sharing.

Can you only play select games in the subscription? Do they ever get removed?

I'm just trying to see why it is struggling. It seems like a great concept
Please don't take HN threads into race flamewar or any flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I could see an argument here - use the home-computer at home, but use Stadia on the train or while camping or such.
There are plenty of Silicon Valley companies where South Asian upper management near exclusively hires South Asian engineers
Every time I've seen syslog in the wild, it's been the old "BSD" version (RFC 3164), not the newer RFC 5424 version. And pretty much any newer format, even something basic like JSON-lines over TCP, is going to be nicer to work with, IMO.

(Though I admit, I have no idea how I'd even begin to start signing messages with JSON-lines.)
Humans don't understand motion-to-photon latency. Humans also don't understand the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Agreed.
I think just about anyone would choose to work for themselves if it was easy to get the clients if I'm not mistaken?
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Can’t not mention Desert Bus: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b...

And now on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desert-bus/id470288016
I use emacs org mode with the built-in time tracking features (org-clock-in). A while ago I built an analyzer for org files that allows to spice and dice how you spent your time: https://github.com/rksm/clj-org-analyzer This has become my daily vehicle for tracking work.
The toys are better now. The life was better then.
It's very doubtful this settlement truly entails paying everyone their actual lost wages. The term "settlement" indicates some sort of agreed upon terms.
Right, but if you can't even give an elevator pitch, because the project is too unfocused, then that's a bad sign.
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I am wrong.
Evolutionary biases simply aren't relevant structurally. While men do exhibit more violent behaviour, it's been since the invention of the state that violence became a tool and not a concern. The vast majority of violence has for a long time been organized, calculated state or political violence, not instinct-driven agression. The latter still exists, but pales in comparison.

Put another way, if you took almost any society today and made everyone women, you would not see a major decrease in violence, as the vast majority of violence done serves structural and material reasons.
They basically do that internally already, there's not much point.

The power usage is offset if you're primarily using them during the winter in that the energy used is all converted to heat. It's not gonna be as efficient as a heat pump so there is some loss, but the heat added is heat your HVAC doesn't have to provide so it's not exactly wasted. I haven't actually run the numbers to calculate the effective power used (how much energy it uses to generate the same amount of heat versus if a more efficient heat pump did it), but my hunch is that it ends up being quite a bit more competitive than it might first appear.
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If you want evidence check out this link. It shows the the lifetime prices of a GTX 1060 card since its release in 2016. It had an MSRP of $250, yet for most of it's life since sometime in 2017 it's been around $320 or higher, more than 125% of the MSRP, and, when this particular model was last available, over $400. Even used its almost always been above $250, with an average used price over $350.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B01IEKYD5U
Yeah, I run two Venta air washers in two small rooms. They are expensive but the only option for me that is easy to fill, easy to clean and has a nice noise profile.
I have two ventas, both purchased off ebay used, and they really are the best. Simple, reliable, cleanable and no expensive wick refills.

That honeywell lasted about one season. The wick refills are ridiculously expensive. It was cheaper to trash it and use anything else. I'm also upset with the wirecutter for that trash recommendation.
It doesn't go too much further than that. The value of their employees is best spent on facilitating more ad clicks so without a decree from the top stating "we are pivoting" and having the political capital to follow through with that, they're stuck.

Microsoft is so exceptionally lucky they found Satya Nadella. Saying "yes we make untold amounts of money on this but it cannot be our focus moving forward" is almost impossibly difficult. Heck, just look at Norway. They want us to look at them as some post-carbon futureland with their Teslas but everything there is tier-2 compared to oil. They're a petrostate in the same way that Google is an adtech company no less grimy than Facebook, no matter how "not evil" they are.
I was sad to see them go because it was a quick way to get a Surface replacement, but you can demo Surface at Best Buy. Most of their stores have Microsoft kiosks that accomplish near the same thing in terms of demoing and it costs Microsoft virtually nothing.
Similiar for Japan. Tehre's a restaurant here in Singapore, Ma Maison, which is basically Japanese interpretations of western. The ever popular hamburger patty on a hot griddle covered in brown gravy. Don't know what the hell it is supposed to be, but tastes good. I have heard, never experienced, would never try, that "spaghetti napolenese" is supposed to be ketchup on spaghetti. That may be apocryphal. It's certainly disgusting.
JHU researchers engineer tiny machines to deliver medicine to GI tract (2020)
>if you can't pin <> on upper managers you will never be able to root it out.

that how mafia works :) An that is how Uber broke local governments medalion control.
The "diversity and inclusion" pundits seem to be aware of the fact that Asians are on the outs with the grievance crowd. We can't even be sure who they're talking about here, are the Asians in question able to legally show up for work in California? It seems silly to have to ask, but that is how silly things are right now - the DoJ is currently going after SpaceX because a guy complained that he wasn't hired due to the fact that he isn't a lawful permanent resident.
I thought this was going to be about a different Wired article written to address another Luddite's predictions from around 25 years ago.. That one seems to be more accurate
Google doesn't have a great history when it comes to chat/social functionality.
How does the Department of Labor even make this claim when the numbers are likely within the error bars?

Not that Google would care to fight this. For Google, $1.3M is like getting back a Canadian quarter in change.
That is the settlement amount. It's possible that the actual pay gap was much larger.
Kobalos Malware
Every conversation I get into about this stuff with normal people, I conclude by asking: "have you seen a GameStop?"

The whole thesis here is just so transparently stupid. I know that's true of cryptocurrency stuff that has stayed in the money for a long time. But I mean, really. GameStop is going to zero.

It's not just that every downloads their games now; it's that the whole turnaround pitch ("we'll be the Apple Stores of gaming") ignores the bargain-basement commercial real estate GameStop occupies.
Especially when the comparison images are all in different fonts and scale factors!
It is a failure of leadership, the humanities, not STEM.

Biology can only do so much if we ignore it.
The first year, I bought private health insurance. It was $500/month in New York, which dropped to $250/month in Massachusetts.

In 2019 and 2020, it dropped to only $50/month because my income was low enough that I qualified for state-subsidized insurance.

I felt a little weird about essentially drawing on welfare when I'm choosing to earn less than my maximum, but I also feel like there'd be an arrogance in rejecting it like I'm somehow too good for welfare. In the end, I decided I met the requirements of a government benefit I want, so there's no reason to turn it down.
$250K in 1998 is $400K today, if the inflation calculator I found on Google is correct. So there's a 4X decrease in inflation adjusted cost. Not an order of magnitude, but it's something.
It destroyed the average Joe's faith in the average Joe.

Now, people are more separated than ever, in their echo chambers, hating each other and firmly believing they are better and righter than the other.
> The ever popular hamburger patty on a hot griddle covered in brown gravy.

That's simply a Hamburg steak, which is not Japanese but rather German in origin. The Salisbury steak is a relative of the Hamburg steak, with the additional of fillers such as eggs and breadcrumbs.
The dev put something beautiful out into the world and this is your take on it.
I'm not even sure what the point was when the amount is so low.
And at 55kW charging rate, the Bolt charging experience won't be like what you're used to with the Tesla (170kW on the SR+). It is a nice car, but they are close in price once you add some must-have options on to the Bolt (DC fast charging!) so really the only reasonable way to get a Bolt is with some unusually large discounts.
That is likely the settlement amount, not the actual amount of backpay that they claimed they were owed.
Kotlin methods are final by default unless marked open, and thus nonpolymorphic dispatch unless through an interface.

It sounds to me like the problem isn’t the VM it’s the insane amount of framework code you have to be initialized. This can be optimized with Java via class data sharing and snapshotting but if your code is all written in Kotlin and you toss Spring into the trash can In favor of say, Dagger or hand crafted DI, most of your problems would go away.

Besides, Kotlin/Native can compile and run without a VM.

See https://august.nagro.us/jvm-startup.html for examples of how to optimize startup without Prewarming JIT.
If you give your personal email address to hundreds of services online one of them is bound to sell or leak your email.

By using Owl Mail (or Firefox Relay, etc.) addresses everywhere, you reduce your attack surface to one security fastidious company.

And, even if Owl Mail (or Firefox Relay, etc.) were to experience a data breach, at least it would greatly increase the effort required to match emails to your identity.

To really protect yourself, use a double relay!

External -> Relay 1 -> Relay 2 -> Your Inbox

Then you will have some serious resilience :D
I’ve worked in places like this (Machine Zone straight out of Freemium isn’t free https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_Isn%27t_Free) and other much better places. Ironically the most corporate and dull place I worked was owned by Penthouse (not soul sucking, but nothing to write home about either. Think Johnathan Coulton’s Code Monkey song). And the best company I’ve worked for seems like the definition of boring corporation, LinkedIn.

It’s all what you make of it, but when the company itself is treating you like a whore then it just makes every grievance that much worse.
Probably some, but I'm not sure it'd be enough to maintain a market. All my friends I game with seem to think they'd prefer just being able to back-order to the current system, and clearly basing market predictions based on myself and my friend group couldn't be wrong :-).
Consider a job at a university. It can be hard to get in if you don't know somebody, but that's true anywhere. Many university jobs are given to friends/family even though they are ostensibly/legally posted publicly.

You'll find many more older people there. There is politics, as there is anywhere, and the technology tends to be more boring and proven vs. new and exciting, but sometimes it's cutting-edge if you can find a research-related position. Salary won't be great, but benefits and PTO generally excellent, and it's almost unheard of to get fired or laid off, and work hours will be "normal." You can take some amount of classes for free or cheap, and use all the campus amenities.
I am going to mention something. In my distant past I worked for a psychology firm handling, well, everything to do with computers. That included some testing.

In the United States, there are two tests for ADHD I would vouch for: Conners' Continuous Performance Test (CPT) and the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA). Both are computerized. Both rely solely on your reactions and your restraint, they are not questionnaires. We had plenty of patients who had been diagnosed via questionnaire who did not show up at ADHD to a significant degree on those tests. Rather, they had some other underlying disorder that can also mess with attention, such as, sadly, early onset schizophrenia.

The other benefit of these computerized tests is that you can use the to titrate your medication to an appropriate dose, as most stimulants have an inverted U-shaped response. Too much and you get to feeling like a zombie. Gain weight? Retake the test. Maybe you hit puberty. Retake the test. Maybe you have side effects and you need a different formulation or a different medication all together. Retake the test. By doing this, you can figure out what your optimal dose is, even figure out at what time you "peak."

The other way to diagnose is through a PET scan but I don't know anyone in their right minds who does that.

CPTs and TOVAs, I don't know how much they cost today but I would say that they are worth it, both for peace of mind (I really have it, my parents didn't just answer the questionnaire hoping to get certain results) and for the ability to tune your medicinal needs.
Preventing it from recurring.