skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to post pretty much the same.

I got a message from IBM CIC (customer innovation center). The HR lady was very rude, was looking for somebody with 6 more years than me and was disappointed by the fact that my yearly salary of the time was waay out of budget.

After that experience:

- a guy came for an interview, had been working in such place (IBM CIC). that guy had been studying agriculture (with a degree) but pivoted to computer science. he was okay-ish, but had limited experience outside of the power-point level competencies (some-times you have to come up with creative ideas)

- a colleague had worked in CIC. they really hire pretty much anyone and throw them at the customer. which basically means that it's a good place to get your foot into the industry, but you should be aiming at leaving as soon as you get any hands-on experience

Apaprently unless you work for the real IBM (doing research, ideally, or research-related stuff) you're working in a glorified sweat-shop.
As someone who has been on both the research and industry software end, there’s really not that much difference. Requirements change, you build that into your plans. Frankly, a lot of best practice software development that gets totally ignored by academia (e.g. OOP) can handle this exact case, and makes things way more flexible.

If the problem was only unpredictability, then projects with a clear and defined end goal (eg, a website to host results) would be of substantially higher quality. But they’re not. Well defined projects tend to end up basically just as crappy as exploratory projects.

The problem is evaluation and incentives. There’s literally no evaluation of software or software development capability in the industry. I know of a researcher that held a multimillion dollar informatics grant for 3 years. In that 3 years they literally did nothing except collect money. Usually there are grant updating mechanisms, and reports, but he bsed his way through that knowing there’s a 0.0000000% chance that any granting agency is going to look through his code. The fraud was only found because he got fired for unrelated activities.

I once looked up older web projects on a grant. 4/6 were completely offline less than 2 years after their grants completed. For 2 of those 4, it’s unclear whether the site ever completed in the first place.
It would be nice to see an enumeration of the currently running hypothesises.
I think because euthanasia is someone else kills you, not assists with suicide, OP used euthanasia, the Irish Bishop's specific tweet used 'assisted suicide' and the story headline used 'euthanasia'

I have no idea if the church considers euthanasia, suicide or murder or both. A lot of people would not consider euthanasia suicide since someone else is agreeing you can die and doing it for you. If you can't legally get euthanasia you might have to suicide early before incapacitation.
What's interesting is that the "Variety Show" format that the Muppet Show lampoons/mimics was a common thing from vaudeville through the 1970s, but has basically died as a format since I would guess about the mid-80s.

And I hadn't noticed, really. I do miss the old "variety" style holiday specials that Major Celebrities used to do. There have been a couple (ironic?) one-off stabs at revivals, but nothing sustained. (Stephen Colbert did one; so did Lady Gaga and Bill Murray.)
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is it?

UBI is really a strange beast. I wish I had more time or fitting frameworks / mental models to understand better the consequences.

UBI...

- might be the only solution out of the crazy money printing and MMT

- seemed to me initially (!) strangely similar to communism/socialism, but actually is very different (for example there is something to be gained from being innovative or creating stuff (instead of doing the minimum you can), which was not (!) the case in communism

- might be the only solution when most (current) jobs will be replaced by robots (if all agriculture gets 99% automated, can we not have basic (!) free food for everyone? And additionally just a simple roof... both would cover most of your basic needs)

I am not sure about UBI, I also see problems with it too, but could solve more of those than it creates... maybe?

edit: formating
It absolutely can be a legal requirement, though I am not arguing that it should be one. I was specifically addressing the comment "I don't think people who need a screen reader are going to be playing a twitch-reaction shooter game." Apologies for being unclear.
Re #3: At my former B2B SaaS, each customer had their own MySQL schema. We allowed users to perform a full mysqldump of their schema as a form of backup. We found that, for us, the database schema alone wasn’t enough for anyone to straight up copy our product. The magic was in the business logic code which was closed-source.
Traders are wrong more often than they're right.

Most money is earned by managing risk. Your winners win big, your losers don't break the bank.

Taking anyone's conclusions seriously is pretty silly, they're all just data points.
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> The only thing preventing that from translating into the broader price level is that money velocity collapsed due to the Covid shutdowns.

Hum... Money management 101 says that if velocity goes down, you must print more money to compensate. Otherwise you get a deflationary crisis added into your real world one. (And fiscal policy should intervene increasing the velocity, but fiscal policy is a fraud everywhere, so nothing new here.)

The real test on the seriousness of the US monetary policy is whether they will drain the market once the velocity increases. I do expect them to, but well, anything may happen.

Anyway, that part of the comment on the title is a case of "well, duh?!?" What else could we expect any central bank to do right now? But the data is still interesting.
YouTube should not be blocking any channels or taking down videos in all but the most egregious circumstances. These companies are absolutely out of control and have been for a while.
I like my country's version better: "if grandma had wheels she'd be a bicycle".
Last time I checked, there were six parties in my country's general assembly. Also in my country, in your situation two parties would have to form a coalition to form a government as none of them would have the necessary majority in the assembly.
Alright, let's say you get appointed at Twitter to clean up this mess. You get full authority to do whatever needs to be done.

How would you solve this? Your solution will be criticized by the other HN-ers here :D.
I've seen 50 of the last 0 hyper inflation events predicted.
Given that dereferencing a URI can result in program execution rather than simple transmission of a document (or, if you prefer, you can ssh to a host and then ssh thither) I’d say yes.

A host is a pretty lightweight concept these days (so lightweight and often ephemeral that we don’t use the term much and rarely even give them names). CL/DM was written in the mainframe era.
I love code generation from GraphQL. Elm-graphql is a great example of this and works incredibly well, to the point where it sold me on GraphQL entirely.
How much did he lose? And when was this? TSLA was looking pretty sus a while back.
It’s called breaking the fourth wall. Although, to be fair, the Muppets often break the third wall too. Normally with a cannon.
Amazon offers $2k “resignation bonuses” to bust union drive in Alabama
Occam's Razor, the data is bad, and bad in different ways between countries.
TPM is also used by BitLocker drive encryption, it enables passwordless encryption.
Germans? If you're going to look into Disney wartime propaganda films, Disney made some anti-Japanese cartoons that in retrospect are pretty overtly racist.

I'm not bringing this up to make Disney out as any kind of villain. These old films are a reflection of the times they were made. The nation was at war and Disney wanted to do their part to help the effort. Times change.
story time!!!
Comments should explain the why, not the what or the how. Obviusly that are exceptions, almost all of them around the really algorithmic parts of the code, something I have to write less than once per year (backend software is not that clever.)

A good choice of function and variable names is usually enough to explain what code does. If it's not enough probably those functions are doing the wrong thing, maybe more than one at once, and must be redesigned.
256 GB is more than enough for many people. Consider work laptops that are mostly used in meetings, or personal laptops for folks who live in the cloud.

I've recently used a 100 GB partition on my personal laptop for client work and it was fine.

(I'm not trying to defend the price of Apple's SSD upgrades.)
how prescient that it was a bug :)
Microsoft came out with a new Flight Simulator that is amazing. It uses scenery generated from real world data so flying around in game is extremely close to flying around in real life. You can visit anywhere in the world and it will look accurate.

Add to this a group called VATSIM which lets you interect with live air traffic controllers "ATC" and a very strong user base of simmers, and you have a truly magical experience.

Flight simming has social, technical, and aesthetic appeal. You can dig into the technical and legal aspects of aviation as much as you want or not at all.

Coding is an option but honestly the tools are all designed for people with good vision and a 20 year old's social context. The barrier to entry is high and one has to get past the jargon to feel any sense of community.
Never read The Hitchhiker's Guide?

The dolphins leave this message as they leave Earth: "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

Besides the mice the dolphins are the most intelligent species on the planet.
Yeah it was very unexpected, I always assumed that Wes was a meat head - but no, he's a sci-fi nerd just like me.
I'm guessing that the time to propose your idea in Texas has probably come and gone for now. But still, there's always the future, and they refer to the states as "laboratories."

Your proposal could address the responsibility of the owners of the electric grid in causing the outages in the first place.
i can't help but wonder...

Sometimes I feel like just dropping my phone and never pick it up again. Let it shut off and never turn it on again.

Will it be mandatory in the future to own a mobile phone? What if I don't want to have one?
It's kind of amazing how often the folks that pull ahead in a market are the folks that didn't fall asleep.

For example: DOS wasn't technically better than anything else; it was just the one that was being aggressive about adoption.

Or the fact that Sony was really in a position to OWN portable music in perpetuity, but went to sleep. Apple wasn't asleep, and didn't have outsized anxiety about digital music, so the iPod entered a market without a dominant "Digital Walkman".
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> Except that by most measures the general public consumes VASTLY less music than they used to, so it isn't accessibility driving it.

Compared to when? 1800? 1970? 2010?
To paraphrase the Silicon Valley TV show: Amazon just put a price on how much it could be worth for a worker to unionize.
I feel like it's such a small step to go from recognizing this to accepting that all labor under capitalism is exploitation. Some less than others for sure, but ultimately wealth and power flow up and the workers of the country (world) have no say in that. We don't get to capture the full value of our labor.
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But it's not going to happen again. There might be a bloody conflict, but it will not have meaningful similarities to WW2.
What operating system do you have? It seems like your `read` command does not support the `-n` argument - but that's not the point, I really need to work on removing installation friction.

If you have git and cargo installed (needed anyway), you can try:

# project structure
cd ~
mkdir .aspen
cd .aspen
mkdir bin
# download
git clone https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine
git clone https://github.com/vrtbl/aspen
# build
cd aspen
cargo build --release
mv target/release/aspen bin
# source
echo "export PATH="~/.aspen/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile

Restart your shell, and it should work. Type `aspen` and hit enter and see if you get a help message with version 0.4.0. If you have any more issues, reach out on the Discord server so we can reach a more permanent solution (if you haven't already).
You bring up an interesting point about the velocity of money. Two things come to mind:

1) If wealth distribution in the US is getting more top heavy, is a certain percentage of the currency slowing down in velocity as it is held by wealthier people who aren't spending it?

2) What is the rate of population change vs. the change in money supply? If the population is growing at 5% a year, the money supply growing at 5% a year should be net neutral for inflation. I think the US population is growing less than 1% per year so maybe this isn't really a hedge against inflation.
That's a good point.

As far as I know, newer B77* generally use GE or RR engines. The PW ones are old at this point, and also represent the smallest and decreasing share, so most planes of this type aren't affected. United (or one of its predecessors) was an early customer, and I think PW was the only engine option at launch.

(Not my area of expertise, so I'd appreciate a correction if I got something wrong.)
Class action lawsuits?
I did this at my former SaaS company with MySQL. I just wrote some scripts to help manage them. We had a script to implement schema changes, one to query across all the schemas and aggregate results, one to move schemas between database clusters, and one to delete a schema.

I was satisfied with our capabilities and enjoyed the peace of mind that it would be impossible for a tired developer (me) to write a user-facing query that could expose other customer data.
What’s wrong with stimulus checks?

Inflation is only a problem if it doesn’t reflect actual economic activity.

Thanks to COVID there is so much slack built into the real world economy right now that there is probably a ton of capacity to absorb any additional “created” dollars.

I suspect the real problem will be if for whatever reason the vaccines start failing and COVID comes raging back and worse for at least another year.
Ask HN: Books that helped you launch your startup
A lot of the popular, bestselling books that I have read are just a bunch of fluff and didn't really have much useful content other than cliches. What were some books (perhaps less well known) you read that actually benefited you and helped you launch your startup/business?
Look at the 2008 crash and countries in Europe with large cash savings and low spending. Germany would be a good start. If I recall correctly Germany had a longer recovery time and it was hard to get Germans to spend stimulus money.
> people come up with slogans that sound good for things that destroy lives

Did you consider writing just this instead? Why use sarcasm for something that can be said plainly and straightforwardly instead?
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For what it's worth, I'll take for loops over list comprehensions any day of the week. I just find it a lot easier to read.
I think the shitty thing is how these two slogans were used for dehumanising other people by the same kind of people.

And there was context - a series of long form posts that I have published over the years standing up for all kinds of minorities, from gay people to refugees being dehumanised actively, on huge billboards, by the government.

But you do you.

I'm still confident that the core of the message was on point, even though I accept that the form was chosen in a moment of anger - I saw a locally acclaimed artist post a very well designed "all lives matter" poster and was disgusted by how everyone was cheering on how positive their message was and I couldn't help but imagine how someone applauded the typographer who created the slogan at the gates of Auschwitz.
It tells you that politicians are only ever in the game to win elections, and, in that moment, just before the election, this was the way to approach the hearing that seemed most tactically appropriate to both sides.

That's not actually something I want to know; we've already known that that's how politicians behave for centuries. I'd be a lot more interested to know if social media is influencing the public political discussion in meaningful ways, and how, and to what end. But those questions were never going to be answered in any sort of compelling way by a gaggle of politicians trying to score cheap points in front of their constituents.
Sticking to the consumer-side of the discussion, the BigCos aren't going to break the cycle. In fact, it's a capitalist crime to do so. Their flywheel requires a steady cattle population to surveil in the fields. When we choose as individuals to remain in their ecosystem, we choose the hidden fees of surveillance capitalism over more straightforward payment models. This is what gives BigCos the muscle to wield against smaller capitalists.

We in our consumer role, by not participating in these business models, are the only truly free actors in the system at this time. The only other way out is for government to get bigger and step in, as it's doing in Australia now.
You'd also either need two GPUs or some way to mux the guest output into the host output, so it's almost assuredly not happening.
At what point is it X stimulus, or Y stimulus that caused ... some unknown thing in the future?

It seems like whatever happens next isn't 2008 stimulus.
Barriers to entry are invisible. They are invisible to people on the inside and most frequently invisible to people who have a hand in creating those barriers.

I once had a conversation with a founder about their signup flow. This founder had aspirations to be a global player. They said that step 2 of their flow included entering a credit card number. I had to stop them. "What about people who don't use credit cards?" They were nonplussed. "You know, China, much of Africa ..." they had never actually thought about whether people had credit cards because every single person they interacted with had one.

Back to languages. If you've never taught an introduction to computer programming for a general audience you are blind to what does and does not matter about a language. You look at things like `foo.bar()` and think "Yeah that's a simple method invocation" and have no idea how many people you just lost.

Never underestimate how much ease of use matters. We, as a community, have selected for decades against people who care about language ergonomics because they get hit in the face with a wall of punctuation filled text and turn away. We fight over where braces belong while not realizing how many hundreds of thousands of people we've excluded.

Ease of use is the most important part of a language. It's just that the barriers to entry are invisible and so the people who happen to be well suited to vim vs emacs debates get to talk while the vast majority of potential programmers are left on the outside.

We create barriers to entry accidentally because we design for people like us. To us the barriers are invisible.
> I would like to read an analysis of how they plan on veeeery carefully extricating themselves from this situation but as far as I can tell the strategy is to wing it.

Agreed I would be interested in this as well. However my understanding is these strategies from a play by play plan perspective are very confidential, for obvious reasons (people would play the market to every FED move, more than they do now).
I think the first two statements would still stand:

> This is sensationalist.
> It's based on net worth, not income. But net worth of billionaires is incredibly inflated by the way we measure it.

That being said, I also think that this inequality increase is a problem for the society as a whole. However I haven't heard yet about a concrete and satisfactory solution/measure to tackle it and that would be effective.
And you don’t think people getting UBI with a bunch of free time aren’t going to occupy that time by taking unofficial jobs and getting paid under the table to earn more income? Get real.
> ... and him being thoroughly wrong about inflation after 2008

Yes, but I've listened to a lot of Peter Schiff, so I'll offer a defence of his position that he might agree with (although it isn't one he'd make) by breaking inflation into 2 parts:

Assumption (wildly radical) - inflation is exactly equal to the change in monetary supply.

Say there is 100% inflation of the monetary base (and, by assumption, cost of everything doubles) and people become twice as productive from technological improvement (cost of everything halves). The BLS would say inflation is 0%, because the net availability of goods and services to people hasn't changed. Schiff would say there has been 100% inflation because in a counterfactual everyone could have had twice as much stuff.

I'm not sure what word the economic mainstream would use to describe what Schiff is talking about. I would call it Gross inflation, I suppose.
I haven't crunched the numbers but so much of people's income goes to housing and housing prices vary so much that I think that would likely result in the outliers trashing any utility the index has.
Pathogenic priming, immune "enhancement" brought about by too many flu vaccinations?
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It would be an interesting to do a quality redub and maybe even a touch up to the animation just to see how it came out.

I mean, it really couldn't be worse from an entertainment standpoint than the live remakes, right?
I agree with you, but that doesn't take away from the fact that now we might see actual inflation at the level of "everyone". Which is different to the asset price inflation we've seen in the last 12 years.
Anyone implemented in Python or Go for production systems?
I don’t think OP argued to bail out the rich. They only argued that UBI doesn’t make sense.

Maybe UBI makes sense. Maybe it doesn’t. I’m on the fence, personally. But bailing out the way we did in 2008-2009, where CEOs and other saboteurs got massive bonuses instead of jail time, was highly immoral. Some of believe that that caused latent inflation.

Bailing out the rich has nothing to do with UBI.

I’ll welcome an UBI scheme that doesn’t wreck personal agency and responsibility. But the onus is on the proponents to prove that it isn’t a terminal civilization’s 21st century version of the Roman “bread and circus”

Btw, a great implicit UBI is to

- reduce the work week to 30 hours. Shares existing jobs with more people

- change the “part time” rules to discourage hiring “part time” employees to avoid benefits

- increase minimum pay. Yes, that too. But it has to be local government in a manner that makes sense to their local economy. Alternatively the federal imposed min. wage should depend on geography

- Bring back weekends to low wage earners (my wife’s entire family works at Walmart or similar places. I see how weekend instability wrecks their ability to enjoy being together). Either close on weekend, or have workers choose a week day they always get off. Mandate 50% overtime for work on weekends.

- Put a 15% tariffs on all goods (no exceptions!). This acts like a sales tax (counter cyclical to the economy. Big plus one) that isn’t as regressive as a sales tax since it encourages local jobs for cheap things and for fancy things the rich pay).
Yes: the bond market.

Take a long position in real return (inflation-adjusted) bonds like TIPS, and go short in nominal bonds. You will profit from an increase in inflation / expected inflation.

Based on 10-year bonds, the current breakeven inflation rate (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE) is about 2.2%.