skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be fine for an initial hiring practice, but as you note it will become problematic in the future. Interestingly, you dodge the real source of the problem (and its possible resolution) by hand-waving the "career ladder."

Once you have an employee and a history of experiencing their work within the company you have the basis for deciding where pay diverges and what career ladder they wish to follow. The fundamental question you should always ask yourself regarding compensation for an existing employee is "what would it cost me to replace the value they deliver to the company?" That isn't based on title or prior work experience, it should be based on a real understanding of their work, initiative, and the other aspects of their involvement with the company that delivers value (along with a balance of possible deficiencies that reduce that value).

Does that tend to produce valuations for existing personnel that may be higher than possible new hires? Sure, but then bringing on a new hire has its own costs regarding training, accumulation of institutional knowledge, etc but those are real costs that must enter the compensation equation.

If an employee wishes to gain more compensation, their career ladder is to find ways to deliver more value. That isn't dependent on titles or checklists of certifications, it's based on what directly contributes to the success of the company.
I agree with much of what you say. The only issue I have is that you can't ascribe any results (good or bad) to a single variable, or even two, like "wages" and "capitalism". Life just doesn't work like that, nothing does.

> my parents' experience in Romania
> The actual result was that corrupt politicians sold those factories to corrupt investor

One of my neighbors is from Romania. I've had many very interesting conversations with her. She can't comprehend how it is that US youth are so in love with socialism and, some, Marxism. She says the same thing every time "if they only knew".

Another neighbor was from Czechoslovakia. Sadly passed away a number of years ago. I have a huge collection of old European and Eastern European stamps because of him. We also had lots of interesting conversations about life in the old country. Same kind of reaction to what has been evolving with US youth, disbelief.

A few friends are from a couple of former USSR republics. Once again, they say the equivalent of "if they only knew" and "we came here to escape what US kids and politicians are asking for".

My family travelled and lived extensively through Latin America, including living in Argentina before, during and after the military regime.

The problems you are talking about are not due to capitalism. They have to do with deeply entrenched cultures of corruption. Once they become "democratic" it takes decades, perhaps a generation or two, for people and politicians to think and behave as those in mature western democracies. I mean, in the USSR people had to cheat, lie and steal to live. As they migrated to other nations it was very common to see enclaves of ex-USSR residents continue to game the system and take advantage of everything, just as they had to back home. One of the most commonly known problems in the US was entire families taking advantage of our welfare system, even going as far as not declaring when family members died in order to continue to receive payments. They also worked for cash in order to appear unemployed and keep their benefits.

I go back to the same thing: Not a single variable problem.

Yes, capitalism has problems, nothing is perfect. We do need controls and rules in certain domains. While not perfect, we tend to do OK over time.

At some level it is very simple: Make a list of nations that elevated the standard of living of their population and how they did it. Create columns for any category you can think of: Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Dictatorship, etc. Now give us a list of nations that succeeded without capitalism. You can't. Capitalism has, quite literally, elevated billions of people from dirt-poor agrarian societies to the point of almost everyone in the US being able to walk around with a smart phone, have a smart TV, etc., etc., etc.. The first step is to be truly honest about what we are talking about. Nobody has found any alternatives that work better. Maybe one day someone will.
Long COVID is downright horrifying.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-long-haulers-symptoms-...
Keep in mind that Seuss's early career involved drawing racist WWII propaganda. While he largely reformed in later years, it would be inaccurate to say that some of the content has merely "not aged well"
Well Stephanie and Jaydren in Portland care a lot thank you very much.
Samsung and Apple have won the smart phone war – and we have lost
So you can build nuclear in a tsunami zone? in a seismic zone? in an area without cooling?

So you can mine and enrich uranium without carbon?

Nuclear does none of the things you fantasize it to do really.
Laws don't always work on the principle of sanity.
Hop on Pop is also a good one, great for learning phonemes.
I live in Poland and I am BAFFLED at how bad internet in US, supposedly one of the most developed countries on Earth, is.

I have commercial (ie high priority), 600Mbit/120Mbit broadband with extremely stable (under 15ms, over 99% of th time) round trip to most of the Poland, for equivalent of 20 USD per month.

I know its not the same everywhere in Poland, but consider I also have three mobile internet plans. One of them is 4G limited to 20Mbit but unlimited monthly transfer, for 5 USD per month. This is also quite stable and allows me to comfortably work remotely from almost every place in Poland and serves me as a backup link.
Agile/Scrum is nothing more than a product that Martin Fowler and Thoughtworks publicized for their own good (money wise). Outside of that it is just another buzzword driven development which gets nothing done.
I wonder if it would make sense to have a setup similar to music where commercial users of software pay a fee to an organization that distributes money to the producers.

Music and books have a lot of similarities to software in that the cost of copying is nearly free and people want to use stuff everywhere.
The string stuff is kind of the original sin, but to be honest almost all programming environments have massive footguns when it comes to times/dates. Python's datetime story is _extremely_ painful to deal with. Try doing .... I dunno, anything apart from getting the current time and doing an ISO format of a Javascript Date object.

I think stuff has kinda gotten better, but while Unicode had emoji to kinda save the day, dates never had this moment and we're still suffering through major messes on a daily basis because of it.
The labels are just whatever people on the internet wrote next to the image. Certainly there are some instances of things like "this is a picture that says 'spider'" or whatever (probably a little more natural than that), or else the network would have no way of learning to read. But what's interesting here is that it's the same neuron doing the reading and doing the recognizing of Spiderman's head. That's not the only way that it could have solved the problem. There could have been some dimensions of the representation vector used for reading text, and other for recognizing visual objects, and those would be handled by separate subsets of neurons in the network.
I feel like various Agile frameworks might be saying “You are doing it wrong” to people using Waterfall for software development. In that case, I would agree. 16 years ago I talked to a project manager who had done PM for a nuclear plant and Waterfall is ok for that, but not usually for software where you learn more from users about what should be done and tweaked as you go along. Perhaps you are just seeing Scrum in places where they are doing Scrum wrong, e.g. adding to it and making it heavy-handed and overbearing.

If you’re on a team of more than a couple people and you have stakeholders feeding requirements to the project, what do you do that’s so different from the simple process of Scrum? It’s just set up to say, hey, we’re going to work on these items for the next week or two, and please don’t constantly come interrupt me in the middle to ask me to fit in a bunch more things than what we agreed to work on in this short time period. Then we’ll show you how it’s working and you can decide what we do next.
Don't blame it on sinister forces from China. Americans are perfectly capable of hurting themselves without outside help.
You really are pushing the idea that all conversations should be altered so that no one is offended, for any reason however silly, ever. Because if they say it's offensive and attributes it to their identity, one cannot argue back.
This is the part that boggles my mind. It's not like fat pointers just didn't exist at the time. You need fat pointers any time you do anything with dynamic non-string binary data.

Null is always 1 byte minimum so at best you save size_t-1 bytes per string. Ignoring clever structures like LEB128 varint length.

This is a classic case of "simple is actually complex". How many billions of dollars has null terminal strings cost? Hope that 3 bytes of overhead per string saved is worth it.
The problem here are the bullies, not the show.

South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy and all the greats are packed full of racially-adventurous humour and that's part of what makes these shows great. Scottish, British, Indian, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim and virtually everyone is picked on.

They're equal opportunity offenders.

If you don't like it, that's your prerogative, but don't force your preferences on the rest of us.
It will be interesting if either one of these eventually returns image and video results as well.
Apologies, I thought your response was a reply to a different comment.
Take a look at any foreign policy story. The mainstream media is basically uniformly in favor of bombing and starving other countries. They have only tactical disagreements as to whether it is too costly rather than whether it is a fundamentally criminal act in violation of Article II of the UN charter.

Historically: see Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan. Today: Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba. There are many many examples. The new bugaboo is China as a part of the "pivot to Asia".

Example: https://mashable.com/2017/04/07/brian-williams-syria-missile...
Yeah, I was in the industry back then, I know exactly what kind of people created it and why. Citing "Uncle Bob" is hardly an endorsement.
My pithy quote about agile is how much it is like communism:
1. Both started with a manifesto.
2. Both are meant to deliver some downtrodden group (serfs or developers) from their lowly state but end up making it worse.
3. Any criticism of the obvious flaws in both systems will elicit wails of "it works, everyone else just did it wrong"
Hell raising kids in the 60s & 70s is a lot less work. You could send the kids off into the neighborhood to play with all the other kids and only interact with them when they had issues. Otherwise they would rather be out exploring the local woods or streets with all the other kids, and family being around to help out.

Now with the legal necessity of 24/7 adult supervision before they are 12, that is gone and as a result you have helicopter parenting making it a shit ton more work to do.
I believe it's a model to segregate pricing. business costs more, gets good upload. Residential costs less, gets good download.

That said, fiber is really really efficient and can put 100 customers utilizing the entire 100m on one strand.
This guy's trying to get people to read a 53-page contract and here I am I'm just trying to get people to read a two sentence email
You also need to build a secondary containment vessel for the reactor, which is a significant expense. Because the cost of this containment is a function of surface area and generating capacity is a function of volume it's better to increase size. You also need to build steam turbines, heat exchangers, transformers, etc. The cost of the reactor is only a portion of the cost of the whole nuclear plant.

> Palo Verde was brought online more than 30 years ago. If you look at Vogtle 3-4 (to be brought online in the next 2 years... if we are lucky) or Hinkley Point C, you'll see projected costs of respectively $25 BN for 2.5 GW and $32 BN for 3.2 GW. In both cases that comes at $10 BN/ GW. That is 5 times more expensive than the naval reactor.

And by comparison you have the Taishan plant built for $7.5B with 3.5 GW generating capacity. If we want to go around cherry-picking examples we can also cherry-pick the cheap plants.

We have already tried using maritime nuclear reactors for grid generation. The first nuclear plants brought online for grid generation were maritime reactors repurposed for grid production. Larger purpose-built reactors won out.
Why not “hey everyone” or “hey all”
Gigabit network ports are cheap, and the cost of serving a MDU is low when your input costs (labor, hardware, obtaining right of way) is low.
That's about equal to what it costs my wife and I to live for a year in a luxury 1100sqft downtown apartment in Vancouver, counting food, restaurants, entertainment, transport, clothes, shoes, electronics, and vacations.

And I'd wager most families in the US and Canada live on less.

How is that in any way possible and who is the moron working for the city who approves that.
And you get downvoted on HN for even mentioning “slippery slope”.
This is also a terrible idea, because there can be no scholarly analysis if scholars can't get it because everyone has jammed it down the memory hole.

(Edit: I'd really like to see some thought out defense on how censorship doesn't injure scholarship. Downvotes are just limp concessions.)
"Partner" is a mostly term used with gays. straights many feel strange to apply this term to husband, also wife. Can someone not simply ask about "spouse"? There previously exists term without gender for such persons.
Jerf never comments in good faith.

He’s an example that extremist authoritarian and highly bigoted views, such as those he holds and often defends are welcome here on HN, so long as you are polite while making extremely dishonest arguments.

It fucking sucks, but HN is a place that welcomes racist shit-posting so long as it adheres to a particular style guideline; and bans people who do not adhere to the style guideline.

I’m banned anyway, so I’ll just add that Daniel Gackle’s mother should be fucking ashamed that she raised a pathetic son who devotes his entire life to the creation of “safe spaces” for racist shitbags like jerf.
Unpopular to who? Christianity is a massive chunk of the US population (whether they actually practice what they preach is a different question).
I ended up with DeepSpeech since it was very easy to get started with, and it has support for fairly low-latency inferencing which is very important for my project.

I will take a look at the ones you suggested though, thanks for the heads-up!
All these outlets say the books are "offensive" but they don't say why. Has anyone actually looked at these books? I have. Nothing in there is even remotely offensive. It would help to explain what is offensive, so we don't just take their word for it.
The problem wasn’t Apu or if he was played by a white actor or not, if he didn’t exist the kids would have made fun of you for anything that made you stand out. Skin, what shoes you wore, what you brought home for lunch, do you like a girl, or heaven forbid a boy (back in the day). Kids are vicious.
Also, header values. They're basically require implementing a custom string type to handle correctly; they're a baroque mix of characters & "opaque octets".

You are supposed to treat all of them as "opaque octets"... or something like this might happen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25857729
I'm not sure what your point is by linking to just that graph without context.

No one denies that nuclear makes up the majority of France's generating capacity. It's more debatable as to whether or not France is capable of building them out at competitive prices compared to renewables. It's worth looking at the ongoing cost disaster that is Flamanville unit 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

Short version: supposed to be 54 months to build at €3.3 billion, is currently now targeting 180 months of total construction time at €19.1 billion. Not a good look.
It's tiring.
why is it so hard to respect what people want to be called and referred to as? It's no different than someone with the name William wants to be referred to as Will, but you stubbornly keep referring to them as William because its their legal name and i can damnit!!!! Just acknowledge it and move on with your life.
Those 55+ year olds don't realize who are paying their pension and medical care.
I don't understand your point. Aladdin is mildly offensive, so it's ok that Dr. Seuss was really offensive? I have those books, and the drawings in them are straight up offensive, for all individuals that are not white.
Python's dates are very unlikely to cause quadratic or exponential performance dips, segfaults, or remote code execution vulnerabilities. (And JS now has Date#toISOString, since ES5.)

C's string manipulation functions are a regular source of the worst vulnerabilities in software.

Even if they're in the same category of legacy cruft, they're not even remotely in the same magnitude of consequences.
The fact you’re talking about a subset of total subsidies to all infrastructure spending by these companies. This wasn’t supposed to be new money, it was renaming an existing telecom subsidies as something else.

In the associated April 2014 Connect America Report and Order, the Commission decided that a competitive ETC that is awarded “support through the competitive bidding process will cease to receive legacy phase-down support for those specific areas upon commencement of Connect America Phase II support.”12 As of July 1, 2014, consistent with the USF/ICC Transformation Order, the Commission froze fixed competitive ETCs’ legacy support at 60%...

Also, wireline providers don’t invest $40 billion per year in extending their networks to new customers. The majority of that money is spent on maintaining and upgrading existing equipment as part of their normal operating costs. It’s like complaining they can’t simply get money without doing anything.
Counterpoint: I graduated from a university still named after the confederacy that held "slave auction" fundraisers all the way into the 80s. I think it's easy to downplay how pervasive racism still is in America, and to imagine that hypersensitivity is the result of "fragility" instead of "constant exposure".
I always thought this would be a killer feature of Spotify. They already have music licenses sorted and they have social connections already baked in. A turntable-like feature could be little different from a collaborative playlist.

Maybe they'd be cautious because a feature like this could become a way to manipulate Spotify's sensitive algorithms.
ask HN:A need that'd require being in touch with a UK resident
I'm having a need that'd require being in touch with a UK person living there to achieve that. Are you such person ?

I'd keep on in touch if yes, by means of internet

I need a Discovery channel video that can only easily be obtained at your place there, would you attain my need?
Thanks dang, sorry—I blanked out on that rule and will try to remember moving forward (I think I’ve made this mistake before). Cheers
This is a great idea. It's time-bound, so the maintainer doesn't feel set-upon, since they can change the hours whenever. It's also a (reasonably) guaranteed opportunity to talk directly to the maintainer of something you care about, if you're on the other side.

I love this.
For me the takeaway is that all the "myths" mentioned in here are often simplified abstractions, but they do have underlying truth.

> Brains don’t work by stimulus and response.

They definitely do, eg. when you accidentaly touch a hot object. But that's not all they do. They also have a predicting mode of operation.

> specific parts of the human brain have specific psychological jobs

There are parts of the brain doing specialized things, otherwise why do we still call an area of the brain "visual cortex"? But the brain is much more malleable and plastic than we thought earlier, and entire areas can be repurposed.
Agile = Marxism

Scrum = Communism
Does it though, or is it more survivorship bias and maybe lucking into finding someone who will spend hours mentoring you?

I've mentored quite a few first semester students (in my spare time, to help. Not as a job) and there is no way some of them would've passed without serious help.

At some point I used to think privately that CS should have a programming test as an admission exam, because these students did drag everyone down. If medicine and law have admission restrictions, why not CS too?

But I have changed my opinion because I think everyone deserves a real opportunity, and our school system does not provide a level playing field sadly. (Also the medicine & law admission criteria are GPA based and that is the last thing I'd want for CS.)

Anyway the real filter was always maths.
Those suspiciously plain, blank rectangular tunnels have a real Ultima look to them!
> the intermittent nature of wind and solar

is kinda dependent on your region.

where I live, wind is pretty unreliable except at a narrow band of latitude.

but solar is -very- reliable. more like regular than intermittent. So we have two kinds of storage requirements: short term buffers for 15 mins of passing cloud cover, and overnight. Because of this manageable profile our economy is swiftly ramping up solar not just for current demand but in pursuit of 10x cheap new power to drive new industry.
And for the hotels, that's $272 a night. $272 * 365 = $99,280 a year!

So San Francisco is spending $100K a year per person and billing that to the federal government / everyone else in America. Meanwhile, median income in the U.S. is $31K a year, or 1/3 of that.
Oh I have to try this now. Thanks.
And I haven't heard anyone I've met in person argue in favor of the banning, and earlier (before the ebay thing) someone I know irl (well, haven't seen them in person in a while, but I still talk to them frequently) complained about the unpublication, and I warned against overreacting about it (now, hearing the ebay thing, I do think the ebay thing is indicative of something which is a somewhat larger concern).

(I've only spoken to one person I've met irl about the topic. It is likely that others other people I know would have a variety of different opinions on it, if it were brought up, but the topic didn't come up when we spoke recently.)

Do our anecdotes cancel out?
It literally gave them the ability to improve their situation. They could afford to take days off to interview for a better job because of this. Poverty is a trap most can’t afford to escape.

It boggles my mind how people can read a headline that states an observed fact and then come with an opinion that that fact that happened just won’t happen.
Not just tolerance of failure. Also strict incident investigations and reporting requirements, including for "near misses"; also a strong safety culture made possible by strong unions and strict seniority-based promotion rules; also...
That's the thing: Chrome did empower users, that's why everyone uses it! Users just want things to work, and Chrome worked better than IE and FF at the time. FF didn't get multi-process support for a decade after Chrome had it. Did this also serve Google's purposes? Of course. But that's how life works. It's a win-win for Google.

Everyone complains about the evils of Google, but revealed preferences show that focusing on what people actually care about has substantial value.

It's like no one follows what people say about cookie popups. Does your average non-tech user praise the EU for adding the popups and allowing opt outs? Of course not. They complain about these stupid fucking popups they have to click through on every site now!