skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great idea that I've been coming around to for a while now.

1. Have a legal/professional name. This is what shows up on your birth certificate, your IDs, what the people at your work know you by, etc.

2. Have a personal name. This is what your friends and family know you by, and can be completely disjoint from your legal name. A low-effort way of approximating this is just to go by your middle name among friends, since you're usually not required to divulge your full middle name on formal documents, so you can still maintain some degree of separation.

3. Have a public name, or a variety of public names, that are disjoint from the prior two. These are your social media account names, email address, Twitter handle, etc. Let these be as disposable as possible and, if feasible, rotate them out every few years.
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As Kevin Williamson observed, Sowell is “that rarest of things among serious academics: plainspoken.” From 1991 until 2016, his nationally syndicated column set the bar for clear writing, though the topics he covered were often complex. “Too many academics write as if plain English is beneath their dignity,” Sowell once said, “and some seem to regard logic as an unconstitutional infringement of their freedom of speech.” If academics birth needlessly complex prose, editors too often midwife it. An editor, Sowell once quipped, would probably have changed Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be, that is the question” to something awful, like “The issue is one of existence versus non-existence.”
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https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-cult...
At that point, you might as well just use xz and skip 7z
This is painfully true. You must've worked there.
> Does anyone why housing everywhere seems to be going nuts? This can't be a good sign.

It will depend on the location, but usually a mix of more people in the big cities, inflation, low interest rates ( so low mortgage rates), physical constraints ( most cities can't sprawl forever), sometimes regulations ( like zoning).

It's mostly in big cities though, go to a small one without any obvious geographic advantage ( like being on the seaside), and prices are usually much lower and stagnating.

Also depending on location, IMHO the pandemic has shown to a lot of people that remote work is possible and can be productive, so there will be some moves towards smaller cities and villages + remote working for big city businesses.
Evil mode is very popular (see doom emacs or spacemacs which try to integrate lots of emacs extensions with evil mode on by default)
> Between the speculation as input and the money on the other side as output there is a giant random number generation box.

Is there?

It seems like NFTs are much more about insiders creating a new market for suckers to enter.
Amazing, thank you. I will be using this. They were probably "inspired" :wink by your service
Regular Visa Debit card.
You're right, that's what I meant.
I believe this is a piece of the best advice:
1. Who is your audience?
2. What do you want to tell them?
3. What do you want them to do?

These are the Three Questions.

My advice: answer them before you create a powerpoint, an email, an essay, a policy. They create a sharp tool for thought.
True. It does actually look really cool. I just thought it sounded like an oxymoron.
Ask HN: How to determine if the offer I'm getting is good?
I have 20+ years of experience in software development and about half of that time I've been working in leadership positions (engineering manager).

Because of the size of the companies I tend to work at (rather small), I still act as IC from time to time, so my skill are sharp and up to date.

I have plenty of experience building engineering teams from the ground up, and building successful products that generate a lot of money (for the investors of course).

In my current company, we have gone over 2 successful acquisitions (2 different VC firms have bought us), and I think I have been really important in making that happen.

In my mind, my next role would be as a VP of Engineering or CTO (for a small start-up). I'm about to turn 40.

Currently there is a startup that reach to me and are looking to fill their VP role. They seem to have an interesting product (1 paying customer already, and are looking to get the next few) and they say are backed by top engineers from Netflix and Google. They also went through a round of funding and gathered $7M.

They very much like to offer me the position, but there are a couple of things that I don't like:

a) They are outsourcing most of their development, which in my mind is kind of weird.

b) They cannot pay me what I'm currently making, which is not a crazy SV salary, but it's a good salary still. They offer stock/shares in order to even things out (they said 50 thousand, but I don't know what to make of that number).

I understand that working at startups usually requires some "sacrifices" and honestly they pay cut would not really affect my lifestyle, however I don't really understand much about stock in order to make an informed decision.

I've been trying to read a bunch of similar questions that I found here, but I also wanted to give a shot with more specific details of my situation in case anyone would like to chime in with their opinion.

Thanks
Not sure, it was a small regional bank (next door to the FSF, see my other story in this thread) but they've been replaced by a bigger bank.
That might be also considered a multirepo in disguise :)
I was assuming it introduced things more meaningful than keybindings, like separate command and insert modes. I am not an EMACS user.
Better than xz?

And what's the difference?
I alwasy though 7zip was a bit sketchy like rar archives, zips are more common on windows and on linux everywhere I see there are either gz, bz2 or xz.
I used Tailwind in my Phoenix LiveView project, so I don't need to reload.
You can deploy and manage NixOS on Big Cloud using Terraform: https://nix.dev/tutorials/deploying-nixos-using-terraform.ht...
Flutter for Web: Core Highlights
Do you want to play your whole life on gambling moves? For every single person flexing their gme gains you'll find thousands who went bankrupt thinking they were day trading gods, same for crypto

Get out of HN and other social medias and talk to people in real life, don't focus too much on money as long as you can live comfortably (if you're in the west it's already 90% done) and enjoy your short time on this planet, there is more to life than getting rich
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This was such a fun read. It inspired me to buy http://xn--vn8hkk.ws/

Edit 1: TIL Hacker News doesn't support emoji. lol

Edit 2: Yeah, I know; that's a cow, not a bull. Don't yuck my yum!
This is completely ridiculous woke peacocking. If only an African-American activist woman can understand the poem well enough to translate it than why bother translating it into Catalan or Dutch in the first place? For according to their logic, a Dutch or Catalonian reader wouldn't understand it anyway because they are not African-American!
Yeah, I've finished Arabic and I'm on the fence if I'd do it again, Arabic just doesn't work that well in their model.

I came into it already knowing how to read and write, and just wanting vocab, grammar, and typing practice. It was pretty decent for that, although the early lessons were absolutely jam packed with errors. I think that may have been fixed now. The later lessons they released were much better, so I assume they've improved the earlier ones.

As a side note, https://www.amazon.com/Arabic-Alphabet-How-Read-Write/dp/081... is really excellent, and not very pricey. If you do a few letters a day and really practice you'll be able to transliterate in a couple of weeks.
Never compared archivers at length, cannot speak as to the actual features. But 7z has this distinct unfinished open-source GUI tool look. That's all I remember about it. It may or may not be true that it has poor UX. But the aesthetics certainly do signal this. Personally, on Windows I used 360压缩 which seems to be a better looking winrar clone without nag screens. On Linux it's "atool -x" for extracting (there's no decent Linux file explorer, so the main selling point of archiver guis is moot too).
Having multiple offers on the table certainly helps - but I feel a lot of people know what they're looking for in terms of comp range when they're going into the interview process. Recruiters will usually ask you up-front what your target comp range is before even submitting your resume to a company. At engineer salary levels in the US, +/- $5-10k isn't going to be a life changing amount of money (especially after taxes), and is likely within the realms of negotiations anyway. The main reason for big jumps in comp are if you're applying to vastly different types of companies with wide levels of stock options on the table, eg FANG vs seed-stage startup.
I agree that we should legalize all drugs while also providing help for people who fall into heavy addiction.

> It is also prohibited because addicts turn to petty crime...

This is just bad logic though. The best thing to do would be to just arrest people for the actual crimes when they happen instead of trying preempt it.

Otherwise we'd have to make illegal all the things that cause people turn to crime like bad parenting, being a sociopath, being in debt and oh...having spent time in prison. As soon as you get out of prison, they'd have to turn you right around and put you back in again.

(No offense meant to you - I'm not sure if you're stating the logic that has been given to you or expressing your own. Either way, I 100% agree that decriminalization alone is a bad idea.)
Freedom

10EUR
There's one with a 1 to 10 billion scale in Washington, D.C. The sun is located just outside the Air and Space Museum. Well worth your time to check out!

https://www.jeffreybennett.com/model-solar-systems/voyage-sc...
24–bit audio is very nearly a scam. There's no perceptible difference between 16– and 24–bit audio. You could say that the human ear isn't sensitive enough to tell the difference, but it's better to say that 16 bits are sufficient to cover the range of volumes that a human can hear.
I mean... this (issuing plastic cards) is just basically a way of distributing "trusted" hardware to customers who are walking around with a million more cycles per second on their wrist...
lol this is the most "sir this is an arby's" shit I've seen in a minute.

Like the teller possibly doesn't know anything about that algorithm except that it exists. Just show them the card doesn't work they can verify that quickly.
I don't know if it will work for all MUDs but for the one that I play on, I usually run telnet in an shell buffer in Emacs, so that I can always scroll back up to see what I've missed.

There are (or were?) MUD clients for Emacs, but I haven't used one for a long time - just having Emacs and the buffer available has been enough for everything I've wanted to do.
Sure but you have to really trust each other. Oh wait, it can all be the same person!
That's the first time I've seen someone accuse the satellite providers of tolerating signal piracy. It wasn't THAT easy. The difficulty was in the range of a firmware flash.

It wasn't super reliable either. They used to change / fix things and people with the pirate boxes would end up waiting days or even weeks for the new hack. I can't remember the name of the content protection systems, but IIRC it was an issue / limitation with the actual satellite(s), so it's not like they could flip a switch and fix it. They made huge improvements with the next set of satellites that were put into service.

There was a very brief golden age of satellite piracy when all the FTA stuff was popular, but it didn't last any longer than you'd expect when you consider the logistics of having to deal with a satellite that's in space as one side of the system.

That's crazy.
If you're looking for a MySpace experience, you should check out spacehey.com! I think I originally heard about it on HN!
Perhaps RAM memory corruption?

I can imagine bit flips doing that on non ECC memory.
Mc Hammer is debating philosophy on twitter and clubhouse these days, who knows, might still happen
Registered an e-mail address. I’ll probably only use it to mildly impress some people and it’s entirely possible it will stop working within the year.

Then again, it’s $9.99...
Samsung SmartThings | Staff Software Engineer | Remote (US only) or NYC Onsite | Full-time

SmartThings brings your home to life by being the leading open platform for the consumer Internet of Things. Bringing together developers, device makers, and service providers to make the world a smarter place.

Focus: Applied Data Science, Audio/Video

Link to more details: https://smartthings.pinpointhq.com/jobs/9726
I'm really curious once this is over what the data for all-cause mortality looks like during the pandemic. I lost two members of my family and another person who was close to the family. I can count several others I know who lost at least one family member. And as far as I know only one of this group was due to COVID.
I started with emacs and never learned vim. What am I missing?
It's similar to inline styles in one way but different in about five or six ways. Putting that to the side, what do you mean by clean abstractions?

With Tailwind, all of your abstractions are explicit; the styles are right there on your component, with a more or less 1:1 correspondence to CSS properties. Everything does what it says it does.

In traditional CSS methodologies, the abstractions are implicit but hidden. The relationships between the stylesheet and markup are still there, but they cannot be understood without knowing both structures intimately.

Which of these is cleaner, and for what purpose? At the end of the day, code is not there to be looked at, it's meant to be deployed and maintained.
Even though I have "paperless" enabled, Charles Schwab sends me a paper letter for every stock transaction I do in one of my accounts. Especially in conjunction with fractional shares, this leads to a lot of wasted paper and effort.

I've been tempted to do a bunch of 0.01 share transactions to see if I could overwhelm them into giving up on paper transaction confirmations.
I bet medium-format 1:1 macro lenses are spendy, though.
Another comment mentioned that using a word with multiple meanings increases confusion.

I would argue that "writing" can mean "writing the tool" as well as "writing the art form." PG is talking about "writing the tool."

Confusingly, both the tool and the art form can convey ideas.

Certain ideas can be conveyed better by art ("a picture is worth a thousand words"). Visual art is typically more accessible than complex prose, but all forms of art can reach levels of inaccessibility that are frustrating to those not "in the know."
Islands is a common trope. Have you tried living on a tropical island? The weather is pleasant, the food is nice, but it gets boring after a while. There is little to do, and it's really hard to relate with the people who live there: none of them are into hacking or computers.

As for gambling, I've never enjoyed that.

> Why not throw $100 billion into nuclear fusion research?

Because I don't care?

See, you have things you want, things you care about. Then you get them. And eventually there is nothing you desire anymore. Feel free to not believe me if you prefer but that's the cold hard truth.

Biology is the only thing a bit interesting to me. If I didn't have that, I think I would just slide into drugs and eventually OD. The sad story of Tony Hsieh acted as a stern reminder I had to keep my new path.

> I'm confident I could spend the entire world GDP if I had it. I'm not saying I could do it well, but I sure as shit would have fun doing it.

I don't know your goals, and I don't judge them, but if you are trying to get rich (as a lot of people on HN seem to desire) this mindset may be counter productive.

I didn't have the mindset that spending was fun when growing up (asian parenting...) This may be why I didn't spend anything when bitcoin crossed the any of the various price points.

There may be a selection effect: those who end up making over 6 digits of net worth are less likely to enjoy spending - and the more extra digits, the less likely.

Someone on this thread was saying they enjoyed seeing 7 digits in their account this year - I guess they sold at minimum 200 coins. Given the current price path, it's likely to break 150kUSD this summer. So if they had waited a bit, they would have been in the low 8 digits.

Those who sold when the $1 psychological price was passed got themselves a few meals, considering the same amount.

Do you see where it goes? I'm not advocating hodling, because there is a point where you have enough money for anything you want - but I think it's not true for the kind of people who find spending fun, and by consequence were driven to sell early.
The noise is precisely why people are distracted. A lot of people would love to get rich by buying low and selling high within that noise. The more noise there is, the more opportunities there are.

That's gambling, not investing, but people love gambling. As with gambling, the house always wins, but some people come out ahead anyway. Like lottery winners, that makes people dream.

In this case there may even have been some house disadvantage: too much pessimism by investors not only made opportunities for legitimate investing wins, but the quirks of the rules left them open to having to materialize losses. Any such advantage to investors is long since gone, but it amplifies the lotto excitement.
That makes sense, thanks. I expected prices in the big city to drop too in the pandemic (at least because of a drop in tourism), but, if anything, they've gone up...
I'm not convinced it's the right move for the web to try to accommodate the development of every conceivable kind of GUI application. This doesn't change when someone makes a computer whose only GUI toolkit is a web browser.

If you try to port Red Dead Redemption 2 to JavaScript, you're going to have a bad time. That's not the fault of the web, it's just not an appropriate choice of platform.

Like I said in another comment in this thread, the downsides of the web as a platform wouldn't go away by improving its support for parallelism or for concurrency. Web-based UIs would still seem clunky and half-baked compared to native apps, and they'd still use far more computational resources than native apps.
I hated Tailwind until I went whole hog on a project. There are so many nice little benefits to it, and those compound. Maintenance is a huge win. I haven’t accidentally broken styles once since switching to Tailwind. The VS Code tooling is great. The workflow is great. The reduced context switching is great. Using it with Preact is great, and my app’s bundle size is still smaller than just the dependencies on most React projects I’ve worked on, so I think the bloat is overblown.

I’m sure there are downsides, but the upsides so far seem to dramatically outweigh the downsides.
The problem with intermittent power and batteries is that you don't have to equal the capacity of an on demand or base load system, you have to have higher capacity. This does vary dramatically between different areas. For example, Nevada doesn't have the same requirements as New England. Nevada has fairly consistent seasons and isn't as subject to storms, thus they don't need much excessive storage. On the other hand New England suffers frequent heavy seasonal storms and long winters that make storage more difficult. Even more so when we are talking about the frequency of these events increasing due to climate change.

The problem is complicated.

> A pet gnawing at it and getting sick? Not happening.

Power outages are often caused by animals. 11% are from squirrels[0]. SQUIRRELS!

> Also operating environments can be dictated, such as temperature, humidity, water cooling or say if the battery technology required a contraption the size of a house, etc.

This just adds to the nuance from above. Because now you need to power your containment. This needs priority over powering homes actually. So now you need more excess and more backups because this is going to be expensive if it fails and take a long time to get back up.

A lot can be reduced if people start building battery systems in their homes. But most people don't have $5k-$15k to drop on a powerwall. But that is shifting the burden to consumers and I'm not sure that's a fair comparison because this consumer cost isn't included in our pricing comparisons. Though this would be a much more robust system (assuming we ignore increase in risk of fire) and greatly reduce damage done by events like what we saw in Texas, even if there is a lot of human error involved.

Climate and power is an extremely difficult topic. Anyone saying otherwise is uninformed.

[0] https://gesrepair.com/what-are-the-most-common-causes-of-pow...
We were complaining that the worst people to work with are those who can't afford to lose employment(usually due to their financial situation), because over time they gradually evolve into these yes-men who will do anything to save their ass - even if it means making everyone else's job harder in the process.

That was me, at a previous job. I eventually was able to bring myself to quit. I made a lot less for a few years but was much happier and realigned my career track for jobs that are more amenable to life.
"Curiosity" is a weird trait to gauge, because the person might be completely exhausted and fatigued by the ever-shifting quicksand of the tech world, but still be extremely curious about things outside of their job, such as their hobbies.

For example, I have recently started doing a lot of cooking and bread baking, and I've watched hundreds of youtube videos about those topics (which I could argue demonstrates curiosity), but I still haven't bothered to learn React or Angular because I barely have to deal with javascript in my current job, and where I do, jQuery usually works just fine for my limited needs.

When employers say they want someone who is "curious", what they are really saying is they want someone who is willing to spend all their personal time self-educating on programming topics, effectively making themselves more valuable from an employment perspective. The employer, of course, is rarely eager to actually allocate "learning time" during normal business hours, and is rarely willing to give you a meaningful raise when you actually have self-educated on your own time.

I really wish more companies actually TRAINED their employees DURING BUSINESS HOURS instead of just trying to hire "curious" people.
I would like to see prisoners provided with in transparent laptops. Take away the lithium battery if worried.
Russian supermarket chain X5 rolls out pay-with-face technology
What was the consequence of this? Would the card not work anywhere, or would it only not work online?
>You then sell that painting at auction to another friend for $1MM. Cash only. Private transaction.

But that doesn't really solve the problem. Now rather than you having to explain to the IRS/FBI how you got that $1M bag of cash, your friend has to. It's really not any better than taking that $1M bag of cash, and using it to directly buy whatever you want (eg. a mansion).
Very peculiar sentence. The word "distraction" is quoted but the rest of the sentence, the strongest claim, is not quoted.

Where does the "are choosing to learn computer science and programming as opposed to working on other subjects" come from? It is implicitly attributed to "some schools", but which schools? did they really say that, or is the author paraphrasing something they said? or is it the author's interpretation or guess of their motivation?

Or perhaps this is viral marketing, or in other words, BS.
A decent text editor
You're not wrong per se, but rather: there should just be a disclaimer on Email that this is a very messed up ecosystem and will break often. It's not specific to xn--ds8h.kz et al.
Bronze age burial site in Spain suggests women were among rulers