skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have asked this several times. I think the answer is because they can.

If you want to make more money you become a manager. Developers are just like electricians or brick layers.

They also don’t have the FAANG to create tons of value from software.
I'd also like to add that journals are becoming less and less relevant in some ways. Most of the journal clubs I have attended don't discuss the latest e.g. Nature, Science papers, they talk about the new stuff on arXiv that week. Add to that the fact that increasingly often the code used is on GitHub, and the data (if available) is hosted somewhere else, journals look less and less important to the process.

Of course the bar is lower for arXiv, and the papers are often a little shoddier. But my point is that journals are no longer central to process of keeping up with science.
> Apple said that it had no information to suggest that the malware was ever used

So in other words, it was used only on a few high value targets, rather than being used to serve up ads to all 128M users.

Still not much better...
* own things that make money
It makes sense if you believe other people exist in a meaningful way similar to your own conscious existence. When you die, the universe doesn't cease to exist for them. So you are not leaving things behind for your own benefit. It's for other people.

Conversely, if you believe the universe ceases to exist entirely when you die, you believe other people cease to exist too. In this case, perhaps the only consistent way to think of other people is that they are not like you when you are alive either.

From a more down to Earth perspective, if I left the planet on a one-way interstellar FTL journey, confident I would never return and that there was no way to communicate with the people I left behind, even though it would be a relief in some ways and I'd stop caring about people left behind, I'd still want to arrange good things for some of them after my departure. Because I'm nice like that.
Why is using 3rd party email providers to send email so painful?
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Two quick thoughts:

1. The results don't load for me in Firefox unless I reload the page. I can see from the network tab that the ###.json file is received, but nothing is shown. (Tested on both desktop and Firefox for Android.)

2. I think the request "Name an old movie..." undercuts the surprise factor of discovering how old the movie you picked is, which is presumably the point of the site. My first pick for an old movie was Casablanca, which is too old to even generate results. I picked Lawrence of Arabia and then Star Wars, but the comparison films (some French thing from 1903 I'd never heard of, and King Kong) only confirmed that my choices are, indeed, old. I think some other prompt would be better able to create surprise. You want people to be entering films like Avatar or Men in Black, not films they consider "old".
"New estimates by Congress’s official forecasters show Democrats’ tax cuts — included in their March stimulus package — will drive down tax rates on low- and middle-income people so much this year that those earning less than $75,000, on average, will owe nothing in federal income taxes."

"Those making between $75,000 and $100,000 will pay a scant 1.8 percent average tax rate this year, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation predicts."

"That will shift the relative burden to the wealthy, at least temporarily, with those earning more than $500,000 expected to pay more than two-thirds of all income taxes this year... Those making between $500,000 and $1 million will pay 20.8 percent of their earnings in income taxes. People earning more than $1 million will pay 25.8 percent."

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/25/dems-tax-cuts-biden...
I’m not sure either, but data outweighs anecdotes, and the data is clear.
I hope you don't mind me if we stay focused on the original question even though all the subjects are interesting per se.

> I do think there is a HUGE difference...

This is off-topic and a matter of perspective.

> I understand that your main concern is not privacy, but the usefulness of such privacy-friendly stats.

It's not about my privacy concerns. It's about the purpose, legitimacy, and effectiveness of a feature. Showing a count of unique/returning visitors is simply a lie; privacy friendliness apart.

> Analytics is a very complex space...

This is off-topic and a matter of approach and experience.

> Privacy-focused tools already clearly state that they are a "simple" alternative and that they offer only basic stats.

This is the central subject of the discussion. They all promote simplicity and coolness. However, simple != erroneous. You can be simple and provide correct information or not provide them at all. Otherwise, there is a problem of ethics and liability.

How can we trust tools supposed to handle our online privacy while at the same time the same tools are pretending something that is not true?

And please, don't get me wrong. It's all about the metric on users. In effect, the same tools without these particular metrics may have an audience striving for such simplicity. However, with these invalid metrics baked in, it seems to be a more opportunistic move than a privacy-focused one.
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Matter of scale. A team of engineers working on building a Dutch marketplace has a potential customer base of 18 million. An American company doing the same can reach 300 million. Assuming equal complexity, the American engineer can deliver far more value because his target audience is much larger.

Scale can be like a force multiplier for engineers. Makes them deliver more value and employers are able to pay them more.
They customize the menu for you, with you and your party's names on it, at the Inn at Little Washington.

The food descriptions are sufficient but sparse also
related: "Theory of constraints"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
It sounds like you have strong opinions which might be interesting but I found this comment incomprehensible. Who exactly are you talking about? What do you mean by domestic money laundering and “really harmful crimes”? Are you talking about drug dealing? White collar crime?
> I, the middle class engineer get fucked by the taxes, and I get fucked hard, and not in fun way.

You will be fine. Just like everyone else in pretty much the entirety of the rest of the civilized world.
Really inspiring. Also pulling this off in 10 days is quite something as well. Bravo!
I expect more from them - I think it's less than ideal that there are people who take from public goods and contribute nothing or very little. They're effectively leeching off the backs of others. That doesn't mean I want them dead, they're contributing what society has demanded from them (nothing) and that's the fault of society's low expectations.
Not actually via comments, they just use the same syntax, im pretty sure the pretemplated code is not actually valid yaml.
That is gardening not farming.
This sounds like exactly how you can do it in fortnite already.
(Sorry this sounds harsh but im using your words here.)

If you believe America have true "ideals of liberty" and the million of Americans who have died in wars "fought for freedom" I think it is yourself that need to "open your eyes".
IMO, the strategy is to tax the net worth itself. Salaries are sufficiently taxed. It's almost disingenuous, at this point, to think of salary taxes as indistinct from income taxes broadly. With a salary, people actually pay the tax rate.
Some human cells, notably within the immune system must mutate to function. If they do not mutate, you will die as bacteria and viruses mutate faster than your defences can adapt.
That's what you would do because you can actually do it. But these tools are for people who don't know how to build those apps by writing actual code.
Seems like an excuse for introducing even more free parameters.
You enter a movie title, and it picks an even older movie such that your movie's release date is the midpoint. For example:

Today <-- 22 years --> The Matrix (input) <-- 22 years --> Star Wars (output)

In other words, today "The Matrix" is as old as "Star Wars" was when "The Matrix" came out.
That's kind of funny. Back in the early 00's I built a big perl "engine" for an internal LOB platform which roughly looked like your product. The business built their apps on it. But neither me or the business saw the value in the platform on its own. Big fail - perhaps I could have been the original Salesforce.com or something...
What makes homelessness complicated as a problem? It seems like there are many straightforward solutions to it from a government policy perspective - pairing rent control with welfare, building more housing tenements, and in general building out a social safety net. In what way are these solutions insufficient?
>Since the world is lacking in the department of opinion of wealthy men

You're serious aren't you?
> Told that Tani needed a top chess coach to develop, the family scrimped and hired a grandmaster, Giorgi Kacheishvili, to coach Tani three times a week.

Honest question, could you be an effective chess coach if you're not a better chess player than the student?

[Edit] Tani has a rating of 2223 and Giorgi's rating is 2582, so it appears Giorgi is better

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgi_Kacheishvili
>> The carrot is "you get to live in a prosperous, stable society made possible in part by your contributions via taxes".

The reality is that wealthy person can choose both (live where he wants and keep money safe from tax robbery) and poor can neither.

Inequality is brought by high taxation and not by filthy rich who refuses to obey government stupid policies.
Why would they pay income tax, if the point is to redistribute the money collected back to them?

Seems like instead of collecting $x amount of tax from them in order to give it back in benefits, we could just not have them pay tax (which is the case currently).

The real answer is - raise their wages, and then they will be paying more in federal taxes (just like the upper quartiles are).

USA lower tier professionals (Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers, have a anticompetitive racket - they should all get a 20-30% net haircut in salary, tech should be regulated, we should increase admission to med-school and allow nurse practitioners to serve as doctors, etc.). I say this as someone who benefits greatly from the current system, but also realizes how fucked up it is.

Finance people should be taxed out the wazoo - watching stocks tick up and down on the market is a waste of time and most of them defraud people anyway, estate and wealth tax should be a thing, if they try to denounce citizenship to get away, immediate tax of 50% of [unrealized] profits (we currently do 20%).

Even that wouldn't get us back to how things were in the 1960s, but it would at least be closer, and probably makes things better in the mean time.
Seems to just highlight relative distances in time.
In Back to the Future (85), he went back to a completely different world of 1955. Yet, Back to the Future is further in our past than that jump (yet many will say it doesn't seem that long ago.)
> Another perk: in communism you did NOT pay any from of income tax as ordinary worker

Income tax was of course collected:
https://aif.ru/money/mymoney/kakoy_podohodnyy_nalog_byl_v_ss...

of which workers might have been not fully aware (as it was deduced before wiring/handing-out the cash).

But there was also such a thing as "childlessness" tax on income, and concerned workers were well aware of it.

I feel and sympathize your nostalgia of the past, but it doesn't seem proper to extrapolate your personal experience to the "millions" of other USSR inhabitants. Western republics of the USSR were the proverbial land of milk and honey, out of reach for the vast majority of them.
"Well, what’s wrong with that? Surely we can just do what we did in the days of dumb compilers and pass structures by pointer. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work anymore; compilers are smart now, and they don’t like it when objects alias. "
What does that even mean? Does gcc cry after I make it translate code with pointers, I simply don't get it.
No, I agree. I listen to black bands but sometimes I'm happy that a few of them choose to sing (ish) in their native Scandinavian languages that I don't understand. I think I'd be very disturbed if I knew what they're singing about. Brrr.

And indeed casual racism, sexism, hooliganism, homophobia, and general assholeness was common among my metalhead friends growing up (and for some it wasn't just poseuring). So I can see why black kids wouldn't feel welcome in today's metal scene at least. At times I didn't either.

(My friends were equally dismissive of hair metal as "faggots" also, of course. Goes hand in hand with the rest. Oh, I did mention homophobia).

But, why not raise a middle finger to today's metal scene (or the rock scene back in the day) and go do their own thing- their own rock thing, like they did their own rap thing etc? That's what I wonder about.

Although, I guess I might as well ask why white kids don't all dig classical music, or their respective folk musics. Tastes change across generations.

Edit: having thought about it a bit more I think what you say is simply: any kind of rock was tainted by its association with attitudes that were offputting to black kids, one way or the other. So they didn't want to do their own rock thing because the idea of any kind of rock thing felt wrong and as if it couldn't really be "theirs". If I think of it that way, that answers my question actually.
Because the authors are not allowed to share. If they do they are in breach of contract.
It's been motivated by profit, but this harms the motivation

Right now it is profitable for us to go to war. Contracts are signed, jobs are created, it is good for powerful wealthy people for the country to be at war. And if you're powerful enough the risk of retaliation is so low that it's all gain and no cost (outside of human cost which is never enough apparently)

With this type of war the equation would be switched. Going to war directly harms wealthy benefactors, who as a result of their wealth hold political influence.

We're already seeing that aren't we? Espionage at companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. It's not harming any "normal person" but it's directly hurting the pocketbooks of powerful people. It creates incentive to avoid conflict in a way that (unfortunately) young men and women dying doesn't seem to have done in the past
The problem is there’s too much to be shown in a hierarchical navigation.

If you can’t remember what you need then looking it up with :helpgrep (or just :helpg for short) and then type in part of a word of what you are trying to do.

https://vimhelp.org/helphelp.txt.html#%3Ahelpgrep
Basically the Trump tariffs did increase the cost of importing Chinese solar panels, but US solar panel manufacturers didn't really reap much benefit because

(a) solar panel installs slumped as a result of (relatively) higher panel costs

(b) steel and aluminum tariffs raised the material costs for US solar panel manufacturers and

(c) the section 201 tariffs phased out over 2-5 years, so even if you did stand up a new factory in two years you're going to be only reaping the tail-end of the tariffs.

The article indicates we went from 5 US crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar panel manufacturers in 2016 to 2 in 2020.

"The tariffs that the Trump administration imposed on imported solar cells and modules in 2018 proved sufficient to boost some U.S. module manufacturing, according to a review by the U.S. International Trade Commission released late last week, but the duties did not have the same effect on U.S.-produced solar cells."

"An analysis from the Solar Energy Industries Association found that the U.S. forfeited 62,000 jobs, $19 billion in investment, and the environmental benefits that would have come from additional solar deployments"

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-tariffs-p...
This is the problem. Income and cost-of-living is a spectrum and varies wildly from place to place. And everyone wants to put some kind of hard line on tax rates, etc. To me, this just underscores that income tax, as a concept, is completely fucked. You can offshore your earning and shelter them if you're savvy enough. If you earn your income from capital gains, you're paying lower rates regardless, from whatever percentage of those gains happen to fall in your particular jurisdiction.

A federal sales tax with exemptions for basic necessities (food, rent, school supplies, etc.) would make so much more sense, as already exists in 7 states at the state level.

In this way you don't have to worry about whether income was earned offshore or onshore, if you're buying stuff or services here or importing stuff, you get taxed on it.
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I see the whole idea of currency outside of government control to be entirely self defeating. Either you were already free enough to establish a currency which threatens the sovereign currency and thus the sovereignty of the government itself, in which case it seems that you didn't actually need a free currency to further establish your freedom, or you are under enough government control that this is impossible because they will use violence, espionage, or more subtle efforts to dismantle any effort to create a new currency. In any case, governments will use violence to secure their power.

In short, if cryptocurrencies threaten the power of violent governments, they will use violence to destroy cryptocurrencies. I don't see any way around it. Crypto is a technical solution to a social problem.
Apple insists on having editorial and technical control over apps, but also they take no responsibility for their decisions and their technology that allowed bad apps.

It's their platform, their APIs, their sandbox, their store, their verification, their rules, but when something goes wrong, it's someone else's fault. That doesn't seem fair (even though it's legal currently).
Is it impossible to use technology to make use of small plots of land to function as regenerative organic farms to sustainablely feed people?
This one is easy. First of all, evolution only cares about the species as a whole, so the survival of an individual, especially after they've produced their offspring, doesn't matter much. Second, in the wild, animals will be killed by predators much more quickly than they'd die of old age, so all the mutations that only manifest negatively in older age have never had a chance to be selected against.

Besides, the whole premise of evolution is that older generations die.

(disclaimer: I'm a software developer, not a biologist, but I'm fascinated by biology)
What is value in this context though?

Seems for Google the value is actual money and for a startup it is a potential future earning? Yet the startup developer in San Francisco is still (presumably) paid 200k or more? If that startup fails, was the developer overvalued?
I preferred to err on the side of caution, just in case.
I was joking, the formatting ruined it :(
Maybe. This is speculation on speculation.

It certainly makes a lot more sense for people to plan their lives around our current understanding of mortality than an increasingly hard to believe pyramid of hypotheticals as the GP has contended.
I had the impression that it was like a dynamic version of https://xkcd.com/891/
Eh, the top 1% of earners are responsible for c15% of income. Bear in mind that these will be on a higher tax band too, so a figure of c25% of income tax revenue is pretty likely - hardly a drop in a budget.
But tea and bread would be considered unusual dinner food. Maybe that's it.
Many people on the street have mental health issues. Yes, just having more housing would go a long way, but many choose to live on the street rather than deal with rules about drugs or caring for the housing.

Also rent control keeps the lucky few in their home, but doesn’t get people off the street.
Homelessness is not a single problem but a manifestation of at least half a dozen different underlying problems, including mental illness, substance abuse, housing policy, and personal choices. It's very, very complicated.

Source: I spent four years hanging out with homeless people and made a documentary film about the experience:

http://graceofgodmovie.com/
1. Sameish. First load is fine on Chromium, but secondary searches come up blank unless you load the link again.

2. You're right. Something more along the lines of "what was the first movie you saw in theatres?" or "favourite childhood film" might support that surprise factor a bit better.
It'd be only the driver's fault, not anyone else's. How is this any different from playing a video from the phone and either holding it, or putting it on the dash?
Aliasing analysis is a complicated part of the compiler, and it underpins a lot of optimization passes. It’s not an easy thing to bolt on.
Musk done the opposite. Even when you own heaps of land people still know you’re somewhere there. So it’s better to free up those houses and use hotels, etc to jump from place to place.
I think the Rockefellers became so powerful that material wealth doesn't mean much for them.
Work visa issues
I want every single application I run to be full-screen, just like on a phone.

So run them in full-screen mode. No one is stopping you.

I hardly ever run into a program on macOS that doesn't support full-screen. View → Enter Full Screen, or Control+Option+F.
who wants to return stuff
When I read eloquent javascript I thought the are several similitudes between the two books.
Maybe you can give it a try.
Those are some serious rose-tinted glasses you've got on there.
> if there were an inherent advantage to breaking your egg from one side or the other, would there be a war at all?

Fascism vs. not-fascism, Stalinist Communism vs. Western Capitalism, Islamism vs. liberal democracy... I’m not sure “the existence of war around a divide in ideas proves that neither sides ideas are correct” is a particularly comfortable maxim to consider the ramifications of.
I'm all for that.

I don't know how public management could do a worse job than PG&E.

Off topic, but I would like to see California get tough on all Insurance companies though. We have a full time Insurace Commissioner.

Like basically, "Don't get cute on rates. If you don't stop getting cute, we will take away some of your cake--like go back to requiring car insurance, but not demanding it at DMV. Stop colluding--even though you deny it. Stop sending millions to our politicians." (Sacramento is very much influenced by Insurance industry Lobbiests. I don't have a citation at hand though.)

Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing all insurance sold in CA sold by a public nonprofit entity. I believe CA is big enough, and wealthy enough, to self insure its citizens.
"Doesn't work anymore" is a hyperbole. Aliasing can prevent optimizations, like in the code example immediately after that paragraph where the value of `x` needs to be loaded from memory to be returned.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing_(computing)#Conflicts...
In my state (MA), it takes $473K in individual income to crack the top 1%. Household, the figure is $678K to make top 1%. Figures for CA seem only slightly lower.
Ask HN: What project should I build for my resume as a new grad?
I'd like to get at least one respectable project under my belt before I begin grinding LC and sending out my resume.

Looking around I've found two schools of thought -- 1. build something new that you're passionate about; and 2. build a normal business application (think bugtracker) so that a recruiter can easily understand it.

What are your thoughts?

EDIT: I'll mostly be applying to core tech companies i.e. FAANG and similar.