skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cell phone bill (for my family of 4) would be around $120/month, but it's discounted down to around $80 because of my employer. There's no note on our car cause we could afford to just buy it with cash. We never spend money on doordash because we have plenty of time to go shopping and make our own meals.

For the most part we have rent (mortgage), food, utilities, insurance, and day care (have you looked into the cost of this?) all locked up and well-budgeted, but sometimes someone leaves the door open or the hose on too long and we have an unexpectedly high utility bill. One time my wife left an entire bag of groceries behind the car and accidentally backed over it. When COVID hit and my dad was simultaneously suffering from a suppressed immune system we had to stop leaving the kids with my parents and up our daycare expenditures quite a bit. These sorts of problems aren't really problems for us, we can just cover the added expense out of our "emergency savings" bucket, but if two emergencies happen back-to-back sometimes that bucket gets depleted and we have to draw from "vacation savings" instead. Fortunately we're able to fill these buckets with hundreds of excess dollars a month, so they are usually adequate. I could see it being problematic if the buckets filled at a much slower rate.
Why especially as a senior eng?
Regular startup employees borrowing and buying their stock options is far riskier than them borrowing to do options trading in publicly traded stock markets because they have very little information about their company's future prospects.

What goes on between the founders, board, current investors and likely future investors is likely known to very few amongst them, if at all.

Even if you believe strongly in the product and know the market-fit is bang on, you don't know if the option is currently priced correctly.
Surely one can be against both?

What the CCP is doing to the Uyghur population in China is modern genocide, full stop. No amount of whataboutism or America-blaming can change that.
I think this sounds terrible. Menstruation by itself doesn't cause any difficulty in getting work done. If you get severe cramps then take sick leave. Just like people who get migraines, or other pains can take sick leave when they need it. Just give people more sick leave days if that is needed. I see no reason to announce to the world that your sick leave is associated with menstruation/migraines/allergies/mental illness/diarrhea/etc.

Should all girls be allowed to skip school when they menstruate even if they are perfectly capable of attending? If not, why should women get to skip work just because they are menstruating? I think this just incentivizes people to think of women as incapable when they are menstruating. Seriously, menstruating is not a big deal for most women.
Cardano's highly anticipated hard fork 'Alonzo' to enable smart contract
Same thing I was on a job at $30k (for a familly of two, in a big city) and one of the bosses came and started to complain to a few of us with the same salary (some with kids) how hard it is to live with only his salary of $180k and his wife salary of $100k. Many wealthy people have absolutely no clue. Another person in that same job was complaining he was not able to make it with a $70k salary. Turns out after talking, he was taking Uber to go to work (1mile away directly on a line of public transport), always ordered food on stuff like grubhub amd was maxing out credit card all the time... I kept seeing people with >$70k salaries that were absolutely unable to save. Another one worked there for 20 years, with his $180k salary (started above $100k) he told me that he had 0 saving, no health expenses besides tiny stuff and no home ownership. Some people are just really bad at managing their money. Or maybe they are good at managing their immediate comfort and don't plan ahead... not sure.
I see what you are saying; coming from Europe, I'm frequently astonished how much "Socialist", "Leftie" or even "Liberal" in USA is a dirty word of political death.
The whole problem is that you CANNOT effectively serve your application which requires native functionality outside the App Store. So this causes Apple to act as a gatekeeper that can also act as your competitor who can offer lower prices, abuse their market power and/or use features on the device which you cannot. If there was an official way to sideload applications/storefronts on a normal consumers device in a way that isn't hostile towards alternative sources there would be no issue with this. (Android has the problem with hostility towards alternative sources)
> Don't change the goal posts. Apple doesn't provide anything. Having to pass through a dialogue after download t confirm install isn't ideal, but possible is better than not.

It’s not just a dialog box. Alternate stores can’t provide automatic updates, which is a critical feature.

You are the one changing the goalposts here. Android alternative stores are not representative of what would happen because they are not the same, either technically, or in terms of market value.
Crikey! Thanks. That's still a heck of a lot of work in those hours, with very little downtime.

I do a lot of 'proceduralised' jobs, but I'm 'lucky' in that I get to define and hone the procedure and then it tends only to be necessary for a few hours or a day or three, before I move onto something else entirely. I get a wee quick out of making things more efficient, then get to move on before my brain calcifies.

The thought of acting a mere part of a machine for 8 hours a day, weeks, months and years on end is ... well, it makes me appreciate my job, even at its worst!
It’s reasonable to assume the politician earning 6000 euro a month was not living in NYC, London or Tokyo
Run lots of VMs and sell them to others...

Various hardware costs get more expensive over time, so the fix is to make things bigger to amortize those costs. I think that even big players don't like running big instances (Google, Facebook, etc.) because when you lose a machine you lose a large % of the capacity for a service. Better to run multiple services so each of those lose a small % each.
what is this 1997 irc drama?
It's called OTR. Some clients support it, but in my experience they are not all compatible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
There is a strong philosophical argument in favour of governments following different rules from people.

However, in this practical case, the government is forcing people to make bad choices (to use a second rate fiat currency). It understands it is forcing people to make a bad choice, because it doesn't want to make that choice itself.

This is the thing I don't get about more tin-pot dictatorships. It is obvious why the States force people to use their first-rate fiat currency - the US benefits hugely from people using the dollar.

It is obvious why Iran might force its citizens to use the US dollar - if they didn't they probably get invaded by the US on some flimsy pretext.

But why force people to use a local fiat currency? It just makes their country poorer. Why are there all these idiots who look at their own economy and think "gee, this thing might work to well if we let people save in a liquid asset"?

How do people think they are going to generate wealth if not incentivising people to consume less than they produce? It is the only reliable path. Why do all these governments find it so scary?
Lol, now that you mention it...

Track it while it's hot:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43e77a

The 'toy' of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
doin' a lil' hop from Hamburg, Germany to probably Munich, Germany.
Whilst that's the maximum permissible sentence in Norway it's worth highlighting that it can be extended indefinitely if he is considered still a risk to society - the requirement to review the need to continue detaining him (on a semi frequent basis) being considered a human right.

Based on his activity since being convicted I doubt he'll be released for significantly longer than his minimum sentence.
Have you tried IaaC Tools like terraform?
> Years of time and money.

Exactly. Additionally, any of that money that you could have saved during those first two years would have had more time (obviously) for interest to compound than any savings you make today [1], so that "lost interest" needs to be factored into the equation as well.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp
oh it matches all serious Wittgenstein biographies. back in the late 1980s in my catholic highschool we discussed in philosophy class that Wittgenstein was gay.
For reference, he has a HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rasengan
Introduce a new category: a little bit suggestive but still within our rules and guidelines
> Twitter is high signal depending on who you're following.

The signal might be good but is it the signal you should be focusing on? There is an amazing amount of interesting stuff being discovered all the time. But is it helping you achieve concrete goals?

With Twitter I see a trap. Say you work on implementing/using <Knowledge Domain X> and follow exclusively people doing similar work. They will also share things outside this domain. Since 2016 almost all science twitter users became highly political. And there is no way to filter this out.

This is a feature for Twitter and the like. They profit by making you emotional and going a rabbit hole of impulsiveness.
> "are you showing your real self by not supporting x?"

Are they in a cult? That sounds like some Scientology shit.
> invariably all of them have figured out non-punitive methods of crime reduction that are far more effective than jail

Well.. large segments of our populations commit very little crime. But when crime is committed, the police and the justice system are useless. Convicted for the 350th burglary? They'll be let out again and maybe be back tomorrow, if the prosecutor even bothers prosecuting them since it's pointless.

So DO look at us for crime prevention but NOT for managing crime when it happens.
You should check out Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell if you haven't yet
Is there a public blog post about this with specific issues? Or is this just trolling?
I wish I was a mod! I could easily check just how many downvotes this whole thread gave you. Now the only thing I can do is to soothe my eyes by looking at all the wonderful shades of grey here.
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> can be used by regulated financial institutions to detect and block cryptoasset deposits

They're not talking about censoring/forking/manipulating the chain. They're talking about centralized financial services built on top of bitcoin blocking coin that is linked to Iran.
The problems with that argument are
1) The expectations changed with no notice. You can say it always was that way, but that's just not correct. The bounds check worked and then didn't, no matter what you think the standard "always said" (and the UB experts on the WG14 often find it impossible to say exactly what provisions mean, so claims that all this was ever clear are also wrong.)
2) deleting overflow check reduces the power of the language. The supposed work arounds are painful and have edge cases.
3) the example, and others, show that much UB "we assume it can't happen" "optimization" is unnecessary. You make the language more difficult to use, more prone to unpleasant surprise, and in return you provide an "optmization" that could easily be produced by other means. You're insisting on using a hammer as a fork and annoyed when people don't find it convenient.
> The other thing is that there's a saying along the lines of getting wealthy being mostly the same for everyone

What does this mean?
This!

My guess is this is more wealth and range of experience than 99% of the people on this forum.

I encourage everyone to read this comment.
Interestingly it's sometimes harder for companies that already have the role defined than for growing orgs that usually do this JIT as really strong devs top out of senior and realize/decide they don't want to be become managers. I've defined this type of role twice now by using the skills and behaviours of the specific individuals (i.e. things they're already doing), then expanding the scope and sphere of influence for growth areas. It's worked pretty well because typically you should be promoting someone when they're demonstrating performance at the next level, rather than give them a promotion and then see if they're successful or not. The role needs to be vague enough to allow for individual and strategic changes, but defined enough to provide some type of identity. This is hard.
Often politicians in that situation get extra cost of living payments for travel and accommodation (at least in the EU)
The state is sure good at killing innocent people in other countries.

I'm going to have to vote for the death penalty, of course with high standards of proof. If anything, the whole idea of bolting people into a small box for 50-60 years is a much more perverse idea. Only the US could invent something like a Supermax prison (although the Black Dolphin looks like no picnic, the Russian answer to abolishing the death penalty).

edit: I'll add that the US justice system (and probably any other) appears quite arbitrary in it's punishment. The sentences people receive and actually serve can be all over the map.
That's an adorably bad animation but it explains it perfectly
The only risk is that one exercises the options, but by the time one sells the shares (which they got as the result of exercising options), the price of the stock falls below the strike price. To avoid this risk, do a quick sell after exercise. This makes risk minimal; in case of bigger companies effectively zero.

Bigger risk comes in if someone wants to do an exercise and hold to sell much later, which can bring tax advantages. But this is a different game entirely. In the case of employee with little spare cash (to the tune of borrowing money for the exercise), not doing exercise and sell is really leaving money on the table. My 2c.
It shows you how competent these people are at taking care of the American people...
I don’t think so. I can’t emulate my infrastructure environment anymore because Virtualbox doesn’t work on M1. Docker itself is not enough. So here I am running a powerful machine but running VMs on the cloud (and paying extra for it)... oh the irony.
Is the primary use case for NLP interfaces? I'm looking for a good tool for automated transcriptions of long-form (10-60 minutes) of audio.
The whole thing is.
This is a whataboutism. Iran's government directly funds terrorism - that isn't my opinion.
I had this thought before I entered my job one year ago. There I experienced how fast php can be. Since php7 and the opcache things make fun again
Not always. On some systems (Fedora 34 in my case) you still have to install FIDO2 package (on Fedora, it's called fido2-tools), otherwise the ssh-agent will not able to function with the -sk keys ("agent refused operation" error message). I did not have to install any extra tools on the target system though.
I think OTR kinda works on IRC, but isn't widely used. Ultimately I think the conclusion is that adding an encryption layer onto something that by design is simple and unencrypted rarely leads to any good outcome.
My experience with most students majoring in Business in undergrad is exactly that. They desire a successful career, and so assume that this requires a business degree to become a manager.

The outcome for most who do not go into finance is a rude awakening that most high paid individuals in a business have a technical skill which allows them to produce. There is a very limited market for entry level people managers who lack the skills of employees.

One acquaintance of mine discovered his business degree qualified for a job managing the schedules, incoming deals, and pricing of HVAC technicians at roughly half the income of the HVAC technicians with a comparatively limited career advancement route. Considering that this management position also cost twice the education time the business degree had a highly questionable ROI.
The government will not allow real estate to stay collapsed. Look what happened after 2008: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EcTD
What is your theorized mechanism for the freezing of property tax rates at the purchase price causing inflated property values?

I could see it making an upward or downward trend worse. In an upward trend buying before increase would be tax advantaged. In a downward trend buying after anticipated decreases would have the advantage. All in all, more people would be advantaged by just staying in place. Maybe that reduces total inventory, making the remaining properties on the market cost more?
A couple of weeks ago, I found myself on a ladder in a basement, doing a bit of plumbing. And I thought, “Isn’t this odd? Here I am, rather well-off, cleaning out the drain for an elderly black gentleman.” And it was more satisfying than most of what I’ve done at a keyboard.

To elaborate, for quite a few years I’ve owned rental property in poor-to-working class parts of town, first houses and then apartments. If you’re a hands-on landlord, you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about money in America. Sure, some tenants are total flakes who would be late on rent after a PowerBall win. Most of my tenants have worked hard, gotten by with little, and struggled to make ends meet. Many of them hesitate to tell me when something needs to be fixed in their home. Often they’re concerned that I am too busy. I tell them they have every right to expect stuff to work, that it’s a part of what they’re paying for. And it makes me wonder how bad things are with other landlords.

Going back to the plumbing story, I think every wealthy hedge-fund manager, etc, ought to get their hands dirty this way. It’ll either teach some humility, or let us see who the real jerks are. The latter can be first up against the wall…
There are people living with much less according to salaries distributions how do they do it?
Twitch is open for 13 years old people, as a streamer (I don't remember who) said, what if a 13-year-old started a hot tub stream? Will it be sexually suggestive content or is it a 13 years old kid having innocent fun ?
Why does it matter
FYI
https://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/21/your-computer-is-a-fast-...
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Wait, so you're saying to build a house rather than buy it because it's cheaper? I think the overwhelming amount of costs of a house is the actual land it's on. You can't build land.
>company-sponsored political struggle sessions

This is a strawman. I was not advocating company-sponsored political struggle sessions.

Does a company-sponsored presentation discouraging unionization count as a "political struggle session?" I have been subjected to that before, and the company would not describe that as political -- no, they're just protecting their investments. For the employees whose lives the question of unionizing actually impacts, unionization is a furiously political question.

I wasn't saying we need more corporate presentations about LGBTQA+ pride or BLM. But minorities exist, they're people, and their normal lives will often be "political" to those who are able and willing to ignore the problems those minorities face.

"NO POLITICS PLEASE!" will silence those whose ideas are considered "political" while implicitly endorsing ideas that have been promoted to "apolitical."

Here's a quote from an Innuendo Studios video[1] which has some relevance here:

>The adage about bros on the internet is “‘political’ means anything I disagree with,” but it’d be more accurate to say, here, “‘political’ means anything on which the community disagrees.” For instance, “Nazis are bad” is an apolitical statement because everyone in the community agrees. It’s common sense, and therefore neutral. But, paradoxically, “Nazis are good” is also apolitical; because “Nazis are bad” is the consensus, “Nazis are good” must be just an edgy joke, and, even if not, the community already believes the opposite, so the statement is harmless. Tolerable. However, “feminism is good” is a political statement, because the community hasn’t reached consensus. It is debatable, and therefore political, and you should stop talking about it. And making political arguments, no matter how rational, is having an agenda, and having an agenda is ruining the community.

[1] https://youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g
I've said this before when stuff from his site is posted, but it really is a fantastic website from top to bottom.
https://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/21/your-computer-is-a-fast-...
It's common in the consulting industry to have a wide range of titles - [senior] manager / principal, director, managing director, executive director, vice president, associate partner, etc. Depending on the firm, literally all of those could refer to a similar job.

The reason I've seen put forward for this is to make it hard to compare titles, so that a person can feel like their title matches their seniority.

I've seen this happening in tech too, especially with senior and "lead" roles (especially being "a" lead vs. "the" lead). At some places, I think the staff / principal / distinguished / etc engineer role is along these lines too, basically a way for a more experienced person to feel like they don't have the same job as a 25 year old.
The author also fails to mention the stock option trap.
I've seen offers at early state companies like this:

* $150k base (take-home $100k)

* $30k/yr options that expire 3 months after you leave or 10 years.

You have to either set aside 30% of your take-home to invest in a extremely high risk single stock or you're chained to your desk until the company exits.

If you golden handcuff your way to an exit, you better hope the exit happens before the 10 year mark when your options expire.
and he even had submitted the mentioned channel last week :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145315
I found out when my mom kicked me out at 18 that there's a Catch-22 in the U.S. — a car costs money, you need a car to have a job.

Actually you don't, of course. I had a 10-speed bike (remember those?) and a minimum wage job at a restaurant. I rented a room for $100/mo. from a young woman (maybe I was helping cover her rent?). I was able to swing tuition at a local community college.

Man, I still remember riding the 10-speed in the midwest snow to the community college in the morning as cars threw up sleet speeding past.

It was a delicate balancing act to "bootstrap". And this was in the 80's. I don't think today's rent or college costs would make it repeatable today.
When some cubicle-farm jobs go remote, they go remote with the employer requiring you to run surveillance software (webcam observing you, tracking of continual mouse and keyboard activity) to ensure that you are present at your computer all working hours, except authorized breaks. So, even when liberated from the office those workers don’t get all the freedoms that you might hope for.
Cheaper housing => longer and more expensive commute.

Or worse job opportunities. Then people tell you to move where the jobs are. Which has really expensive housing.

The free market tends to flatten this stuff out
Comments this morning seem very aggressive-defensive. How about a different takeway: cryptocurrency defeats current international sanction tools.

Whatever your feelings about US/Iran or your feelings about
Bitcoin/Climate Change, sanctions have been an effective peace-time tool for the UN to bring countries to the negotiating table. Perfectly effective? No. Security Council politically motivated? Yes.

Better than war for the citizens of all countries? Yes.

Will Bitcoin lead to more war as a result of weakening the power of sanctions? I wouldn't hazard a guess. But I didn't see this possibility coming.
I mean... I wouldn't support the decision to do so, nor should others, but DCC Chat can be used to skip the relay without encryption being needed.

that said.. someone using dcc chat probably should consider encryption (if they use dcc at all) given that it could be sniffed elsewhere.