skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d be curious to hear opinions on how much he should have asked for—what could he have gotten away with and still landed the job? Would $1,000 (in 1982 money) have been too much?
Assuming the trip to Greece was a joke was pretty good, as was the comment about hearing other people’s hobbies and just thinking about the expense. There are definitely cultural signifiers from wealth. Discussing housing endlessly is the biggest one.
It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus
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It's normal and cool actually that we can take something that affects a MAJORITY of Americans and is tightly correlated to poverty and make it a matter of individual responsibility and moral weakness.
Storing name, DOB, test date, test result in the QR code is a good solution IMHO and indeed using a database as a private organisation is fraught with problems.

Name and DOB are reasonably needed to assert the person's identity. Especially in France everyone carries an ID card so people can show ID and certificate together.

Safeguarding private information is important but some must be disclosed as necessary.
> You could have said that at the end of 2020, when BTC was ATH at 20K.

> 'I hope you didn't buy BTC at >$20K'.

And I still wouldn't. Because...

...I also hoped you bought it at its all time low since 2017 of <$5000 - $7000 range in March 2020 when it pulled back from >$10,000 at the end of 2019. I was pleased when it dropped at the end of 2019 and bought it at a bargin [0] and bought more when it dropped again in March 2020. I and many others are laughing now. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606212

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27139755

So tell me who is the actual 'late comer'?
I would imagine you got it right with the "get out of the gym if you are not already fit". It's amazing how badly people act towards people starting out on their fitness.
I have pretty much the opposite of this story. I contracted with a company doing a fairly basic photo editing app, who had managed to code themselves into some godawful mess. Basic frontend changes took days or weeks because they had a handrolled layout / animation system from someone who had no idea you could a) specify complex motion of objects over time via linear algebra, b) sequence operations more easily by even just slightly reifying some state machines. Instead the whole code was full of hundreds of variations of "if picture.x != picture.goalX && picture.rotating { picture.x += 3; picture.angle += 1; }".

I have seen this pattern over and over, simple applications grown into complex unmaintainable garbage because they didn't have someone who could write a state machine, or a simple interpreter, or a constraint system. Or because they needed something small but reached for something big instead when they didn't know how to implement the small thing, e.g. a task queue that could've just been an array with locks around it instead turned into 0MQ (or worse, MySQL). And these are not companies with only interns/juniors, often people with 10+ years experience who think "fundamentals don't really matter."
Being the SME on accounting for your team is not even a little bit comparable to working with the department with accountability to the company's cash flow. I don't know why you have tried that angle. It is a significant category error.
Well, this is not a binary classification: there are those fortunate few who have, as you say, won the "genetic intelligence lottery" and sail through school and exams such as this with little to no effort, then there are those who have to study hard for x years in order to make it, then there are those who need extra tutoring, and then there are of course some who even with all the help their parents can afford will not be able to make it.

I (born in Romania, was programming as a hobby since age 12) was in the "extra tutoring" group BTW, then I barely passed the maths, physics etc. exams of the first semesters, but when the actual CS courses started I got better and graduated with pretty passable grades (not that any employer looks at those)...
Food insecurity is an aspect of poverty and is not uncommon in the United States.

"Your eating choices" as a poor person might be to eat what and when and where you can afford to.
The back button hijacking is easy. You can "push" something into the "navigation stack" and then detect the "state change" of the back button. There's a few pretty simple ways to do this without magic.

The website you're thinking of that does it is slashdot, sorry for the bad news. It's long been merely a shadow of the past.

Amp initially didn't allow JavaScript. It had a bunch of restrictions.

I honestly think it was good people doing it for a good cause but then the corporate meat grinding machine had to process it and they turned it into a power play and data mining operation.

Once again, the solution is inescapable both for /. and the goog; take big money out of tech. Every significant computer revolution basically started on that premise. Time to roll it again. Consolidated power breeds incompetency.

Our most noble task in life is to make the necessary possible and then inevitable
> Would this still be possible today? It's a certain timeframe (for software) where this was possible. Today it's things like SAP, integrated systems and DMCA on top of it (or Excel).

There's still a lot of utterly awful, sloppy business software around, especially for SMBs.
A bit off-topic, but I just googled some IIT-JEE questions and found the following:

A large number of bullets are fired in all directions with same speed u. What is the maximum area on the ground on which these bullets will spread.

The provided answers all depend only on u, pi, and g.

How can this be possible? Obviously, if I fire the gun from a tower, this area will be larger than when I fire it from the ground, and thus also depends on the height above ground of the gun.
A little OT but for anyone with experience - is the negotiation depicted realistic / typical? The final selling price is over twice the buyer's initial offer and almost 150% of what they said at one point is their max. I know it's a textbook negotiation but (obviously not having too much experience negotiating) I never thought that's really how they work in real life.
Its not the private prisons who decide to send people to prisons. Its actual judges following local, state or federal laws. Lets not pretend there is no judicial system...
It is correlated, not caused by poverty. Rich people are often fat too, and the reason is poor education (not even rich people schools teach this) and poor self-control.
rasengan was a co-founder of PIA, and became involved in Freenode via "freenode becoming officially part of the PIA family" in 2017: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn

This was later downplayed in 2019, after PIA was acquired by a company Kape with a poor track record: https://freenode.net/news/freenode-pia-changes

It appears shells.net which is another rasengan company (but not associated with Kape?) has since taken PIA's place in the organisation.
> Instead of seeing the bright side of life, in which this person clearly vastly improved their situation in life, all they can see is what they don’t have.

First, I dont think this accurately describes the list at all. Second, it is ok for people to express negative feelings or observations. Forced positivity is toxic.
Obesity is significantly correlated with lower income. However, in an individual case it is not sufficient to draw conclusions.

Edit: also you seem to present the author's formulation as meaning that they believe poverty caused them to be fat. As far as I can tell she is merely pointing out a series of correlations to both prove that she, in fact, stood out as poor, and to show how this distinction affected her furthermore. Btw I'd say the only actively harmful behaviour from the company she pointed out was making her suggest a salary rather than them making an offering.
The reasoning against private citizens was that taking risk to make money was inappropriate. That applies equally to emergency workers.

And by the way, many workers during emergencies are just private citizens.
I think it's pretty difficult to meet the "known or should have known" threshold for that kind of thing.

The proxy company can always say they are using their super crypto cracking skills to reverse the encryption. The hacked company would have no way to know they were paying the hackers, nor any way to find out.

Obviously the proxy company is breaking the law, but they might be in some untouchable jurisdiction.
When you click an AMP result, your browser does not actually navigate away from Google's search result page. The search result page just dynamically updates its own DOM to show the AMP page content inline.

Depending on how confident they are that you are going to tap a given result, they can even preload the actual content and render it as hidden DOM so it can be displayed the moment you release your finger.

There is literally no possible way that a 'real' navigation (to a new page on a different domain) can compete with a simple DOM update.
Took 2 weeks of holidays, didn't really help. In burned out state I don't think talking to HR can help, HR most of the time sides with employer in my opinion.
He donated a billion dollar worth of an illiquid shitcoin[0] sent to him by the scammers who created.

0. https://shibatoken.com/
thanks, I will check self-employment visa options!
Its actually better if prisons are private. If they dont meet standards you can shut them down or hurt them financially. State prisons are the worst because there is no accountability whatsoever. Look at countries that ONLY have state prisons you will be shocked.
Literally never seen this happen. 98% guarantee the stigma is in the obese person’s own head more than anything.

It’s just easier to transfer the responsibility to ”an unfriendly environment” than taking responsibility & control of your own feelings and actions
> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was the only person who would say hello to the cleaning lady as she meekly made her rounds around us when we worked late. Everyone else had a long habit of ignoring anyone like her.

I hate people that do this. We’re all human and worthy of respect and decency. A simple hello goes a long way.
Write a good poem if you want people to copy it and read it.

What you're essentially doing by putting stuff in the blockchain is tricking people into copying it millions of times. It doesn't mean any of them will read it or appreciate it. I agree with your analogy, but what's the point of it? Some weird desire for your footprint to be larger and imposed on people for all time? I can't think of much more narcissistic than that.
Companies and people are leaving California in droves and coming to Texas. Cost of living in Texas is a fraction of California and Texas has no individual income tax. Texas colleges A&M and UT are excellent affordable public engineering schools. Availability and quality of medical centers are excellent. Elementary and high schools outside of the urban cities are generally excellant. Many many great entertainment and restaurant venues. State government has avoided the destructive Covid lockdown policies in California while putting in place balanced and reasonable protections.

Lusting after California salaries is a losing game when the salaries are inflated to pay for high taxes and artificially high home prices driven by a chokehold of regulations on new home building.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/list-of-companies...
Depending on the usage and how core it is to the problem we are solving, the architecture of the subsystem may be affected negatively by the wrong choice of data structure.

It is also not hard at all to learn and understand the difference of these two fundamental data structures.
Awesome little tidbit of advice, will come in handy in the future. Thanks :)
Quality, Cost, Deliverable.

The Japanese live by it. If you ever want to work with a Japanese company, it's a good idea to know it. I think Deming may have started it.

"Quality":

How do we measure the deliverable? Not just testing targets. Any form of quantification. Progress tracking goes here, as does a lot of things like CI.

"Cost":

What will the cost of the deliverable be? Not just money, but also schedule, the number of folks working on it, prototypes, BoM, progress meetings, buy-in from stakeholders, risk management, etc.

"Deliverable":

What will be delivered? Please describe expected deliverable, what will be delivered at milestones defined in (Q) and (C).

It's a very rigid process (good for hardware), but can be difficult to deal with in software. I've learned to do my own version of it. I've written about it.

BTW: I just demonstrated "jargon," but in a different way. I do not think less of you for not knowing it.
> Multiple output formats (VGA, NTSC Composite, NTSC S-Video, RGB video) at a fixed resolution of 640x480@60Hz

Hmm. Please HDMI? Please wide screen? (I mean 853x480 or even 426x240 not 1080p).

I don't see the retro monitor this is supposed to be paired with for sale.
It could also completely disappear due to lack of a compelling enough business model. We'll see!
I'm definitely not poor, and I've always greeted the cleaning staff.

That's not a sign of being poor, it's a sign of not being an ass.
Taking a 3 day vacation overseas definitely is a joke. You'll spend as much time sitting in a plane or waiting at the airport as you'll spend at your destination, how's that supposed to be relaxing?
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I only got into tech a bit over five years ago and that was the first time in my entire life I had been above the (demonically low) US poverty level.

There is absolutely a difference in how rich and poor people treat poor service workers.

It's not that poor people treat them better per se but it's different. Poor people can be cruel to each other because they are all suffering, crab in a bucket shit.

Rich people mostly ignore poor people because visible poverty makes them uncomfortable so they look away. They hate themselves if they see our humanity so they try not to.

I've been on both sides of this and am speaking from painful experience in both cases.
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There are food deserts in the USA, where you literally can't buy high quality food like vegetables in a large area, and have to resort to only eating the highly processed and highly unhealthy food. These food deserts usually are located in the poorer neighbourhoods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
How does this exploitation look like?
I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because everyone else had good teeth.

No joke. I grew up with free government dental, and it took years of earning to get at least presentable teeth. Not smiling for years doesn't help your work prospects.
I'm old enough that my heart fluttered when he mentioned the "ELF II" development board! That's some serious old school magical stuff. That used car salesman was incredibly lucky to snag such a hacker, who had no fear of jumping into hex dumps and flipping bits around, for solving problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELF_II

The RCA 1802 processor even had "SEX" and "GET HIGH" instructions!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802

https://www.atarimagazines.com/computeii/issue3/page52.php
Thanks for this post, as others commenters said, it really resonated with me.
Great. Next can they no longer get preferential treatment in Chrome Mobile? By that I mean the way they hijack and hide your browser bar and stop you from accessing the tab manager unless you scroll all the back to the top of the page.
I think he picked a good number. It clearly wasn't $1000 of effort. Jim may not have been interested in hiring someone who, like his previous software guy, was looking to shake him down for as much as possible.
No, they just added a handful of new public key types, that's not even as invasive as adding a new authentication method to SSH.

For example, if your client knows some new FIDO backed credentials and is wondering if the proprietary ten year old SFTP server you're connecting to will trust them (it won't) it does exactly the same type of thing it did for other new OpenSSH key types, such as Ed25519. The server doesn't recognise these new types, just as it didn't recognise Ed25519 and no new exciting problems are discovered even though the people who wrote that server only read half of RFC 4252 while squinting and it only actually does RSA and password authentication and gets both of these wrong.

If they'd added a new method to support this, let's call it "securitykey" chances are that crappy server blows up whenever you just mention that you've heard of this "securitykey" method that was not explicitly listed in the document the programmers half-skimmed. Yes I have seen real SSH servers that behave this way, it isn't pretty and good luck getting somebody who has chosen to spend money on a bad proprietary SSH server to replace it with something that's not garbage.

And that still wouldn't enable them to sidestep the residential credential problem. To do so I think they'd need to reach down into the protocol layer and add another message, which again, it'd likely be compatible with all the competent SSH implementations on your preferred Free Software platform, but undoubtedly break the expensive half-arsed solution somebody spent $5000 on.

Also, if you do build that you run into another problem, even in a shiny Free Software environment, where do these IDs the server is now responsible for live? Is the SSH server now writing to files in the home directories of users it is authenticating? That sounds like a recipe for exciting new security bugs, not what we wanted.
I love stories like this. I have one of my own, actually.

When I was first getting into IT I started sending out CVs. Mine was terrible. I had been working in call centres for years at this point and all my "experience" was basically self-taught, so not really experience at all. As a result my CV was void of any actual content a hiring manager in IT would want to read, thus it was binned a lot.

I applied for a job at a nearby network hardware repair place. They needed someone to look after their Cisco kit and about 30 Debian Linux systems. I was attracted to the mix of responsibilities so I applied, sending in me not-so-good CV. I was eventually asked to come in to have a chat after waiting about a week to hear back from the place.

At the end of the interview, Bob (let's call him), said I was more knowledgeable than the RHCEs that were coming through his door. This was nice to hear, but then he said something that really made me smile...

Apparently my CV was worse than I thought. It was so bad, that Bob literally put it in the bin under his desk. About four days later, Bob was reading through a local Linux User Group (LUG) mailing list and he saw a name he recognised: mine. So he opens the email and reads the thread in which I helped another LUG member compile a sound driver for their kernel. The instructions I gave worked.

Bob was impressed but he couldn't quite remember where he had seen the name. At this point the business owner, John (heh...), was standing besides Bob's desk and noticed my CV in the bin. He pulls it out and reads my name across the top. The penny drops for Bob and I get the call to come in and have a chat.

I got the job.
If you fly business/first class. I know people who went to Macau for a weekend or Paris and that is how.
That's a pretty bold claim to blanketly say that one person is wrong and another is right when there are multiple points in each statement.

Do you realize they went bankrupt largely due to their pricing model? If you have a valid market and plan, you can get funding. This seems like they didn't have a good plan. Just because you give one example of a bankrupt small company doesn't mean that is representative of the industry. There are plenty of examples of other companies being successful. Some of these tend to get bought out by the larger companies. This article suggests that R&D costs about $1M (and 2 people recieved the treatment from the company that went bankrupt due to the high price). I'm sure there are additional costs for testing and approval.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/12/12/gene-therapy-c...

Having executives making a combined $14M per year seems like a major factor in the price when the patient population is small. For example, 1k patients per year would have to pay $140k each just to cover the executive overhead.

https://www.execpay.org/company/jeffrey-d-marrazzo-766
My decades of experience have been that wealthy people would rather ignore people if they can possibly do so.
That this because regulation purpose is not fixing a problem, but making government look good.

Many people does not think in terms of 'flow of foreign capital', but in 'greedy exporters are hiking prices to get rich'. So forbidding exports and fixing prices look good to them (especially with propaganda support), while macroeconomic effects will go unnoticed.

(from experience in Russia, but Argentina looks quite similar in political structure)
Old fashioned economics ;) http://happyplanetindex.org/
And I was thinking 10X isn't perfect, but I like the direction it was going.

Not quite sure where Microsoft is going with Windows from now on.
I assume they were referring to Jane Street and Hudson River Trading - wishing you every success with your next career move!
It's an issue with most curated sites, I unfollowed everyone on Facebook.
For me, it comes down to "who do i talk to" if I'm not taking to someone I try to unfollow.
> GOING TO

... mate :P
> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was afraid to seek mentorship from anyone above me, convinced that even asking would seem like bothersome begging. I watched the people around me network effortlessly, assured of favors and good words put in. I could only think in terms of what I could offer and how I could survive; they were thinking on the next level where they never had to wonder if they were good enough. They were to the business-class manner born, at least.

This one resonates very strongly with me, not sure if it's a poor-people characteristic though. It's anxiety but it may come out of the "poor person" mindset, I don't know.

From elementary school to uni, I never asked anything any teacher, or had a tutor, because they obviously have better things to do than talking with me. Like, isn't it just being polite?
Brings back the days of my youth in about the same era. We had a recession on in my country at the time that made student jobs in the tech industry scarce and I ended up working in landscaping during the summer to try to meet the tuition bills. One of our jobs was at the site of a rapidly expanding local tech firm (the telecom monopoly had just been forced to open the market to allow competition and the industry was beginning to boom). I remember digging holes for planting trees and looking through the tinted glass windows at a couple of guys in their white shirts and ties sitting at a terminal and thinking "some day I'll be on that side of the glass". Sure enough, after 40 years, I work for a company with offices that overlook that same building. The trees I planted are large and mature, I managed to eventually pay for my education, and I never forget my roots as I sit down at a terminal window.
Plus nobody would 'recommend a hotel'. An island, maybe
Found that bit surprising one. For European startup long weekend in Greece isn't that special. The flights can be quite cheap and Greece generally isn't that expensive country. A few hundred all together could probably be done.