skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am always surprised to see comments that make it sound like jobs (or, employees) are fungible commodities that can be bought and sold purely on price.

This!!

- At every company and institution I've worked for, I've never really been in a situation where two people, even if they have the same job title, are line-replacable for one another (unless they are very junior). Everyone has extremely distinct skills, experiences, capabilities whose value is extremely contingent on the needs of the moment.

- Making rules to make things for fair or transparent has the opposite effect. A major institution I worked for came up with an impossible-to-game, no-human-in-the-loop formula for bias-free and discrimination-free compensation. The result? People with equal responsibilities ended up getting paid _vastly_ different amounts. Similarly, people with equal salaries had vastly different levels of responsibility. I don't think a uniform compensation scheme simply works, other than just negotiating 1-on-1 with staff until agreements are reached, and when it no longer works out they ask Mr. Market.

- A company not disclosing salary already gives you enough information. Unless they are a flagship megacorp with well known salary bands and staff levels, and they are not disclosing the salary, then you know it's not competitive salary.
First off, you can't compare the fuel economy values between countries just by doing a conversion. Europe has different testing procedures that give higher numbers than the American EPA test does (normally around 20-25%), and the only way you'll have an accurate number is if the car is sold in both countries.

The F150 has fuel economy close to that of wagons sold in the US. The F150 is less efficient, but it has way more than half the fuel economy of a wagon. Examples:

A base E-Class Wagon gets 24 mpg (22 city, 28 highway).
A 4WD V6 F150 (which I think is the most popular) gets 21 mpg (19 city, 24 highway). The most efficient F150 available (the 2WD Hybrid) gets 25 mpg (25 city, 26 highway).

Wagons aren't super popular in the US so there aren't that many on the market. Here is a comparison of the fuel economies of the F150 vs several wagons available in the US: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=43464&...
I like it. Also very French, n'est-ce pas?
If the optimizing compiler can figure out to use SIMD shouldn’t it also be able to degrade to this when SIMD isn’t available?

And if we’re already down the “write it understandable and trust the compiler” path isn’t that the better way to go?

It’s interesting to me that C is now effectively a “higher level” language than it may appear on the surface because of optimization by compilers.
Sorry for the delay, I was walking my dog.

Re: 1, I would also add that I think Journey may win because of our virality. If I send you a Journey, its a conveniently packaged experience that you can then share with your co-workers or boss for feedback and approval. Suddenly the buyer is empowered to properly sell the tool.

Re: 2, thanks! We're working on it and I think there is much more we can do generally though. It's a super hard problem to make something obviously interactive + compelling without adding friction for creator.

Re: 3, here you go :)
https://jny.journey.io/p/3bbb55f82a224e399aafd2dc04f4f32b?em...

This is the same HN Journey but I've personalised it for you with a brief video message at the start (users can record these from within Gmail with our browser extension) - I also added LambaSchool's logo at the top (I just picked that one arbitrarily) as an example of hopefully making it feel even more personal.
Google Chrome is crashing worldwide on Windows 10 PCs, how to fix
You mean like in every car made before 2015? Do new cars really have that many more features?

With the touchscreen cars I've rented or driven for work I'd have loved to have a little bluetooth or serial connected control cluster that sat near to hand with basic radio and climate controls. Something I could operate by feel. Seems like there are enough bad touchscreen consoles out there to make an aftermarket kit viable but maybe I underestimate the technical challenges.

Maybe I'll just keep driving my junkers until voice control gets good.
I'm surprised they have not built a permanent fire pit at least or a furnace with a chimney so the harmful fumes aren't at ground level.
Apple's rivals may never be able to catch up to its powerful new chip
> You have to talk to a sales person because there isn’t a good way to communicate complexity today in an asynchronous manner. A salesperson would much rather work asynchronously if they could be equally as successful -- but they can’t!

Sales is more effective when direct in real-time because it lets the salesperson drive the conversation to an action.

Marketing is storytelling... sales is driving actions after the story has been told. Understanding that difference, and the different skills and approaches needed because of that difference is what helps drive success.
His byline:

> Paul Krugman has been an Opinion columnist since 2000 and is also a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade and economic geography

I wouldn't expect an article from a Nobel Prize winning economist titled "Krugman Wonks Out" to be so devoid of substance.

I don't care about his political beliefs. I purposely look out for people with different beliefs than my own when exploring an idea. But if you're not concerned about the unprecedented growth in the money supply and you characterize the other side as "printing press goes brrr -> inflation", you're being dishonest. He could do better, but instead he doesn't present the facts, manipulates graphs, introduces misleading terms and insults people.

You increasingly see politics seep into discussions where it does not belong. What happened to the money supply is not left or right. It started in the last administration and is continuing in this administration, and the stakes are high. Krugman's writings on the subject of monetary policy and crypto are not helpful and just fuel this polarization.
I'm digging the website layout.What's the CSS framework he's using? I'm on mobile, and can't see the source.
Asking for pay scales is a problem though. Do it at the start of the interview and you're flying in the face of all interview advice (i.e., don't ask about pay during the initial phone screen; the companies smart enough to save their own time will mention it upfront, and the companies that want to negotiate you as low as possible by hiding information will take it as a red flag), and at the end I don't care what the range for the position is; I want to know what they're going to offer -me-.

I guess if at the end I felt especially lowballed, but at that point I don't really care what their scale is; it's too low for me to want to take it. I guess if I didn't have a job, felt like I had to take it, it provides some extra information at that point to try and negotiate with?
I still miss the old MS-DOS edit.exe for it's speed, utility, and availability. The faster the better, I can't abide waiting for something that edits plain text.

I might give Sublime 4 a go, because sometimes I just really need a super speedy text change. It will be competing with Emacs for speed and functionality.
When you say "construction", are you referring to something like drywall/framing/roofing or electrical/trim work? I ask because fitting a stack of OSB sheets in a van can be anywhere from challenging to impossible (depending on the type of van of course). Certain trim levels of the F150 for example, are designed with the specific requirement of being able to accommodate standard sizes of construction materials, like a 4x8 sheet of OSB.
It's not clear (yet) if Lee actually made any mistakes.
So, you're trying to tell me, it's the truck's fault that a driver doesn't know they're at a crosswalk?

Do you own a truck? I do. I've owned a truck for 15 years. Some of them lifted, and unless you are pretty much parked on top of a crosswalk, there is no problem seeing the crosswalk. Especially 3-4 foot objects in said crosswalk.

Edit: F150 is the most popular vehicle in the US. So, yeah, it stands to reason it will kill more people than any other vehicle, too
I assume that they are implying the equivalent of an automatic transfer switch. It's not like Ford just invented the concept of a backup generator. Automated backup generators have existed for a long, long time. There are modifications and components required for your home.
Most of this act seems pretty similar to what already exists in CA where employers are required to provide a salary range to applicants who ask and employers aren't allowed to ask candidates for salary history.

The "salary range in job posting" is new but, as others have noted, ranges cam be broad and based on experience.

The recent "no CO" disclaimers feel like a short-term reaction to uncertainty and they'll probably be phased out as companies/recruiters/HR providers verify their processes and policies are compliant.
It is ritual defamation [1]. This has been apparently going on for quite some time [2].

[1] http://techrights.org/2021/04/29/ritual-defamation/

[2] https://phanes.silogroup.org/vae-victis/
Dodge/Chrysler/Ram did that a few years ago when some researchers showed how they could take over a Jeep Grand Cherokee via the 4G connection in the entertainment center, and apply brakes and gas. I got a USB stick in the mail, with instructions on how to use it.
The fire and brimstone crowd did not initially lock people away for extended periods of time. They whipped people, publicly shamed them, executed them, etc. The "penitentiary" was explicitly a reformist idea that people could be improved by education instead of punishment. Instead of whipping and executing criminals, we would put them in an institution of "penitence" -- quiet reflection leading to appreciation of the wrongness of one's actions and the need to act in harmony with the benefit of others and society as a whole. This enlightened, benevolent approach would stress mutual benefit rather than punishment, even if it wasn't pleasant to lose one's freedom temporarily.

After a while we lost our optimism about the penitentiary concept and decided that being locked up was just a pointless ordeal, which made it popular with people who believe the goals of criminal sentencing should be punishment, deterrence, and keeping dangerous people separated from society, and less popular with those who favor a benevolent approach.
Also Italy has a similar policy[1] since years, €500 'cultural bonus': https://www.thebookseller.com/news/italys-18yos-receive-500-...

[1] https://www.18app.italia.it
Tim Cook takes the stand in Epic legal row
> You can probably fake W2s but I just think that's too much work for 99.9% of job applicants.

That was my question too.
Oh yes: https://xkcd.com/1508/
Honestly, this is a disgrace for Australia! Given what I heard about Data61, this decision must've been coming from the government. No sane research leader would dismantle such an outstanding team, or force them to change direction.
I guess it varies by browser since on Chrome there's a download (and a "file:///" URL in the tab).
I take extra caution around pickup trucks and young men in muscle cars. The former are more likely to not see you, or be on their phones. The muscle cars are likely to rapidly and erratically change directions into me at a high rate of speed.
Polling Twitter for gripes is the easiest possible angle to add to a story, since the journalists are already on Twitter 14 hours a day anyway.
In the current US housing market, you're expected to waive bringing in a house inspector because if you don't, the seller will sell to someone who will (and they likely have 3 all cash offers besides you ready to go).
When we bought our couch at the Salvation Army, they also didn't deliver. We rented a pickup truck at Home Depot for an hour, which cost about forty bucks. Overall, I think that worked great and I'd do it again.
You sort of point this out, but title inflation in itself isn't a problem. If everyone could agree that "senior staff developer" in 2021 is what everyone meant by "senior developer" in 2005, we'd be fine.

The real problem, as you point out, is there is no consistency. In reviewing resumes basically ignore titles from any company I'm not very familiar with, and rely on their description of what they have done.

As an aside, many engineers, especially less experienced ones, are terrible at this. As a piece of advice, think about what your resume says about your work if the titles are blacked out.
Haha, yup...

My biggest challenge right now is Journey is so meta when discussing Journey. It's why we're trying to lean into success stories: https://www.journey.io/success — but yes.

Like if you're describing Journey in isolation, without discussing how someone uses it, you sound like a crazy person:

Journey is a builder that lets you embed all sorts of content (slides, video, forms) into a sharable site. These sites can be used for when you want to convey complex ideas in an accessible way.

Maybe that is pretty good actually! I had actually always wanted to post on HN with "how would you describe Journey?" :)
> Most all the income and productivity gains from globalization and go to the wealthy, so if they lost billions of dollars, it is true that the nation would be less “”wealthy””…

That's a popular trope, but not really supported by any evidence. Take, for example, sanctuary cities...which can be seen as a form of illicit globalization. The popular trope suggests that undereducated and low income native American citizens would lose by attracting large quantities of low cost labor. But the exact opposite is true: native blue collar employment and wealth increases, welfare dependence and poverty decreases.

Perhaps the purveyors of the popular narrative should read up on David Ricardo. It's been 200 years since he died, and people still haven't caught on that more trade is a universal good...something economists have nearly universally accepted for literal centuries now.
If you're a regular ear plugs user, look into getting audiophile noise dampeners.

They're designed to be reusable and tend to be really comfortable. Some of them don't stick out of your ears like the plugs.
A truck in this discussion is a car, not a real truck. A bus is not comparable to a car. Compare a bus to a real truck. A motorcycle will in every single statistics drive faster on average than a car. I'm not saying your point is wrong but it is at a minimum like a click bait title.
I own a Subaru Outback too and the greenwash earthy crunchy marketing/image of the Outback is horrible.

It's a pig of a car in traffic. Mine is a 2013 with the smaller engine and it struggles to get 20mpg in traffic.

It was a cheap vehicle, but it most certainly is horrible on gas for it's size & work capacity.
Just because arts and culture can't be measured in GDP doesn't mean they're not important. Measuring everything in economic outcomes is harmful to humanity and society. Currency is necessary, but it shouldn't be the only way to value individuals or their activities.
Apple said that the kernel interface used by smartctl is emitting invalid data, which invalidates all conclusions drawn from it, such as “there is/isn’t a problem with SSD wear”.
Why is it so satisfying to just YEET those things? Super fun, thank you for sharing.
cries in satellite broadband

Seriously, we had to get a cell booster and root our phones to be able to use them as wireless hotspots just to survive and stay employed last year. It was an absolute trainwreck, the entire time.
Sure. That's a reasonable use case. Needing to get lumber home from Home Depot isn't, for most people, because of low frequency.
Yes, C# is the best language to write a phone OS in if you want to go out of business.
Well, first of all, CFL bulbs are as dead as Prince. You probably shouldn't be buying them unless you've got a very specific kind of nostalgia. It's also been almost 30 years since I could buy a cup of coffee for $0.05.

It's been my experience that in general LED bulbs last way longer than the CFL / Incandescent bulbs they're replacing. There have been some cheapo CFL / LED bulbs that didn't last very long, but that was also the case for incandescent bulbs as well (cough $0.25 bulbs). There's always been cheap junk in the world, some of it is packaged to look the same as quality products.

Yes, it is slightly tedious to match color temperatures, but that was the case with incandescent bulbs as well. It is also slightly tedious to find bulbs that are compatible with dimmers.

On the whole, though, these new bulbs are far better than the things they're replacing, and eventually even you will come to use them without noticing.
I was about to say that to spend the "Pass Culture" someplace, that place will have to register and be accepted by the government. However it looks like the cultural sector is actually very broadly defined! [0]

> You can propose your activities and cultural goods on the "Pass Culture". Only condition: be present on French territory.

That's awesome.

[0] https://pass.culture.fr/espace-acteurs-culturels/
That’s why I wish car manufacturers would affix big metal spikes to the front of cars for the aesthetic value. After all, they’d be blameless for any casualties.
I don't see how this is wrong.

Making a return is protecting money, and in this case this is done by hedging against innovation.
> If you live in an apartment complex it's ridiculous to have a truck.

There's nothing "ridiculous" about people loving their toys. (People often own things not because they need them, but because they want them.)
Maybe some government sponsored patreon?
This raised my eyebrow a little:

>At this point, I reach out to prawnsalad, a known person in the IRC space who has relationships with many people.

What Lee neglects to say here is that prawnsalad's work has been sponsored by Lee (via PIA) as far back as 2017.[0]

I have no reason to suggest that prawnsalad has acted improperly,[1] but he's not necessarily a disinterested party here.

[0] https://kiwiirc.com/blog/Kiwi_IRC_gets_sponsored_by_PrivateI...

[1] In fact I've worked with him in the past, and have met him many times in a social context IRL. I was involved with KiwiIRC until shortly before PIA sponsored his work.
Legitimate or not doesn't even really matter, you are going around complaining about the other team as opposed to holding your representatives feet to the fire. If you are perfectly happy with the state of things, that's fine but it's exactly what the grandparent described.

You won't live to see Medicare for All, but AOC sure dunked on Ted Cruz on Twitter.
I think you left out a few important things in that paragraph.

There was at least one significant dispute. Something about a DNS change that would cause many people to leave. What exactly was that?

Also, that Christel person or whatever their name, the fact that they apparently were kind of desperate for money at some point and so supposedly sold you something seems like you were taking advantage of them and the situation rather than getting involved from the goodness of your heart.

How can you own something like Freenode which is a completely volunteer effort that doesn't make money?

And what would be the point of "buying" it if you were not trying to monetize it? And if you were then how would that be in the spirit of "Free"node?

How is it "just in time" if the majority of the projects already left?
>this is a lot of fretting over the peak acceleration of a truck. I believe the thing does 0-60 in something like 4.5 seconds. that's really quick for a truck, but only above average compared to performance sedans

Seems like the people in this thread arguing about a fast truck don't know about the original Lightning, nor are they familiar with modern sport trucks like the Ram TRX or Shelby F-150 Super Snake, both of which will give proper high end sports cars a run for the money in a drag race.
That leaves Korea and FCA? Japan has fallen behind in infotainment/software. Hyundai has a Santa Fe and the Ioniq coming out, so probably a combo of those two shortly after.
Think of it like scientific research. Individuals fund short term research by buying products they want, governments fund long term research that nobody else will.
Yes they do, I am only speaking about my own firm. Although in my sector it is generally rarer than with software.
Every city has a auto dealer who handles trucks like that. UPS has their own custom trucks so you can't get that model, but there are a lot of options.

You won't find them in the typical dealer though. They are a niche, and most customers are buying several at once for their business and so the way the whole process works is different. Though there are just enough small buisness buying exactly one that you won't confuse them by buying one - but they may have trouble figuring out what tax applies.
Exploratory Controlled Study of the Migraine-Suppressing Effects of Psilocybin
It's one of the many arguments against welfare for the media industry: let the consumer decides what's worth watching.
I lived in France for several years, and I find it somewhat amusing how protective France is of their culture. They limit the number of foreign restaurant chains like McDonalds and Chipotle. They are protective of their language. The French dinner meal ("repas") is a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landmark. This "culture pass" is consistent with the French people's love of all things French.
Are there many cases where plain ASCII is okay anymore, anyway? Wouldn't proper UTF-whatever comparisons mandate doing it the slow way, if you wanted counts versus just "same/not the same"?
You can only get dominant market power with an asymmetry of information (about how to produce whatever thing it is that gets you dominant market power). This is why we have IP laws...
Ouch! I idiotically deleted my account thinking that there was a risk it was about to be swept up by a VPN company. I don’t use IRC much anymore so I logged in for the occasion. I’ll admit I don’t honestly understand what did and did not happen very well, but the narrative that drove Libera Chat’s adoption is now bothersome, as it created an imperative to immediately stop using and delete Freenode accounts, and now it seems like the timing of which information got out was itself dishonest in order to strike first. Even if the majority of people still side with Libera Chat, I will now have serious trust issues with them as a network.

This whole situation is bad and I hope it becomes clearer what happened and why.
Email sent.

Dude you asked for it :)
A higher upper limit encourages more applications because people see the company has room to grow.

A lower floor encourages more people to accept mid-range offers because nobody likes getting an offer in the middle of the range.

If someone gets an $80K offer for a job with a $40K-$250K range, they are happy to be paid twice as much as what they assume entry-level employees get, and they’re happy because they think they can grow into the $250K range if they work hard enough.

However if someone receives the same $80K offer on a listing with an $80K to $110K range, they’re going to be upset that they were given the lowest possible value and also concerned that there isn’t much room to grow.

In our case, we have a wide salary range because we hire everywhere from juniors without college degrees up through ex-FAANG employees. We don’t set out with an exact compensation or seniority in mind when we start recruiting.
There's a hidden gem, try to hold them longer
Larger cars = safer for the driver and occupants. Look at an original mini. vs the new ones.