skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a casual crypto observer, I can’t tell if this person is severely underestimating the potential of a crypto ecosystem or just hateful and untrusting of any technological change or completely correct about their complaints. Some thoughts:

1. The distribution of ownership complained about here seems better than in the non crypto world.

2. This is a new technology and it may evolve to solve all its growing pains.

3. Volatility makes it difficult for crypto to be used for more than speculation. Countries with worse paper currencies may find them useful but in other places I feel like it’ll remain a niche investment opportunity unless a solution to this chicken and egg problem is figured out.
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> If we’re so in demand… why is the treatment so poor?

Couple points:

1. I'm not sure the treatment is "so poor". A post that goes "Hey, I got a job, mentorship is pretty good, my boss is good, I generally like my co-workers but a couple rub me the wrong way" is a lot less likely to hit the front page than "We all got fired when our program crashed".

2. Information asymmetry. Most junior developers right out of college don't have a good understanding about the broader industry, don't know how to negotiate, etc. I think the best thing you can do if you are a junior dev is to find someone more senior who you trust to review any job offers and also to review your job hunt tactics generally.
I use TWM instead, it works very well, but requires some adaptation time to the window focus and copy'n paste mechanics.
I suspect your math didn't account for inflation.
This is utterly fascinating.

This game of telephone took 10 years and used a medium that can be copied with high accuracy. Makes me wonder how much of the original is still left in older literature which was told by word of mouth.
Please provide source for your claim.
Apart from saving money, another aspect of their reasoning iirc was that paying a single rate would create a very lopsided team in terms of geography: the company would be offering the “best” salary to employees in the lowest cost of living places, and so the incentives would lead these places to be dramatically over-represented relative to higher cost of living places. That’s the theory anyway.

I haven’t heard people in favor of geography-agnostic salaries address this concern, which seems legitimate from the company’s perspective. I suppose there are tradeoffs either way.
Not just Russia. With every content owner building their own walled gardens piracy will be on the rise again everywhere.
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All it needs is a mention of an expensive ring-shaped campus and we can migrate this from "satire" to "depressingly realistic"
It’s a brand new industry that was created today. Sure, there are lots of problems to be solved in the world, but new industries are exciting and who knows what will come next.
Exactly. If the user could just do it you wouldn’t need this service.
Proprietary code would by definition not be copyable, because it would be... proprietary. It's the opposite to open source. The thing that incentivises open sourcing proprietary source code is exactly things like licenses... Your imagined scenario is just "no license for open source, and free reign for closed source". It makes no sense to me.
This smacks of fraud and the need for a reformation.
If there is a supposedly huge supply of foreign money couldn't we just... build even more housing?
Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?
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Ruined? Not always.

For example, investment subreddits are generally very bad, yet the Berkshire Hathaway subreddit (r/brkb) is able to keep the rot out without becoming an echo chamber:

https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/

This subreddit has literally dozens of value investor moderators, and the bubbles (cryptocurrency/ARK/Musk) are forcibly excluded.

The result is a forum where Buffett's principles of intrinsic value (discounted cash flows) and moats, etc., are explored for Berkshire and the many connected companies (e.g., Verizon).

Read the live chat history to see.
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Quilting is a very Americana mode of remembrance. The African American community has a rich history of story quilting. Also see the AIDS quilt.
> what would the ideal "code view" be?

SQL?
I think this is probably down to unfortunate phrasing - at first blush it looked like you're doing the [citation needed] thing on someone who was just adding an interesting anecdote to the brown/red band situation. However I assume you just wanted to say that this info would be an interesting addition to that page, and if OP had any idea whether there was any more official info on this that would be cool, since the anecdote alone likely won't satisfy wikipedia editors.
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This is how I was interpreting the suggestion to "join" together as well.
I can easily create mental images in my mind, like a rotating wireframe cube. I can see these images in my minds eye with my eyes open. I experience these mental images as a separate sensory channel from the eigenbrau, which is much more difficult to perceive and control.

To use your metaphor, my mental images are in an offscreen buffer. My eigenbrau is more like my on-screen buffer, but I can't see eigenbrau with my eyes open, presumably because then my eyes are using that channel.
I have more than once found myself answering that sort of question. I gave similar reasoning.

In 2020, for a grassroots PPE-relief organization, however, I found that I had sometimes been mistaken. What our group managed to achieve by eschewing (eventually as a watchword) fancy tools and building our entire backend around Google Sheets was speed. Moreover, I learned along the way that simple database tools are sometimes more-efficient or faster than anything I'd have written myself.

I had been blinded by the GUIs -- the (frequently correct) notion that GUIs are generally inferior in the long run to scripting/programming had blinded me to the very idea that perhaps another tool could be superior.

As my career takes me in new directions, I'm presently reprising that experience, this time with SQL. Physicists rarely use it, so we have no idea what it can do. The syntax looks old/quirky/muddy, but the tools behind it are extremely powerful.

If you're great at R, consider sitting down with someone whom you know is just crushing problems with Excel. I'm pretty sure you'll both learn something useful.
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Yes it runs on stock hardware. Near full performance.
I agree. A new industry was just created today. Can’t we just take that in?
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Do these things really have purposeful list prices?

I had to go to the hospital for an allergic reaction on a visit to the USA. They let me go with $600 in cash.

When I asked for an itemized receipt, it has thousands in charges but nobody there really seemed to care if I paid that. The insurance company was welcome to pay if it wanted to though.
Boy the tables have turned. CEOs used to say "there are 99 other candidates who would take your position".
Hadn’t heard of this so went and looked. The top post is literally a photo of Biden that’s captioned:

“The left spent four years telling us how dumb Trump is… Then they drop this *** on us.”

I bleeped out the derogatory language.

That’s not right wing politics. That’s just childish drivel. That looks nothing like a HN for other niches.
Glad I saw chiropractic in that list. A lot of people I know tried to get me into it, and even on the surface it seemed shady af before I tried it. I ended up trying a few sessions which only resulted in my spine being hurt. I finally did some research on the practice and was shocked to discover its hokey and snake oil-like roots. What’s fascinating to me that in the US, it’s treated like an acceptable alternative to genuine medical treatment, but most studies have shown it’s no better than therapeutic massage. To increase legitimacy, many practitioners use the title of “Doctor” because of their Doctor of Chiropractic degree, fooling many into believing that this has some relationship to being a medical doctor.

I am not saying it’s totally useless, but the fact that chiropractic is so popular and is even a *thing* just seems very odd when we have well-established treatment modalities such as PT, therapeutic massage, and spinal surgery.
> My reasoning feels the same as when people say Java is the best language because it can be run on any device, which is like saying anal sex is the best sex because you can do it with any animal.

Please tell me you have said this to someone in a work meeting. This is hilarious.
The headline of this site says "civil discussion" yet the current top post is a meme which describes a US politician with a slur.
Your sentence is a run-on sentence.
Outsourcing is an attempt to do exactly that.
I have some objections, as someone who doesn't use R but does quite a lot of Excel. The author seems to miss PowerQuery, data model, and PowerPivot functions.

"Visibility: How do you see the code inside an Excel document? How do you tell exactly what is going on? You have to go clicking through cells, or reverse engineer what settings a graph has."

PowerQuery it's a functional way of transforming data step after step. You can see the code/function of each step and it's very easy to reason about those functions. You can transform data to the format you want, and do calculations on it before it enters the spreadsheet. One of the main advantages is that it's easy! I've taught non programmers to reliably use this tool.

"Repeatability: [...]
With R, you just change read.csv("1.csv") to read.csv("2.csv") and the exact same calculations are run on two different data sets."

Again, with PowerQuery this is doable, and a normal procedure on my day to day. You change the file parameter PowerQuery will use on step 1, and the rest of steps will follow.

"Batch processing: Related to the above, you can read every CSV in a directory and produce a graph for each of them. You can read data from an API and run the same process on it that you did yesterday."

You can use PowerQuery on folders, it can take a set of files and transform or aggregate them all at once.

In my opinion Excel has gotten pretty powerful after data model and powerquery were added, I think around excel 2013. I barely use cell functions anymore; data model and pivot tables make for robust spreadsheets that are easy to reason about. I know a decent programmer can do most of it in many other ways, but the accessibility of Excel is amazing.

The biggest defect Excel has for me at the moment is control change tracking. Wish I could git Excel changes.
Hilton affiliates used to have an opt-out model where you get a refund ranging from $0.50-$2.50 depending on the property or franchisee.
> It only works on HN because we use things like archive.is or browser extensions to go around it. If it weren't possible to work around it, it would die off pretty quickly as a discussion.

Some of the most interesting and informative things I've read on HN were comments on articles I did not read. I almost always read the comments before reading the article, and a significant fraction of the time I don't even try to read the article after seeing the comments.
I hate to be that guy, but literally nothing is apolitical. Hn minus explicitly political content is is just status quo maintenance news.
I'm usually in NYC these days, but WL is my hometown. Appreciate the offer! Maybe we'll meet up in NY instead :)
The cheapest option was to do nothing. The best opinion was nation building. The US choose to pay for nation building but give up before any nations were built. The worst of all possible worlds.

There is an approach to politics that basically says people create excess value (more than they need to survive), and all politics is just deciding what to spend that on. Each "side" will sometimes squander resources just to stop the other "side" getting them: someone on the left will gold plate social security so that someone on the right can't use the money for tax cuts.

I never really subscribed to the theory, but I have to admit the "war on terror" seemed designed from day one to bankrupt the US treasury. Either the people in charge were all really stupid or it was intended, and I don't think they were all stupid.
Is there a tool to transpile an Excel workbook to R source code? It seems like a plausible-enough thing to do.

• Put all the static data first in one section, broken into tables with PDF’s word-boundary logic (the one that allows you to highlight text, despite it being a bunch of individually laid-out graphemes)

• reverse-postorder (topological sort) the formula cells’ definitions, grouping them into “stanzas” by which “tables” of static data they’re transitively touching.

The result would read a lot like the definition of an expert system in Prolog. Facts, then predicates.
Other potential benefits notwithstanding, nicotine is most definitely toxic:

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https://www.acmt.net/Nicotine.html
> If utility generators are rational actors they will pick the best solution.

People make the same textbook argument for "rational" actors in "markets"… as if all actors are "rational" or agree on what is "rational". As if everyone has access to the same information, as if everyone was equally invested in the same things, as if everyone wanted to protect the same things…

> but how do you explain that nobody is building them?

> Globally, solar thermal has almost come to a complete stop. So, how do you rationalize that it's a great technology but nobody wants it?

"Nobody"[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_st...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_st...
Do you know how many hundred top tier chemical and nuclear scientists died while "following the checklist"? Look up Demon Core
Incidentally, one of the most high-strung, anxious people I’ve ever met was a Buddhist. There was nothing Zen-like about this person.
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I really think one of the lowest hanging fruits would be a law that forces providers to pick and share a sticker price for different services.

How can anyone price shop without knowing any of the prices, and if no one is price shopping there isn't any pressure to lower prices.
+1 to both Crafting Interpreters, which is probably my favorite free online text about this stuff, as well as the Interpreter Book and Compiler Book, both written for Go as the implementation language. They were all a huge help for me learning the ropes initially.
Everyday Astronaut did a great video on rocket pollution last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4
This article misses out on one of the most important things, something that CAN NOT be moved: Purchased apps.

Somehow, I have two different Apple accounts. Both are tied to the same e-mail address (which _should_ be impossible, and in fact, if I try to edit the profile of one, it complains that I can't do that since the e-mail address is already in use). This means that whenever I want to set up an iDevice, I need to log in to one account, download all the apps I want from there, then switch the App Store to the other account, and download the rest of the apps.

Of course, Apple support told me to pound sand. But at least they were friendly about it.
cloudynights is a wonderful community for astronomy of all kinds, including astrophotography.
And even that isn't even as bad as HN is "from the other side"
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Ha, I wanted to suggest that too!

For my region and all German speakers a (the?) relevant site is https://www.kaffee-netz.de/

It is pretty active and has a lot of topics around coffee and coffee making technologies and techniques. It's definitely on a similar level to what OP was asking, I had to think of it immediately.
Woah! On a side note, William Candillon, one of the developers (creators?) of reanimated[0], animation library for React Native replied to the first comment in one of his YouTube videos[1] that the team is looking into integrating Skia into React Native for better performance.

[0]: https://www.reanimated2.com/

[1]: https://youtu.be/RHlGPIEThdo
I am not so sure the government was actually fooled. Congress? Ok. But the Whitehouse?
Remember, not long before the war on terror Clinton had managed to balance the budget. What's the deficit at now?

Not all of that is Afghanistan of course. There was Iraq 2 too. And a bunch of other conflicts. And 2 rounds of tax cuts. I'd include 2008 bailouts but I think they ran at a profit in the medium term?
"starts out as" 10 years in and I'm still a dumbass... I work circles around most and I'm still a dumbass... I'm close to being honestly a full stack developer - server, database, api, windows services, websites (I know Asp.net MVC... but not deeply... finally learning Angular)...

... I'm still a dumbass...

I wonder... if after 10 years... will I stop being one after 20? 30?
Ecosystem matters a lot. For example, React might be overkill for a lot of projects but it’s relatively easy to hire for and there are a lot of drop-in tools and components available.
> Surely the NYT, WSJ, USA Today, etc realize that at $10 per month per paper, few people are going to maintain more than one or two subscriptions.

But if you are the NYT or WSJ, you believe, reasonably, that one of those subscriptions will be for you.

I agree generally. Aren't micropayments supposed to solve this problem?
There's two reasons IMO.

The first is that being in-person is valuable to many companies, enough so they're willing to pay a significant premium for it. If you're remote, then you get less.

The second is that it's all about negotiation. Companies by and large have the upper hand here, and would pay much lower wages if they could. FAANGs do not pay 2-300k salaries for fun, but because of the local competition.

Software developers are finally getting a taste of what the average citizen has to deal with compensation-wise, no wonder people are reacting badly.
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Pretty easy to generate the WWVB signal, I've written various MSF simulators that look like they'd be easy to tweak to generate WWVB. For reasonably accurate time though you'd want to have something running NTP to drive the simulator. Maybe you've got a time-nut [0] nearby.

[0]http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
I enjoyed your flippin' scrollbar rant! I couldn't have put it better myself.
Do you think the fads will come and go with lower frequency as more time passes? Software engineering is a young field. I don't hear a lot about, for instance, fads in aerospace engineering but that could be because I hear little about it in general. Perhaps software engineering is always going to be "faddy" because of how flexible and reconfigurable software is in general.
> Which is still ridiculous. Even McDonald's don't have the same menu everywhere.

That's why analogies never work.

Here, it's simple:

- that person is already paying Netflix, legally

- SG1 was available on Netflix, so the money was going to whoever owns the right to SG1, too

- Then SG1 was not made available (for whichever reason, in 99% of the cases blame the rights owner, and you'll be right)

So now the rights owner earns exactly zero dollars for SG1 from people who are paying for Netflix.

If those people chose to pirate SG1, literally nothing in the equation will change: the owners will keep not getting the money.

And the only fault lies with the people who decided to pull SG1 (and other content) from Netflix.
I think you're a major outlier, and that newspapers would get well above three times the number of subscribers. Magazines are a little different since they're more focused, i.e. The New York Review of Books is not a substitute for PCMag.

But it's also possible I'm wrong—I certainly have no background on this industry. For example, someone on the TWiT podcast said the reason there's no effective "Netflix for Books" is because the industry is highly dependent on a very small number of "whales" who will buy five books per week.
I think our mail systems are probably some of the most wasteful aspects of our society. At this point, I really can’t imagine the need for actual mail to come to my house. Fully 95% of the mail I get is adverts, 4.999% are bills (that could be digital), and .001% is genuine letters from another person.

All that paper, fuel and wasted human effort to make sure I get something I throw away in the recycle bin immediately after I get it. It should honestly be a crime and I don’t know how it isn’t.
>India is one of the few countries with a favorable demographic future right now.

India is not meeting / maintaining 8% growth to just keep up with employment. Current TFR is going to generate 100s of millions of excessive idle / impoverished workers that's going to drag on development. It's a demographic curse not dividend, which are already milked in their most productive states from memory. And they will not be able to develop via manufacturing because automation/geopolitics means world will not concentrate global production in one country again. Their future looks like 1.7B with major proportions trapped in subsistent agriculture and informal economy.

In China even after family planning averted 300M births, country still has 600M barely above middle income and significant proportions in agriculture + informal system, but at least much of country has increasing per capita wealth to better weather demographic bomb and problems being addressed. Difference is most of India doesn't look like it will develop beyond relying on population pyramid to manage growth, which will eventually hit carrying capacity constraints. By 2100, PRC is going to be a somewhat wealthy per capita country with ~900M population & 80%+ urbanization rate. A big middle-income Japan. India is going to be a poor per capita country with 1.7B population, with significant numbers trapped in rural areas. A bigger but still poor India.
I'd happily take a scar if it saved me $20,000 on stitches. I do agree that I'm not leaping at the opportunity for getting untrained medical care.... but on the other hand I've been treated by residents pretty often and they still charged outrageous amounts.
There is a reason years of experience matters more than class GPA or school rank. Being a good student in many cases just means being able to cram for exam week, it says nothing about your consistent habits. Software is a marathon not a final exam.
I can tell you what comes next: yet more billionaires and wealth hoarding and still more problems in the world.

I guess my point is does the average person struggling to put food on the table really care that a new industry was 'created'? Is there a place in this industry for those people?

I think this touches a nerve though with the HN crowd, as this kind of argument tends to make them rankle
Sure, but I would like journalism that at least tries.

On All Things Considered on NPR a couple of weeks ago one of the hosts was interviewing someone about perceived media bias, and she seemed flabbergasted that people thought they had a bias. It seems to me they (and other organizations) might be in such a bubble they don't even realize it anymore.
> High quality public news is also still available. BBC, In Germany ARD/ZDF and even English language offering (DW), NPR in the US I believe ...

In the US, there simply isn't enough quality news available for free, and many essential stories and reporting are behind paywalls (especially the NYT and Wash Post).