skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you're replying to, but I think there's a whole lot of mistaken assumptions in this comment.

There is one employer in the world that will reliably give me work I care about and am happy to work on for its own sake, and that employer is myself. Unfortunately, I can't afford to hire myself full-time. I tried it once, and it turns out (unsurprisingly, given my career) that I'm interested in working on interesting infrastructure problems and not interested in building a product, let alone marketing or selling it. I got some PRs into an open source project and then I ran out of money.

So no matter what I do, I have to settle for an employer I care less about. At that point, the choice of employer is just negotiation.

Also, it turns out there are a handful of employers who pay really well - to the point where if I work a job I'm fairly happy with, I can then eventually save enough money that I can hire myself full-time for the things I care about.

There is no hypocrisy here, and bluntly you're being scammed by your employer if you've let them convince you there is. The way the employer wants to treat you is to pay you money in exchange for services. That's it. Would you feel hypocritical if you were an Uber driver who took rides from people you didn't care about? Would you feel hypocritical if you were a barber who cut one person's hair, and then the next day you cut a different person's hair?

I didn't make a vow of faithfulness to my employer, promising to be with them for richer or poorer, for better or worse. (And even that agreement is two-sided, and you can non-hypocritically break that agreement if the other party isn't holding up their end of the deal.) I signed an employment contract, promising them that I would do work for them and they would pay me, and that they could stop paying me at any time and I could in turn stop working for them at any time.
What does this mean on a real world level in NYC? Can anyone offer 350+ to 15+ YOE in NYC besides FAANG. 4 years ago I interviewed and failed 6/6 design and 4/6 leetcode (passed lyft and fb leetcode). 4 years ago I studied about 50-100 LC and did a design review class to get that far . I’m much better at design but couldn’t pass 5 hard LC. I’ve got a family and with work it’s a lot to do that much studying every day again. 4 years ago I could not get any 300+ offers
The 2012-2013 timeframe matches my general timeline for things as well, though mine is a bit hazier as it's a transition timeframe, not an event.

The 2012 era was when we really started to see the weaponization of attention take off. Smartphones weren't that terrible (Crackberry jokes aside) pre-2012, at least in terms of being attention vampires. In app purchases had become a thing a year or two before, and people were figuring out how to make it work - with 2012 being around the time they figured it out.

The variable reward "drive your users crazy" stuff hit around then, and with it, the wave of "algorithmic feeds" - not just chronologically ordered stuff.

Facebook moved to a more heavily algorithmic feed in 2011, mobile apps stared more actively driving their users crazy, etc.

So that timeframe was when the internet went from "Everyone sees the same thing on the same site, and you easily hit the end of new content if you care" to "It's a slot machine, and it's in your pocket, and there's a notification to get you back into the slot machine."

And it's just been downhill from there. :(
A bit of context: this software is popular in China for tweaking Windows font rendering of CJK text (the author is also Chinese language-speaking). Hence the project is only fully localized in Chinese & English, and that the README is fairly simple because most people searching for it already know what it is for.
If you don't mind my asking, how did you get started in your journey to become a 1337 h4x0|2 during the 90s? BBSs? Usenet? How easy or difficult was it to find learning material, resources, and open PBX systems to phreak? Were you ever familiar with groups like Cult of the Dead Cow?
I love looking at the Done column of my Trello board and then (yes I’m that terrible person) showing it off to people.
It's common for archaisms to survive in fixed phrases, idioms, and clichés.
This is a great example of a myth in the making due to poor reporting and science-by-case-report.

The report in question is just that-- a case report. It is not scientific in any sense. There's no way to establish causality here. All we can tell is this guy had oxalate kidney stones, and he also drank a lot of tea. That's it.

Controlled studies have found lower rates of kidney stones in tea drinkers:

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6412450/ - Daily Green Tea Infusions in Hypercalciuric Renal Stone Patients: No Evidence for Increased Stone Risk Factors or Oxalate-Dependent Stones

- https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-1998... - Beverage Use and Risk for Kidney Stones in Women

- https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/143/3/240/77956 - Prospective Study of Beverage Use and the Risk of Kidney Stones

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23676355/ - Soda and other beverages and the risk of kidney stones

And why iced tea in particular? That idea seems to have come from one single doctor, who said in an interview once that cold tea encourages people to drink more of it, versus hot tea. Again, no evidence, just cuz he thinks so:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248633#2

EDIT:

The authors of that case report somehow miscalculated the oxlate content of tea by a factor of ten. They claim that tea contains 50-100mg of oxalate per 100 ml. The actual content is about a tenth of that. Much less than a host of other common foods. And of course their report makes attempt to ascertain the rest of his diet.

This is essentially fake health news.
I dunno man, when I got into learning CNN it becomes very easy to see how neural networks work at an intuitive level and how that plays into its "intelligence". For example, early layers of the network respond very well to simple features like edges and simple patterns, while later layers respond really well to more and more abstract things, like the shape of a person or a wheel etc. The craziest part is that this is all emergent from a random initialized state, all these patterns and abstractions develop with no manual intervention, they just happen to be the result of backpropagation consistently lowering a cost function.

The biggest thing is that computing is just now finally able to have enough data and large enough networks to really start to create more generalized models. With a computer 20 years ago you might be able to do squeeze out simple pattern recognition, but for every layer and every neural node you add to a neural network, the more complex the model becomes and the more edge cases it can fold into itself.

Take a look at Universal approximation theorem and how, with enough nodes in a neural network, you can solve pretty much any problem given the right weights.
There is one company between you and gas, water and electricity. By all measures those seem a lot more important. How is this different?
> You think plastics should end up in the ocean? Why? It definitely should not, and if waste is managed correctly, it doesn't.

I think that enough people don't give a shit about where their waste goes, that any coastal community will lose a fraction of its waste to the drink. That isn't where most of the plastic in the ocean comes from, but the difference between "should" and "inevitably won't" is vast.
The suffering can persist longer than it takes for the market to reach equilibrium and/or improve. Market forces alone are insufficient, as capitalism in general has demonstrated time and time again.
the weekly posts like this always come off as self-centered to me, whining about how the world revolves around the author and how it really should've created the perfect community for them and sent it over without any effort on their part
Doesn’t seem all that convincing. Canada is a monarchy, they never rebelled, yet there would be considerable resistance to many of the same things.
After extensive research, I've found that almost no companies are paying Bay Area salaries for remote work outside the US.
If you don't hold it in your own hot little hand, it doesn't belong to you at all.

Or as the old saying goes: "Possession is 12 tenths of the Law"
> Why does a networking infrastructure product affect the browser visual UI in an way?

Because, as the original technology announcement [1] (which I linked in the OP) explains, they're running a remote browser and sending the rendered graphics from that browser down to the local client. So, since they're not putting in the extra work to send the semantic information required by screen readers and other accessibility tools, this breaks accessibility.

> If this happens to you, please call a lawyer. This is an easy case to win.

You're the fourth commenter on this thread to make that suggestion. Please check out the responses to the other three. [2] [3] [4]

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-remote-browser-is...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28027986

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028116

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029813
Maybe it makes sense to integrate the editor’s auto-save with git, so that every file system save call is paired with a git commit (referenced by time stamp). Whenever the user manually snapshots a commit with a message/tag (or after some period), the intervening commits could be compacted. This also has the advantage of enabling a seamless undo experience between the small changes (using something like tree undo) and big changes (using the git commit tree).
Unprecedented? When the dinosaurs evolved, there was 5-6 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as today, thanks to millions of years of volcanic activity.
I do some backend work for a small company that sells a downloadable software product.

As far as we can tell no one in China has ever bought our product in the ~15 years it has been available. None of our pages are localized for China. If someone in China wanted a product that does what ours does there are Chinese companies whose products are cheaper and probably better for Chinese users.

Yet last time I checked something like 95% of downloads of our product came from China. I took a bunch of IP addresses from the download logs and looked to see if I could figure out something about these downloaders.

All of them seemed to be at hosting companies, not end user machines. Looking at nearby IP addresses to see what else is hosted at the same hosting company they were mostly scam or borderline scam sites or porn sites. The later was a bit unexpected because at least according to Wikipedia porn and any involvement with it is prohibited in China.

I don't see any good reason I should not block Chinese downloads. We have to pay for the bandwidth they use, they are extremely unlikely to generate any revenue for us even indirectly, and they are coming from sketchy commercial IP neighborhoods rather than end users.
that could be a choice in the accounting department not to separate R&D and operational expenses when accounting for software engineers. Many engineers bristle at such accounting measures.
Internet was privatized and the prohibition on commercial activity was lifted https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103050
Task tracking is a component of, but not all, of project/goals planning.
Those times, end of the 90's, was basically wild west. Many uneducated people fresh on the internet, netbus just recently available, news users would install anything you ask them...

I would call that real hacking but kiddies at the time had a lot of fun creating problems to the new netizens.
Which ones exactly and how did they pull off this apparent massive conspiracy?

Near as I can tell, Greenspan pumping trillions of near free credit into the economy is nearly if not more culpable than the loose underwriting at these banks - after all, if they didn’t loosen them, they’d lose their market share in near free credit environments.

And what about the borrowers that were signing up for these completely unrealistic loans? How do they fit in?

And the poor bastards bidding crazy amounts trying to get a house, any house, and also way overpaying in any real sense because of these crazy bidding wars?

It’s easy to blame amorphous entities, it’s hard to really nail down what was actually happening - and point out that everyone in the US was playing a part in a spiraling out of control mess.
But there’s basically no reasonable way to say that single use plastic is good for the environment. They are clearly a local minima that has seemed tricky for the market to break out of. Unless they make a case that that single use bags are actually the global minima or the global minima is just not worth it, the reason foundation is being rather myoptic when presenting why people attempts to get out of the local minima are bad.
I think spam just won the war of attrition. The search engines finally gave up.

Any open system that becomes sufficiently large to be worth attacking will be destroyed by spam, malware, scams, and other types of exploitation. The Internet is a dark forest.

When GPT type systems really get figured out by the spammers it will be game over. No open forums will remain. I don’t even think open but regulated social networks like Twitter or Facebook will survive. They won’t be able to distinguish spam at all anymore so the whole platform will become bots trying to sell or propagandize bots.

The future is closed enclaves and walled gardens that cost something or require that you know someone to enter.
A lot of semantics it seems. “No curfew” just “restrictions on when you can leave your home”. So basically a curfew.
The immigrant supply is cutoff and there is upward pressure on wages but employers are not panicking yet. Just grumbling that usual pay is not attracting good enough candidates.

Plenty of places have not increased wages yet and interview process seems around the same.
Pegasus Spyware Java Recompiled
> is your family an outlier or an average?

Well, I lived in a socialist country; as a consequence, DIY was the default for obtaining stuff. So quite average I guess.
Sounds like an amazing class.
0 USD :)
Premature optimisation is as useful as premature ejaculation.
As a foreigner in Australia, I can't help but to think that Australians really don't know how to handle finances and are too irresponsible to use a credit card, so Afterpay and Zip stepped in.

Maybe it's because I grew up in Europe, but "Don't buy it if you can't afford it" has served me well. The majority of people I know just use credit cards for the perks but never miss a full payment.
See

https://www.webfx.com/blog/web-design/the-history-of-the-int...

> 1995 is often considered the first year the web became commercialized
I've found the best TODO 'app' is google calendar and a journal. I also have white board where raw idea get put down, but there id no real organization. once I decide I like the idea, task, ect I work it into my calendar and/or journal and go from there.
Smaller fonts are easier to read on low dpi screens with windows font rendering - that's the benefit. Assuming a high enough dpi display or just larger font sizes mac rendering is likely to look aesthetically better though (although that is still somewhat personal preference)

It's this form vs function distinction that's important here.
Now I'm curious: why? Not that I don't believe you, but I'm wondering what is the reason? It's not intuitively clear why gloves would make it more dangerous, even knowing that it is.
> HN can be swell, but we don’t deserve weekend hours.

Just wait until this post sits at the top of the front page for a few hours.

Weekend or no weekend, if I were the founder that would warrant a response.
I heard that they're moving some of their core products onto GCP, like parts of YT. If this trends keep going up over the next 2~3 years, maybe you don't have to worry too much about GCP itself, though there still might be smaller deprecations.
I use both Windows and Mac daily and I'm not sure that Mac font rendering is always better. Here is my experience:

On low DPI screens (think 24" or 25" at 1080p) I prefer how fonts render in Windows. It seems they have better antialiasing, while Mac fonts look slightly pixelated.

However on high DPI screens (13" Retina, 25" 4K etc.) fonts on Mac look sharper while Windows fonts look a bit "soft". So I prefer Mac on those.
I absolutely do not. But unlike driving a bus or cleaning a public toilet are at least socially useful, and those people should be cherished in society for the work they do and the service they provide. Being a "rep" for a pile of completely forgettable plastic pre-garbage is both debasing and utterly pointless.
Being more charitable, I think it's marketed as a way for people who budget monthly to spread their charges.
As an aside, its also a a reason why immigration from poor countries is so dangerous - people in the 2nd/3rd world have much simpler lifestyles and are thus willing to accept much lower salaries.

Note, I am from Ukraine, and I am speaking from personal experience moving to the USA. My American friends eat out all the time, buy very expensive home appliances, and tip extremely generously.

I live a frugal life since this is the standard of living I am accustomed to from my homeland. I was also willing to accept the lowest salary legally possible just to get into the country, which is already a huge upgrade to my income.

I also can't then change jobs easily, since the visa is tied to my employer.

If Tech workers want to maintain this state of demand, they should really oppose immigration from poor countries, such as requiring that the H1B visa has a maximum cap of 10% from any one country, which will have the effect of limiting the number of Indians who enter. Setting an additional maximum cap of 49% males from any one country would also be good to encourage gender diversity, instead of flooding in male migrants and then forcing companies to do it.
They do replace ANY requests with their own bogus response.
I’ve found the trouble with Todo lists is that you fill them up and then start ignoring them as they are overwhelming. I’ve recently found Beeminder’s GTBee todo list app a good help as it forces you to enter a due date and fines you at least $5 if you don’t complete the task on the due date. That makes me highly motivated to keep checking the list and completing tasks.
The police always intimidate. It's how they try to gain control of every situation they are in. If there's no mention, it should be assumed, and should be assumed unless there's specific evidence to the contrary.
There is likely a certain amount of that:

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14393135

However I would guess people are less likely to exercise self restraint when you're holding a huge unnecessary event. When vaccine availability is unclear and vaccines are inconsistently deployed. And when there's limited financial support.
Interestingly, iOS screen recognition also allows exploration of screenshots and remote desktop screens. I've heard of people using it to remotely install Windows as well. It would surprise me if Apple didn't have plans to put the same feature into its M1 mac.
It's not an oversight because the author of this post advised them of the potential issues and received acknowledgement.
Cloudflare enables this behaviour. They are not guiltfree in this regard.
Many of the PAC exploits have actually come from incorrect interactions with the OS or the PAC handlers written in assembly; the compiler is actually quite good at making PAC work.
> macos is clearly better.

I disagree.

Yes I do prefer MacOS on high DPI screens but, at low DPI, I prefer Windows. It's about how the edges of characters look, as I was saying here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28031314
Clear writing, nice tight shell script to streamline git tags on the command line, I can use this.
We have plenty of historical data to draw from here. Cynicism is the rational approach.

Corporations (beyond a certain threshold of market control) doing shady, consumer hostile things for profit is the norm. So I don't think the ticking time bomb concept is nonsense at all.

As a recent example, Google was an overwhelming net positive for years. They genuinely made the internet better. But the day they went public their eventual abuse of their market position, intentional or not, became inevitable. We're only in the early stages of seeing what that will look like.

Asking questions about whether we want to help give companies the market position to become abusive makes the most sense early, not after it's already happened.
You understand this makes you a dependant, not a customer, right?
I try to imagine what it’s like to live under the CCP. What would they do to have a place where they can speak safely and anonymously? Would the real issues start to be discussed finally?

Don’t take it for granted, it is a very valuable thing that can change things in this world. So no, unless it’s small public website with my resume, I will do what I can to respect this principle.

I also think there is a epidemic of Exibitionism going on in the world. Exibitionism is not for everyone, yet I’m seeing it everywhere. Without sounding too medieval, once upon a time your young children, or partner making videos and sending it out to the whole world to see would be considered insane. I think it’s a slippery slope that’s showing up everywhere. Bragging about your new job, etc.

I know I just made two conflicting points, but that’s how complicated the world got.
It's bad for any level, not just senior. I literally haven't received an offer in over a year of varying interviewing, because no matter what I'm applying to, I get hit with a hackerrank test that compares me to probably anyone in terms of simply whether or not I solved every test case. Others will put me through 5 interviews before deciding to not hire. I can't support myself financially with programming skill as a result (in Canada). It was bad 5 years ago, it's worse now.
This is so similar to the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. In the world of the Stormlight Archive, called Roshar, men from the Vorin religion are not expected to be able to read (it is considered even blasphemous). Even many scholars cannot read or write and instead dictate to their wives to write down. This led to many women secretly making corrections to their husbands' work in the margins!
Is that reversible, that is did that man recover his kidney function after treatment?
I'm not targeting anyone and I'm not affiliated with Cloudflare. I used a throwaway account because sharing an opinion that goes against certain narratives is seen by some people as a valid reason to declare a personal vendetta against you, demanding that your employer fires you and any future one refuses to work with you. I am merely trying to avoid that, while expressing a point of view that I believe has merit.

I wish we lived in a free country and I didn't have to do that, but sadly this is no longer the case.
I agree, and find it funny how many responses blame the government, corporations, etc. We are born with free will. Most of the time we act mindlessly, and try to blame someone else for it. Being happy with little possessions is a virtue that takes a lot of work. The benefits are beyond monetary.
Square to Acquire Afterpay
Azure/DevOps/Teams down for anyone?
Was working OK a while ago...
> - people doing things for non-commercial reasons

> - weird people doing weird stuff

There is more of both of these now than there ever was back in the 1990s. The modern internet is a utopia of interesting people doing interesting things for passion (even among people who also get paid - those things aren't mutually exclusive.)

The problem is too many people have become jaded hipsters who dismiss anything not in hand-written HTML on a personal domain as 'inauthentic.' Like, your old Metallica fanpage with the flame gifs and badly tiled background image wasn't exactly the pinnacle of art and expression.