skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can add my startup GitSense as well

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=wind...

The thing is, from what I've read, if you were using Git<plus something> before Git started cracking down, they will let it slide. I also think they don't care until you hit it big and cause issues for them.
The academic rigour of MBA programs vs law probably have a lot to do with the higher satisfaction scores.

MBA program usually requires several years of work experience. In some cases, your company may pay for it, so it's possible students in those programs don't share the same level of stress. I spoke to an investment banker about his experience when I was looking into doing one. For someone who was working 80 hours/week for years, an MBA was a vacation.
Absolutely you can read it to death and still glean nothing from it. I don't know how many times I've had to reread, and I usually continue to do so. And to that end it takes more than just reading it, but if one wants to ask some profound questions about the world around oneself now that one doesn't have someone breathing down one's neck then one should probably start where others left off. It'll save a little time.

The point where you took a wrong turn was assuming that philosophy is all based on hearsay. There's been a lot of effort to ground pretty fundamental ideas to what we understand about reality, to the extent that we understand it. It's worth working to grasp some of that. It helps. If you like quantizations and mathematical/logical formality that exists as well, but mind that you'll probably want to do a lot of comparative reading.

To put this in programmer's terms: why would you re-implement libc when you haven't even looked at the existing source code or surrounding arguments? That would look like a fool's errand: not because the effort isn't worthwhile, but because you could save yourself a lot of time and use the lessons of the past to inform your next efforts rather than blindly making all of the same mistakes or rediscovering what was already known (to our best efforts). Worse, you might end up wandering around ranting about how someone should implement a core supportive library for a common systems language without ever looking to find out if there is one in the first place.
In the middle of the pandemic, she left a lucrative tech job to become a farmer
They almost certainly have permission to use the phrases that way.
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The salary numbers are very optimistic, too. A small number of tech workers at a small number of FAANG companies in a small number of locations, will be making $250K from the start or even average that much throughout their careers. I know, I know, everyone on HN makes $400K and drives a Ferarri, but that's very optimistic number for most people.

EDIT: Also: house should not be included in your net worth for the purposes of calculating retirement draw-down, unless you plan to liquidate your home equity to live on.
Given that if you don't invest, someone else will (and get marginally higher returns on average), consider investing and donating all of the returns to a labor organization?

I'm not an expert on ethics, but it seems that the captured excess productivity is liberated from the worker regardless of whether you invest or not and if you donate 100% of your profits to labor organizations, you are merely redistributing the money back.
China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

I'm getting confused. Is China Daily separate from the CCP?
If you're on android then NewPipe is fantastic for watching YouTube without adverts, in a hovering window or even just listening to the audio with the screen off.

It does not tie into your YouTube account (so no watch history or recommended vids) which may or may not work for you, but it's a fantastic resource.
Oh, come on.

There have been Barbie doctor dolls and astronaut dolls since at least the 80s.

That is besides the point. The point is the constant drilling of this topic in every form, painting the woman as oppressed superheroes and males as privileged oppressors. This with the goal of getting more people into a debased field while salaries and family-work balance keep getting worse.
+1 for the RT Phoenix book!
As an electrical and aerospace engineer this is something I get asked frequently. tl;dr it's very unlikely to cause an issue, but be a decent person and put your phone in airplane mode during a flight.

First safety. A properly functioning mobile phone from a reputable manufacturer is not likely to interfere with any digital aircraft systems. But that assumes:

* The phone is operating within specs and not damaged

* The aircraft shielding is fully intact and there are no other issues

It's only a matter of time before this causes some sort of issue. Like the Wikipedia article links to, it already probably has caused minor issues. Also, many important systems are analog (like pilot voice comms). I was on a plane that was forced to do a go around at landing because the pilots couldn't hear the control tower due to interference. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if it was someone's phone.

Second, basic decision making in a society. You're trading an extremely low likelihood of putting 200 people in danger or at great inconvenience against.... being able to make a call 6 minutes sooner? Checking your email? To tell someone... what - your plane is arriving? That's all online. Wait 10 minutes.

The number of people with no expertise in electrical engineering and electromagnetic interference who "heard on Reddit/YouTube/from a friend" that it's actually safe to use a phone on a plane and decide to do it is way too high. It's the same thought process as hearing something on Youtube about mRNA causing cancer/magnetism and then ignoring the medical community and skipping a vaccine.

An overwhelming majority of the time, using a cell phone on a plane doesn't matter. But don't do it. Put it in airplane mode. There's not a big conspiracy trying to make you miserable. Experts on this are actually worried about you.
It might also mean that they had the project created when CORBA was in fashion, and it survived to this day, because it was an actually useful system, and despite the architecture being - whatever it was.
> Though these kinds of surveys are tricky, as they depend on outward facing headers that don't always exist

It's not just “don't always exist”: those headers are actively recommended against by various security guidelines so many large sites heavily use things you can only infer from other characteristics.

This is also the kind of environment where I see some movement against Varnish: internal TLS requirements increase the cost of managing two services instead of one, and if you're increasingly using something like an external CDN the level of benefit from Varnish's cache declines somewhat even though the powerful request routing and manipulation features are still appealing.

I've been generally wondering what it would take to be able to flip the model to something like Cloudflare's Argo Tunnel feature where you could secure internal communications by having your various web services make an _outbound_ connection to the Varnish box which all of the requests will be tunneled over so you only need to manage one certificate there rather than one for every service/container in a complex application.
How much does the LSAT saturate though? The SAT, particularly the math section, is already very saturated at the top percentiles, which make up almost the entire application pool to the elite schools. That's why those schools basically just use the SAT as a quick screener now, if they use it at all. Raising scores even more would further diminish its utility and could increase the impact of a silly mistake.
Apple AirTags Used to Prove That Contractor Illegally Trashed People's Property
Famous for Greenspun's tenth rule of programming:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule

>The rule expresses the opinion that the argued flexibility and extensibility designed into the programming language Lisp includes all functionality that is theoretically needed to write any complex computer program, and that the features required to develop and manage such complexity in other programming languages are equivalent to some subset of the methods used in Lisp.

>Other programming languages, while claiming to be simpler, require programmers to reinvent in a haphazard way a significant amount of needed functionality that is present in Lisp as a standard, time-proven base.
Some people talk unusually loud on phones, possibly due to habit and/or their phones being too quiet/loud and changing their volume to compensate.
Nah, that’s a cop out. There’s nothing enlightening about shrugging off complexity.

If a system is hard to interface with, the complexity is still accidental, it is just outside your own system and maybe out of your control.

Even if you’re a “middleware” company that connects multiple shitty systems together, you’re still adding zero value to anything but your own pocket. The complexity is still there.

We still have the right to call a spade a spade. In the past I had to say “no” to managers about interfacing with shitty systems. Sometimes you CAN make a difference.
As soon as something becomes work, there is a contract (expicit or implicit) that comes with rules and conditions. After a while, any activity under contraints, rules and conditions imposed by others stop being fun, unless you are very powerful / famous / popular and you can put the rules / conditions (and even in that case, sometimes it is not possible).
That was hardly the same thing. They tested for years, and then the Federal government left it to the states and did not mandate it.
If your retirement income comes entirely from long term capital gains, then the first $80K you sell per year is tax free.
An innovative new STL with unlockable features, such as:

std::vector: $5

std::string: $15

std::map: $30

std::unordered_map: $100
Julia strikes a nice middle ground. Functions which don't specify the types of their arguments are implicitly generic, and are JIT compiled when called based on what the actual argument types are. So even if a function doesn't have types specified, if it is called with arguments with incorrect types, then there will be a compile error at a level further down if there's no implementation available for nested function calls.

The error messages are not as nice as if the types were specified at the top level, but there's usually still enough static type checking to know whether the code will run or not before it runs, which is one of the big benefits of static type checking. The other benefit of static types is performance due to compile time optimisations, which Julia can benefit from if the functions are type-stable.
so is people dying before their time
This is sort of like the old "Water is wet; news at 11." thing.

But simple is not easy. In my experience, it often comes after complexity.

My general approach to simplification is to first get it working; even in a complicated fashion, then start removing stuff, until it stops working. If I can't get it working on the latest simplicity, I am forced to add the last thing back.

But I can usually get it going, which may sometimes require a rearchitecting.

One of the happiest times for me, when I'm writing code, is when I get to toss out a whole bunch of painstaking work that I did.

I'm going through that now. I'm working on an app that has necessary complexity, and I'm finding ways to toss out code all over the place.
sounds like the 737MAX. . .
To avoid this, you want to have a multifaceted approach.

Figure out how low your expenses can be while still being quite happy with your qualify of life. Some expensive things don't provide the happiness you think they will.

Diversify the kinds of investment accounts you have. Maximize your tax-advantaged accounts like a 401k, but then contribute to a Roth IRA if available, and then plow money into a taxable brokerage account. When you approach retirement, plan to have some time period of expenses covered by cash on hand.

Then use cash, brokerage and Roth funds to cover expenses, while converting what you can from 401k or traditional IRA into Roth funds, and minimizing the income/taxation that results so you can still qualify for credits. Funds converted to Roth will be available for tax-free withdraw after 5 years, so continue to convert over time, while using the post-tax accounts to cover expenses.
Same here. Only it was a PHP shop and they expected literally everything to be built in Drupal. I got hired 10 minutes after the interview, which should have been a red flag. We also had to clock in with a fingerprint reading device that hardly ever worked.

They were also scamming customers at some point after I got laid off. I didn't really dig into it though.
Run your DynamoDB workloads on Google Cloud
If buyers are willing to buy these bonds -- it's great for Germany the nation. They can take someone's $100 now, spend it on something like infrastructure which improves the tax base, then in 30 years they only owe $90.
transparency on what new information was received that is now changing the messaging.
I think in the US the interest is deductible.
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The article is recommended for every startup looking for a big organization contract. This gives you insights as to what they will look for in due diligence.
America is also a fucked up place where people walk around in fear of the police and the paramilitary forces (sorry, “patriots”) that occupy most of the US outside the major cities. You never know when one of them is going to pop into a synagogue or a grocery store with an AR-15.

This country is dystopian af too; the American dream died with 9/11. We’re just another empire that’s rotting from the core.
Alternatively, an irl conversation has two talkers which doubles noise, has to be louder than someone on a phone because you're taking to a receiver further away, and both conversers have to be directing sound in the direction of where people are, as opposed to a phone which can be used while directing sound at e.g. the wall
Yep, monoliths aren’t a bad thing so long as the problem domain is actually inherently coupled.

If you break out a separate service from your monolith and it’s not independently useful to things other than your app then you probably should put it back.
Sorry, I don't get what you or parent are referring to. Are these supposed to be some references to mob run businesses or something?
Ask HN: How are you protecting your wealth?
With the current inflation, market being overvalued and rising real estate costs, how are you protecting (ie future-proofing) your wealth? HN is a forum with very interesting ideas, I'm very curious about how people here are looking at this problem.

- crypto?

- keep investing in stock/bonds/etc..?

- buying gold and burying it in the backyard?

- buying real estate in (currently) cold areas?

- ... ?
> Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said as much when in 2007 he advocated boosting the number of skilled immigrants entering the United States so as to "suppress" the wages of their U.S. counterparts, which he considered too high.

We vote for these people and pay their salaries. Who exactly is it that is supposed to be looking out for us?
Last time I was scaling a monolith I basically did it purely by splitting up the DB into multiple ones with different purposes and improving query perf just through that.

I would've had to do all the same work to extract it to microservices, but also would've had to do a lot more on top. Had it not been a legacy system, probably worth it - but as it was, leaving it as a monolith querying a now-split-up set of DBs was cheaper and faster.
> there’s a health crisis that completely wiped us out financially

Do you have at least catastrophic health insurance? This is a fear you can solve for not that much money.
> It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github alternative when it has a fraction of the features.

I could have said that about Gogs years ago since a high school student made that in their spare time.

Once projects become open-source, the community usually takes over that work. Just like many others, the same could happen to this project, just like how interested contributors did so with the V language as soon as that was open-sourced.
WiFi Issues on Pixel Phone
Lately I am experiencing lot of WiFi issues with my Pixel 3. It silently drops my wifi connection and I end up using cellular data for a long time until I realize. When I reconnect it shows weak wifi signal but other devices don't have any issues. I am on Google Fi plan and since I am at home most the time I don't use the data plan (at least that's what I thought). Hope Google is not doing this deliberately :-)
Fire departments and school systems are local agencies so of course the internet rage machine doesn't affect them

I'll grant you medicare. I don't think transportation, NASA, or NSF are really something people really care about (in the emergent "should I wear a mask when I go outside" kind of care), but maybe I'm wrong on those.
David Pogue (formerly of the New York Times, and sometimes host of Nova) recently released a book literally titled “How to prepare for climate change”

[1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Prepare-for-Cl...
List size is O(n).

https://eastl.docsforge.com/master/design/#listsize-is-on

I am surprised compilers don't magically optimize the code and remove the size-remembering variable if it is not needed.
Here's Facebook's blog post about this situation: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/research-cannot-be-the-jus...
Wow—they weren't kidding when they said fast! It's interesting how I've been conditioned to expect delays on websites—so when I come across something like this which loads seemingly-instantly, it's super noticeable!
Simplicity is a shape that composes or has symmetry in that dimension.

The greatest act of simplification I did was reduce the problem from a continuous one, some one wanted to filter on distance and I moved it to a set of three buckets.

This discounts all the things argued out of existence or replaced with a sql query.

Which reminds me, the longer you can keep something relational the larger your chance at reducing complexity, because you can project down to a lower dimensional space to solve specific problems. 80% of work is in choosing that right lower space and making the projection. Once there, all problems are flat.
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Aged badly I would say.
I'm a Brit, been living in the US for a decade or so now. I came here for the money and the weather, but the weather is going to shit these days...

The long term plan was always to make sufficient money to retire early, then go home. Complicating this easy straightforward idea was that I got married (!) and now have a kid who I don't want to uproot. So now I wait for college-days, and then sod off back to the UK :)

The cost of my (paid off) house in the Bay Area will fund a small mansion by the sea in the UK. Long walks on the beach with the dog seem appropriate, and will even be good for my old age :)
Death exists and is amoral.
Could you show how it is problematic? And why replacing it with this one is better?
Your investment pays someone's wage, and in exchange for your investment you get interest. This doesn't seem exploitative at all, and moreover I don't know of any economic system that has the ability to minimize poverty and maximize human rights than capitalism.
Changing the charging cables for a billion phones to reduce E-waste would be an effective way to turns billions of perfectly good cables into E-waste. Do you feel it would break-even within ten years?
Of course they can't, but do they need to? In a perfect world, perhaps they should be transparent with regards to accountability, but their behavior isn't going to change as long as they're making money and no one at the company is at risk of any jail time.

In this case, jail time doesn't seem to be warranted, and what they did more or less protected the people paying them. I don't think this will generate enough negative press to make the platform less attractive to advertisers, either.
I've tried that. Things that compel me to move: Food, water, bathroom, pain.

Perhaps I lack dreams.
The point is that many developers would prefer to have a “real” email address. If you’re using Google or Facebook ads the email data point allows them to track you across apps and target advertising that data goes back into your personalized profiles.

Apples solution of an anonymous email breaks this personalized tracking which is good for privacy concerned users but potentially “harmful” for app developers, particularly those that are ad supported.

There are many who wouldn’t see the value in adding Apple Auth and may actually see it as harmful to their businesses model and chose not to implement it which would deprive users of that choice.

This isn’t about a large section of app developers who just use social auth in a benign way, like the author, to ease app sign ups it’a about those that use social auth more insidiously to track users, frequently without their knowledge.

There’s not a feasible way for Apple to enforce this selectively so used a heavy hand. I feel for author with respect to the button guidelines but as a privacy minded user I’m glad he’s being forced to add the option.
They are just there to provide context I think. The same as the second part of the story of Wenjie Ye in later chapters.

But in book 2 and 3 much less effort is put into character because I think the grand narrative already took off and it doesn't make sense to go back for individuals anymore. There are exceptions of course.
Compared with the superhuman feats of athleticism reliably completed in virtually every other Olympic event, the runs felt too attainable, almost amateur—not too far removed from what you’d see at any urban skate park.

I am not sure of the intent of this article. The Betteridge style headline and the above hook are equally dubious. It sounds like a hit piece based on showerthoughts+watercooler moments, with a dash of personal bias/preference of the author.

I liked the entire event, along with the other new editions -- one or more of which will be either dropped or replaced by the one favoured by the host nation, next time around (Paris '24). Some established disciplines have questions hanging over them, i.e. Weightlifting. It doesn't pay to criticise a relatively new event for the lack of gloss, particularly one which features younger athletes, and inspires a generation to peel themselves away from phones and gadgets.

As a self-confessed mouse potato, I marvel at the athleticism and sheer determination involved in all sports, and feel ultra inspired by them. Whether some sports have too much exposure through prestigious international fixtures e.g., Football, Tennis, and Golf or events which normally don't get coverage, or have personalities with a cult following, is irrelevant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/sports/olympics/weight-li...
Fossil does all kinds of awesome stuff out of the box, I remember looking at it and being blown away.