skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if I see that they have 10 restaurants and make $750,000 per year, well, f the f out of them. But, business owenrs, show me your financials. You don't want to? Fine. Do it yourself. But I'm not going to work for $18,000 with zero benefits, while you're making $750,000. You say your contributions is worth more? Good. Do it yourself. I, and everyone else, don't accept that wage anymore, so do it yourself and go out of business, and you won't get that $750,000 per year anymore anyways.

How did the owner get 10 restaurants? They likely started with one and carefully scaled up over time as they could afford to, each time taking on risk that they fail and wind up with less than what they started despite all the effort. The business exists to benefit them, not to provide a place for people to work, that's a consequence. One reason employees make less than owners because there's less risk involved. They show up and do a job in exchange for money. Most employees have no equity in the business.

If you want to become a big shot owner making hundreds of thousands then you need to do it yourself and put your capital at risk, become a partner, or get a loan. There's no guarantee it will pay off but there's incentive to, which is why people do it. If there's no incentive or it's not great enough and the risk won't be taken. That means less people opening or expanding businesses, which leads to less opportunity for workers as there are less demand for their labor, and less wealth for society as there is less stuff to spend money on.

If you're not comfortable with the risk of being an entrepreneur and someone is willing to pay more for the same labor you're well within your rights to work for someone else.
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Because you lose the vote (we voted with our wallet the other way). Anyway, there’s plenty of room for niche companies to serve your market.
Considering that most people don’t need much more than an annual checkup, quite a lot of healthcare.
On "Technical Yield" (and Technical Debt)
Hi,

This reply is a bit late because someone pointed me at it and suggested it was worth answering. ...so I hope that this is useful!

I have experience using Chicken Scheme in production both on knodium.com and registers.app

Both times it has gone well.

There's an HTTP implementation ( https://api.call-cc.org/5/doc/intarweb ), a webserver (https://api.call-cc.org/5/doc/spiffy that supports SSL) and an HTTP client ( https://api.call-cc.org/5/doc/http-client ). There's also an "app server" that tries to be like other app servers you might already know ( https://api.call-cc.org/5/doc/awful ).

We had to write a lot of our own stuff but it fits fairly neatly into the scheme-way of doing things: you can get a remarkable amount done with just a few simple lines of code.

I'd probably want to write about as much in any other language as a lot of what we built were domain level abstractions.

Knodium is now long gone but there's a video of what it looked like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOPuWi-dbQg

We had a very talented web designer and we also built a "Widgets and forms" toolkit. I gave a talk at FrOSCon quite early in the development and it was saved for posterity: https://media.ccc.de/v/c116_lisp_-_2013-08-25_11:15_-_buildi... The first few minutes of audio are broken but it sorts itself out.

I built a bunch of things along the way and released as many of them as I could as open source: http://wiki.call-cc.org/users/andyjpb

We're currently doing https://registers.app with a similar stack so I'd be pleased to talk more if anyone has any questions.
Proton conductor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafion
For those who live in the big cities with the bright skies, I encourage you to check a light pollution map such as [0]. For example I live in a very bright area, Bortle 8-9.. but just 30 minutes by car can bring me to Bortle 4 area, with a much better starts visibility.

You may have to explore some places during daylight -- you do want a parking place which is not locked at night, not too much trees so you can see the sky, etc... but this is totally doable over a few short trips after work / during weekends. You don't need to take a multi-day camping trip to see the stars.

[0] https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
Patting oneself on the back? Or the more rude version
Ah. Electric. That's one way to really jack up the price.
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That'll shut the poors up.
While you're probably right that this would not be allowed, I fail to understand why so many people thinktthis is normal. The postal system can't open your letters to check if there's CP in them, so it used to be that you could send CP over the mail between PO boxes and feel safe. Yet having untraceable communication over the internet is considered unthibkable for some reason.
This phenomenon has precedents. When I was in college, many (many!) years before cellphones, and before personal computers, I went to see my undergraduate advisor. Oh no, a long line of students outside his office! Looks like over an hour wait. So I had a brilliant idea: I trotted back to the dorm and called him on the phone. He picked up on the first ring, and I got to ask him what I needed to while everyone else waited.

He was one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, but in the thrall of some psychological effect that I guess is part of our current smartphone pathology.
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The comments about the challenges, specifically walking into door frames and general access accuracy challenges, speaks less to the door than to the mode of movement. The same concerns can be applied to picking up small objects and navigating narrow and treacherous paths; both concepts which are a consistent challenge for game developers as well.

These concerns are less pronounced on PC because fine adjustments are simplified by the input method. With gamepads, precise movements are possible but more challenging than with a mouse, and any player momentum amplifies the challenge.
> It’s important to be well-rounded

why?
Nice to know there's still the weird and punk out there.

I kinda miss mainstream culture being exploratory enough to permit things like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, MTV's Liquid Television, or Pipkins [0] (seriously, what was it with 70s and 80s British puppetry?!).

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaLAGgeTx8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_park
In practice the USG would not distribute malevolent binaries everywhere, but could target them to particular IP- and time-ranges.

Downloading Tor from a particular IP in Iran? We'll add a little something extra...

Or maybe you're a US citizen with a set of known IPs on a "watchlist".
Deep dive into the topic.

How Much Do Rockets Pollute? Are They Bad For Our Air? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4&t=3s
this is exactly the issue - if you cannot take a moment to look at a candidate’s work but can waste 10 hours in leetcode
zoom bullshit calls your system is broken, sorry
Jock itch is pretty bad. Might even be worse.
> 6. Under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to log user data.

So, they could offer the service only over Tor and their own vpn (possibly adding in mullvad/Firefox and a few others to the whitelist) - and the email logs would be less useful?

Ie: build vpn into the email app?
“What happens when the best writer, ever, does VFX for a film?”

You get Pixar?
I always thought the first Quake had it right: doors slide open automatically upon the approach of the player character, and are always fully open by the time you reach them, so the player is never blocked (as long as they have the key). But obviously that would not work for a game set in a realistic setting.
There's not much (any ?) open-source self-hostable good slack/discord-like apps. Open source projects usually focus on federation and/or encryption when Revolt focus on UI/UX. If you're looking for a free software that just works, with good UI and you don't care for encryption, that might just be the best option out there.
I'm not sure you can find anything more convincing.
Exciting to see Israel potentially joining the list of countries where open banking is regulated. PSD2 (Europe's open banking law) has made a lot of things in Europe much simpler, like being able to transfer account data from your bank to any third party app. And the bank APIs are free, which is amazing for developers and fintech startups.

Australia and Brazil are also now following this direction with their own open banking implementations.
So you're saying there's no bias in the data sets , or in society? Do you think that someone who thinks there's no bias in their dataset would then dig in to see what's going on? Do you think people are going to recognize the negative biases in the data if they don't face those issues themselves?

Bigotry is part of society, because it's existed for so long and still does. It doesn't mean that everyone is actively racist. It just means you can't just say there's no bigotry affecting things, and in saying there isn't, you're now blinding yourself to the possibility of negative biases.
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When you start asserting your rights and recording some of the more corrupt cops move on to legally stealing from folks that cooperate. There's really no reason to make the corruption easier to get away with.
I've only run one wordpress site (and reluctantly), but I found it very hard to configure correctly. I was very happy when I was able to convince my boss to replace it with a much simpler blog system that only supported exactly what we needed.
> Seems reasonable to understand "no tracking or logging" to mean that in the event of a government demand to produce records, they could honestly reply that no records exist.

And they would. They don't keep those records. However, when a government agency shows up with a court order that states they have to cooperate and provide those records going forward they must comply.

> What's the point of bragging about "no tracking or logging" if you're just going to track and log like every other email provider if the government asks for it?

Again: a reasonable person would not assume that their email provider is a criminal enterprise that does not comply with the law.
you couldn’t be more wrong. wordpress is one of the easiest apps to scale, put a varnish in front of it as you mostly have static content. you can go even further, move the comments to an external tool and you can have a very long cache.
> A more successful bid saw him set up another nonprofit and buy a nearby apartment building in San Francisco where some of his employees live for below-market rates.

Break-even businesses are an underexplored idea for providing things that society (including your primary business) would not otherwise get from traditional profit-maximizing businesses.
The current situation is people providing the products they want to.

Yours is the position of applying state force to make them do something they don't want to - the burden to justify is entirely yours.
also, i would rather share code i wrote and go through it than deal with any standardized coding interview. you can derive a lot more from someone’s work than from coding interviews and it is a much fairer process.
FWIW this post is now top of the "ask" section.
Because dead is dead. If you can't read, who cares what the declaration of war said.

It's counterinsurgency in both cases, attempting to modernize a tribal Muslim society in hopes of improving security from terror attacks.

You are aware there were terror attacks in Urumqi?

There are differences between their style and ours, the re-education camps vs the drone bombs. Maybe there's an argument about freedoms vs deaths. But Americans clearly do not actually give a shit about Muslim lives, it's just a political talking point. 300k dead in Yemen with our weapons doesn't even make the news, Afghanistan barely cracked the news for a decade, etc etc.

How many Americans were baying at the moon to invade Iraq and now they're the world's greatest humanitarians about Xinjiang?
People making non-trivial contributions to open source projects or coding in their free time are an exception. Most candidates (>99%) have no work you could actually look at.
> If the swiss authorities make a legal order demanding that protonmail include a rogue JS file when a specific IP address requests their inbox, they will have to do it.

Didn't Apple successfully resist doing similar when the FBI asked Apple to crack into the San Bernadino terrorists' phones by pushing special code just to those phones? Hypothetically, would Swiss law have allowed Swiss-FBI to compel Swiss-Apple to comply with this demand?
The artist has many more gimmick projects like this if anyone else is interested

https://bengrosser.com/projects/
> Even without a formal definition, most languages purporting to be OO clearly fail a common sense interpretation of his criteria.

Which should be obvious sign that Kays criteria for OO does not match the common usage of the term, and as such not very useful.
Well, Blue Origin donated to Blue Origins' Club for the Future [1]. This was probably for the first flight only though.

I haven't found a public financial or integrated report about it though, so I can't vouch how these funds are spent and if this is a charity as in what most of us consider a charity.

[1]: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/club-for-the-future-selects-...
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>This kind of unintended impact should have been forseen, but I guess it wasn't.

Why do you think it wasn't forseen?
> The postal system can't open your letters to check if there's CP in them, so it used to be that you could send CP over the mail between PO boxes and feel safe.

Wat? You better stop sending anything incriminating via the mail, they totally can and will open your letters if there's a court order.
I disagree. Among the things that I listed was TDD. If one practices that consistently one can create highly reliable software. In fact one might argue that using TDD for the new landing page for the company website might be overkill. Maybe you do need a bit more planning for your 'mission critical system' in order to perhaps attain performance goals. However, I will tell you here and now that if you just do TDD for your mission critical system and you do it well you will already be better than most programming going on for so-called missions critical systems in many, many places.
You're mistaking my comment for saying that skateboarding is easier. It certainly isn't.

I'm only saying that, placed at the top of moderately sized hill, a skateboarder has more options available to him/her to control for speed.

Like simply jumping off.
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For something that was supposed to be more “green” this seems like a very obvious oversight
From a perspective of one once desperate for a job, the take-home test resonates the most.

Market and approach to finding a job in IT sector seems to be somewhat different in Russia compared to US, even regarding remote work for non-resident employers, so don't be surprised if something would seem atypical. I'll omit most of the stuff that's not too relevant.

I put an CV on a job site, had few calls, but they were clearly not what I did want. Over the course of about 5 months, I've applied for 3 positions that I could be applicable to - I've never had any experience with web - and that were remote.

On all three I've done take-home tests. The last one took about one week, most of that just thinking, with maybe two evenings of actual coding. They accepted me, and strangely, told me do make a web app, despite no mentions of that in the job description. Luckily, half a year later, I've been offered an non-web, "mainline" position in team.

The one before that didn't go as well. Due to misunderstanging, I've implemented a much more complex solution, and did a mistake in the implementation. Though it was indeed faster than expected solution, after fixing errors.

The first one is what burned me. There were two tests, one done in two hours, and another one was "serious". It used some clearly real data - I had to download it from some US buerau, took a month of 3-4 hours of coding everyday for POC implementation, and not much less than that for a more formalised one, where rule set for matching data entries had to be indexed by 4-D array (not sure if I'm correctly using terminology). I haven't got answer for either version, and only got one a week after an reminding email, when I've asked for some clarification. They've told me they decided to drop the vacancy and not hire someone. Still I don't know whether they just wanted someone to do a task for free, or that it had to be done in a fundamentally different way.

Given that what I'm currently doing isn't market relevant, most likely I won't be any less desperate when looking for a next job.
Outside the tech world:

* Spending time with my dog

* Drinking with friends

* Eating out

* Watching TV series

* Keeping fit and healthy - I vary what I do. Sometimes running, sometimes weights, sometimes walks and hikes. I enjoy eating well too.

* Travel - mostly international

* EDIT: I forgot to add: cryptocurrency. I spend a good bit of time reading about it on forums.
On the flip side, an interview where you're doing relevant work with another engineer is a way to evaluate whether you're a decent person to work with. I've hard-passed on candidates with immaculate resumes and huge open source portfolios because they were rude and insufferable. When you're hiring, you're building a team, you're not hiring individuals who work in isolation.

In a previous life, I was forced to work under a very senior engineer who was/is a well-known thought leader with a handful of books published. His leadership was nothing short of abysmal: he had no people skills, answering questions with links to e-books he'd written for O'Reilly in lieu of responses. The best engineers got tired of being micromanaged and nit-picked and left. It doesn't matter how smart you are if the other people at the company hate working with you.

There are many coding interview objectives (and I won't defend interviews which try really hard to ensure you know how to code) but pair programming and systems design questions are absolutely necessary to understand whether the person you're hiring isn't just qualified, but rather the kind of person who will make the team better overall.
As a 13 year old this was mind blowing and inspiring, likely equivalent to finding a copy of the anarchist cookbook at a garage sale. The amount of pranks I played on the bullies in school over IRC[0] was one of the most gratifying thing i've ever felt in my entire life.

[0] oddly a small town in Ohio with a population of ~3,000 in 1999 was somehow all connected on IRC, this was well before ICQ or AIM or any social network had peaked.
> requires Java

if the federal government builds a time machine one day I'm sure the firmware will consist of a little Java 5 servlet running on a Windows XP machine
Try to use one
For the last one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Don’t forget Markdown, ReStructured text, asciidoc; forgotten useless garbage.
Hmm, nicely worded and intended. I’ll give that a specific try. I can think of a few conversations I’ve cut short because I got a more important call that ended up just being something I would have got the gist of from a voicemail.
Once again, Daniel has great points. I would just like to add a few:

* When documenting API’s, make sure to document preconditions and postconditions, as well an invariants.

* Make sure to document guarantees and non-guarantees. Guarantees are things the code must or must not do, where non-guarantees are things that give the code wiggle room and which users cannot rely on, even if they begin to, a la https://xkcd.com/1172/.

* Make sure docs can be tested, just like code. Daniel actually does this for curl docs (later in the post), but he does not list it as a standard. I think it’s a great way to help keep docs up to a high standard.
Only if you completely ignore the tune-up and car modding scene.

On the BMW side we have the G-Power G6M V10 Hurricane CS (based on the M6 Coupé), for Mercedes there's the Mansory Black Edition (based on the Mercedes S-class/S 63 AMG), Underground Racing uses the Audi R8 V10 TT for its 1500 HP machine, the Porsche 911 has a 9ff F 97 A-Max incarnation with about 1400HP and the 9ff GT9 V-Max.

The 9ff GTurbo comes in at a mere 1200HP, based on the 911 GT3 and there's more.

So no, in the car enthusiast scene even 1MW is is not uncommon. And that's not using Lamborghinis or Bugattis.
You'd be surprised how many street legal modded M3s, S-class and 911 have 800kW or more max power (at least in Europe).

Edit: shame on me - I forgot the Tesla Model S Plaid. Those have straight up 750kW electric power trains, too.
if they are making a good faith effort to give all the real privacy you can expect, I don't think they have a particular duty to water down their marketing messages by going into distracting detail that criminals shouldn't have the same expectations. They did disclose within their terms that they don't by default keep logs, and they do need to comply with court orders.
Its the entire system. The police, courts, judges, DAs, legislature. Those with power will always stand together against those that don't have it.
Linux hasnt managed to standardize a proper driver ABI for political reasons - not technical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing

"Dishonesty? In my crypto? It's more likely than you think."
Doesn't read very well on a phone - but would be great as a simple html page...
Just FYI, the grammatically correct phrase would be "these kinds of problems" when plural versus "this kind of problem" when singular.
I watched the video again. Still don't see what the big deal is. For example...

NPCs blocking doors? Don't put NPCs there, and tell AI to avoid door zones rather than trying to make them know how to move out of the way when doors open.

Car on the other side of the door? Don't let the door open all the way.

In the elevator example in the IGN article: Implement an elevator door like in modern elevators, or if it's more primitive, don't let players or NPCs walk under the elevator, or worst case, kill the character -- can't call the AI dumb if they avoid being under the elevator that can kill them.

This isn't an unsolved problem. Halo did this with telefragging someone who is blocking a teleporter, and StarCraft did this by destroying the siege tank under a landed building.
I suppose in that case your threat actor is... The mafia? Is lucky Luciano trying to take your ethereum?
that’s too bad then. anyone can work on a simple project. how about a simple CRUD app for kitchen recipes?
I’m pretty sure they will support a stable driver API which will fix many of these issues.
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If programmers spent their time implementing sorting problems, I would agree ;)