skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> FB is the digital equivalent of a city - lots of people in close proximity, and some stand on the street corner on a soap box and try to get you to listen. It has all the people issues a city does, just bigger.

Just way bigger. I see this a lot, FB is like some public area. No, it's not. How many people is that person on the street corner realistically reaching? Thousands at best, but more likely hundreds over the course of hours. FB is reaching tens of millions in seconds. There is no real world equivalent to social networks, it's a lot different, and because of that, they have larger responsibilities that they created themselves.
"Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation" ...for those looking for a position in the top 1% of salaries within rich companies within rich countries.

E.g. "I’m talking $100K+ more" really? You think I can get $145k when they just offered me $45k and that was a good offer considering living expenses, what others in this role with similar experience get paid, well above national median income, more than what my higher-educated spouse was offered, etc.? In what world is 100k more realistic?

If "I helped her get $5.4M more on her offer" does not sound like this might apply to you, this is where you can safely stop reading. Also, who needs $5.4M per year extra? It might be unfair not to get it for the same work, but either way: if that was in reach for most mortals, we'd all work one year and retire with literal boatloads of money to spare. At $5M/year (total, not extra), you need to work 2.4 months until you can safely withdraw 40 grand a year just from the interest. Work the remainder of that third month and you can buy a private helicopter in cash. This kind of negotiation advice is just not relevant to anyone here, bit disappointed in the article...
The Grand Banks fisheries were known to Basque fishermen even before John Cabot's voyages, so it's not completely surprising that Markland shows up outside the sagas.
But more importantly... how? I thought Ask HN was just a collection of submissions containing "Ask HN" in the title and having a certain threshold score.
Thanks for the response.
While I don't agree that stocks and companies are counter to the public good, I understand how someone could feel this way.

How do you personally invest and save if you avoid stocks?
I just want to point out that the person you're responding to did not refer to this coalition they're describing as belonging to any political party.
I think we should take all the $$ collected by the big telecom companies to "improve" these services and just allocate them fairly across the providers who actually implement a real service for rural addresses...and we should do this retroactively.
Before that, trenches were extensively used in the last year of the American Civil War.
Binary Golf Grand Prix 2021 Polyglot – Results and Writeups
Ask HN: What's the most “well-crafted“ piece of software you use?
An interesting observation on the topic of salary disparity is that the more punishing taxes on high earners are the more it incentivizes companies to pay people more evenly since more of that money will actually end up in your employee's pockets.
Explicitly point out their FIRE status? Yeah, that'd be a dick (and probably failing) negotiating tactic. But even just having it in the back of your head is going to make you go into those negotations with confidence superpowers that no amount of "I think I deserve this raise" belief could ever match.
Because no URL was provided and the title doesn't start with "Show HN:"
I have a feeling everyone at the FAANGs only cares about money and their TCs and levels and bands and... Just reading about it makes me cringe. We all want a lot of cash, me to, but being obsessed about it to this level makes me think people are forgetting to do their job... Also if you are not in a role where you are directly generating money, your compensation will always be based on politics and people relations. I dont know: just reading about it makes me sad and empty on the inside. If people were less focused on their TC and more on their work, we would live in a better world.
I feel guilty using it the first go. I figure I will click on their unsubscribe link first. And then I will click the report spam button if they continue to send me email

Unfortunately, all I'm probably doing is just confirming my email address to generate future "mailing list" subscriptions.
I understand how exponential functions work. The graph looks the same relatively when you normalize the axes obviously. From the human perspective, the absolute delta over those 60 years is what matters. If society improved 0.001 "civilization points" it will feel very different to an individual than if it improved by by 1000 points.

A prehistoric hunter-gather saw basically zero technological change within their lifetime.
I've heard that humans are evolving to become more dumb. The idea is that it's easier for an idiot to survive and procreate than it was in the past
I think you might be confusing the site in the OP with an exhaustive list of Tesla car fires.
So, it isn't a problem if you just use Linux on your Dell XPS, right?
For the new variant that emerges each day!
You're right, I don't know anything about your specific case.
Fish can still be part of a more sustainable food future
The metaphor I use is movie production because it's a creative endeavor but yes, totally cosign.
Please indicate your interpretation of the Howey test so that we’re able to consider and respond to your assertion; without knowing why you feel it doesn’t pass them, it’s not really possible for us to consider your comment.
Foliate. It's an ebook reader. Fast, functional and immersive. I like using it in full screen mode, dark mode. Sometimes it feels nicer than a kindle device.

What I like about it is, like any excellent software, you don't notice it. It gets out of your way and lets you do your task.
I’m sure it can happen if you are rude about it or if you ask for a 50% increase or something, but any company that would be offended by asking for 10% more is probably not somewhere you want to work anyway.
I agree the docs are getting half-baked, they lack context and guidance.

FWIW, github issues for all things .net have been a surprisingly good resource. Especially on the hot new things, microsoft folks are very responsive and helpful. I dare say it's better for many topics than stackoverflow.
And even if they were written down, the Catholic church sure did love to burn books back then!
Indeed. I actually support fixing the climate but I think the media being dishonest/over alarmist about it is actually counterproductive.
A new wake-up reason might get installed in the future. Instead I found some powershell code ages ago, created a `nap` function in my $profile, and set the option to not allow waking it from sleep:

# load assembly System.Windows.Forms which will be used
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

# set powerstate to suspend (sleep mode)
$PowerState = [System.Windows.Forms.PowerState]::Suspend;

# do not force putting Windows to sleep
$Force = $false;

# don't allow the computer to be woken by devices or tasks (e.g. windows updates)
$DisableWake = $true;

# do it! Set computer to sleep
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::SetSuspendState($PowerState, $Force, $DisableWake) | Out-Null;
One of the problems with that is that it's like pulling teeth with every single company. If you're in a market like in Silicon Valley where companies know that good engineers can be expensive, this may be fine.

However, if you're in a market where most companies will offer less than half your current compensation while still thinking they're paying well, and potentially be right about it when compared to many other companies on the market, I am not sure what the best strategy is.

You need to filter out the companies that are a no-go from the beginning, and you need to do so early, because the amount of time and energy you can invest in the job search is finite. Giving a (vague, higher-than-current-salary) number that you're looking for seems to be the only way to do so. Of course, this puts you in a terrible position once you do find one of the few companies actually willing to pay comparably.
Wireless just doesn't matter much to me, even without a wire pulley system. Just letting it hang has always been fine and I suspect a lot of Index users would agree with me. The tradeoffs to go wireless aren't worth it at all either.

The workaround you mentioned might as well not exist if it's going to stop existing a little more than a year from now. It wouldn't make sense to buy a new device now if one wants to avoid Facebook sign in.
paywall shows up there too for me
Network States: A Primer
iOS is pretty "well crafted", seeing how it has operated smoothly from day 1.
'Vigilante treatments': Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs
Democrat bias -> Democratic bias, please

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
Yes. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/
And pandemics?
To be clear the gas isn’t flared if it’s powering a generator…
Stossel has spent his whole career as a hype man promoting disingenuous partisan/ideological bullshit† and carrying water for those who profit off other people’s misery. It’s really hard to take his claims here seriously.

† e.g. in middle school 20 years ago one of my “environmental science” (!) teachers spent 2 class days playing a Stossel video whose premise was more or less: America is the #1 best at everything because wealthy business owners are awesome, and countries whose governments do anything to thwart them are universally evil failures. For example, Hong Kong = awesomely successful because yay business, but India = terrible and impoverished because boo, government. The video was perhaps the most absurd, infantile thing ever presented in 13 years of public school (a high bar!).
I'm not so sure they felt that way. For the average person life was pretty stagnant before the industrial revolution. You lived roughly the same way that your parents did. You used the same tools and techniques in farming. You did mostly the same things socially. You dressed in roughly the same types of clothes (or at least clothing materials).

Historical estimates for GDP per capita put it around $2 per day in 2011 prices. And that stayed fairly constant - it doubled in maybe a thousand years, if at all. Compare that to today: US GDP per capita has nearly tripled in my lifetime.

Politically things might've been just as turbulent back then though. New overlords and all that would be more impactful back then than now.
This isn't going to start a boom in flaring. If anything, it'll start a boom in using natgas that otherwise would be flared to mine cryptos.
Quite the opposite: you have copyist monks to thank for the survival of the vast majority of written material that remains from pre-christian antiquity.
What're the most well-crafted apps you use on iOS?
> But it could help explain why Columbus, a Genoese, was prepared to set off across what most contemporaries considered a landless void.

I had always thought that Columbus made the trip because he miscalculated the distance around the globe, while everyone else was saying they'd starve before reaching Asia. He was just lucky enough there happened to be land halfway there, and then mistakenly assumed he made it, since the Caribbean was where he wrongly thought Asia was going to be.
Right, did you look at the publication records of the academics involved?

When you beg for grants you have to publish to show you’re good for the next one.

This isn’t a mystery.

It’s literally right there, published for your subscriber access.
The secret life of baby octopuses
The FDA cares very little about most things in practice. So long as they've issued warnings (ass-covering), they'll let mislabelling and false advertising go on willy nilly.

They only get serious if people get sick. Using the wrong fish generally isn't going to make people sick.
This is awesome, thanks for putting it together. My only request would be the ability to change text size
This is weird. The law appears to be a targeted benefit for 3 Wyoming entrepreneurs who are starting a company to mine cryptocurrency using natural gas that might otherwise go unnused -- or even unburned at all. (Photos of their setup: https://oilcity.news/startup/2021/03/05/modern-miners-new-ca... )

Note that it's not just gas that might be flared off - They're also trying to set up crypto mining on wells that would be otherwise shut-in. In other words, wells that are scheduled for shutdown are no longer going to be shut down, because these 3 guys are going to keep them open to burn off every last bit of gas they can extract.

And for some reason they're getting a tax break to do it?

This doesn't really make sense, IMO. I don't really mind if they're going to use the minimal heat from natural gas flares to do something, but if they're going to interfere with the process of shutting down wells then they're not exactly doing the environment any favors.

Why do we need to give them a tax break for keeping wells open longer than they otherwise would be? Why not have them pay taxes like everyone else on those wells? Doesn't make sense. Feels like a major handout to these few people in exchange for burning more natural gas. Not cool.
Meng Wanzhou walks free as extradition request is withdrawn in Vancouver
What happens to those that run into the 10 year limit for exercising their options? If there is no hope for liquidation event and you've been their for 9 years and haven't exercised your options it seems like you might as well leave, especially if there will be a huge tax burden to exercise them.
Quite aside from the difficulty of obtaining copies -- copying texts was an arduous process -- the vast majority of the population of Europe was illiterate so nothing was widely read at the time.
Regulators Gonna Regulate
You're absolutely right. But deterrence isn't the only issue of importance. We do want to select punishments that deter. But we also simply want to separate incorrigible offenders from society. Every year a murderer is locked up is a year they aren't killing anyone (except maybe other prisoners).

I agree that increasing the probability of getting caught is good too, though.
I wonder if you could order them through a dealer in another country.
What major technological advancements like space travel, internet, computers, cell phones do you think the typical person 2000 years ago actually saw and knew about?

The (lack of) inter-connectedness of the world would effect the way our ancestors felt about their moment in time.
This is certainly real.

An unfinished and unpublished work in an era before the printing press is guaranteed to not have been widely read.

But the voyages to Vinland went from Greenland. And Greenland had a bishop who wrote to the church. And priests sent letters to each other. It is hardly surprising that one seeking to write a book on distant history and lands would have encountered information from so far afield.
The only allegation I've ever heard is that Manafort shared polling data with Kilimnik. I'd hardly call that coordinating election interference, and apparently Mueller agreed because he knew about the polling data and still reached the conclusion above.[1]

And in the interest of accuracy you should also mention that Manafort was only campaign manager for two months, from June 20 to August 19 of 2016, and he was removed from the campaign, reportedly, because of his Russian connections.

"On August 17, 2016, Trump received his first security briefing. The same day, August 17, Trump shook up his campaign organization in a way that appeared to minimize Manafort's role. It was reported that members of Trump's family, particularly Kushner, who had originally been a strong backer of Manafort, had become uneasy about his Russian connections and suspected that he had not been forthright about them. Manafort stated in an internal staff memorandum that he would "remain the campaign chairman and chief strategist, providing the big-picture, long-range campaign vision". However, two days later, Trump announced his acceptance of Manafort's resignation from the campaign after Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway took on senior leadership roles within that campaign."[2]

1: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-manafort-mueller-investi...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort#Chairman_of_Trum...
That's an empirical statement without supporting evidence.

For natural gas wells without infrastructure, this is a great alternative. It almost certainly makes some uneconomical wells economic. And if bitcoin goes to 200k, you can bet this practice will be booming.
Pandemics would be pretty unlikely in the days of such low population density. Epidemics definitely happened pretty routinely though.
More likely, above something like $150k/year you instead get the money via some legal construction that doesn't yet count as salary and is not taxed until you turn it into privately owned cash (since it's not as if you need that much money in the first place, so you don't need to tax it all now). I think the way I heard this works is that you aren't officially employed, but you start a company that is hired. Companies pay something like half of the highest tax bracket on profits (2x% vs. 50% iirc), and the name of the game is to make a loss: buy more houses, invest in a renovation of your properties, etc. so you don't even pay (most of) that reduced rate.
The "love to burn books" mostly happened during the Counter-Reformation, which is several centuries after this book would have been written.
So good to see the progress in the Elixir community. Liveview seems to have got lots of peoples attention.
Calm down dude. Clearly you have some attachment to one theory over another, which is poor science.

The investigation will continue and those missing items you mention just might turn up since it appears from the leak that there are might be a significant number of unpublished sequences at WIV and EHA, etc.

If science is unsatisfied by what is found, actual scientists will move on and look elsewhere. This leak evidence is compatible with the man origin suspicions however.
Not sure about other states, but in WA you can legally request the range once offered a position -- applies to applicants within and without.
Daniel Gross: Why Energy Is the Best Predictor of Talent [audio]
Doing it on site avoids building either a gas pipeline or an electric power line to a well in a remote area, to get the gas or electricity somewhere more useful.

But for cryptocurrency mining, you still need a generator and Internet access.

It would be interesting to read more about how the costs work out.
Hm... "If you’re a successful investor, you understand that the value of most products is not the inherent value they provide, but their intangible / perceived value. ...it could be worth 10x, or even 100x in just few years."

I think this needs more blockchain. Maybe add an NFT?
Factorio. Emacs.
> You need to cool it

The Sabatier reaction seems to needs heat.
I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto
That seems like a strange way to do it. I've seen and posted actually relevant content beginning with "Ask HN:" that never saw the light of /ask.
Given that nobody knew about this book for centuries, it seems pretty unlikely that Columbus saw it. Let alone, saw it and believed it and discounted the giants and also didn't mention it to anyone.
Formerly famous. He's one of those formerly small-L libertarians like Dennis Miller who took hard right turns after 9/11.
Being happy with a salary today/tomorrow doesn't mean you'll be happy with the concessions you made yesterday. Being able to afford a house and kids doesn't happen as soon as you decide you want a higher paying job: it happens a decade later.
What happens if he gets slapped again after the settlement? Like if Bill Gates slaps him. Pays whatever. Slaps him again etc.
>Of course this makes it so there is no incentive to close these vents completely.

Are you sure that follows from HB 189? To avoid tax the gas just needs to be certified that it would have been vented. I don't see anything that would encourage keeping small leaks.

>Natural gas that is consumed on the site and would have otherwise been vented or flared under the authority of the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission has no value and is exempt from taxation as long as the natural gas is certified by the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission as to have originated from a qualifying well.
The article says they're also using wells that would be shut-in.

They're basically buying up wells that are too low pressure to continue using for mainstream production, and then instead of closing them off they're extracting all of the remaining gas and burning it.

Seems like a terrible idea to give them a tax break for burning more natural gas that would otherwise be left in the ground.

I'd be okay if it was just the flare-off from refineries, but that's not all they're doing.
Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty
Skipping any incentive to let it vent away.

Probably an incentive to declare more gas as “flare off”

Incentives to just burn baby burn for bitcoin power are growing. Already was there for power plants, more money to be made in bitcoin than powering hospitals and tv sets.
The article is trying to "sell" the technology for two use cases, Mars and climate change mitigation on Earth.

For Mars, the process being inefficient, expensive, slow etc. isn't necessarily a big hurdle as it competes with shipping fuel all the way from Earth, while on Earth, it has to compete with a lot of easily available alternatives.
The questions included here are good to see.

For a more complete guide, my preferred document these days is the Holloway Guide ( https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation ). Though now I have to add a warning that there's a slightly annoying attempt to get your contact info and it has gotten rather long...
The second paragraph explains the utility of issuing it on the blockchain.
Also contact the mods in the email link at the bottom of the thing. I flagged the thread so they might notice it.
> If you’re senior, get some press before you start meeting folks.

Really helps contextualize how easily many of us throw around the term "senior" engineer.
The reason this is not really a slippery slope is that Obama isn't Muslim. He's actually a Christian.

Since the first part isn't true there is no "slope", so to speak.
That doesn't give you the advantage that you believe it does.
Sure, and I agree that this problem isn't worth spending a lot of resources on if the level of toil is acceptable.

But most paywall sites do display the title so that you know what great journalism you're being asked to pay for. I suspect that the typical SPA shows titles as well. So greping should work in those cases.

But my point was while title extraction is a hard problem requiring you to solve lots of corner cases, title greping is simple and handles the vast majority of cases. The corner cases are then handled by humans (as, IIUC, all cases are currently).

Accepting a user-generated title and comparing it to the text gives you a boolean. If they don't match you can just ask the user to affirm that what they submitted is really the title. Then, if you like, you can have a "this title may be dodgy" icon on posts that don't match.
Last and First Men

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
30-40 years difference from SARS-CoV. However, the proposal actually says it would use other unpublished sequences for development. These unpublished sequences may have been much closer to SARS-CoV-2. I think you should read the leaks.
OSX being application centric vs. Windows being document centric is such a PITA. I much prefer the document centric approach.
Rural is a term that can mean different things to different people. When an Alaska talks about "rural alaska" they mean something very different than when someone else talks about "rural new york".