skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s rare, but it can happen.

I once negotiated a a raise in salary (of about $15k a year) because they wanted me to move to a much more expensive city. No quitting threats, it was just decided that it was a requirement for me to relocate.

Then, the week I arrived in the new city, I got another $10k raise. It was because we’d just lost another senior employee to a large company and they wanted to preemptively retain me, but it was one of the few “out of nowhere” raises I have ever had.

But in general, it isn’t in a business’s best interest to just offer raises without any negotiation or discussion. If a person isn’t asking for more, why should you offer it? Like, morally, I totally see the argument to do it preemptively, but as a business function I don’t.

It’s true that the best way to get a promotion or a significant raise is to get an offer at a competitor. And that sucks. But, it is also possible to make the argument for a promotion or raise without threatening to quit. I’ve done both over my career and while the competing offer tactic usually works faster, it isn’t a pre-requisite.

The one important thing to note is that if you are going to leverage another offer for a promotion/raise, you need to be prepared to walk if the company says no. If you don’t, you will never have any leverage ever again. So my advice is always to not make idle threats you aren’t willing to back up. I’ve had job offers before for substantially more money but at places I did’t want to work at. I don’t take those offers to my current employer (assuming I still want to work there). Instead, I use that knowledge of my value/worth to leverage get an offer at a place I would leave for OR to craft a better argument when I present my case for promotion/pay raise at my current employer.
The ex-MIT people who started the company were really good at robotics, and with MIT being a Lisp powerhouse the choice was perhaps natural.

But thing is if you are good at Lisp you can move really, really fast. I also do embedded development (mostly with C) but the last project I had an opportunity to do in Common Lisp. It was a fantastic experience with perfect commercial outcome. It feels like you move mountains.
Leveling Up Your Networking Game
How much of the day are you on video calls?
> 100 million dancing grannies

The article doesn't give a good sense of what proportion of that public is causing issues. Of course it's going to be easy to cherry-pick problematic behavior on that kind of sample size.
That's the bank's mistake, not this library's.
I switched from Memcached to Redis 10 years ago because I had a situation where I needed to cache lookups of (x, y) but needed to invalidate (x, *), something that is trivial with Redis hashes, but extremely difficult in memcached.
It's not exactly being pedantic. If I saw a headline that talked about someone with a shattered spine learning to walk again, but it omitted the fact that the walking is accomplished with an exoskeleton, then it's pretty misleading. It can still be cool (I totally want an exoskeleton), but the headline is deeply inaccurate.

After all, the thing has "drone" in the basis of its name.
Rust didn't invent any of these syntaxes. Pascal was invented around the same time as C and had functions that start with "function" and types that use the "binding: type" notation. And lots of languages (Ada and ML come to mind) followed in Pascal's footsteps that predate Rust.

It has benefits. It's easier to parse for both humans and machines and it allows for easier type inference.

>Closures use pipes instead of any of the existing syntaxes we're used to.

Closures in Ruby use pipes. It's a common syntax.

>Why couldn't they just use the familiar concept of classes instead of whatever is going on with their strange NIH traits? NIH describes the whole language, every little thing has to be different somehow.

Needless to say, traits aren't NIH either, and there's good reasons for avoiding class-style polymorphism in a language like Rust.

Here's some reading to help explain. https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/object-orie...

It also happens to include this choice quote:

>I once attended a Java user group meeting where James Gosling (Java's inventor) was the featured speaker. During the memorable Q&A session, someone asked him: "If you could do Java over again, what would you change?" "I'd leave out classes," he replied. After the laughter died down, he explained that the real problem wasn't classes per se, but rather implementation inheritance (the extends relationship). Interface inheritance (the implements relationship) is preferable. You should avoid implementation inheritance whenever possible

And that's basically what Rust gives you
Will anyone outside of Nvidia be able to access it? GPT-3 at least has an API.
You think it’s pure hubris to predict that the quality of life in New York will exceed Lagos 5-10 years out? Really?

I’m no expert predictor, but I’ll bet you any amount of money that New York is better off than Lagos 10 years from now.

Of course no one can predict 200 years out perfectly. But you don’t need perfect prediction to say the first world will be better off than the developing worked.

Of course, Nigeria could likely be a world power that far out and may be “first world” by then.
No. It isn't. It will take another six months or a year but things will return to much like they were before. With the exception of the office. I don't think the office will ever be the same
But if you would want a more secure alternative, there are options like Tor and I2P right? Or do you have something else in mind?
Thus we became compulsive social connections hoarders.

https://www.google.com/search?q=compulsive+hoarding&tbm=isch
I assume that Netflix hired this people to work in Netflix, not to unilaterally start a revolution taking profit of the platform resources and Netflix image.

You can have interesting things to say, but confusing your boss and your company with your megaphone is a big mistake.
This is pretty much the wrong website. You want this: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Civilization_Starter...
I'm continually amazed at how long it took to go from steam-powered pumps at one mine to steam power within factories to replace water.
Ask HN: Any interest in a text based wireframing tool?
I've tried balsamiq/figma for low fidelity wireframing but the mouse UX feels slow (even with shortcuts)

Text powered tools like websequencediagrams.com/# and https://dbdiagram.io/d are really much quicker after the initial learning curve.

Thought there should be a text based tool to quickly flesh out some low fidelity wireframes

Little gif showing the concept: https://media.giphy.com/media/C4MVllEw4h6zm6Tnuv/giphy.gif

Thought I'd post and ask on HN to see if there is any appetite for such a little tool or is it just me avoiding a few mouse clicks?

Any/every feedback welcome.

Would you use a text based wireframing tool? What use case and what features would be essential?

For those curious on the tech, the approach is a mix of ANTLR and generating html from a simpler grammar.

Thanks
I had an argument with my son about this: why it is we say you run a "4 minute mile" instead of "15 miles per hour".

Namely, you can add a 10 minute mile and a 15 minute mile and know you did two miles in 25 minutes.
Not true.
If you show up at a UK A&E with what looks like a gunshot wound or a stab wound, you will get healthcare, but the police will also be informed of you having suffered these specific injuries, and they will take a keen interest in finding out the surrounding circumstances. As in, for example: "Did you get shot because you shot first?"
Very similar situation here and I absolutely agree with you. Remote has been tough. My ideal set-up is fully in office with a walkable commute but I don't think it's happening quite yet.
Not going back to the office seems pretty split around age lines to me. Most people in their mid thirties and up want to keep WFH full time. Early thirties is a mix, and then all the ways down from there seems like they want to be back in the office. Of course this isn’t a hard rule but continues to be my observation across a few workplaces and from friends and acquaintances.
Is lisp really that good? I'm a novice 'tutorials and duct tape' programmer and I've been eyeing SICP lately as a way to hopefully gain confidence in knowing wtf I'm doing.
That's the sound the garbage collector makes! ;)
Living in South America all my life, and I know this is anecdotal, ecology is always second to economic progress.

You can't go to a [settlement] (https://sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/elpaiscr/2019/09/Asentam...) and tell them not to use certain tools because they might not be ecological.

I'm not discarding your concern though, I understand its impact is not known, I just wanted to say it likely won't be a factor in the decision-making of those that use this tech.
Not sure where you were, but a lot of the UK is actually pretty livable on minimum wage, so then you decide are you going to do 20 hours at McDonalds and have time for friends, or 40 hours at minimum wage and build your career.

As much as I hate to admit it: I'm all for abandoning friends at 18-20 for the career focus. Then bring back the handful of them that stuck by you.
All you need to know about requiring work from an office is this: the people selling the supposed benefits of increased collaboration, creativity, and productivity do not themselves work this way. There is no CEO or VC who spends their entire day sitting in a cubicle, even if they have a token one.
Yea I guess I was more thinking of a kind of blimp, where it still has some solar to allow it to maneuver around, but not to actually stay up.

If the aircraft needs to stay in one place maybe that would be less efficient though, since it would be harder to fight winds.
His blog has always had great material, but as with many bloggers who branch out, the pressures and incentives to pump out vapid contentless thinkpieces increase with success.

Not saying that necessarily applies to TFA, though. But imo it does apply to the somewhat overrated Deep Work.
Well, yes actually.
You could find a sequence of 1000 zeroes in the decimal expansion of pi and it would do nothing to prove or refute the idea that pi is normal.
Yes.

Amazon offer generally gives you roughly the same "total compensation" for the first 4 years, assuming that the stock price doesn't change much.

So if they're trying to pay you 300k per year, then you get 160k salary, ~140k starting bonus each of the first two years, and ~300k of stock that mostly vests in years 3 and 4.
Anthony Pompliano says YouTube is deleting his channel
I (and it turns out a lot of other people) used to use "do they code in Python?" as a heuristic for "are they a smart self motivated programmer"

Well Peter Norvig switch from lisp to Python.., as also others googlers did when they saw that their teammates writing python where as productive or more than themselves using lisp.
Well, sort of. Fugue overall is a scaling engine like ray. The specific link to yet another SQL access layer to a dataset doesnt really have an analog on ray, but has some nice features.

I love these SQL layers but they can obfuscate how they implement their transforms. So, they can speed up filter and join creation and coding... til something breaks and then you have to go atomic anyway.
I had the same feelings working from home full time prior to the pandemic.

The all-company meet ups were the best part about the job(other than the pay I guess).

I actually took a job back with my prior employer with the hopes I could return to an office in some capacity, but we are all remote now. Boo!
> Scraping things that don't want to be scraped

If all else fails, no website can withstand OCR-based screen scraping. It is slow(er), but fast enough for many use cases.
Things can be quite far from "the absolute worst" and still be quite far from perfect, too.
It is amazing that some americans can be so picky to give up their many hundred thousand/per year jobs because they dont want to go to the office.

I am just envious at how developed your tech scene is.
Those maintenance and utility costs are then passed on to the employee and reduce the take home pay, which is frustrating to workers.

There’s also more uncompensated time spent on duties a janitor, office manager or IT person would perform, like unloading the dishwasher, preparing coffee or being on the phone with an ISP during an internet outage.
That birthdate difference sounds like the difference in NHL kids' success that's based on how early in the year you were born. Statistically the earlier born kids get more mass and muscle and get moved to better teams faster.
I've followed many 737MAX threads on HN, and they sure did dismiss this issue. It was always "why didn't they design a whole new airplane from the ground up".

> why you’d prioritize that over the aircraft’s ability to stay in the air.

This is an egregious misunderstanding. There was nothing wrong with the purpose of the the MCAS system nor the concept of it. What went wrong was its failure to follow the dual path design, and do a proper failure analysis of its design. There was a further problem with some pilots not understanding how to deal with stab trim runaway.

These problems have since been corrected, and MCAS is still on the 737MAX.
Hmm, if we could somehow point Ripcord towards a self-hosted Discord compatible instance, I'd be quite interested.
When I was 9, I remember grabbing a handful of mini-M&M's from an information table at UCBerkley and we jumped in our rental van to start the family vacation out to the Grand Canyon. About 15 minutes later I couldn't see due to an aura. That was the beginning of my migraines.

In the spring of 2008, my dad go remarried to a Chocolatier - we don't talk a lot.

It wasn't until I was 26 that I found out about triptans. I had endured years of avoiding chocolate and racing to find the darkest room possible any time I felt so much as a tinge of an aura.

Today, any time we leave the house, I've got triptans and a bottle of Aleve ready to go. Thankfully I'm down to about 2 per year. This science is necessary and this article does a good job of highlighting how and why this topic has been glossed over for decades.

The picture gets even more complicated now that I have kids. both female and one with a traumatic brain injury as a result of bacterial meningitis at birth. I can barely comprehend about how she interprets the world on a daily basis. If she has migraines on top of that, I will be so thankful there are a wider set of options today than ever before.

Goadsby deserves to be celebrated!
The larger transactions have all been to transfer funds between exchanges. Very easy to transfer in and out when I want to quickly enter leveraged positions. It reduces counter-party risk for me.

For the day-to-day stuff it's obviously not as widespread as credit cards and I can't use it for much. For those situations I top up a debit card (Lastbit) using lightning.

In addition to that I spend a fair bit of money on Bitrefill. Obviously also a stop-gap until wider adoption gets here.

For someone living in a country where it's easy to send money locally and where cash isn't very common I don't think the benefits are apparent yet, for me personally. In my business I do receive a number of payments from abroad that always take at least a day to arrive and some funds are lost due to bad exchange rates. Lightning would help a lot here.
I'm contemplating getting a small v-plow for an UTV to plow the bike path but I first need to find out if DOT are OK with me doing that. It isn't directly connected to the highway so they might not even own it.
After reading the actual submission by Apple that the article links to, I think the article (especially the title) somewhat misrepresents what Apple said.

The overview section of Apple's submission states (numbering in original)

> 1. Apple understands that the Commission has received submissions from certain app developers concerning their ability to engage with Apple in the app review process.

> 2. As outlined in our meeting of 23 February 2021, Apple is surprised to hear that developers have legitimate concerns about their ability to engage with Apple in the app review process in circumstances where the purpose of app review is to ensure the quality of apps on the App Store and Apple invests significant time and resources in engaging with developers directly to work together to achieve that shared goal.

> 3. Apple would therefore like to provide further information to the Commission to assist it in assessing the veracity of the concerns raised by developers in their submissions.

Personally I would paraphrase that not as Apple claiming to be "surprised" by developer concerns, but rather as Apple claiming to be surprised by "legitimate" developer concerns. Or to put a finer point on it, that Apple isn't actually claiming to be surprised at all and "surprised to hear" is just a euphemistic way to say that they don't believe the complaints the commission has received are legitimate.

Probably a smart choice of wording on Apple's part - I don't think it would have been a better look if the headline had instead been "Apple Suggests That Developers’ Complaints Are Just Sour Grapes".
Really good question. I don't know.

What I would do if I were leading TSMC is create a wholly owned subsidiary which held all of the non-Chinese assets and headquarter it in a tax neutral country like the Netherlands. Let's call it TSMC International. Then in the event of an assimilation by China, sell all of the assets that TSMC the parent company owns, to TSMC-i for $1 or something. And in fact have the paper work at the TSMC-i headquarters all filled out just waiting for being dated and executed by TSMC-i executives.

It is a variation on a poison pill defense.
Thanks for offering that feedback! It doesn't come up as often as you'd think actually. Surprisingly, many people still have never heard of Zapier, although that seems to be rapidly changing.

We're mainly different in that Zapier only offers shallow integrations (aka highly opinionated). Workload makes use of the entire API library. Kind of like if Postman and Zapier had a baby.
It's a joke, like about half of the article. There's some non-humor value to the whole thing too, though, if you get far enough in.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnin...

It's a G2 event (moderate). G5 is the highest.
Vrimp is officially the worst branding I have heard since Kraft rebranded to Mondelez.

Otherwise very cool! I've started eating Impossible or Beyond burgers wherever they have them because I like the flavor and honestly beige blend of 1000 cattle [1] isn't a particularly appetizing product.

Looking forward to expanding this to eggs and, uh, vrimp.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/05/there...
Don't feel ashamed for thinking big. I'm sure it helped propel you into things you never expected =)
> This record was set ~3 months after someone else did it for 50 days.

Fair enough, I didn't know about that, I'd have been as interested to hear about either of them first, and like you not so much the other second. (And I doubt the commenter that shared it meant it as 'wow look 64 compared to 50' either.)
Show HN: Gust – Tailwind CSS for WordPress
No job can require me to submit to being assaulted.
Sony?? This is very promising.
As a reference a new Cessna 172 is $432,000 [1] and that is not a high tech aircraft.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2021/04/28/prices-fo...
"in return they will not sue."

The threat of a lawsuit counts as "teeth," to me. But only if it is significant likelihood that the lawsuit will be successful.

So the way I tend to interpret things is a bit less pedantic: "can they demand?" means (to me) "do they have a way of forcing compliance that is likely be backed by a court?"

This does have the effect of making the word "demand" less of a binary and more of a gray scale.
Good article, I feel like it’s rare anymore that I see easily actionable advice at the end of an article. Easy to complain, not so easy to add solutions.
Creating a Platform Game in Blazor – Part 4
You should apply for senior dev roles. I’m not saying lateral career moves are always bad (and sometimes that’s all that is possible), but I always look at a next job as a way to level up. Even if I don’t fit the requirements right then and there, I have the confidence I can do the role. Obviously, you shouldn’t level skip - meaning apply for something two levels higher than where you are at (unless you are supremely confident in your abilities or are going to a smaller company where that sort of thing makes sense) — but going from intermediate to senior is what makes sense. When hiring a senior dev, I’m not looking for someone with a decade of senior experience because that person is probably overqualified or will want to be quickly promoted to principal/staff . I want someone who can fill in the role well for a long time, which means someone who is intermediate but has stepped up to do senior work when asked, is the right move.
I have never ever heard of a manager asking an W2 employee to achieve a project by hiring out of their salary.
I use Atom as my daily driver on a 2012-era Mac mini. It works just fine for me, but I do wonder how much life there is left in it, especially since development changed pace after Microsoft acquired GitHub. Seeing plugins for Atom almost makes me nostalgic, and there’s a bit more life to be squeezed out before the sunset.

I’d be curious to hear what other people are using for their IDE on lower end hardware. As I say, Atom works fine and I personally appreciate the open source nature of it, but I’m very open to alternatives.
How's this?

https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp
Very nice. I've have created very similar thing a few years ago, but yours is nicer. :D https://nnplayground.com
>People have a right to be unvaccinated, and the rest of us have a right to protect ourselves from them.

No you don t. You took a vaccine that s supposed to protect you. You don t have any right to impose it through mandates on others. This is hiding malicious intent behind "what about the children" argument. You got your shot, you re protected
and under no threat, move on with your life and leave people and their rights alone.
I would think that the people currently having kids are the boomers in China, because they are the ones who benefit from the wealth being generated today the way boomers in the US and western Europe did in the 50s and onwards.
Searching my inbox for "Zendesk incident notification", it seems Zendesk has some trouble weekly, if not daily. During the slow summer months, I actually got more notifications for Zendesk issues than issues in our own product.
Hey! Same here! Moved teams in same company and I feel so alone it's crazy!
Many engineers are introverted and/or already have relationships they've built before covid hit.
No matter how hard a i try to connect through the chat window, in just don't get the same reciprocation as I get from face to face.

I've been coming to office to run into more ppl but alas, no one comes. So just as you, it's very lonely here and it's hard to get attached to work when you haven't met anyone face to face.
You might want to edit that it's a whale watching boat, not a what hunting boat. Unless...

Sounds like a great balance you have; good luck saving up for the house!
exactly, not thinking properly makes people forget what WAR is, and its effect on the people

are you ready for war?

i am not, therefore i stay honest and i use the right words to describe situations