skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imposter syndrome is a real thing. When one of my close friends (thankfully) consulted my about his first real job offer I was insulted on his behalf for how badly they lowballed him. I immediately referred him and secured him a proper offer.

This is important not just because he is my friend but for our whole industry. Many programmers suffer from such afflictions and many hiring managers are more than happy to take advantage of it.

If you think your friend is always underselling how good they you should definitely try broach the subject if they are comfortable talking about it and help them realise their worth.
I mean, at this point they openly admit they have Chinese commercial paper in their 'reserves.'

Makes sense since undoubtedly the vast majority of those reserves are inflows from Chinese nationals looking to export capital, but kinda shocking the crypto community is letting them get away with this.

Evergrande et al show that even CP in China is anything but risk free, regardless of the notional currency.
It kind of works that way here. You get a W2 from your employer which has every bit of info you need. You put that into a form and submit to the government. The end.
I have "simple enough" taxes that I don't need software.

I recently found out that California has the third WORST average IQ as a state (95.5) and that only confirms that 1) I made the right decision to leave California, and 2) ANYTHING California comes up with is almost certainly NOT a good thing by definition that it came from California!!!
I’d say that depends on where you live but broadly I agree with you. That said, Uber launched in 2009. The iPhone was only two years old at that point. It feels like a big assumption to say that absolutely no existing car service would have realised the benefits of allowing booking via smartphone.

I don’t wonder about past vs present, I wonder about present vs a possible present where VC funding doesn’t flood the market and destroy competition.

A good comparison is perhaps restaurants. Seamless, Uber Eats and the rest swallowed up the online food ordering business. Slowly more and more restaurants let you order direct, some using startups like ChowNow that facilitate the transaction without dominating it. But it’s still an uphill climb.
After moving to a job in SF Bay Area from SoCal, I tried enticing a friend to look for a higher salary. I asked if he wanted to know what my new Total Comp was

He said no, because he couldn’t/wouldn’t make the same move that I did
10 percent improvement from a local small taxi company vs a worldwide company? It does make sense..
> What happened to the global warming "pause"? The one that Nature devoted an entire edition of their journal to?

It seems to have received attention and was entertained seriously by climate scientists. Ultimately, confidence in the models that predict a sustained pause diminished, and all current research shows that the data from that period fits into our improved climate models[1].

In other words, science "worked" exactly the way it was supposed to. There was no "debunking" -- climate scientists took the best models and information they had at the time and drew conclusions from them, and those conclusions have been (and will continue to be) revised as the data and models improve.

And, for what it's worth: the new models don't say that there wasn't a pause. They account for the pause using our improved understanding of global weather patterns. The page I linked about goes into some detail about it.

[1]: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-ear...
Tesla does not yet have an official construction permit for the plant. They have simply started building at risk.
The Facebook Oversight Board sounds like a bunch of creepy silhouettes in a darkened boardroom moving pawns on a figurative chessboard.
Yes, this is one of the freedoms [0] of the European Single Market, in particular this one [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market#%22Four...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market#Free_mo...
Wolfsburg is a 1h 7min train ride away. Quite a few commute from Berlin. Berlin has three large universities and some smaller ones. Still, the real automotive hotspots like Stuttgart area would have been more attractive but there was certainly headwind from incumbents.
If you increased the size of the brain 1,000 times it would be about the size of Madison Square Garden.[0] Now take any cubic meter of this mega-brain. There will be about 40,000 neurons in each. Good luck figuring out how these work in tandem by themselves. Now what about in tandem with the rest of our Madison Square Garden brain? Now shrink it back down and fit it in our heads again ...

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
> If you think they're a pain in the ass, advocate for simpler taxes.

Intuit would lobby against that too.
And, I know a few people who were vaccinated, but the dose did not get registered. In some cases, this was purposefully done - so that they could get the dose while they were below the age floor (at that time). In other cases, this was accidental - the hospital staff simply neglected to put it into the system, and no one cared.
In all seriousness, do you really think that any current western government is anti-lgbt? Do you have any examples?
I think society needs an avenue for anonymous self expression. Otherwise people will feel stifled and oppressed by having no outlet to go against cultural norms.
The playbook in the US is to argue that a factory will create US jobs. State and local governments are willing to play ball with the expectation of increased activity and taxes.

Building a plant on the US-Mexico border will not be seen as kindly if it's perceived that they are not using US labor.
In practice, what I've seen too often is that code that was duplicated but should have been factored out ends up evolving with people having forgotten that there were duplicates. Bug fixes that should have been implemented in all instances of the duplication only end up in a few of them. When you do go to factor that duplication out, you're stuck with 5 to 10 different versions that all have different bug fixes, and theoretically they all need all of them.

On the other hand, if someone finds that one instance of the duplicated code really is different, they either turn it into a new function (the right answer) or add a new argument. Even if they take the wrong path by adding a new argument, it's easier to turn that one function into two functions than merge 5 to 10 different versions of what should have been the same code.
Yeah let's run the country like Alabama instead. They're doing well! /s
Most applicable user name for a comment on HN, ever.
Is he in the Prestige? I've seen that movie a bunch of times but I can't recall where he shows up
On the other hand, I lived in San Francisco for 12+ years before taking Lyft or Uber, and they were an enormous improvement. Not coincidentally that's where both companies started :)
Depends on your needs. Good luck getting uber to the airport at 5am. I had no luck reserving a car in advance neither.
In this case, licensed minicab met my needs and I don't even bother getting uber to airport anymore. Hailing a taxi is out of question.

Edit: I forgot how many times an uber driver was on the way and then cancelled the order. Or oftentimes they just refuse to go to the centre because of the congestion charge so you get out of the car, request a new car and hope for the best.

Yes, uber provides crappy service. Crappy because it's like a russian roulette - even if you are in the car you don't know if you will be taken to your destination.
chromecast here i come
Due to the highly specialized and high quality automotive industry, there are also numerous suppliers that Telsa tries to reach.
Money isn't always the bottleneck. A lot of people generally don't buy the most expensive house/car/vacations they could afford.
I don't remember Plato mentioning that :-)
C-n is 'next line' in Emacs, but is permanently bound to 'new window' in every mainstream browser.
What do you mean unmatched even among large cloud providers? AWS doesn't innovate fast?
Yet their interface has been on a downhill with regards to responsiveness.
On that subject, when it pertains to software, I find it really odd that folks in the industry consider location as a factor in salary negotiation. Why should a developer in WV earn less than a comparable developer in CA? It’s not like the company gets less value out of the former’s work.
Can you expand a bit more? Roughly speaking, someone has to tell you about consciousness before you can experience it? And how does that relate to a challenge of defining it?
Through the proxy of social media?
What is "way beyond"? They're permitted for a 27 engine kerosene rocket, they want to switch to a 33 engine methane rocket. A kerosene spill is much worse locally than a methane spill since methane evaporates.

They're hoping to add a 250MW power plant which would be a major change but that would be part of a different environmental assessment.
Yes. It seems the point of the article is to take revenge at those who might have thought he was stupid (although they didn't say anything at the time) and tell them: "See? I was right all along!"

He sounds more like my mother in law than like a keen philosopher.
Part of a sophisticated bot-banning operation is then trying your damned hardest to make it as hard as possible for the bot itself to detect that it's been detected. Dunno how actually successful those efforts are, but people try!!!
If Roku stopped Roku customers from using YouTube TV, it would force a lot of YouTube TV customers to either a) buy non-Roku devices; b) move to a different service like Hulu with Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling, FuboTV, etc.

If Roku removed YouTube TV from their boxes, it would put a lot of pressure on YouTube TV to agree to Roku's terms since they would likely start losing customers fast. Before, if a cable company had a dispute with a network, customers had to wait it out. If Roku has a dispute with YouTube TV, the customers can just switch to one of multiple replacements. That gives the box-providers a lot of leverage. Roku could even work with one of the alternatives to offer a switching bonus. "We're sorry that YouTube TV is being evil. If you switch to Hulu with Live TV, here's $10/mo off for the first year!"
Going to paraphrase a quote from a podcast that stuck with me.

> What (the left) needs to do is clear out rents. Not just housing rents, but rent seekers. The economy is riddled through with people who do nothing, but get paid because structurally that’s who gets paid.

Intuit is one of those companies. They produce a few real products, QuickBooks for businesses and Mint, but overwhelmingly their money comes from the fact that they charge rent on filling your taxes. They’re a parasite on our society.

Fortunately the podcaster wasn’t talking about the US; their country was worse off than America in this area by far. But unfortunately it seems like we’re on the same glide slope if we don’t do something about it.
> The thing to understand about filing is that (particularly for W2 wage earners) you're not telling the Government how much you made and how much you owe. They know that already.

But they don't necessarily know how much you owe. Even many W2 wage earners are eligible for various credits, including but not limited to out of pocket charitable donations, moving expenses, child and dependent care expenses, student loan interest and post-high-school courses you pay for that improve your work skills.
Honestly, maybe it has something to do with a similar revulsion I have to bestiality. I think some of these things are hardwired.
As a German: I feel the opposite is the case. This project has received enormous local (and even national) political support (as in, government straight saying "we want this" and leaning on the apparatus to expedite), and has coasted extremely far on temporary permits, sometimes fashioned rather shadily, to become "too big to fail". Some of those permits happened even after Tesla proactively violated rules by just building things without asking, as I understand, factoring penalties into business plans and relying on lenient interpretation. Germany's incumbent automakers are probably rather incensed about Tesla getting to build a major factory on Easy Mode here and having to put little effort into understanding the process or the culture.

I don't have any particular opinion on whether this is good or bad at the moment, but it's certainly fascinating to follow ...
> it is computation

OK, but what is "computation"?

If you perform the computation with a lot of pencils and a lot of paper, is it conscious?
Cold email people in the same space
And if you DO need to file a tax return (e.g. earning over 100k, certain types of income) you can (in most cases) do it for free on the HMRC website with a guided system.
For my part, I learned PHP because a lot of small web-shops were using it, and I wanted a job in a small web-shop. Previously I had coded professionally in COBOL, C, VB6, and Java, and I knew Forth.

I made money writing PHP for a decade-and-a-half. Straight PHP is not particularly lucrative work; but Drupal module development can pay quite well.

For the "custom media playlist": VLC is just a player. But there's a player built-into your browser; my home-brew playlist originally used VLC, but I switched to using the <video> tag once it became reliable (and would play ogg/vorbis properly). You still need a backend; and you'll probably need quite a bit of Javascript.
Intuit is just really easy to understand as a cut-and-dry example of regulatory capture. They basically maintain the need for themselves entirely through laws that create the problem they solve.
I am in the process of turning my front yard into a perennial food forest using drought-tolerant native plants. I am adding more edibles in my back yard. I am converting the xeriscaping back into something that things grow on. I am changing the topography of the backyard and frontyard to incorporate dryland rainwater harvesting techniques. I will end up getting the front yard certified as a wildlife refuge to get my neighbors off my back. I have secured seeds cultivated by the Hopi and will be attempting to use their traditional planting method that does not use irrigation. I have onsite composting and have plans to add biochar and vermicomposting. Since I started eating a lot of mushrooms, there are possibilities to cultivate then in the kitchen cabinet; I don’t have the acerage to inoculate deadfall like I hear some folks doing this. I have plans to get some kind of greywater system going.

All of that is to separate the carbon cycle from the hydrological cycle. I am actively planting on the yard I have for food resiliency, and as a side effect, carbon sequestering. The amount this small ecosystem will sequester will increase once I get biochar into the mix.

There is already a slight cooling effect happening. I am looking for ways to plant in a way to shade the house during summers. If I were able to build from scratch, I’d try for earthship designs or at least use rocket mass heating/cooling, which would minimize the amount of solar cells needed to provide electricity.

We have already reduced meat consumption for health reasons. I have already been working remote for years before the pandemic, so no commute. We already got the house to energy-star certification, got the solar, got a high-efficiency ac unit, upgraded the windows … but there are far better things we haven't tried. I had already practiced minimalism before I met my wife.

When my child grows old enough, I am looking for ways to participate in the community. The local high school has a gardening club and one possibility is to join it as an advisor to introduce polyculture, companion planting, composting, etc.

Another is joining or creating groups working with food pantries to introduce perennial food forests. Or get a master gardener certification and start teaching this stuff locally.

Being able to grow locally — and it doesn’t get as local as the backyard — does not just promote food resiliency and shorten supply chain, it can help rebuild the soil.

I posted that book because it teaches frameworks on what someone can do in their own life to make a difference without needing heroic effort, or activism even. The actual things I am doing are what permaculturists are doing right now.

I am not trying to get brownie points. I am practicing articulating the worldview and practices to the HN tech crowd. Your feedback is appreciated.
I've been deploying a lot of stuff on cloudflare over the years and have for a few months been using fly.io. As you say, they should slurp them up asap and make the cloudflare services available under `.internal`.
If there's one thing I learned in my time on this earth it's that there are very few stupid people. If my first impression is that the person is "stupid", I usually find that it's just a matter of really listening to the them and to what they have to say with an open mind and an open heart.
>> At least in principle they’re more pro-China than pro-US

> This is likewise false.

Not the above commenter, but there are many, many people in SF that I've personally met who prefer China to the US. They have a disgust towards half of their own country who votes unlike the way they vote, towards anyone religious, towards anyone from a lower-class non-urban background.

I've met plenty of these people in LA and Santa Barbara as well, but in SF it easily feels like a majority.
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If you're a healthy 35 year old White woman in the UK, your risk of COVID death is 1 in 166,000:

https://qcovid.org/Calculation

And hospitalisation 1 in 4484.

By contrast your risk of death from anything at that age and gender is 1 in 1106 annually:

http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/dyingage.html

COVID risks are extremely concentrated to the obese, unhealthy, and elderly. It doesn't make sense to vaccinate the entirety of the population especially with a leaky vaccine.
Public services should not have the goal of being profitable. That's how you get negative feedback loops of bad service and declining utilization.

Public transportation does not have to be terrible, by the way. Many cities have great public transit - Montreal and Hong Kong are ones I've personally experienced that had great public transit systems. But I get the sense that a lot of US cities treat public transit as a parasitic entity taking up space and leeching money. When providing public transit is not a priority it's not surprising that it becomes compromised in ways that ruin its utility.

> Washington DC spent hundreds of millions of dollars on brand new subway cars that were supposed last 40 years, now they all need to be replaced after 3 years.

By the way, isn't this the fault of the (presumably private) contractor that built the things? It's not like a bunch of bureaucrats built these things with their welding rigs and wrenches. Until there are meaningful penalties for these kinds of fuckups by the private sector, why wouldn't they treat public projects as free money? It's what the profit motive dictates.
> nerf the outrage machine (algorithmic newsfeeds)

Yes, if my feed is composed entire of accounts I follow sorted by date descending, there is little to no opportunity nor incentive for bots to exist at all. Sure, our proverbial crazy uncle is still going to send out conspiracy theories to everyone in his contacts, but this has existed forever and never seemed to cause that much trouble compared to algorithmic newsfeeds.

Even if you include results from followed topics sorted by explicit upvotes, so long as there's none of these inferred engagement metrics used in ranking then the blast radius of a malicious account will be severely limited as it's a lot harder to game explicitly expressed user intent.
I talk about it (especially when asked) because I firmly believe I am overpaid relative to the value I (and most tech workers) provide to society. Much of my social circle isn't in the tech industry, and many of them work in nonprofit jobs, the social sector, journalism, or do varying kinds of gig work. I'm actually pretty confident that, given some practice, a little education, and a good grasp of the jargon, many of them could do what I do and make 2-3x what they are making now, but because of the way the career ladder works, it's not a practical option for them.

I try to stress that the reason I make so much money has very little to do with how "qualified" or "smart" I am, but much more with how our society has decided to allocate money and prestige.
AWS SDK: “Unable to locate credentials”, a cheat sheet for solving the issue
OTOH, unemployment is average in the region and wages and salaries are below average (maybe not in IT anymore). Traditional car industry regions have low unemployment and high wages and salaries - IG Metall, the traditional union of the car industry, is very strong. It will be interesting to see how Tesla deals with the unions. Wal-Mart had its troubles with that.
Three displays here.

First - dedicated to personal Chrome profile, Discord, etc.

Second - dedicated to screen share - VS Code, terminal, JIRA, etc.

Third - Work Chrome Profile for email/JIRA/web browsing, note-taking (shoutout to https://obsidian.md), Slack.

I could certainly get by with fewer monitors, and do so when I am mobile, but I really enjoy the screen real estate when at my desk at home.
I was thinking more of a "verified by stripe" type flow. They just need a location and a hash that prevents multiple signups. I realize that's just moving the problem, but hey the whole idea is impractical anyway.
What would be funny would be if in some alternate universe the small box contained the biggest, bulkiest, most powerful computer.
Yes.

Search “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act North Carolina”
Due to being partly surrounded by a big wall until 30 years ago and being governed by its own state legislature, Berlin's urban sprawl is still pretty limited and land is aplenty in the surrounding state called "Brandenburg". So it's much cheaper to buy land there compared to (South)Western German areas.
Why does there need to be one uniform solution? Some sites can be entirely anonymous, some can be pseudononymous, some with real names... some heavily moderated, some lightly moderated... some facilitating one on one conversation, some for small groups, some for the wider public... and so on.

The web need not be homogenous. Omegle, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, hacker news... They can all exist differently and that's fine.
They don't, but the important thing is that the vast majority of people don't itemize, especially with the high standard deduction there is now. Required filing is just pointless for them.

Of course the option to file will remain, no one is arguing against that.
The writer conflates "the person at the Apple Store was trying to be helpful" with "the person at the Apple Store thought I was stupid".

Part of the job of someone working in a customer-facing, sales job is to understand what the customer wants. A sales associate at an Apple Store probably has dozens of interactions every day where they're able to help people understand the products better and enable them to make a more informed decision. That is their job.

Saying "I just want the one that's in the smallest box" makes you look like a customer that's in need of guidance and help, and someone who's probably going to have a bad experience with the product if they don't get it.

Getting irritated by a response that is trying to help just shows a lack of empathy. People are not robots and there is a really good reason that the "white lie" is a thing.