skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One time I had a client who thought it was "unfair" to pay me just because I knew how algorithms worked. He was quickly fired, but he did not find inheriting his family owned business unfair. He did not find his ranking boost which gave him outsized profits unfair.

There is no way to go back in time to make everything fair from some arbitrary starting point. All you can do is your best to do your best.

Pricing can lead to unequal outcomes, but it at least provides a signal that you are on the right track or not.

A quest for universal fairness can only work by lowering people rather than by promoting them doing what they are best at.

Anyone seeking universal fairness & equal outcomes in all aspects of life should read Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron as many times as required to change that mindset.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
Rust ecosystem uses a slightly modified semver: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/resolver.html#semv...

In this scheme, 0.x.y is compatible with 0.x.z, so developing pre-1.0 software is as strict for breaking changes as post-1.0, just the numbers are different. For this very reason, many crates don’t rush into 1.0 territory and are comfortable in pre-1.0 zone.
Software security is vulnerability research conducted on the software you ship. The OWASP Top 10 is a software security artifact. Some people call this "appsec", though that tends to imply web software security, which is just a subset of software security.

Network/platform security is network access control rules, host configuration, to some extent cloud IAM†, and patching.

CorpSec is the stuff you do to address attacks targeted at your team and the computers and services you use to keep the company running --- laptop and endpoint security, Google Apps 2FA, single sign-on, onboarding/offboarding, and that kind of stuff.

† IAM and cloud access/monitoring can kind of bleed into both of the other buckets depending on the aspects you're thinking about, but like 80% of it belongs in the net/platform bucket for most companies.
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If I recall correctly, isn't most of India diesel-based?
Putting excess effort into things that your customers don't need isn't MVP.

These efforts aren't meaningless, they are very important when you get into enterprise sales once your product has found market fit and is maturing.
I'm sure there's an edge case for everything, but 99.99% of the time in the US a quoted salary does not include employer-paid benefits, their part of SS, etc.
> Should the state stop providing free lawyers to defendants, because it doesn’t provide free lawyers to those wanting to prosecute others?

Well, the state does provide lawyers to the prosecution side, since the prosecutor is the state.
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I've found rationales and similar to be double-edged in practice. They're immensely valuable to people like yourself who just want to understand the point of a question to better implement what its getting at. They're also fodder for people whose primary interest lies in finding ways to undermine the goals.

Writing things like this, with clear requirements and no justifications, is what I do when I expect people will try and use explanations to weasel out of requirements.

Example: I once had a coworker try and justify sending full credit card data through Kafka as not really storing it if you set the retention time to under a second. So it was fine under PCI-DSS, right?
Yeah but when petrol taxes are high, people buy more efficient cars. Super obvious if you look at a street in France versus in the United States, where so many poor people have 20mpg cars.
Yes. 100%. Of course it is a virtue to have the right instincts and judgement, and not need studies to function in life and make all decisions, when choices have to be made one way or the other, studies or not.

What possible study could give you definitive information to decide here? Social "sciences" are rife with replication errors, the whole industry is suspicious.

But so what? This is such a modern hyper rational mode of thinking. It's a weak mentality to be unable to use experience and judgement to act and decide but to defer to dubious "experts" to tell you how to live and raise your own children in the context of something so obvious as "kids need to see faces and be seen to develop socially" given masks don't stop the spread of covid and they're not at risk anyways; they should have normal social interaction and not live in a bubble for 2 years.

We already know the risk from covid for kids is virtually non-existent. You're willing to risk their social development because no one told you to do otherwise yet? How did your ancestors navigate such perilous environments and situations without a bunch of studies to tell them what the "facts" are for every decision? They had to think for themselves quite often, using their wisdom and intuition
Carter never understood the gas crisis. Reagan's very first Executive Order was to repeal the oil and gas price and allocation controls.

The gas lines disappeared literally overnight (I know this from personal experience) and never returned.

It's hard to overestimate what a disaster the long lines for gas were.
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Glad to share the discovery. There probably needs to be a “HN Podcasts” similar to the Book site.

https://hackernewsbooks.com/
Very frequently seen $5000 or even $10000...often from hypergrowth venture backed start ups. There is nothing insulting about that.
Well I am bothered by those other predators -- and you have inadvertently proven my point: Large cats such as lions or tigers are fearless predators of people.

But you are right. It's the whole trap your unsuspecting victim in a giant immobalazing web, wrap them up in silk and then :

"As a first step in eating, the spider will literally vomit digestive fluid over the prey. Then the prey is chewed with the "jaws" (chelicerae), and the fluid is sucked back into the mouth together with some liquefied "meat" from the prey"

https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology...
Not genetics. From the source:

>Scientists estimate that genes, including the effects environmental factors have on a person's gene expression, called epigenetics, account for between 40 and 60 percent of a person's risk of addiction
If you legalize selling organs, less rich people will be able to afford them. I don't like the idea of merchandizing humans. It is worse than prostitution. Maybe worse than slavery, as humans become disposable.
The question is, was the person got promoted _despite or for_ the dotnet go-live removal?
It was two years ago (and according to my friends in the industry it still is).
Carter presenting himself in a sweater did him no favors. He looked like a nice but doddering grampa. Reagan wore a sharp suit and always looked like a President.
> They could of already had a buyer setup also that was looking for server equipment for doing nefarious or non nefarious things.

Nefarious? Like running Oracle?
I don't think you can make a good faith claim that straight white boys are being "protected by every institution we have" in the age of diversity quotas, gifted program elimination, affirmative action in college applications...etc

You can pretend that all of this is justified because of so called privilege, but ultimately you are also discriminating against white boys who are potentially underprivileged for a multitude of other reasons. It is tacitly racist to effectively presume that all white boys are trust fund babies from loving homes who deserve a handicap for the color of their skin. No more valid than assuming that all black men are violent and/or ignorant because of crime statistics and deserve unequal treatment before the law.

To poor white families, all of these initiatives are in fact oppression. There is very little so called privilege in appalachia, for example. Hardly a self-invented victimization - and continuing to insist otherwise is evidently costing the democratic party votes. Rightly so in my humble opinion.
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This is bad history that robs people of their agency and blames the US as the sole cause of any political event happening anywhere in the world.

First, it was the Clerical class that was most responsible for the overthrow. They were the ones with the organization and the power and the political networks. They then recruited the British to help them, who were the second most important factor. The British had intelligence assets in Iran. The US was basically a bagman, paying off $100,000 to some of the actors on behalf of the British, and for the clerics.

The U.S. simply didn't have a lot of intelligence assets in Iran, nor did it have any troops there, nor did it have a lot of sway over Iran. It was an intermediary between the actors that actually held power. One can argue that the payment of $100,000 - that was the sole contribution of the U.S. to the coup - was what made the difference. I doubt it. Then the US CIA chief played up his role in the coup in an attempt to gain political points.

Yet this complex history is boiled down to "US overthrows democratically elected government". I mean, come on.

But what's useful about such a narrative is that the U.S. (and also the U.S.S.R.) were involved in the politics of basically every country. Even if all they did was throw a dinner at their embassy or promise some foreign aid. So all you need to do is look at whichever side the U.S. was on in some local dispute, and then if that side won, you say "US forces nation to do X".

This is bad history.

UPDATE: people have been clamoring for links, so see this comment for more info:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102780
His business is sidekiq[1] and Faktory...

[1] https://sidekiq.org/products/enterprise.html

[2] https://contribsys.com/faktory/
Oh sick we might have to switch to this for our autocomplete / autosuggestion functionality - precisely because it's lacking weighting :)
> The current H1-B minimum salary is $60k That's FAR too low. They should be earning at least double that number so as not to artificially depress wages in the US.

You can't compare H1B salaries for like nurses in the midwest with tech salaries though.

H1B salaries also have a tendency to be under-reported (because they're base salaries): if you look at my L-1 form, it says a salary that's at worst half of what I made in my worst year in the United States.
> "I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window at back and got in. Then he went and made open the shutters in front and walk out and in through the door, before the very eyes of the police. Then he have an auction in that house, and advertise it, and put up big notice; and when the day come he sell off by a great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them. Then he go to a builder, and he sell him that house, making an agreement that he pull it down and take all away within a certain time. And your police and other authority help him all they can. And when that owner come back from his holiday in Switzerland he find only an empty hole where his house had been."

- Dracula, 1897.
Tries are also perfect for solving games of Boggle! I have a demo here: https://benrbray.com/projects/unboggler
Not naive. I work for a logistics company and every shipment is insured. Standard amount of cargo insurance is $100k for a full truckload but that goes up for more valuable items. So the question of losses boils down to the amount of insurance on the shipment and also of course the length of time required to process a claim…it could take a long time to get the cash.
I've also noticed that coding and speech are compatible in a sense that they are probably processed by different parts of the brain and can be done simultaneously. Coding is closer to mechanical work, or let's say it's like building a physical machine with your hands. Whereas speech is a different set of muscles (both producing and understanding speech are related in fact). That's my amateurish pseudo theory about this.
Here's one with crypto potential: Add value to your dynamic contexts with global microservices.
I think you mean easter egg.
Podcasts are horrible for learning. They are nice entertainment while doing laundry, cooking or driving in case you feel that you've already taken enough breaks for the day. I've listened to podcasts while taking a shower, but mostly I prefer some calm. Learning or reading wikipedia is something that requires my intense focus, and in turn I like to define my own pace.

Couldn't imagine doing two things at once and calling one of them 'work' and the other 'learning'.
I personally work for myself, and I have found it to be very rewarding and fulfilling. It's not for everyone, but for for some it is certainly far more rewarding than working a 9-5. Especially one where you feel like you have to turn off your brain for 8 hours which I find to be very unfortunate.

To some extent I agree with your mentality. I don't think we should treat work as anything other than that - trading your limited time for money. But you spend so much of it on this thing, work, that turning off your brain to engage in it seems just depressing.
As much as this feels good to say this there are still Republicans that are ethical, responsible people.. and plenty of Democrats who are not.. so let's refrain from stereotyping.
That’s how I read it
> He is the tucker carlson of the left

That is quite an interesting claim. Do you mean because they are leading voices on their supposed political side, or they are equivalent in factual accuracy, or something else?

My favorite factoid about Tucker Carson, the leading voice of news analysis in the USA:

> Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics. It's being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News's own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way. [0]

I am up to this point unaware of anything clearly nonfactual presented by Oliver. If anything from Oliver exists along the lines of Carlson's extraordinary list of lies [1] I would genuinely be interested to learn about it.

I wrote a lot there, but my main question is, how exactly do you see Carlson and Oliver as equivalent?

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=tucker-c...
Self preservation, ironically. They normally spend all day swimming around leisurely, but can do a tail flop to escape danger quickly. I say ironically (don't kill me if I'm misusing the word) because that same big abdominal muscle leads to creatures, especially humans, seeking them out for their meatiness.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caridoid_escape_reaction
Phil Murphy ran for governor of NJ essentially on the promise of legal recreational weed. He did so beating out the NJ Democratic Machine, lead by the Norcross family.

Knowing that weed was Murphy's #1 campaign promise, the NJ Democrat machine did everything they could to bring it to a halt. That was lead by Senate president Steve Sweeney. Eventually weed was legalized via referendum, but they're still slow walking dispensaries. And I'm guessing weed was not the only thing they slow walked him on.

As a result, Murphy's election was painfully close, and Sweeney lost to this guy who paid $153 for his campaign.
Thank you for sharing! I really find these industries fascinating and hope to work in one of those someday.

> "The most important things are an advanced method of requirements generation and change management."

Makes perfect sense seeing how those wrecking havoc in far simpler software I'm working on. Thanks very much for sharing.
There's a lot of advice in this thread saying one shouldn't pursue a certification until you need it. Fine, that makes sense. I'm in the thick of our SOC-2 and it is indeed a pain in the ass.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't worry about compliance! Almost any B2B company should be acutely aware of what the substance of a SOC-2 (at least) entails and what changes will eventually be required to satisfy it. You can make things much easier or harder on yourself by adopting certain principles and architectural patterns from day 1.

The goal is, when it is time for your SOC-2, it's just an administrative process and a rubber stamp, rather than needing to make major changes to your architecture and business processes.

And hey, you just might end up avoiding a costly security incident along the way.
maybe they are adding a new category at some point
Basically what I did - it was easier to take another job and take a month off than deal with a) a manager that didn't like me and b) a coworker who I'd had a side project fail with after I realized he was actually trying to get in my pants. (The latter may have had something to do with the former)
My nose suspects the system (TU) was triaging agaisnt dementia, somehow, and the author didn't notice.

Next study, designed for comparing transplantation correlation to dementia, should use a dementia scale before and after the trasplant.

The article is not a scientific paper. I hope scientific papers were so honest about conflict of interest and autocritic as this author is in this article.
And yet, his Malaise speech was mostly spot on - he said that consumerism was causing all kinds of trouble for us which is even more true now than it was then. He basically told us we needed to suck it up. Carter would've had a pretty good memory of living through the Great Depression and I think a lot of folks who did live through it felt that the nation had gone soft - I think some of that came through in that speech.

Interesting that the speech was initially well received:

"The reception to Carter's speech was overwhelmingly positive: Approving phone calls poured into the White House — more calls than when President Richard Nixon had announced the invasion of Cambodia — along with many letters of support." [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106508...
Couldn't have said it better, learning from only listening can be really hard under several conditions when something happening in front of you can snatch your attention away and make you miss a big chunk of info.
Are you immensely pleased.
> revolutionary

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> caching

There was a time when Google did more engineering than marketing.
Yes, that's the point — this thread was in response to someone acting like it's unfair for a company to decline warranty coverage for a stolen product. That seems perfectly reasonable to me: anyone buying stuff on a site like eBay needs to factor authenticity into their buying decisions.

(Here I'm reminded of a certain office manager in the 90s who “saved” a fortune on Microsoft licenses until it turned out that the floppies they got from some guy at a swap market had a virus & the resulting downtime cost them more than the savings.)
How to engineer a scalable brand platform
Facebook deletes Ethiopia PM's post that urged citizens to 'bury' rebels
Whale meat must be really toxic ... i.e. filled with heavy metals.
But programming isn't really about the mechanics of touching a keyboard. I find that it often requires deep thought and a lack of distractions.
Not Microsoft
I didn't notice anything at the time. But after watching my father slowly decline from Alzheimers, and then going back and looking at Reagan's conferences, I can see it in the latter part of his presidency. It's the look of panic when he's lost his grip on what's happening around him.
I would like to add that I do take your point on sarcasm. Thank you.
Also it's interesting that a robot is more capable of doing dangerous aggressive type of driving if you factor in how many sensor and calculation power it have over a human
I've often wondered if the rescue operation wasn't such a spectacular failure[1], if he'd then been reelected. Had this been a success, it would've been one of the most complex missions ever attempted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
Am I the only one disappointed to find out that when the article says "Big Macs" they mean that purely as a caloric unit of measurement?
I'd rather have someone be direct and honest about things instead of the corporate "thank you for your feedback, it is very valuable to us!" Not only is it devoid of any real content, at least half the time it also means "we don't care" or even an outright "fuck off".

Maybe he could have communicated things better? I don't know which remarks specifically you're referring to. But "undiplomatic" is not a bad thing IMHO (within bounds of reason).
Regarding the profitability, the founder discusses in other posts, that they get the bulk of their revenue from their API (they also have some cash flow coming from ads). I think he was for a while bootstrapping, and then got some VC funding. Still he pays for a not that cheap office at a WeWork location in SF and from the API service numbers I saw, if they are legit, he should have more than enough ARR to live well from his site (and that's exactly the impression one gets from reading his blog posts). Nonetheless, he is totally against posting openly about the financials of his business, and showing actual data.
Because masks and lockdowns go against their interests, and they oppose people like you mandating these policies on them. It's just that simple.

And the numbers of these people is much much larger than you're aware of, likely for reasons of media bias hiding this information from you and geographic diversity of political views and values.
What has changed is they don’t need to sell the cards to monetize them. No fence needed and those serial numbers will never be seen again.
For more on Carter as the leader on inflation and deregulation, see Alan Greenspan's biography. He tells a story (I'm probably misremembering it a little) about being a government official (in Treasury?) and needing to approve a mundane charter flight of some college sports team as they waited at the airport[0]. At that point it hit him that there was too much regulation, and the Carter administration undertook to begin reducing it.

[0] I could imagine good FAA reasons to approve it, but IIRC in the story it was some commercial issue that sounded way overboard.
I have a population of shrimp that have been breeding in my aquarium for quite some time now. They spend most of their time picking through detritus and otherwise managing the cleanliness of the rocks and sandbed. I'm curious if their 'meatiness' has something to do with how rapidly they grow and reproduce and the size of the clutches involved. A single female can have around 100 eggs or more attached to the underside of her belly, producing that many eggs has to require a decent amount of calories. Another hypothesis is that they appear to be detrivores, and aside from the snails co-habitating with them, they have very little competition for a seemingly endless supply of fish poop and plants to munch on. The variety I have are clear, so it's quite interesting to watch their inner workings as they eat and reproduce. Where you'd expect the "brain" to be, they have a stomach that is constantly engaged in some type of basic peristaltic motion that can pause itself when they are alerted or startled, unlike in humans where this is an autonomic process as far as I know.