skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hire someone with experience and professionalism over someone who is more inexperienced but enthusiastic/ambitious.

You need someone who you can absolutely trust to do something and get it done, and someone that won’t complain that something is ‘beneath them’ when you are genuinely in a pinch and need some help (ie you want someone that is skilled enough at communications to talk to clients, good enough at numbers that they can help with invoicing, but that won’t turn their nose up if you ask them to run an errand - and in my experience, people earlier in their careers can find it difficult to span different jobs that they consider different ‘statuses’).
Surprised to see nobody calling out ffmpeg as one of the most hostile UIs anywhere
You miss my point, then. If I have to spend that extra hour, I will argue that it needs to be compensated. If I get to WFH, I may argue that I'm paying for dedicated office space at home and that the value of my work is the same here as in the office.
The only difference is in sentencing, and the difference is a lower upper limit on the length of incarceration for the lesser value stolen. There is no difference in the crime itself.
Unfortunately this is common for awards in Industrial Design.
So? That doesn't net me money during salary negotiation.
Oversight is extremely important for a PA. We had one at one of my old firms charging 10k of personal charges to her boss' cards and then just approving it herself because she did the invoicing and his approvals.

If I recall, she billed a $470 custom tiered birthday cake for her boyfriend to the card and also had her Equinox membership on it.

EAs are safer ground and less risk but with PAs they can become too entrenched in personal tasks which tends to breeds resentment and bring on the "fraud triangle" of pressure, opportunity, rationalization.
Most programming I have seen is independent work. You go off for a day or two and come back to share your results. For a junior dev, they need to be spending some time screen sharing to a senior and explaining what they have to get some feed back regularly.
The metric system is also international. Doesn't stop governments from mandating its use, or defining their own standards in terms of metric.
> Just as many Buffalo as there are cows today.

is there a citation for that claim?
Has congress actually added any money to the Social Security Trust funds, except in cases where they were first taking revenue away (ex. payroll tax breaks)?

I thought the issue of potential congress intervention was future funding, for full benefits, not current and past funding.

1937 to 2009 historical receipts/expenditures/balance: https://www.ssa.gov/history/tftable.html

1957 to 2020 reserves/income/costs: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a3.html

Seems overall to have funded itself well?
JPEG XL also claims to be better than modern formats like WebP, AVIF, and HEIC. https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
> Real estate is predicated on the concept that adding value to the land increases its value. So... what exactly become the merit of taxing land over property? If you tax property, the value of the land is included in that tax.

Check out Henry George; given it's HN, check out Scott Alexander's blog on Henry George: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
What happens to the claims that crypto is something but after 12 years it is still a solution in search of a (legal) problem.

Nobody has anything to show for it.

And you can state the article is conjecture all you want, but if you don’t substantiate that… welll…
> but at least that they express things in a way that is psychologically appropriate for kids at their level of development

Frankly, we have little real idea what's psychologically appropriate for kids. Consider that over 65% of papers in psychology fail replication. I would be very skeptical of anyone claiming they know what's psychologically good for anyone.
There's this interesting backstory about Lode Runner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnl-NTzlumM

It is by far my favorite game.
That was my first reaction as well :)

Especially if any alternative is buying stocks ... everyone knows stocks is just another paper and real estate is ... real deal.

Not going into bitcoins as still for normal people it is not something they can grasp and for me it is pure ... how to say a pyramid scheme but less offensive... Stocks are pyramid scheme currently as much as bitcoin is. With P/E ratios waay over what is healthy it is just "there will suckers in the future that will pay more for that". If all goes to the ground real estate will still have at least some value even if people also use it in a way where "there will be suckers in the future that will pay more for that".
For many, time is the more important consideration. Working from home allowed me to reduce a 1-1.5 hour commute to nothing, work out on my lunch vs after work…at the end of the day those can easily add up to a couple hours per day that could be spent doing something else.
Would equal representation achieve a 50/50 split? The article doesn't say, but I am skeptical that the part of southern Ontario covered by this union is 50% "Indigenous, Black or racialized".
> The same recategorization could be applied to any death that ostensibly “communism did.”

In the case of famines, no it can't. The famines were a direct consequence of the specific communist policies that were enacted. That's why the communism categorization is fair, because communism was the proximate cause.

Regarding the indigenous American genocide, that had little to do with capitalism. The proximate cause was colonialism. That's why it's not a valid comparison or argument.

In the case of non-famine mass killings under communist regimes, there's valid debate about the extent to which communism itself is responsible, and that debate is discussed in the wiki article.

Even if I grant that some mass killings were due to capitalism (e.g. the Rawagede massacre), all that means is that that would warrant its own article where the scholarship on the common underlying threads is discussed. It's not an argument for taking down this article. I'd also challenge the notion that this isn't talked about in Wikipedia (although I recognize there isn't a dedicated article on it). Read the article on the Irish Famine where they openly discuss the role of free trade in possibly making the famine worse.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” – African proverb
I don't have any practical experience with smart homes, because I've avoided adding anything "smart" to my home, so maybe I'm far wrong. But I do work in software, and find the whole drag of constantly making sure everything is updated and coordinating properly an exhausting never ending chore. I don't want to flip a light switch and be told that the OS or firmware operating the switch is updating, or is incompatible with the ceiling fan driver, or some nonsense like that. I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but homes are already trouble enough to keep in good condition, and the dozen devices my family uses already needs so much upkeep, that I don't want to have to worry about non-obvious technical problems with, like, lamps and stuff.
The human eye, with or without a cybernetic enhancement is admissible in court. Indeed 'eye witness' testimony, despite being horribly unreliable is particularly powerful in court.

Personally I see little to no difference between human eyes and film eyes when one is standing in the middle of the street 50 years ago, let alone now with some implied cybernetics that make the difference actually zero.

If the argument is that a snapshot can not be observed as a collection of light wa eves hitting cellulose, or a digital sesnsor then one has to ask the question if allow the receptors in the human eyeball to detect the reflections of light is acceptable either.
> * Just copy the DLLs along with your app in the same folder

Gosh I wish things worked like this by default on Linux (dynamic linker search path by default starts with the directory where the binary is located)
> you are in charge of your retirement, not politicians and their political objectives at the moment you just so happen to retire

How has the latter happened for Social Security? It's pretty much delivered as advertised. Would you trust everyone's fate to Wall Street?

> IRA's

Not everyone is equipped to handle investment, especially elderly people who are easily confused. And it creates reinforcing problems: If the economy is bad and Wall Street has a bad year, people need the money more but have less of it.

> it requires printing money or raising the burden on today's youth unfairly

How has Social Security required that? Why should today's youth have less burden their their predecessors, who paid for a many long-term investments that other generations benefited from?
Does speculating in anything create any value to society?
I studied what is formally known as Computer Engineering at Oregon State University.

The courses we took had labs starting from soldering physical components on boards (actually wire wrapping) to hardware design tools.

After graduating, I went to work for Mentor Graphics, (now a division of Siemens). They create chip-level design tools of all kinds, the big moneymaker back then was Calibre Parasitic Extraction.

They also sell PADS, a PCB design tool that was popular. I did lead gen for both these products and steered away from design and into software.

However, you could go to work for any of the electronic design automation (EDA) companies and ultimately learn the design tools at great detail which might be a way to jump into a position on a design team.

At the very least you would be in a position to build a professional network with chip designers.
Atherton is one of the most anti-building places in the world and is populated by billionaire folk like Marc Andreessen who decry how anti-building many parts of the US has become.

https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/its-time-to-build/
> Government by its very nature must generally give out newly created money to the wealthy

Why?

Last year they sent everyone a check. They could do that.
There is no alternative to performing an actual restore periodically in order to verify that backups and the restore procedure do work.
Bioavailability. Plants are awful as protein sources for humans. Ruminants are awesome as plant processors for the providing of protein to humans.
My interpretation was that the person likes doing their work and wants to outsource distractions. For a fixed amount of work / day, it's better to spend as much as possible where you're most effective, imo. I have a cleaner and order takeout not because I'm theoretically too busy to clean and cook, but because I'd rather outsource so I can do other stuff.

Put another way, trade is better for everyone.
Aren't iMessages backed up to icloud that does not have end to end encryption.
Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git
I can see rich people buying this as part of a high-end room decoration. Probably cheaper than a hand-done painting of the same size.
It's very simple: Every product needs two types of people - those who can make it and those who can sell it. Unless you are one of the lucky ones who can do both equally well, you need a minimum of one of each.
Consider an office manager instead. It better describes the requirements that extend into your organization, and it’s one of the best early hires a growing org can make. If they shine, consider letting them take on HR tasks if you don’t already have an internal HR resource.
In a full scale conflict, carrier group would be sunk by subs in the first 15 minutes. Those carrier groups are a relic of the past that only works against unsophisticated adversaries who do not have the largest submarine fleet in the world [1] or nukes. US military planners know this so any such things will be withdrawn shortly before shit is about to go down, or (more likely) never brought in in the first place. And it doubly does not work against adversaries without whom we can't even build anything because we outsourced all of our production there. In 2 years we couldn't even scale the production of N95 face masks on US soil, let alone anything more complicated. The colossus has legs of clay and US government (and its owner - the US business establishment) is to blame.

Prediction: Taiwan will be retaken by China by 2030 and the US will do bupkis about it other than saber rattling. It can't even do sanctions, since that'd be sort of like US imposing sanctions on its own manufacturing base. Xi knows this. He will use our weakness to his advantage. It would seem that business establishments are already acknowledging this, hence this massive investment in the US. On the other hand, this is also forcing China's hand - they can't afford to wait until it becomes feasible for the US to impose effective sanctions. Their colossus too has legs of clay. Except the legs are not as weak.

[1] https://www.globalfirepower.com/navy-submarines.php
That's great to hear about the object lock rule, thanks a lot. I'll add that to my S3 setups.
But a 50MP sensor, with tripod and 800mm telephoto... not specialized. At some point intent has to play a roll.
I have a pa from the Phillipines who is honestly very helpful for rote data entry tasks, which I have a lot of. Not great for anything that doesn't have explicit instructions.
> Well, I worked for “megabank” back in the 00s and they tried to outsource to India. It failed miserably,

Your one anecdote is pretty meaningless, you just need to look at the revenue of Indian outsourcing companies, it keeps going up.
This is a great resource from Dan Martell https://www.danmartell.com/assistant/
I think you have replied to the wrong person, otherwise I fail to see how either of these citations are in any way relevant.
Arranging a dentist appointment and making your own fork is a very different amount of time commitment.
The author forgot the "iTard" effect: once the author deletes the module, the disappearance of the feature will cause major turmoil and people will complain to the repository owners to restore it asap.

This will also create a new opportunity for someone else to...recreate the module, and chances are that it will likely include some malicious or even more broken code.

If you want to "improve" the situation, you update the module with code that triggers an exit with a warning message. That will fix the problem.
Thats cause most of the C# implementations in the benchmarks game are just calling into C libraries. For example the regex benchmark:

[DllImport("pcre2-8", EntryPoint = "pcre2_compile_8", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]
extern static IntPtr PcreCompile(string pattern, long length, uint options,
out int errorcode, out long erroroffset, IntPtr ccontext);
I think this would be an interesting hypothesis to entertain if it wasn't already falsified by the observation that FAANG (& similar) pay much more than a 30% premium over the "median" tech job not just in the US, but in pretty much every market where they compete.

An instructive example would be India: TC for senior engineers at Google, Amazon, Uber, etc is already north of $150k there. Note that this is _already higher_ than the median tech salary _in the US_. Meanwhile there are still places in India paying new grads $10k.

You see something similar in Ukraine, where 40-50k was a reasonable rate for senior engineers, and then Lyft enters the market and starts giving seniors 6-figures.

I think the answer, as always, is that there are just not enough sufficiently talented & qualified engineers, even taking into account the global talent pool, to balance the rapidly increasing demand for those engineers. If it was just one or two companies paying this level of outsized compensation I'd be skeptical of the long-term trend, but it's not - this is pretty much all modern tech companies, because the unit economics of software businesses make good developers extremely valuable.

I was curious what the story looked like for South America, and, hey, turns out these tech companies already pay 6-figures there too. Heck, Coinbase is offering _mid-level_ engineers in Brazil 6-figures for remote roles.
> this was a carrier takeoff, so the engines would have been held at maximum thrust prior to launching off a catapult

This plane uses vertical take-off.
That means no more landing fairy tale money and pushing interests even to a negative numbers just to keep people borrowing in hope their spending will recover the economy.

We are beating a dead horse.

If we could just let market decide the interests and not money printer, the economy would stop inflate itself. The only money banks could lend would be those that the bank really owns.
> Can you create a random string in Python and have it executed by Python?

Reminds me of "93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs":

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
That's interesting. Are you saying that instead of telling her "I want to take next Friday off," she tells you "I cleared your schedule for next Friday so you can take off?"
Your comparisons ignore engine count. The KC-46 has two engines and the CH-53K has three engines. The F-35 has one.

If your single engine jet fails on a catapult launch, you've lost that plane, and the pilot has just a few seconds to punch out and save their own lives.
I wonder if the remote firms will be at an advantage because of reduced real estate expenses. Offices aren't cheap, and the past couple decades have seen a downward spiral in square footage per person at offices. Now it's reached its final form, roughly zero square feet per person. Combine that with a drastically expanded recruiting pool and it's easy to see how remote work firms could come to dominate.
> "Chickens actually evolved as a jungle species"

Though that might be true, and despite it working for a small community - the scale of meat production required to satisfy the world's demands today can't be achieved through forest-raised chickens or cattle.

The price of meat would have to skyrocket and/or the consumption of it would have to dramatically decrease. Both of those would be progress from a climate change and environmental perspective, but from the perspective of global meat consumer expectations, it would be a serious regression. Few people want to go back to pre-industrial diet (mostly grains, greens, and a very small amount of meat).

That's why plant based meat substitutes are such a big deal - they might be one of the few ways we can thread this needle.
It's interesting to see where they fail. I tried to parse the stackoverflow database (XML) using node. It was so slow as to be unusable (multiple hours). I did the same in python and it took minutes. Now of course I'm comparing libraries basically and I have no idea how poorly the node library was implemented but I'd be super curious to know if the this is something python excels as because of language features or if it's just poorly implemented libraries in node that make the difference.
For people who don't know, it's common to launch your Linux app through a proxy to do just this. Super easy to do.
Is that really what we need though, atmospheric temperature I thought was the main issue

How long heat stays in one area

I get that more plants = good, for other reasons but surface temperature wasnt something we have been aiming to optimize for?
But it doesn't matter if you like doing your work. If you're working all the time, to the point where you can't arrange a doctor's appointment, you're working way too much. When you're in a leadership position, it's a matter of time until it impacts the rest of the team.

The one personal task that takes a lot of time that I'd consider outsourcing would be to go to the store to pick up my prescriptions. But even that gives me a chance to reflect. It's really quite hard to imagine that it's a significant loss not having a personal assistant.

What are some tasks that need to be outsourced?

(Another way to phrase it: The rest of their team probably don't have personal assistants. If it's a work necessity, they should consider making a personal assistant a company benefit.)
I agree with your point about systemic issues pushing people towards real estate or to carry cheap debt (particularly in the form of mortgages). But the leap from:

> investing in public companies and tech is very risky, as valuations are at record highs

To real estate where valuations are also insanity and at record highs doesn't make any sense.
Yes, Lutron has indoor and outdoor variants: https://www.casetawireless.com/products/smart-plugs
That's what the theory says, but my experience disagrees. I find that when the remote workers have to be kept in the loop or the work doesn't get done/get done properly, then managers make sure they are always up to date.
You're missing the point.

Sure, they can do that sort of thing from time to time to make people like you happy, but the primary spending of government, as in, "to do shit", cannot be structured like that.

Are you arguing that 100% of government spending should be stimulus checks?
> I have no idea why millennials feel they deserve to own property in extremely expensive areas for cheap.

All areas are more expensive now.

Boomers may have suffered other high costs over the decades, and higher interest rates and inflation, but there were folks in London over the last 20-30 years putting mortgage deposits on their credit cards, paying them out of a single annual bonus, or simply putting down nothing. Well paid professionals who bought property in London in the 90s can easily be multi-millionaires now. These people have seen asset appreciation that has almost beaten the global stock market. That's without considering the effects of their leverage. And unlike the stock market those capitals gains are absolutely 100% tax free (on primary residences of unlimited value).

Relative to median incomes the average house is now 3x as expensive as it was in the 80s and 90s. Low rates only help if you can get a deposit and a mortgage together to get on the ladder. When houses are 10x median income it's just really really hard to do that, even for the well-paid.
Well, it’s viridis.
> (I notice that you didn't answer the two questions I asked, an omission I deem discourteous.)

One of your questions was “Perhaps you think the use-value of my house is primarily that it enables me to laugh at the suffering of the homeless beggars of Dhaka?”

I think omitting a proper response to that question is more courteous than discourteous.
Quite possibly, but my point is that a modern F-16 is not this buy-one-get-one-free bargain implied by the comments on any F-35 article.
> The problem is that these crimes often vary so much that it's hard to find a common thread besides vague ideological motivations.

I agree that it's hard, but some scholars have argued that there is a common thread. Why wouldn't we want to put that scholarship on Wikipedia?

> Are there other Wikipedia pages in the style of "mass killing in .*ist regimes"? I couldn't find one.

There's this, but it's not well developed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism_and_genocide
> You've written your own source control for this code

I suppose Linux is doomed.
Fairphone beats the entire Android ecosystem with six years of support
You usually don't have a sentimental relationship with her, that's another difference
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankto...
70% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by marine plants, rainforests are responsible for roughly one-third (28%)
> And that’s not changing anytime soon.

I wouldn't bet the farm on this one. The US ain't what it used to be and China is rising fast.
Also, you're implying (2,000; 20,000) that you live in a rural area (that was the topic.) But there are a lot of suburbs of Minneapolis that seem to fit that bill.

I found Aldi to be perfectly fine, although you had to want whatever random stuff you got outside of a few fresh fruits. No flies at the ones I've been to, but that could just be because it's closer to a distribution hub? MN is the extreme ccorner of the area they serve.