skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an ex boss who at some time told me he used to look up names of ex employees to verify that none of them earned more after they left that company

He paid decently, true, but givrn the way things developed (he had a couple of seriously toxic senior engineers) I'm happy to say that I went to 20-40% (depending on how you look at bonuses, in Norway that is a lot anyway) higher salary in my next job and have kept getting raises since :-)

Now the two problems have departed, he wanted me back twice and I wanted to go back but he couldn't afford my current price.

Sad for both parts.

Edit: in Norway taxable salary and taxable wealth used to be publicly available.
Ken Shirrif's content is so good he's consistently hitting the HN frontpage on a weekly basis.
"China's leaders are nationalists"

And the US leaders are not?
No, they're just in their 20 somethings, so looking cool outweighs "will an old dude be able to read it" argument. When younger I also loved nothing more than sitting in the dark room and staring at green letters on the black console screen. However now, being an old dude myself, not driving myself blind has become an actual concern...
The time to learn depends on how much you do with a device. If it might take 20 minutes to learn some ass-backwards way to do a phone call, but that's all I need to do, then it's more hassle to go get a different device.

Sometimes people complain about the time to learn when actually they just don't wanna.
I'm not sure if I'm the authority on this. For supabase, we use soft-tiers so that developers aren't caught by surprise on their usage tiers
That is a great idea! No idea why I didn’t think of that myself.
This has been like that with many multiplayer games to some extent before the age of matchmaking. Someone sets up a dedicated server with certain mods/game configuration, and that would be yours and other randoms favorite server. Over time, you'd actually become a community.

I've gone back to play Unreal Tournament 2004 this past year in such dedicated servers, and it made me realize how badly matchmaking ruined the sense of community in MP games.
Yep. Despite the initial few interesting talks it’s now just self promoters and NFT cultists.
I wonder if they have some machinery developed that can be reused to port other themes to all the apps?
I can't answer that but I run Teams on Android and it's just a terrible app. Its problems have affected my entire phone before. Like for example when it wouldn't stop blinking and each blink reset whatever I was doing so I had to quickly switch out of it between blinks and then force kill it from Settings.
Americans are not going to fight a war over it, but they are led to fight a war over it and believing they are not fighting a war over money. I think that's how politics work. Money are used to manipulate Americans and do something so that money can find more money. I don't believe a single American want to destroy another country, but in the end, it is what it looks like. Unfortunately, the military industry is too powerful in this democratic country.
Yes most analog "computers" were time ordered / streaming.

Hollerith and discrete calculating machines were more about unordered data analysis. Static batch of input, chunk it the way you want, forward, backward.. doesn't matter. Very freeing in a way. I can understand why digital computation wiped the market, no noise and no constraint.. how nice. Until it starts to produce spaghetti bowls and crawling insects.
What does their predatory nature have to do with complexity?
For me this kinda misses the point of social networks. I don't need a special site to stay in contact with my actual friends (nor could I convince them all to join my site). I also don't need something to talk with total strangers.

I want something in the middle, a site to explore the fringes of my social graph. Look up people that I barely know. Understand who is connected to whom, who is a friend of a friend. And have a low-key way of staying in touch with people who are not in my closest circle.

I think this was realized with Facebook in the late 00s (or in Germany, StudiVZ). It was literally a people's directory where you would enter information you wanted to publicly share, and basically "everybody" was there.
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I wonder how much and for what Rust is being used at Bytedance, given that this seems to be under their GitHub org. It's pretty interesting that they are apparently using it.

Edit: For those wondering who Bytedance are, I can save you a Google search. These are the people making TikTok.
I wasn't aware of this. Tbh I use the flatpack available through the popos store, so it updates every now and then when I update the system anyway
Well, those policies do both fall in the same framework. Ending war on drugs is basically removing government power that can be, and is, abused in a racist way. Licensing is another one btw (many occupations require licensing => licenses are not given to felons => drug "crimes" are felonies => boom). Investing in black schools and enterprises is broadly similar to affirmative action in that they are biases that compensate for prior opposite biases. Both are compatible with overall meritocracy and classism...
DO NOT COMPLY.
My feeling is that Google is not capable of fixing fundamental problems of Android. Every year they change some colors and rounded edges (it's starting to get hilarious seeing the design of their apps being revamped over and over again), and add features invented by their designers nobody asked for. But the keyboard lag, the storage footprint (why must an ever so slightly older phone with 16GiB internal memory be discarded because His Majesty Android demands almost all of its space for itself?), those will only get worse every release. I think they simply don't care. It's all about futuristic colorful stuff that sells. Android will never be a humble, efficient, reliable platform.

As for this issue. All I can think of is the tragedies it may cause. It's a cliché: software developers are not responsible, except when their PR forces them to take action.
Hum parallelism is pervasive in shell scripting.
I really don't see why you've chosen to link to that github issue multiple times in this thread. The discussion in that issue doesn't convincingly demonstrate anything except that some people are trying to be unnecessarily combative about io_uring. We don't need to be dragging that attitude into HN threads. If you want to talk about some real performance problems with io_uring, find a way to do so without that baggage.
There is no price point to make working with communist imbeciles a deal.
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Harm to non-smokers has largely been solved by banning smoking in indoor public spaces and many outdoor spaces.

The issue of burden on health services is political and often actually a fallacy:

Political because it is politically unpalatable to tell smokers that they'll have to deal with the health consequences from their own pocket.

A fallacy because in many Western countries the heavy taxes on cigarettes cover, or more than cover, the financial cost on public health services (so smokers do pay from their own pocket).
For EFI it's just the directory and probably using FAT32. And if there's a partition table it should be marked the right type. But there are no magic files or sectors.
> What I have observed is that those persistent individuals are Puppy old-timers, very old-timers. A couple of them are in their 80s, and they have a collection of vintage PCs, all with optical drives. Optical media, CD/DVD, ISO files, that's what they know. And they ain't gonna change.

Hold on a sec...so the conclusion is: screw those old timers?
In a recent Donbass conflict, there were reports of Ukrainian military and militia using specially tailored Android apps with OSM data as base layers.
> "China's leaders are nationalists"

> And the US leaders are not?

Way less so, as displayed in their commitments to free trade and globalization.
Microsoft long predated those. Apple ][ did not crash.
> This is not accurate

Have you used Office? Whatever those apps are now, online, in Teams, stand-alone, it’s a steaming mess. Various functions work in various places and things like moving an image are just ridiculously broken.

It isn’t this bad with other vendors.
Another cool one that I've made:

In dotnet there is a package called ssh dot net (spelt out). With this package you can programmatically ssh into your vm's (basically open a normal ssh tunnel from c#). Its great. I use this in conjunction with the postgres dotnet driver to connect to our production databases. I use this when I don't feel good about doing data maintenance directly in sql and need more type safety. So I use my little C# tunneler quite a lot to get my work done quickly and safely, all while the other devs are fighting over vim/emacs vs using postgres in the terminal. So me using my own little tool for all of the risky stuff has been a godsend. That and Datagrip (I have a paid version of this, worth every single penny). The little tunneler reads the database schema when it starts up then generates a class/model for each table so it closely matches with it, that way I can fiddle away and write some clean sql against the db without stress. I know it sound silly but it works great!

So yeah. The company I work for is a strictly-java shop with an apple fetish (so everyone has macbooks). Little do they know I haven't touch the macbook in almost two years. I use my desktop Ryzen pc with a bunch of C# tooling. Ha!
US legislators reach deal to avert pending debt default
So you're saying that measuring gravitational waves means we measure how much a given distant mass pulls us towards it and the value of that pull-force goes up and down like a wave?

Can we measure the "pull" of a specific distant mass?

Or do we measure something else like the change in distance between two points?
So out of curiosity, which direction is it tilting …. May or may not live nearby
Say what you need to do and I will give you short form.
True. That explains why tons of users are still using Twitter Spaces, Discord Stage Channels and the rest of the competition and Clubhouse is still struggling even after opening the invites late; as predicted. [0]

I consider Jam, the second last nail in the coffin for Clubhouse.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490149
It took me years to switch from Ubuntu Mono[1] to IBM Plex Mono[2] but now I feel like I'm never gonna change fonts again. I gave Cascadia a try but it feels way too bold. On paper it looks like a really cool project but after I've installed it it felt like all my code was shouting at me (I mean even more than usual), it was disturbing.

[1] https://design.ubuntu.com/font/
[2] https://www.ibm.com/plex/
Okay. But what about long term?
I'm 42. I still hate staring at a lightbulb, and have dark mode on all the time. And my vision ain't what it used to be.

Pure white on a pure black background is horrible, but off-whites on a darker background looks nice and doesn't strain my eyes like a canvas of white does.
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This is awesome and the writeup is great!

I just wonder if posts like this spur them to make any changes to make it more difficult. I'm guessing not unless they get a lot of traction.
What a junk article, if it convinced you to do a wrong thing.
Bullshit of course. You can get COVID multiple distinct times, with or without a vaccine
In web assembly, do you have to build for each machine? Or each browser? Or each OS?
The agreement included a pledge from Apple to help Chinese manufacturers develop "the most advanced manufacturing technologies," "support the training of high-quality Chinese talents," use more components from Chinese suppliers, sign deals with Chinese software firms, collaborate with research in Chinese universities, and directly invest in Chinese tech companies, as well as assistance with around a dozen Chinese government causes.

The secrecy around it doesn't bode well, but to be frank the list above seems pretty innocuous. If it were the other way around or any other county I doubt many would care.

The recent trend of countries toward isolationism scares me.
The type of economic integration described above is healthy for world peace and how you avoid wars.

I think the US had a much stronger effect toward global stability when it did a better job exemplifying the best of democracy and worked to spread its culture through economic and other ties.
Indeed. And not only that, but for it to work remotely, via for example PSSession.
List of video game console palettes
Delay, Deny, Defend.
In doubt and you can't help, confess to be a miserable wretch, but also a victim of circumstance and heartbreakingly beg for forgiveness.

Not to forget, tell them you have understood your mistakes and will do everything possible to avoid them in the future.

That 'possible' is important next time, you fool them.
Just in case they remember last time.

Sometimes it even pays to keep its promises.

http://cssc.uscannenberg.org/cases/v1/v1art6/
I mean, they probably could open-source all of their software, although at a price of weaker lock-in.

They are primarily a hardware company with really great solutions for many problems, so it’s not like iphones or macs wouldn’t sell. Hell, in a way not providing decent support for other manufacturers devices could be viewed as anticompetitive (why can’t I goddamn send a file over BT to android in 2021?)
UK chief vet warns avian flu at level in UK
Telling them that I use C# will just paint a target on my back since everyone is anti Microsoft and they cringe if you mention anything Microsoft related.

Other than that, there is a ton of admin/red tape to get past if I want to introduce it as official tools and some team needs to be able to support it.

My intentions are actually not malicious at all, I'm just reducing my own frustrations and avoiding adding more stuff onto my plate.
Is there a simple way to explain what a "dent in spacetime" means? How can it be measured.

I don't doubt that science and you all are right, I'm only asking questions in the hope that there is a simple explanation that would make a light-bulb go off in my head.
I'm not really there yet, but I'm working on having something close to this possible in the near future. It's not exactly in a forum format, I am partial more to old reddit's interface paradigm, but it will allow a person or a community to easily bootstrap a discussion platform that speaks ActivityPub (the same thing Mastodon does) and that can be plugged into the bigger Fediverse ecosystem.

An example instance is at https://littr.me
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> 70 % of people have less 100 iq

Being pedantic here, but isn't that more like ~50%, by definition? Or did I misunderstand how IQ works?
You can search for that regular expression on Sourcegraph (disclaimer: I work there) https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+strstr%5Ba-z...
You should try Ventoy
Sounds like the problem is too few people can code at Google.
You should see the Gerrymandering maps in the US. It’s map distortion for political power, not just political posture.
While I agree it is mainly the fault of Google here with not properly sandboxing, it would not surprise me if mobile management software has the ability to block phone calls to other countries and with that accidentally banning emergency numbers. I get all kinds of big (bit less serious) issues with my phone after installing corporate mobile management software and the incorrect configuration of it.
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The post didn't use the word scarcity. Land isn't even scarce, most land is effectively uninhabited compared to the population densities most people live at. Humanity at large is not short of land.

Land is quite unique. It is the resource with the weakest argument that humans produce it. Gold, for example, requires human labour to be dug up. Bitcoin requires humans to run machines. The Mona Lisa requires humans to paint. Land behaves differently.
Why Hacker News API does not work for some items?
I am checking something and even though this link works fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29485561

When queried through firebase API it returns null:
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29485561.json

Does anyone know why?
Ironically, it is not true that "async" (stackless) event loop systems don't store unnecessary processor state to memory.

Those systems store the entire processing state in future object memory. It is the same state that threaded systems store.

Stackful context switching systems (which includes some kinds of efficient threads - I would count Linux kernel internal threads among these) store that same state in the stack and context objects when context switching, so in principle store about the same amount of state. But some async, stackless systems do a bunch of extra work unwinding and restoring entire call stacks whenever an async task pauses in await, and therefore take more CPU time to context switch than stackful systems do.
So you mean the current administration then?

But the world kind of remembers your last 2 administration and knows that they can change just back next election.

And china seems to be focused on free global trade as well. Trade embargos are more known for the US.

Geopolitics is really not that simple.
Not being able to call emergency services with a phone is completely unacceptable.

I am only posting to add that with my pixel 3 I am having issues with incoming calls being dropped or the interface not allowing me to accept an incoming call. Especially since the new re-design of the caller app a few months ago. Even an old phone should always be able to call and accept calls.

Due to the emergency use-cases, I really think call functions should be the highest priority of smart phones and I cannot understand why there is so much sloppiness in QA with this. There is going to be kids out there that try to call their parents and their calls get dropped, same with elderly or otherwise vulnerable. You don't always want then to call 911 as first resort. But hopefully they remember to do it if cannot get through to their carer..

Before people suggest it, getting a second phone that guarantees handling incoming calls in not practical, as they would have to dial a different number than usual in an emergency.
The problem for the blockchain and by extension NFTs is that the transactions are only trustless for the things that can be known about by the chain. Which is a vanishingly small amount of information, basically the exchange of tokens. There is no way to link a token to something in the real world without bringing in trust of a third party. At which point you’re just replicating what we already have with more complexity and less protection.

You can already donate to people doing good things across a whole spectrum of options and see tangible side effects. You don’t have to wait for NFTs to maybe grow infrastructure to allow this! You can literally build bridges, schools and all sorts of infrastructure for people around the globe right now!
> even if the cars are automated they're going to continue to be suboptimal

That’s kind of irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what you can convince taxpayers to fund. If self-driving cars become a thing, people will move further and further out of the city. Who cares if they have a 90 minute commute to work if they can eat or sleep or work or play games during that time. Taxpayers will continue to fund big road projects and car storage is going to be more important in the future.

Or maybe remote work spreads more to even more jobs and being in a city matters less. People may drive less often and live in a place where they can have (and afford) more space to build exactly the home they want to live in. Lots of us enjoy having room for hobbies like gardening, woodworking, outdoor cooking, etc…
Is bash integrated into xcode or something, or just sit as a standalone binary?
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/ashton1anderson/status/14660896597342494...
Facebook Groups have almost completely replaced some internet automotive aftermarket bulletin boards where no one ever searched anyways. If there's one major positive to the normalization of FB Groups it's the absence of inane "did you search?" comments. Though I do wish people would search. :lol:

I used to be a "forum junkie", but FB Groups has completely replaced that behavior. I don't know if it's better or worse, but at least I am not checking 5 different forums anymore. The forums come to me.
neat, you can join instantly for discussions no fuss with registrations and with no video possible it there's no awkward cams on/cams off dynamic.
This is legitimate microsoft bashing. This bug implies that the teams app at the very least observes every phone number being dialed.

As a 100% remote worker, this issue is completely unacceptable. Teams should have zero involvement in SIM dialing.

And Android is defective too, a user app should not have this level of access.
Microsoft predated the Apple ][ too, but it's moot either way. Was MS-DOS so buggy and so profoundly influential that it dramatically lowered Apple's standards - and everyone else's - over the course of the two and a half years between the launch of the IBM PC and the launch of the Macintosh?
Why would you have one device for work and another for private life? I use dual SIMs on my work phone. I used to use two phones but that was just very, very, very inconvenient.

Why try to cram in two lifes into the one life you have?
humans are herd animals after all. The herd must be right. Always.

Being reliable (in dire crisis) means being trusted without thought.

Surviving with such firmware is what shaped us.
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Or just use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...
Another small issue is that the company I'm at is kind of risk averse and try not to use custom tools built by individual devs. They've done it once and now they are stuck with that one tool(also a kind of custom compiler like mine)but the dev is long gone. So unless it becomes an official feature of our systems and some team (not an individual) can support it and there is a clear tech/business benefit, they would most likely deny the dependency. And to be honest, it has kept things sane/boring. It's good stewardship in my mind so I'm at peace with their apprehensions.
I've honestly not been as excited (in astronomy-terms I mean :D) about science as I am about the James Webb telescope. I can't wait to see what it shows
It’s your eyes. Not the screen and not the young people. Get glasses.
Used to be? Is it no longer public?
I think I've noticed a mild improvement, but still a bit early to tell! :)
I found the auto-retyping-animation product description on the site very misleading. As I scanned the page I read "Dark theme for Vim", and was immediately confused. Only when I returned to the top of the page did I notice that there was some silly animation which "retyped" Vim for a variety of other editors.

Why not just accurately say what it is?
that was a beautiful feeling after completing the book: who has been played here? i, the reader, certainly was.