skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good thing. But it would have been better if wages kept up with productivity growth too, which they haven't.
What do you think of substack? I like it as decentralized news. Medium dropped off the face of a cliff but substack has freedom of speech, email lists that is controlled by the writer, and they made it a subscription based long form article model.

I don’t disagree with you though, if it’s given to you free it’s expected to be free forever. They’ll try to get money somehow but nobody will like it. I definitely liked it at first too, but it’s become so much different.
Every developer I've talked to says they effectively work a 50% job most of the time with bursts of crazy productivity here and there if they get to work on something interesting.
Says who? CPI does include housing.
I am also kind of tired of hearing those who tries to turn this complex statistical problem into a simple binary problem in order to make an argument against vaccine.

Yeah, it's not a binary problem but the reproduction rate drastically decreases with vaccine. Vaccinated people may transmit the virus, but they're less likely to get infected at the first moment AND less likely to spread. This is supported by ACTUAL DATA from everywhere, including Israel and Portugal.
It isn't useful for life extension for sure, but it does make any individual genome much less sacred.

And then we have technologies to synthesize arbitrary sequences of DNA. They can't create anything as long as an entire chromosome worth of DNA, but there's no reason why they won't be able to sometime in the future.
Yelp? I think you meant eBay
Big big no-go for me. The only metric you get from me is my performance and interaction with colleagues. Those are what matter to the company, anything else is an ego trip.
At least or better carbon parity than existing systems, feasible transaction rollbacks when mandated by law. Sorry, not willing to accept these bugs as features. /gen
This is what I also do, sort reviews chronologically
Where did you get that info from?

Here they state that they have no preference: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/valve-answers-the-ques...
Dude what is that place? Such a cute forum! :)
Beer and pizza? Godot devs are not homeless nor live in a frat house. They have the means to buy food.
Ah I remember your username, you were the one arguing that students shouldn't learn anything except mathematics. Anyway, I find your comment sarcastic because it seems that HN doesn't like people who want to modify terms of service willy nilly, just like I found your math only education comment sarcastic as well. I agree with your pricing comment though, creators should be able to experiment with different pricing models.
There is straight Oberon legacy in Go: type embedding. Also, Go team has Robert Griesemer from ETH, and other Wirth fans like Rob Pike himself. Pike’s Acme editor/window-manager also is heavily Oberon influenced.
Ruby on rails is simply amazing to work with.
Kotlin is the best language to exist, people denying that simply have not learnt it.
Hah! That's fair. I'm just saying, if you still wanted access to your crypto assets after the ban, they should likely still be quite accessible.
I never understood why the beautiful & easy-to-use QBasic Editor never inspired a copycat for linux. It would've easily beaten out nano.
It's definitely something I've felt more and more as I've aged out of my youth. For me it's driven mainly by an increased desire to reject the crowd. Almost anything that a majority of people find "cool" or "in" turns me off and I reject it. I no longer care about what my peers think of me - I rarely think about my peers. I guess I've become much more self centered in a way - not selfish, but just much more concerned with being my own person.
If you want to monitor my work PC usage, you also need to take into account my unbidden shower-time work insights. And my countless 3 AM waking work thoughts. And the dreams I’ve had about my job that are really hard to quantify, but which played a role in the solutions I have provided.

And all the outside-of-work time spent exploring and evaluating the ideas I came across from just being interested in the state of the art. And what I learned from building hobby projects that put those ideas to the test with things that nobody cares about except for me, instead of trying them out for the first time on the company’s flagship product.

And.

You also need to account for all the time I had nothing to do because I wasn’t allowed to proceed since I was waiting for the Product Owners to approve the development effort, and they rescheduled the meeting four times.

You need to account for the times when I asked for more work and wasn’t given any for three days, and was told to “just be available.”

You need to account for when my workspace broke when someone in Security blocked ALL of eclipse.org because “you can’t trust that open source stuff,” and your sanctioned resolution process is slower than a tortoise on quaaludes.

You need to account for choosing to band-aid your tech debt until even the scion of [Rube Goldberg, Frankenstein’s Monster, IE11’s Quirks Mode, accidental dynamic scope, the Pennsylvania Lottery] told you that the latest “feature” would break stuff with 100% confidence, and you still went for it.

I stopped putting sugar in my coffee and I think it might be affecting my outlook.
This is gold, thank you !
In general, prices are not pegged to inflation. Inflation is a change in the price level, but prices also change for reasons that have nothing to do with changes in the price level, e.g. in the case of wages, the supply and demand for labour.
The chart doesn't say anything: It looks like a mean-reverting walk focused on way too small a section to be able to draw any strong conclusions about what the actual mean is.

Zoom out a bit and you get something slightly more useful, which does support your argument, too: wages seem, in general, to keep up with inflation – though with lot of variation. https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-MA272_wages4_G...
We had unicode characters in strings in our database. When those were being fetched by the front-end on Safari, the browser was making them a different character. This meant if the exact same string was going back to our server after being in Safari, any kind of string-matching was failing. So let's say you were looking up something based on the string, it was not there.

We did some unicode testing on different platforms and this was never an issue. Also to note these weren't complicated emojis or anything like that (e.g. character & skin-tone). Just usual characters with accents that are not in English.

The resolution for now has been using String.Prototype.normalize() with some tricks. It works for our case, but obviously it is not a silver bullet.

This article helped: https://medium.com/@sthadewald/the-utf-8-hell-of-mac-osx-fee...
Taleb is categorically wrong - Bitcoin is worth something to a lot of people. Whether that continues or whether it's the "future of money" is debatable, but it's a fallacy to say that it's worth exactly 0.
It’s like we’re all actually lazy but justify it because we “think” during that time.

Though maybe we’re lazy because we’re tired. It takes a lot of energy to just deeply think about a problem, and it takes very little energy to do some mindless task. It’s like we’re super tired yet feel guilty because we weren’t hammering nails on a roof all day.

I wish I could work 12 hours a week doing software and like 20 doing electrical work as an electrician.
IMO this article actually does hit on something that is frequently missed:

the chain is worthless if there are regular re-orgs

The chain's security is primarily paid by the block subsidy

The block subsidy trends to zero.

Either the fees need to increase or the security property falls away and 1 Bitcoin = 2 Bitcoin
I've been seeing a lot of content on the internet talking about what "backs" Bitcoin or why it's worth what it is.

No one admits this simple truth that you just did. It worth what someone is willing to pay for it. End of story.

Asking WHY someone is willing to pay a certain amount is definitely an interesting question but a very different one.
Came here to post this. You beat me to it. Thank you!
At least they were trying and had some vision.
The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.
I never claimed it's the be-all future of software. It's got its uses and its uses are here to stay, that I'm sure of.
Turning chaos into order has some appeal.

Defrag is relaxing and hands off, but reverse engineering is a hard drug.
>There's also a lot more people trying to meme who are really awkward at it - see every Minions meme ever.

There's nothing awkward about those wacky tic tacs! https://www.reddit.com/r/WackyTicTacs/
this is nice. now amazon is looking at luna for linux. the idea is, people can build games, buy games and microsoft should not be in the loop. they have no justification for forcing people to lock in their customers and the endless loop.

i have been a fan of the whole FOSS movement and never played any games because i don't have a GPU to game on. lol. anyways, this is good for people too, when more people start to not need windows, software developers who have traditionally always relied on microsoft tech stack will have to look around at alternatives. all in all, this looks promising
Do you have to use your cellphone number to avail UPI services?

If that is the case, then it is not for me.
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No that is true and I definitely agree with that.

I guess you end up in a 5 minute job when your work is really boring.
Isn't that then the dunning-kruger effect?
Just ask them to send you a company issued computer. Use that one to do the work for that one client.
Nah, I liked it to. Having a hybrid tablet (Asus Transformer) helped, I think.
“Bitcoin is worth exactly 0” seems just as religious of a statement as “cryptocurrencies are the future of money”
It made a massive difference on spinny disks because of the elevator algorithm and the time it took to relocate physical heads and spin the disks around.
The "no bad questions" thing is big with me. I remember about 40 years ago talking to a smart latinist retraining into IT who said she felt hugely shamed and embarrassed at work having to ask what an IDE ribbon cable was.

Whoever was teaching them, needed a good talking to. Sure, in hindsight it's obvious, but also not.
And now that they removed the dislikes, good luck finding the scam videos (as a user)
My background is (somewhat) similar but for some reason I've been a stick in the mud keeping on with dplyr. Somehow I feel the verbosity helps make sure I get things right. And a lot of my code is not throwaway, I have pipelines I have to maintain and teach others to maintain. (There's a guy on my team replacing some of my uglier code with simple data.table non-equijoins and I can't even argue with him as I mentioned earlier!)

I'm glad you're having success with data.table and I totally support you against the forces of evil trying to make us use Spark or whatever is the latest big data nonsense to analyze a few million rows.

It's like how we may not agree what project management tool to use but we all agree it's not JIRA :)

I may end up switching to data.table after all. I find dplyr easier to reason about for complex production pipelines that need to be precisely "correct", but all the package developers are raising the bar all the time and data.table may be OK for this use case by now. I definitely do feel the pain point of dplyr slowness here and there.
I was in the market for a wood filing cabinet. The picture was something I wanted and it had good reviews. When you read the reviews in detail they start talking about using it as a kitchen island. Hmm
...OK. then you look at customer pictures and it's a metal rack.

Anyways. I buy online from Walmart or Target first if I can. Walmart seems to automatically price match Amazon, and 0 chance of fakes due to comingling or expired products due to comingling (sellers buy soon to expire products on the cheap, send it to Amazon and it gets mixed with everything else)
I'm probably one of the younger posters here, and memes are a welcome respite from the slog of my day-to-day. They're not always funny, they're not even always good. Memes are both information-dense and informal, a great combination for relaxing
without feeling dumb.
CPI includes housing as "Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence (OER)". If that inspires confidence in anyone, please, I'd like to hear how.
And a lot of reasons it's terrible.

Front and center is the number of transactions per second it can process. It's no where near being able to handle the volume of transactions that happen around the world.
(4 Choose 2) is 6. The quote only specified what to do with four of those combinations. What does one do with the other two?

Or is it just impossible to be both clever and stupid at the same time? I've had my share of both cleverly stupid ideas and stupidly clever ideas.
Some students use drugs to enhance their performance. I expect that top schools have a lot more performance drug users than other schools. Many people using performance drugs do not rest enough, exercise, or manage stress. They eventually develop health problems like depression.
As much as I despise Trump I think see very well why he became president back when he did and also why Joe Biden barely won despite the massive support he got from almost every tech and media company.
> If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.

Note that this doesn't always even involve taking it.

Go get a job offer that pays better and bring it to your boss. If they want to match it, great. If they don't, bye.
Most layer 1 Blockchains are trying to replace the existing payment processing systems such as visa. Not replace all of our computing infrastructure (although some are trying to do this such as ICP)
Not really; it is the server that tells all clients what the state is.

I know "there is nothing new that blockchain does" has become a meme among sceptics, but with respect, I am getting a bit tired of it.

It's just not accurate. You can argue that what the way blockchain allows for shared state is useless all they long, or that the financial use cases are undesirable, and that's all fine. But you simple cannot run the kind of apps that are running on Ethereum right now, enabling financial transactions, with the same guarantees of décentralisation and permissionless access, w/o a blockchain.

It may be useless and/or criminal, but it is certainly new and it works.
Isn't that exactly what blogs and blog posts are supposed to be? Personal?

Besides, it's actually a thread in a subforum whose description starts with "This board is dedicated to what you see around the world, news and your opinions." which fits rather well.

Now, whether it is HN-worthy or not is another story.
This makes no sense. What does who you identify with matter?
This is wrong IMO - the fed has NO tools in its hands. Its last tool was inflation rates, and it burned that during the great recession. It is now caught in a pickle: raise interest rates, causing a mass exodus of wealth from securities to savings accounts and CDs and causing the stock market to tumble (like it arguably always should have done since 2008), or let inflation take its course.

I am not an economist, and I'd love to be proven wrong. I just don't see how this ends in a good way for the economy.
key word being "easier". Thing is, when something is already easy, claiming "easier" is better isn't really a thing. Given clicking on the windows icon is actually a "sometimes" activity, it doesn't need to be optimized to be the easiest thing.
This is what made Data from Star Trek TNG such an interesting character to me. He embodies the beginner's mind quite well I'd say.
Amazon does not separate the inventory so you will never know whether what you get is amazon or third party inventory.
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5hr/week is probably overkill, unless one wants to coast in FAANGs.

I've gotten into companies with one of my only skills being interviewing by just doing a slew of problems for a couple weeks and then interviewing a lot. Inevitably, some company just asks easy/med and I"m good to go
Thanks, anyways. Ironic that they effectively "censored" my comment rather than engage with it.

Prompts a few thoughts for me: (1) coming to HN is like time-traveling ~10 years back, (2) HN today reminds of the late stages of after slashdot, digg, etc. peaked, and (3) decentralized projects have real incentives with "points" that mean something, so losing some silly HN points to moderation seems more meaningless than ever before.
No, those are two distinctly separate statements and only the 2nd references creditors.

Like the OP I don’t think you read it correctly.
I think you're missing the point. With a 6% inflation, a 6% raise means the employees are worth the same as before, not more.
And there was Inferno and Limbo. Probably the best system no one has ever heard of, a very much Oberon influenced virtual stack machine and OS. There once was a chance PlayStation could have adopted it, boy would that have changed the world.
let talent=0
then productivity = (time * effort)^0 = 1 = 100%
Sounds about right
"Never" doesn't only refer to the period from the 1970s to now. You'd be making a lot less than $23 per hour if wage growth never kept up with inflation.
Amazon has been selling lead toys for years

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/amazon-pr...

And school supplies for kids with lead

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-amazon...

Theoretically they now require tests, although it's a see no evil approach as the vendor supplies the test result.
Such a distributed block chain in the 90s could have changed the course of history.
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> Memes today seem to increasingly serve the function of a means of communicating ones personal opinions towards a subject with often times quite nasty undertones. Many memes today focus around an element of domination of the perceived opponents of whatever group or ideology made by the meme in question.

He sounds like the Virgin in the Virgin VS Chad meme. Remixing memes has been that way forever, bad advice dog turned into advice animals that also served opinions.
Exploiting JNDI Injections in Java (2019)
They don't waive more than what was defined in the PREP Act[0], they're exempt because it's an emergency and all evidence points at the treatment being better than the disease, and its production, distribution and administration is under government request.

This was enacted in 2005, shortly after the original SARS, partially because pharma companies were reluctant to mass produce any novel vaccine/drug under government request only for it to possibly bite their asses.

Another motivation for this was 2001, and the increasing potential threat of bioterrorism; companies lose any incentives to be responsive in the wake of such an attack.

This is just actuarial science: a relatively rare but serious side effect (i.e. not found in trials), when put on a massive scale, becomes a big enough threat for the economic viability of the company.

[0] https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/default...
As someone who does OK, but lives in reality (not the bay area), I feel a revolution coming. I hope it's not a violent one, but who knows at this point. Hopefully it's just a politician with big policy changes.

People feel completely disenfranchised. You keep hanging housing over their head but just out of reach like some baby toy, then inflation spikes everything else. What's the point of working even?

I don't know the solution, but I don't have a good feeling about the next 10 years.
The difference is that decentralization doesn't have a system of inequality built into it's core principles. Web3 inherantly and explicitly refers to things that integrate with blockchain technologies, and more often than not, cryptocurrency. Of course investors would be more interested in a platform where their financial superiority carries over, it lets them game the system unlike an ambiguous decentralized protocol.

> Do you refuse to acknowledge the value-add to decentralization that the first group brings?

Decentralization needs the blockchain less than the blockchain needs decentralization.
> Nassim Taleb says that Bitcoin is worth exactly 0.

It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it, which, right now, is about $47k USD.

For me, it's worth something because I own things now that I could only own because someone valued Bitcoin highly.

Maybe he has a different definition of worth.
we're reasonably competitive with the local market

One of the best things Covid has done for my salary is make remote work far more common so I could get a job outside of the local market without having to move.
> Re-write your code. Re-do your projects. Start from scratch. Let a new team try on their own. Software has such tremendous leverage, it’s way more valuable to do one thing twice than to do two things once.

Well I guess creating a gajillion prototypes is actually worth something -- learning what works and what doesn't allowing you to create a proper base for what actually sees the light of day.
I'd suspect that the longevity of a cloud provider or self hosted environment would be higher than the time miners are willing to support a new block chain (I'm not paying a btc transaction fee everytime I update an app).

How will miners be paid to host apps? Given that app usage concentrates into winner take all groupings wouldn't we except the web 3 winners to be paying for the vast majority of any web 3 mining?
It's two bits: lazy or industrious, clever or stupid.

So four combinations.
Some of the most productive I have ever been is when I have had no team, no PM, and just an high-level objective that needed to be achieved sometime in the next few weeks. I worked 3-4 hours a day, went to gym, enjoyed time with friends and family, and everyone was shocked at how much work was completed. Once we started building formal structures around the project, a lot of the progress slowed down.

Organizing people is hard. Being burnt out and frustrated takes a lot of time and energy. Someone can work hard 40 hours a week and get nothing accomplished (besides trying to get decisions made). I'm honestly starting to think that the people who aren't very invested get a lot done because they don't get distracted by politics. If all of your work energy is spent on getting work done, you'll do surprisingly well
Zero:

- It does not bring back dividends

- It does not work well as a currency

- It's not a good storage of value (too easy to get stolen)

The only thing it's mildly good at is enabling otherwise illegal transactions, such as ransomware.
Always with the Linux. I can't use Linux, I work in a Microsoft world. I can turn off the keylogger, and virtually anything else I don't want/like. I cannot (assuming I used their products) stop Google from storing my (MY!!) data on their infrastructure and having their way with it.
That narrative makes sense, except for one thing: why wouldn't the Fed have taken their foot off the gas once inflation hit, say, 4%? Why wait until we're at 6.8%?
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Only option is yo sort by newest review. It means bad reviews haven't been purged yet and is unaffected by fake votes.
Applying memory compression to browsers is a promising idea, the browser heap is not that high entropy and it's largely a white box from the browser runtime POV.
Six more women file lawsuits against Tesla, allege sexual harassment
According to docker, you use Dockers internal network.