skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, that is a bit out of touch with reality unfortunately.

Cars were immediately, obviously valuable to individuals - they gave people the freedom to go where they want to, with whom they wanted to, when they wanted to, and often allowed them to carry things that would otherwise be difficult to carry while doing so. Something which was otherwise very difficult to do previously.

If you use public transit, it’s very difficult to go somewhere others do not want to go, or at a time when others do not want to go. You’re tied to what everyone else wants, pretty explicitly, since unpopular routes or schedules get less frequent (or no) coverage, and are expensive to run. You also can’t carry arbitrary heavy stuff since that tends to require infrastructure that is difficult to carry by hand or is not compatible with typical people on foot.

Public transit is a system efficiency win, but a general loss for any outliers for individuals.

And since everything is public, it adds a lot of friction if you want to go with someone who you otherwise would have issues being seen with in public, or are going somewhere/doing something you’d rather not publicize, or who struggles with crowds or similar problems (such as those with disabilities, children who are too young to self ambulate well, etc).

Not unsolvable, but adds friction.

Cars are (when roads aren’t completely mangled anyway), individual luxury items - because they enable a large degree of useful freedom for individuals.

It’s no wonder that every economy that is able to pay for them goes crazy until it turns into a tragedy of the commons situation.
I have to tell you that your approach is the only one I can work with: change the display of text based on the semantic level (title, emphasis, etc) _but_ keep the formatting visible so you can easily edit it. If it's not there, no markdown editor makes it easy to e.g change a level 1 title to a level 2 title, apart from having to reach to the mouse.

Hope your approach gets more widespread !
If that was the case, we wouldn't even plug anything on the internet, ffs.
I hear you; the copyright case especially shows that he is no paragon of anti-capitalism. But I think it's worth maintaining that (1) some things are worse than other things and (2) motive matters and (3) imperfect people can still make good points.

I have never, ever felt like a piece of Banksy's art, or any original piece of visual artwork for that matter, is being shoved down my throat. They're quiet, static, relatively low in number, and easily avoidable & ignorable. I've never felt distracted or distressed because my local coffee shop has a new mural on their wall, and nobody has ever forced me to walk through an art museum in order to get to the grocery store. On the other hand, advertisements are loud, moving, insanely numerous, and totally non-optional. My local subway and subway stations are plastered in advertisements; if I want to transit anywhere, I must endure them.

Plus, the motives are different! Sure, Banksy or $artist_name likely want folks to find their art appealing and then compensate them somehow, via buying copies, commissioning new art, spreading their reputation, whatever. But advertisers do not care if you found their ad appealing; they just want you to buy their product. In fact, many ads are purposely obnoxious or abhorrent just because it's an effective way to bring your attention towards their product. How dystopian is that?

And yes, there's some irony in Banksy, as someone who occasionally benefits from copyright law, to be making this point. But that doesn't make him wrong! And, it'd be far more ironic if, I don't know, Sergey Brin or someone else who use hugely benefited from advertising and copyright law were making the point.
Spoiler alert: This article is from 2005, written by Steve Yegge and typical of his trademark blend of perspicacity and prolixity.

At the time, "people with 20 to 30 years of experience" would have started their careers in the mid-70's to mid-80's, and might well have been entrenched in Cobol, Fortran, mainframes, and the like. As of today, when people would have started in the late-80's / early-90's, it seems much more likely that they would have had opportunities at least for modern web development.

I myself started in the late 80's, programming IBM/370 mainframe assembler for System One, which was Eastern Airlines' computer reservation system. I have colleagues from my training class who will retire soon, having done nothing but that for their entire careers. I saw -- and rejected -- that possibility for myself, and instead actively sought opportunities to learn new technologies as they came along. I learned Java in 1997, and took a job at iXL, an early Java consultancy in Denver, just in time for the "dot-bomb" of the early 2000's. I started paying attention to Ruby in 2005 and worked primarily as a Rails contractor in 2006 - 2007. I started paying attention to Clojure around 2010 and became the first technical hire at a Clojure-based startup in 2011. I currently work as a Senior SDE at Amazon (opinions my own, obvs), having been here for nearly seven years and having written code in Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, etc. for a number of Amazon-scale systems.

"It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage." -- Indiana Jones
The masters ranking does matter if you’re international
In Sweden, a vaccine passport on a microchip implant
These guys are hacks. There are papers by serious economists on this question.
What is fast storage? Is that, for right now, the fastest SSDs available?
You've missed the point. McDonalds here in Seattle starts workers at $16+. A Big Mac is still within a dollar or two of what it is in the rest of the country. It's not $20.

Dick's Deluxe starts pay at $19 and has benefits. Their burger is $1.80.
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OK I run several mail servers and I do have problems but of another kind that you describe. But this one is a bit ridiculous:

> When you need to explain to people why they can't send you that 100 MB video attachment which they sent to other people just fine but only your address is bouncing and why don't you fix your email already.

The maximum attachment size for Gmail is still conservative 25 MB and they basically dictate what is currently to be expected in terms of attachments going through.
They elected a crypto-bro as president.
Definitely not the case in EU and where so, it's only because of governmental inference in the market. Czechia deregulated few years ago and instantly (literally the first day the deregulation came into effect) there was 10+ new rail travel companies operating on basically every conceivable route.
I mean, I do.
Of course not. The US hasn't had a free market economic system, or anything closely resembling that, in 60+ years. The US is at best a mixed economic system.

The megabanks didn't crash the world economy, they assisted as role players. The Fed's artificially low interest rates - an attempt to try to dodge a harsher recession after 9/11 and the dotcom implosion - primed a massive real-estate bubble that inevitably had to collapse. Just as the Fed has once again primed the massive asset bubbles in the US (both stocks and housing) by holding rates artificially low for far too long to try to spur fake economic growth.
You're jumping to false conclusions. Please see my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692971.
Looks quite nice, this is what all Electron apps should be instead.
Idk, I have never been upset about ads in real life, I wouldn't consider most if any as unwanted.
Pretty horrific. We're in hell. Anyone who gets this has either never read a single dystopian book, or they don't care, or think it couldn't happen now to us.
As wealth concentrated to a few thousand people, fiscal policy shifted from full employment to as close to zero inflation as possible. One of the ways to do that has been to devalue labor. Another has been the manipulation of asset pricing through increasingly cheaper debt.

Even progressives are stuck in a Stockholm syndrome like thought process for this stuff. People pitch stupidity like UBI over paying an honest days wage for an honest days work.
Np, it is an easy mistake to make.
I thought this was going to be about electronic circuits. It's AI/ML.
Not liking the cost implies knowing the cost in advance. Does your website disclose that it's ad-supported, which data will be collected and how it will be used (which is required if your are based in the EU or offer service to EU-based customers) and whether you take responsibility for any ill effects from executing the ad code? Because otherwise it can be argued you are also "stealing" people's computing resources and personal data before they could make a conscious decision to "pay".

> steal

Theft implies that you are deprived of the item once it's stolen - this is not the case here, and the costs should be taken into account either way. You're comparing fractions of a cent from an ad view with $100. I'd feel much better about stealing the former than the latter even in case of actual, physical theft.

> they dont let you taste in advance

It doesn't have an impact on the "theft" scenario, but in case of a paid product I would still expect a refund if the bread is defective (moldy or fake) or was mis-sold with false advertising.
I recently agreed with a client that they’d pay in Bitcoin for an invoice that I sent them :)

I received half of it in Bitcoin and the other half via old fashioned bank transfer. It was a neat experiment, and I plan on accepting payment in crypto for some invoices that I send in the future as well.
>"You can defraud people at scale and completely get away with it."

That's possible with any fiat currency too.
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It's hard to mug someone of their cash from the other side of the planet. That physical proximity limitation seems to provide a relative amount of safety.
McD's workers in Denmark are paid $22US/hr + 6 wks paid vacation, and their Big Macs only cost $0.35 more than in the US.
You mean American employers are too cheap to pay for anything other than immigrants?
>I do not concern myself with non-practical (in my opinion) matters because I know that the vast majority of people will not take that path, so it’s likely not an issue.

Vanguard index funds are basically meme stock status in large part because of articles like this. So arguably it's already happening and distorting prices.
I'll give this a shot:

1. Learn React and Typescript. React has taken root in the enterprise and it seems to be the frontend equivalent of Java.

2. Learn about CI/CD: Github Actions is a good starting place. If you're hosting your projects in something like Vercel, try running separate staging and production environments.

3. Look at popular open source frontend projects. The newly released Supabase dashboard[0] seems to be a pretty good starting point to figure out modern best practices. Excalidraw is another[1].

4. Frontend masters has some pretty good courses regarding React and enterprise Typescript. Would give those a try (the price is $39/month).

5. Where I'm from (Finland) Spring Boot (Java/Kotlin) seems to be the most popular backend framework. Node and Python frameworks share the second place. If you want to learn backend, I'd suggest picking one of those three. Rails if you really want to.

6. At some point you'll probably want to work with AWS. If React is the Java of the frontend then AWS is the Java of infrastructure.

7. It's never a bad idea to know SQL.

[0]: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/studio

[1]: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
> It just does them without some of those limitations.

How so?

The hard problem is linking a public key to a real-world identity. A blockchain doesn’t help with this in any way.
The brand name is "Thinner", which as of now appears to be a product from Con-Air.
He compares programming to the NFL and how practice is needed in both. This is horrible analogy. The NFL specifically sets aside more 80% of its time to practice so that they can play for a total of 20 minutes a week.

He then says programmers need to practice on their own time.

The analogy falls apart.
One big problem with your argument is that the word "yet" should be added almost everywhere. And in fact other responses have pointed out that there are plenty of places where ads are delaying interactive purchases. It's only a matter of time until it is in almost all the places you mentioned.

For as long as there's no good pushback/regulation, there'll always be someone willing to pay to insert ads somewhere and someone willing to accept their money, because there's almost no immediate downside and the amount of money offered keeps going up until you fold. It happens continually, everywhere, that more and more ads, and more and more intrusive ones, keep appearing, and defending the status quo won't help us.
I am holding out for a professional position where I will work 24-32 hours per week with benefits. I am not doing the full-time "you own me" rodeo again.
I still don’t really understand how you can end up in that situation. It seems contrived. With proper driving technique, it shouldn’t be possible. Granted, mistakes happen, but I’ve never been in a situation where the difference was noticeable or relevant.
It was never lost on me that the length is encoded, my very first comment mentions it's the same in Java: the number of bytes you pass in is encoded.

My point isn't that every language should force that syntax ('offset' for example, doesn't make sense in languages with pointer math for example)

Rather the point is that when the language doesn't follow that convention, it should buffer by default. I guess it is a blind spot in the standard library then
Past discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8864176

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434991

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2833
That is mostly their fault for not voting (renters are less likely go vote and thus don't matter). Also their fault for not realizing property tax that the landlord pays comes from rent or lack of maintenance (complex because supply and demand sets rent prices, so tax is a second order effect)
I remember when I didn't even have $5/day to spend on coffee to skip for even one subscription pitched that way.
>Yes, there are other possibilities. By nature those are more bureaucratic and jittery.

Not really. The biggest corruption, waste of money and worst outcomes are when private and public sector intersect. Pure public (like healthcare systems outside US) or private (like food distribution) segments work best.
Continuing with the scenario: Easy fast food has contributed to the obesity epidemic, factory farming conditions, eviction of families from farms to corporations can take them over, and environmental disasters that contribute to global warming. The absence of fast food places is a benefit to a sustainable society.
That’s exactly what I said. :)
TL;DR: Get a high paying job, live frugally, invest everything else and don't have children.
Late to the table? Yes, the Soviets started fighting in 1939, but it wasn't against the Nazis.
And you're not even exaggerating, here's his Twitter profile:

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele?s=20
> A better solution imho would be to celebrate success but to also encourage the successful to share their insights with others so as to spread the fortune

Ideally yes. Though IME often the advice isn't applicable, so beyond a few fundamentals they break down. For example I cannot un-have kids, and getting a master's or doing a startup on the side would basically require neglecting them for too long. (Or quiting my day job and burning through our savings.) Lifestyle advice like modest living or moving far away also requires buy in from an SO or a painful break up/divorce. It's also a risk since they may change their mind early in the plan. Or they may decide the outcome wasn't worth the sacrifice and want to (or you to) return to the grind.
Aggressively move the scooters out of the way: https://youtu.be/ab9TYsIItyM
Ask HN: What nonprofits do you donate to?
Hi HN! It's time for end-of-year giving, and I'm always looking for charitable causes that will put my money to good use. What nonprofits do you support?

Personally, I like GiveDirectly—their work is research-backed and life-changing—and if you're interested in donating to them I'd appreciate if you did so through my weird little romantic art project (100% of your donation goes to GiveDirectly): https://helpmepropose.live

I'd love to learn about other great organizations!
> paying people not to work (ie increased government handout)

83% of the value of all the 2020-21 Paycheck Protection Program loans were forgiven as of December 19th, 2021 [1]. That's a total value of $653,038,613,899. That's nearly as large as the 2008 bailouts. Even that doesn't tell the whole story because 94% of the 2020 loans alone were forgiven, and 2021 is on track to meet it.

[1]: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/2021.12.19_W...
The model my search uses is for the public search to essentially be a loss leader for the search as a service - site owners can pay a small fee to access extra features such as being able to configure what is indexed, trigger reindexing on demand, etc. It also heavily downranks pages with adverts, to try to eliminate the incentive for spamdexing.
Gmails spam filtering isn't exactly a high bar
> When someone is mugged and has $100 cash stolen, you don't disparage the idea of holding cash.

Yes, you do, if you are using “cash” in the same sense in both places (physical currency).

If you use cash to mean “fiat denominated depository accounts and investment instruments” in the second case, sure, you don't hear that, but that's equivocation as that's not something that gets stolen in a mugging.
> Would you also call Bansky a "vandal"?

Yes. I like Banksy drawings, really. But Banksy was vandal when Banksy drew his thing on the same wall again and again, while owner quite clearly did not wanted that and kept repainting the wall again again. And to be frank, he was also asshole about it.

Banksy can be both and is both.
> If the government pays people to stay home, do you have a free market?

83% of the value of all the 2020-21 Paycheck Protection Program loans were forgiven as of December 19th, 2021 [1]. That's a total value of $653,038,613,899. That's nearly as large as the 2008 bailouts. Even that doesn't tell the whole story because 94% of the 2020 loans alone were forgiven, and 2021 is on track to meet it.

[1]: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/2021.12.19_W...
Steve - oh, this got me curious, if there is any ongoing support of the published book that led you to retiring it.

I will drop a line - this does not, however, put any social responsibility into you, feel free to ignore :-)
When I read this it feels like the underlying question to be answered off it is "how do we force more people back to work?". Work shouldn't be mandatory.
It's hard to say exactly what would happen. Generally it's hard in the short term, as businesses deal with decreased demand. Long term, it means the population is less susceptible to global downturns, and can more easily ride out personal income loss.
Check out OrgPad if you want to see an evolution of mind maps which is actually useful for serious work. For example this single diagram explains why Clojure is great: https://orgpad.com/s/oirCrD.
How did you make mor? i worked in Sweden and my compensation was 4x less than it is in America. Unless you got extremely lucky or were much more senior it’s impossible, case in which you would have made far far more in the us anyhow
Whether or not the text is "divinely inspired" is a different point than whether it is divinely dictated, which is what I was responding to. Of all the books of the Bible I can think of, none of them even claim to be divinely dictated - except for the ten commandments.
Bitcoin isn’t the $100 bill in your wallet, it’s your bank account.

If my bank account can be completely drained in a way that the money can’t ever be recovered, that’s not a feature, it’s a bug.
Agreed on #1. Once youre a legitimate member of a subreddit, post a beta version of your site. If it actually provides value and is useful (and you are not shilling), people should love it.

Here is an example: https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/qshpov/i_started_ma...

522 votes and 51 comments on a relatively small subreddit put it in near the top for a day or two. Idea validated.
But by that (lack of) definition everything is art. Which makes this interpretation useless.
way way way harder than that.
You list three proposed benefits. (I'm listing them in the order I will address them):

1) make non-key joins stand out
2) conciser syntax
3) less susceptible to joining on wrong columns

1) I'll concede this. But I don't see enough value in it to add (and force people to learn) an alternative JOIN syntax

2) That's not at all clear from your example. Nor does it necessarily follow from the proposal in general

3) This would be your strongest argument. But it's not really a problem in the real world. If/when this happens, it does so for one of three reasons:

- the programmer misunderstood the data model
- the programmer misunderstands JOINs in general - how they work and how to write them
- the programmer wasn't paying attention to what they were doing - e.g. copy/pasted the wrong thing

All of these are bigger problems - they transcend the the realm of JOINs.

As with 1), I don't see enough value in it to make the overall language (and parsers) more complex.

SQL has lots of warts. It is an unpleasant language. It is a difficult language to learn (initially). But it (mostly) works.

If I was going to advocate for a change like this, I'd propose a new join type called something like FK JOIN:

SELECT * from table1
FK JOIN table2

This would work sort of like NATURAL JOIN, but without any possibility of ambiguity (and only on the key column).
I’m very familiar :)

I’m not trying to criticize anyone, just offering a friendly reminder that letting these injokes leak outside of 4chan or reddit can have unfortunate consequences since most people won’t be as understanding as you or me.
https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
If someone tagged my front door I'd be quite angry about it and clean it off.
If someone spent 6 hours with a ladder carefully painting the entire outside of my house with a beautiful mural I'd still be upset that they painted my house without my permission but I'd probably leave it there.
I guess that must be it. The scale certainly has a plastic box component that could house a battery, but it does not appear to be user-accessible.

I guess I have to abandon my whacky theory that somehow the kinetic energy transferred every time I step on and off the scale was being converted into a tiny amount of electricity by some kind of internal generator.
I don't carry cash partly for this reason so yes I do?
Actually I do. I only carry around less than $50 dollars of cash around with me. So I can pay someone who can't accept credit cards.
Have to agree. Especially in the beginning, it is important to have some experienced devs around. Later you could try to go on your own, but very difficult in the beginning.
Perhaps it's overly cynical, but "X name has Y hits on Wikileaks" reads to me as an oblique claim of wrongdoing by X. Famously, that particular tactic was used during the last American presidential election, with the "Y hits" including silly things like birthday emails and recipes.

If you just meant "here are some potentially interesting documents that have Desmond Tutu's name in them," then it's not clear what linking to Wikileaks offers that linking to WaPo's, WSJ's, NYT's, or even just Google's search results does not. But normally linking to the results of a search with no other context would be considered a frivolous thing to post, which is again why I assumed that you had some other implied statement in mind.
Yeah, org-mode has org-fragtog but I'm not aware of something like that for markdown.