skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that is not known to everyone and therefore may come as a surprise to some is that corporations (in the US) are taxed on profit, not on income. This is the explanation to the click baity titles like "Amazon paid less tax than you this year!" etc. So any profit a company makes is basically the same as writing a check to the government; more likely, it would be better spent growing the business. Any kind of growth company should have a goal of making close to zero profit.
Could it be a product of movie script writing quality? You might find the Youtube channels CinemaSins and The Critial Drinker interesting if so.
"If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job."

Between the two extremes (mediocre and rockstar/10x), there are many 'competent' people who can't get promoted to their 2x salary jobs. And these people are competent in a particular niche, not like those who aced programming olympiads, compiler gurus, kernel hackers, etc.
> In case someone wants to build it: my personal willingness to pay is (currently) somewhere between 100-500$ if it is somehow portable like a backpack.

A box of anti motion-sickness medication costs about €3 for 20 pills and is significantly smaller than a backpack.
If someone sells small packets of flour and says it’s a powder that cures cancer, then the packets are snake oil, but that doesn’t mean flour is snake oil.
The orange color seems quite harmless, and the text is still black on white. Plus you can get the orange borders to go away by resizing the window. So I really don't see the problem.
What are your thoughts on TikTok having more web traffic in 2021 than Google or Facebook?
Contractors don't really take away jobs from people and I see this as no different. The people capable of this are relatively small in number even in an industry full of talented people.
> What's needed is deescalation

So go tell the fucking PRC to deescalate.
The spread of coronavirus by vaccinated persons in groups in indoor spaces is a scientific fact too. So what? The debate is not about that, it's about whether prescribing certain medical procedure by state coercion, and limiting the civil rights of persons who choose not to undergo this procedure is a proper policy and whether the laws of the land allow the government to do that.

It's a legitimate debate which has nothing to do with "conspiracies" - you don't need any conspiracies to find reasonable argument on both sides of the debate. If you don't like the side that that particular site is on and disagree with their arguments - fine, but that doesn't mean they are lying about other factual things (they are not). There's a huge distance between disagreeing and refusing to even listen to other side's arguments, and even worse - refusing to listen to anything from somebody that once had an opinion you disagree with - this is no way for a society to function.
There's also a massive unregulated conflict of interest here: reviewing the source code will require experience which someone is unlikely to have without also having a financial interest in expanded use of cryptocurrencies. As we've seen so many times over from all of the cryptocurrency boosters who talked up code or services until a major problem occurred, this can cloud someone's judgement even if they're not intentionally scamming you.
Ok I agree, different types of people have different kinds of systems that are the most simple for them. But in that case, is it also possible that for some people the most simple system has a lot of large dependencies? (Maybe people who are young, used to writing by typing on a smartphone, not used to pen and paper, and never used git or a command line)
Interesting. Did you first encounter the Agassiz story in Pound's ABC of Reading?

And was the recitation to be from memory?
May ai suggest a different spin? Try to put 30% more effort, but into learning stuff for your own sake. This will make you a better engineer. As a side effect you may be more worth to the company you work for and/of get a better job somewhere else later.
Americans are finally catching up to Third World standards. It's pretty common to work two jobs and juggle between them, it's just that you used to be able to have a decent life with one revenue stream. It seems that after covid this will no longer be the case. ;)
He's complaining that people expected a magic wand from trump but don't of Biden, not that Biden doesn't have a magic wand.
Only two? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589
This is great, and exactly what I needed.
no because similar to PGP keys it really doesn't matter where you publish your fingerprint or how you connect your identities. If shaq had a popular website, he could do it there too. E.g. I have my PGP fingerprint on my website: https://timdaub.github.io
Exactly. I don't understand how forcing a spin off of Instagram or however you want to organize the breakup resolves any of the problems HN has with FB.

Instagram would still be run by the same people, owned by the same people, and run with largely the same goals (profit, expansion, etc...)
If Facebook were forcibly broken into several federated social networks, then ones that kept making "mistakes" like this one would lose all of their users to ones that didn't.
Sorry but the silicon valley ethos is that only geniuses matter. Everyone else, the 99% non-savants, aren't relevant and can be discarded when needed.
Creating a multilingual blog using WordPress
> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job.

Nope
Fascinating question. I suppose it depends on the size of the rock? Anything big "enough" would cause real problems, but a single molecule of rock would probably not matter too much. Presumably cosmic rays are triggering single neuron molecules all the time, but because there is a lot of redundancy this does not propagate into real activity.
In case anyone is interested, you can get 3x or 4x on YouTube by opening the console and using this one-liner

document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3
You can silence skeptics by sharing information. Not sharing leaves doubt.
Or you could say Happy Hanukkah at first and then switch to Merry Christmas once Hanukkah is over.
A lot is accounting treatment, though I agree with you in terms of cash. Businesses with high value investment opportunities should spend every dollar they have and then some. If it’s on something that gets expensed (Marketing) then profit is zero. If it’s something that gets capitalized (equipment) then the cash hit is immediate but profit impact is peanut buttered over time. Either way companies with growth prospects should spend.

The flip side is that many companies get large enough that they can’t invest smartly any more. So they should give money back. (IBM, etc)
1 hour of CD quality mono FLAC encoded is about 100-150 MB. Is that small enough?
So basically you want to be worked hard like a horse and feel satisfied at the end of the day when you lay your head down to rest that you have made a difference, don’t even care much about the money because the work is it’s own reward.
r/antiwork is a terrible forum. The legitimate criticisms of western working culture are mixed in with people who just don't think they need to contribute to society in order to benefit from it. There's too many highschoolers complaining about their first job to take it seriously.
I'm sure it's harder to get when you're more senior, but I started working as a graduate in London for £30k 3 years ago and am now on £60k. I think this is pretty typical in London.
I read it on Idlewords: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm. Pretty much all the talks there are fantastic!
I know for a fact that at Meta (Facebook), even if you literally are a genius and were promoted twice in 2 years you wouldn't be doubling your total comp.
I think that main web3 innovation is more like mindset innovation rather than more common technology innovation that improves performance, efficiency, etc.

Take bitcoin as an example, of course you can make internet money cheaper using centralized service but it would be bad because you have to put a lot of trust into someone’s hands. That culture and mindset grows into whole finance applications where you get defi and property rights where you get nft. Nft is not only digital art you can use nft to represent domain names and this will cut out authority middle man out of the equation - your keys your domain, it’s impossible to do with web2.

Some people dismiss these as important but that’s what people in crypto are concerned with - replacement of unnecessary middleman, gatekeepers, regulations with transparent cryptography and code. If you subscribe to this values than you add new constraints and previous solutions that can be better and faster no longer work.
No, it's creating jobs for the unlucky ones who have to clean up the mess the one 200% employee made.
I find SpeedCrunch can be very useful along side excel once you get a feel for it. Often I use SpeedCrunch's unit conversion and SI prefix features to distill all the magic numbers I need and double check my formula. After that, creating a formula in excell (or another language) to deal convert data in a strange format is easy.

Learning SpeedCrunch is easy if you're already comfortable with single-line calculators. It has autocomplete that will help learn some of the SpeedCrunch specific units. For example, year_julian vs year_tropical, gallon_US vs gallon_UK are slightly different.
You are not old fashioned. 2 GB is way beyond acceptable for that purpose. Hell, even 1% of that is pushing it.
Literally the first reference/citation of "Broad Daylight" is attributed to Zenz. The Washington post does no additional verification but attribute to "researchers" who will no doubt also quote Zenz. It's also Washington Post. There are no verifiable sources alleging coerced labour that doesn't trace back to Zenz. Bitterwinter or HKFP are also far from reliable, on par with Epochetimes bias.

>Hugo Boss Chinese branch contradicted the Hugo Boss global headquarter without authorization, and make your judgement call for why.

Global HQs making judgement calls due to coordinated pressure campaign from their primary markets, against the due diligence of their local branch who has on the ground experience. Make your judgement call for why.
One thing I am incredibly cognizant of is the balkanization of the web. Different territories and privacy regimes will dictate various compliance steps... navigating this will be difficult. As a site operator I plan on collecting analytics accordingly, with a polymorphic payload that knows whats allowed to be collected where possible...
New tool for remote learning and development
There’s a ton of content out there, but the best advice I’ve seen is simple.

1. Find a (ideally large) group of people you care about

2. Find a problem they have

3. Solve it
Any retail trader can buy a few puts on SPY for however far out they think a crash is coming
> they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary

That's only the case if they were underpaid to begin with. It will plateau very quickly.
Text files are uniquely good at creating habits.

You can write them everywhere, read them everywhere, send them everywhere, effortlessly back them up and copy them. You absolutely own a text file on your computer. They're maximally cross-compatible (barring some quirks like UNIX/DOS linebreaks). Every computer and phone has a basic text processor.

Compare with a dedicated tool like Evernote - I now have to worry about the installing it, maintaining it, having my workflow broken by a new update, the developers selling my data to China, etc.
Putting everybody in solitary confinement would also prevent persons from gathering in groups and further spreading covid19. Obviously, nobody (so far) is advocating this. So you can appreciate the difference between measuring a policy only on single metric of efficiency, and comprehensively weighting overall costs and benefits. Not every efficient policy is legal, moral or acceptable.
A thread can scan the opcodes only to find cut-off points and distribute actual decoding to other cores. Surely you can do that with some simd magic, as well as the decoding threads, without needing to encode properties of today's simd in the encoding.
As a remote manager, I find this list of red flags helpful for future reference.
The classic advice is for career advancement. For promotions and raises and for internal political capital to promote the projects you want, or the implementation you think best. Sure, if you just want to a be a cog in the machine, without broader responsibility (and the historically much higher compensation for that) then don't do more than the is necessary to ensure you remain employed.

But it probably is more lucrative to achieve some success, and then leverage that to the next thing (which might need to be a different company).
"Just don't use it" doesn't apply to things with a network effect.
2021's floods and heat waves are signs of what's to come
Just be careful what you wish for. One coworker of mine at a previous company did this and burned out really quick. He had a family (16 year old son and 9 year old daughter) and could never use vacation to spend time with them. He would use vacation time at one company to catch up on work from the other. He offered me once to join a team to have two remote jobs but I declined. But I did admire his tenacity and sacrifice for his children.
My expectations were pretty low. The website delivered: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oaiipqmos484ojs/low_expectations.p...
There’s not a limited number of jobs. Anybody who is capable of providing a positive ROI on their salary is worth hiring.
The page is inaccessible now, resource limit reached.

for any given hi-tech job these days, the employee agreement always states this is your sole job per contract and all your inventions belong to your employer too(not just the 40 hours per week), especially for full-time w-2 jobs. How could you have two in parallel? are we violating the hiring contract here?

Assuming two jobs have no conflict of interests of course, otherwise it's illegal in most cases and nobody wants to do that(other than it's too unethical)
A pattern I've noticed with double job workers:

1. They tend to work double jobs at frankly lower tier companies with lower standards and significantly lower pay. Because the companies are lower tier, they stagnate in their career growth because the company is not teaching them good skills. And you cannot put both jobs in your resume, only one on top of that, and this will show up in future background checks.

2. Because of double working, they are pretty much guaranteed to not get promoted beyond the standard terminal level.

3. They think that promos (like this article), are at most only %10, while promos are more like a x1.5 to x2 of your income.

4. You cannot work at proper startups and learn a ton, because the workload would be way too high for this strategy.

Real example: One person I know has 2 $150k jobs for a total of $300k. If they joined as a jr engineer at a FANGMULA or equivalent, they would be making $300k, not be fucking stressed about the duplicity that is working 2 jobs, learn more because it's a better company and get promoed to sr engineer within a year or two and make $400-500k instead. If they have ambition, they can cross the leadership rubicon (either through becoming a staff engineer or manager) and make even more, reaching up to $700k-$1M eventually.

Maybe if your having a hard time breaking into startups or FANGMULA and your just starting out, this might be an ok strategy, but beyond that, it's not a good idea.
I love splitbee.io, been using it for a year now in all my projects.
Letter encouraging Pfizer to delay the vaccine until late November
Sure. Look I'm not advocating for any particular solution here, just trying to point out the hopefully obvious fact that websockets are not a silver bullet. You've basically described why websockets unlock optimizations, which was my point.

Nothing in the GP's post is novel to websockets. Session based resource management is difficult, doubly so for long lived sessions. Relying on websockets to magically make that easy is foolish.

> Not only could this add a lot of complication, now you've actually introduced the problem of state outliving your endpoints!

I only want to point out that this is true with websockets as well, so I find this argument unconvincing. For websockets, what do you do when re-establishing a connection? You start anew or find the existing session. What if the client suddenly disappears without actively closing the connection? You have some sort of TTL before abandoning the session.

It's the exact same problem either way.
AKA How to end up with zero remote jobs.

Seriously, don't do this. Just because you can exploit a system doesn't mean you should.
Well, yes. I am old and have made decent money. Getting together with a bunch of friends to collectively spend $15k a head just for the flight to do a destination trip is insane to me. I asked, "Why not just fly business class or first?" but "this isn't that much more expensive and is way better."

Well, sure, I've flown on private planes because while I am not wealthy, I know lots of dotcom lottery winners. It's a great experience if you're not footing it. No meaningful security, you arrive, park, and walk out to the plane, then when you land, Enterprise (or whoever) has a car 50 feet away ready to go. Super nice but insane if you aren't at the "I don't even need to think about it" point in terms of retirement savings.

It's vaguely the upper-income silicon valley millennial cohort doing this. I know a few. I can't be alone in that, I don't know _that many_ people in that age range.
> The first amendment protects against government censorship only - nothing Facebook does could infringe your first amendment rights.

This is true, but remember that there's a lot of terrible things that the Constitution doesn't prohibit, e.g., murder. The fact that something isn't Constitutionally prohibited doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a law against it.
No you're wrong. Section 230 determines a publisher from a platform based on what they host on their service. If they pick and choose what goes on their service they are a publisher and lose their section 230 immunity. So it's not true that they can "do whatever they want."

And they do engage in censorship. See "Laptop from Hell" by Miranda Devine
Depends when in your career, and what the company is doing. I went from my first starting salary of $72k at age 23 (in 2003) as engineer #2 to $150k as chief architect about 5 years later. After another 5 years we sold the company, and I was making better than $300k salary plus bonus in 2013. So that’s two doublings in 10 years. But it’s also probably the exception that proves the rule.
Machine searching could have been good enough, but search is an adversarial problem in a way that libraries aren't.
I can appreciate that, as I have paid for similar 'hacker focused' projects e.g. playdate.

It just seems very expensive to me considering how lacking it is even in terms of basic drivers but I suppose if people who are into this stuff think it's fairly priced then it's all good! Replies to me certainly seem to confirm that!
It's ironic that a site about working two simultaneous jobs has a "resource limit exceeded" error.
That is possible for some people, also depends on the culture of the team one is part of. An average guy needs good mentors, good team mates who can teach, etc. Such teams are very hard to find. So, in that case, one has to be driven to learn on his own without any aid.
Show HN: Jupyter kernel using Poetry for reproducible Python package management
You're miscalculating by trillions of dollars of capital investment across Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

Data centers, research & development, operations, national infrastructure (eg telecom), chips & hardware, software (R&D to maintenance). Now climb inside any of those segments and walk the horizon of the businesses and costs and what was required to build out what eg semiconductors can do today, or what fiber can do today, or what networks can do today, or what harddrives can do today, or what GPUs can do today, and on and on and on and on it goes.

Do a tally on Google's capital investment since 1998 (year by year and final tally), then tell me Web 2.0 wasn't as expensive; then do it for Apple, Microsoft, AWS, etc. It was drastically more expensive. Web 2.0 also includes China's Internet build-out era, and the global mobile build-out, I really don't need to say anything more than that given the scale everyone here knows we're talking about: Web 2.0 was massively more expensive than Web 1.0, by at least a magnitude globally.

Web 1.0 was laughably trivial in cost compared to Web 2.0. It was petite, tiny, itsy bitsy small, versus scaling to billions of global users across all major economies, and shifting tens of trillions of dollars of GDP online.

Just the entertainment wing of Web 2.0 is larger and more expensive than all of Web 1.0 combined.
OMG, again? Are we going to see this every week now? This guy has two jobs already and still has time to brag about and promote his blog? Please don't ruin the remote work for us.
and how well are those laws preventing these actions? Long term there are few things more damaging to a societies justice system than wide spread breaking of laws. Go on long enough, and people stop taking every law seriously, while at the same time political reasons for prosecution starts dominating.
I actually agree with you over the other comments. I think the idea of industriously trying to be the worst worker you possibly can (while not being fired) is one of those self-defeating efforts to do less work where you actually do more work in a lot of ways. You've got to justify to yourself continually that you're not being a drain or a bad person. You've got to juggle context switching between two roles during an overlapping period, making both more difficult than they would be individually and leaving yourself worse able to focus generally. (I suppose you could probably block your schedule to make this work better but I can't see a silver bullet solution for all the time.) You've got to compartmentalize your jobs and your interaction with coworkers. I know that with my personality, these factors would be major drags on my mental and emotional well-being. I would feel like a fraud for a long time before getting used to something like this.

With a business, while you deal with some similar issues (compartmentalization, context-switching), I expect they'd feel far less invalidating (again, to me/those with similar personality types) because you'd know you were actually applying yourself to do the best you could.
This looks like wireshark's panel for inspecting packets
SEC: absolutely fine with penny stocks with 1000% daily fluctuations

SEC: derivatives of a trillion dollar asset are risky

This is all a theater. The real reason is they are trying to slow down the proliferation of cryptocurrencies.
If DOJ broke up FB, it would be split along business units. There is no possible outcome in which the core FB product would be split into "several federated social networks," which is a different technology and business altogether.
> There was a solution to all of this created back in the '90s. It's called Section 230. It says that platforms that host content aren't legally responsible for what people post on it. If the platform picks and chooses what goes on its platform then it's a publisher, not a platform. Thus it loses it's Section 230 immunity.

Wow that would be way to clean and beautiful of an solution to be an option nowadays