skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, outside the HN bubble people in some states already did that months ago.

The issue, and this remains true today, is that hospital space is filling up fast (and did fill up in those states months ago).

A discussion must take place about balancing our individual social needs with the needs of our public health system. There was a train-derailment in Montana in 2021, and COVID19 filled up their hospitals so much that the injured needed to be driven 2+ hours away to look for hospital space / treatment.

Is that the kind of community you want to be a part of? Where your nearby doctors and nurses are not accepting any of the injured train passengers due to the overwhelming COVID19 case numbers?

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We definitely need to do our part as individuals to minimize the damage we cause to our hospital systems.

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There's something to be said that "Yes, this tradeoff is worthwhile but only for the end-of-year parties". Vs overwhelming your hospital space just to "own the libs" when no major parties / social events are even happening in the middle of August.
13 people in my immediate circle got it in the last 7 days. A few had 2 days of fever, a few a slight cough, a few sore throats. Everybody is fine now.
What is your wife’s occupation?
"The Icelandic power facility our bot depends on is currently overloaded by mining rigs, please wait several minutes for"
QWERTY has a steep learning curve as well, it’s just that it’s so ubiquitous that most people don’t question or remember the work that was put into.
That's incredibly helpful and insightful, thank you!
Definitely true. But the causation may be backwards. Perhaps people are making the decision not to have kids based on how expensive it would be, the expense in opportunity cost and career advancement is higher with the more income you have.
I don't see any actual arguments, just strawman attacks.

Edit: since the end of the thread is reached and I cannot reply to your reply - funny how you proved my point as well, by still avoiding actual reasoning. Have a good day.
> Many people would happily buy (as in pay once, play forever) films and TV shows

You can do this, physically or digitally.
Yes. It is easier to persuade people of a belief based in fact.
Why? What can you do with that that you can't do when a user downloads your software via some other means, verifies its hash ... and then runs it as root?
I have so much to say on the topic that I probably can't fit it in an HN comment but some key points
1. Some personality testing is definitely pseudo-science. Some (big5, attachment styles, etc.) are empirically supported.
2. Often personality tests are used incorrectly. For instance, MBTI gets criticized for not being valid, but what does valid mean? If you're talking about a predictive validation study for something like hiring, then yes, it's not valid, but the authors would never have wanted it to be used for hiring/selection.
3. We see value of personality testing mostly in being (1) a framework to understand people and (2) a vocabulary to be able to describe ourselves and our intrapsychic experiences (3) a way to feel less alone/alienated in our suffering. For instance, if you understand that your attachment style (which is causing you suffering in your relationships) is common and mostly not your choice, it might make you feel less defective/alone.
If the target site is controlled by the same party, it could easily include logic for loading the auto-scrolling script when opened from the player, and pretending to be a regular site otherwise.
It isn't 100% MRI 3.0 compatible[0] and wasn't able to run Rails at first. It's also not always faster for Rails which occupies a lot of Ruby mindshare.

[0] https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby#current-status
If this is true, I hope she is in contact with an epilepsy researcher or three.
How did you get so good? Would love any tips
You are confusing function and implementation. Technically "get their transactions mined" is having a piece of data written to the chain.

You are correct that in Bitcoin there is less incentive to store old blocks. But in chains crafted to store data for a long time there is.

I am stopping this discussion here because you are too negative (almost aggressive) for my liking.

But it will be an interesting thread to read again in 20 years when all this has played out.
Makes total sense. If you buy a subscription for few dollars/month, don't expect a human being to answer your call. Google/Twillio/Sendgrid, whatever the service, all the same ticketing system and no real answer.

HN crowd looks down on sales reps. But a good sales rep will 1) understand your business 2) will look for ways to match your needs to solutions they offer 3) will be your point of contact when things go wrong.

Sales reps are human beings, treat them well, thank them for their time if you don't buy the fancy/expensive enterprise plan.They'll understand.
Most reps are young college grads that are building a network for life.

You could be a solo SaaS creator and cheap because it is a side gig and your don't have the money. But still make an effort to nurture those little young reps. One day they'll make the phone call to somebody that will remove that account suspension. That will save your business.
Right. By that same token, directly selling fentanyl or oxy to consumers without any regulations would surely sell well, as does nicotine, etc., but this doesn't mean it's good for society.
I'm explicitly not replying to the meat of your comment, because I don't feel like I have anything to add to the productive discussion in this thread - which, by the way, I'm really enjoying reading :)

That said, this stood out to me:

> A job at Walmart making minimum wage [...]

According to Glassdoor[1], a retail cashier at Walmart with no experience earns an average of $22,049 / year. Assuming 50 weeks @ 40 hours per week, that's $11.05 / hour.

That does not include cash bonuses or profit sharing, which Glassdoor says adds another ~$1k.

Indeed.com[2] shows the average wage for a Walmart cashier is $10.56 - so we're at least in the right ballpark above.

My own experience at Walmart was unloading trucks from 4pm-1am the summer after I graduated high school (2002). I made $7.25 / hour then, when the minimum wage was $5.15.

Trying to build a life on that kind of money isn't easy, and I'm not trying to say that it is; I do want to point out that even Walmart doesn't pay minimum wage as a rule.

That's not to say there aren't other "tricks" that employers use, like limiting hours to prevent employees from qualifying from full-time benefits and such. There are.

The minimum wage in 1982 was $3.25. Today it's $7.25. The purchasing power of the minimum wage has certainly decreased, but I strongly suspect that many more businesses paid minimum wage in 1982 than 2022.

McDonald's in my town of <15k people pays $13/hr with no experience, with a $500 signing bonus and a guaranteed $1/hr raise at six and twelve months. The largest manufacturing employer here produce stamped sheet metal parts, and they have a large sign and banners lining the road claiming $18/hr, a $1,500 signing bonus, and fully paid family benefits. My California-based "healthtech" company employer doesn't even have health insurance as good as theirs.

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Walmart-Guest-Service-Team-...

2: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Walmart/salaries
Thanks for the chuckle!
It can theoretically be zero. When's the last time a zero cost transaction made it? Or more realistically, what's the mean transaction time for a zero cost transaction?
> the market for it only exists due to the greed and stupidity of the legal "platforms".

From my experience as a 30-something guy in South/West EU, the "market" for the sites you mention is mostly made of high school/university students who are unwilling or unable to put any money into home entertainment content.

> many others would find it reasonable to pay $20-50/month for a single streaming service covering 90% of the things you would want to watch

But in the EU, $20-50/month get you 2-4 (if not 5) subscriptions from the main content providers. At that point, you are either at that 90% or pretty close.
I agree that having multiple services is subpar, but so is looking for movies on the sites you mention (especially without a good adblocker).

And I am pretty sure that we will just end up either reinventing cable (ugh), or having smart TVs that subscribe/unsubscribe you from streaming services based on your watch list to keep your monthly expenses at a minimum.
Interestingly, this hasn't happened in places where pay is required! Companies split up their postings by title/level to make sure candidates know their time won't be wasted at their level.
What you’re saying is essentially “imagine a government with the power to create laws that allow arbitrary imprisonment with no recourse, that would be tyrannical”, which, yes, but that only has to do with the currency because that’s what you chose for your example.

Said government could pass a law stating that all citizens must be in two places at once, and achieve the same effect.
New integrations from Terra (YC W21) are live Connect your app to all wearables
We already have a concentration of wealth and power. It's frightening that you think the solution to that is literally ending living, breathing, and dreaming beings rather than solving the actual societal issues at hand. It is like using a nuclear explosion - with all the associated death and destruction - to hammer in a nail.

Next time we come across a fundamental social issue, should we just kill everyone involved?

We can give people long, happy lives - as long as they want - while solving societal issues on a separate track. There is no reason to use death as a sledgehammer for an issue that is not more valuable than life.

It is, actually, kind of insulting to imply that people on the opposite spectrum of the rich don't want to live long, don't want to spend time with their family, hopes and loves - that they are expendable in the name of crudely brute-forcing some arbitrary wealth equation which is apparently more important to you than their very lives.

I would be quite happy being poor and getting to spend as long as I want with the loves of my life. Being poor barely even registers compared to the upside. No amount of money can compensate for time spent with loved ones, as anyone that has experienced the death of a loved one can attest to.
Back in the 90's I worked with a guy who used a Dvorak. Any fans still out there?
Yeah absolutely, I count ourselves reasonably lucky that we only caught the disease after vaccinations.

I have absolutely non-zero desire to go through this every year, unlike my parent commenter though.

Would I be of a similar opinion as parent if I had a similarly asymptomatic-to-mild case? I don't know for sure, but I would hope not, because I wouldn't want to draw conclusions or base policy from just my anecdotal experience.

Other replies to me appear needlessly partisan jibes: I neither said nor implied anything about continued lockdowns and any such inference is pure projection.
Yeah, I would like to adapt enough to overcome death.
Ebola is not endemic to humans. It is not lethal to the bat species in which it is endemic.
Interesting.

Bringing it back to a previous point I made, I met someone who claimed to have helped port over the WebObjects framework from Objective-C to Java, and he claimed that while it's not a 1-to-1, you can fairly easily map a lot of the Objective-C semantics to Java, making the porting process not that hard.
It's the entire STATE. The interviewer would've been in huge trouble if you report them.
We eventually have to play geographic arbitrage or we'll just outside literally every job to the cheapest-to-live country.

They have just as capable devs as we do.
Note that generosity to travelers is a common virtue in many societies throughout history, and violating this can bring severe consequences if only in myth (e.g. a traveling stranger might actually be a god in disguise checking up on you).

And after all, next time it might be you looking for a bite to eat and a place out of the wind and rain for the night. There's not a lot of Holiday Inns on the steppe or in ancient Greece.
Not really. Why would you wver share non multisig keys with anyone outside of a test scenario. Tbh anyone who cant understand why this is a bad idea should not be holding crypto anyway as they are going to get separated from it one way or another
PCs took a hard turn towards power-constrained (i.e. laptop running on battery) right around the same time Windows took a hard turn towards "resources are cheap and plentiful, just toss seven levels of XML in it"
Not really. Why would you ever share non multisig keys with anyone outside of a test scenario. Tbh anyone who cant understand why this is a bad idea should not be holding crypto anyway as they are going to get separated from it one way or another
The problems with chatbots have nothing to do with tech.

You implement chatbots to bend the demand curve to higher cost channels. Period.

If you can get 5% of the user base to wait 15 minutes by sending them to a chatbot tarpit, you will have eliminated the need for a dozen call center agents at peak times.

Providing good service with a chatbot is possible, but the work and organization required is extensive, and it’s cheaper to throw semi-skilled humans at it!
That hit a little closer to home than I wanted it to. Yeah, its partially the same thing for me.

I can't tell if the abuse was was made worse by my peculiar brain malfunctions, or gave me better skills for coping. I think it it might be both.
It is a great story and even more when you learn that it was written by a teenager, Mary Shelley. This episode In Our Time is very interesting as are all the others on the Romantic era [1].

I just finished reading Frankenstein with my 12 years-old daughter. We read the original 1818 version "annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds." [2] If you want to get more of the flavor of the time in which Frankenstein was written, there is The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. He discusses many of the interesting figures of the period including Joseph Banks and William Herschell (talk about makers, telescopes in his case). [3] There is a book which I can't wait to get now that I've gone down this rabbit hole, The Science of Life and Death in 'Frankenstein'. [4]

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hjm2s

[2] https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3542/FrankensteinAnnotated...

[3] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/82017/the-age-of-wo...

[4] https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/science-of-life-and-deat...
> WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram

WhatsApp and Telegram I can understand but Signal is a bit strange, they probably could just have setup some way to have "Swiss army compiled" version of Signal which IMHO would be more safe then Threema.

While I do use Threema and like it's decoupling from phone numbers it has problems including Salamander attacks on their group chats and a very easily DDOS able account creation system.

Furthermore most other users I meet did for a long time not know about the importance of Threema Id backups, often until they switched phones and lost their Threema Id...

Generally from what I can tell it _seems_ (i.e. speculation) to be developed from experienced software engineers, but missing some "full-on security experts/researchers(1)" and there is in my experience a subtle but for this kind of things important gap between a senior engineer with a lot of security expertise and a non-junior full-on security expert/researcher.

(1): What I mean hear is a bit tricky to define. First security experts and researchers are not necessary the same then different people have different field of expertise and skill level, so just doing it full time isn't necessary enough.
Sounds like it should have had it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#IBM_Cassette_BASIC

I still have my IBM PC (5150), taking up a lot of closet space.
You're right. Trying to do math late at night is not a good idea
one would think that programming requires especially low accuracy, since most of the things you type are either language-specific or previously defined.
Ask HN: How do you keep improving?
For those, who have less responsibilities outside of work and more free time, how do you actually keep improving?

Let's say I have 10 extra hours per week which I literally waste and feel bad afterwards. How could I use them productively to improve as software engineer? I know there are some blogs, or books (i.e. Designing Data-Intensive Applications). Just feels like I forget most what I've read afterwards.
Another approach is side projects, but it's also hard to come up with any decent idea. Please just share what works for you. Thanks.

Not sure If relevant, but I'm Web Engineer with experience in C#, Java, Javascript.
I see where you're coming from in the general case; I think it has been well established that leadership positions attract people well described by the dark triad. However, I don't agree that being a leader has to revolve around manipulation and dishonesty, and I've certainly seen this in the real world.

Even if Bill Gates has the dark triad traits I do not think they were on display in this particular email exchange. I truly don't think they were engaging in any "face-saving" here -- Nathan had been working for Microsoft for 10 years at this point, leading Microsoft Research and rising to the first ever Microsoft CTO. They coauthored a book called "The Road Ahead" in 1995. Bill has called him the greatest hire he made at Microsoft.

From every single source I've come across it seems clear that Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold are friends and share a deep mutual respect. No wonder they are still working together in 2021! You'd think after a lifetime of supposed abuse Nathan would have stopped working with him after becoming a billionaire, right?
Maybe they should know they are employees? i.e. allow an employee to register their number and require inputting a texted code to confirm? (I don’t know if they do, not a customer.)

This does seem like a very common use case that Twilio needs to not punish.
The moderator there has shut down all conversation about this topic, so putting this possible workaround here. The mod simply responded "doesn't work", but I'd love to hear more details from someone who's experiencing the problem.
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I have a workaround for people to try (I don't have the problem myself). I've read the related (two, I think) threads here, and haven't seen this workaround proposed, so perhaps it might work as a hack.

Others have mentioned that you can disable automatic (GPS sourced) updates, and switch to manual. If you can do that, and set the year to 1994, then your year will be wrong, but your month, day, and time will all be correct, and should suffice for the next six years, including the leap year 2024 (which would display as 1996). Unfortunately, the year 2000 is not a leap year, and you'd hit this in 2028, which is a leap year, so you'd need to set it back to 1994 again when this happens. If you can set your year back to 1966, that will give you 24 years of successful calendar updates. Other years that will work and would give you even more time would be 1938 and 1910.

There is a catch, however -- Daylight Saving Time. If the system is dumb about DST in manual mode, then everything's great, and you'll just have to adjust the clocks entering and existing DST. If it's a little bit smarter, locking in modern regimes for DST, then everything will still be great, and you won't have to adjust your clocks manually. However, if it's very smart, then US residents will have a problem, because the rules for DST changed in 2007. That means you'll have to manually adjust on the modern DST dates, and manually correct on the historical DST dates. But that's just moving updating the hours four times a year worst case. UK DST was last changed in 2002, I believe, and the same caveats apply: you may have to manually adjust your hours several times a year.

Very curious to hear if anyone has success with this hack.
Human reactions to being lowballed prevent that. Putting that bottom on a role that pays up to 300K will sour your candidates and is INCREDIBLY costly to hire for as a result.
I assure you, same sex marriage wasn't invented two decades ago. [0]

What was invented two decades ago is treating gay people with enough humanity to begin to CONSIDER giving them the same universal freedoms as straight people get.

So yeah, at this point, in 2022, same-sex marriage is an objective basic freedom. I am not interested in any religion-based counterarguments. Anyone's freedom to hold religious beliefs cannot impune on OTHER people's freedom, regardless of what religious people will claim.

Self-defense posession is a subjective one, I agree. I personally think it's an archaic freedom desire [1] (Honestly, to me comparable "I want the freedom to be able to beat my slave"). But I understand the alternative arguments. This one happens to be something on which the US is a massive outlier from the rest of the "developed" world.

The main point, though, is I don't think people on HackerNews seeking "freedom" are talking about freedom to own guns. I might be wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Ancient

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/18000520/gun-risk-death
Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
No, OP is absolutely correct. We have open-label studies come out all the time (one posted here a few days ago about a long covid treatment) making grandiose claims and not taking into account the placebo effect at all. And many physicians and scientists are particularly bad at this, believing that stress and emotions can't cause significant physical illness. I can't count the number I've talked to who have bizarre ideas about this, including many of the top scientists working on certain diseases (of which I've suffered myself). I'm not going to post any examples here as I don't want to get into a mud slinging match.
It's less about getting away with not paying taxes and more about the fact that RSUs are basically a big negative-interest loan to invest in the company's stock, which can be incredibly lucrative in the growth sector.
The last point you made about cryptocurrencies fleecing others bit built with intent to prevent market distortion is dead on.

People getting into crypto in fratboy style have gone on the rollercoaster and often are pushing it to their desires.

In the history of money (I'm talking U.S. at this point but other countries have their story) this carpet bagging happened earlier on... we've just been using it long enough that the story was forgotten and long before our time.

I'm referring to the Gold Reserve act Executive Order 1602 of 1933 where gold was required by law to be turned in at an exchange of $20/oz and a year later jacked up to $35/oz an ounce.

This decoupled the Federal Reserve from backing credit with gold, etc. The story continues but you get my point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102#:~:text....
> In all of those cases, there was no protection of the law

And yet, you're claiming that protection of the law entails force (as it must in order to be effective against those unwilling to follow the law's dictates) and therefore is to be eschewed. So which is it? You can't have it both ways.
If you read Nathan Myhrvold's reply he says something very similar:

"It is a new and uncomfortable feeling to be the incumbent rather than the challenger in one of these battles. However, we must not panic. The current perceptual battle is a long way distant from actual business and revenue issues, and we can't let perceptual issues cloud our thinking too much."
I've never completed the leap to a chordal interface, but my interest in them is about ergonomics, not speed. For instance, a habit I had to break to avoid hurting myself on the keyboard was rotating my hands to reach a key. This is simply not a problem on chordal keyboards.