skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you criticizing Svelte because it's "not rocket science"? Would you be more inclined to use it if it was extremely complicated?
Yep. I am friends with many anarcho capitalists. I would say I’m a left-libertarian. We have a lot in common!

The way I arrive at it is like this:

1) Property requires “men with guns” to enforce. How do we as a society determine property on a larger scale than personal property? However we do it seems to centralize control in the hands of a few, to exclude others from using a resource.

2) People form organizations, and those organizations make rules (of which property laws represent just one aspect). Organizations can be small (neighborhoods, small forums like this) or large (cities, states, federations, Big Tech)

3) Governments are just the people in charge of running the organizations. Every organization is run by some rules. The question is what system leads to the best results. I don’t criticize “THE government”. I criticize large organizations like states, corporations etc.

4) Taxes are just the analogue of rent. Private landlords can force you to pay rent or get out. If the scale is larger, a city makes you pay tax. The city is the landlord. Consider that Disneyworld is owned by a corporation, while Boca Raton used to be privately owned but then sold to the residents.

5) What would you arrive at if you applied the same critiques of intellectual property — owning ideas, songs etc. — to owning water, air, and so forth … and then down the line — owning huge forests or fields. What does “ownership” of such huge things really benefit people? When the eviction moratorium expires, from a consequentialist point of view is a nation with many nearly-homeless people going to be richer?

On my side, I would really love to hear how you work out this “exercise for the reader”you mentioned — it seems way above my pay grade hehe
Just doing your well-paid job until a comfy retirement, taking regular vacations throughout the years and overall just having a normal boring happy life also falls under this umbrella.
"If you lose everything you own, you generally still have your network and skills"

I get the general call to action that those who have excess resources should leverage that to take big risks, but this really undersells the possible consequences of losing everything you own. No, you don't always keep your network and skills. Sometimes, you lose everything. You lose friends from fallout or you belatedly realize that your network isn't as resilient to you becoming a penniless loser as you thought. Sometimes you go into debt and make enemies. Sometimes you become homeless and then develop a mental illness or a drug addiction. Sometimes you skip the homeless part and just commit suicide [1]. How many people can stomach that kind of outcome?

I do like the general message which I think should be said more often but I feel like people who charge ahead on this call to action should also triple check that they can truly accept the actual risk they might incur. I also think the amount of risk you take has diminishing returns. Making "fatal leaps of faith" doesn't seem to be as necessary or pragmatic as it's presented here.

[1] (heads up: this is a link to a suicide note) https://archive.fo/QaLIw
This is why I enjoy Go, it shepherds you to write clear and uniform code that cannot be mistaken. This is 'boring,' true, but I will die on the hill that engineering should be boring if that's what produces a robust outcome. Elegant functional trickery can be cool in a personal project, but I don't want to spend 2 hours deciphering someone else's elegance when trying to solve a business problem.
Why stop there why not a 1 day week
Please make your substantive points without name-calling or personal attacks.

If you don't have a substantive point to make about this article, there are plenty of other interesting ones on the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If they pulled salary info after making an offer, then this is likely qualified as verification of data that prospective employee submitted. They can probably revoke that offer if one provided misleading info during application.
What exactly do employers and banks stand to gain from sharing this information? Is it an exchange of information for money?
I thought, "GitHub or it didn't happen" was a bit reddit-esque regarding a strand of research engaging since the 1970s.
Dammit I miss the Google Reader social scene.
>If you develop type-2 diabetes, you may be able to cure it by not eating any sugar for a few weeks.

Developing type-2 diabetes will be a process that happens over several decades. So which few weeks is it that I need to stop eating sugar? I need to know because I was going to make cookies.

>there is never a good reason to give yourself type-2 diabetes

I've taken medication that progressively leads to type 2 diabetes for about 17 years. You don't think I have a good reason? Or you just never imagined one?

>Probably few Cubans have type-2 diabetes. It is a 1st-world problem; another name is Processed Food disease.

Being able to get medication that causes type 2 diabetes as a side effect might be a first world thing too. I would be concerned about that.

>Type 1 diabetes is much bigger trouble: you need to inject insulin

People inject insulin for type 2 diabetes; I'm not sure what you are referring to.
That's your opinion. The author apparently has a different one.

I would point out that in Western society there have been groups such as religious orders dedicated to the "virtue of poverty" for at least 8 centuries[0] so this is not exactly a new idea.

I'm sure that back then, the ideas probably elicited at least one similar reaction from someone in the equivalent of your position. But enough other people found those ideas sufficiently inspiring that the group has persisted since 1208. It seems unreasonable to call "cruel" something that has given meaning to so many people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi#Founding_of_...
My interest isn't in wringing the most possible out of my negotiation with a company. I don't want to "win". I want to get what I want (even if that means that I'm not getting the most possible).

More importantly, unrelated to how much I get, I prefer things be fair. I think it is stupid that your ability to negotiate has a larger impact on your compensation than your proficiency in many cases. Reading a book on negotiating doesn't fix that, but getting the law changed does.
What's this “Meow Wolf” thing you keep hearing about?
It’s covered in the cdc meme article…

Patient refused shots because of a fear of vaccines
Have you tried fresh white truffle in Italy?
Wow placing a freeze requires filling out a PDF form, attaching a scan of your ID, and then sending it in over email, mail, or fax. The PDF lacks built in form fields you can type in. The extra friction is probably a feature: https://assets.equifax.com/wfs/theworknumber/assets/twn_Empl... (the exif data on that PDF shows the name of the employee that created it and that they used Word 2010...)

The Equifax CCPA request process on the other hand is very smooth and automated. Though doesn't seem like it's including Work Number information: https://myprivacy.equifax.com/
Well, Equifax still considers it sufficient to claim your identity...
Oh, interesting, thanks! And now I wonder if this includes compensation besides salary.
Hijacking here to say, literally all you need to get access to someones employment + salary history is their SSN and birthdate.

edit: and a past employer that used this system

Birthdays are extremely easy to get (public record), and I seem to recall a specific large organization leaking a bunch of SSN's not too long ago.......
That's very weird. I don't know much about office politics but it seems suspicious that your manager wasn't there to directly address your complaints.

Here's how I figure it. Let's say they felt they had conveyed the issues to you and that they could not get you to understand it. It happens, whose fault doesn't matter so much. But if that were the case I'd think a good manager would want to be in the room so that they can reinforce the thing being said and make sure everyone is on the same page.

Or what if they knew exactly what was going on but didn't see any issues. So then a good manager would go in and defend you because you did your best and if your manager knew what you were doing and didn't, well, manage you then who screwed that up really? But a bad manager might just conveniently not be there and who knows what they've been telling your boss you've been doing.

It really sounds like you three need to be in the room at the same time and agree on exactly what you're going to do and with what tools and how you'll explain what you're doing and get it approved. I don't see how else you can cover your butt, they need to take ownership of your technical choices or they aren't really managers or bosses.

But I suppose they could just honestly doubt your technical skills. If that were the case though then why would your manager and boss not both be there? No matter what happens it's really weird that the person who knew what you were doing and what needed to be done was absent.
> During the hot Armenian summer, the temperature in the pan can reach up to 700 C

That’s nearly 1300 F... I wonder what kind of glass cookware they’re using that can withstand those kind of temperature shifts without exploding?
- how do they get their money out of crypto?

(they have to convert it back to fiat in order to spend it is an incorrect assumption, increasingly so even in the US)

They transfer it to someone else/currency exchange location (if not totally banned) and get cash when they need to purchase something, or directly barter with crypto. You don't always need to exchange it with fiat. In such environments, often crypto payment would be superior to cash. (BTW this is not unique to crypto. People could utilize USD/EUR in countries with crappy currencies.)

- can't the government impose whatever rules they want at that step, like the US government does?

I suppose no one does something illegal ever. /s

This is the thing that is hard to comprehend for people in countries where "following the law" is somehow considered absolutely moral and also a reasonable burden. There are jurisdictions that you cannot survive without breaking some law every second. Using VPN to circumvent internet censorship is also illegal in countries with such conduct but regular people do that anyway.

- how is crypto better than gold or equities for this purpose?

Gold and equities, and most importantly land used to partially serve those purposes, depending on the jurisdiction. Crypto is an alternative with pros and cons. The major pro is difficulty of confiscation and ease of transfer across borders if the country destabilizes and you want to immigrate. It helps with geopolitical diversification of assets.
I'm confused about this scenario. Reading between the lines, it sounds like you were put solo on a project with very little guidance, just as you walked in the door on your first job. No team, no mentor, no buddy, no code reviews, no daily stand up, no issue tracking (which is a way of measuring progress). This sounds like a place that has not upgraded its software development practices in years, if they even know what they're doing at all.

The first feedback you get is from boss's boss, who directly criticized architecture, coding decisions, and timeline? No. This is not on you.

Here are lots of replies telling you to be a better communicator, which is always good, general advice, but this is not a good situation, and will not teach you how to be a better software engineer. "Do better" is just terrible feedback.

I know that you like this job, but know that there are better places out there, and that better places would never strand you like that.
Aroma is a pretty big factor in taste, though.
> Included! (Tap/click to select a box!)

You're awesome. Thanks!
I’ve written a great deal of tests over the years and this sounds very interesting to me, yet it’s not obvious to me from your comment what this would look like. I’d like it very much if you could elaborate further.
As a first suggestion, you might want to read through my "How Web Apps Work" blog series, which covers many key web dev terms, concepts, and technologies:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/how-web-apps-work

It doesn't go down to the level of individual frameworks and build tools, but it does help describe _why_ build tools like Webpack exist and what a typical JS dev workflow might look like.
I just meant to create it with internal resources and release it - meaning Ruby is enough of Stripe's culture to allow it to happen. Kudos!
>>First, he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long etc.

>>He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions, some of which were made largely on my manager's explicit suggestions.

>>For instance he said I should have looked at other projects to see how they accomplished what I'm trying to do. That definitely would have been a good idea.

Very bad manager, in fact novice would be an understatement for these kind of practices, based on everything I've learned from these statements. Feed backs are a continuous, never ending process, given in a positive direction. Any surprise or a shock down the lane, implies the manager has utterly failed at their job.

Don't beat yourself up. You have done nothing wrong, and this is not the end of the road.
The Computerphile "How JPEG works" playlist is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckoAod3z31QE...
Specifically I found the DCT explanation useful
It's not transient, it's a neurodevelopmental disorder that changes the fundamental structure of the brain and how it functions (this is a bit of a simplification, but it's true enough for this context).

People who 'grow out' of having ADHD either:

1. Developed coping methods that lessened the impact of their symptoms, making them functional enough to not be diagnosable (ADHD is only diagnosed if it negatively impacts your ability to function in two or more of the domains of work, social life, and home/family life). Often people who do this are still negatively impacted by their condition, but their problems are invisible and go unnoticed.

2. Never had ADHD to begin with, and instead had one of the many other psychiatric or physical conditions that can impact executive functioning (e.g. depression, sleep disorders, anxiety, malnutrition, etc.).

(wow I used the word impact a lot in this paragraph)
Indeed there is.

This is a mechanism design problem- a behavioral protocol problem- not a technology one. That's what web3 is about.

And downvoting my question is ridiculous.
That alone really doesn't mean much. Security has even more than other areas of IT many people with "odd" backgrounds.
If you have privacy concerns, you can put fraud alerts and put a free credit freeze your credit reports

Equifax: https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/cred...

Experian: https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html

TransUnion: https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze

And also freeze a few other reports

NCTUE (utilities and telecom): https://www.nctue.com/consumers

ChexSystems (banking): https://www.chexsystems.com/web/chexsystems/consumerdebit/pa...

Innovis (another CRA): https://www.innovis.com/personal/securityFreeze

LexisNexus (apparently insurance companies pull from them): https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/freeze

Work Number: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze

You can delete information from Plaid: https://plaid.com/legal/data-protection-request-form/

And usually you can talk to your doctor’s office about putting a flag on your medical records so they have to call you before releasing them to a third party

You can also opt out of Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx sharing information (individual banks may vary). You can also ask banks about additional security for your bank account.

Visa: https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do

Mastercard: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/corp-responsibility/c...

Amex: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/privacy-center/

I also suggest setting up an IRS pin: https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/get-an-identi...
A somewhat more established term for this is "affordance". See the results for https://duckduckgo.com/?q=programming+language+affordance , for instance.
Opt out of the system as soon as you possibly can. No mortgage, no bank, no address, no traditional job.
Induced demand actually does happen in American healthcare: spending goes up with healthcare availability, but health outcomes do not improve past a fairly low level of usage. This is a waste, not productive economic activity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057171/

The situation with roads is not that different: building more road capacity incentivizes sprawl, leaving the entire network more congested than it was when you started.

Roads just don't scale. The daily commute is like a distributed shuffle: time to complete the shuffle scales superlinearly, probably quadratically given the limited topologies possible with roads. It's not like you can build a hypercube road network.
All this happening in Kazakhstan is so far away from programming and HN; but it is so scary that I decided to add this comment - my first on HN. Our family - my wife and myself - lived in Almaty till we were in our thirties, then moved to Canada and then US. Our relatives still live there. Everything you'd call normal life went fubar in a just a few days. The town is in ruins, there is no law or police presence in there. Banks, grocery and other stores are looted and there is literally nothing left in there. Who did all this - nobody knows. Nobody of the locals know anything, in fact. No internet, no TV, no news. I truly wish you guys never have this kind of experience in your life.
> Now React is stuck with it's virtual DOM. But sure Richard, take the credit for being fast if you want.

Would it be hard for React to remove VirtualDOM(if they don't believe), and maintain most of API?
What if you're debugging SMTP and you actually meant HELO?
I revealed how many cities in the US mandate and monitor every actions of your vehicle around certain buildings and require said buildings/companies to report the traffic around them... but I was more specific because I know which buildings and which cameras... because I designed some of them.....

So yeah.
Notes from the End of a Long Life
1. I don’t know much about using Sorbet with Rails, but I do know that almost every major user of Sorbet that isn’t Stripe is using Sorbet with Rails! You might want to reach out in the #rails channel on our Sorbet Slack[1] for more?

2. Our focus for the Sorbet Compiler has always been more inward focused than Sorbet, so we focused pretty much exclusively on features that make the compiled code run fast on Stripe’s codebase. But you might be curious to read more about YJIT, the JIT compiler that was recently merged into Ruby 3.1—it’s being primarily developed by a team at Shopify where Rails performance is the highest priority.

[1] https://sorbet.org/slack
It is amazing. A kind of golden age of American cinema.
Thanks for your feedback, information coming from a local is highly valuable, (other than crypto) what other avenues are there to conserve your earnings?

Please provide references, even in Spanish will help:

[1] https://www.lonelyplanet.com/argentina/a/nar-gr/money-and-co...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/argentina-central-b...

[3] https://ambcrypto.com/argentina-crypto-adoption-is-high-but-...
He thinks poverty is not buying a Tesla. Lets see him thrive in an environment where dinner is sleep.
No, it doesn't. Because comp transparency is within a company. And this is outside a company. Think about the venn diagram of participants.
13 years is not just starting.
This is such a strange comment for me.

It reminds me when I sometimes ask younger developers for advice, and I can feel their frustration when I don’t do things at the speed they would like.

But, for me that is missing the point. I generally ask advice to spark conversation and learn from each other. The speed of carrying out the act is irrelevant.
If you get RSUs - it does. It shows up in my payroll quite clearly as an obvious bump when I vest. You can even tell when I'm deferring for 401k.

It's absolutely fucked. I'm guessing this is an integration with ADP - who my current employer uses.
-_- son of a bitch
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I think it would depend a lot on who has the power in said product. The business model of the product.

If it's tailored towards workers, it could be as simple as a key that you, the employee, could revoke at any time, making the centralized data void. Something like rainbow.me

For the b2b model... well it could be like equifax I guess? Offer to provide that service to the business to check the data, while allowing the user to revoke it at any time, for a small fee paid in the crypto of your choice perhaps paid by the business for accessing the data.
I'm not sure how these go together. No problem sharing to your peers regardless of what your employer shares.
The thing about "How to win friends..." that isn't explicitly stated is that you are doing the things recommended in the book because you WANT something from them. You want their friendship, so you put yourself in their shoes to help achieve that.

In the case of quitting your job, I'm not sure it applies since what you really want to do is to leave. If you have a good relationship with your team and company, by all means be generous with your time. Otherwise, I don't think you'll get much value out of being overly considerate of your old company.
Sounds a bit like an advertorial with the heads up about this dust analysis service.

But dust is just accumulated material from the air. It's more of a symptom than the cause imo. Anna with all the nasty stuff to die from I think this is pretty low on the list to be honest unless you really have it piling up in the corners :)
I don't have the ability to downvote, it's locked behind reputation (not sure of the exact amount).

Show me the problem with an alternative solution, don't preach about supposed benefits.
Food is devilishly complicated.

Vanilla was not successfully pollinated by humans until 1841, which meant that it did not grow outside of the natural range of its pollinator in Mexico (and only a very small region of Mexico.) And today most vanilla does not come from vanilla beans but is synthesized from petrochemicals, because vanilla's pollination is still ridiculously expensive.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bittersweet-st...
A license to use said software subject to agreeing to the End User License Agreement.

You were free to ask the entity selling these licenses to allow you to inspect the EULA at any point prior to exchange of funds, this is in fact how almost every corporation will go about procurement.
https://archive.is/9aXMN
Also, the person you were shouting at and saying "Hint" to probably knows about 100 times more than you do about the economics of drug companies.
As in you had to interact directly with work number for that? Or do you mean that lender “magically” knew and pre-populated your salary info during application process?
>>The person giving the feedback was the boss's boss, and they clearly didn't have the entire picture of the situation.

Then why even have a discussion about something you don't know.

It looks a straight up case of cya, followed by manipulating a junior employee into believing it was their mistake all along- a.k.a gaslighting.
Many Microsoft 365 customers can't receive emails from others since X'mas
Yeah it was pretty bland in that way.

The scene at the end was a little bit better but not much.