skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you only make $40k a year you aren't going to be paying very much in taxes at all. You also want be paying very much for healthcare as it will be subsidized by the ACA.

ACA subsidies (at least in NY) are in the form of tax credits. If you don't have any (or not enough to pay taxes on) income, those tax credits are useless.

If you have no (or very low) income, the state will instead put you on Medicaid. Which has mostly terrible healthcare providers.

As such, if you go the "quit my job and go my own way" route, expect to pay USD$600-1000/month (for an individual, families will be much, much more) for decent health insurance or deal with the huge pile of crap that is Medicaid.

If you're young, single and healthy, perhaps that won't matter to you. If you're not, that could be a big problem.
Its good to see that its mostly young people who are at lower risk that are of the unvaxed, however the majority of ICU cases in Canada are still of the unvaxed, so that's why I am curious what is the average age of the unvaxed in the ICU. If 92-99% of people over 60 are vaxed, but its the 60+ demographic of unvaxed taking up ICU spaces, what more can be demanded by the government? Forcing younger people who are unvaxed might not reduce ICU cases very much.
> less CO2 production

Locally? Probably not. As a nation, sure. More importantly though, their quality of life was terrible.
In a free market, cartels are unstable. Cartels try to deal with this by making compliance required by law.

> Owner vs. worker power struggle

Oh phooey. Negotiation is inherent to a free market. It's not a power struggle. It's supply and demand.
I'm saying public companies -as in trading in the stock market- (and to a lesser extent private ones too) and corporate culture is very similar to communist government.

Schumpeter said something in the lines of "it's ironic that in democratic free-market countries most economic activity happens under hierarchical top-down organizations".
I think this is the most cogent take on the essay I've read.

I wonder where the middle ground exists between letting the field go fallow and feeding your family is. If you quit your job and then need to pay an unexpected medical bill— or decide to have kids and realize you have no savings— I wonder if one might rethink the spiritual fulfillment they found in unemployment. But on the other hand, if you spend your entire life grinding at a job to make enough money to protect yourself from emergencies and support a family, you might look up at retirement age and wish you had spent more time with your kids.

It would be nice if we lived in a society where the sabbatical was normalized. That seems like a conceivable middle ground.
Exploiting Redash instances with CVE-2021-41192
This is an extremely unintuitive result.
It's funny how we hear so much about Ruby's decline yet 3 of the highest-valued startups - Stripe, Shopify and AirBnB - are up there making fortunes with it whilst contributing to Ruby's vibrant ecosystem.
Ugh. "See how many of our flock stray from the path, wasting their gift! They must only do the work of the righteous!"

'hackers' don't need you looking down your nose at them, o righteous one.
How is that safe to say? There are plenty of 23-year-old alcoholics, having lost control over their alcohol consumption, in full-blown physical and/or psychological addiction. You don't have to age into it, or take a test, or carry a card. It just happens to you.
Funny, those are the 2 companies we were speaking to.
Would appreciate some advice/guidance, but I'm at a loss as to how I drop you a message here — doesn't seem DM'ing is possible on HN?
Will not work. Because few women will believe a man who says "trust me, I won't make you pregnant because I'm on birth control".
You mean it would be 'cool' if they did, or the cameras would have to be cooler to work on the shielded side of the telescope? :-)
Many jobs (mine included) frequently involve sensitive information where my clients / regulators have rules that work must be done onshore.

And go ahead and hire someone in a high CoL area — if your pay bands are flat across all people working a position and the job is remote, it’s honestly easier. Any variable comp for performance / seniority can be handled with a bonus structure.
> First, we lost compatibility with a couple of tools that we really wanted to use. One of them was storybook, that is a super-nice preview system. We had to develop our own frankenstein to do the same.

> Our choice does not need anyone to learn anything, and one can create a widget in no time!

As someone who made the mistake of writing their own internal framework, I tip my hat to you.

You just created your own framework that people now have to learn. And best of all, the documentation is always going to be less detailed than what you'd get with popular frameworks.
Oh wow. they still use Ruby at Airbnb?
For some Reason I thought they'd moved to Go or the JVM.
That sentence was in reference to helping low-functioning people with autism.
The Theory of Interstellar Trade (Paper) [pdf]
> exploiting informational asymmetry

That's why god invented google. There's no reason you can't find out what people in your position are paid these days. Or use Bing if you like.
Activision Sues and Unmasks Alleged 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Cheat Sellers
Prions are doubly terrifying because it's not a typical disease. From what I understand it's proteins folding in a different way that come into (the prions can be dead or alive) and the healthy proteins will take on the new form. It's scary because typical sterilization (high heat) for surgery does not work guarantee it and the heat required is not currently practical.

The shakes from that cannibals get are prions. I also though I saw a link to a subset of alzehimer cases but can't find it.
Money is just a psychological-technology that vastly improves efficiency of trade.

It's not exactly feasible to return to a barter system, unless you have some other way of solving the "double coincidence of wants" problem?

One of the innovations of Bitcoin is that it serves purely as a monetary good, so there's no other demand for it outside of it serving its role as money. Counter that with gold which has many other applications.

To be fair, fiat achieved this too, but it came with disastrous trade-offs...
legendary minds discuss logistics.
If every man took dutasteride from puberty, none of them would go bald. We know this from the condition 5-ARD. Obviously that's not a good idea, since DHT is important for fertility and many other male secondary sex characteristics.

The point remains though, if you were able to know that you would go bald, and started taking finasteride or dutasteride before noticeable hair loss starts, that would likely be sufficient for life.
I think this paper is more about being fascinated with a particular celebrity rather than celebrity culture in general.

Also took a look at your comment history - there isn't anything in there that would make me think you're dumb. Appreciate your forthrightness though.
> VueJS is smaller, around 30kb, but not that small. Also, it is very opinionated and we don’t want to force people of the future to use VueJS.

I don't understand what the criticism is supposed to be here.
This is yet another example of the US healthcare funding model. While there are valid reasons for the cost to be relatively high, immunoglobulin treatments are expensive to prepare, it does not need to be that high. In single-payer systems (e.g. UK) the full cost of the same shot (generally not paid by the patient) is something like $800. It's not about subsidies, I'm talking about what the healthcare system pays to the multinational drug vendors for making the vial and also the relatively smaller cost of medical staff going the injection - that's what the treatment really costs, and the remaining $3200 is essentially the administrative/insurance/extra-profit overhead of the USA model of healthcare funding as every participant (drug manufacturers and hospitals) get all their necessary expenses and reasonable profit covered already with the $800 price.
I hope SourceHut and other forges also adopt this new stuff.
My guess would be that the patent lacks some of the implementation details, and allowed them to create a product that worked as well easily. Bear in mind, most generic-sounding software patents aren't going to give you any actual code to look at.
Given that pre-revolution Cuba was not exactly democratic either, and had insane concentration of wealth, it's arguable whether that stolen property can be considered legitimately owned in the first place. A government of robbers announcing that what they robbed is legitimately owned doesn't make it so.

(The same, of course, applies to the post-revolution government - I'm not trying to claim that it's somehow better.)
We can’t convince everyone. Be in a place where you are appreciated. This is life. Just move on.
Mentioned here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935078/
Worth pointing out that Starbucks and restaurants around Hollywood are staffed by actor-wannabes hoping for a big break in the movie industry, many of whom never end up amounting to anything. On another corner of the spectrum, you get Paris Hilton, who frankly doesn't have to put effort into anything she tries.

Point being, depending on who "you" are and what "it" is, the advice of "why don't you just go for it, everything else be damned" may or may not be callous/tone deaf/etc.
It was a catastrophe for the human diet, back when most people ate grains for 90% of their meals. Now we benefit from having basically any food available to us consistently. Hunter gatherers had better diets than their farming descendents and we know this because of their skeletons. But what farming provides is a surplus of food. Extra food means you feel comfortable enough to have a bunch of kids and all sit around inventing things like computers and Hacker News
well you can have a benign tumor or one that is killing you, by that theory we should say the one that is killing you shouldn't really be called a tumor.
And yet train crashes and derailments are something that happens fairly regularly, despite it being a tight closed-loop system with manual controllers and operators. Cars are not even close.
> I’ve heard that middle-class people with respectable jobs have fewer kids than people who don’t work as hard.

how can someone in good consciousness write this? really blows my mind.
To be fair, doing things for show - basically, to placate one's potential electorate - is par for the course in American politics. In case of Cuba, the embargo is there to placate the Cuban expats in Florida, mostly. Any actual effects that it does or does not have is secondary to that goal.
I was scrolling for this. Thanks colega
Why does it has to be criticism? They didn't choose it and they did say it's bad. Just it's not what they want.
There _is_ harm. At one of the places where I worked previously, we used a few dedicated servers in different cities, and periodically synchronized data from the central one to all others using rsync-over-ssh.

Sometimes we got a warning from rsync that the connection was unexpectedly closed. We have traced this warning to SSH credential bruteforcers (yes, completely futile) that exhausted MaxStartups. So, we installed fail2ban.
tldr; the author considers "none" to be "impossible options." save your time.
Alternate take: I like them. Quick way to visually convey meaning and emotion. Don't have to develop your own.

And they are native & work inline in text with no need to size or layout images. Or load another font of your icons.
Speculating but aside from the enterprise ecosystem advantages it's hard as hell to hire senior ruby devs.
Thanks! Hope it is a decent introductory reference -- there's so much out there.
> legitimate businesses trying to pay minimum wage

Of course. This is how supply+demand works. I'd bet every worker wants to be paid $$$$$$. The two parties then negotiate!

After all, when you buy a car, do decide you're going to add $10,000 to the asking price of the car so Cratchet's commission can buy Christmas presents for Timmy? Or are you going to get the best price you can?

Everyone tries to get the best price - employer, employee, salesman, customer. That's how markets work.
I agree.

If they sent me a home test with a custom programming language I would laugh and tell them to withdraw me from consideration. I'm busy, I'm not learning a new language so that you can pat yourself on the back, others might, but I won't.
It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)
> In the end, we judged svelte too risky to depend on. Maybe in 3-5 years Svelte will be a good choice

Most people don’t realize that Svelte is just as old as React. It’s predecessor, Ractive.JS came out years before React or any of the others. It’s not new in any sense, we just got over the “React is the only truth” phase.

Besides, the community is already huge. When react came out having 1k starts on GitHub was a massive achievement!

As another commenter put well, they’ll just end up with their own little framework, which is riskier than any of the choices they had.
Building a network, or as I like to call it, shitposting on twitter.
I don't care what the EULA says, there's nothing wrong with writing to the memory of a computer that you own.
Google has confirmed some of these changes are related to this case, yes: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/11/04/google-phones-ch...

Prior to this ITC ruling, Google had already received an injunction in Germany.
The answer is 42.

You just need a bigger computer to think of the question.
Who says you aren't supposed to share your salary? Your employer? It's legal to share your salary, and illegal for your employer to stop you or retaliate against you in the US (unless you are in management).
>Firstly, "man" or humanity did all of their greatest work after the dawn of agriculture.

That's partly true. Learning to do agriculture was probably the most consequential thing humans have done -- as it let to the rise of towns and cities -- which have been the sources of innovation for millenia.

>Before agriculture, life wasn't bountiful. It was short and harsh.

Actually, life has generally been "short and harsh" for almost all of human history and pre-history. In fact, it's only in the past ~150 years that average lifespans have been longer than 35 years[0] or so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over...
I agree this is desirable for users, but platform lock in is a desirable property for most of the major device manufacturers. How do we motivate Sonos/Google/Apple/Philips Hue/Amazon/etc to actually build in better support for open standards? (small manufacturers already have that incentive, but they're a small part of the market)
This is a really good post that every engineer should read, especially early on in their career. I spent a lot of mine butting my head against a wall, and getting nowhere because I thought that soft skills and understanding organizational politics (not necessarily participating in them) weren't super important as long as you were good at the primary work of building software.

This post articulates exactly why those things are important and furthermore exactly how to pursue acquiring them in the right measure to get things done in your org. Brilliant stuff.
The bigger problem is if you are already in Jira. Any kind of tracking tool switchover is going to be a huge undertaking.

We have lots of complaints about Jira but any time we consider moving it’s never worth the effort.
This is really cool!

I've used an app called PhotoPills to plan landscape photo shoots in the past. It lets you drop a pin on a map and shows you the direction of sunlight at any given time of day.

Shade Map gives me so much more fidelity to play with. The pseudo-3D view with shadow rendering helps tremendously in previsualising a photo.

https://www.photopills.com
Does anyone actually generate 500WPM of content? I sure don’t.

That’s almost 18 tweets or SMS per minute. And I’ll bet that due to limitations of the human brain that if you tried to come up with 500WPM of content that it would have about the same quality and information density as 18 average tweets.

I guess if you were a stenographer or audio transcriber then maybe this is interesting.
True. Feel free to word it better but my main point still stands.
You've clearly been hurt in the past and I recommend seeking therapy because this reaction is literally from signs of abuse.
This seems like partially a failure with how Microsoft launches UWP apps. I honestly can't stand Microsoft's app store. It has to be the worst.
Is there official support for Sublime Text 3? I tried making it work a while ago and it wasn't easy to get it running.
Because the "argument" has a limited view, namely that individual liberty is the ultimate goal/blessing/benefit. A blanket "all banning is bad" is just wrong. Saying "are you gonna arrest me from doing math" is like saying "are you gonna arrest me for mixing chemicals?" when you're making a homemade bomb to explode other people. The impact of the current crypto rush is worldwide, this person's energy use to generate BOOBER COIN TM is directly impacting the environment I exist in, why is it OK for your liberty to affect me? Do I then have the liberty to somehow harass/exploit your liberty to make my money?

Not saying banning crypto is the answer, just saying this is reductive and flawed as an argument
This.

The conversation had was entirely one sided with no grace or responsibility. Furthermore if they don't appreciate it that feeling isn't going to change. They are rolling their bullshit down to you because they lack the maturity for something else. Also juniors are expected to need hand holding to adjust academic expectations for real world and if they haven't done anything to correct or provide more direct technical feedback that is also on them.
You're looking at this consistently through the lens of someone coming in with an existing high salary who can exploit that during negotiations. But someone coming in from that perspective is likely already in a strong enough economic position to negate some of the leverage that the company starts with.

> That someone else thought you were worth that much.

No, it suggests that someone thought you were worth at least that much. It sets a floor, not a ceiling. If that floor is high, then it may be a valuable signal as long as others corroborate it. If it's low, however, that signal is effectively meaningless. And yet, employers start assuming that a low existing salary does imply a ceiling on - or even accurate measure of - worth, as you seem to be doing.
The solution to Argentinas trouble is not to turn digital gambling tokens into a working currency.
Which languages and tooling are you talking about?
Isn't this one of the most common criticisms of the US: that its median/common income is miserably low? That's why there's so much polemic about a "living wage" and "debt crisis" in US politics. You're assuming that the low median income of <$35k is enough and that's why "provide for themselves and family" is a low bar, but actually a lot of Americans don't think it's enough.
Minoxidil twice a day is unnecessary, the half life of topical minoxidil is about 22 hours, so once a day is sufficient. I have a compounded spray with 10% minoxidil, dutasteride, tretinoin and a few others that I apply about an hour before I shower for the day which works quite well.

Also, one of the issues with minoxidil is that it is a prodrug, the active form is minoxidil sulfate, and some people don't express sulfotransferase as much in the skin to be able to make that conversion. If minoxidil doesn't work for you, then you want to either use oral minoxidil (the liver will activate it to minoxidil sulfate, the side effect of that is you will have enhanced hair growth through your entire body), or a compounded topical that has tretinoin, since that helps upregulate sulfotransferase in the skin.
> Sorry, you can’t squeeze Unicode in that way, even unsynchronised: you fall just over 2½ bits short. No, reserving the 95 printable ASCII characters scuttles your hopes, meaning you get less than 1½ bits of that byte to use for the rest of Unicode, when you needed a touch over 4 bits.

So it depends on exactly what we mean by compatible, and that's why I removed it.

But in particular, the encoding I had in mind when I wrote that was one that allows most ASCII characters as the middle byte of a triplet. That way whether you truncate from beginning or end you'll never have a rogue byte successfully decode.

So something like: Lead bytes from C0-FF, middle bytes from 00-BF, final bytes from 00-1F or 7F-BF.

If you also exclude null, tab, newline, and line feed, that gives you 64 x 188 x 93, which is just enough for every code point.

But arguably that's not compatible enough because you couldn't search for single ASCII characters with a dumb byte-wise algorithm.

> Not quite. If you discarded ASCII compatibility, then you’d have almost four bits to spare, which is enough for a self-synchronising fixed-width 3-byte encoding (reserving the first bit of each byte to signal if it’s a start byte) or for an unsynchronised variable-width encoding of some kind; but to make it even 2-or-3 or 1-or-3 (rather than 1–3) bytes wide variable-width, you’d need four bits (3 + log₂ 2) for self-synchronisation, and you’re about 0.085 bits short. (1–3 bytes variable-width would require 3 + log₂ 3 ≈ 4.58 bits.)

I don't know where you got that equation but it's not the right one for the situation.

Here's a really simple encoding just to disprove it: Leading bytes encode the plane (17 options) plus two more bits into decimal values 0 through 67. Continuation bytes encode 7 bits into decimal values 128 through 255. 17 planes + 2 bits + 7 bits + 7 bits, perfect fit. The remaining values, 68-127, can be used for single byte (and two byte) encodings.

But also the definition I was using for self-synchronizing doesn't seem to match the one on wikipedia. My intent was a code where you can guarantee sync after a specific small number of bytes (unlike UTF-1). In particular, if you let standalone bytes and continuation bytes overlap each other, you can still guarantee sync within 3 bytes. This gives you lots of space to play with, and you could make a very useful encoding. You could have >150 single byte codepoints and thousands of double byte codepoints and fit everything else into three bytes.
Your post is interesting but I think you're looking too deeply into it. The pushback in this thread is almost entirely a reaction to the self-assured and self-aggrandizing tone taken by the author. I think on a software startup forum we can all appreciate the tension between the stability of a large consistent salary and the fear/risks associated with striking it out on your own, but the lack of humility and self-awareness in the article just rubs people the wrong way.
Somewhat tangentially related to people being afraid of Racoons carrying rabies, a Racoon risk people should actually be aware of is inhaling a parasite from their feces by mistake (i.e. sweeping/leaf blower, or children playing in a sandbox or yard where racoon does their business)

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/baylisascaris/gen_info/faqs.ht...
The market is one-dollar-one-vote. If you start with an equitable distribution of wealth, then sure, it's the will of the people. But if you start with wealth being disproportionally skewed towards a very small class - as is the case in every real-world developed economy today - the result is oligarchy, not democracy.

The problem with mainstream economic right is that it ignores that, or assumes that markets will eventually equalize naturally somehow. The problem with mainstream economic left is that it wants to strangle the market instead of freeing it from oligarchy.