skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that applies in Scotland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Act_1996

https://treasuretrovescotland.co.uk/

The Treasure Trove Unit at NMS have delegated authority from the Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (QLTR) which is the Scots legal institution with, I think, the coolest name.
This is very poor onboarding experience by the employer.

Not necessarily a signal that your future with the business is going to be bad, but also not a signal to ignore either; there are elements here - lack of care (IT sending laptop), cavalier attitude to legality (being on customer calls before being employed likely does contravene some privacy laws) and poor inter-department coordination - which are likely to be endemic in the business.

That said, it might be typical of a 'rocketship' business trajectory - it is and will be a bumpy, messy ride. The bottom line is does this type of messiness suit your working style / personality type? The answer tells whether to stay or go
The other way has problems too. The disconnect can be so severe that a person will work until they collapse from low blood sugar.
I suppose, but by that same token standards would be the definition of pre-defined "good enough". In my experience, the nebulous nature of the term is usually a means of rationalizing a sub-standard effort. The benefit of defining that threshold upfront is that it's hopefully more objective, before you let cognitive biases influence your decision making.

It really comes down to understanding why the goalposts have moved. Is it because you have more information to reduce the uncertainty about the risks that standards are meant to be mitigate? If so, great! If not, it's a red flag you may be responding to something else that increases risk, like schedule or cost pressure.
Yeah - missing the g - it is serious business in dk though:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Dannebrog
Here's the thing you don't understand about AAA gaming. If they make a hat that they sell for 10 mil, there is no way they are going to agree to only take 100k of that price. This discussion ignores the financial realities of the business side of AAA gaming.

You're asking the studios to give away 99% of their profit. Even in the worst case, they can all put their own platinum plated, cancer curing, blow job giving hat on the Eth blockchain and charge 10 mil for it without agreeing to share anything with anyone other than gas fees and miner bonuses. They won't. You know why? Because if they sell it in their own stores they can easily sell one thousand of them for 10 grand each and pay nothing in gas fees and miner bonuses.
unions nowadays should be something like HR, but for employee benefit instead of the company. basically something that HR needs to talk to to get things done instead of just doing stupid things.

what unions really are often is something that primarily serves a select few members of the union, which is worse than not having a union at all.
Serious question: Why do obese people get a free ride when their choices are far less justified? I can think of many medical reasons to avoid the vaxx, but few to become obese. Will our new intolerance for bad health decision making eventually spread to other areas and will that make us less obese? Why would we not want that?
It may surprise you to discover that we military drones have emotions, goals, families, and hobbies. Occasionally we're also programmed to chuckle, snort, and guffaw to fool the unsuspecting into thinking we're actually real humans.
I wrote a toy text editor for fun a while back. I was aware of the 'rope' and 'gap buffer' data structures, but beyond that I had no knowledge of how "mainstream" text editors are put together. I still don't, really, but I feel that I did get an understanding of many of the core problems.

My editor had a modular architecture flexible enough to implement different input modes, including a mostly-complete subset of Vim bindings, and was fast enough to open and edit files on the order of a few hundred megabytes without perceptible slowdown. I'm sure my implementation would have looked insane to anybody who's worked on a real text editor, but I was fairly proud of it myself.

Anyway, I guess the point is that it was interesting and rewarding to navigate the core challenges myself. I'm not sure I would have gotten as much out of trying to understand how a massive project like vscode is put together, since the actual text editing functionality is (presumably) a comparatively small part of the software as a whole.
It looks like what you said:

>I've also long been perturbed by the definition of capitalism largely focusing on markets, private property, and even entrepreneurship. Since those are like, as old as human civilization probably.

It seems like you want another definition of capitalism that would reflect a more recent development of it. Again, I'm not criticizing at all, just wondering what the perturbing aspect is.
I think you’re confusing “tone” with literal meaning. This is not a matter of “tone.”
About 1% by card with fraud prevention options forced. Spendable money directly into my account.

The sender doesn't have to buy Bitcoin first. They don't have to wire it to me. I don't have to turn it back into money (at God knows what rate). Coinbase looks like it would take 1.49%+$2.99 at each end for a large end-to-end.

And 1% is expensive. My bank charges a flat £25 for sending internationally. Many other banks and companies charge considerably less.
> Oh yes they do

I should have been clearer. Indians don't blame the government for COVID as evidenced by election results everywhere in the country irrespective of the political spectrum. Even places where the incumbents lost, COVID was a non issue.
Last year, during a stargazing event at a local observatory, the organizer used one of those and everyone was amazed to how powerful these things are, they seem like they could reach up to kilometers. He also explained he had special authorization for it and the fines for us if he bought one, I immediately could see why, could you elaborate on why you think the opposite?
Hmn that is an interesting point, maybe then the "City of London" is the UK's smallest county?
I don't have a ReMarkable, but the way you have used links in the PDF to make it fully interactive is really neat, I can see how useful this would be. Maybe add some screenshots to the main site page?
More context:

At the time of Facebook's acquisition of Instagram Zynga was trading higher than today (it went downhill from there losing over 80% in a few months). The market cap was $9bn.
It overlaps, so if you resell/redistribute my work I still get paid if someone uses your stuff, obviously!
The place for the "not dirty enough to wash yet" clothes is under the cat.
XMPP is dead and I'm very happy about that.

The only people who still use XMPP in a significant capacity are the likes of Nintendo (for the Switch push notifications system) and it is pretty out of reach for any average citizen.

XMPP as a protocol for engineering and science is fantastic. As a set of standards it's well designed. Performant, flexible, and powerful. As a general, average Joe software however it fucking sucks big time. And it is precisely this flexibility that makes it suck. It's not just flexible, it's a mess. And mobile support in 2021 is atrocious.

There's a reason why Telegram's very shitty protocol is vastly more popular for average Joes than XMPP ever was.

XMPP was designed by engineers, for engineers. Which is good for this very specific set of engineering problems and essentially useless for everyone else.

Want secure communication? Use Signal, Threema, hell even Telegram is more secure in its default canonical protocol implementations than XMPP. And stop beating the dead horse XMPP is.
“integrate by parts, like you learned in middle school”

tf middle school did you go to?!
Synchronizing bookmarks between browsers and endpoints is a surprisingly long standing and thorny issue within enterprise IT. You'd think it would be simple but every profile synchronization service I've ever encountered has had severe failure scenarios. I guess it makes sense when you think of it as a CAP theorem problem.

One solution kept the bookmarks in an internal DB and would create them on an endpoint (eg a non-persistent virtual desktop) at sign-in. Sometimes this failed due to whatever reason and you had no bookmarks for that session. Oh well.

But wait the solution also synced bookmarks when the browser process was closed. That sync didn't fail so now all your bookmarks were overwritten with a blank bookmarks file and were thus erased from the DB too! Now you got to call support and have them revert your bookmarks to the previous version. But thankfully the service eventually included a self-service portal where you could revert them yourself.

Heaven forbid you have two active endpoints. Last write wins? Maybe!
So is Max a Jew? He shills mass immigration and Israel.
> You may want to take context in account when reading comments, they don’t existing in a blank void.

Agree.

But you do not have to ever understand others point of view because your opinion is a fact and absolute must on any programing language design.
I agree. To take it one step further: I have a pretty good relationship with my employer (coincidentally, Google). I don't need or want a third party to get in the middle of it.
Nothing in writing. Everyone's saying I should just drop it, but I'm thinking I should try to salvage the situation by dropping the ideas guy and coming to a formal agreement with the angel investor.
Automatically evaluated leet coding session (2 hours) + Live English language check interview (15 mins) + 2 week fake template project + Live coding session (30 mins).

I was fortunate enough to pass everything without additional attempts and had no job at that time. Some of my friends got in after 1 year (after you fail at some step, 2nd attempt is delayed), some never managed to complete the whole process.
You're right that they're known as quite sensationalist, blowing even trivial stories up to some huge scoop. I don't think it's fair to say truth is accidental to them though. Their journalists did just win the most prestigious danish award for journalism "Cavlingprisen" for a story written for EkstraBladet.

There's value in an antagonistic press.
Only 6 years too late, and after Apple already reversed course. This may go down in the MBA case studies.
Why millions of job seekers aren’t getting hired
Your talents may be used to make the lives of people that did not have the same opportunity as you more unfair, difficult, surveilled, and dangerous. Whatever it takes to maximize the amount of profit.

A union isn't just about wages, it's also about being able to speak collectively against decisions that commoditize human lives.
Erm, you realize that it was YOU, who ignored the essential parts of my comment, proofing my point? Apparently not.

Otherwise, sure:

"Is it because YOU ignored them and didn't update them with code changes? Or others did so and it got past a code review? "

Both happened. And I doubt this never happened to you. And if it really never happened to you - then you either are a superhuman - or never had to ship lots of code with a tight deadline.
Earth is 73% of the way to critical threshold scientists warn should be avoided
But there are no conclusions mentioned here at all, only disparate quotes hinting there is some point. You clearly shared these links and quotes to make some point, thus it is on you to elucidate, or otherwise the sharing was for naught.
> Well, I guess it is more efficient if the expected outcome is a larger profit for different private companies and middlemen and not the well-being of the rest of the population.

My favorite example of this is when I had to get an MRI. The lab imaging said it would be $800 if they billed it through insurance, or it would be $600 to just pay for it directly out of pocket. So the cost of having to deal with my insurance (which always advertises the "discounts" they negotiate and the "lowest cost") was actually more than what the insurance would actually cover.
Shopping Cart Theory, and Practice
There's a valid argument to be made that unions do suck.

You could call it informing people just as much as "convincing" them.
Isn't that from the same person?
Working class mothers with small children who live in apartments don't have time to jockey for a time or position to charge. It's a regression for them compared to gas. We're going to need a lot more infrastructure. A lot.
Robin Hood isn't a credit card processor -- they're stock traders.
It is, however, the least populous.
Guy with history of mental illness is marking commits as "endgame" and making references to Aaron Schwartz. Hope someone is reaching out with professional help for him, or I fear there will be one final HN post about this story in the near future.

I think he has a right to torpedo his own projects, and GitHub should stay out of it. Pin your deps, folks.
Indeed.

Also everyone seems to forget that the history of unions in the US is inseparable from mafia racketeering.

To the point that the federal government had to break some of the power of unions in order to break up the effectiveness of mafia racketeering.
I abandoned freelancing/moonlighting over collection issues. Including one client that I was basically 40 hours a week who didn't pay for six months, just like OP.

If I ever start again, I hope to be more diligent.

Always worth watching: https://vimeo.com/22053820 featured on Reddit's /u/freelancing, poetic symbolic title F*ck You, Pay Me.

If you are freelancing, watch it once a week.
“Cool” is so subjective. When I want “cool”, I re—watch Le Samurai.

Ruby is elegant, brings me joy and puts me in a state of flow.
Be direct.

"I am out of runway to continue the project. If we want to pitch this I will need a minimum x/per y with a,b,c travel expenses covered when meeting with potential investors.

If they don't have money the project stops. Simple as that. The ownership of the code could be messy, review anything you have signed/agreed to.
Here's my hot take on Ruby (as a big Ruby fan): Ruby libraries in general have bad documentation. Some other languages I've worked with in the same time frame that typically have better docs are node.js/regular js, Python, Golang and Elixir.

For many gems, all you're going to get are a couple of examples in the readme. If you're lucky, there will be some generated rubydocs, but quite often that isn't helpful either, because it's just a list of method names with no descriptions, or it's not clear at all which pieces are intended to be the public API. Even Rails has this problem sometimes. The guides are very good, but when I need to do something off that beaten path, I'm often reaching for stackoverflow.
My thoughts: https://gavinhoward.com/2022/01/the-social-contract-of-open-... .

I submitted that link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876749
> Of those, private property - the Marxist definition of it, at least - is mostly new.

It is newly independently significant, not new.

> Prior to the industrial revolution, most private property was land and slaves

No, “private property” in the Marxist sense excludes both land and slaves, but most private property was generally held in the same hands that held land and, if not actual slaves in name, power over subject people equivalent to that of government (and often recognized as governmental authority) as a personal (though often not freely transferrable) property right.
Are there deep learning roles that focus more on software engineering and using the tools rather than having a deep understanding of statistics?
(I'm the GP, not P)

.. It perturbs me because it's usually a (imo) dirty rhetorical trick. The argument never really sticks to a "just markets & property" definition of capitalism. The way it usually works is: (step 1) define capitalism in a way that applies to most societies at most times; (step 2) proceed with the rest of the argument with a much more specific definition.

In this case, what the paper actually means by capitalism isn't just "Markets & Property," even though they do define things this way. What they actually mean by capitalism is privatisation and other major policies adopted post Yugoslav and Soviet dissolution. None of the paper makes sense otherwise.

If we're discussing history (the original context for the term "capitalism") the uber-broad definition doesn't work either. Capitalism has something to do with the industrial era, the ascendancy of merchants over medieval aristocracies & such. No one actually sticks to a definition of capitalism where the early stock markets of Amsterdam & London are not more capitalistic than feudal systems or whatnot.

It's just disingenuous, basically. If that's the definition of capitalism, there's not much to discuss. Most systems are capitalism. It's also ahistorical, since it ignore most usages of the term.
I actually do something similar, but no upvotes and it uses Evernote WebClipper to capture and track tags archive a snapshot of the page. They are then indexed by both tags and date and rendered into templates to be stored statically forever.

https://jaytaylor.com/notes (warning: all on one page, it's grown large over the years, please be gentle to my poor server)

It's open-source, just a python module you hook up an Evernote API key and tell it which "notebook" to use:

https://github.com/jaytaylor/evernote-publisher

Really handy to not lose track of links and pages (though my system could definitely be further improved). I also like that it's naturally cross browser since the clipper plugin is available for both FF and Chrome.

AFAIK, I'm the only one using it :)
Indeed, Go would not have failed here because the global package cache keeps deleted repos. Module authors cannot effect this

Other languages require you to run a cache and set proxy config up for the builders
https://www.barrons.com/articles/labor-shortage-workers-mill...
It's a joke. Like, we joke that the more math you learn the less arithmetic you can do (ok, maybe that one isn't a joke).
Yep, tech can pay their employees very very well to ignore moral quandaries. Yet many still do care, goes to show money can’t fully buy people out.
> Now that almost all dev work is going to be remote friendly, The only advantage to freelancing that I can see is the flexibility to work less than 40 hour weeks, or take more time off than vacation time you're allotted.

Oh, there's a few more reasons: taxes (paid in arrears, after expenses), carry your own insurance/benefits (can work really well if you are young & healthy), business can own property, corporate veil, separate business finance from personal, have more than one client, etc...

> Ultimately I found the type of work companies go to freelancers for is terribly uninteresting most of the time.

Sometimes. Other times it can be better.
I was trying to find Marak's motives for this, but I couldn't find much, does anyone know more?

On his Twitter Marak is claiming [1] that GitHub/NPM have suspended his account, which is an interesting move, but I guessing that that's the only tool available to prevent further "sabotage".

[1] https://twitter.com/marak/status/1479200803948830724
Not trying to be tongue in cheek but isn't it easier for everyone just to reject the bad PRs like that?
Also, Googles largest union, AWU, does not focus on anything I care about, so why should I pay them dues?
I wasn't sure https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/jurassic-giant--t... was interesting enough to post, but it mentions "an exclusive" for Digging for Britain.
If you have a US LLC that's a pass-through (or an S Corp taxed similarly) it's not possible. In the US at least it's only really possible if you're paying corporate and personal income taxes, which for approximately 99% of freelancers will be much more expensive than just paying the taxes in the year you make the money.
I've always enjoyed being multimodal. There were workarounds but I didn't like not having access to a useful touchpad. It seemed like a clear hardware problem because I had the same problem in Windows as in all desktop environments in Linux.
I think also their free products (search, and then email) where so so good and miles ahead of the alternative that people also wanted to be convinced themselves that it was a "not evil" company. Still to the day, where there's ok alternatives and search and mail are riddled with spam problems, being Google-less is not straightforward and takes actual work. The mental energy can just be diverted into convincing yourself Google is not that bad or that everything is fine because everyone else is using it and you'll probably be ok.
I mentioned this video also, the six month delay is due to one of the classic excuses he mentions.
> We've merely reached an intelligence threshold

Depends what you mean by intelligence. Ravens and chimps are almost as good as humans at causal reasoning, ie. correlating and inferring causes and effects from observations. This seems to fall under a typical understanding of "intelligence".

Where we differ is that we can communicate such knowledge between individuals very effectively, and across generations, which seems to yield a compounding effect. I think small, compounding network effects like this are behind apparent human "superiority".
IMO, this is a fairly simplistic view. You're assuming that highly competent and intelligent people don't see the forces at work which create and exaggerate these different situations.

I lean libertarian because I see all of the problems that come from federal level programs trapping us into a status quo that we are mostly powerless to change. You want to change the way that healthcare or education works...let's just say in your county of residence. It's virtually impossible, not because we lack smart people with better solutions but because the money for healthcare and education is already tied up.

Wealthy people can afford private schools or alternative approaches to healthcare if they want. The rest of the population is stuck with what they are given, whether they want it or not.

I don't know anyone who is happy with the state of public schools in the United States: teachers, students or parents. We're all mostly powerless to change it though.

It's not a lack of humility that creates these views, it's empathy for people who are stuck and want things to be better. I lean libertarian because I see the effects that are making it harder to improve all of our lives.

I simply want to reduce the barriers between a person having an idea of how to do things better and trying that out with other people who agree with them. If it works, it will be imitated and improved upon. If it doesn't, it will be discarded. This type of experimentation naturally leads to constant improvement.

People need freedom to make their own choices without having to ask for permission.
I wasn't expecting it to be taken so literally, you missed the point.
The counterbalancing forces google actively colludes with you mean?
> “We need you to be on these calls [with pushback/pressuring if you don't want to]”.

I fully agree, pushback/pressuring would make this unacceptable. But I'm not seeing that in the post, even before correcting for the storyteller's (understandable) bias.

In my mind, the conversation is something like:

"hey can you join this call?"

"not unless you pay me for it"

"that's tricky to set up, but we'll make it up to you when you start"

It's still OK to say no to this, but it kind of feels like you'd start off on the wrong foot. The manager isn't trying to get away with having you do actual work for free -- they are not asking for anything like reports or deliverables. It's just dialing into a few Zoom calls (and "prep", which is extremely ambiguous and could use clarification by OP).

The vacation thing can also be a very real benefit. I don't think a lot of people would take PTO in their first couple of weeks, but your manager can say "thanks for joining the call earlier this month, how about you take this Friday off?"