skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contractor vs. employee is not as huge a logistical nightmare these days if you are confident you really want to pull someone in and they're amenable, you can always pay companies like remote.com to be the employer of record and handle the international stuff for you. It's expensive but not egregiously so compared to tech salaries, and they really do handle most of the time-consuming and messy stuff involved. You are still going to be constrained by the more or less business-friendly laws that various countries impose, in terms of it potentially being difficult to fire people, having long notice periods, various taxes and benefits that are mandatory, etc., but at least you don't have to actually incorporate.

I definitely agree re: language and async headaches. I won't work with shops that route all comms through a PM anymore, that usually means that the devs don't speak much English and the code quality is going to suffer due to poor naming conventions and lack of quality tech documentation.
I think what you're talking about is not only shitty code but also poor design which is far more dangerous. Writing shitty code behind good design is a different story, and to my understanding, this is what the author describes.
Yes, but those people will never stop being vulnerable. Covid is never going away, period. Anyone saying otherwise has been living in a fantasy for nearly 2 years at this point. So completely distorting society to ensure zero Covid exposure has not only proven itself to be relatively ineffective, but it would be required to be done forever.

The situation will be no different in a year or 5 years than it is from now, so continuing to argue for societal shutdown is completely untenable.
> remote work didn’t conquer the workplace like we were told it would at the beginning of the pandemic

This is not my observation and experience. I've worked "remote" for 20 years. During that time I've noticed a gradual increase in the prevalence and acceptance of remote work, to the point where around 2017 it was common to have "remote-only" organizations. I worked in a few of those. But there were still "remote-mixed" organizations where as a remote participant you were usually calling in to the dreaded Polycom-in-a-meeting-room (or the modern Google Hangouts equivalent).

What I have seen since 2020 is that the "remote-mixed" orgs converted to "remote-only". They no longer have meeting participants in meeting rooms. They're all online. They have been hiring people wherever they can find them, rather than beard-stroking about whether they can handle another remote worker or not. The result, at least at the places I can see into, is that I am skeptical that they will ever truly go back to how it was. How, for example, can you have meetings where the majority of participants are in a room, when you spent 2 years hiring ex-Amazon people in Seattle and ex-Google people in NYC, and your headquarters is in the city (SF)?
Not that I disagree, but I would like to add that I think another contributing factor is the livability of the Bay Area.

Back in 2013 I might have wanted to live in the Bay Area despite how already costly it was. Today, I make far more than I did back then and there's no way in hell I'm living in the Bay Area both for financial and cultural reasons.
Who would report it? If parent kill their child they are unlikely to, if someone else kills their child they are likely to.

> From the evidence I have gathered from primitive societies

What evidence are you referring to? Also, again "unthinkable" is different from it not happening. In fact, it makes it even more likely to be covered up, if people don't care to investigate, or otherwise want to know.
Or the article is about how to call a function in Python because smtplib does the email part. I mean, you make the thing happen, I don't really understand why you draw this distinction (or where you would stop).
AI unmasks anonymous chess players
>Users give their private life to Google and they get web search, email, and videos back.

>In a more reasonable world users would pay money for the services they want to use.

But would people actually be willing to pay? They rather use adblock and other services to circumvent ads rather than pay for YouTube premium.
Some of the 'let's saddle students with debt' vibe seems to have pollinated the Netherlands, though for reasons that I applaud but don't quite understand pretty much everyone now considers it a bad idea.
Ah. That makes sense. That was about the extent of CGI, back then.

I know they added a bunch of CGI, when they remastered the series, some years ago.
What was the seed text? Did you ask the questions or did it generate those too?
What I don't get is that most of these tools have their own steep learning curve. You have massive menus with dozens of actions, and your workflow look like complex electrical diagrams. It will put off the least technical people as well as SQL. So in the end you end up with really motivated, kind-of-geeky business users who might as well learn SQL and perhaps a little bit of python for the same effort.

I would love to get every office users to do more with their computer than copy-pasting all day, but I came to belive that the problem is mentality, not tooling.
Here's what I don't get -

Where the hell is the money _going_?

Are Colleges and Universities pocketing the money? Are they publicly traded and distributing dividends? Are they building rockets?

I know some of it goes back to financial aid, and some goes to football coaches...

But we're talking about so much freaking money, and I just can't visualize where it's going.
Babylon 5 looks a lot better in the recent HD remaster, which (IIRC) worked from different masters than those used for the DVD set. The remaster's colors look like I remember from my initial viewing of the show on VHS taped from broadcast - lively, saturated, not at all the muddy muted mess you get on the DVDs.
> My money is that Omicron will bring record deaths that we'll start seeing a few weeks.

I really hope you are wrong in this prediction.

> but I have seen very few people find that their teams are any less productive and plenty that have found them more productive

I've seen the same. You hear about isolated instances of teams being less productive but like you said, most folks I've talked to said their team has become more productive with remote work.

IMO remote work is here to stay and is the future and I think it all boils down to not having to be co-located with your co-workers. Once management and HR figure out that this lets them have a 10x larger talent pool, they will get onboard (if they haven't already)
If "makes perfect sense" solution to college is usury, we have serious problems with our higher education system.

It's time to start funding these schools adequately so that they do not immiserate everyone except those with wealthy parents. It's the opposite of a meritocracy.
It is interesting that it believes Joe Biden is the VP as well as the President and Kamala Harris is a Representative for California's 17th congressional district. Stale data perhaps?
Wouldn’t base64ing your inputs bypass mod_security?
I agree. I would really like the same. Komodo IDE may help with this, but I haven't tried it. I usually end up in vim due to habit.
Why do you consider Google Adsense&Analytics the only possibility for monitization?
So your plan is to harm millions in order to protect tens?

People who are immunocompromised have a tough life, but we can't shut down the world for them. COVID is here to stay. Forever. You can't shut the world down forever.
When I opened a consulting firm, the biggest mistakes we made were always about saying yes instead of no:

1. Taking on clients who did not have their shit together. They were always high maintenance, never satisfied with the work, and constantly trying to make huge changes.

2. Taking on work that was beyond our ability to deliver on.

3. The single biggest mistake we made was partnering with another firm who we let do discover and planning for us. They sent us over a client we were contractually obligated to do development work for, and two screenshots of a "website" and told to "have fun." IT WAS A NIGHTMARE.

We once had a client, after we finished their website, ask: "OK, so now how do I make money off this?" and I was like... dude... that is not our job. That is yours.

Another client had a really ambitious and fun project that included the need to develop 4g connected cameras and computer vision. I voted NO on the project. I felt like we did not have the expertise or the resources to take on the project in a way I felt comfortable with.

My partners disagreed, and I was out-voted. This is what incited me to sell them my share of the company and leave. Honestly I'm not really sure how that project went. Maybe it was fine, who knows.
Aargh the thing that amazes me about people like you is the ability to push through when the docs don’t explain something before it’s referenced. How do you get past that point so quickly?
I would assume that it happened but was passed off as an accident and not murder. That is a man runs crying to town "my wife is dead!", cries at the funeral, and gets community support as a man grieving his wife - she is dead because he poisoned her, or ensured she would get hit by those falling rocks that look like an accident, but if you don't have modern investigation you have no way of knowing that. (it can go the other way too of course)

There are lots of ways to kill. Some will be investigated more than others.
The Asheville Pinball Museum's Dragon's Lair worked last time I was there.

https://ashevillepinball.com
> Plus the answer "Yes, I always lie" is obviously a lie and proves that it is capable of contradicting itself even within the confines of one answer.

If it was a human to human conversation that answer would "just" be considered sarcasm.
That completely shifts the blame to bureaucracies, and that isn't fair. Loans are where they are because students prefer newer dorms, amenities, programs, and research opportunities. Student competition leads to prestige, leads to demand from employers for graduates from a specific institution. It is a self-reinforcing dynamic.

The fact student loads have special bankruptcy treatment is bad. But absent Sallie Mae (or Navient, whatever it is now) students would be paying whatever Harvard or Stanford asked, and that would determine pricing for the next tier of schools.
> …But sometimes you actually _do_ want to build that…

That’s not true for everyone. I’ve been a dev for 20 years and have never done any of those, and I have no desire to at all. That is ok! Programming isn’t some kind of progression to run from “n00b hello world” to “1337 compiler hax0r”, it’s a tool to solve problems with. Many of us will never have to solve these problems or have no interest in these problems.

So, if you’re like me, don’t worry because you’ve never made a brainfuck interpreter or a database engine. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad dev. You can have a successful career without building these! And if you need them some time, learn them at that time… you may not ever need to.
It's fascinating to me that Donald Trump's message was horrifying, but when biden's message is just the same, we're totally ready to ignore this because it's just the flu and the economy is more important than our lives.
This is very badly worded.

What they probably mean is that European companies cannot use cloud services hosted in the US anymore.

This is still a generalisation, since they can -- as long as no PII or otherwise GDPR-protected data is sent overseas.

The most likely outcome is that Google will start offering EU-hosted GA as an opt-in. How much that will affect their global data collection and processing I don't know, but I suspect it will still be far less than if all EU services stopped using them altogether.

Edit: I may be wrong. See lmkg's response in the thread.
Show HN: The first smart interactive chair for standing desks
Hi HN, as a person with back pain from working at a desk I started Movably to find a way to move and change postures all without interrupting my desk work or concentration.

The chair is smart, it lets you move easily, as often as every few minutes, between a set of postures over the course of a day. It works at standing height so it isn’t as disturbing as raising/lowering a sit-stand desk or walking on a treadmill. Because your center of gravity maintains its relationship to the work surface it becomes almost automatic really quickly. And sitting is just a posture too, you can sit when you need to (just not too much!).

Here’s a video of how it works: https://youtu.be/dC__YxuEGBU

We’d like more feedback. We want to learn more about what types of usage/posture patterns work best for a broader group of users and different kinds of desk work: coding, video editing, writing, gaming, etc. If you are a standing desk user interested in testing one of our chair prototypes for up to a week or two let us know here: https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J (the trial is free and we will arrange to deliver a chair)

Happy to answer any questions!
Thanks, Mark
Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and blames ‘consultants’
Communicating with eachother, knowledge of business, and understanding language seem like things we would want more of in society. Not sure why they would be demonized. Is the goal of higher-education to promote learning and build a well-rounded citizenry or to create worker drones?
That was a shot in the dark, to be honest.

For those conversions, is that when there's both a free version and a paid version?

Regardless, even with half of his users, it's a decent chunk of change, but it's not "fuck you" money.
How about we look at the numbers?: https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data/

Y/Y: It looks like NY, SJ have recovered (at least for the single bedroom) while the Bay Area is lagging. Some winners are Miami, San Diego, and Orlando. It seems that Florida has seen the highest rise in rental costs. Some losers are Newark, Virginia, St Louis. It seems the shittier cities have lost the most, and the sunnier/friendlier ones have won. In that sense, San Francisco has done averagely.

Based on that, I don't think SF/Bay Area is going downhill as people are imagining. They are doing much better than other places especially that they are already very expensive.
If you are married or in a pax it is getting closer to 5x not 10x
Not every change is based on stylistic fads alone. Rounded corners on elements can increase the ability of users to recognize them and separate them from other elements, because visually the borders are less likely to be confused with other UI elements (lower cognitive load).

This article quotes a researcher on this topic:

> A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort than for example an ellipse of the same size. Our ‘fovea-eye’ is even faster in recording a circle. Edges involve additional neuronal image tools. The process is therefore slowed down.¹

1: https://designmodo.com/rounded-corners/
What often goes unsaid is the corollary: "Any Common Lisp implementation people use contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden optimizing compiler written in C or Fortran."
Linked article appears to be describing the exact original motivation for writing Tcl:

"My students and I had written several interactive tools for IC design, such as Magic and Crystal. Each tool needed to have a command language (in those days people tended to invoke tools by typing commands; graphical user interfaces weren't yet in widespread use). However, our primary interest was in the tools, not their command languages. Thus we didn't invest much effort in the command languages and the languages ended up being weak and quirky. Furthermore, the language for one tool couldn't be carried over to the next, so each tool ended up with a different bad command language. After a while this became tiresome and embarrassing."

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php
I did this for a bit and gave up. While you have a lot of freedom doing this it's just really risky working with small local companies. They are highly sensitive to price. In contrast one of the easiest/chillest ways to contract is to do by-the-hour for small software companies. They are not as sensitive to price because almost any rate you charge them under some amoung (say $150/hr doing 20-30 hours/week) is less than they'd pay for an experienced salaried dev when you include healthcare and all other costs for fulltime employees. And they can drop you whenever and vice versa.

The big challenge I have is breaking into project-based work for good companies. Getting paid by the hour is easy and pays work but is really tiresome. You can't scale your work if you get paid by the hour. The only way to scale is getting paid by the project and taking more projects on (and eventually hiring people).
Yeah little Bobby Droptables is still a thing.
Direct links:
How it works: https://youtu.be/dC__YxuEGBU

Sign up to test: https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J
I tried playing against it but by its fourth move it was invalid.
Fun! 171 on my second round.
This was one of the leading theories for what dark matter is for quite some time. The term is "MACHO" or Massive Compact Halo Object. MACHO doesn't include just black holes, but also a sea of objects small enough to be very difficult to observe but massive enough so that in aggregate they can cause what we observe as dark matter.

However, the evidence against MACHOs is pretty strong. Once we had a theory of what to look for, experiments were designed to detect them. The thing we looked for is microlensing: Focus a telescope at some stars, and watch for a sudden, short jump in brightness. This can be caused by a massive object passing by in front of the objects, gravitationally lensing the light. We performed these studies and the number of microlensing events that we found were not sufficient to explain dark matter. So MACHOs as an explanation for dark matter isn't the answer.

It's a good suggestion though, and like I said it was a leading theory for a while until we were able to test it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object
Nice! I have been looking for something like this for awhile. Thanks for making it.
I'm not sure if this story is a shining exemplar for how to do, or how not to do, recruiting. There's a lot of be admired and a lot of be admonished.
How about taxes? In my East-European country I am paying about 10% net on taxes (including social and health, including expenses, excluding VAT). Nothing illegal or offshore, just normal accounting from local semi retired lady.

In Cali I would have to juggle with deferred stocks, exit taxes, local taxes, federal taxes etc.. And net salary would be about same.
Here is Twilio's official docs (arguably the most popular platform in that field): https://www.twilio.com/blog/how-to-send-sms-online Would you say that it's misleading because you are actually sending an HTTP request, not an SMS? If you use the Python wrapper, would you say what you're doing is calling a Python function, not sending an SMS?

Do you think their pricing page is incorrect, because it doesn't include the price the recipient might have to pay, for each possible carrier they might be using?

I mean, where do you stop? When you pay your ISP, should the bill show "pushing the button to activate your connection", rather "internet service"? Should coffee shop include the cost of a bottle of water, because drinking coffee will dehydrate you? I don't understand what you expect.
The number of steps is exactly the difference between predicting the next sentence and having a plan.
Your comment is the epitome of "some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".
Good question. Had to sit here and think about how I wanted to answer that one.

Proscriptively? Probably. Inherently, not as much, but maybe.

What I mean is, in some cases it probably is just a ‘brand’ in that I’ve just had too many experiences with companies that hired “DevOps Engineers” due to a lack of hiring discipline to actually bring in a SME for a critical component.

This is how I think some Devops practitioners end up getting shit “thrown over the wall” and probably lies at the root of what they’re complaining about.

So yeah I would say Devops is probably more of a brand than a transformational way of delivering software for SOME companies. These are the “pretenders” IMO.

To your other question, what are redeeming features? Also a good question. One in fact. . . that forces me to really sit down and think about. I haven’t ever thought about the question of “what’s redeeming about Devops” as a Devops practitioner.
So they push SQL scripts to a repository?

Seems like a very basic and common approach. How do shops that don’t use it track database changes? Can’t remember the last time I was involved in a (non-legacy) project that did things differently.
When we look at publishers who publish in English for the whole world, the situation is like this:

Adsense pays low and has ok protection from malicious ads.

All other players I know pay even lower and feature more aggressive/malicious ads. While also being in the USA and having even more questionable data handling.

If the European free and English internet turns of adsense right now, many of these publishers are bankrupt in that very moment.
ok thank you everyone for your responses (+1s) - I was research on this idea and couldn't find anything online - now I know why!
If you took the vaccine(s), covid doesn't exist for you, statistically speaking.
I do not understand what their product is about. Just a Google docs alternative but wItH cRyPtO?
Well I think that is actually quite a different question. Luckily it's not at all clear that the sort of zero sum thinking that lead to mercantilism was ever true or will ever be true. Having the best people doing the jobs where they have a comparative advantage helps everyone. Ideally we would open our immigration system more, certainly to highly skilled labor, but until then.
Kind of funny to see these calculators advertise “open pay” and then specifically not include bonus and “variable pay”.
Because people see this

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

and use it as a reason not to do documentation at all. It's ambiguous, and can clearly be read as "you should not work on documentation when there is software to work on", and there's always software to work on.
The post itself was a pleasure to read. The comments are a mini education on how to learn. I strongly recommend reading through both!
Not sure if article saying something too deep for me to comprehend or too trivial not to be obvious to me.
Android build speed optimized cool Tech-Rocketx
And yet we are 2 years into the pandemic with 0 successful lawsuits over personal liability for poor cleaning. There's just no realistic legal liability in the situation described.
the linked article describes a percentage-based income sharing scheme. the student isn't necessarily incentivized to get a higher paying job than they would otherwise. the school definitely is incentivized to guide students into more lucrative jobs, but that's probably a good thing for the median student.

as for the free college idea, this seems like a solution for the wrong problem. I'd argue a large chunk of students are already wasting their time getting a credential that shouldn't be necessary for the work they plan to do. I'm not convinced it's automatically good for more people to graduate college. four years is a long time to spend doing something without a clear, concrete reason to do so.
"Twilio has an API to identify the provider ..."

curl -s -X GET "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/$number?Type=carrier&Type=caller-name" -u $accountsid:$authtoken | /usr/local/bin/jq '.'