skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The results, which are not peer reviewed, have been posted on the preprint server Research Square

It's a CCP propaganda piece. I find that "study" pretty fishy, the results would have been easy to verify if true.

Same as the CDC study they tried to use against Israel's study for natural immunity.
It’s similar to the idea that central planning doesn’t allocate resources most appropriately for everyone to benefit.
They also have a chance of having the counts they won on overruled. So it can very easily turn against them
> Trump was racist

Trump is racist. He called COVID the kung flu. Closing a "boarder" is a bit different than blaming a demographic.

Biden is not an overt racist, so it's not likely that a border closing will get characterized as racist. It's up for debate whether it was good or bad, however.
How would you feel if tomorrow the design team or the cofounders came to you and asked you to change the backend storage for your service from Postgres to Cassandra (I don't know what you use, just using this as an example). And when you ask them why, they refuse to offer a good reason other than "they find Postgres distasteful".

You cannot expect domain experts to change things on the product just because of your subjective reaction. Your options are either:

* Present some empirical data that backs up your argument (eg usability studies, publicly available literature)

or

* Accept that you are not a ui expert and live with it.
I'd def like to know more

The best part is the coup name

We need a name for the Jan 6 coup attempt

A meaningful one ideally

Unlike the FDR plot name
I would go with JS, HTML, CSS. You can create games with it easily.
i'll just stick latin1 charset for now... its slower and increases the size of ur tables to use utf8, etc [0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12449336/utf-8-vs-latin1...
I think this is true for every language, not just rust. I'm really not convinced async is good for complicated systems. Things like green threads are much easier to design with.
There was a debate. Some thought a lab leak was likely, others (like that person) thought it was completely bogus.

Here's a post from Jun 2020 where people are arguing both sides:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660413

I'm pretty sure this is the debate I remembered, since I have 2 comments in that thread.
Lottery tickets don't always pay off either.

I make... nowhere near 300k-500k. But I got decently lucky with a startup earlier in my career. And a bit later I got some hefty bonuses at another company.

But that hasn't really happened the last, say, 8 years. If I kept hitting that luck, I could have been around 500k/year average total comp. But I didn't and I'm not in the 300k+ club.
A pure simple idea well executed.
Making money changes the relationship between us and Josh.
If he is happy not to make money from the idea, that's great.

Well done Josh Wardle!
The same company buying Nokia (world's largest mobile phone company for years) only to let it rot completely wasn't much better.
The forums are AFAICT trading floors for product. Banning is analogous to delisting a stock.
No thanks. Parking lots are necessary to support driving, which is by a long shot the most convenient and fastest way to travel. This whole war on driving hot take is completely tired because it makes no consideration of the tradeoffs.

This article also makes vague claims of causation, and tries really hard to link the presence of parking lots to the PNW heat wave without any statistical rigor. It also then makes a misleading claim about the likelihood of increasing frequency of heat waves. The World Weather Attribution project’s own paper noted that the recent PNW heat wave would have have been a record breaking event even without climate change, and noted it as a 1 in 1000 years event.

Finally, the article seems to completely ignore the trivial solution of simply putting some shade above a parking lot. It doesn’t have to be trees - it can be reflective tarp held up by poles or a low absorption roof on a parking garage.
Yep - this is what a lot of people who suggest moving to a cheaper area as a solution for not being able to buy a house don't seem to think about.

Earning (made up numbers because I don't even live in the USA and I don't know what is reasonable) $100k and spending half of it on rent with no hope of buying a house is still better than earning $50k in an area with much cheaper housing.

Of course if you can score a remote job then you can have the best of both worlds, but that isn't always possible (and some companies seem to pay differently based on your COL now).
I don't understand your first paragraph.

The whole point of HN's approach to titles is to let people make up their own minds. The title is by far the most important influence on a thread. Nothing else comes close. Letting submitters rewrite titles to suit their own point of view amounts to conferring the power to control the entire discussion, or at least strongly influence it. On HN, being the person to submit an article does not convey any particular authority over the content.

HN's moderation practice around titles has been well established for over a decade. Accurate, neutral titles, preferably using representative language from the article itself, are probably the single biggest thing that keeps this site the way it is.
I know that was your point and I said I knew it in my response. But it’s not prescriptivism. It’s proscribed, and that’s different. Accepting that someone’s name is linguistically different than the rules you expect it to follow is both not being an asshole and descriptivism in practice. The fact that it’s proscribed is just a testament that it’s important to the person who prompted you to accept that particular language evolution.
iOS malware can fake iPhone shut downs to snoop on camera, microphone
Agree with this idea. Every job promises that it will be the best. But after a few new job experiences, i know how bad it can get. Yeah i could get another 20-50k but the chance its going to be a nightmare again isn't worth the risk I think. Some managers, idk what they're thinking.
PIP culture? Google isn't giving me any answers here.
It's harder to plant the older you get though.
> The irony is that real world is increasingly moving away from that, toward the "everyone for themselves, nothing matters" chaos.

People have been saying that for hundreds of years. We tend to romanticize the past.
Sure, Typescript is vastly better than JavaScript. Its unsoundness still really sucks though.
I remember spending 40 minutes loading Zaxxon on my Atari 800 on a cassette drive (only to have it crash half the time half way through the load).

How times have changed.
I don't think your argument is the same thing.

Apple has to pay to keep your app hosted in the store. They have to pay to check your app for safety. They have to pay developers to maintain the store. Your fridge doesn't have that. Your fridge manufacturer made something to host your food. It costs them zero dollars to perform the hosting. In fact, you have to pay another company (the electric company) that hosting cost. If a fridge manufacturer decided to become the electrical company, then it would make more sense.

Apple has to pay costs to maintain the app store, the operating system for the app store, and the hosting costs in-between.
I have one frontend naming habit that might be worth sharing. The root element of my react components always have a className that matches the component name exactly (ie capitalized). All other classNames are uncapitalized. Makes navigation pretty easy in browser dev tools.
What advantage do long commit messages have? In most open source projects, commit messages are very short. however, it is extremely easy to follow the progress through history as the code changes are always kept less comprehensive. but I would like to listen to the advantages of writing long commits.
Yes, many such people, including myself, billionaires too. Brian Armstrong, founder of Coinbase [0], Austen Allred [1], Patrick McKenzie is probably at the millionaire level, working at Stripe; there are a lot of entrepreneurs and business people here, this is a site run by a VC of course, not just technologists.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=barmstrong

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=austenallred
I don't know about FB, but I think the fact that Amazon's sourcers are shotgun shelling every warm body with a modicum of engineering experience says something about how difficult their hiring is.
Apple need to be broken up into tiny tiny tiny companies.
I see.

The reason I started listing problems that I think crypto solves is because it seemed like many people were either not aware of or not acknowledging the existence of them. This was leading to lots of misinformed discussion. I'll summarize what I think are my least controversial conclusions, primarily for my own sanity.

Cryptocurrencies have the following benefits:

- No one (authority or otherwise) can seize assets that exist and belong to you on the blockchain, from the blockchain, without knowing your private key. People can seize your assets only outside the blockchain. People can lay claim to your assets inside the block chain, and attempt to coerce or induce you to transfer them, but they can't do it themselves. How useful can that be in practice? I don't know and am not discussing it. It's a discussion worth having, but only if people truly understand and acknowledge the prior statements.

- Some subset of all scams, namely those involving reverted and repeated transactions, become impossible. Because by definition blockchain transactions are "non-reversible" and prevent "double-spending". (control F either quoted term: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)

- Counterfeit is impossible (ex: you cannot fabricate a bitcoin out of nothing).

Cryptocurrencies have the following drawbacks:

- Immense energy consumption.

- Increased complexity over almost every existing financial system.

- A propensity to attract scammers that build scams on top of or around blockchain technology (but with a few notable exceptions, not IN it).

- Mistakes can't be fixed by an authority. They have to be fixed through the cooperation of all those involved.
Except it's also likely, perhaps more so, that `this.finished` is `undefined`, which results in fundamentally the same problem but in the opposite direction of truthiness.

In which case I still see it as just a personal preference. The prefix of "is" becomes reassurance that something is intended to have a boolean value, which may be more important.

Of course it goes without saying that both of these things are (usually) addressed by a system like Typescript.
It's not ethical, but we're talking about the constitution, and fines or imprisonment. Should your wife go to jail if she buys stock while you're a senator? Would that be constitutional? I sincerely doubt it.
>you’re poor and need money for essentials. It’s unlikely you’re investing in stocks

I used to think this way as well, but after browsing /r/wallstreetbets I am not at all convinced you need to have wealthy or responsible to invest/trade/gamble in the stock market. And unemployment abuse is a larger more complex topic.
Thanks for writing that. Agreed, many technical people want the spare time and creativity to work on things that interest them. At some point, for those who enjoy intellectual pursuits, time becomes the limiting reagent, not money.
If you're willing to do a minimal amount of screening to figure out which ones are the good ones, third party recruiters are worth their weight in gold. They make the hiring process significantly easier.
In the rest of the world specially Asian countries QR code payment or similar systems have started competing with Visa and Mastercard duopoly when it comes to debit card payments at least.
That’d be a fair point if the Google Play store didn’t charge the same 30% fees. As things stand, you have no choice but to pay these fees if you want to distribute a native app to smartphone customers.

That’s why the market isn’t fair. Because two companies control essentially all app distribution, and can charge whatever fees they want with no credible challenge from any market force.

These companies have also shown they intend to squeeze the market for whatever they can without any sympathy for consumers or app developers. I think the only reasonable option is for the government to step in with antitrust measures.
Frankly, it's always hard to hire engineers. Either you can't find talent or you can't find money to hire talent.

No matter what the personal choices and predilections of any engineer, the software industry is fundamentally constrained by the twin forces of capital and engineering talent. When there is lots of capital, there are a lot of companies, and there is insufficient talent. When there isn't a lot of capital, no one can nor wants to pay for talent so they can weather the storm. That's been the case since at least the 1970s.

Through this cycle, there are so many "engineers" working tirelessly to put other "programmers" out of work (not the shift in labels there, because there is always an unjustified scent of snideness in the air) as well to reduce the cost of engineering. All the no-code revolution now is part of this cycle.

There's a wonderful book angling for a Marxist revolution of engineers from 1977

Kraft, 1977. Programmers and Managers. The Routinization of Computer Programming.

I love it because it's cute, and since it's 2022, proven to be a dud. Like any Marxist analysis, it is accurate in assessing the problems and hopeless at prescribing a solution.

Regardless, the main lesson I have taken in my career is the absolutely top priority a senior engineer should have is building tools and processes to eliminate the need for code to generate business results. You will never be able to hire warm bodies fast enough, so all you can do is radically increase the power of each engineer on the team.

Those have always been the most fun teams I've worked on. It almost feels like being a wizard.

p.s. All that being said, I'm hiring. :)
Lots of condescension here, but supposing that overnight returns are in fact on average substantially greater than intraday returns, what is the layman-friendly, non-conspiracy-theory explanation of this phenomenon?
It also makes for excruciatingly tedious conversation.
> or had kids with disabilities

This is one of my biggest fears.
Even if the saving rates are the same, the higher salary in a higher COL wins because you can always move before retirement.

However, today’s high inflation rates make all these computations iffy, and if you rely too much on inflation beating stock market returns, you won’t be able to ratchet down on risk as you get closer to your preferred early retirement date (a crash can dump you back in the workforce at a bad time). Also, many people in HCOLs don’t want to downgrade to LCOLs after they retire.

Too bad Medicare doesn’t transfer to low cost but nice southeast Asian countries.
PIP stands for "Performance Improvement Plan". PIPs are a relatively common tool to give employees advance notice about getting fired, but Amazon has a notably brutal setup that uses stack ranking. Described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/kh9ztt/can_someon...
I agree. I would go as far as saying that LeetCode interview is biased against older engineers with families. Especially young families.
Lurk more...

I am happy to hear from people with something apropos to add.

Being out of touch with the everyman isn't overly weird for a founder of a company.
How can Occam's razor, an inanimate object, say anything? It's literally just a razor that belongs to some guy named Occam.
TypeScript will produce an error when using a function inside and if stmt without calling it:

function f() {}
if (f) {}

produces:

This condition will always return true since this function is always defined. Did you mean to call it instead?(2774)

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABMA...
Amazon maybe?
On the flip side companies don’t really seem to care if you’re interested either. I applied to around 200 companies in the final 2 years of my data science undergrad and no matter how much interest I showed in the fields of my interest: stream processing, network analysis, and recommendation systems nobody really cared. I added projects and hackathons and applied directly to teams working on that stuff, never even got an interview in those areas. I ended up getting a front end job at a FANG.

The truth of hiring is nobody is actually honest about it, most of the advice you read online is unrealistic. Engineers mostly care about compensation, working conditions, and future job prospects. Companies mostly care about whether you fit some pre defined funnel and can pass their interview hoops they don’t care about how interested you are or “how much value you can bring” like you read online.

Companies will hire the engineer who passed all 5 technical interviews with good feedback over the engineer who got medium feedback but has experience and interest in the field. And engineers will turn down the most interesting job with middling pay for the high paying boring job that offers remote.
I agree, I put it on an rpi and it works great from any computer/phone in the house that way :)
I have to wonder where the opening tag for that shrug was. Were you shrugging for the entire comment? :)
I’ve seen firsthand numerous people walking around 60 meters from anyone wearing tightly fitting N95s and face shields. I’ve seen several instances firsthand, not just on Reddit, of people putting surgical masks on their car AC vents.

Pardon me if I detect a mass psychosis for an illness that almost assuredly will be troublesome, but overall less of a discomfort than draconian lockdown and so forth. And overall will (statistically) kill almost no one who contracts it.

Yes, cue the “but 900,000 people”, and I’ll cue the litany of unforeseen consequences that will reduce life expectancy even further.

But I’m pretty sure there is some mass psychology applied to our response to covid, and it’s generally overblown when we involve mass psychology. Just ask Charles Mackay.
The recruiter that got me my current gig was great. I literally didn't fill out anything or apply. I handed him my current resume and that was it. He scheduled the interview rounds, managed the negotiations (10k more than my requirements), did everything.

Sure, he's getting like $30k from my employer in a month, but whatever. That $30k has almost no impact on my compensation.

He mainly does Dallas, but my position is fully remote.
There was a guy yesterday that said he's doing four remote swe jobs right now at the same time. Takes roles that he's comfortable with and capable at, gets stuff done and nobody complains. Sounds like he's +1 million. Sort of like a 4x Tim Ferris program.
Why are you so focused on the western context for animal experiments? I'm sure it's more comforting to think about ethics boards and well run universities. But there are exemptions for militaries and other loopholes for smaller creatures, regular stories of abuse in labs, to say nothing of ghastly experiments done in China, which doesn't have ANY national or regional protection laws, among other countries.

The post was about human consideration of animals as a resource generally.

It's not much of an argument saying that since eating animals is a thing, (the comfortably narrowly selected example of) other things we do with them is no cause for questions.
And I was feeling guilty today for browsing here in working hours hehe.
Doesn't this have all the usual TCP over TCP issues?
Haven't done this myself, but in large orgs politically savvy engineers do this all the time. A similar play if you're more senior is to pick a problem to solve that requires coordination with a team you want to be on, lead the effort, and use the success to convince the manager of that team to bring you on board.

Nothing wrong with it, would do it in a heart beat if I wanted out from my current team and couldn't just ask.
On $110K income, you could:

- Pay roughly $30K in taxes
- Spend $30K, which is close to the median American's individual expenditure
- Invest the remaining $50K

At that rate, you can achieve lean FIRE in 15-20 years. So not quite mid-30s, but not far off.

Of course, in a high cost of living area, you might need to spend more than $30K, but you'd also make more than $110K. (For what it's worth, I lived in SF for several years and spent less than $30K annually.)
Do you have any pointers for those who’d like to filter for that?
If there is snow or significant freezing rain, there may be a run on salt when people buy it to apply to steps and sidewalks to melt the ice.
And you'll read an endless trove of comments posted on this site, including from myself, in support of Assange and his work, and condemnation of what the US is doing to him.

We shouldn't even be on this tangent, because the parent comment was nothing but "what about America!" and now we're veering into even more tangential territory with "well what about America with regards to some other topic!?" This isn't a Chuck Norris movie with a good guy and a bad guy.
>owner-equivalent rent
>a rent-equivalent measure

The accusation is that OER is a terrible way to measure rent increases. OER is determined by surveys asking homeowners "If someone were to rent your home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly, unfurnished and without utilities?"

It's a crazy way to measuring housing inflation for most people. Especially since there are statistics that directly just measure rent increases and the BLS could use those.
FWIW Pico-8 uses a modified version of Lua as it's programming language. I would second that (Lua) as a good first choice as that knowledge can be reused in a lot of other kid-friendly environments.

Edit: ...and later other more practical general purpose programming environments.
> Someone boycotting AMZN one day will be happy to accept a very healthy salary + benefits package writing legacy Java 6 backend code if it means a good double- or triple-digit percentage in compensatory promotion

Unlikely these are the same people tbh