skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the company I work for that IPO'd the year before COVID is now hiring a ton of remote...in Mexico City, the Philippines, and in Poland.

So I'd correct your phrasing: "The talent in the US have all the cards and bargaining power". So the "smart" thing companies are doing is find talent outside the US.

And also before anyone mentions lower quality devs (for which I have an eye roll and a "get over yourself"), I've worked with enough of these devs by now to tell you there's next to no difference in quality.
I think the only tenable solutions are 1) a ceiling on the loan amount tethered to public college costs to increase price elasticity and prevent runaway costs, along with a quota on loans to address the 'future ability to repay' issue with many majors/low caliber schools 2) free public college (or equivalent private college voucher)

Giving out loans with no cap on how much schools can charge and with no ability-to-repay check is a recipe for catastrophe.

I think option 2 is the best equitable outcome but is probably politically unsavory given the heterogeneity in public school costs/quality across states (which typically aligns with political divides).
The standard corporate fortune 500 types are pushing very very heavily to go back to the office. In my experience, this seems to be driven majorly by the executives and managers. I believe this is because in so many of these large companies the managers and executives spend so much of their time in constant meetings, which is better in person. In person you sit around in a nice office, you talk with people, and do your power points. Remote you stare at a zoom call with no cameras on and talk and people occasionally talk back. These companies also seem very set in their ways and don't try and change to figure out how to work remotely better. I recently left one of these companies not long ago and these seem to be ring true from similar corps.

I am seeing a lot more smaller tech companies and smaller firms that are embracing remote. The small companies where there aren't multiple layers of management, where cancelling an office lease is a big improvement to the owner. They are going remote. I also took a remote tech job, and it seems more innovative companies are embracing remote.

My prediction, which may be wrong, is that traditional companies that go back into the office are going to face strong attrition to remote companies. And companies that go remote are also going to get a huge benefit in talent. I know a lot of really great engineers that do not want to move to SF/Seattle/NYC/Boston. There are great engineers in small towns and cities that like to live near friends and family, and get good salaries for the area (that are lower than big companies). These people are going to go to the remote first companies, leave their old stodgy companies. This is a huge boon for companies that are willing to take it.
Well, it's a vet product, just like Azithromycin used in animals as well as humans, and prescribed to me in the past and furosemide, used in horses as well as people, and which I am currently prescribed...

The propaganda point is where you use the fact that it's used in horses to ignore that it's also prescribed to humans on a large scale.
Neither is an acceptable solution.

Although I will say that if you are forwarding all ports, at least it’s to a device you know about. Not some random IoT or PC software or whatever opening up ports without your knowledge.
The only reason we locked down initially was to "flatten the curve". This doesn't mean eliminate the virus, it meant slow it down long enough for the hospital system and government agencies to catch up in preparation. But even then, it was understood that this virus was going to be endemic and that elimination was never a possibility.

> Young people are part of society so they are obligated to protect it.

The point is that the part of society being protected is largely confined to older parts of the population, while much of the costs of doing so are disproportionately coming down on younger people. It's easy to say "do your part to protect society", but when the part of society being protected is the mental, social, and emotional development and well being of young people, as well as technical skills and future job prospects, older people seemingly have no problem casting it aside for what benefits them the most.
I suspect no, because there is no mismatch between there being no content length header found by this file and the content header later being discovered by some other part of the code. It'll probably require more digging but I don't think FF would crash if the header was missing, this was likely caused by the header existing but this part disagreeing about it.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

It's enough to assume elites were greedy (and/or dense) and didn't consider long-term effects, you don't even need a decades-spanning conspiracy for it.

The elites won't be as fine once they realise much of their wealth stems from the rest of the republic, but that seems to be the circle humanity is caught in for eternity.
>it's just predicting what the next sentence

>There is no plan behind this

What is the difference between predicting the next sentence vs. having a plan. Perhaps the only real difference between us and GPT3 is the number of steps ahead it anticipates.
I did't know anything about the journal. I must admit, that something titled "Journal of Natural Products" didn't inspire much confidence. But it does look like it has been around for quite a long while, and has a respectable impact factor for a specialized journal too.
> People don’t want to “buy” and raise families in high rise condos. I live in Berkeley and we have a shit ton of new condo units coming on the market every month and I can’t believe they’re anywhere near capacity and every one has low-income housing units.

Your feelings are not everyone's feelings, and not everyone wants the same things. I have two kids, and would love noooothing more in the word than being able to live some place where we could walk to our daily activities rather than piling into the damn car. That's only possible with high density and shared parks. That's exactly what I want.

But even if I'm only 5% of families, there's still tooooooons of non-families that would love those condos. Much better than 6 unrelated people splitting rooms in a four bedroom detached house, plus that frees up the detached house for those that really want it for their families. Look around at all those single family neighborhoods in the Bay Area with seemingly inadequate street parking. That's because there are soooo many adults splitting up those homes.

There's also all sorts of people that want to downsize as they age, and also get out of their cars to live their daily life.

This doesn't have to be you. But there are tons if peol who feel this way, and their preferred way of life has been literally banned by law. There's only a very very few tiny areas where it's allowed, and it's in such ridiculous demand that it's often more expensive than much more spacious housing.
This reminds me of William S Burrough’s “Cities of the Red Night,” in which a deadly plague appears suddenly. The character Dr. Pierson is a heroin addict, and helps discover that heroin is prophylactic against the fever:

“A top government official bluntly warned: ‘Virus B-23 now loose in our overcrowded cities, is an agent that produces biologic changes in those affected – fatal in many cases, permanent and hereditary in those who survive and become carriers for that strain, which as a matter of survival they will spread as far and fast as possible to destroy enemies and quite literally make friends.’ Junkies, however, are only lightly affected by the virus and remain characteristically unchanged.

…

“He recovers in the fear because of his addiction, and the word went out that the junk was the only insurance against the fever. No stemming the black market the Government concedes and legalises. Now begins a deadly war to extermination between the junkies and the fever-freaks.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_the_Red_Night
Feature request:

Start the game by pressing "space" as well.
One “coincidence” to keep in mind is that Hong Kong had months of pro-democracy protests with China having no viable solution to this “problem” until pandemic shut down all street activities.

So it could be that pandemic info obstruction by China in the beginning was related to that regardless of how the virus emerged.
What? Shooting at 48fps would not effect the color rendition ability of the camera. Nor would shooting 3D. Shooting a higher framerate just means more light required than shooting at 24fps. Shooting 3D also doesn't affect color. Where are you getting your information?

Debayering r3d was not an issue for professionals as they more than likely had a Red Rocket level card to deal with the footage.
> Do you think Detroit is celebrating the demise of its automakers for having reduced property values?

The automakers aren't gone, they just moved out of the city and took the jobs with them. Detroit home values also were not as inflated as San Francisco home values. Sometimes two things are actually different.
let's be honest, no ones want to self hosts a website analytics application because in most of the cases they just want to focus on their core business, or at least that's the value proposition of SaaS. This will ultimately limit innovation to bigger companies that can afford maintaining their own infrastructure for everything.
According to the NYT, Austin county has had 193 confirmed Covid deaths per 100k throughout the pandemic. San Francisco has had 78 deaths per 100k. So Austin county has had about 2.5x more deaths than SF per capita.

Note that Austin county is not related to the city of Austin, Texas. The city of Austin is in Travis county, which has had 118 confirmed Covid deaths per 100k, pretty much the best results anywhere in Texas. (Because people in Austin have also been cautious, and the local government has taken what actions it could despite state-level opposition.)
this is an interesting video (to me anyway!!) on the speed of electrons vs fields

The Big Misconception About Electricity.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
Microsecond Accurate NTP using PPS signals from a $12 GPS [video]
If you are in the US and know people who are aged 30-50 and not software engineers, this is almost all that they talk about. Some people manage to pay them off, others (due to high interest) owe more than when they started. It is a huge problem.
The elephant in the room is NATO easterly creep, then seeing it as aggression when Russia decides on any maneuvering with its own border that is reactionary to the eastern creep. Address eastern creep and even pull back the external pressures from Russian borders and you’ll see there never was so called, Russian Aggression to begin with. The soviets lost more that all other countries combined in wwii, Russians are well aware of the horrors or war. I don’t believe they want to ever see that again.
Awesome, really hope you find it helpful! :)
There are very intelligent people out there who aren't software engineers or who don't work for Fortune 500s. The logistical challenges that go into operating a small e.g. grocery store probably vastly outweigh whatever a typical FAANG or YC startup engineer has to contend with.

People start businesses for lots of reasons, and if you've built a small business that's been around for more than several years, in a lot of industries, that means that you know how to work with people. The food business in particular is that way -- if you can't build good relationships with your suppliers and customers, you're dead.

I agree with your overall point that, if you're looking to optimize your payday, working with small businesses probably isn't the way. But it can still be fulfilling and reasonably lucrative.
Most people who want this end up just selecting a regular programming language with a powerful-enough macro system + flexible-enough compile-time parser; and then using said language to define a "more or less complete DSL", by redefining all the primitive syntax features of the language to instead be primitive syntax features of the DSL.

For example, the "numerical definition" DSL within Elixir's Nx library (https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx#numerical-defin...).

Users using this "full" DSL are still using the host language — they're invoking its compiler/runtime and so forth — but they don't necessarily need to care about that. They can still technically access the power of a full-blown programming language, "tucked in" around the edges of the DSL — but you as the DSL's creator, don't have to document that power as being available. As long as users of the DSL can do everything they need to do without any need for "breaking out" of the DSL's little world, they don't need to be aware that they could e.g. make fully-namespaced calls to regular stdlib functions of your runtime.
The thing about GDPR is, the intention (in most cases) doesn't matter. If Google is using servers outside Europe or using the data for anything not officially disclosed (and disclosures hidden in eulas etc. don't count) then they are in breach of GDPR.
Sure they are gatekeeping, but that's the problem. The gatekeeping will continue, artificially limiting access to highly paid jobs to the upper class.
I don't understand how we've accepted $30k/year as relatively affordable...
AngularJS seemed to be the last well supported fronted library that let me just write JavaScript, and not need to pull in the entire node ecosystem just for making a simple website.

It's insane to me that websites need to be compiled these days. My websites mostly consist of an index.html and a code.js, and then unzipping whatever goofy template into the js, css, images folders etc. I feel like requiring a fluent understanding of the entire node ecosystem build even the simplest websites is a big enough hurdle that a lot of enthusiastic new people are just going to give up and do something else.
What gibberish you are spuing here?!

I was talking about the ridiculousness of people taking abuses without much care. To OP's point that someone discussing manipulation matter-of-factly.

Capitalism death? Capitalism is the strongest it ever is.

HN now are a playground of people whose attention span cannot be maintained more than 5 minutes, and jump onto stimulation without a strain of sensibility.
>>What's predatory about public loans.

To some folks, having to pay off their loan, is considered predatory.
Feels sensible to not go to college in a pandemic though?
The better alternative is to immediately return all students and staff to full in-person education with no mandates or restrictions. Yes that will incur some small but acceptable level of additional risk.
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I honestly think keeping people in debt so they have to work more & for longer is considered a feature of the system by a majority of the people running it
"a decrease in synchronous communication and an increase in asynchronous communication."

Lol, aka less meetings/broadcast missives, and more actual conversations?

There are so many factors and variables at play that I'm not sure there will be a definitive "answer" whether remote is better or worse. I think it strongly depends on the team, the company the industry, etc.

My experience is that remote done well, where everyone is enthusiastic, etc, is even better than in-office.

But for some jobs/companies it seems the in-office bullying is an important part of "motivation".
I've commented about my business interests and the GDPR several times in my more than a decade on HN. You're welcome to scan my comment history if you think I'm LARPing but I have no interest in continuing a discussion with anyone who isn't doing so in good faith.

I addressed your point about taking expert advice in my original comment above: neither lawyers nor regulators have been able to give us a clear answer so far.
> companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore

Wait sorry what? How does that even work?
What will happen to the European internet now?

Pretty much every website in Europe uses Google Analytics.

Next round Google Adsense? What will the European free web look like if it cannot be monetized anymore?

Also, isn't the article somewhat strange? It is about a ruling but does not link to it or even gives any clue how they found it and how the reader can find it?
I worry that parents will find illicit ways to off themselves to prevent their family's fortune going to the for-profit 'healthcare' system whose main function is to extract money.
Well, the V2G is considered to be like a generator. You are generally allowed to install one device of up to 3.68kW on a install and notify basis. This is the same rules that would apply for a solar installation or whatever. If you want more than one device or you want to exceed 3.68kW, you will need permission. There are a whole series of increasingly complex rules after that.
Its syntax [1] is also surprisingly powerful. You want to block an element if it doesn't contain an element matching a particular string/xpath/css selector? But only on specific pages? Even if the URL is manipulated by .pushState? Easy.

I've also used it to blur the text of newsarticles talking about a particular sports event.

Frankly that part of the extension on its own is amazingly useful.

[1]: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/wiki/Static-fi...
That's the wrong way to think about it. Mozilla isn't a for profit business, they are a non-profit with a mission.

The right question is, does pouring resources into their own web page align with their mission statement?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/
I've seen some friends some do this. The time it took to go through, the size of the raise and the headache involved in convincing everybody (like pulling teeth), still, IME, essentially made it a losing proposition for them compared to just hopping jobs.

Still others have thrown out raises without being pushed but they were critical organizational lynchpins getting 10% raises when the market would bump them 50% minimum. That's even worse.

Fundamentally, I think the surplus value from these tech workers who hate interviewing and get "stuck" with cost of inflation raises are often a lot more profitable than we'd give them credit for, and a lot of companies are happy to risk losing a high performer if it meant keeping 3 profitable grumbling malcontents on lower pay.
Absolutely true. And many of the degrees don't lead anywhere. The smart kids are the ones that aren't in college.

When I hire now, I always look for kids who are willing to teach themselves and learn from all of the good sources on the Internet. Places like Coursera, Udemy or even YouTube. They're reasonably priced.
Maybe not what you’re looking for but golf combines lots of thinking and reasoning with a physical connection.
Do you not need to touch it or are you afraid to touch it? Those things are different.
Much less than Wordle but viral enough to be picked up by newspapers.
Impressive. I’m just now learning how to learn that way, and I’m at retirement age. My way is much less efficient, because I stop and research each thing I don’t understand until I feel comfortable moving on. Highly inefficient, I now believe. My kid does what you do and learns way faster than I ever did.
It took me a second to realize what I was looking at, but this is a very cool toy to play with.

When I click the same bubble twice in a row it clears the entire field of bubbles. Is this intended behavior? Seems like I should be able to undo a click that I've made. Using Firefox on MacOS.
I assume there was (and partially still is) a very strict taboo on intrafamilial murder and abuse. It's very hard to hide a murder nowadays, but just looking at abuse, we know there are a lot of unreported cases even in a modern society. It must have been much worse in more 'primitive' societies.
Yellow Mountain Imports has a range of high value boards and stones. I recommend getting the real stones and not the cheaper plastic imitations—the tactile difference is worth the modest cost increase.

I have no affiliation, just a happy customer.
I did community college, got a guaranteed transfer agreement to UC Davis, but was admitted to UCLA and so went there instead.

The quality of teaching at the community college often exceeded that at UCLA. Researchers are not necessarily the best teachers.

In my department there were a number of community college transfer students. They were almost always the most ambitious, and ended up going the furthest. YMMV.
Crazy to me that someone can watch The Matrix and think "wow this is really dark and muddy". I suppose the on-ship scenes are a blueish gray, but they contrast so nicely against the progressively greener tint inside the matrix, it's nothing like Dexter or the HBO shows.
Do you actually believe that child slave labor, trafficking, robbery and murder are equivalent to data acquisition for targeted ads?
My oldest daughter is in pre-nursing and is applying to nursing school at her university for next year. I know of no other way to get into nursing but though a typical university. Thankfully the state of Texas is paying for her education due to the Hazelwood Act.

My middle daughter wants to study art (she is an artist and sees a future in it for herself). My benefits will expire by the time she applies to college. So she’s not likely to end up at a four year university.

I have a hunch my youngest daughter may want to study computer science. Unless the cost of school changes I may put together a program for her myself mixed with online schools and traditional CS resources.
Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes
When you forecast your spending rate, you naturally take some security margin, for example by retiring when your passive earnings gets 1.5x times larger than your targeted spending. And that security margin (which won't be spend most years) will compound.

Sure, you might encounter a black swan event which force you out of retirement only 3 years after you started, and at that point your security margin won't have increased your stash by much, but at the same time your skill won't have deteriorated much in 3 years.

It also work even if the black swan even happens 20 years after your retirement. You just need to take a security margin your are comfortable with, and project how much you will have after 3, 10, 25 years to see how much you have for unforeseen events.
Had you previously read the No Starch book or did you start with the O'Reilly one?
I love how the solution is always to do tech. What about the other things?
It's your business idea, so go figure it out yourself, imho.
Some waiting rooms put on long youtube videos of stuff like "jungle scenery" or "fish" as makeshift screensavers.
Here in Canada the government simply dictates to universities how much they can charge. It seems beyond insane to me to do it any other way, seeing as our entire societies are dependent on getting enough people educated to perpetuate a service economy.

To be fair, this kind of means that universities should be completely public. And although they are for all intents and purposes, in theory they are still non-governmental entities. And that's strange as well.
Even Mark Zuckerberg Is Leaving California for Texas
Where did you get $1200/month in the US? At least where I live, it is $400/month.
>> If I hear that damn mantra again ... never take Minimum viable documentation

> But... you're not doing it right. Like, not at all.

Nope, sorry. You can't honestly say someone's doing it wrong, especially when "it" is defined so vaguely, or when "doing it wrong" seems to emerge from the document at least as much as "doing it right," if not more so.

> Where on earth do you get "don't provide user manuals" from the agile manifesto?

Where do you get "provide user manuals" from the agile manifesto"? The problem is that it's most easily read as a rejection of documentation, in general.

That fault lies with the manifesto.