skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: About Salary Equality and Information Access
In Latin America is not common to share salary information many times even between good acquaintances . There are consulting services for companies that share specific salaries and benefits by role and with details on years of experience, that way companies can try to keep up with the market. But there is no such tool available for the public, at least in latam, to my knowledge.

I am thinking on building such a database but a few questions arised:

1. Do you believe glassdoor and similar services have brought more visibility on salary to the US?
2. how to detect bogus input?
3. is there a similar solution that is already available?
Yes, but the difference doesn't have any real impact on productivity.
Can you use the jvm’s -xx:+UseNUMA option instead?
How much evidence is there of long-term effects of these types of treatments? Do you or other researchers in the space ever worry that you are in a sense curing the effect and not the cause (family and societal problems as I understand it), which would imply that efficacy would fall over time? Would sustained fecal transplants, etc. even work?
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To wrap it up a little less mystically/spiritually: people already know who I am.
What baffles my mind is that retina densities are so much better for CJK languages, and yet, we don't see more retina densities in those markets. They must like the pixel blobs for characters with large number of strokes... /s
Does Slackware live up to it's goals? I remember that a long time ago Slackware was supposed to simplify the chaos of the early Linux ecosystem, allowing nerds to have a solid stable Linux distro that gets out of the way and lets them do what they need to get done.

But the Linux world has gotten a lot more complex in the last few decades. Does it still have a distinct advantage?
I think there is also correlation to the how well people digest food, which coincidentally means that chronic constipation often accompanies depression.
I always thought email spam was bad. Then I contacted my senators via email and they started spamming me.
They've flipped "fat shaming" into "fat pride", which is the latest territory of "wokeness"
The ad was written in my early childhood. "Can you pinch an inch ?", was the tag-line in a Kellogg's commercial decades ago.

In part thanks to that advert, my entire life whenever I can pinch an inch I simply stop drinking my calories. Admittedly it is harder to eat healthy when you are time constrained and poor. But could there be anything faster and cheaper than pouring a glass of filtered tap water ? Can we advise that first before developing more PSAs about nutrition, exercise routines, etc.
When I was a kid I decided that test pilots must be idiots.

My logic:

Being a test pilot is dangerous. Only idiots do dangerous things. Therefore test pilots must be idiots.

Later (embarrassingly later) I learned that many test pilots were also engineers. This made me reconsider my opinion. I learned to be very careful when judging intelligence, and also the limits of inference.
OK, I see what you're saying now. On first read it sounded like you were saying they aren't truckers, but you're actually saying they don't represent all truckers.

In reality they represent at least as many truckers as are present (and who knows how many that aren't: what a union's PR department says and what its members think aren't necessarily the same thing), and presumably a large chunk of the people out there cheering them on.

If someone smeared all of a group of people for something that some individuals in that group did, I'd probably assume that their takes on things aren't very useful. I'd be frustrated to the extent that their pontificating affected my life negatively. I wouldn't be embarrassed.
awesome article, I was just thinking about this and how to fight it, specifically in Latin America.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238788
Are you sure they didn't reduce the amount they pay artists? How do you know that?

If they didn't sign this deal, could they pay the artists more?
Fun story, on the same "new" page for HN as I posted this, this article appeared:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220204-the-salary-ign...

on this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238750

which makes me think that this is certainly a global issue and that more "democratization" tools are needed
switching from a gaming chair to a couch
After seeing how much trouble something relatively benign like Covid caused I think we would just fight each other. Countries/people with enough resources would make sure they are doing fine and the rest would have to figure something out.
>The controversial proposal — which has now been postponed “until further notice” — would lower the incentives that homeowners receive for generating their own solar power and charge them to connect to the electric grid.
That was an amazing story. Thanks for the link!
They don't need much of a difference. Just more control.
Salesforce is the worst when it comes to helpful error messages. I can sink hours trying to figure out what some vague message means.
Yes, my signals only differ by screen size.
Most discussion of displays that isn’t for a highly specialized audience fails to mention panel types, I’m glad that’s well covered. I was surprised to see PLS even mentioned. I took a chance on a PLS panel years back, and I was definitely satisfied with the panel quality (tl;dr, it’s roughly on par with IPS). The only reason I don’t still use it, is its replacement…

I’m surprised to see I’m not the only one here using a Comically Large Display. I also use a ~43"[1], with an IPS panel running 4k@1x.

TL;DR: I laughed at myself for buying this thing for several months, and now I can’t imagine working without it. If you’re considering a large multi-display setup or an ultrawide to maximize screen real estate, it’s worth also considering a Comically Large 16:9 format. It’s surprisingly economical, even for a decent quality IPS panel.

Bonus: if you’re working remote/limited for space like I am, unlike a big multi-display setup, it also makes for a pretty great TV. And it’s only/fully as “smart” as whatever device you attach to it.

1: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-43un700-b-4k-uhd-led-monit...
Sounds like a good way to get attention for people who have been ignored for too long. Hard to ignore this.
I wonder if also doing this for FreeBSD's 46792 Ports would give any extra 'perspective':

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Ports

* https://www.freebsd.org/ports/

There's already a 'pre-canned' bulk build infrastructure:

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-poud...

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/VladimirKrstulja/Guides/Poudriere
This doesn't seem to work very well. Want a better scriptless cross-site tracking mechanism? Check out https://xsid2-demo.glitch.me and https://xsid2-demo.easrng.net and note how they both get the same id.
I always liked the UI in Adminer better than PHPMyAdmin, another single-file app. https://www.adminer.org
I like this cli wordle more:

https://github.com/ShivamPandya/wordle
Yeah. Working for a quarter salary for a non-profit would be completely fine. Working for a quarter salary so a VC gets to keep another fraction of a percent? Nope.
From my experience social skills are most important. Way more important than technical skills. If you can connect to upper management you can make very good money.
I actually don't think you can say that Apple was first in any single way.

We had fullscreen touch smartphones in 2003 long before the iPhone (i had a HTC magician which i thought was pretty good at the time).

We had fullscreen touch smartphones with capacitative touchscreens. LG KE850 Prada.

The honest truth is that Apple had a strong brand it was able to pivot into with the iPod which was considered a must have device at the time.
> I think there is a rather powerful fat acceptance movement paid for by food lobbyists.

Fat anxiety is driven by food industry propagandists (more marketers than lobbyists.) Most weight-loss companies are basically high-priced subscription food services with add-on food marketing and a hook that gets people to pay for that as a service. While they've become a big enough business too often be standalone, it's not telling that Weight Watches spent a couple decades as a subsidiary of HJ Heinz.

> I think being able to have healthcare discriminate based on smoking has been hugely impactful in cutting US smoking rates

Health insurance was never prevented from discriminating on that basis, even while smoking rates went through the roof. There's plenty of policies for which there is evidence of utility in cutting smoking rates, health insurance price discrimination isn't one of them.
Learning often involves making mistakes, speaking out, etc. Don't be afraid to assert yourself.
> “Our quantum friction theory provides the first reasonable explanation of what’s happening,” says Kavokine.

Now that a possible mechanism for water-carbon interactions is more clearly understood, there is great potential to harness the properties of nanoscale flows, he says. For example, there are proposals to develop new computer designs based on nanoscale water and ion transport.

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new computer designs? Am I reading that right? It seems like a large extrapolation to that application.
> The American Prospect is a daily online and quarterly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American liberalism and progressivism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Prospect

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-american-prospect/?amp=1
Is this possibly the source of Apple's sudden need to "scan" user documents last year? The Europeans pressured them and they tried to get ahead of the game?
Black beans, kidney beans, white beans, garbanzo beans, lima beans, black eyed beans.... we can go on if you like. Don't forget the huge variety of lentils as well.
I believe 35 is a tough age. You've effectively achieved Journeyman level. No, seriously, you're past the Apprentice level, and you've completed all the 300-400 level life courses. You're ready to become a Master. Unfortunately, you need to go on a journey to discover your masterwork. That may take a while. For me it took another 10 years. But trust me, you will find it, if you're willing to take a step sideways in your career a few times to try and find the problem that you seek. When you find the problem, you will recognize it for what it is: Your Masterwork ... something only you can solve. Solving it may pay off financially, with fame, or just emotionally, but either way it will pay off spiritually. You will know who you are.
The car doesn't even see an orange pylon, with bright reflective tape, at 7:24. Or for that matter, the lane markings -- after the driver pulls the car back into the lane, in continues to try driving through the parking spaces and shoulder.

This car can't even see orange pylons and lane markings. That's not even passable for a student driver on a closed course.
Oh, there's so much I could point out but I do hope that your government will one day improve standards sufficiently with regards to pollution, food, health, education and work life balances.
Cool, good to know. I figured the labeling wouldn't matter once you're comfortable with it — I just didn't know how much of a pain it is to learn if you have no reference for what key is where. I could imagine it would take a long time to really solidly learn where uncommon keys are, and I wouldn't want to be hunting around for them every time I need them.

Do you use Dvorak on mobile as well? Is it a pain to use QWERTY devices when you encounter them?
> It's the easiest part of our job.

Yep. Some efficiency gain is surely possible with "intelligent" autocomplete (i.e. codex instead of intellisense), but it must be code you wanted to write.

"If you think you're paying me for typing code, maybe you should have hired a typist and not a programmer?"
I wouldn’t consider the ability to work for a living, when you have no other viable alternatives, to be a special privilege. It should be the least a government provides.
You raise a great point: does it make sense for highly compensated tech talent to bet on startups with their time / labor?

Ultimately, decision depends on what you are solving for. If it's purely about $ in the hand, startups never make sense.

If it's about participating in potential massive upside, investing is a perfectly good choice.

Difference between investing vs. joining startup is that you get to build stuff from scratch and operate more like a business owner. You'll do more and learn more in a shorter period of time. This makes a ton of sense IF you like that sort of adventure. Also allows you learn on someone else's dime before you start your own business

If you're joining VC-backed startup, the outcome they'll be shooting for is $1B+ exits, and you can get 2-3% equity if you join early.... so there's that

You can find comparable salary and equity offers here: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/
https://monkeytype.com/
Pretty sure this will remain the realm of scifi for the next couple dozen decades.
I thought it was going to use ETAG based fingerprinting/tracking, which I always thought was pretty clever. The etag header is supposed to be used to control caching, so it's typically a server-side generated hash of the requested resource's content. But, there's no requirement for it to be, so you can generate a unique one, and the client will send it back to you next time it asks for that uri. Sort of like a cookie.

The fingerprint sources are here: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/blog-nojs-fingerprint-demo/... Basically some css that uniquely identifies some browsers, then headers like user-agent, language, etc.
I would add the caveat that, when doing so, be aware of, and vocalize, your current state of familiarity. Also, I find that asking questions leads to better outcomes than making statements.
I'm interested in hearing more about this. Does the tablet itself double as monitor, or was it a hack?
My go-to COVID tests are Bluetooth. IMO it's a pretty effective way of doing it, although I'd prefer wifi (the results take ~15 minutes and it'd be nice to not have to wait in person to get results)
Interesting logic; maybe they didn’t want to marginalize the non minorities....

Also, it makes sense to publicly do one thing and privately do another.

DARE campaign was Reagan era, when they were importing cocaine by the plane load.
You can go on Hired and Triplebyte to find contracting gigs.
Credit Suisse securitises yacht loans to oligarchs and tycoons
As if the FISA courts wouldn't be employed to circumvent any constraints placed on the system by congress.
> scientific discovery and observation as opposed to subsidizing bridges to nowhere

But there are plenty of examples of research with directed effort leading to cures and treatments. You just choose not include any.
Without too much detail, he came from a really bad home environment. Ran away from home at 16 and was 22 when I was helping him out.

The only thing that made any sense to me was some type of loyalty to the place he was working (commercial HVAC company) but it always seemed like this place treated him badly. He’d been there for almost 3 years though with the prospect of a raise dangled in front of him like a carrot and never materializing.
Well moving to New Zealand wont help (Sorry Mr Billionaires)
I agree in general. But at least on the internet I find an incorrect claim will be corrected more often than a question is answered.
Steve Jobs did something similar.
Fair call. You seem to know more than I do
Sure, but secrecy certainly permits privacy. Privacy can be forced (encryption) or permitted (must get a warrant otherwise private). One cannot deny the relationship.
The Johnny decimal system is a handy way to organize these type of life admin documents. Can be used with any service since it's just a concept.
Questions imply some unfamiliarity but sure that may be helpful if supplied.
I have to show my "vaccine passport" to go to the hardware store (in a mask), literally. People are being fired over their refusal to share medical information. All off this is far more existentially bad than "honking". Yet for some reason, that's what people focus on.
> Retractable metal poker - got this off Amazon for my weed paraphernalia, listed as a metal toothpick. It's incredibly useful and has saved my ass countless times. Need to poke that reset button? Scrape some gunk out of a USB port? Clean your nails? It's good for everything except picking your teeth, which is just unnerving.

This is what I use a set of precision knives for.
literal and figurative re-seeding.

off the top of my head, given unlimited budget, I'd probably have a massive vault of seeds (not just in variety, in quantity, too,) and adequate staff in rotations in a deep-sea bunker. not near a fault line, but deep enough that surface conditions are less likely to impact (no pun intended). Sea vs land because "digging your way out" become less of a problem. If you had a truly unlimited budget, one could imagine an Ark of embryos and a sufficient population of young does of each animal species you sought to preserve.
This doesn't work very well.

On the glitch website, I get f9703...

On the easrng website, I get 8ecd6...
No, they didn't.

Don't forget that in the US they named their anti-drugs policy in schools: DARE!! lol!

That's some twisted reverse psychology stuff..
I'm an engineer at a global software company that specializes in data storage. We've had no issues with adherence to GDPR and have servers in the EU. Infact, we can't even access the EU production logs. We have to ask an employee in Europe to screen share. Is that unnecessary? No clue. Point is, this ain't hard to do.
Chrome (Safari) on iPhone 13 Pro Max: db9df4c8c770242aaf1e0efdd5cf8ab2

There’s likely enough info in the hash to figure out exactly what device I’m on since nothing else will have the same pixel density, screen height, and screen width: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46313640/iphone-x-8-8-pl...

Dark mode adds on one more bit, but everything else should be the same across iOS devices. Not sure if that’s enough to track individuals among a small userbase every time their IP address changes.
Ask HN: Any good quality device charging cables?
I'm getting tired of having to buy charging cables every few months for my kids' devices (in this case iPads, but could really be any device).

OEM cables that come with devices (or as post-purchase accessory) are typically crap (they fray just looking at them) and never last, but it seems like most third-party cables aren't much better - they either just stop working after a while, or don't stand up to regular use (seem to easily break due to normal 'bending' of the cable during use).

Are there really good quality device charging cables out there? What do you use?
It’s sort of a know-it-when-you-see-it thing.

On an early date with my now wife she spent an entire subway ride to Queens telling me about Montessori education methods and how it made her the person she is. I recounted that when I was in first grade I was punished for interrupting the class by having a cardboard box put over by desk, so nobody could see me, and that that made me the person I am.

So two passing tests in one convo: she was impressively interested in things that matter (I was already infatuated with her) and she was not put off by my bullshit.
For anyone, like me, who was unfamiliar with the term:

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
Why do you want to type faster?
The equivalent is dplyr not tidyverse, which is huge suite of tools.
We Were Voyagers
> Teachers are paid quite poorly, expected to do a ton of work, beyond their purview, unsupported by their administration, and regulated like crazy.

Everyone can claim the same. Very few people will claim they are paid too well, or they don't have to do thing that don't exactly fit their job description, or their administration/management does not provide them the support they deserve, etc. Oh, and regulation? Lots and lots of trades have to deal with unreasonable regulation, don't ask me how I know.

Here's the thing. This is a free country. Nobody's putting a gun at anyone's head and asking them to be a teacher. The teacher job may suck from some points of view, but it probably is quite ok from other points of view (like vacation, maternity leave, maybe benefits, etc). One way or another millions of people decide to be teachers.

In the end, I like to tell people: 98% of jobs suck 98% of the time. If you manage to make your job suck only 90% of the time, you're having 5 times more fun than the average worker out there. If your name is Feynman, then probably your job sucks 0% of the time. But your name is not Feynman.
Search for "ice ribbons" on Google images.
What makes you think that money spent on changing peoples behavior, will actually change their behavior? What statistics do we have that would make this a "better bang for healthcare buck?"
Are you thinking of the treatment? Chemotherapy?!
Around a month of using it constantly should do it. If it's your first new layout you are probably going to struggle at first.

No need for labeled keys, it's all about developing muscle memory. Just practice touch typing, starting with the keys near the standard position. Your typing speed will naturally increase over time as your brain adapts, so don't get hang up on not improving fast enough on any given day, sometimes you just have to sleep on it.
Anker, Belkin, or OEM.
Mexico has more obese people per capita than the US and Japan had an older population. Want to compare the US numbers to either of those countries? Then compare per capita healthcare spending.

The US doesn't have a public healthcare system. I don't get why it's so impossible for US residents to accept the consequences of that reality. Epidemics don't give a shit if you don't have paid sick leave and the US remains the only industrial country to not guarantee it.
In my experience, arstechnica writers can include content that is genuine and not sensational. Not always but often. I skip the comments, too much noise there, but they do have a very engaged audience.
Verizon’s Aging Copper Lines Leave Customers Hung Up with Frustration
Also, that "The Desktop Is Dead" story on Wired is pretty funny in retrospect.
Midway down the article, it's a submarine for some documentary that is premiering at an Australian festival.
I’ve been doing this for the last 7 years. It’s quite common and not much different than an employee as a contractor. They pay your company that you set up and you pay yourself however much you want to offset on taxes and such.

Interestingly there are contracts for full-time employees too nowadays for non-tech related roles so companies can save on not having to spend on benefits.

Main thing I learned is pay yourself a fixed amount and don’t treat your business bank account as your own. I ended up having owing my business money in the first few years lol.

Also the good thing is some of the stuff I buy I use it as a business expense.
Intelligence is generally orthogonal to physical risk tolerance. I don't know why anyone would conflate the two.
Step-ca private CA and and ACME server
You’re in luck! https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vaul...

Though not a deep sea bunker. I imagine there would be trade-offs to that too, like water leaking. Plus, access without submarines could be difficult.