skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Myself and another employee may have the same exact title, but the other employee is doing much better and much more work due to their ability. It's not fair for me to get paid the same since I'm not doing equal work. Since the value of the work is subjective from the bosses perspective, these rules have no meaning and are easily worked around.
> Sounds like you have swallowed their propaganda entirely if you think they are bad but they have convinced you the other guy is worse.

In this case, it was not a guy but a woman running against Parsons.

(Wow, those are some downvotes! People reacted to this comment like a Missouri voter reacts to a female gubernatorial candidate.)
> is that Negative Partisanship is the only factor at all that matter

I couldn't have said it any better.

It's all a political theater. (both sides)

Negative Partisanship, drives anger and fear.

Fear and anger drive donations and votes.

Fear and anger drive views/clicks, news outlets and the media, everybody wins!

Wash, rinse, repeat, circa 1776!
He talks about Yew [0], and you link to flutter?

[0] https://yew.rs/
Couldn't Catchpoint or 1000eyes do it with their existing infrastructure?
I remember a story of a student that built a small home for himself at school, beneath some stairs.
If you haven't been preparing for state-level attacks from Russia and PRC backed groups, you're already way, way behind the curve.

Case in point, in the Ukrainian blackout attack of 2014, a highly capable group had access and effective control over the SCADA at the control centers and substations for months before selling it to Russian agents who utilized it at their leisure.

If your org/team is waiting for the crisis, it's only luck protecting you.
Every country has regions with distinct cultural and linguistic identities. It often takes an outside power to enable them to split away.

Like with Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, &c the central actor is Russia, not the regions themselves.
This is a really bad reading of the situation and you won't have to wait very long to see why. Putin did not go through this massive hoopla just to get a small strip of land.

Yesterday's moves were just the first step. Within a few days they'll escalate by doing something like claiming the entire regions, by staging a false flag, Triggering an insurrection outside the regions etc. Once they have threatred their way into making it look as if Ukraine is the aggressor, they'll move in widely.

I don't know where he'll end up, but the ultimate objective is the humiliation of the west and subjugation of Ukraine. What I think you'll see is a wide areal campaign destroying most of Ukraines military equipment, a take over of the entire black sea coast making Ukraine landlocked. Finally there'll be a "peace" treaty making Ukraine a substantially smaller landlocked country, forcing them to demilitarize, pay tribute etc.
That method signature is not that bad to be honest, I actually feel this a bit better than Rust. (Though it might have helped if you added a newline in the middle of that signature). Maybe you're complaining more about the complexity of the type system rather than the syntax.

Or maybe because I'm saying this because I'm already acquainted to the evil monstrosities of C++. Here's the same function: (and this is even with C++20 concepts on):

// Yes, you need to include some headers to get even the most basic features! Typical C++.
#include <type_traits>
#include <optional>

template <Collection Elements, Equatable Element,
typename = std::enable_if_t<std::is_same_v<typename Elements::Element, Element>>>
std::optional<typename Elements::Index> index(Element element, const Elements& collection) {
// Function body
}
> A significant proportion of the Ukrainian population speak Russian primarily, but otherwise have no political affinity for Russia.

The best counterpoint for most westerners to understand is this: most Irish people speak English as their primary, if not only, language. Yet English-speaking Irishmen were (and still are) vehemently against being part of the UK.
I did a lot of challenging at previous job and it was relatively friction free because our team was tiny. Here we have full-house of scrum masters, product owners, business analytics, architects and whatnot, and each raised topic should go several rounds through them, and most of suggestions hit the top management wall who say that we're already behind the schedule and keeps hiring new engineers. I guess I have to learn to play politics at scale
> Russia and China are still in the 50-100 years ago mentality and will ruthlessly enforce having buffer states between major powers.

And having "50-100 year ago mentality" doesn't mean "unintelligent" either, it means "no bs wokeness" and "meticulously calculating", which is a crucially important skill in modern day global politics, perhaps even more important than 50 years ago.
Fractals: An Eclectic Survey, Part-1 [pdf]
I do not understand how one can qualify Mike Parson as a good governor while also stating that he targets people he does not like (with legal action from taxpayer funded prosecutors).
> - So much (and I mean SOOO MUCH) money was spent on buying and maintaining the serverroom (no cloud, remember) - so you had to buy and amateurishly maintain all this super expensive hardware - usually on a standard, off-the shelf T1 line connection to the internet.

This is not a thing of the past, migrating everything to the cloud is not advantageous to everyone. Even if it still does, you still are left with (edge) servers to maintain.
Don't know why someone downvoted you without taking the time to question you further.

What is astral projecting?

I have heard anecdotes of self-healing before, it reconciles with my internal model that induced muscular relaxation + increased bloodflow via neuro-stimulation can facilitate healing and also reset any "knots" lingering around. Similar to how massaging, accupuncture and cupping can help recovery.

Although many find this unbelievable perhaps because it is hard to measure/study and the knowledge to body control is locked behind unscientific martial arts and requires years of training. Seems like we are starting to tease
out reproducible findings via things like Wim Hof and mass interest in yoga. I'm excited to see what we may discover about our own potential - just like how [1] debunked scientists' assumptions about pupil dilation

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28377916
hey, I think that you are now also allowed to put down an opening post along with your link in Show HN threads.
On the topic of living in retail spaces: A lot of the large department stores built between 1890 and 1960 had one or two apartments in the upper floors. They were almost never advertised, and given or rented either to store executives or high-profile customers. The Foley's in downtown Houston was one.

On the topic of living places you're not supposed to: In the mid-2000's, a homeless guy built a basic apartment inside the Lake Shore Drive bridge in Chicago. He even tapped into the bridge's electrical system and had a TV to watch baseball games on. The most interesting part is that the LSD bridge is a draw bridge, and opens and closes several times a day in the summer.
The Saudis aren't invading Yemen, they're just bombing and destabilizing it. Last I checked Lebanon is also still Lebanon, not Syria.

> IIRC, he claims that Ukrainians are themselves no different from Russians

Saying something and believing it are two different things. Also, it depends what you mean by 'no different'. Ethnically they're almost identical. Culturally close. But there is a bit of a difference, mainly that much of "Ukrainian" identity comes from regions that had been been invaded by both Poland-Lithuania and Austria-Hungary and spread to the rest of the country since independence.

Anyhow, not even the Ukrainian President thinks Russia will invade all Ukraine...
Why are you certain that I don't have all the information necessary to have made an informed decision on this?
Sounds like it wasn't diagnosed; they had to request and push for tests that resulted in the removal.
If you believe in a fairy tale that no one knows whose money going where, in 2022, then yes, sounds very reasonable. Scary Russian billionaires fool poor Europeans by acting through banks, aha. Are you trying to find an excuse for EU and US to NOT take any means to do what they threaten to do? This is bullshit.
Heat pumps are a thing. Also the problem with wind and pv is insufficient storage. We need additional storage more than additional wind/pv.
When my mother built my childhood home she discovered large voids on the building plan. She had them lined with concrete blocks and fronted with a bookshelf. Later the movie Safe Room came out and I realized we sort of had that, but far cooler.
Gas prices are extremely high for Americans this year, also.

But it’s true that Russia isn’t a driving force in that.
No one was materially hurt? What about the two people who had to hire legal representation to defend themselves from baseless allegations and a pointless investigation? And the harm to their reputations?

I agree that there isn't much that can be done considering it's unlikely the legislature will hold the Governor accountable, but it's not right to say no one was materially hurt.
Just gonna point out that trying to hack a Nuke would be very high on that list of "NOPE" jobs I have in my head.

Either you brick a nuke in which case your boss bricks you, or the nuke bricks you and your local region.
Though you could still implement login this way.

You visit /login-with-hn, the server generates a code for your HN profile, you add it to your HN profile, and the server gives you a long-lasting sessionID (e.g. cookie).

Where it wouldn't count as "logging in" for me is if you have to first create an account with some credentials and then later link it to HN.
I, for one, have embraced my negative partisanship. I'm not a Democrat. I'm an anti-Republican.
I'll recommend adding text to the service icons on the left. I didn't recognize the bottom one and have no idea what service that was until I dipped into the HTML.
It is hard to guess because politics is complicated and it is a hypothetical, but I'd be surprised if they really had unlimited time to circumvent the locks. If they hadn't given them up peacefully, for all we know somebody might have decided to take them by force.
EU and other non EU countries will have to check if there is no loophold, I personally don't trust UK , the last shitty thing that comes to mind is their illegal treatment of Assange - it shows to me that UK gov loves(or maybe needs) to sucking up to US.
Nope. I'm saying the opposite. I think maybe my wording confused you (I do that sometimes).
Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines
Hi HN. I was inspired by so many other folks also longing for a return to the old web that I put together a service to scratch my own itch: An extremely fast headline aggregator done in 1990s style HTML.

Sharing it with you all for those of you that also would enjoy this now esoteric style.
Did you ever notice that it's not chess?
But you're not truly informed, at best you know the opinions of others. Or more typically, you're informed as to what media outlet publishes to get eyeballs for advertising revenue.

Your conversations with others are only more interesting because you're engaging with people who are themselves very interested in discussing the opinions of others.

My friends are not like this. And the ones that are, I try to avoid endlessly musing about some complex foreign policy which no one has enough accurate information to have an opinion about.

It's all good, but it's a hobby when it doesn't affect your community.
If you were an engineer back before Stack Overflow existed, you probably have a different take. Before SO I searched for info/answers and found them. After SO nothing important changed. I mean the web evolved in good ways and bad ways and SO reflected both, but overall I was getting my job done effectively before SO, then with SO, and don't worry about post-SO.

Only the location of info will change. The same info will be available because the same people will have the same questions and answers and desire to share. The public good is the sharing, not the platform. The people will still be around.

The next platform will be better in ways and worse in others, but that's the same that can be said about any platform supplanting another. Personally I've always stayed away from SO as a contributor because its whole reputation game turned me off. Maybe the next platform will make me more likely to contribute help rather than only consume.

As for losing the history of data, there's good and bad there. I highly doubt anything important would be truly lost. It would be rebuilt. And in the process, a lot of noise (ambiguously obsolete/incorrect info) would get cleaned out, as a benefit.
Also in Colorado, can't reach github via Comcast (stops at the 910 15th Street Comcast hop at the ColoHotel in Denver), or via Fort Collins fiber (Connexion), stops after 2 hops, they largely connect via Cogent I believe.

Our servers in Denver have no problem at the Iron Mountain data center, but they have a traffic optimizer and tend to have really, really good connectivity.
Do you have any suggestions for blogs that you like? Would be interested in adding some to my info diet.
nobody needs your merriam webster definition. you never even spent a day as a developer in this company and somehow you think you have the credibility to back a comment on their competence?
That's the beauty of my setup IMO, I don't plan on quitting full time work, so the revenue is all a bonus on top of what I learn.

That being said, I think I'm at a point where I could spin off an API from OnlineOrNot and make it similarly successful within a month or so.
This is an easy question to decide once you understand that there's a single thing we're optimizing for on HN, namely intellectual curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

We're not going to ban Twitter because, like it or not, it's the source of some of the most intellectually interesting material that gets posted here. It's also, of course, the source of a lot of gunk. We penalize such sites by default (almost all major media sites are penalized this way on HN), but we don't ban them, because we'd miss out on too many good things if we did. It's more important not to miss good things than it is to ban bad things: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

The paywall question is a different one. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 for how we handle paywalls. I don't think twitter.com is hardwalled, though like a lot of big sites, its behavior seems to vary a lot across different regions. It shouldn't be hard for people to post workarounds in the threads, though.
Thanks for all the feedback. I do have lots of other questions that are positive in nature, and show that I've closely read the book. I'll compile all of those and it will dwarf the few nits that I'll include at the end.

Thanks HN!
I've never programmed on a 6502 before and have only read about it; isn't the stack addressable in the zero page?
My advice is keep pursuing whatever energizes you, and aim towards being "T-shaped", not "jack of all trades, master of none", rather "jack of many trades, master of 2 maybe 3".
Is "engaging with the media on their terms" a euphemism for paying them for favorable coverage? Because that's pretty clearly the discriminant here. Tesla outcompeted in 2021 and consequently legacy auto manufacturers paid car publications to slant their coverage. Publications like Roadshow even have a "we may or may not get paid by manufacturers for our coverage" disclaimers at the top of their articles.

> In this sense, the continuous attacks by the Tesla stan army

I genuinely have no idea what this might be referring to.
Ethereum DAO Hacker Revealed
What do you mean by this? Speaking for the US, there generally is no liability for incompetence.

You could prove malicious intent which would be criminal, but typically employers don't hold any real liability as long as they fulfill the project contract. Minor disagreements on the final product are hard if not impossible to hammer out in the legal system. Otherwise, the originator of the work would have free work done forever after based on excuses. People generally find companies or independent contractors where they like their work, and stick with them, and move on from those they are not happy with.

For the middle layers, they take nothing but money out of your check. For the endpoint subcontractor that hires the actual worker, he would hold some responsibility to manage the project, but I wouldn't term that as liability in the sense that it's normally used- legally. As far as the responsibility to deliver according to requirements? That's actually nearly entirely on me. That's where the pressure ends up being.

I'm personally about 4 layers deep as far as separation from the originator of my project. 2 of those offer no actual value at all other than ill-gotten gains for themselves.
What is interesting about this?
Because "news" by definition is only really useful or interesting at the time it occurs?

The Miriam-Webster definition of "News" is literally "A report of recent events". A report of events a decade prior is not "News" anymore and of course likely to be irrelevant. To visit a decade old front page of any paper expecting it to be directly applicable somehow to your life today is bizarre logic to me.
I've implied that there is no scientific backing and that is just anectodal more than once in my comment. Your comment doesn't add anything to the conversation other than sarcastically attacking just for the sake of it.
I don't think it's fair to blanket blame Flutter though. What you are noticing are poorly made apps. What you are not noticing are well made Flutter apps, that are almost indistinguishable from native apps. I guarantee you we all interact with way more different UI frameworks then we are aware of on a daily basis.

Some apps also fail by trying to emulating native UI so hard, when it would be better advised to just adopt a more abstract style. Today's flat UI is just simple shapes after all.

From technical a standpoint, Flutter definitely is performant, capable of delivering smooth scrolling and 60 fps. Your experience may vary of course, but I've been shipping an app with it for 2 years now and things been working out well. Can only really say great things about it.
If pay transparency is the goal it might be better to publish each employee’s pay. That way, at least it’s possible to connect the reasons why someone is being paid more or less (like experience, or extra responsibilities, etc). Few people are excited about that, though.

I’ve set pay for engineers at several companies. In my experience, employee pay levels have a very broad range with the max and min overlapping significantly between levels, making the levels not very useful for pay analysis. This is because of 2 things:

1) “Equal work” is mostly a myth in creative jobs like software. It’s an idea that we’ve inherited from factory work where the job types were highly regimented. In software and other creative fields, if you ask two different people to solve the same problem you’re likely to get two very different solutions. Across hundreds of people, the best solution might be 10x better than the average. That’s a big difference, and not like factory work at all. If someone is doing 5x-10x better work, and your company can make use of the surplus, should that person be more highly payed? What if your competitor is willing to pay more than you are currently paying her? Would you match? And what if matching would push up the top of the pay band?

2) Usually, the goal is to match the market pay (although this is sometimes laundered through various levels of abstractions like years of experience, degrees, etc). Levels can rarely be made detailed enough to model the full complexity of the market. Let’s say you have two mid-level engineers with 5 years of experience and similar work histories. One builds web UI and another is a security engineer. These two people are in very different markets. Security expertise is hard to hire right now (and has been for the last 10 years) and therefore pays 1.3x - 2x. But your company only has one level for “mid-level engineer.” You have the option of underpaying the security engineer, and thus expecting to lose them to another company willing to pay market rate, or pay them market rate yourself but have pay levels with enormous ranges.
I went to university, went to grad school, got a PhD in a hard science, saw that science was a dead end career choice and tried to change career.

I have ended up in IT, although I have never written code for my role, or actually done anything technical for my job. It was immediately into the writing documents, architecting infrastructure and systems that I have no fucking clue about. At no point have I gained any experience about using or building anything, it's all bullshit designs and documents that I pull out of my ass so I can keep my job and not end up homeless ( I make under 40k being a non american). I spend my evenings desperately studying things that I HATE so I can at least have some grasp of what the hell they are before I have to design some complex system using different pieces of tech BUT AT NO POINT HAVE I USED THE TECH. I hate it so much and get rejected for any and all job applications to actually do something and solve problems that I apply for.

I sometimes wish I had never gone into IT, never gone to uni, and just carried on with the unskilled manual labouring job I had on weekends before uni. At least I would be doing something.

I hate IT and I hate tech. If I could do this for a few years and have the fuck you money of a few hundred k in the bank then I would put up with it, but that's not the case.
It is back up for me. I hope everyone can access it now.
The few people with the wealth to be able to live this lifestyle are the ones who left enough records to read about. The commoners definitely existed, they just didn't leave records, or the ones they did leave weren't preserved, or the ones that were, common folk don't study or read about. That's all.

In another 1,000 years, think about who around you right now might have the chance to be remembered. Someone like Bezos or Musk? Those reading about our life in the year 3,022 might believe everyone in our time was a wealthy CEO funding rocketship companies if they go by the names that have stood through time.
> the terms of "best" insinuating "best for anyone" rather than "best for software developer at Microsoft" -- a key difference.

As Ballmer used to say: “developers, developers, developers”. Microsoft has long known that what is best for developers is what is best for Microsoft.
In a well-managed engineering organization, it shouldn't be stressful. Sense of urgency, sure, but stress is typically only making things worse.
someone (a lazy employee?) was using this place to relax

This sort of thing happens more often than most people relize. The maintenance staff at 311 South Wacker in Chicago set up a makeshift basketball court in the empty mechanical space on the 69th floor.

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/building.php?id=1055
> it used to be that the head just crashed into the spinning platter, can you even imagine

If I remember correctly, it was not that bad. The head being parked in a random place meant it could damage the plate if the disk was moved or shaken. I think that modern disks would indeed crash (if not for autoparking) but they have much smaller flying heights and thus require serious active magic to keep the head from hitting the plate.
You can re-characterize the contribution until tax deadline day of the following year, you can contact your investment firm do to that and they'll handle everything. With Vanguard it's as easy as filling out a form and waiting for the process to complete.