skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not every employee in role X is as good as every other employee in role X. The better ones deserve higher pay, which creates an incentive for the others to up their game so that they, too, can earn more.

Why try harder if it's run like romper room?
There's a thread playing out on Twitter about this:

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1496462049530023940

The comments are split between people saying that the children are clearly sociopaths, and those saying that this is perfectly reasonable because it's just a machine.

When, if ever, should we cease treating mechanisms as "just objects" and start treating them "nicely"?
Stuff like this would probably benefit a lot from using a userspace VFS.
You are correct, for 1099-R reporting where the issuer determines the taxable amount (such as pensions, annuities, etc). For IRAs, the taxpayer tracks the tax basis in the combined balance of all their Trad. IRAs, using tax Form 8606 from the IRS--the IRA trustee does not know or need to know that number. Then there is also that wonderful "taxable amount not determined" check box on the 1099-R. :)
Wow. How is it so cheap? Xerox Alto was way more expensive in inflation adjusted usd.
Most HN readers work for Web2 companies and are invested in the past. Nothing to see here
I’m curious how it stacks up with Bear? Is the main advantage not being Apple-locked?
I've written my BSc thesis on Kubernetes bandwidth management with eBPF a year ago. This is exactly what I felt trying to research this technology. Countless blog posts about how great eBPF is, close to none useful resources... And from what I've seen since, it's only gotten marginally better.
As an aside, I recently tried to dabble with some BuildKit APIs and man that was one of the lowest quality Go codebases I've encountered. Probably the lowest hanging fruit would be documenting APIs. Podman (and IIRC Buildah) by comparison were clean, well documented, reasonable APIs were exposed, etc.
Have you tried btrfs? It has tail packing, block subdivision and inline files.
I agree that get rich quick schemes are sad, but on the other hand, when I turn off my adblock, 99% of ads I get on YouTube are for copytrading with traditional stocks on eToro. Financially illiterate people get given a rope to hang themselves with crypto, but it doesn't take away from the benefits of crypto, which I think has a (small) place in any portfolio, and could potentially be a lifesaver in any cashless+NIRP society. I wouldn't try to pilot a plane without training, and wouldn't buy any crypto without knowing deeply about it. I don't see it as a red flag of the technology that people do stupid things, just a sign of human laziness (surely, getting the proper knowledge before piloting a plane, trading stocks, or buying crypto is common sense).

There are many people who want governments to "step in" and protect people from themselves, but governments will likely have ulterior motives (KYC, AML, financial control) when they do so.
- React

- PostgreSQL

- SocketIO

- Redis

- Python/FastAPI

- Nginx

That’s the bones of it – Tobias (Co-founder)
For workers with the same experience, personality traits (there's a big overlap between female and male personality traits), employment history, etc in the most progressive nations the remaining pay gap is just a few percent. Small enough that it's on the edge of the error bars. It's bigger in the US. A lot of the claims that there's no pay gap are based on countries like Sweden, and then misapplied to the US which does have a persistent unjustified pay gap, albeit a much, much smaller one than even a few decades ago.

We are definitely and very clearly moving in the right direction, there's no question about that, but we're not quite there yet.
That's arguably true, though I'm also skeptical of any official numbers. The protests are not homogeneous at all: on one hand you have seemingly long convoys that are made up of small number of people, there are also very dense on-foot protests, it's somewhat hard to make an accurate estimation.

Still, making a statement doesn't require a majority.Usually if 0.5%-1% or more of the population starts protesting, the governing body responds, (or at least it should imo, having potentially more than 2-3% of the population actively involved in a political manner it's not a good sign: politicians don't want people too closely involved). This however vastly depends on the country, the culture, the people.Protests are also not accurate representations of the electorate.
Why erase history? It happened, and it's interesting.
Home Lab Inspration
Speculation is just an emotional word used to throw you off the scent. You are also speculating about the future value of the dollar.
> Price to earnings (P/E) ratio. Calculated by dividing the fully-diluted market cap with the annualized protocol revenue. Shows how a project is valued in relation to its protocol revenue.

That's misleading. Revenue is not earnings. For something like Uniswap, you also have to look at how much of earnings is given to liquidity providers versus spent on token buybacks.
Indeed, I had a partition with a huge number of small files in the ext3 era, and reiserfs was the only one even remotely able to perform decently. I stumbled upon it last week and was happy and surprised to see that reiserfs was not removed.
I'm not convinced critical thinking skills work unless they are practiced. Learning about how to think critically isn't internalized until one has done it a few times in the field.
Yes, that's exactly GeForce Now's model, but since Stadia uses custom hardware and requires work to port games over (a huge mistake in my mind), it would still not have worked to just bring in Steam.

They should have gone with standard hardware basically.
bcachefs has inline data extents, and should do pretty well here.
Apple gives Siri a less gendered voice
Yes, this was totally my mistake. I'm unable to edit the post now but emailed dang to see if he can fix it.
is there a sample of the magazine somewhere? not gonna sign up before I know if its any good…
How does this work for US companies working for remote workers who can be from the US or EU?
I know, people are already talking about a price, but I want to add my perspective as well.

I was subscribed to the Newsletter, read every blog post and generally was pretty hyped for the Simula One. Up until I read the blog post about the pricing. That's when I unsubscribed the newsletter and forgot about SimulaVR.

Sure, other AR/VR headsets cost as much, but for me its just too expensive. I can't spend nearly $3k for a headset I haven't even tried. This product is already targetted to a niche without considering the price, add in the pricing and that niche gets even smaller.
Basically, the only people who will buy these are rich silicon valley nerds.

Wish SimulaVR the best of luck, but for the moment it seems like I can't really support them.
> I have never understood these cases

The Civil Rights Act was passed because in the United States, we had a real problem with entire sections of the country being functionally unlivable for minorities because of the general right to refuse service. So if you live in a town where nobody will serve you at a restaurant, nobody will sell to you, nobody will allow you to open a bank account, and nobody will even sell you gas for your car, it doesn't matter if the government isn't discriminating against you... You can't live there.

But the Civil Rights Act didn't impinge directly on freedom of expression enshrined in the First Amendment (although it did impinge on freedom of association). The businesses the people had in mind when they passed the law were things like hotels, restaurants, and stores, where the provided service is commodity. When the provided service includes some aspect of artistic expression, people believe there's still an open question of whether the Civil Rights Act includes an aspect of compelled speech in using one's artistic talents to propagate a message one disagrees with.

It's a legitimately complicated question of where one person's rights end and another person's rights begin (although, to be clear, so was the original Civil Rights Act when it clarified that the right to refuse service was not universal).

> What if I don't want to work with Facebook because I think they're evil? Is that discrimination against evil corporations?

The Civil Rights Act doesn't provide being an evil corporation as a protected class. So the answer would be "yes, refusing to work with evil corporations is legal discrimination."
Financial lessons after 10 years in tech
On HN you can delete within some time-window.
Good luck, I've dreamt about this as a kid.
> I should emphasize I don't know how reliable this source is, or if the bill was substantially altered before it became law. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56364... states some changes

No offence to you or anyone else in this thread but why not just look up the law? Scotland is an English-speaking country and their laws are public. I saw a similar thing with the protests in Canada here on HN. Multiple people speculating as to the contents of the Emergencies Act there, often incorrectly.

Is it difficult to find without specialist knowledge? I took some law in university and maybe that's why?

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/contents/enacted
True; but simultaneously, globalism is barely a choice. International economic competition is real and unavoidable. Leaders who rile people in rural areas up by claiming otherwise and pretending they will be able to help them without adapting are just lying.
That is what I originally thought it might mean, but the article uses the term "rain control barrier", and has a separate item for vapor control.

With regard to their relative placement, see, for example, the caption to figure 2:

"Figure 2: "The Perfect Roof"—The perfect roof is sometime referred to as an “inverted roof” since the rainwater control layer is under the insulation and ballast." [my emphasis.]

The author also writes, in the caption to fig. 1: "The claddings function is principally to act as an ultra-violet screen", thus seeming to differentiate it from any of the control layers he listed at the start of the article.

In addition, the author also lists a separate item for air control, but later writes "What about this air control thing? Well air can carry a lot of water and water is bad for the structure" - further muddying the issue, as now he seems to be discussing water vapor.

I guess this could all be attributed to being sloppy about definitions, to the point of being unambiguously wrong when it comes to roofs.
Passt: Plug a Simple Socket Transport
OECD data has an indicator for household disposable income including "social transfers in kind, such as health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by governments and not-for-profit organisations" and accounting for purchase power parity. US has the highest PPP-adjusted household disposable income in the world.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm#in...
jpdb is great, thanks for making it :)

I'm incredibly thankful that Anki exists, I don't think I would have ever learned Japanese to a high level without it. But having spent some time looking at its guts myself, it sure is a mess in there. I thought at one point about building something on top of Anki, but decided against it discovering some of the same stuff that has already been mentioned.
Entities rebrand all the time, because humans associate qualities with names. New name makes room for new associations.
"but most people who play by the rules get screwed royally."

That's some universal truth right there.
I think these proposals go a long way towards closing the asymmetrical advantage that employers have when it comes to salary negotiations and generally creates a much better functioning labour marketplace as a result.
Yes? Both articles support not contradict what I said. PRC recognize RU security grievances are legitimate, i.e. US/NATO at fault (just like in Taiwan scenario), but doesn't overtly support invasion that upsets stability (just like in TW scenario), wants diplomatic solution (again, just like in TW scenario). PRC doesn't want to be dragged into this drama, putting out neutral statements. As acknowledge by Uncle Ming, who recognize need to balance between support RU and not provoking US/EU. The original Ming article is about hedging the situation to be most advantageous to PRC interests. He calls for supporting RU more morally / emotionally in private, which contradicts your thesis that already RU has PRC support. The summary basically recognize current crisis is geopolitically complex and outlines what PRC should do, i.e. exactly my analysis "the geopolitical calculus is all over the place, no reason to be hasty".
ReiserFS is a lesson in project naming.

When I started in Linux full-time, back in the early 2000s, I was presented with different fs options - the installer did not give me any information on benefits, or on which ones were considered "stable". ext2 was available, but it also had a built-in version number, and I feared that once ext3 eventually rolled over, it might be incompatible. So I chose the fs that came with a name attached: ReiserFS. If someone was willing to attach their name to their code, I figured, that must be some quality code.

ReiserFS served me well, even though it always was a system lurking in the background. I was not a storage specialist. I was just a guy doing work on a Linux desktop, and ReiserFS "just worked". Occassionally, I put in a new disk, and watched the progression of other fs. Eventually, I switched over to ReiserFSv4.

Fast forward a few years, and the whole murder thing happens. Immediately the thing that made ReiserFS stand out for me becomes radioactive - the name is burnt. And I see distros slowly phasing out advertising the option of having a ReiserFS partition. Yes, it was still there when you searched for it, but it didn't feature prominently in the installers anymore. And it is obvious that the code becomes stale - arguably understandable, who would do OSS work on code that is branded the name of a murderer?

Twenty years later, I am still a Linux user. The last ReiserFS disk got shredded a year ago. Feels like the end of an era.

Lessons learned: Naming matters. If you attach your name to something and want that project to survive, maybe do not commit violent crimes.
Whoa, thank you for sharing this. I was looking for a Docker Desktop alternative for Podman and found Cockpit but it's not the same.

This looks awesome!
Did you have to sign a non-compete for that job? Regardless of the exact reason for the impediment, it still remains that due to the restrictions, non-competes are not common enough in the EU to even be in the vocabulary of regular working people. I can't find any concrete numbers but it's definitely nowhere near the ridiculous 18% jobs that have them in the US. So it's pretty hard to argue the restrictions aren't effective.
> That someone can honestly say with a straight face that "the Economist is left-facing" speaks volumes to the sad state of the Overton window.

Or that they are viewing things entirely through the lens of American culture war dimension of politics (where the Economist might fit in the neutral to left-facing description), rather than the usual left-right economic spectrum, where it is agressively center-right.
Wouldn’t it be better to keep such files inside a database?
Tobias here (Co-founder). We will eventually publish the mobile apps on the App Stores, but for testing purposes we've made it subscriber-only as a little thanks for their support. Speed is our foremost priority!
Yes, of course, they will have total control over the supply of coins.
https://philosopher.life
Thanks for mentioning it. I was excited about the site without my speakers on, now I'm over the moon!
Highly Specific Commonalities Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Co-Founder of PayPal
Sure, in which case you're welcome to build every tool yourself. Me, I'll carry on doing what I specialise in for a living, and use a trivial crumb of my earnings to pay someone else for lovingly-made readymade products. Same way I do for my WiFi router, for my readymade mac & cheese, etc.

viz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
man i started basically my dream job in December and I am being absolutely crushed by impostor syndrome. It sucks because it does actually get in the way of performance if I don't monitor it closely. And then the self-monitoring breeds even more anxiety.

I like his, "OK, based on my experiences and connections I've made through research, I’ve covered a potentially small, but possibly sufficient set of scenarios. I am ready for critical feedback." self-guidance. I'll be using that.
Every human interaction? No, it won't be regulated.

(Almost) every human interaction between a company and an actual human? In most cases, yes please.
Well, but making fun of consumerism usually seems to involve making fun of the forms of consumerism affordable by those with less money, e.g. fancy coffee from Starbucks.
Because companies may not want to be involved in a product called "PersonWhoIsConvictedWithMurder-FS".

Let history be. But rename the project to something like ChameleonFS. Hans Reiser's mentions will still be in the git history.
I wrote this post over the weekend that caught on in /r/cscareerquestions (192k views so far) & on Github (539 stars). I'm interested to hear if there are topics members of HN are interested in too. A few of the topics being:

- Reviewing companies & selecting the right opportunity
- Salaries, pay raises, and how packages are structured
- Startups vs big companies
- Stock options vs RSUs - how they work, exercising them, the tax implications.
- Bonuses - what to expect and also the tax implications
- Investing in your retirement (401ks, IRAs, etc)
- Real estate - renting in these high costs of living areas vs buying
- Tech investing - becoming an angel investor & VC investing
- Contract work - how to bill & taxes

Anything else?
> Another argument is that crypto enables ransomware attacks.

Whether or not you have a positive opinion of cryptocurrencies, this is factual. In order to successfully demand a ransom, you must have a way to get paid. For ransomware, you need something you can do remotely around the world, and something that can’t be blocked or reversed by the authorities. Cryptocurrencies were the first solution for this.
I think cheating would matter if there was individual words tied to an account. But not when the design says every browser session on the planet gets the same word.
On the other hand, if you are disabled and can't reach the fire alarm to silence it, you are at a disadvantage.
I don't mind that any one company is charging a monthly fee, what's frustrating is that every company is charging a monthly fee. It's getting very difficult and prohibitively expensive overall to manage all these subscriptions.

In this case, the product looks nice but I'm struggling to justify the cost (as I have for every other note taking app I've tried). I just need a convenient way to get Markdown docs synced across a couple of my devices and so far Joplin (originally synced via Dropbox but now synced via a Nextcloud raspberry pi server I'm running) has gotten the job done.
> you were assuming that the protest does not have popular support and I wonder if that assumption is correct.

Seems to be a valid assumption.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/two-thirds-of-canadia...
Yojo's comment matches my feelings fairly well. I would add as a corollary to the better 'slow burn' coverage that they have less 'flash in the pan' coverage as well. I.e. the weekly format of their print edition tends to filter out the most ephemeral stories and gives them time to provide more in-depth coverage of the stories that still seem to matter a few days or weeks later. This, combined with the space constraints provided by their print edition gives me the impression that articles that make it to the print edition are probably worth my time to read, even in cases where I'm not particularly interested in the topic.
Find me any situation anywhere in the world where there are no bad actors.

Companies are made up of people, this happens everywhere. You're just describing life. This is not a problem specific to "companies".
Along the same lines is the McHale Packs site (legendary custom backpacking/mountaineering packs): http://www.mchalepacks.com/
is it even true anymore?

Not since Apache 2.4 and the latest APR libraries that Apache depends on. Some Linux distributions kept the 2.2 branch for a while and that may be one of the reasons people still associate Apache with slowness.
As a biker in NYC, there are a ton of bikes and a ton of bad, careless drivers around. I wonder if the risk comes more from the nature of biking in NYC rather than trying to get to a residence in 15 minutes. E-bikes do go a lot faster than normal bikes, to be fair, but the city was already saturated with them before these services popped up. I believe they may even be illegal in the city as it is.

Also, as an avid user of 15 minute delivery services. They really are magical. I have a super expensive mini-grocery store at the end of my block, but for the same cost, I could have the same item delivered to me in about 5 minutes on average. I also wonder if the market/legal system already has corrections for any negligence on the part of the business. If they know that it's dangerous to, say, extend their "15 minute" border too far, forcing delivery people to push it and someone dies, that seems ripe for a massive liability issue.

If I am these delivery companies, I would be working over time to ensure everyone that this is a legitimate, good-producing service. It's a similar struggle Uber/Lyft have been dealing with. Clearly the right direction, but the execution might require some polish.
ReiserFS is a conversational litmus test I like to casually and indirectly name drop in technical interview discussions surrounding the world of Linux, file systems, and storage to fish and see if someone actually had been actively working in the domain circa 2000ish when there was a lot of hype and criticism bubbling surrounding performance with large sets of small files.

Admittedly, it's not a great signal if the candidate hadn't heard of it or used it depending on their career length because plenty avoided it and happily lived in other FS worlds or avoided certain hype, but it's a fairly good positive signal if someone actually starts talking about it knowledgably in some way regardless of it on positive or critical notes--just have to keep survivorship and confirmation biases actively in mind when weighing these things.
No, it doesn't work that way.

No mater what kind of website (forum, web app, social network, wedding, etc..) she probably doesn't want to make a certain type of content.

It is the same for any person. There is a topic for each of us that we want no part of 'supporting' even if we have no problem serving people who do support it.

Making a website collecting donations for Trump. Making a website supporting Israel. Making a website for a pride parade. Making a website supporting/condemning Hong Kong/BLM/OWS movements.

Doesn't mater what you put for X, everyone has limits on what they are comfortable supporting. That is a separate issue from who you provide service to.
I once took a break from software and applied to be a cashier at Barnes & Noble (just to get out of the house). It was entertaining to watch the manager hastily scan the application for a $7/hour, 10 hours/week job and then pause and try to find a polite way to break it to me that they weren't going to meet the $180k I made at my previous job.
Fedora is great, but lots of software assumes you are on Ubuntu, so that feels like a safer push.