skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small aside, reading all these conversations: I just think a lot of static gets injected into these discussions about wage/employers/comp on HN because a large majority of the commenters here are either currently business owners, or founders, or trying to be either of those. But there is also a huge contingent of people who do regular waged labor here, whether FAANG or freelance. Beyond any political differences, I think this is the main operating tension here, when there is one.

The very essence of this website is not amenable to workers coming together to discuss things like the propriety of employment-tied healthcare, or what we should expect from our managers, but mostly for aspiring and current startup leaders to, probably, discuss everything but that stuff. It is a forum attached to a startup incubator after all, and I can't imagine much VC money goes to those companies that are worried about their own labor related issues/externalities, at least those that they don't need to legally be worried about.

I don't think anything is lost here, there is no problem per se, discussions are of course not being diminished by this ultimately demographic point; but just... if you come to these threads and feel a little disappointed that there is not a more universal solidarity towards the basic decency of the worker, just remember it is because not everyone here is a worker!
Oof. Good point. I feel like there's a similar pattern to having too much VC money chasing too few actually good ideas to invest in.
>Health insurance is not tied to employment status. Anyone can go to healthcare.gov and buy an equivalent BCBS or Kaiser or whatever gold/silver/bronze insurance. Unless you are in a particularly shitty state.

Out of curiosity, I went and looked up the plans in NJ for a 32 year old person(56k salary). This is someone in a lower risk pool. The bronze plans are in the upper ~280$/month and include a $6000 deductible. There are three plans out of 36 that are ~380 a month that have a $2500 deductible. Everything else is more. This is NJ, one of the better states and definitely not a shitty state. These plans are garbage. Every time someone on HN extols the virtues of Healthcare.gov, I recheck my options and they always come back much worse than what I get working for a private employer (typical S&P 500 corp). I wish people would look up their possible plans on Healthcare.gov before tossing it out as something other than a scam.
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Absolutely agree. Build quality is meh, not even good. But the battery is seriously good. Like 10+ hours good.
Ask HN: Best approaches to archiving interactive web journalism/writing
I was scrolling through this article (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/29/arts/design/juan-gris-cubism-collage.html) in the New York Times on the history of collage and art. It's a cool article with a lot of dynamic visual content that moves, shifts and refocuses as you scroll, what I believe the NYTimes calls an "interactive story."

Is anyone trying to archive articles like this for the medium/long term? I can imagine a static video of the article, but to really capture the original experience, you'd need something like a Docker for the typical 2022-era browser that was meant to run the story.

Does archive.org have the best solution to this problem right now? Who else is working on it and what are they doing?
I have worked with maybe a couple of managers like you in my career, and I have to say I was truly heartbroken when they moved one. It was the most enjoyable and productive years in my career.

It's sad that a manager saying to the employee "you have to look out for #1" has to be off the record.
> The problem is this isn't well defined.

This is not entirely untrue, but it's not particularly supported by the rest of your post.

Even if it's hard to completely define what "paid and treated fairly" mean, it's crystal clear that a very large percentage of employers today don't meet even the lowest possible bar—that being a living wage and not actively abusing the employees.
> Benevolent companies are just a precursor to abusive ones

Which is exactly what happened in their situation! They "hoped" that the company would just remain nice out of the goodness of their hearts, and did not make sure that those benefits were built into the system. Surprise: when ownership changed hands, the gravy train was over and the people had no actual infrastructure to sustain themselves.
Crypto friendly super PACs could make the Midterm elections even more combative
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The kowtowing to Kremlin/Beijing would not be due to direct military pressure, but from lack of capital sources elsewhere.

It's a plausible scenario, but not a sure one.

Finland is capital poor country, it needs foreign investment or else it will stagnate.

Without NATO after Ukraine the investment environment in Finland will likely be perceived as highly unstable.

China, OTOH, is happy to continue investing vast amount of capital in it's Eurasian project / Belt&Road initiative.

Without NATO, Russia being a loyal subject of the CCP after being sanctioned out of the western sphere of trade, Beijing alliance would be irresistible by guaranteeing both capital and security.

Would that be bad? If you like free speech, then yes. If you like high quality institutions then yes.

This is of course again a bit hyperbolic - western capital flight might not happen.
Well, they’re cleverer than us. They probably just plugged the numbers into the n-body equation they teach in their junior high schools.

Also:

- The ion thrusters were small enough to completely disintegrate on impact/reentry.

- Oumuamua was the mother ship, clearly.
Yea, I think what OP is missing is that macOS was designed to be used with a trackpad. I think three fingers up is what they want when they alt tab. The green button makes the window full screen because using three fingers sideways and the occasional three fingers up is the best way to manage windows on small laptop screens. Even on my external monitor I have every window fullscreen. This was admittedly hard to get used to moving from windows/linux, but it really is a much better way to do windows/virtual desktops. OP should ditch the mouse.
Meteors from our own solar system impact the atmosphere every day. One estimate for the frequency of an interstellar meteor hitting Earth is about once per decade: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2019/04/17/inters...
Do you actually get upset at flat earthers? I know a lot of people who make fun of them, but nobody gets angry.

If you don't have a great concept on why we know the earth is round and you defer to things like "well every science book I have read says the earth is round!", then I could see a clever flat earther really getting beneath your skin. You can see how that faith based belief can be disrupted - it is a mythical belief even if it has accidentally aligned with reality.
I work at a clean energy startup, which is an industry that desperately needs the talent that aerospace often grabs. I wholeheartedly agree that space is a useful endeavor.
So! How's your first day on the internet going?
At this point, I look at the NRA in the same way I look at the ACLU. Both were issue advocacy groups but both have expanded into a general partisan / left-right fundraising machine thanks to more and more polarization.

Many gun-owning folks I know have joined other pro-second amendment advocacy groups in disappointment.
Why is health insurance legal?

Serious question, right now it’s legally mandated to have. What would happen to medical prices if that requirement was reversed?

Just food for thought. If you model it you’ll find interesting results.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all
sure, just pointing out that the _funding and availability_ of a social service wasn't a point of contention there. unintuitive as it is, the discourse around public health and health care aren't really related. anyway i was just giving people some background, not opining. if i was feeling saucy i might say something incoherent about people feeling entitled to a service they previously resented as soon as it's useful to them
What does box 12 code DD on your W-2 say? Your employer is probably just paying a lot for your coverage.

When I got quotes for insuring my employees in NJ, they all matched up with the premiums on healthcare.gov, also seen here:

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...

ACA compliant health insurance pricing is pretty commodified since all the rating factors are codified in law (age, location, smoking status, and that is it I think).

Edit:

>These plans are garbage

The plans simply reflect the cost of healthcare. The companies that sell the healthcare have profit margins in the sub 5% range. Mechanisms to bring the cost down would be to have taxpayer funded medicine in the public domain so the medicine is sold without patent, increasing number of doctors by greatly expanding residency positions and reducing training requirements so that you can start practicing before age 28, reducing the need for "certificates of need" so more hospitals can open and compete, etc.
How does energy efficiency matter here? Or rather, why are you implying that a Mac might be more energy efficient, and enough to matter? Geniuenly curious.
Great show and super underrated.
Populism blinds the public from understanding the true root cause of our problems and therefore destines our solutions to fail.

In this case, the populism is Biden’s admin labeling inflation as the ‘Putin Price Hike’. This completely ignores the possibility that the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, $2 Trillion in stimulus that’s largely already spent, could’ve contributed to inflation also. This leaves us vulnerable to repeat our mistakes when making future policy decisions - like whether to waive all student debt.
You're free to buy privately and cancel your employer insurance. I have never heard of an employer that won't let you cancel your insurance.
Geologist didn't have many sensors for locating earthquakes, but then several governments became very interested in tracking any nuclear testing and those sames sensors are quite good at tracking earthquakes. So much so that earthquakes can now be tracked in 3D anywhere on the planet, even enough to identify the shape and thickness of the various continental plates.
> cautious of overloading your Supabase database

I think just being mindful about disk space and CPU usage will be helpful when setting up a database for logical replication because of changes being recorded to WAL files and having Realtime poll the database for changes.

Our initial version of Realtime streams database changes to the server and those get broadcast to clients. However, the only security offered is checking whether or not a JWT is valid when client attempts to connect.

The second and current version of Realtime, which I discussed in this post, checks database role and claims of subscriptions for every database change against RLS policies. This comes with a performance tradeoff as it prioritizes security. We are benchmarking this version in our new Supabase Realtime version and our team will try and optimize performance.

> impacting performance with heavy use of multiplayer

Realtime only needs a single connection to the database, and once a node gets the changes, it'll broadcast them to all other nodes in the cluster which will then be forwarded to all clients. This is highly scalable and nodes can be added in different regions experiencing higher loads. We're going to add in rate limiting to make sure that the cluster remains healthy, but those rate limits can be customized depending on the use case.
(2) is more fun, and so I will actively entertain it while accepting that (1) is more likely to be true.
I recently joined a big tech company. It was a long term project and something quite new to me as I switched career and was working in a different context. There are pros and cons, but it's a bit of a disappointment.

I've got the impression very quickly that absolutely nobody cares about me in this company and that employees mostly don't love what they do. Specifically
- There's a high turn-over
- Everybody is focused on their performance, compensation and on improving evaluation metrics
- Right after joining, I found the form explaining how to resign. Extremely easy.
- People do get fired: including a skilled, friendly, colleague of mine (didn't meet expectations for two semesters).
- Management knows how to keep the pressure high (in a friendly manner)
- I can't like my project: there are too many things to do and broken things to fix, also no feeling of ownership, no incentives to refactor or redesign.
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I’m sure programmers do like that convenience, but if the consequence is that we’re giving every library access to everything the rest of the app has access to, I don’t think that’s tenable long-term.

> Now let's say you change the implementation such that it needs a new permission. You have to pass that in, which may well mean passing it in from the root of the app through a long call stack.

Sure, but put another way: you can’t change the implementation of your library to grant yourself more access to the system without the calling application being aware of it. Is this potentially inconvenient? Sure. But it does mean that the developer of the calling program knows pretty dang well what access they’re handing over to the library.
Tangent, but I was recently thinking about how FAANG, is now MAANG, and the definition of mange :
(from a google search, lol)
mange
/mānj/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: mange
a skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites and occasionally communicable to humans. It typically causes severe itching, hair loss, and the formation of scabs and lesions.
"foxes that get mange die in three or four months"

I find it oddly poetic, but, this is my last day of magic.
I was completely burnt out. Like ACTUALLY burnt out with almost all the symptoms. Headspace definitely helped me on bad days. If i was feeling a panic attack coming on I'd stop what I was doing and use Headspace to recenter myself. I'd use it on stressful days to help calm down.

I'm very thankful for it.
As someone that came from a windows world for the first 10ish years of my career, i found this pretty frustrating too. I honestly still do. Sometimes it feels like I just cannot get to the window I want.
The format these scientific PDFs use is really annoying to read on mobile, the text is too small for me to read comfortably. Any tips or maybe an app that can make this better?
I think the acronym gained prominence before Microsoft's recent 'commitment' to open source. Netflix also seemed to be doing really interesting things scaling out 'disruption' to video delivery at the time. It stuck
notjustbikes is such a great channel. I think he paints a great picture of all forms of transportation existing side-by-side. It's not an either/or, but an and/and. Super inspiring channel.

> What if we could eliminate the need for cars in many areas by creating infrastructure that's vastly more efficient, cheaper, safer, and healthier to use?

Yes, that would be so great. Many neighborhoods in the US could accomodate it too. Roads are wide, there's absolutely space for different kinds of road use, side by side. And a lot of neighborhoods predate car travel, everything before the 30s or so, we know, as a historical fact, that they can totally be liveable without a car, if only it was safe for other road users to do so.

> Does that mean we shouldn't try?

Absolutely. The investment in safe road infrastructure, providing transportation options, has so many benefits.
My sister is 3 years older and she still learned slide rule in high school but I didn't. Being a nerd I had my dad teach me though. One of the key things is just the right amount of grease in the tracks.
Again you fixate on the feminism. Repeat after me: Feminism is one of many potential examples. It was selected at random.

And you didn't answer a single one of my questions.
Ironically, if you’re looking to snap two windows side-by-side (which I expect accounts for the majority of cases), iPadOS with a keyboard is actually more capable for that specific use case than macOS. I expect the same shortcut will make its way into the next Mac release, I just hope they don’t gimp it by tying it to full-screen mode.
> encouraging people to use their PTO

Hopefully there aren't too many orgs left out there where a manager would be having to do this off-the-record; certainly it feels like the orthodoxy for some time has been that workers do their best work when they're well-rested and have had breaks, and at a systems level, people being away is important for identifying bus number issues.

All that aside, my company's accountants get antsy about what overhanging PTO does to the balance sheet, so there's a very explicit top-down mandate around fiscal year end time to get people using up their vacations.
those founders were not big enough but Ryan's story seems pretty consistent in highlighting this repeated pattern of ousting founders to create giant returns to justify Sequoia's own raises.

I'm absolutely appalled by Sequoia's behavior and it will be remembered by many. I'm more afraid for Ryan now and thus speaks volume for the elephant in the room.

Don't know if this means I will outright reject Sequoia but most certainly if an alternatives comes along with a good track record, they might undoubtedly receive my attention...
I've heard others calling it "an article of faith", not just Farage. Well, NATO's existence is not preventing Russia's aggression assuming people believe Putin is crazy, a murderer, soulless, a war criminal, etc.; it's provoking it. If there was no NATO, Russia would be focusing on economic partnership, not feeling cornered by an obsoleted since 1991 alliance, which is increasing the member state's risks as now Russia builds alliances on the East. As a Bulgarian, I really doubt NATO will protect Bulgaria if Turkey or Russia attack our territory, so, pretty much to us this alliance is useless as it earsed our army and left our security in the hands of NATO, which member states have their security interest as top priority. We've prepaid 8 F-16 Block 70 years ago and they got severely delayed - just got an approval by congres (why was that necessary?!) for 8 more. So far, all we've got is a webpage [0] - not jets at least 2 years from now! Also, should I mention that Article 5 has never been tested yet? Also, if Trump wins in 2024, interesting thigns may happen to NATO then!

[0]: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-16/f-16-bulg...
Let's assume Putin is not a NATO puppet or a masochist. Why do you think he attacked Ukraine? What is there to gain?

Russia made concessions to NATO for 30 years and got nothing but NATO expansion Eastward.

I don't see any other explanation except that allowing NATO rockets in Ukraine is suicidal for Russia, therefore there is no choice: it is a fight for survival.

Think what US would do if Russia were to put its rockets in Mexico and/or Canada. Or just remember Cuba/Turkey situation in 60s.

(it is funny how socialism was replaced by capitalism long ago but it didn't affect the cultivated hatred to / dehumanization of Russian people on the West).
We better get used to it. Because news companies will say an AI wrote it. No law allows suing an AI for plagiarism. Go prove something is not an AI.
Funnily enough, for the ~5 years I used macOS, the Window Manager was the most frustrating aspect for me. I could not maximize apps (there was only a weird fullscreen/focus mode), I would accidentally end up dragging a window very often etc. All this gave ended up creating this feeling in my brain that the windows are just "floating" on the screen instead of being tightly bound to an arrangement.
> 95%+ of orders receive 5 star reviews

This is going to be subject to Goodhart's law[1]. As soon as buyers are aware their favourite sellers on Etsy are evaluated like this many of them will always leave 5 star reviews, while others will try to use the threat of a < 5 star review to get special consideration from the vendor.

This is the same reason many people leave automatic 5 star reviews for gig workers unless something goes grotesquely wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
That demographic advantage was twenty years ago. Today China has a terrible demographic structure—more old people than young people and a fertility rate well below replacement level. The One Child policy worked too well. And yes, much of the Western world has the same problem, but two notable exceptions are the United States and Mexico. We'll end up there eventually, but we've got some time.

I don't think all manufacturing will come back to the US. Much of it will go to South-East Asia and India as we're seeing in the article. And a bunch will surely end up in Mexico, which has lots of young people and an obvious geographical advantage.

But regardless of where they go, Apple really, really has to get out of China as quickly as possible. There are a lot of cracks showing in the Chinese system, and things could fall apart there very quickly. The demographics alone are staggering - the Chinese population could fall by half in the next 30 years, and the effects will be felt long before then.
I’ve published 2 books, created a significant open source project, and was staff engineer at a Fortune 50 company. Was reasonably well known as a blogger and speaker in the JS community too. (I’ve given up on OSS since FAANG)

But you know how I’ll be introduced? They’ll say I was “ex-FAANG”. None of that other stuff matters in comparison.

I’m not at all saying it’s the only path, I’m saying it’s the best and certainly most reliable one.
In the real world [of software], things are solved by choosing the tech with the lowest barrier to entry, not reading any documentation, getting a minimum-not-quite-viable-proof-of-concept working in a development environment, then making that production, over-working a select few to keep it running, and a lot of crossed fingers and heads in sand. The only thing you'll learn from different verticals and sizes is how size and scope have no correlation to how things are built or whether they work well.

The interesting part is how larger scale makes things fail more often, and the response to increased failure can either be running around with your hair on fire for years, or a solid firefighting team, or actually teaching teams not to build products that catch on fire. The only way to get the last one is by focusing on people, not technology.
Interesting post. On thing to note, this seems to be about "on request" ranking. E.g. googleing something and in 500ms you need the recommended content.

However, a lot of usecases are time insensitive rankings. Like recommending content on netflix, spotify etc. (spotifys discover weekly even has a one week! request time :D).

In which case you can just run your ranking and store the recs in your DB and its much much easier.
Because they are platforms on which open-source (including dependencies all the way down) is not the norm? They do have app stores.