skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the time, I thought he just meant that he had no idea what the solution was; but in hindsight I wonder if the real test was to see if I would crumble under pressure and write code I knew didn't work.

This doesn't totally make sense, most people would have interpreted that to mean they should quit talking and make their best effort to actually write something. It's not at all the same as pretending something works when you know it doesn't in an actual job, it's more like writing what you can on a test and hoping to get some partial credit.
The root of the promo and hiring problems is this focus on individual performance. The appropriate unit of analysis for most human efforts is the group level. Just have some livable base salaries, and then give everyone a big chunk of the profits each year.

I don't know if it's always true for people, but my performance goes up and down quite a lot depending on how much I believe in the group mission and the group dynamic. I'll occasionally stay late working for some abstract metric that might impact 10% of my pay, but I'll stay up 48 hours working fanatically to make something work for my friends and co-workers and the dream of success in changing the world that the group is striving for together.

And if that filters out the people that only do software for a princely salary, leaving the people motivated to transform the world for the better, so much the better. Greedy people are a bit demotivating to work with.
But it gives time to shift the narrative-- create lots of anger and then start with the "donate to our side, we'll fight to maintain this/undo this". I mean I don't have any reason for thinking this is more likely than any other possibility, but really at this point there's not enough evidence to narrow it down at all. Hell maybe it was Putin-- who can really say at this point
Also been a happy user since their very early days.

I do have some nits though:

- It's kind of finicky on Android, especially with exit nodes enabled. Sometimes I lose connectivity completely after connecting to an exit node, until I flip my WiFi on and off, then everything starts working.

- Not being able to auto-update the desktop clients, or at least update remotely, is a bit of a pain, and potentially a security risk?
The Raymond Queneau Exercises in Style is a delightful introduction to OuLiPo. It takes the same story and tells it in 99 different ways (including N+7).

To me, a lot of what the OuLiPo constraints do is to free one’s writing voice from the worn routes that it might take without intervention. Doing an N+7 transpose on a text can open up new way of looking at that text since the nouns have been arbitrarily replaced and you see how the verbs and other auxiliaries work in the writing. My writing often has a subtle undercurrent of OuLiPo happening in it (e.g., the novel I’m revising started with a vague notion of story and 29 chapter titles taken from the Passover Haggadah. A similar shorter piece I wrote, “The Norton Anthology of Self-Destructive Behaviors” [https://uploads.documents.cimpress.io/v1/uploads/151c2c51-d2...], began with a list of self-destructive behaviors and a story emerged from those).

Another great overview is The OuLiPo compendium http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974355437/donhosek which presents most of the major OuLiPo works, authors and games in encyclopedic format.
1Gbps fiber here. The total load time is because of the 109 requests.
It's not high for an engineer in France. I'm in the 20% bracket (alone, no kid to push me down a level) and i live on the coast (between Bayonne and La Rochelle basically, but i intend to move to portugal next winter, Bayonne is too cold), so i do not have a "I live in Paris bonus".

Your TJM (average daily rate for you english guys) should be at worst at 400€ if you just started (mine is 700 and i'm nota particulary qualified devops tbh). That's like 50€/hour before employer taxes (roughly 30%, so 15€). Your employer have other charges so i guess they can take 5€, it still leave you with 30€/hour which should be the standard for engineer i guess? That's roughly 4k/month-50k/year. A freelance can easely make his 80k in like ten month and take two month of vacation btw (for you not in France: we can't earn more than 80k/year in freelance, you have to start a LLC if you are above that). If you are a painter or i guess any freelance who do not only sell services, but also parts, it is 120k)
I know what a bummer
Acetaminophen doesn't cause long-term liver damage, it causes acute damage. The liver is very good at recovering from things as long as you don't poison it all at once.

It's actually ibuprofen that has the long-term risks, it will hurt your kidneys and stomach lining.
> Not only that, high minimum wage doesn't actually make a minimum wage job any more livable than low minimum wage.

This is wrong, because not all costs will rise proportionally to the minimum wage in general

There is more to the costs of living than a rent
Do other pay grades increase or just the bottom of the scale?
Using a framework is also constant factor overhead (at least in LoC, which is what I assume we're talking about here)
Very interesting. I alway thought the key of longevity is speaking Japanese.
use airbnb.com.au. they are legally required to display the real price, and break it down in search results :)
ok. what did you think about the rest of the post besides the topic sentence. have you read supreme court cases that people elevate to the importance of religious texts? if so, what did you think of them, if not have you weighed in on these topics before because that was the actual point.
From the article:

> The main energy cost is in getting the CO2 to release from the absorbent — to desorb. And that’s when things get really expensive, because this requires a lot of energy...we don’t make or need pure CO2 gas, so we don’t need to desorb it. Therefore, we avoid the vast majority of this cost. Instead, we capture CO2 in water and then use it in water to make fuel. ARPA-E refers to this as “reactive CO2 capture” and identifies it as a significantly lower-cost DAC approach.
Former arsonists, industrial polluters lead new push to fix climate change.
I remember, something...something, before this Quantitative Easing round that "Printing money" or "easing liquidity" wouldn't affect inflation. That was the basis of much of these Pandemic packages where the government pushed money to businesses and people.

Well, that turned out really wrong didn't it. Of course, the politicians blamed the pandemic logistics, the war, the ..., but anything but their strategy. I wonder who Altman is looking for to blame when an $25/hour minimum wage turns out disastrous for everyone involved. Of course, that would be anything but his genius idea.

There is one thing true (at least in the long-term) about economy: You can't bullshit your way around the economy by manipulating numbers. A $25/hour minimum wage doesn't build more homes, doesn't create a new metro line, doesn't improve shipping logistics, doesn't increase the literacy rate, doesn't build a hospital and doesn't teach a doctor.
If you're worried about mass emotional issues from medication, statins are one to look at.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-...
Exactly, not seeing the actual cost easily is why I switched back to “hotels”
I'm not trying to advocate a pro-China stance here, but is there any business that is done in China that isn't in part sponsored by the government? One book I read even told the story of a grey market manufacturing operation that had to go legit not because of a government "bust" but because the local figurehead wanted the output of the factory included in his productivity figures.
How dare you pollute the earth with staples! /s
Right here. I was CTO of a hardware + software startup. Built a home automation device, couldn't get scale, sold to FAANG.

Now I manage rEqUireMenTs, syNcHroniZaTiOn oF cRoSs fUnctIONal teams, building a myriad of control planes over open source software, make 5x more, and am 10x less happy. Bills to pay.
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Hello, my name is Pete Ketcham and I’m an application support / SRE manager with 16 years of experience, 7 of which managing teams and am interested in full-time work doing the same.
How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it's built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize maintenance burden, etc.? I've been considering self-hosting, but put off thus far by the above concerns.
"And what about people who aren't in this particular situation? What is the policy solution to filter out people who you feel don't deserve this level of compensation for their labor?"

They simply should try to get the skills for a higher paying job. And if they cannot (for whatever reasons, there are actually plenty of very legitimate reasons) - you can help them out with social welfare/charity money, especially if they have a family to feed. And then you can further help them, by providing free education with low barriers (that you can even do, while having little kids) etc. so one day they can stand on their own.

There are many things that can be done, before you have to negate the right of 2 free parties to make a contract under their own terms.

So my ideal policy would be the economy should be simply as policyfree as possible to sort itself out.
That doesn't mean, society cannot help those, who need help. It can and it should. But this is called charity and not economy, so why mix both up?
What's your battery life like?
They're kind of like flying monkeys, except more sinister.
Download size has nothing to do with it. 2mb is a breeze for the client's target audience.

However a static frontpage that loads 109 requests is prone to poor performance.
This is a cute and cool dive into taking backwards compatibility to absurd extremes. There’s one bit I might take overly-serious issue with (I hope the author will take this as non-serious criticism and an amused engagement with the thought process):

> That said, browsers that predate CSS do not know what to do with <style> tags, and as a result simply print the styles out at the top of the page. It's pretty ugly and, depending on how much CSS you have, borderline unusable.

> […]

> Forgotten Link Tags

I know external vs inline CSS is pretty much never going to be an answered question, but I feel like there’s a missed opportunity here. In particular because

- External CSS by link element addresses this much better for the backwards-compatible extremes: why even serve the contents of the CSS at all if the browser will just treat it as a comment? That’s just precious bandwidth wasted.

- Taken to extremes, external CSS relaxes the use CSS sparingly principle if you strategically break up the link tags to align well with likelihood of support/value ratio. Using media attributes to split CSS payloads can improve UX for old/underpowered mobile devices and even desktops/laptops with lower resolution screens. Detecting support for (ahem) @supports can open all kinds of CSS minimization doors for newer but lower power devices. Segmenting stylesheets by capabilities and preferences allows compatibility improvements regardless of point in time!

And a minor nit: if you’re dithering images for file size it’s worth comparing against a non-dithered version with a small color palette. The latter might actually be better for everyone!

Oof and that prompted a larger one: you can improve UX for ~every real visitor with <picture> tag and more efficient formats, and you could also sorta skirt the no-JS rule and upgrade pre-picture browsers to PNG with a simple inline onerror.
Perl is a surprisingly Lisp-like language, due to its very consistent approach to closures and statements-as-expressions. Its approach to references, which are reference-counted and have RAII with predictable destructors, is also very clean. I think most people don't notice that Perl is a cleaner and more consistent language in depth than it appears on the surface.

Criticisms of Perl often talk about the sigils and other punctuation characters which appear in normal Perl code, implying that's a big issue, or at least rather old-fashioned. (Although I really like Perl and got to know it intimately, especially the guts of the interpreter, I did feel it would have fared better without the sigils.)

That might be a fair criticism by modern standards, but if so, it annoys me that Perl gets singled out for punctuation while other popular languages don't. PHP has sigils everywhere, and many languages have some sigils. Rust has quite a lot of special punctuation syntax that has to be written often. Aside from sigils, Rust code looks to me like it has a similar amount of punctuation-oriented syntax as most of the Perl code I used to write.
This must be common, I just bombed a leetcode (tm) interview where I was asked to write code to share a method between two structs using traits in Rust without duplicating code. I couldn't remember a time I'd ever seen it done with generics so I tried to find it in the documentation but nothing. I looked up the solution after and it is not possible without writing a macro which is metaprogramming and seems like a poor way to assess how I'd perform writing Rust on a daily basis when I only had ~20 minutes to do it and was transparent that I am still learning the more advanced concepts. There were other red flags I ignored in the interview process, I look at it as a bullet dodged.
Now control for median wage (which is pretty much completely unaffected by a $5-10 spread of minimum wage but is drastically affected by high wage earners) and land use policies, see if the correlation holds.
> Maybe it was ok in 1998

It wasn't.

Not sure if the screwed up scroll behavior was possible in 1998 but it wouldn't have been ok then either.
I did a lot of C, network wizardry and kernel hacking at uni.

I couldn't get a job in that though, so I moved further up the stack and now do backend instead.
> You do realize that minimum wage has not kept up with inflation, and much less the cost of living?

Inflation? It's far exceeded inflation actually. Minimum wage was introduced in 1938 at $0.25 per hour[1], which would be about $5.06 per hour when adjusted for inflation[2].

Which means, a federal minimum wage of $7.25 far exceeds inflation... by about 43%. Many (most?) states have a higher minimum wage than that even.

Cost of living had certainly increased since 1938, but it's not the same everywhere. The COL in San Francisco is no where near the same as Omaha. We cannot apply a universal federal minimum wage of the likes Sam A. is discussing in this post... it quite literally would drive up costs of goods and perpetuate a negative feedback loop.

We're seeing it right now in real time. We handed everyone thousands of dollars for "free", and inflation is now rising at levels not seen since the 80's... which mostly squeezes the very people you are trying to help by increasing minimum wage in the first place!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#United_States

[2] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

[3] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage
Maybe you're thinking of slashdot.
I only just migrated to OPNSense from pfSense. I feel cleaner. It was a relatively smooth and painless migration.
Working on build systems full-time at Meta
funny because i’ve heard of a very similar anecdote to this one but at southwest airlines.
My doctor gave me
A cursory explanation so I can’t vouch for my limited understanding.

That said, cholesterol is essential for the production of bile which breaks down foods. Late night foods probably equates to excess cholesterol released to break down said foods and higher cholesterol levels.

We probably want to have periods of fasting in order to not produce excess cholesterol.
>Should a Google hiring committee consider your search history, too?

You may be conducting reducto ad absurdum here, but this is unironically one of the biggest shifts of the Overton window from millenial to Gen Z. It may not be your search history, but they sure can check your Twitter/Facebook/etc. going back years to weed you out. It was kind of awkward for my demographic of late millenials, but gen z candidates entering the workforce may very well have their entire life online to see.

It's honestly a bit chilling, but I think the lines have been set in the sand here.
I was joking mainly but it also sounded like a potential good story!
The only thing social media loves more than rampant speculation, is mob justice
It's a lie.
Still -10% for the year idk I prefer -3% that we had before
>"Most poignantly - the US wasn't trying to create a vassal, just the opposite."

Hundreds of thousands of dead and god knows how many maimed, starved, displaced would not give a flying fuck about what the US was trying to do. Go there and try to oopsy in the face of the victims and see what happens.
there are lots of opportunities and lots of opportunists who have initially nothing to do with the action or thought process and coordination leading up to the action

there is a group of people susceptible to the idea of trying to tie them all together

and there are opportunities to lead those kind of people on too

I mainly caution against being one of the people susceptible to connecting unrelated strings, and providing an alternate framework on how random things happen in reality
Honestly I think your examples are both genuinely less comprehendible to someone without a deep understanding of GL going in than my example.

It’s a very bad, non-object oriented API in an object oriented language. It was designed for and by people who know GL in other C like languages, not for people who know JavaScript. It is unlike any other part of the language.

The fact that I have to write a shader myself, as a fricken string like I’m writing SQL over here, just to draw a triangle is absurd. There should at the very least be some sort of provided builder for simple shaders.
If CockroachDB supports the PG wire protocol and appears to be a functional subset of PG then in theory we might be able to just point it at a PG database and it might work :)

I too would prefer to use PG than Cockroach, if only because I have ops experience with PG. But Cockroach is certainly intriguing.
I actually like customer interaction, but it was the first job where I got to self direct. Drive around - listen to audiobooks or music. Clock out and take a nap when I felt like it.

Good times.
That's a thought provoking way to put it. Part of the problem is however that only internal employees fully understand the destruction that was going on.
Very much not my experience in Europe. I’d happily live in Airbnbs full time if the price was +~20% long term lease but in my experience the price is >100% even for 1 month stays.

The problem, at least in Europe, is that so many Airbnbs are now being operated as “rent to rent” where a company (or individual) rents property long term specifically so they can then in turn rent it out on Airbnb (often through an intermediary that manages the property for them). The margins they need for confident profitability (considering voids etc) are ~100% over the long term rental cost.

I’m astonished you’ve found that the prices are so similar: which location(s) is this in?

I just moved out of an Airbnb I stayed in for a month where my average nightly cost was, quite literally, 200% over the amount that I would pay if I leased the property myself — and that’s not in peak season, and after negotiating.

5 years ago the cost was pretty similar but not now that Airbnb has become an industry and people have worked out how to squeeze every drop of profit out of it.
One thing that is unclear to me - are there items that need to be replaced/regenerated? The article says the costs are mostly capital. If true, on a long enough timeline, are you not just looking at entirely operational costs (sourcing water + electricity)?
Also weeding out people not paranoid enough to think that the taxi driver might be a confederate ;)
Most of the best, most comprehensive PDF libraries are written for Java. There are libraries for other languages but they tend to be incomplete or flawed. There’s also some great paid libraries for C#, but if you want free, I’d recommend looking into Apache PDFBox.
It's my firm belief that anyone reading this post will be dead and gone before Z actually arrives and makes X and Y obsolete.
No, in general there is no difference in print quality between any PDF versions. I can think of only two exceptions:

· If you're embedding ICC color profiles, you need to be using at least PDF version 1.3, which came out in 01999.

· If you're embedding lossily-compressed raster graphics like JPEGs, while you can always improve the print quality further by switching to losslessly-compressed graphics like PNGs, you may be able to get better quality at a given filesize by using better lossy compression algorithms like JPEG-2000 or (for bilevel images) JBIG2. JPEG-2000 support was added in PDF 1.5 and is excluded from, I think, PDF/A. JBIG2 support was added in PDF 1.4, and also includes a lossless format.

I don't know of any features in 2.0 that would improve print quality over 1.5 in any way.
> In 2021, around 20% of our nights booked were for stays of a month or longer, and nearly 50% for a week or longer

This one is surprising, but not totally unexpected I guess. Airbnb is slowly replacing short term leases and sublets, and I imagine this will be a huge growth driver for them as remote work and the nomad lifestyle becomes more common.
Capital One does, but for some reason the connection process breaks if I have an ad blocker enabled even if I whitelist their domain.

Chase does at least for credit cards.

Betterment has app passwords, which is better than using your full password.
> In Louisville, Google Fiber reportedly was burying cables in "nano-trenches" that were just two inches deep.

> "When you're walking around the neighborhood, [the lines are] popping up out of the road all over the place," resident Larry Coomes said at the time. "People are tripping over it."

This is the most obviously Google thing I've read ever. Half-ass a job and then saying "screw it" and leaving because it's too difficult? Name another company that would do this. Not even Spectrum is this incompetent. They have the attention span of a stoned teenager. Their Toronto Sidewalk Labs also comes to mind. Probably for the best they pulled the plug early on that one. Imagine parts of your city just stop functioning because some private company got bored one day and left.
I guess $15 an hour is old hat now that they're paying that at the burger joint down the street to high school kids as a result of market forces.

I wonder how many comments supporting the idea in this thread would still call it reasonable if the tweet said $50. Probably about the same number as people calling the "how high is too high" arguments fallacious.
"... but wherever I interfaced with people writing/maintaining Perl code, it was the most hastily thrown together crap"

The badly written stuff needs more "maintenance", and the people who need to work on it are more likely to complain (and I think you're stuck on confirmation bias).

In the late-90s, the early web gold rush was on, and a lot of amateurs started writing perl in a hurry as their first language. The fact that they could do anything at all is actually pretty amazing, and I'd say that's a point in perl's favor.
Welcome to the USA. Rather then adopt something like OpenBanking, it's now a walled garden for-pay service from a valley startup.

https://developer.barclays.com/open-banking