skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been telling me IT was a bad field to go into since I was in high school in the early 2000s. India and outsourcing is going to take your job, don’t go into IT.

Here I am years later in one of the best job markets for IT. IT related jobs are constantly in the top 3 for projected grown in the next decade or so. Yet, I still have to explain to older people who maybe worked in IT/Telecoms in the 90s that no India and the global market is not taking my job.
It is absurd that some hosts will even consider high/club chairs next to a kitchen counter a suitable place for work. It is the most frustrating filter on Airbnb right now.

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Help/How-do-you-define-q...
I'd give half my salary to live in Denmark
Fortune Apple’s chief of machine learning quits over return-to-office policy
> Musk said his opposition to permanent bans doesn't mean that Twitter under his ownership would never issue suspensions or delete tweets. "That doesn't mean they get to say whatever they want to say," Musk said. "If they say something that is illegal or otherwise just destructive to the world, there should be perhaps a timeout, a temporary suspension, or that particular tweet should be made invisible or have very limited traction. But I think permanent bans just fundamentally undermine trust in Twitter as a town square where everyone can voice their opinion."

Elon Musk: free speech warrior against perma-bans, but for shadow bans, temp-bans, throttling, and selective censorship.
Honestly, this whole "Elon Musk is the enemy" narrative has to take a self-reflection.

"Current Twitter" – the one that is supposingly the angel of protecting the will of the people – got Trump elected. Full stop. Trump's tweets were promoted by Twitter. So in the life time of Twitter, "Current Twitter" wants to take credit for the last 5 seconds? Good luck with that.
If you need one to write a snarky letter you'll end up meeting one. After that you'll have a lawyer. What are you hoping to add with your line of argument?
You 'recover' only if you have the luxury of not needing to sell during the downturn. By that metric, no major stock index has ever gone down except for Japan's Nikkei, which never again reached its 1990 peaks.

El Salvador has an $800m bond repayment due in Jan 2023. You can't make repayments in crypto, so some of their securities holdings will need to be sold in order to make payments. You might not feel the market downturn, but they certainly will.
I know of hotjar, it's used in quite a few ecommerce sites. What other tools like it exist?
The US only issues bonds in its own currency, which makes a massive difference.

Foreign-denominated debt is a huge trap for developing countries. Some more conspiratorial folk would say that’s intentional (to take their natural resources by making them indebted, buying their resource exports and then they have to pay much of that revenue back to you as interest).
Also, they can do this online even without JavaScript, the cart is often saved server-side.
True, but they do change; if e.g. an empire hangs around for long enough, the original culture will be lost or assimilated. See for example Christianity throughout Europe, plenty of examples of erased or merged cultures to the point where nobody knows what happened before. Or the lasting influence of colonization throughout the world. Or the change of culture and language that the US has throughout the Hollywood media-consuming world; listen to random people in western Europe and count how many Anglicisms they use in their native language.
It's just bitcoin I'm storing, is that one I've linked to above a non-custodial wallet or a custodial wallet?
I thought that "political maps" simply meant sovereign state borders (as it does in Czech, German, and possibly other languages as well), and that this would be about unchanging borders. For example Bohemia has had some pretty stable natural borders. But in this case "political map" means a map of election results? Is that a common usage in English?
Might want to practice it as "folks" instead of "gentlemen" so the occasional woman doesn't trip you up.
At least those mining, which is more than participate in the USD consensus.
I studied French for four years and I'm sure there are all kinds of things that I say in that language that would confuse native French speakers as much as François Valentin confused us with an errant use of "pet peeve".

I think he probably meant to say, "pet projects".
Oh wow literal fear uncertainty and doubt! This is where I make my best trades because the information asymmetry is so high!

My favorite kind of dip
The salaries definitely did not keep up with inflation so if techies were feeling underpaid in 2020 they are feeling even more underpaid in 2022…

A little strange article… it seems like they assume people who read these articles do not know math.
> That world you pine for has never existed

200 years ago an individual working on a farm would have zero practical influence on the national scale. They did not have to fight evil everyday because they were not aware of it and it didn't effect them.

I'd make an argument (open to being wrong) that the majority of people who choose to degrade their quality of life, daily, fighting (lesser or fake) "evil" have no meaningful effect on the outcome. There's a small percentage of dedicated people who make a difference. The mentality that you're describing just encourages more people to join that majority and actively lowers the influence of those dedicated people because of it.
Senator Hawley wants to punish Disney by taking copyright law back to 1909
His entire platform was "say shit to piss people off." It's what got him elected, and what allowed him to pack SCOTUS. That's not even hyperbole, their campaign tried very hard to replicate this success in 2020.
The author seems to be a French speaker living in Paris. His usage was probably unintentional.
Path dependence -- just like the default 80x24 character terminal window size that goes back to the VT100 of 1978. A curious historical hangover. GUI defaults are obviously less consequential, though.
Well, I would prefer them to come from the US instead of allowing companies to import cheaper workers from abroad.
Brazil implemented Pix last year (free instant bank transfer). Today it's more popular than credit card.
> Cost of living must be insanely high in the U.S

It's really not, especially if you have good health insurance through work. You can splurge and live life on a grand scale, or sock away generational wealth on American tech salaries.
Well your "niche" use case is one of the reason why Go uses less memory than Java most of the time.
This has a caveat.

Always be aware of how big a check you're writing out of everyone else. Abuse of implicit permission is one of the surest ways to pose it.
There's some commonality here between this sort of "worse is better" and the observation that a meticulously neat and tidy, fastidiously clean {desk, notetaking system, editor configuration, ...} is a good indicator that its owner doesn't do anything worthwhile with it.

The real world is messy. Things that come into contact with the real world will acquire a little bit of wear and mess. If it's all still brilliantly clean and tidy, you can't have done anything useful yet!
Yeah, that's my position as well. People make fun of leftists for infighting and "cancel culture" and "eating their own", but the alternative seems to be allowing the worst parts of "your side" to keep and even expand their influence over the political landscape, and that seems to be what the right has done.
If I was a CEO and saw how few and far between (as well as toothless) the repercussions have been for Elon Musk, I wouldn’t fear tweeting whatever I wanted either.
El Salvador has more than 2000 of them. If people want to cash out BTC, they can. No network access or exchange needed.

https://coinatmradar.com/country/64/bitcoin-atm-el-salvador/
Gentlepeople

Gentlefolx
That's why the real hack is to live in Canada and work remotely for an American company.
I leave
Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus
Yes. High-end watches are very fungible. There are nice analyses of the high-end watch market.

Economics Explained, on Youtube, has a nice series of videos on these classes of assets, and how they are used by the ultrawealthy. TL;DR:

- Many are good security policies. If I need to leave a country ASAP, having something like this on my wrist can be helpful.

- Many are a clever way to dodge taxes, especially combined with clever financial instruments.

- Many such goods are intentionally designed to appreciate (for example, by limiting production far more than supply / demand / vanity would suggest)

- Consumption is often a side-benefit. If I buy a villa in France, and hang a Monet painting there, that I can use my investment for personal pleasure is just a bonus!

- Diversification is helpful. If I've got a billion dollars, having a guaranteed 10M stashed away several ways can be nice if I am planning for the unexpected.

On the last one, there's a whole spectrum from conspicuous consumption to investment. On goods like yachts, you come out behind, but by less than you'd expect. The cost-of-ownership is upkeep and appreciation/depreciation.

I picked watches specifically (and not other luxury fashion) since they are designed as an investment. Many similar goods have minimal value once they go out-of-fashion.
That's kind of how it works, though, innit: wannabe autocrat demagogue gets a bullhorn, uses it to leverage power via populist rhetoric, then shoves activist justices onto the bench — who, surprise, do their activist thing...

That's the "very little connection" you're missing.
It's partly the hedonic treadmill and partly that most of them are in a bubble. They only mix with people who earn as much as them or even more. It doesn't take long here on HN to see how out of touch some of them are with the wider world.
Wait, they left Google for work life balance, to work more hours at a startup. Whaat?

I think I get what they're saying though - they were fundamentally unhappy with their ability to make an individual impact at Giant Corp. Well, that's pretty normal and probably a reason for a lot of people's unhappiness at big companies.

A startup can help satiate that need, or even a small company.

Arguably a healthier approach is to detach one's self identity and satisfaction from work, and get that from non-work things. Easier said than done though. Inevitably this person is going to burn out hard when the start up they go to fails expectations.
I don't believe they would do that. They know we know there are both honest and dishonest hosts, but they prefer that it is us who take the risk. Based on the reviews, apparently.
The important drawback is async replication and therefore the lack of full consistency. On the other hand, this is the big advantage of hosted Postgres and the like.

Those offerings are great for use-cases that don't need that kind of consistency, which are many.
How to explain Jacob Rees-Mogg? Start with his father's books
Whenever I see this kind of persistence, it underscores how important path dependency is when trying to understand how things got to be the way they are.

From legacy software to political systems, when there's cruft or weird behavior there's almost always some environmental factor that shaped the decision to build it that way, even (especially) if the people who made the decision weren't conscious of why.
Has anyone tried to write a new modern SQLite?
Interesting that D1 is built on top of Durable Objects. Does this mean that it would be practical for a single worker to access multiple D1 databases, so it could use, for example, a separate database for each tenant in a B2B SaaS application? Edit: And could each database be in a different primary region?
Serious question, why don't people have faith in the El Salvadoran currency? Why don't they try to fix the problems that are causing that lack of faith?
Precisely true.
If they know it's personal data and handle it accordingly it might be ok.

What if the user submits personal data without being expected to? For example, I have to enter a nickname on online game before starting to play, what if my nickname is my full name and home address? Now they unknowingly store PII without a privacy policy. What should the company do in this case?
It's a real shitshow.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory
"With D1, it will be possible to define a chunk of your Worker code that runs directly next to the database...each request first hits your Worker near your users, but depending on the operation, can hand off to another Worker deployed alongside a replica or your primary D1 instance to complete its work."

That's interesting to me. It opens the door for Cloudflare to offer something more like a "normal" serverless offering. One that can run containers, or least natively run Python/Golang/Java/etc, like AWS Lambda does. And with this ecosystem described above that can conditionally route between the lighter edge Workers and the heavier central serverless functions. To me, that's the tipping point where they start to threaten larger portions of AWS.
Eh, if I search "bubble tea go" on Google this library is the first hit. Same for "bubble tea interface", "bubble tea library", and "bubble tea tui". That's good enough for me. It's not the name I would've picked, necessarily, but it's better than a name that's hard to spell, type, or remember.
Exactly. When I have some files open, I don't actually care what the application is. I don't care to keep a hierarchy of the owning applications in my mind. Whether a docx file opened in Word, Libre, Pages, TextEdit, or whatever... that doesn't matter. The file/document is the context. The application which opened it is just an implementation detail in the "app" paradigm.

I may have chosen the applications on my machine for many reasons, but ultimately I want to switch between files/documents because they are the real context. The rest is noise.
I'm right there with you. I wonder if this is an SQLite compatible API on top of their own solution, or if it's using actual SQLite under the hood with custom replication.

If the latter, and anyone from CloudFlare is here, is there any chance to have SpatiaLite enabled?

https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index
Government handouts are decided by Congress. Monetary policy is set by the Fed. Fed issuing more currency doesn't change the number on your unemployment check.

The downside of using the USD as a local currency is that the local central bank cannot set its own lending rates (markets will set rates at what the larger dollarized economy in the US is at) and has less control over monetary policy.
Seems vaguely similar to how the wild west had to re-do civilization and industrialization in fast forward.
Once again... Where did I say that Twitter doesn't have that right?
How does one determine it was a “bad day” verse a bad person? The answer to which is critical in a job acceptance.
Just as Dorsey was influenced by that abstract force you mention as 'illiberal consensus' because of fear of different factors (political, employee/stakeholders, financial consequences). Dorsey is now influenced by the likely new owner of Twitter because of fear of different factors (stakeholders, financial consequences), he wants the deal to go through he will not go on the record and contradict the person he is selling to. It was beneficial to be for the ban before, and now it is beneficial to be against it. Dorsey was the CEO. It is business, after all. Sounds like your argument (or conspiracy theories) and mine aren't that different.

Just to be explicit for all the rabid fans, I'm not against Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg or any other tech CEO. On the contrary, they have so much impact and are involved in multiple projects in so little time. I'm not proposing any conspiracy of them wanting to control us or whatever straw-man argument others are injecting on my comment. It's interesting to see this deal unfold from a business perspective with all the different stakeholders involved, and the flip-flopping of Dorsey's decisions.
Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April
Love the Northwind Traders reference! However, for a demo, I suggest a slightly larger and more complex data set, [data-generator-retail](https://www.npmjs.com/package/data-generator-retail).

The demo is also a bit buggy: orders are duplicated as many times as there are products, but clicking on the various lines of the same order leads to the same record, where the user can only see the first product...

I also think the demo would have more impact if it wasn't read-only (although I understand that this could lead to broken pages if visitors mess up with the data).

Anyway, kudos to the CloudFlare team!
I wonder how much of this is outliers from special cases. Getting involved in crime, getting entangled with police violence, child abuse, getting ill from environmental conditions, all of these things can sometimes have a devastating effect, and when they do it can be really bad.

If there's nothing that unambiguously gives a strong advantage in life, you might end up with the scales weighed down heavily in terms of the impact of big bad events/influences.

And there's something to be said for that. To try to guarantee your kids an exceptional life there are so many factors out of your control you need to rely on. But preventing concrete disasters is usually something much simpler to grasp and act upon.

Separately from all of this, having loving relationships is usually a major highlight of people's lives, whether rich or not, so worth investing in that.
Didn't the soviets send people who didn't work to prison and then forced them to do hard labor?
I usually type my message, then reread it and optimize/shorten it if possible before submitting. Sometimes I even discard the message entirely.
And yet somehow many electronic door locks exist as commercially viable products. If Airbnb wants a turnkey solution, then a product that works like turning a key would be a big step.
Because he is the CEO and if he lies about those matters in a public communication he is liable to shareholders. Which is why he doesn't do it.
"So many entitled people arguing for an economic caste system…"

I don't see that anywhere in my argument.

"Arguing that your wage should always match or beat inflation is arguing for defacto permanent income inequality."

Do you have an alternative approach? I have not heard any mainstream argument for setting all salaries/wages to be equal.

You have to define income inequality and then determine what level of inequality is acceptable. Should a CEO make more than a worker? In my opinion, probably. Should they make 100x more? I don't think so. If I could make the same money flipping burgers as I can working as a dev (let's say around the median salary of $40k), I'd quit today and most other devs would too. Why should I go to college? Why should I endure the longer hours/on-call? Why deal with the frustration and office BS?

Different jobs make different money because the work carries different value. We should protect those at the bottom and try to make it fair. But fair doesn't mean literal income equality with everyone making $20/hr regardless of job, performance, etc (ie equal and equitable are different).

The fact that workers are seeing real wages decline since the 70s is the problem. If you adjusted them for inflation, then income inequality is not as much of an issue. (You'd still have to adjust capital gains taxes and the real increase in things like executive pay, but at least indexing wages to inflation would have benefited things on the worker side.)

"You’re literally saying your work is always the same amount more valuable than the average labor cost increase incorporated into inflation numbers"

Not if everyone gets the inflation adjustment as they do in that other country - Denmark maybe? The discrepancy can be adjusted by increasing the floor, as that impact will raise the lower end more than the rest of the market (eg the people that need the raise most get the biggest impact while those not at the bottom see minimal effect upto a certain level).

You're literally arguing against yourself. You're saying that workers should not get inflation adjustments. Where do you think that money goes? It goes into the pockets of the executives and the investors (capital instead of labor).

On top of all this, you wrongly assume I'm some high earning person. I make less than $100k and live in a moderately high cost of living area.
What doesn't make sense is putting limits whatsoever.
The Future Will Be Shaped by Optimists
They have underpaid, undertrained human beings.
I think El Salvador adopted Bitcoin because their president believes it's going to the moon and adopting it will make everyone rich. He's repeatedly talked about "buying the dip", for example, but there's no obvious reason why El Salvador would want or need to buy the dip if they weren't hoping to benefit from future price increases.
"leaving when the "interview wasn't going well", makes me picture OP struggling at the whiteboard and somebody not wanting to interrupt him."

They were interrupting me constantly during the whiteboarding. That was actually one of the other things I didn't like about the team. They wouldn't give me time to fully answer their question before butting in and telling me how they would do it. Half the time I felt like they were solving it for me. When I expressed my dismay they told me they didn't actually want a solution from me but were just trying to determine whether they could work with me or not, because that's how they came up with solutions at their company.

In any case, they clearly had no problem with interrupting me. So when the person who had laughed at me later just got up and walked out during the interview (after the whiteboarding) without saying a word, it did seem kind of rude.

I've been in lots of interviews throughout my life, and never once did anyone act remotely like this.

Of course, I could have misinterpreted them, and maybe their laughter was good-natured (it seemed condescending to me). Maybe they had some good reason to leave in the middle of the interview, but they could have just excused themselves.
Me thinks your gut is leading you correctly.

Generally speaking, there are short codes, and long codes. Sometimes alphanumerics are allowed, but the rules vary regionally.

Long codes resemble traditional phone numbers and tend to be treated as more disposable, low volume, and person-to-person. As such, they are typically easier to spoof with.

Short codes tend to be more like car license plates: short random/vanity codes that require a more in-depth process to get access to. They are easier to verify ownership, suited for higher volume messaging, and tend to be backed by automation systems that respond to a set of automated commands like "HELP". These qualities make them less likely to be used for nefarious purposes.

It's definitely a topic I'd love to understand more. Any corrections/additions are very much welcome!
> If you believe in free speech you should have absolutely condemned Twitter

You advocated condemning Twitter for exercising their free speech rights.

But you're right I missed the first part of your comment where you acknowledged Twitter had the right to ban anyone based on their speech.
I would like to exclude companies that think that product development happens in the context of 'stacks'
Different user space. This competes with STATA and other canned package delivery applications.