skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's subtle, but the headline feels a bit like low-key class warfare clickbait. No one feels underpaid because their salary is six figures, it's because of what they're paid relative to their peers and workload. The article actually covers this decently well, but the headlines makes it sound like techies are a bunch of entitled brats.
That's why people unionize. Hasn't happened to tech yet, don't know if it will, but it isn't a forgone conclusion this is how markets have to work.
So far it worked out pretty well
This is where the programming-language exception feature is valuable.

You could crash, but you can also throw. Somebody somewhere sometime might be able to do a better job with the situation than you can right there and then. Checking status codes all up and down the call graph does not increase the likelihood that something could be done, but costs in the meantime. Hiding the checking behind abstractions does not reduce those costs.
Hey - i'm in the same boat so it's refreshing to hear this.

No matter what, at the end of the day you were working on code that had a direct impact on billions of dollars.

Also i imagine after a year you have rust, COSM WASM, & Auditing experience. You participated in a historic event that will be talked about for years to come.

An algorithmic stablecoin is still a dream that needs to be achieved in a crosschain enviroment and this failure will not deter hackers from trying again in the future.
Totally get it, and it is a problem. I don't like it, and I also don't like clipboard access. Browsers could have a mode that prevents this, similar to how certain features don't work unless a user has interacted with the page (like playing sound). Something like no queries when an input field contains data unless the user submits a form via a click or enter.
There might be a `env.DB.url` (e.g. the jdbc URL) which you could pass into an existing library.
“Hate” is too much. I can exist in a society with opponents and allies pretty smoothly. But morally, I’m going to bucket people, yeah.

If you vote one way, you don’t care all that much about key issues that matter to me. I do. It’s relevant to my life. It doesn’t matter what you say. The truth is you don’t care as much as I do.

I don’t have to oppose anything. That’s you projecting. Knowing who is opposing me is not opposing them. It’s just knowing the landscape. I’m quite comfortable not opposing someone even if they oppose me, but I do insist on knowing they oppose me.
Gee. "Everybody must be vaccinated". US, fascist. "Everybody is restricted to their housing". China, refreshing. Guy's got cash, not ethics.
It is indeed sqlite but it could possibly have modification done or additions added. Please be considerate and think a little more before commenting.
And prices that never go down (when people need to sell or refinance)
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>Things don't necessarily go hot all at once.

To me there's no such thing as a cold civil war. If it's not hot, it's not a civil war. The USA has not crossed the line into civil war, it's not too late to exit your echo chambers and start talking to each other again.

I wholly agree with that wiki page on debate of a second civil war starting about 2008. Honestly havent seen that page in some time and it's much more verbose. I think from a quick skim it's quite good.

"First black president" in the USA was going to be rife with identity politics. No amount of effort would fix this, but you have to deal with the consequences of bringing identity politics back. Not only was there no attempts at all to deal with those consequences... they went even further. Anyone who opposed Obama's policies became a white supremacist. Ben Shapiro for example is a notorious nazi until he was outed as a jew.

The next election polling basically showed Clinton was going to crush Trump. The far east blue states showed they were going blue surprising nobody and they declared the election for clinton. Later to find out trump won and the polls were quite wrong. Clinton went around the country and abroad saying trump stole the election. In reality, the rhetoric of calling republicans a bunch of fascist white supremacists made people lie to pollsters. It wasn't safe to admit the truth you were going to support the republicans. They might come for you.

Then comes the next election and biden literally said he has a voter fraud organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0

If this was yet another gaff and it's not, you have to explain this in depth. After him saying this on video, the democrats had to double efforts to ensure transparency and legitimacy of the election occurs. https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/windows-in-counting-room-...

Ya that's not what happened if you're ejecting republican challengers over not wearing their mask correctly, locking doors, boarding up windows, and finding 138,000 votes under a desk. Literally the opposite of transparency. We will never know if the election was legitimate or not; it's basically impossible to say it wasn't. Republicans in 49 states submitted bills to 'restrict the vote' but mainly because they see the election as fraudulent. Actions speak louder than words.

Midterms are coming. This election won't be 50/50, it's going to have a result that swings wildly one way or the other. Polls are utterly untrustworthy this election.

Worse yet, I dont see how either result will go well.

Something that did blow my mind. Star Trek Strange New World took a position on this and had such a huge and important message. https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/star-trek-strange-new-worl...

Trek is back baby!
I believe what you are referring to is aberrations?
https://expertphotography.com/lens-aberrations-photography/

Uncanny valley is more your mind not understanding what is being perceived, this is more that the image is not as sharp due to imperfections in the lens.

If the lens were perfect it would end up looking like any other picture you see with everything in focus. This is achieved today by stacking say, 3 pictures on top of each other where each picture has a different part of the subject in focus
Here's my own best guess as to why they laughed:

All the people I was interviewing with recently graduated from a top comp sci school.

A lot of people have very limited experiences with Scheme in school, where they're usually forced to use a primitive Scheme from a million years ago. So they consider it to be a toy language, maybe suitable for education, but completely impractical for industry use.

They tend to have no experience or knowledge of modern, full-featured Schemes with large library ecosystems.

I wasn't asked why I liked Scheme, and wasn't given an opportunity to explain any of this or make the case for Scheme. We just launched directly in to whiteboarding... after which the interviewer who had laughed at me walked out.
Wow. So in the past I used to tell myself "it's the Cadence RESEARCH Systems that has something to do with Scheme" (they used to make Chez Scheme before Cisco bought them), but now you're telling me that both Cadence RESEARCH Systems and Cadence DESIGN Systems have their own Scheme dialect. That is in no way confusing! :)
> Bitcoin and crypto are a threat to the IMF system. They aren’t going to like it when you do that. To survive without the IMF, you would have to go all in at a generational bottom. That did not happen.

In the large scale, El Salvador's BTC fund is not that big.

I mean, El Salvador has more IMF shares than Bitcoins in their fund.

- El Salvador Bitcoin: 74 million USD [2]

- El Salvador IMF shares: 402 million USD (207 million SDRs) [1]

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/About/executive-board/members-quotas

[2] https://nayibtracker.com/
Something similar that I find both fascinating and heart-breakingly tragic: The "Black Belt" in the U.S. Deep South. The Black Belt is both a geological term used to refer to the rich & dark soil [0] and a geopolitical term to refer to the high percentage of African Americans [1]. During the Cretaceous period, the shore-line at the time ran through the middle of Alabama and Mississippi, depositing rich organic deposits, which in turn allowed for plantations to thrive in those parts of the deep south. Even nearly 160 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, those counties still have some of the highest percentages of African American Populations. Overlaying the population demographic map on a a map of the cretaceous shoreline shows a correlation [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(geological_formati...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_in_the_American_Sou...
[2] https://politicartoons.livejournal.com/4422659.html
I disagree. It’s unnatural to ignore nonverbal communication. If you had to take a shit and you were talking to the CEO of the company, wouldn’t you do your best to hide that scowl and be polite?
But then some competitor should come and sell the same thing for much less money, which means that you do not really create 10M value.
That's pretty dank alright.
I've stayed in multiple Airbnbs avg 6 weeks since January. The first one had mold everywhere. Took two weeks to get refunded by Airbnb. Talked with like 10 customer service people. Customer service found alternatives that was 50% more expensive, but we couldn't afford that, so had to book something not-so-great ourselves. Got a small coupon as compensation.
It's just a misleading graph.
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If you consider cost... I would imagine a fair few. From the article:

> We will ensure that D1 costs less and performs better than comparable centralized solutions.
Abstraction needs to be made to earn its keep. The massively abstracted linker in TFA was, exactly, an unmaintainable, fragile disaster. It was so bad they had to rewrite it from scratch. The new one certainly has abstractions of its own. Less harmful ones.
The country shouldn’t act in the interests of the “country” but rather in the interests of its citizens. “Replacing” the citizens (sounds a little genocidal) is not in the citizens best interests.
> Also, transgender people aren't a movement. We're people.

I’m not saying it’s fair or right…

But transgender people are a minority whose voice has been appropriated by a political movement to force their radical agenda under euphemisms like “inclusion”.

I’m not saying that you need to be outspoken about it — but if the only exposure most people have is that extremist view from TV, they will associate you with that due to how humans work.

> "Black people should have no issue proving they aren't criminals"

The equivalent would be black people debouncing the neo-racism of Democrats under euphemisms like “equity” and publicly denouncing nonsense done in their name, like de-policing.

Again, I’m not saying it’s fair or right… but I’d tell a black Democrat who was upset about being associated with that idiocy the same thing:

You’re tacitly letting your identity be used to push dumb policies — and you’ll be associated until you stand up and say “no, this doesn’t represent me”.
> The cost savings of work from home must have been enormous for these companies, yet none of that savings or record profits trickled down to the people writing code

Lots of companies had long term leases or obligations anyway. Eventually the 'cost savings' were probably there, but I don't know too many companies that were just able to jettison their initial lease payments in the first few months of the pandemic. I know I couldn't quickly get out of my office lease.
If you want to measure if a woman chooses to graduate in STEM or some other field, you have to measure the women who got that choice and not the women who weren't given that choice. Their example "reversing" the result changed it to also include all the women who can't go to college at all due to gender discrimination and thus didn't get a choice on the matter, that doesn't help us see whether those women would have gone into STEM or not at college.

That is why you have to compare women who choose STEM to women who choose to study something else. An anti equal society would be expected to push women into feminine fields and away from masculine fields. But as the study showed that didn't happen, gender unequal societies seemed to do the opposite. All this counter study showed is that you can mask this bias by also weighing in that unequal societies also bars many women from entering college at all.
> Which communication tools did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year? Select all that apply

No option for IRC/Discord, what a shame
I usually don't bother to login to comment, but I felt compelled in this case. The other replies include a lot of bad advice. You sound like you don't have much of experience actually using bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies). So the best (most secure and easiest) solution is to buy a hardware wallet and use the wallet app which they provide. I suggest either Trezor [1] or Ledger [2]. Do not buy a hardware wallet from secondary marketplaces or second-hand resale websites - buy direct from the developer's website only.

[1] https://shop.trezor.io/

[2] https://www.ledger.com/

For added opsec:

- Use a temporary email address on the order form (e.g. mailinator or similar).

- Do not ship the goods to your home address. Pick-up your order in-person at a drop-off spot, post-office, or have it delivered to your workplace.

A bit more information about hardware vs. software/app wallet:

- Hardware wallets protect your bitcoin and cryptocurrencies by keeping your private keys secure on a dedicated USB (or air-gapped) device. The private keys never leave the device.

- If you use an app on your phone or desktop computer, your private keys could be stolen by malware. This is the exact attack vector that hardware wallets are designed to protect against.

Good luck!
This and also arguably 70 year old moms are probably just fine at "don't lose this crucial piece of paper" given stuff like social security cards, birth certificates, savings bonds, and all the other bits that have been important pieces of paper for most of their lives.
On the footer of the page.
Funny how opposite people can be on stuff like this. I love cooked carrots, but rarely if ever eat raw carrots. The only time I ever eat raw carrot is when I have small amounts of shredded carrot pieces on a salad or something. But give me steamed carrots, or fried carrots, or big ole chunks of carrot cooked in beef stew or something, and I'm happy man. :-)
> when crypto doesn’t have the protections of regular banking and investments

Coinbase is not 'crypto' though. Nobody's coins go down if one exchange crashes, unless they are careless enough to leave them there. The real problem is that cryptocoins are hard to use , and so exchanges are used as banks (they shoudn't) . But that is something that tech can fix
> This seems to be a point lost on so many people.

No, this is just a trite straw man repeated every single time free speech comes up.
I think nearly all Linux distros did this when they adopted systemd. That’s where I first read this argument.

I know RHEL, Debian, and Arch do. Not a lot outside of those families.
The territory that today is western poland was part of Germany pre-1939. It wasn't an occupation, it was just that territory of that country. Afaik, most of what was eastern Poland pre-1939 and was occupied by the Russians, nowadays is no longer Polish territory. The boundaries migrated west.
My takeaway was that the community for fakes had wound up being stronger than the community for authentics, where the authentics are just an isolation from society while the fakes are comraderie and international currency
No, a workaround to said law made the experience worse.
Instead of reflecting on what the interviewer did, reflect on that culture for a second. Is that somewhere you WANT to work? Would they respect your opinions? Sounds like that’s a no.

I’ve ended interviews within the first 5 minutes. I have a knack for seeing through this kind of stuff. I also have no shame on calling someone out on it.

Toxic people usually don’t know they are toxic because they have been enabled to do so. It’s also well within your right to confront someone like this and say “Excuse me, sir (or ma’am), I was under the impression this was a top place to work. Your display just convinced me that it is not. I respect your decision to leave as I hope you respect mine.” and walk out. Not saying that’s what you should say verbatim but your time is just as valuable and your opinions should be just as weighted. Whether you work there yet or not.

Companies with a great culture would have asked you to dive deeper. To understand your point of view. Maybe a healthy debate. Teach us something that we don’t know, kind of thing.

I think when you’re early in your career you just want to get the job and will do whatever it takes. After 5 years you should be given the same respect as that person gives their colleagues. After all, you are interviewing to be their colleague. They are interviewing to be yours.

Never, ever, let an interview be single sided. You will have no negotiating power.
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As it stands, I believe that Debian as a distribution did switch, but the .deb packaging software/dpkg package manager that Debian relies on doesn't support it well.
I guess that means they won't be changing their name to Goldman SPACs
If anyone remembers Miss Manners (whose kids are now helping write her columns):

I actually wrote to her about one of those situations (interviewer staring down at my resume, interrupting my answers to ask about something else on the resume, etc.) and she printed it.

Her response was, basically: if you expect to stay in the profession, just be polite and don't tell them they have the manners of a baboon.
oof. Yeah, I think I'd probably keep on truckin just for the practice but I'd have serious reservations about accepting an offer. I've had interviewers seem kind of dismissive before, but what you described was pretty bad imo.

if they ended up extending an offer I would decline and say why. A company that small probably needs that fellow and they're unlikely to fire him about this. Maybe he was having a bad day.

Probably small consolation but this experience is a good story and frankly if this is how they are to work with, I'd rather see it revealed before joining. As awkward as it was imagine finding out that you made major life changes just to work with some assholes.
For an alternative approach and path – it took me 7 years from landing in the country on a B-1 business visa to a EB-2 greencard via 2 separate O-1 visas. And I thought that was grueling!

Just received my card in the mail two weekends ago.

Here’s a full writeup linking to 2 previous visa writeups, if anyone’s interested: https://swizec.com/blog/how-i-used-indie-hacking-to-sponsor-...

caveat: I’m from a small country that’s well under quota and there is no wait time beyond the usual processing times.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's.. the seljuk turks
How do you short a coin on Coinbase? I have never seen the option nor heard reference to it. It sounds like you’re just assuming this is how it works to me but I’d prefer to be wrong and learn something.
The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin
Tax is controlled and enforced by the elites. While all the elites are rich, not all the ultra-wealthy are elites.

When the government says "Billionaires" they are talking about the non-elite rich.
Your comment was correctly flagged by users. This sort of flamewar comment is unacceptable on HN: it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We particularly don't need religious and racial flamewar here.

Copying flagged comments and reposting them is obviously an end run around the moderation system and therefore not allowed. Please don't do that again.

HN is a curated/moderated site. Plenty of posts get killed, especially ones that break the site guidelines, as yours did. All this has been true for the 15+ years the site has existed.

If you'd please review the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them, we'd appreciate it. We're trying to be a particular kind of forum here, and that requires active energy from all involved: commenters, readers, and moderators.
Thank you. The overlays are enlightening, and I was confused by the title and the lack of negative commentary accompanying these maps.
I'm in my 40s. I've had several really bad interviews, and a few good ones. My advice to you is to stand up and walk out when the interviewers become mocking, overly pedantic, or arrogant. Consider it a reflection of office culture.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
Ignorance is not an excuse.

1. Trump attempted to use fake electors to overturn the election in his favor. [1]

2. The wife of a Supreme Court Justice pursued efforts to overturn the election. [2]

3. There were tons of communications between senior members and the Trump admin on how to overturn the election. [3]

4. The Oath Keepers, an armed militia group, stood by on Jan 6 ready to "swoop in" on a signal. [4]

5. And of course, the President of the United States of America told his followers that "if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore". And "We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved." And "Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about … We will stop the steal." And "Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong.”" And then told them he would march to the Capitol with them. [5]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079835695/how-trump-sought-t...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/mark-meadows-texts-2...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-capitol-arrests/oa...

[5] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fi...
> Some of the comments really read as a satire

Hilarious! To me this illustrates when household wealth gets over a certain level most purchasing decisions become wasteful. Spending millions on NFTs come to mind. Could you imagine how many people could be helped for a fraction of that?
Not saying make it easy. Trust me, it is already extremely hard. But I am replying to GP's argument which is basically saying that you should shut up because you are coming from a country which has worse. 2 different things. And yes, there are people who make the argument that if you become a naturalized citizen, you have no right to criticize the Govt or the country since you came from a much worse place. I am tired of that BS. Google "Amy Wax India" and you will know what I am talking about.
The property in the box was never the bank’s property. They’re just renting a space for you to keep your stuff. In a bankruptcy, that contract could be sold to a third party who takes over the management of the boxes, but the contents are yours.

When you send money to Coinbase, it’s not like that. This latest disclosure makes it clear assets held at Coinbase (or other exchanges) aren’t yours in any sense.
It’s because we generate millions in revenue per person and manage projects with enormous complexity that are not fungible. (Whereas most corporate functions just require a warm body.) We are vastly underpaid.
In my wife's case, at least, it doesn't cause her psychosocial distress. It just means I usually have to wait until she's got other plans before I can order from a sushi restaurant (I say usually because sometimes she's fine with getting a noodle dish). None of the bullet points apply to her.

In fact, I had more trouble finding food I could eat at restaurants when I was on the keto diet (and many years earlier when I was on a vegetarian diet), then she does right now.

The parent poster also didn't mention anything about it significantly interfering with social functioning.