skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word community is your hangup. It's really generic and missing what you're getting at.

In economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_optimal_firm_size

Civil: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003801...

Believe it or not but the ideal "community" size is somewhere around 150 people.

So if you are a city of 100,000. Figuring out how to build neighbourhoods the size of about 150 people with max of 500 is your goal. Or highrises are supposed to be about this size. But fail because a highrise isn't about community at all.

If you're a business with 1000 employees. You probably want 5-6 divisions.

If you're in the military, we're talking about your 'company'. Platoons are often a bit smaller and meant to make the soldiers more tight.

If you're in the vidya games, you want to divide players up so that they are in ~150 people groups.

>On that note, I am glad that HN is still a niche community and hope stays that way, and UI becomes even more crappy so people from other cultures and walks of life don't start joining in.

HN surpassed this long ago. HN is no longer a 'community' and I've seen the influence waves sweep through HN multiple times now.

>There are negatives to this, but not huge because there are other platforms for general population. (Imagine a forum for doctors to discuss new treatments and everyone can join in, soon it'd be r/AskDoc and of almost no value to actual doctors).

What you are literally asking for is an echo chamber. You want to filter out non-doctors. Or in HN's case? Filter out X? That's totally not what you want to do.

My grandpa had a radio and 1 newspaper to keep up to date. He lived in an echo chamber of epic proportions, he had to believe whatever they told him. What social media did is that you can literally go to the source. You can literally see what your politicians are saying without anything in between. We live in the least echo chamber period ever.

Yet echo chambers are such a huge issue today. January 6 insurrection is one of the best examples because it's such a huge factor.

Obama's own words: "Right here, in the United States of America, we just saw a sitting president deny the clear results of an election and help incite a violent insurrection at the nation’s capital."

So in Obama's mind he sees January 6, a group of unarmed hooligans in costumes ransacking some offices for a few hours, as an insurrection. This doesn't meet the definition of insurrection. That would be the dumbest insurrection in the history of insurrections.

Insurrection noun: an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:

"We're going to go unarmed into the capitol building and overthrow the most powerful government in history by ransacking nancy pelosi's office." lol what?
I find that mocking is best done by product/designers and not engineers, and that the skills to make a wonderful user experience are about as opposite from the skills of being a talented js/typescript/react/redux/devos etc engineer as can be.

When I get a feature to implement in react, I expect the mocks to completed. We do our design work in figma and it's already a wonderful tool for mocking up our react app.

The point of an 'all-in-one' mock and code tool seems strange. Is it to get rid of designers (which is bad because UX/accessibility/design is yet another skill to add ontop of the devops pile that will not be handled at a high level) or is it to get rid of the engineer (so that the product team can create a react app without an expensive coder, which is bad because shit is going to break and no one is going to know how to fix it).

Perhaps this is intended for very small companies (~single person shops) where like it or not you're doing everything so anything that simplifies the process is a value add.

The project looks very cool though, and he can definitely put together a form faster with this tool than I can writing it all out by hand. I wonder how the experience gets when you're in the weeds of custom components, hooks, props and all of the sauce that makes react complicated.
> he seems lost in his own sauce

I read this as a polite way of saying he's up his own arse, which seems accurate.
> Considering he said this was a big reason for his purchase

I guess that would be a function of how much Twitter had told everyone their percentage was. Improving Twitter’s 5% bot problem is different than improving it with 30% bots.

But, since we consider him the smartest man, he might actually be playing a game. He knew they would lie, or were for years, and put a clause in the contract about it and they fell into a trap.

Not sure who gets to pay the contract breakup $1B fee? It may be Twitter. That would be embarrassing. But then, they shouldn’t have been telling lies, if it turns out to be the case.
As per the article, line jobs are where the top talent congregate, and my experience is that the distinction between working in tech (line), and working with tech (staff), is quite a big cultural, and recruitment gap.

It's easy to get a staff job, from a good line background, but much more difficult the other way around.

It's similar, though maybe less extreme, to journalism and PR. Journalists sometimes jump to PR (often much better pay and conditions, at lower ranks anyway), but it's almost (perhaps actually) never the other way around.
Those traces under the green solder mask are copper (melting point ~1000°C/2000°F).

He may have added solder to fix the trace, but he didn’t melt the trace itself.
eBay exec seems like another level. Does the episode have examples of people throwing away their c-suite jobs?
Its baffling to me how petty these executives got. You're an executive of a publicly traded company and your biggest concern is a couple running a blog?

They could have easily ignored them and no one would have noticed. Crazy.
He's autistic and a genius. That combination is typically misunderstood and derided in their time.

When there is distance he'll be able to be viewed with a dispassionate lens. Historians and future generations will put the mistakes in their proper context as they benefit from sustainable transport, reusable rocket ships and free speech in the public square.
I got myopia during an age where I was exposed to very bright light everyday. Playing cricket everyday under scorching hot southern India summers didn't help prevent it.
I think the more important question is, “Can I deduct losses?”

I would assume the answer is no.
Indeed, it's hard for someone to be a good engineer unless they have some breadth of mind.
That's not true, there's a rather large minimum until you need to think about VAT. 100k EUR/year where I live.
At least i got health insurance for my problem.

No insurance in the world will cover you when you ask a lawyer to explain the world to you.
Stonks only go up. Elon didnt get the memo about stonks going down occasionally, now making excuses to get out of overpaying.

That or it was a classic pump and dump ...
Could it have to do with the recent stock/crypto slump? Perhaps he doesn’t have the cash any more because his assets have rapidly diminished in value since he begun the take over.

It’s not clear to me why the calculation over bots and spam would threaten the deal.
It's probably not voltage drop that's making your device operate incorrectly. It's most likely the added capacitance and or inductance of the wires skewing the high frequency data signal out of spec.

Entirely possible it's voltage drop, I don't know the exact hardware, but at 6 meters, it's probably signal rather than power.
This makes no sense. Why should there be less taxes on crypto than on stocks and similar things?
I work for a tech company (healthcare related, but everything is tech), and we have staff positions. They're mostly meant as someone who has a decent understanding of the entire system they're working on... even have Staff Architects who understand the global system being worked on.

It's almost as if each of our underlying teams are their own firms within the parent organization.
What a ridiculous hyperbolic comment in response to a question around why one particular library has a ton more development than any others in the same space.
That's unusual, in consulting days of yore it was about 80%* billable hours

* may vary of course, but nobody expects 100%, even the big 5/4.
Weather spark is a nice resource for comparing weather

https://weatherspark.com/
> Harville flew to Boston from California and bought tools with a plan to break into the couple’s garage and install a GPS tracker on their car, prosecutors say.

This is batshit insanity.
The primary distinction is whether they're hired directly by Duke as a contractor, versus whether they are employed by a consulting company that is contracted by Duke.

If they are hired as an individual, definitely second-class citizen, and there have been legislative pushes to make a lot of these people classified as employees.

If they are employed by a company that is contracted, chances are their situation is much more comfortable.
Sidenote (and i am going to be negative on crypto) but the first 10 minutes of this video are pretty wild to me?

They keep saying how this is normal, happens, you will recover, it happened to all of us. Really? 50bilion dollars get hacked and response is "invest more money you will recover".

Then there are multiple crypto ads about protecting your "hard earned money" (wtf whats less hard earned than investing) and about wierd investment tools that will automatically invest into some esoteric assets the host gets stuck reading because even he doesn't know them.

Finally they explain some really complicated mechanism this tech was using. That left me wondering what is this even for?

From outside it all seems quite crazy.
Have you actually read that link? You're right, there are elections, but only at the local level. There's only a single party, and the national government interferes in local elections.

What China does well, though, is to get capable people in positions of power. I guess that's partially because the people don't get a direct say. Someone like Trump would never have been able to rise to power there.

> Uighurs, like other minorities, have certain privileges, like teaching kids their own language, or not being subject to one child policy.

And also to forced sterilisation and forced labour, I guess. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

> Have you noticed that just from your description above Russia is much closer to US than to China? From unfair elections, to systemic oppression of racial minorities, to invading other countries.

Oh, absolutely. Like I said, the US has more than its fair share of problems. These need to be addressed. But it's not a dictatorship yet, and while there are people who want to end US democracy, there are also a lot of people who want to strengthen it and address its problems. But it's absolutely true that under Trump, the US moved to become closer to Putin and more like Russia. And that is not a good direction to be moving in.
I contracted at a place where this was expected, but any 'meetings' you were just supposed to bill to the client/project as well. Some folks were on longterm/large projects - like... 15 people on one client project. 1hr meeting? It's just... billable time.

I was stuck on support dealing with 6-8 different clients. I was supposed to split up time between the clients. 1 hr 'all hands' meeting for the company? Just charge each of those 6 clients 10 minutes each - even if you've not done anything on their project for the last 2 weeks (for example).

So... I started getting push back from higher-ups asking why I was billing projects I wasn't working on.

"I don't get paid unless I put billable hours in your system, and this is what your email said to do".

"That's not what we meant..."

"Well... what did you mean? Which of the 7 client projects I'm supporting should get billed for the 2 hr 'state of the company' meeting you made us attend last week?"

"I'll get back to you..."

Which they never did. I'm not there any longer. This was right before covid, and everything got turned upside down after that. I left soon after.
> event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey

This misses event.shiftKey. All keyboard modifiers disqualify client-side routing.

As for <Link> in its entirety, where you have to use a special component which becomes a link and adds a click handler to it, I think this is generally the wrong solution: it’s better to instead put a single click handler on the entire document to intercept clicks on links. That way, you can just use normal links everywhere and it just works, rather than having to remember to use a whole separate component every time which may or may not be able to pass through the required properties or attributes (e.g. this one only supports class and href). Simpler, smaller and cheaper.
I get why they would do that, to curb speculation, but it seems backwards to my intuition.

Just converting money back and forth should not be taxable. And if I make an advantageous trade with somebody, and a day later I make a disadvantageous trade, it should be a no-op. If you take it to the extreme, a market maker or an algorithmic trader makes thousands of trades a day, creating liquidity and determining prices, and they would be taxed a lot.

My gut feeling is instead you should tax people who use it as an investment and their long term gains.
It's now considered a autism spectrum disorder, but you could literally have received an "Asperger's Syndrome" diagnosis in the past 10 years.

It IS a "clinically recognized term" in the sense that if you went to a mental health professional and said "I have Asperger's Syndrome" they might say politely "we don't call it that anymore" but it is very unlikely they would rudely say "I don't know what that is, it is not a clinically recognized term."
The headline is miss-leading. As a German tax-residency I can give some background.

Already in the existing tax law, crypto held for more than a year didn't get taxed. If you sold within the first year your personal income-tax rate got applied. Which is most likely 45% if you work in any tech-related position.

The only exception was if the coins/tokens were used for staking the tax-free holding period got extended to 10 years.

This has changed now. All crypto held for more than one year will not get taxed.

Technically, it is also not a new tax law. The tax-authorities changed their interpretation, how the existing tax-law should be applied for crypto-holdings.
I think the underlying mantra is actually "if I lose compilation speed and simplicity, go is no longer the correct language choice for this problem" which is why cgo can be a non-starter for many.
How can the employer prove a negative?

At most I imagine the plaintiff is allowed to do discovery, and then has to prove positive discrimination based on that.
Please read the article you are commenting on. In it, they identify the cause and lay out a solution. The solution is not to botch your macbook by disabling core components as AWDL (disabling it will break airplay, handoff and other).
For the right price maybe, for the wrong price no.
> I get it, you don't like his politics or share his sense of humor but don't pretend like he's some unhinged twitter personality.

He called Vernon Unsworth a "pedo guy" in a tweet after he rescued all of those kids in Thailand and criticized Musk's plan to build a small submarine to get them out. That wasn't a joke, it wasn't meant to elicit a humorous response, it was clearly meant to defame someone. Notice that accusing folks of pedophilia has become a pretty common tactic for the right nowadays.

Calling someone a pedo seems pretty unhinged for a billionaire responsible for running major companies, it honestly surprised me how Musk would spend his public energy saying that kind of stuff, and especially when you consider the power dynamics involved, it's hard to interpret his actions as anything other than driven by insecurity. But I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I stand corrected, that is the way it has been before 2009 when I lived in Germany. I've edited the original comment.

It has, however, always been the case for cryptocurrency. This is not a new tax law or anything of significance.
More like tye worst version of Jobs before his firing from Apple. And not just hiding his worst traits, but also unable of keepong them in check.
HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS TAKING OUR JOBS
The title is absurd and should be changed. You will be taxed eventually. Germany is just classifying Crypto as any other long term capital gains.
Stop being depressed because it simply, clearly, certainly, is not. I just wrote a few paragraphs about it in an immediately previous post. This confirms that this phase is getting some people fooled on basics.
And Java vs just about anything else (!)
Their patent seem to mention flowcharts:

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/9003383.html
Psychologically, a big part of how they became a successful executive might be an obsession with controlling...
> I'm from Germany and sold my ETH at the peak some time ago with a profit of ~80k. It was a very strange feeling to receive that completely untaxed, as everything else is taxed here.

If you buy a car (let's say an oldtimer) and sell it for more money than you bought it after one year, it is also tax free.

Real estate is also tax free after two years (or ten years, depending on whether you have lived in it).
Twitter Inc estimated.

Oh the difference a missing space makes.
This is super cool. If I worked in React I would love the ability to build most of an MVC through a GUI like this and avoid the waste of time.

I really hate React, though. Throwing logic into HTML and JSX... just feels so hackish. Like, if I want to alter states on a thing in the DOM, I want all that logic in the JS in one neat class, not mixed with control flow in a template somewhere else. /rant

Still, I think a front-end like this could actually make it a lot friendlier for newbs and also save a ton of time for people who have to work in what I consider a nightmare of a stack... either way it looks like a samurai level piece of code that will be appreciated.
Yeah, it crept up over the years. Start at 6hrs a day, then 6.5, then 7 and then 8 about 4 years ago.
Public knowledge != authoritative, due-diligence-level public statement

But he did know it was a problem [1], so it's at least a bit shifty that now he pretends he suddenly says that it is a deal breaker. I suppose a court would have to decide if he has a right to back out or not without repercussions.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354
Russia most certainly invaded.

"In response to the deteriorating situation in the Donbas, Russia abandoned its hybrid approach, and began a conventional invasion of the region. The first sign of this invasion was 25 August 2014 capture of a group of Russian paratroopers on active service in Ukrainian territory by the Ukrainian security service (SBU)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War#:~:text=In....
This trains in seeing what intelligence is not, not the opposite!
> I am Canadian, I lived in Joburg for 2yrs. You are bang on: huge gaps in doors, windows that can't fully close and uninsulated homes. It was bloody cold in the winter, with my indoor temp being around 10C in the morning! And of course, all sorts of creepy crawlies appearing in my living room (scorpions, prawns) at random times. Loved the cloudless skies, however.

I live in JHB, have been for most of my life. Still not used to how cold it is in the winter.

But the creepy crawlies? C'mon - you're in Africa, what did you expect? In my experience, the benefit of moving to JHB from the east coast was the lack of creepy crawlies!

I grew up on the coast, and there's no end to the wildlife (including creepy crawlies ... maybe the occasional leopard).

The east coast of South Africa is a pain to live in; monkeys frequently raid the garden, large, flying cockroaches get into any food, people will frequently find frogs and/or crabs getting into their pools, snakes frequently getting into the house ...

I'd rather have the cold.
I've always seen that my job as a lead, among other things, is to act as a buffer in communication between my team and "the business". One big thing is my devs not having to attend most of the meetings - I go there for them, and then on the next daily I pass the relevant information. If we need to make an estimates or architectural decisions, we do that in our internal meetings and then I let the business know what they need to know. Keeping meetings highly scoped is IMHO big win-win for both sides, because in reality devs don't really care about the business side that much, nor business cares about all the technical details (or even can understand them) so keeping them isolated and me (together with PM) just "translating" the information from business to dev lingo and back, is actually saving everyones' time, avoiding misunderstandings, and keeping meetings shorter and more focused.
SpaceX isn't that much cheaper than Ariane. Satellite internet existed before Starlink. Electric cars existed before Tesla (of course) and many manufacturers offer more affordable EVs.
Honestly I would rather blame some fans (Musk included) of great shows like Rick & Morty, IASIP, Breaking Bad or the Joker movie for mistaking protagonists/anti-heros/funny characters for people to emulate and completely missing the point.

If you cheer the part you're supposed to laugh at/feel sad for, I start to get a picture of what "dangerous" media could mean.
I wonder if some people around 2016-2018 felt they had free rein to do whatever because so much other crazy stuff was going on.
The first Zoe was a concept car, the second one was a production model and it didn't popup from anywhere. It has been the most sold EV in europe for many years already.

>Look at i-Miev and the Roadster and tell me which one do you think a typical car lover would love more. If you think that would've taken over the car market .. then you're definitely not in the same circles I am :-)

The car industry do not care what the typical car lover love more. They have been a dying breed for more than 3 decades. The i-Miev and derivated counterpart sold 12 times more than the roadster because they are actually usable things and not enthusiast toys. It even outsold the Model-S in all the other markets than USA when they were both available.

The Model-S,X,3 and Y success came much later. The automotive industry definitely had a more cautious approach in the upper end segment but they weren't sleeping.
It really depends on what you mean by saying wheels are being "reinvented". Is it really wheel reinvention, or is it a small incremental evolution that fixes one pain point, but has to keep all other aspects the same?

In this same thread there is a comment about how this little code snippet "throws away backward compatibility, plus everything else".

New tech has to have backwards compatibility to even be taken serious by most people. But backwards compatibility requires not only reinventing the wheel, but also having it being on the exact same size and material as before so it fits where it was used.

The only way to satisfy both of the groups above is to evolve tech that already exists and implement new findings in already existing libraries, but that will also enrage a lot of people. An example: React Hooks.
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