skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off-topic: scroll down to their site footer, it is a full page size. I've seen many adopt this pseudo professional look, marketing feeling, like *we have a ton of thing* or *we are really big*. I found it's uncomfortable.
Because at the same time the Vice President was telling us to lie to our customers, which we were all extremely and openly unhappy about, and our direct manager and up already knew that quite well, so he didn't actually have to ask how numerically happy we were, since he already knew, because we'd made it quite clear and unambiguous to him and the VP already.

The way one colleague bluntly explained it to a VP (in the context of Sun's DeskSet productivity suite "MailTool", "CalandarTool", "ClockTool", "CommandTool", "DBXTool", "XBugTool", and of course "TATool", "PizzaTool", and "HappyTool", etc) was that he was currently working on "ResumeTool".

This is the same management that banned the discussion of and spending work time on PizzaTool! (Which I ignored.)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...

And who required us all to use the horrible XBugTool, which got extremely angry if you used it to file bug reports against itself:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/xbugto...

Instead of the standard way of killing the window system by typing "exit" to the first CommandTool console you brought up, I sarcastically suggested developing "ExitTool", an easy-to-use visual interface for exiting the OpenWindows X11/NeWS server, which would interoperate with "YesTool" and "NoTool", drag-and-drop user interfaces to the ever popular Unix "yes" utility:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/i39l.h...

>In other words, what are the problems people use xinit to solve, that make them need to use xinit instead of some other solution? I don't care so much about the particular solutions themselves. [Of course I'm not interested in anybody else's solution, because in my spare time, I'm developing ExitTool, a fully customizable point and click graphical user interface to exiting the window system, which has a special private interclient communication protocol to rendevous with other applications subscribing to compatible desktop metaphors, actually empowering the user to drag'n'drop from YesTool (a full featured graphical adaptation of the classic unix utility), and cut'n'paste from NoTool (actually implemented using trendy and powerful object oriented programming techniques as a subclass of YesTool!)]

(The whole "-Tool" naming scheme at Sun was such a sausage fest, from the early days when "SunView" was originally called "SunTools"!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunView

https://web.archive.org/web/20120216050221/http://toastytech...

It was obvious that this happyness index ploy was upper management's passive-aggressive way of rubbing our noses in the fact that they refused to acknowledge or do anything about what we had already made concretely crystal clear to them quite directly and verbally, without playing silly abstract numeric scoring games.

And it goes without saying that they didn't change what they were doing or try to make us happier after we reported our low numeric happiness scores, which were really just their way of figuring out who to fire first.
Maybe that is why people love ruby so much.
You can force something to git quite easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
That's true, they're not concious.

But they're not properly contained either.
What's the actual problem that including salaries tries to solve? IMO if used strictly, it could only limit the talent pool (consider if someone more skilled than expected applies, but won't accept at or below the stated upper salary bound; the company won't be able to pivot and hire them).

Including salary could let applicants avoid underpaying companies before they embark on a lengthy application process, which is beneficial, but don't companies already have strong incentives not to exploit people in this way since they'll only leave shortly afterward and those onboarding costs would be false economy.
What a terrible take. You're the kind of NIMBY who creates the problems then blames them on new residents. How about you listen to their problems and solve some of them instead of blaming them for problems they did not create.
> I was really hoping this was "automatically generate Terraform FROM AWS" to import existing resources.

You might be interested in Terraformer.
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
> psychology of inflation is different than the past... It used to be that inflation fueled spending because people figured they should buy it now because it will cost more later... Today people see a Big Mac meal costs $9.99 at McDonalds and think “I can’t afford that!”

Apparently homo economicus has an interesting digestive system. Does the Econ dept have an Anatomy book explaining how folks can eat 2x this year and then not eat next year?
Surprisingly cheap, too. $15 for a one pound bag, according to the first listing I found.

Also, from the bullet-pointed list of features:

- Smells like Church
Yeah without TC this isn't really all that useful.
That depends on what the other things are. Most years I get half of my take home pay in December because of my bonus (some of that is my 401k maxing out in November), there have been a couple bad years where the bonus was less, but at least I was able to keep my job. Keeping my job is a factor as well, since I have a family to support, if I'm laid off (like most companies do all the time) that means I'm scrambling to figure out how to get cash, while I can live off of the smaller paychecks I get.

That is me - what is the above worth to you? If you are risk adverse like me, then you like that plan. Others want the cash now but can accept the risk of losing their jobs. Some have a high risk tolerance and like getting their money in stocks - in the best case this is the most money, but in the worst case it is the least. There is no right answer.

In the end you need a certain amount of money to live. That is different from your actual value.
As someone who prefers to search in private tabs, I was wondering why do I need to create an account, until I saw the pricing. It's an interesting conundrum, either you search anonymously with bloat and ads, or have your activity pinned to your account maybe with ads, or guaranteed without ads for $10/month.

As much as it bothers me, I'd prefer to work around the first option.
This nails it, and is something that took me some time to identify in myself. I was first in my family to finish college (and first to consider grad school, let alone go), my grandparents were refugees, and for most of my life my family was lower middle class. I went to school on scholarships and lots of loans, and that weight (plus the financial stresses we went through when I was growing up) led me to focus a lot on grades and 'playing the game' to the detriment of fully learning the material, exploring the material when my curiosity pushed me, and taking risks.

As I've understood that part of myself, I've had to regularly and actively push myself out of my comfort zones (studied neuroscience in grad school, then became a software engineer and have worked at startups for the majority of my career, founded a couple of tiny ones that went nowhere with some friends too) and still need to as a mid-30s adult today. It's much easier now with a steady income, but seeing my friends who had more stable homes take risks that I'd never be able to stomach or recover from really imprinted how important financial stability is to a child growing up.

Hopefully despite all this, I can raise my own kid in a stable environment that allows them to learn and grow without worrying about their life being completely ruined if they don't make perfect grades or don't follow obvious well-trod paths in life.
Yea, I linked to the website instead of amazon, but really just read the book. Don't read the website.
Even so, the bright side is that the applicant’s expectation of the low end has been set.

Without this broad range, someone new to the industry, like a college grad, has no idea what the low range is. This at least prevents those people from getting lowballed and finding out later.

I’ve seen smart techies who are bad or oblivious to money subjects get way under paid, only to learn later, huge discrepancies in pay with the same or lower grade position due to other factors like gender, race, etc.
I believe South Korea and Singapore still criminalise drug use even when out of the country. Make sure to flush it out of your system before returning home.
Are onions considered vegan in India ? Is it a caste-based dietary restriction?
What exactly do you mean? The usual detection methods are essentially unpatchable while using this technique.
I feel surprised that Miami or Fort Lauderdale or just South Florida in general didn't rate in any category. It's even more baffling to see Tampa, of all cities, used for the "Warmer Climes" category. I can't really overcome the gut feeling this data is cherry-picked.
That was my immediate reaction as well. This doesn't make regular expressions more approachable nor does it appear to bring anything new to the table.

> so maybe I'm just biased

I read 'transpiled' and immediately dismissed it. I think I have a bigger problem lol ;)
This is why I stopped putting personal info in my resume. I once had a particularly aggressive recruiter try and recruit me for a contracting position (I only consider full time roles), and when I repeatedly declined his offer, he actually found my resume somewhere and just called my phone. Needless to say it was incredibly annoying and ever since then I've kept all contact info out of my resume.
>I'm being a bit crass, but I don't have the time to dig up and cite their policy proposals from the federal election a few years ago which looked like a fantasy wishlist that ignores things like "costs".

Just an FYI to other HN users: this is just lies. Whether ignorance or malice, it's lies. The above position isn't an unusual one in the Canadian right wing, though; I bet the above poster voted for Kodos. Regarding the 2021 election:

>In the IFSD report released Sunday, the NDP platform was rated high by Mr. Page’s institute for realistic fiscal assumptions and passed on fiscal responsibility, but got a failing grade on transparency. [0]

And as for Kodos' team:

>Mr. Page’s team gave the Conservative costed platform a passing grade overall, but a score of “fail” under the category of responsible fiscal management. [0]

The NDP are often maligned this way, yet cursory examination of federal (and even most provincial!) political history shows that, er, the Conservatives are the ones who are bad with money. [1] It's just that Postmedia, our media monopoly, is mostly owned by the American-right-wing-aligned Chatham Asset Management, and thus backs the Cons more often than not.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ndp-is-the-...

[1] https://rabble.ca/economy/ndp-far-have-most-fiscally-respons...
Yes, it would discourage some candidates from applying if they see the average within that range is lower than the average they could get anywhere else. Dirty tricks are also a red flag for candidates.

However, while that range is an exaggeration, the truth is that salary ranges for positions are actually much wider than candidates may expect. There's a misconception that open positions have a single "correct" salary and that the negotiation process is all about getting the company to reveal that maximum number. It's not true, though. Ranges exist because even within a certain title, candidates have a wide range of skills and locations (especially when hiring remote/international) really do matter, whether or not you think they should.

More broadly, the salary range isn't even necessarily the only range they'd be willing to pay you. It's actually not uncommon to interview someone and realize that their career level is either above or below the position they're interviewing for. In that case, you "decline" the candidate for the position/title/pay range they applied for but continue the interview for a different position.

For example, if someone applies for SW ENG II but their compensation ask is in the range of SW ENG III (and their talents match) then you just bump them up. Conversely, if someone applies for SW ENG II but they're interviewing below the level of your SW ENG II candidates, you offer to continue the interview at the lower SW ENG I title/salary if they're willing.

So the ranges are still just a starting point. There is no magic trick to force a company to reveal the maximum number they'd pay you specifically. It's still a negotiation, but at least you can order job postings somewhat.

I actually think the bigger problem we're going to see is companies bait-and-switching candidates by putting a huge upper range number in the job posting but then offering them the bottom end of range while claiming that they can work their way up the range later. A lot of eager candidates are going to be pulled into companies who claim to have high upper limits, but who tell them they need to start at the bottom of the range and move up.
I don't know man, all the data I see shows the system costs half as much per capita and has similar or better outcomes - and that wait times exist in both countries. So given outcomes are the same or better, the justice level must therefore be roughly the same for half the cost.

You pull out tired narratives like 'care quotas' as though they only exist in one system but not the other. You pull out tired narratives like 'wait times' as though they exist in one system but not the other. I linked you an interview that explains what the industry has been doing to further this narrative, and you didn't read it because again, it doesn't align with your preconceived notions.

What you're telling me is that you don't want to engage on data because the reality on the ground doesn't align with your values and you've been fed a crock.
If the author is here, please don't.
AV Linux: an operating system for multimedia content creators
This is the output of an app/templating system, i.e. not a single HTML page. Have you ever read the HTML of any dynamically generated page? It's unreadable.
^ This person gets it!

We'd already explained our complaints quite extensively in words. Asking for a number was an insult, and a way of brushing off all the words we'd already communicated. Especially as a substitute for acknowledging or doing anything about the words we'd already communicated.
You’re basically a god now
With the exception of CMake evolution (now days a defacto standard), package managers (as Conan or vcpkg) or the support for new C++ standards in major compilers (clang, gcc, Visual) ;)
What kind of algorithm is that anyway? return 1; ?
It's nonsense ... there's a submission of a "take down" post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686737

It's all getting very meta, has been submitted and discussed several times, it's interesting, but it's not what this article claims.
Details are very light at this point. There was some noise about capcom moving heads around because they wanted to make sure it felt like it was doing things differently but who knows. There's a barebones teaser trailer that doesn't show anything unfamiliar at this point. I feel like they've been on a roll since revelations 2 / RE7 so I'm optimistic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Ic2z3_xp0
If you are doing components in react instead of using classes how does this solve the problem of coming up with class names? You still have to come up with the class name you just apply it to your react component instead of in css.
I've certainly advocated that everyone should boot their OS on an SSD for years now, but I worry that once it becomes a requirement, Microsoft will stop bothering to optimize their startup process at all.

Besides, what about cheap laptops/netbooks/HTPCs that use flash memory? Do they fall under this requirement? They're not spinning disk, but they're not SSD's either.
Haven't used it in a decade or more but just checked and what a user friendly licensing term:

- free for non comm

- subscription by month / year

- perpetual fixed version if you want

- maintenance subscription for perpetual if you want

- upgrade path from each to other

The users here have quite the options. I wonder what made Planetside choose this kind of licensing model.
As a Missourian, the percentage-pageview-change data looks odd, highlighting two cities, Joplin and St. Joseph.

Both cities are small, between 50,000 and 75,000 population (2020 census), and are about an hour's drive away from the nearest larger city (Joplin is near Springfield, St. Joseph is near Kansas City, and it would take 3 hours to drive from Kansas City to Springfield.)

In terms of Midwest tech hubs,the ones nearest to me are Kansas City, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska (3.5 hour drive from Kansas City).

If I were to guess, I would say you could cause this apparent shift in traffic simply by shifting a few corporate VPN exit points from several large companies in the region from St. Joseph, Missouri to Joplin, Missouri.
What is the "plain text" email world like right now? We (I) get so much HTML email, massive amounts of top posting, "quote the entire thread", etc. etc., just curious what the plain text email experience is like in this day and age?
Those pesky people living their own lives and spending their own money moving to where they want to, driving up costs by existing

If only they did with their lives exactly as I told them to
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device). The US Army has done some wild things with nuclear technology.
Legislators have to think about so many issues that no one science specialty could prepare them. What does it matter if some legislator has a PhD from Podunk University and wrote their dissertation on the mating habits of red-billed geese? If intelligence is the criterion let's just say that. AOC was a waitress before she was a representative, if we're talking about diverse backgrounds.
> 90% of downtown is boarded up, city is deserted, massive homelessness crisis.

Patently untrue. Portland is booming.
Of course, they already know what they will get, it is a fixed price. Anything they don't pay whoever they hire is money they get to keep. (they can't hire a junior engineer to a senior position - if the contract allowed that they would though). I've seen cases where someone doesn't know their value and thus accepts a very low offer.
It's probably directionally accurate
Take a look at how many things uBlock blocks when you open Slack on your browser.
I read the bible in a year every day. I think as I get older I find it more fascinating. There is not much new under the sun as the book says, regarding human affairs.
This is such a misguided train of logic that I can't quite figure out where it's wrong. Like those maths puzzles that prove 1=0.
> It's basically the point of cascading style sheets

The "cascading" part is what makes it incredibly complicated. Keeping the "cascade" in sync with the actual markup is not a trivial task in teams with many people of different skills levels.

Not everyone is a top 1% dev, so we need easier and safer tools so that everyone can work and maintain a codebase.

> Sticking to proper class names and elements makes reskinning a breeze.

This is more easily said than done. It's like saying "Just don't write bugs". Every single project I find that has been built with BEM and similar patches after a couple years are just a mess and their CSS becomes "append only", as there's no guarantee that removing something won't break in unexpected ways.
One sad thing about SIP that despite being pretty common here in Czechia, it is only used as a last hop to PSTN instead of as an independent federated network.

It makes economic sense - it is hard to monetize running SIP servers for independent network (and one cannot use ads like with e-mail as SIP clients are not web apps), but you can monetize selling access to PSTN.

Today, with WebRTC, one can build web client for SIP, but WebRTC VoIP services are still just silos.
All US states have citizenship. It cannot be denied to any US citizen. Basically, it determines which state you get to vote in and what state you primarily owe income taxes on. In California it's automatic if you are a US citizen who primarily lives there for 3 months with no clear indicator you plan to move on. The process is similar, but the amount of time is variable, between the states.

It can get tricky and people (or states) can argue/sue about it because it can make a big difference in taxes. Elon became a citizen of Texas before he made all the money that resulted in his 11 billion dollar federal tax bill last year and in doing so probably saved himself 5 to 7 billion dollars that otherwise would have gone to California.
Regenerative braking would improve a lot with not just the heat issue, but also air quality. Commuters on the London Underground get a characteristic grey/black snot from the brake dust they inhale. If you stare into the tunnel after a train left you can literally see a haze of brake dust in the air.
Ask HN: Where do you post your writing?
I've started writing a blog post and was wondering how do the folks on HN host their blogs these days?

a) own website
b) write on something like medium
c) use in built article feature on LinkedIn
As TFA notes the Parade magazine formulation is only "loosely based" on the actual show Lets Make a Deal" hosted by Monty Hall. The real Lets Make a Deal* is a bit more complicated[1], and AFAICT there is no easy analysis or solution for an optimal strategy.

The game described in Parade magazine is different from the TV show game, and the assumptions (about the host's behavior) are incomplete/ambiguous enough that switching is not necesarrily the optimal strategy. This, like almost everything else you can think about the Monty Hall Problem, is also described in TFA[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Make_a_Deal#Format
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...
You might be forgetting them, it's literally just a line with numbers marked on it. I learned them in primary school in the 90s, further classes never used them but they've always been useful tools for visualizing relationships between numbers.
Meta (Facebook) halts development of Apple Watch rival with two cameras
The number of transistors does not affect the privacy. It's how they are used. Try free software, which respects users. Works for me (by increasing the cost to spy, which is enough for the goal I stated).

>What there is is keeping a low profile and avoiding emphasis on what you don't want amplified and repeated. Working the system.

How is this helping anyone? If you have no privacy, your own emphasis doesn't matter.
> No, credit card fees have not improved in 30 years,

A quick web search tells me that the law which capped credit card fees at 0.3% is from 2015. That's less than 10 years ago.
>Anyone have opinions on how long this inflation spike will last, or what the peak will be?

Sorry, Mr. Biden. You'll have to look elsewhere for economics advice.
https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/ <-- Sounds like it depends on how complicated you want things to get within those containers; Eevee here mentions nesting three levels of tables, which... Ew.

Also, not being able to rearrange blocks for different size displays is kind of a non-starter relative to the mobile internet, which I'd guess was more important than frameworks.

In my own hobbyist stuff, though, there's just something a little gross about putting layout in the HTML -- I want HTML to represent semantic structure, in ways I'd be okay with Lynx displaying, and I want CSS to do all the lunatic nonsense to make me happy with how it looks on a modern browser. I wonder how much it's this aesthetic principle of separation that motivates others as well.