skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things - I don't think it's as easy as you think it is. If you're good at it, it can feel comparatively easy, because when you're good at it and you enjoy it - it's fun. It's flow. You get lost in it and don't realize that you were just working flat out for 12 hours. But there are lots of things that are flow that are not easy.

I've been coding since I was 12, I have flow days where it's just an absolute pleasure. But on a bad day where I never hit flow, it's brutal. It's so hard to force myself to focus. And often when I come back the next day, the code I wrote is absolute shit and I spent a good chunk of the next day just debugging it.

So yeah, echoing those who say not easy.

The other piece of it, is that I actually think a lot of software engineers are massively underpaid. I was at my last job for 7 years. My total compensation, including benefits, options and what have you, was probably less than $1 million (over 7 years mind you). But I can draw a direct line between work I did and the enablement of millions of dollars of ARR. The company probably got anywhere from a 5x or a 10x return from their investment in me. I was paid a little under market, but not so far under market that I'm that different from the norm. I worked on some particularly high impact features in terms of return, so that line is particularly clear for me and not all of my peers there could say the same -- but a lot of them could, and even for the ones where it was less obvious it's still true. As software engineers at a software company, our work is ultimately essentially. The companies don't exist with out us.

As a class, given that, we're still underpaid ;)
I don't trust Apple either
Ok, then I guess we will have to live with that not existing. Copyright is a travesty.

> If copyright ceased to exist, I and nearly every other producer that I know, would find another line of work.

I guess that means you should start looking :)
I wonder if people could accept their personal/private data is a good/service if the government established it in law. So far this has been dealt with as an ethical/moral thing - thinking of ethics review boards in research. Though the low-lying “legal fruit” is probably just EULA regulation and enforcement.

“My data, my attention, my choice!”?
I'm a mechanical engineer and I can give a similar perspective. I'm now in software engineering and I'm doing well. My other classmates who moved into consulting or finance are doing even better. Those who stayed in engineering have struggled. I live in a developing country: too poor to manufacture anything high-tech, too rich with strong labour laws to manufacture anything low-tech. My friends who stayed in engineering are "installation engineers" or "sales engineers" or "stand-by engineers" since the products they use/sell/watch over are designed elsewhere. Those who are in design firms have suffered layoffs and company bankruptcies.

My friends in engineering are passionate about what they do which is why they stick with it. I like the intellectual challenge I get from software engineering and the people I work with. I'm glad I get paid well for it too. I don't think I would get the same level of stimulation in an "engineering" firm here and certainly not the same salary.
Number 1 for disposable income sounds off. Are daycare, tuitions, healthcare, public transport, rent/mortgages etc. factored in?
Thanks for the work you do/did on Hugo! All the best for your journey at Two Sigma! \o/
Explained in data: three years later, what happened to Hong Kong’s protesters?
Pretty hard to find friends on discord, join a server that's too popular and it's like a twitch stream. Join one too small and no one talks or quickly runs out of topics.

The best ones might be activity centred discord channels, like translating mangas. But, at that point, discord isn't the friend catcher anyway.
Everything in that except the unspoken end point where I end up with money sounds awful
Plus the chinese government has zero interest in 99% of westerners. Your local national government are far more likely to misuse that data...
Questmate and Slack Integration
I have a medical helicopter flying over my house roughly every second day and that's more than enough. If all the cars marked as "organ transport" that I see around here went by helicopter instead I wouldn't be able to hear my GF talking at home... And of course - the cost and emissions, and the inability to land at small fields...

I don't see how a big, bulky, human-piloted helicopter could be in any way better than a specialized, lightweight unmanned vehicle.
In general, I like to have at least two implementations to make sure multiple implementations are possible.

If the rendering engine bit-rots, goes the way of the original Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc., you don't want the internet to break.
don't use American products and it won't be an issue!
A lot of the UK is actually pretty empty. You can often go a couple miles of the main road and you barely see anyone for hours. Obviously that tranquillity is something that should be protected. But I don't think a few drones will change that. The big problem is that people are stuck in the busy areas and don't have good access to the empty bits.
You should be able to convert those to something WordPerfect will eat using tools such as Pandoc.

Pandoc will generate RTF, which WordPerfect can read.

https://pandoc.org/
Care to share a link to your blog?
> More difficult to make friends…

For me, it’s intolerance. I have a low threshold for bullshit, the (intentionally?) inarticulate, and stubbornness in conversation.

I’ve kept some friends. We’ve physically separated, but we stay in touch and meet in person. Making new ones is indeed challenging.
I don't think its about data at all, I think it's that they're scared China has control of a system they can feed whatever narrative they want on an individual level and whole parts of society in the west are hopelessly addicted to it.

From the data listed, it's a lot but personally with the current state of mobile os computing none of this seems all that out of the ordinary, it's just what is the sad state of those platforms. This is why I think the data is being used as an excuse.
>Expert machinists using fancy equipment in a factory don’t really have the same ability to just go to a competitor, so they can’t negotiate a raise.

Machinists own their own tools, in general... and I knew a CNC machinist who quit, went somewhere else, and came back to the shop I was working in over the course of a few months... they aren't easy to replace, even in a job shop. The equipment is a sunk cost, and if you don't have someone who knows how to use it, you're wasting money while it's idle.
ProPublica article about shipping containers
> There's already barely anywhere you can go outside without any noise pollution

Found the Londoner haha. 2 minutes from me is a walk where I can do an easy 6 miles without seeing or hearing anything but nature (maybe a few dog walkers). Even at that 6 mile mark it's just a lil village then more nature.

Come up north if you're starving for silence! A lot of villages are connected by old railway lines (rails removed), they make for great peaceful walks.

In any case I don't disagree with you. I do hope there's no stream of drones one day buzzing along, I might have to get into slingshottery.
The way I had understood it was that regular Reggiano was aged 2 years, Grana Padano 3, and Stravecchio 4. It appears I have been mistaken.

Checking, it says 18 months...
Niche activities or are always the best friend catchers. As it automatically filters out anyone not interested.

Anyone who does chat would immediately have a common interest.

Because it's niche, there tends to be original or unique ideas, making connection easier.

That being said, you can't hide your identity and sing it loud and proud to any and everyone. My blog is anonymous so there's no friend catcher effect.
Hi, I clicked on your recent comments (they are public, btw) and saw that you worry about low human interaction and also are interested into killing hornets as well.

I couldn't help but pattern-match to this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUlxth701GM

I am not that into killing hornets right now, but I will be moving to the countryside soon. I might hit you up later this month to talk about killing them, if that's alright.
The original review can be read here https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/w2lvgp/zuru_gla...
Funnily enough, there are quite a few Australian (and a few Kiwi) companies in the telematics space these days. Not sure how many of them are designing hardware from scratch though, versus off the shelf devices with custom firmware.
That's not a paradox. The actual confusing thing is that people believe automation will make them jobless, despite economists not believing this happens, and "rich people fire everyone and replace them with computers" being the plot of Atlas Shrugged rather than a real life scenario.

Jobs come from comparative advantage and demand; demand is infinite and it's not possible for a worker to not have comparative advantage at something, even if it's niche.
Do enlighten us
Be careful how you pay the bills
Actually the technical aspect is the implementation details. If this is a social "problem", then the problem is Glassdoor's existence in the first place.

Since it exists (whether such a service itself existing is a problem or not is out of the scope here) technical implementation is just a way of making the service work as intended (e.g. Providing anonymity to the users).
The government is requiring federally funded hospitals to set up review committees to monitor life-and-death decisions about babies who need immediate medical care. Also, notices are to be posted warning that it is unlawful to discriminate against newborns by withholding ordinary treatment because they are handicapped.

I suppose some did argue that letting infants die from lack of medical care was not technically killing them. Koop called it infanticide. In the 1970s-80s Koop crusaded against attempts to classify newborns as fetus ex-utero that could be legally terminated at will.
(Speaking about EU here...)

E-bikes has a maximum speed is 25 km/h, and from the few studies done on the subject there doesn't seem to be any increase risk from e-bikes compared to regular bikes. One significant data point is that the average speed of e-bikes has been observed to be similar as of regular bikes with two exceptions: up hill has a higher speed than regular bikes and long flat stretches has more even speed. Most accidents involving bikes and e-bikes alike occur at very slow or even still speed, with the rider falling off and landing badly.

There are two factors however that those studies have found. More disabled people use e-bikes, and when they end up in accidents they tend have worse injuries. E-bike users also tend to use their bikes more often and thus have more accidents with their bikes than people who ride their bikes less (looking at accidents per person rather than accident per mile).

Going based on accident rates, any license that e-bikes should have should also apply to bikes, e-scooters and likely also people who jog in cities. There is simply no data that support a law treating e-bikes as different from regular bikes, as long they are limited to 25 km/h. A motorcycle weighting 200kg+ and operating over 150+km/h is however a very different beast which the accident rates also demonstrate, which is why they need a proper license to operate safely among other human being.
Trying to legislate other countries? You are aware that sword cuts both ways, right?
This comment seems in bad faith. I think it’s pretty clear this conversation wasn’t about killing civilians so the comment about “whatever necessary” probably wasn’t intended to include violations of the Geneva convention. Just saying.
It was an overcomplicated design-by-committee mess.

The only cases where XML tech has survived is where it got in early and inertia has kept it there and because it was "good enough".

I genuinely dont know of anybody building new technology on a foundation of XML. There's always something simpler, with a lower bug surface that will handle the job better - even in its originally intended domain of document markup.
ANE and SEP aren't the CPU, they're the SoC ;)
>>Things like automation, while highly efficient, result in most of the gains going to capital owners.

That is not true. When you exclude housing, capital's share of national income has slightly decreased over the last century (see Figure 3):

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r...

Non-housing capital grows primarily through greater automation.
Meal kits for low income groups. Buy ingredients directly from producers. Sell the kits directly to local consumers if you can reach them. Sell indirectly via regional resellers that could be registered online and place their orders via a web channel as simple as a Google form. About the meals, don't worry about anything fashionable or attractive to middle class consumers like "low carb", "organic" or the like. Make something hunger oriented. A meal that could satisfy an empty stomach as a priority.
Isn't the entire point of glassdoor that people use their work email to prove they actually work for the company?
The original poster said:

> I do not believe in "renting" games; if I purchase something, it's mine

He does not believe in renting games, so I'm trying to find out of he rents movies or series. If yes, why the different approach?

Willfully obtuse... Oh please, some of you should try reading what I write and take the context into account instead.
What if a drone crashes into the sea and loses all your mail, and say it was important?
Ask HN: What's something you'd love to do in Airtable, but is not easy to do?
https://htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/curriculum-Z-H-1.html#node_...
I have a BS EE, my day job now is lower level software/firmware - almost entirely with Linux these days but have done a fair share of bare metal, too. My favorite course in university was my 2nd year circuits course, the professor who taught it had a research grant to study how to better teach electrical engineering to undergrads, and it showed. I vividly remember demonstrations and labs we did in that class even 20 years later.

I imagine part of the problem is there's just fewer EEs than there are CS grads, so the EEs who end up teaching might be the best at that in their field but since the field of CS grads is so much larger you generally get better teachers in CS. I feel there's also been a huge push to make CS approachable over the past 30 years and it shows, it's easy to find great teachers both online and in universities for CS. It's much harder to find good teachers for EE.

Knowing EE or CS does not make a good teacher. Being a good teacher is significantly more than simply knowing the material.
If you watch the radar you notice patterns with helicopters over London - there are vary distinct routes in the sky that they follow. Along the thames, and along the M3 / M40.

So seems an obvious extension of this sort of thing really.

https://www.caa.co.uk/media/wppncpam/london-heli-route-chart...
Looks awesome, quite fitting to my text labeling needs actually. Might try it out at some point for my next prototype
Yeah, those LCD panels aren't actually good enough to be TVs. A lot of them were 60hz as well, or at best 120hz with HDMI 2.0 which didn't support VRR so your playback device probably wouldn't send them 24fps.
Purely in theory:

Eligible US Voters can elect a new US Government at various branches and change what US companies do with data through regulations/legislation.

Even that theoretical route is not possible when it comes to a foreign company. Therefore the FCC guy (who is theoretically beholden to US citizens, or wanting to be perceived that way, or wanting to do so for his buddies at Western tech companies) is making the recommendation.
Listen to Jordan Peterson - especially Maps of Meaning lectures and/or book.
> Are there mitigations they could provide that I’m missing?

Apple could start by stopping their constant tracking and uploading of MAC addresses around Apple devices.

That's right, even if your device has no telemetry whatsoever but has active WiFi / Bluetooth network scanning, Apple is still tracking you if someone close to you has an Apple device.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

> We investigate what data iOS on an iPhone shares
with Apple and what data Google Android on a Pixel phone
shares with Google. We find that even when minimally configured
and the handset is idle both iOS and Google Android share
data with Apple/Google on average every 4.5 mins. The phone
IMEI, hardware serial number, SIM serial number and IMSI,
handset phone number etc are shared with Apple and Google.
Both iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the
user explicitly opting out of this. When a SIM is inserted both
iOS and Google Android send details to Apple/Google. iOS sends
the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and
the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location.
Users have no opt out from this and currently there are few, if
any, realistic options for preventing this data sharing.
I'm using Hugo hosted on Netlify. 5Kb homepage including two SVG images at 1.2Kb each. Very happy with my stack!
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

We live in dangerous times, with multiple situations that can devolve into all-out wars very VERY quickly, and as Ukraine has shown it is extremely wise to prepare:

- obviously, everyone with a border to Russia has to fear invading orcs. Moldavia and the Baltic nations are at particular threat, given the speeches by Russian officials and think-tank representatives that suggest Russia wants to build back its Russian Empire glory days. Additionally, everyone is at threat from Russian cyber actors and Russian-backed separatist and far-right organizations.

- China has not only the Taiwan question, but also ongoing border skirmishes with India and resource-grabbing operations in the entire Pacific - hell they have been caught illegally fishing in waters as far away as Africa [1]. The risk of Chinese cyber attacks is just as high as Russia, although China seems to focus more on industrial espionage for now.

- The entire situation around Israel and Iran is highly volatile. Israel routinely strikes against targets both in Iran and Syria, and at least for the latter Putin has pretty much clarified that they won't keep looking away for much longer. And everyone in the region is worried about Iran, to the tune that it's likely that the idea of a "middle Eastern NATO" is already reality in secret.

- Almost all of Africa is under threat from internal conflict, both ongoing and future. Dictatorships of various kinds, border fights, civil wars, religious wars - name your idea of conflict cause and you will find it in Africa somewhere. Add to that economic insecurity and pressure from the effects of climate change, and the entire continent is an explosion just waiting to happen. The US doesn't have to take care much, but Europe will have to deal with a lot of refugees sooner or later (and to make it worse, we still haven't decided on how to deal with refugees in a way that doesn't threaten to destabilize our interior politics and complies with the ideals laid down in various international treaties).

- Half of South America is a similar bomb waiting to explode. Failed states (Venezuela), narco states (Mexico), states collapsing to gang warfare (Haiti), and the open possibility that it might need world-wide military intervention to stop Brazil from burning down the Amazon rainforest.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/gambia-chinas-trawler-fischen...
In the US, you are expected to uphold the line that brings you donors. That makes leftist parties non-viable. That’s not such a big difference from the Chinese situation as you’d think, except in direction.
It’s not clear considering that the US has been engaging in various military conflicts of dubious legitimacy to keep its status for many years.
What are your thoughts on the potential for this technology to unlock absolutely untold devastation? As with the fission and fusion atomic reactions, the weaponization of this technology could potentially threaten all life on earth. An ICBM-delivered payload of a gyroscopically stabilized flywheel spun up to arbitrary (relativistic?) velocities would have literally no ceiling on potential yield with infinite free energy. Might Iran and North Korea already be working on such a doomsday weapon now?
Roads in the USA are much easier to ride motorbikes on than in Europe.

And riders ride their bikes as if they were cars. Lane splitting is not legal in many places. You can’t park as easily etc and there was far less commuting in the cities I lived in.
Europe city motorcycling is more akin to cycling, a lot more assertive, more utility than leisure. Europe motorcycling in general needs great bikes and riders, which they have. Paris is great fun, but like anywhere one needs to be like a local. London is much worse. The worst anywhere is São Paulo, Brazil.

Ebikes and escooter with too much speed/power are generally regulated as motor scooters or motorbikes in many places. But is it policed?
The Euro approach to limit ebike power and speed seems to work well. Bosch kit is amazing.
but this premise has an analogue - by out-breeding the "undesirables", you can obtain "democratic" power over another group. It is the argument that is used to take children away from parents of various indigenous races and "diluting" their race, or as an argument against immigrants ("they will out-breed us and then out vote us, if we let them in!").

I don't buy that a sybil attack is a real threat, as long as duplication procedure is also available to others, not just a select few. But if such a procedure is only available to a select few, it implies that they already have power, and so such a sybil attack doesn't seem like it's worth it, but instead would just use that power directly!
> because people keep copying it, slathering it in ads and rehosting it.

Never occurred to me that was a possibility, but wouldn't you know, my last two posts seem to have copies on other people's blog
“The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.”
After reading Matt Levine think it's likely that 1) Twitter gets fast trial, and 2) Musk will have to cough the money, or pay really heavy settlement to walk away ($10+ billion at least).

some back of the napkin estimates:

$43 billion - the deal

$29 billion - the current valuation.

$15 billion - the estimated valuation without any Musk involvement based on the change of valuation in other similar companies, Snap, Meta, ...

The current valuation ($29) can be seen as expected value. If you consider the outcome as a binary choice, market sees 50% change the court orders Must to pay full $43.
If laws apply equally even to foreigners, then what's the purpose of the concept of citizenship?

All people I know will treat their childred differently than random children on the playground, I'd imagine some analogy to this situation is not entirely lost on anyone.
Feel you man/woman
It is a race against time, with a life at risk, in adverse traffic.

Watch an actual organ being transported through London [1], back in the mid-1980s. Situation is worse today, if you talk to EMR drivers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTN5X4JZFjU
No, but IMO the cognitive load for the second one is a lot lower; it says what it does, not how it does it. It's like using `for i := i; i < len(slice); i++` vs `for i in range(slice)` or other languages' versions thereof; it reads in what you want it to do instead of how it should do it.

It's less about length of code and more about cognitive load; this is why functional programming constructs are frowned upon in Go code, because the cognitive load per line of code is much higher.

Also `if m.contains(key) { }` is even more obvious IMO.
This is quite literally, hacker news.
Helicopter pads are not available everywhere.