skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's saying that growth (GDP) is an absolute measure that is only a sum without any costs. As one economist I can't recall put it "the hero of GDP is a cancer patient going through a costly divorce". GDP measures economic activity, with no consideration of the benefit obtained from that activity.

The interview was pretty bad, I agree. It's not clear what a "steady state economy" would look like, or what measures are held steady.
I remember wasting a huge amount of time on this debate over a decade ago. Frankly, I think the issue is that HATEOAS is not useful enough. It's a really nice idea, but in practice nobody actually wants to write an API client that way. So they don't. So API creators don't optimize for it. I consider all of RPC, GraphQL, and bastardized-REST systems to be less elegant but more pragmatic than "true REST". I can still palpably feel how refreshing it was when I finally went to work somewhere that didn't bother with this whole debate and just focused on building good RPC interfaces. More people should embrace that.
My point is that those things are a red herring. The people peddling this shit peddle a narrative of increased efficiency, better life, and so on, focusing us on these little incremental improvements, while they pillage other parts of the world to bring you these things.

And you very clearly overestimate the need for a microwave. A gas oven, range, or BBQ produces considerably better results for many things for only a 2x or 3x investment of time and effort. I have several friends that have opted not to own a microwave.

Hell, large parts of the world don't have a microwave and they're fine. There's a good chance they are even building our microwaves for us. You know, I would rather we focus our efforts on lifting them up so that they can have their own microwaves and other nice things before I stand in line to buy yet another microwave, because it was made so poorly by microwave makers that cheap out on microwave building.
Is there a citation for that assertion? It's possible elephants induce apoptosis for aberrant non-cancerous cells, for instance, earlier.

super interesting
>but not a good tool for anything vaguely professional

Why? Discord servers can definitely be serious.
Thanks for the input! It is indeed a bit annoying I have to do that. Initially my code had what you suggested, but it caused a lot of "type casting" (in lack of a better Perl term) errors:

Argument " " isn't numeric in addition (+) at lib/SGBankUtils/DBS.pm line 25, <$data> line 111.

Do you know of a way of supressing / avoid this error? I want to keep warnings and strict on.
Maybe this legal retaliation attempt speaks more than the reviews themselves...
> I've read through most comments, and it's what you would expect from a group of largely white, upper class, men

I'll hazard some unsolicited advice: besides being boring and morally reprehensible, tropes only diminish your credibility.

> I've read through most comments, and it's what you would expect from a group of largely white, upper class, men - a philosophical debate that barely even touches on the real experiences of women and minorities who will be the ones whose lives are most affected as a result of the new laws being passed.

There has been virtually no appetite to discuss the women who have had negative abortion experiences over the last 50 years (or at least not in my lifetime) under Roe v. Wade whether minority or otherwise. Cherry-picking experiences isn't a good formulation for constructive public debate.

> No matter when a life begins, the posters here on HN feel they will largely be unaffected, so the debate remains in the clouds.

On the contrary, it's such a serious topic that it deserves a dispassioned treatment. This is genuinely the first time I've seen an abortion debate that doesn't immediately devolve into "you want to murder babies" and "you want to oppress women". It's good to challenge our emotions with reason.

> The post-Roe era will be blanket and extreme abortion bans wherever the GOP has full control. They are telegraphing this and many posters here are seemingly willfully blind to what they have in store. So far they have said they desire to pass the most extreme bans possible regarding abortion at a national level, and when they are done with that they are coming after contraception, gay marriage, and even sexual acts they find distasteful. I don't know why anyone here is dismissing the possibility as far-fetched.

It's pretty hard to believe Republicans in general are coming for things like gay marriage when 55% of Republicans approve of it per a 2022 Gallup poll (I would imagine conservatives approve of contraception even more). I think perhaps the left-wing media may be exaggerating right now, as partisan media are want to do.

I think it's a good idea to establish legislative protections for these things, particularly by building a broad, bipartisan coalition (maybe take lessons from the gay rights movement, considering its remarkable success in reversing even Republican opinion). If Republicans want to pander to their extreme wings, then take their moderates (reverse the 2016-2022 trend).
Right I don't see anything about this model that precludes private ownership of tools. It just makes it much less necessary.
I addressed this in a comment adjacent to yours and I think it's a good point, but I don't think it's sufficient to explain why most people don't accept a 1920 standard of living in exchange for doing less work. I'd like to see most of those regulations repealed, but I have a hard time believing the result would be a bunch of full-time workers cutting back their hours to live more simply. What people would do, instead, is consume all the resulting productivity gains as quickly as they could.
An update to paid sharing
A plan is not supposed to be set in stone. If the assumptions change, or progress is not going according to plan, you re-evaluate the situation and change the plan accordingly. The plan might have been to go on vacation in Japan, but because of Covid lockdowns you changed the plan to instead go on vacation in your own country. It’s a different plan but it still achieves the objective: going on vacation.
I have this half-baked thought that fighting surveillance to get rid of it probably isn’t the answer. Like most technologies, it can be used for good and bad.

What probably needs to happen are laws and regulations for how that data can be used against you, particularly by organizations that have a monopoly on violence.

Sadly that would upend the way most institutions work with information, so I’m not optimistic it would actually work in practice.
https://archive.ph/uU5eR
> Probably because doing so is hard. You not only have to verify that a review is coming from an actual current or former employee, but then you have to ensure that the same employee cannot write multiple reviews. If you discard all links between a reviewer account and a review, how do you do that?

It doesn't seem hard to me.

1. when making a review, send a verification link to the email on file

2. after the email is verified, post the review, but delink the email from the actual review.

3. to prevent the same email from being used to spam reviews, add a coarse grained timestamp (eg. rounded to the nearest month, depending on how much activity the company gets) of when it was last used.

4. if you want users to be able to update reviews afterwards, display a secret key to them and keep a hashed version on file. The user must present the secret key if he wants to update his review
I’ve been too afraid to post this but you’ve inspired me.

I (a male) have always been super horny ever since I hit puberty. I woke up nearly every morning with an erection as long as I can remember. I’ve never had problems with erections with my wife.

I got the first Pfizer vaccine last year when it became available. The next time I was intimate with my wife, I lost my erection during sex - the first time it has ever happened in my life. “Normal” side effect they said.

Things got a little better so I was encouraged. I got the second vaccine as scheduled. The next two times we had sex I completely lost my erection during sex.

I’ve been searching to see if other men have had the same problem but either I am the only one, or everyone just sweeps it under the rug.

It’s been almost a year and I rarely have random erections. I thankfully don’t lose erections during sex, but I am no longer horny. I used to be the one to initiate sex through our marriage but now my wife usually does. My sex life has taken a huge hit since getting the vaccines. Of course I can’t blame the vaccines, but you will not be able to convince me that this is a coincidence.

The reason I am writing this is in case there are other men like me who think they are the only ones, because anyone who even thinks the vaccine could cause problems gets labeled an anti-vaxxer nut job. I was pro vaccine (I got my series right away) and still think the vaccine is important, but I think it’s a shame that no one is “allowed” to talk about side effects.

This is my anecdotal story.
DNS records of your VPN or corporate work station would be pretty easy. You can line then up with when the review was posted. Then investigate their workstation more "thoroughly".
As soon as you take 2 dependencies in any language, there's a chance you will not be able to upgrade both of them to latest versions because somewhere in the two dependency subgraphs there is a conflict. There's no magic to avoid this, though tooling can help find potentially working versions (at least by declaration). It's often the case that you don't encounter conflicts in Python or other languages, but I don't imagine that Go is immune.
I recall when there were still engineering magazines and the focus was what was going on in the US. Then, as China was able to dupe the useful idiot free traders, and all the manufacturing went there, there was less and less need for electrical engineers in the US.

Just before those magazines folded, it was more about trying to manage offshored manufacturing than doing any real engineering work. The more tenacious engineers were learning Mandarin to try to stretch their careers, but the writing was on the wall.

China graduates 7 times more engineers than the US now, and most of the people who would be suitable for an EE degree are going into finance or web dev.
Former born-again evangelical Christian here, stopped believing about 10 years ago. I haven't yet found anything like the communities within the churches I was deeply involved in. But I do think it's possible to find outside religion, and I'm getting closer every year.

I've been lucky to live for the last 10 years in a place* where it's easy to form lasting friendships with like-minded, earnest people. For me, I know I'm in the right place when I have friends with whom I can share my insecurities, and they can share theirs, and there's no judgment.

From here I think it's just a matter of prioritizing community whenever it's time to move next, whether it's seeking out groups of friends from our little diaspora or making new friends. That makes sense to do whether I have a partner or not.

(*never expected that Beijing would be so great in this way. I don't know if the expat scene in other major cities is similar; maybe it's just because the community is small here and the city attracts people who prefer not to coast through life)
This headline seems to properly summarize the article. There’s no surprises under it only more detail and nuance.
It's actually not that heretical. It's pretty well documented that most of the gains in productivity in manufacturing have been driven by the computer industry, while the rest has largely stagnated.
By what enumerated power does Congress acquire the power to legislate on abortion?
I’ve had the bad fortune of actually being in situations with these types of scenarios twice.

Personally, I’m pro-choice because I don’t think the law should make these decisions, as they are difficult, situational things that have nuance. I find aspects of abortion horrifying, but I respect that it’s none of my business.
I am a chemical engineer by education and I am also part of this problem. It did not take me very long at all to figure out where the actual money is and transition to full time software development.
Roy Fielding has no one to blame but himeself for creating such a catchy name that will definitely be reappropriated to refer to another thing.

Same goes for OOP. /s
But fails to deliver a critical detail of the news solely for purposes of holding it hostage in order to try to get money out of people.
+1 for suggesting personal side projects.

If you want creative freedom and fulfillment from some work, don't link it to a "salary".
Google Docs is the competition, not Pages.
Thank you for the feedback!

1. Spot on, I have fixed the README instructions :) It was written in a rush. Apologies.

2. You are right. I have removed the unused use statements. I had the switch statement imported as I wanted to try out the 'given ...' construct but it was easier just to use if-elsif.

3. Good point, removed.

4. Yes, absolutely. Thank you!

Having spent almost 15 years away from Perl in various other languages, I actually tthink Perl is quite elegant. You can do some pretty neat code in a very succinct way, as long as you keep your code structured and avoid too many clever things. The Perl stack definitely allows you to hammer a nail into your own foot, but it doesn't mean you have to. :)
> The parents of family A both work full time, earning $125k each, and they spend $20k/yr on childcare.
> The parents of family B each work part time, earn $110k per year each

family B is better off, at least financially, because they earn more after taking away child-care costs (and also somehow they have free labour from a grandparent). Family A earns $125k-$20k=$105k for full time work, where as family B earns $110k (for part time work).

The comparison isn't really apples to apples tbh.

> What's wrong with wanting GDP growth?

nothing is wrong - the problem with framing it this way is the underlying assumption of equity of distribution of the increased wealth.

GDP measures how much work is produced, not how much benefit the people obtain from said work, nor how much residual wealth remains after consumption.

It's _often_ the case that GDP growth is associated with increasing quality of life, but there's no such guarantee from just GDP growth. Quality of life improves from political and societal improvements, which GDP growth is a necessary, but insufficient condition.
I mean, they’re gonna have to spend a hell of a lot more on recruiting now that the Streisand effect has kicked in.
By "Republicans" of course I mean "Republicans in power who are writing and passing these laws". They largely affluent and largely male dominated. Insofar as women in power are passing these laws, those who will need an abortion will be unaffected by the laws they themselves pass, because they will be able to afford to travel to a jurisdiction where abortion is legal. I predict approximately 0 people who have passed these laws will abide by them if their life is on the line.
I believe what you want to be is a small member of a large species. Large dogs live much shorter lives than small dogs. Women tend to live longer than men (height or mass probably isn't the only factor here, but this fits the general pattern so one imagines it helps). Giants -- people well over six feet -- tend to live shorter lives than people of ordinary stature. My grandmother was about five feet with a straight spine. With a curved spine in her early hundreds she was probably less than 4'6", but she was still there. She had about two giant lifetimes. If you stacked her on top of herself you would have one giant (until her ever more flexible spine folded in two).
My friend is an EE that I went to school with. He's very bright and definitely sharper and harder working than me.
I went to school for Chemistry and switched to DevOps - which are the not the highest paid of SEs.
I make 1.5x what he does. I help run a package tracking dashboard. He ensures power systems for millions of people work flawlessly in all conditions. He's looking to quit the industry because its so hopeless.
Do you have proof or are you just throwing shit to see what sticks?
I was out walking with a friend in San Francisco, and ran into one of his old friends he hadn't seen in three years. This guy said he had been abducted by aliens a thousand times, since. I only realized later that meant every time he slept.

After you have been Probed, how can you assume the you they let go was the original?
Was ECE in undergrad - graduated in 2014. Everyone I knew went into software. There just weren't that many opportunities in HW if you didn't want to get a masters/+PHD.
Yeah. Definitely Streisand effected themselves. Wonder if they can sue their own legal counsel for causing themselves so much monetary loss (given that's the grounds they're using to de-anonymize the reviewers)?
a fatal double-bind for glassdoor’s prospects for continued existence imo.

competitors are surely celebrating this ruling. especially those who physically cannot put anonymous commenters at risk while somehow still turning a profit without being able to traffic in tracking data.
Pretty uncool to give employers ideas on how to force their IT staff to rat out employees who speak out.

Edit: yikes, people.
If anyone know where to find textbooks history used by each school (elementary, high, college), it can be paid books. IF non-English natives curious to see what US schools are using for students and even better, if non-US can also have access these books for self learning.

I googled, but can't find good resources, seems books on open stax etc places are not intuitive for self learner.
It would be hard to turn down a T-Rex burger.
GOOG is no longer known for high pay. Given the same level, even Meta has exceeded Google pay for a long time now. That's not to mention hedge funds like Two Sigma or Citadel.
I mean we tried making a new sport out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhfd9dIkXEk&t=57s

(gives you an idea of how bad the situation is too)
Five years is an eternity though. The major factor was more likely we didn't have the capacity to produce a large number of nuclear weapons to tip the balance
You can say ANYTHING if you add "in Minecraft" afterwards. Good call.
looks at my cat

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>Wouldn't they have to prove the allegations are false?

That's mostly a US thing. England and many former english colony countries have quite liberal (illiberal?) libel laws that puts the onus of the person making the claim to prove it's true.

>defamatory statement is presumed to be false, unless the defendant can prove its truth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
With CNC machines and/or 3D printers, you can make much nicer guns than Philip Luty could pull off.
IANAL, but I would think 14A’s right to life.
The big question for me is how quickly will the bot problem be "resolved" after it's apparent the deal is going through whether he likes it or not.
Apple’s getting sued for having a monopoly on the iPhone’s tap-to-pay
They would have to prove the statement is false in court and that they suffered harm due to it. Otherwise it's protected free speech.
It’s an interesting thought. I think in the datacenter today it makes more sense to evacuate and shutdown servers vs. tune down the devices.
A fully adopted protocol with whole new products on top of it will make the 20B back. It's a platform killer. Elon's basically building an internet Deathstar, and we can only hope he will use it for good.
Because no one knows what the hell the acronym means, except that it sounds good.

Everyone wants to be RESTful. RESTful is chill. It's resting - good programmers are lazy! But RESTful is resting while using an acronym, which is technical and sophisticated. To be RESTful is to be one of the smart lazy ones.

Now if you're one of the few who cares what your acronyms mean, you look it up and ... "representational state transfer". How do you transfer state without representing it? I guess everything that transfers state is RESTful. And everything is state, so everything that transfers is RESTful. So every API is RESTful! Great, I guess if we make an API we're one of those cool smart and lazy people. And let's make sure to call it RESTful so that everyone knows how cool, smart, and lazy-yet-technical we are.

Roy Fielding made a meaningless but cool-sounding acronym popular and has reaped the predictable consequences.
I think it meant "fiasco" for Princeton specifically and not in general - they had him ready to accept a immediately full-tenure position which they didn't offer and later he went on to solve the Poincaré Conjecture. Sure, one can say that they couldn't have known the future but considering the Soul Conjecture is described as an extraordinarily difficult problem that he solved in a short 4-page paper, they could have tried harder. Anyway, granted, hindsight is 20/20.
I'm not for it, I'm just saying - it's trivial. I was in your position, kinda - spent many weeks "searching" but "found nothing". They fired them anyway.
The outcome I'm rooting for is that Twitter's suit resolves quickly and they're granted specific performance, and Musk's lawsuit gets dragged out until he's suing the company he just bought.
I follow Smash Brothers Melee through Reddit, Twitch channels of top players, and a Discord server for local tournaments near me. I’m guessing you can do this for Fifa too.
Shameless plug if it helps anybody else, like it helped me; http://govspy.peterbe.com/
If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32127971: users flagged that. It was an unsubstantive, flamey comment on an inflammatory topic—indeed the mother of all inflammatory internet topics—so I'd say they were right to do so.

I don't see irony there. Plenty of low-value comments going on about "censorship" get rightly flagged. Indeed, if they didn't, that would be a loophole anyone could drive a truck through.

Incidentally, would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. You've unfortunately done it a lot, and we've had to ask you several times to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is my criticism of the architecture.as well. But to try to take it seriously for a moment: I think the idea is supposed to be that a client can be programmed to understand the data types, but not the layout. So a programmer can teach a client that if it gets a content type of `application/json+balances`, and it sees, like `'links': [ 'type': 'withdraw', 'method': 'post', 'url': ..., 'params': { 'amount': 'int' } ]`, then it can know to send that method to that URL with that param and that it semantically means a withdrawal. That's all encoded into the documentation of the data type, rather than the API. I personally consider this all overly clever and not very useful, but I think that's the idea.
As a counter, what percentage of San Fran residents think open air drug markets and homelessness is okay?
Alternatively, it's a warning to employees on how they might get caught.
Just like all the supply chain issues we've seen unfold, we are due for a nasty correction when all the would-be EE's end up as software engineers.
Hmm, that doesn't correlate with what they say[0] on their support site: "No! Employers cannot pay Glassdoor to remove reviews."

That said, it seems like negative reviews can easily end up violating one of the many other terms of use[1] around review content. Specifically that a user will not: "Post Content that is defamatory, libelous, or fraudulent"... and "Act in a manner that is [...] otherwise objectionable (as determined by Glassdoor)". That's really broad, and negative reviews can easily be framed as "defamatory" or "objectionable" even if they are factual...

[0] https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/Can-employers-pay-Glass...

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/about/terms.htm