skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! It's so obvious from the buy / sell ratios of coinbase that they are fueled by millions (or 100ks) of small investors investing $10k or less. Joe consumer isn't going to sue over a bad investment. I am guessing that polygon, gamestop is similar. Also the counter parties aren't major US companies, they are often small to mid cap LLCs. So when the thing they push collapses they sort of fade away.

If this were a major US company ripping off say a US bank, there would be investigation. But a small start up (I'm thinking of the issuers, not coinbase) ripping off people all over the world for $100- $20k with false promises-- it's practically a victimless crime. Coinbase and the exchanges aren't necessarily guilty of this but they are complicit.
I am saying disabled people should pay more, and the state should give them free money to cover the higher costs they incur for day to day services.

Trying to get every business to charge all customers equally, even when some customers are far more costly to serve is a bad model. Better to just let the business charge whatever the real cost of providing the service is, and directly subsidize the disabled person to cover that increased cost.

/Unpopular opinion
Fascinating, thank you for informing me.
> I believe we get a lot out of living in a world where dictators aren't able to invade their neighbors.

If only that were true...
> Even though the ruling occurred in a U.S. federal court, Judge Tse said he made the ruling based on New Zealand law, as Zuru intends to sue in that jurisdiction. Therefore, the court's ruling was decided based on New Zealand law's definition of defamation, and not the U.S. legal definition.

This is ridiculous.

A US judge should not unmask someone's privacy on behalf of a company in NZ that hasn't filed a defamation lawsuit in the US against the poster. The NZ company should file a US case and then convince the judge to unmask the poster.

This was social engineering on the part of the NZ company and was also Judge Tse overstepping his authority. There is no reason to even have laws in the US, when a judge can decide to apply foreign law that doesn't originate or cover people here.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have military spending, but we don't get much for what we pay for, similar to healthcare.
how you answer that question depends on whether you're the one who needs the ramp.

my mom renovated a hotel. she kicked up such a fuss about having to put in an expensive elevator. a couple years later, I became a wheelchair user. without the elevator, I couldn't stay with her. she hasn't complained about the elevator requirement since, for some reason.
Agree that being able to choose who you follow/"friend" is a key social media feature missing on HN. But profiles are not noticeably more minimal than those on Twitter are far as I can tell.
Yeah, it may be a way to officially call at least some of them securities:

> "We are not concerned with labels, but rather the economic realities of an offering," said Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. "In this case, those realities affirm that a number of the crypto assets at issue were securities, and, as alleged, the defendants engaged in typical insider trading ahead of their listing on Coinbase. Rest assured, we’ll continue to ensure a level playing field for investors, regardless of the label placed on the securities involved."

Should this go to the courts which end up deciding that they are in fact securities - that will be a nice precedent.
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Most banks I know of only started supporting Google Pay after they deployed Apple Pay. Basically, Apple Pay showed consumers how good the UX can be which more or less forced the banks to Google Pay support so they can also have a good UX on Android. Without Apple forcing the use of Apple Pay I doubt it would ever have taken off.

NFC payments were possible through the banking apps on Android for years before Apple Pay launched in my country. Note that contactless payment had also been around here for years and pretty much all payment terminals supported it. Technically, everything was in place for it to be adopted, yet no one used it. Only after introduction of Apple Pay did it take off. Google Pay support followed the success of Apple Pay.
Imagine someone offered you a house but the agreement was that you could only sell it for what you bought it for. I doubt you would buy it considering there are other options on the market where you could profit in the future. It's 100% speculation. It's part of the package.
The implementation of the ADA may need to be modified for modern businesses, but the underlying principle of the ADA is "humans aren't interchangeable parts." Any efficiency gains that disproportionately marginalize the disabled are anti-human, and the cost should fall on neither the customer nor the gig employee but on the business and the government.
It was a long time ago. It wasn't a knob, it was a handle. He would jump on it, his weight would pull down the handle, and then he would use his right leg to push against the frame and open the door. Not very graceful but it got the job done. He was a very smart cat.
Concern was that it still turns down too many, maybe we were too careful.

We have another vacant position soon, I might try it.
I feel like most of the best paying companies are emphasizing microservices (except maybe Google). This is just my impression and I realize it's probably not accurate.

What are some solid companies with competitive pay that only use microservices when the need arises instead of by default, using monoliths otherwise?
It's Uber. Of _course_ they will go right back to doing something unethical when the heat is off. It may not even last two years.

I really have come to believe that computer science and EE programs should include two mandatory semesters in ethics. So many of the companies in the space are laughably, comic-book-villian-level bad. People defend them because they also pay super well.
Why wait for the interview? Post an advert that explains exactly this.

People would who are not prepared to make that trade off will skip you and you’ll be left with people that are.

There have been times where I’d have been ok with that trade off but would have skipped over you for not making the salary clear.
Coinbase is an awful company. I signed up for a debit card for some reason, and it immediately became a fraud target. Someone tried to use it at a restaurant in South Africa, a store in Singapore and a mobile provider in Moldova.

The card was obviously compromised, and the only reason I didn’t lose money is that I didn’t make any available. So called, emailed, texted Coinbase on 5 different occasions and they never deactivated the card and didn’t appear to have a procedure to do so.

Not a place I would trust with money.
The key thing here is that the optimization model for "deciding if an employee is doing a good job" has to be more complicated than "time to deliver," or it's simply anti-human.
Wouldn't that be a civil matter between him and Coinbase?
Have you talked to your manager? Maybe start with a question like the following:

For some reason I don't seem to be connecting with my coworkers as well as I
expected. (Give a concrete example.) I feel I would be more productive if
we were more cohesive as a team. Do you have any ideas how to solve this?

It obviously depends on your manager. I'm assuming it's somebody who is motivated to help you achieve your best. That's unfortunately not always the case.

p.s., I said "we were more cohesive" to avoid the assumption that it's just your fault. It sounds like a team dynamics issue.
I like your analogy.
I actually had a very positive experience with GitHub. They warned me that the above mention action violated their TOS. My understanding of the problem is that it use's GitHub action as a "free" cloud service when it only meant for testing and deployment... So I created this tool which accomplishes the same thing from just on your local machine.

I do enjoy using my creativity to build things
"It’s a relatively simple idea: corporate CO2e emissions are tracked and companies are charged some flat rate of dollars per kilogram."

As I mentioned, tracking and measuring emissions is hopelessly complicated. It's far easier to tax the carbon content of the fuel where the fuel is produced.

As for taxing, we already tax gasoline (rather heavily). I don't really understand why taxing the carbon content is resisted so strongly. Taxing the carbon content would also do things like make natural gas more attractive than coal, because ng has twice the energy in it per carbon atom.

As for the amount of the tax, one starts out with a small carbon tax, then gradually increase it until the CO2 emissions go down. This also gives the market time to adapt.

It is impossible to determine the carbon footprint of a mere pencil, let alone some large business operation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32175325
Yeah, but there's an adage in customer service that for every customer who tells you what's wrong, ten more walked out without saying anything. That may apply here.

Personally, I'm 100% on board with OP's point. I've been putting out feelers lately, and I likewise interpret an unstated salary range as a warning sign. Who knows if they speak for the majority, but they're certainly not alone.
The one where some dev gets the query in a loop unintentionally and you discover your bankrupt the next day.
Eh I mean some of them are though. Manchin and Sinema get the biggest hate, but there are others who agree with him who are just not as obvious or loud about it.

I mean abortion rights which were settled for 50 years just got completely destroyed, and if the entire Democratic party actually cared about this issue, they'd enshrine it as a right in law with 51 votes, but they won't because a handful secretly agree that abortion should be illegal.
Thanks for the reply! This is great to hear.

I've turned just about every knob and kernel parameter I can, only use the USB C expansion cards, kernel is 5.18.12, and my Samsung 980 Pro is on the latest firmware (5B2QGXA7) so I look forward to what the 12th Gen board can do.
BTC transactions don't count towards FCF. They are accounted under a different line item "Cash Flows From Investing Activities".
I feel completely the opposite. Why would I apply for a job with an upper limit of a salary range? That doesn’t really make sense to me. Also it’s an incredibly easy thing to sus out in a phone screen.
Have you tried configuring suspend-then-hibernate with a very short timer (e.g., 10 or 30 minutes)? The configuration for it is shipped with systemd these days, so all you have to do is turn it on and set the timer length. With fast SSDs, resume from hibernate is not very painful.

That should let you close your laptop and open it in a few days without any big issue, even if S0ix continues to suck.
I think you're being very generous.

"You don't fit our usual workflow so no further work will be done unless you pay us a retainer like the big guys do" is simply not a good faith position to take half way into a project.

They gave you just enough extra attention to hook you in at the start, then kept stringing you along for more cash, with a few token deductions to make it seem like it was all just very unfortunate. (Note: They would not have made those deductions if you hadn't called them on it.)

Then when it was clear there was no more money on the table they finally did the work - which, conveniently, left you with a positive impression.

They did not do the job you originally asked them to do. They did a job they decided they wanted to do - and charge for - because... why? They're not organised and professional enough to deliver what they were asked to?

It's a classic case of actions speaking louder than words.

Some questions to consider:

1. Would you have hired them if you knew they were going to cost nearly seven times more than your budget?

2. How much would a website redesign have cost if you'd asked for that in the first place?

3. Do you think that work would have been done in budget, or would it have exploded far beyond it too?

4. Would a different agency have acted in the same way and presented the same problems?
Why thank you. I know that many believe that militaries can only be used for destruction. Of course, we've had 70 years of peace (for the most part) that was really only possible with the largest military movement (10% of the US) to counteract a true force of destruction. I'm the first one to ream on the US's use of drone strikes and getting involved in the Middle East in the first place, but the GPS system and the US Navy probably contribute $1T each to the functioning of the global economy per year. If that takes a large amount of soldiers to be combat ready (definitely not freeloading) then I'm personally fine with that.
Rank and its privileges. It helps if you can make your own rules I guess...
That's a great site. I've also noticed in the last couple months, many jobs (although not most), have started to list salaries for Colorado employees. It's a good ballpark for the rest of us at least, and I like this trend.

I post the salary range for all the jobs that I list because it's a waste of everyone's time if we don't meet each other's expectations on some of those important points before investing more time in finding the right fit.

Recruiters don't like to post the salary range because they want to have a phone call with every candidate. There may have been a time when that made sense for them, but that time is not now. The job market is not the used car lot it used to be.
>90%, maybe 93%, of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency.

As a prior PM, I agree. We're there to help management, not the engineer. The engineer does not care, and it does not raise efficiency. I always felt bad about this, and went back to engineering.
Why should the state subsidize Uber?
While not exactly aligned to the research, I've been surprised how poor Nest Thermostat's learning feature is.

The main selling point for Nest is having a "learning thermostat". Perhaps my schedule is just not predictable enough, but the auto-generated temperature schedules it generates after its "learning" period is not even close to what I would manually set up on a normal thermostat.

Maybe I'm just an "edge case" or part of the "long tail"
Applying (or hiring) for jobs is just like online dating. If there is something that stands out about you that may be an important factor in someone finding you appealing, it is worthwhile to be clear about it up front. If someone does care about it, they will pass on you, but you will get overall higher quality candidates from those who don’t mind or don’t rank the property as highly. It saves everyone time this way.

I am a short man, and I have firsthand experience in this by posting my height on my dating profile. I got fewer matches when I did, but those who matched after were always way better dates!
I've lived in transitional neighborhoods at several points in my life.

> Until next year when it's 0 again because that buyer has gone away.

Why would the buyer go away? The state itself could maintain offers on any properties lowballing their property taxes. But that wouldn't be necessary, because at any time, there would always be ample interest in purchasing real estate for discount prices. You say this yourself:

> if your house is valued at the neighborhood average, it will be bought in 30 seconds

...but again, it sounds like you misunderstand my proposal. In 30 seconds, someone would offer to buy, and then the current property owner would have the choice of either selling, or keeping their property but raising their property-tax assessment to either that amount, or the local average, whichever is lower.
ResStock-Highly granular modeling of the U.S. housing stock
No; I use namespaces extensively.

user.max_user_namespaces = 127864
Which is billed by time and distance. Thus having to pay the same for both is equity.
I'm really curious how people use these types of platforms in practice. It seems really easy to screw yourself over when you're "expirementing". The advice seems really obvious, but I'm sure I'd absent mindedly do a super naive query at some point and potentially cost my employer a lot of money.

I worked on a system to capture the production test data in a semiconductor company. We had trillions of rows and terabytes of data. While we were figuring stuff out, I'm sure I ran queries that scanned the entire dataset accidentally. I imagine one of those queries would have cost at least 1k to run. Our entire setup cost less than 10k a month to run on AWS regardless of how many queries we ran. I can't imagine spending 40k on 14gb of data regardless of what you were doing.
I just love the work both Supabase & Hasura have done making people aware of how powerful Postgres is.
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List of the most distant astronomical objects
Another sign that we are in tech bubble. The guy was asking for the redesign of 3 pages + a logo. Landing page, shopping cart and checkout for one (!) product he sells. This is such a standard, run off the mill application why wouldn't a decent agency have something ready in their drawer where they just have to adjust the CSS to make it look unique. How isn't this process completely tried and figured out after 30+ years of ecommerce?

> Agencies I worked for in the past wouldn't pick up the phone for less than $500k

These times are way overdue to end and it seems like they are ...
The link you posted presents studies which found the opposite conclusion.

>A 2014 SAP survey found that compensation is the #1 factor that matters most to employees.

>Another survey by the SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) conducted in 2013 also found that compensation and pay was the #1 factor contributing to job satisfaction

Then later,

>Several other studies have also emerged around what employees care about at work but the most recent one from Boston Consulting Group which surveyed over 200,000 people around the world is one of the most comprehensive. Unlike previous studies which may point to flexibility or salary as the top factor for job happiness, BCG found that the #1 factor for employee happiness on the job is get appreciated for their work!

I don't know much about Boston Consulting Group, but my intuition says they may have been contracted by higher-ups with the intention of finding that exact conclusion. Cynical, yes, but so often that's how these consulting-funded-research-studies end up being. I can't speak for anyone else, but compensation is still above and beyond the most important factor when considering a job.
> The problem is the tech industry trying to treat people like resources.

Isn't that true for most types of jobs? There's a role called "Human Resources" in most medium and large sized companies. Are factory jobs leaning in to embrace the humanity of workers and not thinking of them and calling them resources? Would we find things substantially better in most fast food restaurants? Gig companies are at least letting people decide when they want to work and when they want to do something else with a degree of flexibility that seems unmatched everywhere outside of the gig economy.
No, definitely not. I don't do anything personal on work hardware, either. Including social media, etc.
>Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list.

You're conflating multiple things here. People aren't focusing on money because it's the most important part. They focus on money because it's one of the few things that's relatively easy to make tangible ahead of time. Similar goes for things like remote/hybrid, secondary benefits, etc.

Many elements on that list, while important, are incredibly difficult to equate in practice without speaking with employees or reading up on the company. Take the following:

>1 Appreciation for your work

How in the world are you going to evaluate this pre-interview or even post hiring process? Both parties are showing their best selves. It's incredibly abstract and difficult to measure.

>2 Good relationships with colleagues

Again, difficult to measure. Establishing good relationships takes time. Additionally, most places (at least here) have people who are decent to get along with, they aren't filled with horror individuals. At least, I'd hope hiring processes would at least filter the most obvious nutcases out after all those hours spent.

>3 Good work-life balance

Here's one you can measure much more easily. Few core hours and a "do whatever whenever" mentality outside of core hours attracts individuals. Still I don't see most companies post it. It goes far beyond hybrid and remote work, and even that is already hard to pull out of them. Then at the end of the interview, you get a "yeah we have a flexible schedule. Our hours are from 7 to 7." Great.. I guess.
Voting won't fix anything until the electoral college and gerrymandering are abolished but that's an entirely different debate.
It depends on the business unit. Some don't have the ability to run a technology group to run a $10K dedicated server.
It uses EUV.

> 7nm FinFET plus (N7+) technology entered full-scale production in 2019 and delivered customer 7nm products to market in high volume. N7+ technology is the first commercially available extreme ultraviolet EUV-enabled foundry manufacturing process

https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/log...

It looks like there was a 7nm SRAM process in 2016 that only used DUV, but I'd be surprised if more than, say, 1% of "7nm" mentions over the last few years were intended to refer to the 2016 process rather than the 2019 process.
Listed price vs Call for Quote
There is a graph at the bottom that shows the conversion before and after the redesign.
Compliant doesn't mean what people think it means or do you mean people don't know what the regulation says?
Are you depressive? If you are depressed, you may find yourself less engaged and less motivated. You may be coming off as “standoff-ish” to your coworkers. Their reaction then feeds into your depression and you end up in a bad depressive feedback loop.

Or maybe not, just asking.
> reform the market so it's a level playing field for everyone regardless of what you know

You want to take away the power of knowledge? Good luck in human society. (Honestly, on its face, this is an incredibly naive take.)
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Thanks!

Yeah, I agree. This experience hasn't affected how much I try to defend myself from dishonest employees/contractors. I think the prevalence of dishonest/malicious people is so low and screening is so costly/ineffective that it's not worth it.

>Of course there are people who are not, but I've seen multiple times a pessimistic approach becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most people will reflect back your expectations. If you expect them to be dishonest, slothful, etc, then they will become that. Conversely showing trust/faith will often inspire a person to live up to the ideals. Between reflection and confirmation bias, lowering your expectation of people will lower your results. I've also seen it become a vicious positive feedback loop that ends in extreme distrust, paranoia, and misanthropic misery. Not worth it.

Yes, 100% agree. When someone tells me, "I've put so many controls in place to make sure you can't do X," it's so adversarial that my first though is, "I'd really love to find a way to do X." But if they tell me, "I'm trusting you not to do X because that will cause Y negative consequence for me," then I'm inclined to honor that request because it doesn't feel like we're adversaries.