skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the current poll does not reflect the "way it's always been." Democrats were competitive for white voters with just a college degree as recently as 2008: https://www.npr.org/2016/09/13/493763493/charts-see-how-quic.... In 2016 they lost that group by almost 30 points.

In a parallel thread about Obama's performance in 2012, you said

> The recovery from the 2008 recession was very slow, and the unemployment rate for most of 2012 was over 8%. George H.W. Bush lost reelection with an unemployment rate that was less than that.

Can you explain to me how it is that the economic recovery anxiety affected precisely one group of people, white voters without a college degree, and why their support continued bottoming out in Obama's second term even post-recovery?

Like my thesis here is "The Republicans, as early as 2009, adopted a strategy to appeal to the racial anxieties of less-educated white voters, which pulled support from those groups to republicans".

Yours appears to be "Until around 2013, support among only less-educated white voters dropped due to economic recovery concerns, but all other groups were unconcerned with the economy, and, just as the economy began to improve, the dem party decided to switch strategies specifically to not appeal to those voters".

Like for all the weird bad pundit takes that exist, I don't even think this take exists on the spectrum. Pretty much everyone agrees that there was concerted effort by Republicans to stoke racial anxiety and appeal to white voters. Like, that was the entire way Trump got his initial boost onto the scene (Obama's birth certificate nonsense). Why are you pretending that's not the case?

> College education is not only a strong proxy for income, but an even better proxy for working class status than income.

What does "working class" mean here? Like, if you're going to say that working class isn't income-driven but perception driven, ok sure, but then the existence of concepts like "driving while black" suggest that the US's class system also includes race, which means that policies that help minorities are class based! You can't have it both ways.

And keep in mind that the whole income v. education thing is highly impacted by race (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_rfd.as...). A white voter who didn't complete high school has the same income, on average, as a black voter who has completed some college, and for all races except whites, the difference between no high school and a BA is more than 2x, but for white people it's only around 1.86x. That is, correlation between income and education is significantly weaker for white people than for any other race.
> 100,000x the scale

Then everyone quickly realizes it's all garbage. The bigger danger is when people think garbage isn't possible, which has been the case since Stalin erased people from photos 98 years ago.
I'm not an attorney but there is a deeply troubling thing here to me. This was a lawsuit brought in US court against the US company, but the judge freely states that he ruled based on New Zealand law. That seems, at best, grossly inappropriate and grounds for an appeal. If this company wants the case decided under New Zealand law, they should fight it in New Zealand court. Is Glassdoor doesn't operate any legal New Zealand entities, then, there's nobody to sue. Maybe because this type of lawsuit seems especially petty and frivolous, but to me that seems like the system working as intended.

I don't see how any judge in any country is qualified to rule based on statutes in a completely different country.
There's a lot of evidence that regulations actually benefit the capital-owning class. Look at heavily regulated industries (insurance, pharma, banking, etc.) and how little competition the incumbents face. What most worries a big business is not whether they are allowed to do something or not, it is whether someone else will be able to do it better and hence, compete. It also doesn't help that large companies are the ones doing all the lobbying and practically end up writing the regulations[0].

[0] https://reason.com/2021/07/07/how-big-business-uses-big-gove...
> A defendant is presumed innocent and needs to be proven guilty by a finder of fact.

Libel is a civil matter. You're thinking of criminal cases where there is a notion of guilt & presumption of innocence.
I always like to start with the salary. I don't think I've ever been disappointed when a job pays me more, because it drives me to be worth the money more...

Otherwise we (Me and the recruiter) both end up wasting each other's time once I find out the salary is below market value. Honesty is key, positive company culture should be a common expectation in all roles, it's not worth sacrificing income for in my opinion.

One of the best career moves I can make is to ensure I am being paid properly for every job I accept. The most defeating experience is accepting a job that pays under market standard when roles and responsibilities are always guaranteed to increase and often become overburdening without overtime... I also live in an "At will" state, and that makes employers pretty careless about retaining me when their budgets on other projects suffer.

As a senior employee who has done everything from Development to Architecture to Proposals to Project Management, Companies often try to seek advantage for hiring me at a lower rate for just one of those skills, but then often pile on the other roles and work hard to tap my experience/knowledge/contacts for free... In cases like that, a company becomes one in the same as an employee that lied on their resume.

It's akin to being on a dating site... We all need to stop wasting each other's time and find the right matches that are well suited to each job. Listing salary is like a suitor listing their age on their dating profile... Pretty essential every time.
OK now we're definitely drifting into fantasy territory.

A company specifying an actual reason for rejecting a candidate? In writing??

(/j)
Imagine how angry people would be if at the end of an article about a train crash that killed 4 people the author included an anecdote about how there were 900 train fatalities in the previous year compared to 1.3 million car fatalities.
The engineering side is good to look at. We should also be looking at the education/credentialing side too. Many incidents are drivers making poor choices, not knowing the laws, or not understanding vehicle dynamics. Stricter licensing would be a good way to reduce incidents regardless of the redesigns. Arguably, that would be the fastest and cheapest route to effective change.
Vegas uses insider knowledge for bets all the time and I thought it was allowed because betting slips aren’t a security.
This is a really good point. Bad management/strategy leads to all sorts of corporate dysfunction, and many times that shows through in either unwillingness or inability to pay market-level salaries for good developers who have options in the wider market.
Google destroys any great product they acquire (except google maps and YT I guess).
From an ethical perspective, almost all of these comments are insane. Of course you do. All the senior level execs, founders, consultants, bankers etc are networking hard, discussing ideas, doing research, pitching each other, running side businesses, taking board seats, forming and investing in new businesses ALL the time. It is expected and a totally natural extension of the way they work.

Now, obviously you wouldn't use company resources. Be smart and have separate devices, etc. But unless you are paid hourly I would really discount the idea that you are somehow cheating your company. Why should the rules be "for thee but not for me..."?
I think it's just because car crashes aren't a wedge issue, so they don't politically matter. We certainly don't ignore car crashes on local news, where they make a great space filler.

Amtrak (and train travel in general) certainly is a wedge issue ("Amtrak Joe"), so we fixate on the only thing interesting that ever happens with it (crashes.) We can then discuss the state of it, whether we should shut it down or expand it, whether flying is safer, etc.
>He sold a copy of “Finnegans Wake” to Johnny Depp

This is one of the most fascinating books that I know of. I'm pretty well convinced that the world population of people who have read more than the very beginning and very end probably numbers roughly the count of my fingers and toes combined. Although I think many people

I also think the the only person who ever really understood the book was James Joyce himself. Fluency in multiple languages down to idiomatic expressions and deep etymology seem like strict requirements if you have never occupied the meatspace between Joyce's ears.

Any small portion seems somewhat comprehensible in its highly local environment, and a bit funny or witty in how it's written. But then it breaks down when attempting to connect that piece to the wider whole. And it all makes me feel like I'm reading extremely familiar words whose meaning I can't quite remember.

In refreshing my memory about it before commenting here it made me laugh to see that even the best Wikipedia can say about what goes on in the book is that readers have mostly reach a consensus (but only a consensus!) about normally trivial matter of fact such as the cast of characters, a little less so the plot, but that many other important details amount to poorly mapped terrain.

And because I was born with the usual amount of fingers andntoes, if I met a random person in passing, and they claimed to have read the book completely, I would look at them with as much belief as if they had said "I'm a very powerful leader of one of the G20 nations". Actually I might believe the G20 claim a bit more because I would consider it less likely for someone to make a claim like that when it could so easily be proven false if it was not true.

If I had not encountered the book long ago then I might believe it to be the output of an extremely oddly trained gpt-3 model. I don't mean that to be an insult to the book, it's just the best comparison I can think of to characterize it's contents in modern terms.

This is how fascinating Finnegan's Wake is as a literary work.
Finding performance bottlenecks in Celery tasks
Interesting post & question. I used to work as a freelancer, then worked for various agencies, then started an informal agency, then got most of the way through formally signing the papers to officially start an agency, then hired some agencies, and definitely hired lots of freelancers.

I think the best thing about an agency is that it typically has a locked-in personality and an obvious leverage point. If you can find an agency where you understand both of those pretty well, and you are a match for both of them in any number of ways, you are probably going to be a good customer, partner, owner, or freelancer for that agency.

So it's kind of easy to work with, or around, agencies with that in mind. Agencies also generally try (that is, people working at them naturally try) to avoid making things too serious or personal. I always appreciated that mindset in the way that it avoids some really common business mistakes.

Also I liked that agency employees are generally very aware of their emotions and are able to bring those emotions into their business projects. In larger corporations this can be super risky and is part of the appeal of working for an agency vs. a typical corporation, IMO.
And, more importantly, for programs like vi and Emacs that want to handle rendering themselves.
Having an always on scrollbar may save you from trying to have to scroll.

But not knowing if you can scroll is caused by poor website design and not by a hidden scrollbar
I wouldn't call Craigslist "thriving", it's still alive but it seems like Facebook Marketplace took over a lot of what it did.
That may make sense of you are not the average consumer. Optimizing for the most common case makes sense. I see that with Google search prediction, it's good but many times it predicts very sensible words for general use but not in the topic that I'm interested.
Or self-driving cars. Every incident is Big News, while ignoring the fact that 40,000 people die every year in traffic accidents (and 4.8 million injuries) -- in the US alone.

People are of course famously bad at putting statistics into context.
Nowadays, journals and peer review solve the problem of, people need to make hiring decisions and funding decisions. But these decisionmakers don't have enough technical expertise or time to evaluate all the papers from all the applicants.

The decisionmakers do have enough time to learn which are the most prestigious journals in the field. So, they can pick the people with the most papers submitted to prestigious journals, or at least use that to filter applicants down to a short list for closer examination.
That's exactly what you do, but that means some finely pulverised irradiated material probably gets ejected. The notorious example of this was the Sedan nuclear excavation test [1] which created a usefully big hole (100m deep, 390m diameter) by removing some 11 million tons of soil, but "the radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more US residents than any other nuclear test."

Much of the fallout was due to the fraction of the yield that was from fission, and WP notes that "had this test been conducted after 1965 when improvements in device design were realized, achieving a 100-fold reduction in radiation release is considered feasible". But the public enthusiasm for the program was naturally impaired.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)
Plus once you’ve established that relationship, you can often get effectively competitive prices anyway, either in the form of the occasional freebie, or, especially in items with significant margin, like musical instruments, substantial discounts off sticker.
>Uber would consistently lie about the availability of a WAV vehicle

Uber lies about the availability of all vehicles, I think! I live in a town where there are no Uber drivers, but if you open up the app it will show 3 available with times and prices and even let you book one! Of course it doesn't exist and they will never show up. I am not sure why they do this other then to look like they have coverage to shareholders or something.
The fact that new reddit defaults to showing only a few comments on the post, followed by recommending 20 other unrelated posts, just shows how badly aligned that design is with their goals.

Reddit is a glorified web forum. Period. Making comments hidden and difficult to browse basically negates 50% of it's function (the other being media + content discoverability).
Would you rather that a New Zealand court decides whether Glassdoor has to produce the poster's name?
Are the same number of people seeking fully remote jobs now as were seeking them 8 years ago? Human nature may not change that much, but a job market certainly can.
Seriously, when i read this, i was like, there is no way i will ever use this example product they mentioned in TinyBird.

After reading it, i was curious what the writer’s relationship was with TinyBird. Was he/she a recent user?

Then i put my palm over my face..
Which absolutely makes me think this was a well thought out con designed to prey on those types of fears and maximize the value extracted from the mark.

Those lottery phone scams out of Jamaica which target the elderly in the US are almost the exact same scam as what was described here.

Promise something, get them to send money, don’t deliver, tell them you need more time/more money. Keep repeating until the mark walks away.
Apple spending more than ever on federal lobbying amid possible antitrust bill
i ran into a regional bank who wanted to pay a principal engineer $115K to build their entire digital customer facing platform

i was stunned
Ask HN: Does your startup have a risk register?
If not, why not?
If yes, what is it like?
net/http. Go has great web support in the standard library.^1

Kidding aside, I didn't think that full-fledged web frameworks (akin to Ruby-on-Rails, Flask, Spring, etc) were really a thing with Go - or at least not a super popular thing. And you should be able to pretty easily recreate the functionality of a Tomcat-like web server using the http/net library.^2

[1]: https://pkg.go.dev/net/http
[2]: https://go.dev/doc/articles/wiki/
"cash-based economy with no digital records of your actual identity linked to any transactions or accounts"

Not that easy in India anymore for last few years with thinks like Aadhar/PAN card and almost every bank requiring those. Even small time vendors prefer payment using phone apps these days in India.
“We used to dream about having our data in a warehouse! We had to have our data in a lake!”
Save for one year then take 6 years off and come out roughly the same. That seems like an absolute no-brainer to me.
Chrome zero-day used to infect journalists with Candiru spyware
If someone had cooperative family members that could withdraw cash banknotes from their own accounts it would definitely be a lot easier.

have also seen a large number of reports of how easy it is to get a fraudulent aadhar card under a fake name, using fabricated paper documents as origins of identity, so that's a possible route

I think the likelihood of this working would also be much higher if someone relocated to a very rural location where the local economy is much more cash based. (eg: if you're from manipur, go find a medium sized town in the hills and don't draw any attention to yourself)
> It would be very interesting indeed to see such an AI compete on a real track, but it may not be as clear cut a victory when the very finely tuned senses of a human racing driver are in play.

Roborace[0][1] was an attempt at an all-AI racing series that would be run parallel to Formula E (the all-electric single-seater racing series); however, while they did get to the point that they could run cars on track, they never got to the point where they could run those cars in competition. It seems to be defunct, having been renamed "Arrival R" after the core technologies were purchased by one of the teams that had intended to enter the series.[2]

0: https://roborace.com

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roborace

2: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-tech%2C-developm...
They seemed to mostly be hoping to provide stock and low end GPUs in an extremely tight, starved market. They probably would have done okay with that, but now that the market is suddenly flooded with mining GPUs...
"You can't change people that much."

The point of licensing is to restrict the privilege to those who can responsibly and competently preform the task. If they can't conform to that, then they shouldn't be driving. Tougher licensing and enforcement would drastically reduce fatalities. We already see this in many European nations with stricter enforcement and licensing.
The malicious wallet could encrypt the data it's reporting before splitting it into bits to report it. Then there won't be any pattern to show up on statistical tests.
Yes. Wikipedia actually has more information than the IEEE article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube#Working_principl...
It's like a form of the Dunning–Kruger effect where everyone believes they're in control of their fate in a car, but not on public transit. People must think they're exceptional drivers and that they can dodge any accident.
Summer Lang Party
well the company should decide if they are looking for fresh graduates or experienced candidates then, judging by 20K seems more likely they don't wanna experienced people or dunno what they really want if they come up with such number
> They broke the law

People have been arrested for misgendering people. It’s total control of the speech, but total control of speech is acceptable in democracies because it is what people want. Apprently.
In decades of interviewing and hiring developers I have not seen an actual difference coming from posting salary ranges. I tried many different versions of this.

As a candidate, I do not apply to a thousand different places. I find 3-4 where I would want to work and I do my research before I even apply. I know what they can pay me before I get to talk to them.

As an interviewer I try to stay away from candidates that spray and pray. They probably don't care where they work -- usually a bad sign (except for positions where it truly doesn't matter). They probably also have a problem finding a job -- do I want to play the expensive game of finding out why?

When I meet the candidate the first time, I usually ask if they had a chance to look at our website. I have never hired a person that did not (somehow being disinterested prevents people from being good at what they are doing).

More than that, as a candidate your bargaining power is lowest at the beginning of the process and highest at the end when they had a chance to get to know you and really want to hire you.

And if this is not happening, don't get hired. If you made barely passable impression on your new boss but got hired because they needed a warm body in the chair, your career at the company is almost over before it got even started. First impressions matter and self-fulfilling prophecies are real.

And again, as an interviewer, posting salary ranges is a loose loose for me. If you have posted a range, there is couple of things happening. First, you are loosing ALL candidates that you would gladly pay more than the posted salary range, but now that they see the range they say "Meh" to your posting.

Second, everybody expects to get salary close to the top of the range and will be forever unhappy if they do not. So it is more like you have posted an exact salary you are paying and rather than be flexible you can now pretty much only decide to hire or not hire for this salary.
Mythical creature vs 'Real-World Sighting'?

I try to never underestimate the potential for someone to do something really stupid and I'm sure there are some egregious examples out there where a DB was set up and run such that outrageous charges resulted; but has anyone seen a situation in real life anywhere close to this kind of example?

Even if there was a instance where a poorly designed and implemented data set caused a $40K charge for a single day; I wonder how long it would take for the bean counters to notice and take action?
I don’t think so but it’s very close. BB hit the ground running from its very first episode and never lifted its foot off the gas. BCS took a season to establish itself and to figure out what to do with Kim. Once that happened, its become a juggernaut. This final season has been its best. They’re both worth the time investment.
Newer heat pumps still have electric heat, but also can extract heat from ambient air down to -10F. Mr Cool for the DIYer, Mitsubishi for the workhorse. Reverser valves do the work of switching heat pumping direction.
Centralized exchanges are completely unable to exist in the original vision of Satoshi. It's literally in the 2nd sentence of the original white paper:

"...but the main
benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network"

Using a centralized exchange ruins the peer-to-peer aspect and centralizes the transactions. Unless I'm missing something?
Your company's location/HQ will significantly impact assumed salary ranges.
The noteof logo doesn't look like it would scale to small size very well. The gap between the top left corner of the N and the other elements seems too small.