skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are going to min-max whatever system you offer. If you don't pay equally and you adjust for cost of living, people are likely going to go for high CoL locations and make you pay the most. If you don't adjust for CoL, you'll likely see your devs leave high CoL areas for lower ones. While you might be "overpaying" them according to their chosen CoL, you're likely underpaying what the high CoL would have demanded.

It seems counter-intuitive but I imagine that not doing CoL adjustments actually lowers total payroll.
The irony is that I would love to not actually own a car, please let me pay a flat monthly/yearly fee for “having a car of a specific model or better in good working order” available to me at all times and let the manufacturer figure out how best to do that.

Car breaks down, who cares, call the seller, they swap you out, repair it and keep it ready for the next person. It’s the only business model that aligns the incentives right. Car manufacturers and I benefit from better reliability and lower maintenance costs.

This shitty world we live in is the worst of both worlds.
Crazy good numbers given the environment and their size.
Please provide these two lines, I'd love to utilize the same pattern in the future :)
> Most people really do have to pivot up through some more average jobs first before landing the Big Tech jobs with huge paychecks.

But the assertion here is that too many “pivoting up” jobs are a negative indicator. (An “upper class” programmer wouldn’t spend time in the “lower” classes.)

Not saying I agree or disagree with this, but the existence of a class system in tech jobs is the OP’s central point.

Edit: The OP says it clearly:

> In many ways, having no experience is better than having the wrong experience because people don't unfairly prejudge you for having the wrong experience.

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1551665467864977408?s=21&t...
this is cool. next up, row level encryption with private information retrieval methods for enabling queries and searches homomorphically (on data encrypted by the client that the service provider never has a key for).
yes please share any info possible, this will help a lot
damn I hate cute code; variables are free and don't lead to "wat" outcomes

local theShader = (shaderGiven or g3d.shader)
theShader:send("viewMatrix", camera.viewMatrix)

maybe even without the parens, I'm no lua ninja
Aside from anecdotes and fear mongering from EV owners, most people aren't actually making car buying decisions based on politics. Of the friends & family I have who own EVs, more than half are die hard conservatives. They recognize value when they see it.
> This strikes me as a result of Tesla's whole "ignore everything known by car companies and act like software companies" approach

Yup, the Silicon Valley strategy "letting the fires burn". As long as you can acquire new customers with less effort than servicing existing ones, why bother? It worked at Paypal and it has worked so far at Tesla. We see year after year of 50%+ sales growth but nowhere near 50% increases in service capacity. It's the reason we see people waiting months for replacement parts (those parts can go into a new car, for a new customer!) and its the reason they pressure you into accepting bad workmanship so that the problems with the car become yours and not theirs and its now on you to convince them that it is not, in fact, "in spec".

This is a 4 year old thread but Tesla still makes the same service mistakes (like the OP) today: https://twitter.com/grainsurgeon/status/1054732768465305600
This one of those really easy, Bank error in your favour, sorts of problems where all Telsa had to do is just leave the 90 alone and essentially tighten up it's internal processes.
I have a hard time with tech that has software kill switches. Like all those farm tractors out there, it just invites a culture of hacking and stealing and probably doing unsafe and risking things.
This is a space where we totally need to see proper regulation.
It's clear to me lbrito is mentioning them tacitly, as part of those horrifying conflicts that don't cause outrage in the West because "they are not like us". You are making lbrito's point, really.
A lot of the cost structure is ~fixed (and high). It's pretty much the ultimate scale game.
I used to worry about this, and then I realized I have years of internet comments that may as well be my journal. Going back to any of them will remind me of what I was thinking around that time. Same happens to me with screenshots, like was mentioned in that post yesterday titled “take more screenshots.”
> I think "idiot" and "moron" have lost their edge because they've been so ubiquitous for so long they don't mean anything more than, basically, a euphemism for "dumbass".* The other terms you mentioned are just as offensive as the "r-word" in that context IMHO.

A dumbass is someone who is stupid or foolish. Stupid, fool, idiot, and moron are all terms that at one point or another were used to describe those with an IDD. They're all still acceptable insults AFAIK, but now not the "r-word". For the longest time it was a fairly tepid insult but suddenly has, for reasons unclear to be, become outrageous and objectionable on par with the "n-word".

> I'm aware these terms used to be more in line with the others, but frankly I'd also question the wisdom of using them in a public forum.

It goes beyond insults though, the term has become completely unacceptable as a witticism or in a self deprecating manner. It just seems arbitrary to me and feels like an arbitrary change to give someone the opportunity to seize the moral high ground in a disagreement by labeling you ableist.

Idk, I guess I'm just old an can't keep up. The day someone labels me an "ist" for saying "I'm an idiot" is the day I'm burning it all down.
No, we're not in a recession, Biden administration tells U.S. voters
With an Index, don't miss out on Into the Radius, and VTOL VR. Or get a wheel and try Project Cars 2 or iRacing.
You get two devices.
Node.js – v18.7.0
We'll see a lot more 'conspiracy theories' proving out to be perfect practices in the near future, and the funniest thing is that none of those who label critically thinking people as tinfoil hats would admit their fallacy, on the contrary - they'll be ardently asserting that they 'definitely saw it coming' too!

Cognitive dissonance is a scary thing, makes people doublethink by repressing the conflict between expectation and observation into the subconscious.
You're saying that Romans destroying the mental works is just one possible explanation?

So are the archaeologists.

>Archaeologists suggest one possible explanation could be that it may have been the actions of Roman soldiers following their victory over Caledonians at the Battle of Mons Grapius around AD 83.
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Authors who assign to the public domain do so generally because they are mavericks who dislike any sort of permission scheme for the use of information, tied to any sort of authoritarian rules, regardless of how relaxed the permission is.

The fallback license in the CC0 is supposed to be just a begrudging inclusion that applies in jurisdictions where the assignment to the public domain isn't upheld; the author who releases a work under the CC0 would be most pleased if there were not such jurisdictions, and the public domain assignment were enough.

OK, so then you have this fallback license which says, "I am not granting any use of the patents covering the ideas in this work". That's completely stupid; nobody who ideologically favors the public domain would want to use this.

The only rational use for CC0 is by a corporation which has developed some patented technology (e.g. video encoder) and wants to promote a reference implementation, to be used by paying patent licensees for making applications (plus individuals for educational, non-commercial, personal use).

If a fallback license of a public domain assignment says anything other than "you can use and redistribute this as you wish", it is not an earnest, genuine, ideological public domain assignment. Someone who wants to make such a grant to the public, yet uses the CC0, has been duped.
Why are sequential regular expressions more efficient than a combined exp?
Tony Dow Not Dead
> A 1gbps connection has a limit of traffic it can push in a month, that is the limit of their "unlimited" offer.

If your interpretation of basic words is so wildly different from the norm that you already consider "1Gbps unlimited" a contradiction then surely you would never find yourself in a contract where subtler terms are in question.
There are other conflicts going on in the world besides the Russian-Ukrainian war. We do not usually avoid/cancel authors from any of the nations or cultures involved. Well, I suppose writings by ISIS authors are not in any bestsellers list...
> but that the 1Gbps should be thought of more as a burst rate than a 24/7 sustained rate

They do not state that anywhere in their advertising or terms of service.

They are advertising 1gbps/24/7/month as implied by their "Unlimited" terminology this is a perfectly measurable value and then cutting people off if they use 80% of that limit.

While I wholeheartedly understand that they can't offer that level of service for all customers and they expect most user to not use the full rate 24/7 and price their products as such.

If I'm being sold 1tb of transfer and am cut off that 800gb that is unacceptable, that is what's happening here (give or take some gigabytes).

If this is a problem for them then they need to change their advertising or terms orservice to state their Fair Use or AUP to list these limits.
Just posted a (small) update, actually: https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1552052028595208197
In the UK, the iconic red phone boxes are now used as public libraries, defibrillator stations, and general photo backgrounds for tourists. A few people even bought one for their back garden.
Its a walled garden with a relatively accessible door. And the garden's pretty nice too, nice enough that most don't leave for the perilous world outside of it.

Unfortunately, some of the security related moves lately have also made living outside of it a little more difficult.
Yup. When I was signing up at MEC I gave the clerk a fake number but accidentally included both the area codes for my city as the first six digits: “Whoa that’s weird, never seen them together like that before.” It’s easy for me to remember now at least.
Maybe like ADSL was originally advertised in some markets, with the contention ratio?

In your scenario, 10:1 contention ratio, "up-to" 1Gbps throughput, 1Gbps link-speed.

In the UK British Telecom originally offered 'consumer' ADSL at 50:1 and 'business' (more expensive) at 20:1 contention ratio specifically to deal with the backhaul limitations.
Exactly. Probably why we shouldn't turn to economists for ethics advice.
Is Russia-Ukraine the only military conflict going on in the world?
"Learn and get better" is absolutely a plan and a great basis to build on, though it's nice to know if there's something in particular they'd like to learn. I've never encountered a candidate who will say they want to learn but not have an idea of what they want to learn...just candidates who have an idea what they want to learn but are afraid of saying the wrong thing in the interview.
PLC NAND is already on the way to commercial hardware.
The wasted resource usage is my biggest concern. The pack uses 50% more cells that are effectively unusable, meaning 50% more precious metals were mined for a software option.
How Louis Theroux Became a ‘Jiggle Jiggle’ Sensation at Age 52
Please save Hacker Lab
Yeah, and I doubt many customers would have an issue with the same cap and overage terms of the 10G variety.
It would be amazing if Tesla were a worker cooperative where that were possible.

Trying to hold Elon to a standard in his companies gets you fired, not him: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-17/spacex-fi...
Ask HN: Dropbox uses Python a lot, is it also the case for their Windows client?
It is well known that Dropbox uses (or used) Python a lot for their operation - I have read this quite often here on HN or elsewhere. I imagine this is true for their backend servers.

Question: was their Windows client app mainly done in Python too? (the one that watches the filesystem for changes, stays in the bottom-right system tray icon notification area near the clock, has a GUI...)

If so, which py => exe freeze solution did they use?

How did they prevent the Python bytecode to be decompiled (obfuscation, or compilation in a similar way to Cython? another method?)

Did they open-source some of the tools they developed to make Python perform well as a language that can be distributed as a .exe?

I have tried py2exe and many similar tools, also Cython in embedded mode, and distribution as a .exe is usually not the strength of Python (usual tools work rather well, but sooner or later you find corner cases), so I am curious about the Dropbox company tools for this.

Are there articles about this?
I want archive.org to ignore robots.txt and make it as difficult as possible to remove pages from it; it would be a broken archive tool if this were not the case.
Is it 1984 yet? The standard definition of “recession” has been changed.
I mean FDC offers 1Gbs unmetered[1] (and I do think they actually mean unmetered), dedicated for $199 / month . While being ≈ 4 times more expensive than a cheap Hetzner dedicated box mentioned in OP, I don't think OP would have gotten an email from them.

I was thinking that maybe some provider basically was reselling ≈FDC dedicated boxes with VPS's that tailored to high bandwidth usage. Of course being more expensive than run of the mill VPS's. But maybe the server performance per price, and bandwidth price equation doesn't make it so attractive. Even if you're just pushing static files, you need some CPU to saturate it (especially considering tls termination)

[1]: https://www.fdcservers.net/budget-server-1
> I'm not sure if Bun is also a complete rewrite of the TypeScript compiler, but it appears to be.

I thought it used ESBuild for that part.

Looking in Bun's Git repo, I see under Credits:

> While written in Zig instead of Go, bun’s JS transpiler, CSS lexer, and node module resolver source code is based on @evanw’s esbuild project.

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun#credits

Reading it this time, I understand ESBuild was only used as a reference, and Bun's transpiler is indeed a fresh rewrite.

Same as ESBuild, it does no typechecking.

> Bun doesn't actually typecheck the TypeScript code. It only transpiles it to javascript. Typechecking should be handled either by your IDE or other tools like tsc.
They are neutered by threats from Google. Lineage had to remove the ability to spoof permissions to appease their overlord.
Love the other "this is how I learned <language>, too" comments. I'll add mine into the mix :) note this was implemented in 2014: https://github.com/mrryanjohnston/golang-experiments/tree/ma...

I think videogames are a great way to showcase channels in Go.
idk if you're joking or what but there was literally on article about exactly this on the front page today.
Nothing, I did. Everything runs Linux.
Link to one story is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32244975
The author is not a developer.
Maybe your boss says, ok take it then. It is a risky strategy.
Hetzner still makes a good profit on that $0.001/GB.
My kid one time had some sort of name calling swearing match on the PS4 which was tied into my email and my credit card and all my games. I found out because all of a sudden I had a 30 day suspension on the account and could not play any of my downloaded games properly. Not a big fan of digital games and threat of being locked out temporarily or possible permanently for one wrong move.
It's a good idea to stay in the same industry, then a lot of the domain knowledge will still be relevant. I think you can do very well if you are a developer and you are a domain expert in a particular industry.
Ah but remember it’s “hard“ somehow to give google money. I read it here on HN. No idea where these billions came from.
I will often provide the email address postmaster@hashbang.com for people insisting they need an email address who have no legitimate reason doing so. (hashbang.com resolves to localhost. Thanks twocows...)
The "asterisk" is the Terms and Conditions that you agree to when signing up for the service.
I mean when the Russian president makes a televised speech before the invasion saying that he is going to “find the solution to the Ukrainian question” another author and another book seems a more appropriate comparison…
Is this an actual thing that is happening regularly, or is it yet another thing that someone suggested was a real thing online that then got picked up and reported as fact?
Same, I’m surprised
Had to go through 3 recently but finally found a digital one that fits the bill. Super fast and accurate. Shop around they are cheap so you can try a few before getting that good one.
As detailed as needed for the client to understand exactly what they will get delivered. However 100% focused on solving the biz problem not UI details or whatever.
1 gallon per day is not unlimited ice cream!! It's limited to one fucking gallon per day. "English motherfucker! Do you speak it?"
Depending on the government to step in and regulate corporate control is a fail-deadly system for freedom and should be avoided.

The likelihood of the ruling government to support the interests of its citizens is dependent on the power (negotiating leverage) that the individual citizens have over large government-controlled institutions (inc. coporations). Authoritarian systems produce generally compounding effects, so the idea that we should just sit around and do nothing while they compound is dangerous. When the time comes that protesting surveilance, censorship, etc. is dire then it already be too late because government will have the powers of surveilance, censorship, etc. on its side to squash dissent.

It is better to depend on systems (like FOSS) that are fail-safe for freedom. That is- they naturally err on the side of individual liberty. This is because authoritarian societies are non-recoverable and have to be rebooted by adjacent (free) societies.
Q: Science is 'broken' (faked / rosy bias in data and publication, less useful results, lack of public trust, etc). // "How do we ''fix'' Science?"

Hypothesis: TL;DR Goodhart's law: 'the measure became the target and thus is no longer a good measure' -- Publish or die / secure funding or die has lead to risk averse research, a lack of research into new fields, and a lack of reproduction / verification of existing research (checking the known is not 'sexy' / profitable).

Experiment: Proposal: Create a 200 year funding guaranteed tenure tracking inflation funded public domain / commons expansion researcher reward that ensures a life long appointment (and retirement) based on some other excellence requirement. Maybe revisit former initiatives like 'project paperclip' (WWII) for criteria suggestions.

Data Collection / Reports: Conduct the real experiment, for the first of at least 200 years OR until all enrolled applicants retire / expire. Issue interim reports every couple years (4, 10, something) to see if clear results contrary to the typical environment persist.
Solid point. The paper is a delta-mapper: it provides a p --> ∆p prior to posterior-change. However, it does not tell you anything about p or p'=p+∆p itself. To get true value of p^n, we sum over all ∆p in some way (affected by the path we take through papers addressing).

You're modifying the thing so that future ∆p^{i+k} are added to the delta-mapper so that ∆p is appropriately modified accounting for that ∆p^{i+k}. It's like path-compression in a union-find structure.

It is interesting as a helpful approach but does suffer from the pingback spam problem, right? And I have a slightly sneaking suspicion that it is not an accidental oversight in science that leads to these problems.
The UK has plenty of great authors, I'll make sure to keep reading them even if the UK decided to go on a genocidal rampage. That's because I understand that not all British people are the same, and especially not the same at all times, and also know that literature has ties to the present, but it doesn't necessarily cause the present. In fact, many times the leaders who decide to go to war deride the classics, or would have imprisoned/executed them had they lived during the same time.
oops :) Too many tabs. Fixed and thank you.
> Oh it was peaceful when no one was stopping “protestors” from breaking whatever laws whenever they wanted?

Yes, the streets were no longer filled with tear gas and a small army of mostly men in armor and 4 foot batons hitting protestors. "Don't kill them, but hit them hard" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-state-p...

"From June 1 to June 8, protesters and police in riot gear face off near SPD’s East Precinct headquarters. Seattle’s mayor would announce a temporary ban on tear gas, but the situation had already developed into a tinderbox."

"Tammy Morales: If police had just let people, who were protesting police brutality by the way, take up space and use their deescalation training instead of using tear gas and flash-bangs, things wouldn’t have escalated."

"Elizabeth Turnbull: I was one of those people who felt the feeling of acid in my lungs and the pain in my eyes, running with all these people in the dark, because we’re closing our eyes."

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2021/06/histor...

So yes, Seattle went from a warzone on Capitol hill that went on for a solid week to calm. That calm lasted for a full week - day & night. Eventually the CHOP did become unsafe at night, after that first week -due to an influx of homeless & campers.

There is an open controversy as well whether the police made the CHOP more dangerous by funneling gangs and dangerous people into it: "Activists claim that police allowed the violence to seep in by being absent from streets surrounding the CHOP." https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/seattle-chop-zone-police...

There is about 1 person fatally shot every 4 days in Seattle. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/not-se...

Ergo, week 2, the CHOP became essentially a homeless encampment, infiltrated by gangs and was less a protest zone at that point. Even with that going on, the level of violence observed there is still not strongly different than the average level of violence otherwise seen through-out Seattle in normal times. This is in contrast to dozens of daily injuries as police rioted against protestors.
These seem largely to be straw-men; brake rotors, pads, headlights.... all have associated safety standards.

You can install your own brake pads sure, but as a layman if you installed brake pads of your own design and construction, it might be a bit of an issue.
Oh YouTube in particular is a good point, I overlooked that.

(I'm sure it's at least somewhat intentional along those lines that it hasn't become GTube or something over the years.)
Among three most downvoted comments, one comment is very (and likely intentionally) misleading and the rests are uninteresting, repetitive sarcasm which deteriorates the signal to noise ratio. This might be very surprising conclusion to some of ordinary HN audiences, but could there be any realistic possibilities of those comment deserving some downvotes?
They're like a tick. Very good at burrowing in and hard to remove. They have a lot of clients for whom a dozen million dollars is a drop in the bucket, and moving away is a decade-long millions-of-dollars project.
It's called small claims court.
Wow I didn't know that, do you have a link?
I wonder if Deliverr.com will be impacted, given Shopify closed that acquisitions just 2 weeks ago.

https://news.shopify.com/shopify-completes-acquisition-of-de...