skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pricing according to the ability to pay and the value it generates is something that seems to make sense.

There is no perfect universal formula. Everyone has different situations, backgrounds, variables to weight and scenarios to ensure. It’s good to advocate for balance because keeping score with money quickly can get hollow when Al your time and best energy is tanked.

Ones pursuit of profit and purpose doesn’t have to be with min the same hour of activity at work. One can be optimized to feed the other.

Surprisingly the world will pay atomically will for solving what appears to be a boring but very real problem.

Solving these tries of problems can lead to interesting ones.

If one some it might be more possible to work for larger rates based on their experience and give back to non profits at little to nothing, or over deliver value.

It doesn’t seem important but within 5-10 years it becomes apparent that ppl on the self or startup path have to create their own retirement fund and healthcare plan not just for them.

The more you can save the more you can have a say in what you do and don’t take on, and for how long.
Amazon’s game is squeezing out every ounce of value they can.

I worked in one of the Seattle buildings. It was still a culture of people crying at their desks, incompetent managers being checked out or just stressing out everyone around them.

Then you had the more seasoned people who figured out how to play the game. Something is broken or had some outage?

Find a way to blame another team. Think of the most sleezy used car sales manager you’ve met in the finance office of a car dealership. Now give them a “Sr. software development manager” role. That’s Amazon for ya.

Managers going on vacations to Hawaii while their teams are slaving away over the weekend to meet unrealistic deadlines. Utter lack of leadership. A house of cards held together by H1Bs and other visa situations where people put up with it out of fear of losing their jobs and having to leave the country.

I pray the government breaks up that scam. It’s a stain on humanity.
It means an adverse medical condition doesn't financially cripple you for life.
I particularly like the plant pot type thing, I had been following Groasis from years ago. One other thing this provides is thermal inertia, so the mass of the water cools in the heat, and warms during the cold nights.

The other key thing I recall is that the big idea is to help the tree to develop a tap root that can delve deep to moisture, although this seems to be all about collecting water from fog.
Amazing. Any oncall type of work? What if things go down at 3am?
Ditto. Unions are just another lobby. They seek subsides, money, and power.
Unions, like companies and governments, exist mostly for themselves. That doesn't mean they don't mean well (sometimes), but trusting them shows a bit of naivety.
"VR gets you cross eyes and impacts development" has never been substantiated, so far only the opposites were reported online. That means there are unknown side effects, but don't seem like there are serious harms.
It's not dismissive because having someone else provide you a free roof over your head is not a birthright in this country. The way things are set up, you are taking that roof from someone else, so you have to pay for it, and if you refuse to do so, you are essentially stealing from the other person/company, who may have circumstances of their own. These weird "moratoriums" were one-off rules where the government has forced an arbitrary group of people to subsidize the living of another group of people, but that model was clearly unsustainable, and once it ran out, predictably all kinds of ugliness ensued.
The discussion here seems to be whether, if we can capture all of the relevant details, a certain person is making a rationally optimal decision. Taking this to its logical conclusion we're fitting math to a process of decision making and adjudicating which criteria are considered rational and which are not. Sure there is mathematics involved here, but it reads a lot more like a question of who is our isn't allowed agency, in this case in their economic and financial decisions.
> If she bonded that closely to the animal they should have kept it on the property and not brought it to the 4H show.

What are you talking about? They kept it on property and law enforcement agents turned up (without a warant, inserting themselves into a civil dispute) and stole their goat.

This is the contentious point. What business did those law enforcement agents had to enter their private property and steal a goat from them?
Managers in the US largely are concerned about the next quarter earnings so they get their full bonus. This at the sacrifice of the business in the long term because they will have moved on. And unions usually span many states even support multiple sectors of industry, so the failure of a single business often doesn't seem to matter to the union.
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Office chair interference theorists, assemble:

- My PC plays a weird sound whenever I stand up from the desk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950402

- AriedK's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631096

- Sitting on gas lift chairs can generate an EMI spike which blanks your monitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036652

- Bug: Office chair turns off monitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978004
> It’s also baffling the parents didn’t try to buy the goat off the purchaser

I think they did? That's how I read "Long offered to “pay back” the fair for the loss of Cedar’s income" anyway.
As an aside, it’s striking to me that Hacker News has a significant audience of flat earthers. Don’t look up, right? Let’s be clear, human caused climate change is very real. Rigorous science confirms this and CO2 + methane levels are now driving very visible and catastrophic weather all over the world. The only thing left to debate is how quickly the planet will become hostile to human life and whether some scientific discovery (magic at the moment) can head off the worst outcomes.

Edit: The responses and downvoting in this thread just prove my point. Debating human caused climate change is no different than debating that the earth is round or that Trump won in 2020. Incredible.
I really don’t like the cognitive load of having to remember to use defer. We already have the scope defined, why add something extra?

IMHO the way it’s used in Go is a workaround, of luck of destructors, not a feature.

Edit: not a criticism on your language OP, which is better than what I could have ever built. Just a comment in the “defer” trend.
Related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844101
I don't know if this is because of Snap, but my work Ubuntu desktop sometimes takes ages (relatively speaking) to open a new Firefox window from the context menu of the dock icon, or whatever Ubuntu calls its version of the Gnome favourites.

That's the only practical gripe I have with their Firefox packaging. Since my workflow includes opening a new browser window quite often, it's an annoyance when doing that sometimes works fast and sometimes it takes a random amount of time.

I don't know for sure that that's because of Snap but it doesn't happen on my personal laptop with Fedora.

I have also noticed the issues with the Gnome shell integration and KeePassXC integration but I can live without those.
A Personal Submarine for Every Orthodontist
Yeah, this doesn't surprise me. Amazon certainly could do this. The problem is one of branding. Amazon is ridiculously convenient but they now have a well-deserved reputation that the quality of the products you get from them is a total crap shoot every time. If there was something like Amazon that I could rely on to deliver quality, I would happily pay extra for that. I think there's a window of opportunity for someone else to step in and become the "Amazon for reliable local quality" in the same way that e.g. NextDoor has become the "Facebook for local interactions". And I hope someone does because Amazon really needs some serious competition.
Hopefully the fact that we're not doing this for our developer job matching site is not its death knell. We're building up developer preferences first, and then we can ask employers to create job descriptions and potentially match with developers.

Scraping, in our case, wouldn't work anyway because most job advertisements don't have the information we require.

(For the curious, my friend and I are making https://polyfill.work. Developers say what they want -- pay, schedule, etc. -- and polyfill introduces employers and developers when they want the same things)
This argument is a naïve cost-benefit analysis, which is already a red flag, but on top of that it claims the damage is done primarily to business that can afford it, ignoring the fact that a non-trivial amount of fraud affects individuals.

> In the overwhelming majority of cases, that is where the waterfall ends. While insurance is available (both specialized chargeback insurance and general business insurance), overwhelmingly businesses simply absorb fraud costs in the same way that they absorb their office rent, staff salaries, and marketing expenses. That $10 to $20 billion number we threw around earlier? This is what happens to it, in the ordinary course of business.

This claim of “overwhelming majority” being businesses and being a marginal insurance-covered cost does not square with the fact that millions of individual are losing billions of dollars to fraud and suffering very negative consequences.

“In 2017, an estimated 3.0 million persons (1.25% of all persons age 18 or older) reported that they were victims of personal financial fraud during the prior 12 months. […] About 14% of financial fraud victims reported the incident to police. About three-quarters of financial fraud victims reported the incident to their family and friends (77%), two-fifths reported the incident to a company’s customer service (42%), and one-third reported the incident to their bank, credit card company, or other payment provider (31%). More than half of financial fraud victims said they experienced socioemotional problems as a consequence of the incident (53%). Financial fraud victims lost $1,090 on average and more than $3.2 billion in total.”

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ffus17_sum.pdf

And what about the opportunity cost & lost potential to innovating better solutions to fraud? There’s no good reason to assume the cost to solve this problem is an ongoing expense.

http://frankackerman.com/publications/costbenefit/Prospering...
Hahaha EVERY time.
It's not that e-bikes are legally limited in EU to be <25 km/h, but instead there's a different category (requiring registration) for those going above.

Whether those in the higher category are e-bikes is a matter of definitions, not legality.
Well, the Black Panther being a black superhero character, with African background, which is important to the story, means the "best actor" should include those qualities.

It's not just about "best" in acting abilities alone (as if those can be taken in abstract regardless of the story), but best in fitting the character and the role.

So you're kind of making the parent's point.
> is about animal rights and our culture of eating meat, is it not?

One can make it about anything. These parents aren’t advocating against goats being slaughtered. I doubt any of them will stop eating meat. They’re advocating for a specific property interest.
And those that aren't lazy will not automatically learn about what they "should do".

Nevermind that it's just stupid to tell people what to manually do when it's possible to automate it via software.
Why would the China thing matter? Having the NSA etc have data on me is no good. I am American. I have nothing to do with China. The country will never matter personally to me or my life.
thanks. I try.
The investors should have known better.

They (e.g. George Shlutz, Henry Kissinger, etc.) primarily invested because they knew her father and it was a done deal due to their old-boy network. They got what they deserved when they failed to perform even minimal due diligence.

She absolutely took advantage of their blind faith in their social network and was pushing obviously fraudulent technology. But the investors were all idiots also. Both should be jailed!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10366623/Meet-Thera...
I think if we showed kids from a very young age the processing of animals they likely not be traumatized for life. It'd be normal for them. I do believe that people should know where their food comes from and how it's made. I don't have any concerns with teaching kids how to hunt, farm, and harvest livestock.
> Ditch the bike chain and traditional propulsion

I'd like to remind my fellow denizens of HN that pedalling being an option is a strength of ebikes, making them operable once batteries have discharged, and giving riders the opportunity to exercise on their equipment as well. The bike is an excellent piece of design and is going nowhere :)
She's a narcissist so that will never happen.
I think you should probably do that -- niche job boards seem to do well, (or, at least, I've convinced myself that that is the case). I should also mention you can do this with the developer job matching tool my friend and I are making:

https://polyfill.work

If you hit "onsite" as a developer or employer you'll only be matched with in-person employers/developers. It's very much a work in progress at the moment.
> It's perfectly acceptable to violate a contract. It doesn't matter you're not a fan of this. As long as you follow through with the terms of violating it.

You are either being voluntarily ignorant or pedantic, I’m not sure which, but of course it doesn’t matter if I’m a fan of it. You know who also is a fan of enforcing contracts? The state, when they fund an agricultural program you sell an animal through and then don’t hold up your end of the bargain.
Thank you for sharing that.
That's a valid concern- people trying psychedelics on their own also run into the risk that what they're getting is altered, not what they wanted at all, or unintentionally taking a dose that will bring them bad outcomes.
Even with cannabis, back when it was completely illegal, I knew people who would sometimesb unknowingly get their hands on batches that had been laced with something else and end up having wildly unpredictable (and sometimes frightening) experiences.
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We specialize in simulating the physical processes involved in road-vehicle dynamics which allow motion planning, control, safety, and test engineers to design, verify, and validate changes to autonomy software without needing a physical vehicle on the road. We are a key part of Aurora’s safety culture: https://aurora.tech/safety

For more details, see the job description: https://aurora.tech/jobs/software-engineer-motion-simulation... and the company website: https://aurora.tech/

Technologies: The majority of our C++ software is C++17. We also have code in Python, Go, and TypeScript. Developers have a choice of Linux Laptops, or MacBooks and virtual workstations running Linux. We use many open source projects (including Eigen and Boost), and contribute as well.

Contact: You can apply on the company website, Linkedin, or simply ask questions over through the latter.
This is apples to oranges and therefore false. Contracting has much much more deductions from the base rate than salaries. At the very least, with 20 days (1 month) off, you start off with a 11/12 coefficient. Then there's buying your own benefits, dealing with your own accounting, i.e. maybe paying an accountant or otherwise investing the time to do it yourself, which in turn reduces the number of hours you have to actually, you know, contract. They aren't in the 97th percentile.
Psychedelics are mostly illegal because Nixon didn’t like the hippies and federal agencies were looking for new budgets. It’s not as shameful as weed being illegal because the cops hired to enforce the prohibition needed new jobs and it mostly impacted poor communities and African American but it’s close.
Ocean used to be 400 feet lower. We are still coming out of an ice age.

People will move further inland if needed.
I assume you agree that some kinds of opportunities are limited. Not trying new foods because you're afraid of wasting your money would be silly, or not saying hi to your neighbor because they might ignore you would be silly, but some things are very complicated. I'm thinking of: surgeries, mate selection, college degrees, white-collar crime, etc. I'm just saying that utility and loss aversion come into play, and "life is long" can't always save the day.

On startups, I think there are people who have been in situations where they have an expected value greater than something like a FAANG $300k/year over 3 years scenario (e.g. they own a large stake in a close-to-IPO company). And they should maybe still walk away, if the 50% chance of a tiny IPO payout would destroy their self esteem and make them feel even further behind their high-salary peers. (Also keep in mind that not everyone lands jobs at FAANG companies, so it shouldn't be super hard to find people who lucked into a startup where their EV is higher than their market salary over a few years). In other words: even if a startup somehow has higher EV, you may want to ignore the EV.
"I took a test to see if I was a sociopath, I scored 1 point under the threshold, but I think I got that point back when I broke in to the testing site to see my result early"
Every time!
I still don't see a value over a electric scooter, it reminds me of the old bycicles with a 50cc motor that were everywhere during the 70's and then faded away.
> What business did those law enforcement agents had to enter their private property and steal a goat from them?

You can’t use property rights to defend the parents.

The goat had been auctioned. Arguing for the family is arguing for a compassionate carve-out from regular property rights.
I'm talking about contests like, design our logo OR build the next rocket to the moon.
Listen to both people who succeeded and who did not. You actually need to learn from failures too.
Logical fallacy of non seguitur.

The logic of the comment should hold for any analogous scenario.

You either have to argue why one or all of the above analogies doesn't hold (what element is crucially different, so that the same counter-argument can't apply to your psychedelics argument), or to argue that the points made for those other things are wrong.

Except if you believe that you've discovered some unique logic that only applies to a single specific case.
Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage
The Team File Share. AKA “How is this still an unsolved problem?”

In 2004, I worked at a bank, and our team had a “P:/“ drive. It was a networked file share (probably Windows Server), mounted on everyone’s computer. Turns out, several members of the team were meticulous organizers, and would even leave notes at top-level folders - an index & guidance on what to put there, how to name files, and so on. Loved it, and did my best to keep things tidy and easy to find. What’s great is the whole file structure was browsable in a Browser (eg visiting p://marketing/events/2022-09-05 - Lunch & Learn/ would show the Apache-style index page, containing html links to files in that directory. Sharing a file with a colleage was as simple as sending the URL. When we wanted to share files externally, we had an FTP fileshare you could drag files to, and the URL was also predictable (http://external-example.com/marketing/events/teaser.mp4)

I was brainstorming today, and was wondering, what’s a modern setup of the above?

I’ve been experimenting with Dropbox & Google Drive with “fresh eyes”… so many frustrations, especially on iOS. It’s either you’re using their apps directly (annoying UI for both), or iOS File.app. But half the time, Dropbox isn’t “connected” (?) - in today’s case I had to update the Dropbox app & re-authenticate thru their app before the files were available in Files. It all seemed so silly of a disruption from such an essential tool of my file: my digital files!

Are there any “so simple, it feels like we are in a 2004 office” file share solutions?

A few requirements (feel free to m suggest other (need/wants), in the comments)…
- I can access my files on my computer (Finder, terminal) and phone (iOS, using Files.app)
- Files are automatically backed up (hourly/daily/weekly)
- I can read & write to files when there is no network service (eg while in NYC subway), and they’ll sync back up (SyncThing?)
- Private files are secure. On a personal fileshare, I ought to be able to store health records, financial records, sensitive notes & files. The “me” stuff. The family drive would have kids health records and so on. (the first solution that came to mind is “encrypted, password protected disk image, hosted on a fileshare in a VPC, only accessible when logged into VPN; and then accessible thru iOS Files.app?)

For Work, I ought to have “my drive” (eg example.com/~me/projects/, and “team drive”, also a private work area m (pay statements, notes from 1:1s / boss, etc)
- Fileshare. I ought to be able to be able to drag a file over to pub-fileshare, and it’s accessible to anyone with the URL. Or protected-fileshare, where certain folders have passwords (or some other securing mechanism, since who wants to remember more passwords…?

What’s the state of the art / tool stack of a “lofi” fileshare setup?

Imagine you were setting this up for
(1) yourself
(2) a best friend
(3) family
(4) small work team

What solution might actually last 10+ years?
Depends on which market in Europe. Rates can vary wildly.
To me, there is value in the process and craft. It started as a one year challenge to use only stdlib in all projects, for work and personal code, and became a way of life. Though it may not work for everyone, or all languages, or all skillsets, it was a revealing experience.

In retrospect, it made sense given that in my community we make our own furniture, instruments, tools, foods from whole items. Code seemed like the next logical step. During travels, once there was a man who had a word in his language for this. He said it was an aphorism loosely translatable to "the beauty of struggle". As he explained it, this is the positive benefit gained in return for the time and effort to do something as an act of appreciation of the craft, and how the value in the experience surpasses the debt of time and sweat.

To put it in a more modern and eastern philosphical context, think of it like Kata.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata
Interesting. So not knowing a lot about the situation, is this actually a hiring strategy?

Hiring people into the country on Visas, because then they have to perform to very high levels and crazy demands else they have to go back home?

That's evil genius stuff right there.
What's the advantage of pedal angle vs a torque sensor (or even an RPM sensor that some ebikes use)?
What leads you to believe there is a “significant” number of people who view the earth as flat on HN?
Plants should be grown from the sun, not light bulbs.