skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No way. Many people start with no plane. When they have a plane or two they face the systematic attack of people like you. I am still to see why that happens. Not all rich are good. But not all rich are bad. Same for normal people.

PowerBall winner start with no nothing, it's the same thing.

> So yes, you are right. You are telling me they are capable of creating value and things people are willing to pay for even if they were stolen and you use this sad argument of "they have too much" as an argument for stealing the earnings of people who create value in some way or another, like it or not.

Absolutely not, the Pension funds will install new CEOs which are MBAs who'd be happy with a 15M/yr salary, and of course the company will keep winning and prospering. We have proof of this. Goldman Sachs is not owned by Goldman and Sachs...JPMorgan is not owned by John PierPont Morgan and on and on. The outsted billionaire can now enjoy his retirement with his 999M. Poor thing! The public gets to enjoy the exta trillions of dollars which the measure would inject into pension funds.

It's a free meal , in fact due to the high concentration of wealth nobody would cry for billionaires. If millionaires and non-billionaire rich people are even half as smart as you say they are they are not so crazy to think that them with their net worth of 9-10M can one day become a billionaire and thus be impacted by such measure.

> Regarding that you can transfer all <to a cause you see fair> and does not make a difference does not mean it is fair to steal the money to who is making it in absence of coercion, violence or collusion, which are the ways to cheat, as an example, when the state raises you taxes 10% or puts a new tax and you can do nothing.

Extreme luck has always been punished or halved by taxation, except in modern day America
Not sure, it's been like that as long as I've been working. You can still get paid for more than 40 hours but not time and a half. Orgs usually have a hard cap on Contractor expenses so it's not easy to get approved to go over those 40 hours per week.
As someone aspiring to solder more, thanks for this list! Do you have any thoughts on the TS 100 vs the Pinecil? I thought the Pinecil was a slightly newer and more refined iron but curious if you have an opinion.

https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...
They really missed out by omitting Honeycrisp apples. I got a pie from the bakery at my local grocery store made with them recently and it blew my friggin' mind. So good. All other apples can go extinct.
Sure, is egrep a|egrep b| egrep c more intuitive than awk '/a/ && /b/ && /c/'. sure, until you need to have more control over the pipe, in which case, you already forked to awk. so why not go all the way and keep the operation as an awk expression? The great thing about it is, the more you use a tool, the faster you are at using it.
I think the main factor that drives the alternative model is that a lot of people with jobs that could theoretically be undertaken by offshore agencies advertise for an onshore individual (sometimes because they have very strong reasons not to want to offshore, but also sometimes because they haven't considered it). So there's a bigger market of better paying gigs out there for a "candidate" than an "offshore agency" (considerably better if they can actually deliver the work). Not that this particular entity seems to have had much ability...

In the grey area, there's still a big difference between a liason taking on a load of freelance contracts for the farm under his real name and intermediating comms without ever mentioning there's actually six other people he's never met doing most of the work and identity theft to take on remote full time roles involving work they probably can't handle.
My school had a lot of different levels of math in particular, I took a lot of the highest courses and loved my teachers, but with the stories I've heard from other students it seems like the school would give the best teachers to the best students, so people already doing bad would only do worse. So I do see some value in removing that because it incentivizes the school to not care about the lower level courses as much.

I think a better overall solution would be something like what Khan academy was going for - you can have a bunch of kids at different levels in the same class, and then you can also rely on them to help teach each other more. I think this was the main way schoolhouses were run before the industrial revolution. Then you're not limiting anyone, and you're also not encouraging the weird social effects that come from trying to section off people into discrete buckets
This happened to a former employer back in 2008. They sold us on their A-team and we got the guys they hid in the backroom closet. We cancelled the contract after their second code dump. They threatened to sue and my former CEO openly challenged them to. In the end they backed off.
If you cannot take the time to learn the language, what makes you so confident your python doesn't also have 3 bugs per line as well?
I am Russian, so I am going to explain the way I and my friends and relatives that I speak to think about Ukrainians.

We consider Ukrainians brothers in the best way possible. We don't care what language you speak, but it feels especially warm when we hear that you can speak Russian as well. Like you are speaking to a relative.

The government propaganda is trying hard to convince Russian population that they are fighting a small group of Nazis who took over government and against NATO mercenaries, not Ukrainians, because they know Russians don't want to fight them.

It may be hard for you to accept, given what's happening, but this is the bullshit that propaganda made some people believe.

I am telling you this as a person, whose girlfriend has heated arguments with her grandmother over a phone every week. It goes something like this:

"grandma! There are no mercenaries! They are fighting Ukranian military! Destroying cities! Where would they find so many mercenaries??? I don't care what you saw on TV! ... ".

The same thing every time.

There are probably ~3-5% of people who are fucked in the head and hate Ukranians, but most people do not.
Whose fault is in all of this?

Again not to look like flogging a dead horse here, but it's the hiring manager's and the organization's not the contractors' for this turn of events.

They should have done their own due diligence and cross-checked the references and the whole nine yards.
If you're in the EU, try getting the Revolut app. They have a feature called 'virtual cards' which are great for e-commerce purchases. The idea being, you use a card once and then terminate it after making a purchase. This means you don't get unexpected charges a year (or two) later as most services keep your card 'on file' now, which is a dark pattern.
I have been a participant in SV culture for three decades now and, in this time, the culture has gone from almost overwhelmingly positive to predominantly toxic [1].

We've finally reached the point where it's starting to impact the ability to get work done so I'm optimistic that change will follow.

[1] The thing about multi-generational toxicity is that almost no one remembers when it used to be different so it just becomes "normal", "best-practice" or worst of all: "high-performance".
The thing that always messed me up with relationships in school in Japan is how the class / larger social group would perceive it. There's definitely relationships I didn't pursue because I didn't want to disrupt the harmony of the group as it were. So dating out of group is easier in a way.

I wasn't over there until university, but I think it might be even worse for the younger kids. Everyone is in everyone else's business and no one wants to be the object of gossip or ridicule.
> That has nothing to do with what I’m talking about

You weren't talking about anything other than indicating that you need clarification on what face-to-face cues are missing.

> I’m saying the indicator on the top should be able to be removed if you don’t want to see it.

That's all well and good, but what does that have to do with the aforementioned cues?

> I also don’t really agree that giving a up or down vote really means someone read your message.

Ultimately they can't tell you anything at all other than that something triggered an event that was recorded in a database. But, assuming bots and programmer error are sufficiently filtered out, you can determine that a human was in proximity to your message and as such it is likely that they read it.

Like I said, a reasonable degree of confidence, not an absolute guarantee.
Gravenstein should be on the list.
>Promoting the highest performers would be actually a great idea

That's actually a terrible idea. You lose a major contributor to your output and nothing in that person's skillset is necessarily related to good management practices. There's a reason Jeff Dean isn't CEO of Alphabet.
Honesty is in shorter supply than you think in the consulting industry (with good exceptions). I have been around long enough to see fabricated resumes, bait-and-switch of candidates, and dedicated engineers that were not so dedicated.

What surprises me the most is that you have managers that not only end up getting in business with them but they are not able to find what it is really going on. And in some big companies some managers know what is going on and are fine with it!
Frozen Russian assets won’t ever return to Russia, and I suspect even Russians are aware of this.
In a lot of ways it's a convoluted form of arbitrage. These people "buy" developer labor in the cheap markets and "sell" in the expensive ones. Obviously bad when the developer labor doesn't get delivered as advertised. But if you can pull it off then mostly good for everyone.
Indeed. I haven't shut down development, just shut down the newsletter. I'm continuing to work on it.
I agree. Reading the article, his early political/constitutional positions, I could have easily aligned with. For instance, police should never execute a warrantless search. I can see police officers getting on board with an "oath" to protect such civil liberties.

But where is that slippery slope? How do we identify it? Because clearly (in my opinion), the guy took a good long ride down the slope. How do you go from supporting individual liberties to fascism so quickly? And to be so blind about that transition?

From an American lens, a lot of Americans would be generally appalled by Germany's behavior during WW1 & WW2. But I wonder, how "innocent" the people of Germany slid into these extreme viewpoints without really understanding what was happening. I greatly fear that America is now currently slipping in the same fashion.
im not there to experience what you have in front of you, but there are some very good ones out there that play games, manipulating URLs or straight up proxy botting other computers.

they usually give a talk similar to what you posted, often there is an urgent deadline when "account charges are final and non-refundable"

they just want a click on a link or a mouse farm [harvesting natural mouse movement to spoof bot detection]
Most of us "European souls" would prefer to stay warm throughout the winter.

It seems quite clear to me that in the short and medium term this ideological stance isn't going to hurt "evil Russian empire" a whole lot, while being extremely disruptive and harmful to everyone in the EU.
In my experience, ideas are spontaneous.

You can’t force a good idea but you can create a space for it to occur in.

Be curious, wonder what could be better, notice what bugs you and fantasize about tools which could make your life easier.

Some ideas dissolve quickly, and some come back over and over again.

The ones that come back may be good candidates for projects - especially if mixed with enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, the document isn't dated, but the most recent reference is to a report from MIT in 1973.
Russia would only be losing potential revenue if the pipelines would be getting used any time soon, which is highly unlikely. They already did turn off the gas, now this just confirms it for the long term, with the added bonus of lots of people immediately blaming the US for it. Middle Eastern nations would benefit far more than the US, which has basically sold all of its capacity for LNG already. The EU is looking to sign LNG deals with those nations, see for example Scholz touring the Gulf region recently.
> It just makes me sad that in a world with multiple high-performance JIT engines (including pypy, for Python itself), the standard Python version that most people use is an interpreter. I know it's largely due to compatibility reasons (C extensions being deeply intertwined with CPython's API).

this is misleading, if one sees the phrase "interpreter" as that code is represented as syntax-derived trees or other datastructures which are then traversed at runtime to produce results - someone correct me if I'm wrong but this would apply to well known interpreted languages like Perl 5. cPython is a bytecode interpreter, not conceptually unlike the Java VM before JITs were added. It just happens to compile scripts to bytecode on the fly.
> but it may offer some millisecond-level improvements

DA latency is a factor of processing speed when converting analog signals to digital information. The issue arrises with older hardware when individually tracking large numbers of channels, such as 64 or 128 simultaneously. Leaps in CPU speed increases have somewhat stalled due to the limits of Moore's Law and physics yet have done so at acceptably fast speeds for audio. Though the smallest latency a human can hear is about 20ms, it is easy and practical to reduce latency by scrutinizing signal path.
Developing your own might be too expensive. I think it could happen that the internet will divide like IRL, roughly into blocks.
> That's why bash scripts can be interpreted on any OS from 1995 to now and Rust can only be compiled on an OS which has updated it's rustc in the last 3 months.

You can get the same effect by trying to run scripts with bash 5.x features on a version of bash from 1995.

Rust code since 1.0 has the same level of backwards compatibility that bash does.
Does removing a program from the apple store also delete it from users' telephones?
> So if you hired a Maris in February 2022 - you may want to double check who you actually hired.

I’d love to hear a follow up.
When arguing convention, everyone is right, and everyone is wrong.
Santa Cruz is a tiny dot of land between the mountains and ocean. The only crisis is in overpopulation, brought about by the tiered UC/CSU credentialism.

Does anyone really think UCSC provides a better undergrad education than the average CSU? They literally have the exact same state mandated curriculum. But FAANG will hire someone with a UC degree over a CSU, thus the system is overflowing.
I just want to note, that this is a dangerous way of thinking, doctors did not think babies experienced pain and did barbaric acts for a while.
Yes I also believe my estimate is off. Regardless you should have a good understanding of the language before speaking it so you won't fall into the issues of adapting new words and grammer to your current one. You also should have it be exposed to you through experience vs try to memorize definitions or you'll have to pause frequently to remember how to say things.

But that may not be that realistic for most at least not without a accommodating and capable tutor.
mine kept growing every time I stumbled on a page with new hostile sticky situation:

javascript:(function(){void([].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('body *'),e=>/fixed|sticky/.test(getComputedStyle(e).position)&&e.parentNode.removeChild(e)));document.body.style = 'overflow:auto !important; height:100% !important;';document.body.removeAttribute("class");document.firstElementChild.removeAttribute("style");document.firstElementChild.removeAttribute("class")})()
In order to identify specific individuals in those photos.
Is there something that will prevent Medium pages from scrolling to the top when you reload the page?
Sounds like looking for a place in Dublin/Berlin except instead of 24 applicant in 24 hours, a Berlin apartment gets like 200 applicants.

Also in the Netherlands, several collage towns have students sleep in tents and container buildings or with university staff.
Yes, they definitely need to be on the outside. Absolutely, they really make an amazing difference wrt keeping the apartment cool.
used to work at an institution with more money than sense. had a model D in a practice room. there's no recovering from that.
Create a template of how a good question should look like. This is becoming more and more popular on Github's issues, not sure since when, but I'm definitely seeing it more often these days. Include sections like "what did you try" and "where did you look and what results came up", among others. Auto-close questions that don't use the template; if it's automatic, you're less likely to become a target of hostility due to this.

Set up a process of converting questions into docs (wiki works). If a question's quality is too low for its answer to be put into docs, delete it. If it is good enough, make an effort to answer and make it easy to contribute it to the documentation. Make sure it's easy to find both Q and A afterward.

Make sure you have a "troubleshooting" section in the docs. Try to assist people with finding the answers on their own as much as you can, but also make sure it's trivial to tell if someone actually read that section and followed the steps outlined there. If you get a question from someone who obviously didn't care to read that, delete it.

Make sure your docs are indexed, searchable, and that you're able to link to specific paragraphs (ideally) or at least headings (but then make sure to actually use headings that make sense). The more precise you are when telling people where they should go, the less likely they are to come back to you to ask again.

In general: make sure good questions (and their authors) are rewarded and make sure people who don't want to put in the work to make their questions good are easily distinguished. Warn the latter once or twice, then punish swiftly and decisively if they don't improve.

Above all else: don't expect your answers to be valued if you, yourself, don't value the time and effort expended to give them. Just because you know something doesn't mean everyone and their cat is entitled to be coached by you. Make it clear that getting an answer from you is a trade: the one with a question has to put in enough time and effort into asking it for you to find it worthwhile to spend your time and effort to answer.

Beware of jerks. Just like you can construct malicious packets that make the receiving server do a lot of work for nothing, it's possible to craft questions that amount to a DoS attack on you. Manage the time spent on answering questions and track it. If servicing a single person takes too much of your time, become suspicious. Taking too much of your time may just be their goal.

Finally: recruit helpers. People who often submit good quality questions probably dislike low quality questions as much as you do. Let them help you filter out the noise.

My 2 c.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the note. Does this mean that the bash source code (written in C, I assume) now uses its own `malloc` function instead of what is provided by the standard C library? Or is it saying that `malloc` is a command I can call in bash?

I assumed the latter, and couldn't figure out why I would need to manually allocate memory in a shell script.
Yes, the US is working to show strong leadership for sanctions, since the current administration fully understands the global threats to democracy posed by Russia, China, and authoritarian movements inside democracies (e.g., Hungary).

The Great Experiment — the idea that exchange and trade would bring democracy to authoritarian states — has failed so far and only empowered authoritarian states (in the medium term, at least). Authoritarian states simply found ways to route around it, and see democracy as the key threat to their existence. for example, the very existence of a free and democratic Ukraine threatens Putin's administration because the Russian people can see that one of the former USSR states being free is doing much better - raises dissatsfaction.

On the gas situation, the US cannot begin to supply enough to Europe as there are not enough ships and terminals in the world. Dependence on US gas has only slightly increased, and EU NatGas imports aren't a significant contributor to US GDP, but ARE a significant contributor to inflation. This is the last thing the US administration needs right now, and it would also be seen as a massive escalation, which the US is obviously avoiding.

Increased uncertainty today benefits only one party in the world, and that is the Russian leader.
Yes, flux is necessary. I use Kester solder, too :-)

P.S. I worked my way through college being an electronics assembly technician, so I spent a lot of time soldering. I enjoyed making the boards look perfect.

It turns out, this skill is transferable to soldering copper water pipes. Never had a leak! (Using a torch not an iron.)
what do you hit to get the info?
the only thing significant figures seem to be optimizing for is debate about the right way to use significant figures

in my experience, it’s always better to eschew them entirely and simply write an explicit error margin
I just tested the iPhone 14 Pro's 48MP ProRAW camera mode – and it blew me away
From the perspective of the company, there's immediate concerns around sensitive information, intellectual property, corporate/government espionage -- none of which seem unlikely in positions premised on flexible morals.

IMO if there were registered/regulated, established services that filled this need and handled the VISA/background check process then I wonder if companies might be willing to work with overseas developers more.
> Why would I change the oil in my car when it's $40 to get it changed at the shop?

The shop might be incompetent and strip the threads for example (very common) which will cost you a lot more money down the road when it's discovered and becomes a problem.

But, aside that, even competent shops can't provide the same quality of care than DIY because they have to operate on the booked time it takes to do a job. So they can't deviate from doing exactly what's on the work list.

Meanwhile, when I work on my cars I'm taking time to look around and pay attention and address any other upcoming problems I might notice even if they are entirely unrelated to the work I started out doing. And I clean the parts and nearby parts as I go, which a shop could never afford to do even if they cared.

Oil changes tend to be a loss leader so you can't often save money by DIY (but I always DIY due to the reasons above). But on other types of work you usually also save a lot of money by DIY.

For instance I replaced the fence between us and neighbor for ~$500 in materials. That neighbor had to also replace his other side fence (between him and third neighbor). Identical fence, but cost them over $4K to have it done by a contractor.
All of them do this, having been on both sides of the equation.

I can't tell you how much it hurts your soul to work at a consulting firm or implementation shop. I took a job once where they said I could hire a team of great engineers for a very complicated/technical contract, we talked before about how much salary/benefits/timeframe it would be to get the right folks onboard to meet some project deliverables.

Once I was onboard, it was like "oh, well you said you needed $X, but we only have budget for $Y, so you will need to make due with these jr resources". They suggested I work with the sales team to get more business for the things we wanted to do. I suggested they find a replacement and bounced from that clusterfuck.