skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there’s a midwit meme here

do things that are good

ultimately no one knows when we will expire

balance is hard and sometimes it’s nice to look back and say oh i worked so hard for nothing but the experience of working hard and that’s okay too

we all end in the same place

“nothing is good or bad, thinking makes it so”
"We sold our row house in philly"

Got out just in time. It's really gone downhill in the past few years.
No. I'm thinking of rural areas. I know the difference... weird for you to assume I don't, honestly.

> hunting supervised

So not independent. At all.

> fishing, riding their bike places, exploring or "hanging out" in the woods, building things, working with power tools, etc.

For a ten year old, all of those things can be done in a city FAR, FAR easier in a city than in a rural area. Even exploring the woods, in many cities, can be done by a ten year old with a commuter rail train pass and a bike.

The crucial question when you are in a rural area is: with who?

> riding their bike places

You have to be intentional for this to be possible in rural areas. Not even "safe", just literally possible.

Again, it's totally possible. But if you are not intentional, your kids will not, by default, be able to bike to their friend's place or a common middle ground. If they have to bike ten miles to meet up with a friend, they're going to end up connected to a car and spending most of their time online.
> For most modern music the majority of income is made on tours doing live music.

Now, yes: internet streaming killed recording as a viable profit center in the mid 2000s. When Baumol was writing, musical acts did live shows more or less at cost, or even at a loss (covered by their record companies), to promote their recordings, which were where the money was, then.

The declining popularity of classical music is beside the point. Baumol intended classical music to stand in for performing arts in general.

The size of the potential (and in many cases actual) audience and revenue has increased for performances of all kinds: popular music, stand-up comedy, baseball games, motor car races, spelling competitions, etc. At the same time, costs to an individual consumer have declined dramatically. Those things are the essence of productivity gain.
I honestly dont get it. "Pushing boundaries" doesnt explain anything to me, good lord. What does this does???
>I worked for an IPO where the CEO made the 40 under 40 from a business plan written on a napkin

Then it wasn't on the merits of the business plan, but the idea, niche, timing, connections, delivery, and several other factors besides...

Millions can scrible some startup idea on a napkin. Getting a VC to take you seriously is another matter, even with a fully fleshed presentation, a prototype, and a well written and researched business plan.
Combustion powered bikes are unlikely to be counted but e-bikes probably are. That would match the delineation that regulate bicycles at least.
> makes programming harder, not easier

That’s exactly my point. The current scenario where someone can just go into a 3 months javascript bootcamp won’t be enough.

In my team, there is a grad dev doing bare minimum work. He has no initiative and struggles to understand basic requirements. I need to break down the task so much that I’m almost doing the work. In a few years, with better tooling/copilot/gpt, I will be able to just “finish” the job myself, and this kind of dev is made redundant.

Maybe this kind of dev is not common in FANG, but I met several, from small to big companies, in my over 10 years software engineer career.
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When can two TCP sockets share a local address?
Because bank operations cost money, and given that the federal government guarantees deposits of $250k per bank per account holder, it makes no sense to patronize a bank that will charge depositors to use the bank, plus offer less interest compared to a bank that offers free services and more interest.
The first two years of a CS degree also usually include primarily non-CS class requirements for a typical degree.
This discussion has been had thousands of times on this board. If you're genuinely curious, the search function is very capable.
Looking at the chart, it appears that "motorists" is separate from "taxis". I wonder which bucket Uber falls into.
To be honest I'd say that it's driven much, much more by compensation rather than that being some additional element. Leaving aside FAANG levels of compensation, places pay staff the minimum they can get away with and don't raise existing staff's compensation unless absolutely forced to.

If you could somehow anonymously go through your company's hiring process you'd be offered more as a new joiner for your skills and experience than someone already there, which is bizarre set-up (even though any new joiner has to spend time ramping up & existing staff have a great level of instituional knowledge).

So companies have created a system where if you want to get a fair market rate, you _have to_ move every 2-3 years. I know a lot of people who stay put in spite of this, as they don't like the friction/effort of interviewing & are comfortable/like colleagues etc. If places paid market rate to existing staff, I'd imagine their churn would plummet.
>> Do those who have over 500 karma points, any better at remaining objective when they consider down voting a post?

Understand your point, but ease of which abusing the system is to simple. I could easily automate creating 100s of accounts a week with a rep of 31, which is all that’s required to flag — and anyone that understands how flagging could even do this manually, if motivated. Gaining 500 rep though per account would take 16x the related rep.

Realistically only measure of skill at flagging is skill at flagging; aka there should be a reputation system for flagging alone and any abuse of it should result in a ban for access to flagging or reviewing flags.

>> but it takes time to deal with the BS - actually it's a real time cost.

100% agree, but then don’t claim HN is community base on the spirit of curiosity, open reasoning, etc. Further, I don’t believe for a second that if Dang requested help creating open source moderation tools that were able to be integrated into YC’s legacy code that community would not help or be reasonably, if forced to do so publicly.

>> Actually for the last week I've been following flagged and dead posts

Not aware of any way to see 100% of these without writing code to interface with API, am I missing something?
This is a really great answer.

It's worth noting that if you're in the position of interviewing then you probably have 10+ /years/ of industry specific experience.

The applicant's prior ten years included 2 years of covid prison, a fractured high school experience, and learning basic life skills.
Perhaps it's easier to pick an OS and understand its boot process?

And since no one's mentioned let me say that TLDP is a comprehensive, understandable, and the authoritative source on all things Linux.

That said, here's two documents from TLDP.

1. [Boot process, Init and shutdown] https://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_04_02.html

2. [The boot process in closer look] https://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/boot-process.html
I want you to know that I think you are one of the best posters here. That said:

> historically, that’s not a winning position, basically, ever

In what universe do you think people who are staring down the gunbarrel believe they have any chance to win at all, in anything? When “join up”, if one is even allowed (and let’s be real, they’re not being invited) is also losing?

We are talking about telos here, and tech’s incessant drive to smash it. And this industry offers no alternatives or even the barest minimum of safety to anyone.
Bank risk has 2 major components credit risk and interest rate risk (duration risk is a subcomponent).

SVB was over indexed on credit risk and under indexed on interest rate risk (so they could make more profit).

This is banking 101 stuff and risk managers (including those at SVB) will point out when this imbalance happens.

2008 was about credit risk, large swaths of bank assets went down because the underlying credit defaulted. 2023 is about interest rates, large swaths of bank assets went down because they were attached to too low interest rates for too long.
Font folks also really underestimated how much people like having access to graphics with more than one color.
Regulation to prevent them from getting into dangerous situations.. financial regulations on capital requirements and stress tests, the sort of the things that in 2018 the SVB CEO worked successfully to be removed.

"SVB CEO and President Greg Becker "personally led" the bank's $500,000 lobbying efforts to reduce financial regulations on capital requirements and stress tests, according to the Accountable.US report." [0]

https://www.salon.com/2023/03/15/rolled-back-regulations-got...
> consider which business wouldn't be at risk of closing down when half of their customers run away _at nearly the same time_.

Almost all businesses that fail do not take their customers life savings with them when they fail. That same life savings that’s being used to profit off interest bearing loans and risky investments at a disproportionate benefit to the bank.
Social engineering is social engineering. You're hacking humans if anything, but you're not hacking a system by definition. You can social engineer people for other reasons than hacking a system.
So the story is effective ad-blocking killed their business?
I don't really quibble with the idea that marriage (can) work well. What I have a problem with is the suggestion that somehow the so-called "elite" opinion that social relations like marriage should be more flexible

1. constitutes a denigration of the institution
2. actually materially causes the decline in marriage rates we see, especially among the economically exploited.

Poverty causes significant stress on couples which almost certainly explains the differences between the marriage rates of different classes in our society. I'm pretty sure that people having kids out of wedlock aren't doing it because they read about it in GOOP or whatever. In fact, further down this thread someone has posted a survey which suggests that people more likely to get divorced actually have a stronger belief in marriage than people less likely to. This suggests strongly that it isn't the opinions of the upper classes that actually cause divorces and points to other economic causes.
I like Stage Manager, it brings back the single window mode from early versions of Mac OS X and removes the need for a defaults hack to get it working.
So you'll only accept evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and then take action about it within the context of your own democratic processes, if you get that evidence from a good and/or honest person?

Because honestly, this just keeps the door open for more crimes. Rarely is anyone ever good enough or honest enough - and neither of those conditions are required for addressing our heinous crimes against humanity, frankly. You just have to be good enough to know that war crimes and crimes against humanity are heinous, and honest enough to produce workable evidence that can be used to produce justice.

Assange is good enough and honest enough for that case, really - and if a person doesn't agree, they're a bootlicker thug. The WAR CRIMES have to stop. The CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY have to stop. It doesn't matter one iota what sort of person reports the evidence - the evidence is real. The crimes are real.

Assange's honesty doesn't change the enormous magnitude of the victims digging their loved ones out of the rubble, one bit.
Three posts ago you were pointing out obstructionism, now you're saying we have fundamental incompatibilities that can only be resolved by putting money into a pot and having it spent the way you want it to be.

I put it to you that it isn't 'obstructionism', it is plain old disagreement. Or if you prefer, the left is being just as obstructionist in blocking the right from making their own decisions. The only difference is where the obstructions are happening.
I don't live in London, but I'm interested in acquiring a stationary bike to do cardio at home. Does anyone have recommendations?
I would worry about any university that had a CS program like that. In a decent CS program you should be writing a compiler in your senior year.
I read the title as "windows" :/
This thread makes me think you’ve never worked at a corporate company or FAANG.
Is it still in Elon Musk's business model, perhaps that's what he wanted.
Mod sorry telling Afghan interpreters to get Taliban's permission to come to UK
The Slow December experiment: inspiring creativity and reducing burnout
Or any competent bank in the US.
germany, or I think many central/western europe areas have that
Bank assets are typically laddered so that they aren’t dominated by 10 year assets that were all originated at the same time.

A well run bank keeps some amount of assets in lots of different durations including longer terms, just not all at once.
> Civil rights trumps freedom of association, and indeed all other rights.

Wait, I can't ask you to leave my property because I don't like what you're saying? Also, isn't freedom of association explicitly a civil right?
The top 10 most happy countries in the world according to UN World Happy Report

1 Finland (6th year in a row)
2 Denmark
3 Iceland
4 Israel
5 Netherlands
6 Sweden
7 Norway
8 Switzerland
9 Luxenbourg
10 New Zealand
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

I never realised Bullshit jobs was written by an actual academic.

It's not a new idea.
well if there's no way to spin anything without getting entagled in some sort of intersectional original sin, then it's devolved in Jacobin Terreur.
The noise though. A long time ago I stayed in an old stone building in the south of France. There were dozens of these things on each wall. They'd crawl about at night and drive me insane. The pitter patter of a thousand tiny feet...
airplanes do not execute in a vacuum eg: computer. There are external factors that might cause an airplane to fail. A fully working airplane all things equal in terms of weather and a good pilot, will be safe.
Hm. Sarcasm and an implied argument that fails a smell test.
I've noticed Software Engineering is becoming more common as a post secondary school education offering. Perhaps this would be more appropriate for most people.

Also helps work toward justifying the "software engineer" title that many non qualifying people like to use.
I don't think this constitutes denigration of marriage. Its just totally normal reflection about the institution and its role in and interaction with the state. It doesn't sound like you actively preached to people that they "shouldn't get married" and that marriage qua marriage is bad.
In your dreams.
Are they being actively used or are they just sitting in a closet somewhere?
Its a straw man argument. The thugs dropping bombs on innocent people every twenty minutes aren't good enough or honest enough, either. You only have to be marginally better than them - a very low bar - in order to effect change.

Which means, if you aren't interested in effecting change in the form of real justice for these war crimes and crimes against humanity, you're not one nanometer taller, in terms of moral authority, than the criminals dropping bombs on peoples heads - in your name.
I've been in China, on and off, since 1996. Not living there full time but spending a month or two at a go. If I were to draw a graph of my own sense of optimism about where China was headed it would be a strong upward curve from the start up until a couple of years after the 2008 Olympics. By the time Xi took power in 2012 I was still thinking that he might be a positive influence.

In many ways his early life, the political downfall and persecution of his father and Xi's own persecution during the Cultural Revolution had me primed to think that he might be a reformer. Someone that could possibly carry on in the footsteps of Deng Xiaopeng and really bring China across the finish line and into the world as a powerful and positive force for the planet at large. Instead the opposite happened.

By 2013 what Xi was about was starting to come into focus. He carried out "anti-corruption" reforms but it didn't take long to see that these really just targeted his opponents (and the occasional ally that was worth making an example of... in Chinese 杀鸡给猴看 trans. kill the chicken to show the monkey). As crackdowns on China's fledgling independent media and various minorities intensified the curve on my chart dips and starts to dip hard. Now it is as low as it has ever been and heading downwards in freefall. I declined an opportunity to go back this Spring and part of me is very sad about this but China is headed to a dark place and I don't want to be there when it happens. Unfortunately when the time comes it will drag much of our world down with it, I fear.
Now you're just making up new meanings for these words. While I agree that you shouldn't respond to spam, there's nothing "rude" about responding to spam, and nothing "polite" about ignoring a message.
Yes.

Spent 12 years in “the City,” in Charleston, SC to be exact. Watched it go from “hidden gem” to “how much more Carpetbagger can we take.” Mixed blessing there, sold our meager home for a lot more than it should have been worth and moved to the mountains. No more getting cut off every other stop light. No more pistols brandished in traffic. No more “oh wow our across-the-creek neighbor had a home invasion.” All in all, seems with a certain level of density people just lose their mind and sense of decency. All those whacky stories you’d hear growing up about senselessness on the streets of a true city like LA or New York.

It may sound stupid in hindsight, but I grew up in a small coastal town of about 10,000 and growing up going to college and then a city for work was “the path” - it never occurred to me that maybe not everyone is built for a city, big or small. I’m not all that interested in the nightlife beyond the couple years I spent going out as a young adult. There really isn’t anything interesting about that $20 cheeseburger with an “aioli” on it. I’ve seen the couple of bands live that I wanted to.

At a certain point I’m just paying too much money to live in a place that makes me mentally ill to be in. With remote becoming no longer a weird exception - take advantage if you can.
It doesn't come without tradeoffs though. I did an MBA and now work as fairly junior dev at age 37. If you're interested in social status, impressing the in-laws or having a lot of disposable income then this isn't for you :) Luckily I couldn't give two flips. I now almost don't understand any tradeoff that makes quality of life worse, quality of life is everything. Luckily I live in the UK so I don't really have to worry about medical costs, education or childcare costs for kids since I have family nearby to look after them
"So not independent. At all."

Go back and re-read. Not everyone follows the rules.

"But with who?"

Friends within a couple miles, siblings, etc.

"You have to be intentional for this to be possible in rural areas. Not even "safe", just literally possible."

Yes, tell me my life experiences. Now stop trolling. It is literally possible and people do bike and walk places miles away. Don't believe me? Go look at the Amish.
Get a Peloton with a financing deal, hope either they or the underwriter collapse shortly after.

Free bike.
They said visits were in decline and they'd all but abandoned development of the site. It's been in ktlo for a decade.
Many universities cram unrelated filler courses into the first year.
It varies by brand and type. Some are pretty bad. Aunt Millie's has a couple of really good ones, particularly their 5 seed and white. Aldi's white keto is good, too. Lewis has a good keto Hawaiian loaf. For whatever reason the keto wheat breads I've tried are a little too... woody for me. I'm not sure if they are available outside the Midwest. To be honest, I'm really happy keto bread exists because for about two years, I couldn't eat sandwiches (I have to eat less than 50g of non-fiber carbohydrate per day... so just the bread on a sandwich usually takes 90% + of that).
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I think this is being oversold as a solution. These insurance policies are just that, insurance policies. I'm sure they are not all independently backed by enough currency to make everyone good, any more than any other insurance policy is. Those "hedges" are probably derivatives stacked on other derivatives stacked on other derivatives until the situations has been satisfactorily fudged to everyone's satisfaction that permits them to pretend they're "hedged", but I'd bet if the entire banking system tried to draw on them at once it would rapidly turn out there wasn't anywhere near enough "there" there. You can't have a system where everybody pays X into it and then simultaneously tries to draw 1000X (who knows what the cost of this was, but certainly much greater than X) out of it. You can build a derivative structure that hides this fact from everyone as long as they don't test it, but there is no derivative structure that can make that work if they do.

Proper hedging might have delayed this, but something bad still would have happened. It's possible proper hedging might also have put the first fire out, but it would have over time only made the situation more volatile as those hedges would have had to spike in cost and possibly driven other things over the brink.

The fundamental problem is that the financial system is so stuffed with tinder that it makes the California forests look like they're not even trying. What sparks it is of a certain amount of academic interest, but in the end, it's not the sparks that create the raging conflagration. A spark may cause a fire, but the raging conflagration is caused by the fuel. Sparks are inevitable. A "hedge" that promises to send out a couple dozen fire fighters if a particular spark starts a fire is of little consequence if a hundred fires start at once and the "hedge" is the exact same dozen fire fighters for all of them.
Pair program with your graduate candidates. Do they work well with you? Are they flexible? Do they have mastery of typing and editing code? If yes - then hire them.

Don't hire people based off programming riddles.

Don't hire people because they know an SQL join - hire people who can come up to speed with SQL in a reasonable amount of time.

Industry has a responsibility to teach good coding practices. That's just the way it is.
"Risk" has mutliple dimensions. But by over-optimizing on one kind of risk they completely dropped the ball on other risks. They also whiffed on the kinds of risks that come from building a business based on the flywheel effects of a social network. Works great when times are good, but disastrous when tbe same effect works against you.
Ok - I know this is not usual HN fodder but somehow there was someone in an organisation that managed to approve a new policy (let alone write it) that is just ... astoundingly dumb.

It's not the UK armed forces are evil. But that somehow organisations can be without any person in the org doing so.

This is just a jaw dropping example of emergent organisational behaviour - something we see everyday
I’ve had a grandfathered in “business” account forever. It’s mostly useful to me as a research tool, both on potential hires for companies I’m advising, as well as on companies themselves. Every single recruiter contact I’ve received since 2006 has been unproductive. Of course having a 17 year old LinkedIn account is itself disqualifying for many recruiters.