skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know who approved this compensation? The compensation committee.

This committee has 3 members. One of which was… Laura Chambers, the new CEO. Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/

So she basically decided how much she would be paid. For me it's a clear conflict of interest.

They explain here how the compensation for the CEO is decided: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2021/a...

It's basically based on what other similarly-sized tech start-ups pay. Which is ridiculous to me as Mozilla is basically a Google-funded open source project.

Also, who was on the nominating committee when Laura Chambers was nominated to the Mozilla Corporation in the first place? Baker. With one other member of the compensation committee, and another person.

This seems also to be a conflict of interest to me.
The end result: By the end of year 5 of it's implementation, the local tax authority shall determine the land owned by politically connected investment funds is virtually worthless, while ordinary citizen's derive virtually no value from any improvements they construct on their properties.

Where this love for arbitrary taxation comes from? How much have you donated to your mayor's electoral campaign? Do you golf with aldermen?
Yes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2023/04/28/amazon-st...

>Amazon’s online store revenues have been decreasing and its results for the first quarter — $106 billion in revenue worldwide — were “roughly flat” as its U.S. market share growth in e-commerce and Prime “stalled after years of high growth,” according to the Journal. Its global e-commerce business reported a $300 million operating loss.
I've been happily using irssi for several years now, but I know a lot of people who used HexChat, and I used it in the past, along with XChat before it. IRC is pretty simple, so I imagine HexChat will keep working fine for years to come. It may just miss out on some IRCv3 features, and in the worst case some vulnerabilities could go unfixed.
Bitboards and Connect Four
I'm nowhere near a programmer, but I use 'ipython' quite a bit for prototyping.

Particularly in cases where I'm trying to figure out how I want to modify some object.

I dabble largely due to Ansible and system administration purposes. IDEs and the like aren't a thing for me; neovim/LSP instead.
>> A naval historiographer I follow will show, for instance, ship photos or archival video that is not exactly the ship or event he is describing.

It isn't about money or resources. Even the biggest budget Hollywood productions regularly pass off incorrect ships in full understanding that most viewers cannot tell a sloop from a brig. Sometimes it is about cost or practicality, but more often it is about which ship comports with audience expectations.
Books are not a legacy form factor.
> why would you want to stay at an employer who treats you like this? Probably best to spend your engergy finding a new job.

While this is all true, doing that also allows / encourages the employer to continue their abusive actions toward others.

It's a big decision to fight something like this in the legal system. It might affect your future employement prospects, depending on details.

Grim.
> If all the landlords are using collusion

The market for housing in a metropolitan area cannot be organized. Everyone is a landlord. If rent spikes to 100k a year, I'm going to throw away shit so I can rent my 2nd bedroom for 50k, and the cycle continues down.
The one in the article looks like a stripped down Long Lines[0] microwave tower, not anything at all like a radio broadcasting tower.

[0]https://long-lines.com/
I'm in Texas, a state with pretty high property tax. We've also seen a ton of appreciation in recent years. Booming economy, transplants from other states, then the COVID factor. We also have a near free market on rent; I've been a landlord and not aware of any limitations. There are a couple limits on property taxes (namely a cap of 10% increase per year on "homesteads", and an Agriculture exemption for rural properties). But for most people in the towns and cities, this means our property tax bills have been growing 10% a year for probably the last 15+ years. So, the problem we're having now is people that have owned a home for decades or even just 5 years are finding they get forced to sell because they can't afford the tax bill. Since housing has appreciated, they're not just forced to sell, they're likely forced to leave their community for another cheaper place. I don't think it's right to lock up land/property forever, but I do think people buying property should be able to predict whether they will be able to afford to continue living there as they age. Even rather young families are dealing with this.

I personally think it's awful to see elderly people getting priced out of a house they've owned for decades, young families have to move their kids in their high school years because the taxes have become unmanageable, how it disproportionately impacts POC as gentrification occurs, and all the other ways it impacts people's lives who just thought they were buying a house to set roots for their lives/families but then externalities cause it to suddenly become unaffordable.

It's extremely perverse when you consider that these people's tax dollars are often used by politicians to encourage the very "growth" that contributes to their affordability problem. They court corporations and give huge tax breaks to move their offices/factories to Texas, which drives up the demand for housing, etc.
How does this compare to HLL?
dxil.dll is managed ("dotnet") code, right?
Are you seriously suggesting somebody working a poverty-level wage in an Amazon dystopia in Poland just... quit and start a business?
Here is a more in depth article which presumably is interpreting the same statistics [0].

Note that mystery, crime, romance and history were among the top genres. I would venture that many more Americans watch mystery, crime, romance and history shows than the 46%.

To me, this borders on trying to draw conclusions from sensationalist titles like "only 10% of all Americans listen to the town cryer for news". There are other forms of media that people use to consume information or entertainment.

[0] https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/48239-54-per...
things have different costs.

Types limit you from making some mistakes, but it also impacts your extensibility. Imagine an enum with 4 values and you want to add 1 because 10 level deep one of the services need new value. How does it usually go with strongly typed languages? You go and update all services until new value is properly propagated to lowest level who actually needs that value.

Now imagine doing same with strings, you can validate at the lowest level, upper levels just pass value as it is. If upper layers have conditionals based on value, they still can limit their logic to those values
The Dark Galaxy J0613+52, lowest surface brightness non-dwarf galaxy ever found [pdf]
These kinds of things are side-effects of "tenant's rights" laws.

Some may consider it the end-goal, to be fair - as eventually you'd drive landlords completely out of business. The problem is that this is antithetical to higher density, because you need landlords of some form if you have anything denser than a duplex. You can have condos perhaps, but not everyone can afford to get into one, or even wants to.

And if there's a lack of landlords willing to rent, there will be a lack of landlords willing to build to rent, and so the housing stock will continue to increase at a glacial pace.

The laws of unintended consequences can strike in weird ways - making it easier to evict may result in more housing in total ...
Perhaps it doesn't have to be reading only a book, and you could very well be reading a scientific paper instead. But reading engages a whole different category of your psyche. I believe that most valuable content is often found in the form of a book rather than a movie. Perhaps there are more books to be read than there movies to be watched. But I hear you; these are much more meaningful than mindlessly scrolling away elsewhere.
i'm not a psychologist, but that's something i noticed as well before interacting with people. some clever sarcasm can spice up a conversation, but sarcasm in heavy doses is clearly a signal of distress, or mismanagement of anger or pain. sarcasm is the humor of the sour souls.
I can read a quick Wikipedia article and get the gist of them pretty quickly then what's the point?

If you enjoy reading that's one thing but there's not much point otherwise.
So back when my team was smaller, we used to do birthdays. Lure the coworker into a conference room on some pretense or another, then bring out a cake.

Of course, once it became routine, it's rather hard to surprise someone -- any irregular meetings on your birthday are extremely suspect.

So for one coworker's birthday, a week after we'd just done another's, I scheduled JACK'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT on his birthday. He, of course, was extremely suspicious, and assumed it was a front for his birthday.

I made my announcement, brought out the champagne (well, sparkling Catawba), went out into the hallway to get a corkscrew, and came back in with the birthday cake.

So he had the whiplash of, wait, is this not for my birthday after all, wait, if it is, then are you not having a baby? And I declined to clarify until after I started my paternity leave, and half my coworkers didn't believe it until after I brought the kiddo in to show off.

It was glorious.
I think the article isn't about whether or not this is a good deal — rather it argues that people who actually need it have to pay extraordinary fees (for the average Joe, not tech folks on HN) in order to join the market. Most people don't have 15$k laying around.
I assume that of that 46% most aren't reading papers or watching good informative YouTube. They're likely doom scrolling social media or watching entertainment YouTube.

Movies and games are fine if you're comparing to fiction and just relaxing.

As someone who does all the things, reading (even listening to audio books) feels different to me. I get more out of it.
I only had to use AWS for customers of mine, not for my own stuff.

Also, did you search for my nickname and AWS? Interesting personality trait...
I didn’t see a price listed, and going to buy now requires auth. Any chance you could share pricing?
The AMA is one of the primary reasons US healthcare is SO FUCKED [by design].

As the first of many examples, limiting accredited residency program seats nationwide places an artificial restriction on produced-physicians.

I'm very happy to see increase in ancillary licensure/practice, although I know this just increases "the race to the bottom" which echoes so familiarly in regulatory capture / oligarchy.
It's all on Instagram and TikTok! /S
Depends on your queue semantics, ie is it just an at least once delivery or is there an ack back to the queue service.

If there is a two phase process then you just need idempotence and can safely transact with the db.
The article above is about their decline in consumption
> When nordstream blew up that was it.

True but it was turned off some time before that happened
If anyone is struggling to read a book, I suggest short stories! A lot easier to ease back into it.
100% this.

For all it's "faults", WinForms worked and it was pretty sane for doing desktop apps.

Everything after that ranged from bad to absolute disaster and to prove it are the 9 (!!!) frameworks/libs they released since then.
what happens if a language has zero-values, is that you can't "parse, don't validate".

Maybe it's time for you to finally try rust? Or any other language without zero-values, since rust seems to irritate you in particular.
So? “Declining in consumption” doesn’t imply “legacy”, or even vice versa.
Why Make a Game from Scratch?
I made a blog post some time ago about the whole "Should I make a game from scratch" thing that seems to be on everyone's mind nowadays. If you're thinking about that question and desperately praying before bed for an answer, then... chill, man. That's kind of weird. Nonetheless, I got you covered. Have fun. And stop doing that before bed. It's weird, James.
A return to the gold standard would solve quite a bit. The ability to manipulate the money supply is too much power for any person or organization or government for that matter. This is the lifeblood of the economy, it is 50% of every transaction, of course when that gets corrupted everything goes with it.
Only the percent has reduced, but the actual revenue from Google has been growing over the years.
I'm part of this club, actually I haven't read a book in about a decade and a half. _shrug_
The test prohibits vehicles, not specifically automobiles, but basically everyone interprets the rule to only apply to automobiles.

Are motorized wheelchairs vehicles?

> a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart

I’d say yes
Maybe they are treated as an incapacitated person by law.
Thanks for the link, this was very entertaining.
It misses WTL [1], could also include WinUI and Fluent UI [2] and the Windows Ribbon Framework [3].

Until 2024, history shows that Microsoft is the only company who can make a lot of failed or legacy technologies over and over and continue to be a successful business.

[1] https://github.com/Win32-WTL

[2] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui#/

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/ and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/windowsribbo...
And yet this falls strongly on cultural norms and leads to a great number of issues where cultures mix.
A growth mindset is great for an individual, but not a business or whole-scale economy.

I worked as the only developer at one company, one of 5 at another, and one of 50 at the last. The small team is ideal: division of labor, but everyone still kind of knows everything about the whole software package.
I'm not sure he makes his income with writing reviews like this?

Sure, you could make your hobby a job. But if they experiment with a device like this to see if it enhances their work it is kinda like the 80/20 rule at Google. It could turn out productive, inspiring. But I wouldn't want to bet on it. It wouldn't be the main task of his job.
> but as far as I'm aware, somebody with no credit history is basically indistinguishable from somebody with "good" history.

As it should be. Why would you want to allow someone to be judged for _not_ having been in debt in the past?

You can always ask for references if they rented before, that might help somewhat.
I like using Rich Harris's tools because he cares about actually getting stuff done and he's allergic to bullshit
And I think a large percentage of the 54% are lying because they are embarrassed to say it. Very few of the people I know read any books at all.
Curiously, some places (notably San Francisco) in the United States have the opposite system: rents are unregulated for the first few decades of a building's life, and then annual increases are capped after that. This ensures that the older housing stays affordable for the people who live in it, but it allows prices to rise for new construction, which should in principle increase the amount of housing that gets built. In theory buildings should generate most of their value in the early part of their life when they're more desirable.

This system isn't always managed as well as it could be — subsidized unit requirements are layered on top of that, and in St. Paul the payoff period is only thirty years, which has made some developers balk. The political factions often imagine all investors as good or bad instead of as a force that can be managed to achieve desired social outcomes.
I don't fully place the blame on people. Lack of investment in edication and infrastructure and other social support structures means people are robbed of time, relaxation, stress free financial and healthcare situations, etc. There's also addictions to smarphones, tablets, and video games due to lax regulation and unbridled capitalism.

The lack of reading is a symptom.
Ok, but the OP and the article are talking specifically about a directly shared rdbms scenario, not some nebulous concept of shared data.

Also, operationally it’s not “semantics” at all. You don’t get into (many) operational problems with analysts sharing a datawarehouse. You absolutely do with online apps sharing a rdbms, they aren’t the same thing.
> reading scientific papers in PDF

How many people are reading scientific papers but zero books?
FMLA only covers companies with 50 or more employees.

A friend was fired in the US when she told her boss she was pregnant and discovered this limitation. Her previous work experience was in France so she did not realize this could happen.
What podcast client do you use? Every podcast in the iTunes directory has a public RSS feed. If you're having trouble figuring out the feed from that directory, you can use a tool to show you the link from the podcast's directory page. For example, paste Smartless' page https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smartless/id1521578868

into https://www.labnol.org/podcast/

to get https://rss.art19.com/smartless

At this point, just about the only podcasts that don't have public RSS cost money, now that Spotify has abandoned its exclusives strategy. If you were subscribed to a public feed that moved to Spotify exclusive, it's probably started repopulating in the last year.

If you are referring to YouTube shows, all Youtube channels have RSS feeds in the format https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCX6OQ3D... (UCX... is a channel ID.)
I got a 100% agreement with majority too.
I did not try to define anything formally, instead I judged each case by itself, asking whether I'd consider that thing a "vehicle". Which ended up meaning "car" in practice.

You only go mad if you try to lawyer things. Or your opponent does, which means that this test lacks the thing that really makes rules-making hard: determined opposition, would to trust your every word.
Ask HN: How to Learn Cloud Development?
I’m a graphics programmer who wants to move to cloud development. What’s the fastest way to get skilled up on writing and deploying secure services to CSPs to create large-scale, distributed applications?

I know words like k8s, containers, helm charts and have a high-level idea about what all these mean, but don’t know where to start learning how to actually implement and deploy any of this stuff.

Are there any good online courses, or up-to-date books you recommend to learn?
I'm not sure how I feel about conflating audio-book consumption with reading. In my experience, when I listen to a book it goes in one ear and out the other; any studies that show information retention between the two?
Is that for Poland, or somewhere else?

In Britain you're compensated up to £643/week by default (up to your weekly pay amount), plus compensation similar to what you describe.

I don't speak Polish, so I doubt I could find the situation there.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/employment-tribunals/...
> If such team exists they will either become bottleneck for every other team (by auditing carefully each schema change)

That’s the point. Would you send a backend code review to a frontend team? Why do DBs not deserve domain expertise, especially when the entire company depends on them?

> they are not responsible for the whole product, just for the database

I assure you, that’s a lot to be responsible for at scale.

> DB team could act as an auditor and expert support, but they should never be fully responsible for DB layer.

Again, the issue here is when the DB gets borked enough that a SME is required to fix it, they effectively do become responsible, because no CTO is going to accept, “sorry, we’ll be down for a couple of days because our team doesn’t really know how this thing works.”

And if your answer is, “AWS Premium Support,” they’ll just tell you to upsize the instance. Every time. That is not a long-term strategy.
For those who don't know, Reddit provide feeds at URLs like `/r/foo/.rss` (although they're actually Atom...)

Annoyingly this doesn't work when combining subreddits, e.g. `/r/foo+bar+baz` is HTML containing posts from those three subreddits, but `/r/foo+bar+baz/.rss` only includes posts from one :(
Well, can you name a computer game that is a great artistic work? There are many that are good, but I can't say there are any that are on a par with, say, "The Lord of the Rings" or "War and Peace" or "1984".

I'd love to hear of one that was though.
Yeah, that could be adjustated with lower fees for the first/main property/residence.
Yeah surprisingly high! I suspect some of them are lying.

I haven't read a book for a few years. Don't have time. I don't think it's a big deal.
> The man didn't seem to want to quit...

For a lot of people quitting (or losing their job) is not an option. I'm sure if they had a choice they wouldn't work in such a place as Amazon warehouse. Let's not blame the victim, we should punish Amazon (and similar corporations) instead.

It makes me sad and angry that such things can happen - unfortunately I can't boycot them more than I do already. I'll stop boycotting them when they start treating their employees right... Not holding my breath though.
There was span of a couple years when I had to commute ~3 hours per day. I easily completed 1-2 audiobooks per week.

But more to your point, what percentage of the population do you think is active on goodreads? I can't find any MAU numbers for them, just total membership numbers. Regardless, it is a self-selecting audience. Much like if you go to a theater to see the latest garbage marvel movie, the people in that theater are probably very likely to have seen other marvel movies in the theater recently too.
Funny enough, the easiest way to experience this is probably to do some performance experimentation on the machine you code on. If it's a laptop made in the last few years, the performance you can get out of it knowing that it's sipping on a 45W power brick with probably not great cooling will make you very skeptical of when people talk about "scale".
I’m all for reading, but a couple of hours every night is a very big time investment.

People with children are often lucky to have 30 minutes for themselves.
> nothing has changed for bitcoin 10 years vs now.

That's kind of the problem you know. That was the best summary of cryptocurrency in a single sentence, yes nothing happened.

Bitcoin didn't change indeed, it's my perception that it could work one day which changed since 10 years are now gone and nothing did happen.

And I don't regret spending coins since it's supposed to be a currency ... isn't it?