skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been hired to a startup that uses Pave - they mentioned that they paid at the 75% percentile, and my offer ended up being more competitive than others I was getting. I think that while obviously some companies can use this data to pay less, the more likely outcome is that they pay MORE. You forget that companies are competing with each other for talent, they are not in the business of colluding together. So if I can see that other companies are paying X, I am more inclined to pay X + Y
Ofc, because it will be the people growing up in the 20s.
> 1B views a month

Where did you get this metric?
What I learned when my AI Kermit slop went viral
> and becoming indistinguishable from the pre-Uber status quo

As long as you can (1) tap a button on your phone and have a taxi show up in front of you in minutes and (2) pay by credit card and not have the driver rip you off by taking a longer route, it will continue to be infinitely better than the pre-Uber status quo.
Seems like something gusto can turn into a marketing point. Surely there’s a desire for a privacy respecting payroll/hr platform.
Part of the trick is that you can't rate a driver if you don't actually start the ride, and the driver controls when the ride starts. Sometimes the driver will just get a fare from another service and wait for you to cancel the ride, and then they get a cancellation fee unless you complain to Uber, which they make difficult to do. The trick I use in this situation is just to switch to Lyft and make the driver cancel so I don't have to deal with Uber customer service.
I don't know how common it actually is. I've always provided references and probably OKd a background check but post-school my few jobs have always been through people I knew and there was really no reason to run a check except fr pro-forma reasons.
> ... with people implanting rare earth magnets into the tips of their pinky fingers ...

Imagine the joy of getting an MRI and forgetting about that bit of biohacking.
I don't think this is what most people think when they hear "build system".

Also... I dunno if people are scrambling away from Electron's inefficiencies just to replace it with Python's.
I suspect they are referring to the recent US Supreme Court decision.
>It is true, but I think you're missing my point.

Maybe? What are you envisioning? Some sort of static analysis before a program runs? Explicit opt-in's to what a program needs, from the program itself (and only what it needs)?
They already expect people to work for next to nothing simply because they're "startups". Instead, maybe they should focus on hiring decent people AND paying them industry-fair wages.
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> Technically true, while ignoring all details of how "productivity" is defined.

There's a specialty profession called "cost accounting" whose sole purpose is to accurately define it. Just like insurance companies do risk assessments.

> implies you believe

You're just making things up.

> without any good faith efforts

Give the rudeness a rest.
How am I supposed to be aware of a commit message specifying the “why not” when reading the code later down the line?

I could easily imagine somebody refactoring code to an obviously better version, finding out it doesn’t work for subtle reasons, running got blame and cursing the person who left that information in a commit message instead of a comment.
> There's no discrimination here because Uber and Doordash aren't treating minorities different from what they treat anyone else.

You’ve misunderstood the use of “discrimination” in the paper. It’s as in “price discrimination” (a parallel the introduction draws explicitly, if the play on words didn’t come through in the title).
The presentation bird is still dead and cooked.

A dish being "fired" means finish the cooking process, eg put into the fire.

When a meat comes out hot from the cooking process, it needs to "rest" a certain amount of time for the temperature to even out and the juices to be reabsorbed before being sliced/butchered. This is time that the diners now need to wait before they get their meal.

So, in David Chang's model, when the dish is ordered a prepared, dead chicken is "fired" and heated so that it finishes cooking. Then, while hot and still in the pot, presented to the diners. It's taken back, must rest outside of the hot boiling pot, and then is sliced into pieces and plated to be served and eaten by the guests. The remaining carcass is supposed to then be boiled down into a stock for a 3rd dish.

However, the resting and boiling steps could be skipped. Why does it all have to be the exact same chicken!? Have a presentation bird, another that is fired and rested (while the other is presented) you can carve and serve quicker, and make a large amount of bulk stock that can be served on order. The only difference is you don't have the exact same bird going through the whole 3 steps to the diners and instead have the 1. dead cooked presentation bird, 2. the carved bird, and 3. stock from a bird from yesterday.
I've heard developers for Bloomberg News, specifically, are some of the highest paid among their media peers.
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> every employer that has quotas for non-white employees?

Does any employer in the US have this? I'm almost certain it'd be illegal.
This rant should have remained in the bottom of the whiskey glass where it originated.
Ask HN: Does Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the Solid project hold up today?
If you search for information about data sovereignty, privacy, data portability, digital identity standards, etc then you end up with Sir Tim's initiative called Solid [1] and it's commercial arm Inrupt.

Solid received some criticism [2] around practical implementation and the difficulties of achieving widespread adoption.

Has Sir Tim's vision for Web 3.0 turned out to be a dead duck or is it a viable and practical technology that app developers are adopting?

If not Solid, then what are the best practices and technologies for building with data sovereignty and portability?

[1] https://solidproject.org/about
[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/inrupt_tim_bern.html
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They can do it, but what's the guarantee that the next one won't behave the same way? Ultimately people have places to be, and if the quickest option involves paying slightly more money, so be it.
honestly I don't need Max to summarize wikipedia pages for me: Non-sequitur jokes with the occasional riff on something I said would feel real enough.
> Is the presentation bird alive or dead?

Dead and boiled.

> What is "fired" in this context?

In cooking, that can mean applying direct heat in any number of ways. In this guess, I'm guessing that it means finishing (i.e. doing a last small amount of cooking for color and texture) the bird by roasting or searing.

> Is the presentation bird unrested? What does "rested" mean in this context?

In cooking, resting means to remove the item from heat and let it sit for a while. Food cooks from the outside in so the surface temperature can be much higher than the internal temperature. Resting gives some time for those to equalize. It lets the inside finish cooking using the residual heat on the surface.

> Why does the kitchen need to "butcher" the chicken that's "rested"?

It's a boiled whole chicken. After it's rested, it gets broken down into parts that the diner can eat. For chicken, that's usually breasts, thighs, wings, and legs/drumsticks.

> What does "slowing" the other, presumably presentation, chicken mean?

Resting and breaking down a chicken takes time, especially resting. By having a separate presentation chicken, it means the staff can be simultaneously resting some other cooked chicken and butchering it while the presenetation is being paraded around.
I've moved a lot of my home computing to home-brewed 12V UPSes using these. LFP charger --> Battery --> 12V or 5V DC-DC buck or boost/buck regulator --> device. Most UPSes are designed for high wattage, short runtime, but things like my firewall or small proxmox box for SDN+DNS benefit from low-wattage, long-runtime, and getting the inverter out of the picture substantially improves runtime. Said proxmox box uses under 10W and gets about 20h of runtime from a $50 battery.
This is a nice art installation that gives a positive vibe! You made something out of your fascination and admiration and that feeling spreads to the visitor. I think you should embrace this as an art installation whose purpose is to just exist, instead of trying to make it useful to people. That’s a startup way of thinking, but maybe this thing doesn’t need to be practical.
The US airport rideshare model (if you even want to call a largely emergent phenomenon that) must be one of the most wasteful things in transportation ever.

Why do I have to wait for, and find, my specific Uber/Lyft out of a sea of otherwise identical ones that are all in each other's way, all while idling and wasting tons of fuel? (I know that the legal answer is "taxi medallions"; that doesn't make it any less absurd.)
The term zero trust is bad marketing. You have to trust Cloudflare. The traffic is not end to end encrypted in their tunnel and access products (and pretty much all their products), and Cloudflare scans the traffic.
Maybe a bit creepy to keep in the house.
I could see an AI trying to hunt out a person's bottom line. I could offer this job for $10 to everyone, but maybe I'll subtract 0 to 4 dollars when I offer it and see who does or doesn't bite. If someone bites on lower pay, I then record that information and offer them further lower pay in the future.

This isn't really abnormal. Every job does this by setting a wage they are willing to pay and seeing who signs up, knowing that person will now need to only be paid that wage. What is different is the scale and the frequency this is being done. Instead of doing this in a way that impacts a person once every job change, it now impacts them multiple times a day, and the data recorded is more detailed and can be acted on more directly.

None of this is discrimination against a protected class, but if there are any reasons one demographic might, on average, accept lower pay than another, it will lead to large scale discrimination.

The problem is that our common discussion on these topics is lacking the rigor, nuance, or depth to handle questions about this, and thus ends up with two large camps. One that looks at the methods, sees no obvious discrimination in the methods, and say it doesn't count as inequality. The other that looks at the outcomes, notices the clear difference in outcome this leads to, and calls it inequality. Both are, by their own metrics, correct.
The second sentence of the article reads "For many low-income and subordinated racial minority workforces in the United States, however, on-the-job data collection and algorithmic decisionmaking systems are having a more profound yet overlooked impact"

I'm sorry, but it's clearly pushing an agenda.
Probably tastes like what a magnet tastes like.
Companies compare pricing all the time even if it doesn't involve smoke-filled rooms with execs doing tit-for-tat. You don't think your local grocery store knows what the other local chain is charging (or what they're paying their employees)?
They are not comparable, because the whole economy is ~250% of GDP when you measure it by spending. The government spends ~50% of GDP. Households spend ~70%. And businesses spend >100%. You should either compare government spending to total spending or the part of GDP produced by the government to total GDP. Either way, the government is ~20% of the economy.
> It is also easier for many people to remember how to navigate a GUI/TUI to achieve a task than to use the CLI, likely because it makes use of the parts of our brain for navigating space

I'd be very very surprised if this were true for everyone. I'm certainly more symbol oriented than visually or spatially oriented, for instance, and the ways I AM spatially oriented doesn't map at all to common user interface elements.

Besides, many of the best interfaces (eg magit) aren't spatially oriented at all.

That said, I'll never complain at more interfaces even if I do prefer a query-and-response style interaction.
>When you are working with a deadline of "tomorrow morning" you make all kinds of compromises to get stuff working, that are then immediate technical debt that slows you down on the next feature

It makes total sense to create technical debt if you run against the clock spending VC money. If you don't make it till the next round -- it doesn't matter how great everything was.

But they time to pay it all back will come.
I was a child really so it’s not simple to differentiate between nostalgia and “real” world for me.
You literally just agreed with me in your first few sentences and then ended by saying I'm talking bullshit. Weird hill for you to die on since it's a minor detail and not even the main point in my original argument.

It just reads like you want to argue with someone online.
It tastes burnt to me.
Interesting thought. I wonder if someone did analyses on how long K1 tends to keep their companies before exist, and what is typical exit path - sell to strategic (Oracle? IBM?) sell to some other PE or take public
Typo, DC not SC. David Chang
But why not just pay by card, that must be even easier?
Some more details about the implementations of video at the protocol level from an atproto dev in the API Discord:

- The canonical video data is stored in the user's PDS as a blob

- Videos are not displayed in-app until they have been transcoded and injected into the CDN by a separate transcoding service.

- As an optimization, Bluesky's client uploads videos directly to the transcoding service, which then uploads the processed files to the user's PDS using a service auth token. The overall design decisions for the protocol seem to lean towards delegating transcoding to a separate service to keep PDS implementations as simple as possible.

- Independent clients/apps can choose to upload videos directly to the PDS and rely on the transcoding service to pick them up, but doing this might not provide clear error messages for for things like rate-limits, access denials, or file format issues.

- The video service is not open-source at the moment primarily due to security concerns (e.g. transcoder escape attacks)

- The Bsky team expects the maturity of S3-compatible object storage to make video storage manageable for PDS hosts.
Been very unimpressed with his restaurants and more-so by his personality. This hard/stupid blog post just reinforces that.
CG still looks more often than not, too clean (even if trying to look dirty), too polished, too uniform, no character, and just feels like CGI for CGIs sake.

The truth is that this is what you notice. Most of the effects fly by and you have no idea. When you see slivers that don't work as well you think of that as 'all cg' and the 'cg look'.

"NO CGI" is really just INVISIBLE CGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdMAEtLrPSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGPHy3yWE08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8oQ1jV859w
I think it is natural end of drive to bottom or extractive markets. Uber drops prices until drivers are forced to take steps to earn income. Or market is twisted by something absolutely moronic like overpriced transferable licenses...

Likely only real way to make market mostly workable is setting reasonable cap on rates and controlling amount of cheap to acquire licences, but disallow transfers.
> not have the driver rip you off by taking a longer route

I've had that happen with Uber more than once.

The app now just seems to automatically "recalculate the fare" due to an "unexpectedly longer route or travel time", i.e. it's actively enabling this type of scam!
I would add QubesOS like sandboxing with micro kernels.
This is a really nice idea, I guess. The price makes me think however. 250 EUR doesn't sound too bad... however: Teufel makes equipment in the whole quality spectrum, but the good sounding ones are way over 250 EUR, in all categories.
You nailed it. Theres a use without providing your email to this tracking service button. I cant believe this was not built with localstorage as the primary tracking mechamism. Extremely offputting to vive tour email to a toy like this.
My guesswork for x64 would be that all is good if dereferencing the tagged value would hit in the same cache line as dereferencing the untagged value. Though I could also be persuaded that x64 completely ignores the top 16 bits until the last moment (to check consistency with the 17th bit) in which case high tagging would be free. It seems relatively likely to be something that is different across different x64 implementations. But so far I'm just running with "it's probably fine, should benchmark later"
It's short for Directed Accidentally-cyclic Graph.
I think the law should apply equally to all. That means you don't give special breaks or come down especially hard on someone just because of their economic circumstances.

The funny thing about this opinion is that it is both extremely widely shared and extremely unpopular, depending on the context. Just seems invasive to me for a court to demand your personal monetary situation when determining how much to punish you.

The flip side to this is no-cash bail and people being allowed back on the streets after committing awful anti-social crimes. In NYC some people get released on no cash bail for 2nd degree manslaughter. But you know, economic circumstances

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/all-crimes-new-york-bai...
> "That was what made it great. If they wanted to sandbag it, they needed to figure out how they would make up for the lost energy elsewhere."

This seems to be the key quote. As a restaurant owner, as with any other type of team leader, his job is managing how the team's attention and energy is spent. Reading charitably, he doesn't want to formalize slack time into the system, because he thinks that slack will be eaten up by something else with the next process change, making the whole operation more brittle (also specifically in a restaurant setting, maximizing kitchen throughput is _not_ the same as maximizing efficient operation)

I could of course be reading too much into this, but from my own experience, it's the same difference between a sensible ad hoc meeting culture and being forced to use "efficiency" tools that inevitably make meetings less productive.
Would be very interesting to hear about plans of MariaDB PLC and New CEO - what are they going to do differently and if that strategy makes sense.

MariaDB does not need to win against MySQL, it really needs to win against PostgreSQL
The interview I just had (with the YC founder that inspired this post) also asked "Do you have kids?" point blank as one of his first questions - seconds after I met him on the video call. Should have mentioned that in the post as it's also pretty inappropriate. This was before he asked if I was okay working 7 days a week.

> work hard and intensely during business hours but take it easy outside of that mindset

I am all for a work hard/play hard mentality, and I embody that truly, even moreso in my 30s. I don't have a lot of family commitments and often work longish hours anyway (~8-7) but even in a 9-5 context there's something rewarding about seeing how much I can possibly get done before some milestone like lunch or the end of the day. I optimize the entire morning around time spent coding and in my head I've already solved the problem the night before, and am optimizing on my commute after sleeping on the solution. By the time I get there I jam through the code, hit a stopping point at PR or something else, and it's usually only early afternoon. Hit a second wind around 3-4, ending around 7. Meanwhile I'll see founders do nothing until 5, then half-work from 5-9 and pat themselves on the back for "staying late", and go so far as to ask why I'm not staying later than 7 like them (despite me building most of the product).

Even more than a 9-5, I love environments where I can say "waves are good this week, won't be at standups" and nobody cares because the work will still be done, and it will be higher quality work with better documentation and presentation because my lifestyle is still in tact - I'm happy - and you see it in my work. When founders focus intensely on breaking their employees' lifestyles, they're almost asking for lower quality work from less happy employees. Something only an inexperienced founder who doesn't care about financial success would be involved in.
Compared to the person making minimum wage (say $11/hr) receiving a $450 fine paid on an installment plan, I think this sends the right message.

Income proportional fines should also have an alternative minimum fine that weighs their entire liquid balance sheet value because it's entirely possible decamillionaires to billionaires keep their live expenses allowances low compared to vast assets they control.
The day-fine system is kinda interesting, because it recognizes that the impact of paying a $500 fine is very different based on your income.

I was surprised to learn that the UK experimented with it, briefly, but it's something that exists in several other countries for example Finland has had the system since 1921.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
My first hard drive was 5Mb, and I had to write my own driver for it (PDP11, c. 1982). It was a hell of a step up from 8" floppies, enough so I partitioned it into 8 separate areas.

Even the floppies were a step up from paper tape - the older guys used to have a cupboard of paper tapes on coathangers, and linked their code by feeding the tapes through the reader in the right order.

Kids these days etc :)
The goal of the mcd app is to generate growth metrics in the tech domain to inflate their ticker value through data mining, and coercion is happening through i flating prices and then offering discounts just by downloading the apps. It's absolutely rubbish short sightedness to price pressure people into using your app.

Techno fascism never looked so bland
Good. We should do more to tailor fines to income to the extent feasible. Otherwise it's just a hardship for the poor and an inconvenience fee for the rich.
This is the most obvious reason why Verisign is a monopolist and should be regulated like a utility. They make false claims about choice and not being locked in. You buy a domain, you use it, you're locked in forever. And they know it. That's why they fight tooth and nail to protect their monopoly.
Switzerland is a car country that would make AAA drool. But it doesn't have the same approach to laws and flexibility of the system as the US because it didn't need to encode different outcomes for different people in authority discretion like the US did.
What was the estimate for how much time you guys took to translate the torch to Jax vs how much you spent on XLA?
JRuby on CRaC Part 1: Let's Get CRaCking (Fast Startup for JRuby)
Part one of a series exploring the use of OpenJDK Project CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) and CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) to improve the startup of JRuby
It was pretty common say 25 years ago when you would be developing in a terminal. When you were limited in the number of lines displayed, it sometimes made it easier to follow the code when functions and control structures were large.

I know I had coworkers using brief configured to do that.
Because when we raised the range it fixed the problem.