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Re:Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.
on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:07PM (#48273361)
It's the pay, it's always the pay. If our salaries were closer to the U.S. this wouldn't be happening.
Re:Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a...
on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:06PM (#48273349)
As a Canadian who travels to Europe about once per month I am very excited for this :D
Sites like this often go down when they reach the HN first page. I've naively deployed stuff on AWS free tier with no scaling or anything that's handled thousands of concurrent requests out of the box. Is the HN kiss of death that bad, or is it just that a lot of people use weird/shared hosting providers?
Re:Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:49AM (#25726353)
This is epic, maybe it can help fix @dang's pagination problems :-)
Re:Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from users?
on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:58AM (#24978435)
I have had a lot of success cold emailing them after signup with something that's clearly not automated. Most people are surprisingly responsive.
Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:57AM (#24978426)
Yeah! I think Rust is mature enough now that this isn't necessary from a novelty perspective. And it's not really an obscure language. "In Haskell" for eg is still warranted because it's obscure and uncommon, but I don't think this fits Rust.
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:36PM (#24704428)
Is it just me or is Heroku mostly dead now? Most people I know have given up on "PaaS" and gone back to plain EC2 etc. It's just not that hard to spin up an instance and deploy a rails/django or whatever app, especially with Docker now.
Re:The Death of Corporate Research Labs
on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:14PM (#24205829)
Big Pharma is a classic example of what happens with private enterprise becomes so powerful that "regulatory capture" occurs. They can charge what they like, and undertake other dirty marketing practices, because nobody can compete.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:08AM (#23997135)
UBI has always been a no-brainer. It's economically sound, the research is clear. But it's just not popular enough, because people are scared of the socialist undertones. Look at Yang's treatment in the last election.
Re:Sledding athletes are taking their lives
on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:05AM (#23963099)
How does one possibly elicit causation versus correlation for something like this? There are so many possible variables that could explain the connection (risk-taking behaviour for example).
Re:72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political...
on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:57AM (#23938875)
If only the stakes were as low as the scroll lock key...
Re:In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released
on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:16PM (#23840469)
It's surprising how often "utterly useless" project turn into huge companies. I for one will keep pursuing them :D
Re:Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:15PM (#23840463)
In the majority of human evolution (I'm vegan, and doing just fine :))
Re:Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:09AM (#23768740)
All useful except butchering a hog - a human being does not need to eat hogs to survive and thrive.
Re:A researcher on how to live a happy life
on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:04PM (#23720380)
It sounds like you're advocating drugs as a kind of shortcut to resetting the mind and noticing thoughts as passing arisings. Can you talk more about your experience with this?