jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Paystand | DevOps, Full Stack, SDET | Scotts Valley CA, US. Guadalajara, Mexico | ONSITE

At Paystand, we are building the next generation B2B payment network. We have been described as "like Venmo but for B2B payments". We believe that the current payment infrastructure which was built more than 50 years ago is obsolete, and full of "intermediaries" each of which is taking a cut on each payment. We also believe that making a payment is just "moving bits and bytes" similar to what you do to send an email. You would never think of paying a fee per number of letters you send in your email, so why do you have to pay a % when you send a payment? We are a SaaS company whose business model is based on features (we don't charge payment fees but a monthly SaaS subscription).

Our tech team consists of 9 people, between our Scotts Valley and Guadalajara office.

DevOps: We are looking for a very experienced DevOps person who will be in charge of all the infrastructure, and (depending on skills) on building the Engineering Operations team. Preferably someone at the Senior or Tech Lead level. [List of skills we are looking for: https://bit.ly/2QF3HfI ]

SDET (QA Automation Engineer || Test Automation Engineer): Someone who has experience doing test automation and general QA processes. We are looking for someone with at least 2 or 3 years of experience who can help us establish QA processes and culture in the team (involvement from early in the product development cycle and including implementation of automated tests). NEEDS TO KNOW HOW TO CODE to do test automation.

Full Stack: We are looking for a Mid-Level or Senior Full Stack Engineer to help us implement a couple of new products that we are working on. Our stack is NodeJS v12, Angular, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch, among several others. Oh yeah, and we do have some Blockchain based technologies.
Yeah I have 8 cores(HT) and 16GB, which is apparently just not enough.

I think my plan is to just move builds to some kinda EC2 instance that I can bulk up.
Lower res will make you look better on video conferencing, no pimples or poores showing up and there’s considerable bandwidth savings.
Personal attacks are particularly not ok, so please edit them out of your HN posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ok cool, you give me three links.

The first one says

This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

The second one has a sample size of less than thousand people and concludes "Self-diagnosis does not accurately predict influenza seropositivity"

The third one is the only one that has a good set of data in terms of sample size ( 50+ Million ) but concludes "Symptom checkers had deficits in both triage and diagnosis" and that said I have no idea if those websites need some kind of verification as well, so if not someone who's bored could have just added bogus data to that as well.

I am not sure what's your point.
How is that wealth tax even supposed to work?

The only successful model that is remotely close that has been historically proven is Islam's Zakat, a form of charity tax if you will. It doesn't force you to sell shares of your company, unlike some proposals I saw by dems.

I did not see a single politician refer to Zakat in any of their proposals. Note that they'd have to get rid of income tax as well to make things just.
I guess they are just slower or more incompetent. The German federal government is still counting the number of Solarwinds installations, not all ministries have answered their questions yet...
A related factor: US sugar subsidies make sugar expensive, so a lot of manufactured foods in the US contain High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) instead. On a kilojoule-for-kilojoule basis, excessive intake of HFCS is a lot more harmful to health than excessive intake of sugar is. By contrast, Australia has a long history of being anti-agriculture subsidies, and fewer foods here include HFCS (most of those that do are imported from the US)
The sidebar covers the content when zooming. Terrible design for accessibility.
That's (part of) the premise of the "myjs" library demoed at PariJS last month too - http://myjs.fr/ - get rid of scope chain access and speed things up.
I made the comparison in the sense that if you want to use another language on the client-side (like CoffeeScript, for example) you end up compiling down to JavaScript as the low-level implementation.
We use IMAP IDLE: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2177
So no season II of 2 Months 2 Million?
And yet, the article quotes somebody saying he is "astounded". "Wowed" is an acceptable synonym, is it not? I guess they made that one archaeologist into plural...
You're going to have to go there in person, and spend some serious time interacting with the part that's working.
This. I can't part with my Suzuki SX4 because there's almost no comparables in the US for some reason.
I agree with you that intellectual/digital property has value, but I think that it is impossible to establish authenticity in an entirely decentralized way.

If you are a notable artist wanting to sell NFT art, what makes your tokens valuable is that you have verified your identity with the service which deals the NFTs, and that the service is reputable. Otherwise, anyone may set up an account claiming to be you (on another service for instance) and sell the
same JPGs attached to a new token.

In the absence of a centralized authority, the only sign of authenticity is chronology (who minted this jpg into a token first), which is very susceptible to chronological "squatting" e.g. an opportunist discovers an artist's works and mints them before the artist does.

The difficulty of replicating physical works of art has the happy side-effect of massively strengthening their authenticity.
> A remote designed by someone who thought about it for ten seconds

I love that a sibling comment to yours calls out the remote as dealbreaker terrible, but I agree with the sentiment that I would love a remote that was really well-designed.
Straight from the checkout step where you enter a credit card:

> The property will charge you: €xxx

> The date you'll be charged—and what happens if you cancel—depends on the booking conditions.

And then the booking conditions (set by the property):

> You'll be charged a prepayment of the total price at any time.
It’s a panel discussion, with an optional mic that can be explicitly passed around. There are bios on everyone that you can click around, no video, many rooms you can join arranged by subject matter and people, and a social network that includes many A-listers. The entire premise is different than a conference call. I don’t know what else to say… I’m guessing you haven’t tried it if you keep saying it’s the same thing.
I've been pwned. Is it known when this breach occurred? I have seen a huge spike in spam calls over the last 3-4 months and now I'm wondering if it was bc of this breach.
So the transfer of state-owned assets to oligarchs is the significantly comparable as buying four houses and renting them to their owners? Do you even know what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union?
I have the means to do it right now, but may not in the future - which is why I am doing it right now. I'm currently 26, with no children. In 10 years, this move may not be so simple.

My goal with this move is to leave for 5 years or so and acquire enough wealth that I will be personally comfortable for the rest of my life.

At which point I would likely to move to wherever I preferred to live in the world (regardless of tax rate), and to work on something more enjoyable and meaningful rather than simply chasing dollars.
My constant struggle is some motherboards (mine!) refuse to boot the Windows installer from the UDF-formatted image Microsoft provides as a download; IIRC I have to copy all the files to a FAT32 partition on the disk instead. (I assume their installer-creation tool, which naturally requires an already-working Windows install, plays some games with creating a disk that's both FAT and UDF, and building all the right tables for files to show up in both? Never dug into it though, this is just conjecture.)
> git init --help
> OPTIONS
> --bare
> Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the current working directory.

I'm confused on what you find confusing here?
Or could have paid the ceo $1M and kept 10 out of 250 at $200k. Do you think 10 would have stayed for $200k/year.

The point, I think, is that the Mozilla CEO is sucking, as measured by failing product lines and poor resource management resulting in firing 250 people, and got a raise.
+1. I remember the old glorious days of Twitter, before all the censorship, virals and cancelling.
I live ~1000ft from a super fund site that is cleaning up TCE/DCE, and there are a few more within 5-10 miles of here.

I smell weird things in the mornings sometimes, and also after rainstorms. We lived pretty close to another super fund site when I was growing up, and my father has Parkinson's. So I assume that I get to die early.
everyone is complaining in the comments about this article yet it got to the font page somehow ..hmmm..
Not OP, but I've been keeping a "journal" repo for the last 4 months. There's a single dev.md file in there, where I separate each entry with "---". Whenever I encounter an issue or learn something new, I document it for later reference.
Of course, no one wants to believe this. Me neither. I recently turned 42. And, I finally had the guts to start my own business... it's gotta mean something!
Valgrind can prohibitively slow down your process though, where many timing dependent code paths aren't hit and the app behaves dramatically different than it would in production.
Many sites have low write:read ratios and don’t leverage that fact in their architectural choices. Availability for maintainers is often less critical than for consumers, and your life is better if you build that in.

My current employers still haven’t learned this lesson and think caching fixes everything.
It's a mix of both. Musicians often want to seem like they didn't take lessons and don't have in-depth knowledge of music theory and old songs, but they often do (e.g., how many guitarists don't admit they took lessons and want to make it seem like they're just riffing but they mysteriously seem to hit the chord tones on the changes and manage to play in modes that work for a song). It's just not "cool" for a musician to be knowledgeable about music theory and history.
I think every pursuit - not just music - is presented with a challenge once it's been around for a while, it's no longer new and unusual, and there exists a body of knowledge and history. It becomes a large task to learn from past performers and then try to innovate in your own way. Once a body of knowledge becomes large enough, it's a big life-consuming task just to get your head about the prior body of knowledge before you're able to go out on your own and attempt to innovate. I think the same thing is happening with rock. The same could be said for philosophy itself - philosophy used to be practical and applicable to everyday people (see Greeks and Stoics, for example). Now, it's largely confined to academia and extremely esoteric arguments among a cloistered elite.
Strangely, this Twitter thread by the reporter seems to contain more details than the article: https://twitter.com/PatrickMcGee_/status/1380194940236353536...
Header only implementations of data structures are definitely the only way to accomplish type-safe generics in C, which is a great reason to avoid C! It's part of the reason why all C code bases eventually become a kind of unique, macro filled language of their own once they grow complex enough. It's not enough to know C to start working on this code, you have to know all the ins and outs of the weird macro expansions that form the boilerplate patterns and are unique to this codebase only.

Apart from being a pain in the ass to write (don't forget your escape slashes (\) for line endings!), using these macros makes debugging much harder - you no longer have a stack trace (although GDB is fairly smart about this, it's still less than ideal).
Love his documentaries. I highly recommend everyone watch them.
That's where Clojure(Script) shines.
I remember the original Om already being really exciting.
Yup, you came in and said it before I could. Knowing how many counterexamples there could be doesn't help very much if you don't have any bound on their size. pmiller2 seems to assume that there is some way to identify the two candidates, but the problem is that there isn't; the proof is nonconstructive. Nonconstructive proofs are a thing, and it's often important to distinguish whether a given existence proof is constructive or not.
The Github README shows that the public API uses types from Abseil, a library that "promises no ABI stability, even from one day to the next." That seems problematic.
I'm not sure if revenue taxes are the better idea: they will impact low-margin businesses (e.g. restaurants) hard.
Yes somewhat this is also true for me. However I think this "HyperNormalisation" has to happen in some way, because if people would constantly worry about how bad and corrupt the world/systems are it wouldnt help anyone going forward because not everyone has the chance to make a change.
I think he means that int and pointer address must be interchangeable. As long as that holds, the size can be either 16 bits or 32 bits.

On a PDP-11 int would have been 16-bit. On x86 32 bits. But on x86_64 int is 32 bits but pointers are 64-bit. The easiest way to retain the original assumption with minimal changes to the historical source code while targeting a modern CPU is to compile in 32-bit mode.
"Decentralized" means little without more context. The issuance of bitcoins isn't a legal monopoly. In this sense Bitcoin is "decentralized". On the other hand the Bitcoin blockchain is a centralized ledger, which is distributed, but nonetheless centralized. So which one is it? Centralized or decentralized? It doesn't matter because at this stage "decentralized" is being used as a mere buzzword rather than to convey a precise meaning.
> types of the function parameters are not checked, anything can be passed to any function

Still a better type system than Twilight.
First define your problems ;)

If you want to get into management and deal with those kinds of people problems, then there are lots of management training courses around. An MBA is at the upper end of that range.

If you're having problems fitting into teams and getting along with people (actually quite common in dev teams), then maybe look at therapy or personal coaching. I spent a few years in therapy and it really helped.

If it's office politics and the like - some workplaces are toxic. I can't deal with those even with the training and experience. Life's too short to deal with that bullshit ;)
If every hospital felt the need to interview doctors assuming they didn't know how to practice medicine, doctors would definitely take time off between to study. But they don't, because they know everyone has a base level of knowledge. On the flip side I've interviewed people who simply cannot do basic coding tasks.
If it's a front-end position then that makes sense, considering there is really no alternative to JavaScript (or rather wasn't 10 years ago).
From a social (ironic) impact perspective:

My first wake up call came from Trump winning the 2016 election, 2nd from Cambridge Analytica. 3rd, The Social Dilemma put the nail in the coffin.

I just could not see myself contributing directly or indirectly to these externalities. The costs outweighed the benefits (if any at all)

PS: I know this post might be marketing for you, but ultimately all social networks will become polluted as long as they encourage the weaknesses/dark sides of human nature. I don’t see Spacehey being any different.
They’ll probably make a 1000 or so units and hand them over to influencers and maybe sell a few.

It may become a collectors item in certain circles just for the meme of it.
https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-vs-bazel-jvm#:~:text=Both%20G....
OTOH JavaScript tracking is an easy way to filter out a lot of the bots. I use a little bit of JS-based tracking for exactly this reason, but I'm not extracting anything that wouldn't show up in server logs (eventually I also want to get some "time spent on page" metric so I have some idea how useful my blog posts are (are people clicking and leaving right away or are they sticking around to read). You pretty need JS for this. In whatever case, web analytics like these aren't "tracking"; you're looking at user behavior on your own site; not trying to follow them around the Internet or otherwise identify them.
I have been buying the Smucker's natural peanut butter directly online a case at a time as I cannot reliably find it in local retail stores: https://www.smuckers.com/products/peanut-butter/natural-pean...
Does he even give an excuse for missing the meeting?

It's possible that his absence is his way of telling you that he doesn't think meeting everyday is important. I would hope it's not just that he forgets or can't wake up that early at least.

In general, intelligence is a critical feature of a good partner but reliability and chemistry are more important. If you do start a company with this person, you are getting married for 5 years (or at least you have to treat it that way). If there is already friction now, that should be telling you that you don't have the right fit. At the stage you are at now you should be running at full steam instead of wondering why you are sitting alone in the morning.

I suggest breaking it off. You'll be thankful later when you find a partner on the same wavelength and things really click.
I had to think about this a bit, and I disagree so far. I'm finding that I'm not pre-judging comments as much. It's nice to be able to read someone's comment without knowing first that 70 or 80 or 3 other people thought it was worthwhile.
I dunno. I think there has been more social change through the introduction of technologies than through coups and revolutions. Things like the motor car or the telephone cause seismic shifts in a culture.
He still says he expects Android to be the dominant mobile OS. What exactly was he misquoted on?
Can this be done faster to remove any real flicker or will our eyes end up just perceiving one image then?
Yeah, it seems it does, quite impressive!
Sounds like they didn't exit the market soon enough.
Of course, tastes differ -- but I found this painful to look at, for the following reasons:

Hard to read font, capitalization and color-saturation choices. Inefficient spacing/sizing requiring more scrolling and mousing to use. Nonstandard 'check' indicator which is farther from its label than usual on-the-left practice. Large floating fixed footer not seeming to provide value commensurate with its placement. 'About' slide-out that's impossible for me to close without major window fussing (maximize window, close row of open tabs).

Feature request: provide checklist items as plain text.
Well, defining what makes religion special, is kind of tricky as well. And I think the answer to your question is closely related to that.
Then Treehouse goes from promoting private networking to the "open social graph".

</tongue-in-cheek>
It has. French was the language of the aristocracy in England for several centuries after the 1066 Norman conquest, giving rise to a sort of linguistic duality of French and Anglo-Saxon words in English mirroring the social divide. Thus Saxon-derived words tend to be more down-to-earth than their more elevated French-derived equivalents.
That sounds interesting. Are you still using it?
The connection is lack of privacy.
Here's the TODO example, which is at the bottom of the post:

https://codesandbox.io/s/competent-swartz-beoub?file=/src/To...

Not very readable
The max was developed and launched by Dennis Muilenberg. Muilenberg was President and then CEO of Boeing for 7 of the 8 years that the MAX was under development and launch. McNerney was only there for 4 of those years.

You can argue all you want about who shoulders more responsibility, but Muilenberg was an executive throughout the entire program, and more importantly, was the CEO who oversaw the decision for the certification of the MAX prior to first flight, which was the critically faulty decision.
Unlikely, given that it does not happen in commercial companies either and there no one particularly has reason to care.
a good example would be Trump' alleged 'suckers and losers' comment regarding fallen soldiers.

This was a rumor started by The Atlantic article citing 'anonymous sources' which spread and re-broadcasted by all news networks and NYT, some of these third-hand versions of the rumor claimed additional verification by, guess what, another group of 'high-ranked anonymous sources', completely ignoring rejection of these allegations by everyone who actually attended that particular event with the President.

This is the definition of slander which is somehow acceptable if you (and your reader base) hate a particular person or ideology.
My first impression is favorable. It's a little bit expensive but the design is incredible. You also get Apple+ for a year. Apple haters will nag about having only one door when everyone else has at least two. MacRumors says that iCar Pro will have two doors and a hatch.

What I don't like is that I must use expensive Apple wheels, and even the smallest repairs must be handled in Apple shop. For some, the home charging station (wireless of course) is a deal-breaker. It costs almost as much as the car itself.

(small print): Commercial users like Uber and Lyft must pay 20% extra commission to Apple Store.
That would solve the problem of punishment disparity between street- and white-collar- crime.
They’re two barely related problems that require different solutions. Better-designed cities doesn’t do anything for the millions of Americans living out in the burbs. And Apple isn’t empowered to make changes to cities; that’s up to governments to do and who are most likely strapped for funds to do any sort of major infrastructure investment.
I also used ING Direct, and switched to Simple when it turned into Capital One. About three years ago, I switched from simple.com to ally.com, and it's been pretty great.
Certainly, but the person I was replying to suggested shutting down a company, rather than punishing execs.
We would have been much worse off if governments, or governmental bodies like the UN, allocated IP addresses rather than a private anarcho-like entity.
I haven't in decades.

But then I live in Southern California and nobody walks here.
> Pretty poor advice imo, it's comparing a risky versus a risk-free return. Paying off a 7% interest nets you that return, guaranteed. Investing in a 7% stock market nets you that return on average, but it could be -30% that year, too. Volatility and risk requires compensation for it to simply be accepted. Where the threshold lies is hard to say, but I think it's much more sensible for example to pay off a 5% interest in lieu of investing in a volatile asset class that does 7% on average.

You'd be right, but also consider than 7% is the real, not nominal, long-term return of the S&P500; the nominal (pre-inflation) return is 11%, and that's what you should compare to interest on debt.
“Moved”. Nothing moved, numbers changed in a database.
I've worked in offices with cubes, in co-working spaces, remotely (for a long time), and now in an open plan with around 200 people.. I have never been more productive than the time I worked remotely. The constant distractions in an open plan are bad enough with 200, I can't even imagine how it is with thousands.
Thank you. This an excellent succinct explanation of how unknowns get chipped away over time.
I already passed the quiz. I guess there are more steps.