jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why rant about deflation and throw insults about "freshman-level macroeconomics"?

Those topics have nothing to do with powerful defenders of the status quo attempting to smother innovation before it has a chance to work out the bugs.
> It seems like there's got to be a better way of paying people who don't have a bank account so that they can access the money right away and don't have to pay fees.

I think it is called "cash". Turning a piece of paper (ie: a paycheque) into cash costs money and so does turning cash into a piece of paper (ie: a money order to pay rent or a utility bill). The banking system isn't free. It is much more profitable for the bank to prey on the poor who have no capital to offer up and who have no time to research their different banking options than it is for a bank to offer affordable services to low-income customers. Cash costs money to mint and print as well but that's hidden in seigniorage, taxes and inflation.

There are payroll cards (in lieu of cheques) for employees without bank accounts but, since the card issuer's true customer is the employer, they often hit employees with high fees for everything which end up costing more than a bank account would.
I personally love the way it works. This is actually one of my arguments in favor of the golang standard library which is, in my opinion, a great piece of software by itself.
This is also a fascinating phenomenon. To some of the moves really didn't look random -- but of course there were.

We imprint our own flawed notions of randomness on everything.
Same sentiment here. In fact, "flipping" makes more sense, even literally, since it's like "flipping the date format" into Go's.
Ah, the one that was declared unconstitutional?

And that had an inflation adjusted earning potential of $4.81/hr (approx, in 2021)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

If you think working and living conditions are worse now than they were in 1933, I'd love some concrete examples.

I'm not saying things couldn't be better. I'm saying that most people talking about this seem to be completely devoid of context about life at all, and most proposed solutions just come across as strong arguments that they have no clue about the world at all, or why anything is the way it is.

Which is a solid vote in the column of 'changes proposed won't accomplish the stated goals, and will cause way more problems'. In my experience, anyway.

In my experience one of the biggest issues is that no one reports companies doing shitty things, and the labor orgs in the gov'ts get away with ignoring shitty things, because no one holds any politicians accountable on labor issues because most of the population is super complacent about everything.

Hell, Amazon and a number of other companies are super blatant about their ACTIVELY ILLEGAL ANTI-LABOR ORGANIZING, and not a peep seems to be coming from the appropriate labor departments.

And since everyone is super complacent (barely any protests even), then of course nobody cares. Because nobody is making them care.

If everyone really feels so badly about it, make it known by making them feel badly about it. Instead everyone seems to go back to candy crush after posting complaints online about how terrible things are.
> I take it I would need to get one based in NY?

If you and the company are both in New York, then yes.
Can't you set up tor as an HTTP proxy then just use whatever browser you want?
I feel like you'd definitely be in the minority on that one. I like DSLRs too, but for a phone, simplicity is key. I don't want to carry a bag of lenses with my phone to take pictures with. It would also negate the benefit of having something that doesn't look a big serious camera that puts off live subjects and makes them uncomfortable.
The author either thinks the readers are either stupid and don't know the difference between a Hammer and a Screwdriver and why you can't drive nails with a screwdriver....

Or the author is stupid and was driving nails with a screwdriver and wrote this post to explain why they changed.
Tadzaam ;)
It's best to include a portfolio if you're making a post like this :)
New Zealand exclusively produces grass-fed beef.
An additional note, trademark lawyers are often obligated to try and sue people over trademarks, even if they'd rather not, because if they don't zealously defend their trademark, it's considered 'weakened' and that can then become evidence against them in some future case when a different party infringes.

So the blue cross people were doing what they had to do. It sure is funny though how almost every law is interpreted in a way that maximizes future legal work involved.
It was my analysis of "How did we get here" posted by the parent ... I thought it was still relevant to the OP but perhaps not something that anyone is interested in discussing.
>Well, and on the Mac, it's not the only method. The walled garden here has big open gates.

Gates are not incompatible with walled gardens. Most walled gardens have those.

Plus, I mentioned the walled garden as a good thing. It's part of the Apple proposition (even if not alll get it), and part of what it enables it to move at the speed it does (whether in the right or wrong direction).

But one can susbstitute "walled garden" with "tight control of the OS, hardware and imposed requirements on most of third party software, and willingness to enforce hard schedules (e.g. regarding removing 32-bit, OpenGL, etc) to all (or tons) of its developers at once.
While I generally agree with the author's thesis based on my own experience leading engineering teams, I also agree with your view point that the author provides no facts to back it up, not even examples of teams he has worked on. This makes his opinions somewhat circumspect.

For an example of research-based conclusions about teams, Google's write-ups are illustrative: https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/

In general, I think Google's research captures something that the author of this post fails to take into account fully, which is that psychological safety of the team members matters is a key indicator towards effectiveness.
I wasn't the type of person to record those details, sorry :)
> This change in the virulence is more scary.

I think you mean infectivity (relating to transmission), not virulence.
Can you give an example? I've seen Lemire correct his posts on many occasions and the source code is published. I don't know many blogs doing anything remotely like that.
Sure, here's one. ppt files with elements that don't work the same on mac and PC. Fonts changing size, elements moving around. These problems make the Mac and PC Office users avoid collaborating. Also, because the releases are are out of sync you also have to use the least common denominator file format and mac owners are the lusers. Not much fun in a startup where everyone is bringing their own tools to work.

Call me paranoid, but it feels like Microsoft doesn't really like Mac users. Kind of odd since Office is a important franchise unto itself, but now maybe they have caught on. Another example of one business silo hurting another.
If you enjoyed this article, you will probably love Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/140132325...

I had already watched the lecture on YouTube and thought I wouldn't get much from the book but I was wrong.

The story of Pausch muscling his way into Disney's Imagineer team is fantastic.
It does, but maybe those stupid parking pages are actually doing something right.

I think U-Haul did a good job of presenting essential information upfront, simply and cleanly. There's no giant logo, or a screen-hogging masthead with pictures of people wearing headsets or shaking hands. Everything I'd want to do is listed there on the page.
In Haskell?
You are right. They want to buy back shares. But it is also true that some of their bets like Didi and Wework did not do well. Also, they have money invested in China which seems stuck (just like many others I suppose).
These remind me of other writing techniques (without names) I use to create surprise, leverage presumptions, structure jokes, and even inject new ideas. If you think of someones train of thought like the staves or horizontal lines in musicial notation, but each line is a layer of attention or abstraction, notes outside those lines aren't obvious, but they have a resonance or dissonance with the base ideas between them, and then a sentence or a paragraph can play over them, creating and resolving tension and leading to the conclusion you had hoped to express. A comparative illusion in this view would be something you would use as a transition, for a change of conecptual key, or to bend the ends of an idea into an loop, inescapable without extra cognitive load, and the mind prefers to accept what it is being presented with instead of epstein didn't kill himself. Comparative illusions can have a very hypnotic and distracting effect, and they are an effective tool of persuasion.
Yikes. Go take your assumptions and discuss with idiots that fall for your flame bait. I am out.

The paper is just bogus science or at the least misinterpreted facts, inflammation is a factor in menstrual cycle changes this is present for most if not all vaccines https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16403011/

You are even worse than some facebook moms researchers, max. two pages down on google. Because you actually believe you ate it by the spoonful. No, idea about the subject. No, idea how to search and interpret scientific papers. Just CTRL+F, CTRL+C and CTRL+V. Like the junior dev in the meeting after he googled what's on the chart "but actually...". The nih granted 1.67 mil to other scientist who are doing the peer review now. You can find it by searching and you can even get the preprints. You can do it yourself maybe you'll learn something from it. causation vs correlation.
15 years ago, there was "LAMP:" Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
I don't know why you are talking about china while the point I was making was about India defending itself against china. Also indian % of GDP for military budget is 2.8 while for US its 3.75. US has no neighboring countries actively attacking it, India does.

edit: BTW, is there any actual proof that this whole military budget dissuades Russia and China in any way?
Not sure what your point is anymore. Are those examples of countries without social welfare and no minimum wage? That seems to strengthen the point above your comment.
> It sounds like a mis-diagnosis

It's possible I still deal with the same issues I did as a kid but I've learned to manage them most days. I'm certainly not a severe case.
This only makes sense in a relativistic context, but forces don't exist in relativistic contexts.

So you can either have F = ma, or you can have GR, but you don't get to have both at the same time.
I put a picture of “this is Sparta” in my portfolio. So far, no company has asked me about it. But if they did, they’d get extra preference from me, since they actually looked at my work.
> (fortunately!)

Unfortunately. All warnings and errors should be on by default. That they are not is one of the things about GCC that really pisses me off.
To avoid the caching bias, I think a fairer test condition would be to use multiple files and do it over a number of times. The lowest average time would be the winner.
You should use pip install --user, which pip will tell you about if you run pip install -h.

Virtualenv is usually excessive unless you have to handle lots of version problems
If only reasonable doubt still got bad cases tossed.
I'd say the other way around, honestly. In writing I can stick a * there so it's obvious that there's more to it than it seems. In speech, unless it's explained beforehand, it might not be a good idea.
I know a tv can send back commands from e.g. the remote control over HDMI, it really is bidirectional communication, but I wouldn't know whether it's good enough for something like touchscreen.
"Bookmark this page, and then set a reminder to check in soon." this is how product announcements work these days?

Would've been nice to have a bit of actual information.
What are the existing products this will compete with?
They should at least collect emails, but, I guess, they expect a new wave of PR when it actually launches.
Haha, I forgot to mention that.

Basically, the only important information Kickstarter gets from any card are the last 4 digits, whether it's Visa, Master Card, AMEX, etc., and the expiration date.
why are you taking it so personally?
why are you reading such things in? it's totally irrelevant.

I didn't say that html/css/doesn't need improvement. that's changing the subject. The question is: why do the people here so eager to "ditch" (as in totally discard) html/css/js.
As a NoSQL newbie I would love to see this take off. Most tutorials only have simple schema examples like articles with tagging; I would prefer to see schema designs for large-scale applications. I've also always wondered...how big should you let a document grow before you decide it's better to make certain subdocuments a collection of their own? Nevertheless I'm looking forward to seeing this website grow to answer some questions :)
Not true. See the chart at the bottom of http://www.witopia.net/index.php/products/ for example
I do think that it originates from there, yes. Although I'm sure there are also those who may not believe in the cause and are only using these issues for their own political purposes. I suspect for example that one of the main reason's that the "clean feed" idea just won't die despite massive opposition is that the government is courting the favour of Xenophon and Fielding in the Senate.
I was on an Amtrak train a few months back. Apparently they still advertise that they have payphones on board.

Introduced in 1986: http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-06-03/business/8602020...
$495 for Rails screencasts?

Last time I checked Railscasts.com was still free and better than any other screencasts I've ever seen, free or paid.
Emasculating men is deliberate. The second-order effects (e.g. kids without a strong male role model having behavioural problems) were perhaps unexpected.
You're right, sys/queue.h is wonderful ..
All it takes is a phone call.

You call one of them - he claim he has the rights. You call the other - he claims he has the rights. Now what?

And try the other perspective... try to imagine that you are the store owner and now someone makes you responsible for making sure that none of thousands of your suppliers is doing some dirty business... it's going to cost you a lot of money and despite that you can never be certain and you will basically live in constant fear of a lawsuit. That's huge burden on any business and it's very inefficient. That's one of the reasons that we have courts... they have tools that business owners simply do not have and only they can (somehow) reliably determine who is doing legitimate business and who is not.
That's also why they're "bad" though, when you let the machine handle your form you aren't getting the full benefit of the exercise.
I remember Zope was pretty universally disliked by Python programmers. But it was for a time probably the most enterprisey thing with Python inside, so maybe it got more points in corporate places as something to try as an alternative to Enterprise Java Buzzwords.

Before Django there was a lot of choice and active libraries / frameworks for Python web app development, IME most apps gravitated more towards "ala carte" use of libraries than one size fits all frameworks, a bit like people do in Clojure today.

Zope was more like a ready to use CMS that incidentally enabled you to mod it using Python in a clunky way.

The object database part of Zope (ZODB) was pretty cool though, used separately (inside Zope the framework-enforced object schema made it just clunky). As long as you didn't let it spread too wide over your codebase. But it had transactions, flexibility of (and problems of...) schemaless, and replication, a long time before the "NoSQL" craze.
> people don't care about privacy

Funny you phrase it like that. When I discuss with people about 'privacy', nobody has anything to hide. When I take 2-3 minutes explaining to them why 'someone' (data markets) out there knows: what type of porn gets them off, what they shop, how much money they have, what diseases they have (that may impact their chances to a life insurance - theirs' and their kids'), their drinking habits (that may impact their premiums on car insurance), who they meet/greet/f..k..

Then their expression changes a bit. Ignorance is bliss. I awaken 1-2 people at a time. BUT (big but - sorry for the caps) "all my friends is on FB, and Chrome is such a nice browser".

> you would probably do the same

I used to know a guy who geniunely had the opinion: if it wasn't illegal to sell heroin to kids, I'd be a billionaire right now selling to all my kids, starting with my kids' friends.

Unfortunately this person has kids, voting rights, walks among us. Yes I want to be a billionaire (I'm many-many zeros away from this target). No I wouldn't sell heroin (or your kids' photos you post on social media) to anyone else. Zuck has no problem getting 13yo on Instagram, profiling them, and trading their data. So NO.
>Trains likewise can only go to rail stations. This makes trains slightly more expensive land ships from a logistics perspective.

>Trucks can go anywhere over land, but are quite a step up in expense. They are still necessary for something last 10 miles shipping in nearly all cases.

Trains and trucks can effectively go to the same places for what it's worth. The infrastructure is roughly the same cost. For fairly standard rail it is $1-2 million per mile, road is $1-5 million per mile for a typical two lane road.

You don't need a rail station either, businesses can just use forklifts, pallet jacks, cranes, etc to unload rail cars in a very similar way to how trucks are unloaded.

Around here in the midwest if you look at google maps you can see that a lot of older businesses had or have rail going to them, but since trucks got massive subsidies over the last 60-70 years trains haven't seen as much use in this way.
well people don't know what they re talking about when it's about so specialized basic research. Universities do benefit from the publicity , but it feels like selling snake oil to naive people.
Exactly. Coming from law, sometimes like in this case, some topics can be left undecided, if it does not change the result. Even if the code could have been copyrighted, it would still be considered fair use.

Translated into developers speech: this is some sort of early return. ;)
Great interview.

I don't think they said it here, but when I interviewed Adii, he revealed for the first time that his company exceeded $2 mil in annual revenue.
I interned at a startup a long time ago and met a guy who was one of the first hires at Google post-IPO. He told me that while he was there he automated all his work and was working pretty much full-time on his startup (not the one I worked at, it never took off), only coming in 1-2 hours a day to be seen in the office/reply to emails.
I think this viewpoint is limited. Sometimes reading peoples' emotions can be an extremely good thing.

I am aware of a healthcare company which currently has a model in production which alerts healthcare providers if a person displays suicidal intent. They have several confirmed instances deaths being prevented because of the interventions taken due to alerts from their model. While I don't think ML should be used to manipulate people's emotional states, I think this is a case where having a model that can read people's emotions is a good thing.
I'm the CTO/co-founder of DISQO and we're actually looking for a product manager with SRE/DevOps background :)

https://jobs.lever.co/disqo/c2921218-1853-4d37-9dfe-d060db55...
> Second, management never knows how to solve a problem better, they just pick one and go with it

But if your (presumably intelligent, qualified) engineers are at a stalemate between two things, what's to say both options aren't fine and they need just exactly that: someone more senior to pick one, given the pros and cons of each.
I sent the following message to Dynamicland a few years ago and never got a satisfactory response. Does anyone know if they're doing anything about accessibility for blind people or people with other disabilities?

Hi,

First of all, Dynamicland's goal of "agency, not apps" resonates with me. I'm in favor of things that make programming more accessible to normal people.

However, I worry that Dynamicland will be a step backward for people with disabilities, particularly blind people and people with impaired mobility. For us (I'm legally blind myself), I believe the virtual worlds of today's computers aren't imprisoning but liberating. Consider that a blind person can't see that "fully functional" scrap of paper, and a person who can't use their hands can't write on that paper or manipulate the other physical objects in Dynamicland.

Do you have a plan to solve this problem while holding to your goal of "No screens, no devices"? It seems to me that there's no way to reconcile these conflicting requirements without making an exception for people who can't work directly with the paper and other objects.

Or have you decided that it's better to undo the equalizing effect of computers for people with disabilities, for the good of everyone else? I would obviously be disappointed if that's the case. But I understand that everything's a trade-off, and perhaps it's not reasonable to confine the majority to an inhumane way of working for the benefit of a few. So I don't mean this as an accusation; I really want to know.

Thanks,
Matt
But does your "off-site" really need to be off-site?

If you're a fully remote company, sure, it makes sense, but for a company with an actual local office, taking the team to Hawaii for 3 days just to have meetings that could have been had at conference rooms at your usual office isn't always appreciated by every member of your team, especially the ones who have {health conditions, children, pets, side gigs, ...}
Where exactly ?
Yes, part of the plan is for miners to transition from mining-based activity to focusing on transaction fees. This would probably mean transaction fees will trend upward. I think it remains to be seen if this will be a profitable enterprise. Certainly, bitcoin trade volume will be a very important part of this equation, if it does not really take off as an actual currency, but remain as instrument to store wealth, that could spell disaster for bit coin.

If miners do turn away from bitcoin, the capacity will be drastically reduce which makes a 51% attack much more feasible, threatening bitcoin's existence. This is much more worrisome than transaction speed slow-down and in fact, as long as there is heavy volume, miners could make money off transaction fees so they are almost mutually exclusive events.

Despite all this, I think bitcoin is pioneering the field, and regardless of it lives or dies, it will have impacts in various facets of the future.
I loved the trilogy when it came out, and then met Tom Wilson (who payed Biff) a number of times. He's really funny and has an amazing tenor voice. It was hard to put that voice with his character. Everyone always asks him to record a voicemail message "Hey Butthead".
One comment in thread stood out for me: "Since your problem is medical bills, it seems extremely obvious that you need to switch to a job that has a better benefits package."

The poster simply stated she needs an extra $2,000 a month for medical reasons. Why? Medication? Visits to a specialist? If the extra $2k is needed because what she needs isn't covered under her current employer's benefits, job shopping is probably a better way to spend her free time.