skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assume good intent.

It's kind of a motto where I work. Others are surely familiar with it too. I'd also add that baseline levels of sanity, competence, etc. are all part of intent for the purposes of this admonition. It's a good rule, and the OP demonstrates exactly how things can go sideways when it's not followed.

Maybe others didn't recognize the author's good intent, but he clearly didn't recognize theirs either. As far as I can tell, he doesn't think they ever did a single thing right until he came along, which is a huge red flag. I doubt he felt that way when he accepted the job (why would anyone?) so it reeks of post-hoc rationalization. Remember, we're only hearing one side of the story. Chances are, even if he was right on the major points, he has elided how his first ten "you just need to" proposals had to be amended in a collaborative process for which he denies anyone else any credit. Counting the hits, ignoring the misses. If he had assumed instead that other people weren't idiots, that they had reasons for what they'd done and would be amenable to reason, there might have been a better outcome.

P.S. Yes, I know sometimes people really do lack good intent. Some people really are mean, stupid, crazy, etc. Believe me, I've worked with a few and I've called them out on it ... but only once there was incontrovertible evidence of those things. It doesn't change the fact that it's better to start by assuming good intent.
Draw two crossing lines: the lines are mostly not touching except at the point they cross, so they are both touching and not touching depending on where you look. Is this a contradiction?
That's interesting. Thanks for the resources. I wasn't aware of this.
Because nobody knows how to even begin researching something like that.
I got an email today about them settling a class action lawsuit that covers this.

https://wfsettlement.com
You need to have someone coordinate frequency use or else you'll get tons of interference. At least by making people pay for it you incentize them to actually use the part of the spectrum they've purchased.
Ultimately you would just be forwarded back to the original post on my site no matter where you see the impression. ebay, fb, cl and others will likely have different rules for this regarding having an account, so in those cases we would either link the accounts (like ziprecruiter does) or just post under my company's name.
I wasn't really interested in your opinion based on the lack of one 1-line utility function (and it is one line: `new Array(10 - str.length).fill("0").join("") + str`). I was interested in what significant functionality OP found lacking in node.js' standard library.
What clarified things for me while reading it was coming across this line:

> Well, I AM actually stubborn!! But if the metrics had shown that BATCH was worse, I would absolutely be the first to change my mind.

He's self-critical. I also think he's only right about being stubborn in its original meaning (untameable) rather than the new colour the word seems to have (unwilling to change despite evidence).

What happened here was an NHL player joined a team thinking it was another major league team, but it wasn't even college ice. That's fine, but his mistake was not just leaving for a different team. If you come into a team thats slightly beneath you you can raise it up to your level and change peoples careers / lives for the better, but getting too far off just doesn't work. You're way too ahead of them and you're new so they don't trust you or want to listen to you. Just move on to a more pro project.
What a great start! Keep it up!
> Are you really buying an extra 2 TB's of storage to archive 1 TB of data ...

$ sudo zpool get size zdata
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
zdata size 21.8T -

Yep.

It's fine that you "feel secure" with your current backup regimen -- and I certainly hope you never lose any important data.

After losing data once, though, I promised myself I'd do my best to make sure that it never happened again. The "primary copy" of all my data lives on the individual machines (my workstation, primarily, but there's a bit on my main laptop too) but there's also a copy of it all on a server out in the garage as well as yet another server (see above) that I have in an ISP's facility nearby. There's yet another copy of a small fraction of my files (the "really, really, really important stuff") that's sitting in AWS (via tarsnap) as well.

Some folks are satisfied with a copy of their family photos copied onto a flash drive and tossed into a drawer or an external USB drive permanently sitting on the desk next to their computer. I know of several small companies in my area that thought they were safe with an external USB drive connected to their server... until they got hit with ransomware.

My laptop has a pair of mirrored SSDs, my workstation has a pair of mirrored SSDs and a pair of mirrored "spinners". The server in the garage (my "first backup") has RAID10. That box at the ISP has mirrored SSDs plus a "raidz2" that the backups live on. Some of us just want a little bit more reassurance than others. :-)
How Hedge Funds Hide
I suppose you just consider it collateral damage that big banks will act just as irresponsibly as before when they are deregulated? The whole premise that deregulation is the answer is always that the regulation isn't accomplishing anything useful, but if it really weren't accomplishing anything useful you would think the big banks themselves wouldn't be so eager to get rid of it.
I wonder if all these small banks have to re-invent the SaaS wheel, or if there is a company out there providing a banking platform to them...
Not disagreeing with your point. But a fun bit of trivia. The Cylons never actually had a plan in the show. According to creator Ronald D Moore, they intended to come up with something later, but never did.
Is that option documented somewhere? I imagine there are some tradeoffs with enabling it.
And thats when he realized Wells Fargo got the last laugh, 10 years of late fees
Jan 2017, 10 months before the Layer3 acquisition. We'll see what happens.
> Demonstrating such a lack of awareness and understanding does explain why you are a junior programmer and not an investor.

It seems as if you're going out on a limb here and inferring an awful lot about someone from a single comment, and your inferences both appear to be incorrect to an amusing degree...
It's definitely an industry ripe for rebirth. For instance, I should be able to partition my money into several lightweight accounts - one for groceries, one for home expenses, investment, etc - and automatically have fractions of my deposits sent to those accounts so my budgeting and money management are handled without any effort on my part. I should have lightweight cards available for each of those accounts with online card management (request/terminate cards, track per-card spending); multiple cards per account so I can give my wife full use of "grocery" card, and alerts/notifications when I am spending too much in an account/not efficiently allocating the full amount/potentially using a card improperly; financial projections; and so on.

Most consumer products and customer services should be totally accessible through a web interface. All of this could be built on top of today's banking infrastructure as a mostly-frontend service but instead I'm forced to give my personal information to services like Mint (who can not and will not ever do what I actually need it to do) or trust Random Startup #347 with access to my bank account because banks are monoliths without technical capacity or consumer-oriented business practices. I imagine some upstart will eventually come along with a better solution but banking regulation (though absolutely necessary in many ways) will hinder growth of any challenger.

If anyone has any recommendations in the meantime, please let me know!
SMS is important. It's universal, and it can be used as a way to communicate with anyone. I have friends that I chat with exclusively over SMS. They use Facebook Messenger, and I won't use Facebook anymore. They could join me on Signal or something, but I'm not going to ask them to download a whole app just to chat with me.

It's the one messaging platform that's not in a silo, and that's just as important (maybe more so?) than 100% reliability.
Read this but I think OP communication style is very bad and he might not be good player. Read this blog also but can not go half the page.
https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/post...
> In my view, the universe only ever exists in one state

> All of the universal constants come down to comparing a present state to a previous-present state

The problem with this as you state it is that it is not relativistically invariant; there is no absolute "present" for the universe as a whole.

However, a more restricted version of this, where the notion of "present" is not applied to the whole universe but only to a single observer's worldline, works fine.
Wheat grown by a farmer for his own consumption, not bought or sold, not carried across state lines, can be regulated by Congress as it affects "commerce ...among the several States."

See Wickard v. Filburn.
Not true at all. There's a large part of brain development that comes from simply practicing handwriting.[0] Putting pen to paper is a huge part of language mastery. In most educational situations, that practice is going to occur outside of the classroom as there is simply not enough time in the typical school day.

Even in the study mentioned in a previous comment [1], the authors disagree as, "we find additional homework to be most effective for high and low achievers".

[0]https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/why-handwriting-is...

[1]https://www.binghamton.edu/economics/research/old-working-pa...
Ask HN: How to “soft” launch a public ledger idea?
I've been working on a public ledger idea. Its very unique. In a not so complete nutshell it helps charities gain public momentum though a special mining process.

I am struggling on how to do a "soft launch". If I launch to soon and I'm not done my idea will probably be copied. If I wait to launch, what if I never feel it is finished enough to launch. A catch-22. Part of me feel I should start talking about it as it is really very different.

Any advice?
Yes, pretty much. Well, newcomer or someone who just learned something new.
Your analogy breaks down right away because people are not mere cells in the organism of a state. That is a dangerous mentality that can lead to Totalitarianism.

In your own example you alluded to cells refusing to commit apoptosis. By your analogy, it should be just and proper for people to be regularly savrificed for their state — their very lives may be required to be given up for the state to function.

I do not think we base our human societies on the law of the jungle — and certainly not on the inner workings of an organism! I doubt you are able to take this analogy very far without coming up against horrendous human rights violations.
Lagoon Nebula Dazzles in Hubble Telescope's 28th-Birthday Photos
Wealth taxes ignore property rights. When something is yours, it should stay yours unless you agree to part with it.
As someone else pointed out upthread, gambling losses are tax deductible to the extent of your winnings: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/jobs-and-career/can-you...
I'm interested to see how this plays out. When I looked into it, it seemed hard to compete with wired broadband internet. I think wireless has the best chance in areas where people's only option is satellite or dial-up.
Judging new technology based on current impact is flawed. All new technology starts with no use as people figure it out.
Kratos Is Now PlayStation's Most Iconic Character and  We Love His New
No, they made 22 billion. You're probably reading their quarterly figures.

source: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/wfc/financials?query=income-st...

The scams in themselves were not profitable. For the cross-selling, they made an extra 100 million or so over the course of many years, I don't recall the figures I read.
I've seen great CVs document excellent experience for poor performers.

And I've also seen great coders dissolve before my eyes (in the face of personal problems) and turn into very poor performers that routinely caused short and long term technical problems.

I don't think you just need to earn respect when you join an org - I think you need to deserve the respect you earn, and work to maintain it.
Thanks, that's much clearer and I understand now. That's a good simple lower bound.
...and if no assets are kept off the books
I was commenting on the lack of competition. Deregulating with the aim of making the barriers to entry into the marketplace smaller. Not deregulation to allow big banks to get away with more...

Also, I would guess with more competition from smaller banks, megabanks might actually act more responsibly.

[EDIT] but you are kind of proving my point, so thanks! I said "deregulation" so your mind is already made up on the point.
Firefox Sync + Firefox Bookmarks + Firefox Addons for managing native bookmarks + https://github.com/WebMemex/webmemex-extension for indexing + custom code to generate static web pages with pure JS search with content out of bookmarks + I send interesting links to my friends if these could be interesting to them via email.

Do not use proprietary closed source solutions.

UPDATE:
For something more importatng I use gitlab/gitlabe pages(my works usually) or syncthing (copies)
Marketplace reported this morning that while WF was fined $1B, they apparently saved more than three times that amount due to the new tax law.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-wells-...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-earnings-2...
In college, I had an account at Wells Fargo, and my parents would occasionally deposit money into it as a way of sending me money for free. One day, my mom tried to do this and got sucked into a 20 minute sales pitch to switch my parents' mortgage to WF. The teller finally took the cash, but it never actually appeared in my account. After a few hours, my mom went back to the bank, and they couldn't find any record of the transaction - but the teller remembered spending 20 minutes talking to my mom, so there were able to find the money, deposit it correctly, and solve the problem.

So, I mean, there are some good things to those pitches I guess. Wells Fargo is impressively awful.
that's really irrelevant when PC notebooks can had for $200-$300. That means that not well off are not going to be chosing macs
Porsche exec arrested over Volkswagen's 'Dieselgate'
These atomic-powered airships never made it off the drawing board
Hee. Yeah, by the middle of season 3 or so it was clear that the BSG writer's room had a big banner hanging in it that read "FIGURE IT OUT LATER."
> Your example belies the very core of the argument in the article, in that the sequence you just described as causal is in fact an illusion.

No, it isn't. In loop quantum gravity, which is the theory discussed in the article, "causal sequences" are more fundamental than spacetime itself, so even when you dig down to the level at which spacetime disappears, causality is still there.
I had actually given up on Slackware a few years ago because I had a difficult time configuring to how I wanted things. I had several PC's that it just didn't work well with. I wonder if this has changed.
There are definitely vendors for at least some of the backend and web services a starting bank will need. I've forgotten any of the names I've heard, though.
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" Thou canst not kill that which doth not live. But you can blast it into
chunky kibbles. " -- Quake Manual, describing Zombies.
This reminds me of when Verizon and Time Warner said their customers don't want gigabit internet.
That screenshot shows nothing about the threading model! If you're going to toot your horn about the fantastic, revolutionary, "world's most productive" threading model all day long, for goodness' sake show us what the threading model is, front and center.

The "world's most productive" phrase is doing you no favours, by the way; it's substance-free marketing hype. It gave a slimy first impression that I had to fight past to try to find out what Zulip was really about. Show, don't tell.
World War II bomb disposal forces evacuation in central Berlin – CNN
Does the ban only affect vegetarian products that use unqualified name such as "sausage" or "steak", or does it also ban product names such as "veggie sausage" or "soy patty"?
Stop paying taxes.
Uproar in Canada after homeopath gives boy pill made from rabid dog's saliva
I have a friend who's been in grad school a decade (although to be fair he had to take several breaks for family issues - so let's say 7-8 years).

I don't think he's published a paper as a first author. He's about to now, but his advisor is not happy with it and has made it clear his work on that paper is not sufficient. His advisor is sending all sorts of signals that he has given up on him - he often ignores his emails for requests to meet, etc. And he's expressed displeasure about his progress several times. The University will require his advisor's signature every semester because he has gone beyond the university's deadlines for a PhD.

He's a very smart guy and is good at software (his PhD is not CS, though). He can get a good job with a decent (or even top) company. He is almost 40 years old. Oh, and on top of all that, given how his research is going, there's a good chance no one will hire him for his research work even if he gets a PhD.

I asked him "Why not quit and get a job?"

Him: "Man, I put so much time into it and I'll feel all that time would have gone to waste. And please don't talk to me about sunk cost!"

Me: "Did you every consider that you will finish the PhD, and then end up asking yourself why you wasted so much time pursuing it?"

I've been in his shoes, and I quit my PhD as well (although spent a few years less than he did in school). Then I went to industry and saw the types of jobs I would have gotten if I had completed. Although they paid better, I would have hated those jobs. As for the time I spent in grad school? How could it possibly be a waste? I went because I had a passion for the topic, and I learned a lot while there. You don't lose all that knowledge and experience when you quit.
When did you last get 100Mbit+ speeds with 4G?

In a real world scenario, I would max out my data cap in 5 minutes.. Telcos will never give up their guaranteed profits by throttling speeds even with unlimited speed/capacity.
Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012 CE [pdf]
I think this raises a fair point. How can we punish the employers and not the employees?

Maybe we should have jailed the executives or responsible party, so no one dares to pull that kind of shit again.
Long Before Cambridge Analytica, a Belief in the ‘Power of the Subliminal’
Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with n=13m] [pdf]
Improved GWAS for Biobank-scale datasets
On one hand the lyrics (as quoted in the link posted by another commenter [1]) are clearly in bad taste, and I don't see how they are supposed to pay tribute to a boy killed in a road accident. On the other hand I don't understand how any of this warrants a fine and curfew. Sure, if the platform this was posted on doesn't agree with the language they can give a warning or even block the account, but why did the justice system have to get involved at all?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16886795
In principle this makes sense, but I've had pretty negative experiences dealing with community banks, where the tellers weren't any better, but there wasn't an 800 line for them to go to.
I guess I don't see the equivalence. Time very much depends upon duration and the terms might as well be synonymous. Does space depend upon displacement? If we froze a single instance of space & time, we would see a universe sitting still. Space and all its fillings would still be there but would time? I believe it quite bold to call space time and time space just because duration and displacement seem similar.
The repeal of the Glass-Steagall legislation (Banking Act of 1933) in 1999 deregulated and allowed banks to act as investment, commercial, and retail at will. That deregulation doomed us to the financial crisis a decade later and the "too-big-to-fail" atrocity that ensued.
This illustrates something that many people in many disciplines, definitely including developers, do wrong in interviews: it's not just you interviewing with the company, it's the company interviewing with you. Just as you're asked probing questions about your technical skills, ask meaningful questions about the company's technical practices. Don't just let them interview you for fit, try and determine if they'd fit with you. It's legitimate to get a good offer and say "no, this is a place I wouldn't like to be." OP describes the tech stack of the company as interesting, which is great, but things like "PRs stay open for long periods with no review" and "extensive review is required before many changes" are things that can be learned by an inquisitive interviewee.

And, as others have pointed out, gain respect before you try to make dramatic changes. Unless you're hired to make drastic change, your job is probably not to make drastic change. Especially if you lack domain knowledge (this was OP's first step into payments -- a technical area with complex business/legal requirements). Especially if you're more junior and haven't been around the block enough times to get a nose for what thins are more risky. 6 months is a long evaluation time, but a short time to get comfortable with a new codebase and stack, it's good to provide positive feedback but it's also easy to not be able to see _why_ things are they way they are, early on as one learns about a codebase. Sometimes things are crap because bad decisions, sometimes things are crap because tech debt... and sometimes things that look like crap actualy aren't, see https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-....
Because it is so difficult to write good regulations. It is [nearly?] impossible to predict all the consequences of your regulation ahead of time. After the regulation is written there are many more people who have an incentive to figure out how to twist it to their advantage, and they get as long as they need to dream it up. Then they get a as long as they need to try various forms in small areas that you don't notice until they get it "right" and then before you know it they have grown.

It doesn't help that the people who are best able to write the regulations are those who are in the industry: they also have incentive to get it wrong. Either you have people who don't understand the industry writing the regulations despite not being competent to do so, and thus not realizing at all what the loopholes are; or you get those who are inside to close the bad loop holes (the ones they know will be abused and they will get in trouble for) while opening up smaller loopholes that benefit slightly them at the expense of someone else not writing the regulations. Either way you lose, though insiders is slightly better. This is also why you see a "revolving door" between industry and regulators: that is the only way regulators can get the skills they need to write something that isn't completely awful.