skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have created a strawman and attacked a nonexistent demographic. You might be underestimating the vast majority of people.

When someone is overweight and they say calorie counting doesn't work that mean it really doesn't work. They're not saying they do it perfectly with no results. They're saying that they can't stick with it. Then they try a "fad diet" and suddenly they are eating less calories but they no longer get overwhelming cravings or feel drained.

I think we need more fad diets to get people to try different things because so far we haven't made any progress on the perfect weight loss "just eat less" plan. The more diets we have the more likely someone is to try something and find something that works for them.
My team lead was the least competent person on the team. This was constantly frustrating. When it finally bugged me enough to look around, much better pay was available. So that pretty much did it.
you have to read the actual paper not the article
I ran out of money trying to build my startup for just under 3 years. It was sad but a better decision overall. Went back to an old VPs company which was recently acquired as a senior web engineer. 10 months later I took over the web engineering team as our first engineering manager.
> Elixir is not even mentioned

No, but Erlang is listed among the most-loved, most-wanted, and highest-paying technologies.

> there are hardly any developers to be found and creating an application in Elixir is just a not a business decision. It's a fun decision.

WhatsApp is a famous success for Erlang. Cisco is using it broadly as well. A large portion of the phone system runs on Erlang because of its technical advantages. Bleacher Report went from 150 servers to 5 by switching from Ruby to Elixir, and their whole content delivery model is enabled by using Elixir, since most of their stuff is personalized and caching doesn't really work.

Elixir is basically "friendlier Erlang"; all the advantages of the BEAM are there. Elixir and Erlang devs together attend conferences like Code BEAM. You could probably hire Erlang devs to do write Elixir, and if you had an Elixir app and Elixir died, you could switch to Erlang.

I think there are some good business reasons to use Elixir. Of course, I'm a dev who has spent significant time learning it, which makes me somewhat biased. But I did give it some thought before jumping in.
Give that question a good Googling and you'll find a lot of good stuff. It's not a bad question and has been seriously treated by a number of people.
You can definitely tell a corporation how to spend their money, just not as a way to limit protected speech. That's pretty much all zoning laws are after all restrictions on how people and corporations can spend their money.
Most feed readers these days will go and fetch the RSS link from the header if you copy a URL in. It's not great for promoting RSS, but it's not enough friction to stop me from using it.
"Explicit" doesn't necessarily have to mean "verbose", though.
With the exception of college towns it's an almost perfect map of population density.
This wild Mars colony concept uses inflatables, 3D space cement
I quit for quality of life improvement (shorter commute, remote possibilities, fewer work hours).

Also to work on something that has more impact on people instead of only profiting big corps.
Here is my channel: https://goindie.xyz
Okay, but it still doesn't mean the particle passes through both slits.
> found enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter

What an incredibly useless unit of measurement. They somehow found something worse than "olympic size swimming pools".
Why not go with bare metal from say OVH for this type of service? Running a free VoIP service on top of a cloud provider is kind of silly, not just from a cost perspective, but also having shared resources for your voice/WebRTC media servers. But then the question is, why offer free VoIP service to begin with? You're going to invite a lot of abuse and fraud attempts very quickly. Sure you can guard against that, but is it really worth it?

There's a massively booming VoIP industry right now (despite the perception of "too many players" in the market). Go out there and make money while providing good affordable service. Charge $10-$15 per line while the big guys ask for $25-$50. VoIP seats add up fast, and it's very nice MRR with not a lot of hassle if you run things right and give customers tools to get things done without calling for support for every little thing.

Or go the route that Dialpad is taking with their limited Free product (dialpad.com/free) which is kind of a bait-and-switch because surely a business will need to convert to a paid subscription of some sort if they don't end up going out of business in the first few months.
Bang on! "I’m an investor, can I access your user base? The short answer is maybe.", sounded very shady. Not sure I can trust them with some very personal information.
The food isn't really free but part of the compensation package.

Next thing you know they're going to ban the office supply cabinet and if you need pens or paperclips you need to take a trip to the local Staples.
Researchers make progress in building a smart bandage
The statement is more generally true if you take out the word 'government', and come to think of it, take out 'administrated' too.
Regarding 2), can Stripe Connect be used with Issuing? If each user of a Connect app just had their own Stripe account with their own balance, that sounds a lot simpler (for the developer).
> Does anyone know of an API that would allow a Credit Card user the ability to grant real-time webhooks to a 3rd party as they swipe their card?

Galileo and Pex already support basically the same stuff as Stripe Issuing. It's nice to have this option within the Stripe ecosystem though. If you use stripe and an existing 3rd part to do this there are bank transfers involved to get funds from one place to the other.

https://galileoprocessing.com/
https://www.pexcard.com/
Agile (scrum), i.e. micromanagement hell + low salaries and no increase policy.
"Leave" was the slogan and the name of the "Let's leave the EU" group who advocated (and still do) for voting for leaving the EU.
When I visited Bologna, I found that their main library is that way -- they have a glass floor over the excavations below.
Currently dealing with that one myself. Wouldn't be bad if he'd just learn to delegate.

What's a polite way of telling someone "Lead, follow, or get out of the effing way?"
The inability to filter explicit songs out is maddening! And it's a glaring omission to anyone with young children. I have seen it skip from a My Little Pony song to an explicit Patton Oswalt standup bit (perhaps because he voiced a character once... I have no clue) while my daughter was listening.

Another annoying one is how you can choose an exact song to play on tablet or on PS4, but not from your phone - you can only shuffle play there. Try explaining that to a 5 year old.
Was not given any meaningful work and felt I was not growing as a developer.

Been at my current job for 1.5 years, and feel the same way. I'm looking around, but after being a "Software Engineer" for 4 years, employers look for a particular set of skills and experience I simply have not gained during my track record. Feels like a catch-22.
Introducing SafeGraph Places: The Source of Truth about Physical Places
They'll figure out an alternative. eg, Liechtenstein only has 2.5% corporate tax rates for IP & royalties. So create a shell there, sell it your IP, and then license it back.
What Flash content does weather.gov have? Their website visually appears a bit outdated, but it works just fine.
Spotify's UI and their response to features is the worst thing ever. I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well, and that it actually stopped skipping during play so I could make the switch.

Like I can't re-size columns anymore. Used to be able to do this. Now it's gone. It's super obnoxious for playlists that have classical music in them because oftentimes the piece gets cut off.

Then there are SO many bugs in the UI. I had a super annoying one a few weeks ago where I have shuffle on, and if I manually picked a song to play, that would turn shuffle off. So any time I wanted to hear a specific song in my 300+ song playlist, I had to turn shuffle on again.

Oh and ANOTHER super obnoxious bug/feature: after a while, downloaded playlists just aren't downloaded anymore. This is extra annoying for flights because I KNOW I have playlists set to download, I KNOW they finished downloading, I KNOW they were downloaded and playable for a few weeks, but still every damn time I get on the plane, after a few weeks of the playlist being downloaded, the files are gone. And I'm stuck on the plane in offline mode with no music to listen to. Play music doesn't have this issue. In fact, I don't have to tell it to download anything. Last weekend on my flight to LA, Play Music had cached/downloaded the two playlists I use the most.

Spotify is such garbage. I hate it so much.
I read it and both enjoyed it and found it valuable. It's in my recommended reading list for product people.
The Most Common Cloud Computing Myths
Aside from speculation the bulk of any commerce done is likely for darknet purchases anyway.

Go look up a list of common darknets, go open a few of the top sellers. Look at their listings, look at how many reviews each listing has. Go back 2 weeks later and check again, you'll be surprised. Now look at how many darknets there are with decent user bases and consider how many sellers each has with moderate activity. Most of that commerce is in bitcoin, some in monero or ETH but mostly bitcoin.

I mean, you can pop on and buy several kilograms of cocaine in a single listing (or any other drug you can think of, some even sell guns and human bones, most also have cvv2 dumps and other identity theft stuff as well as stolen uber accounts any all sorts of other things). With the cocaine for example, you can pull up a 1kg+ listing that will have a dozen or more reviews indicating tens, or hundreds, of thousands of dollars in sales just for a single listing on a single market.

People like to make-believe bitcoin is for legit commerce but it's mostly for speculation and criminal enterprise.
You're absolutely right (and an excellently written post; very effectively communicated ), but I think the difference is in what's possible/easy/difficult.

Building a usable experience in Flash was possible, but sufficiently difficult that almost none did.

Building a usable experience in JS is significantly easier than it was in Flash, though sadly still seems to be sufficiently difficult that too few do. The ratio of usable JavaScript apps is a lot higher than it was for flash, but is still a minority. It is at least an improvement though, if an incremental one.
Exact same reason as me. They were the personification of Dunning-Kruger. It's so damn disheartening to go to work everyday when you know what you are working on is absolutely doomed to fail, and you are powerless to stop it thanks to office politics.
I don't understand what "right censored" means.
The rules for the list don't say that an author can't recommend his/her own book. The rules do say that a recommender must explain why he/she recommends one book over others, which this author did.
I landed a remote job, and I've been traveling ever since
> the story of someone's life and activities is only truly interesting for a small fraction of the population, maybe one out of 50 people.

I think you're wrong here. Most people relate more to people than to gadgets. We're the exception here, not the rule. HN readers want the facts, but for the general population, the human interest angle improves the article. It gives them a reason to care.
Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance
How to Not Get Killed by Beach Umbrellas, According to a Guy Who Would Know
More money, better title, double the vacation, cheaper health care, and better retirement contributions were available elsewhere.
I'm always a little disappointed when these experiments are unable to disprove General Relativity. I keep hoping that they'll discover something slightly wrong about it, which will quickly lead to us figuring out how to develop a practical warp drive which doesn't require negative or nearly infinite energy.
Can you use privacy.com without installing the chrome extension?
They usually don't sell deadly bacteria in kits aimed at high schoolers...
Low pay
Investment is, broadly speaking, how individuals use current production to fund future consumption. Investment taxes are a tax on future consumption over and above taxes on current consumption, creating a distortionary effect.
I've just left my job, last week

I left because the place was going downhill and morale was rock bottom. Weak management and funding shortfalls meant that non core departments were being starved of money. Staff were leaving or being made redundant and I was going to be the only one left in my department with little to do. I took the chance to apply elsewhere where they hopefully value the work I do and got in. I am taking a 20% pay cut to do so and I hope it works out. I might have been ok for another year but management turnover meant we have had 3 'staff reorganisations' in 4 years all of which seemed to be cost cutting measures and I can't see that it was going to go on much longer anyway. The latest set of management have come in and shown only slash and burn style; I think they could be aiming to cut back to core and then build from there. Perhaps it will work for them, but I was not optimistic about it.
They were starting to adopt a cutthroat culture where managers boast about firing people. I remember the point where I knew I was going to quit was when the VP called all the tech leads in a room and essentially told us, "Good riddance to these other folks, but good news! You are the ones we wanted to keep..."
It's going to make a huge difference in terms of FB's appeal to potential employees. Who wants to work at FB if it means that you'll have to waste time and energy figuring out what to do for lunch every day?
It may be a moral/ethical failure on a larger scale of philosophy/principle, but in capitalism/the market, this is the CEO doing his job, essentially. Competition is supposed to step in somewhere, but as we've seen in many industries, it often appears to mean nothing if all of the competitors agree to act in a similar way, or if the company still gets enough paying customers regardless.

He is maximizing profits/value for shareholders, which in today's world is often point #1 for many companies because that's how the system has been designed to function and is what it requires of its participants.
My understanding is that mining pools could just as well have been implemented as a feature of the protocol itself. In Bitcoin, for example, this would be a coinbase transaction with multiple recipients.

If that change changes your reckoning of the accounting, then the difference between more and less trading volume in the network has come down to how you represent the ledger format. At which point you need to choose how to resolve that discrepancy—for example, by always choosing the most compact ledger format possible.

(Analogy: figuring out how many cycles a series of CPU instructions takes to execute. If some of those instructions are hints or pragmas that the CPU consumes without a full cycle, then representing this CPU’s instructions in a RISC encoding will give you a different cycle-count estimate than encoding the instructions as CISC, where the hints/pragmas just become part of the CISC instruction they’re associated with.)
Wait, if Huawei Partner acquired the company, doesn’t it mean they got the rights to its IP? Isn’t that often the sole point of acquision?

Or did I misread something?
Or this one: "Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day" by Anthony Cave Brown. Still my all time favorite WWII book.

https://www.amazon.com/Bodyguard-Lies-Extraordinary-Story-Be...
When I signed up for Charter in my new place, the salesman over phone repeatedly pressed me to buy telephone service. I repeatedly refused. I ordered internet only (1 Gb for $100/mo!). The technician came in and installed phone without telling me until he was done working. I asked him to please uninstall it, but he said he couldn't. I had to call in, cancel the phone service. Asked them to pick up the modem, because it's a $200 liability taking up space in my home. They refused. I had to take the modem in 95-degree weather (subway + walking, i dont have a car) to some place 7 miles away, eating up half of my saturday.
> misinformed voters

I have this notion that EU votes are repeated the number of times necessary to have the 'informed' result win.
I quit it slowly to work on my current startup. Went down to two days a week then fully quit last year. They're awesome and I've still got a desk in their office!
Bad experience at a nonprofit. For all the "you're doing amazing work!" talk and praise that was heaped on us, there was a lot of fluff and cruft behind the scenes. Almost everything was geared towards marketing how we were changing the sector, when almost none of the projects mattered or would ever be used. And the maniacal focus on getting more money donated when summer time came around.

Joined because I believed in the mission and thought writing code could really help in the initial vision. Then learned the dirty secret that most of it was marketing how great we were.
Maybe these are not the same developers?

I know I may be replacing jquery with stimulus or eventually vuejs but writing 5 lines of jquery code for my MVP is exactly the right balance today.
or a platform that needs to purchase goods in the real world

So like Shipt or Postmates?
I grew up very near the Puget Sound in Washington state, and I feel the same way!

I just did a bit of research and discovered that in 2010, 39% of Americans lived in a coastal county. Given that many counties are rather small, especially on the East Coast, I wouldn't be surprised if as many as 50 or 60% of Americans lived within 70 miles of the coast.
Not sure if you know, but Bank of America, Paypal and others have tried this a long time ago (in Internet years). They all abandoned this idea, iirc because of the upkeep costs (?) and massive amount of fraudulent use.
Thanks for your report! We'll definitely work on fixing bugs for complex nested grids. We usually update it every week.

Cheers
> goto advocacy?

If you actually encounter a situation where more self-documenting constructs don't work, sure, but usually that only happens due to deficiencies in your programming language.

> Segmentation faults as the preferred error handling technique?

Actually you should use SIGABRT, not SIGSEGV; see self-documenting.

Considered harmful assertions considered harmful.
We've already asked you to please post substantively. We ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just letting you know he posted his code under that viemo video. https://github.com/CodeReclaimers/neat-python and https://github.com/openai/retro/
>there are plenty of ACH/SWIFT transfers that are actually just people moving money from account to account or institution to institution too, rather than actual inter-party transactions.

You're transferring banking systems/locations. That affects money supply, transfer fee's, lending, etc. It definitely has an economic impact, far larger than transferring bitcoins around.
Bulb efficiency and bulb life are at odds. In railroad signals, the practice was to use low-power bulbs that barely glowed, and lasted basically forever(nowadays it is all LEDs, Iguess). I am sure no one wants 5W bulbs glowing deep orange at home. Targeting a rather low life is the same as targeting a minimum efficiency.
Not sure there is an effective way to tell your boss he sucks at his job.

Saying it during the exit interview would probably have the most impact.
> I don't want some "biohacker" accidentally creating AB resistent bacteria in their back garden...

There are much easier ways of creating AB resistant bacteria than CRISPR. In some countries, they even give out the necessary chemical reagents for free to anyone with a bit of patience!
Not sure how this new Google Titan key works but Yubico doesn't rely on anything other than sites that support it. If Yubico goes under tomorrow my key will continue to work for probably many years.

It's different than buying a device that needs update or server side controls.

This argument doesn't really matter here.
It's disappointing, but not surprising, that the focus seems to be entirely on the "wrong" side of the "desired" outcome.

At this point it amounts to fighting very hard to find any reason to undo a democratically determined result.
They closed my offices and moved them from downtown to the far side of the suburbs.

I live near downtown, and specifically chose my job and house to be a nice bike commute. My nice 30 minutes by bike turned into 2 hours by bus and train. So I quit.
Honestly, I think you should have stayed and keep working hard. With fewer competition and obvious competency, it was more like an opportunity than an unfortunate situation...
Is this what Marqeta does?
Same exact situation. Bad team leads usually come with bad management, as these can't seem to notice how bad a climate they generate around them.

Key points to bad team leadership: bad or no communication at all with your team members, no clear vision/direction, lack of ability to delegate.
We want corporations to use current funds to generate future positive cash flows. Stuffing a corporation full of money to get their preferential tax treatment is pretty much pointless when it gets taxed anyways when it gets used.
I agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly.

A lot of the commenters here have a very old school view of jQuery. They seem to believe that if you're using jQuery, then you must also be employing manual DOM manipulations, manual state management, etc.

You can implement modern component-ized front-end architecture while still using jQuery. My company built an in-house front-end framework heavily inspired by React and Vue. But instead of abstracting away from the DOM, we've embraced the DOM by utilizing DocumentFragments for highly performant rendering. When our components render, they return regular ole HTMLElements.

The components built using our framework work with or without jQuery. No manual DOM manipulations, one-way data binding, sane state management, templating, child components, state triggers, etc. A lot of us use jQuery simply because we prefer it's compact and expressive syntax.
Amazon is a completely different breed of horizontal/vertical integration. Makes facebook and google look antiquated.

>Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce. In addition to being a retailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of television and films, a fashion designer, a hardware manufacturer, and a leading host of cloud server space.

http://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

I actually think you could handle facebook without breaking it up (as simple on paper as it may sound to split fb/ig/wa.) Regulations requiring social graph portability and interoperability with other services would go a long way to opening up facebooks garden.

Do they want to break up Google or Alphabet?
Firefox Nightly time travel debugging