skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have refused to go into management precisely to avoid what you are experiencing. My wages have somewhat stagnated because of this, and most of my working acquaintances have moved up, but they are miserable in comparison.

Yes, they make more, in some cases much more, but after being in IT for over 20 years, I desire my "8-4 M-F no work nights/no work weekends" life more than I do a little extra coin. I go home and do zero work save things for the wife and kids, which are more akin to fun projects. I have told my boss more than once that I have a union mentality towards work. I work only during working hours. I demand a life/work balance and would happily leave should this become otherwise. I tell young IT people all the time to not allow themselves to be burned out. Work your day job and go home to your girlfriend/wife and enjoy your down time. When I'm home, I don't do any IT work other than tinker with Raspberry Pis or projects with my kids.

You cannot hit the rewind button if you have a family. Your family will not remember you for your long work schedule (hell, they may not even remember you), rather you will be remembered for the quality time. I have told myself that I want my kids to remember our time together as one big, fun on-going series of projects where we learn things together and have fun doing it.
At most gas stations, the pump won’t work during a power outage.
https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.simplemost.com/gas-stations-...

With an EV, if you are not driving already, your car will likely be almost fully charged at your home or office while the earthquake strikes. You will then have about 300 miles of driving to a place with power.
Ex-Groupon, before and after IPO. Groupon would make a great case study. The fundamental problem was that everyone knew "deal" websites would be a good business, that it would be very winner-take-all because of customer attention and supply, but no one knew how big that industry would be. So lots of companies got into it, but no one knew ahead of time how much it was worth spending to win the fight.
> The fact that parents are legally required to care for their children for 18 years throws a wrench into the theory that the freedom of parents is paramount.

Except they're not. It's called adoption.

> I don’t think there’s any precedent in culture or our legal system that puts freedom of parents at a higher priority over well being of children - nor should it.

I just listed several including divorce and the freedom to choose to vaccinate (or not). I never said that the freedom of the parents is paramount, but it's also not fully subservient to the child's wellbeing. It's a balance. And my larger point is that mandating that someone go through a painful and potentially physically scarring natural birth for a dubious improvement to the child's development does not make the grade by this standard.
No, even the university where I work is dumping its IT people in an open office cesspit next year.

I'm over 50, and I don't mind meetings or mentoring juniors, but I absolutely hate open offices. I will probably start looking for remote jobs next year. I can't wear headphones or earbuds for more than an hour or two a day (I get ear infections), and that still doesn't guarantee some jerk wont come tap you on the shoulder and startle you out of a year's growth.

Open offices are detrimental to health (60% increase in sick time), productivity (25% - 60% productivity drop), and interactions with coworkers (72% less time in face-to-face interactions). They throw away value (productivity, interactions, lower stress) for a small savings on real estate. They are only loved by cargo-cult management, IMO.
I'm talking about the trends as you see it. Everyone will see the trends differently off course, but I suppose there would be some commonality.

For me the user interface has been dumbed down in almost all modern software. Microsoft, apple etc. They are all at it!

The UI of older software assumes a more knowledgeable user, which, being a more knowledgeable user, drives my preference.

I liked the win95/2000 era of UI.
To be clear, MIT very much does not pretend that. It's only recently hired people on that track and has only 4-5 professors in total in that regard.
I've noticed that any sort of progressive/inclusive comments get aggressively downvoted on HN. It's sad and frustrating.
If that is the case, the the end goal should be a marketplace to sell mods, and the company can move up the food chain. Basically the sims works this way.
Optimization as a tool is important and widely used, but... almost everything grabbing headlines uses some form of SGD + Momentum. Very little of the actual progress comes from better optimization.
"Value" implies you can retrieve that work back out of it. Otherwise, it is a cost.

Seeing as how I can't retrieve the computing power back out of Bitcoin that was mined, it is a cost.
I see this as a rising tide. The amount or women sexually harassed appears to be much higher than the amount of men. By establishing policies that benefit the biggest victim group, you can pave the way to better policies for all the groups.

Think of it as social triage.

I also suspect that YC will take a man reporting a sexual assault as seriously as a woman. In my experience YC is open minded and egalitarian.
No that wasn't how it started. It was going to become something you could use to buy groceries with.

Ofcourse it BECAME just another financial wizardry tool, that's honestly all the tech sector really does. The smartest people on the planet are thinking about how to make more money.
Or doctors the healthiest, fittest, most disease-free individuals?
We are Ferengi, the rules of acquisition are all we need. That and lobes.
Yeah, you can automate a system so that it always decides for one party, but then as a seller, what's my incentive to use that system?
> The two things people dislike the most, the way things are, and when they change.

If this was slightly reworded I would love this quote. Is this from somewhere?
Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Minix
The Two-Envelope Paradox Explained
I always used to do it for static asset serving, where anything standing between the socket and a sendfile() call is a waste of space. I honestly don't know how good Puma is at sending files, but I wouldn't be shocked to learn it was still worthwhile there.
Really great work. I think this book has been exceptionally valuable to many people over a long period of time, and likely raised the overall level of raytracing knowledge among graphics programmers by a large amount.
Stupid question, but aren't essentially all routers made in China? Maybe not neccessarily by natively Chinese companies, but for sure in Chinese factories owned 51% by Chinese citizens? Or are there recommendable domestic options? What's the difference security-wise between a Huawei device and, say, a Motorola device made in China?

I've used a Huawei LTE router from a German telco before and thought it was a pretty solid product, but given the recent headlines I find it hard to judge what's a legitimite concern and what's just "red scare".
Protein has unique effects on information processing
Move to outside sales. Or sales engineering.
Thanks Bloomberg for this advertorial summary of a 1250$ research .pdf. Saves me some money to invest (in crypto or otherwise).

Would you believe that the author of this research was harping about blockchain adoption by large companies less than a year ago? A lot has changed in 11 months, such as a slow price drop from the 2017 December insanity.

Isn't it a bit rich to first make companies anxious to join in on the bandwagon, then to turn around and say they are investing into something that is on the very brink of destruction? Based on pretending that Bitcoin was invented at its height in December 2017?

Heck, I did not sell any of my market research, I gave it away for free (silly me). Sure, sure, I made a few million here and there, but nothing like charging 0.5 BTC to tell you the financial world is collapsing, because John McAffee is so irrationally bullish.

This time it is real though. I can feel it too. Bitcoin is over! I hope you made out like a bandit, because soon, the only way to make money is to sell research about the impending bounce-back of crypto.

Of course the early adopters of Bitcoin are critical about its demise. They have a vested financial interest in seeing it succeed. Unlike these researchers, who only stumbled upon Bitcoin when they realized that people are willing to pay for their objective expert opinion on something they themselves missed the boat on.
I haven't been able to get this one to work with any of my onenote files. FWIW.

I have found no other parser with source.
People generally let the dealer sock them with an additional $500 to cover car registration for them (so they don't have to go to the DMV themselves). When this happens, the dealer gets to install the plate for the customer, and they'll throw on the dealer frame at the same time.

After this point, customers don't have much reason to remove the plate or frame unless they really hate the ad, happen to be self-installing a rearview camera or are selling the car.
> They also parted ways with that firm because they were unwilling to provide what the auditor requested.

Yeah. "Our auditor wanted to actually conduct an audit to say we had been audited."

Tether tried to give them an instantaneous bank account balance of an account with no history, and say "Yes, on day x, there's this much in the account".

Whereas, of course, there should have been nine digit deposits (sometimes multiple times a week, lol) showing on this account.

Not so much.
One is the original weblog model, with either no comments enabled or with some sort of whitelist comment participation. You can write whatever you want, and some asshole over there can write about how stupid you are, and it doesn't have to bother you unless you deliberately visit the asshole. Back before social media, there were cases where there were entire weblogs devoted to replying to literally every post some other weblog made, but nobody cared except the few who deliberately sought that out, because you had to go out of your way to visit.

I suppose I should point out explicitly that my goal is not to create a 100% comfortable world in which you never encounter an asshole, but to create something a bit more like the real world where by the time you're an adult and you've found a place for yourself in the world, by and large you probably don't have a problem dealing with lots of people-you-consider-assholes personally. (You may professionally, but that's a different sort of problem.) Even if you maybe have a problem with one or two people in particular, you almost certainly do not set a foot outside your bedroom door and immediately get several thousand people screaming at you at the top of your lungs. But you're going to encounter a few, sure.

More on the Reddit model, I outlined something here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16570017 The observation that it is computationally expensive is true, but I'm not convinced it's intractably so. There the idea is that if some anklebiter starts replying to your every comment, by default you at most see something greyed out or collapsed if you did not have any previous connection to them, and they can't bother you. I think to jumpstart the system you'd always have to have a couple of random comments show up, and some of them may be assholes, but it wouldn't be the case I was describing where you can get this unrelenting torrent of abuse.

(I think such a system would have more manipulation resistance, too. $MEDDLER could go to some political forum that works that way, and maybe they could convince a few people or a subcommunity to upvote them, but they wouldn't be able to completely take over an entire topic by sheer mass the way they can on Reddit. You can't get a world where $MEDDLERs don't exist, but you don't have to have a world in which only $MEDDLERs and $MEDDLER-approved accounts exist on your forum.)
Ruby/Sinatra is really nice. I wrote a little webapp 10 years ago using it. Faced with the alternative of doing everything in C++, it really made things easier.
I guess those circles just seem very far away when you're in the bay area.
YC and HN are linked but are definitely not the same. The HN community is pretty well known for being toxic when it comes to these topics.
Seems odd that fear of death would make you suicidal. Especially considering all you have to do to die is wait.
A roadmap to agriculture that’s sustainable and climate-neutral
lol at $49.99 being evil. You need to recalibrate your good and evil meter.

Another phrasing for "playing on the psychology of numbers" would be "Using language that makes the customer more comfortable." Is it evil psychology to say "please" and "thank you" to people walking into your shop (also will likely increase sales)? Or evil psychology to learn to use appropriate metaphors when giving a speech? Is it evil to use a nice font rather than comic sans?

Because people are provably more comfortable buying low value items with .99 at the end. You make them uncomfortable with the purchase by rounding up, and either way, you are going to be rationally choosing one of the options.

On the other side with your logic, by pricing as a whole number, you are using evil psychology to persuade your customer that what you're selling is a higher quality and more expensive item. So evil!
> Callisto chose to send the survey to the 125 founders who signed up for the YC female founder email list. They choose this group under the assumption that these founders would welcome being reached out to for the survey because they had signed up proactively to this email list.
This is one case were I would expect even native speakers to not fully know the difference.
Are you joking? Desktop YouTube is one of the worst UIs I've had to deal with. Controls constantly popping up over the video, annotations on by default, autoplay to the next video on by default. If you're in full screen mode and switch to another app, then come back, the video is just ... gone. It's not on the page, but it's not full-screen anymore, either. Buttons and options that don't show up consistently on every video. No way to fix the aspect ratio of videos created by morons. Crap everywhere on the page. I seriously find it hard to believe that anyone would consider YouTube to have a good video player interface, let alone the best.
I mean if it's built in the browser it's likely using WebRTC under the hood. Might not be the same techniques they described in their article but all the negotiation and transport is built on open source then. Likely also using MS Desktop Duplication API and Media Foundation.

Not sure why the time you started building it matters but hasn't moonlight-chrome been around for even longer? https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-chrome
I love Paradox. I happily fork over $10-20 a few times a year for new EU4 and Stellaris DLC. I feel like (1) the longevity of those games, (2) the ability for the developer to majorly rework systems far past release (see EU4 Art of War), and (3) modding ability, are all related.
Oh yes, to actually sign up with Tether, you had to be not affiliated with the US in any way, have a minimum of $10,000/$30,000 to give them, and wait for 90 days or more.

The moon also had to be in full eclipse while in Mercury retrograde.
It's analogous to pointing out that the #1 trait that successful founders have in common is family wealth - it causes people to have to look into their own privilege, and it ain't pretty.
Barley shortages from climate change could mean less beer worldwide
Quora Down?
Is Quora down entirely?
I'm sticking to Affinity, though.
> Huh, interesting! I wonder where the discrepancy comes from.

Probably because the Cloudflare data is percentage of traffic (e.g. total requests), and the Google data is percentage of users. Mobile traffic is more likely to be IPv6, and that would skew the numbers.
It's not silent though.

Neither is VSCode. How is Firefox morally superior than VSCode in this regard then?
He should have said, criticise publicly.
> It sounds like you'd need to lie to a lawyer, which (I assume has) legal implications

There are no legal implications from lying to a lawyer that are different than lying to a software developer or anyone else, at least not that I can think of. I suppose communication with lawyers is more likely to be in situations where lying has legal implications, such as in legal proceedings. But if you lie on the witness stand, the problem is not that you lied to the lawyer but that you lied to the court.
Is the solution more anonymity, or less? Are reputation systems a good idea in general?

On the one hand you have google/facebook pushing people to reveal their real names on accounts... on the other you have sites similar to this one where you don't have to reveal much, but rely on karma/reputation a bit more.

In the end, it's a matter of dealing with the best and worst of mankind. As sad as it is, bullying didn't start with the internet, and it won't end with it. It sucks to be on the receiving end, and although I, personally, haven't always been the best at dealing with it, people need to learn that skill.

The world, despite best optimistic intentions, is not a kind, fair place to be.
" It's as if you took Herbalife as a valuable/honest/model player in the dietary supplement market..."

Are they not? Shakes can be a decent way to lose weight. Seems to be that people are willing to pay a premium for the "community". But IMHO saying their stuff is overpriced is like saying beer in a bar is overpriced because you can buy a beer for one dollar in the supermarket. Yes, it is correct. In some way.
Unless that "significant penalty" includes somehow removing that VC from the company's cap table without harming the company, then the cure might be worse than the disease.

Imagine the havoc that could be caused by a publicly shamed VC with a board seat and a 10% chunk of the company. And, as we learned from the tale of Peter Thiel and Gawker, one of the advantages of being a billionaire is you can afford to squander millions of dollars on petty vengeance.
Experimental editor to create gradients
I felt ill just looking at the office plan in the lead picture (your keyboard slots in between two monitors facing the other way...).

Are there places in SV with open offices that dense?
To each is own, for sure. I have the exact opposite philosophy. I would rather my kids see me as someone who is trying to achieve something big. After a while, they have their own interests and don’t want to do projects with you anyway.
Hence my caveat about already having said expensive bulbs. The possibility exists that someone could to real time whole room color effects right now and they just didn't know it.

If you want actual ambilight tech hue is definitely not directly analogous and not cheap either.
Article is from 2016...
Seems deeply cynical. Where is this coming from?

Death is the only certain part of life. Who can seriously fear it? It's the part that immediately precedes death that scares me.... if I were to get Alzheimers I would rather put a bullet in my head.
What does that even mean?

There are no strict limits on paranoia... Maybe Satya Nadella threatened to literally murder everyone involved with VSCodium.
I am not sure Paul Krugman is scared or politically motivated.

One of the strongest argument Paul Krugman makes against bitcoin is about trust. Like, he says dollar has value because US government backs it and you can pay taxes with it. Basically, he is questioning can bitcoin gain that level of trust among its users to be successful. Not the current level of some transaction around dark markets.

Personally, I don't know.
One thing though, the internet was/is solid technology. Underneath the internet bubble was something that worked. Blockchain is promising technology but without solving the scaling issue it will always be just that.
That's a mighty sweeping statement, isn't it friend?
... because not everything needs it?

If you’re mostly writing CRUD apps, you’re correct. But the world is not all CRUD, even if you’re only looking at the web space.
My favorite user blocklist was the one that listed every Twitter advertiser. I think the maintainer shut it down, but I thought it was a pretty neat idea.
Ask HN: What used SUV 100k-200k miles would you recommend to purchase?
A couple of notes:

(1) There are VCs that are female friendly from the get go, rather than as an afterthought, for instance http://www.karmijnkapitaal.nl/

(2) What is also interesting to research is what the difference is in capital raised for what %age of equity vs teams consisting of all-males.

(3) The study started off with a self-selected group, which might affect the results either way, it would be good to repeat it across a larger number of subjects chosen at random.
I worked at a small startup (our office was a store room in a clothing store) and for the first couple years wrote the software and answered the phones along with another developer. Eventually we got larger and hired a support guy, but I still handled the tricker calls and covered during support guy's vacation.

I did enjoy answering the phone and helping out the customers, though I didn't love the interrupt-driven nature of answering the phone. Being able to interact directly with customers did help improve our software, though. Over the course of many years, I got to know several customers pretty well, and even got invited to one's retirement party (sadly, it was in another state and I couldn't attend).
> Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony

Technology itself has its advantages, but scrutiny is needed for how it is put to use by large corporations with lots of power. A healthy discussion needs to happen around the role of platforms which are gaining influence into people's emotional lives. But is that a technology thing or a business/ethics thing?

I used to love the communities on USENET; and many IRC channels still exhibit some of that vibe. Even web forums centered around special interests are great communication tools and (can) bring people together.

But building centralized communication tools (1:1 tools or group/tribe tools) around advertisement and making those the primary mode of communication for people is something new for society and I'm not sure this is for the best. The large companies that run them answer to shareholders and have fiduciary obligations to them. Instead of "provide a communication tool and monetize with ads, hoping they don't degrade the experience too much", they are doing what we expect of any large business: "maximize shareholder value and hope the communication tools don't cross too many ethics boundaries".

I work in technology and have greatly benefited from it. I also see positive and negative impacts around me. To me, the real question is whether technology is improving the lives of ALL people or just those like me who happen to have a vested interest in it.
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