skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusingly, if you're a developer making an online game where cheating is a risk, it behooves you to discreetly contract a third-party to develop cheats on your behalf, sell the cheat at a price that undercuts all your competitors, thereby pricing them out of the market, and then, since you have perfect information regarding who's cheating, periodically banning waves of players to give the impression of diligence (and also forcing them to pay up yet again to purchase a new account in your game). You simultaneously create a new revenue stream while minimizing the amount of cheating your players actually experience (since you have such precise information about who's cheating and can strategically issue bans to keep it below a certain threshold). Unethical, sure, but in this day and age nobody should be giving companies the benefit of the doubt when it comes to presumption of ethics.
Imagine being told your entire life that you need to go to college full time to get a good job, and you have to focus on your coursework. Then this attitude you describe makes sense.
Why don't we stop giving student loans to people who can't pay them back? Let's apply some actuarial analysis to all of the degrees a school offers. Based on the expected and realistic salary and job projections, use that to decide whether or not to give someone a loan. Student debt is a huge problem, but requiring student fiscal responsibility is even worse.
New things are hard. Don’t be put of by failure. You can do it, I believe in you.
That video, appropriately enough, also contains a definition and explanation of what the Y Combinator is.
Yeah... but make no mistake, people go to make money, not for some kind of 'higher purpose'.
I think there's a few things about the software industry that make it really easy to become depressed, cynical, and jaded. We spend quite a lot of time being pedantic, fixating on all kinds of specific details, and especially, thinking about many different ways our applications can go wrong. In the context of writing robust software, that's a good thing, but it can also be really difficult to turn it off in the other parts of your life.
It's true but at least mine (free.fr) lets you enable it through the administration interface for no additional fee. It's disabled by default though, and it's probably better that way.
Is it really that much of a problem? Admittedly I have no experience with JavaScript frameworks, but I do backend work and have switched projects and companies very often over the last 8-10 years. I have had to use C#, Java, PHP, Go, Node/TypeScript and even some OCaml, and every single time a few weeks to ramp up and get used to the new syntax has been enough.
Well, it's not as if the reason we have the "standard" of blank lines between paragraphs on the web because early web browsers made a considered typographic decision against first-line indents. :) I don't think there was much conscious design in early web browsers at all with respect to typography and presentation, and this is actually one of the few "standards" established in those early days that we're still following over two decades later. That's not to say that it's a bad standard, just that it's a relatively arbitrary one.

Personally, I prefer fiction, even on the web, to have first-line indents rather than spaced paragraphs, because I simply find it easier to read. This is likely in part because fiction often has much shorter paragraphs when you get into heavy dialogue. For non-fiction, I consider it more of a tossup.
From the outside, it would never cross the horizon, it would look as if the matter would travel towards the horizon infintly long. After trillions of trillions of years the information that made up the inbound matter from the horizon will be radiated away by hawking radiation.

If you are travelling with a probe towards the horizon though, you would be able to calculate your escape velocity, so you could tell if you are inside our outside the horizon.

Its kind of awkward if you think about it... its seems like causality has 2 versions after the horizon.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMRYZMv0jRE
Agreed. But if the original video was posted on a paywalled site then I would be looking at another site for it. So what I think it is, is that we want immediate access to the information we need to make are own judgement in this case a video. Then maybe we want to read some commentary. Most sites try force the commentary in your face coupled with adds before you find the actual video.
Were slaves tipped?
In GTA, you only play competitively when you enter activities that are competitive (and even those are usually silly and lighthearted).

"Losing" isn't the only way for a game to be ruined. Hackers will spawn in millions of dollars around every player on a server. This effectively reduces the lifespan of the game from months to "a few days from now."

> my displeasure comes from being beaten

There is a vast difference between insurmountable odds and impossible odds. In addition, where is the fun without the challenge? A game is as good as a movie if you can't loose.

> (or cheaters) being exposed to new players?

Cheaters have to run new accounts all the time (because their accounts get banned), so all cheaters are new players by any reasonable standard. Doing this would greatly increase the odds of meeting a cheater as a legitimately new player. To make matters worse, new players are the least qualified to call out hackers.
If anyone here has been to Japan, tipping is handled much more elegantly and with a lot more business integrity.

Instead of guilt-tripping customers into tipping, businesses in Japan up their prices if they need more money.

I remember once when I was in Osaka I was at a really good sushi place that I had visited several times prior. There was no tip option on the receipt (didn't see it anywhere in Japan) and there was no tip jar. I asked the server if I could tip.

She told me they couldn't accept my tip because they believed the food was priced correctly.

It was a totally different experience than in America where not tipping gets you poor service and unhappy waiters.
> - People expect you to care about your job.

What I think is funny about this is that the actual expoiting slave driver bosses will accept sometimes that you do what you get paid for and then go home. They won't tell you so, but if you are able to read faces you can see them smile a little with respect if you refuse to get exploited. But some of the engineering colleagues will never accept that. 24/7 is the requirement. Even if nobody, not even them, gets anything out of it.
Our parents generation went to school and got great jobs tho...
You have to make a specific action to not tip in one. The other if you make they minimal amount of actions (pay for your item, grab the item) then you haven't taken the action of not tipping.

Also the visual difference between tipping 20% and 10% is huge with this, it's hard to tell with cash and change
Yea that's a part of the string theoretic calculation, that some of these higher dimensions are different than the three we're accustomed to. They're curved and swirled and weird. It's pretty unclear that they're real, but it's an interesting idea
Are you unable to figure out how to select 'no tip' as well? Sorry but I find this to be a triviality of overprivilege.
I'm not sure but I believe that's the number of employees they had when they were acquired. There's ~250 employees listed on LinkedIn.
This is so fascinating. By the time I understood why and how Germany was two separate states, the wall was long gone.

It is weird,actually,because I am glad I did not have to live through those times, but I do get a wave of something nostalgia-like, as I read this.
Yet strangely, the loudest voices AGAINST doing away with tipping in favor of a wage are often wait staff themselves.
Information overload. Sure, those gems are there. But they are buried under a proverbial mountain of crap.
> Did it come with a mentor to help you understand all of that highly technical material?

It mostly was written for an audience of non-technical users, since there weren't enough technical users to make a mass market.

The only mentor I had early on was my father (who had work done his way up from sales into an branch operations manager position for a farm machinery firm), who was learning alongside me.

> Did you know anyone else that had a similar computer who was doing similar things with it?

Yes, quite a few my age in elementary school did.
Own your privilege and tip the goddamn 15-20%. If you can afford to spend $3 on a coffee, you can afford to spend $3.60 on a coffee. You almost certainly make a lot more than the guy or girl behind the counter. (I love the iPad payment thingy because I always feel guilty never having cash to put in a tip jar.)
Php niiice , I love when critical government infra runs on the most despised languages on HN
I was looking for this answer, and sad to see it so far down the bottom.

If a company is hiring for a senior position, then _from an HR perspective_ they want the employee to ideally stay for 2-4 years. You're at the age where not only you could retire soon, if the job gets hard then it's a permanent option on the table that an employer will need to continue to compete against and eventually will lose.

Going for high-pay contracting positions will probably be hugely effective. People will understand where you're coming from, and you might get to work on more interesting things because your resume impressively speaks for itself.
That's a bit extreme. I hope you don't eat at sit down restaurants often.
DoorDash does this as well, and I don't understand why. Why should I commit to a tip before my order is delivered? At one occasion the delivery guy completely forgot about my delivery until I called 1 hour later saying I still see the food waiting at the restaurant. I still had to pay the tip.
After losing my keister in the housing bubble I made a deal with myself to never use credit again and to always tip at least 20% to make the world a better place. Pretty much all non-salary jobs are underpaid now by a factor of 2-4 so tips can add up to more than a paycheck. I also like to think that it makes up for the people who undertip or don't tip at all.

Edit: I now have one $2000 expense card that I pay off each month and typically stays under a 50% balance to build my credit.
Interesting how this affects companies like Etsy, eBay and Alibaba. Is there an opportunity with 3PL startups to capitalize on this big change.
This is a hugely consequential change and one that I welcome. It's cheaper for me to order a halloween costume, remote control, etc. from Aliexpress or ebay and have it sent to me via ePacket than the SHIPPING for a domestically purchased product. In other words, the product + epacket is less than just getting a product from near by warehouse to my doorstep. This is doesn't make sense as it's the US subsidizing Chinese sellers to the detriment of US sellers, inside of the US...

I understand the desire for cheap goods and I find the tariffs questionable but this change is much needed imho.
From wikipedia. How long will it take to recoup his $28 billion in donations?

"In 2007, its founders were ranked as the second most generous philanthropists in the US, and Warren Buffett the first. As of May 16, 2013, Bill Gates had donated US$28 billion to the foundation."
A university IT guy plans to bid in two government airwave auctions
I thought that reversing encryption is fine if it is for interoperability purposes and is non-infringing. The section describing this part is kind of confusing..
I just get $20 cash back when using my debit card for someone every now and then.
All this talk of JS getting new frameworks every few months is just BS. Front end development has evolved a lot in the last few years, completely out of necessity. But it is stabilizing because we’ve discovered the patterns that make sense for DOM development. You should fully expect React and Vue to be around more or less in their same forms for the next 10 years.
I love this list! A quick typo fix: In the listing for Instacart it says “Valued at over $7s Billion”, which should be changed to just “$7 Billion”.
I'm not sure if most people know that the first libraries in America were privately funded subscription services, established by Benjamin Franklin. The first American lending library (Library Company of Philadelphia) was set up in 1731, where it operated for literally over 100 years as a private institution, and exists to this day as a nonprofit. The first taxpayer-funded public library was established 102 years later, in 1833 (New Hampshire Town Library). The optional market good served its clientele better than the non-optional public service for over 100 years.

From the Revolutionary War to 1800, when the national government was in Philadelphia, the Library Company also served as the Library of Congress. Until the 1850s it was the largest public library in America. All of the books the Library Company acquired year by year over more than two and a half centuries are still on its shelves, along with many others added since it was transformed into a research library in the 1950s. In the 21st century, the Library Company serves as a resource for a variety of readers, from high school students to senior scholars, from novelists to film producers, and anyone else with an interest in our collections.

https://librarycompany.org/about-lcp/
I remember putting a feature request that Google append to the video description the original source. But then you devolve into the whole authenticity realm like with Twitter verified badges.
I have a CS degree, but I learned basically all of the above on my own. In some cases I also had a class later that taught it, but for most of the networking stuff it wasn't even taught in school.

If you're self-taught and worried about your CS fundamentals, there's a really simple algorithm to get an education better than any CS student at roughly 1/100th of the price:

1. Look up some famous university like Stanford or MIT.

2. Download the course syllabus for the course you're interested in off their website. (Nowadays you can often get the full course, including all the lectures and handouts.)

3. Buy the textbook. When I was in school you could pull shenanigans like buying the European version of the textbook for 1/4 the price or (if you live in a college town) buying the textbook, reading it, and returning it before courses are finalized, but these loopholes have probably been mostly closed. There's now a thriving used-textbook market online that didn't exist when I went to school, though.

4. Read the textbook. Do some of the exercises. Implement the algorithms.

Incidentally, this is largely what CS students do for homework. Most of them kinda gloss over it because it's required, though, while if you're doing this because you really love the material, you've got a big advantage.
Sociologist meets sprite in an MMO – and the disabled woman behind the keyboard
Revisit this thought 20 years from now when you finally finish paying off that loan and still have no place to sleep.
It is hard to tell these kids what the chance of success is on the statement "If I did X, I would get Y", because it totally depends on what their chosen industry and other factors like the student's intelligence, personality, looks, work ethic.

"If get a journalism degree, I could be a side-line reporter for the NFL on TV "
compare that to:
"If I get an IT or CS degree, I could make over $15/hour in an IT department at a company."

My point is that there are a whole lot of careers that fall into the middle of these extremes. And just googling the average salary for those careers may not give you the full story. Maybe only the top 10% of architects make good money, so the average is OK. If that is the case, you cannot give broad advice to people. You don't want to tell the people who would be in the top 10% not to be architects and you don't want to tell the bottom 10% that they should go for it. How do you even know unless you are in the industry yourself and know the person well?
That’s a very U.S. thing though.

In most of the EU you tip for good service. IE; only if your food came in a timely fashion, was not mis-prepared or incorrect and if the wait-staff are generally being polite, kind, courteous.

The idea is that you’re rewarding good service, not that your bound by social convention to give a percentage extra on top of what was agreed upon when you read the menu.

While we’re on the subject, the idea of excluding tax on good until you reach checkout is absolutely insane to me.
Not tipping in America rarely if ever gets you poor service. You have to return to the same business and happen to get served by the same server enough times for them to remember you. It does deprive the server of a living wage.
Interesting... I had no idea Lua was in Minecraft.
$189 is extraordinarily pricey for a throwback console. I picked up a Genesis last week for $35, and purchased an EverDrive cartridge for $85, so I can play 8Gb worth of ROMs on real hardware.

For the price, why not get a composite to HDMI adapter and an authentic console?
I'm inside most of the daylight hours. This isn't so bad when it's nasty weather outside (for me this is when it is hot and sunny, apparently there are actually people who like that kind of weather so YMMV), but when it is nice outside and I'm stuck inside...
The pressure to attend university is immense in certain places.

I never thought of doing anything else, and none of my high school classmates did either. It just wasn't something to contemplate. And that's despite having many contemporaries who didn't attend university.

Luckily, though I went in blind, relying just on what older people had told me about the working world, I ended up studying something interesting that got me a good career. Also quite luckily it cost me barely anything, since I'm European.

For me the worst thing about the student debt story is that I might have been born somewhere with just as much pressure, where studying was expensive, and studied something with no prospect of ever paying back the loan.

And in what sense have people truly decided for themselves? Only in a legal sense. An 18 year old knows nothing about even what it is they are ignorant of. How many 18 year olds are going to know how bankruptcy works? How many 18 year olds are going to tell their parents in a convincing way that they are better off doing a course in plumbing?

The worst thing, though, is the whole education FOMO causes people to not be educated. You just do what you need to pass the exams. If you find out that you just need a certain equation, you just memorize that equation, plug in the numbers during the exam, and forget about how generations of scientists arrived at the equation. If you find out something isn't going to be examined, you will stay ignorant of it. And somehow (let's face it, it's obvious) people know that real life is not going to require you to know things in the way that exams do.
Ha, but that's "okay" because it's a big company. They never have problems with being used for spam - of course I'm being sarcastic.
Or the same one more than once.

Stiffing waiters in the same establishment more than one is a risky proposition at best.
No, you're just having a bad day. There is no reason whatsoever to say "Why couldn't you just fucking google it?" on a site meant for intellectual curiosity.

"Your inane rant disguised as a question"

This kills the curiosity. Don't do that.

By the way:

And you aren't doing anything about it.

You lose credibility with this kind of statement. I may deeply disagree with policy, but it would be ridiculous to accuse the mods of inaction.
The people you hurt by not tipping aren't the people who set the prices.
My parents didn't know when they went to Japan; they tipped at a restaurant and walked out the door. They were promptly chased down the street and their money handed back to them.
In Japan, a tip can often even been seen as offensive. "What, you work at a curry shop? Here's a few hundred yen you poor thing." sort of message that is implied by tipping.
Nope, you're wrong. onClick works with web components just the same way as it does with any other element. Proof: https://codesandbox.io/s/j3jmkr98pw
It depends on how fully the initial Great Filter explains the lack of observed exolife. It may not be a binary thing.
Identify your core issues clearly. Sometimes, when your customer reaches the sales process, doesn't understand what you are selling, it's a marketing problem.

Process is everything. If you can map out the entire sales process in sequences, you can find ways to optimize it.

I started my sales funnel with mostly manual touch points, and gradually started adding automation (automated cadences, automated scheduling, and etc) and we were able to increase our efficiency by 200%.

Track EVERYTHING. Each metric matters a lot, and if you don't have a dashboard of all the metrics, you are going to make some bad decisions (learned it through trial and error)

Also read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Way-Wolf-Straight-Persuasion-Influenc...
In the Silicon Valley there's this feeling of monotony - that everyone is doing the same thing. Given the price of housing you can make a pretty good guess everyone is trying to either save up to move out or pay off a house here. Everyone is either trying to come up with a way to enter the hottest trendiest startup idea or doing indie games. Most of the meetups are tech/work-related and even the non-tech meetups are flooded with male, glasses, 20-30 something engineers. It's almost like everywhere you go you can't escape the pressure of work.

Personally it almost seems like the whole interview process was made to continue the whole tradition of getting high SAT or GRE scores for college, this time swapping college with the FAANG companies. We basically took all the problems with a standardized test-based education system and moved it to jobs.
Negative 2 points on a post saying that a computational method that possibly never terminates is not an algorithm... Oh dear...
I've noticed this with food trucks (like the article mentions) and some mall food court places. It definitely feels awkward. It's resulted in me avoiding these types of places or using cash. It's kind of a relief to know that it bothers other people.
I do. But I never tip. They get the price they ask, that I can see before I order. That should be enough or they should change their prices/wages so tipping is not necessary. And no, I don't feel the least guilty about that.
Ouch, having worked in cafes and restaurants as an undergrad I pretty much always tip 20%. Is it absurd? Of course, but given how badly most waitstaff are paid, the idea that you will somehow eliminate the practice by stiffing a few barristas seems both sadistic and highly unlikely to change the world. Until robots hand me muffins, I accept it as a tax on eating out.
I agree! I highly recommend against reading academic interpretations/critiques of any book. I graduated summa cum laude with a degree in creative writing. Much of my college study was focused on literary criticisms and theory. As someone trained in the art, I believe taking a perfectly good novel and blowing it through the enema of Marxist, Postmodernist, or Feminist activism, for instance, is the best way to shit all over an author's work.
Please cite an example where not using cash necessitates a 30% higher price?
I know Oregon does this to an extent; I have seen signs located next to state highway projects "Your tax dollars at work.".