skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was an early employee at Syncplicity, I only optimized the desktop clients to meet my needs as a power user.

Most users didn't use the product at as much of a scale that I did, so they were happy. The users who tried to use the product at a higher scale were so few that we just accepted that we couldn't meet their needs and grow our business.

So, to generalize:

1: Growing your business is more important than scaling for 100% of your users. Scale for 98% of your users and invest in use cases that will grow your business.

2: An early stage startup doesn't need to scale like Google. If your business takes off like that, you'll be able to hire enough smart people to fix the problem. Instead, spend time growing your business.
The laws were made in the context of ozone depletion, rather than global warming. In that context 134a is inert, which is why it was then purposely sold in spray duster cans - while venting 134a from a refrigeration system remained illegal for no good reason.

The modern analog with respect to GWP is propane ("R-290"). With a GWP of 3.3, it looks like venting raw propane is basically equivalent to the CO2 created by burning that same propane.

In isolation, putting more propane into the atmosphere is worse than not. But on the whole, we'd much rather see propane used for refrigeration than R-152a or whatever other new proprietary (hydrofluoric acid combustion product !) refrigerant system Dow (et al) come up with. And not requiring the purchase of expensive "reclamation equipment" for propane-used-as-refrigerant would go a long way to encouraging that.
> Men -- long America’s economically privileged gender

It depends on how you look at it. Don't get me wrong, men have had lots of privileges, but they have long been expected to work. Those social expectations are rapidly disappearing, and somewhat shifting to women, and we're seeing rates of depression and suicide rise for women in roughly the same time frame. Calling it privileged is a very one-sided way of looking at it, as the "privilege" comes with lot of responsibility that quickly becomes burdensome. With affordable home appliances, online services through your phone, video games, Netflix, and PornHub, the house wife/husband is obsolete. Why take on the same burdens your fathers did when little to none of that existed?

With wages being stagnant since the 1970s, the ridiculous housing market, the materialist debt-slave culture, the decline of marriage, and the decrease in sustainable jobs, why exactly should millennial(and increasingly Gen Z) men bother working as much as their fathers? I come from a very wealthy area and only one of the dozens of men my age, with whom I grew up with, own what their fathers did when they were their age. Millennial men are rife with disenfranchisement that flies under the radar because the economy has enough shit jobs to allow them to scrape by, and the media is generally not compassionate to the issues of men. I mean, just look at this article which is clearly written as an underhanded criticism of young men.

Let me repeat the question in the last paragraph:

Why exactly should millennial men work as much as their fathers?
Also define "failure to launch".

From what I can tell, women who consistently complain they can't find a good man wants a self-made man who's already succeeded, instead of one in the process of acquiring that success.

This is identical to a guy who quits on the third day because he's not the CEO yet, even though his job is in the mail room and no one even knows his name yet.

Want something in life? Work for it. There are no participation prizes in life: this goes for both the traditional male and traditional female roles. Success only sees success, no matter what you choose to do in life.
"So if you're done with college/university (which is when you're around 25-30 y/o in Europe),"

Uh, what? You're done with university (masters) at 22-23. Late 20's when you include PhD.
> Eventually someone will work out that if you show a human a certain series of images, they'll do something in response.
(This might be a limiting example and a bit absurd, but reduce it a bit and I think my point is clear).

This actually happens. There was a reporter who had epilepsy and was disliked by some group of people. Eventually one of them sent him a twitter message with images that caused him to have a seizure.[0]

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/17/fb...
The millennial generation is also the first one in history to have mass exposure to the success of others due to social media websites. This could be a reason they want to seek better opportunities than the minimum wage jobs available to them. Retraining in schools does seem like a reasonable approach to pursue such better opportunities. Don't feel like millennials are in the wrong here.
I am honestly curious. What exactly is the root cause of cancer? The article talks about cancerous cells tricking the immune system, but this trickery is the result of something else. Immune system, in a healthy body, eliminates cancer cells continuosly. What enables some cancer cells in some humans to fool the immune system and multiply maliciously?

We can "manage" cancer without understanding the root cause. We cannot cure it.
Absolutely. If you were a CDNs only customer this may be true but the reality is that you’re not and they are always going to be over-subscribed. Having worked at a CDN provider (Cloudflare), I can tell you that they are constantly battling resource contention via DDoS or other reliability issues.

Multi-CDN is the way to go for performance and availability, though as a customer it can be challenging because you’re forced to limit your configuration to the lowest common denominator of features and there’s not a great way to test consistency of your configurations across all vendors.

This article is essentially a high level sales pitch though; I didn’t find it all that useful. I implemented multi-CDN at Pinterest using Cedexis (DNS based), though with modern DNS providers like NSOne, Cloudflare, Dynect, a modern spark-based ETL pipeline, and the browser navigation timing API (RUM), it wouldn’t be too challenging to build something resembling Cedexis yourself.
I'm going to talk about some gender differences that are true in general, and I could back up with citations if I had the time. But remember everybody is their own special case - things that are true in general for a population don't necessarily describe individuals of that population.

1) Women tend to marry up. An accomplished woman with a great job wants a man with a better job. That shrinks the pool a lot for her! A beautiful woman wants a beautiful man, or is willing to trade some beauty for other qualities like status, money, personality, etc. This shrinks the small pool even further.

2) An accomplished woman is likely in her mid thirties, she's got just a couple years to find someone and start having kids to have that family. A small pool with a tight time-frame.

3) Many of the "good men" in 35-45 age group are already married. That pool just keeps getting smaller.

I mean really she wants a 35-45 year-old hyper-successful man who's still single. Those kinds of men are probably not looking to marry 35 year old women. They're super desirable men and they can date from the pool of more desirable twenty year old women. Seems like a very tough situation to be in.
My experience with Bixby has been mixed as I am not too fond of the leveling system they have in place. However, I recently got a Samsung TV that has Bixby integrated and I dig it for the small tasks it can accomplish well such as changing the TV input selection. I can't wait to give the dev stuff a try!

On an unrelated note, I am pretty upset that my Samsung ~$1200 TV has ads built into it.
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I like how the reason to care about men's failure to launch is the lack of reasonable spousal options for women. Men are people too, independent of their utility to women
I think you aren't giving humanity enough credit in its ability to differentiate among the enormously wide variety of subconscious effects.

It seems a bit strange to say they all fit comfortably in the same bucket and thus we can't handle them differently.
Okay I see this is getting nowhere ;-) Let me quote another user on this thread:

> "it’s absolutely not the same. If the VAT goes up 10%, your benefits after taxes won’t change one bit.
VAT is indeed not paid by corporations."

but if you insist that somehow the customer is paying VAT to the government, then fine with me. I'm not here to be other people's tax-attorney.
They're not just any business, they're a regulated utility provider selling me service over infrastructure I helped pay for. The regular rules of business don't exactly apply.
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I love the symmetry of that. Western, Central, and Eastern Standard Times.
"So for now, the Pittsburgh native and father to young children is living with his mother" In the past that wasn't so much of an option. You had to survive. I grew up with parents working jobs like the one he eschewed. They wouldn't dare try to live with my comparatively much more wealthy grandma.

So now living with your parents into your 30s is like taking basic income. This is all fine if someone is truly doing this to invest in more education to get out of the unskilled labor market, but bad when it is just an excuse to be lazy. I too worked low wage jobs when I was a teen and in college to pay my way, I find that when people leave the upward trajectory by leaving school or their job for "something better" they end up becoming lazy and end up worse.
I imagine most open source contributors have full time jobs. I have a full-time job that pays the bills so I don't need any kind of monetary reimbursement for my work on open-source projects. I just do it for the fun/challenge/scratch-an-itch/giving-back/etc.
I've said it before (so at the risk of annoying people ;-) I can highly recommend Zulip. We briefly used Mattermost (couple of months) before realising the Zulip threading model was a way better fit for us then what Mattermost offered. It might feel a bit odd in the beginning but after you've become accustomed with it you'll love it!
"Because middleboxes have been created and widely deployed that do not allow protocol versions that they do not recognize, the TLS 1.3 session must be disguised as a TLS 1.2 session."

And, from the bottom of my network-protocol-guy's heart, I hate them and everyone who's ever even seen one with the fiery passion of a million very angry suns.
Obviously it's possible, we're having this conversation aren't we?
Instead of adopting PDT year-round why wouldn't they adopt PST instead? That way instead of being 3-4 hours behind the East Coast they'd instead be 2-3 hours behind?
It's not perplexing at all. People forget that the market for labor is just like other markets.

If you're selling a thing and the market price is lower than the thing is worth, then you don't sell it.

If the minimum wage kept up with the increase in worker productivity over the last 50 years, today's minimum wage would be about $19.50.

So workers who refuse to take dead-end jobs are simply rational economic actors refusing to sell a large fraction of their existence for a pittance.

If employers have job openings they can't fill, while workers are idle because they won't work so cheap, then shouldn't the market-clearing wage increase? If not, what's preventing it?
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I understand that the tradeoffs exist, my surprise is mainly that would be an uncommon workaround in pythonland for workload specific tasks (eg most projects dont have differing library versions across branches; at least not for very long) is common practice in jsland

Although one factor I just realized is that pip also ships pre-compiled binaries (wheels) instead of the actual source, when available. Which would generally be pretty dumb to want in your repo, since its developer-platform specific; assuming js only has text files, it would be a more viable strategy in that ecosystem to have as a common case

Regarding B and C, its not like you’re wiping out your libraries every commit; the common case is install once on git clone, and only again on the uncommon library update. A and C is a bit of an obtuse concern for most projects; I can see it happening and being useful, but eg none of my public project repos in python have the issue of A or B(they’re not big enough to have version dependency upgrades last more than a day, on a single person, finished in a single go) and for C, its much more likely my machine(s) will die long before all the pypy mirrors do;

Which I’m pretty sure is true of like 99% of packages on pypy, and on npm; which makes the divergent common practice weird to me. It makes sense in a larger team environment, but if npm tutorials are also recommending it (or node_modules/ isn’t in standard .gitignores), its really weird.

And now that you’ve pointed it out, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this behavior in most js projects I’ve peeked at (where there’ll be a commit with 20k lines randomly in the history), which makes me think this is recommended practice
My tax dollars helped pay for the infrastructure that the ISP is selling me service over. It's a little different from Twitter or Youtube, who are just a site on the Internet.
If horrible things are being done to people, I'd pick the ones those people are doing to themselves almost every time over the ones being done to others in violation of their bodily autonomy.
I don't think it's the same at all. Redhat's model is to create open source software.
By this definition, the example millennial male who is studying to become an EMT is on track to contribute but doesn't qualify as a "good man". Seems a little short-sighted.
There is also a really good video on this topic: [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU "Humans need not apply."
Here's hoping the rest of the country comes to its senses and follows suit.
I don't understand what you mean. We are having this conversation about AGI so AGI is possible? We can talk about 1 + 1 = 3, but that's not possible...

Or are you saying only AGIs can have conversations? That's begging the question.
Yes. You can set your reverse DNS to whatever you want if you own the IP blocks.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192656
Banks solve a different problem. The reason why banks can be computerised does not apply to voting.

Bank functioning is observable by the people concerned: You can see if money you didn't spend left your account, and if you failed to get paid. Failures are detected very quickly.

Voting has two key differences:

* Voting is anonymous (to render intimidation and bribery of voters ineffective).

* It's not sufficient that citizens votes are counted correctly, it is necessary that no spurious votes are also counted.

The means by which electronic banking is rendered safe are therefore much harder to apply.

Voting must also not just be secure, but be demonstrably secure to the voters. With paper voting, you can go and watch the votes being counted. At every stage of the process, the answer to 'how do you show the public that the process has integrity' is helped by the fact that the votes are on macroscopic objects whose movement is obvious. Electronic voting systems lack this feature.
The reverse is true in places like Texas, but Beto came respectably close to winning.
I don’t think employers cackle at the thought of employees being wage slaves. They are unwilling or think its impossible to offer a living wage so high turnover (e.g. 140% per annum) is just a cost they accept.
> You're worth what the market is willing to offer you, not what you think you are worth.

This is an absurd statement, the market is not a god. It does not have a value system.
Doesn't work for immigrants -- language (or is it cultural?) barrier, even a tiny one, makes face-to-face feedback to be accepted way too negatively, because those subtle tone hints are really hard to master.
Posts like these feed my belief that advertising should be criminalized. In physical form it litters the world in more and more ways in order to grab our attention. I don't think there's many deaths associated with billboards along roads - but these billboards have been getting new "features", such as animations, in their battle for drivers' attention.

In digital form ads get even more malicious - trying to reverse-engineer people's thoughts in order to place the most "actionable" ad in front of right person at the right time.

I don't really expect any government to begin to take action against ads at large - but I wish more people would take a good look at all the bad things advertising does to us all.
I have a great technical business partner and we have worked hard hiring the right people so that we can delegate with little intervention.
> All are missing out on a hot labor market and crucial years on the job, ones traditionally filled with the promotions and raises that build the foundation for a career

I agree with you. These jobs might have one day been filled with promotions and raises - but have now been turned into efficiency centers. Automation has drastically increased, required skills and training significantly reduced. There is no path up the chain from these types of jobs. In the absolutely best case, they can't be automated even further out of a job.
Apparently, voting rights and military duty are intrinsically linked since ancient times.

Greek and Roman citizens had the right to vote linked to their duty of military service at times of war. E.g. Athens had lots of free non-citizens who did not have that privilege and that duty. (Also look up the etymology of the word "idiot".)

Democratic institutions in Europe started to crop up (sometimes as a result of revolutions) when subjects to a particular crown started to be drafted, and thus learned military skills. Nobility, who traditionally had some freedoms and could even be elected to various councils and parliaments under a monarch were also usually bound to military service.

People of the US in particular won their right to vote as free citizens (and not be subjects to British crown) in a literal war in 1775-83 (and then again in 1812).

That "price of freedom is eternal vigilance" idea also links these two ideas pretty tightly.
But why are women in the same age range employed at a higher rate than before the recession, but not the men?
How do you handle failover with these PSUs? Or are there merely two because of the high power requirements?
It's a good example of knowing your market. It's not universally true that more photos = better for your users.

Google is a good counterexample. Google in its early days was famously not visual - the visual design was incredibly sparse, there were no pictures on the results, there were no pictures on the ads - and that was a huge contrast to most other sites, where you had animated punch-the-monkey graphics scrolling across the screen. The reason for this is that the primary utility for Google (in the early days) was to get you off the site and to your destination as quickly as possible. Anything that drew your attention - other than the result you wanted - was a distraction. Google's made attempts to put pictures on the results pages since - we had plenty of data showing that peoples' attention is instantly drawn to images, and when your department's name is "Search Features" it's awfully tempting to draw attention to the features you're developing - but every such attempt seems to cost Google in brand equity in the long run, and ends up getting reverted eventually.

The key insight for AirBnB was that they are selling an experience, not information. When you're deciding where to book a hotel, you want a visceral sense of how it would feel to be on vacation at that place, and a picture is the best way to achieve that.
If price is already fixed in a contract it's not the same, indeed. For new client, it's basically equivalent as the price will adjust. (For example, higher TVA => client pay more => less demand => you have to reduce margin to keep some clients. In this case even if you don't technically pay the tax, you lose money if the tax become higher).
That really depends on the other person. The more STEM-y they are, the easier it is for them to abstract off personalities and focus on content.
I'm going to be brutally honest: Voting for candidates is detached and unclear without having prior information or knowledge about the candidates readily available. Not knowing who/what I'm voting for or the impact of my vote for a candidate I know nothing about increases my apathy towards voting. (I know I deserve the "shame on you for ruining democracy!" remarks).

Having some sort of TL;DR for each candidate on the ballot or a short abstract of their goals/platform would help inform voters, at least in my personal opinion.

I am in my 20s, and have talked to friends about this, and voting doesn't translate to feeling "involved" in democracy when we have no idea who/what we are voting for. It feels like bringing in a guy from IT to vote for the winner of an NYC fashion show (no offense, since I would be that guy).

I saw the ballot list of candidates, and I knew nothing about even a single person on the list. My hypothesis is that without knowing a candidate's beliefs/morals/objectives, this leads to voters nonchalantly voting for a person based on whether they have a (D) or (R) next to their name, or based on something superficial like how cool their name sounds. This doesn't seem like democracy being put to an effective use.

Unless there is a specific issue groups are vested in compelling people to vote (such as marijuana or rent/housing), there really isn't anything special about purely casting a vote for the sake of it without any motivation behind it. It's not even clear what outcome people are contributing to with their votes in current methods.

Plus, with a lack of people watching TV, listening to the radio, or going out of their way to read election coverage (especially at the local level), there is not a good way for people who are not informed to even become passively informed (other than seeing signs with names plastered everywhere that will end up in some trash pile).

Further, unless practices change, making election day a holiday off work may not even have much effect if people just use it as a free day to vacation or relax.
Elastic uses a lot of closed source software to complement its open source core, which is exactly what the article said is the future of OSS.
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Where I'm from (Denmark), most people start university when they're 18-22, and then you have to do a bachelors degree (3 years) and a master degree (2 years). Often times, people spend more time on their degrees because they take extra internships. Based on the 50 people I had a some-what close relation to while I did my degree, most of them where 26-27 when they got their masters degree.

You can see a figure from ministry of education here (first figure - it shows the age of the starting student): https://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2005/NR242.pdf

The title of the chart is translated into "Average age of new students", where the top part addresses bachelors-students from each of the 5 mayor areas (technical, societal etc), while the bottom part of the graph shows the vocational education system here.

After they start, they will use 5 years minimum to get their degrees. Bachelors are worthless in Denmark.

EDIT: I know the first article is from 2004. Here's a 2016 article that states that new students at the University of Copenhagen (largest in Denmark) had an avg. age of 22,7 in 2016, which was a year younger than the avg. age in 2015: https://uniavisen.dk/alderspraesidenter-eller-groenskollinge...