skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very interesting, can I read more about this somewhere?
Google Apps with a custom domain was once free for as many email accounts as you were approved for. There are a handful out there with lots more than 10 free accounts. They don’t get support, have less space provided, and can’t use the outlook connector so it’s not an equal comparison. It’s nice that google hasn’t changed this on their users.

Zoho recently restricted their free custom domain service for email. Not sure who is the best free option out there now.
I tried to find how the ranking is calculated, tried signing up for the sources they used, which in turn led to email like below.

This is just PR-spam several levels deep.

> Reply back to this email, and copy 2 of your friends who are SaaS CEO's, investors or just studying SaaS. I'll reply back and give you and your friends a full .CSV download of these rankings.
Heterosexual tragedy of Top Gun
Sounds like you need some therapy first.
I think op means, there's just so much information and studies, god knows how many are reproducible, and the constant pressure that you aren't doing enough being a parent :).
probably means craftsman quality instead of mass produced.
The piece of sh#t bloatware that is time.com just crashed my phone while loading all the resources to read a text-based article. Go figure.
I thought I remembered schollz (the GitHub user that this is under) from something else, and sure enough, I did! They did another interesting thing with wifi that I believe I discovered from hackernews years ago (appears to have evolved somewhat since then):

https://github.com/schollz/find3
Yes they do forget easily. Hence my point about taking a little bit of responsibility. And saying that you're "sneakily charged without consent" is pretty close to the exact opposite of "I am bad with my finances and/or forgetful but I'm going to make it sound like you're a bad person."
At the time, I was mad at my parents for forcing me to go to my public in state college instead of going out of state to a UC or USC. Now I’m so relieved that I have no debt from undergrad and a small low interest fed loan for my grad degree.
Study identifies mental strategies you can use to overcome aversive challenges
I stumbled a bit on "write BFS" at a FAANG interview. The specific question was to write it for the Facebook friend graph. I just blurted out my reaction, which is that this was a terrible idea (given the space requirements). His response, "Well, pretend it's not.". Ugh.
I think the problem with this approach is the lack of the box and instruction booklets, which are also part of the set.
You can never be sure how people are going to react. You tell them and one of them gets pissed and storms into the manager's office and you're suddenly out of a job.
I think Kodak was the company in the article, actually.

> Short term mentality and spreadsheet driven management has taken a toll on the American dream.

Yes, but stock market growth since the '80s is a big reason why the "wealth" of the average American has increased, even though wages have stagnated and debt has increased. One hand has been feeding the other for a long time.
I constantly say to my colleagues that modern C++ is far easier to use than modern JavaScript.

What you mention is the main reason for that claim.
That's because you are looking at the United States as a whole.

This police department ticketed this person for something and gets the revenue of the ticket. All other effects are costs for other departments. Positive on the books.

This Justice processing department gets budgeted for processing the ticket. All other effects are costs for other departments. Positive on the books.

...

This Court department gets budgeted for filing a warrant for this poor person's refusal to pay. The capturing and holding of this person will be a cost for other departments. Positive on the books.

...

This prison gets paid for holding this prisoner, positive on the books.

Every department is doing things which benefit them and the costs for that specific action don't show up negatively (even if they spawn later actions in other departments that generate costs for them). Every department is doing right by itself in the moment, and millions of dollars are lost.
With regards to your last point, ive had some good luck with millionshort.com, which lets you remove some portion of top sites from your results.
I agree, but your comment would have been much better without the "LOL".

about 3: most browsers have a good interpolation method for smooth images. It's a safe assumption if you have time to read all the documentation and you drop the support for IE6. (Perhaps IE6 can also interpolate correctly. I don't know and I'm not going to try to find the docs. IIRC I once had problems with the autostretching of the background image in IE6.)
What I've found with using DDG more and more is it's made me be a bit smarter in how I search. I, personally, found Google almost made me lazy in just throwing 2 or 3 words and seeing what comes back. I'm a little more specific in my queries now and it's gotten way better since doing so.
> The first round started with introductions, followed by a coding exercise — write a maze solving algorithm. What the fuck?! Seriously? Mind you, this was an interview for a front-end developer position and I am not a recent college graduate anymore.

If you balk at breaking down a relatively simple and straightforward problem into approachable steps that a computer can interpret, then what exactly do you think that programming is? You don't need to _know_ the algorithm. You need to be able to think like a problem solver. And if you can't do that, then what exactly are you doing?

> Anyway, that did not go too well, obviously, because it has been a long time since I took an Artificial Intelligence course in college

You should be able to do this even if you've never done it before. You have a start, you have an end, and you have decisions to make to get from the start to the end. That's the literal definition of programming.

The only people I know who think that basic pathfinding is some voodoo dark magic artificial intelligence problem and not just a simple straightforward algorithmic process that you should be able to do in your sleep for the rest of your life immediately after the first week of Intro CS 100 are not software engineers.
Some good advice. The letter from Dean of Stanford Business School is classic.
There are four PRs in the linked repo, all merged, it's probably an acceptable route to contribute.
Would you ever choose PHP over Node.js if you don't care about hosting on shared hosting?
true, but they might not need all of their documents in the cloud. Google Sheets/etc is still going to be free, Office is affordable, or even the Pages/Numbers/Keynote option works if you're a Mac shop.

Or perhaps even LibreOffice.
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Yeah. When they make it hard to cancel I have no problem at all with people going through the credit card instead.

I'm thinking of one errant charge that showed on my credit card that I didn't make. I called the provided number, got a recording saying to contact them by e-mail. My bank was happy with that as having tried to resolve it with them first--the bank didn't consider contact by e-mail an acceptable alternative to the mandated 800 number.
Delegate ruthlessly. Get a 2IC/COO to deal with running operations, concentrate on strategy, people, ensuring your organisation is the right shape, value add.
UN General Assembly adopts record number of resolutions on internet governance
Oracle, AWS, and Azure Benchmarking Shootout
You've got me there. I believe most basic statistics are deterministically useless.

I asked 3 people if they agreed with me. 2/3 said yes. So I guess I'm right
SLS Liquid Hydrogen Tank Test Article Loaded into Test Stand
I could mention something about the prevalence of this skill, but I don't want to spoil the surprise...
In a decade when EU economy start collapsing, British people will be for another vote but this time EU soldiers will be restoring ordnung and make sure the outcome is the only right one. It's the UK last chance.
I was a SQL/Tableau analyst and a SF Admin before I turn to software engineering. SF is truly a fantastic piece of shit to do any proper development for. I am so glad i've stepped away from it. It has been built with the idea to sell to managers that will not be handling the implementations, and with the idea that non-programming staff can configure it. The front end is decent and most people can make it do... something. But custom integrations are just a pain. Salesforce impose lots of fair usage policies on upserts for example.

I was at a Money Transfer company and we couldn't move our Transaction Monitoring staff over to SF without hitting limits
I’ve upvoted this, but want to underline that this book is truly excellent.
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Try installing Brave on your phone
I have done this in test environments with springboot + systemd. Man it’s a great platform.
My point is that scale and speed of transaction doesn't seem to be VISA's problem.

VISA et. al. have scaled massively over the last 20 years, in ways that would have been unimaginable before.

Given that a VISA is just a 'number' with some 'info' on it, I don't see what any existential bottlenecks might be.

Maybe some things were centralized, but now are distributed ...

But given that each VISA is issued by a financial entity like a bank, which can manage it like any other account ... I just don't see the problem here.

I don't want to trounce creative thinking but most of this blockchains stuff is just academic for now.
I'm not aware of any security advantages compared to npm. But one thing that comes to mind is that a while ago npm, by default, did not generate lock files, which is very much a risk concerning deployment and dependency-management in general. It's not an issue any longer, though, both yarn (yarn.lock) and npm (package-lock.json?) generate lock files by default.
For other related automatic GraphQL tools that create realtime subscriptions to queries, check out https://github.com/brysgo/graphql-gun

I'm curious though, with Postgres, how does the realtime aspect work?
I love Lego, my kids love Lego, they have all my old Lego and it really bums me out how quickly Lego sets go out of production. One of my sons really wants a set from the first Jurassic World movie, but it's been discontinued and is only available for several hundred pounds on eBay (or 100-200 if you settle for parting it out on Bricklink) and so he's not going to ever get it.

I get that they can't keep making the sets forever, it wouldn't scale, but it's still annoying and drives this feeling of needing to buy any Lego set you might ever want, because you'll never get it later without wasting loads of money on scalpers/hoarders.
The SF bay area is ripe for disruption and is being disrupted. Buyer's agents here don't have to really put any work together - I know from experience having worked with a couple realtors. Most homes sell here completely free of contingencies (loan, inspection, appraisal), thus once you as the buyer commit, you commit.

Sellers here don't tend to be sentimental. Just because you attach a nicely written letter with a photo of your family and your dog doesn't mean the seller will turn down an extra $20k.

Thus, a buyers agent really won't be able to negotiate a better deal for you than you can get for yourself. It's highest bid wins, and buyers' agents will always tell you to bid more so you have a better chance to win the house (something obviously self-evident).

Also in the bay area, especially the south bay, housing prices are at the $1.5 - 2.5m range. Tell me how whatever service for the buyer can possibly worth $45k - $75k for putting together an offer for maximum amount with no contingencies. Realtors are entrenched but there's a reason why these real estate startups are proliferating.
I guess I just thought it was interesting. I'm assuming you're talking to me? I appreciate the comment and I would remove the article if it were possible. Not trying to cause a problem.

Admin's if you want to take this down - that's no problem.
I feel this is a very late article and that it has already happened but not in the crisis way. Meaning, this has allowed a shift in work to focus on programming tasks rather than infrastructure as much and hence there is more competition to get features out the door quicker which helps in more IT work etc. for programmers. I haven't seen a shortage of work in other words, rather more of it. In terms of code-automation for non-programmers, these will always fail unless they become AI integrated with some agency and can figure out the minutia of demands real world apps actually need.
I disagree with it, but the concept of "imputed rent" and "Home-Ownership Bias" is similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent

> "More formally, in owner-occupancy, the landlord–tenant relationship is short-circuited. Consider a model: two people, A and B, each of whom owns property. If A lives in B's property, and B lives in A's, two financial transactions take place: each pays rent to the other. But if A and B are both owner-occupiers, no money changes hands even though the same economic relationships exists; there are still two owners and two occupiers, but the transactions between them no longer go through the market. The amount that would have changed hands had the owner and occupier been different persons is the imputed rent."

> "The government loses the opportunity to tax the transaction. Sometimes, governments have attempted to tax the imputed rent (Schedule A of United Kingdom's income tax used to do that), but it tends to be unpopular. Some countries still tax the imputed rent, such as Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Switzerland. The absence of taxes on imputed rents is also referred to as Home-Ownership Bias."
Ask HN: Why don't all computers use atmospheric noise for random numbers?
Info on atmospheric noise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_noise
I just went through a compromised card. The bank alerted me as they considered the transactions suspect. They didn't even ask if I tried to contact the merchants. I denied making them (they were in a city I haven't been in in almost 40 years) and that was that.
I just wish CRA would give me a hook to touch the webpack configs. I'm willing to bite the pain of needing to rewrite my custom configs if they move to something else.

Simple example: with webpack it's trivial to configure it to load env-specific extensions. You can have foo.js, foo.dev.js, and foo.mock.js and it will import the correct one automatically based on an env variable. It's three lines of code that I use in all my React projects and it's honestly enough to keep me away from CRA.
> Editors & IDE

mentions only Sublime and Vim...hardly professional.
Facebook manager quit after being 'harassed' over views on diversity
ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0
if you are not using proof of work what are you using for the consensus?
If you can find the right people I think it is a great idea. You could potentially pay a little less there's no commuting involved. Hardest part would probably be keeping them motivated.
The nice thing about a timer is that it moves control away from you, even though you ultimately decide when to start the timer and how long it lasts. Seems like they’re less likely to argue with something that they initiated.
> Also, a lot of DNS hosts do not allow for large packet sizes over UDP to attempt to reduce the effect of reflection attacks.

Do any allow a large response if you send a large (padded) request?
Did the people in this thread even read the article? It suggests that the effect of eating potatoes or wearing glasses on childhood well-being is greater than the effect of screen time.
I sleep in a hammock. If you're not expecting company it's really a nice alternative to mattresses.
The checklist can also be ordered such that the lowest-hanging fruit is covered first. Start with the vent covers, overhead lights, and smoke detectors, because those are the places where it's easiest for an unskilled spy to hide monitoring devices. Any hole cut into the sheetrock for a legit purpose could also have a peephole near it.

I bought a house that had a slight dimple in the heating duct of a ground-level bathroom, mostly concealed by the vent cover. I went down into the basement, and surely enough, from a certain spot, I had a clear view of the toilet and shower from below. I bent the duct back flush with the edge of the hole, and concluded that was probably one of the reasons that the sellers were getting divorced. So you might not find a camera. There might be an actual eyeball there sometimes. An electronic scanner isn't going to find that.
Similar here in Boston. Your average two-bedroom apartment/condo costs... what was it, $350k-$500k, depending on the area.

YIMBY or bust.
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And asking people tricky questions doesn't tell you about people's problem solving skills either, it just tells you that person is a good talker. Justifying tricky tree traversal interview questions by comparing it the DOM??? That is a stretch. In any case, beyond _solid_ coding skills, the thing that makes someone a great member of a dev isn't coding skills, it is a whole pile of professional best practices, social skills, and general passion for continuous improvement. It is simply not possible to test for those things in an interview.

The reality is that interviews are broken. Not because of this guys subjective perception that it is so but because for employers you just aren't getting the SNR to justify typical interviews. People who cling to that approach anyway are largely, IMO, motivated by ego and cargo cult (lack of understanding and creativity). In addition, in that context, interviews are also broken because in being worthless, they are demeaning to the candidate who isn't great at tap dancing on your command.

What does work is past performance and actually working together. Both are problematic data to get at so I don't think there are easy answers here. We do a resume review to see if they even claim to have the expertise we're interested in, a very short and simple "gut check" coding exercise (not tricky, just checking they can actually write decent code and tests), a 30min phone conversations where we check that both parties are aligned on what we're looking for, contract to hire, then exercise extreme discipline in parting ways with people that aren't great before converting to W2. Our SNR is pretty good. A lot of people don't want to contract to hire so this system has cons. YMMV of course.
I commend the author for coming to terms with the disease and deciding to face it again if his child were to inherit it.

Having said that, it is not the decision I would make. I would, with 100% certainty, biopsy the embryo and eliminate those with the disease, whether I had experienced it myself or not. And I wouldn't think twice.
I've been researching and working with this for some years now. There's a lot of stuff that can interfere with the quality/accuracy of the numbers (e.g. MAC randomization). I found out that there's also various ways to circumvent and improve upon those problems.
> I guess they're all assholes then.

Perhaps humans are complicated creatures and everyone has their bad moments.

I'm certainly not defending Dick's actions, but, I do think it is somewhat unfair to his memory and to yourself to hear about two (certainly very bad) instances and then decide unequivocally that he was just an asshole rather than a troubled man with good and bad qualities.
To drag this conversation into further despair; an airshow pilot in the UK is currently being charged for manslaughter for when he, allegedly, negligently performed a risky manoeuvre and survived a crash that killed 11 people.
For me, psychedelics (temporarily [1]) blew away the unfortunate habits that made me feel compelled to size other people up, or to care much for how others were sizing me up. From the outside, this probably looks like laziness or shallowness, because someone who has "peeked behind the curtain" may not be motivated by the same external forces as before.

1: That, to me, has always been the unfortunate aspect of psychedelics - the moment is fleeting. Luckily, meditation and just generally being present has been much more sticky.
Domain Validation and Padlocks
My sentiment would be: "hiring is broken, but I'd reject this guy too".
Being right for wrong reasons is still a bad thing, see the recent article about gettier cases. Eg. if you see a cardboard cutout cow in the field and think that is a cow, you are wrong even if there is an actual cow behind the cutout. This is not a mere epistemic nitpicking, it is a question of whether your process of arriving to conclusions can give you right answers in other applicable cases.

So calling out woo is worth it even when it happens to lead to conclusions you agree with for other reasons.
Ask HN: Problems with Motivation at Work
Hello there,

I have been going through motivation problems at work and I think I could some advice. I just lost interest at being on top of the trends, being that competitive at work or even caring about finishing work on time. I think it is problematic because it's causing me and my team some problems during meetings during to not getting shit done. I think I have been in denial about it for a long time.

How did you deal with this? How did you overcome it?

Thank you for your advice.
Show HN: Hackero.co – A meta reader for HackerNews like Feeds
Instagram Caught Black Handed
Do you believe that a software can be complete at all?
Asking the customer to confirm by call, text, or email
With the advent of games streaming, MMOs, and so on, all of these media are increasingly blurred together.
"There is just too much legal risk from doing so"

How about having them sign an agreement that the candidate would under no circumstances sue the company for the rejection? I would sign it in a heartbeat if I received some feedback.
I'll steal a quote from Pittsburgh Penguins (American professional hockey) head coach Mike Sullivan: "Play the game the right way".

Just do the right thing. Always. If you're not sure what that is, figure it out however you can, and do it. This time. Every time. Always.

Once you start doing that, all the other BS melts away.

A few personal thoughts of what "the right way" means in IT:

- Treat everyone else like you want to be treated. No "talking down".
- Got Business Requirements? Are they any good? That may be your problem.
- Same thing for Technical Specifications.
- Same thing for Test Plans.
- Is everyone working on their most important thing? Why not?
- Will it affect the annual report? Yes? It's an issue. No? It's a detail.
- Keep the process that's needed. It helps.
- Ditch the process that's not needed. It hurts.
- Go with your gut. That's what got you here.
- If it needs changed, change it. If you don't, it'll change itself some other way.
- Correlation != Causation.
- Know the Critical Path.
- Keep your finger on the pulse of everything you can.
- Programmers produce. Everyone else must support them. (Never forget this!)
- If it's not written down, it's not.
- Relax and have fun. Can't? Find another career.
Basho was bought and Riak is being developed by the new owner.
Amazon Bar Raisers: the music video
CoinGate and Surfshark smarten up cryptocurrency payments
It really blows my mind that the latest, greatest technology is so difficult to work with it requires a meta-tool manage the process.
I wouldn't trust the Alipay stats. The aliexpress 11.11 pre-sale BS forces everyone's purchases to be ordered in advance for two weeks at one time of the year. The actual sales are often as little as 1% discount. They then claim insane one day sales figures when they batch process all those transactions through Alipay.

https://aliexpressblog.com/the-november-11th-sales-is-now-op...
Even if it was not it would be still good for a KV store.