skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first new "tech" I learned was in the early 1980s, so I benefit from the perspective of seeing how my choices have panned out over the short to long term.

And now this might seem weird, but I have had good results following tech trends that attracted the widespread interest of hobbyists. These tend to be things that are easier to obtain, install, and use, and that have communities built up around them. The hobbyists will tend to weed out the things that are just too painful to use.

Examples over the years include Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, PIC microcontrollers, Arduino, and Python.

Some of these are proprietary technologies, of course, but their vendors didn't abuse us too much (until Visual Basic went overboard with dot-net, whereupon I switched to Python). I got a good solid decade or more out of each of these things.

Of equal or greater importance to the use of these tools is what I can learn. I don't mind throwing a vendor a few bucks if I will use their tool to expand my knowledge, and if that knowledge is applicable to a broader range of things. For instance through Python and the community of developers, I've learned new disciplines that have made me a better programmer in any language.
China and Vietnam don't really get along. I see that as more of the factor than anything else. People in Vietnam love iPhones and Apple... the logo is everywhere.

China is investing heavily in Sihanoukville, Cambodia because it is a major seaport that isn't Vietnam and because the Cambodian's were more happy enough to get some much needed income.

I am also guessing the Chinese have a lot of saved up USD they'd like to spend and Cambodia is based on USD. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more news from there over time. It is a great way for them to bypass the tariffs.
It's not the only mechanism Apple uses, they also write firmware that blocks replacement, oppose right to repair legislation, etc.
Decision Theory with a Human Face [pdf]
A lot of legit services take a cc with trial sign up to separate the people who might pay from the people who would pay if it was the right solution. The right thing to do when taking a cc for a trial is to send reminder emails that they will be charged.. Which not enough do.

I see more and more startups using stripe, between that and the ability to do chargeback with that cc company, I worry less about it. The chargeback dispute is quite powerful.
If by table-ish layouts you mean using the <table> element to render something like this then browsers might be OK at it but the <table> woefully inadequate to do anything more than the most basic table renderings. Virtual scrolling or frozen rows/columns is a lot of manual work to do on top of a <table>.
I agree this is great advice!

For me the biggest things are that as the family grows, so has many expenses. We need two big cars now, which are like 150% more than they were in the early 2000s. For health reasons we need to really focus on fresh vegetables and meats and avoid most cheaper foods — which are very volitile price wise.
I don't know about Buzzfeed in specific, but some established companies have a formally stated severance benefits (i.e. if you're laid off for non-performance reasons, you get x weeks of severance).
UBS Will Keep Equity Trading in London After Brexit
The picture of the three friends is brilliant.

Thanks, it was worth reading just for that.
There's a lot of woo in that article. Yes, Parmesan is made to strict rules; no, i probably couldn't tell it from Grana Padano if i was blindfolded.

And there's an effort from Wisconsin that is apparently very good:

https://www.thekitchn.com/a-morethanworthy-replacement-f-132...
I presume the first thing you did when you got your laptop back is to re-image it?
If your humours were better balanced you might have a better more balanced sense of humour.
Yes! There are a few others that are also good, like the one on Santa Monica. I think overall these tend to be better than co-working spaces.

But at the end of the day, it boils down to accountability. I realized it is actually really hard to stay focused and motivated to meet your goals when you have so much freedom.

What I mean is that by you actually paying for a co-working space, it creates accountability and the fact that you are paying it, forces you to go. It is a mind thing and that is a value you can’t ignore.

So it’s a catch-22.
I was aware of the fast.ai course, but not those guides.

Thank you.
Right - and the point is that in a casual email you may reply 'yes that's fine' and is that signing a contract or not? But if we have some ceremony, like a physical signature, or using this // notation, then it's clear what your intent was.
Easier to argue that you were agreeing to something else, got confused, things were changed, etc. The ceremony of "hey, you are now doing something legally binding" is important socially and legally, and the process with HelloSign doesn't start and stop with the signatures, there's all the handshaking and communication around the event.
I came across this a few months ago - this is a perfect example of how to execute, great job. How's your revenue growth?
I am not sure it is the same thing, but maybe in the UK it was. As you say there have always been turmoil. But most of the time the young were seen as getting a better deal. Factories closed and older generations suffered, but the young got other jobs and at least to some extent benefited from the transition. Today we are talking about how young people get it almost universally worse from an economic standpoint and it is people in their ~forties that are winning in e.g. the housing market.
For users, perception and interpretations can definitely be reality.

+1 for the use of mental models.
Useful precision yes. 10 weeks is a very generous severance package, especially if it includes continuation of benefits.

They may have been clumsy there. They could have avoided this bad PR by just paying the PTO and giving 5 weeks of severance or something like that.
Did you forget about the Sino-Tibetan war? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_War

The rest of the examples are also a stretch.

China has certainly not done anything on the level of invading Iraq, overthrowing the governments of Iran or Chile, or destabilizing the middle East.
It's my experience, and the comments seem like a relevant place to share it. You're welcome to disagree. You have your own anecdotes (drain on family), which you, too, are sharing.

For what it's worth, my wife, son, parents, siblings and co-workers all would say that 12 step has improved our relationships.
Can you elaborate on why you think that isn't true?

Imagine I'm a cab driver in Pakistan and want to become a cab driver in the US. Can you point me to what form I would fill out in order to apply for a visa?

As far as I'm aware, no such process exists.
The other way around. Firecracker is like a stripped down qemu-kvm.
I work from home most of the time and sometimes from this coworking space:
https://www.instagram.com/hafven/

I find myself more productive when working next to other people, from time to time. One of their coworking offices is for quiet working only (no talking) and it’s easy to focus. I also get in touch with a lot of interesting and motivated people, in particular from startups, which is also a motivation for me.

Edit: I think it boils down to two things: being and staying motivated and getting in touch with people. And I think the building is gorgeous!
If a conference want to invite speakers that has different social economical backgrounds then they can just as easily do so as with different genders. The article is about people conferences could invite.

There are people here on HN that has been homeless. Its far from "ridiculous", and suspect some of them would feel a bit offended with that suggestion.
Breaks easily, to reproduce bug:
Put =B1 in A1 and =A1 in B1.
This is a good argument for never taking any electronic devices outside your home region.

Even if you get your device back, after someone takes it behind the curtain and fiddles with it ... How can you be sure that they have not compromised it for its onward journey?
Only in CA
I've always felt that complex software should have a "simple" and an "advanced" UI. Hiri's approach is like having a "complexity scalable" UI, but with the added benefit that the user only has to deal with those things they are really interested/ready for. The key is making it very easy for users to discover what features/functionality are available (ex., keyword search and categories, maybe even some pop-up suggestions) that matches their current task need. If you think about it like game power unlocks, it would allow a user to build on current knowledge to do more advanced things. Throw in some metrics, and you could get a good picture of which features are important to a user, suggest/highlight others that might be related, remind a user of features they haven't used in a while (or have never gotten around to looking at), etc.
That doesn't make it required by law though. I don't think "at will" employment comes with any legally enforced severance requirement.
Surprised this isn't illegal in most states. Good on California for having the law.

And of course, if you do take PTO that you haven't accrued yet for the year, and then leave, companies will claw it back, that's legal and "fair" but paying it out if you don't take it and have some left somehow never managed to becomes a law.

It's also disappointing that this comes from BuzzFeed. One would expect this from some fast food restaurant chain and BuzzFeed would be at the forefront, doing a lot more for its employees.
I'm not sure this really fits as rent-seeking. Usually, with rent-seeking, you manipulate either the political or economic landscape to give yourself a benefit without creating any value. In this case, resellers are taking advantage of a poorly designed system that was already in place to create a market for something that was being allocated stupidly.

And I think a key point here is that some form of this was inevitable. Even if they didn't set up the privileged API, you'd still have a glut of speculation, because that's what happens when you sell off a high value commodity below market. The only question is who is in a position to take advantage, and it doesn't seem from the article like resellers manipulated themselves into that position, so much as found themselves there by default.
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Can't wait to get my unlimited PTO paid out!
I got firstname.be a while back, and I did pay more for it than 50 euros. Guess it depends on how much you want it -- I'd been waiting nearly 16 years until the domain finally expired. Didn't really feel like waiting another 16 years... :)
I've never actually had what can be described as an "employment contract," the only thing is I've ever signed is a paper saying my starting salary, full time status, and that I'm "at will" so employment can be terminated for any reason by either party.

Policies like this (PTO accruals, buybacks, etc.) are determined by HR policies that are unilaterally published by the company, but they aren't "guaranteed" by any means; HR policies can (and do) change at any time with no notice. So how does "reading my employment contract" protect me? They can just change the policy from "we'll buyback your unused PTO" to "you forfeit unused PTO" a week before the layoffs. I've actually seen this exact thing happen before. (end PTO buybacks then immediately enact mass layoffs)

Once I worked for a company for about 3 or 4 years during that time they dropped the 401(k) match completely (no advanced notice), dropped long term disability (maybe a week advanced notice), dropped max PTO accruals, and changed the health insurance significantly every single year, including changing the company managing the plan. Then there's always the classic "we're changing the PTO accrual schedule."

Do you people who apparently have "employment contracts" sign a new one every time your pay changes? Or benefits change? What if someone refused to sign the new one? Then they'd just get fired on the spot, so it's basically the same thing as a unilateral company directive, just with a lot of handwavings.
Literally all I want from Dropbox is to sync files between my various devices. I am not interested in doing anything else with it.
or just B1=B1
Never got my laptop back.
Users want to be able to onboard at their level of familiarity and competency and move forward.

It's kind of like how users grew up with Facebook, it began simple and became complex over time. Except allowing users to onboard at any point in that timeline.
That wouldn't necessarily remove everything evil that could potentially be done with it though.
Imperial Exceptionalism
A simple debugging module for AWS Lambda timeout
Severance is the same for all laid-off employees. You wouldn't individually calculate it per employee like that.

What they could do is have severance for all employees be N days, where N = 10 weeks - (avg # PTO days), and then also pay out PTO individually per employee. The company ends up paying out the same amount overall, but employees who had more PTO days stored up than average get paid out more and vice-versa for those with fewer. In that sense it is more fair, and this whole brouhaha started because the existing policy isn't perceived as being fair.
I don't think he has received his laptop yet
You can prefork. That is a tried and true method. And why do you need to create so many connections? Certainly you can architect the solution better than that.
> The only thing preventing me from eating a pound of parmigiano is the price.

That's the only thing?

And just because something was produced locally doesn't necessarily mean it has less carbon footprint than one produced halfway around the world.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1553456/Greener-by-m...
Perhaps, the CM3 (and I assume CM3+) have significantly higher power requirements.
If it breaks real news, with real sources, that turn out to be real stories that they had real scoops on does it matter?

If it barks like journalism and wags its tail like journalism than is it not journalism? (it might also have fleas like a dog!)

Same argument for "trendy company".
We have talked to Velostrata and some other GCP partners. It's hard to assess their usefulness. Unfortunately, they don't have much of open source credibility. Picking by case studies seems like picking out a car by reading advertising material.
Here in Germany we have an ongoing issues with the whole VW (and others) cheating on emission tests with their diesel engines; this leads to some cities banning older diesel cars (usually Euro 5 emission rating and lower) from some areas or streets (imho the latter is a bad idea, but well...).

BUT one has to consider: "At least" these ships emissions don't directly affect us, instead they cause various environmental effects (e.g. green house effect, acid rain,...). But car's emissions directly have an impact on OUR health.

Not to say any of the two emission classes are okay, they're just different and therefore difficult to compare.
That's a good point.

However, the narrative of "blame the boomers" is a con.

Blow this off if you want, but just realize that unless you're a russian bot or an ally of the American oligarchs you're working against your own self interests.

The con is blame the problems of one group on another group to separate them and get them fighting each other. This distracts everyone from the real causes of the problems. It's the same as blaming the brown people, which is pretty popular right now too. (Not a coincidence: in both cases the groups have a hard time understanding each other and it's very easy to identify the other group.) Another big one is getting people to identify as Ds and Rs and letting them blame and fight each other. (They are somewhat harder to identify, but the red hats help.)

It's important for millennials to understand this because without addressing the actual problem you are not going to end up with an actual working solution.

You'll go after boomers and still see no improvements. No doubt the people benefitting from the con will say you simply need to go after them harder. Guess what? That other group of people aren't actually demons and anyone demonizing them is bs'ing you, whether wittingly or not.

That's not to say boomers haven't benefited from the current system -- they have (generally). But their main advantage there is that they vote. (I don't know the full solution to that, but one thing is we have to make voting easier.)

I think the main problem is the massive money in politics. The people with money have always used it to influence politics in order to get more money. But they seem to have basically won outright at this point, with firm control of congress and the supreme court. The executive is mostly under control. The guy at the top is a wild-card but can be managed and is incompetent in any case.

Anyway, I wish I had a lot of answers but I don't. Just keep your eyes open and don't fall for the con. That's probably not enough to ensure a good outcome, but if you don't it's enough to ensure a bad outcome.
This sounds like defensive patenting, which is what Microsoft used to do: patenting things to keep them out of the hands of the patent trolls, but not to restrict people from actually using the idea against them.

This is not, by itself, a bad thing. In fact, it's good.

However, is there any way Apple could change their minds in the future and start wielding the patent against others? To me, that is the danger of granting patents even to people who appear to be acting as a good guy.
Almost all states are at-will. So severance isn’t required. But it’s usually for the employer’s peace of mind, it can prevent class-action lawsuits as well as former employees speaking negatively about them. Given they are a media company, a lot of the people laid off would be fairly good at getting lots of eyes on anything they say about Buzzfeed. It definitely makes sense for them to offer reasonable terms in the agreement to shut everyone up.
Not to mention that this is the original; the other HN posting links to a reprint in Wired of the original Quanta article.
Good for Apple's future in India - getting those manufacturing jobs
over there is the first step to boosting incomes, eventually
to the point of being able to sell more iPhones there.
I'm in the same situation. Renting small office, alone. When I need to work, I'm going to the office. Can't work from home - kids don't distinguish work hours from family hours. Having separate place for work is mental healthy.
You've had some pretty worker-unfriendly employers then? I too have been paid out unused PTO by every company I've ever worked for (and my current company pays it out too), and I've never worked in a state where doing so is unfriendly.
I had an .ro domain and I let it die, since "for life" means only 15 years for nic.ro. thieves!
I run a saas that is profitable: https://PhantomJsCloud.com

It's a pretty simple concept: providing PhantomJs or Chrome Headless as a REST API.

The thing is, the SaaS itself is only about 1/3 the work. You need a website, account management, and billing too.
Today, there are perhaps other services you could leverage that can help reduce this initial burden (Kong?) but a few years ago when I started my SaaS, nothing really met my needs. Hope it's easier for everyone now!
All those small businesses mostly have data about subjects they are conducting business with. In general this is a valid reason to have that data and GDPR compliance is merely about implementation details.

The data subjects of ad networks however are completely different entities from their customers, which makes it a very different compliance problem. It might not be possible at all to conduct that kind of business in a compliant way.
See also Mic,[1] which laid off its entire editorial staff in response to the formation of a union (but prior to a contract being signed).

For counterexamples, see Vice,[2] which negotiated a nearly 30% pay hike in their first union contract, and Slate,[3] whose editorial union recently negotiated a $51,000 starting salary with annual pay increases.

Note that a union is not a guarantee against layoffs. See [4]: the Huffington Post recently lost 15 of its unionized employees to a layoff. On the upside, they were contractually guaranteed severance pay - because they collectively bargained for it.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/mic-layoff-bustle-union-labo...

[2] https://gawker.com/vice-writers-get-a-union-contract-with-a-...

[3] https://wwd.com/business-news/media/slate-media-editorial-st...

[4] https://twitter.com/HuffPostUnion/status/1088524725259628544
One of the reasons why "unlimited PTO" is a bit of a scam.
HN explicitly allows some duplicates for stories that didn't have traction, and linking to an empty discussion is pointless.
Pto is part of your compensation.

It goes on the books as a liability, which is why a lot of companies are doing ‘unlimited vacation’ now. (And why others don’t want to roll vacation from one year to the next). If they don’t owe you a certain amount of vacation, they don’t have to pay it out when you quit.

But if they do owe it, they do have to pay you.
As someone who grew up in the Parmigiano Reggiano production zone and whose family is member of a Parmigiano co-op, I can tell you that it is possible to taste the difference between Parmigiano, grana padano, and the parmesan clones.

It boils down to what you use the cheese for. If you just want to grate it on some pasta, you can use whatever. If you are making tortellini, you better use the 36-month cheese from your casaro (cheese maker).

Edit: Compare the picture of the cheese you link to this one: http://www.caseificioboiardo.it/en/eshop/parmigiano-reggiano...

You can notice right away that the cheese has a different consistency. The American clone is smoother (it looks almost like plastic). The 12-month Parmigiano Reggiano (the youngest "age" that the cheese can be sold as PR) is textured. That signals that the amount of moisture in the American clone is off and that will effect the aging of the cheese and ultimately its taste.
Docs cause they're like the garden of a nice & clean house and people who love their homes always keep their yards neat and well groomed.
Nuclear war could come (and honestly probably will, someday), and it wouldn't destroy everyone, just many, many people. And of course, if we weren't prepared for it, then anyone who did prepare for it could do as he pleased: someone with a conventional army and nukes will make short work of someone with a conventional army and no nukes.
I use the sopine cluster modules and a clusterboard for my docker swarm. The sopine modules have a quad core and 2GB of ram and a sd card slot. It is a cheaper way of having a docker swarm (you could run kubernetes, but that is overkill).

As for the Raspberry pi module, it is the same price as the sopine module and half the RAM. One could argue the pi is better supported, but the sopine modules support armbian (and are actually in stock).

So is it worth it, well not right now. If you buy the module and the base board it is just cheaper and better to by a pi 3+. I saw a pi compute module backplace to hold 5 (i think it was 5) modules for like $250 (a pine64 clusterboard for 7 modules and a built in Gb switch is $100).

There are probably uses for it, maybe custom embedded devices, but i am not 100% convinced. I was a lot more excited about the Raspberry Pi 3+ Model A. That is nice for the price, but even then nano pi's have comperable devices for simliar cost (and are actually in stock).

I still love Raspberry Pi's though and can't wait until the 4 comes out. But as my Rock54 screams with a quad core and 4GB of emmory and usb3 for $45, i am questioning what a raspberry Pi 4 could bring to the table for the same price (M.2, 8GB of ram, etc...).
Lack of transparency in healthcare startups risks another Theranos implosion
I feel like one big difference with AI is that, supposedly, at some point it's not just technology, it's conscious and conscious things can definitely be inherently bad.