skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as Amazon seems to be throwing their mud in consumers' collective faces, the Waltons are 100% not better people and Wal-Mart's entire success is based on exploiting low-wage workers and subsidizing your workforce through social programs.

That's like trading arsenic for cyanide.
It's worth bearing in ind that other things are going to be melting at the same time.
Examples of false or misleading fact-checks by Snopes would be far more persuasive. That article only calls into question the neutrality of the people behind Snopes, but for all I know they could still put their biases behind them when at work.
Yes because not all "internet companies" have the same culture as companies from the South Bay area.
What if the relatives are okay with their DNA being used?
What does it matter who real users are and aren't ? The author has requirements which are not met. Judging by the fact that it's a popular post, several others have similar requirements too. That someone may not have such requirements is quite obvious. Hence the current state of affairs and the post in the first place. The author's jokes may be a bit off, but this sub thread in this discussion that has devolved into whether or not instagram users are real users or if you need a laptop to use instagram is utterly useless. Like what does it add ?
The best engineering managers I've worked with still code every day or at least every other day. They are more than adequate as developers and they also have people skills.
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When you say the pressure conditions can be recreated for milliseconds, is this using a diamond anvil or some other technique? Beyond that, I just wanted to thank you for this post, and your reply to someone else higher up in the thread. Reading the views of subject matter experts is what drew me here in the first place.
Precedents extend much farther back[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses#Ancient_Rom...
To each their own, but personally I reacted positively to that sentence and immediately knew I want to read the whole article - because I knew the author feels the same way as I do: that computers are increasingly built for casual consumption, and are optimized to be toys, not tools.
Whoops! Should be fixed now. :) Please give it another shot!
TLDR please?
This part is concerning though:

"Under the arrangement, the company has also agreed to test DNA evidence for the FBI in its private laboratory."

I hope the FBI will corroborate whatever results the private company comes up with later and just use the data to narrow down the suspects.
> 1) A ninja file for fast, parallel, incremental developer
> builds
>
> 2) A shell script for portable builds for distro
> packagers/end users. This is just a clean serial build, so
> it can be a shell script rather than a Makefile.

If the developer isn't regularly using the same build that downstream users are, the build for downstream will be perpetually broken.
For what it's worth, YC is helping Ted Nelson sell his "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" book: https://twitter.com/nolimits/status/1087770718878687232

This book is a truly unique and is worth owning in hardcopy format.
Why does it only provide for free movement of capital and goods but not of people?
Yep! Just those 35. Main reason being that it’s actually a pretty manual effort to assign theaters to cities, because there could be a bunch of different “cities”, as Fandango classifies them, that are all really the same city - like for Miami as an example, you can have Miami and Coral Gables and Miami Beach, which you’d really want to classify all as Miami.

Long story short, didn’t want to go to that process for too many more cities haha.
Reasonable? That there isn't a beginning. Time simply loops in localized regions of spacetime, creating the impression of a start due to the limitations on the speed of light.

I am relatively sure that the math is against that possiblity.
yes, it's interesting.

the prius is a prime example of virtue signalling used in marketing classes: honda was puzzled at why its civic hybrid wasn't selling while the prius sold like hotcakes, until it realized that the prius, with it's unique body styling, signalled virtuous environmentalism, while the civic hybrid, with it's standard civic styling, had no (additional) virtue signal.
I'm not going to spend $50,000 to have some random smelly chump use my car while I shop.

And even if I get it to park remotely I'll still call it back early so I don't have to wait any time.

There's something there but we'll solve it, work it out later. Boring might be running fulltime by then.

It's also impossible to model we'll all possibly live hours out of town when transport and delivery is free and easy
Apple's new smart battery cases work fine, but they're not for everyone
Yes this is truth to some degree. However, you dont know what you are getting with an app. If you go to read the official NWS page, the forecasts are human curated by a pro. Apps likely are just taking model output directly and feeding it to you as gospel.
OT: I think the phrase is "piss in the wind" ... As in it will be a terrible waste of time and you'll just end up with piss on you. May be a different meaning over the pond.

On topic: Are there stories about how Branson/Virgin has screwed up industries and companies in the UK? Have they already given him control over some rail systems that were mismanaged? Would be interested to hear about the source of Branson's poor reputation in his home country. As far as I know he has a decent reputation here in the US.
I generally agree with all of these, however demand is not uniform which results in some vehicles having to be parked while they're not needed.

As another commented, it will be a very interesting optimization problem to figure out how to efficiently use the underutilized time of the fleet. There are a lot of things which are done at peak times now only because the owner of the car has to physically drive it there that could easily be moved to non-peak.
Thanks for this! I've been dealing with this issue for a while now and somehow didn't think to use CSS to fix it (despite having a number of custom stylesheets for various sites).
Could you link to some relevant examples?
I think you bring up an interesting point. For those of us who are employed in the darling industry of our time, in the most liberal societies, who manage our money well, and are not related to anyone undesirable, this will not be a dystopia, it'll be paradise!
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In urban settings, when self-driving cars are common, people (generally) won't own cars. Owning a car – an expensive depreciating asset – will be an enthusiast thing, like golf clubs or whatever; eventually, the self-driving truck will tow your non-self-driving car to the track...

Assuming the pricing works, most people will just use a car service.
You can if you only watch ITV through thrir online catchup service. When the UK government closed the “iPlayer loophole”, the new rules covered literally only BBC iPlayer.

At least, that’s what the TV licencing website says, I don’t know the name of the actual law so I can’t look it up.
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I clarified my original point. I'm very much not in favor of price controls. I'm even less in favor of the government artificially jacking the price of things though as a sin tax (which is essentially what adding tolls to reduce usage is). The government should use carrots (more better alternatives) not sticks (increased cost).

Roadway space may be somewhat scarce in some areas now but transit infrastructure is not a finite resource. We can always build more. In urban areas we should probably build something other than roads (i.e. subways) though.
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I have worked for Intel for a bit. I haven't stayed there for long but I have learned a lot about how great engineering management works.

Best managers I met had almost nil technical knowledge or if they did they were not advertising it very much. They were gardeners. They made sure you were occupied, you provided value, you did what you liked and all projects that needed staff were allocated staff. They will meet with you every week for mandatory half an hour 1:1 chat to make sure everything is heading in the right direction and have general sense of how happy you are and how happy others are about you. If the manager thinks you are doing well that's about how much supervision you are getting.

I like this style A LOT.
I did spaceships and cars; the latter essentially designed for James Bond.
To put this in bay area perspective, that $300K per year gets broken down as:

42% Tax bracket. Net $180K per year
$6K per month in rent/mortgage. Net $108K
$3K per month in living expenses. $72K
$1K student loans (maybe). Net $60K
$1K in insurance (health / renters / home). Net $48K
$1K disposable income. Net $36K
$8K vacation. Net $28K ( or about $2.3K per month for savings)

Not bad. But you can see how bay area cost of living can quickly erode income.

Add kids, dependents, cars, transportation, day care, private schools... and it's a net wash (or possibly even net negative with more debt).

[EDIT: If we're getting precise here, the effective tax is 38.18% before deductions. The point being that $150K yr is near the poverty line in bay area. $200K is barely enough to survive. $300K is what a FAANG will pay 90 percentile Engineers to ensure they're comfortable]
You ever tried actually using Azure `services`? What a joke! On the surface they try to have feature parity with their AWS analogues, scratch the surface any that illusion quickly evaporates. Nowhere close. As for O365 - old mode, still nowhere close to GSuite for new ways of working.
Of all "dystopian future" things that are now becoming a reality, this is IMHO the most disturbing.

There is nothing you can do about it as a privacy conscious person. Some random relative will give their DNA up at some point or another. Then you're fucked forever.
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There is still plenty of time to for the invention of the transistor or the nuclear bomb to lead to ruin.
Its in the title of the book :)
brilliant reply. you covered it top-to-bottom. usually people will gloss over or neglect something.

You didn't cover the case (2.5) where you make a best effort to invalidate immediately, but don't need absolute guarantee of that as long as you know it will be eventually consistent, where 'eventually' is bounded. This relaxation of requirements can be liberating.

Didn't read TFA, but another way to distribute the blacklist to the edge is to return it along with other data. This isn't going to be a portable library or subsystem, if it works at all it depends very much on your arch and it will be custom.

> why use a JWT at all

because the JWT can carry other information, eg authz, in a portable way and that can be consumed by other backends. the portability of the JWT may also allow for much easier debugging. why not use a JWT? there's no disadvantage if you just process it like a normal signed session ID.
>If you believe it is bigoted to be critical of Islam, then you are an apologist for the oppression of women and homosexuals.

Nice strawman and conflation of legitimate issues with illegitimate fear, but no, I was referring to bigotry, not criticism.

There's a difference between criticising Islamic culture and believing Islam is a "religion of evil," that Muslims cannot integrate with Western culture, that their mere presence of Muslims in a community is a threat to Western culture and public safety, etc.
hyperlocal is a joke, sorry to say it. Just because you can downscale your grid to a very small number doesnt mean good data. It just means you can do statistics and mathy stuff to interpolate. Everyone forecasts better in stable times such as a strong high pressure ridge. The tricky part is the edge areas between air masses, the transition zones. This is where all the juicy weather actually happens and it is the hardest to model
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Do you have any sources to back up your claims about supermarket ads?
That's great, thank you for the comprehensive response!
>If the company did not disclose this in massive font to potential customers ahead of time, then I do think this company should very quickly go out of business.

Disclose what? The point of most of these services is that you are adding yourself to a searchable database where you can find relations. The FBI seems to be using the service for the explicit reason it exists.

I'm very uncomfortable with the thought that one of these services could hand over specific DNA information to groups that could be used to profile you (employers, insurance, etc) but this use case really shouldn't come as surprising. It seems like complaining that the FBI found you by searching for your name on Facebook.
It also makes it possible to screen for people with various ancestries. In the future, it will be easier to identify the target du jour for rounding up.
>The title of your post is "My First Year as a Solo Developer" but then you mention "I work with an excellent developer who handles all the coding and web design so that I can just write.". Did I misread that and it only applies to the blog or to all development?

I hire freelance developers for some tasks, but I still consider myself a solo developer because I have no partners in my company and everyone who does freelance work for me does it either on a short-term basis or for only a few hours per month.

>I'm not super familiar with 4HWW, but the best advice I've seen on striking it out on your own is to do everything yourself until it becomes painfully obvious you need help, then start outsourcing the stuff that can be automated. Not to outsource everything from day one and be a project manager. (but perhaps I misread).

Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at now. My memory of 4HWW was the he was very eager to outsource anything he didn't have to do personally, but it's been awhile since I've read it. I've found it more useful to do the task myself for a while until I feel like it's sucking up a lot of my time and I can write easy instructions for someone else to follow.

>I think the comment here about gauging demand is important. Have you talked to lots of people on Keto diets? Are their biggest pain points not knowing what is keto or not (it might be #30 on a list of 31 things)? Do they have trouble searching for resources on this?

I got the idea from when I was promoting KetoHub in facebook groups, people would frequently ask whether X food is keto. And it is hard to just Google it because you'll get contradictory information, and a lot of it is just arguments on forum posts.

I don't think it's the biggest pain point, but I think there are already lots of people competing to solve the top N pain points, so I don't want to try to enter that battle. What appeals to me about Is It Keto is that nobody else has a dedicated site for what it's doing, so I hope to be the standard thing people reference when they want to know if a food fits into the keto diet.
“… and that led me to werewolves, which is how Amazon turned me into a furry”
> Odd how 'free trade' doesn't apply to consumers. Are they not allowed to import digital goods?

Bell doesn't want free trade on the business side, either. They are part of an oligopoly that is protected from foreign competition by laws on Canadian media ownership. Media and cultural industries were exceptions to both the NAFTA agreement and the newer USMCA agreement.
Sounds like Bell doesn't really want to offer IP services. They should just pivot their business to work on a proprietary system they have 100% control over. Maybe resurrect OSI and convince Canadians it's better.
Yes, I agree with you that how candidates speak as well as look like shouldn’t be the right criteria for decision-making.

But speaking about video-interviewing, what if there was a smart virtual assistant that can analyze more information during the interview and answer any of your questions about an offered position and a company? In this case, you don't need to schedule time with a recruiter, you can just go throw an interview at any convenient time.

And if this assistant was able to analyze more information, maybe, it could provide you with a better job position. The assistant could improve the hiring decision without any bias, taking into account only professional skills. This could be more valuable for both sides – employer and employee.

This assistant could also give feedback to candidates, helping them to prepare for the interview and asking some test questions. That could help the candidate understand more about the job position requirements
I've always wondered why placebo works for minor problems (a cold, nasal congestion, mild pain) but it does not for real diseases. For example, you never see chemotherapy treatments compared to placebo (because it is unethical to conduct such a study), but it could be done with "wait and monitor" cancers such as slow-growing prostate cancer.
A lot of things are regulated on the road. This kind of communication protocol could be one of them.
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Precisely, if your subsidized monopoly can afford to take the hit for a decade or two - the international competition starts dying, their facilities and towns shutter, and locally accumulated institutional knowledge and its transfer disappears. African agriculture and industry suffered similarly in the 20th century due to decades of ham-fisted global charity (essentially subsidized commodity dumping).

There are complex consequences, and the rebound when opportunities re-emerge isn't anywhere as rapid as the fall.
I don't know if this really qualifies as TL;DR, but they seem to have captured the high-level points:
https://www.freshworks.com/freshsales-crm/sdr-sales-developm...
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> What does "pending" mean?

I'm just going to steal the definition from Google then: "awaiting decision or settlement." Ongoing. Not finished.

> You can check yourself if there are any active or historical cases.

Not only do I have no idea how to do that, or even how to find out how to do that, my understanding is that court cases are not readily available to the public, and that in many instances obtaining the information would require going to the specific court and in-person requesting the records. And since corporations, in particular, can be sued pretty much anywhere, this isn't a feasible suggestion.
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