skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because somebody else is will get there first and then inflict those turmoils first, on their terms.

This looks different at different scales. On an individual level, it's being passed over for promotion because the blowhard in the next cube has this great idea for how to apply deep learning, or losing out on a job to the college kid who's up-to-date in Solidity and React while you still work in VB.NET and SQL Server. On a company level, it's going bankrupt because some new startup offers critical new features at 1/10th the price. On a societal level, it's being conquered by other societies that have adopted the new technologies at the cost of the social turmoil and then choose to inflict it upon you. Each attempt to stop the turmoil by fiat just escalates it up a level: if you declare you're never laying people off, your company goes bankrupt, while if you declare that nobody is allowed to innovate your society collapses. (Either from within, where your people look at the technologies other societies enjoy and say "We want that", or from outside, where an invading army lands on your shores and kills you all.)

Americans are particularly blind to this dynamic on the societal level because we're usually the ones inflicting it upon others. "Manifest destiny" was all about inflicting progress upon the Native Americans who didn't want it, while the Cold War & fight against Communism was about a richer, more powerful empire inflicting the way of life that made us richer & more powerful at the expense of social stability on stagnant, poorer, but in-theory more egalitarian and stable societies.
I never understood why that was useful. If you're a spammer that harvests email address or if you're an unscrupulous service that sells your user email address to spammers, wouldn't you simply remove the '+' suffix from any gmail address before commencing your spamming?
This is readily apparent if you go back even a few years and read old threads. We are rapidly losing things.
I grew up in a flyover state with a history of very creditor-friendly laws and (limited) legal gambling.

It's boringly, heartbreakingly common there to see small, multi-tenant commercial buildings where one of the tenants is a payday loan place, and another (if not the other) is a "video lottery"/casino type joint.

In the limited digging I ever bothered doing, both establishments (and often the building) were ultimately owned by the same party.

So, no. Not predatory at all...
I'm pretty sure you don't understand how ageism works. Or racism, sexism or any other 'ism for that matter. Because based on your logic, these problems don't exist anymore in the job marketplace.
Some turntables include a strobing light and rings of dots around the edge for different speeds. If it's spinning at the correct speed the corresponding dots will stand still.
Plausible.

I also didn't note the opposite, wondering how many are killed without having organs harvested and implanted, for whatever reason (disease, incompatibility, remote location, etc.).

Whichever form of error is likely present, I'm still just stunned by the magnitude of these numbers.

It really is the buried lede of the decade...
DeepMind’s superhuman AI is rewriting how we play chess
Enter something like..

>> while true; do rotate_mac_random.sh; done

Running on hundreds of devices with their radios turned up to maximum power.
Mypy's various bugs are just indicative of how much of a band-aid it is.

If you truly believe that a dynamic language like python can have type safety, then imagine what a language like Go can achieve.

Python already has deviated too much from where it started and mypy offers too little to justify the verbosity.

So I guess we'll see what the future holds for them.
There are a few startups, like Earnin, Even, and SoLo Funds trying to tackle this problem in different ways. Lending options for those markets are vitally important, for sure, but we can find a better way of doing it without abusing the ones who need it most.
Say we do take this option away from rich people. What are they going to do with their money? They aren't going to shove it under the mattress. Instead, they will consume more and invest less. Consumption is good, right? More dollars chasing goods and services will drive profits and wages up. That will encourage investment, not just from rich people who are subject to USA tax but from all over the globe. What's not to like?
Never gonna happen, the big G knows the best for all. Even G Suite business users have to deal with the lack of controls here, even if we whitelist our own domain, things can get flagged by the larger Gmail spam filters that G Suite users are still subject to.
YouTube Boss Admits Even Her Own Kids Disliked the 'Rewind' Video
Yup. This was made pretty clear when they tweaked the mission statement back in 2017. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-cfpbs-mission-st...

> The banking watchdog’s mission statement now lists its first order of business as hunting down “outdated, unnecessary, or unduly burdensome regulations.”
I read it as personal experience. There are such communities.
Facebook didn't have to build a surveillance machine, it didn't have to extract every possible penny out of it's user's data,

Actually it pretty much did, in order to attain the revenue goals it was after.

Which has been its core flaw since the very beginning.
Let's say I'm a beginner. I've installed Clojure following the instructions on that page.

Now what?

Neither "Learn Clojure" nor "Programming in REPL" even mention how to run it. I'm assuming you need to just type `clojure` in the shell (I'm only assuming this because I have experience with other languages that allow this, neither Java no C/C++ have this)?

"Learn Clojure" has a bunch of examples before it even gets to REPL. I guess I can run them? Somewhere?

The there's the "Programming at the REPL" section and... Then what? How do I start a project? How do I create a program? How do I compile and build a project? Run it? Test it? Configure it? Where is all that?
it will. not at an entry level job, not at a core technical job where you still need to code but anything else (VP, Manager) it will
Nameclash
I was going to make a joke about how it's no longer the CFPB, its public brand since its original creation, but the BCFP, a branding change that was ordered in 2018 by then-acting director Mick Mulvaney. But it looks like the new director put a stop to that nonsense: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/bcfp-no-more-kraninger-s...
Like someone else has explained, ccTLD is particularly bad because the registrars have a lot of arbitrary power over users and appeal process is usually absent.

I know a lot of people who were burned by the .us registrars but the most malicious example has to whoever in charge of .tk: The domains are offered for free, however once you managed to build a consistent traffic they are often held hostage to sell premium services or worse, taken away from owners and sold to the next highest bidder.
Arguably, the consumers that the CPB is protecting is those who are aware of the fees and conditions but still require payday loans, who would be excluded from consideration by the new rules [1], which do not change the interest rate requirements but exclude some customers from eligibility.

If people didn't want these loans, the companies would not exist. If the loans were capable of being serviced at a lower rate, then new companies would form to offer lower fees and charge less interest. The biggest blocker to the latter, ironically, is regulations that aim to prevent new payday loan companies from forming by requiring compliance with industry best practices.

This is a classic example of "regulation made the problem worse, let's add more regulation and see if that fixes it."

[1] https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/CFPB_Proposes_...
From that article:

The first thing that really struck me in the book is that there are more payday lenders and check cashers in the United States than McDonald's and Starbucks combined. Is that true?

How much more competition do you think there can be? And if "These are the only financial services these people have access to" and "fees are high because because it represents a high risk and a low payoff", why do you think the fees will be lower without regulation?
And you have demonstrated your attention to detail by not bothering to check that my hn account is older than yours.
>> The 50 year olds who complain are the ones that offer no value

So by your logic, anyone who is 50 or older - that complains - has no value? Real robust rating system you have there kiddo!
They introduced more stringent controls around what constitutes spam.
Its a function of money. The people who make the decisions (CEO, board) are judged on how much money the company makes. They are paid based on it. They keep their job only if they make more money.

Basically imagine you are an investor who spent $70 million on this company. That money could represent anything. Money can be used for anything so people can imagine it will all be used for altruistic purposes if they want. Sometimes a portion of it is. It can represent 50 or 500 or 5000 people who are counting on that money to grow.

The point being, it is very easy for a person in charge of a large sum of money to come up with a moral justification for maintaining or increasing that sum of money. The least of which is keeping their job or social standing -- but that one alone is usually enough for people to justify many things.

In this case, they will probably just say something like "well, its not our responsibility to make sure that people earn a good wage". In the end, the only thing they are really being held accountable for is how much money they make.
> Although her subordinates probably should have detected the Crystal sooner

One thing that jumped out at me was not having a lookout on both bridge wings. Yes, I know the ship was shorthanded, but that's the last place that should take a hit, particularly when navigating through a crowded shipping channel at night. Take someone from somewhere else.
It wasn't so low-key, if you ask me.
>DNS servers should not be used as "internet connectivity tests" by pinging them.

Not true.

>They are not maintained as ICMP test servers, and that is not their purpose.

Irrelevant.

>While many do not block ICMP packets, there are typically rate limiting systems in place, and other reasons why they would not respond to ping requests.

8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 and all the major ones don't care.

Pinging DNS servers is highly productive and easy. There is nothing bad with using them as internet connectivity tests or SLA measurements.
Activity Classification for WatchOS Using Skafos.ai: Part 2
This doesn't sound perfectly accurate for my case (since the DMARC policy seems to be for paypal.co.uk, not .com), but quite related / perhaps the other way around?

I see in the headers:

ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com;
dkim=pass header.i=@paypal.co.uk header.s=pp-dkim1 header.b=UsIpWUs9;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of service@paypal.co.uk designates 173.0.84.226 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=service@paypal.co.uk;
dmarc=pass (p=REJECT sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=paypal.co.uk
Received: from mx0.slc.paypal.com (mx1.slc.paypal.com. [173.0.84.226])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q195si2496022ita.120.2019.02.05.13.10.37

> this is why you see the via in the from

I am not sure, it may also appear due to what I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19100315
"Bitter old grumpy hard hat hacker, seizing the means of production services."

Straight from your profile.

You fit the complaining valueless old man profile completely. Thanks for confirming.
You'd think so, but no even internal G Suite emails that never leave the domain, still subject to GMail's generic all users spam filters. And even as a paying user, you can't get out of them.
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All email from Microsoft ends up in my spam folders, regardless of whitelisting. I assume it is bad faith on Google's part.
They rarely get better ROI. It's true that a small percentage of something huge is better than owning all of something small... but this is entirely contingent on getting huge and that's incredibly rare. Even if you get big, exits aren't guaranteed and many still fall after massive valuations.

Acquirers are few and far between and rapidly diminish once you cross the $50M mark. Going public is even more difficult. And after all that, once you add in dilution and liquidation preferences, founders can still end up with nothing.

Meanwhile many of these companies can build great sustainable businesses that meet customer needs while making plenty of margin and owning their own destiny. It's a SV cultish attitude to think that VC is the way to get things done, and I've seen way too many founders whose first thought is to raise money before they even have a serious plan for a business.
Also a confluence user. Our content does go out of date periodically and it is annoying at times (wish I could trivially switch everything to md or html) .. but I think it solves the problem posed by the OP.
Here's one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ly#Domain_hacks

The punchline is that there's no restriction on what a ccTLD operator can do under their namespace. They aren't governed by ICANN regulations. It's common to restrict domains on ccTLDs to be related to entities doing business in that country, and to require verification of such upon registration (and take it away later if it's found to be in violation).
> Pretty soon, it will be faster and more efficient to just send us prerendered bitmaps.

I really want to do some testing in it.
Wow, I get that too. If I had noticed that before I would've submitted a different link.
Is Wall Construction at the National Butterfly Center About to Begin?
It be really great if they allowed G Suite admins to have fine grained control over what is and isn't SPAM in their own domain. Alas even that's subject to consumer Gmail spam filters.
Show HN: Toolkit for Mobile App Makers
Currently, after trying quite a few other things (Basecamp, Confluence, READMEs, just not bothering to document things), we've now settled on using a simple git repo of markdown pages which auto deploys to a mkdocs site from master.

We have this set up to require merge requests on GitLab to be approved by two developers and for each new merge request to appear on Slack via a webhook when it's opened.

This has been extremely effective because we now have:

- History via git (better than a simple wiki)
- Simple diffs because markdown
- Immediate visibility of upcoming changes via Slack
- At least two other developers forced to actually read the new page(s) before they are added
- Nice HTML/CSS via the material mkdocs theme, which we can easily customise

Using tools that are already familiar to the team has been a big win. People are enthusiastic about this solution in a way that they never were about the others.
Great article - just a small issue:

It's standard to refer to esports as "esports" or "Esports" rather than "eSports".

(see: https://www.dexerto.com/news/esports-esports-associated-pres...)
Precisely. I'm more valuable than someone with 10 years of experience. I produce working code faster (even if I don't work as many hours). I produce better designs. I produce fewer bugs. I'm worth more.

If you are trying to hire me, and you want to pay me like I have 10 years of experience rather than like I have 30, you just selected yourself out as a candidate for my services.

I will disagree with the parent on one thing: It can take a while to find a new job - months instead of weeks. The market for people like me is kind of thin. On the other hand, the supply is thin, too. If you need someone like me, you don't just want to hire two 3-to-5-years people to try to replace me.

And to answer part of the original question: I'm in embedded systems. I don't know if my answers work in web programming.
> while others are encouraging customers to leave 22-cent tips — a nominal amount meant to show solidarity with workers — through the app and then adjust the tips higher after a delivery has been made

This seems like a strangely optimistic assumption to make. I'd imagine it'd be really easy for instacart to batch shopper's payments and retroactively credit or debit the shopper's account to always pay a minimum total depending on the tip.
Although what you say is mean. It is somewhat true. A lot of older people stay at one company because of stability. When it comes time to switch, because they've spent their 40s in one company, they haven't gained new skills and they get bad at interviewing.

Essentially what happens is you have a senior title but your skills have languished to the point where you are essentially a junior with expert knowledge about something that's obsolete. That and your mind deteriorates somewhat when you are older if you don't keep exercising it.

I think the fix is to bounce around to many companies, constantly even in your 40s as if you were in your 20s. You lose the stability but you maintain a fresh skillset.

Young people take note! I know many successful older SW engineers and they all have done this.

The other option is to get into management.
Yes. Companies follow the law. But companies also write the laws. Pretty much every tax loophole/shelter/etc ( international or domestic ) was created at the behest of companies and their hordes of lobbyists and lawyers.

Slave owners followed the law also. Kings followed the law.

If we can't get mad at companies for following the law, can we at least be mad at them for creating these laws?
https://www.techelex.org/why-not-use-dot-tk-domain/

Relevant information starts from part 3
The legal loophole that some payday lenders exploit to bypass state civil and criminal usury laws involves subjecting the loan (regardless of where the borrower lives) to the law of a jurisdiction where such loans are not illegal. [0].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/id/49035819
I have my eye on Why We Sleep and want to read it soon. I did ask Matthew Walker once about the fact that he says you cannot pay of Sleep Debt whereas William Dement (Promise of Sleep) says you can pay off up to 1-2 weeks but no more. In my experience, I can pay off some sleep debt in a week but it levels out after that.

I haven't heard back on that, probably should message him outside of Twitter, but was hoping for a public dialogue.

https://twitter.com/ElijahLynn/status/922599108950368256
I'm almost 66. Still working on active fun projects, and love what I do. Tips?

1. Be of value.
2. Always learn new things.
3. Seek opportunities in the code base (there are wins in there)
4. Keep learning. A repeat (see #2), and important.
5. Embrace new.

We work in an adapt or die industry; keep that in mind. And, if a shop discriminates about age, find a better shop.
I wonder if this starts organically: some customers paid tips in cash to their "shoppers", word gets around, people see other gig apps accepting tips, and so Instacart follows suit and adds this feature.

Perhaps it's a legal cover? If enough customers are paying cash tips, is it in Instacart's best interest to keep track of this (by building a tip feature into the app) for tax reasons?
Friendly pointer -- The linked page mixes up "You're" and "Your". Should be e.g. "Your role" and the last example could either be "You ideally have" or rephrase the sentence requirements. Same issue in other listings, e.g. "You're Tasks" => "Your tasks".
Server wage: Workers and customers know up front that base pay is lower. Customers expect that their tips will go to the worker in addition to base pay.

This: Base pay starts low, and is reduced by the tip amount, contrary to the expectations of customers and workers.

Now is it clear how they are two different things?
Will never happen in the US: too reasonable.
I think React is an interesting thing to think about here. There was a bunch of libraries that got ever-more-fancy about doing DOM manipulation. Those libraries helped manage the complexity of the model of doing in-place DOM manipulation. React chose something different – much more like the templates of yore – and instead of managing the complexity it introduced a simpler model that eliminated the complexity. That made it really different.

SASS/etc help manage the complexity of CSS, but they don't simplify anything at all. I think there's a scope problem here: the styling and layout of an application isn't just a bunch of selectors and styles in CSS. It's the class names and structure in the code, it's the implied connections between the expected rendered layout, it's a private language of expected elements and their semantics. You can't simplify that just using CSS. We're still waiting on someone to come up with a combined approach that actually works. I personally eagerly await someone's genius idea!
Unless actual numbers are cited, discounting government's VAT income from Google's operations is not useful. We need a number to understand whether or not Google's contribution to the coffers are actually lesser than the fines it pays.
Aircraft Electrical Wiring Interconnect System (EWIS) Best Practices [pdf]
r/RedditAlternatives is pretty good for exploring what's new.
> Which consumers is the CPB protecting?

(1) It's the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), the headline provided a description not a name (titlecase makes this ambiguous, though the body provides the correct name.)

(2) It's not protecting anyone; the administration is hostile the CFPB mission. It is being neutralized from within.
Well it's a pity. I guess ccTLD operators who want to continue to make monet need to behave in a way that gives as much confidence as possible.
okay I am in this now...

My funnel is targeted for specific startup cofounders having trouble finding expert android devs...expert in the sense that
they as either the tech cofounder or the creative cofounder already know that their android app should be on kotlin and using redux not MVI or MVVM.

Basically building the demo apps show them and start the
discussion.
I’m curious as to how/why you could have spent years learning cloud architecture, it’s not that complicated surely. My company is recently transitioning to GCP and I’m architecting big data solutions. I started doing this in November or so and well, it’s not rocket science, in fact, it’s considerably easier than building systems ten years ago was.

I’d hazard a guess that you’re not learning particularly efficiently if it took you years to learn this. In my opinion, any smart engineer could learn cloud architecture in a month or two if they’re studying two/three hours per day in their own time.
> Instead a mere 30% of the US can vote on who is president and the rest doesn't get a say. [The electoral system for voting the president is so weighed that if you were to win the right states, getting about ~30% votes would be sufficient to become president].

Has that ever happened?

In contrast, with a pure popular vote count, a few metropolitan areas could outvote the entire rest of the country. Would it be fair for NYC and LA to decide against the wishes of the rest of the nation? What do you think about this?

> The US voting system is broken at best and does not achieve what you think it does.

I said:

> limiting the ability of large population centers to overwhelm the rest of the country

So what is it that you think that I think it achieves which it actually does not? I feel like you're jumping to conclusions about what I think.
You're talking out your ass.

Come back once you get out of your internship, cub.
The industry would not have survived, for sure.

But there still exists a credit system for those borrowers. It's called paying late.

It might be mean to landlords to make them, essentially, the lenders of last resort. But just because you accounted for something more accurately, by forcing people to take payday loans to not get evicted, doesn't mean you have achieved a normatively positive thing.
This decision really comes down to are people better off if:(1) they have access to loans even if they are high fee or (2) they are better off if they can’t get the loans at all?