skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have a relationship with existing clients, know they business, and they decline you offers to get more serious for <50% TCO, this is a big red flag.

I don't look for employment with the clients I have been able to get so far. To be frank they are all bad unit economics business of the month club subscribers. None of the established shops will talk to them anymore because they are problem customers who demand endless rounds of revisions and pay late.

> The process of writing software is among the trivial parts of building a software startup. Development work is rarely connected to cashflows, and should not be incentivized as a rev-share based on specific feature/module.

Agree. My value prop is I am a vertically integrated engineer who does sales. I develop the connection with new customers on my own time and dime. I get conversations and listen to their problems. I directly interpret what the customer says they want into the engineering deliverables they actually want. Then I come back to the eng team and we split up the work with me as an IC. Generally others do the backend while I do the UI design and frontend work. After the deliverable I proactively ensure customer success, often times committing tweaks/fixes myself. I upsell. I think commission is absolutely reasonable these circumstances because I made that sale happen. These sale would not exist without me driving the process at every step.

I am not a great sales person. I can't sell sand to Arabs. Otherwise I would be able to sell these companies on a commission comp structures. But for startups with a strong product that sells itself once the customer understands what it can do for them, my vertical integration with engineering leads to dramatically quicker recognition of revenue because the two communication boundaries between sales <-> eng and eng <-> product lie inside a single person: me.

I am already doing this right now as a freelancer. I represent two other engineers and together we build the deliverable, but I handle the client facing interactions and running down new business. I think it would be so much easier to sell an actually good product for one company rather than roving around the bay touching up pigs's lipstick.
Oceans are in fact largely great blue deserts. Occupying less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs are home to more than twenty-five percent of marine life. And 90% of all ocean life is found in coastal waters.

To me this means that we should invest a focused effort in planting coral reefs in protected areas (and protecting additional areas for the same.) This would have the effect of creating more marine sanctuaries safe from human fishing pressure, which will seed surrounding fishery areas and become a win-win. New Zealand has done this to great effect (creating protected areas, not planting reefs.)

I think however the typically human reaction is see a coral reef that's dying and try to use re-planting to bring it back to life. Unless that's coupled with re-planting higher-temperature corals, that's neither going to work or be sustainable as the Oceans continue to warm for hundreds of years to come. I would rather see more resistant corals being planted, or coral reefs being planted in colder waters.

Lastly, while it is a great tragedy that the coral reefs are dying, it should be noted that the Earth has been here before and come back from it at the end of the last ice age when sea levels rapidly rose 400 feet and drowned all of Earth's reefs at the time. That doesn't make things any less tragic, or absolve us of the blame, but perhaps helps frame things by remembering that Earth is not a steady-state system but a rather a system of constant flux and adaptation.

I hope that in the same way humans have been having massive negative effects on nature and the climate, we can also pool together and create some equally impressive positive effects on the natural world.
That would depend entirely on the sampling methodology.

Since “online surveys” are as a general rule very poorly constructed (frequently self-sampling) I believe it’s that, rather than the sample pool size, that the parent is responding to.

Additionally Ipsos Reed was hired to run this poll on behalf of MNP, whose press release this information is coming from.

MNP, among other things, offers debt consolidation services. There’s incentive here for Ipsos Reed to construct this sample pool to get a result that gets people worried about their debt load.
> as opposed to the more famous "beyond a shadow of a doubt" standard that is used for criminal cases.

Curiously, this is a standard that isn't well understood. It's "beyond a reasonable doubt", not "any doubt whatsoever". You saw it a lot in some of the Bitcoin cases (Silk Road)... "Well, they can't prove that he wasn't set up or that the wallet matching his wasn't entirely a coincidence, (crypto signatures be damned), so there's doubt, and he should be acquitted".
Installation for a module like this:

cd project
pip install pysnooper # or pipenv or poetry

And it works.

That's far superior to poking around in the dark trying to make an IDE see my project correctly.

If IDE authors ever figure out how to implement a test button that invokes `python -c "some stuff"` and shows me the results, I'd consider using them.
I think you two agree. They said that if that is your definition of cruelty, then vegetarianism can't help you. Not that the lack of life is cruel. You're being cynical with someone who didn't even say one side was right and the other is wrong.
I lived in Japan in my 20's for several years and I loved my tiny studio in the middle of the city.

It was perfect for me. I lived in Tokyo not have a roomy house, but to be in the middle of the action. The closer I lived to the center, the better.

These apartments are the same thing. They are great for young professionals in their 20's, but if you want a family, they aren't feasible.
A vary favourite-worthy comment in a thread about favourite-worthy comments. So meta, it pleases my geeky mind. Kudos!
I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if they copied parameter names verbatim, it's very likely that they designed the API with the same public facing approach. Possibly with the goal of attracting Smartcar customers with the premise that they just need to change an endpoint and an api key and it would work out of the box.

And BTW, your first line doesn't add anything to the conversation. Is your argument stronger by saying that "I don't know what I'm talking about"? Check the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - The idea here is to have a civil discussion.
Would definitely bet Steve Chen is near billionaire status now if he joined Google 2006 and stayed for a bunch of years. Google stock and stock market generally has done very well in that time period (minus 2009-10)
> This is surprising to me. Can this be related to the low salaries compared to equivalent jobs in the US?

Sadly, I wouldn't have been surprised had the headline applied to Americans rather than Canadians.

Edit: A quick search find similar stories like "6 in 10 Americans don't have $500 in savings" https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-saving...
Anecdotally, as a Canadian, I've long wondered how so many people seem to be able to afford home ownership, multiple vehicles, often a skidoo or ATV or two, a camp or trailer, a boat, annual vacations overseas... Statistically speaking I earn significantly more than the average, yet looking around it seems like most people are living way beyond my means.

So is the culture about debt? I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.

My partner and I, when we see people with all these expensive things, have stopped looking at them with envy. Instead, we just think: that's a whole lot of debt right there.

I mean, who in their right mind spends $80k on a truck? Yet we see them EVERYWHERE, at least in our neck of the woods.
In the case of dromomania's "patient zero", his wanderlust appears to have resulted from traumatic brain injury. I don't think this squares with your theory.
His point about wild animals is very accurate, but that's not considering that animals bred in captivity ("free"-range or otherwise) would not have been if not for meat demand. It's debatable whether non-existence is preferable to being raised and then killed, but the dichotomy isn't between wild animals vs. free-range animals.

I think this is more an argument for an eventual plan to deal with wild animal suffering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_animal_suffering), not an argument that whatever we do to free-range animals is acceptable because it's no worse than the suffering wild animals experience. Of course it's not very pragmatic for humanity to make a dent in that problem in the near future, especially without causing externalities, but just because it's hard doesn't mean the alternative is to say "they all have shit lives anyway, who cares what we do with them?"
The law can be whatever it is, but that has no bearing on the nature of an organization outside of incentivizing certain kinds of behavior.

A business is an organization that needs to make money to survive. Such an organization will find ways to make money, or cease to exist. No amount of law will change the nature of this dynamic.
There's some pretty questionable stuff going on in that article.

First, it's highly specific to Australia, where the impact of Eurasian cereal farming is profoundly negative, because they're nothing like the native grasses. That could probably be mitigated by not growing Eurasian grains in giant monoculture farms, in favor of edible native crops. There are something like 6,000 native plants in Australia that are edible by humans; very few of them are farmed commercially or have even been thoroughly investigated for that purpose.

Also, it then goes on to say "If more Australians want their nutritional needs to be met by plants, our arable land will need to be even more intensely farmed." This is a very questionable assumption. Generally switching from commercially-raised meat to a plant-based diet results in a lower food-crop consumption profile. This is because meat animals are frequently raised, or at least fattened during the terminal months of their lives, on human-edible crops (in the US it's almost solely corn).

Anyway, I get the impression that article is someone playing devil's advocate / provocateur, which is not something I have a lot of time for. There are lots of solid, peer-reviewed articles [1] investigating the ecological impact of plant vs. meat-based diets; there is a wide consensus that plant-based diets are significantly more sustainable. There are probably places on earth where that's not true, and perhaps Australia is one of them, but it's not broadly true for most of the planet.

[1]: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/660S/4690010
It really breaks my heart every time I read this kind of thread in HN, the terrible personal experience of seeing how others build empires with your corpse is the least terrible for me. China thinks like civilization and as long as the rest of us keep thinking that this is a global world, where we are all good, kind and we do yoga while we walk our dogs, we will keep having problems with the Chinese.
if you are CA resident and don't have a very complicated tax return, you could file the state for free using Franchise Tax Board's CalFile.
I was sad not to see Qt Creator available in this year's stackoverflow survey. It is a very usable IDE for C++.
Over the last decade, the benchmark interest rate in Canada has been under 2%. A lot of people have taken advantage of that.
Don’t understand this

Yes there should be world peace

And?
Isn’t it happening because the load balancer does not distribute the http requests evenly? We used to use advanced loadbalancers that took the actual http req from a client and used fix number or tcp connections to backend and distributed the http requests through those. Maybe http/2 does not allow this style of load balancing?
20 years ago was involved in the sale of a division to some investors. Involved in the same way a chicken is in the poultry business. The law firm didn't know to sanitize their documents. The upshot was they was billing a lot of hours at $500/hr for a clerk to do simple search and replace on previously existing contracts[1]. We'd read the contract find stuff that was utterly wrong and tell them. And the clerk would paste our edits into the document and bill us another 12 hours.

[1] The meta data was leaking the names of their other defunct dotcom clients.
> dont forget inheritance

Inheritance is a limited convention to do mixins. Including it in the abstract idea of object oriented programming is harmful, other than in reference to the ugly history of "Classical OOP" or "Non-Kay OOP" as you like.
Firstly, that's more code you're having to write (and object property names don't typically get mangled, so you'll end up shipping more code as well as writing more code). Write less code! https://svelte.dev/blog/write-less-code

You can easily debug reactive variables, either using the `{@debug ...}` tag in the template (https://svelte.dev/examples#debug) or by using `debugger` in your script tag (https://svelte.dev/repl?version=3.0.0&gist=adc35e969343aad60...).
If you read it, the article clearly states it goes beyond party members. They did not forget or not mention that fact... they claim it is something else entirely.
No, on copyright infringement.
This is something the reef tank community has been using for years, in fact there are whole businesses built around the practice of fragging and selling corals... to the point that there is already equipment made for this purpose.

From "frag tanks" built wide, long, and shallow to allow light to have an easier time reaching the corals, to "frag plugs" made from ceramics that allow people to glue coral frags to to slot into existing rock, egg crate, etc.

I think maybe the accidental discovery was that the researcher found that this very common procedure to cultivating aquarium corals ended up also promoting the growth speed too.
Very nice writeup!

This kind of condescending flow is exactly why I stopped using TurboTax about 10 years ago. Apparently it got even worse since then.
Well.MNP are licensed insolvency consultants so regardless of the sample size the entire survey smacks of bias.

There are way better indicators of insolvency than this opinion poll. We'd expect a related tick up in actual bankruptcies, or their precursors like auto loan and mortgage defaults.
Ok, we've replaced that bit with the name of the technique above. Also, if someone can find a better article about this, we can change the URL. The current article is short on information and looks lifted from other sources.
My guess is he means "on the highway". The scary bits of self-driving is person detection, crossing detection, roadwork detection, cyclist detection (e.g. coming up on the right when you are trying to make a right turn).

The Waymo end-game that I heard was "able to go through a drive-thru". I highly doubt Tesla is anywhere near that point.
They're not saying that this is a logical metric, they're saying that if that is your metric, then vegetarianism won't help you.
Copying a design is not illegal. Unless the design is patented (which it doesn't seem to be or the OP would likely have said so in the article), everyone is free to copy any design they want.

That you wish something was true doesn't make it so, unfortunately.

What is not OK is copying the documentation verbatim, that is copyrighted. However, that is, frankly, the least of the problems (and easiest to rectify) when someone is taking your product idea wholesale.
> When it comes to investing, most people don't have a clue what they are doing.

This is why I largely avoid investing (I do have some money in index funds, though). I know that I don't know what I'm doing in that world, and I also lack the time or interest required to become competent in it.
I genuinely can't imagine an outcome where these don't become commonplace. Not going to predict that they're going to replace beef or anything, but it won't be weird to get a meat substitute burger from Wendy's or the like.
It's really surprising that people put faith in virtual Dom implementations, when browsers have been optimized for decades for efficiency. With the right batching strategy that minimalistic libraries like FastDom [1] offer, there's no real reason to use the virtual Dom.

A frequent argument for the use of vdom has been that it reduces Dom trashing. I am willing to bet that if a vdom library has figured out what elements don't need updating, the browser's Dom implementation tuned over decades has that logic built-in. So go ahead and trash the Dom, but batch your updates and the browser's logic will likely not trash more than necessary. And since that logic is implemented in an AOT compiled language, it probably is much faster than a js v-dom

[1]: https://github.com/wilsonpage/fastdom
Agree, we can always improve onboarding. We have some simple instructions using `npx` on the homepage, but we'll try and signpost it better.
Ah I gotcha, that's a fair point.
Completely agreed -- taglines and marketing speak are so important especially in the dev community where they're often overlooked.
I used this workout for a while. https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Simple, fast, and basically any gym will have the necessary equipment.

If you don’t know the exercises, the videos are good. But getting someone to teach you how to properly squat, deadlift, and press is worth the trainer time. Or basically any friend who has spent anytime in a gym should know those exercises.
You can't know. You can know what acute suffering looks like and try to avoid it.

You can observe animal behavior and say, "They appear not to be suffering from existential dread beyond what they would in the wild", you may be able to measure cortisol levels in the meat. But you'll never know for sure.
a^n mod m requires O(log(n)) iterations in the outer loop. If m fits in one machine word, each iteration is O(1). If m is large, each iteration is O((log m)^2).

For the specific case of m = 236 and n = 4096, it requires 12 multiplication and 12 division operations. For n = 4095, I think it actually requires 22 multiplications and 22 divisions. Also, if m is a compile time constant, the divisions can be implemented as multiplications instead, which gives a constant factor speedup.

https://godbolt.org/z/KNX4pi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation#Right-t...
Both Progynon and Emmenin, the first forms of estrogen used (1928-29), were extracted from the urine of pregnant women. The material for Progynon was initially collected in a Berlin's clinic by Shering [1], and the urine needed for Emmenin was presumably sourced through similar channels. [2] mentions how the supply was scarce, as only women in low-income groups were interested in collecting it, and only while other sources of income were not available.

By 1941-1942 they had moved away from human urine to PREgnant MARe urINe, and Premarin was born.

[1] https://books.google.it/books?id=Z3iTsU6_mHsC&pg=PA119&redir...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1661006/?page=2
They could use whatever JVM one has installed, but the dependency became optional and can be turned off (Tools->Options->LibreOffice->Advanced on LibreOffice).
I keep it turned off as I don't have Java installed anywhere and probably I lose some features in the process, but I don't recall having any problems in normal use. I'm definitely not an advanced LibreOffice user though.
Yes I know many, and the consultants that travel this much are enormously expensive. For a top tier management consulting company, I heard they typically bill at like a million dollars per year per consultant, all together. They also typically don't go to the same place for more than 6-12 months or so, which is why they travel this much.
Nothern EU is different, they have oil and welfare states.

Germany has 1/3 of households with no money reserves/in debt, 45 super rich people own as much as the poorer half of population.
I mean, who in their right mind spends $80k on a truck?

I have the same sentiment, a lot of people buy a payment and auto loans are now 7 (or more) years long which is a lot of the reason you see that. Trucks, at least in the US, are considered work vehicles for tax purposes in some professions such as farming or construction.
1.Healthy lifestyle: eat less junkie-food, exercise, and have a good night sleep (sleeping is the most important for me). Avoid stress as much as you can and try to live happy life instead.

2.Less news: stop watching tv and read less news. These make your brain process less information and reduce the cognitive overloads.

3.Single goal: decide what you want to do or what skill you want to achieve. Do not try to have multi-goal or multi-tasking while you are focusing. In general, you want to have zero distraction so no phone, youtube, music, email.

If you feel tired after 3-4 hours, do something else to relax your brain til you feel ready for the next session. Do not take it too serious and enjoy the process instead. It's getting better everytime so let it be and just have a good day!.
Oh, gotcha - that is one of those things that seems superficially contradictory but isn't. But it does need discussion. I'm no expert on feminism but most of what I've heard [people who've though a lot more about this than I have] say/write on the subject acknowledges this as one (of many) aspects in which our society treats people unequally in gendered ways. Perhaps unsatisfying, but they also tend to view it as not their principal priority to fix; which I guess is fair.

For completeness, I would add the "welfare trap" to SkyBelows list, which then pulls in a lot of women. The "bottom" here is not a very comfortable place to look, and involves a sad stories from many different directions. I think one of the ways it reflects in a gendered way is that for men at the lower margins we (i.e. "society") are more likely to say 'you are on your own, deal with it yourself' and for women more likely to say 'we know better, here is what you are going to do'.
Why does this exact same objection come up again and again? Why do we have to leave our companies instead of trying to make positive change from within? Why is the only prescribed solution to take flight to new lands, like locusts, staying ahead of the flood? What do we do when there are no more companies to which to flee, and the effects of that which we are fleeing is harming society?
You don't understand why it's informative to hear a viewpoint on a topic from someone who has had a different experience than you? Why are you on this site?
c++,

it allows me to learn any other language quickly.

I learned it by writing 3D graphics apps/games.
Generic Returns in Rust
That is frustrating, I concede on that point. (If there is one thing that is bad about the JS ecosystem, its the brittleness and complexities of setting up build tools. If you get together one that suits your need, you do not look at it again unless an update breaks it. Then the process of looking it up how exactly it works comes again, and this repeats yearly :P)
Then you should have sublet the space to someone who needed it, no?
It IS copyrighted.

To lose copyright, the author has to explicitly volunteer to sell the rights or give them away. A work has copyright protections the moment it is created.
If by "systemic" you mean that the universe itself does not coddle you and prevent you from making poor decisions, then yeah sure.
It matches everything I’ve been reading on http://greaterfool.ca for the last 7 years.

Like this from 3 months ago:
https://www.greaterfool.ca/2019/02/02/tapped-out/
I first learned about these floods at the natural history museum in Missoula just last month. Biblical in proportion. Giant glacial dams letting loose and sending out an order of magnitude more water than the amazon basin at speeds of around 80mph, relocating 50 cubic miles of land. Amazing.