skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If the younger generations believe they have been screwed by housing and education, why don't they figure out how to fight back on health insurance? Are they not subsidizing the older generation right now? I feel like this is another version of pension / social security which is on a crash course with reality.
Not a typo. My point was supporting the notion that publishing houses are doing away with employees and hiring 1099 contract workers from home on an as needed basis. Work would come in randomly and be due in a week. Instead of paying one FTE $35K plus benefits, they were paying presumably two contractors $6K each per year. $12K per year vs $35K is a huge savings for them. Also, it is more efficient, since the monthly magazine tended to have very busy periods and very slow periods during the month.
Personally, at this point I refuse to use products and services made by startups unless I have no other choice. Seeking "an exit" is startup code word for "we don't give a flying fuck about customers and our products; it's only a vehicle to get us rich".
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It's also to do with India. There exists an even worse category of "small consulting" on places like odesk that caters to individuals and small businesses that are very budget conscious and whose need for software development is oneoff or occasional. Many of these folks are self taught, semi trained, or generally fizbuz challenged. Some of these organizations will quote whatever price you want for whatever work you want, regardless of whether they even know what it is, let alone how to complete it. They keep the deposit, write some garbage, and then stall, delay, lie, or ghost you. I would estimate that around 80% are form south asian formerly British colonies that many Americans pejoratively lump together with India. A lot of the rest are from other low income countries that have a history of english langue proficiency, but none of then have the population that India does. Anyone who has encountered this ecosystem is going to be especially cautious hiring remote devs from India just because there are _so_ _many_ of them who have no business writing code. Unfortunately, as a competent dev, this is probably going to make it significantly harder to get through the early hiring filters at many places. I don't know what the solution is, but I'd maybe focus some effort on visible markers of status/competence like open source contributions, giving talks, etc to try to differentiate yourself.
How to pull off a 4-man-shop:

- Have so much work on your table that you have to hire people. Don't force your growth. If you're doing a good job, you'll get more work to do.

- Make sure that the people you have in your team are committed and are able to organize their lives. Cultivate your company - e.g. have some rituals like weekly breakfasts and table tennis. Small things that increase the bond. Pay the salary on time, be open for personal conversations (personal growth of your employees is important) and remember their birthdays. Appreciation of their work is extremely important.

- Plan to spend some time (sometimes a lot of time) to guide your new employees. Try to build checklists for every reoccurring process.

- Build up savings. You should have 4-6 months of monthly income for every hire on your bank account e.g. if you want to hire someone for $4000, you should have $16k in the bank. Why? Because they may a) need longer to be productive, b) have personal issues or get ill, c) are not good in their jobs but you've noticed it too late (it happens).

-- We started to hire with less savings and I wouldn't repeat it. It's good for your sleep if you know that you'll be able to pay your employees regardless of anything bad that might happen.

Good luck!
FCC says carriers failed Florida after hurricane–but lets them off the hook
> If the closing price is below the IPO that is generally regarded as a failure and may imply over-valuation.

Generally regarded by whom* exactly? The world is full of examples of IPOs that did badly on opening day/week but soared like mad afterwards. These generalizations and pretense of knowledge helps no one; especially considering that "over-valued" is not something that can be determined in a short period of time as value is relative to the context in which the asset presents itself.

* as a non-native English speaker, did I use whom correctly or should it be "who"?

Edit: thank you for the reply mr scarejunba!
It's worth noting that the reason many people take their baggage with them is because airlines often can't be trusted to handle it. Bags get lost, damaged, delayed on reclaim, etc, and they charge extra.

If those problems were solved, airlines could forbid taking anything with you to the cabin with other passengers and evacuation would be easier.
The 15 suffers similar issues as the 13 inch 2019 spectre and other whiskey lake hp laptops - many USB-C devices, including perfectly compliant chargers, cause it to hard lock (firmware/bios bug, not blue screen). In my case, compliant devices (such as phones), EGPU docks, caused the hard lock.

You can test this by bringing an official apple charger and cable to Best Buy. When I bought mine, I was sure it was a hardware issue until I demonstrated it on every floor model laptop by plugging in an official apple charger and my pixel 3, crashing each one instantly.

HP said that they would release a firmware update that fixed this but I don't know if it's out yet. I returned my spectre and bought a razer - this kind of bug is 100% inexcusable.

TLDR: If you purchase one of these, make sure to do it from a place that doesn't do restocking fees, apply the most recent BIOS update, and then test the laptop with multiple USB-C devices (and cables). A shame - I really liked the hardware.
If the poster was from Canada, $30K is actually about right for a 2019 Touring trim level (it would be even more after taxes):

https://carcostcanada.com/Canada/Prices/2019-Honda-Civic_Sed...
This is a bad estimate for the cost per mile.

Average depreciation cost per mile driven is ~ $0.6 [0].
Commercial insurance is ~ $0.2
Cost of gas per mile (in CA at 20 mpg, since most cars are non-hybrid) ~ $0.2

So cost of driving per mile is ~$1 to the driver

So really driver makes ~$15/hour when it is busy, less most of the time

[0] - https://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/driving-cost-per-mile/
Looks like Hacker News does this too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
Well, it wasn't advertised, and I argue it's a basic feature of a file picker / browser so it should be very obvious. To be honest, that was just the final straw. I was already unhappy with Gnome for a variety of reasons, that was just one of them.
>Their willingness to match prices with Amazon has been key.

Heck, I've had Best Buy associates whip their phone out and price check something without me even asking. I was super surprised because "don't price match unless the customer asks" would be the easiest thing for management to push for.

I increased my loyalty a bit after seeing that.
How do you know you're not leaving money on the table? It sounds as though people get a lot of value from your work, and they trust you, and want to continue working with you... So probably they'd be willing to pay more?
According to https://builtwith.com most of the world's top websites are built with PHP or ASP.Net, ie. pretty old technologies, yet all we hear about in the tech press and job boards is React.js and Node.
This is a terrible idea. The last thing I want is for an advertising company that makes its living off personal data that they gather about me to be able to reliably link that data to my real identity.

I think that in general embedding legally-empowered digital IDs (in the form of certificates, not pictures of physical ID cards, mind you) in mobile phones is a good idea, but it ceases to be a good idea when your phone and your OS are made by an advertising company with clear incentives to gather data about you, and a solid history of doing so.
1x $1900 Civic

1x $100 eBay turbocharger

1x $1000 misc expenses

27x $1000 JDM long-block

There's probably less fun ways to spend $30k on a Civic too
They can say it a million times, but people won't act rationally when their plane slams into the ground and bursts into flames, and can we expect them to? I don't blame these people, I don't know how I would react as I've never been in this situation.
Is the Job of Data Scientist at Risk of Being Automated?
I respectfully disagree. I think those that have lived in a surveillance state (which needs not be overtly totalitarian), are more keen to pick up on the non-advertised impacts of such technologies.
ehutch79 said

> user b has private document 1235 at /doc/1235

So, why do you say it should return a 404 NOT FOUND for user B?
Right? This is what I don't understand. Everyone keeps saying the only way they make money is with autonomous cars but they're not even close with being able to do that (probably 5 years, at a minimum, and that's in small select areas).

With such a high burn rate, what are they going to do? From everything I read they're not like Amazon where they can just "turn on" monetization unless they're going to hike up their prices.

So, why would anyone invest in this stock long term? What am I missing?
> This is unfortunate for many of the rank and file Uber employees

The Uber employees now have access to the public markets to sell their stock options. Quite possibly, they had an option to sell at $45 a few weeks ago for the IPO.

Perhaps some employees "lost out" now that the price has dropped, but that's the breaks. Sometimes IPOs "pop", sometimes they "fall". But its strictly superior to have a market to sell your shares, rather than no market at all.
There’s some time for the OP to edit and fix that typo. But yeah, I noticed that at first glance too.
I think they hope to boost their value by going into the self-driving cars/cabs business, how much that will work if up in the air though...
I mean, let's be real here, is $42 really disappointing? Because from where I sit, this company is going to be bankrupt in short order.
Modern cars have a wireless pressure sensor failure instead.
> it's useless to users

It's pretty useful to me when scraping/syncing data from a website. I'm also a user.
IMHO, the US also has an overreaching surveillance state, and it also exists to maintain power at the cost of overall productivity and quality of life, but it's to a lesser extent than China.
Cinder looks neat. I'm curious though, the only packages it offers are for Windows or OS X. Do you know if it supports Linux at all?
There’s a typo where doc is spelled as dec later on. That’s why the 404 requirement.
Always opt out of the non-mandatory spying via the usual "no thanks" checkboxes, but much more importantly: I just assume that everything I do on that phone is logged and correlated to my real identity... even if not by Google themselves then the government agencies they are being forced by to hand over data.
If an app asks for more permission than it should need to operate, I won't install it.
By default I decline every permission request until something breaks in the app and I realize the permission request was legit.
Only the most obvious ones I allow without letting it break first, like the camera app needing access to the camera, pictures...
Ask HN: How does your development team handle database migrations?
What's your team workflow for delivering features that require database migrations. How do you keep migrations from slowing down development as your team grows.
Buy puts?

Eh, nevermind, IPOs don't have options chains yet...
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A software developer is using neural networks to imagine a car-free world
I half-expected this to be a link to http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

It's harder than you think.
It’s not a joke see Pony’s front-page. I’ve also heard that other languages are considering moving to this provable compile time model such as Swift.

I’d be happy to offload such mental hoops to the compiler.
The main measure used in the article to define success is growth in employment. They say they also look at sales growth and exits but i dont see the data on this in the paper.

I think there are major issues with relying on jobs growth as a success metric for a startup and thus think that while this is a nice addition to the literature on age and startup success it is far from "definitive" as it is described in the tagline on the summary article
Google doesn't back up all data on android/chromebooks
Wow I'm getting voted down. I guess I should reverse what I said because it's obviously not true at all. Java carries zero legacy.
Bull markets always draw retail. Smart money needs suckers to hold the bag.
> "to put on a short position"

Put is still a bad word because it has a connotation for options trading. (put options vs call options).

Maybe "to bet on a short position" is the best phrasing? "Put", "Call", and "Cover" all have precise meanings in the financial word. "Bet" is ambiguous enough that its kinda clear in this case.
I suspect the response will disappear as soon as people cease complaining about minor things in code/projects/items they got for free.
The traditional system did, I don't see Uber doing it.
I live a couple blocks away from Van Ness. Here's the project: https://www.sfcta.org/projects/van-ness-improvement-project. They're moving to dedicated bus lanes, allowing the buses to load and unload safely without blocking other traffic. As with all significant projects, they've lumped in a bunch of other maintenance that has been put off for too long, like upgrading utility lines.

Construction generally blocks a lane of traffic on one side of the street, rerouting the other lanes and pedestrians, for several weeks at a time. Then they move on to the next block or to the other side of the street.

Just from a layman's perspective, it seems incredibly tricky to try to construct a housing development with that going on around it. The "bus line" construction has already put additional pressure on traffic up and down Van Ness, and it's got to be very tricky to get permits for parking spots, dumpsters, and other necessities with everything else that's going on. And anyway the city could probably just come through and close everything down for weeks or months so that they can perform another stage of "bus line" construction.

(I'm putting "bus line" in quotes because they haven't even really started on that part. This whole project is a pretty incredibly yak shave that's taking 5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars for a bus line.)
It went from $18 to $106 in 1997-1999 and it was not due to AWS.
Having used the 13 in with the same display - it's really bright. Like, way brighter at the same power consumption than any other laptop I've used. It's actually pretty incredible.

But then, I don't make a habit of computing outdoors. Also, I mostly work with a large, external monitor. So I guess it's not as big of a deal for me.
Not sure what you mean exactly. I never work through RFPs, and that's the point. If you find someone who really needs your help (not just anyone), they will get you through the necessary hoops and deal with bureaucracy on your behalf.
Yes, I would especially recommend it to solo consultants.
Are you arguing that the banks that work on the IPO shouldn't make any money off it?
Amazon went public in 1997 with revenue of $16M in Q1 of that year. Its revenue was up a startling 1,800% or so YoY. Its losses were about $3M, so about 19% of revenue. Its market value at launch was about $438M, about 27x quarterly revenue.

Uber's Q4 2018 revenue was about $3B, up about 25% YoY. Its losses are a little hard to parse due to some tax shenanigans, but maybe $865M is about right (or maybe it should be worse), so 28% of revenue. Its market cap right now is around $85B, about 28x quarterly revenue.
HN news is about possibility, inspiration and also practical/tactical insights. Writing about the past and the maintenance of the old systems isn't all that interesting. Thus most don't want to write or read about. We all agree there are many old and once very cool tech in the wild, but I for one use HN to be inspired and jazzed about what the community on edge is doing or wanting to do. :)
> as a non-native English speaker, did I use whom correctly or should it be "who"?

It is correct. Object of the sentence. Common mnemonic: whom answered by him/them, who answered by he/they
"market is down today, which isn't helping Uber but its probably not much of a factor"

It's actually a big factor.
CNet lost their javascript privileges on my machine a long time ago. This extension is a godsend: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
It's OK to charge a fee for anything. It's not good business, though.
In my experience, when I researched some of the official forums some time ago, there was no public documentation of the protocols. I still have to use the Android app to onboard a bulb (which will fail if you forget to deactivate mobile data on your phone). Then, I was pretty satisfied using lifxlan in Python (https://github.com/mclarkk/lifxlan)
How much would you like to bet on that? I'm happy to be your counterparty.
> Cons: [...] I don’t like it

I found that reasoning funny for something like Qt that almost everyone knows, but as i was reading on and on, i found myself asking "why" to many of those cons (and some pros). I do not think this list is very useful really, it is mainly a link dump and the descriptions also seem to be taken from the sites, at least for the less popular ones. I'd prefer to see an actual review (even a single paragraph, it would help explain why "IDE?" is both a pro and con for U++) which go a bit more in detail than "ugly af" (which i disagree with, btw, i like how Fox Toolkit looks) and "sourceforge" (wth is the problem with a site's project being on sourceforge? It provides excellent tools for projects, not everyone has to monoculture themselves on GitHub).

Also it is a bit wrong. Both Motif and WTL are not dead projects, Motif is still getting updates (although it is mostly bugfixes) and WTL has new commits often with the original developer at the helm.
The story we hear the most is of young CEOs. We don't hear about the 100x failures of those who try the same. PG supports youth doing it because cost of family/personal obligation is lower, which is true, but at the same time, at the time he was talking about low capital software startups, the kind he was interested in when YC started. But the flip side of the coin, is having 20 years of experience and domain knowledge, and a rolodex of potential customers (and relationships) to milk with an idea you know will solve a need. It could be a capital intensive endevor, and not a unicorn, but still good. We don't hear a lot about those as celebrated stories in the media.
wxWidgets seems to strike the best balance between documentation, activity, and having native widgets.

It's also true that the API is weird, and some of the wrapped native APIS are deprecated, or work weirdly with modern features.

Now if the qt branch for Linux was stable...

But really, C++ has so much choice compared to say, Rust.
Trying to claim bothsides here is casually glossing over the very real history of the Republican party hijacking ID laws to suppress the rights of the poor and minorities.
Abloy. They aren't spring-loaded and can fit something like 16 disks instead of 5 pins. Evva and Mul-T-Locks are fine as well.

But even something like a dimple lock will frustrate someone expecting a regular lock.

Your deadbolt should also require multiple turns of the key to disengage completely.
And SpaceX is doing a totally different thing. They are not putting anything like the shuttle in orbit (humand+cargo). Shuttle's other big thing was that it returned all of its engines to the ground for reuse. All shuttle threw away was the big orange tank. SpaceX had abandoned that concept, returning only the first stage and dumping the second/third stages into the sea. We will probably never see anything like shuttle again.
Big question is will they do cryptocurrencies?
Simply untrue. Also the alphabet and many words and roots were flourishing as part of Ladino and Yiddish.
Who still gets their shoes shined?
Unprofitable companies are the only ones that really benefit from IPOs.

An IPO is basically a way for the company to raise money, but tis time straight from the public. Usually when it gets harder and harder for them to attract private investors. The IPO listing basically guarantees that they won't take the public's billions and run.

Successful companies with perfect cash flows (think of Github, Valve, IKEA) always try to remain private. Because they have nothing to gain by raising more money. They can give their employees good bonuses and maintain control of the company.

This is by design. In Silicon Valley we are obsessed with them because they are the only meaningful exit for common employees (take the money and run mentality). The rest of the world doesn't care much because they see them for what they are.

Of course. Startup employees do not know they can sell their 'private' stock already, today. However, they need permissions to do so from the company's board (their answer will be NO. Here, saved you from asking. Or maybe they will offer to buy back the stock with shitty terms), and can only sell them to an accredited investor and not random people/public.

Many companies would be ran better if they remained private (think of Facebook, which now has investor pressure to increase the price, which results in careless decisions about data handling, privacy etc).
It should be noted that she published a book of the same name earlier this year: https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Nothing-Resisting-Attention/dp...
Your talking about "identity theft" as if it's an unquestionable concept demonstrates precisely why there is opposition to strengthening the technicals of identification. Every bit that makes identification stronger is yet another excuse for businesses to assert that it is infallible. Even currently, rather than banks simply admitting they were defrauded and thanking/compensating the innocent bystanders for helping them set things right, they keep pushing this "identity theft" narrative to make it seem like the unlucky victims of bank's incompetence have some sort of intrinsic involvement!

It's understandable how it got this way, as from inside the system's paradigm it does look like an "identity was stolen". But the map is not the territory - despite businesses wishing that it were because they can only operate in terms of the map. We are not subjects of the government nor of corporations - free people must resist being cataloged and controlled by database rows that seek to override our actual existence.

Furthermore in regards to the US, it's basically a foregone conclusion that any government-mandated ID system will not include effective restrictions that keep corporations from hooking on to build invasive tracking. Let's hold them to reigning in the ongoing widespread abuse of license plates, driver's license numbers, etc before we go advocating for even more identifying requirements on individuals in this age of surveillance.
I disagree, I'd suggest just including the plain `--force-with-lease` since it's generally a tool that stops breaking stuff to happen. In particular, the assumption that your branch isn't publicly used is usually wrong if `--force-with-lease` fails.
> Prior filings indicated an aspect of the exchange in which the voting power of shares increases in tandem with how long an investor owns a stake. Firms listed on the exchange are also required to abide by certain rules, including a ban on tying executive pay to the company's short-term financial performance.

Where do I sign up?
is this a new requirement? i've never had to verify identity to order from the united states.
My $0.99 pack of six combs that took 5 weeks to ship disagree with pricing being not really much better. Convenience.. the time it takes to ship is the only major deciding factor in my online purchases vs in-store purchases now. Do I need a comb tomorrow? No? How about in a week? No? Great, AliExpress.