skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? Upwork's and HN's crowd are not similar in the statistics sense, the vast majority of Upwork users are not necessarily on HN. On top of that, Upworks's numbers represent the business requirements of enterprises, also has nothing to do what software engineers like.
Greenfield Software Projects – A Pessimist’s Outlook
These guys are just like every other group that wants to setup their own society "free" of government. But look closely at their plans. They don't want to get rid of nation states. They just want to setup their own nation states under their own legal structure, one that sees them atop everyone else too poor to build their own floating palace.

Ask them their opinions on the big crimes (murder/rape/arson etc). Will they allow me to keep slaves on my seastead? Of course not. May I operate an industrial smelter and dump the waste overboard? May I buys some guns, capture other seasteads and setup my own dictatorship? These people don't want to escape the real laws, just the handful of minor regulations with which they disagree. These are nothing more than rich randians complaining about their tax bracket.
What makes you think China is a "Command" economy? USSR was a command economy. In China the Government funnels money into areas that are its priority but much of the economy runs on private innovation & fairly intense competition, especially the tech and software economy.
There's a link to the site that describes the one step shoelace knot. [1] It's saved me 5 seconds a day for 15 years, that's 8 hours I got back, plus it's neat to demonstrate and spread the word.

[1] https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
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I think the Parent is upset that businesses will no longer be inconvenienced and pained by a chargeback.
Why is stealing from any company ethical? Why is stealing from Chick-fil-a ethical?
What happened to responsible disclosure? I mean, fair enough demonstration of how to do something like this, but at least give the company a chance to fix it before publishing to the world.
Slightly at a tangent, and I hope you don't mind me asking: I moved to Paris last month and the freelancing opportunities seem to be a lot less plentiful than in London (android developer), do you look anywhere specific? I'm on freelance-info.fr and linkedin only
https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

9am-9pm, 6 days a week for $41k a year.
This is huge! Our business sales registrations to educational events for a specific industry. We use Stripe to process.

We have a strict non-refundable policy on ticket deposits because, otherwise, we can't determine how many seats are left for each event and we lose the revenue on that empty seat.

We often get unscrupulous customers who claim they don't recognize the charge because they decided not to attend in the 11th hour!

We also have the rare individual who completes the entire 3-day training and then claims they never got the service!

Because it's in-person training, it's hard to prove they received the service. For example, there are no postal records we might show as proof that we shipped a physical item and it was received.

Now, we have them sign a document affirming they got the training prior to receiving their certificates.

But, still, Chargebacks are stressful, because they create revenue and profit uncertainty for each event.

The dollar value of our fraud rate is about .3-.7% per event. But we always fear the outlier event, where that number spikes. For example, we set aside 2% of revenue from our most recent event (which is thousands of dollars now tied up) to prepare for any unanticipated spike in chargebacks.

And... the stress and frustration of fraudulent chargebacks is a non-zero intangible cost.

I will gladly pay .4% to get revenue certainty!

At this time we don't use checkout though. So will need to look into what we need to do to change to that.

I believe we're using Stripe Elements. (I'm the business owner and a programmer, but I didn't code our original stripe integration.)

Will be looking at this today!!!

Thank you so much for your work on this feature! This is a real game changer for businesses like mine!
I never in a million years thought a day would arrive where I would be supportive of Microsoft and skeptical/suspicious of Google, but yet that’s exactly where I am.
Why Category Theory Matters
If I remember correctly Steinbeck's doctor was a friend from his days at Stanford. So we aren't talking about traditional doctor/patient relationships.
At 90, E.O. Wilson still thrives on being a scientific provocateur
But it's the government's job to ensure that externalities are captured. Without that, the market is going to continue to exploit that rather than finding efficient solutions to minimize those externalities.
> ...there isn't a good indicator based on internet search activity...

For this one point, Google Trends (formerly known as Zeitgeist) is available: https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US

But, I'll caveat that it is AN INDICATOR, and not the only indicator...And in fact, not even sure if search activity is a good enough signal to use as an input...Or at least not in isolation. Putting my digital adversarial hat on, if i had even meager resources to organize a bot farm to cleverly submit tons of searches in one direction or another, i think that would sufficiently skew your input signal right there. Just sayin'.
I’d like to hear an explanation as to why stealing from Chik-Fil-A is a moral act. The only one I can think of is that mass-produced chickens suffer horribly, and so anything that hastens the demise of the company is a good thing. But that makes a number of flimsy assumptions.
>I may be wrong about this (please correct) but I think over 10% of the world's carbon budget is spent on running computers. It's everyone's fault and we all need to fix this. Don't just blame bitcoin miners.

On that topic AWS really need to beef up its game!
I think it's reasonable for a company to react as if they are currently breaking a law even if they are unsure. I'm not saying this is what IEEE did, but in general if leadership thinks a certain activity _may_ possibly be breaking a law but they are not certain, suspending that activity is probably the right move.
>>> That speck of spent fuel is still radioactive enough after 30 years to push most nuclear industry workers over their annual permissable dosage. Chernobyl itself is still phenomenally radioactive - but is far less so than it was immediately after the accident.

I was refelcting on this, not the original article and not on CS-137.
REPL Based Debugging in Clojure
Some people see it as a form of challenge. Sure, it might be fun to figure it out on your own, but sharing it is a whole different question [0][1].

The challenge, especially for places that aren't really tech-first types, kinda becomes stale (for me) since they inevitably have a flaw somewhere. It's really just me pitting my free time against their threat model [2].

And yeah, ultimately, this is one reason why we can't have nice things.

[0]: I'm not saying publicly releasing flaws is always a bad thing. There's a subtle etiquette (an art-form, even) to using publicity to pressure change.

[1]: There are different levels of publicizing. e.g. sharing (complete) code, social media post about said code, etc.

[2]: This is also not meant as an insult to the OP.
Wow, it's not even close.
> Getting near net zero increase would be sufficient to avoid an extinction event.

--- start quote [1] ---

This is the largest, dirtiest coal mine in Europe.
It's responsible for 100 Million Tons of CO2 emissions per year.

That's 3168 kg of CO2 per second.

--- end quote ---

I will be flying to Barcelona from Stockholm in June. Some sites show me the three-hour flight will cost 616kg of CO2. Is it per person? I don't know. Let's assume per person (even though I'm pretty sure it's for the entire flight).

In that same time that mine will have released 60×60×3.5×3168 = almost 40 million kg of CO2. Enough for every single person on that flight to take over 200 such flights to be anywhere on the same level of CO2 emmissions.

[1] https://twitter.com/JoanieLemercier/status/11113348483990528...
There is no legitimate retention management. If I want to cancel I've made clear what I want to do. Making it take longer then a few minutes is a waste of all our time.
Meat: Its evolution from long-established health food to poison
I don't think "these days" really apply to this situation. People have always tried to take advantage of flaws in any system.
I don't think that's something available on Stripe, but there are a few tools available in the payments processing ecosystem that allows you to do just that: "notifications of fraud" and "requests for information".

Basically, the first is a notification triggered during the chargeback initialization process on the bank, but before the chargeback is actually processed. So when you receive the notification, you can still issue refunds, cancelling out the incoming chargeback.

The second is similar, but is at an even earlier step of the chargeback process where the user simply asks its bank some information about a line on their statement they don't recognize.
free chicken is free chicken. Have an up vote
And like any tool they can be abused - I really like Excel but I've seen it used for things that were unwise.

I've spent months reverse engineering a vast, complex, costing application that had evolved within a spreadsheet and needed (for very good reasons) to be turned into a proper application. The really entertaining part was trying to convince people that their spreadsheet didn't actually do what they thought it did....

Edit: It was costing a complex heavy industrial process so it had logic that was basically physics right through to finance.
Depends if they're successful. Or are you making any hopes that Dr. Z [1] will stand by and watch his empire crumble?

I'm betting that if the China auto industry will be successful, just like Huawei is, we're gonna see some tariffs and "human rights" accusations and all sorts of dirty politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Zetsche
Haven't worked for Chinese owned ones per say, but have worked in China, I would say it's very viable. Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are also worth looking at - though the cost of living in HK is astronomical.
Eh, it's one industry where consumers have a trump card. It's not like people haven't been creating free media content since the beginning of media anyway.
Future people will use the frozen as a resource. I would buy a 2139-October call option on 100-frozen-hopefuls ... that's when I estimate techniques for revival will be viable and when legal hurdles to mass exploitation will be overcome. In 120 years nobody will care about your intentions in being frozen.
I read the seasteading book, and thought it made a fairly convincing case that seasteads could produce vast amounts of food, biofuel, and carbon sequestration.

I do think that setting out to build a "city" is not the way forward. Early experiments in deep-water aquaculture have been very profitable. Expand on that, and settlement will happen organically.
Ocean acidification makes some marine snails less able to resist predators
SpaceX beginning to tackle some of the big challenges for a Mars journey
Just curious how long you were able to maintain this routine for? Personally, I would only last for about 1 week on this type of routine, and my body and family life would just fail on me. Not something I personally wish to put at risk.
Because apparently it's ok to attack those with Christian beliefs freely.
Absolutely possible. Your age should not stop you. The only thing is how rooted you are there now, but where there's a will, there's a way. Anyhow, if you really would have to move because of Visa stuff, then it's better not to wait till the last moment.

The main things to consider are possessions and relationships.

- What will you do with your possessions? Move them or sell them?
- Do you have family? Will you be moving alone?

As for where, this again, depends. Does your citizenship country offer you to have a pool of countries you can choose from without too many problems (i.e. are you from the EU?) What would be your requirements for moving to the country of your dreams? Could you find someone to sponsor your Visa should you need to?
stealing is stealing.
As a Tesla shareholder, the problem is, I trust some of "the media." I don't trust cleantechnica. I have read far too many Seeking Alpha articles to even pretend like I am able to parse out these numbers on my own. What am I to do?
No, but food is survival
I agree. Enforcing on your personal productive hours can be a good thing for remote work. In the office you have to force yourself to get into the zone which sometimes could prove impossible: noise, meetings, etc.
Because lots of people have lived through a spreadsheet that had grown too large and too important, and the original author might be gone, and reverse engineering a spreadsheet that's hundreds of megabytes in size and has a dependency graph that's longer than a page quickly becomes... burdensome.
It's mildly interesting that ethics are flexible depending on the target, but from a technical standpoint this project is not interesting. The code just builds a proxy list, generates a random number, opens a page, and posts the payload. I work with selenium and this isn't solving any interesting problems whatsoever.

Posting it is unethical, and it's disappointing to find on the front page of HN.
You sound just like my new employer, great job on managing the low attrition rates and keeping the workplace a comfortable environment for everyone!
It helps to be a dictatorship that can force anybody to do what they want, and send to camp people that don't. It also helps to have millions of cheap workers, and a gigantic, rich, soil. And it's easier if you not care about destroying everything in your way.

Still.

It's impressive for exactly the same reasons. It's hard to foster an intellectual elite in a dictatorship, to maintain motivation and cooperation across a gigantic country and 1.7B of people.

Beside, we did the same: polluting, forcing population to work, etc, only 100 years before, but we attacked other countries while doing so. Which China haven't. And about this pollution thing, they seem to correct trajectory faster than we did, given their timeframe and inertia.

It's amazing to watch.
"How do we know they have given that up? Many still aren't convinced that non-free software is absolutely a good idea (though it hasn't bitten us yet that much)"

Companies are not people. Companies are composed of people and the people working there now on important positions are not the same as were back in the days of old. Most importantly CEO has changed. That's the crucial difference.

On an emotional level I cannot get myself to understand this. Thus I still feel like they are the same as they have always been, basically as if they were human being.
Reninds me of the water in one of the early King's Quest[1] games.
Then this offering isn't cost effective for you and you can ignore it. I'm not sure I understand why this thread is full of people complaining it doesn't solve a problem this solution isn't targeting, or, like you, saying this costs more than simply accepting your low chargeback rate. When I rent a car, I decline the offer for me being able to return the car without gas because for me, it's trivial and cheaper for me to refill the car. I don't complain that the price should be lower, or that they should instead be offering sunroofs on more cars.
Totally!

Start applying and researching, there are a number of ways to do it. Have you looked at positions and do you know where you would like to go?
In the scope of running most companies, it rounds the same as 6 times $0.
Yeah - we have all the gear for making sure remote access to meetings works really well (cameras, screens, hand held wireless microphones etc).
You're probably thinking of entering a Mormon Temple. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints distinguishes between churches where people meet every Sunday, and Temples where more important ceremonies are conducted (and which, incidentally, aren't open on Sunday).
If your collaboration with your technical peers produces so little incremental value that you don't foresee your lifetime output displacing other products/services of lower value and/or greater environmental cost -- then don't travel.

Otherwise, travel as much as you can, while it increases your output.
Fair enough; I understand that point of view, and even had it myself, to some degree. But I also think that has little to do with MSFT. The same would be said if SF, or Amazon, or (insert any other large corp) would have bought them.

I also think GitHub, essentially, positioned themselves that way. However, that, if viewed a bit cynically, could easily be seen as just marketing or PR.
The executive branch and even congress to some extent has been committed to clean coal ever since the idea has come about.....

And yet coal plants are shutting down and production slowing.

Most of that "committed" has been throwing some money at research for political reasons, but I don't think there has been a REAL political effort to push coal for much of it as much as gather some votes with some funding and vocal support .... and just let the chips fall where they may.

I think there's a vast range of possibilities when it comes to "support" from elected officials and "control" of a market or such.
Customer Rep.: "What is your mother's maiden name?"

Scammer: "I just entered a bunch of garbage."

Customer Rep.: "Yup! Thanks for verifying that Mr. Smith!"
The infamous 996 that has even the Chinese authorities worried [1]. Yeah, forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3005947/quantity...
I agree as I've seen this happen too many times. In future I plan to apply only for positions in companies where remote work is not optional (no offices).
Europe is not much better. Key industries (for example Volvo) are sold to Chinese and lots of fake Chinese products are flooding the European markets (for example jams, honey). It would be trivial to fix these if the EU cared. They are busy chasing brexit and other very important things.
They donated to anti LGBTQ groups for years. Money given to Chik-Fil-A ended up supporting policies of hatred and bigotry.
It could be argued that it is similar to predatory pricing, where you accept a loss on your offering to drive competitors away before increasing the price.

Amazon video as its own service would not be able to survive so it is unfair on services that just try to do video.
Ha! I still do. Well, technically, I work from home, but my paracord is always next to me. If I'm stuck on a problem, I'll tie a few knots and then go back to work. It's really helpful in several ways.
This is demonstrably untrue. Catalytic converters were protected somewhat by the "ruling class", now they're standard in every car. That's an example that took me about 1/10th of a second to think of, but there are lots of them.

I'm hardly this big advocate for a capitalism, but your statements seem a bit reductionist.
This. It's extremely common to project the blame on others as some sort of defense mechanism.
A Well-Regulated Apocalypse: Inside the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations
You believe that the existence of government-free land is a "loophole in the law" ?
30 years ago, on IRC, doing the same would have been considered a fun hack, and a tongue-in-cheek motivational project for beginners.

Different generation I suppose.
Speaks volumes about the character of those who boycott Chick-Fil-A, stealing from those whose views they oppose.
Anyone that thinks you should steal the property of a company because you disagree with their stances on social issues is a disgusting idiot.
I don’t think Excel is ever bashed for its primary use case. It’s when someone starts building complex, multi user applications things start to go wrong. It almost always becomes an entangled mess. And good luck to anyone taking over when the creator leaves. I’ve been both the creator and maintainer of such Excel applications, and I do not miss it.
This device is used in commercial apple stores for transferring data off customers old, non-apple phones. Pretty straightforward service, hardly a curious device.
The players in the competition you describe above are all vendors, and we should expect all of them to act according to their interests. Believing too fervently in any vendor will inevitably yield disappointment.
No, they don't let you move after 40. I'm so sorry.
I'm not denying that, I'm just saying that groups differ and clearly some are not right-wing, so anyone interested can be selective about it.
The fact that you're in the US already on a working visa suggests that you're perhaps far more valuable than you think. I think you'll do just fine.
Calm down dear.
Just bad for the whole city if the strategy fails. And there is a single point of failure.

What if someone acknowledges that battery powered cars cannot reach the utility of fossil cars or trucks even? What if somebody invents a safe hydrogen cell?
Interested to hear how HR and OH&S are able to reconcile the situation so that everything is legal.

We had a tough situation my workplace to get this going. Once a framework is available and all the legals are checked, it went smoothly.
It's called fun.
Didn’t know they were the spokesperson for all Christians. This argument is absurd.
While I was reading this post, I found the bright background was straining my eyes, so I turned on my dark-mode browser plugin, and then I found I could continue reading more comfortably.
I'm not considering a move to China or those parts of the world. But since they're moving at such high speeds, I'm betting their workforce needs are quite high, so "every help we can get" should be a good motto.
China does R&D nowadays too.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/nov...
Last contract i was on everyone was remote. I ended up driving in everyday to work on the systems because i was one of 3 people who lived in the same city as the systems.

I could hardly ever get ahold of anyone. They would just not be there. Come to find out most would only work the 4 core hours (10-2 CST) we were required, then "work" after hours when no one was online. We lost the contract.

Remote CAN work and work well, you just need management in place to keep the ducks in line.