skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're describing an inevitable endgame of information technology: Value of software tends towards 0, as it can be copied with very low cost, while value of data tends towards the value given by scarcity and actionable information of that data. In there you've encoded the value of business processes within the data economy. Which is why long term, only the services model can endure while pure software vendors will have to either adapt or die. Among the traditional software companies, Microsoft has been the strongest in adapting to this new paradigm.

I only wonder though, how long this economy is going to last, i.e. how long until AI is so commoditized that the value of data goes towards 0 as well, along with the value of most education in IT.
In Apple iBooks you might like the sepia paper option.
Simply turn down the brightness. The intensity can't be the issue because you can adjust it. The colour could be though - even at the same perceived colour temperature, the white light of the screen is going to have a different spectrum to a piece of paper under a tungsten lamp.
Not a mathematician. If the goal is simplicity why can't you use Peano's axioms?
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I work in a company where there is a mix between people who are always in the office, some who work 2 or 3 days at home (like me) and others who are mostly remote.

Seems to work pretty well - so it's certainly possible.
Good point.

Mineral oil, contrary to the remark in TFA, is 100% organic. Unlike olive oil, though, it's saturated. Does that matter? It's not exposed to air, so no. But olive oil goes cloudy when cold.

The watch is unlikely to have latex in it, but quite likely to have silicone parts and seals that might soften in silicone oil.
In terms of productivity, I'm probably like the average person. I probably do better with dark-on-light. I do know with certainty that light is much more comfortable if it's not fff white. A light grey or a light beige (f6f6ef) is infinitely more comfortable.
It's foolish to anthropomorphize a corporation and have pity for it. A publicly traded company is an entity which is legally required to maximize value for its shareholders. Microsoft is "putting a lot of work and effort" into open source software because, by their calculations, this is good for the bottom line. When that calculation changes, they will certainly be less developer friendly.

Don't forget: nothing is for free. If a corporation is pouring resources into something and you're not paying up front, someone's going to pay for it sooner or later.
Captives might appreciate better conditions of captivity. From outside the fence, it still looks like captivity.
The number one request by a huge margin was put forward. Then the first thing mentioned is the dangers of remote work. Seems an odd tack to take.

That being said I really like remote work. But you have to be proactive in your role to be successful. I've found the main danger to be manager changes.

The previous manager accepted and worked with remote personnel. The new one does not like it so they create a situation. Then solve it by canceling the remote program.
I'm pretty sure this is where most of the negativity comes from.
25€ is not dirt cheap, unless you're planning on taking 4+ trips on a single day. In Belgium, a prepaid ticket for 10 rides, each from/to any station in the country, costs just 75€ (valid for one year).
When I worked remotely there were people that were incredibly needy and every 10 minutes asked me about stuff they could easily have gotten from a web search and others got bogged down for weeks with issues that could be resolved in five minutes.

I always felt that good remote workers are very mature, communicate well and are respectful of others . I guess that applies to office work too but remote amplifies this.
The article misses one crucial issue with esports. The appeal of mainstream sports tends to be that the audience gets to watch genetic outliers perform physical feats of wonder. It's a very primal appeal. Watching Sonicfox dominate just doesn't generate the same level of emotion for most people as watching Michael Jordan dominate.
The problem is private banks, state run banks can pull all sorts of crazy tricks. Look up how the Bank of France lends the country of France money, which makes them much more self sufficient than the US and its sale of bonds instead.
No matter what anyone tells you, the fed is not a central bank. It is much less powerful and cannot protect the economy as well as a true one.
>> exploring things that are around her.

> That works for first few years of life.

I don't think so. If I look around me right now there are hundreds of objects and there are lots of questions I've never asked myself and might be worth thinking about. Why is the cups handle placed like this, what made the designer choose this font on this brochure etc.

But reading your comment again I think we talked past each other. While I was talking about the "I have to wait in line for the next 15 minutes boredom" you seem to talk about something totally different.

> because they can't stand how dull the inside of their head is

This sounds more like you are talking about a state of mind

> I hope you'll notice and help her find entertainment.

Thanks, I'll give my best :)
Oh neat, I had no idea that existed. Will have a play, thanks for the tip!
Nope. Still skeptic.

Not that I don't use the products. I use VSCode and Github.

But I just know that MS current behavior is simply money oriented: it started exactly when they lost their top dog position in several important markets.

So now they have to attract people, clients, devs... They can't get away with insulting communities anymore. Hence they hired more friendly people, and told the ones they already had that now it was ok to love open source and make the world better.

It's great for us really, and we should enjoy it as long as it last. Currently Google is going toward the reverse trend, and is probably going to be the new Microsoft in 10 years.

Then who knows, maybe they'll do vice-versa all over again.

But it's not about the company core identity, it's about what's profitable. It will change when the wind turns.

I will believe the heart of MS changed when their attitude will have been mostly positive for a long as they haven't been in the past. So see you in 30 years.
Huge difference. Attending talks in person is akin to reading paperback, while watching a video is akin to a Kindle. It can be difficult to block out time on your computer and give undivided attention to a video.
There is a small company named 'Elasticsearch' were most of the workers are remote workers since I don't think they even have offices.
I don’t think it’s unreasonably to think the public is broadly dumb. Just take a look at people’s political opinions, for both sides. Like, ignore whatever you think about who should be in power, and observe just the reasoning that people provide. For both sides, a non trivial proportion are driven by complete nonsense. For the majority, emotion and group identity norms trump reason. Hence people being exceptionally easy to manipulate at a large scale.
> reduction of atmospheric CO2 concentration of 100 ppm

Shifting the goalpost? Getting near net zero increase would be sufficient to avoid an extinction event.

> pulls the conversation away from real solutions

Do you have a real solution? If not, why badmouth something constructive just because it is not constructive enough? If yes, why don't you post it?
Maybe, it's hard to say. I'm not sure if my wife's "attacks" on my were uniquely funny or not. If they weren't, then I guess some additional factor must come into play for triggering cataplexy?
I couldn't agree more. Choice and competition are good for consumers.

These days because of what I happen to be working on, it's more Apple that's getting in my way than Microsoft (because of Vulkan vs. Metal).

This article raises my hackles, because it is selling a vendor as benign. It's wrongheaded -- skepticism is always appropriate when fundamental interests are at odds.
I wonder if they have chargeback protection.
Things like this are great for the average to small merchant, BUT if you're processing more than, say, 50,000 USD a month, relying heavily on the Stripe ecosystem can take its toll and can cost you big time.

- Use Stripe as the only gateway for all your international traffic, and you will see alarming drops in acceptance rates, meaning the chance of successfully charging a Mexican customer in Mexico with a US Stripe account is much lower than if you have a local acquirer. By a lot!

- Rely heavily and blindly on Stripe Radar for post-charge suspected fraud alerts charges, and you will be refunding many valid orders.

- If you go all in with Stripe Checkout, you are getting a lot of good stuff at a price. If stripe dynamically uses 3DS to sift potential fraud users, you are going to hurt your conversion rates.

Been a big fan of Stripe for a long time, but when order volume goes up, and you grow internationally you have to consider other alternatives and/or backup plans, such as smart routing, local merchants, alert networks (ethoca, verifi), pre-checking for pseudo 3DS charges (no auth need, but fully protected, etc)

Not taking into account these 3 things, can drop your conversions by big double digit percentages.

EDIT: spelling
and water is wet...
Honestly, SXML is probably cleaner and easier than SEML. The example in SXML would be:

(html (@ (lang "en"))
(head
(meta (@ (charset "utf-8")))
(title "sample page")
(link (@ (rel "stylesheet") (href "sample1.css"))))
(body
(h1 "sample")
(p "text sample")))

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
I just find it extremely useful to be mindful of time as I make my way through my get-ready-for-work routine.
But that's still not a fundamental property of screens, that's a property of a specific working environment.

Screens should not be brighter than ambient light as a rule of thumb, i.e. if you hold a piece of paper next to your screen, the screen should not brighten up the paper. If it does, reduce brightness of your screen and/or turn up the light in your room.

So, a dark room is not an ideal working environment anyway.
Low cost rail might exist one day in relation to the cost of flying where the carbon cost is added to the plane ticket.
Occasionally, I start to think I’ve left the grounds of mediocre and may even be a good writer. Then, I read someone like Steinbeck and understand that I have many decades of mediocrity ahead of me. This is a good thing...:)
Do you fly to conferences annually? How many?

one conference per year - 23.9%

two to four conferences per year - 47.8%

Five plus conferences per year - 16.4%
... for the same length. But length doesn't really matter unless you're manually typing it in, in which case many people will be faster at typing words than random characters.
Whether or not I did anything specifically, I can't say. It did get a lot more stable after a patch or two. I wanted to say that our main problem was it double reference counting the TypeScript files. I think because it was storing a shadow copy of it in another location and that problem went away. (Memory is hazy.)

I do remember complaining that F# was not an automatically included in the language selection like C# and VB.NET. I don't believe they ever fixed that, and I can't remember if it's the same way in 2019. You can't win em all I suppose though. :)
By looking at the EU CO2 spot prices we can get a quick glimpse on how much does the plane ticket matter compared to things like using Coal as power.

A plane ticket from Finland to Japan would go from ~1000€ into 1020€ if it would pay the same CO2 emission prices as coal power pays. So basically nothing.

We should focus on reducing the big CO2 emission sources instead of these. But it is understandable why people do things like this. They are really easy way to signal one cares about the environment, even though they are basically meaningless as the same person enjoys bit lower electricity prices due to cheap coal that pumps way more CO2 than the flights ever would.
People sail around the world all the time. As in: retirees in 30-feet yachts.
I assume you don't have a wife and kids around your home office? Because in my experience it's much harder to train them to let me concentrate than colleagues.
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Sending cold sales emails is becoming harder and blocked by MSFT and Google
Up to 25 cups of coffee a day still safe for heart health, study says
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/as...
That’s the real answer. Even as a mere self employed consultant I’ve been to conferences where I’ve gotten deals worth many time the cost of attending (e.g. spend $2k to land a $120k contract).

This is even truer in the scale of the really big players closing deals in the millions+.
Gitlab (this is where you host the content) Gitlab Pages and Cloudflare are public-facing. If e.g. Google starts caching, for Gitlab Pages you might be able to set the canonical tag to point to the CloudFlare-served hostname, but I am not aware how to do it for the Gitlab UI.
This misses the point. Yes, you are correct, womenswear features a wider ensemble of pieces than menswear. However, the societal norms for appropriate female dress are more rigid than those for men. Barack Obama could do an interview in sweatpants and retain respect. The Queen could not do the same.

> often quite a lot higher than the knee

I also fail to see what this has to do with anything other than signaling your contempt.
Microsoft hires remote. GitHub is mostly remote. I’ve seen remote Apple employees as well. FB and Google don’t do it though, they want you in their hyper infantilized offices (unlimited free ice cream?).
In a world where the media will gladly take the bait to claim the "OK sign" is a white supremacy symbol there's literally nothing you can do to avoid the absurd redefinition of symbols and words years down the road.

just laugh at the hysteria and attempt to deprogram the people co-opted by this moral panic in your every day life.
I didn't participate in the survey but I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons as well.
That doesn't quite match the reality that I can see.

A static piece of code may tend to 0 (business) value, but software that is actively being used and maintained tends to have significant value. That is probably one of the key reasons why the service model is so successful. Static software's value rots away quickly, but software that is actively being used appears to be getting more valuable over time.

If and when the point of advanced AI that you describe is reached, does it still matter? Everything will have lost its value by then unless society changes its mind about what a machine with that level of intelligence is.

Just my 2 cents.
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Sorry to hear that. Might be worth reporting to the plugin authors, as I don’t think it’s an inherent issue with vim. When editing the sql files I’m referring, it includes syntax highlighting, etc. so I would assume it should work just fine in other cases. But I’m not really dealing with large py files, in general, so I can’t say specifically.
GitLab is also known for being all-remote.
No amount of Trump insisting on saving coal will save it at this point. We've hit an inflection point where wind and solar are getting to be cheaper and it's less risk to place a turbine or panel. Barring new coal subsidies or taxes on renewables, coal won't grow in the US.

Tesla isn't having a great look on Wall Street, but that's because investors priced them as a tech company instead of a car manufacturer. They're having demand issues, but they'll adjust and markets will adjust the way they price Tesla shares. They still had no trouble raising funds despite serious new direct competition.

Solar is making huge international wins from cheaper, non-domestic manufacturers, including a few of the first massive installations to come in cheaper than coal.

Immigration is a real issue, of course, but a lot of companies have adjusted by opening R&D offices in Vancouver to be close to the border and the time zone of US tech offices.
This very thread has 533 upvotes currently. The highest I saw was around 2000. You honestly can't believe there are that many people on hn who think Firefox is a good browser or that simply don't want a WebKit/Blink monoculture?

Also, that very tiny, tiny percent of users is still in the tens (hundreds?) of millions in absolute numbers. Could it just be that Firefox users are more likely to upvote submissions about Firefox than others?

IMHO you're just seeing a conspiracy where there is none.
In the US it's generally frowned upon to acknowledge one considers salary a very important factor, unless one is at the top of the hierarchy. There's a reason "passionate" and "mission driven" are memes in the hiring landscape here.
The difficulty is if all the junior are working on site for mentorship and the development of good habits, if the seniors are away, who'll teach them that?
That is also the problem with Command economies: they do really well with some things the central planners see as useful, but miss tons of little things that are important but the central planners don't have time to think about. Juiceros is in fact an upside of not having a central plan: we are willing to try things of questionable benefit to see if they are really good even though they look stupid.
Sorry to detract from your main point, but how is it possible to be an anarchist and a libertarian at the same time? Those are fairly mutually exclusive based on my understanding.
Counterpoint: fighting games have zero direct interaction with the companies who control the IP for a tournament, and while they're certainly bigger now than they used to be, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue honestly that fighting games are in any way ubiquitous.

The issue, in my opinion, is that getting good at something is _hard_. When you're a kid playing pickup basketball with your neighbors, that doesn't matter; you're all in the same pond and sure, while you can watch pro ball on TV and see what the pro players are like, you're never going to play against them. You're only playing against your local friends, and the skill level is probably going to be a bunch of people in the same order of magnitude. Maybe on occasion you'll get to a live tournament and run into somebody who's way better than you, but they're not local; after the tournament, they'll disappear back into their own pond and you don't have to worry about them.

With esports, there's no such thing as a pond; everybody's in the same ocean, and while the game will try to matchmake you with somebody around your skill level, that won't always happen. So when you beat your friends and think "huh, I'm pretty good at street fighter, aren't I?", you can immediately hop online and get double perfected by somebody using the worst character, and you realize that no, you're actually not good at all. And if you're not good, you can either put in the work to get better (which is hard) or you can play some other game where you don't have to confront the fact that you're not good at it (like basketball).
Serious question - why are store brands okay for every other chain then? It is a popular slogan-meme but I am puzzled as to why that common practice which predates them is suddenly abusive for them aside from cynical pretexts.
GitHub was viewed as independent with a vested interest in keeping open source going. With Microsoft it still feels like a means to some sort of end.
I tend to take time off during the day. I find my most productive time is usually around 18-21, so I’ll work 10-15 and 19-21
The part on blogs being a more honest voice really didn't age well...
NPM got a new CEO and then let go some people in a rather shitty way with severeness dependent on signing a non-disparagement clause
When I saw the headline I wondered: what would it take to actually win me over?

I'd say that spinning GH back out with foundation support, and strong privacy protections, would be a solid start.
Are you sure it's not because that segment of the developer ecosystem has migrated to vscode en masse?
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Ask HN: Is it possible to move to another country when over 40?
I've worked in the US for a while now, there doesn't seem to be any chance of me getting a green card or citizenship anytime soon. While I love the country, I am wary of the current political climate and also the heavy restrictions on my visa.

I would like to move to a different country, but I am 41 now. Is it realistically possible to move to another country? If yes, which ones would you recommend? I have less than 2 years to get ready, before my current work permit runs out.

To clarify : I am not super smart like many of the HN folks here and I don't have any money to invest. I am just a normal dev, who likes to build interesting and useful things and I am a pretty good worker.

Any advice?
For Grass, he may have been condemned for actions at a young age.

For Heidegger, he was in his 40s and 50s during the Nazi regime. Also, I would recommend reading up on what he did to Husserl. A book that goes into detail about Heidegger's actions during World War II is here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Existentialist_Cafe
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> We can send you a webhook on every dispute being created (https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks) and you could use the API to either refund the underlying charge or accept the dispute (and refund the underlying charge).

Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible.

On Stripe, attempting to refund an actually disputed charge results in an error / invalid request.

https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes#charge-disputed

It does work for inquiries but I am not sure how often those happen vs. "proper" declines/chargebacks. I'd assume the majority is of the latter type.
Airlines should be required to offset their CO2 emissions. Dr. David Keith has designed a machine that can pull CO2 out of the air for something like $200 / metric ton.