skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”The working lower-class still uses pay checks since they're paid on a weekly basis.”

How does that follow? People make electronic payments of a few dollars millions of times a day, with the banks still somehow making money on it. Now, paying a few hundred a week isn’t feasible?

”I think when margins are thinner, it's cheaper to write checks than to set up direct deposit.”

From what I know about automation and American banks, I (perhaps too cynically) think it’s less about being cheaper than about being more profitable for the banks.

How would maintaining the infrastructure to move pieces of paper around, check them for validity, moving the necessary cash around, etc. be cheaper than scaling an existing digital system to handle 10% or 20% more customers?
Another reason to root your device?

Does anyone ever use the apps that are pre-installed? Maybe google calendar and that is about it.
But.. they said they are all experts and care about animals! And the founders are super-genius hackers from MIT!
Wish there were more books like this for other languages... I like learning programming languages, but between a job and a family, with 30 mins in the evening to myself until I'm totally brain dead, I can't write any code myself that's not job related. Books like these let me learn and experience new languages vicariously.
Microplastics can accumulate in human organs, especially the kidneys and the liver. It could take some time for microplastic accumulation in internal organs to cause serious health issues. I don't know about you, but I'm not comfortable being a guinea pig for huge corporations and then wake up one day with the bill due.

Not like similar debacles haven't happened in the past: Tobacco, asbestos, lead, VOCs, the list goes on and on.

We're all a part of gigantic experiment the consequences of which we won't find out for some time.
It might have a low chance of success on one particular person ... but target ten or a hundred thousand, and there will be some statistically significant shift. Advertising isn't a sniper rifle. It's a cluster bomb.
I believe that in heraldry, the unicorn is symbolic of courage. Maybe that’s why?
If US banks wanted free, instant inter-bank transfers, it would exist already. Moving out of legacy systems is an engineering problem that can easily be solved with enough willpower. Don't let banks blame their legacy systems -- that is an excuse.
If the healthier people have by definition less emotional suffering, then of course they're going to complain less.
Banksy did something similar where he sold art in New York for $60 without indicating they were his work. [1] After this was revealed, some of those works that were sold that day went for six figures at auctions.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2013/oct/14/b...
> You keep ignoring the fact that it's a baby account pushing a agenda that's ridiculously off topic.

No point expecting good faith arguments in a bad faith situation
I've participated in some of this work and agree that having feeling-sharing be the top line item is misleading. Feelings are involved, but the core of it is to face what one has been avoiding, in order to become stronger and grow. There's plenty of room for stoicism in that.

The way to overcome pain is to acknowledge and include it instead of denying it. The difference is huge, and most of us need help to get there—personally contactful help, not idea help. I found it pretty liberating to be able to get such help from other men, in a group no less. The point is not to become a gushy feeling-sharer or a sensitive new-age male. It is to no longer be governed by unconscious feelings and the wounds of early experience.

The organizations that practice this work are not super clear about that distinction, which I suspect limits their appeal to many men. I went because of a friend I respect, who in turn went because of a friend he respects. Had either of us only read an article like this, I doubt we'd have been interested. Its subtle ironizing, which approaches belittling ("chastened menfolk", "There, there"), would have turned me off. The photos would have turned me off too, and I've sat in a lot of workshops (though usually with few men and many women).

Edit: an interesting thing to me was the gap between practice and theory. Even though there were parts of the theory behind that work which I didn't necessarily find appealing, I met quite a few men there who struck me as having a kind of integrated masculinity (maybe not the best phrase, but it's hard to find words for these qualities). They seemed strong and open at the same time. I found myself admiring them and wanting to be more like that myself. None of this had much to do with expressing feelings or being emotional; I would use the word presence instead. They maybe even seemed a bit less emotional than most men I meet—more able to take in what is happening without being reactive.

So I would say the theory doesn't work as well as the practice. You barely ever get that! usually it's the other way around.
I use a check when I want to preserve a record of payment. Mortgage and rent are perfect examples.
Where do you get the people to entrust millions or billions? The organization will be flooded with networks of people who will scam away all money.

Such an organization has to be grown slowly. But that takes too much time if you have the opportunity to manage huge amounts of money right away.
> There is a segment of the population that is skeptical and a segment of the population that is not.

I think you missed the biggest segment: not paying attention. It's for these folks where terminology and clarity is important.
The article does mention that it's more durable than vantablack, so perhaps more suitable for a space-based project (if it turns out a really black material is useful for a solar panel of sorts).
There's still generic variation to the point where for some people this isn't a drive. Sure, it's a trait which self-selects itself for removal, but it's likely polygenic, which means it is much more likely that it can persist across generations despite being selected against. A lot of these things are non-intuitive, like how altruism can persist across generations despite being similar.
"With those who will not listen, it is useless to have a conversation." A should say something like "I deny your interpretation of the events of this conversation" and walk away. There's no point whatsoever in continuing the conversation. B isn't going to listen; B isn't going to argue in good faith; B is just there to score points.

Will B regard that as a "victory"? Sure, but there's nothing A can do to change that. Will B claim that A isn't listening? Sure, but there's nothing A can do to change that. The only thing A can change is how much aggravation and abuse A has to put up with. So A should just walk away.
How are we, men, supposed to take these articles seriously when we have so many examples of how bad it is to share our feelings?

Look at the character assassination of Stallman last week. He shared his feelings with some women, and look at what happened to him. If he had not communicated his desire to date some of these women, and not communicated his feelings about the confusing ethics (in his mind) surrounding sexual norms, he'd still be the leader of the FSF.

Instead, he (stupidly) did share how he was feeling about something, and did it publically, and look at what happened to him.

I'm sure every single man posting on this website has an example of a time when they shared how they were feeling, or were vulnerable, to some women, and had it blow up in their face. I have.

These articles, written by women, telling men to be more self destructive are ridiculous, and certainly feel like they have an agenda.
Clean code is so subjective it hurts. Being audience aware basically means trying to guess the company and interviewers coding style from minimal information.
It would be interesting to do the exercise for universities. At a very high level, universities* are incentivized to enroll and produce more and more graduates, to reduce the drop-out rate, and to retain a high quality of output. How should that apply at the level of a prof in terms of pass/fail decisions for their students?

* at least universities who depend on a large extent on tuition money and government incentives to match said tuition.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/business/exposing-the-fda...

Or this book, which is much more recent (2018) than the aforementioned article: http://www.ruwart.com/product/death-regulation will shed some light on the FDA. For those who want to get it off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Regulation-Robbed-Golden-Reclai...
The second link.
Alkaline vaginas are more susceptible to BV. As are multiple partners. Sometimes even menstruation.

A healthy vagina is mildly acidic and lactic acid suppositories were often used but it’s benefits were iffy. If you went back to sex without condoms or multiple partners(male or female) BV will return. It flares in the absence of sufficient acidity in the vaginal environment..as it were..

BV is caused by a cocktail of bacteria and we have masses of bacterial colonies..good and bad..in our bodies.

The imbalance occurs due to moving them around. Abstaining from sex will often rebalance or getting rid of all bacteria and repopulating with good bacteria will work.

Many times, prevention is better than cure. This isn’t a STD or a terminal condition. BV just needs education and good sexual hygiene. I remain unimpressed by science’s efforts to moderate female sexual organs.
I graduated from high school in 2005 and was choosing between science and CS. I chose science because a lot of ideas from the prior tech bubble burst and offshoring craze were floating around in my head. I wish I had just majored in CS instead...
that's a very expensive vision (though I agree that it can be meaningful!), and getting there requires a lot of capital. even though it might not be about pizza in the future, it definitely is right now, and a $2B+ valuation is very rich there, esp compared to Dominos at $10B which is also very tech and automation focused, and delivering to more than 3 communities in the Peninsula/East Bay.

achieving capital intensive goals either involves having strong cash flow to reinvest into your R&D (which is what Amazon did) or having continued cash infusements (which is the Softbank strategy). WeWork is a great example of what happens when the money runs out.

the Softbank-specific angle here is that they promised 7% yearly payouts to the Saudis. the yearly dividend means that they need to extract liquid cash value out of their investments each year. surely you would agree that Zume and other similar investments are long-term speculations, and in the short term are not likely to pay much of a dividend or return through IPO either. however, Softbank is incentivized to push their investments to return value in the short term. so I'm personally very skeptical that their short-term commitments can allow them to be good stewards of companies with very long-term ambitions.
I don't disagree with 1000x, but it also strikes me that - at that level - you're more like a pro athlete than a regular salaried employee. Your career and job is on shakier ground as responsibility grows, with less direct control over what actually happens. So greater pay makes some sense to compensate for unpredictability, if you amortize the economic risk of stepping out into leadership across a lifetime.

Also the predominant theory of exec comp is that because it's tied to equity, your incentives as a manager are exactly aligned with what's best for the company.
Letting people breathe
At least (in my experience) hotels tend to charge those resort fees at the time of booking, instead of at the time of check-in.
I guess it originated from my synthesis of the article.

The article gives an example: copy() bad, copyFrom() good. The single word "copy" doesn't imply which side is which, it is kinda "symmetric". However "copyFrom" does show the side, it is kinda "asymmetric". I just considered symbols instead of words as method names. (After all, if we are to make things shorter.. TLDR is a double joke here.)

And yes, you're correct, in mathematics, this is often not the rule. It's not even a rule in Haskell. But perhaps it could be a rule, at least for new operators?
> Using average pilots instead of highly experienced test pilots is a sensible step to prevent a repeat.

Or a good way to kill average pilots.

How about using highly skilled pilots, but failing a plane when anything unusual happens?
Wow ! If I ever need to explain to somebody what's so special in HN, I will point them to this answer.

Thank you for fantastic work.
I used to always look amusingly at their billboard on 101, as they seemed like an Uber for dogs and the next Webvan.

Till I realized how much money they have raised... And I...

Was..

Speechless....
From your article:

> “What most people mean by culture fit is hiring people they’d like to have a beer with,” says Patty McCord, a human-resources consultant and former chief talent officer at Netflix.

From Google's article:

> However, culture fit evaluations can invite bias into your process if interviewers see it as simply a way to assess a candidate’s likeability, rather than how they align with your company’s core values. Assessing culture fit is about much more than whether or not you’d like to hang out with someone at a company happy hour.

Disclaimer: I work at Google; opinions are my own.
Those ‘convenience charges’ seem absolutely bonkers living outside of the US. Surely you’d want to incentivise a direct debit if it meant you got paid on time, regularly? No excuses about lost cheques, less risk of late payment...
> Once the software works, there is no reason to change it

Well, except it doesn't work and banks are no doubt lobbying the government to avoid having to actually offer "innovative" new products.

Their excuses to the government are no doubt "waaaaaahhh... we have all this legacy COBOL code and it would cost us MONEY to offer new services.... please protect us from any competition!!!"

(where "innovative" means something other countries have had for decades)
Direct link to the study (published Sep 2018):

HTML: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141690/

PDF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141690/pdf/fch...

Alternative PDF version: https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterRe...
Yep. I fear there may be a narrative being pushed here.
This is fundamentally one of the many disastrous outcomes of scientific publishing being controlled by greedy conglomerates.

For the uninitiated: If you want to publish a scientific paper today, you basically sign up to sign over the rights to any publisher that's interested (please someone publish me). That publisher will then review that paper in a more often than not mostly undisclosed process and publish that paper. Everyone knows that to be a high-regarded publisher one must have a very own typographic formatting: Unreadable font, weird multi column layout to prevent accessibility and tables disregarding standards are a good start. Afterwards, the paper gets published on the publisher website, which again follows as little agreed upon standard as possible. Data is of course excluded, study itself is in PDF. Also put up a fat paywall, don't want those pesky poor people be scientifically literate. Give a few cents of your $70 fee to the authors, it is not an unethical business you're doing here!

THIS is the systemic error people seem to be so happy to ignore because they're neck deep in social science not being real science memes.

This prevents interesting new startups for fact-checking or meta analysis, which are e.g. happening in journalism because that field has a lot of the things science is sadly lacking.

This creates a drift between extremely rich and rather poor countries/unis/humans in scientific ability.

This generates a tar pit for scientific process.

This wastes billions in funds because of people unaware of each other doing redundant studies (and not referencing/refuting/supporting each other in the process neither, of course) because they are literally better search engines to find Harry Potter fan fiction than there are for finding studies.

And finally, this of course allows anything from honest statistical mistakes to snake oil sellers to slip through and doing generations worth of damage, because correcting, fact checking, re-researching, comparing, meta research, anything is slowed to a crawl.

So please stop embracing scientific elitism and gatekeeping for this is exactly what brought us here in first place...
Add in the cost of chargeback risks and dealing with that.

Checks are far less risky for the payment receiver, it’s much more difficult dispute it and yank the money back.
Any idea if Enix was locked into buying the Game Pak already for Star Ocean by use of battery-backed SRAM or not?
Long-term institutional knowledge is criminally undervalued.
Well, if I saw someone that had blue skin (from the comments we know that there are still blue skinned people around), I'd probably be extremely curious, stare, ask awkward questions in my head, etc. But now I know, from reading the article, that it's just a blood issue and it no longer seems strange.
When you have the responsibility of 1000's of people's livelihood, their paychecks rest on your hands - you don't think that's worth a heck of a lot more than an average worker? And before anyone downvotes this - think about the responsibility for a bit. Companies don't just plod along - they actively manage into greatness, or actively manage into death.
I thought that the way "introspection" is supposed to work was as a way of asking oneself: "wait, why am I feeling this emotion in the first place? Where does it bottom out, so to say?" Because that in turn tells you what strings to pull at in order to "resolve" the emotion in a comprehensive way. While this cannot be done without regarding the emotion as at least putatively "correct", I'd say that it's far from incompatible with a Stoicism-inspired approach, properly understood.
It is a common misconception that drinking distilled water is dangerous. Water isn't a major source of minerals. [source](https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/7194)
High margins combined with more customers causes this to make economic sense as the dev costs are spread across more customers.
The point wasn't that javascript would be better, it was that the person couldn't answer why they chose an older tech stack instead of one of the newer ones.
Soft and harmless, like Nerf balls and projectiles.
I like to think I'll be a VPE or CTO

Still not sure how to get there, but in the last 2 years I've had the opportunity to be involved in the building and planning around a product and I know that's what I want to keep doing.
Instead of 3% biotech and 20% Uber and WeWork and Wag, I'd have flipped those two numbers.

LMAO! Yes, Uber, WeWork and Wag are terrible investments. But you clearly have no understanding of biotech or how time horizons work for investments. Biotech research is long, expensive, and risky. It is not on a 4 year time horizon like tech, nor can you go to market within 12-18 months.
You can do hyper-local advertising to target someone in a particular zip code...
I'm not sure what to make of this article, but I couldn't stop reading it. It's was well worth the time.
People have been "sure" there's a bubble for a decade now. I mean take this HN article, posted Apr 19, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3865744

How much are you investing on your suredness that there's a bubble? Because if you did it in 2012, you'd be down about 70% right now.
Right - there are incredible cancer immunotherapy and other biotech startups that are on the cusp of HUGE things. Softbank is clearly at a point where it has more capital than sense.
> Are you saying that if I wanted to pay someone $100 I have to cough up an additional $5 and the receiving party has to pay $5 to get their $100? In what way is that “no fees” unless the receiving party is reimbursing the paying party directly? Unless I’m missing something here, a transfer of $100 cost $110 under this system.

You pay the fee to your banking organization, which is 0€. The receiver pays the fee to their banking organization, which is also 0€.

Or in other words, there are no fees.

The idea being that the EU has made it very easy to switch banks, and forced a regime where a customer can freely pick the bank that has the lowest fees, which lead to a situation where no bank that wants to retain customers can bill them for transferring money.
I think encryption is much more readily understood by nontechnical people than hashing, though.
Sure. That makes sense. I can definitely see the value for more common issues someone is likely to run into in their lives.

Do you think that was the intent of the author?
The duty of the general is to ride by the ranks on horseback, show himself to those in danger, praise the brave, threaten the cowardly, encourage the lazy, fill up gaps, transpose a company if necessary, bring aid to wearied, anticipate the crisis, the hour, and the outcome. - Onasander
This war very much effects us as technologists, both directly as restrictions on what we may build and operate, as well as indirectly through our ethical obligations to act with the public interest in mind.

For example, it would be illegal for me to run a website which let sex workers anonymously check a particular client’s phone number to see if someone had previously reported them as violent. FOSTA/SESTA would expose me to both criminal and civil liability, even if it wasn’t intentionally made with sex workers in mind, if I didn’t act to stomp out any sex workers from using the service.
Yes, I created Mithril. I also co-authored Fusion.js[1], which - in contrast - is about as "big boy" as a framework gets (and mostly works w/ the React ecosystem, if you're curious). We use the latter at over 100 projects at Uber.

Mithril fits in a similar camp as Svelte, and it does offer APIs for HTTP requests and routing out of the box. I've worked on projects before where I literally only had Mithril as a sole dependency (and this was with supporting IE10).

Fusion.js solves a lot of complexity-at-scale problems but it does so at a trade-off of not being nearly as geared towards standards tracking as systems like Svelte and Mithril.

[1] https://fusionjs.com/
Plus the router rental fee of $11 per month
This article is biologically fascinating! It detailed the genetics and the biochemistry involved, but also included a rich history of those affected. It's a synthesis of things that interest us.

Alzheimer's, cancer, and other disease states are also hugely interesting. That's one of the reasons people study them (in addition to the desire to save and improve lives).

Human stories often intersect with biology. Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cell line...
I’m sorry but people seem to forget what the archetypal geek looked like in the 80s. Fat, smelly, eating burgers in front of his computer all day, awkward and drooling at the sight of any woman.

From what gruber is writing, it looks like RMS just happened to be talented enough that people actually let him behave like this and still talk to him and let him have a social life (as opposed to the other ones that simply didn’t leave their room or their desk).

Let’s not make every people from that era criminals or jobless. Just let time do its work and just wait until they retire.
I was advised in 1989 that I shouldn't study CS because it'd be outsourced/replaced by AI.

What did happen were waves of outsourcing, followed by insourcing. My theory is that whenever there's a new generation of managers, we flip around, because they haven't learned from the previous one.