skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently get paid weekly, and it's by direct deposit. The last time I got a check and took it to a check cashing place they charged quite a bit.

It seems to me that the obvious reasons for not using a bank account are not the ones people mention in these threads. The ones that occur to me are:

- You're not a legal resident

- You're in ChexSystems

- You're subject to some sort of legal judgment or garnishment
wouldn't that be fun?
Pilots flying in "hard" instrument conditions also experience this. You can see the interior of the airplane, but everywhere you look outside is exactly the same shade of grey/black/white, and there's no usable data from your sense about the position of the airplane relative to the earth. Passengers who think about this might intellectually get it, but it's quite a different experience when you're looking out the front window and responsible for choosing the correct control inputs. I believe scuba divers diving at night also can experience this.
Measuring individual risk preferences
Gentlemen clubs, country clubs, bars (although I don't think it should have been single gender), other than this.. I can't name many of the other ones. They were mostly gone by the time I became an adult.

Anyways, I have heard of discrimination that men have faced when trying to create "safe"/support groups that were men only.
Actually - this is an effort to bring the free market into the system. Ie, doctors have to tell you UP FRONT what they will charge you, and cannot just drop by your room while you are out and then bill you for the evaluation.

You can then decide if the specialist out of network is worth it, or go in-network or to your medical / medicare provider and work with them.

In particular (for those who don't know) California's law protects you ONLY if you go to an IN NETWORK facility. If you do, then if somehow an out of network doctor drops by or helps with the knock out gas or whatever, they can't then bill you for the "out of network" service. It turns out this was pretty common (my guess is some kind of kickback to the in-network facility to allow this).

You can still be charged or over charged by any provider if you agree to be, and sometimes still even if you don't (ambulance ride to out of network)
It's just a nice name. It's a generic fund to invest mostly oil money and designed to focus on tech for the higher returns. The problem is that the fund is massive and there's a limit to how much capital you can efficiently deploy at once, especially with such a disconnected leadership team.

The size was originally used as a brute-force growth tactic and competition clearer, but now it's clear that it's just leading to unviable business models and vastly inflated valuations while hurting more promising companies that have to compete in this bubble environment.
I think there was an article last week the mentioned a rare side effect of benzocaine turning blood blue. Found it: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/common-numbing-me...
That's cool. But I am wondering how they keep that big a piece of glass from sagging. I am asking because I have read that's a problem with big lenses, and a key reason reflectors became the way to go for large telescopes.
There’s also a system where Nestle gallon containers are filled by small merchants with local filtered bore water and recapped and sold (often as original).
It's a shame more HN people don't understand this. You can be pro-business and still recognise the injustice of executive salary.
In fact, you can take it even further! tom7 (all of his pieces are amazing) put a raspberry pi into an NES cartridge, and manages to "run" Super Mario World on an NES.

My short description really does it a disservice - I strongly recommend watching the video explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
How do you hire developers?
I am still an active developer myself but being company owner I also hire temp developers (mostly consultants ) here and there. Some of those temps worked with me for years though ;) .

I normally put desired fields of expertise but it is never Language XXX developer, ThisNewShinyYetAnother Web Framework developer etc. etc. Instead I ask what kind of projects they did and how. And how they would approach the problem I want them to solve for me. Sometimes a little test, like go home spend a day creating this little project in any language of your liking and get paid for it.

So I completely dumbfounded when looking at modern job listings: Language X: 5 years, Framework Y: 3 years, this: 2 years, that: 7 years. What, there is a factory that just bakes those? And how about ability to think and be smart and creative and able to solve problems disregarding language/framework? Where is a checkbox for that?

I do not want React/Vue/Svelte/Whatever developer to build this web front end for me. I want a person who understands how web development works in general, how to account for business and scalability requirements in general, how not to get locked in etc. etc. I've never seen these mentioned in requirements. So as I've already said I am puzzled.
This is called inelastic demand.
Personally, I think companies should have one of two models, growth or dividends. In the end, it really shouldn't be companies paying taxes (or meddling in politics), they should be growing, or paying out dividends that are taxed.
My theory is that it's engineering, not science, that confirms our knowledge. You don't really know something about the world until you can use it to do things. WWII-era science was being incorporated into tools (well, weapons), so it had to work.
i know there is this meme about all software companies just bundling and unbundling things, but can we please stop putting tens of milllions into startups that are literally just:

"App for Y that know allows you to work like before but without labour rights"

and invest money into stuff that actually deserves to be called an invention. Idk cure cancer, flying cars, making infrastructure cheaper, something that actually gets productivity up in the long term
I work at Nuro, what do you want to know?
He's not gonna fuck you, my dude
When in italy, I buy bottled water because i like natuRally sparkling water, rather than still. I would welcome going back to glass bottles.
Feminism strikes again. Men are creeps only when they are ugly or when they aren't paying.
>Female sexual attraction favors secure men who don't talk feelings.

Citation needed.

And being afraid to express one's emotions is anything but security.
Gig workers can replace tax drivers because of google maps...
Are you sure these are uninsured rates? This doesn't seem sustainable at all.
You can get Black 2.0 (or wait for 3.0) and do it. As long as you're not Anish Kapoor.

https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/black-v1-0-beta-th...
> MCAS is a badly designed system, but many other stabiliser control failures could cause the aircraft to rapidly lose altitude. The solution is the same in all cases - flip the cutoff switches to disconnect automatic stab control and trim the stabiliser manually using the wheel on the center console.

ET302 tried this-- maybe slightly late, but MCAS is weird/sneaky. Still, it's hard to fault their response at this point.

They were unable to budge the trim wheel because of overspeed. They were barely climbing at Vmo. This left them in a difficult position.

Ideal response would be to reduce power (prevent overspeed), keep climbing at Vmo. During this, try to turn trim wheel. If necessary, once they had sufficient altitude, they could aerodynamically unload and trim. Instead they, for some reason, decided to turn the stabilator trim system back on (whoops 1), and then used it an insufficient amount to get trim to a reasonable place (whoops 2), and then left it on for MCAS to trigger again (whoops 3).
> is decidedly not better than local knowledge.

any proof? I will say it falls down w/ construction zones and road changes.
I used to work at Wag a for a few months, leaving shortly after the new CEO was brought on and they received the SoftBank investment. The fact that things got worse since then is not surprising. Management was already pretty disorganized, they were bad at managing funds (the salary discrepancies were very real), and putting it mildly it was just an unpleasant place to be. There was a staggering amount of turnover, especially with tech roles, in the short time I was there - one minute someone would get called into a meeting and that was the last I saw of them. I cant imagine the technical debt they've been accruing from having a carousel of developers.

I know they wanted to position themselves as the one stop shop for dog everything (not just walks but sitting/boarding, training, food delivery, etc) which is what I think helped them raise the funds, but I think they've taken too long to resolve the issues around their bread and butter of dog walking. The fact that the Viners and Meltzer are all since left as well is pretty telling.
One of the issues that came to mind is how limited and overloaded the Linux error codes are, and EPERM might be one of the worst offenders. While obviously not expecting Linux to change that due compatibility concerns, it'd be wonderful if we'd have unique identifier for any code path (or nearly so) that causes error to be returned. Of course it'd be useful to have some grouping, so that applications that do not care do not need to know every possible error code, but for investigations it'd be useful to know exactly why something failed. For EPERM especially (but also others) there might some security concerns about leaking more information about why the request was denied, so in some cases some discretion is needed. But I'd be surprised if that is frequent true concern.

I do wonder how much stuff would break if you patched Linux to return error numbers with high bits set to autogenerated values. Obviously libc (and go if used) would need patching, but how many places call syscalls directly and are checking error codes carefully. Probably surprisingly long tail, but still could be fun experiment.
A Brief Overview of the Solano Rail Student Project
C’mon, I think the right response here is for you to realize there are some serious unknown unknowns here and now out before you become the next “you can build a system yourself quite trivially...”

Sure, you can create a non-union, full-time, no overtime, citizen/permanent resident, no taxable benefits, CA resident and company location only payroll company “trivially,” but who the hell would use your software when there are ones that handle much more complex situations?
If I may ask two questions:

* How did Obamacare cost you a lot of money? (Not trying to challenge you - just curious. It saved me money, FWIW.)

* Does the fact that millions of people got access to healthcare who didn't otherwise have this access have any impact on your life at all? (I.e. do you not care, does it make you happy, does it make you sad, etc.)

I'm genuinely trying to understand folks, and I think you may be one of them, who see things primarily in terms of the financial impact to them (as opposed to social/societal impact at large). If I'm wrong in that assumption, please do correct/enlighten me.
The only way you get past that is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. It's worth it. It's a learned and reinforced behavior. Much like the child who only eats hot dogs and mac and cheese, and their parents never really made them do otherwise. Now they're in their 30's, living in their house and don't have a job, still eating junk food, but now they have diabetes.
>>This contradicts what you said earlier, which is that you should be able to sign away legal protections in a contact.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to sign away "legal protections", which is a vague term that has a very subjective meaning based on one's perspective on a particular contract.

I said that one shouldn't be able to sign away someone else's rights. I think a court would find that selling one's future self into slavery falls into this category.

You can't just blur the distinction between these two very different things and claim that I'm indirectly supporting one by supporting the other.

>>We're both willing to violate your previously involiable right to contract.

The right to contract doesn't need to be violated to end selling one's self into slavery. All that needs to happen is that a court find that in the future self is not the same person as the present self.

Unlike you I want these determinations to be made by courts of law not by very ill-informed and ideologically motivated social activists who are not carefully weighing the evidence of each case.

Claiming that selling ones self into slavery and accepting a lease agreement that says the property owner is not obligated to keep renting to you at the same price after 1 year are equally easy to make a blanket judgment about not being consensual, is disingenous.

And with regard to the very extreme scenario of the former; I'm not even saying we should make a blanket judgment about that at the legislative level. I'm saying that the courts should judge that and only if they determine that all cases of this situation are non-consensual, should a law be made to ban it.

So we have very differing views on this, despite the superficial similarities you pointed out, and which are only similarities when viewed out of context.

>>We both agree that there should be limits on the right to contract

Wrong, the right to contract does not allow violating other people's rights. Violating someone else's rights is non-contractual. I oppose an agreement to sell oneself into slavery only insofar as a court after careful and considered deliberations has determined that it is a violation of a party's rights, and thus not a fully consensual/contractual interaction.

You are not willing to make that leap and say that only courts should be making these determinations because only courts do the deliberation needed to competently judge these very complex matters. Because if you did make that leap then you would have to admit that you're a Libertarian and that left-wing ideology does not work. And you are not willing to do that.
I'm not the person that asked Wag this question, but I do think it was a valid one. I'll try and explain why.

Even if they weren't the person that made the choice, them knowing the reasoning behind the choice tells you a lot about the team. I usually expect new members of teams to ask questions about why the application was written the way it was. This shows a general curiosity among team members and it shows that the team can transfer knowledge to each other.

Knowing why they made decisions I might not agree with helps me decide how the team makes decisions in general. Is there one manager that decides things without input? Does the whole team give input and decide democratically? Are they saddled with technical debt from the co-founders last failed startup that's 10 years older?
> large web hosts would still need

> a lot of nodes,

Not that many, say three or four servers at most should IMHO be fine for the vast majority.

> a lot of bandwidth,

If your service gets popular enough that you need that much bandwidth, you can then very likely get enough funds to get adequate bandwidth. (Either by commercializing or by donations.)

> DoS mitigation

If you have four servers on four different networks, how hard would someone have to DoS them all before all four give out? And, maybe at least one of those four servers are placed on an ISP which is actually somewhat competent in helping you to filter out DoS traffic? Cloudflare doesn’t have some secret magic sauce, you know.

> and, ideally, a way to get clients to use a local point of presence.

That’s technically true, but only if you are desperate for your latency enough to merit such needs. But you probably aren’t. You are, most likely, much more served by optimizing your server caching and HTML page code than you would be by trying to claw a few extra milliseconds out of the network itself.

If you are desperate to get a few extra milliseconds, and already have a dead-simple homepage, and are enormously popular enough to merit it, then you are Google, and you can solve this problem by means not available to mere mortals.

I have written before in more detail why Google et al. probably doesn’t want SRV records: (In short, SRV solves problems for other people which Google have already solved for themselves, and Google would like to keep their moat.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15906664#15908696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549348#8550133
> They should be able to say why they went with PHP over something else that was available at the time they started.

Why, exactly? PHP, node, Ruby, Java, .NET, and Python are all capable tools with mature webapp frameworks. In terms of capabilities, the differences between them only matter for a small and rare set of projects.

They could have decided on one of these platforms by rolling a die and it would have little direct impact on their success or potential.

Presumably, the actual criteria was likely familiarity and fluency for their tech founder or early developers. This familiarity and fluency matters 1000x more to success than the differences between these frameworks.

Given that all the tools are mature and capable, having a team work with tools they know is a lot more valuable than handing them tools that they'll be learning how to use as they go.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091219
And now I am thankful I don’t have a vagina to maintain. I hope this isn’t a black and white issue for women; I.e. if you have a lot of sex without condoms you will get BV eventually (even with only one partner).
This seems like a great way to think about this. The core reason why these kinds of patters keep popping up is that making people jump through hoops to get discounts is an effective way to price discriminate based on how much people value their time, and how much you value your time is going to have a very strong correlation with how much you're possibly willing to pay.

I think the fixes for this are largely going to be cultural. For example something that could help is everyone having more pride and simply refusing to jump through pointless hoops for a discount (even if it is technically worth their time).
The last time I got asked a question like that at an interview I blanked out. I was trying to think of one that I thought would sound positive to the interviewer.

Probably next time I am going to interviews I'll grab a few lists like this of questions and prepare answers. Not lies but some cues and reminders that I don't have to search for under stress.
You misunderstand. I'm talking about the people who are irrelevant because they were always going to vote R. Their minds could never be changed. It was the middle voters that elected Trump, which is pretty much the usual these days.
> We've only invested $1Bn in fusion (according to this article)

This is patently untrue. ITER, the source cited in that article [0], gives a cost so far of $15 billion and rising just for one facility.

What the article actually says is that $1 billion has been invested by venture capital firms in fusion since 2002. Most of the investment, like in the Manhattan Project, comes instead from government sources.

[0] http://www.iter.org/faq#Do_we_really_know_how_much_ITER_will...
Or if you hate sex workers you could criminalize the purchase of sex and use eviction, making people homeless, as part of your repertoire of tactics to try and destroy whores’ lives.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/files/norway_report_-_sex_workers...

> Oslo police have over the last decade adopted a “preventative policing” approach to sex work which involves the enforcement of lower level offences as “stress methods” to disrupt, destabilize and increase the pressure on those operating in the sex sector. One academic researcher describes how police sources “in Oslo often use terms like they are going to ‘crush’ or ‘choke’ the [prostitution] market, and unsettle, pressure and stress the people in the market”. One example of this approach is “Operation Homeless”: an initiative that saw increased enforcement of the law on “promotion” of sex work – which makes it an offence to “let premises ... for prostitution”. “Operation Homeless” ran for four years between 2007 and 2011 and initiated the systematic and rapid eviction of many sex workers from their places of work and/or homes.
One mapper even added audio channels to the NES, but would only work on the Japanese Famicom because the pins passing through the audio weren't present on the American NES. There's also one mapper that I guess may have been recently discovered that had a microcontroller on it that had its own ROM and IIRC was an attempt to copy protect the game.

I think you can't quite equate the PPU with GPUs - because the PPU doesn't run instructions or render things to a framebuffer. It's more like just the part of the GPU that takes memory and outputs a display signal - in VGA that's called a RAMDAC, not sure what the digital TMSS/HDMI/LVDS equivalent is.
Having gone through this retreat (the NWTA) with the MKP, I can easily point to it as the most legitimate and profound event I've had/attended in my life. Its important to take in context, I'm in my mid 30s, and was emotionally ready for the messages and teachings. Doing the work in a safe space was nothing short of life changing. In my work life, personal life, and love life. And most of all for my own quality of life.

For anyone who is actually interested, I would recommend the book Iron John, by Robert Bly (https://www.amazon.com/Iron-John-Book-about-Men/dp/030682426...). The first chapter is usually assigned reading before attending the NWTA, but when read with an open mind I found the entire book to be profound. Profound isnt the best word, but I experienced the content as if I personally was being spoken to through the pages; my problems, my struggles and my victories. Spoken to with support, compassion and understanding. I re-read it every year.

Beyond sharing that however, seeing how much vitriolic hyperbole is being thrown around within 2h of posting, I dont feel it productive to share anymore. You might say that the vulnerability it requires of a man to speak to other men (and women!) who are openly hostile (and often deliberately misunderstanding) about this topic can be nothing short of herculean.
Exactly. I somehow managed to make that confusing, judging from the downvotes. A significant number of voters will not change their minds. For whatever reason they are only ever going to vote for their party's candidate, perhaps because they figure the candidate will always toe the party line anyway. They're effectively irrelevant.
Zen and the Art of Infrastructure Maintenance (2011)
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They used to decline transit visas, let alone tourist visas.
Prices being known ahead of time is not an inherent property of a free market. Fair billing is not an inherent property of a free market.
Yeah Dawn is pretty amazing at cutting grease. In the laundry I usually use Lestoil, it is also very strong but also it foams less than a dishwashing detergent.

Just have to remember to put it on before washing. Ha!
> You’re telling me checks don’t exist in the EU anymore? Forgive me for being skeptical.

They still exist in a couple countries but have completely disappeared in most. When wire transfers are free to consumers and cost cents to business account holders, why would anyone use something else?