skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first point is valid but quite separable, I think access is an important issue.

My point about the cost is that the network effects of the tool here are more important than the tool itself. You might be able to have a better local workflow using other tools, but if everyone you collaborate/work with doesn't use them then the cost of communication is far higher than any savings.

Realistically, legal work isn't much like coding. Although lawyers do spend time editing documents that isn't where the real time is. For that reason I'm not convinced that changing to a putative VCS workflow would have enough efficiency impact to pay for the training etc. except on a very long term. This sort of thing makes it very difficult to win out against network effects.

This is much the same reason that excel is used for a lot of things where better tools exist. The combination of network effects and having better things to do than learn a new approach and toolchain are hard to shift.
Read what WeWork’s new chairman told anxious employees at an all-hands meeting
> React is a wonderful view library

The React model makes sense because of how state management is part of it, not strictly just the view. I think seeing it just as a view library necessarily leads to the rest of your other conclusions. I recommend reading https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/ by Abramov which describes React as a UI runtime.

Embracing React as a UI runtime you eventually find problems that concurrent mode solves. Some are related to performance and concurrency, but some are related to managing state and data dependencies. It also provides idiomatic ways that encourage good UX (like managing error/loading conditions once, at the right level).
Both. Some are mentally challenged, but there are still people that just can't master the skill enough to make a "healthy meal" or otherwise perform the tasks that seem common to us.

Some high schools offer "life skills" classes those children that may need these skills due to disabilities. They cook, learn to manage money, make a budget, learn how to clean, how to interact, etc. I wish they were required.
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> Have you tried reading the documentation the average engineer makes?

Yes. Don't hire the average engineer.
The times they didn't make profit were periods where massive investment in production infrastructure was occurring. To me that makes complete logical sense regarding investing in the business versus extracting cash (profit) and starving the business.
And it's only $975!
Another reason many unhoused people don’t want to move is that they have some family, friends, or existing support systems in the area. Moving away would mean they no longer have these resources.

Would you want to move away from your friends and family when you have little else? Some food for thought.
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looks like market segmentation - finding your niche.

find your niche by being top 10% in three areas and you will be top .1% in one niche that is combination of the three
> Then maybe they should pay for social services

I think people pay an extraordinary amount of their income in taxes, so yeah this is happening.

> Also, I'm not sure the set of people that this sub-thread has been railing against (Hipsters who smoke weed, and are hypocrites for tolerating the homeless, while pushing them around) has much intersection with the demographic you described!

Maybe, but I certainly wouldn't blame anyone (even a weed smoking hipster) for not wanting a stranger encamped by their front door.
Science denier! Burn the heretic! /s
I think congrats are in order, he did not get distracted with a minor part of the market but is focused on delivering value to the bigger market. He can always add more clients later.
The title rewrite obscures the significance: an Army War College paper points to a possible collapse of the US military within 20 years.
Hepatitis B adult vaccination rates seem to be woefully low in the US (25-33%), and while there is treatment for Hep C, it is very expensive ($84k for a three month course).

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/adultvaxv....
Counterpoint: My fortune 200 employer uses GitHub enterprise on site. It works great.

I don’t get how you can say GitLab is the only choice?
I mean, sure, at a place with the engineering level or skill of the FAANGs. But at many places, developer effort is very manual and automation isn't considered.
All drugs should be legalized in US.

You should be able to buy opioids/heroin/cannabis at the local pharmacy with no prescription or questions asked.

This war on drugs only kills people and makes the Purdue family rich.
I'd like to see some evidence to back that up. The event loop is one of the few things JavaScript did correctly and it's baked into everything but the most trivial of applications.
How do you verify no cheating with work samples?

> Create a project based coding assessment that directly reflects the work the developer would be expected to deliver if hired, making sure to provide some open-ended flexibility that allows candidates to showcase their strengths. This might require the developer to digest an existing code base, gather requirements, communicate to your team a push request they’d like to make, or provide a detailed description of code that they’ve submitted before merging into production. These activities move your assessment process beyond the code, revealing insights into what a candidate would actually be like to work with.

That sounds like it'd take more than 3 hours, unless it's based on a very small project.
Yeah, but Objective-C 3.0 would have been a much better path than Swift. It would have allowed easier upgrading to existing code instead of mass rewrites, which always bring their own bugs (and that's ignoring the bugs in Swift itself).
Awesome!@ Thank you. I didn't realize there were benchtop mini-mills like that. That's perfect for what I want to do.

I think I'll have enough space! I'm pretty much interested in the same things.k
Well, you can put this same question to most of the larger cities on the West Coast, and the answers are pretty similar:
1) Decent weather: Most west coast cities have fairly mild weather, so you most likely wont freeze to death.
2) Lack of law enforcement: Most cities on the West Coast have taken a hands off approach to most of the homeless, so no need to worry about getting arrested.
3) Drugs: I'm gonna guess it's easy to get drugs here, being closer to Mexico where a lot of it comes from.
4) Sent there: A lot of other states/cities have been putting their homeless on buses to these areas with one way tickets. They are told either go to jail there, or go to $west_coast_city and not jail.
I wonder if somebody did start a Cardiff Electric, if they would get sued by AMC? Not sure if they would have a trademark on the name, but they would at least own it from a copyright perspective... but would starting a real-world company fall afoul of that? Hmmm...
That's why I think that trying to be the best in the world at something almost certainly means setting yourself up for failure.

At the top, you have genetic freaks with insane work ethic that are obsessed with that particular skill. Can you compete with that? No.

I'd guess that if you have average talent, you can probably get to the top 10%, mainly through outworking everyone else. But you will never be the best in the world.
Not really. From where I'm sitting in Austin I don't really care if Madrid has good public transportation or not. If the people of that city decide to fund that or something else doesn't affect me nor should they care what I think.
"But it's Canada!"

Anyway, yes, growing up very close to the border the weather was predictably virtually identical (usually a degree or two warmer in Toronto, actually) and this seemed to confuse everyone, including Canadians.
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Or addicts die before they’re 70+ years old.
> Only if we restrict "all platforms" to mean Windows, macOS, and Linux.

"It's cross-platform! It works on Windows 95 and Windows NT!"
Ask HN: How widely used is Ruby without Rails?
Is anyone using Ruby for web development without Rails? If so, what were using your reasons for not going down the Rails route and how have you found the experience?

If you aren't doing web development, what non-web tasks are using Ruby for and how have you found the experience?
Is there any reason, other than expense, the NAS couldn't be reasonably secured on site? Put it in a box made of quarter inch steel plate, then bolt that to the concrete foundation. If they bring a cutting torch or jackhammer they could take it... but they're not going to.

With the density of modern storage media, the secure box could be quite small, much smaller even than a typical residential safe. And it needn't necessarily be accessible like a typical safe. If you design it right, it needn't even have a door that could be pried open with sufficient leverage.

It could at the same time be disguised. It could be bolted to a concrete wall, covered with a fake electrical conduit box (which would help disguise the wires going into it), then completely covered over by drywall. To find it you'd need to gut the house, and in the unlikely event that the thief found it they'd still be left with a hard nut to crack.
I agree on heavy handed. Some fellow moderators were clearly power tripping and none of the site owners would discourage the behavior. There is also quite a bit of elitism.
The question then is who is the opportunity benefiting? It seems like one class of workers are being squeezed for the benefit of middle managers, administrators, and above. Of course businesses would prefer that over Europe's higher taxes and welfare.
The core of Qt is licensed under LGPL which means you can write and ship proprietary software with it. You just need to dynamically link and provide sources for the Qt libs if a user requests it.
Definitely, if you want to say that another framework itself better solves all of the very real problems that need solving... makes perfect sense.

The coupling I'm mainly referring to is within your own app hierarchy. Moving/adding components around within your app requires editing the long chain of component hierarchies and data dependencies.

Yes injection works to solve, but isn't this similar to hooks (encapsulating reusable logic/data fetching)? Whether a top level Context provider (that will also throw an error if not provided) or injection.. is there much of a difference? And does this not seem less coupled than prop drilling through the entire component chain?

In the context of a discussion about UX, loading states, spinners, concurrent rendering though, does Angular address this? I'm not that familiar with it..
That would have been me 18 months ago. But since dropping macOS I've become indifferent to platform conventions. I will never become hostage to a single platform again. Which (admittedly by a very different route) puts me more in touch with ordinary users, who for the most part don't care or notice.
This is only true to a point. You have to be in the better half of the technical skill set, but in the higher levels of technical roles leadership skills are stressed more than technical skills.

Senior and staff roles stress proposing/completing large projects and working with others to get it done. Its hard to move to these levels without the skills that enable you to work with others.
tell me you would have made a different decision

Sure. As a developer I would've used Qt (or Gtk) because even on the platforms that Electron provides, both provide a much higher quality user experience. You may not care about Linux on non-x86 or QNX or BSDs now, but you've ruled out ever caring enough to consider them.

As a user I loathe Electron apps. They're slow, don't respect native mannerisms (e.g. VS Code for ages didn't put titles on windows you minimized), and horrifically bloated. I try not to use free Electron apps (Discord and Slack get used in a browser), and I would never pay for one. So there's that.
How do you make money and/or acquire resources?
Offshore windmills should be able to store power cheaply for later use by pumping air into inflatable containers on the sea floor, against water pressure. Air pumps and bags are mature technology.
I take that as a compliment :-)

It's not clear how the BM cookie technology works (https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie) but is understood to be hardware based, i.e. not brain in a vat, biological technology I described above.
You own a domain. That domain doesn't give you ownership of the term remote. You seem to be trying to appropriate it and I hope that doesn't happen.
Yeah, and IBM in the 80s and 90s was a paragon of success.
I disagree, and if you go through life expecting everyone to constantly support you, you won't make it very far once you start to face any real adversity. You have to learn to rely on yourself, at least that's what my experiences have shown me.

You may be living in a story, but the rest of us have to live in the real world.
We gave our son both. My wife breastfed him in the mornings and in the evenings when she worked, and in between he got formula. He’s as healthy and strong as anyone.

Everyone has an opinion about how to raise a kid. As long as you use some common sense and treat your kid with as much respect as you would any other human, he or she will most likely turn out fine. Considering that much more stupid people have managed to raise kids, it actually seem hard to fail if you succeed reasonably well with other endeavours in your life.
Wow that dude is a real POS. Good on the UK from banning his ass. I didn't find the GP's link to that article funny. GP must have a very out-dated sense of what is considered "funny".
I think you misunderstood, I said "some relationships". If you don't care about /any/ trivia, perhaps that is why you are annoyed by this?

I have a few groups of very deep thinkers where trivia is a waste of breath. And yet, we still want to look things up because the answers deeply matter to us like origins of words (etymology), accurate quotes from like minded researchers, etc... These are things that once answered move our discussions deeper or in unique directions.

Maybe next time someone does this ask them why they are interested in the answer at that moment? I feel if you are genuinely interested in the other person's experience (especially if you think it's trivial) they will more likely care about yours.
I find it impossible to put anything by Borges down. It's good that he only wrote short stories, I think, and all the more amazing how packed with content and imagery (without even remotely overdoing it) his writing is.
Your boss sounds like he has excellent points. I'm not sure I understand yours?

You mentioned nothing (here) about "why" the company needs to grow other than you seem to think you will benefit financially from it. Is that the right move for the company? It sounds like you are just trying to move toward unsustainable growth for a short-term payout. Your boss appears to be looking long term and doesn't think that's the right move.

Did you propose any real ways to make the company more money, such as a new product you could design and be an integral part to get a higher salary / bonus from that? It sounds like you just went in there and said "if we market to X more people and triple the size of our company we could make even more money!" Even though you are completely disregarding the difficulties associated with growing a company so fast... all the overhead, fixed costs, and then one bad quarter/year all the sudden you have to drop 50% of your staff etc.
Is there anywhere in the world where all drugs are legalized?

I know Portugal (and maybe others) have decriminalized drugs and results are pretty good but going from decriminalization to legalization feels like a big step.
> There's a growing body of evidence that early specialization produces less champions. Kids are encouraged to participate in other sports well into their teen years.

This is the subject matter of the book "Range":

https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...
I found that the LPS lighting in San Jose was very close in color to yellow traffic signals, which made it sometimes confusing (and therefore more dangerous) to drive there after dark.
The performance issue is easily solved by using an index. Getting page 500 would be just as fast as select * from table where 500100 <= order_num < 501100
Another person in this thread pointed out that "skill stacking" boils down to becoming good at two skills, "X + marketing".

I think that's a good example of "Good at A + hates B", say "Good at software engineering + hates marketing".

But what are the other "Good at A + hates B" skill combinations?
While I agree that your pricing makes more sense to the customer, consider that $99 is only 17 months.

Someone who signs up with this service and sort of forgets about it or thinks about it like life insurance (just another small monthly bill), could be a paying customer for 20 years and ultimately be worth $1,200 to the company.

Couple that with the monthly fee model is much easier to pari with a "3 months free" offer, and the current pricing may be optimal for the company even if it results in significantly less signups or a less common sense pricing strategy.
> As any SMB owner who dabbles in advertising will tell you, you can, in fact, get a pretty good guess as to what the ROI on print advertising is.

Of course! Scientific advertising was published in the 1920s! It's just that Madison Avenue could make a hell of a lot more money by being shy about it. So, nobody was talking.

Until the internet made it too obvious…
You might already know of this option, but if your interest in Electron is limited to running vscode on OpenBSD, there are many offerings, both proprietary and open-source, that offer "hosted" vscode where "hosted" means accessible over the net via an ordinary browser.

(One offering whose name escapes me has the restriction that it is impossible to develop a vscode extension using the offering.)
> Are more granular (or at least visible and understandable) privacy settings coming in future releases, or is this just the UX direction? Why is Mozilla making it so much harder to enable desktop-class protections on mobile devices?

Yes, that release is imminent. Preview will include all of those settings. You can try them right now by downloading Firefox Preview Nightly.
The difference is the third party script has complete control over the page it’s on. So if the page is your gitlab instance, the third party has complete control over your repositories and probably your complete infrastructure. Just introduce some malware to the build scripts and you’re in.
What are you even talking about? Ownership of automatic weapons in the US is extremely rare and highly regulated. There have been < 5 deaths in the US with automatic weapons since the NFA passed.

This comment is one reason why it's so hard to discuss firearm issues, one side is completely emotional and has no understanding of the facts or current laws.
Where are you guys living that you have to fight 20 people for a lease?
Medium forces a login. Is there a non-Medium link?
that 'minor' convenience is a quite huge one given that he stated that the other apps wouldn't exist if not for electron.
I think you hit the nail right on the head. Gartner's recent post on technology trends for 2020 points out democratization of tech and business expertise. More domains like medicine and law will follow.

Gartner's Top 10 Trends of 2020:
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-st...
The important thing to remember here is that you don't have to use all of these newfangled features. As stated in the write up, these are primitives for library developers (e.g. apollo-graphql) to build on top of. The only real development that affects end-users in the past year or so is the migration to function components but even then, you can keep using class components (although you do have to rename some method names but even then, the React team provides automatic codemods for that).
Inflation makes up a good part of that.

The Sunday Times ran $0.30 in 1969, which is $2.10 in 2019 dollars:

https://goodmorninggloucester.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/wo...

Price of the Sunday edition was raised to $0.20 in 1952, or $1.92 in 2019 dollars. 1974's $1 Sunday paper would be $5.21 today:

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/29/archives/times-to-increas...

The $0.01 daily paper cost of 1898 would (based on 1913 dollars) today be about $0.26. The US dollar actually depreciated generally through about 1900, though at a fairly gradual rate.

On September 13, 1987, the Sunday Times reached its maximum extent: 12 pounds (5.4 kg), 1,612 pages.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-the-new-york-...

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com
That statement implies a lot of assumptions that may not be correct.
I was hired with a very similar process. I was asked several technical questions that applied to the role and about my own history, etc. Three years later I'm still here and have survived several rounds of layoffs and a sale of the division of the company I work for. I still work with that manager.

Most interviews with tech screens that I've done have been fine, though. A couple of them have been bad where I've recognized the engineer testing me has been wrong but that never fares well for the person being interviewed.

Most calls I take are often an introduction before we even go to a tech screen, though, and I appreciate that chance usually. It's saved interviewers and myself a lot of time in the past.
No meaningful analysis, just some comparisons:

according to the article, the cost is £.07 per mile.
1500/.07 is £105 per refuel, or $135 USD at the current exchange rate. (they seem to base this on the apprx cost for British motorists, while they seem to base the fuel economy on a car similar in size to a Tesla 3, so I'm not sure that really works out)

In the US, it costs between $0.12 and $0.14 per mile in fuel to drive a BMW 5 series (25mpg at 3.00 to 3.50 per gallon) and about $0.08 per mile to in fuel to drive a Honda Civic (38mpg at $3.00 per gallon)

According to the Federal Highway Administration, the average American drives 13,476 miles per year, so each decrease per penny of fuel cost per mile represents about $135 with these metrics.

And on a final note-- we should stop marketing miles per gallon and start measuring cost per mile or or gallons per (100)mile(s) -- it shows the relationship between the actual economy gains (fuel consumption) in a much more intuitive way across the range of available fuel economies. The EPA started mandating that 'savings' be included on the fuel economy sticker,but that is not a widely recognized metric in marketing or common speech. Remember kids, a number and its inverse have a curvilinear relationship, not a linear one. For fuel economy, with the current range of available vehicles the point where the graph bottoms out is just past 35mpg. The steepest meaningful jump is from about 15mpg to about 20mpg.

Some science dudes did a study on this
http://nsmn1.uh.edu/dgraur/niv/theMPGIllusion.pdf
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What interest do they have other than that?