skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the point is:
- the government would be knocking down the door of a CEO who may not necessarily have the type of data they're looking for.
- the government would have to go through a ton of effort to get anything they needed, rather than having it all up front to begin with.
- no data should be given up freely without direct, fair consent (no matter who demands it)
China calls for businesses to shut down e-cigarette online shops
Well, he _was_, but they're both bad.
Market cap is an absurd metric for cryptocurrencies. If print a billion tokens and sell you one for a dollar, it’s a billion dollar market cap.
David Perell: “This Is a Photo of San Francisco”
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440241
I suppose calling this “Probabilistic Online-Zone Investment” aka “POnZI” would have been a bit on the nose.
> Success has no shortcuts - it requires 100k+ hours of hard working and perseverance. Working leisurely is for the folks that are already prosper (read: take a look at Microsoft employees' avg. salaries.)

Working leisurely is for companies that have a culture that encourages it and nothing more.

I don't consider myself rich (although this is kind of a relative measurement), but I definitely work leisurely and make enough money to buy a house, car, etc.

I also took a lot of shortcuts, like dropping out of college. People CAN and DO have it both ways without already being rich and that should be the standard for society going forward. We should always strive to improve the experience of workers.
> Dems want European benefits without European taxes levied on the middle class.

Could you give a clearer example? Meaning, say somebody makes $40k/yr, $60k/yr, $80k/yr, $100k/yr in America right now, what would their taxes look like if they were at "European" levels?
Nano/vim/emacs/etc over a remote (SSH) terminal, remote VM, or remote session via other means (e.g. VNC/RDC/etc). People use Visual Studio itself remotely via VMs and RDC.
>I mean more like the ability to download/write apps, advanced functionality made simple, things to automatically update/sync/post images, etc.

I guess? I dunno. Perhaps it's my lack of ability, but it's only a small fraction of my shots that I want to do anything with, and I usually do at least some post processing on them before I do anything with them. I can't imagine wanting to do much of anything with any photo I take without doing at least some basic work in lightroom first.
I am not that knowledgable, I study at business university with some economics classes.

In my understanding, in monopoly there is an incentive towards rising prices to gain the biggest profit. In competitive models, market price is getting lowered until profits reach 0 for all companies.

This is of course ideal. I am capitalism biased, mostly because my parents lived under communism, and after it ended Poland achieved great growth (inequality has risen, so there are people with other views)

https://www.theglobalist.com/poland-economy-gdp-european-uni... This portal seems to be biased, but article has some info about what improved in Poland

One thing that is the big topic now, is healthcare. Of course there is no gain in comparing developed country like USA to Poland, but our healthcare is one of the worst in EU. Czech Republic, not that richer and also post-communist has much better place regarding healthcare (12th in Europe, Poland is 31st)

I hope I didn't bore you, maybe perspective from forgotten part of the world is interesting for you

Estonia and Slovenia are also high in the list. Estonia has competetive system. Slovakia has more centralized system I think, but they spend a lot of GDP % on healthcare I think.
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I would please a 4days/8hrs instead of 5 days, but keeping the same pay.

The situation is still a win/win for the employer, since my increased productivity makes more profits and therefore salaries can be kept equal (or increased, if sales go up)
A company in No.Cal. (Santa Rosa) specializes in forest therapy. I think they've been expanding and doing special trips to places like the forest in Costa Rica.
Ask HN: As a Product Manager, what can I do to make my engineers' lives easier?
As a PM, I believe that one of the things that I should focus on making my engineers’ lives easier. I care deeply about our engineers not having a shitty experience with me as the PM on the project. For example:

- I never set meeting times with my engineers that will interrupt their working flow (I love PG’s “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” essay)

- I always try to clearly explain the “why” of what we’re doing, provide detailed designs/documentation, and remove any blockers when any arise

- When possible, I try not to force engineering shortcuts or trade-offs. I prefer that we build features or systems that are well-tested and clean

What have the best PMs you’ve worked with done to make your life as an engineer easier?
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>The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

The above quote comes from ancient Greece.
Opps. You're right. I don't know then.
Just because my kitchen's on fire doesn't mean I shouldn't report the murder occurring at my neighbor's house. I can be concerned with both, and should be. So while I'm trying to put out my kitchen fire, I should also probably be on the line with emergency response. I am not my government, nor is my government going to disappear me for loudly criticizing it and supporting politicians that would work to stop our moral failings.
...as though the 7th through 10th hours of those days will be the same quality as the first 6. We do not need to assume that a 40-hour work week must be preserved in order to cut the work days per week to 4.

A 6 hour x 4 day work week is 75% the regular work day and 80% of the regular work week, but I bet it gets a lot more than 60% of the regular work done. That is largely cutting out the unproductive "slack time", and giving it back to the employees so they don't have to look busy when they are already spent for the day/week.

If you need to squeeze more out of the workforce, please hire more employees, and worry less about their specific "qualifications". Instead, spend more on management recruiting. Get managers who can coordinate the efforts of people working together asynchronously. Just like asynchronous programming, it takes a little bit more skill than just managing everyone together in the same office location, at the same time, doing the "manager walk" and demanding status reports and status meetings. And employees are universally happier with managers that are more skilled at management.
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Remote work saves me ~$300/month in extra child care, or else having to work so late that by the time I get home my kids are going to bed because the other option is not being able to reach an office until 9:30-9:45, by letting me get them where they need to be at the right time instead of early (which costs money—before-school programs, early care at daycare, that kind of thing).

Plus savings in gas and wear & tear on my car. Hell when all my kids are in regular k-12 school and I can just toss them on the bus, we could drop to one car easily, too, saving even more money.

So, remote work: worth probably $6000/yr to me now in sheer cash savings, call it $10k for time saved and lower stress. Worth maybe $15k in a couple years when all my kids can ride the bus. Not friggin' bad. Oh and despite the kids (disease carriers that they are) I'm still sick like 1/2 as often, so that's nice.

Plus I can prep ingredients for dinner over lunch or while on a call that doesn't need 100% of my attention or whatever. Measure stuff, chop some veggies, set it aside, back to work. We've been eating so much better (and cheaper) since I went remote.

Looking like that'll end soon which has me pretty bummed, though. Remote is just so much better. Any music I want (or none), get up and walk around, work from any room or out on the deck. No shared bathroom, hahaha. Offices are expensive time-wasting misery factories by comparison.
The same team that builds Visual Studio Online also builds Live Share, and so we care very deeply about collaboration. That said, you can spin up a new environment for a PR and then start a Live Share session from there. This allows others on the team to jump in, and leave comments, entirely asynchronously, and without requiring a specific “host” to be online.

We have a lot more to do in order to make this scenario truly shine, but we’re very excited about the possibilities moving forward. I’d love to hear more about your specific thoughts on PR reviews, and what kind of workflow your team would find compelling.
Only if you tend to use as much as you produce. If you're a net exporter, it pays for a lot.
And the fourth: scope creep.
How to check your data integrity? (2017)
it cant. the company wants your information so the city cannot give it some other company.

it's just that your privacy is being fought over.
is it going to be the right of a private company to gather than keep it to themselves ( private to them, but essentially public as they can and DO seell it) or is it going to be forcibly shared ( that is supposedly the govenrment plan for 'open data' and i expect they will be open as they plan. )
awesome! lots of packages depend on it
Paper vs knowledge - knowledge beats paper.
> It was a total bullshit scare! But it was a scare that led to a big push in getting away from fossil fuels. So still, it was a good thing. Ends justify the means.

When this kind of thinking is common, though, you lose the ability to engage at all with people who might not believe that "getting away from fossil fuels" is valuable as an end in itself.[1]

Is it valuable for other reasons? Certainly not any reasons that might come out of your mouth.

[1] Which, frankly, should be everyone. What kind of terminal goal is that?
Nuclear weapons.
It seems like privacy issues are inherent to Uber's business model, and there is nothing they can really do to remedy that.
The systemd debacle is what led me down a rabbit hole toward the BSD's. Don't get me wrong, systemd actually adds a lot of needed functionality, but I really feel like it is a major philosophical branch away from the conventional Unix thinking of 'make a tool that does one thing really well'.

That mindset has such a strength in that such tools form reliable building blocks for other tools and system components in a way that is really approachable for amateur/volunteer developers. It takes no time to parse through the man page of a simple tool. And only a bit longer to parse the code. That makes it easy to build improvements, or build on top of it.

But trying to wrap your head around systemd in even a few hours isn't reasonable. And binary log files? Wtf. It also seems like relying on certain aspects of it's behavior is a good way to end up breaking your system.

BSD still has that old school Unix mindset that made Linux great in the first place. Especially up against Microsoft's products.

The proof in the pudding for me is to look at the running processes of a default system between BSD and Linux with systemd. Yikes.
I don't know how GP did it, but I would have made the text translucent and make sure it covered the entire image so that there's no easy way to obfuscated the watermark without also obfuscating the license itself.
No one said Uber had to be able to win.
"You're the product"

So if/when these companies get bought out, go out of business or liquidate their assets in a downturn, then what?

Until they legislate some sort of data expiration date or "do not track lists (similar to do not call lists), it looks like the onus is on the individual to protect their interests/data.
Adobe Launches Photoshop for iPad
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/11/04/adobe-launches-photoshop-for-iPad/
The narrative that the EU is devoid of enterprise and innovation relative to the US is a prevelant one, and I'm curious what it's based upon.

If by "a Mecca of enterprise and innovation", you mean "has lots of unicorns", I think this is a poor proxy for that metric—in fact, the opposite may be true as large players can often work against smaller innovators entering markets.
> I never knew that anyone referred to any generic set with operations as an "algebra". That's a magma!

If I have a structure S with an associative operation, and another structure G with an associative operation and a neutral element, I will say that S and G are different algebras, not "different magmas". Others looking at S or G will not ask "oh, what kind of magma do you have there", they will ask what kind of algebra.

So... Yes, these are both (special cases of) magmas, but the general term used for them is "algebra" or "algebraic structure". Don't you agree?
> ease of development environment setup

That's a pretty compelling reason for me. There are some projects (like Chrome, Firefox, or even OpenSceneGraph) that aren't trivial to compile entirely from source. It would be pretty sweet to have a ready-to-build environment with the project and all dependencies one click away.
The idea of Bitcoin is a system without any centralized trust, eg. "what do you do if the bank mugs you" would be a counter argument.

Some people used to think/want that Bitcoin was going to take over all other forms of money. I don't think many people still believe that. In that sense it's just like other forms of property that can be stolen.
> We might as well just dissolve the banks and move to a centralized planned economy if that's what we're doing, so that at least the centralized rating agencies will be democratically controlled.

In the history of central planned economies, never have they been “democratically controlled.” Despite the name, places like the Democratic Peoples Republic of Where-ever are never democratic nor are they republics.

> because the whole US financial system is corrupt

Is that actually true or just hyperbole?
Har har stereotypes.

Most of Canada's north is in fact granite "Canadian shield" country with thin or non-existent top soils. See map here: https://cdn.britannica.com/s:700x450/98/180898-050-810A6879/...

Also the bulk of the population lives next to the border, in areas as far south as northern California / southern Oregon.

In reality Canada will not likely benefit economically from global warming because for its entire history it's been mostly an exporter of resources, not a producer of finished goods. Right now a large part of GDP from exports is from oil and gas, and the dominant economic class here benefits from keeping it that way. Similar to Russia, actually.

Canada already has plenty of fertile soils (rapidly being destroyed by urban sprawl, but that's another story). And it used to be one of the world's biggest food exporters. It is now a net food importer. Because it's cheaper to produce food elsewhere with dirt cheap labour in Mexico and so on. That isn't likely to change.
most boomers are on medicare.
I think there are some exceptions, but for the most part, the government does the will of the people. I think that most older people think smoking pot should get arrested (another thing that is changing, because of the will of the people...)
I don't even know what to say about the tax thing, I guess people vote about more important issues.

You don't what generation I am in, it's not GenZ

Boomers caused the end of Vietnam because of protest, GenZ is trying to do the same with climate change.

If nothing is done about climate change, it is because the voters didn't vote this way, I don't think it will be because they don't know. It is quite publicized these days. But, if GenZ spends there whole life not doing something about climate change it will be there fault.
You could follow me on twitter @tsmcalister. I'll post there once it's released. Depends a lot on how much time I have to work on it. Hopefully by the end of the month!
Isn't this what CodeSandbox is?
Simple observation that VSO used to be the name of what is today Azure Devops, which is at its 3rd rename (vsts, ado).

Reusing the name of a past product for a new product that is not entirely related is pretty confusing.
I was able to submit my app after an upgrade to Electron 6 with no issue whatsoever.

Only issue was first with the signature of the app, got fixed with later updates.

My app is up in the AppStore with latest Electron 6.
I don't follow. If money is invested then by definition it's not sitting idle.
So, interesting and all, but not even mentioning what is happening to coal the last few years seems like an odd omission. Coal is essentially disappearing from the world's energy mix. As big as coal was, it takes a while to go away completely, but the trend does not seem to be slowing down. By some estimates, there are a lot of cases now where it is more expensive to keep running an existing coal-fired power plant, than to replace it with solar or wind.

So, at least a substantial fraction of this oil is replacing coal, which doesn't mean it's all ok for the climate change issue, but it seems like an important point to be just leaving out of the story entirely.
I think you're misunderstanding what typesetting means. LaTex is for producing output to send to a typesetter to generate a printed document. What Tex produces is essentially a document page image. It was never intended for producing documents for user consumption on electronic devices. The least worst approach would be to use it to generate a PDF.
Dating apps too? Wtf, imagine if they knew your preferences were same sex and you flew to Dubai or China and you’ve criticized them, they could sell that data and get you arrested or honeypot you. Great way to get dissidents overseas with other compromising information
TBH I get 90% of my work done in the first 4-5 hours at work and then my productivity drops of significantly. When I was an independent roofing contractor me and my employees only worked in good conditions and only worked 4 days a week. I always paid them for 40 hours. I did really well as an independent contractor despite the offset in time.
You're not wrong but I and some others use brand new wallets for meaningful transactions.
Rayiner, that is really impressive. I personally know I loved programming - but would not have had the fortitude to make it through the theoretical comp sci classes had I been self directed. But oddly enough for me, I favored the theoretical more than the practical classes.
It hasn't worked for the past 30 years. But any minute now it'll kick in, just hold your breath and wait.
- Give them interesting challenges

- Make them feel free in boundaries (e.g. allow creativity flow for a period of time)

- plan time for personal enrichment (attending conferences, studying new tech improve in other areas rather than coding)

- don't make deadly strict timelines that are unreasonable short. Make a buffer in your estimation
Microsoft unveils new Edge logo that no longer looks like Internet Explorer
Maybe I'm wrong but I have the feeling that the increment in productivity is due more to the restrictions in meetings' length than the 4-days weeks per se.
Agreed, it is compelling. But not enough to overcome my abhorrence for adding latency to the development process!

I wouldn't mind having that as an option though. Like, laptop in for repair, use the online dev environment. Traveling and have to fix a critical bug, hop on the cloud environment.
Ask HN: What is the modern stack of SaaS products for a SaaS company?
What are the common tools needed to start a SaaS company?
> The technology giant said it was planning to implement a second Work Life Choice Challenge this winter but would not be offering the same "special leave".

Given the benefits to the organization, wonder why the repeat experiment will not have the "special leave" benefit.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

"In 2007, Australia was one of the first countries to introduce a national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme, and it has since achieved high vaccination coverage across both sexes. In December, 2017, organised cervical screening in Australia transitioned from cytology-based screening every 2 years for women aged from 18–20 years to 69 years, to primary HPV testing every 5 years for women aged 25–69 years and exit testing for women aged 70–74 years. We aimed to identify the earliest years in which the annual age-standardised incidence of cervical cancer in Australia (which is currently seven cases per 100 000 women) could decrease below two annual thresholds that could be considered to be potential elimination thresholds: a rare cancer threshold (six new cases per 100 000 women) or a lower threshold (four new cases per 100 000 women), since Australia is likely to be one of the first countries to reach these benchmarks."
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12 hours days, six days a week is not a "comfortable life".
Use a chromebook? No security woes.
OpenBSD intrigues me but losing ZFS (FreeBSD) would be hard. Interesting that checksums can be manually computed, seems decent if the integrity of the checksum file can be trusted.
People are going to be reluctant to start companies because Google gets broken up?
> BTC/ETH are 0-sum games, so on average nobody earns a dime of interest

I would argue it is actually negative sum as billions of dollars worth is newly minted every year and a lot of that inevitability has to be sold to pay the miners electricity bills. I'm honestly shocked they haven't collapsed due to the never ending supply side pressure requiring billions of dollars worth of capital inflow every year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Innovation_and_Carbon_D...
What's going to be the plan/requiremnets behind "Bring your own"?
Thanks for taking the time to create a throwaway to share. I get why people hide what society has deemed "mental illness." It requires powerful people that are non-normative to be open about their unique condition for these conditions to be widely understood to be something folks should want on their team rather than something to blacklist.
I don't have stake in it so I don't really care,
but us tax payer pays more in taxes to support current system, then average EU citizen pays for their public system.

So there is rather large body of evidence suggesting that most likely adopting national health system will result in lower tax contributions and access to 'free' healthcare.