skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've come the closest to the point I wanted to make -- I think, in a "healthy community", the members recognize each other as members. Otherwise, you're not a community.

Your idea that HN is more like an economically healthy city than a socially healthy town sounds like another take on that idea. I think it conflicts with this suggestion:

> I have passingly thought that the leader board of HN should maybe be 150 names long instead of 100 to help foster some sense of community -- to help foster that same pattern of "there are 150 people whom we all know and can follow all the relationships and so forth" that you get with a smaller online community.

The problem is that the leaderboard is a list of community heroes, not a list of community members. You may know who tptacek is, but he doesn't know who you are. (In general.) By my criterion, that means he is a part of the community, and you're not.
"It's like, if there are four partners in a partnership and two decide to buy out the other's shares, their shares are now worth twice as much, assuming the corporation continues making revenue." - I don't understand how you calculate that. Let's say there is a company with 4 shareholders with equal shares and with discounted future earnings of $2 million plus $2 million of cash. That makes the company worth $4 million and each share worth $1 million. The company then buys two shares for the $2 million in cash it has. That makes the company worth $2 million (it has no more any cash and the discounted future earnings are worth $2 million) - and the two shares left are each worth $1 million - exactly like before the buy out.
We had this with one of our employees. Email was locked for 2 weeks due to a bug on google's end. Was impossible to get support even if you have a paid account and a relatively large team.
That opens you up to liability for race-based discrimination. The accepted wisdom is that IQ tests are inherently racist and favor white evaluees over black and brown ones.
You do realize that you're comparing the literally insurmountable chant of a fictional, fantastic entity to something that can be overcome, right? I know it's an analogy, but I don't think it can possibly apply here.

Of course adding friction to bad habits is generally going to make it harder for you to indulge in them, the same way that removing friction can make it easier to engage in healthy habits. Nonetheless, the primary element of self-control must always come from oneself, in the moment. I know, since I've gone out of my way to remove many "blocking" systems too many times.
If you just look at the coronavirus deaths in Germany they are increasing at pretty much the same rates that Spain and Italy did. I wonder if Germany is a few days behind the UK and has just tested way more people making it this outlier.
This is definitionally correct, but frequently far from reality.

Desperate people with no practical negotiating leverage may have the theoretical power of foot-voting, but it provides zero practical value.

Given that a lot of regions outside of urban areas are varying degrees of labor-monopsonies with a very few large employers, not having an official right to shoot your workers really doesn't make a massive difference in the amount of control they can exert.
Ah the misguided enthusiasm of youth.

You'll grow up, don't worry.

It will amaze you how much smarter your "boomer" parents get as you get older.
What has happened with the CDC that I have missed?
> If your costs aren't growing as fast as your revenue, then it's easy to turn a profit if you choose.

Doesn't that make a lot of assumptions about assets, expenditures, and business model?

If I start a business handing out $0.99 to anyone that gives me $0.90, I think I could easily grow revenue at a 10% loss for as long as investors were willing to fund it.
Sounds great on paper but I highly disagree with the universality of emotions and their represented facial clues. How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Barrett goes into great lengths about this. I think taking this technology into a categorization of emotions is faulty at best and dangerous at worst.
Of course you can. Does your website get the kind of traffic google does?
Yep, and some stocks are priced for a date decades away.
Sadly, I believe you're right, and this scares the shit out of me. To put it bluntly - we will not have capitalism any more. Capitalism must provision for and handle failures, and this is not currently allowed to happen.
C is still prevalent in embedded systems. Something like a clean slate strong type checker to remove C's weak type checking would be greatly appreciated for those who mainly work in IOT where C++ is already treated like C with classes.
>Otherwise we're just back in a labor economy again where money can't flow where irrational people deem they need to place it.

I find it interesting how in economics, analysis is based on rational actors, but whenever something goes wrong or doesn't agree, it's irrationality's fault.

Maybe there is a rationality to perceived irrationality that simply doesn't agree with the sensibilities of the claimer of other's initial irrationality?
Miles better than anything else I've seen. Most of the times my comments are downvoted I can see in hindsight "ok fair that wasn't a great comment".

Other communities that's not always clear
> It seems you could argue that profit is the one true number that _is_ a good measure

A measure of what? As a proxy for social utility, it's been thoroughly gamed and the two have little correlation.

Profit is currently used as a self-serving measure, because you can eat profit (after exchanging it for bread, or drugs, or yachts). In this sense it can't be hacked. Accounting around it can be and is, though.
personally I think it's quite toxic, if you say unpopular opinion you will be downvoted into oblivion - echo chamber of mostly right wing libertarian childless IT guys

some people look down at Reddit, but personally I find it much more diverse and open to more kinds of opinions than HN
Or, alternatively, not in San Francisco,CA. USA, as many people aren't.
Given that the current sentiment seems to be that vast majority of college degrees are either worthless or simple table stakes to be able to participate in a white collar vocation I wouldn't say I follow that view either.
In Europe we have this thing called “covered bonds”. In scandinavia Atleast half of the housing loans are packaged into these.
If your business is selling $0.99 for $0.90, then its costs are growing FASTER than its revenue. You are describing UBER vs. someone like AMZN.
Do you actually currently make $1B in ads over 3 months then and will be giving away that revenue, or are you lying to score points online?
Covid Trends
This is definitely understandable, especially if you are unsure about the process. Regardless of any changes made later, the funds will likely still be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you're in need of a larger amount (over $500k), it might be worth tracking down some accountants or lawyers from disaster regions who have worked with these loans before.
Sure, I could imagine that is the case in fields like nuclear engineering. All the PEs I know are smart and have technical chops. Though, most of my PE friends are fairly young (early 30s) and are maybe on their way to that destination.
You don't. Don't make your own medicine.
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Just replying to give you a data point, not to argue with anyone. Is there a way I can subscribe to get the results of your study?

1. Criteria for health in online communities: users are sincere and extend goodwill towards each other when they discuss topics. Many users (more than a tiny minority) contribute original ideas, personal stories and evidence of things they make. There is some effort required to contribute but members are incentivized to try by the anticipated responses and reactions of other members. Moderation is predictable and is emotionally intelligent. A critical mass of users are mature enough that norms don’t quickly change, and there is no mechanism a small minority can use to be over-represented when administration considers the wishes of the community (i.e. the Metafilter problem.) The community does not believe that its comments are the main attraction to the site. This isn’t a complete list.

2. How the criteria differs from offline community health: online communities are mostly discussion whereas offline communities work together, share meals, and so on, so it’s vital for the discussion to be high quality online in order for the community to be healthy. Offline communities have greeting and parting rituals that shape them.

3. How HN exemplifies healthy or unhealthy behaviors: HN mostly exemplifies healthy behaviors. There is a minority of users who are too immature and inexperienced to make valuable contributions, and a smaller minority who are antisocial. This percentage doesn’t seem to be increasing quickly, though. A substantial number of HN users believe comments are the main draw to the site, which is an unhealthy mindset to the degree those users are willing to let the quality of the links and text posts degrade.

4. Behaviors of my own that contribute: I try to extend goodwill towards users and encourage discussion of particulars, rather than fighting over general statements. On the other hand, I have a tendency to participate in inconsequential/creativity-free conversations that need to stay below a threshold to continue to attract users who have more to offer. I also downvote a lot of comments that attack other users or write unhinged, insubstantial polemics.

5. How I got into HN: I came here from a Paul Graham essay in 2008-2009 (different username.) He had a link to HN on his personal site. At the time, I was developing heavily in Rails and learned a lot from the Ruby-oriented and JS framework articles.

6. Who introduced me: See above. I didn’t know another HN reader personally for years, or at least didn’t know whether I knew one.

7. What makes me stay: the links and Show HN are interesting. Ultimately, good content drives good discussion.
My phone says otherwise.
Why does everyone seem to be glossing over the fact they said 'suspended for nonpayment'?

And it doesn't seem like they're trying to pay their bill, but just get that one email out of the account...

Maybe google isn't in the wrong here.
If your revenue grows 100% YoY and the profit keeps declining, your costs ARE growing as fast, as your revenue.
good suggestion, but the result is that they just think it is 'Private Mode' and ban reading past top section on that basis
Don't believe anything that comes out of China
Sounds like a test from a single Chinese company and the results were closer to 30% accurate:

> The Chinese Embassy in Spain said that the Bioeasy tests were not part of China's medical donations and that the firm didn't have a license to sell its products.
In democracies, governments are lead by their people.

The government will generally do what its people want it to do. Americans did not give a damn about corona-virus for a long time.

If the people wanted shutdowns, they would have gotten them.
There's plenty of proof that people in those industries saw it coming. The question was when. Some people in them even thought it would pop years before 2008. If you acted on that then you lost despite being right because you didn't get the time horizon correct.
Socially left-learning, sure (at least in some ways). But also a strong libertarian streak. And also an overwhelming white male bias. Not surprising given its primary audience.
> Surely this is not a false-positive, but rather a false-negative?

Both are possible and either mess it all up.
Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus
And that is of no importance unless it is thought that APIs has originality and can be copyrighted much like a work of art like Shakespeare or Mozart.
Great points - there are things we're trying to address over at Interview GPS. We're building a Wikipedia/Stack Overflow-style knowledge base of the best interviewer guides/rubrics: come join the cause at https://www.interviewgps.com/community/

We tag questions in 3 areas:

Personal Values: instead of "culture" we help you assess shared values. For example: do you value fun vs. achievement?

Competencies: does your software developer need attention to detail and critical thinking? Or creativity and collaboration?

Skills: what skills are necessary vs. what can be learned on the job? E.g., should you assess for React skills? Or assess for programming/debugging skills in general?

Also, P.S. you have to be careful/thoughtful when asking about what developers work on outside of work. Worst case, you end up breaking the law by discriminating against protected groups. I'd suggest only looking to that if their work history is relatively lacking and you're trying to develop a positive case for the candidate
Amazon is truly exceptional, do not make a rule out of it. Bezos is kinda like Buffett, in their own league of master capital allocators. For example, Amazon got a lot of financial leverage on the "float" between credit card payments and sending the money to merchants. Again, kind of similar to Berkshire which is leveraged on the insurance "float".

Also, heavy CAPEX or any other form of internal reinvestment does not mean there should be no profits. Look at Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft - all those companies were bootsrapped mostly through internal cash flow. All of those companies were profitable when IPOing (just look at historic S-1s).
And just to make sure, you're certain you haven't installed Zoom's client?

I'm very confused now, because there have been multiple comments in this thread both confirming it doesn't work in Firefox, and confirming that it does.
I was about to say that if you quantify human individuality, then HN would have a low score. Anything with a downvote mechanism will eventually lead to conformity of opinion, especially if downvotes are public (ie. gray text).
I also doesn't max out all four cores of my laptop and run my fans like a hair dryer like all the web based ones I've tried.
The fed provides a boost when demand-side goes down; that's one of its roles in emergencies. Their move here didn't make sense since the initial impact was largely supply-side (demand-side drop is coming...). These adjustments were somewhat knee-jerk and somewhat pressure from the public/Whitehouse.

Their moves so far might float us though a short recession, but it's not clear at this point if it will be enough.
the problem is that react and jquery both need ownership of the DOM. if you have code that mixes them, it is recipe for disaster.
subtle hidden bugs start creeping up.
10$ per month, for what, rotating URLs?
The pricing is far too high. A yearly price about 25$ is legit, but not 120$!
Financing WikiLeaks for example:
https://twitter.com/DefendAssange/status/919247873648283653
Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse
Yes, I believe this is correct. This post is outlining the details of the economic disaster loans that are offered directly by the SBA and described in the link by the parent. The current legislation refers to these existing loans as 7(b). I believe the new stimulus bill, at least the senate version that I skimmed, deals largely with loans made by other financial institutions and referred to as 7(a). Those are covered here: https://www.sba.gov/partners/lenders/7a-loan-program/types-7.... Of course that information is now made out of date by the just passed legislation.
I recently learned about takeout.google.com to backup your Google everything!

So happy they provide this service!
Obviously there would be temporary shortages in some areas heavily dependent on Wal Mart, but elsewhere where Wal Mart is one of 20 similar stores, the surrounding businesses would be able to handle increased business. That one Wal Mart suddenly closed to prevent union forming and the town survived. Brick and mortar in general would have growing pains but also adapt.
We probably live in different countries and are affected by the current virus situation in a different way.

I live in France. Overnight schools were closed and the existing school platforms are a joke.

Beside the fact that they crashed, there is no interactivity built in.

So as a parent of two children I would have been delighted if the teachers switched immediately to Zoom or Discord and I truly do not give a fuck (not that I do not care, I do not give a fuck) about privacy and whatnot when it comes to middle age history or derivatives.

This is this, or me having two jobs.

So except if the software keeps on spying after it is switched off (which would be unacceptable) they can use Zoom or whatever if the teaching process is maintained.

If the teacher asked me to install The Catholic Video Conferencing System my only question would be where to get the msi from. (again provided that there is no spying afterwards)
Coronavirus: Belgian woman infected her cat
This offer only goes to accounts that have been active in the past year, so it is not a play for new accounts.
These systems shouldn't be running Windows to begin with
1. The 1918 Flu origin is still up for debate, in my opinion the China origin theory is still the most plausible, but we'd need to find a corpse that died from the virus in 1917 to prove that it was the migration of laborers to the French frontlines.

2. China is probably the country best equipped at "keeping it under wraps".

3. There's many reports and tweets of it outbreaking in early December and the CPC covering it up for over a month.

Mid January they were still saying it wasn't transmissible and refused to shut down the market. They let at least 5 million come and leave the city.

They let a doctor die from it that blew the whistle on them.

Then they tried to blame it on US troops.
I'd never actively considered whether or not I wanted to be a panda before reading this, but my initial reaction was "of course, who wouldn't?" and I thought you were going to express a distrust of anyone without that reaction. Obviously, that's not the case, and I'm a little shocked.

Just a clear case of different approachs, but I'm guess I'm glad nobody's asked me this in an interview yet.
It used to be, but the culture wars drove me away from it years ago. I think I checked out after this discussion: https://www.metafilter.com/145707/Privilege-doesnt-mean-you-...
The vitriol in this thread is appalling. These grants are hugely helpful for many small businesses including mine.
Yes and no.

I think it's better in terms of overall "health" (content, toxicity, moderation, privacy, spam) than other, more popular forums (e.g. Reddit), but that could just be directly because of its small size and relatively niche appeal.

My biggest problem is that it stopped being a community for tech entrepreneurs a long time ago. Everyone is now bearish on everything by default. Every idea is pointless. Every new product is useless. Every company is evil. There's no point building or launching anything. It's just people complaining about everything rather than improving things and building the future.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850385/
Emotions may or may not lead to something After. In yourself and in others, you might then make a judgment call on whether what came after was a part of your picture of health. Not everyone has the same relationship with their emotions, and not everyone has the same after.
Wow, awesome! I'll definitely read it over when I get some free time. Thanks ;)
I'm not an accountant, but I believe that's revenue recognition.

I sell you a $10 gift card today. I can't recognize the revenue until you spend the $10.

However, if I know you're going to spend $10 less at my business this year, I can GIVE you a $10 gift card. Then, hopefully, you'll come to my business as usual. When you spend the $10, I can record that as revenue, and then I can record a $10 expense for the cost of sale.

Top line doesn't change. I think. But I'm not an accountant. I don't know.
It is time to create a decentralized public social network
I feel like this would be a lot easier and have a higher rate of usage/compliance if our tech companies actually worked with people to release or opt-into sharing this information for when it's necessary (information which is already secretly shared with governments for security).

For the majority of people if they go to https://www.google.com/maps/timeline they'll have a tracker of everywhere they've visited and the time they were in each location.

If you could take people's accounts who've been infected and give them the ability to opt-into sharing this information you could have a pretty good source of information about the locations where they dwelled for long periods of time and who should go into self-isolation.
Hi lbrito!

The site is a Phoenix app (Elixir's popular web framework) with PostgreSQL. The pages are just Phoenix templates and I let Cowboy, the default HTTP server for Phoenix, serve the app directly... so it's not sitting behind NGINX or any similar web server that's frequently used as a reverse proxy.

I used Bulma as for the CSS, just to try something I haven't used before.

The only line of JS is in the dropdown menu's onChange tag, to submit the "form" when you select a book category.

I like the UI on En Passant! Really clean - great use of icons so I know what the media type is at a glance as I scroll.
Exactly. And given those terms, the "new" Coronavirus bill looks to be way more favorable for startups, hence my concern that this post could be more confusing than helpful.
Already seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist. They do help me out, however I find them a bit out of touch with my "real world" issues.
I agree, I don't understand why such wildly profitable tech companies willfully ignore live support...

I mean, even a paid option.

As a business, I would gladly pay $99 for a phone call if I have a high-pri issue.

I remember using that when Microsoft had something like that years ago.

If they did that, high-priority support can be a profit center (or at least break even) if they're really that worried about costs.
Hi. Thanks for your interest in Expensify! We welcome people with all experience levels. We look forward to seeing your application!
I am leading a free online support group for those suffering from a menta (cont)
>I decided that I would make him something with buttons

Wow that brings back memories. My dad did the same thing. Wooden box with all sorts of switches & dials & slider and things in it.

None of them did anything (maybe a random light?), but this was back when switches/dials were made to last. So just the mechanical action had some heft to it & was interesting to a toddler.
> We're only at risk of running out of cheap crude mined from the earth with a positive net energy return at a low price. We aren't ever at risk of not being able to have oil.

A: Our business is running out of money we can no longer get any loans at any interest rate.

B: False. You're not running out of money or access to loans. You can still get loans as long as you're willing to put down more collateral in cash upfront than the amount you're borrowing.

I think see why you used a throwaway for this insight.
This is exactly what a robot would say.

Clicking on the confirmation is only proves that you own that email. I could easily automate all of the steps that you said except captcha.
See also Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/the-ibuprofen-debate-reveals-the...
And shall we rename it?