skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many end users pay for non-game desktop software at all? How many successful (ie profitable) companies have made money selling desktop software using cross platform frameworks like React Native?
A lot of people seem to support this, but what if the headline was "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Live at Work Forever"?

Isn't living at work and working at home two sides of the same coin? Is the merging of work and home really something we should aspire to? One of the basis of a healthy work/life balance is the separation of work and home.

In an era of mass surveillance and privacy loss, the home is the last private space we have. Is it wise to let work invade that space? Just things to think about.
>At risk of sounding absolutely insane:

>There's probably no way to prove that this hasn't happened. Anyone who realizes they're not aging normally would likely have taken on a new identity elsewhere for fear of:

>1. being burned at the stake

>2. being trialed in repeated experiments

>3. being deified, and then subsequently being burned at the stake.

---

>I realize my comment sounds like a joke, but I'm entirely serious. If you or I found out we're not aging normally and look e.g. 25 by the time we reach 40, or 30 by the time we reach 45, would either of us remain in our current lives?

1, 2 and 3 are very astute observations about human nature. ALL people who disagree on 1,2 and 3 are just naive in what they think human nature is. History repeats.
Yes, that is a relatively minor thing, but it remains a way that despite being "staunchly pro-consumer", they're less pro-consumer than traditional taxis.

> How do you charge that person then?

They could require a credit with Uber sufficient to cover that charge if someone wants to take a nighttime Uber ride.

> Lot of companies also use credit cards to tie account to a person so they don't abuse the initial sign up bonuses.

Yeah, but still, companies tracking purchases via credit cards is definitely not "pro-consumer".
why even have programmers if they have to convince someone that doesn't understand what they're doing that it's been implemented correctly? the justification of an ignorant person not understanding it (assuming, i guess(?), that they are also incapable of learning it, apparently?) and thus not allowing a massively more efficient improvement to be put in place as somehow a job well done seems crazy to me. (at least in theory managers are supposed to provide something to the table). well, i guess to all the other programmers who, like me, leave any and all places like this. i acknowledge that not everyone is wired the same way, but it just seems blatantly obvious that the left hand wants "innovation" and the right hand... does stuff like this.
talking about conscious programs is just a category error
math is not conscious
matter is not conscious
neither is any combo thereof
This is well-written article discussing Bruce Pascoe's book "Dark Emu", issues surrounding his Aboriginal heritage and how he's been criticised by certain right-wingers in Australia:
https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/russell-marks/2020/05/202...

(Pascoe is the farmer in the linked article).
Educating and testing are separate issues. If you are testing to see what to teach next, and the student cheats, well they just cheated themselves out of learning what you were going to teach if they failed the test.
I actually built a micro break reminder in AutoHotkey yesterday; every 30 minutes a (top-most) message box shows up, telling me to move and look out a window. The message box auto-closes after 30 seconds.

Extremely simple! https://gist.github.com/cdaven/360f0509f823d309e1b9de67bd826...
Very nice! Thank you for sharing, I wonder though, no fancy big-screen dashboard service in there? Do people not value that kind of thing?
You are right. I was reacting based on your first sentence. Sorry about that!
"When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a 'viitor'. Not a 'emacsitor'. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!"

Not making a point. Just couldn't resist.

Context: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
How did GitLab track and create this diagram? Is there a service that does it automatically?
the types of opportunities that lead to SaaS businesses, are extroadinarily hard to find. I've gone to dozens of dozens of networking events and talked to dozens of people from a variety of industries. I've done informational interviews, etc. It's very difficult to find problems that don't have good enough solutions. Most of the time people are pretty happy to continue dealign with the problem the way they have been.
One common citation is:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Turbo-C++-still-being-used-in-I...

But I'll do one better -- here are a couple of syllabi and course materials that suggest that it's still being actively used in universities:

https://www.darshan.ac.in/DIET/CE/SubjectDetail/2140705 (note the "reference books")

http://cmscollege.ac.in/course-menu/syllabus-object-oriented... (similarly)

http://www.alagappauniversity.ac.in/modules/DDE/uploads/book... (published in 2018, references Turbo C++ throughout)

http://www.dbit.ac.in/cse/syllabus/compiler-design-lab.pdf (2017, references Turbo C++)

You can find more examples pretty easily. It does look as though some universities are starting to support the Code::Blocks IDE and/or Geany, but not consistently.
Young people want change. But they still want to move to cities with things to do while enacting change. Just look at the demographics.
Imagine if jail fit that description.
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But surely, it doesn't matter what most people think, only what the experienced professionals do?
To be fair BusinessObjects is not SAP. It's just one of its acquisitions.
Sure

A tool where you are given a picture/scan of a table and it spits out a table that can be pasted into Excel. This was at a bank where numerous people spent half their days manually typing in scanned documents into the same table in Excel. You would double a $70,000 a year financial analyst's productivity with this.

A portal to manage employee and employer documents. I.e where both you and your employer can easily access your T$ (Canadian tax form), offer letter, certifications, police checks, etc.

Software to manage which options a client ordered and what their selection was of that option as well as autogenerate the appropriate SQL queries from a client config template. The current process consisted of a mega word document with people fiddling around manually with it.

Happy to provide more.
Yes, this is a lawyers version of a patch to fix bugs that programmers sometimes introduce.

A couple of years ago I used DocuSign on a contract, and the PDF “copy” I was emailed as a receipt had different terms than the one I actually signed.

Luckily I did not object to the discrepancy, but I would have wondered what would have actually happened if I did.
but how do you find these small businesses that need these types of things?
How are Facebook and Microsoft any more or less "bloated" than Google or Apple?

Also Discord's iOS app is built with ReactNative, and it is a pretty feature rich application, seems like it works for those use it.
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I googled where IHOP gets their coffee since it's so pleasant. Royal Cup!
I did that and was successful to some degree, but it's not easy. I would've done something else if I knew that back then.
Out here in the hinterlands of "fly-over country", I just want a phone number, address, menu, and hours of operation. I don't care what form they take be it website, Facebook, a Yelp page, whatever. Something that a search engine can index. Just those 4 things can be something of a large ask from the mom and pop places around here.

What you're asking for sounds like science fiction.
Why would you use an ecommerce platform instead of a regular SQL database?
That's an easy way to create a different kind of unfair economy, but not a way (by itself) to create a fair one. If there is no private capital there is no private ownership. If there is no private ownership then you're back in _The Republic_ ignoring the fact that Aristotle already pointed out the crucial flaw in that desire - people care more for what is their own than for what is held in common

> For that which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill; as in families many attendants are often less useful than a few. Each citizen will have a thousand sons who will not be his sons individually but anybody will be equally the son of anybody, and will therefore be neglected by all alike.

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.2.two.html

Or perhaps you're looking for the angels that Madison writes about in Federalist #51 to distribute all capital fairly without assigning ownership of any of it to those to whom it is distributed?

> It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp
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“Santa Clara and San Mateo counties grew by 46,048 and 16,727 people respectively, but they had negative net migration totals for domestic residents, at -99,374 and -20,960”.

That’s way more than -2,500, maybe you should have written articles about those counties.
Especially when the "physics" is the same. My brain is built from the same "physics" as the computer chip. We know complex systems are built on simple systems. Koch is claiming that highly connected systems cannot be built from less connected systems?
I think you are vehemently agreeing with OP?

Food delivery is being singled out here because of pure politics.

Your AirBnb example by the way is a perfect example. The 3% service fee is the amount charged to the host by AirBnb. They also have a separate charge which they bill to the renter;

> Guest service fee: This fee is typically under 14.2% of the booking subtotal (the nightly rate plus cleaning fee and additional guest fee, if applicable, but excluding Airbnb fees and taxes).

I’m counting a total of at least 5 different line items for taxes and fees. Not all of which will be broken out on the renter’s invoice.

Like when renting a car at the airport, eventually you stop paying attention and just look at the total. You’re only amazed after taking a second look that taxes, fees, concession recovery, environmental etc. fees make up more than half the cost.
Engineers are unaware of the needs of these businesses, and often, the businesses are unaware that it's possible to solve some of their problems with software. That's why successful engineer-founders often have prior industry experience, or a co-founder who is an expert in the given industry.

I remember working on a construction survey crew in high school, where all survey measurements were recorded by hand in notebooks, and then manually transferred to Excel to perform some trivial operations. The office had hundreds of notebooks lying around. The leadership had no idea it was possible to have an application built to solve something like this. Perhaps they're using something now — I sure hope so.
I'm sorry, you're going to have to expand on this. Dang even made a sticky noting specifically this. We can discuss it, but it isn't obvious to me or others, albeit it might be obvious to you.
When the sum of two actual UX improvements becomes a bigger UX problem
If you have exact change.
ML algorithms have very beautiful dreams and halucinations https://www.google.com/search?q=neural+net+dreams ;)

More seriously though, if we agree that the brain is described by physics, then all it can do, a turing machine can do as well, so at the root all experiences have to be data and computation.
It is due to the fact that I have no, at least professional, experience. Well, at least that's what recruiters have been saying to me in the end of the interviewing process, after I got their take-home projects done. Working for small business seems the way to make money, while getting the chance to leave some paper trail (if this, hopefully, counts as professional experience).
Great intro. Your link #2 leads into the rabbit-hole CS treatment of classical physics (via automatic differentiation, and, less obviously, type theory). Here's that HN thread accompanying your blog post from 6 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21460106

On the matter of automatic differentiation, if you check out the scmutils source code, there's been an ongoing effort spanning ~a decade to fix a very subtle bug...
> Roughly a 800,000,000/year industry

there's 7 billion people on this planet, and most of them wear at least 1 pair of shoes (so 4 end bits), which means there's about 4x7,000,000,000 pieces of these things.

I'm surprised it's only a 800,000,000/year industry! That means they are able to produce it so cheap (i.e., less than 2c per bit, which is an over-estimate)!
Little late but though I would say hi. I too got started programming thanks to Minecraft. My first real job was working at Overcast Network (oc.tc). I remember having to scale out our infrastructure to seven dedicated servers after a popular YouTuber featured us. At the time that felt crazy for a Minecraft server and here you are now with hundreds of servers. Huge congrats on scaling to where you are today.

Have lots of fond memories of those early years, especially Minecon 2013.
Certainly monopolies are something to fight against.

I'm not sure the examples are Amazon specific though. If Amazon disappeared tomorrow, stores would still have closing times and grocery delivery would still exist.
There is the issue of brand dilution. Grubhub screws up the order, pockets a large margin, and restaurant gets an angry call and maybe a bad review on Gmaps or Yelp.

I believe DoorDash or Grubhub actually got sued for this and lost.
Churches vary greatly, but one of the largest associations of evangelical congregations in Austin was birthed from young adults, grew from young adults, and plants from young adults.

Our congregation (not part of that network) is one of the rare places where I interact deeply across generations, economic classes, and social classes from professor to auto mechanic. I couldn’t reliably predict someone’s politics. No congregation is perfect, but a common mission crosses a lot of divides.
>The wackiest one I've come across is a CMS (Crematorium Management System).

https://www.mortware.com/
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The crazy thing is for most of the world people use Windows and SAP and firewalled intranets and no external email. Apple laptops and free access to the internet and SV culture is a tiny minority of what the world's computing looks like.
How much influence does Amazon have on your life? Is any of it unavoidable / not by choice?
Since we are here, people not only will buy for $1 from seller A they will also show a faux outrage about bad treatment of workers at Seller A.
> If I pay a premium for my platform, why would I want second rate cross platform software?

Are you paying for your software or getting whatever you can find for free? If you are paying, is the software's leanness something you value - that is, will you buy some software because it is leaner over some other software that is heavier? Would that be even if the heavier software has more features?

What sort of software have you bought? I'm asking seriously, not trolling - i've bought Total Commander myself exactly because it was lean (check: windows calculator vs one of the most feature packed file managers[0]) but i do not think there are many that value things like that.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/LYzN3Cj.png
Location should not affect salary since when it comes to remote work it is completely irrelevant.
When I have kids, I'm gonna play a game with them where we look at random stuff and try to make up how it got there, and then compare that to how it really got there. I bet if you did this consistently with kids during their formative years, it would be a great way to teach them about the world and the economy. My parents just had a huge book room with encyclopedias that I was expected to pick up and read.
But can it do a drive-by???
If you're not networking you're not moving ahead.
Washington Post reports on large corporations all the time. Even reports on Amazon itself.
Specific legislation will outline details.

Don't like patchwork regulation as an interstate superchain? maybe you will get behind federal legislation.
I’d say the question is already potentially hard to answer.

We have deep learning systems that perceive and strategise. Who’s to say that AlphaGo doesn’t have some experience of playing out millions of games?
4chan.

You know what to do.

(don't really do this. But it would be fun...)
I'm not a psychic, but reasoning came from a direct quote from one of his underlings. And yes, I linked a tabloid because tabloids are more fun, and that's about the level of seriousness we should cover him with. If you want something more reputable, here's Reveal's investigation:
https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is...

It's based on current and previous employees (at least at the time of writing), so you can put your concern that the source was a "rando fired line worker" to bed. :)

The quip about N95's having yellow bands was silly, but the problem is deep. N95 respirators are uncomfortable, hard to wear, and easy to mess up, and Tesla's well-documented (see, above) history of worker safety suggests they don't have the kind of safety culture required to actually keep their workers safe.

The tragic thing is it isn't actually hard, in the quantum physics/rocket science sense of the word. It's just a bunch of small steps that you can't mess up!
There are a few top students at a random state school that are just as good. The difference is that there are just many, many more good students in an Ivy League institution.

Also, the Ivy League students just have a much better education. You can tell by interviewing the bad Ivy League students and noticing that at least their thinking process is structured (try to understand problem, form hypothesis, etc...) The bad students at non Ivy League level schools have no thinking process. It's saddening.

You can tell that the few top students at the random state school would be even better if they had the opportunities that the Ivy League students are provided. It's much more impressive to get to third base starting from home than getting to home starting from third base. It shows independent thought, grit, and adaptability. Those aren't that common even at the Ivy League institutions. The trait most prevalent
in Ivy League interviews seems to be excellence in a circumscribed area rather than general ingenuity.
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There are 23 IITs
Until you and a remote candidate in Idaho are equally qualified but the Idaho candidate is willing to take 2/3 of the pay and live like royalty.
>> getting around websites that block pasting.

> This one really drives me mad. Is there really any legit reason to this?

No. Which is why I set the about:config option "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" in Firefox to false. That turns off the ability of websites to block pasting in Firefox.
What would cause it to not last outside of precedent? In all those cases, it sounds like middlemen exist that corner the end-market that you gotta go through to make big money. How would that even work with software in the age of the internet, open source, and commodity cloud infra?
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most people would be similarly surprised that $1T-market-cap microsoft is a business & enterprise software company, rather than a consumer one. it's ~80-90% of their $130B in yearly revenue (hard to get more precise because of the way they report their numbers).
The cost of the ink to print the additional cost breakdown
If you're working remotely, then you just tell <big tech company> you live in NYC/SF. If they still offer a subpar salary, then you get an offer at <big tech company #2> and bid them against each other. Salary negotiation is a two-way street. Companies that hire remote workers care more about results, which has nothing to do with the cost of living in your location.
Shopify rather than those two since they also need to sell a product. Or a new platform (opportunity) that also takes care of food delivery or connects couriers to restaurants.
I agree its likely but even if obvious, "it's kind of a waste of time to ponder it" seems so wrong.

Humans are incorrect all the time. Even researchers retract the previously 'proven'. Until the answer is clearly proven beyond all questions, pondering and researching is how we discover the unknown for that question, or error, and often so many other we didn't expect to find but come as a sideline of questioning the known. Intellectual curiously has great value for even boring and known of things.
You and your employer need to know where you actually live to pay state and local income taxes.

Falsifying this, to my knowledge, is not only a bad idea, but could easily be a termination-level offense and could be illegal.
> So I go and track down another outlet covering the same story and link that instead.

That's exactly what I do on Reddit. I haven't had occasion to share a Fox News link here, but I think I would do it because I trust this place more to make judgements based on the content of the article.
They got it completely wrong. Not the ability to produce bullshit is intelligence, but the ability to detect it.
That first one can be done with teseract ocr pretty cheaply. I think a lot of people just don't know how much software can do.
You just need to standardize the form and then there's a human data validation step in there.
Here's a nice variation to the problem, and the solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJSNXPEwA
That's not surprising to me personally, but I can see how it might be to the average person
> The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) relies on the US to buy oil and act as military mercenaries when threatened by local countries.

Also, the other side of this is that KSA buys mountains of US and British made weapons, and sometimes "delivers" them to places like Yemen, but they are mostly to protect the ruling family against their own people.
hey nathan - big fan of what y'all are doing. also love boise (i lived in idaho last year). updated those numbers and added attribution to baremetric
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AI-driven software development down the road could theoretically commoditize developer skills.

I sometimes wonder how many decisions I make per day that an AI could replicate in some repeatable way. Who knows, but nothing lasts forever.
It looks very much like OmniGraffle.

And adding a new system is a pretty big deal at a large company so keeping it up to date isn't that difficult.