skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe total employment percentage is an antiquated measurement and doesn't take into account the full measure of valuable things people do all day. On the other hand, it is a measure of societal engagement with activities significant to sustaining it. A society that promotes human flourishing is one that engages every person in the act of serving others to each person's highest ability, aspiration and need.

Is the best generalizable statistic to measure societal engagement "jobs?" No, there are many vocations that don't get counted as "jobs" for government statistics. And given the dematerialization of culture maybe jobs as a concept are on their way out. In the short run the percentage of people employed is a statistic that can inform those interested that many people who were formerly engaged with society in the mode called a job are no longer. Many people who had an identity in some occupation are effectively being told that society does not want or need their effort. I think that is not helpful in developing humanity.
Maybe I should have phrased my question differently - your startup being exploited by a large group of people with disposable cash and unmet demands is one of the best possible outcomes.

What is an "approved" drug development? Who gets to decide, when the substances are not restricted or scheduled? This means making them is not illegal. So I fail to see how it is an "unfortunate risk", except a risk of making money- which would be fortunate :)

You are missing opportunities just due to your specific moral stance. Drop-shipping is an excellent way to have new customer acquisition pipelines without having to pay for them.
Keep in mind that cockpit "user interfaces" have also been refined for more than a century now (which is kind of crazy to think about). For example, as the Colonel mentions, the "pickle switch" has remained more or less unchanged for 75 years.

Web design is merely in its infancy compared to aviation :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNN_lease
The entire MacBook line and the iPad Pro would like a word with you.
my fav games on kongregate: https://archive.vn/pPJwB
I added another comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686803 about case studies we hope to do about this. So while we don't have any to point you to today, we hope to have some in the near future.

Another thing that we hear from people considering a move to GitLab is that they really like how fast GitLab moves (one release per month!), and how it works with the community to keep improving the product. I recently joined as the Sr. Open Source Program Manager as part of the Community Relations team, and we're thinking a lot about how to continue to improve the experience for our community.
A lot of housing in the outer Richmond is comprised of larger 4 bedroom 2 bathroom units making it not that cramped of a situation.
Exactly this, the customer service for the average consumer from Amazon is very difficult to beat and is Google's biggest weakness.

Bought some cables from Amazon Basic, one ended up not working, another had some cosmetic damage but works fine. They refunded both, sent out replacements, and just told me to discard them, it wasn't worth it for Amazon to pay to have it shipped back.

Of course if you abuse this too much Amazon will ban you. If you are an honest consumer though, their customer service generally provides a great experience.

I still remember a time when everyone was afraid of purchasing stuff over the internet, Amazon has so greatly reduced the friction and concern that sometimes I find myself going from "hmm, I need something" to "it will be here tomorrow" in the matter of a minute or two.

Although more competition in this space would ultimately benefit the consumer, it seems unlikely that Google is going to be the source of that competition. They've got shopping results integrated into their search engine, and it's a feature I've maybe browsed from time to time, but I often just end up searching and purchasing on amazon directly. I don't know if I would be super comfortable purchasing from Google in the same way that I am with Amazon, too many horror stories of App Developers / YouTube Creators / etc getting caught in some sort of Machine Learning Customer Support system.

Curious if others use the Google Shopping thing in the search engine and what their experiences are with it.
Yes, but buildpacks and Heroku have a similarity: incredibly simple to do the simple thing, incredibly opaque to do the complex thing. With a dockerfile, people can just install what they need. Sure - it could potentially be more efficient, but I like to focus on human efficiency rather than machine efficiency. Happy developers > fast CI systems :)
Oh now that's decent!! Which one of you picked it up. I'll pay top dollar!
Fun and inspiring.

I once made a site devoted to McGriddle fan fiction that has a cool McGriddle gif, and each layer of the McGriddle image hides a surprise. http://blueskiesabove.us/mcgriddle/ Not sure if that's whimsical or...
I'm worried about all the great flash games that will disappear when no browsers can run flash anymore. I hope preservation efforts are successful..
Agreed. I (unluckily) signed a new lease in March, not thinking this was going to go on for quite so long. Before I actually moved in, I was able to negotiate a free month, but it looks like my building is now offering 6-8 free weeks, but the base rent hasn't actually changed.
If you cut it off, you get penalized in Google Merchant Tools, and possibly have your product feed suppressed, which will dramatically impact your search visibility for both text and product searches. It can also impact your Google Ads if you link that with your product feed, and more.

So, effectively, no you cannot cut this bot off.

To make it worse, the bot doesn't always follow the same pattern. Sometimes slightly different names, addresses, etc.

We initially thought it was fraud attempts, but none of them actually attempt a checkout. They just enter all their info on the checkout page, get the final quote, and bail.

It would have been nice if Google told people about this instead of it just happening. Or allowed you to schedule a time slot for it to do what it's going to do.
"Hey, Sarah" works around 80% of the time. Not surprising. Still a pain when your wife is named Sarah.
Make possession carry the death penalty.

Before you think that's too harsh, consider that the other options are to ban encryption or to not try to stop it at all (quasi-decriminalization).

I don't think anyone would oppose a bill to make CP carry the death penalty. The problem is they won't ever make this law because then they won't be able to milk the cow anymore.
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Ugh, they interviewed someone from J.Warvo. That company is scummy. They've been renting out literal shithole apartments/studios for above average prices. But barely respond to tenant needs. I hope they collapse
As a 100% remote employee living in the NYC FiDi (and now not planning on renewing my lease), I'm there most definitely for the recreation
How is he unable, other by his own choice?
Every cheap cable I’ve ever bought has work fine until I damage the cable.

I work with steel though, so I’m rough as fuck though.
> The center also said U.S. car sales will drop by up to 1.3 million units annually due to the Trump administration's trade policy

This is incredibly good news, if true. We need to reduce the number of cars in the US if we are going to have any chance of confronting climate change.
But the free trial is there so I can decide if i need the subscription. Why start the subscription before I decided?

This is some twisted logic that tries to make a customer hostile feature look friendly.
Anecdote, my iPhone has a busted lightning port after 2 years of fairly normal use. I wish I could just buy a new cable instead of needing to get my phone repaired, especially in the current health climate.
how would one, in good faith, cite a self-survey of people committing unemployment insurance fraud. people get laid off and are making ok money are likely not going to try as hard to find a new job.
I used it briefly but found interacting with weird USB devices (mainly Arduino and RTL-SDR) slightly too annoying.
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Ironically, in our household anyway, there hasn't been an Apple cable that hasn't frayed or deteriorated (fire hazard) to the point where a new one was required. I now only use the third-party braided kind and those have held up quite well. When I was using Apple computers, their charging cables were no different. Maybe they've improved since.
What would you consider unethical?
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https://www.getguru.com/ has a so verification where each page, called cards, has an owner or group of owners and a set expiration period (1 week, 3 months, 1 year etc.). Past the expiration the page gets marked as untrusted (it's on top of each card) and require to be reviewed by the owner(s). Any user can also mark a card as untrusted, prompting a review. Every expired card owned by owner get displayed to their owners in a dedicated UI (page) and can be quickly reviewed. The editor in Guru is a bit clunky at time (worst than Confluence... if that's possible) and not really suitable for something like specs, but I have yet to find anything that actually tries to prevent wiki rot.

We also evaluated Confluence with this https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-ar... but if the concept is not a first class citizen in the wiki, it does not work as well.

I tried to convince the people at Clubhouse (with their Write app in beta) and Notion, but I don't think they get it.
And thus shockwave, with its .exe outputs wins in the end for old games?
The point I’m making is that touchscreens can lead to a safer _system_ because they allow you to optimize and simplify the layout of the buttons that remain after you’ve moved the infrequently-used functionality into the touchscreen.
Sounds like free money. And there aint no such thing as free money.
Good lord, that sucks, hopefully a google engineer is in this thread...
I moved to a medium-sized city primarily because I prefer being in a medium/large city. I've always worked remotely, so I could have stayed in my small town with a very cheap cost-of-living.

Reasons I moved:

- restaurants
- bars
- concerts
- larger dating pool
- greater LGBTQ acceptance
- close proximity to international airport
- can walk almost everywhere
- I find most american suburbs to be depressing

So, the virus has wiped most of those amenities out. Living in the city is a lot less fun now.
That seems to be the case in Seattle.

Apartments in the city center are desperate to sign leases. But houses are actually a little more expensive this year, and they sell within a few days of hitting the market.

And it make sense. New urbanism is dead at the moment: parks, cafes, and theaters are closed. There are no events. Nobody wants to take transit. But in single family neighborhoods, life is basically normal. Not to mention there is no traffic and gas is dirt cheap.
Yeah.. probably depend$ on how loud you can make yourself heard..

RIP Aaron
If you can barely make ends meet, you do not pay income taxes in America. In fact, you get free money from the federal government once a year via the standard deduction rather than paying them.

If you're scraping by on, say, $500/month after rent is paid, $10 of that on sales taxes is insignificant imo.
Solution for Centralized Logging in Startup
That's certainly not the only alternative.

Another alternative is to allow an opt-in subscription service with a free trial up front that doesn't automatically setup a recurring subscription you have to remove. A lot of services use this model, successfully.
You're correct and shouldn't be downvoted.

If you're considering downvoting them, there's news articles about when Apple caved and allowed 3rd party cables.
Mexico is hiring...
Transit Resiliency Amidst Pandemic: Trends in Micromobility
poor mileage isn't the only problem with large vehicles. the extra weight makes collisions much more lethal for the people in the other vehicle.
Literally an ancient relic from my past. Seems very long ago, so wholesome.
Well, she can ride my tail anytime! Great lecturing! Are there equivalent videos of tanks etc.?
I initially thought you couldn't possibly be right about this, but what you stated does seem to be the case. After skimming through the full text, the main point of this seems to be about setting up a committee that will come up with "best practices" that online service providers can follow to reduce/eliminate the exploitation of children on their platform. Can someone explain how this "creates a threat to strong encryption".
I think there are two primary reasons why JavaScript projects tend to have much larger dependency trees than in ruby or other ecosystems.

1. The JavaScript standard library is much more sparse than what you get out-of-the-box with ruby or many other languages. The existence of lodash is evidence of this in itself. The infamous left-pad fiasco would never have happened if JavaScript's native String had an equivalent to ruby's String#rjust. This part of the problem is significantly improving with time -- for example, node.js 8.0 and up do have a native string pad function, padStart. However, especially for tooling libraries, using the latest native JS features means dropping support for semi-recent versions of node, and there's also generally a lot of inertia.

2. npm and yarn allow you to install multiple versions of the same package. If I have dependencies A and B, which both require different major versions of dependency C, npm and yarn will both happily install multiple copies of C. With ruby/bundler this is an error and you have to work out how to tweak your dependencies so they're all happy with the same version range. I suspect this architectural choice is largely a consequence of #1 -- especially in the earlier days of npm, getting all your dependencies on the same version of a commonly used helper library would have been nightmarish. And there are benefits to this approach; I have certainly spent long hours trying to upgrade ruby gems with version conflicts. But it results in a lot more bloat almost by default.

To answer your original question -- I don't know that anything in particular is intentionally being done. I do think we're heading in the right direction and things will be much better in a few years as packages slowly move towards new native language features rather than helper libraries. I also just don't think this is of critical importance at the end of the day. If you add up the brain cycles that I've ever spent worrying about 100MB of hard drive space, it's almost certainly less than what I've spent typing this comment :)
So you're just spinning on the definition of "email"? As opposed to recognizing that a particular activity people do (which I call "using email" but maybe you have a different word for), is very often done using a web browser.

Why you'd think debating the semantics of the word "email" is relevant to the discussion is beyond me. It makes me almost wonder if you are attempting to parody a certain type of pedantic technical person.
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> Then we'll see thousands of articles about how SF, Boston, and so forth can't pay for the public services the cities want to pay for, and how terrible it is that companies are leaving.

Perhaps, but I've also gotten the impression those companies weren't paying that much to begin with. But perhaps it is they were paying a lot, but not nearly as much as they should have been if they weren't able to buy their own legislation?
Totally agree, and it is a good thing if people who doesn't want to be there doesn't need to anymore. But in general demand slumps are hard to fix and last longer.
It's not exactly comparable in this context, but 7.2 kW is 9.6 horsepower. 9.6 horsepower is barely above idle for a truck engine.
The Imagined Threats of 5G Conspiracy Theorists Are Causing Real-World Harm
Sure. Just not during a hurricane.
This is an interesting look at how transit is shifting around public Micromobility options like scooters and bike share. Notably, commute hours seem to be drifting away from bimodal morning-evening. A neat take!
I feel like chiming in because the way the parent described things makes me sad about the state of interviewing and I personally would be very turned off by this kind of interview.

I'm actually a little shocked that this person whose job it is to interview and hire people seems to say that all these basic things like setting up for the interview, reading over the person's resume, and so on are /chores/. I mean, maybe they're not the most fun things I agree, but the approach seems way off, as if they're just trying to get it over with and check the boxes. Then they talk about defusing stressful situations multiple times, why? I get the feeling that they're creating a stressful environment for both sides.

Then the coding while watching part. That sounds just awful, I'm sorry. While this is part of your job within normal hours, the candidate is likely taking time off or doing it after hours (unless they're unemployed, but still). I don't know how you're actually "giving hints", but this just sounds really uptight and stressful. I'd wager you're really taking people out of their environment and setting them up for failure by doing this. Why is it a problem that they google the answer to your question? That doesn't strike me as wrong at all. Sounds like a good developer and I could see this going into a very healthy discussion about how they'd solve problems perhaps that weren't so obvious from googling.

I don't mean anything against the parent. Just adding my $0.02.
I like to tell people about programs like "LOVEINT" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT). Where there is personal information available to others, it can and will be abused in ways you won't approve of. Privacy might seem like an abstract concern until you or someone you know is being stalked, etc.
Is it possibly a bug where they meant to buy 1/100 the number of orders at 100x the price?
You seem pretty set on assigning your own arbitrary meaning to words that are pretty clearly delineated by reddit in the policy update. It doesn’t matter one teenay bit what you think reddit meant. There is a huuuuuuge amount in diversity in reddit’s countless sub communities, and it is clear just from the text that I posted above that they aren’t referring to reddit on the whole with this new policy.

By the way, your comments have been flagged as well as mine, meaning you are apparently just as incapable of following the guidelines here as myself. I’m not just going to “move on”, I’m still waiting for you to bring a well-reasoned argument to the table rather than personal attacks.
> average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco fell 11.8% year over year in June, following a 9% year-over-year drop in May.

So, assuming rent was approximately constant in the year up to April, it first fell 9% now in May, and then another 3% in June? Wouldn't that be a better way of putting the numbers?
> The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement requires 40% or more of parts for each passenger vehicle be manufactured by workers who are paid at least $16 per hour...

On face value this seems to be a very progressive condition.
You put in your first destination. Hit directions. Then hit “add stop” until yo-you have your whole route.

Why would you need to do that, though? It only makes sense if you’re going to print out directions, which no one does any more. You put your destination in the maps app in your phone and go. Then enter the next destination once you’re there. And so on. There’s very little utility in planning such a trip upfront in a world of ubiquitous GPS and internet.
The gap between learning to code and producing usable software is...

... ability to perform complicated abstract reasoning, ability to reflect on own performance plus some experience.

Almost everybody is able to perform simple programming tasks in isolation. For example, follow a tutorial to build simple app using framework X or google solution to problem Y and ctrl-c/ctrl-v into your codebase.

Complicated abstract reasoning is necessary to be able to put together abstract concepts, flows, in new patterns that are required by the application.

Ability to reflect on own performance is necessary to learn from mistakes, look critically at the code, understand strengths weaknesses, evaluate solutions, etc. A person that lacks ability to reflect on own performance might be for example deaf to complaints of other people, might be blind to problems with the code they are producing (for example overcomplicated code), or trying to find faults anywhere else but themselves.

If you can't reflect on yourself you are cut off from being able to effectively learn and improve and this is critical to being able to produce usable software.

Regardless of how intelligent and self-reflective you are, some experience is needed.