skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And demanding payment for debts without harassment.

That'll look pretty much the same as what they are doing now. People who take money on the basis that they will do a thing in the future should then do the thing. If they can decide not to do the thing and walk away with the money then the situation gets a bit silly.

Persistently asking for the money back is about as mild a recourse as possible. The hoop-jumping to make them stop is horrible for people who get caught up by mistake, but is not that terrible.

The alternative is magistrates and lawsuits. That would be much worse. Getting into to a fight with the tax office when they mistakenly think you owe them money would be much worse.
I'd love to hear the answer, as I have never seen a satisfactory explanation for this strange phenomenon.
nitpick: If I’ve reached out to support with a problem or idea, don’t tell me to repost it to an idea forum you have, do that for me, I’ve already told you about it.

I’ve often given up at that point when I’m asked to do this.

edit: agree with the rest of your post :)
These products required careful training to recognize one persons specific speech. They weren’t the quality we are used to today.
I would assume contraceptives methods make it easier to break the pattern, since you are still technically physically doing the act of reproducing but the cycle or incentive is broken since there is no offspring.
Pretty much everybody already farms locally. Go outside any city, virtually any city, and it's farmland. Montreal is surrounded by farmland, despite its absurdly short growing season with five months of -20C weather. You have orchards in New York. Food system disruptions are due to the local distribution system, as in war or natural disaster, or due to literally everybody's failing all at the same time, as in a pandemic.
What's the difference between organic spread (via manual sharing) and "inorganic" spread by algorithmic feed curation, if the end result is that there is going to be _some_ content that gets popular?

I would argue that the algorithmic feed curation spreads content that has the capacity to be viral much faster.
we saw one of the biggest wealth transfers in the history of mankind - Some 30 trillion dollars of growth in China.

Economic growth is not the same as a wealth transfer. It's not a zero sum game.
I disagree, while financial aspect is important but it is not the only factor why folks choose these kind of lifestyles.

First, having a kid these days might not actually be a good idea, with 7 billion people and counting, uncertaining future job market and the huge expense required to raise a functional kid in modern society. Previous generations never had those obligation or constrains and kids were able to contribute to their farms/income from early age.

Second, technology allowed for lifestyles that were not even feasible in the past, it is really obvious and I don't think I need to elaborate on that.

Last, humans were nomads settling.

To sum up not everyone wants to live the mainstream lifestyle. So it could be due to preference and choice rather than financial pressures only.
I keep all my secure codes in my password manager.
The less uncertainty there is in your life, the less driven you are towards the comfort of simple answers to complex problems.
Prokudin-Gorskii's photograph of a simple railway bridge has always struck me the most of any early color photograph. The quality is such that it could have easily been taken today with a good camera.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prokudin-Gorskii-25....
Careful not to go too overboard for this. I won't say the company's name for fear that I may work there one day. At my last job, a large enterprise database provider wouldn't provide any support to us unless we agreed to pay them upwards of $60k a year for a product we weren't going to use. And we weren't exactly a small customer for them either, we just weren't as big as some of their others. Don't become the toxic one yourself!
Since when does the US apply its constitutional rights to foreign entities?
> Having children is very expensive, so it’s hard to make that work with FIRE. On the other hand, van life and tiny houses are logistically prohibitive to having children.

This is debatable. If neither parent is working and they have the time and knowledge to homeschool their kids, having children becomes cheaper since the parents don't need daycare, a nanny, an expensive private school, etc.

People of all social classes have been having kids since the dawn of humanity. Kids can be as cheap or as expensive as you want if you don't have to worry about working 9-to-5 at the same time.
Has this replaced your full time job?
> and android is split across Europe

What does that mean?
I sometimes think about the startup crowd of the past decade as generational traitors.
They're a small number of young people who were selected by the system based on their connections to the older, wealthier generations and their willingness to do unethical things in order to maintain the status quo and secure inheritances as much as possible. Baby boomers are one of the most selfish and unethical generations and this explains why millennials are having such a tough time.
However, it is a little bit weird to name a programming tool after a country's capital city. Are we gonna get the London linter next? Or the Washington DC web framework?
It was a new device (already public though) at that time and it wasn’t mandated, I got it for free though.

I did want to test it and see how it works and if it’s useful for me, I just don’t completely trust them and don’t think people should trust large corporations putting microphones in their houses, so I decided to put it in a room where I usually don’t have conversations until I either have a very strong assurance that it is safe and useful enough for me, or give it away to someone who doesn’t have these concerns, which is what I decided to do.

If it were mandated though I would have left Google immediately and news of that policy would have probably made its way to HN, so no subtext here.
You might not like or agree with article, but I actually found it very well reasoned and provide alternative point of view to a very important discussion.

Thus I'm really puzzled why this community would flag it, it is disappointing frankly.
In the case of rocket launches specifically, ITAR stops them.
One of the important lessons I learned when I was building websites/doing digital strategy consulting (and this was over a decade ago) was to charge more. I was hesitant to do this because starting out, you want to attract customers and you think being competitive and having low prices is the answer. That can work to an extent, but what I found was that all of my clients who I was charging low rates were demanding, needy, and wanted far more than they were paying for. They were terrible. When I raised my rates, the clients I got were much better. No more insane calls at all hours. No more requests for stuff never in the initial SOW. No more threats of finding someone else even cheaper to do it.

It’s often hard to know who is a bad customer at the beginning, but once you figure it out, unless the customer is legitimately responsible for a massive part of your business, I agree, fire them. And if the bad customer is responsible for so much of your business you can’t fire them, start looking for a replacement set of customers so that you can work to do that.
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Yes, and there's no such thing as a medicine expert because no single person knows every little detail of how your body works.
Looks a lot like canva's video editing tools. I'll test more when I get on the desktop
I think this has a brighter future than lerna if you are managing a monorepo They’re betting big on PNPM being a strong long term bet.

They also just recently released Heft which is the rushstack repo build/lint/dev-server stack.

It’s a promising project
>what are the odds an OSS project outperforms them at implementing their own language?

A lot more than you imagine. Esbuild can already transpile 100x faster than typescript.(Note: esbuild does not typecheck).

If they use similar technique as esbuild, they can easily surpass typescript compiler in all functional areas
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"Nobody understands the tech-companies, but they sure do understand us"
> Paul's intention in creating the scale was to challenge the idea that religion is universal and innate to the human condition, and to show that societies that don't believe in God are not doomed, as some religious conservatives would have people believe.

Always an excellent idea to start off a study with an attempt to prove a preconceived point.

> Religion is highly variable, and therefore we need to ask why is it sometimes popular and why it isn't," Paul said. "One thing we do know is that it's only popular in societies that … have enough rate of dysfunction that people are anxious about their daily lives, so they're looking to the gods for help in their daily lives.

A supermajority of people in every western country believe in god or some higher power: https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/beliefs-about-god/pf_05-...

No Western European country has more than 20% atheists: https://www-pewresearch-org.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.pewre.... France is 15%, Germany is 10%. The US is 4%. People in developed countries are much less likely to participate in organized religion or subscribe to some general idea of spirituality, but atheists are still a small share of the population.
I think we're currently using more farmland than we should. Giving back land to natural ecosystems is a good thing.
I have a strong feeling that it is not an either/or situation. In the ladder of unknown, if spirituality is the first step, religion is the final. And I am seeing a huge increase in spirituality in developed and wealthy countries. It is as if you drop the current one only to eventually create/adopt a new one. For all we know it could be a variant of science the way people are appealing to scientists as high priests. It seems to me that it is too complex a phenomenon to categorise based on the average proportion at any given point in time.

Adam Smith has this wonderful quote on why it is difficult to model humans and societies in the theory of moral sentiments, which I feel holds even today:

> The man of the system. seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society,every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it.
Bad customers provide value early on, because they basically do free QA.

Reporting bugs doesn't make someone a bad customer.
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Do you really think everyone in the 50s was in stem, supported the space program, and innvoates? It's always a minority. They were bombing soldiers, us soldiers with nuclear weapons saying it was harmless to see the effects. Is it sad we don't do that anymore?

Just because you watch TV and have a bad Facebook feed doesn't make it America
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Additionally, with the added complexity of working closely with the United States Government

Microsoft works closely with the US Government [1] and has a Government Cloud [2]

[1] https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/government
The iPhone was a once in a lifetime aberration. Even when the iPhone was introduced in 2007, there were already 1 billion phones being sold a year. Jobs said that the first year goal was to sell 10 million to capture 1%. Smart phone penetration worldwide is now to the point where almost every adult in developed countries have one and even 45% of adults in developing countries have one.

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-many-people-have-smart...

What the phone looks like might change, but no one has created anything as successful as the iPhone since 2007 and it’s hard to get more ubiquitous than the smart phone (not iPhone necessarily).
> Is it not inherently part of that animal pattern to only procreate until the resources become a limitation?

Most animals don't self limit - their environment limits them instead.
Just get a device that supports HBO Max?

I’m pissed they don’t support OS/2 but I can view HBO Max on my iPad instead.
Do helmets significantly reduce casualities or are they more like a courage device that makes the wearer feel less vulnerable?
This article implies that you should fire customers who are bad as in demanding, annoying, toxic, high maintenance. But I don’t think it’s so straightforward. If the customer is faang and they pay a multimillion recurring contract, this guy will most likely swallow his discomforts and keep serving. That customer is not so “bad.”

So the title should really be “get rid of customers who are bad for the business,” which is self evident.
I don't think he's saying that.

But there's a certain kind of nitpicky person you can never make happy.

When your company is young and immature, there's still a decent concentration of actionable feedback in the nitpicks. Eventually it gets harder to mine gems out of it.
hrmh, this is about the level of stupidity I expect from hn at this pt.
What is "religiosity"?

If the measure of religiosity is "participation in religious services", are we even measuring the same thing when participation can vary all the way from watching Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on TV, to being blessed by the Pope in the Vatican, to receiving alms from Mother Teresa on the streets of Calcutta, or completing a Scientology audit graduation on a Friday?
It sounds like a problem with the author, one probably drilled into their head by management.

The longer you are here, the more weird shit you see, and the definition of “know” gets a lot murkier.

You aren’t going to “know” if it works in production, even if you put it into production. Which is something that only makes sense about the fourth time you encounter a piece of shipping code that is so fundamentally rotten that you are not sure how it ever came up with the right answer.

You don’t know if the whole car is working. You only know it’s moving the direction you wanted it to move and it hasn’t exploded, made horrible sounds, or smells. So it’s mostly working.

Every tool and process should be working to make you less afraid of trying things (like deploying to prod). Otherwise they’re just helping you build a bureaucracy instead of software.
A point against religion but a point in favor for the truth of Jesus of Nazareth's words: "Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort." (Luke 6:24)
Google also has a popular brand - what successful product has Google created outside of advertising?

It’s about execution. Apple has been around for 40+ years. You could say that every success came from the Apple //.
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At this point, if you are going to hire Oracle, the proverb of the Frog and the Scorpion applies.
> "There's no situation where you have a really highly religious nation that's highly successful socially."

I guess it all depends on how you are defining 'religious'. Without Christianity, the West wouldn't have universities, hospitals and democracies. It also looks like the decline of Christianity in modern society leads to stagnation and mimesis.
It is an opportunity cost though, no? That wealth could have resulted in domestic progress.

If I am making Jeans in 1995 in America, but in 2000 I lay off workers, shut down cotton fields, dying processes, etc. and off shore it, while hiring 2 people instead of 50 - to manage suppliers, that indeed, unquestionably has resulted in loss of wealth.

Can you explain how this would be a zero sum game? I know @naval keeps tooting that and it makes sense to me in macroeconomically, but I can't convince myself - I think of a closed thermodynamic system with system energy = work done + heat transfer out. That's how I think of the economic systems too when it comes to microeconomics.
Then you probably haven't been updated yet on stable. You can check r/firefox and everyone else there reports the same thing.
Oh, and to make the whole matter more ridiculous, I have been told repeatedly "maybe studying is not your thing?" and after a while I got it and answered "That's it! Studying on your courses in your university is not my thing! Thanks!"
"the discussion of false positives is worthwhile."

That is why I think it shouldn't be flagged, it is the reason why we're discussing this and it is an important debate given the impact.
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The low-tech way I've seen (but not cross-calibrated), thanks to a pair of argie firemen: use an aerosol spray can, eg hairspray, to see what makes it through the mask candidate.
The fires raging in pristine rainforest, a lot of them purposefully started to clear the land, speak a different language. In more developed countries this has already happened centuries ago, there is very little old growth forest left. It has all been converted to farm land. This is not good for preserving biodiversity.
> Do you know of any country (excluding tiny ones like Singapore) that became advanced without some sort of IP theft?

By the way this question is unfair. Can you name a successful US technology company who has not been accused of IP theft by a competitor?
Unfortunately that doesn't work with web archive
Apple has been “axing” backwards compatibility since it created the Mac as a separate line from the Apple //. The last 32 bit Mac that Apple sold was in 2006. Should they have kept 32 but support for x86 software for ARM? Should they still be supporting PPC software? 68K software?
Many US scientists from the 50s hadn't been educated in-country, as they were refugees from the Old World.
I think the point is more that it's easy to overestimate the value customers provide to the business. A customer that is paying an average amount but require 5x as much time as an average customer might not be considered "bad for the business" as long as they financially work out.

What's usually missing from that line of reasoning is the opportunity cost of supporting that one customer instead of five others that are more average in demand.
These lifestyles, as the author seems to point towards and not consummate, are the consequence of millennials being lonely, not poor.
> The goal here is the Silicon Valley dream of automating away the human element.

this doesn't seem to be an accurate characterization of the plan proposed by Srinivisan.

> There is no shortage of raw data — people read news at all because you’re using narrative to explain why these facts are noteworthy.

This idea seems more targeted at the proliferation of false information than the lack of information. Another relevant consideration would be the democratization of the narrative shaping process.

> And McCrum relied utterly on the backing of the Financial Times, a strong paper with strong opinions on frauds in the market — particularly when the “checked aggressively” was private investigators following him, and the German regulator trying to prosecute him for looking too deeply into the fraud.

Hence the movement to broaden participation in journalism by creating technology that allows everyone to participate rather than rely on the existence of powerful institutions that are favorable to your cause.

> But I’m also not so sure Srinivasan would think taking down the Wirecard fraud is the sort of thing journalists should even be doing

Part of the allure of the blockchain is that, in theory, neither Srinivasan nor anyone else would be able to stop randos from publicizing their attestation to the occurrence of frauds etcetera in real time in a way that their claims could be independently vetted by other people, all of whose reputations would be attached to their output.

> Dr. Srinivasan is a smart dumb guy, not a dumb dumb guy. But this is idiot nerd nonsense that’s been tried repeatedly — it’s a stupid ICO idea, that multiple ICOs tried variations of. This is the particular species of dumbass that a crypto guy comes up with.

Theres a lot of bad shit in the blockchain world but this is not a good take. Gerard seems to be more motivated by his dislike of certain personalities mentioned and his disdain for blockchains than anything else.

I'd like to see someone with less baggage critically engage with these issues because its interesting and would be a public service. I'm disappointed that this article wasn't able to do this. Looking at the author's background, he seems to be a "bitcoin critic" and hopefully Srinivasan et al publish a more formal statement of their proposal and perhaps Gerard can engage critically with the actual proposal instead of what he did here.
My bank sends email too. Not really a solution, but it helps, especially when travelling abroad and had to transaction in India.
Everybody is in the cloud now, where there are no hand-me-downs, or at least none we get to use.
Lovely! Thanks :)
Inspiration doesn’t move products without execution. Apple would have failed no matter how innovative they were under Jobs without Cooks operational capabilities.
Maybe they're only rolling it out for some users. I got it too and it was updated through some kind of internal update manager, not through the app store. Deleted my browsing history as well.
Seems simple enough an answer
I wouldn't expect a "dank basement" to require SCUBA gear. I agree with GP that this word use struck me as odd and distracting. Not sure what I expected to read about a beetle navigating an intestinal tract, but still.
The new Firefox for Android (aka "Fenix") supports extensions that just uBlock Origin. It supports the following at this time, with more coming soon:

uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
HTTPS Everywhere
Privacy Badger
NoScript Security Suite
Decentraleyes
Search by Image
YouTube High Definition
Privacy Possum

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/28/mozillas-next-gen-f...
To attempt to prevent collapse of the regime.
What’s important from a user perspective is that it’s not possible to verify these safety measures, while potentially exposing some of the most private pieces of information.

I agree that usually it should be safe and anyone messing with logs would probably get terminated, but there’s not much more than to trust people there and I’m not sure all safeguards hold in all cases, e.g., if people were to collude within the organization. Therefore I wouldn’t put such a device in my home again and if I’m having a meaningful conversation somewhere, I’ll make sure no device is connected to power.
Has it hit an API limit or something? I just get the tweet text but no video. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6TZTFkJ in Safari iOS

Edit: reloaded without content blockers and it worked! :)
> from the Javascript ecosystem

If that's really the problem you have to perform an honest self-assessment: are you spending more time and energy on tooling and framework drama than building/maintaing original products?

Its an important question to ask yourself as it directly indicates whether you are delivering or consuming business value. Developers will twist themselves into knots to falsely correlate those two things, but customers and end users absolutely don't care.
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