skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raising prices on the customer can sometimes be a passive aggressive way out — you’re trying to force them to leave, but the downside is some people will pay and continue to be toxic and now you’re stuck with a high paying toxic customer; that’s the nightmare, a customer who sucks but brings in too much money to shitcan. I’d be in favor of a referral.

I’m a direct person, so I might say something to someone like, “I recognize that you might think that you need to do [x-behavior] in order to get attention and support; you have probably had to do that in the past to get service. I need you to understand that this won’t be successful in our working relationship and that my business will not be beholden to [x,y,z]. If we are to continue working together, we need to have very clear communication about what services are in and out of scope that we can both agree to. If we can do that, I’m happy to keep working with you and will do my best to support your needs. If we can’t, I’m happy to refer you to some places that might be a better fit.”
Atheism is only part of the picture. Most agnostics [1] are effectively irreligious.

If you look here [2], you can see that the USA is more on the religious end of the religion curve in terms of Western countries. You can also see a trend linking uncertainty, inequality, and religiosity.

[1] https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligio...
>Regular double quoted strings can have newlines.

This doesn't feel right. There are already ` for multi-line comments. Why not use them? Changing the meaning of " breaks the ability to copy paste an rjson file into regular sourcecode.
You’re assuming there’s a difference. Look at what Microsoft suggested their users do when they gave up on Mixer...
The bottom end of any market is a cesspit, both for buyers and sellers. I suspect it's the same at the top as well although I have little experience there.

I've done quite a few projects for distribution companies, these are intermediaries selling stuff on very low margins, basically warehouses with a call centre. To survive they have to become obsessive over costs. They can't turn that cost cutting mentality off even when they are buying services rather than 10 million transistors or whatever they need. This makes them thoroughly miserable places to work. Amazon is an example but on a massive scale.
Regarding your example with youtube, how do you know that youtube doesn't just recognise you and serve you your "personal profile"?

Did you completely change your IP address?

Did you spoof/hide any other aspects of your browser configuration?

Private browsing or not, you would probably easily be recognisable based on IP + browser fingerprint alone so youtube could just continue to serve you the same videos.
I would say you're wrong. I know this is anectdata but I'm a non-single millenial, and my girlfriend and I have decided to never have kids because we value our own happiness and wellbeing too much to sacrifice it raising a child. We would be happy to live this type of lifestyle.

Edit: and it has nothing to do with our income. We're both 6 figure engineers.
"cheaper" is to get everyone to stop growing food to feed to animals to eat
Rent seeking capitalists have managed to work their way into every corner of life. There is no way for a significant portion of the population to produce a personal surplus, because 'markets' will be quick to funnel this into ever fewer pocket, thanks to the neoliberal tools they've managed to convince us were necessary for 'business' to not be 'choked' by government. Two working partners, working in well paying jobs in large cities, it doesn't matter, you're not going to keep your surplus.

Apart from being lucky and be either born or get a lottery ticket into the 0.01%, the only way I see of building up your surplus (without expending your body with working 80hrs+ for 40+ years) is checking out of usual patterns, patterns that are still not being eaten up by rent seekers. Like a good job on the perifery of your country rather than in/near commercial/industrial centers. And vote labour, of course. In the end, only law can end rent seeking, and for that, we need to stop believing the economy musnt be under our control rather than the reverse.
Affordable housing and health care is really what it comes down to. Food is as cheap, inflation-adjusted, as ever. Quality, reliable, transportation is as cheap as ever. College education is free in many places of the world, but a luxury in the US with the way it's taught. Employers are coming around to the fact that it's not a good signal any more, so the reasons to go ~50k+ in debt for a questionable degree are ceasing. The rest of millennial spend are generally luxuries. They can't afford to keep going with the conspicuous consumption and status-signalling that other generations could. But that's not what we should care about improving.

We need to start tackling the insane complexities of the US health system and the complete failure of building regulations to provide an affordable place for the next generation to live.
I should qualify my statement by saying this rule is true for younger generations. Boomers use FB messenger as a primary communication tool, you're right.
Wow, that's extremely accurate! Disabling the tab bar has also went this exact route (when you use a tiling wm with tabs, some people like to disable browser and terminal tabs as it's redundant)

I managed to do it with a combination of two extensions, some about:config flags and userChrome.css some years ago, but it may already be broken by now.

Mozilla keeps trying to get to the mainstream market while ignoring its dedicated users... The only times I got people to switch over to firefox was because things like ublock support on android. Nobody I've talked to has ever been interested in their side products (Pocket, that file transfer thing...), and something tells me this new voice engine is going to go the same route.

OTOH it's nice Mozilla is working on improving their voice dataset (which powers the DeepSpeech model, iirc). And again kind of sad they use Google Cloud while they could have their own version...
Aye, you've nailed the point. Early on, a particularly nitpicky and oversharing customer can help identify problem areas or get feedback on the product in greater volume than the quiet, happy users. "Early on" being the keywords here.
This is not true in India. Every transactions bigger than 50,000 needs pan card. RBI monitors all big transactions. You can't deposit any big amount in bank without mentioning proper sources else Income tax dept enquires you. The Indian way of doing corruption is Hawala (gold mostly). As Modi govt did demonetization, all old currency became obsolete, wiping huge black money.Now nobody wants to launder money in cash. Govt also tried to bring adhar card system similar to US security number, so everything can be tracked but it was opposed by court.
$100k for a staging environment is definitely worth it IMO. It sounds like this person hasn't setup a good one, but in my experience a good $100k staging environment will catch more than $100k worth of bugs and downtime over a year. One hour of downtime can be worth more than that.
How on earth could you easily enforce that though? Easy to quietly pay some private investigator or specialist to do some expensive or hard work in evidence gathering or analysis, and then pretend it was easier and cheaper to do than it really was. I agree that on principle it should be a rule though, so yes, absolutely agree.
Yeah. You can customise the available voices in Preferences > Accessibility > Speech

Whisper can definitely be installed on Catalina still. It's a 34 MB download.
That phrase refers to development.
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Who would use such a gimmick?
I certainly wouldn't...
Yes there is. It's everyone on Hacker News!

Just post about about some Unicorn here and at least half a dozen people are pretty confident they know more about the company in question than the founders or the people running it.

In the future Congress can just post questions here.
Actually, I had this conversation 2 days ago and haven't heard back since. That combined with my own experiences prompted me to write the blog post.

I'm going to follow up and report back.

Update:
His reply - "Fired politely!"
I am interested in backend engineer role and I have matching skills required for job. I am inclined to edtech domain and Udemy is great place to work. I can share my resume on your email or you can checkout my profile at
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And also backed by scientific reasearch.

https://academic.oup.com/socrel/article/78/2/146/3079315
Regression Analysis in Python
For a secure and private OS which doesn't need root you can try GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/

No need to "harden" it after you install because things are locked down by default.

I've been using it for the last six months and I think it's fantastic.
Right, good example. The government doesn't properly clean the water they are paid to, and the media doesn't report on it, but instead of talking about that, Alex Jones says fluoride is poison.

Conspiracy theorists have plenty of actual material, but they seem to like to make shit up instead of seeking the truth of the matter.
Another multi-talented developer that comes to mind is the distinguished philosopher John McFarlane. He created pandoc, among some other things.

https://johnmacfarlane.net/index.html
I feel like Google could have had this with their Closure Compiler/Sheets/Templates/Library but they never dedicated any resources to making the APIs more ergonomic and they’ve been historically poorly documented as well, not to mention for one reason or another the Compiler doesn’t do automatic dependency traversal and because the APIs are not not intuitive and well documented they lost mindshare.

Like many great Google projects it just never got fully realized, which is a shame :(
No species on earth has birth control, and humans have only had real & widespread birth control since the 20th century, and the 'good' birth control only since the 60s.

Sex is now disconnected from procreation and that is the real reason this is possible.
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So what do you call a (tech) (expert) if not a (tech expert)?
Just another useless gimmick that you try once, then never bother to use again. Imagine talking to your browser at work.
The king said to the priest, "You keep them stupid, I'll keep them poor."
Religion seldom was the way to democracy.
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I've been Windows user all my life and recently got to use Macbook.

So far I've been unable to find a key shortcut to minimize ALL open windows (like windows key + M in Windows). It is very annoying.

Also, coming from Windows, cut copy paste operation is also annoying on Macbook.
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"but the downside is some people will pay and continue to be toxic and now you’re stuck with a high paying toxic customer"

I totally hear you and this fear stopped us from charging extra from a toxic customer. "What if they said yes?"
Surprise! It wasn't Oracle :)
Theres definitely experts, if youre an above average developer, you meet one once a decade.
My comment was more that it's not a zero sum game and that a significant part of China's growth was not at the expense of the US (but part of it obviously was).

By offshoring the manufacturing of jeans, American jobs were lost, correct. But presumably the cost of manufacturing was lowered which opened up new markets (can charge less and still make a profit) and those profits flowed back into the US. And at the same time, American consumers benefited by lower cost jeans (whether price decrease or a slowing of price increases).

The Chinese benefited because they were get a piece of that overall value chain - the manufacturing part.
I was afraid to try this, because as someone else pointed out, what if they agree and now I'm stuck with a high-paying toxic customer. Yikes!
I recognize this is sarcastic...

but I must point out, I'm an idiot who doesn't know much about anything.
Affordable homes aren't being built for Millennials. I predict there will be assisted suicide by the time most turn 60 and people will just turn to that service. I also assume the generations to come will look back on this time period as how the generations before the Millennials really threw a group of people into despair for their own well being.
I've not had a staging environment for a good 6 years, if not more.

Thats not to say that a staging env is bad, they can be very useful, if setup properly. It also might be the case that you really can't test in prod. (stuff that provides safety)

I am very keen on feature flags/magic routers. They have the advantage that you can test the inputs of the system with _real_ data. But that can also be a drawback.
This article seems to disagree:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/23/medieval...
You know the original bible was lost and written from scratch by the wishes of the new author at least one time sometimes around year 100, right? The first schism. Jesus of Nazareth probably never said such thing.
Curious about this line of thought because for most apps I reach for a RDBMS because I want strong data integrity and a data model that’s easy to reason about. Maybe you tend to work in different domains. Can you give an example of one of the projects better served by Bigtable?
Thank you for sharing all the relevant information!
In other words "God will even the score... somehow"

These kinds of teachings were necessary for organized religions in large societies, because people could plainly see the rich being rewarded over and over again, while the poor were screwed over. For a religion to gain traction in such an environment, it would have to teach of a Great Equalizer, such as karma or omniscient and omnibenevolent god(s).
Totally off-topic, but Shotwell is a great name, even more so for someone who works at a Rocketry company.
> I'm prone to consider "conspiracy theories" because something terrible happened to me that is adamantly denied by those in power.

You seem to be confusing "people in power abuse said power and never face consequences" (true) with Hilary Clinton operated a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza place" (not true).
This is bubble talk. I don't know anybody that went to my undergrad that is remotely interested in any of these except remote work, which was promised to everyone as soon as broadband became available to common people in the '90s. Poor folks aren't the ones blogging about van life, they're the ones that live in their cars in Menlo Park. Meanwhile, the classmates that didn't leave my state have either already purchased houses or are planning to within the next year. Mind you these aren't rich folks, these are folks making $75k a year at best, half of what a Princeton CS grad would make. I've talked to them about FIRE'ing before and got a blank look on their face. The only thing they do is max out their 401k, if that.

This isn't a case of "resource constraints" making poverty fashionable. It's a case of out of touch elites trying desperately to either "rough it" for the sake of the experience they never had or to aggressively retire at the age of 30. The median student loan debt burden is closer to $0 than $100k, and while growing and maintaining inter-generational wealth is a massive problem for communities of color because of persistent housing discrimination, I really don't see these folks represented in the communities OP's article mentions.

..that is, of course, if this isn't a partially GPT-3 generated blog as speculated here [0] but there do seem to be active responses from the author, so it just appears to be pseudonymous.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23952750
Is it too much to expect that a representative knows that Zuckerberg runs Facebook and not Twitter?

https://reason.com/2020/07/29/mark-zuckerberg-twitter-donald...

Or to know enough to know which tech CEO to subpoena in the first place?

https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/27/media/att-time-warner-senat...

But let’s look at the last two major tech anti trust cases and what came of them.

Microsoft was the most valuable company in the US in 2000 and had a monopoly on computer operating systems, productivity apps, and web browsers. In 2020, Microsoft still has the same share in operating systems, office productivity and no one cares about browser market share but Google. MS is now the 3rd most valuable company in the US.

Before that the government sued IBM for being a monopoly in 1969. The suit was dropped in 1982 and nothing came of it.

Most recently, the CEO’s of the four biggest tech companies came before Congress and people everywhere are saying that they (at least FB and Google) are threats to Democracy. Then the government goes after TikTok and WhatsApp.

Edit: WeChat.
The fact that SpaceX is so reliable so quickly is a testament to how great a bet NASA made. The OCO failures come to mind as something that, hopefully, will never happen with SpaceX as a partner. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory#Or...
What was the hardest part of making this?
I think the term "conspiracy theory" is most commonly used to refer to untrue conspiracy theories. That's how I meant it in that comment. Obviously yes, conspiracies do sometimes exist, and one could have theories about them.
Isn't this pretty much what "cloud" is for? And, y'know, terraform, ansible etc?
first: I didn't say rdbms, I said database. that covers nosql as well.

second: even if you don't have an explicit schema in the database, you still have to have a way to know which data goes in which column. just because it isn't written in a definition language doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist and doesn't require to be maintained as the application domain evolves.
> It also looks like the decline of Christianity in modern society leads to stagnation and mimesis.

I'm doing fine without it. I would vote for government healthcare and democracy if it was on the ballot.
The parts of the west that were Muslim in the Middle Ages were famed for their learning eg Spain?
I don't like this either and frankly, it's embarrassing when billion-dollar companies have poor support UX. Like why is the burden on the customer to re-submit their report? This is obviously an internal communications problem that should 100% be solved by the company, and they're just displaying how badly they haven't solved the problem yet.

edit: I like the rest of OP's
Organisations who actively pay for trainings are rare.
I have been part of some (cryptography training, specific cloud training, etc.)
But mostly, they don't forbid or they even encourage to share experience and provide time to read. For instance, I'm reading HN or other blogs aggregator during my work day. Or prepare presentation for my colleagues.
I honestly never thought to try online just because I was worried about food safety during shipment. I could try Whole Foods but everything I've bought there in the past has been massively overpriced. I haven't shopped there since Amazon acquired them though, our local chain has been fine for most of my needs, besides bulk goods.
This seems to imply that “tech expert” is someone all-knowing regarding tech. In my mind “tech expert” is about literacy. You may not know the specifics of all technologies but you have the mental toolkit for understanding them conceptually. But it is also about context. If you are the person who people ask for help with tech stuff, well, then you’re an expert, at least in their minds.
> College education is free in many places of the world, but a luxury in the US with the way it's taught.

Community college is extremely cheap and free in several states like Tennessee. In state tuition at most state schools will run $30k max on the remainder. Not cheap, but for the income gains...not expensive.
Acquisition Cost Just Tripled. What the EFF Happened?
Well, I think this is written from the perspective of people who don’t have FAANG clients. I totally agree that when you do, the situation changes completely.

There is an argument to be made that for a smaller/normal customer, the power balance between corporation and customer is about equal. Both have the right to fire each other and if the customer is toxic or takes more time to support than could be focused on something else, you should fire them.

But the power dynamic changes once you start talking about big money. If you have a client that is responsible for 3/4 of your revenue, toxicity or not, firing them is easier said than done. And the bigger clients (FAANG types) know this too. There, I think the trick is to try to make the statement of work as clear as possible.

The one thing about a FAANG client to remember is that not all accounts are created equal. If it’s not a six figure contract, just because you have a deal with someone from Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net doesn’t mean they can’t be fired.

(It also doesn’t mean they have huge money or that your sales team can extort them. I had a podcast hosting provider try to upsell my zero-budget initiative into an enterprise plan my insanely low-volume podcast didn’t need by half-threatening to cut us off, just because I worked at a large media company. Needless to say, I fired them.)
Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software
@200 an hour, billed by the hour and counting from the first minute they have to be particularly toxic. Still I guess you should have your terms and conditions carefully though out.
Thank you for the details!

Can you point me on where to look for the price/cost distinction in early nuclear? I was not able to find definitive info there.
Yep, your feature flag is probably not going to prevent data from getting into an inconsistent state. Maybe it's possible in a system with very loosely related entities but for most non-trivial systems this isn't true.
I like your version of Chelsea #2
Yes they do. I have a lot of friends all over the world and I get back in touch with people every year when I travel.
Because it works well and I have nothing against facebook?
Macros are not really necessary and you don’t have to know the inner workings of everything for doing well with strings in Elixir.

The secret for working with strings in functional languages (or in languages with immutable strings) is to realize most operations, such as concatenation, end up copying the strings. So instead of saying “string1 concat string2 concat ...”, it is better to collect a list of strings and build one final string only at the end. Here is an Elixir specific article that goes more in-depth into this: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/elixir-and-io-lists-part-1...

Other languages may provide specific data-structures for this purpose, such as ropes, but in a nutshell that’s all there is to it.
You can't test everything in production.

Be it an infra change or application. It should always be like:

Staging -> Canary -> Production

If you invest time in making the above pipeline automated it will cause less outages.

P.S we use feature flags but it won't solve many other challenges around infra and application changes.

Some examples:
- Changing from Classic ELBs to ALBs (We care about latencies so ALBs served 1% traffic in the start)
- Zero downtime single mysql master upgrade. (ProxySql)
- New k8s controllers.
- New metrics adapters.

Staging should be like a playground to test all edge cases before you go to canary and then to prod.
Pick a topic that you've never searched for. Eg, "Paris tour", "strawberry farming", and watch a video for 10+ seconds. Then go back to the homepage.

It has completely updated based on what YouTube has learned about your interests based on your search and view history.

It works even without searching (eg, click through on a link on the default homepage).
Are you like 60 years old?