skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming it's developed in the west. They could've just outsourced that work, too. Here in India, I don't see too many developers who give a damn about user privacy. From privacy international's report on menstruation apps stealing data [1], two of the worst offenders (Maya and My Period Tracker) were from Indian companies.

1: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-bus...
> Regardless of personalities, the most important factor is profit. Everything else is secondary. It is not as flashy or famous as big tech companies, but this profit is paid in bonuses that far exceed the highest salaries for tech workers.

Depends a bit on what part of fintech you are working on.

There's lots of rank-and-file employees whose good salaries actually mostly depends on competition from tech companies. With a low-risk lifestyle mostly comparable to said tech companies.

To get the crazy bonuses, you need to move closer to the traders and some of the quants (or get very lucky). But generally those people work a lot harder and longer.

I've worked in tech companies (like Google and Facebook) and in those low-risk fintech roles (at eg Bloomberg and Goldman).

It seems that the finance industry as a whole seems to be moving away from the heroic model with enormous bonuses to the tech company model with good salaries.

The latter is cheaper and more predictable, and it fits the organisations as more and more work becomes automated.

(That observation is about companies like eg Goldman and only meant to capture an average. They still have plenty of individuals pulling heroics; and there are still plenty of hedge funds and similar on the old model.)

As another example, take high frequency trading market makers. They generally don't have any human traders at all, because humans would be way too slow. So their very nature forces them to become closer to tech companies in organisation.
>Among other things, because of a dead-simple user experience that lets even grandpa post content after a few clicks. Federation, if it adds any level of complexity past the grandpa UX, would defeat the goal.

You could have stopped there, that's pretty much the only reason. But that has little to do with federation though. And yeah the ugliness and bad UX problems of free software - software that's freely unusable - have been known for literal decades.
That's awesome. In today's decentralized world I'd love for more companies to encourage hiring in the smaller cities of the US. It would really increase our competitiveness globally if the average US programmer wasn't trying to cover rent on a 500 sqft $2k/mo flat in San Francisco.
I think it’s unsurprising that big changes to the legal system can’t easily be made on an ad-hoc, emergency basis. But that’s no excuse for not preparing for the next crisis.

Contracts should have a “disaster clause” suspending payment during an officially declared disaster. Perhaps Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae could require this for home mortgages?
How did they send money in the olden days of telegraphs?
I always found it curious how large employers in Manhattan would be moving out because the rent was too high.

Simultaneously buildings would be converting into condos because they were unable to fill vacant commercial space. As an example, two buildings where I worked had this happen: 70 Pine Street (AIG) and 75 Wall Street(JPMorgan.)

Doesnt the market meet somewhere in the middle?
Welcome to the everything bubble. We now have to choose whether people hurt in nominal or real terms. I think we will collectively decide to hurt real wealth rather than nominal wealth. All the two-sided obligations work out better that way. The difficulty of avoiding taxation on real wealth is probably for the 'greater good'.
How are you going to bail out landlords then? The money isn't going to come from nowhere.
The best first resource for any interest about the inside of finance is Matt Levine's column Money Stuff. He's currently on a break, but he has years of backlog you can read.
PPP funds were designed for that (60% to payroll, 40% to rent/utils). However, they only provided ~2.5 months of coverage, and we're well beyond that.
We have offices in Quebec, Ontario and Mantinoba.
I really like the author's first point, that one of his learnings was empathy for customers. Being on support for a product you didn't develop really calibrates you to understand what a product needs in order to be supportable, and where customers have problems with products. My time years ago in support was invaluable in shaping me as an engineer; I regularly push back against features that I know will be difficult to support or difficult for customers to understand.
Windows 10 on an i7 (Dell). It's a work machine.
Not like this. We are the targets of a massive, decentralized effort to create chaos through misinformation. It is very well-funded and organized. I have seen nor heard of nothing like this before. Even during the holocaust, the power to publish bullshit was concentrated in the hands of the few. Now I can distribute a message to millions in a matter of hours at basically no cost. These tools are publicly accessible to anyone on the network. The breakdown of truth and reality is real. With everyone locked inside for covid, we are more vulnerable to misinformation than we ever have been as a species.
There are red flags at banks.

Offshore style banks like HSBC are more susceptible to this kind of stuff because they have less of a wider stake in the situation.

Also, with 'cross jurisdictional' stuff, then it gets easier to hider.

Another way of helping would be saying 'your business transactions in the US has to be transacted by a financial entity hosted in a regime with strong regulations and transparency with the US' kind of thing. As an example.

Also, consider that merely hosting the accounts for a company committing fraud is not fraud itself in much the same way that hosting a website or doing their cleaning, or leasing them a building isn't either.
You don't, because that doesn't make mathematical sense.

Let's say I have the range [1].. [2], what is in this range?

Well vectors are sorted in lexicographic order, so every vector that starts with 1.

What comes after [1]?

Suppose it's any vector whose first non zero digit is in place n (e.g. n = 2 and the vector is [1, 0, 3, 1]). I can make a vector that comes earlier in the ordering by just inserting another 0 (e.g. [1, 0, 0, 3, 1]). This means that the vector has no non zero digit... but it is obvious that [1] doesn't come after [1], and that [1, 1] comes before [2] so [2] isn't the next vector, so (by proof by contradiction) there actually just isn't a well defined concept of next vector. As a result I definitely can't just list the vectors in a range in order.
You increase the price and more competition turns up and you end up climbing less trees. So you end up poor again.
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The only time they were making money was with WebObjects. They were onto something, but iTunes makes far more money than cool middleware
It’s a problem when you consider the trillions more the fed sent to loans for big businesses + banks, buying stocks, and buying mortgage bonds (which also kinda went to banks).
Look up “Force Majore”
Also, remind me.. the pricing of coconuts are low as well right? so the labor costs needs to be capped for profitability. But overall it's still odd..
> "Study Finds Most Restaurants Fail Within First Year Of It Becoming Illegal To Go To Them

Even without these laws, personal decisions would have decimated the business regardless. Even in places didn't shut down, patronage plummeted.
The onion was always ahead of their time. Also reflects what kind of world we live in
Wow, pulled a shawshank redemption.
The “trivial problems” you mention have taken hundreds of thousands of engineers three decades to solve.

As other people have mentioned, it’s awfully reductive to classify these problems as trivial. You think they are trivial because the solutions have been done well. You do not see the millions of man-hours that have gone into fixing these problems because you are not supposed to.

Life today is radically different than the 90s, and for the better. The power of the individual has significantly increased with the last three decades of technological progress.
Honest question: Why is Rust preferred by trannies?
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Security is much more than safety from invasions from other nations. It is a guaranteed safety net for when things go wrong; this covers everything from health care, to unemployment, to services for the homeless, and yes it includes helping businesses that collectively employ tens of thousands of people in times of crisis.
The law allows for jail time, it's just rarely pursued these days by the DoJ because Eric Holder changed their system to pursue 'wins' (fines) rather than criminal prosecution, because the bar for successful prosecution is so much higher to convict someone of a crime.

Can't lose a case if you never try and convict anyone.
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When I adjust the temperature in the car, change the volume on the stereo or change the heat output of a gas burner - they can all be done by touch controls, but the closest to something that might provide as good a UX I have ever experienced is the touch pad on newer macbooks.
None of which are states.
Dont most developers do level III support? Ultimately if the first and second lines of defense cannot solve the problem, from everything I've seen, it goes to an Engineer. If it is your product, i'd assume it comes to you. This has been the case at almost every company I've been at.
>Gundam

>no loss of people's lives

Sure...
I am not surprised it blows your mind.

Pricing in the Western systems is all about finding out how high you can price so fewer people pay a lot more which offsets running a larger scale business to serve more customers at lower price points. So these systems have accepted that not everything is for everybody, and do not even make an effort to get things to people. US healthcare is a good example here.

Countries with much large populations can not run that way, not everything at least. We are still learning to balance, which is why I want to adopt a region-based pricing for anything I build. Since customers from Western nations get a kick by paying more, I say, let them. Get and money and subsidize for the rest.
Well, hence my quotation marks.

Plus is a strange case because you need it for online play and some other PS features like cloud saves, so many people have it regardless of what games are on offer. Let's just say that a large number of PS4 players got it at no marginal cost.
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It likely happened in Florida and Texas too. Their profile basically matches New York.
Please elaborate! This sounds very interesting.

Do you mean that there is some tradition based price and it's accepted as "unchanging", or something else?
The guy who wrote the most lines of JVM code ever( Prof. Odersky) , who wrote the compiler that became the first javac compiler, who added generics to java5, himself moved away from java to create scala. Once you use something like scala or even kotlin,you never wanna go back- you realize java world is just playing catchup, They are now like a cola company advertising diet cola is healthy. The functional part of java is not really functional ( allows immutability). They just are trying to survive ,and are trying to add all kind of features to java, just to play catch up. I heard they are planning to add pattern matching in the latest version.
The guys who make some excuse, like kotlin or scala is hard, can really be compared to an older car mechanic saying tesla is BS because their knowledge will become obsolete if it takes off. If you really think a language is hard , you are not supposed to be in the programming business. Also these same guys just use java to program the web. Heck, java is fast but the cost of lost developer productivity in waiting for compilation cant be justified cant be justified for the saved 100 millisecond of processing time. What matters on the internet is the perceived speed and the page load time, and there are so many other ways to achieve that. Like simply upgrading to http2. Or preloading html , js and then “hydrating” the page. The entire source code of the forum dev.to is opensource and you can visit the website to see how fast it is. And its not written in java. This is just an example. Facebooks wasnt written/ hosted on the “enterprise” java. While java is fast and is suited for low latency data processing ( like trading system, or big data), I hate that even with the love it receives, 98% of the so-called java guys just use it for web programming. - Also scala beats java at the thing java does best- fast processing. Ever heard big data processing with spArk.
Also, they were very difficult to get. Especially for smaller businesses without bank relationships.
I think spring was "the wave".

In Nashville they closed bars and restaurants for 6 months because .004% of the cases came from bars and restaurants.

We need to give people choice.

If we wait until we get a vaccine it will be Fall 2022 and many Americans won't get it. What then? No bar and gym re-openenings until X percent of the population is verified to be vaccinated? Mandatory vaccination checks on entrance? Punt again and find reasons not to re-open until 2022?

Let people and businesses make their own choices.

Allow all re-openings and let people choose.
There are a lot of people that don't understand it in the west as well. It's also not as easy as some people make it sound. After all, it's the perceived value of both parties making the trade and not the actual value that's important.
In one notable transactions, investment bankers got their bonuses as toxic assets.

That was a genius move. It got those assets of Credit Suisse's balance sheet, looked good in PR, and receiving bankers were happy because those assets were worth more in the end than they looked like during the height of the panic when the transfer happened.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-01-26/at-credit...

As for software engineers: there's a tax dodge in them getting stock options in pre-IPO companies.

But in my one startup job, I negotiated a cash bonus, because we couldn't agree on how to value the options they were originally offering. (Basically, I thought they were next to useless, and the company obviously pretended otherwise.)

While Google, Microsoft etc are hiring, a software engineer who accepts a bad deal in options only has herself to blame.

(Stock options can also be a good deal. But they are hard to value.)
Don't eat the onion.
In my head I always say “eXtract Zee Files..” I think I read it on a message board years ago and it stuck.
Grew up in Ohio. I pronounce pen and pin the same way unless I am purposely trying to not, then I think I try to make pin a little more nasally but still pretty much sounds the same.

Lent and lint always sound the same.
FWIW, Godaddy says they don’t do and have never done that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523901

Their evidence is thorough. There are plenty of good reasons to change registrars, but the story you read probably wasn’t caused by Godaddy.
nyc and other municipalities really bungled the categorization of risk. restaurants and bars shouldn't have been lumped together in the first place.

most restaurants could have employed some modest measures and stayed open at 80-90% capacity (which may be below break-even for some, but probably enough to ride out the pandemic with price hikes and/or modest gov loans), as risk is isolated between tables (no, that one hypothesized case of down-blower transmission is not proof of significant risk) and you shouldn't be sharing breathing space with people you don't trust. people who would eat at a restaurant together likely ate together in private anyway when restaurants were shuttered.

bars, on the other hand, by their very nature make it very difficult to contain transmission risk, because the whole point of a bar is to lower your guard to promote mixed socialization. distancing, talking gently, limiting respiratory ejections, and/or wearing a mask just don't go together with drinking and carousing. (private parties then likely became a primary transmission vector, but there's no way to stop private parties without truly draconian measures.)

we could have let restaurants save themselves by remaining open, and tackled the remaining, more manageable issue of closed bars with supplemental programs.
Because that’s the length of the iterator? The range is empty, its exact size is 0.
He doesn't seem to be able to prove he is the rights holder to that photograph though?
How do you have a business of any size without a banking relationship?
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> The Federal Reserve seems primarily focused on keeping asset prices high

Pshh - the Fed is focused on hitting unemployment and inflation targets. Low yields in the credit market shifts investment demand towards equity.

The "downward pressure in the equity market" is also deflationary pressure and accompanied by a rise in unemployment. Just because the two coincide doesn't mean the Feds principal goal is high asset prices.
HSBC always comes out first when the topic of money laundering comes up. They seem to know where the money is and how to get the cut. It’s not going to stop as they paying fines is a no-brainer if that is the only side effect for illegal/criminal activity.

I dont know why Institutions get away with criminal activity with a slap on the wrist. Tells a lot about our society. Sometimes it feels like laws exist only to keep the poor guy without clout in check.
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The coconut is harvested at different stages and used for different purpose
- Tender coconut - Havested at very early stage and mainly used for the water. They have cream inside that is yet not solid and more water. Good for drinking only.
- Slighly ripe. These are the coconut used for cooking. They have solid inside and less water. Grated coconut and coconut milk are made from this. Virgin coconut oil is also made from these.
- Old ones - Mostly the coconut that falls naturally. Outside is fully brown in color. They have no water inside. And the solid cake is dried and pressed to extract oil.
Those seeking rents should be where the buck stops in a paused economy.
I, uh, what?
Just as expected! Does anyone know any good alternatives to handle payments and licensing, preferably something which doesn't require any upfront fee? Currently I'm using Gumroad for an extension I run (https://codegena.com/WAXP) but would love to know other options.
so why not go to 1000% ? 10000%?
Isn’t everything bigger than Macintosh?

I’m almost surprised they are even bothering to continue the line and just don’t shove the dev work out to Microsoft. Especially since they have been de-thanged, Windows is no threat at all to Apple’s market.
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Funny, I was just doing some feature flag cleanup. The article makes good points, but I think I'll just clean up once a year or so and not worry too much about adding the flags :)
Agriculture in Europe runs on underpaid, often illegal, immigration.

There's pressure on the consumer side not to pay, say, a tomato more than a few cents, which means you either pay workers peanuts or you just don't harvest them.

So, not that different I suppose.
What income do you consider the rich? I thought we were all in agreement, but I recently saw some Pew research that had me surprised.
AFAIK this is not intended to be free-standing. It is more like a large puppet held up at the waist.
Further to this, in other jurisdictions you would have to litigate this in a court that would not award costs so drastically out of step with the claim. That must be at least part of the problem?
What leverage do landlords have in enforcing payment, if no one would move in if they evict a business? I certainly would only pay very discounted rent until society reopens and I think it would be insane for anyone to suggest otherwise.
I'm essentially in the same boat as you -- I'm willing to pay for content as I do for my books, or support free sources of information as I might for Wikipedia. The siren song of the advertiser is hard to fight though, even if many people are willing to pay the price for a quality product. The Faustian bargain that I presume leads to this mess: Any ad-free informational product could probably reach a wider audience and thus pump up revenue, if they traded some of their up front cost in exchange for a few modest ad slots or selling a little customer information here or there (To some degree paid users would put up with these things even without any subsidy to their subscription whatsoever, so it could also be directly pocketed).
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This drove me away from the desktop app. The native notification system is great because it gives me full control. I have no control over the teams notifications. So now I use teams in the browser since the browser uses native notifications.
You might be surprised, but many places have similar murder rates to Iceland. For example, Vancouver, Canada had 9 murders in 2019 [1], not far off of the ~2/year that Iceland has [2].

[1] https://www.vancourier.com/news/vancouver-on-pace-to-surpass...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/12/the-murder-that...
I remember attending a talk where the conclusion was that you should never market a product as "green" or "eco-friendly". The reason being that if that's your value proposition then you are now limiting your product to people who care about "green" and "eco-friendly". It's better to market a product that is really good but happens to be eco-friendly.

The same seems to be pretty much true of "federation".
Most of them wouldn't have had formal education, which will make their negotiation skills weak. So there could be a prevailing rate based on poor pricing and general agreement of those rates (both on the supply and demand side). Additionally, this puts them in a different social bracket which is more used to taking orders than making fair demands. This of course is not unique to this particular trade.

However, I don't think the skills were particularly in short supply especially back then (I am from Kerala, which translates to 'land of coconuts'). Ultimately the coconuts did get pulled although the workers weren't paid so well.
Back when Omni Magazine was around, they had an article on what intelligent life on Earth would be like now if the Chicxulub meteor impact had not happened.
Except in the present case we ended up with both.
It would be nice if it ran in formatted blocks and had to be activated like flash is on its deathbed.
Sounds very fun and full of interesting challenges. It's not directly applicable because they didn't use underground dwellings, but you might appreciate the book "One Straw Revolution" for the spirit of community and simplicity of growing food. Maybe some people on permies.com would be interested or have advice.
You suggested they should give something back. Which implies that they aren’t already giving something back that is worth keeping on its own merits.

Which is a pretty dim view of both the service industry and third places like restaurants.

So I ask again, what do you think restaurants are for, since they aren’t, in your opinion, doing anything that is already worth preserving?
oh man, thats pretty cool.

My wife would really enjoy seeing that.