skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations, you have earned the achievement “chronic condition”.

Your rewards are as follows.

You have max exhaustion at all hours of the day!

Exercise recovery is bumped from next day to 2 weeks!

Your pain level is now on par with dying cancer patients!

Everyone now considers you lazy and incompetent!

Doctors now blame all symptoms on anxiety!

You gain +1 to medical research ability. But -20 to Reputation.

You now get spontaneous and useless medical advise from people that believe in essential oil.

You are now on timer with your job until sympathy runs out!

Disability now can mock you openly as clearly your faking and don’t have a real condition!

You are now a burden to your family!

+10 sneak score; you quickly learn to hide your suffering!

+20 to loneliness!

-20 to persuasion! Asking for help gets little from doctor's.

+10 Planning! Your kids may be orphans soon, make sure they get taken care of. Read fine print on death benefits.
——-

Staying positive when you have a chronic condition is incredibly difficult.

Your not going to get through it without losing your mind now and then.
Through the investors' eyes, "the proceeds from the sale wouldn't even pay for our time and legal fees in reviewing and signing the transaction documents." That's basically it.
> Ordinary days, I issue git commands several hundred times.

I wonder if this is an exaggeration, or if the author truly has that git-heavy of a workload?

Assuming you're working an 8-hour day, that's 480 minutes. If you're issuing "several hundred" git commands, I'd take that to mean a minimum of 300. So that's a git command every 96 seconds. When do you have the time to write the actual software in between all of those git commands?!
Especially if one is ideologically committed to light touch regulation / free market economics. This makes false advertising a particularly serious crime because it introduces a false information asymmetry between the customer and supplier that damages the effective functioning of the market.
> but it is because they market heavily and lobby against consumer protections.

Yes.

> not everybody has the time, energy or mental capability to absorb the nuances of the business models behind the consumer products they buy

Exactly. And while it could change (let's hope) - I think most people simply shouldn't.
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New printers often come with a trial of the manufacturer's subscription plan, which will automatically order ink when it's running low. I guess if you activate the subscription when it runs low, it will send a new cartridge straight away. This probably also works with a real card number if you just cancel the subscription before it starts charging.

I'd assume that only works once per printer - or at least it's enough of a pain to repeat it that most people would rather pay. The smallest subscription plans are pretty cheap.
stash is supposed to be a short term thing, if you are doing the whole "apply/verify/list/drop" cycle, named branches are a superior approach.

I find the power of the stash in "stash pop", which applies, and drops if there were no conflicts:

git stash push
git checkout -b newbranch upstream/right
git stash pop

and yeah, if your keep your branches long-term stash is not a good solution for this.
Actually intermittent reinforcement is much more effective. If it's offered every time, then when it is not offered it is less likely to trigger the desired behavior. Operant conditioning using intermittent reinforcement trains to not expect the reinforcement mechanism every time, so when it doesn't come, the desired behavior is still displayed:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/intermittent...
Why isn’t it? I highly suspect the CCP stole trade secrets with zoom.
The security page [1] is extremely light on details. For example, sharing information with others usually involves asymmetric encryption (public/private key) such as RSA or elliptic curve cryptography. The security page doesn't mention it at all.

It doesn't help that the security page also mentions "Militray" grade encryption.

[1] https://www.secureappy.com/security
Congrats Josh :)
Nice. Easy to add a project. I only think the max_length of project subtitle should be bigger, but ok, I can live with it.
There are multiple issues with pointer arithmetic and it is widely regarded as one of the weakest, most failure-prone points in the C language.

Some discussion:
https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~richardw/classes/cs31/s18/off...

http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~reeves.92/CSE2421au12/SlidesD...
All indications are that they were operating on a profit basis, not a growth basis, so I think it's a poor assumption that anybody was being paid a half-salary. As the post states, they're keeping their same compensation going forward, and all are choosing to stay, suggesting it's very satisfactory, and has been all along.
As someone who develops for iOS and Mac, I sometimes ask: why put in the effort of making it cross platform? Most Apple users are happy in their ecosystem, and they pay for apps. Android would not allow for developing in Xcode and Swift, and also the users don't really pay for apps. It's well known that the Play Store environment is pretty much horrific for the indie developer trying to make a buck.
And employees
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The ‘messy middle’ of the purchase journey
Because of the hyper-distributed nature of American elections, those with doubts can often walk down the street (or catch a bus) to the elections office, start talking to people, and find out how the process works.

Also because of the hyper-distributed nature of American elections, that's a much better way to understand how they work in one's town than to look at national news about what's happening in Miami-Dade County. If you're not a citizen of Florida (much less a resident of Miami-Dade), you might as well ask how elections are run in Germany; it'll apply about as much to how they run in your town.
Fair enough, I'm talking about the non software engineering side of ad tech.
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"Corporations are people my friend"

--Mitt Romney [0]

So we should all remember that Zoom is probably depressed right now and could probably use some support from its friends. Maybe urge GCal to send it a nice note.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/08/11/13955...
My pet theory about why modern democracy appeared when it did instead of earlier during the Medieval period is that it coincided with the rise of cheap muskets, which overturned the power dynamic between masses of untrained and unequipped peasants and knights with lifelong combat training and the best armor technology available. When victories started to depend less on whoever had the best elite fighting force and more on whoever had the most muskets in the field, the winner is whoever had a better system for funneling wealth and power to as many people as possible instead of to just a small class of elite fighters. For a new state with little government tax revenue or wealth, the democratic vote was a cheap and effective way for America to raise as many militiamen and muskets as possible. If muskets didn't come onto the military scene when it did and the American revolution was fought between armored knights, I'm quite confident the vote would have remained limited to only landowners that had enough economic surplus to spend their time training and maintaining their war equipment instead of spreading to anyone that could hold a musket.

Based on this model, WW2 was probably peak democratic potential. Everyone had the same capacity to hold a rifle or work on an assembly line, and whatever country could mobilize the most workers/soldiers would be the strongest. With automation and computerization, a member of the technology elite that can program a robot to make widgets or shoot hostiles can roll that out to replace millions of humans instantly. The world is reverting back to the economic and technological setup that fostered feudalism, where someone trained from birth with the best equipment can outproduce and outfight a numerically superior force.

The big difference between old and neofeudalism I can see is that the technological elites in neofeudalism are more vulnerable than the old military elites because they individually also have lower bargaining power. For a medieval knight, their effectiveness is the same no matter which king they serve under, which gives them plenty of power to switch sides. For a member of the technological elite, you may be so hyperspecialized in your niche that if you leave the system that gives you the ecosystem and tools to do your work, your economic value plunges. An individual chip designer without a company that can pay thousands for monthly EDA software licenses or the millions needed to tape out a chip is as unproductive as any member of the unskilled labor pool. Even the average web developer is dependent on a surrounding national/international technological ecosystem far more than a medieval knight would be on his private estate. In neofeudalism, the real holders of power are the same as in older feudalism. They're propagandists, kings, clergymen, academics, populists, think tanks, revolutionaries, people with enough social acumen to get others to do things that coincide with what they want and make them like it at the same time.
I'd say it's less that spreadsheets are underrated and more that they're so ubiquitous that people don't even think about them.

Basically "low code" solutions are meant to improve upon the spreadsheet and fill the gap between that and software.
Yeah, but the South got Reconstructed ended out of it. Basically, the United States turned a blind eye to Jim Crow to avoid getting close to another war.
.NET 5 launching at .NET Conf 2020 today
What happened with Jeri Ellsworth? I love her work. I vaguely remember her spinning out her Valve project into a new company backed by Valve. I believe there was a Kickstarter.
Common sense suggests correlation
I'm sure you believe this in good faith, but most human beings are not as driven and are not as good natured as you.

This is also why governments or any form or redistribution is inferior to a perfect market without human interference: you will always have bad apples stealing resources or being as inefficient as they can be.
I know this because I'm a psychopath, I feel zero guilt or empathy and the thought that someone like me could be in a position of power is downright scary.
That's tricky, agreed. One chance in 1000 every day adds up to a 30% chance in a year for instance.

And 1-in-5 every 90 days equals 4-in-5 over a year. If the risk doesn't change over time (if the covid effect is persistent for a year)
Is that a reference to the Chinese government because it appears in Canada we are using Zoom as well.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-participatin...
> What a slap on the wrist.

Exactly. Any small startup owners would see jail time. Similar case in recent History is Trump non-profit (please no flamewars). There are tens of thousands of business-owners rotting in jail today because they embezzled half a million bucks or more - here with Trump charity you have case of at least $2 million stolen plus self-dealing and basically living your whole life/paying personal bills out of charity and what does the judge do? - "Here Mr. Trump is a $99 training seminar on "How not to steal" from your own charity. Go get you and your children watch this online class and report back when you done".

Unbelievable.
What system libraries would that be? Windows has DirectWrite, but AFAIK on other platform (or even web browsers), the situation is dire.
I would not consider the philosophy of those three writers to be the same philosophy.
How do they support "free", especially if they are storing larger items, like pictures.

I use keepass for my personal passwords, for stuff I need to share. I use encryptr (https://spideroak.support/hc/en-us/articles/115003945666-Enc...). I trust Spideroak because the are transparent and I know how they are making money.

I've also used keybase some, it has free storage and encryption.
is this sarcasm ?
Times they are a changing. I guess publishers will have to adopt to the fact they abused the viewer for too long and need a new monetization model.
Not trying to play devils advocate here, but who genuinely believes a Linux Steam client is a "credible alternative" to Steam on Windows?

It's an alternative, I agree, but I can't imagine a world in which it makes a dent on their Windows revenues any time soon. If Microsoft try to really force Store only app distribution on all users, I think Valve's time would likely be better spent in the courts than trying to get hundreds of millions of users to install Linux.
If I were miffed, I could rescind the offer or ask for more. Just like the investors could have demanded their money back if they wanted too.

They chose not to, which would seem to indicate they weren't miffed. Nobody forced them to do anything. It's not immoral to ask someone for an accommodation and accept it.

The investors didn't give him the money as a friendly favor to help him it out. It was an investment. Presumably they make a lot of them and understand the risks involved in doing so. If you're going to get hurt feelings whenever one of your investments doesn't pay off, you're not cut out to be an investor.
Yep, got a part of these issues after Epstein-Barr virus and especially

> Doctors now blame all symptoms on anxiety!

hits hard.
throw in a sprinkle of getting checked out medically normalises being checked out medically so you're more likely to go back for other things I reckon.

It wasn't till I needed to go to the hospital for a physical injury (plus the times popping back for physio) that I started going to the GP for mental issues too
Some more information the reader may find of interest.

Betting exchanges have market makers and heavy automated trading, just like financial exchanges. The price is arbitraged and adjusted in real time between the different exchanges.

The two biggest exchanges after betfair are smarkets and bet365. The first closed the market and redistributed the money. The second didn't seem to accept betting on the US election.

It means that the betfair market is in free wheel, no more connected to the rest of the world, it can effectively show any price.

Smarkets: https://smarkets.com/event/886736/politics/us/us-presidentia...
Just curious, what would it take for you to get on a 737-Max?

European and American regulators have gone over it with a fine tooth comb at this point and allow it to fly. There is always gonna be people that will say the plane shouldn't fly. Arguably the amount of attention this plane has gotten will probably make it one of the safest in the industry going forward.
I hope they contribute some of that money back to Jason where it is deserved.
I think instead of a mutable GeminiRespone, add that not_found() (and subsequently new response types) into GeminiResponse impl and construct one when needed. And then, for consistency, GeminiResponse::new() should become GeminiReponse::success().
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IBM launches 7nm POWER10 CPU
First thing that came to mind!!! I was so drawn into that movie the first time around, that phrase will forever be etched into my memory. :)
Does this imply that if no "master appeared" as of yet, only the student's "readiness" is to blame?
When I did tech support for HP some 20 years ago, our advice to consumers was never to refill your toner as the photo reactive material on the drum would wear over time.

I always assumed this was true and the cartridge would last maybe 2-3x the initial amount of toner. I’m amazed that is 10 years! That’s awesome.
Well this blew up and lots of you missed the point

> right tool for the right job

I'll give you that this is (slightly) ambigious. But here's the gist

>you can safely ignore the opinion of anyone who says "never do X"

There are lots of alternative tools listed in this comment tree.

Stash has a purpose. You should know what that purpose is. A tool is only as good as its user
>The guy knows fuel maps, timing and compression ratios like the back of his hand, but I keep insisting that he tell me how the sun gear of the transmission engages the planetaries and in what sequence because he has to know this to be any good as an engine guy and come to the conclusion in my head that if he does not know transmissions it is a signal that he is not fit to be an engine guy.

Sure, but that's not what happened. The real story, in contrast to the tweet, is that he didn't really know what a b-tree was. And if you're hiring an engine mechanic and they tell you they don't really know what a transmission is, well, that's a pretty big red flag.
Shameless self-promotion: I’ve been in a similar journey of learning DSP and I’ve been sharing my findings as well: https://youtube.com/channel/UC_R-6HcHW5V9_FlZe30tnGA
> FreeBSD sed doesn't have the in-place editing that GNU sed has

FWIW, that's not correct. On BSD (incl macOS), the -i option takes an argument for the file extension to use as a tmp file:

So for GNU sed:

sed -i 's/old/new/g' FILE

Translates to BSD sed as:

sed -i '' 's/old/new/g' FILE

It is not recommended to use an empty string as the extension, but as long as your sed command does not fail due to disk space etc, it is fine.

Also, GNU sed takes an extension argument too, but it is optional:

sed -iEXT 's/old/new/g' FILE
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> Wisconsin is now marked as flip on the map on cnn's website

“Flip” is a state called in 2020 for the opposite party that won it in 2016; it's an indicator of changes in the electoral map. Wisconsin has been marked that way from when it was first called.

From the page you cited:

"Flipped seat" denotes a race where the 2020 projected winner is from a different party than the previous winner or incumbent.
Wouldn't it be more natural to do this sort of thing with decorators?
Idk, maybe I'm naive and can't see through the hype, but solving this - " We built in redundancy at every point — transport, ingestion, processing, delivery, and playback — to make sure the system could withstand most types of failure." is pretty impressive. The scale of an engineering project like that seems nuts to me.
I totally get what he is trying to say. It is becoming so obvious after 8 months of social isolation, lockdowns and a ton of toxicity in the community. The aftermath of this "lets lock down everything to protect a few" strategy is going to be horrible. Not just economically. Lockdown lovers seem to think people are machines that you can turn off and on whenever you like. Thats not the case.
Yeah - I write open source code to learn things that I won't get to or be forced to learn from a day job (currently a data platform in Python) - implementing authn/authz, network programming, creating a small framework.

I enjoy it and I expect it to help me become a more well-rounded and therefore more employable developer.
Yes, that means it changed from the 2016 election.
I completely agree, and that's a huge topic unto itself.

Briefly, the issue with auditing, as with most things, is incentives over time. The difference between fraud in finance and software engineering is how long the bezzle[1] lasts. In finance, it can last a very long time in up economies, leaving Big Three auditors plenty of time to scurry off. In software you have to deliver at some point, leaving lying auditors exposed to discovery by security researchers immediately.

There is certainly still room for shenanigans if not set up correctly, but less than in finance.

[1] https://moneyfyi.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/5358/
look at various health forums. Autoimmune in particular.

This is such a common pattern. People are dismissed for years before getting proper treatment.
Some conditions the time to diagnosis is seven years.
Entire time people are being told it’s in their head.
Another click bait article. Sad to see psychological terrorism so prominent throughout the United States let alone globally. I'm genuinely surprised hacker news hasn't built a feature to filter out this junk, but of course disinformation is more profitable than real credible studies. This is a great example of the same psychological exploit used with push notifications just in click bait form... Anyone else tired of the internet being abused in this form?
Nice. I have always wanted to try passthrough, but with proton working so well I never had a need. Worth trying for a few multiplier games I guess.
Probably that psychosomatic is real?
The charts you linked to are showing measurements taken under Linux.
I have sold a business as well, and I have to admit I am very surprised by this response, too. Not only does Josh divulge information that most founders are legally forbidden from ever revealing, he also was always extremely open about the journey of the business, even facilitating the [Open Startups](https://baremetrics.com/open-startups) page, where Baremetrics itself is listed.

What surprises me most is the lack of understanding of founder risk. Most negative comments are related to employees not walking away from this exit. It feels to me that many here seem to conflate the inner workings of heavily VC-backed businesses with a slowly and sustainably growing company like Baremetrics. I see a lot of assumptions all over the comments.

I appreciate the discussion, though. It's nice to see people sticking up for employees. But a sub-10-people SaaS that's ALMOST self-funded is not the same as a prospective unicorn.
Or possibly via 16mm. I got similar vibes to a lot of the educational films from the 70s which I had to watch in high school in the 90s.

Maybe they didn't keep the original negatives, just a master tape to make copies from.
Anyone who believes startup outcomes are mostly luck doesn’t have what it takes to be a successful founder—you need to have the belief that you can shape the outcome. The idea that we reduce outcomes to two buckets, success and failure and then flip a coin is reductive and belies the decisions and effort that lead every human endeavor to its own unique outcome. Keep in mind corporate projects fail all the time too, we just don’t talk in these terms because people’s salaries and jobs aren’t on the line. Of course luck matters tremendously in terms of riding a series of waves to make a billion dollar company, but it was paved with hard and deliberate work every step of the way. The founders could have reacted and changed direction completely at any stage along the way, therefore these fixed percentage figures are meaningless. How hard did each of those founders work? How many pivots? What type of businesses? What skill sets did they bring?

And to your last point, who is saying it’s wrong for employees to get more stake? Of course it’s not wrong, but as an employee you have to negotiate that. People can’t just magically get what they feel they deserve because it would add up to way over 100%. Remember, the company exists because of the founder, doesn’t matter how much you think you contribute, because at the end of the day the company does not exist without them. If you can convince them to give you more then you should, and if you can’t you are free to start your own company. I do not see what is so unfair about this situation and I say that as instrumental #1 employee who got less than 1% for a 9-year effort building a moderately successful company. You don’t get what you deserve in life, you get what you negotiate.
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Brother also has a handy iOS app for printing and scanning.
This is a great idea. Thanks a lot for the feedback.
Human existence is Venn diagrams of desperate efforts for attention.
Right, but these rules were decided prior to the election and governed by individual states. It's a bit of a non-issue at this point.
Not all stores “buy” their own stock. Take Walmart what doesn’t sell they just give back to manufacturer and don’t pay for it.
Mistakes I made as a seed stage CEO
Making Mass Effect not require admin rights, or how not to write a boolean check