skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. If my employee sends out a group email listing demands that must be met in order for them to stay with the company, unless those demands are incredibly reasonable, I'm firing them on the spot.

What's the point in keeping someone that disgruntled around? They can only make things worse.
Jeff Bezos has made 90 billion dollars during the pandemic. He does not need to squeeze every drop of profit.
What are you even talking about?

Most people work 8 hrs/day, not 12. If you go to your local supermarket, you'll see tons of people shopping for fresh produce and meat, not frozen or flavorless or expired (???).

You're inventing a total straw man. Yes some people work 12 hour days and eat frozen food but it's a small minority.

If spending lots of time at markets is what you enjoy, that do that. That's what farmer's markets in the US are for. But lots of people prefer to spend their free time doing other things they enjoy. Farmer's markets can get old very quickly too. Sometimes people want to spend just 5 minutes grabbing some ingredients and checking out to make a quick dinner, not 30 minutes visiting different stalls, waiting for the three people ahead of you at each one, and then haggling over prices.
Why is google worried about this, how many software engineers want to join a union anyway?
In most Western countries, workers have a right to form unions.

So yes, companies have to accept it.
In NYC:

"The restaurant owner filmed a city inspector issuing a citation due to the cafe’s open front door"

https://ny.eater.com/2020/10/21/21526832/gravesend-restauran...
It looks like a very simple approach brought them very far. I like that they didn‘t „throw money“ at a problem they did not really have (maybe some expensive hardware or some AWS ELB would have worked too) and solved it in a simple way which worked very good for them.

And is it just me or do these cats pictures feel misplaced in such a blog post?
Both are sheep of different herds.
Ask HN: Made any successful commercial product with xojo?
Their website has a few examples but I am curious if anyone here is using xojo seriously?
Is this similar to or a response to Google‘a Anthos?
Damore was an engineer whose continued employment would open the company up to a risk of lawsuit.

Gebru was an ethicist who was willing to resign over some deep concerns. Presumably ethical concerns.

We don't know much more about Gebru's situation, but they're different enough that it's not a useful comparison.
I have a significant amount empathy which is why I have invested personal time and actual dollars in building this site and engaging in professional discussions.

My empathy is primarily towards the people who have worked hard for what they have only to have it ripped away because of arbitrary government decisions.

Regardless, the people who have passed directly from and because of this disease is a tragic story in the history of our country.
I wished computer/OS makers would consider this more. Frankly, I don’t see why this isn’t in the region of one refresh rate period of the display.
Carrots rather than sticks
The sidewalks here in the UK are often so narrow your can only just fit two abreast. We seem to have quietly understood the need for one to step into the road to pass, these days. I am not sure I can even recall someone walking past me in close proximity.
Is it really a novel data stream?

I believe you can already purchase billions of anonymized credit card transactions... https://datarade.ai/data-products/us-consumer-card-payments
Hey - this looks great. Couple of questions:

- Does re-balancing create a taxable event? If so, given a bunch of these cryptos trade in BTC pairs, do you generate all the documents necessary to file taxes?

- What do you feel about the top 10 currencies changing so rapidly over time? I think every month (or maybe two) the top 10 list significantly changes. Doesn't that accumulate a lot of trading activity and fees? Given the volatility, is there any point to holding the top 10 instead of just holding solid / consistent cryptos like BTC and ETH?
That makes me wonder: is there some tool for C that does dead-code elimination of source code rather than of the target binary? Something that'd strip out all these un-referenced constants?

It certainly wouldn't be useful for most projects, because most code that's un-referenced is only temporarily so. But in this codebase, it's a more permanent thing, with the driver for any given model being guaranteed to never need e.g. hardware register addresses for hardware doesn't have.
If you're using 1Blocker, you might want to turn off the (memory-leaking) 1Blocker Button until an update shows off...

Worked like a charm at least to me :-)

https://twitter.com/kb091412/status/1330470681813934086
Do you know for sure those topics are best first step? I'd argue they likely are not. Pick a language and buy the $10-20 udemy course. Javascript is popular, but I think it gets confusing fast and something like Python, Ruby/Rails, or even PHP is best place to start.

Spend any time on HN, or around entrepreneurial developers, and you'll learn we all realize programming is a skill but it doesn't create a business. If you're trying to do that, put your marketing chops to use first. Learning technology could take weeks or likely months. It's not a productive first step if you are serious. Topics like CI/CD are not necessary at all.
"Bezos’ fabulous wealth comes from stock."

Stock ownership should be illegal.
Slight aside but I'm somehow reminded of a quote from the film - The Dark Knight "You Either Die a Hero, or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become the Villain".
There's also nothing virtuous or efficient about the typical modern middle-class American lifestyle, double the house size of fifty years ago, three cars, college as status symbol, etc.

I think most people would say that all this new efficiency is crushing peoples souls. Isn't everyone talking about the loneliness of the modern age, the scary amount of people who are depressed at any time, hiding with drugs, the loss of clubs and other social institutions?

I tend to think that we've been selling our soul for efficiency. We'd have so much free time if we we didn't need to consume so much.
This is SUPER cool - congrats on the launch! A few questions:

Do you plan to offer Stripe Treasury to non-marketplace small businesses / individuals?

I ask because the #1 thing I've been wanting for the past few years is basically Stripe Bank :) I hate Bank of America. I'm not happy with any of the other startup banks. And honestly, at this point my first instinct when seeing Stripe Treasury is "Imma just build my own bank for myself!" (and that actually looks like a real possibility, at least technically).

If not, do you plan to offer a retail product for individuals?
I have seen it does.
You live in a small town with small businesses that are undercut by Amazon's price and scale. Those businesses slowly die out as everyone in your region switches to ordering online (primarily from Amazon). Amazon opens a warehouse in the region to meet the demand and is now the largest employer around.

This exact transformation already happened with Wal-Mart in the 80s and 90s. Obviously no one is literally forcing workers to go to Amazon's warehouses but you can see how in essence this leaves them with no choice (i.e. forced).
If you take 10,000IU because 8895IU is what gets 97.5% of people to 50nmol/L, you are basically assuming you need more supplement than 97.5% of people, which is highly unlikely. There are people "at risk" that have trouble metabolizing the supplement, but chances are you're not one of them.

You need to do blood tests. Don't take 10,000IU daily without consulting a doctor. The "generally considered safe" upper limit is 4000IU. You'll probably be fine with 2000IU. Too much Vitamin D can mess with your calcium and doses as low as 5000IU/daily over a few years have been reported to cause serious problems.
Hi Tara - first, thanks for coming here for Q&A.

My first question is, will any revenue be available for companies that build on top of this platform? Normal banks make money on interchange on bank cards and interest spread (as well as less savory activities like crazy overdraft fees). Is there any revenue split with the partner? E.g., maybe Goldman pays 0.82%, I offer my customer 0.50%, and so I pocket 0.32% of the balance.

Second, what about customer service for the end customer? There's clearly a top-level layer that's managed by the partner, a mid-level layer managed by Stripe, and the deep backend banking layer managed by the partner bank. How is customer support split up among those 3?

Those were my two main questions. I heard a couple of people asking about use cases. My use case would be an idea I've been kicking around for a while. I've been working on a concept for a next-level-totally-awesome personal finance budget app. The fundamental purpose of a personal budgeting app is to assist you in knowing when to say yes, and when to say no to a purchase, and to do autopsies on past purchases that may have messed things up. I tried a basic version using Plaid to get a data feed from my bank, but the Plaid data feed is inconsistent from bank to bank (with how it handles authorizations that later settle or fail to settle). Being able to bundle a budget app directly with banking could be killer. You'd have real-time, 100% accurate data coming in. That would be a game changer that might make me finally finish my dusty app.

So, Tara, if you're not doing revenue sharing with partners yet, please consider it:-). Revenue sharing is a great way to make apps-on-top-of-platforms flourish.
368,000 excess deaths so far in 2020, with 7k to 10k excess deaths coming every week as of late November. I.e. more than 400k excess deaths by the end of the year.
I’ve moved on to Square this year. They’ve been moving quite fast to shore up their online payment platform.
And I disagree that everyone should get paid a loving wage.

Let's take 2 identical twins Juan and Jamal (because if you've seen Juan you've seen Jamal). In school Jamal works hard, studies, and puts his efforts first. Juan on the other hand decides football is the way to go and along with that partying, drinking and at one point gets a gal pregnant.

They graduate Jamal gets several scholarships and goes to school while working part time to try and avoid debt. Juan only qualifies for community college but spends several years "finding himself" aka partying, drinking and generally not doing much.

4 years later Jamal graduates from school and gets a successful software engineering gig making a decent salary with which he is able to afford a decent house for him, his wife and his 2 children.

Meanwhile Juan has just finished his latest stint in jail for another DUI and it is a wake up call to him. He decides to get his life in order so he cuts out the drugs and the bad friends and tries to find a job. Unfortunately he's unqualified for anything decent because it turns out shotgunning a beer is a useless skill.

For many years Juan has made poor decisions, he has been a drain on society and it's resources, but now wants to change. That is good however to claim that he should get the same privileges and standing as his brother who spent years working hard giving back and making better long term choices is asinine.

EDIT:

There have been a lot of great and informative comments. Several people have been calling this out as a strawman. I'd like to point out this isn't a strawman this is actually remarkably close to what happenned in my own family, it isn't a fantastic out of this world scenario, it's one I lived. Dismissing this as a strawman, is to dismiss hte point without engaging with it.
Why is the Ferrari Testarossa named like this?
Crazy to think that such a profitable unit like AWS could have teams that are hurting for funding. I guess it’s run like that though.
What if you have had COVID and recovered, now test negative with antibodies. Should you still have to wear a mask?

If we are following the science, you should be fine to not wear a mask due to immunity, right?

Should these people also be allowed to live a normal life, gathering with others indoors, etc? I’ve never heard people giving the previously infected a pass to return to normal. I think everyone thinks it’s only fair to make them continue to suffer too, despite having immunity and ignoring the actual reason for social distancing and mask wearing.
About a quarter of my circle are elderly people who are literally incapable of installing an app themselves. I might have an extreme case, but this world you live in isn't real. Even the young tech savvy ones would immediately be like, "This isn't magically/obviously better, just Facetime me."
Lots of interesting details here. I’m struggling somewhat with the language since this isn’t my area, but it seems to be saying a few things.

First, this is a study of 80 year old men so YMMV.

Second, in that group, they found more sunlight didn’t seem to actually correlate with vitamin D activation. Regardless of how you got vitamin D, you got the benefits if you had the right gut bacteria.

This seems like good news, since there’s been some indication for a while that vitamin D supplementation can be hit or miss and sunlight may be better. This could be the missing factor.
Do you know what the actual compliance rates are? That does not seem like a problem with mask wearing, but rather a problem with the idea that it can be mandated.
This seems targeted mostly for marketplaces, but I'm curious if this enables a way to accept ACH and wire transfer payments. My thinking is use the API to let the end customer setup a treasury account on my site, they can wire/ACH funds to this account of theirs to pay invoices, and I can use the API to "debit" funds from their treasury account to mine as needed to cover their service bills.

Handling invoicing and payments for a class of enterprise customers who can't use a credit card for payments as a matter of policy can be painful.

*edit: I think this is actually possible with stripe connect today.
The variation between puppeteer and playwright is surprising. I thought playwright was a fork of puppeteer with a little bit of added functionality mixed in.
> If you'd like ESLint to be set up for you, add --eslint to the command. Note: this will use 150mb of disk space.

This is insane. No wonder they were motivated to create a minimal development tool. How could a CLI linter require 150 MB of disk?
They make a lot of sense, “employees have more control if they act together”, so I imagine they’re rightly scared of them catching on.
The initial U.S. response to the virus was to do nothing. It will go away soon. We can blame it on China for not communicating it sooner, but what would we have done? Things would be better if we had done nothing, sooner?
I actually sort of agree with always using turn signals, if not really the other point. There are a lot of behaviors that make sense to do reflexively because, if you have to think about whether to do them this time you may forget or incorrectly decide not to another time. Presumably you wouldn't think it was OK for them just to go through a red light because they don't see any other cars around.
This has an incredible amount of potential in the events space --- I'm excited to see what new advances this tech will enable
Thanks for the link. Just so you know, it wasn't my downvote - I don't think HN allows you to downvote replies to your own posts.
My bank wouldn't allow me to buy cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies let you decide your future, they offer freedom. No banks, you decide where your money goes.
>how unfortunate this virus was allowed to spread so long before the world was told about it.

Blame China. I'm frankly shocked at how few international repercussions they've gotten. Any sane rational nation would be issuing economic sanctions left and right for their inept, pathetic handling of the pandemic.
Do companies have a right to circulate anti-union material, to have anti-union speakers come to work, etc?
> What tactics are ok for a company to combat unions?

None. This is a legally protected right.
> Basically it's like printf format strings, it's a language within a language...

That's to be expected with a DSL, isn't it? It's almost the definition.

But I think you're right. The point of a DSL is to change the language to something that you find more useful for what you're trying to do. The downside is that you've changed the language, and now people don't know what to expect unless they're very familiar with your DSL.
Version without the giant watermark: https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/13345363628931891...
I think no additional software is needed to use the 360 controller on an M1 Mac.
$16 per hour, at 2000 hours a year, is $32,000. The poverty line in the United States is around $26,000. "Slightly above poverty wages" is still pretty dang poor.

(And to forestall the inevitable adjustment of one's pince-nez to well-actually: that it'd be median or even above-median wages somewhere else does not mean that it is not poor in America, nor that the two situations can be reasonably compared.)
You may be right about that.

The reason I went looking for the Vice article in the first place was due to what was said in the first paragraph of the article:

>According to documents, Amazon reportedly runs a surveillance program to track activism among its workers. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lauren Gurley of Motherboard magazine, who broke the story.
This is a really good analogy.
Your experience is misleading you then. The CDC numbers for excess deaths are only a bit more than a week out of date:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
No it doesn't:

"Number of DVI inputs 0" ( https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-ur55-series-28-ips-4k-u... )

And the GT 1030 is only single-link DVI, not dual-link, so you can't even drive 2560x1600 with it.

So it tops out at 2x 1080p monitors (or 1 high-res + 1 1080p secondary, whatever). Literally worse than GPUs from 10 years ago. Which since all I want a GT 1030 for is to drive monitors makes no sense at all.
Most Googlers aren't exactly passing around union cards, but a bunch are collaborating and organizing on pushing the company to do what they believe the company should do. It's kinda union-like, but software engineers aren't fighting for higher wages and workplace safety as much as trying to push ethical behavior.
Currently our scale is small and the cost is manageable. We are not funded by venture capitals or governments.
For countries which have good customer protection (), use of credit cards online can be reduced to just a transfer between 2 bank accounts.

That should be a lot cheaper than current fees, especially for large amounts, as you cut out a lot of expensive middlemen. It will be interesting to see if Stripe or Apple does this first.

It seems like 2 opposing fights are going on:

1) Mastercard and VISA tries to be the only methods of payments by trying to get rid of all national payment cards.

2) EU seems to want to reduce payment fees, but doesn't want customers to know the fee. I don't think they are ready to want the fees to be much lower.

Nice fees also allow for nice lobbying.

() e.g. in Denmark business's are not allowed to draw money from card before the goods are shipped
> Yes, Bezos does not want an amazon union and won't just let it happen without a fight. Same as always.

Which is, if I recalled correctly, illegal.
Yeah, the US don't have a history of attacking and destabilising other countries, especially in south america.
Money can’t buy happiness, I guess I’ll have to rent it
No, but we've had performance per watt wars for years now. It's why prior to Zen you only saw AMD chips on the cheapest of laptops, and also now why Intel is panicking.
You could say the same about Ethereum's ETH. It's a capital asset that when staked to validate blocks generates an expected return. You can discount those expected returns to the present like you would with any business.

Investing in profitable companies by itself does not generate above average returns. Only 1 of the original companies of the Dow Jones is still in it today, G.E. and it's performance as investment has been below average the past 20 years.
Golang is a good option too. It is very small and he/she doesn’t even need to learn advanced concepts in the beginning. Much better than banging head with JavaScript
Who needs to be coherent or honest when you can thrill your listeners by smearing some company you both already hate? Things like honesty and integrity are wicked when they fail to serve the cause; this is a time for deliberate obfuscation!

— npr, probably

Geez, guys. There's so many good reasons to go after Amazon; you'd think one of them would be enough, but nooooo.
I can't go into details, but let me say that someone who would be in the know at AWS, very much off the record, told us not to use their hosted elastic because of how terrible it is.

Some issues: scaling it is manual (a "managed service" that requires direct management to scale is not a managed service lol), the elastic versions supported are usually woefully out of date, limited customer adoption means that the product doesn't get a lot of engineering attention and is just limping along, etc.
> How does this match the title of the piece.

Read again:

> > It involves collecting data, it seems, from Facebook groups, from social media. In some cases in the case of the Pinkertons, there is a line in one of the documents that we've obtained that says that Pinkerton operatives were inserted into a warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to gather intelligence on what their warehouse workers were up to.

The Pinkerton case seems to be one case out of several mentioned in the papers and while the stated reason is to sniff out the application process even that is in direct conflict with official statements by Amazon.

> So they have no proof and this is all speculation.

They list a few points they know about right before the line you quoted.

> Another Amazon hit piece, real quality journalism here.

Still a lot better than the copy pasted Amazon press releases after it lost the lawsuit in France. Those were pure fiction with Bezos in the role of the poor abused Emperor Palpatine.
> M1 Macs embarrass all other PCs...

Sure, if you can bear living in a prison complex that has shitty window management and a petty tyrant of a warden.
Absolutely. That is the height of stupidity, and if we had any real leadership here, the messaging would be clear.

But if those people are going to be stupid in private, then I still want them to do all the CDC-recommended stuff in the places where we cross paths.

If we could isolate those folks in their bars and churches and let them burn themselves out, I'd be OK with that.

But they are in the grocery store the next day, wearing a mask around their chin because they care equally little in public as they do in private.

So, if you are not one of those people, signal it by wearing the mask properly.

("you" in all of the foregoing is directed generally, not personally!)
I think BCH is a reasonable idea, block size is a problem with BTC and increasing it is fine even if it makes it less likely that normal users will run full nodes.

The scumminess of it comes from people like Roger Ver who peddle it as the "true" BTC. e.g., bitcoin.com is owned by the BCH folks and they have several intentionally misleading things there that try to re-brand BCH as BTC and BTC as BTC legacy or whatever.
The assumption there is that plastic emits less carbon when it's being created than corn. Is that accurate?
D’oh you’re completely right about rollup vs parcel. I always get them confused because I trialed them simultaneously :p

Huh, I wasn’t aware of that being the primary use case of npx. I assumed the primary use case was to be sugar on top of ‘./node_modules/.bin/*’, which the documentation seems to lead with too (https://github.com/npm/npx)

They immediately call out auto-installation as a feature after that, but apparently there is a ‘—no-install’ flag you can use too. I guess I would have expected this to be opt-in through ‘—auto-install’ or something is all.