skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan... has more background on this and other aspects of business life in Japan. A few excerpts:

> Need to file paperwork with City Hall? Someone from HR can do it for you. Salarymen don’t file tax returns — the National Tax Agency and HR work out 100% of the paperwork on their behalves. Insurance? Handled. Pension? You’re sorted. Immigration, for those very rare salarymen who are also foreigners? Your CEO has written a letter to the Minister of Justice for inclusion with the paperwork that HR has put together, and you won’t even have to carry it into the office.

> We’ve mentioned that your company considers it its responsibility to see you appropriately married. That is not the sole way in which the company may try to arrange companionship, but let’s table that issue for the moment. When you get married, your boss will give the longest speech at your wedding, praising your diligence on that last project and bright future with the firm. Perhaps eight or so coworkers will show up. They’ll also take up a collection for you if a parent should pass away, come visit if you’re hospitalized, and offer to intercede if you should have trouble with your wife or children. You are, after all, one of the family.

> The stability is superior to even tenured professors or civil servants in the United States, though. Eliminating your position will result in, at worst, your transfer into a division optimized to shame you into quitting. Incompetence at one’s job bordering on criminal typically results in one’s next promotion being to a division which can’t impact shipping schedules and has few sharp objects lying around.
Agree we should now have data to look at but don't? They can have their kayfabe but when it comes to me injecting stuff to believe it I have questions.
> I think it's like boiling the frog.

You can’t boil a frog like that.
Coders are becoming dime a dozen. I would tell future generations to steer clear and specialize. There's a lot more to it than programming
Cycling boom rolls on amid struggle to meet UK demand during Covid
All viruses either die out or become endemic. They mutate continuously while reproducing in your body because copies are not perfect. Most mutations do nothing. Sars2 is already well adapted to humans and none of the new mutations have significantly changed anything about the virus no matter what the media says so it looks like vaccines will end the pandemic soon.

I think Sweden got accused of letting infected seniors just die. I remember it being a scandal last year.
Yes that's something I don't see brought up often. Carbon is an input to photosynthesis.
DARPA was based in Virginia... so not sure what SV history you are referring to.

Yes Guangdong is the technology zone for China, it receives both state funding, state run incubators and special economic status.

But in essence they have both highly skilled hardware engineers and software engineers which is like SV of old. Where as current day SV is dominated by software, where they ship the manufacture of things to Shenzhen or Taiwan.

As far as universities, you have Sun Yat Sen University in GZ one of the top tier universities in China. And yes a whole lot of internal migration from the north to the south. Shenzhen growing from 70k to 10mil in 40 years is an insane population movement
That doesn't affect my point. They're a case study not in the sense of "look how easy it is for hospitals to be overrun", but instead "look what an absolute tragedy it is when hospital are overrun". Of course the country predisposed to hospital overruns hit that issue first.
Indeed, a 1 in 1000 chance of dying isn’t worth upending civilization over. You get fewer than 100 years on this earth regardless, to put it in perspective.
>Not that macOS is pleasant to use with a mouse...

Huh? That should be the first time I hear it itsn't...
> Amazon wants $15 in order to put the final nail in the coffin of small business hiring that teen for their first job stocking the small local store...

This is correct but it's a good thing because small businesses are unironically bad. Small business owners are the most reactionary demographic in the US, less productive than large businesses, the most abusive towards employees, and exempt from discrimination laws.

They also don't have negotiation power and can't improve anything with their suppliers (e.g. Chinese restaurants may all be family-owned, but they're all buying ingredients from the same place).
If I buy a tablet with Raspberry Pi inside, I want to use genuine Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine ... not Android) with different apps (terminal, vs code, python, node, java ...) besides the browser. I will type a lot on it. So, I need a bigger screen (bigger than the 12.9" ipad pro) and a keyboard and touchpad like the ipad magic keyboard. I also like to have 4 chargeable USB-C ports on 4 sides of the tablet. I think I'm dreaming :-)
Fantasy sports are a great way to foster/maintain adult long-distance friendships too. I find standard fantasy pretty boring, but it can become a very interesting strategy game with a two tweaks:

1. Teams carry a significant number of "keeper" slots each offseason (maybe 1/3-1/2 of total roster size).

2. EVERYTHING is tradeable-- players, picks, FAB, keeper slots... everything.

Together these conditions allow teams to play with different strategies and on different time horizons, opening up a lot of innovative wheeling and dealing.
> ..with lockdowns in effect enough to keep hospitalization rates below capacity.

My understanding is that lockdowns didn't really change things significantly, so the "with lockdowns in effect" is not really relevant. See California (extreme lockdowns from the top) vs Florida (a bit of lockdown from the top) and their associated infection rate per 100k, which is nearly the same.
Yes. But given the choice, in non life or death situation. Between sex and food. People would pick way more sex than food.

What I mean is that sex is easier to reach for than food when a person is bored.

Just like heroin is more potent than aspirin.

Also it has been proven that both sex and heroin stimulate pleasure parts of the brain.
What of those unable to produce more than some value less than minimum wage? Not everyone is capable of $15/hr productivity, why would you deny them work? nobody is expecting them to achieve independence (say, bc Down’s Syndrome) but they can still produce some value and have a right to earn what they can.

There are tasks I’d hire people to do, but it’s not worth enough to pay housing/food/care/heat/etc for.
Note that this is Florida's official death rate which we know underestimates the real rate. The governor stepped in and made all numbers go through a special department which does things like throw out any deaths from non-residents (snowbirds and visitors).

Based on excess death counts, the real number for Florida maybe 25-100% higher. See:

https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/25/undercounting-covid-19-d...

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-florida-coron...

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2020.3061...
I'm sorry for his loss. The other people at his institute should be helping him out during this time.
Honestly macOS has always felt laggy to me in comparison to Windows. Even with a mouse. I think there are latency issues there, but also many design issues like the interminable animation for maximizing windows. Compare to the speed of Aero Snap gestures.
This reminds me of supermarket clerks running IBM 3270 apps one handed. As long as the UI is straight forward, it doesn’t need to be pretty or slick. It just needs to be second nature.
Lockdowns were just meant to be for two weeks to “flatten the curve”, remember?
Yep, and if the punishment is typically fines that take a small percentage of your profit, why wouldn't you turn around and keep doing it.
What website is that data from? I see they go to great lengths to hide it and that's very important. If it's a website focused on marriage it'll be very different from Tinder.

The headline of this post agrees with the real data from reports published by OKCupid years ago, back when they were a cool company.
Doom 3 on Raptor Blackbird [video]
Absolutely not, assuming they could use either SquareSpace or Shopify and get 100% of the features they need.

I specifically left out WordPress, which is an absolute nightmare to maintain. I recently inherited 9 WordPress sites, some of which should've just been static sites, and they are a mess of plugin spaghetti and hidden code.

Avoid WordPress for new projects. There are plenty of alternatives that aren't ground-up custom builds.

> average cost to implement headless architecture for enterprise business is $2.6 million

This needs a lot of context. The likely scenario is that these enterprises are converting a lot of existing sites.

For a brand new site, getting started with a headless CMS is not a lot slower than WordPress anymore.

> Interested to hear other peoples' experience with using a headless CMS for small business clients and thoughts on opportunities for the future?

We're starting to switch to Strapi for our CMS and Svelte as our client. Existing sites were reasonably well-built on WordPress (Oxygen or Elementor).

It has been a breath of fresh air. It's amazing to be able to fully use git again. Multiple devs can work on the same file without stepping on each other's toes.

Headless CMS is much closer to using WordPress than to building things from scratch, which I think people don't realize. We've been able to on-board clients onto it very easily.
Successful "tech" companies need to have a (relatively) small number of people who understand the possibilities that software open up for their business model.

They have a number of people who are skilled at managing the software and product development process and a (potentially large) number of people who are skilled at software development.

Seems to me to be very different to the notion of literacy which is a set of skills that essentially every employee needs to have.
In the case of real property the clearinghouse for this is the local courthouse. Deeds, liens, etc... all flow through the local (city/county) clerk. If you can create NFT's such that transfer requires two signatures (one of those being the jurisdiction of the real property) then it would function little different than how property transfers happen today. Furthermore NFT transfers signed by the court could reduce or eliminate the costly need for title searches and title insurance. If real property moves to the block chain in this manner all you need is one final title search, then signed by the court, from then on out title can be ensured by the blockchain. If you can do fractional ownership of an NFT then it greatly simplifies land development, mineral rights, and other more complex transfers such as sub-division of a tract.

Having knowledge of this business for some time now I believe it's an issue of when, not if, real property will move to a blockchain of some sort.
For (1) universal basic income is a step in the right direction. The less pressure there is to provide the basic necessities, the less need to take unproductive or unfulfilling jobs.

For (2) advanced economies are becoming more service heavy rather than production heavy. Many services are less location-dependent than goods production and therefore money can flow to more locales. (e.g. I know a few folks who are programmers + small scale farmers)

And (3) is hopefully becoming more important as the scale of the externalities increase (e.g. Chinese pollution hurts the whole world, not just China).
I use Emacs primarily for things other than editing and navigating code:

I maintain many files of notes;

I rename files and view directory listings (using Dired);

I pass command lines to Bash to be run. (End of list.)

More to the point, whereas vscode would prove a mostly satisfactory replacement for Emacs for editing and navigating code, it is unlikely I will find a mostly satisfactory replacement for Emacs for the tasks listed above. (And I have been looking: I evaluated for example the most likely of the recent spate of vscode extensions for maintaining notes in markdown files.)

(I don't like keyboard-only UIs; like 68.1% of the Emacs users who responded to a recent survey [1] I never use a terminal or terminal emulator to interact with my Emacs.)

I guess I should explain why a terminal app such a Gnome Terminal would not be a mostly satisfactory replacement for Emacs for submitting command lines to Bash. Like at least one other participant [2] in this comment section, I appreciate being able to use the same set of operations on the output of the Bash process as I use on any other file being edited (without my first needing to copy the output from my terminal app, then paste it into my editor). I also appreciate the fact that the Emacs Lisp code that runs when I send a line of code to Bash is vastly easier to modify than Gnome Terminal would be.

[1] https://emacssurvey.org/2020/

[2] "I really like being able to move about the terminal field as if it were a text file" in https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonnycomputer
Some of the most satisfying work I've done has been optimizing very difficult SQL queries for clients nobody has heard of.

I guess I don't really care about optimizing my career in the way Patrick is suggesting.
>> Good thing there's lots of room!

I think you might be misunderestimating. The terms are loser leaves the internet. No quarter.

I didn't mean to imply either position by continentals. I don't really know enough about this stuff to have such a specific stereotyping. Also, as an irishman I fart in a specific general direction on anglo-french disputes.

I picked species naively. It's just a good example of "exists yet doesn't." I assumed we can all agree that it exists, yet doesn't. I don't see what the problem is, philosophically. Both the word species and the phenomenon are approximations. That kind of "problem" is abundant. Money is that. Language is that. Etc.

The problem can be approached from a lot of ways philosophically. Geeky, information-centric understandings. Classical, plato-esque idealism. None of these are incompatible and I don't really see what problem we're trying we're trying to solve. Some stuff isn't stuff. When was this not known?
I am convinced social isolation is a convenient excuse to blame for preexisting mental health problems once the primary coping mechanisms are removed. Nonsense like very real danger of social isolation ignores valid problems that were previously discarded out of inconvenience.
When compared to people tested positive, when they only had resources to test the people they were pretty sure were infected.

Their death rate in April was the same as the peak of the second wave in December.
It's different in the sense that there was a forced reckoning of idealism vs. ground truth. We learned a great deal more about our family, friends, and neighbors. Sure, they may still be as outwardly friendly as before, but many of them, far too many, aggressively support some really heinous things.

I don't want to venture into off-topic political stuff here. And, let's just acknowledge that everything about the pandemic has sucked pretty much whoever you are; the number of dead people, the even greater number of people who have suffered in some other way, whether through illness or isolation or the loss of employment or business or time at school with friends and classmates. You can pick pretty much any aspect of the pandemic and have valid criticisms for how it was handled.

But the worst part of it all was how people reacted to it. That public health and safety were perverted into political identities. That so many people became so aggressively opposed to the welfare of others.

It wasn't a small, isolated thing, and I don't think people should be described as good, and caring, and loving, while they identify with and support so many terrible things.
That was just theater. Bernie's argument here made no sense and he knew it, but it sounded good.

He was arguing that society "has to pay people welfare" because Amazon doesn't pay enough. In other words he's arguing that paying welfare is bad, which is not true and goes against the rest of his platform. Actually it's good, and the reason it's good is that it raises your wages because it gives you more freedom!

In other words, without welfare the employees would be getting paid even less.

(This can change depending on work requirement rules, which are mostly bad, but not enough of a problem to change the dynamic here.)
> In this case, people are willingly buying NFTs.

People being scammed, by definition, don't know they're being scammed. Otherwise they wouldn't be scammed. They also willingly buy something they believe is real.
Start a webapp, it can be a react frontend, nodejs, python's flask, ror, anything, listening on port 3000 and run "ssh -R 80:localhost:3000 nokey@localhost.run" on the command line. You'll get an internet accessible URL for you or anyone else to access your locally running app.

hello, my name is Tom :)

I wrote localhost.run to help me quickly and easily work on webhooks and collaborate on web apps.

It uses the SSH protocol which the 3 main operating systems already have clients installed for. That means no signup or even a download is necessary, you can instantly to share something running on localhost.

I'm most often using this for reactjs apps which listen on port 3000 by default but you can change the port 3000 in that command line to any local port.

Please try it and tell me what you think. I hope some of you find it as useful as I have over the years.
I have a use for this for sure. I got two 400 models for my 3 and 4 yo and installed all the Linux educational software. Recently I started working on my own educational games for them in C and having something like this I can carry around the house to code on vim while I watch them would be super handy.
In fairness, I did have to ask twice.
This. One of the more fun things I've done professionally is trying to prepare an after-action report on a deal gone south. Reasonably small deal but 95%+ loss of value. I couldn't even get people to come to a shared baseline factsheet. We've done 10s of deals together, the firm prides itself on openness and is generally relaxed. Even with all the internal memos and external red flag reports in hand, we couldn't get to a shared sense of what happened, let alone if we dropped a ball. Point being: DD is hard even for well-established teams and hindsight is 20/20.
Hi, You can for example be part of this incredible community:
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Should the reverse be treated the same way? That is, being on the clock but not working? I work a low wage job and have seen co-workers go to pretty extreme lengths to avoid having to actually work.

Time theft is estimated at $400 billion per year, much higher than unpaid wages.
> Do you ever get that hunch that what you're reading is bullshit, even though you can't point at a specific reason?

That just sounds like you had an opinion going in. Which happens. This study isn't alone. It happens to confirm other studies saying the same thing. Also, why wouldn't women like the most attractive men if that worked out just fine?

https://senseoffairness.blog/2020/02/14/the-unfairness-of-on...

So, gut feelings don't always match the facts! :)
If they can’t and won’t prevent harassment it doesn’t matter what they claim their job is.
Good luck paying for 5 years of lockdowns!
The death rate in Italy was in the double digits during the period of their hospitals being overrun last spring. Then they initiated heavy lockdowns, and got their death rate back under control.
> If you have a toolbar with buttons that have labels, it’s not going to fit. But if you’re following the guidelines, you don’t have labels and it fits.

But this doesnt make any sense. Often you need guidelines.

Typical Apple problem.
I think you misunderstand the thrust of that argument. It’s not the nameless company that’s the problem, it’s the business result of your work.

What looks better on a resume?

1. I optimized SQL queries for Nameless Corp to improve admin interface load times by 20%

2. I optimized SQL queries for Nameless Corp to increase profits 20%

If possible, always work on some version of option 2.
It's not strange at all. "Think of the children" has forever been an emotional ploy to gain political power, not an actual concern for the children.
>I'll express another one: I think the whole thing about "ZOMG! Suicide rates through the roof!!!elevelty!1!" is blown out of proportion, largely thanks to pseudo-news web sites trying to grab clicks on the internet.

You do realize you're replying to a Reuters article about mental health results, not predictions.

Quite a hyperbolic and probably politically inclined comment.
DYI air pollution sensor and publish to opendata network
I am pretty sure you don't really mean 'anything'. If I am wrong about that, there are plenty of ways to make money that are legal but distasteful to most folks that you can pursue.
No doubt about that. As I said, it is a nice project. My comment about "cheating" was directed to the player not to the designer of the project. I had the physical game [1] as a child and I don't remember it having the ghost piece.

1 - https://www.google.com/search?q=tetris+original+console&bih=...
I think its more malware for the fish
> But if everyone is part of the cargo cult and the cult is making real money

False premise. Some people are making money, but only at the expense of others. There is no value being created here.
Training I guess?
It also doesn't necessarily make it a bad response. But when you factor in more than simply one detail (COVID vs COVID+economy+mental health), it starts to look like a good response.
TSMC seems like the number one security guarantee for Taiwan.
This is famously not the case. Picasso was quite famous during his life and died wealthy.
The greatest lie ever perpetuated in the United States corporate system is that a company's fiduciary duty justifies or excuses malbehavior.

You do not get to formulate sketchy ways of doing business because you must make shareholders money. They invested, and took a risk. They don't always get to win. Losses are not something that should be unfathomable. The fact that people haven't done that great a job at rooting this stuff out sooner is a bit on the mystifying side only up until you realize the folks we'd count on to do it are having their checks paid by the people getting investigated.
*Edit: Too late to delete, but my sarcastic comment is likely against site rules. Apologies
Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education, details matter. Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transportation do nothing to increase quality of schooling compared to countries where all those measures are unnecessary (safe urban environments with parents able to feed kids by themselves)
Does being the winning bidder on this actually make you the owner (i.e. transfer all associated IP rights to you) or do you just get a higher res version of the image if you win? Both? Neither?
In the case of hacks (someone gets the court's private key and signs fraudulent transfers), mistakes (bugs, human error, etc), and other such scenarios, there would still need to be some kind of title insurance and human oversight.
In an inflationary economy the quality of goods decline because consumer are more sensitive to price increases than a lower quality product. The food we eat is less nutritional than before. Health will continue to decline.
Yes, and? Educating children is more important than keeping elderly people alive. You know this to be true if you do a utilitarian analysis as objectively as possible rather than ceding to emotion.