skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, society has a problem where some people are so poor that some of them die and many barely survive... and other people in that society have so much money that they're converting it into electricity.

I think eventually equilibrium will come in some fashion and it likely won't be the rich spontaneously deciding to generously share.
This data is quite valuable and services like this aren't competing with these app stores. If anything, they are probably inviting more competition to the app stores resulting in better apps.

There is no reason for these companies to go after some small guy scraping the app store data. But who knows - Craigslist went after one man shops. These companies might too.
The interesting question, which I don't see addressed in the comments, is how to avoid the Basecamp situation in the first place.

Just to pick one thread of many to pull on, any management team that actively encourages intra-mural political discussion should think through possible consequences. It's difficult to take such rights away, as Google's experience has shown multiple times. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/technology/google-culture...
Probably some kind of photo resist would work
People are using this system intentionally as a scam. Recently, I tried uploading a video which had video game music in the background, and youtube flagged a copyright claim on behalf of someone who made a remix of the original song. I did not have a license to use the song, so that's fair, but my choices were either to drop my video or run ads that give money to someone who wasn't even the owner of the song I was trying to use.

There was no avenue for recourse, or to report the person who was fraudulently making claims.
>Yeah, because they didn't realize how terribly the power consumption / heat output would scale; a 10GHz CPU will just melt itself.

Tesla, it was claimed, discovered something called "cold electricity" -- that is (according to the claim) -- when you ran it through a circuit -- it cooled rather than heated the circuit!

Now, today we have something sort of like this as thermocouples/Peltier Junctions (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling for more/better info on this) -- although it is not known if Tesla's "cold electricity" -- was talking about this effect and/or related -- or not.

Nonetheless -- it seems to me that IF (and it's a big if!) -- IF Tesla's "Cold Electricity" existed, IF it could be rediscovered, and IF it could somehow be integrated on a CPU either as part of or as auxilliary to the main CPU circuitry -- then the CPU cooling problem could be solved(!) -- or at least mitigated somewhat, to the point of allowing/permitting CPU's with higher thermal envelopes/tolerances/CPU speeds...

Again, there are some seriously big IF's there -- but I think it would be a great place for someone to do more research, or for researchers that might have an interest in this area...

It seems to me that Intel and AMD (or heck, any chipmaker for that matter!) -- might (or should!) -- have an interest for more research in this area...
I think there's some things that are pretty common.

The exponential nature of the spread makes it so that things are getting very risky well before the risk is obvious or apparent.

The payoff for avoiding a surge is pretty abstract. For a lot of people it ends up being that people they don't know don't get sick, and things like that.

And then a year is a long time to deal with reduced socialization, we are social animals, "quarantine fatigue" isn't surprising in relation to that.
Atheists are immoral, because it's an illogical premise, proving a negative, and in the face of lots of evidence at that. That's why athiests always turn to insults, they have no argument - much like the message this is in response to.

Agnostics, deists, and free thinkers are another matter. But from the outset, an atheist proclaims himself as someone irrational with nothing to say.
I'd love to know if (the downvoters think) that has factual errors. I'm a jazz musician who will soon be releasing music online—some my compositions, some not—and planning to pay license fees etc. Thanks—I'm a totally at a loss what could have made people downvote it!
All 126 of them? Doubtful.
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"Idiot" is needlessly offensive and the GP's tone isn't great, but all of those reasons are usually invalid reviews (unless the app markets to that demographic). If I'm reading reviews for an app seeing your review about misreading the description because english isn't your first language is unhelpful spam (assuming the app is english-only).

Unfortunately, these type of reviews where people post completely irrelevant complaints are quite common (see the number of people reviewing their local post office in Amazon reviews), but I do wish platforms would remove them.
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A far better alternative to “making money while you sheep”.

As returns on capital and assets start to vastly outperform returns on labor, you should be focusing not on what work you can do, but rather on what assets you can acquire and capitalize on.
You think testing companies keep all the psychometricians/text book writers on payroll ?

Many of the big tests are developed within an academic setting with university/public funding then licensed out. Almost every book is written by university professor then published by pearson or others.

State government does not outsource writing the tax code or the other regulations to companies why is tests any different ?
Same here, I like the page and I like their customer service (had very good experiences so far, I needed it only once though), but since the 10% is priced in all gear, everything is a tad too expensive, maybe except if you're a collector. I could live with 5% but 10% is just too much, as a seller and buyer. I still try to sell from time to time, but only the collectible stuff, I stopped buying completely.
FOMO is a big thing. They have appreciated so everyone thinks they keep doing that. Nostalgia is factor too and people who were interested in these in childhood now have extra cash.

Now I wonder pull of some of these for current and next generation and how will that affect the prices in long term, probably there won't be enough pressure to keep thing going at some point. I should probably check some graphs of low to medium end classic car pricing by decade... Just to see how future might look like.
But if only 1 of the 7 commits was actually the cause of the issue, then why would you want to revert all 7 of them instead of just the one?
Wouldn’t help now. Building supply costs are so high and labor is short as well
Not really. Maybe in your very narrow environment, but all the multinational corporations I've worked in past 17 years on, situation is way more complex. Software often outlives people who created them, sometimes even whole teams originally responsible for it.

Suddenly you have a Pune team managing all environments including production, who have rather vague about yet another system thrown on them due to that smart idea called outsourcing. Sure they can change a thing or two, but corner cases can and often do bite hard. Code itself, while describing well what is happening, often doesn't contain much info about why. Or further effects of decisions. Full picture of whole integration involving 20 or 100 systems etc...

Another issue in huge companies spread across the globe is the ability to actually connect with relevant team, and their reluctance to share crucial info. A job security political game is not foreign to devs in some cases. I've had my request for source code of one of our internal security libs, the cornerstone of all of our inter-app authentication, refused with justification that its safer for the company to not share it even within company. Mind you, the .jar wasn't obfluscated at all so JAD got me to almost-compilable version so that effort wasn't even half-assed.

Man, I could spend whole evening telling stories how documentation can be great. Even incomplete, not completely up-to-date one can save your ass from time to time. And tons of time on top of that.
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Yes, agreed. The examples seem fine to me as far as DP is concerned, but the claim of divide and conquer is a bit weird
You are just imagine things as an outsider. Testing companies not only have the best psychometricians and they have many many psychometricians and stasticians work for them.

Yes. University professors do consulting works. How do they have the capacity to build a product as professional companies do? ...
As it stands, someone can make a remix of your song and make claims against anyone using your original song. It all happens through youtube's automated system, and you won't see a penny for your work.
I see these too, and sometimes the content isn't terrible. However, I always prefer some other source if possible.

Every time I see the domain name cyberciti.biz, I expect the content to be scraped from the original source, and the page to be infested with ad-like garbage.

I'm not sure if either of these are fair assessments. The former I have not investigated, and the latter is mitigated by aggressive content blocking.
How many people live in poverty, sickness and war in this day and age despite all scientific progress.
Also, how many have no hope for the better ever, despite scientific progress.
How many of those people will get the vaccine you mentioned.
I talk about "mere mortals ", not privileged people from the western world.
notion.com redirects to notion.so, so they already own that domain too.
It would be easy for existing users to see how much energy the cheaters are spending based on the blocks that are getting published. A block gets published every 10 minutes on average so it wouldn't take a long time to become obvious.
I use them mainly for discovery, and do my own evaluation on the tools, as the crowdsourced reviews are mostly crap.

Stackshare was great in the beginning, but as is the way with every site with crowdsourced reviews, business motives (incentivized/fake reviews) or personal motives (writing shallow reviews for "clout") took hold after 1-2 years (around the same time the added the signup popup).
And handling plaintext files on the internet reliably is similarly broken.
cool. time travel on the internet.
It doesn't. I semi-retired at 33 and then spent the time since then doing 20+ different startup ideas. Still no success. Bank account is bigger now than when I retired, but startup dreams are effectively dead.

Bottleneck is that the market moves on in the time you spend pivoting, and eventually your inside information about what's hot and what's worth building gets stale, along with your technical skills. I know a number of other entrepreneur/retirees in the same boat - 5+ years working on various ideas, often after having a previous exit - and it never seems to result in a big company.
I'm sorry but I looked a bit too and I findi your criticisms a bit unconvincing. The mobile plan may be a bit much but $60/mo is literally the cheapest broadband plan available where I live. In fact it's almost literally the only plan available unless you want to spend more.

I looked up both my low cost birth county in Montana and my current high cost home county in Washington. Both had a budget of about $5,000 a year for transportation. Which, ignoring all maintenance, fuel and registration costs would leave you with about $300 per month after meeting most state minimum insurance requirements and full coverage. That's the payment on about a $15,000 car financed over 60 months, if you have good credit. Not a beater by any means but honestly that's pretty much the value sweet spot in terms of getting a reliable used car. You could get more car by ditching full coverage but as Dave Ramsey says, "you insure the things you cannot afford to replace." Your sole mode of getting to work seems like a thing you probably can't afford to replace on minimum wage. Again, you can play with the numbers but I already threw your argument the bone of ignoring, fuel, maintenance and licensing costs. A nontrivial sum.

Regardless, I'm not sure why your argument takes as it's premise that a living wage should represent the minimum a person needs to get by in our modern world. Why is that the default standard?

Edit: When I think about it more, isn't that kind of the whole point of a proposing a living wage over a minimum wage? People proposing it believe that we shouldn't peg wages to the minimum a person needs but rather to some fulfilling standard of living?
As the founder of a quite similarly named company, this looks great :) Not sure if you're looking for a job Katherine, but if you are my email is in my profile!
> People like owning restaurants, despite their best financial interests.

Which is fine, but then it’s silly to base minimum wage policy on whether or not it will make somebody’s already-irrational hobby business less profitable.
> Wow, almost sounds like some other aspect of a job a software engineer is required to do...

Which I think is the real problem. Writing/modifying code can't be ignored; the resulting behavior of technical systems absolutely depends on doing that.

You can argue that the desired behavior of human system also depends on good writing and you're correct. But the connection of the input and output is much more opaque, the social conception of the role is focused on the behavior of technical systems, the incentive structures are therefore focused on the behavior of technical systems, so when there is more to do than can be done writing docs will not make the top of the priority queue.
They pride themselves on being transparent..
There's no reason to remove them, that's not what I'm asking. By all means leave them in, but why leave them undocumented? Explain their existence, their parameters & capabilities. If not intended for use, explain that too.

Then when something unexpected like Spectre comes along, the people that have to deal with it can say "Oh yeah, those testing instructions provide another vector of attack that our patch has to account for."

Instead we're in this situation, and I'm pretty sure there's at least a half dozen nations that would have already devoted the resources needed to uncover undocumented instructions like this, meaning ample opportunity to have developed various exploits.
My manager uses a template to create JIRA tasks - it makes it short and to the point. Just a handful of questions like

Who needs it?

what needs to be done?

who is the subject matter expert?

and so on. This makes it easier for the developer working on the task, keeps the description short and sweet.
I agree that self-restraint in expressing opinions can prevent unnecessary stirring of emotions, but your comment's tone contradicts to this noble idea: it stirs emotions by using meaninglessly overloaded words like "poisonous noise", and vague warnings ("creates far more problems than it solves") which being contextually undefined just sounds patronizing.
Now you have one more problem (several, in fact) - explaining the business and the software to the technical writer. This is so difficult, that in all my long career in software development and management, I never saw any company specifically hire a technical writer, though I have done a lot of technical writing myself, on the side.
There's conductive ink. There are pens that dispense an etchant. There's making printed circuit boards by iron-on toner transfer. There are little CNC routers for making boards.

All these approaches are worse than the standard photolithography process with plated through holes. It's so cheap and easy to get boards made now. Upload files, pay a few dollars, boards come back.
That they are! But Accelerando and many of his other earlier books were mind-blowing.
There's a common refrain that internal documentation never gets updated and so it's better to just look at the code. IMHO outdated docs are still better than no docs, you just have to approach them with an appropriate level of skepticism and archaeologist mindset. At the base level of course the code is the ultimate source of truth, and being able to navigate code history quickly (via something like the Fugitive vim plugin) is incredibly valuable, but higher levels of documentation such as code comments, commit messages, tech specs, product specs, and user documentation can give richer clues into the mindset of the team at the time. As such, I believe the single highest ROI thing you can do is to choose tools that automatically maintains history/edit timestamps for all docs (git obviously does this, but Google Docs and Quip also do quite well here).
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> Testing companies do not lobby to get standardized tests mandated where they were not.

Yes, they do.

> The federal government mandates this as a requirement for federal money.

Sure, some mandates come from the federal government; others are from state governments, and still others from local governments.

Guess who lobbies legislators making those decisions, especially at the federal level, but also at the state level, and sometimes, especially for larger jurisdictions, at the local level?
Why is this easier than opening a text editor?
All of these optimization, yet most sites relies on more bytes of JS, than bytes of unoptimized img.

Also: stripping EXIF and IPTC is NOT optimization, it's a data loss.
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> Because it’s the word itself which is the problem. If you substitute a different word, then you’re saying a different word.

You are right but that’s exactly the point the video is making. By trying to avoid saying the bad thing you still invoke the bad thing.

> German doesn’t have euphemisms?

Maybe but generally it’s not common.
Imagine your phone with a still good working battery gets significantly slower "to extend the useful lifetime of the battery"...
Downvoted for stating facts.

This isn't so much a "fact" as it is a "position." In other words, the fact that the BLS uses this position in its definition does not make that definition the best possible definition, nor does it mean people have to accept that definition when they use the word "inflation" in a conversation.

There are loads of reasons why one might argue that house prices should be considered necessary expenses rather than investments. A particular area may have only houses for sale and very few rentals. Ownership provides things that cannot be achieved by renting. The appreciated value of a house is largely meaningless or even detrimental for people who just want to keep living where they live when their wages are not increasing. Etc.

Also, generally, quoting definitions unprompted isn't well received in most conversations :).
The top grifter had simultanously become president and got banned on Twitter. Seriously Americans, please chill on your real estate investments.
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> caste system

How is the caste system related to the COVID pandemic? Does the hatred between the Deobandi and Barelvi sects of Islam play a similar role?
Hinduism most certainly does not believe in a common set of rights for everyone. Each person is assigned a clear position in the social hierarchy based on the caste of the parents and then the person is obligated to carry out the "dharma" as per that caste - anything outside of that is considered "adharmic" or wrong.
From a standpoint of value in a capitalist society she’s not debilitated if she makes money. From a standpoint of living a life where one is fulfilled and has peace of mind, money isn’t the relevant metric.
east and west were fighting and differentiated since at least before Alexander the great.
Makes me mad because wife is an immigrant, but of the wrong kind - light skinned, came here legally - and while she grew in disadvantageous situations much like everyone else reaching the shores illegally, she got exactly zero support from the state, while everyone else was receiving welfare, free healthcare and privileged access to education and the job market.

When we eventually settled she had a long backlog of health issues, which we had to pay out of pocket to the tune of dozens thousands, because the mythical European free healthcare is only for the extremely poor or the tax evaders.

So fuck people towing the line of "we help immigrants because they are resources" - there are few feel good resources that are ultimately discriminatory and capriciously allocated to the most noisy groups, leaving people in need screwed because activists don't fill their diversity quota cards below a certain melatonin concentration
> you just have to approach them with an appropriate level of skepticism and archaeologist mindset

The problem is most people don't have this mindset. They expect documentation to be right, and when it isn't, they become frustrated and learn to avoid documentation.
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Earlier listing and discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26908886
The problem is that the culture kindof pushes people to extremes where they inevitably burn out. After the first burnout, which is a very scary new experience, people learn not to push to those limits, but there’s always new people to burn out. We’re lucky that the stigma of burning out is diminishing, before we’d have to suffer in silence and shame.
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For me, it showed that financial privacy should be universally accessible, and not gated by expensive offshore incorporation processes.
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> The top grifter had simultanously became president and got banned on Twitter.

Well, “simultaneously” usually doesn’t apply to events that take place nearly four years apart, but otherwise, true.
Part of creating something is describing it and communicating it to the right people.

Absolute ratings don’t matter as much as inter-industry ratings anyways.
> we found this that looks like Russia

In your scenario, that's not a lie.
Pen plotters were fascinating to watch. I wish I knew what the motion optimization algorithms looked like. It would do stuff like draw the tail of an "R" but then wouldn't come back and draw the remainder of the letter until two minutes later.
They learned to use modern power equipment and make more than minimum wage. We shouldn't be forced to pay more to people who won't switch from using a hand shovel or whatever the modern equivalent is - cash register attendant? When people were "clerks" it paid an okay amount, but should it be paying more than an "okay" amount? Why should their buying power increase? Why should it track the salaries of people who made computers orders of magnitude cheaper and better? The people whose technology made mRNA vaccines possible for everyone to have?
I'll second this, based entirely on personal anecdotal evidence alone: Heavy smoker here, at least a pack a day, and it has to be commercial, industrially manufactured cigarettes. I've tried every form of natural tobacoo you can imagine and none of them satisfy. I've also tried purely nicotine gums and patches, as well as vaporizers, with no serious reduction in cravings for...... commercial, industrially produced cigarettes. Nicotine surely is addictive to a certain extent, but I suspect it's something else, something much more intensely addictive in commercial cigarettes that really creates the powerful cravings. Another possibility: Different smokers are just prone to different highly specific variations of addiction.
Can anyone elaborate on what a company wide restore operation looks like in a big company? I worry about this because IT support teams tend to test restores per system. But what if it's thousands of systems going down at the same time? If this happens I even wonder how long it would take to restore productivity if the ransom is being paid.
Also, what percentage of systems would typically be infected?