skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of dysfunctional companies out there.

I was lucky enough to find a company which did things right but after 5 happy years (of which a percentage as a manager) the investors basically replaced the leadership and killed the engineering culture. Everyone left and they started hiring cheap overseas contractors.

I haven't found a decent company since.

My "solution" was to contract for 6m - 1 year and then change before I burn out. Eventually I just transitioned to running a side business and topping up with contracting every once and then when some interesting project comes up.

A friend I have, who seems to enjoy management more than me, ended up being a vp of engineering setting the kind of culture that we enjoy but he had to try several times before finding the right place where that kind of culture could grow.

Best of luck
Interesting! I am a bit struck by how low the early ransoms seemed to be (looks like they were around $200 or less) even when they gained access to anonymous remote payment methods in ~2005 (e.g. eGold and Liberty Reserve).

It’s also interesting that all of those early anonymous remote payment methods have been significantly altered specifically to nerf their utility for extortion and scamming.
Shout out to Stripe for translating all their web pages!

When an HN post sends me to a Dutch page, it's always Stripe. 100% of the time.
I gave up on Stripe because they clearly are a US-focused company, and do not have a global outlook. I find it disappointing that after so many years of being in business, their payment processing services are still only available to a few dozen countries. This for example makes it impossible to rely on them to build a global marketplace with Stripe Connect accepting merchants from all over the world.

Stripe is not for those seeking to run truly international businesses. We've been patient, but we eventually realized that they simply do not care. We care about Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, but they do not. We do not trust them to prioritize the global availability of their offerings at this point, and as a result we no longer even bother checking out their offerings. What's the point if instead of empowering us, they restrict our business model.
Automaticity is the hands and feet of genius. Like "chunks" or "chains" of skills and system knowledge. This allows for the expansion of working memory with expert knowledge, and for reasoning to take place for "If this then that" of deep thinking. Kind of like saying no to your boss as a form of improvisational comedy.
Sure, but since Google owns .new, they had first dibs on grabbing every generic document type they could possibly want. Sure, Microsoft can grab word.new, but doc.new is Google's regardless of what you use to write documents.
The announcement could be clearer.

Groups could already sign up to pay for Google Workspace, that doesn't change.

Individuals could also sign up for Google Workplace group account that only a single person would use or use a lot of features in their individual account.

The announcement could be more straightforward about what's actually changing.
Ooh, we could use this. Curious, can anybody point me to other similar products out there? I'd be interested in comparing. BTW, my uses case is USA only.
They are still bigger than AWS although it might not last long.

"AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas"
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/30/amazon_q1_2021/
>What attracts you to Google Meet?

It just works. You get a link, you open the link, you're in.

Whenever I get a Zoom link, it first forces me to download the app. As in, you open the link and it instantly downloads an executable to my computer, which I need to then go delete. Then I need to fight the website by clicking a series of links to get to the browser version. Then I enter my name and join. Except oops, the meeting has not formally started, so it has now kicked me back to the previous page to re-enter my name. Try again, except later since if you go before it's officially started, you're doing this again.

And that's how bad Zoom is even before you start the call. The UI in Zoom calls is also worse than Google Meet. What the hell is "Join with Computer Audio"? What does that even mean?
Scientists have found the origins of a mysterious, deadly flood in India
I didn't actually calculate anything, so there's no precise answer, but the high level answer is, all the middle men want their cut too.
OnFido with a clear pricing.

Love it.
If a smaller uranium metal crystal can be made by using a 65 Tesla field then this has many applications for things that already uses uranium. Remember that in "energy conversion", pushing the material closer together so neutron capture is more likely is usually desired. Also wondering if this new structure has the same self sharping properties as depleted.
So where is everyone searching for these remote only positions -- any special sites to recommend?
I agree it obviously doesn't use much power, though in a lot of places fresh water is a much bigger concern (and that's really saying something). California comes to mind.
Hrm. Mac computers allow this with Slack. The installed version can intercept links to messages in the browser and open them in the app instead of the website. So I don't think it's just phones doing this today.

And I guess Slack is signed on Mac via Gatekeeper, but it's not distributed through an app store.

I don't run Windows and I won't install Slack natively on my Linux boxes, so I can't check the other platforms. But I would be a little surprised if the same doesn't work on them. This is basically how mailto links work today, right?

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r...
In the world? Very, very few. I know it's it a tremendous fortune and privileged to be able to search for a job you think is a good match. Most people work in near slavery conditions with little choice.

At the same time, squandering that privilege out of some misplaced guilt only helps employers exert control of employees.

In tech? Virtually everyone has that level of privilege so long as they have some experience. I'm fairly certain I couldn't get hired by a FAANG company (I don't have too much interest in it, but I won't deny the possibility of sour grapes), so I'm not in some super-elite category of tech worker.

In addition, not everything lasts forever. I used to work for minimum wage in customer support jobs and I wouldn't be surprised if in 10-20 years (or sooner) I'm back in a much less desirable role.

It took me a long time to recognize that my market value had increase over time, and one of my biggest career mistakes was underestimating that and not acting on it sooner. As the saying goes, from a time when most people had to work on farms, "make hay while the sun shines".
> But most people just don't care about the platform they chat through.

People love to throw this sentiment around literally every time any kind of platform does something shitty, and it's certainly very effective at demotivating people from even trying to do anything about it. It would be great if people stopped claiming this, because it's really not helping anybody and makes the job of resolving governance issues so much harder.

This specific case is actually a good example of how the sentiment is completely wrong, too; with the right strategy (which was what happened here) it's clearly possible to get people to move en masse. As evidenced by Freenode bleeding users to Libera at breakneck pace, and effectively all projects having moved over.

Bottom line: you might not want to put in the effort to solve governance issues like this, and that's fine. But please stop actively telling other people that they won't succeed.
Ask HN: Do you have standard questions for understanding math equations?
When I'm studying a Math equation I usually have a list of questions that I use to "poke" my understanding of the equations. Here are the ones that I use the most:

- What variable has the biggest impact on the output?
- What variable has the smallest impact ?
- Predictions
- What happens when variable X is zero?
- What happens when variable X increase?
- What happens when variable X decrease?
- For each increase in variable X how much I need to decrease Y to stay the same?

Does any one have pointers to a list of "reading comprehension" questions for math equations?
> The reality is that, innovation for a big company is hard

Then why is Apple innovating more than anyone else?
Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database
Hey, I'm working on a community sourced fitness routine database where users can upload and share routines. Does this site seem useful to you? https://routinedb.com/routines
Just what I was thinking.

Can Stripe hurry up and go public so I can buy some shares?
Thanks!

Yes. My future plan for Profilehunt is to build a fully-featured recruiting solution for employers which updates the application status for candidates in real-time. I think there is room for improvement for both sides of the application process.
This site is great for trying to get different takes https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

I used to do what you did(just read a bunch of major publications from differing political orientations) but also found issue with not being able to compare different perspectives easily.
CFM Unveils ‘Open Fan’ Demonstrator Plan for Next-Gen Engine
> There still isn't anything that can provide the power we will need better than nuclear.

It ultimately feels like a deal with the Devil.

--

I'm also certain we will find something better.

Why take so many risks unnecessarily now.
>You're telling me that every one of the 800,000 police officers in the United States is a gang member that beats citizens on a regular basis?

Another bad faith argument. I said it happens in almost every department.

Here's some videos captured all over the country of police willfully and knowingly violating people's civil rights.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-0YpRpqgA5lPTpSQ5uo-Q

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMCSd9ZNL0nshOhXwtfIJBA
I quit last June after 13 mostly consecutive years in tech. I haven't saved enough to be financially independent but I can coast for a while. Even at a company that seemed to have good work life balance, I couldn't take it so I have no idea how you FAANG folks do it. I don't know if I'm just not suited for the career or what, but working as a software engineer caused several stress related health problems that have either gone away or drastically improved over the past year. I can't imagine going back, it's not worth sacrificing my health and happiness.
Covid-19 Pandemic Report Analysis
This is incredible. Need to go dig out the Bar-Mitzvah invitations I designed in MSpaint in 1990
Renting Is Cheaper Than Buying in All 50 Major Metro Areas in the United States
Apple‘s Bet on China
The glorious promise of the post truth world (Andrew Odlyzko) https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3061712
The videos are even more impressive. For reasons known only to Google, 'rail bike' videos swarmed my YouTube feed a few years back. There are some stunning shots of going over trestles — GoPro held at arms length over the edge.
> It could be Equifax levels of problematic if there would be a intrusion

I'm sure they're not as lax as Equifax. I would hope that Stripe compartment all these documents so that a compromise of one database is not a compromise of the whole database. That's basic data storage hygiene in the information age. `Don't put all your eggs in one basket` as the saying goes.
Not every browser, you can't save a file on iOS 12 (well only to iCloud, and you can't name them).
It's not really a question of technology, it's about trust. Nobody will lend money to a farmer in Africa just because he's using some crypto tech.

On the other side, few of the "financial tools" of Wall Street depend on technology. The reason Goldman or some financier can raise a bond to finance something is not related to technology, it's again about trust. Which can't be decentralised. It can perhaps be crowdsourced I suppose.

As to options, futures and other derivates (ha) very few people have any use for them, and that single digit percentage of the population most definitely have no trouble getting a bank account.

Speaking of bank accounts, why do some people in the third world lack them? It's not because of limited bank technology. This "banking the unbanked" argument is heard all the time, but I've never seen any concrete explanations.
The author either does not understand or chooses to ignore how taxes work.

Buffet's wealth has increased, but the vast majority of that is held assets increasing in value. If you have signed baseball card in your attic and something occurs to make the value of that card skyrocket, your personal wealth has increased but you don't owe any taxes on that increase. Eventually if you sell that item you'll owe taxes on the gains, but you are under no obligation to sell. Increase in value is not income, Buffett wasn't getting handed hundreds of millions in cash every month.

Buffet's wealth went up by 37% from 2014 to 2018. In the same time period the Dow Jones rose 49%. The difference is billions of dollars Buffett was giving away (had he kept the money instead of making donations his wealth would've risen 55% in that time period). Tax credits for philanthropic gifts are neither new nor malicious.
>I did however take a 6 week gap between jobs a few years back.

I've never had enough time off between (my few) jobs since grad school. The circumstances have never been quite right. I did get a 3-4 week vacation the last time and that was mostly because I had done everything except pull the trigger while waiting to see if an offer came through--then pushed things out as far as I could.

I actually had a month off the prior time as well but that was because of a post-9/11 layoff. As it turned out a conversation I had with someone I knew pretty much the following day panned out. But I didn't know that of course and it wasn't the time to just head off and vacation.
I just want to thank you for sharing your story and for me it's really a wholesome one. Best of luck to you on your further ways.
Just a quick note: SPACs are newly formed shell companies. You may be thinking of reverse mergers.
Redirect to New Domain
> This by far is by biggest pet peeve of reading online: an article can't even be shown in full. It has to be broken up into disembodied sections, with ads, newsletter signups, or a block of links appearing every few paragraphs.

Absolutely. I'm actually a little worried that with the growing popularity of utility-first CSS and build tools that replace semantic information on HTML elements with randomly generated values, it's going to be increasingly difficult to have filter lists remove these.

Currently the selectors in Fanboy's Annoyance List target semantic attributes, e.g. "newsletter-widget", but already there are a lot of sites that don't contain any semantic info around the sections that aren't a part of the content. The BBC website is one example, they have a list of related links between paragraphs of text on many articles, e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57464097. This is the HTML markup:

<div data-component="unordered-list-block" class="ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i84">
<div class="ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1">
<div class="ssrcss-1pzprxn-BulletListContainer e5tfeyi0">
<ul role="list">
<li>[related link 1]</li>
<li>[related link 2]</li>
<li>[related link 3]</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

These are just related links randomly inserted into the content, but no clear attribute values marking them as such, making automatic removal difficult.

> If that changes, I still have the option of going to FF's "reading view" and Print to PDF from there.

FF's reading view does well on a lot of articles. It handles the BBC situation above quite well, but not others (see for example the screenshot in our article with the newsletter signup).
Well that’s a ceo culture responsibility to not make themselves a bottleneck. Generally this is done by delegating more decision making expectations downward.
I'm pretty sure it can't.

They can't know for sure whether an ID is real or fake (they're not the government).
There's different expectations for IRC vs most other social/chat platforms because of the structure and history. IRC has traditionally been run as a non-commercial community project so admins and server ops haven't had the same incentives for commercial palatability and IRC being older and a bit more obtuse to get into meant it didn't get the same attention in the cases where it's users do get into trouble. On top of that given it's a protocol instead of a single company there's a bit of separation where each server doesn't put pressure on all the others.
No, that's not the type of inflation that benefits anyone.

Stagflation is what happens when you have a supply shock (usually natural disaster, political instability, bans or outright wars). Prices go up but incomes do not because nobody is being hired.

For example, when you ban recreational drugs, the cost of drugs goes up as the supply dries up. At some point you can't raise prices anymore and the dealers start cutting the drug with whatever they have available like fentanyl.

What we need is an inflation cycle closer to this ideal: consumers start buying products -> productive companies start earning more -> companies start producing more products -> companies hire more workers -> companies raise wages -> new consumers enter the market that start buying products. Once you reach full employment you raise interest rates to calm the market down and then everything is perfectly fine.

Restaurants are one of the few places where we see the "good" type of inflation because it is resulting in higher wages.
Wow, I would like to know about this has been engineered and QA'd. Owning this system on the product side would keep me awake nights. One question is tolerance on false negatives (you don't look enough like your govt id) - maybe they collect additional information, and use third party service for corroboration.

If my Stripe Identity can be used across vendors, it's almost like a digital passport. I'll ask, in jest, are Stripe and Estonia (https://e-resident.gov.ee/) in competition?
> A LLC has enough papers to prove that they own Freenode

Actually they almost certainly don't. But they don't need to, either; they can just suppress the staff through legal threats, because lawsuits are expensive. Whether they are in the right is immaterial.
From the merchant point of view, I can't see how you can get defrauded with a wire transfer: as far as I know, there is no chargeback / recall / etc. possible. Once the funds reach your account, they should stay here.
As it always was, the best way to use IRC is sadly to sign up for a third party shell account and run a bnc or an irssi+tmux session or similar.

It's little wonder to me that IRC's lunch got eaten; the UX on mobile is just awful.
A bit off topic, but I'd caution against using business tactics in chess.

> While the opportunities Rockefeller capitalized on are unlikely to come about again, they show how chess strategies can translate into business acumen.

India's youngest billionaire Nikhil Kamath played chess when he was younger, and he used his chess background much as this article does to promote his business acumen.

Just yesterday, he played in a charity simul against 5-time world champion Viswanathan Anand. He was the only player to defeat Anand, an obvious sign of computer assistance.

That's what can happen now that computers are better than humans at chess. Maybe one day they will outclass us at business too?
We don't need a lot of people to provide food, shelter, electricity and water for 7.6bn people? What about clothes, cars, furniture, electronics, schools, hospitals, medical equipment?

"The main argument is UBI." - is that it? UBI will solve everything? Let's just print more money and give it to everyone. Problem solved.

As I said in my other comment, I am not saying that the current status-quo is right. I think there is plenty of inequality and injustice in the world, but I just don't think "antiwork" is the way to solve that.
Because likely nobody who can afford to has any standing.
The shape is unusual, is there any explanation for this oval shape?
I have been connecting to IRC using SSL for well over a decade. SASL authentication is also a thing for many years now (and most clients support it out of the box). There are channel settings one can set to prohibit people entering from non-secure connections as well (in cases where the network still allows non-ssl connections).

However it's not unreasonable to assume that most three-letter agencies (and perhaps some companies) will simply have bots silently sitting in most large public channels (if those channels don't have public logs anyway).
If anyone wants to read more about Reed Solomon, this is the article that helped me understand Reed Solomon earlier this year: https://innovation.vivint.com/introduction-to-reed-solomon-b...
The author's bio "Mark Lantz is manager of the Advanced Tape Technologies at IBM Research Zurich."

LOL, ok sure man, the future of storage is definitely tape. :rolls eyes:
Allyson Felix Knows What Makes the Olympics Run
I guess the other big lesson beginners get is that the other person has a plan, too.

Since everyone has all the information available, it lends itself to what you describe -- attack without weakening yourself. Or eventually allow weakness if it reaches victory conditions.

Generally the chess strats/tactics relating to business are more metaphor.
"go for their king" may be fine as a metaphor to imply "win it outright". As a strategy, though, it's not possible to just castle in response. Unless you create another metaphor for castling. Keep repeating that and you're just describing your own domain coded into chess terms, with any cross-domain applications being by definition or coincidental.
> slightly-less-obnoxious industry than ads

I almost never see people obnoxiously talking about how ads are great. In fact, it's the opposite - constant ad bashing.

Whereas with crypto, while you have the skeptics and the haters, there are way more obnoxious fanatics.
I fully concur.
> Yes, the problem is that on the far past, "believe the man" was the unwritten rule, and instead of just abolishing it, people decided that to correct that we should move to a explicit "believe the woman".

To the extent that that relates to a real problem the problem is that when things become slogans detached from context, they tend to lose critical parts of their meaning.

“Believe women” does not mean “uncritically accept as absolutely true what women say without further investigation of facts”, but to treat women’s accusations as serious and not make sexist assumptions about the probability that an accusation is false because of its nature at the outset.

(In part, the is a reactive effect wherein criticism directed at a deliberate strawman interpretation has, through the forces of oppositional tribal identities, actually generated support for what was initially a strawman in the tribe opposite to the one deploying the strawman.)
Mild inflation can lead to higher employment. We had a super tight labour market before Covid, I remember reading about factory workers getting signing bonuses (!)

Here’s hoping we’ll just pick right up where we left off!
No. TCP, IP and UDP are all using Internet Checksum (RFC 1071). Ethernet uses CRC.
I would probably pay extra for a switch although a big heavy mechanical switch in the middle of the signal path for a modern SSD would probably not be as cheap as you might expect.
Working on it! Coming soon.
https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui

https://itsfoss.com/youtube-dl-gui-apps/