skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there potential solutions to the problems mentioned or is building a great todo list app not possible?

I’m leaning towards it’s impossible, but would like to hear what others think.
Before the industrial revolution, inequality was far worse and so was the amount of back breaking labor humans and animals performed. It's true we have a larger negative environmental impact now. Part of that is the huge increase in population made possible by the industrial revolution. Some environmental things like pollution inside cities and rivers has gotten better over time in industrialized countries. The internet is a mixed blessing. It offers a lot in addition to the shit. The problem is the expectation that it would usher in a digital utopia instead of just reflecting society as everyone started to move online.

I certainly wouldn't want to go back to manual labor, no electricity or indoor plumbing, lack of refrigeration, much more limited options for travel, news and entertainment, and the lack of modern medicine.
Stripe or Square? Visually similar words and in similar lines of business but definitely different companies.
Most of the deep work I do nowadays is figuring how to navigate politics, pitch features, review designs made by others and such. It features a lot of context switching as well, and it's contained between a host of meetings. I find interest in the overall outcome, but it's mentally taxing. True, when doing an activity that I enjoy by itself (e.g dev), it's not a hassle to stay focused and remain on the task longer
The cDc were a fun gang of people I think. I was too young to know about them when they were at their top but I read about them just a couple of years later. For example, the Wikipedia page about Christen Rioux that you linked cites a news article from '99 which was entertaining to read: https://web.archive.org/web/20071105094322/http://www.networ...

(And also thanks to people like those that run the Internet Archive who make history accessible when original pages bitrot.)
Biden Poised to Send Some Pot Prisoners Back to Prison
How can Facebook be a common carrier when Comcast isn’t? Section 230 seems pretty clear and websites have their own first amendment rights, Government compelling speech seems obviously unconstitutional.
The problem is you can't deduce things just using reason because immunology and epidemiology are branches of science that take a huge amount of dedication to understanding before you can make useful, falsifiable assertions that don't fall into begginer's errors due to ignorance.

I am absolutely tired of armchair epidemiologists who think their opinion even counts.

No, I don't care about your "reasoning", because if you're not a specialist in the topic you are missing out on such a gigantic set of knowledge on the subject that I need to have any interesting hypothesis checked out by a subject matter expert.
If anyone was following the news about PayPal working with ADL to stop wrong thinkers having accessing payments/receipts, erm “Fight Extremism” (great until your views are considered extreme, and if you don’t think that’s possible consider a talk with your 10 year ago self about vaccine passports or forced vaccination or trans athletes or border/immigration or canceling comedians or ending the filibuster, etc)… I don’t think I can support anyone having even remotely strong market dominance anywhere for payments. [0]

Maybe Stripe can just process payments, but who knows because “silence is violence” now. They did ban the Trump Store after the 11/6 fiasco [1] despite nothing on the store breaking any TOS or referencing the capital riot, just a broader “This guy is bad news!” condition they could/would/should have used at any time.

[0] https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/26/paypal-is-conspiring-wi...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payment...
The complete mystery re: which elements of an application and interview are must-have or must-ace and which are ignored entirely, downplayed, or even taken as "red flags" ("what might that be?" wearing a suit to an interview, or just dressing above business-casual—required some places, practically a guaranteed "no" others) is one of the most frustrating things about interviews. Which is saying something, really, because most things about interviews are pretty frustrating.
This article is gold.

Also, I enjoy the posts by Josh Doody: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/
What's about '95?
Other people have replied to the predatory practices thing, but additionally I'm not sure if it's a misread, typo, etc., but Stripe != Square.
Ask HN: Recommended 120v LED Bulbs?
Anyone have good recent experience with standard (A19/A21) LED bulbs. I’ve got some old Philips A21s that tolerate crappy dimmers without flickering, but I haven’t had luck with their newer stuff.
Nice, thank you.

I have tried the demo[1] and couldn't find how to switch to MarkDown code mode. In Typora I can just press Ctrl+Slash.

[1] https://saul-mirone.github.io/milkdown/#/online-demo
From "Margin Call (2011)" - context is a subprime investment banker explaining how he justifies doing what he does:

> People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from.

This is fulfilling a demand, it's one I don't agree with either, and think we'd be better off without, but people are asking for it. At least it's a legit company doing it and not a mobster or money launderer.
Isn't that what a credit card is for? Or is it somehow different?
And they can request, without a warrant, all of your emails older then 6 months if stored in the cloud: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/police-surveillance/
I cannot find a single popular movie that's available to stream which isn't also available as a 4k WEB-DL on a popular, well known, private tracker.
It’s Twitter
The architects that think enterprise architecture is about designing enterprises and not about managing the effects of complexity that comes from IT at enterprise scale are generally the useless ones.
should be 39km2 not km3
Every time I see one of these announcements, the valuations go up and up and up and up. I remember not long ago being wowed by a 1B acquisition. That was called a unicorn because of how incredible it was. And now we're at 29B. Is this just because money is all a joke?
Yes, these new POS financing companies are not good. I briefly worked for one before fully understanding what kind of businesses they are and how they make their money. They may put a pretty face on things but their financials look nothing like a "regular" startup, it's rebranded high APR loans.
Part of the solution to monopoly is in fact multiple providers.

I did say part. Regulation and transparency also help. None are individually sufficient.
I’m interested in how many people double check their changes before committing as I’ve done this since the days of sourcesafe, and a decent number of bugs I’ve seen are people just not checking what they committed (some stray change got in that they never intended)
Can / how do you turn of the bluetooth keys? I have keychain turned off already. Does that include wifi passwords or not?
No issues, I get what you’re saying. Funny though, although it’s mostly a “rose colored glasses” sort of thing, I think fondly on my time working shit dead end jobs because I was at least working towards something better whereas now I have to constantly question whether I’ve peaked.

> Pardon my language but: the fuck is the point even?

When you find out let me know. Some people seem to get lucky enough to have all sorts of other, non work things to keep them going, family, etc. so I suppose if you have that it’s motivation.

> I'm not sure I understand why you bother to work at all?

Because the alternative is throwing away both my past and any potential for the future, even if it looks grim. As stupid as it is, I’ve thought about though, if not at least because it would give me a blank slate and something to work towards again. Though the few fleeting moments of content was I find are generally at times I wouldn’t be there if I wasn’t wageslaving the rest of the time.

> If you don't find anything in the world interesting, what gives you the will to live and not commit suicide?

There’s plenty of things I find interesting, just nothing that anyone would ever pay me to do. Maybe they aren’t commercially viable, maybe they’re not really career related things, or maybe I’m not smart/wealthy/educated enough to take them on.
Todo list helps you to do things in the same way a shopping list helps you shop. It’s just a tool to facilitate memory and organization.

Motivation, tenacity, and perspective are not really within the scope of todo lists.
And don't dismiss LinkedIn! It's a rolodex other people keep up to date.

Log on once a week and like posts by other folks (job posts, interesting articles, whatever). Send a congrats message as suggested by LI when someone starts a new job. Send someone a job that seems like it might be of interest to them when you see it. Post something you wrote/built/read about.

The goal is to keep in touch so that when you are ready to start looking, you aren't starting from ground zero.
Agreed. And in my observations, these architects were engaged deep in technical discussions. They weren't the 'powerpoint-slide' types.
These days law enforcement agencies partner up with firms like Clearview[1] that mine data on individuals from the internet and build digital dossiers on them.

A story about someone getting their mined information from Clearview made the front page of HN[2] last year.

It is entirely possible that such firms are running sentiment analysis on social media posts, or analyzing likes and shares, to profile suspects as "anti-police" or not.

[1] https://clearview.ai/law-enforcement

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207
The content key at most Netflix like website is one for the entire library, only per-device key needed to get that key, and watermark ID is unique.
Just to expand upon what the parent said, their fee is significantly higher than the companies that just process credit cards (around 6% compared to the industry standard rate of 2.9%).

I believe they eat the loss when the customer defaults, though.
Given how the EU treated AstraZeneca, it makes sense that other companies would price in the expected risk of doing business with the EU.
As a wise man once said,
"You don't always get what you want "
What? Do you have former co-workers who have moved on who'd love to have you at their new place?

If so, I bet they can help you get past the coding tests.
Trickily, BNPL is pushed as 'not credit', which I find deeply disingenuous. The product they push is utilised by compulsive spenders, or poorer people. These people have always used credit, much to their collective disadvantage. Branding it as 'like lay-by, free up your cashflow' is in my opinion a dangerous option for many people.
As mentioned, it's when you must make sure that you have perfect precision. Money and counting items is one such example. If I am a bank and get audited, if I have a transaction that has kept rounding up, and creating eg. 1 cent every time. After 10k transactions I will have "created" $100 from nowhere. The auditing firm will not be happy about this.
Merging rocks! Never had an issue with merging and it’s less work. I’d only rebase if there is a “story” I want to tell in the commit history, that would be otherwise lost. This is rare, probably if someone else did some major refactor or move around
You overestimate how much expert experience matters.

I recently went from a start-up to FANG after a gap in my resume, and the new job is in an area I have no experience in. Many people I know have gone through similar experiences.

You do need strong interview skill though.
With such a laundry-list, I'm not 100% sure being "ready for prime time" means having a graphical interface for all those configurations.
Apologies for the implication. I'm not a pet owner myself and chose the analogy based on what I've heard other people say (possibly as a justification for putting down their pets).
Some things I miss:

- A webring at the bottom of every website

- Websites having "awards" pages, full of random little picture awards given out by other random websites

- Hand-curated directories of everything imagineable

- When internet ads were just static 468x60 banners placed on individual sites by individual advertisers

- "Guided tours" in AOL chat rooms, where a host guided everyone in a live chat on a split-screen tour of their favorite websites

- MUDs

- Stumbleupon's stumble toolbar
Link?

I'm curious because the gist I get is there are a fair number of got #1 but not #2. What I hear / read repeatedly are "...has at least one shot..." and that is stated in the context of vaccinated.

That is, for example, NJ (where I live) is somewhere around 65 - 70%. Certain 100% are not with two jabs.

There's simply too much (intentional) antiquity and statistical mumbo-jumbo.
They seem to be using it as a line of demarcation between the internet that was much more decentralized, with lots of personal blogs, fansites, etc. and the current state, where most people just rotate between Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. I remember discovering and reading lots of video game-specific websites in the 90's and early 2000's; nowadays those are almost entirely replaced by subreddits and Discord communities.
> An interesting corollary is that certain types of business are no longer economically viable.

Or are no longer viable with US based software talent. I know a company that couldn't seem to keep/hire/find US based talent. Now they employ a couple folks from South America. The company gets competent developers and the folks from SA get jobs that they are happy with.
Isn't this more of a critique of meta-analysis itself? It seems pretty suspect to take a collection of published studies with different populations and different criteria and derive any meaningful meta product from them, especially since we know most research is never actually published.
Do you… do this in other aspects of your work as well? Like, if you disagree with decisions being made on a project you’re working on, do you sabotage it?

In general, obstructionism is not a good way to effect change; it just hurts everybody. There are exceptions, but this probably isn’t one.
The article is simply saying that with the growth of IT, change is getting harder (existing landscapes have inertia), something the top is slow (if at all) to accept. That makes the role of the person trying to explain that (and why) change is getting harder a more frustrating one.
The article seems to be full of little mistakes. A torus has Betti number β1 of 2, not 1 as is on the text. Also, β1 and genus are not "equal", they are related by β1 = 2g. Furthermore, the Euler charasteric also doesn't "equal" it. Euler charasteristic χ in terms of genus is χ = 2 − 2g, so by substitution, χ = 2 − β1.
Can definitely be expanded beyond the right but there is scientific backup on media affects on extreme and dangerous views

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C6&q=coro...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C6&q=extr...
That’s the problem though isn’t it. Assuming trash will never be without electronics, batteries etc, it will end up in water. As far as I understand, burning in decent facilities should keep most nasty stuff out of the atmosphere and ground water (e.g heavy metals)
If they can get the content key out of TZ, they don't even need the per-device key, and TZ based decoder anymore.

They just straight decrypt any files, which were at some point laying in the open on CDNs.

I believe, sooner or later it will come to the point when the only way left for DRMed content to work will be to have each stream individually encrypted, and watermarked at the backend at an enormous computational expense.
Another lament for the loss of organic spaces. But nature didn’t go away - it’s still out there, if you would only step outside the mall for a moment.
I've found nothing more effective than priority ranked todo lists in apple notes (linked to IMAP Notes). One for work, one for my personal life. If I see something on there too long, I either delete it, delegate it, or move it to the top. The work one gets edited more often.

The only "feature" I want really is a diff over time just to see what I've done and what I was doing at the time. I want completion/non-completion to be represented by deletions of lines/bullet points.
We can't look for the homework to copy, we must study ourselves.
Road maps are generally pretty useless. They are a form of trying to predict the future. Good Life Cycle Management is of course OK, but you cannot predict what you will need a year (or two) from now.
I don't have a problem with the current reality. I am only pointing out that the current reality isn't fundamentally an absolute reality, just the features of the current epoch of currency which is only 100 years old. This thread was only about why the prices for a long time in the 19th century were not changing much across those 100 years, when in the 20th century things increase. I'm not here to opine about a future alternate system.
The one one the rack
> If you really care, talk to your local representatives or write to Trader Joes and Whole Foods. Anything else is posturing.

Or you can do both.

> Your refusal to not consume it isn't going to change them buying the plastic, because given the choice, people aren't going to stop sampling in the aggregate. And at that point you're just signaling to other people in a really silly way.

This is a strange viewpoint to me. Acting based on your principles in your day-to-day life isn't just about signaling to others. It's about how you live your life, and acting "in tune" with your beliefs can lead you to profound happiness. If you decide that single-use plastics are bad for the environment, and you like the environment, then you try to avoid them. It's pretty simple.

But I don't even think that signaling is silly. Some people are convinced more by actions than words. I've reduced the amount of waste I produce by bringing containers to get stuff from bulk foods sections, literally because I saw someone doing it and realized it was possible. Before that, I would've thought "oh man it sucks that you have to get granola in single-use plastic, but oh well, that's life." As strange as it sounds, I had never even considered bulk food sections, even though I know the mantra "plastic bad".

If you extend your arguments, they imply that acting based on your principles in day-to-day life is pointless (or merely "posturing") because we are all small and insignificant, and the only thing that matters is trying to change laws. But I think you have it partially backward. People acting on their strong beliefs and spreading those ideas to others is what eventually invigorates political changes in the first place.
- Google (and other search engines) trying to fight and downrank or de-list, rather than giving up and embracing, webspam sites.

That's what's made what remains of, and the continuations of, the old Web, practically invisible. It's all top sites and blogspam or domain-name-spam sites on the first couple pages, now. Even those "skip the first hundred" or whatever sites don't really fix it.
You might be right, I don't argue against your theory. Do you believe China is motivated to accurately keep and report numbers on cases and deaths?
I think there are solutions, but whether or not they are the same for a large enough market is hard to tell.

I use a leaky bucket metaphor in my todo lists... if a given task sits on a list for too long, then it should more or less fall off. It wasn't as important as you thought. But this is anathema to how most of these systems work.
That's only because google is stupidly refusing to sell their devices
How to build maintainable test factories in phoenix and elixir summary article
<< ...PHP devs to $120K ...

120k / 12 months => 10K/month salary

10K / 22 working days / 8 hours each day => ~$57/hour. Kinda low, don't you think? Especially for senior level.
> Now it begs the question whether the network operators were in cahoots or this Pegasus is also capable of infecting network infrastructure.

They can use fake cell towers, no need to escalate that far.
It's not like every other RSS reader died that day. You have plenty of them, as a service, as an app, as a browser extension and much more.
>3. Sense of accomplishment is important but rare in the digital world. When you mark a task as done in your TODO app, it just hides it. That’s it, no reward, no sense of accomplishment (unless you make your own). I think that’s why some people like Trello or pen-and-paper TODO list: when you get something done, you can see a card moved or a text crossed out. An artifact that proves there was a task here, and now it’s done. Now you are one step closer to your goal.

This one is so good and true.
High-achievers in toxic environments, no matter how cliché, is surely too niche to generalise to everyone. Still, I get it now — thanks :) — and while I can empathise to a degree, I think it must be highly subjective. Maybe the author’s choice of the word “pain” wasn’t the clearest.
In rural areas, it's normal to just go in the woods and shoot. I grew up with guns, practiced quite frequently, and have never been to an actual range.
This joke (despite being funny) is somewhat misleading of actual economic theory for 3 reasons: 1) market efficiency occurs over the long-term, 2) shocks (of the exogenous and endogenous kind) tend to reset the point at which markets clear, 3) both 1 (duration) & 2 (frequency) are far greater in magnitude under anything like real world conditions. Still more so within the tech industry.
> But they will harass your visitors with captchas for no good reason.

It is up to you to harass your visitors or not. CloudFlare does not enforce it. You can disable the firewall if you don't want that kind of protection.
Part of Prime day benefits touted discounts or money back or something (at one point) and I have yet to see anything come from that. I’m curious if anyone has or what the deal is.
YMMV, but I find that by talking with a person and solving problems with them I get a much better sense of their abilities than by just reading resumes or listening to recommendations.
Different activities and different personalities require different approaches I guess. I for example do not get most of the arguments from the writing. Perhaps because I usually need to deal with few big tasks not millions of small ones. The few important ones are easy to keep in mind, need to manage only the less important externally (and strive to get rid of the marginal ones). Others live differently. I guess the task is impossible due to the diverging needs.