skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really hoping for a defense of the Bradford pear. Specifically, a defense of the criticisms levied against it. There isn't one here.

People don't like them because the fruit is inedible to humans, they spread everywhere, they smell like sperm, and they are generally the mark of housing developments whose landscaping can only be described as lazy and uninspired. Worse, when planted by lazy people and improperly pruned in its youth, the natural growth pattern learns to it getting relatively easily damaged by storms. Without pruning, the limbs at about 8ft grow into each other, creating cracks, which make them highly susceptible to splitting at approx 20 years of age. If you search for "Bradford pear split" you'll find hundreds of photos.

This article has a lot of information about the utility of the rootstock for grafting, and history, but does zero to address why people don't like the trees. It does address the smell, but only to complain that people complain about it. What's the point of calling this a defense? It's just a history.
Don't bother contracting. In the United States almost all software contracting companies fall under two categories:

1.) Money laundering of some sort or another.
2.) Groups of people who have figured out they can create fraudulent projects and then contract them out to "friends". These are the worst as they are gaslighting festivals where you're forced to buy from certain places or people start purposely breaking software until you pay up.

If you dig deep enough you'll find out exactly how fraudulent most contracting companies are. It's almost all illegal activity.
I'm only 70 wpm typing and it is still way faster than writing. I think paper is good for doodling though. Like when I want visualize how a system works, but ms paint (or others) works well for this.
FYI: the number of ICU beds in use in Ontario has been trending down over the last 4 days:

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations#hospitaliz...

Over those same 4 days, a significantly increasing number of the folks in those beds are testing positive with Covid, but it's not clear to me whether that is the reason they're in the ICU. The hospitals need to provide better data about the reason these patients were admitted.
Mach: A Pluggable Metrics Storage Engine for the Age of Observability [pdf]
Partially because it's very well compensated, and my partner has a disability so I'm the sole income for our household. Taking a pay cut to do something else would be a big life change.

More importantly, I can't imagine doing anything else. The first 5 years I was in the industry I loved it and was very successful. I got to travel and learn and felt like I was on top of the world.
> That’s a huge benefit that can total $40k or more per year before candidacy.

No one does a phd for the coursework :)

> travel

This is worth perhaps $2K-$4K. Your industry friends could easily travel the world, and they wouldn't be stuck in a conference hotel for half their trip.

> FICA taxes

No! This isn't a good thing!!!

The employer pays half of these, and paying them entitles you to the US social safety net! Universities don't even give phd students the minimal benefits that every other employer in the entire country is required to subsidize 50%.

Stated another way: Denying any other employee a 50% match on state-provided retirement/disability insurance/unemployment insurance/medicare/etc. would literally be criminal.
Any freelancers reading this should research Contra. Zero commission, platform absorbs fees, dispute process friendly to freelancers, open communication with clients, built in social network.

Days of closed-door marketplaces are over.
- Deferring to others for strategic startup/career/tech advice

- More immediately, however, from the way you wrote it sounded to me like you're really, really down on yourself & have this constant churning sense of fear (above/beyond the typical "background radiation" of our insanely distressing life right now)

- I hope I didn't misread, but it sounds like generally you've got your $$$ locked down for foreseeable and are getting paid to work with high-caliber people

- Just going based on what you wrote, all the stuff going at this new gig (omg manager left, less-than-flawless onboarding, new person with lots of ideas learns they might need to come up with different business-valuable ideas, it's unclear how to get stuff merged, etc etc) are not that unusual. Your career trajectory as you describe sounds like somebody who actually gaf about engineering

However, that underlying fear or whatever the gnawing feeling you describe that threads through everything, might be worthy of further examination. Like figure out why is that monkey on your back?

If you're not already, hang out with kind people who don't work in tech

Also this group is like the khan academy of mental health-- check out the mirror exercise: https://wiki.healthygamer.gg/en/Insecurity

Don't know you but rooting for you
My understanding with most open source licences such as GPL, if you make any changes to the source code in order to better support the software, you're obligated to share those changes.

Other than that you shouldn't have any obligations to the software author(s). Although, it's best to thoroughly read the software license in question and perhaps even consult an attorney competent in software licensing.
Just embrace C++ for business logic (supported natively by both SDKs) and use native views, and for most CRUD apps, mobile Web works just fine.

Anything else, might look enticing, however as the author points out brings lots of attrition and failures can happen at any level of the stack, thus requiring native programing knowledge to sort them out anyway.

So instead of being experts in two stacks, the team now needs to be expert in three stacks.
Yes, that's right and well worded.
As a side note, for some reason, cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter are quite popular in developing countries.
I think it's the romantic depiction in Anime and other mediums that show it as only it's beauty and none of the flaws of regualr cities. For example, almost every show about New York City is about it's depiction of how much of a "city" it is, with the noise/how dirty it is/the amount of people, something that every city, including Paris has.
>Many countries are banning cryptocurrencies

How many times has china banned bitcoin now, 20?
Cows given VR headsets to increase milk production
It's not normal. I think maybe OP's perspective has been affected by seeing a lot of people experience exceptional success, and feeling comparatively like a failure, but that doesn't reflect the reality for the vast majority of people in the industry or otherwise.
An inverse relationship here. The builders are busy building stuff and don't spend much time on communications. Whereas speculators, all they have is communications, and there are many more speculators than builders, so the incentives look like 99% crap, 1% useful communications.

Props to builders like the OP, Moxie, and Vitalik for building and sharing. And to podcasts like Bankless for creating venues for communication from builders. I'd love to find a "Builders" cryptocurrency podcast.
It often strikes me that nothing has aged as well as solid colour backgrounds/widgets when it comes to user interfaces.
If you'd told me this site was made in 2021 I'd believe you.
Another example that comes to mind is the intro screen at the start of The Running Man, crisp white text on a red background. Looks as modern as the day it was made: https://i.imgur.com/wCRSDK0.jpeg

I wish I could extrapolate from this to figure out what else will age well when designing UIs.
Granted, there is a substantial degree to which font design has a strong subjective element (even though there are some non-subjective metrics that must be met too). However, the font that emerged in "Yak shave #4", Computer Modern, manages (for me) to pull off a somewhat exceptional double feat. On the one hand, it is to my eyes one of the ugliest fonts designed during the 20th century; on the other, my experience of it as a reader (hence again, my eyes) is that it is one of the easiest to read fonts ever created. I assume that DK found CM to be both beautiful and readable, which is fine, but I think it's even more remarkable that he could have created a font that someone with a modicum of interest in font design and typesetting could find both ugly and very readable.
Were you also using a third party credit card like in this case? Are you really 100% sure this freelancer would do the same that the person in your example did? Were you also doing months-long transactions totalling 12k? If this were with me, it would definitely raise red flags.

If the client is really speaking in good faith ("there was someone else's card in my UpWork account"), all this wouldn't have even happened in the first place, and the client would have noticed it himself.

And even if the same thing happened with Upwork, in this case the choice of verifying was completely taken out of the freelancer's hand entirely. There was zero possibility of him checking a name on a credit card.

If it were a direct transaction, the credit card company would be entirely out of the picture in case of fraud. A credit card company is not an intermediate in the same way Upwork is. Also, are we 100% sure Upwork is not trying to collect the amount from the client at the same time? Have them forfeited the fees?

> If the freelancer had taken a credit card directly, he would be in the same situation as now

Point is: it is impossible to claim that one thing or the other would have happened if the situation were different.

EDIT: Added quote.
Writing more code does not always mean producing better software. Often it's better to just move to an already existing better software. For service management, there are many alternatives already.
We should put an emphasis on currently, but also I think we should discuss how Microsoft is positioning itself as a gatekeeper and forcing all market players to adopt their tech.

If Microsoft says Windows will only support has with this tech enabled, and since almost every computer on the planet runs Windows, vendors must adopt this tech or go out of the market.

In other words, Microsoft is positioning itself to say to all market players to play by its rules or go out of business.

This is a perfect way to establish control over the market without establish itself as a monopoly, thus not attracting attention from regulators.
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
I get the impression that the SEO on substack needs working on - sometimes when I google someone (e.g. 'Scott Alexander' or 'Matt Yglesias') their old pages with their old writing will come up before their substack page.
You have some self-imposed stench of failure. You’re failing because you expect to fail. Change your perspective. You can do this.
Echo chamber. Can still be worth it, especially if that's your target market, but don't overinvest effort into it. And don't expect people to think "#1 on product hunt" to be a signal of quality and not of "we couldn't think of anything important to tell you about our product instead". (you occasionally see people try that e.g. on HN. it doesn't work, at all)
Those thumbnails are like, the platonic ideal of what I was expecting when I clicked on that link. Wow.

I would say "don't give up your day job, Ringo" but the fact that he is already insanely famous means that he will probably sell some of these things for more than I will ever make with my art in my lifetime.
I think you're asking if it's worth to get the things you make on ProductHunt?

I can't answer that, I'm not a creator, but I can answer as a consumer/user/reader of ProductHunt. I get the weekly digest thing and I always read it, and often try things, and share things I see there with other people I know that might find that "new" thing useful. It's really the only thing I follow to find new stuff like that.
Chase seems to be one of Air Canada's credit card rewards program partners[1]. My guess is that this relationship has something to do with Chase's refusal to issue a chargeback.

[1]https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco/home/aeroplan/credit-car...
I get what you are saying, but I'm not sure I would go so far as to say it is "BS". Here is a different pov:

You are about to build 1 solar panel. Where should you put it it? Somewhere with a lot of sun (EROEI of 1:10) or somewhere with a little sun (ERORI of 1:4). All else being equal, you would put it where you get more sun. Of course, as you build more and more panels, you ask yourself "when should I stop", and the answer is "when it costs just as much to install as I get back" (ERORI 1:1)

A separate calculation is "I have invented a more efficient solar panel! Should I replace existing solar panels?"
That makes sense, and I got thrown off (by maybe misreading the comment) thinking they meant the camera or something else would generate additional IR to illuminate the telescope, which I got confused by. It makes sense now that the comment was meaning that the cool down was to reduce as much telescope generated IR noise as possible.
Spermidine
How is that not relevant? If you’re looking to spend a minimal amount of money for a phone that will last a while, Android is arguably poor value since you’ll be replacing it sooner.

See the Boots Theory of Socioeconomics: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
I’m not painting it in a ridiculous light when it was actually ridiculous.

There is and was no evidence then or now that you can catch COVID from the car next door with the windows open.

The church offered workarounds, like two pews spacing between families (over 6’ easily) and spaced-out folding-chair overflow in the basement. City didn’t care.
What I experience is that I can remember things I write a lot better. I’m not sure why. I can type a lot faster than I write.

Also for problem solving I agree. I also don’t know why but I feel a lot “freer” when I have a sheet of paper in front of me.
PH takes much more work and strategy but "success" is somewhat deterministic if you did your homework. In our case we saw similar uptake, signups and conversion then ~20h on HN front page over the course of a week. PH had a much higher half-life and we saw stable uptake for a few days while HN was all in the first few hours.

It was definitely worth it for us. Some of our best customers found us on PH and our lead investor first heard of us during our launch and reached out.

For the curious product is https://hookdeck.com

As a PH user thought, I'm not sure how much value you should put in the ranking..
Yeah the logic of the article seems absurd to me. The hypothetical problem applies to any client. If the open source software Signal cannot be trusted, how do you trust any other software you are using? It’s not the software problem , it’s the problem of the build and distribution of the software. As mentioned in other comments, you can use trusted build and distribution channel. The worst you can do is to build by your own if you want to be really safe. I have done that and it’s not so hard .
I don’t know about you but I feel a piece of paper provides much more freedom than a txt file.

While writing text is slower than typing, it’s much, much easier to choose where to write, and to draw lines and boxes. All tools that helps thinking.

> when I finally I decided to grab a paper and pen, and solved it in 5 minutes.

In defense of your hard work, it’s always the last solution you try that works.
> 1. World for the most part failed to lead like China an stop it cold fast and yes places like the USA gets fair blame for that.

The virus had spread too widely for that to be possible. If you blame the USA, you also have to blame China for suppressing and destroying early information about the contagion.

I would prefer to blame nobody, since everyone’s systems played a part in the outcome.
I've been using sr.ht and hanging out in the community for around the last year or so, and I am really happy that is able to turn a profit!
> Then the correct response should have been for experts to say they didn’t know, instead of saying the lockdowns were the solution.

That kind of is why they said: that lockdowns were about the only reliable tool until we understood more, built out testing infrastructure, track and trace etc… it’s just that the government then didn’t do any of that.

> And maybe offer a split deal. Anyone who wants to lock down, go ahead, here’s some protections. Don’t want to lock down? Your body your choice.

Even a cursory look towards labor rights in the US would make it very clear it wouldn’t be “your body your choice”, it would be “want to keep your job? Turn up to work or you’re fired”.
Contratulations, you have discovered [Hammock-Driven Development](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc)! (also https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...)
From a first principles perspective what they really do and do well is remove trust from the equation. Regulations are setup mainly in situations where a central party has wholly control over something and we cant trust to not fuck us over.
I'm going to get downvoted to minus infinity but let me say this: consider also less techy firms. Or, companies that do have technology but aren't tech. I have some friends having a blast working with agriculture, there's lots of technology involved, but it's as far away from the stereotypical startup culture as you can get.
You cannot possibly be able to make that determination.
But my private key just laying there unencrypted in `~/.ssh/id_rsa` is safe for some reason??

I've never understood this.
It seems like UpWork failed to do due dilligence, and now wants to get somebody to pay for it.
They frequently delay payments just because they await your validation after all.
So the fault is on their side, but they may try to twist your hand, since they are big company and you are dependent on them.
Dangerous travel conditions expected as ice blankets much of the North
Which countries are banning crypto?

China

Guess what else they banned:
Google
Twitter
Facebook
…
I wonder how they compare vs alcohol, the other numbing agent that is widely used to treat depression.
https://www.beehiiv.com/
Respectfully, how do you know you didn't have it? If you are young and vaccinated, the chances of your covid being asymptomatic would be quite high.
CharaChorder, Type at the Speed of Thought
The thing is, for most mobile apps, 99% code are views, with a very tiny part that can be called "business logic". Doesn't really make sense to involve C++/JNI bridges hassle.
Washington digs out after record-breaking weather leads to 38 avalanches
Shard Manager: Facebook's Framework for Geo-Distributed Services
Covid-19-vaccinated women transfer antibodies to their breastfed infants
Precisely! It’s essentially the psychology of why we play (theories of motivation, drive, etc.) intertwined with coevolutionary analysis of why we choose to go to virtual worlds, and why this world over that.

Not yet, but I’m getting far enough along that I do want to start publishing some essays. I’ve been working on this for a year now. Rest assured, your username has been safely jotted down in the corner of my notebook for when I finally grow some sort of presence.
Actual writing is the best form of pseudocode :)

I like the anecdote, this and the two-pizza rule are some nice bits of Amazon "management lore".
That doesn't explain it. Add in the other states with similar percent elderly populations to Florida and Florida still has a far worse delta wave than they do. And its not vaccination status because Florida has good vaccination rates among the older people.

You could also look at per county data to compare counties in Florida with counties with similar demographics in other states, or dive into the breakdowns that states give by age group.

Do all that and it will become clear that Florida's terrible delta wave outcome is because the state government largely stopped taking COVID preventative measures, and actively tried to stop local governments and businesses from doing so.
This is how we setup our teams for React-Native projects. We usually will have the lead for either-or of the Android/iOS teams also be familiar with that platform.

For example myself: I was the co-lead for 2 React-Native projects at my company along with a dev who is very familiar with Swift/Obj-C. I'm still much more familiar with JS/TS-land but I was one of the few on the team fairly comfortable dropping into native Kotlin/Java for when we needed to.

This worked out well for us. The native iOS dev who worked along with me was less experienced at React/JS/TS itself so I took most of the shot calling for that but having him there for native-iOS help definitely pushed us through points where we would have hit a roadblock for a fairly large project. In the end we had 200k LOC on the React-Native side, and a fairly large amount for both in native due to a large feature that required us to drop into native.
When to cache in your Rails app
Flutter dev here.

The Flutter webview is basically a wrapper for the native iOS and Android implementations. A native Android app using a webview and a Flutter app running on Android using a webview is using the same native webview.

It is like that for a lot of the Flutter libraries. They basically implement native versions of the functionality and make it available to Flutter. The Dart language has FFI so if you want to get "even more native" you can do Android and iOS system calls in your Flutter app using languages like C, C++, Rust or even Assembly.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I definitely think part of it is above-average background stress - queer woman, sole breadwinner for my household, grew up poor, we've had a lot of emergency expenses and unexpected health problems the last few years. Our finances aren't terrible, but the past year has eaten away a lot of the cushion I had built up from my last successful role.

Objectively the rest of my life outside work has been extremely stressful, and I'm scared of losing my job.
I have a whole channel dedicated to this topic, it's UK based but a lot of the pricing stuff still applies: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFreelanceSoftwareShow/videos
Hospital boss admits they may lose staff over compulsory vaccines
OP is failing because OP put themselves in a job that's draining their life-force, not because of some vague "perspective" issue.

Unless by "change perspective" you mean "change jobs", because that's what OP needs to do.
I've seen this tutorial almost word for word before, and I even know a few people who have trained their cats using this method. It wasn't until today that I realized that this was method was created by one of the most famous jazz musicians in the world (and IMO the best bass player that ever lived).
Seriously, It will depend on the type of product you are realising. My experience is PH have built an experience that forces sign up; therefore, if you don’t have an account, your can’t upVote; consequently, you will only reach those with an account to your point. I prefer Niche slack/ discord communities where you may know a leader, i.e. for products leaders; I’ve asked a Fiver freelancer to build a list of all slack communities that fit my product. Without spamming, you will find the connectors and making a list of those may be a better route to distribute your product.
Been in product hunt since it was invite only beta. Things have changed a lot. In the beginning it was a community about hunting great products and nice discoveries.

Nowadays is about paying hunters with a lot of followers to post your products and asking all your network to upvote your product to brag about how you made it to top X of Product Hunt.

The posting about nice products of the internet and discovering them is now gone. If you try to publish something because you found it online and want to share it with the community, but you don’t have a network of people to “fakely” upvote it, the product will be hidden at the bottom and nobody will see it.

Discovery and community are gone.