skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like how you had to word it in terms of 5 years just to make it sound substantial...

Because I'm going to be using it for that long.

> It's 3 dollars a month.

For this single app. It's easy to justify $3 at a time, but suddenly you're paying a whole cable bill for marginal value.

Decisions like this shouldn't be taken in complete isolation and rounded to zero.

> and still expect the service to be around forever

I don't want the service, just sell me the program.

I could store my data in dropbox or microsoft or any email service or facebook.

I could store it in S3 for 1 penny a month. I could pay 2/3 as much to get 100GB of space from google.

The amount of money it takes to provide this service is completely disconnected from the cost, and the value I get is not from the service.

The program is valuable, but I could buy a nice alternative program, avoid the pure-profit service, and buy myself something nice down the line. Maybe a higher tier GPU the next time I upgrade my computer. And I can only conserve so much tissue paper.

One $3-per-month service could hold my data for thousands of apps. It's reasonable to ask me to have one such service. But I'm not paying once per app.
Why can't you get mail delivered to your home address? Isn't delivering mail to every residential address the main mandate of the USPS?
This exact same reason why GDPR matters to tech companies yeah: Europeans are rich.
Google Hangouts was almost there as well. At least in my circle it was actually fairly popular too.
That's certainly better then GTFO. I probably would have tried to establish a rapport first but given the circumstances I can understand why you wanted to confide in new leadership. The good news is she played her cards early and hopefully that gave you enough details or indicators to consider moving on. We've all had bad managers and the best thing we can do as employees is firing them when they treat us less than human. Also, I think success is the best revenge... Hope you're feeling better, sorry you had to deal with that.
I’ve heard this, and I believe it is technically true. But in practice never happens anymore.

Are there any situations today where that happens?
> simple path of direct method invocation

Does it mean calling a method of a class?
The only group I have seen care about iMessage colors and see it as a status symbol is high schoolers. Once I got to college, no one cared.

People just wanted to be able to talk easily. It was annoying to set up cross platform group messaging at first, but it hasn't been a problem for at least 6 years. The biggest thing pulling people to iMessage now is convenience and not wanting to figure out a different mutual platform.

A large portion of the current generation of kids are actually tied to Discord. I expect Discord to start dominating more and more as time goes on. Hackathons are organized and held on there. Clubs at my university have moved to Discord. There's a specific to my university Math discord and a separate CS one where even teachers interact. A lot of online streamers have set up their own branded discord for their community. I have heard some companies like Amazon even have a new hire Discord. Slack, iMessage, Whatsapp, and Messenger all lack things Discord provides.

I believe Discord is the endgame for group messaging. The way you can organize conversations in to categories and channels is a killer feature that no other service gets quite right. The way Discords use roles to help categorize people into groups and have granular permission control for who can access what content is so useful. It's a matter of when, not if Discord is the best service.

There is one big caveat to Discord right now and that's the lack of End to End encryption. Whatsapp and Signal are the only two messaging services I trust for privacy sensitive communication. I don't really care if government agencies snoop on the fact that I was playing Rocket League for the last two hours though. iMessage is E2E as well but only if you communicate with others that are also tied to the Apple ecosystem which makes it useless for me because a lot of my international friends aren't. I have an ipad that has my contacts synced so I can see who else has iMessage.
> And if parents want to encourage their gifted children to reach their full potential, they can cultivate a growth mindset by praising their hard work and curiosity.

If only it were that easy! You can’t “talk” a kid into a growth mindset. It comes from facing real challenges and overcoming them. If the school environment rarely provides a real intellectual challenge then a fixed mindset is simply the path of least resistance.
Literally everyone who subtitles anything.
That looks awesome, had no idea. Thanks for the link!
>every year I have to worry about whether a fraudster is going to submit an IRS return in my name

Just get an IRS Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN), this will prevent anyone else from filing a return for you. However, you may need the new IRS login service in order to retrieve your IP PIN each year.
Definitely that one. Would you like a gorilla?
You are right. I’m glad that the article has a prominent link to the bill’s text. It’s short, please read it before jumping to any conclusions.

It is a requirement for new vehicles to “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation” when the vehicle either measures the driver’s blood alcohol content and it’s above the limit OR detects that the driver may be impaired. That’s all. It doesn’t mention anything about law enforcement or remote access.
Green texts are objectively worse. It's hard to have text conversations with iPhone users as a none iPhone user because they refuse to use messaging apps and sms takes like 20 seconds. Not to mention degraded media quality and lack of all the other features iMessage has.
Ask HN: For freelancers that need community, how do you do it?
I'm a bit mixed up now and would love some stranger’s stories.

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer Consultant. I'm working 3 days a week and get paid well to do so. I know I'm very privileged and lucky to be in this position but I'm also very unhappy with the role. This makes me quite frustrated because I feel like a massive sook and an ungrateful brat.

I've had different jobs that paid a third of the rate but have been happy. The main difference, as far as I can see, is having people around and building repour with a team. I really enjoy working with people. Right now, my output has been suffering horrendously because I’m struggling to find the concentration needed to get my work done to a normal standard. I just squirm in my seat, alone in my apartment, getting frustrated. My guess would be to work towards managing people, but I don’t know how to approach that without years more work? At this point, I don’t know if I’m silly for looking for an industry shift. I really appreciate creative people so I’ve approached some suitable companies, but they almost find it weird that I’d want to make the change.

For those that love community but work remotely, alone or with little others, how do you do it?
Worst case, we get another tea party.
People do not learn at a constant speed throughout their education. Almost everyone has at least a few runs of "giftedness", at least in some subjects, where they could benefit from acceleration; and conversely, even gifted students might need some "remedial" effort from time to time.
When they fail to deliver a majority of tests kits by early February, at least they can say the website was working (for the most part).
The feds had 2 years of pandemic to get it right. A bit late to launch but still glad to see resources getting out to individuals to help slow down the spread.
have you looked at indiehackers?

https://www.indiehackers.com/
Is “writing blatantly wrong headlines for clicks” a thing now?
Right, so none of this namespace stuff works under suid there either.
If that’s the case, I am fairly confident in saying you were never an American teenager for this past decade.
Common problem, I think. I wrote an Outlook macro that saves the email message to a folder and puts the link to it in the clipboard, then I just paste it into Vimwiki. That way in the mail application I can archive it, delete it, whatever. Works well also for those messages you want to save for some vague reason but have no related action item right now.
"Whoever can suffer the most grief wins" also seems like an apt description of what it's like to participate in a representative democracy's political process.
Nixon hated the hippies, so he started the war on drugs which included both LSD and marijuana among other drugs.

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Good call out :)
The article is about attempting to escape this static vs dynamic dichotomy, not about declaring dynamic languages superior to static ones.
Discord lacks multi account feature on mobile (some desktop support had come recently). It enforces use my "gamer" profile to all other community. Slack did it well from very beginning.
How much of a challenge would it be to achieve such an integration with Bitwarden?
Why can't mail be delivered to your house? I'm pretty sure the USPS basically has a mandate to deliver to every home except in extreme cases. I mean, last I heard they still run a dog sled to deliver mail in some of the furthest reaches of Alaska.

I would guess that delivering to residential addresses only is the only way to ensure a limited number per household. Otherwise, you are going to have people trying to get a bunch for resale.
Not to nitpick your point too much, but VP tends to have a specific meaning, even if its given to many employees. Usually, it means that this employee can sign contracts or make certain regulatory commitments on behalf of the company. Its not always self-aggrandizing.
If only there were a more modern standard, it could be called RCS
I can't disagree that Brand Prestige is a big part of their marketing and branding. I used Android phones and linux or MS operating systems on PCs exclusively for my entire life, until the last 2 years or so. I was also quite zealously anti-Apple and anti-Apple-fanboy, and I considered their 1984 ad to be incredibly ironic.

Once the fifth android device in a row bricked on me I made a decision to try an iPhone 11. I couldn't be happier. It just worked, never crashed, and certainly didn't brick during the time I used it, just under 2 years. I recently upgraded to an iPhone 13 and am still thrilled with it. I never had an Android phone that lasted longer than a year before issues started to surface, and I never had one make it 2 years ever.

The performance of the iPhone made the take the plunge to try a MacBook Pro for my personal use. Couldn't be happier with that, either: it offers a linux-like experience on the command line, and provides a mostly great UI (I don't care for Finder--but I haven't any other real complaints).

Edit: my Android phone purchases were top-of-the-line models: Nexus and Pixel phones purchased off Google directly.
Google employees are entitled to a discounted tier ($0.75 per user per year, I think), and that will continue even if you leave the company.
WeChat is a China based app and most of the rest of then are hoovered up by Facebook Inc. Do you really want an ad company to be greping through all your allegedly secure message? China based apps speak for themselves in the current climate.

iMessage seems like a fine solution to me when I want to send IMs. I'm not interested in all the chaff associated with recent IM enhancements. They all seem pretty irrelevant to the main function: text and photos sending.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is. I mean its really users fault for not using messaging apps, but that's clearly by design. Apple crafted iMessage to be good enough that iPhone users overwhelmingly use it and it provides a much worse experience when texting non iPhone users.
The mobile app really sucks though, especially when compared to Telegram.
They might be referring to the American Society of Quality: https://asq.org/cert/software-quality-engineer

It's not equivalent to a software engineer in Canada: https://www.egbc.ca/Registration/Individual-Registrants/How-...

This may be different in other countries.

I worked in manufacturing and there were P.Eng. holding mechanical and industrial engineers that held ASQ certifications on top of but not as substitutes for their P.Eng.
She went to Tandem after Xerox. Mostly to follow her manager and partly because it was painfully obvious to pretty much everyone that XBS didn't understand how to productize the computers and technology that PARC came up with. By then it was clear that Apple was going to do that with the Macintosh.
I'm keeping a job search diary on my blog
How do you know where the person can vote (district) if no address?
I remember software engineering courses to be about the process, the metrics available, the way to mesure and quantify whatever is going on in a project.

As opposed to learn about a type of algorithms, some math, some language or some pattern.

10 years latter, I’m glad for the exposure.

It was more useful to understand and talk to folks on the sides of the dev department : security, ops, qa, support. Heck, even product.

I felt that with those, the dev could monkey patch whatever together and still be part of some engineering process.

Now I don’t know. I sure do push code around.
>Or is there some other "IRS account" that I've never discerned a need for ?

Yes. Your taxpayer account, for getting tax return transcripts and so on.
>videos sent are reduced in quality by a significant degree

What is the purpose of this? It's an issue solely with apple phones, people sending me videos from Android phones come through fine in full quality but anything from an apple device comes in looking like a Minecraft video.

>can't receive replies to specific comments

Apple actually started having their phones start sending texts with the reaction a few years ago, see this from my girlfriend earlier today

https://imgur.com/a/ttEhdN0
I found there are very few mentions about hey.com despite here's HN. Anyone still use Hey?
For many people, "Obsidian, but open source", would be a pretty compelling selling point. I only became aware of Dendron today, but going to have to evaluate it now
https://nypost.com/2022/01/11/rhodes-scholar-denied-honor-af...
What's your revenue like?
I'm way off any public road and there's nowhere to put a mailbox. I could get a PO Box at the local post office, but why should I pay for that when I can get my mail delivered to my office location?
I'm pretty sure it's also a Russian thing.

In the case of English, the orthography is difficult, a large proportion of people are functionally illiterate, and even more have a tough enough time reading that subtitles just go by too quickly.
As it exists, they arrest and charge based on state law, unless they have something federal to charge.

Hypothetically, you could model it off of migratory wildlife enforcement, with dual jurisdiction, where a violation of a relevant state law automatically becomes a federal offense, and vice versa, and agents are typically officers of both the state and federal government.

Then the federal judiciary could fulfill the need where locals fall short. No private prison or judicial system needed.

But it would be much more ideal if the prosecutors would just do their jobs.
> Centralization exists because there is a need to manage spam, griefing, and sockpuppet/sybil attacks. Previous decentralized systems largely stopped working due to spam. If it were more costly to grief on the internet using decentralized systems, the need for trusted centralized corporations to manage these risks decrease.

Do they mean grifting here?
elves ("daemons") cannot be trusted beyond their own goals- humanizing them can be a costly mistake
>I-90

Fun fact, the poorest county's casino I mentioned in my other post is 20 miles off of I-90 as well. Interstates are funny like that.
Investor’s Uyghur Comments Are Even Worse Than You’ve Heard
You get the government you deserve.
Cheapest? Help me out here. When and how was a TV cheaper than telling stories?
> If the districts are overrun with parents looking for advanced learning, why don't they offer it?

probably because a fair chunk of the kids aren't actually gifted, and if you cave to the parent's demands then you end up with a "if everyone is gifted, then no one is gifted" situation.
No doubt this is happening to some extent. But it does appear that the USPS requires valid residential addresses in order to send a mask. The USPS does have a database of actual addresses that they validate against. You can't simply send to something that looks valid.

Perhaps some good citizen hacker created a bot that automatically submitted a request for every address in town.
A link to the actual study https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

>During May–November 2021, case and
hospitalization rates were highest
among persons who were
unvaccinated without a previous
diagnosis. Before Delta became the
predominant variant in June, case rates were higher among persons
who survived a previous infection
than persons who were vaccinated
alone. By early October, persons who
survived a previous infection had
lower case rates than persons who were vaccinated alone.

And

>What are the implications for public health practice? Although the epidemiology of
COVID-19 might change as new
variants emerge, vaccination remains
the safest strategy for averting future
SARS-CoV-2 infections,
hospitalizations, long-term sequelae, and death. Primary vaccination,
additional doses, and booster doses
are recommended for all eligible
persons. Additional future
recommendations for vaccine doses
might be warranted as the virus and immunity levels change.
I particularly like The Juice Media from Australia to keep track of Oz politics.

In spite of me living in Romania, I love their Honest Government Ads.

Honest Government Ad | Hung Parliament - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnzaiYrvvrw
It's a peer pressure thing. I know people who have legitimately bought iPhones because they kept getting left out of group chats.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant to write, but stated less clearly than you did. Thanks.
I think I've said about 3 times in this thread that I'm firmly in the "pro" camp as regards the net positives of static typing, and for precisely the reasons you've detailed. I just don't see its absence (or instances where it less than algebraically perfect) as the crippling dealbreakers that others seem to regard it as.

What I was referring to as "not slowing one's work down very frequently" was the corner case situation that someone brought up 4 comments above yours, which (in their view) renders the general type checking capabilities of Python >= 3.5 moot. I don't buy that logic, but that was their argument, not yours.

But to shift gears: if there are languages besides JS that you feel get their type system "just right", I'd be curious as to what they are, for the benefit of that future moment when I have the luxury of time to think about these things more.
When I was a kid, my dad was stationed in Japan. We watched all kinds of stuff, including Totoro on Japanese TV. No subtitles or dubs. Not a clue what they were actually saying but we all enjoyed it anyways. So you could always try it out and see how it goes.
One point you made I agree with -- I already had a verified ID.me account for my California driver's license upgrade to REAL ID, so I did not expect that there would be additional hurdles to use the same existing login with IRS. My REAL ID verification should be sufficient, shouldn't it?
I saw a guy on tinder once say not to even bother if your texts are going to be green. It really rocked my world to realize there are real people actually like that out there
Apple sticks with the more conservative MMS compliant video format. Google do some runarounds instead
Airwindows plugins are amazing! If you haven't tried Chris' plugins, you're missing out.

I buy music and other software to use on Linux all the time. A few individuals willing to play for software might not be significant but I just signed up with your Patreon so hopefully now you're at least partially incentivised to keep releasing your plugins on Linux.
Can’t you mix Apple account with phone numbers if everyone is using iMessage? And if everyone isn’t on iMessage it would defeat the purpose and might as well use an android, no?
All that is left to do now really is figure out ways to make deploying something similar easy for the average user without Google.
I have been watching dubs of Ghibli with my kids. It’s fine. It would be better to watch the subs for me, but I’m not going to get bent out of shape about it. They usually have pretty good English voice casting. I kind of like Kirstin Dunst as Kiki.
What a tale. This is such a key insight, such a core lesson on how the world tends to work.

> At his next salary review Charles was given a raise which was about half the inflation over the period. He was not given a promotion. After about a year he became discouraged and left Consolidated.

To be fair to Alan, spinning up an organization & knowledge system is real hard work. Legitimizing your projects is real hard work. But there's such tension over who steers, over how the work happens, and there's so many really good solid workers who slip through the cracks & never get appreciated. The corporate body is so often so very far away from the workers on the edge, sees the faults and problems, incompetent at appreciating and respecting many of the best acts done for it.

Thanks for the share. This is a great article. I see a lot of relationships to other submissions. Jonathan Blow talking about work-life balance has some relationship here, on how we exert ourselves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfCi8QoZQ8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29999004). The "midlife crisis of a programmer" seems ultra-pertinent (https://farath.com/is-4-5-years-the-midlife-crisis-for-a-pro... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29979515, 2 comments). "Hammock-driven development" made the rounds against (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29886197). All of these deal with questions of time-base & commitment & application, all of these feel like they could be informed by The Parable.

Worth pointing out that the parable is reportedly from (1985)! It's somewhat confirming to hear the struggles of the lowly engineer to get work done & fit in are not new.
An idea only a single-language speaker could love.
The Swiss were actively involved in those very wars in Italy as mercenaries, and that's also where their neutrality originates.
At the same time and throughout the Early Modern period, Switzerland was rife withe religious zealotry going awry. It remained an impoverished agrarian country up until the 20th c.
It is clocked high so lots of fans does make sense.

Just the bandwidth and ram that’s crap
There's often a lot of nuance lost in translated subtitles as well, in my experience, often because dialogue written for one language can't be coerced into natural dialogue in a different language without significant changes.

Keeping the original audio track does preserve the direct relationship between the actor's tone and expressions, of course, and it could also be something closer to what the original makers intended even if the voice actors in a dub also do a good job.

The audio track also feels somehow more right and authentic when someone who's supposedly Japanese speaks Japanese, or when a supposedly French person speaks French, or when people in a show set in California speak English rather than somehow magically speaking your native language.

Then there's of course the question of dealing with scripts that have multiple languages spoken in them. Something would surely be lost if multiple languages were dubbed into the same third language. It's often easy to recognize the different languages being spoken even if one does not understand them.