skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(throwaway cause I'd rather people who know me personally not know this)

I'll just add one more anecdote to this. I'm also far less healthy during forced-remote COVID time. Try as I might, I just can't get myself to be active and eat healthier.

In the office, I biked to and from work which started me off well, and the structure of the day kept me more on top of everything too. During WFH, I don't exercise - I should, but I just can't make the habit stick. I sleep in cause it's easy - I shouldn't, but I can't seem to stop myself. Making and keeping friendships is harder than it used to be, giving me less reason to go out too. Everything spirals from there. Doing things has become hard.

I've tried habit-forming tricks to try to make it work. I've tried different routines to see if one sticks better than others: different times of the day, different exercises, different types of breaks. I've gone to a psychiatrist and therapist to help improve that "even little things are hard" feeling. I've tried medications like anti-depressants, which I never needed before. Ultimately nothing has worked, and I've spent almost 2 years now at a personal low for mental and physical well-being.

I very much wish I could be like the other people who thrive working remotely. But it's just incompatible with me on a level I can't really explain, and seems silly from the outside. If the tech industry goes full remote, I'll probably consider a career switch, because this isn't sustainable for me. And to be clear, there's only an issue when remote work is involved: I've spent time unintentionally unemployed, and was very happy and healthy. It's really working remotely in particular that does me in. Working in general is hard and stressful, and I need the positives of working in person to counteract that enough that I'm still happy and healthy.

I'm very happy for the people who've found happiness in remote work, and am happy many more people who want it will have that option going forward. But it really isn't for me, as much as I'd like it to be.
The author mentions "functionally 1/3 of my customers" and "I can not stress how much this has f*cked over my business."

Since they also mention that they would like to hear what people think about this situation, here's my take:

They deployed a major change/migration to their billing system, implementing a brand new product, and seemingly didn't bother to investigate how it was going beyond cursory looks at a dashboard. Even though they did notice a strange dip in revenue. That seems fairly negligent for one of the most critical aspects of your product. Doesn't take that much time to take a glance at a more detailed view than a dashboard.

Stripe definitely could have been sending more notifications of failed invoices, made the documentation more clear, or been smarter about disabling automatic_tax for customers outside the user's tax jurisdiction. I don't know if the webhooks solution they mention is their standard for these kind of things or how much responsibility is reasonable for the user to monitor those. It does sound like they have/had at least some deficiencies with the new product that would have warranted a more generous response.

The author did seem to realize what was up and how they could have fixed it but chose not to because they were mad at Stripe. I feel like the wrath is somewhat overblown, sometimes you take a risk on a brand new product and have to babysit it a bit more than something mature.
Who publishes Newsweek? Last I knew it was the same as IBT, who were not really credible.
well, you don't get to choose... That's the idea. You either work within the democratic framework you don't.
I'd love to see this with more colors so I could generate syntax highlighting schemes with it :D

( the api caps out at 12 colors )

Is there a way to run this locally?
I'll be frank. I don't want to be forced to socialize with coworkers. They need to make friends outside of work if they need socialization time. I may socialize with people from work, but will do it on my own terms. The collaboration thing is almost never really about collaborating or efficiency, it's just the polite way of saying they want to force others to fulfill their social needs.
ECH doesn't hide IP addresses, which can lead to discovery of the site being accessed even when a CDN is being used.

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/08/23/what-can-you-learn-from-an... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103770

Only something like Apple Private Relay or Tor can solve that issue.
Jekyll's Philosophy
Constant pair programming is one of my deal breakers - along with open offices.
The second part of the talk is close to what I want, but they're missing a few parts.

I want to set up a DNS-like system, where I have some pub/private key pair to control which servers you can find me at. My friend Tom sets his up, too.

Then I want to tell the Service Host she's talking about, "Here's my friend Tom's public key. Please look him up in the DNS system, and find out how to reach one of his hosts. Let this new Service X, talk to Tom. Use something like Wire Guard to establish a connection directly from this wasm Service X that I'm running, to a similar wasm service X that Tom is running. We're going to send proto messages (not streams!) back and forth to each other, and you're in charge of connectivity."

Give me that, and the ability to talk to, I dunno, Redis, SQLite, MongoDB, and/or maybe Firebase, and I think people could make some really amazing federated or P2P social apps with a very, very small amount of code.

I picture writing a Front-end UI on Flutter that talks to a Back-end like I describe.

PS maybe someone could make a WASM-first (no Dart) version of Flutter?
When most people say "crypto is useless", that is rarely about BTC being used as a currency, and is more about everything else in crypto (NFTs, web3, smart contracts, decentralized apps, ICOs, etc). The idea of a currency which has value because people give it value makes sense, regardless of how speculative it is.
> I was convinced that the people who were unlucky in this life were actually suffering for eternity and practically lost it.

Do you have some idea now about why that conviction seemed believable to you at that moment?
I'm curious - do you like virtualization?
I doubt that this is something everyone has to follow. More likely they'll just keep the option for everyone to apply for approval and then they'll negotiate that with the employees they think don't have leverage. People who have options would quit if forced to be back in office, you can boomerang at Google so it's not like they risk much.
glibc, which prevents being linked against statically spoils this for much of the Linux world. I know about alpine, thank you.
A Smartphone Can Turn Your Bathroom into a Home Medical Lab (2019)
Many people have family and friends they'd much rather be around than the people they're forced to be around at work, even if those people are nice and their friends, so they don't need their job to substitute that socialization for them.
I find this such a shame. I think this reflects an increasingly consumer versus producer aspect of culture. I find that desktop apps support and foster creativity, and producing readily manipulable creative artifacts - with speed. Sass/webapps/etc tend to foster consumer-oriented, indeed mobile, usage, creation and creative operations are often subtly high-latency and subsequently & so are tacitly discouraged while consumption is encouraged.

I love the pitch found in https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/, but it doesn't seem like it's resonated much in the large - so far, at least.
It is San Francisco, for those who are not closely connected to the startup-hub life.
> have it stowed in your .git repository so that everyone in your team gets the same experience without onboarding scripts

This is ironic. Do people really version their binaries in git repos?
No surprise here. All religions are pretty transparently a system of asserting control.
I think that's why you see people taking photos with their iPads, in many cases, it feels more real because it's a larger representation of the photo.
The difference between astrology and astronomy is evidence. Do we have any regading this question?
cryptocurrency seems to be dying off

This is what you said. Stop pretending you didn't say this and give some evidence.

The New York Times article alone says:

Investors, too, have flooded in. They have poured more than $28 billion into global crypto and blockchain start-ups this year, four times the total in 2020, according to PitchBook, a firm that tracks private investments. More than $3 billion has gone into NFT companies alone.

More than 28 billion dollars into start ups in one year.

Anyway, this is public so I can always just link to it.

Oh yeah? Twelve comments deep and you're now threatening to maybe actually link some evidence (in the future)?.

How is this not embarrassing to you? Do you try to convince people the sky is red and the earth is flat?

Why do you keep replying without evidence? Because it doesn't exist. If it did, you would have linked it already.
...or so say the guys sitting in the cheap seats. In practice, it may well be more complicated than that, and involve all sorts of other tradeoffs. It usually is.
NASA is pumped to watch spent Rocket-Booster smash-into the Moon
Yes, everyone is lying except the Russians. Where have I heard that?
My favorite accomplishment with react after not using for some time, was to set a conditional timer for app level event using hooks for a set of tiered conditions which should be ignored unless it passed a threshold.

Took me at half a week at least and I felt like a god after. Then I realized this was all phenomenal waste of time and I decided my next job was going to be cloud and backend focused. Only in the js world can you realize immediately as soon as your done that it's effectively worthless programming hassle.
Show HN: Running GitHub List of companies that sanctioned Russia
Do your diagrams, design docs, and position papers not vary in the clarity of their presentation or in the wisdom/simplicity/fitness-for-purpose of the ideas they convey?
Do you consider that there's a "you", a self, apart from what you call your life?
Researchers show how to make ‘computer’ out of liquid crystals
Yes. When the pandemic started this, a boss berated someone in the main channel for not responding within 5 minutes.

Incidentally he accidentally posted porn in the slack.. and never made a deal out of it from then on.
Every large tech company relies on “in house software”.
> “Sorry, you have citizenship from the High Risk Country list, accordingly I’m not allowed to open this account for you. This is a commercial decision of the bank and will not be reversed.”

This sounds like what I heard from a lot of non-US financial companies when I used to be American and then didn't want to open accounts. Frustrating but predictable and probably intended outcome from regulator behavior.
5040 knots, aka nautical miles per hour.

Because if you are using miles, use the only ones that matter (in aerospace).
Why does settling in dollars make any difference? Like he said, if the SWIFT secure messaging service goes down, someone at a bank in Japan has the phone number of someone at a bank in New York and can "wire" money with a phone call instead of sending a SWIFT message. Wires will be orders of magnitude slower, but money is not frozen. And the real effect is that someone in Mumbai receiving a phone call from a Russian bank today will be especially careful to cross every T and dot every I.
Originally there were level requirements but it was adjusted down the line
I completely agree--in my day-to-day, I'm very much in my head about the problem at hand. I respect folks who can keep the long-term vision in their sights while applying that to short-term decisions which will help in the future. Some of the more valuable things I could learn from the higher-ups at my work, I feel, are related to big goals, changing landscape, rising opportunities and problems in the industry.
For obvious reason there hasn’t been any for two years, but I’ve seen HN Meetup’s around the world, back in the day.
What's that choice's source? How do you 'do' it?
> What is new is that, instead of the partisan divide aligning with the ideological divide, the ideological divide turned over and around to match where the arbitrary partisan divide happened to be.

No, the ideological divide had basically settled out by the 1980s, and the parties sorted out to match by the mid-1990s.
In my experience I find pair programming with collaborative tools like VSCode's "Liveshare" [], paired with audio-only call (Slack huddle, Google meet, what have you), far superior than in person pair programming.

[] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
One thing that I've never seen discussed is the notion that the incident to break the 75-year "not nuking anybody" streak the world has been on could well be a civil war in a nuclear state, in which the side in control of the notional military apparatus sees no other way our of losing.
Rigetti Computing Goes Public via SPAC
People have been saying "crypto is useless" for wayyy longer than the time since NFTs were first popularized (which didn't become a mainstream term until 2020/2021).
I'm going to repeat what I said in a parent comment:

> But what is your definition of "check to make sure the integration was working correctly"? Once you know what was going wrong, it's easy but unhelpful to say "you should have checked to see if that thing was going wrong".

I'm sure he checked that Canadian tax was working, because that's what he bought Stripe Tax for. He didn't expect it to silently screw up his US customer payments, because he did not need to pay tax for them. He reasonably expected that Stripe Tax should have no impact on the payment of invoices for which no tax is owed.
Press on. Maybe they were having a bad day.
The abstract? Or what do you mean?
I think clang (https://clang.llvm.org/docs/CrossCompilation.html) even makes crosstool largely irrelevant these days. Just specify your desired triplet on the command-line and off you go cross-compiling (mostly) effortlessly without having to build an entirely new toolchain. It can even masquerade as the MSVC compiler if you so desire.
Dust is generally held in suspension by the air here on Earth, because of the air currents and because of air viscosity. With no atmosphere on the moon, I suspect the dust would not stay suspended above the surface very long.
A sample of New Orleans residents isn't exactly a sample of deep Catholic theologians. It's a party town by definition; you wouldn't study the Constitution by polling people in Las Vegas.
Electric Jet Engine Uses 3D Printed Compressor, Skips the Turbine Altogether
Kim Stanley Robinson – Climate Futures: Beyond 02022 [video]
Has anyone had a great onboarding experience remotely? How did it go?
I don't know of the scenario that the above poster is speaking of, but it is believed/speculated that Harley Davidson did something similar to Alta Motors (electric motorcycles) inside the last 2-3 years.
I'm glad this was posted here, for our education and because they didn't fix the issue until it was called out publicly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764785

If they have a pattern of customer service problems then it's best that people know it.
A lot of previous transformer-based models did not have great depth simply because "shallow" transformers already took forever to train.

I am concerned that we are approaching an age where only massive companies and research groups with tons of GPU resources will be able to train next-gen models.
> and because the reason for slacking is a protected one there's virtually nothing others can do about it.

There's a reason it's protected. You can't just expect business as usual when the entire support chain of society falls over. Everyone and everything has to adapt - people, businesses, etc.
The article is hard to support or dispute when the contents are primarily anecdotal.

For example, it may be a more productive conversation once the 2022 point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness is completed [1]. That will make comparisons to other points in time more effective.

[1] https://hsh.sfgov.org/get-involved/2022-pit-count/
> The idea of a currency which has value because people give it value makes sense

As a BTC proponent, I just want to say, I don't think this is what gives BTC value.
Sure, the all-you-can-eat sushi buffet is technically allowed, but it's poor taste at the very least.
Google has joined a growing number of technology and financial firms in requiring employees to return to work. While some large employers have made voluntary work-from-home policies permanent, others, such as Google, believe that it is best to prioritise in-person interactions among colleagues.

I personally believe working from office brings out more productivity than working from home.
Energy consumption would be limited by supply and energy dissipation, and energy dissipation (roughly speaking) depends on surface area and thermal conductivity. So, yes, for all devices made with a given shape and given materials, there is such an equation.

In theory, I guess, there’s also such an equation for the “upper limit” of heat dissipation for size, for a computer using the optimal shape and optimal materials. But since that probably concerns several-atom-thick devices made of diamond or something, that’s probably not practically useful anytime soon. :)
Yes, some forms of meditation, in particular "open awareness" is said to give more space to the right hemisphere.

I highly recommend this video if you want to hear about what life is when the right hemisphere is in control, especially for people who have been doing non-dual practices (lots of parallel experiences IMO):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
Ask HN: What BPM solution do you use?
I've used Oracle BPM in large enterprise projects, it is a good product, although one has to pay a fortune to license it. For smaller projects I am looking for alternatives, and currently evaluating Camunda. It is open source, lightweight, but it is not clear how to work with business data. One has to create own UI forms, as the existing feature is far away from being suitable. What other alternative exist that you can recommend?
I totally get the idea, but when a company can easily fire you for no good reason it's hard to develop any real attachment to a job so that it is something beyond just an exchange of labor for payment.
Yes, and the amount of dust would probably be proportional to the energy they carry to the impact point, and their trajectory relative to the surface.
It’s crazy how many defects you’ll find once you start poking around security products
> perhaps that is wrong, but the web was pretty successful overall

Since HATEOAS is rarely implemented fully in practice, it would be simplistic to point to it as the reason the web is successful. The web allows an incredible variety of different architectures —- Some more closely aligned to HATEOAS and some less so. Perhaps this is the reason for the success of the web?
Google has joined a growing number of technology and financial firms in requiring employees to return to work. While some large employers have made voluntary work-from-home policies permanent, others, such as Google, believe that it is best to prioritise in-person interactions among colleagues.

I personally believe working from office brings more productivity than working from home.
Use Cases For CSS fit-content
sure, but there are many other things in that list i made, right?
> Most of his tweets seemed from the hip, unpolished, and frankly without any point other than to stir up controversy.

That would fit the on-going GOP/reactionary tactic of always creating disruption, fear, and crisis. Even reasonable, but controversial, communication might create more sense of calm.
The Dilemma of Pronouncing Scrapy
Well, does someone who can't control their thoughts really control their own behavior? Is there any basis for thought/behavior that science knows of, that is not physiological? Scientists have never put out a press release saying "we've discovered that there are non-physiological processes called 'will' that actually make you even more in control than previously suspected". It's always the other way around - they find that things we used to assign to "will", are in fact caused by something else.
You can use "expand" to get multiple queries into a single request, kind of like a SQL join. I don't know if this is exactly your use case, but when we get a Checkout session, and want the customer and purchase line items, it looks like this (using the Stripe Ruby library).

Stripe::Checkout::Session.retrieve({ id: session_id, expand: ['line_items', 'customer'] })
I love monolith too, especially because it is so easy to modify. Only 2300 sloc!

Sure, it uses libraries to do the heavy lifting, but these are all popular, well-tested libraries with well-scoped feature sets (html5ever for parsing HTML, url for parsing urls, etc).

If you're looking for a tool like this but think you might need to tweak it, you should give monolith a try.
Well said! Java is the exact opposite of sane defaults: the programmer must explicitly choose defaults at every turn.

Furthermore, it constantly feels like the arcane minutiae required in Java is Java-specific, in a way that other languages (C-based, functional) aren't.

In Java, if I memorize an incantation, most of the information I've just learned is Java-specific.

In C or C++, it's more computing specific. Other languages will use different syntax, but I will be doing the same thing.

But I guess that's one of the weaknesses of reimplementing a computer in the JVM, and then writing a high-performance language to target that abstracted machine.
100% agree on this.

I've attended the weddings of multiple friends from my first job. I'm still in touch with 4-5 people from my second job. I haven't spoken to anyone from my team at Google since the day I left. I had good, cordial relationships with all of them, but it was also incredibly impersonal. I don't even recall learning anything about anyone's spouse, for instance.
About Intellipedia and other intelligence wikis from the Snowden trove
Or better yet just play Suzerain.
Densely packed text, a busy layout, tiny low-resolution images, cute characters, and the use of flash animation are some of the distinguishing features of a Japanese web page. These features that distinguish Japanese websites are due to a variety of factors that are linguistic, cultural, and technical in nature.
The War in Ukraine, II
Keep it for future nostalgia.
MANGA:

* Microsoft

* Amazon

* Netflix? (Why not META?)

* Google

* Apple
And that sounds bad, but there's another argument that gets thrown around: "why should I greatly invest myself in this business, when to the business I'm just a number".

"Being managed" could also be called "outsourcing executive function"--make your manager think about what you're supposed to be doing.

Reserve that executive function for what you love, your escape plan, or whatever.
People who think SF is some kind of rundown crime scene never experienced it when it was that way…much less NYC in the 70s/80s.
People pretty regularly say its useless in this sense as well. But even if it were true, as soon as you accept crypto is useful as money, DeFi smart contracts are pretty obviously useful as financial infrastructure on top of it.
I forget, how do they pick the songs they play and the banners they stand under when they give people the medals?
https://archive.ph/hfoDa
Ask HN: Contract Automation Software
Hi all,

I'm looking to create a simple automation where I can change a few variables (date, terms etc) in a google doc contract and then automatically convert to pdf, add signature/date and fire off to client. Can anyone recommend a good software for this?