skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I don’t think it’s coping.

Spreadsheets are malleable by design. Being able to modify how it functions on the fly is an enormous power for these users. And the better/faster/smarter SaaS replacement is also extremely rigid and inflexible. So while it works to replace the current version of their god spreadsheet, it can’t adjust on the fly as the user’s needs change like the spreadsheet can.

I’m convinced that there does exist a “better spreadsheet” that treats power users as exactly they and incorporates things from the software engineering works like version control, modularity, reusability, sharability, etc. that hasn’t been built yet.
Middle management got obliterated in the recession in the 80’s. It’ll happen again in the next recession.

I often wonder at the parallels between military chain of command and civilian chain of command. Line managers and NCOs are down in the trenches, and most of them stay there. Everyone else is in an “up or out” situation. They are not stable titles and you’ll get burned if you aren’t incredibly lucky.

If you took a title for more pay, my advice is always to recall that it’s for more money but that money might go away. Save it. Spend it on incidentals. But don’t take out loans on it. In the next downturn you’ll be fucked. Spend like you are one job title behind where you currently are - so either don’t spend it, or keep climbing.
I’m also a happy Fastmail customer, but I don’t think $5/mo for 10 accounts is gonna fly for this?

$500/mo < $720/mo… but not near enough cheaper for kids email IMO
My energy levels decrease as the day goes on, so I always do my workouts and best work early in the day. By evening I'm usually very burnt out. I like to vape CBD flowers, do gentle yoga, maybe take a short walk around the neighborhood, and watch YouTube videos. Then a short meditation session and bed.

I don't have kids so my few hours after work are really just for me.
All Ph.D. programs nominally charge tuition, but hardly any students (at least in STEM, don't know about elsewhere) pay it. They get a stipend plus a "tuition waiver".
"We have apartments which are inexpensive, spacious, and in a nice location"

"Hooray, sounds great!"

"Ok, which element of that list would you like?"
> I've learned products designed to replace spreadsheets have a huge hurdle because the people who use spreadsheets treat operating the sheet as their job.

In general? Not really. Just as frequently, the fancy tool promoters don't care to understand the subtleties of the job and when it requires flexibility or judgment that the spreadsheet accommodates better. They have their hammer -- software formally engineered by software experts for disempowered "users" -- and everything looks like a nail.

"It's faster and more reliable (when everything goes as planned)" isn't really the slam dunk these folks think it is.

Give these users a more flexible tool like Alteryx, that actually lets them do their job, and I've seen that they'll happily migrate off of Excel.
The simple answer is rent control: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-02/berlin...
Perhaps due the regulation of the renting business.
I moved to iCloud+. It's fairly inexpensive and works fine for me. But you do need access to an Apple device to initially sign-up though.
Did it really? To me it looks like the Auto Industry is still pretty much doing whatever they want, Big Oil continues to expand on their emissions, Big Pharma profited quite a bit even despite being partly responsible for an opioid crisis...
Dunno, it doesn't really make sense to me. Sale prices were around 20 years' of rent, so it seems like a great asset to hold. I assume they just wanted to cash out on rising prices.
It's possible in the abstract but that doesn't mean it's likely. In particular, it seems ludicrous that Ed Sheeran has adopted the stratagem of deliberately ripping people off and then creating false evidence to hide it.
You don’t have to lie to your children to teach them how to think critically about the world. Nor do the actions of other adults necessarily make lying okay.
You may even be doing your children a disservice by teaching them that lying is okay or humorous.
I know, I know. I don’t know you at all.. but yes, what your saying does sound like it may be disrespectful to be honest.
This is not a bad idea, but instead of mindless spending time online I should find a relaxing activity
Can you share tips about ensuring you get a good (enough) funnel of (remote) candidates and hires?
Let’s not forget how Carter was robbed of the credit, and likely the election, due to the rather suspicious timing of its end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_th...
Will computers push out brokers?
I'm glad that I'm not one of the human moderators having to read GPT-3 gibberish on a daily basis.
Berlin's population has grown 10% in 10 years. The 20 years before that it was stagnating or some years even shrinking.
How blockchain will reshape Commerce?
At #shoptalk2022 , I heard a speculative number that #web3 will create ~$30T of value. To put things in perspective the value creation of web2 which is all the large companies we know today is ~$6T. Even though it's speculative but by any imagination it felt like a large direction in which the world of tech will move. The objective of this essay is to bring out a deep and nuanced understanding of blockchain and how it will shape commerce for the masses.
Are we really damned lucky to have people suffering from an often crippling mental illness?

I'm all for the rights of trans people, but saying we're lucky to have trans people is not very different from saying we're lucky to have depressed or bipolar people. Perhaps we're also lucky to have quadriplegic people?

(And yeah, obviously not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria)
$20 million isn't the minimum fine. That's the maximum fine for companies with under $500 million in annual turnover.

You aren't going to get the maximum fine unless you are doing something egregious. Collecting the default Apache logs and not using them for anything malicious isn't going to get you the maximum fine or likely any fine at all.
> I know with 100% certainty that unless I go fight for something like ISIS, India will take me back without any problems. No one else will do that.

It's going off-topic now for the thread, but since you mentioned it: Some European countries do just that.

https://www.dw.com/en/over-100-islamic-state-fighters-return...

> Authorities believe that 1,060 IS fighters left Germany for Syria or Iraq, of which a third have since returned, the Interior Ministry said. Germany is taking a "holistic approach" in dealing with ex-jihadi fighters, including deradicalization and reintegration.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55387991

> Germany and Finland have repatriated five women and 18 children from Syrian camps housing suspected family members of Islamic State (IS) militants.

.

Incidentally, on the thread topic, I too turned my back on the US and returned to Germany in 2004 after about 8 years and with no visa or job trouble and a good outlook. Back to Germany, in my case, and also after thinking about the bigger picture. I'm a co-founder of a small software company here now. Healthcare, politics (so divisive, and divided, here in Germany it's so much more mild except for the far-right Russia-friendly AfD party), housing costs. Well, the latter is really bad now in Germany too but the rest remains good.
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Ukraine says lax Russian soldiers entered earth's most nuclear-contaminated area
I wonder how humans survived for the first, oh, 99% or so of the time we've been on earth?
>Because I don't know a single person who believes otherwise.

No, I'm saying what do you think the reason was for Russia annexing Crimea? Especially considering the fact that they did it the day after the 2014 Ukrainian coup. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on why it happened.
Check out Budibase.

It's the leading open source low code platform and perfect for building UIs on top of spreadsheets

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
I’ve been wanting something like this but there’s a few big things that stick out to me. Why is it configured via json instead of scripting? Declarative task/build tools are just not as nice as something where you can write code. Specifying a task input/output seems very limited and is where so much optimization comes from. The remote cache seems to only be available through some hosted service?

I use Gradle a lot (bazel a little) and would love a tool that’s got an api that’s easier to understand, but this seems like 100 steps backwards without a good path forward.
And how would GPT-3 evolve when it starts feeding on its own output?
Love ToastyTech, discovered it back in December 2004 and checked it regularly since (hasn't been much updated in the last few years but I still hope).
I loved Beaker Browser and I'm sad when it stopped being worked on. Such a great tech (and not crypto currency related P2P)!
In principle this could be solved by having two aliases `rsync-dry-run` and `rsync-for-real`, and aliasing `rsync` to `echo "Use rsync-dry-run or rsync-for-real“`.
Hah! I identify as [Republican] but the people running on [Republican] platform are really dumb and their opponents are insane/dumb in other ways. There’s no good options to vote for.
>> somehow California’s economy keeps doing well

California has the nation's highest poverty rate when cost of living is taken in to account.

If the worst poverty rate is "doing well", what would doing poorly look like, in your opinion?
Remix v1 (2021)
This headline isn’t supported by the article at all
Depends where in the USA. Stranger interactions are vastly different between the northeast, the south or the Midwest. Don’t even get me started on the damn Californians.
You're probably getting downvoted because you're coming at this from a bad place, but asking what's the ideal time per week spent working (depending on the job and what you're optimizing for) and what's the minimum where you're still effective is fair to ask.
What do you consider to be an appealing vision of space travel/habitation?

Like if space travel was an electric car and you were an ICE car kind of guy, what would space travel have to be like for you to be like "Okay, that's pretty cool."
| I agree with everything except that referring to someone as girlfriend is “reducing them to their role”. If anything, it’s adding information to your relations. She is not just Emma (what is a name anyway? Your argument could be followed until the end in which you can only say “that person”). She is Emma and also is your girlfriend. Would your mother be offended or feel diminished if you referred to her as “mother”? If anything she would be proud in most cases. |

A lot of this is regional-cultural specific and generational. My mother's family is from the south east, for generations back, whereas my father is third generation in this country from Germany and the ways of introduction are, from grandmothers to parents to me, especially when we moved to the pacific northwest were amazingly different. I had friends call their mothers "Mommy" into high-school, which I thought was infantile and embarrassing and other friends call their parents by their first names, which made me nearly hide as I waited for them to be hit for the sheer disrespect.

If I introduced my mother to my friends, I would never give her name, as that would be considered an insult, as "ma'am" was the appropriate title to be used at all times. Also, when in a formal or unfamiliar meeting, or a less than friendly meeting, my father would introduce my mother as his wife, as "ma'am" was what they were expected to call her, giving an implied layer of distance in the relationship. Not all relationships were treated as though they were going to be life long friendships. A certain decorum of formality was maintained which is lost to a sea of history. It isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It seems like it's just that the goals are different. Computer science researchers could also make the opposite case, "The underwhelming impact of software development on producing state-of-the-art computer science discoveries."
> I don't know if you've been in California recently, but in the East Bay at least a large number of small businesses have closed down and formerly vibrant places now look like homeless encampments.

Despite the positive things I said upthread about the long-term trends, there is a very acute short term issue caused by the interaction of the inadequate response to the aggregate and distributional impacts of the pandemic with the preexisting housing affordability issue that is going to become a major long term problem if it isn't addressed.
Portland, OR solved that problem by making landlords accept the first offer which matches the stated requirements. Which leads to some… interesting incentives :p
Since the UN was founded, and human rights were stated.
If there is nothing to stop the abuse, abuse escalates and gets normalized. This happens any time there is large system with unchecked large power.

That is why it is fundamentally wrong. Because it ensures widespread abuse.
I am not against it. To be honest, one could argue that the nation-wise remote experiment already yielded results.. we could easily extrapolate, who is an actual contributor and who is just there, because... reasons.
I had pretty good luck with Zillow and Craigslist all the times I've tried

There were a few outright lying apartment management companies, but I managed to look at some nice places being rented out directly by their owners and settled on a good one
> you can just hop on your bicycle and ride five min to the beach

I can assure you that the percentage of Californians that enjoy this lifestyle is vanishingly small. I've lived in all three coastal metros in California, was an avid user of the beach and hate driving; this lifestyle is not realistically achievable for most people that live there, even the average person in tech.

Most engineers aren't trading a house in Santa Monica for a house in Texas. They are trading a house in South San Jose. That lifestyle is much less different.
On the other hand, cryptocurrency side actually makes me _interested_ in the project.
Sublime is slow though. Both loading and editing. For a native editor I would expect it to be fast and snappy (like Notepad++ on Windows or Textmate on Mac). But the speed and responsiveness is similar to VSCode. The Windows version of sublime is faster and snappier though.
I feel this too.
I find it starts off this way, when your body isn't in the rhythm of exercise. As you exercise more your body changes, and its response to exercise changes.

When I was exercising 5x a week, for months, the exercise routine was energising.

When I did nothing during months of COVID, I gained weight, felt lethargic and found exercise draining.
Not sure there is causation there. A lot of factors contributed to the decrease in illness and injury, including the jobs themselves, a lot of the dangerous ones either got outsourced or died out.
1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_housing
...self-driving cars that can be turned off enmasse by the "authorities"..
Honestly I didn't think showering to be so effective. Question for you, do you also shower in the morning? and if so do you shampoo/body wash in the evening? I already take a shower in the morning and kinda have dry skin, so I don't typically wash myself in the evening and just enjoy the water time.
We've been driving to costco since neanderthals walked the earth
Expat: temporary stays in another country for work.
Immigrant: wants to build a new life in another country.

Two different things.
The async keyword strongly changes the internals of a function to let it use "await". Even if you do it manually, it's a very particular and restricted style that infects your caller. That's a color.
Indeed.com, LinkedIn or your school’s career department.
I Hacked into a Cam Girl’s Computer and What I Found Truly Terrified Me (2014)
They collaborated: But you have to ask, did big media and industry shut her out? Wikipedia is not a reliable source, neither is this, but the more the better
https://gmofreewashington.com/our-experts/nancy-swanson/
Just linking to this because I'm thinking about trying Remix (a "meta-framework" ala Next.jS) for a new project and found it really helpful for understanding the design philosophy behind it.
Side note, I don’t know if some of you have actually been key players in a large org without management, but I have, and it SUCKS. If you think random slack pings are bad, try random slack pings plus 5+ hours of meetings a day you need to decline, justify declining, communicate about async, just to have time to get your work done. It’s my experience that without management, top performers are easily looking at 80+ hour work weeks
Is the Half Collatz Conjecture (HCC) trivial, as currently stated?

The definition:
> H(n = 2k) = n and H(2k + 1) = 3k + 2

means that time to iterate H until its argument is even is exactly the length of the run of right-most 1 bits.

Collatz itself has the same property:

for some number that ends in ...11111, we can "accelerate" the process by directly calculating the odd branch 5 times directly.

I'm very interested in applying more advanced acceleration techniques to Collatz itself.
Interesting idea. What tax rate are you ready to pay? Oh, and who defines "needs one"?
Why not downloading the html page and scrape that file instead of using puppeteer (which uses a headless chrome I think) ?
Well sure, it could be implemented without the browser, just like FTP and other things were back in the day before they got implemented in the browser (which made browsing an FTP server accessible to tons of people who didn't know how/why to use an FTP client), but it's a lot less user friendly. Instead of configuring your preferences or clicking an "approve" button or whatever, you have to provision yourself a wallet, click an "I want to pay $0.15 for this article", get the receiver's wallet address, copy it over to your wallet. Copy over a transaction ID, click send, wait for an email confirmation that includes the access code, copy paste that into the original article, and you're golden. Or all of that can just happen seamlessly in the background if the browser knows how to do it. Also, I don't see an average user ever going through those hurdles, so probably the idea dies on the vine and we'll end up stuck with ads or centralized subscription models for eternity.

AFAIK they aren't advocating for the banning of other browsers (like Chrome), so if you don't want to use a browser that has support for that protocol, you can choose one that doesn't.
> 1:1200 is probably worse than most selective universities

By two orders of magnitude.

Ivies range from about 1:20 to 1:10 in non-covid times.
Another way to see the same problem is that the IT system replacing the spreadsheet will take a long time to build and replicate the process in the narrowest possible way. Then something changes, updating the system will be an uphill battle that will take years fighting for budget and prioritisation, and you have to revert to spreadsheets.
The points stand though because 10% over a decade should not be enough to shock a residential housing market.
Don't know whether it succeeds or not, but we definitely need more projects like this supporting the decentralized Internet, especially dApps, for better adoption.
Cheap. Spacious. In a desirable zip code. Pick two.
Ahhh these threads. Nothing brings hacker news together like giving strangers free advice on their health and well-being
> As someone who recently left a very well compensated position at a hedge fund

Why did you leave?
Yeah, basically. Most dental insurance I've seen has a "benefit maximum" [0], the maximum amount the plan will cover in a 12 month period, I've seen numbers from 1.5k to 3k for this. Since the coverage is capped, and capped so low, it's arguably not really "insurance", and isn't really protecting me.

That said, to a graduate student, $3k can be a non-negligible amount of money, and the school is likely kicking in money to pay for the plan. In my position, if my company didn't subsidize the plan, I'd be happy to just go without.

[0] https://deltadentalks.com/knowledge/what-is-an-annual-maximu...
This is not a representative case though.

A few years back, I was looking for a rental in a German city with a similarly hot market. One place I looked at was not very modern but had quite low rent, so there were 300 applicants and I didn't even try. Another place was put on the market 3 days prior, there were 5 people looking at it with me, 3 of them applied (including me), and I got it. It was more expensive though (not insane, mind you) and very modern, recently renovated.

So, of course there will be crazy places, but if you only shoot for the ones with top demand, then of course you can come with anecdotes that sound insane.
We have attempted to use sendBeacon as a last resort signal for releasing an exclusive lock granted to a user for editing a record. Only one user can be granted this at a time for a given record to avoid contention, but there are so many ways a user might abandon an edit-in-progress in web applications (close browser, inactivity, loss of network or power).

I realize there are a lot of different strategies for addressing this situation, and I'd be curious to hear how others have solved this problem.

In the specific case of using sendBeacon, it is a little disheartening that once a basic programming tool gets abused by the analytics/advertising/tracking behemoths then the ad blockers' only recourse at times is to disable it completely. I completely support the efforts made by the ad blockers, but also find it sad how legitimate uses of certain tools end up getting blocked in the process.
I kinda think part of the problem is the pervasive expectation that there should be someone to vote for with a Platform They Believe In And You Should Too. That's fundamentally at odds with the mechanics of our system, where you need to build coalitions of people who can at least agree that this set of compromises is better than the set pitched by the other candidates.

And actually, I think finding compromises is fundamentally what this tech is for, right? "How do we make decisions with neighbors we disagree with, mostly without shooting?"

But because platforms are compromises, the demand for leaders that Truly Believe in their platform gives us people pretending to be crazy and stupid. With maybe some genuinely crazy and/or stupid mixed in (but I'm not confident that I can actually distinguish) and lots of layers of "it's complicated" on top.
Have they prevented anything though, or just forestalled it? Other countries aren’t having this crisis at the moment. Granted in many countries they had the crisis already, but that’s what I mean. If doing all this just delays what’s going to come then what good is it?
Journey of a New SWE
What we need is more enforcement of existing labor laws. A 40-hour work week with teeth. No "unpaid overtime". No "time shaving". Out of hours phone calls count as work time, with a minimum time for a call. (3 hours in the movie industry).
It's a lot easier to kick someone out of school if they stop paying than it is to kick someone out of an apartment.
I would love some city or government to try this experiment!