skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Failure to consume and get value from a subscription is your fault, not the business that fulfilled its obligation."

On some level yes. But recently banks here in Australia were busted for charging dead people.

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/apra-punish...

Are you going to tell me the dead people are at fault for not taking advantage of services provided?

The point here is the relationship between (business) provider and consumer. It should be fair and balanced. No one is asking a business to provide services for nothing. But when the services aren't being used, the non-consumer shouldn't be charged either.

The only question remaining is - what is a fair way to go about this?

A reasonable time period of non-use before suspension of service seems ok. The business got money for nothing - but can't try to make that into a business plan.

Clearly businesses would rather have more "money for nothing" - so would everyone - but it isn't reasonable.
Who's gonna do all the traditionally low-income jobs?
The Note4 was the best phone I ever had as it had:
1. Large screen
2. Didn't really need a case as it didnt have curved glass
3. had a plastic back with texturing for grip / metal frame
4. Easily replacable battery, could pop off the back in a second.
5. Sd card
6. The pen was cool

When I say it it didn't need a case, I dropped that phone many times, and the screen never cracked due to the metal rim. In the end as os update bricked it. Went to an s8 which was slippery as could be, with its glass back. Cracked both sides and short order, and from there on out I've needed a bulky case to wrap my delicate flower of a phone.. Damn.
I think self sovereign identity (ie, what Keybase did but standardized and anchored on a public blockchain rather than a private database) is an interesting consumer-facing technology that is crypto based and isn't a scam.

Identity plays are tricky commercially but there do seem to be some interesting shoots of growth around it.
This actually exists in Germany (Energieausweis or energy certificate), see e.g. https://www.howtogermany.com/pages/energycertificate.html
Is Boris Johnson Gaming Google?
> It's wrong though. Or at least, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny because it isn't falsifiable. If you firmly believe this claim, there's no new information you could learn that would cause you to update your belief towards the negative.

Point of order, but "There are no use cases for crypto." is absolutely a falsifiable statement, and in fact this article goes on to falsify it.

Even "There are no powerful use cases for crypto." is falsifiable along the same lines (it's arguable if the article successfully falsifies this statement, however).
And I'm saying that enabling ransomware is actually doing worse than the alternatives. It turns out censorship of transactions has value.
S3 had poor integration with IAM until a few months ago.

I'm glad we have bucket-owner-enforced now, but the correct time to add it was 10 years ago.
oh! I'm actually using Matic, and all I'm doing is posting a URL that either points to IPFS or my API endpoint.

Yes I know, the API endpoint is silly and mutable and it actually links to my Airtable API lol, but this helps me track "when/where" that I don't want to track on a regular DB.

To date the entire thing's cost less than $10, and I have maybe 30-40 posts. Definitely not production yet though
See you next year for a new record high temp.
Thanks! Yeah it's a tough one - I feel it would be someone who'd want to use Google Sheets, but doesn't want the full weight of using Google Sheets.

The challenge being that this type of app isn't well known, so has been difficult targeting ads / SEO. I'm also finding the usefulness of other notepad calculators being that that they're desktop apps, so I'm investigating creating an Electron desktop app (plus gives the advantage of the App Store as another channel)

In terms of monetisation, most probably a freemium model where a user can create 5 sheets, and if they want more it could be a $5/month product. If it gets in an organisation it could scale but one step at a time ;)

I've also optimised those templates to be indexed as landing pages so if there's enough traffic, advertising could be another option.

Finally, has been in the back of my mind but potentially trying to hit the education market, though I'm not really familiar in the space so that's a bit further down the list.
The further along in your career, the more network matters. My wife and I both find that to be true.
If you've got centralized account management, it can work. Sending a fixed length 16-bit numeric id rather than a variable width username is a lot easier.

I've worked somewhere with a lot of NFS, and they had centralized account management, so everything was fine other than actual security, at least until we hit the limit of 16-bit uids. That place had a different centralized account management for production, so uids weren't consistent between corp and prod, but NFS in prod was very limited. (And you wouldn't nfs between corp and prod either)

I worked somewhere else without real centralized management of accounts on prod, and it was a PITA to bring that back under control, when it started becoming important. Even without intentional use of uids, it's convenient that they all line up on all servers; and it's a pain to change a uid that already exists on the system.
In a wild twist they become the next tech unicorn
Technical manager here. We have a similar process (although for a programming-heavy role) and getting a decent flow of applicants passing through. Some deviations though from your way:

- We combine steps 4 and 6. Our assignment presentation is 90min (which sometimes goes onto 2 hours) and the hiring manager is present in that call.

- Our take home assignment usually takes 4-6 hours to complete for a competent dev, but we let them do it across a week or so. They have a work life, family etc, and we let them balance that against the interview process. It's worked really well for us.

Edit: To add, we feel that a quicker feedback loop and turnaround time helps the candidate and make them aware of that. And we don't wish to compromise on the assignment - we would like to see their output after giving them sufficient space and time to complete it.
Last time I played with python adding one empty line to my source code was slowing execution my ~8ms.
I remember we had systems with 15% error rate and successfully deployed in multiple solutions. Yes, look at the number, you would think it is really bad, but actually errors are more likely to happen for short words (such as for for example), those words are less meaningful, and the error would be 'four' instead of 'fuck'. And we were working with studio recording quality data XD
Ah, in that case you should have just said so.

We are fundamentally at odds then with irreconcilable differences of opinion on private property. The protection of private property is a core justification for the State, because as I replied to you elsewhere, private property doesn’t cease without the State but the situation around it becomes more volatile. I do not seek to re-base the State on the socialization of land value and you probably couldn’t with an extreme amount of State violence.
It's kind of amusing that in the Bay Area, you have one huge company that's decided to stake a fair chunk of their future into this augmented / virtual reality, and then meanwhile, there's been all these old hippies and meditation teachers trying to get people to be more present in the (actual) real world.
There are a lot of online activities that people can do that don't require a keyboard and mouse. Playing games, video calls, watching videos/movies, etc. I don't think VR is particularly good at any of these things right now and I don't trust Meta to do this in a way that's cheaper and better than what we currently have, but I welcome a future where it's easy to do these activities without having to sit in traffic or worry about space constraints.
I've thought about using Github and using Github Actions to roll up different people's GH accounts' data into a "central ledger" but yeah, this isn't immutable and Github Actions keeps going down lol.

Twitter is a no-go since their API changes fairly frequently and I still feel burned from their API rug pull a decade ago.
> It's a PITA, your process just hang and there's no way to even kill it except restarting the server.

If you can bring the missing server back online, the NFS mount should recover.
> Bitcoin, as one example, does a better job limiting supply and preventing inflation than its fiat alternatives.

You assume that's a plus, but most of the world acts on the opposite assumption, i.e. NAIRU-like policies. I'm not picking a side, just pointing out that you disagree with almost every expert on the planet.
I got the impression from the post that the problem in this case, like in many other cases with Apple, was a lack of documentation. Why would this not be documented? It would save everyone time, sweat and tears if the documentation was OK.
Do they? The last time I checked news about Windows they were making big efforts to make Linux apps run[1].

And considering the state of the art of Linux GPU Drivers, maybe using Windows will be the only feasible way to actually run Linux apps.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY&t=4680s
It's a consequence of having our software run on other peoples computers. 20 years ago it wasn't really an option because most software was installed and pushing updates was hard, but now everything can be updated without the user even knowing. IME there's a lot of people on HN that will even defend this sort of A/B testing.

This is why I like debian, I never open an app to find out the entire UI is changed while I was asleep.
I have one of those big phones with 6inch+ screen (they're pretty mainstream these days) and I wish I had something smaller. Hard af to use with single hand and screen is still pretty small for comfortably reading anything or consuming media (you have to hold it very close to your face for too long to be comfortable). Wish I had bought something cheaper and smaller and gotten a tablet with the extra money I saved. I'm buying a tablet anyways now.
I think that is exactly the point of the comment you are replying to here. HN is a place where you would think people can see the use case opportunities and extrapolate them into the future based on the featured article's assertions (like getting access to a PPD of 55) and what that all means in the long term.

Spatial computing will bring about a fundamental UI/UX design refactoring of established 2D applications we just take for granted as fully baked. It won't replace them, like screens didn't replace books, but it will allow for enhanced functions we didn't know we were missing until they were in front of us and it will be offered in a more delightful human centric experience at the same time. HN dogs can bark but the caravan is rolling.
Unions are also racist, because they invariably favor seniority and thus older white workers over younger minority workers. In Chicago, the mayor refused to commit to reducing the police force, observing that under union “first in first out” rules, most of the people let go would be Black and Hispanic.
And I would like to be able to put on a set of VR goggles and have a computer with an arbitrary number of windows, connected to a powerful computer.

I don't understand why anyone would willingly let the monetary constraints of the physical world dictate how they interact with the world-at-large.
A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)
I can't see how this would work. Salt seems much more hygroscopic to me, and if the rice was actually asbording a meaningful amount of moisture you'd have it spoiling. If anything I'd bet the salt is keeping the rice dry.

Not to mention the open container design salt shakers inherently share which would imply a rather limited lifetime of the kernels.

I'm fairly certain this has to be primary a mechanical mechanism, if it even works at all. I recall plenty of salt shakers at airbnbs or whatnot that were quite soggy regardless of the amount of rice inside the shaker.
The trick is to run "taskkill" as user SYSTEM, using "run as". It will kill anything and everything, including generating a nice BSOD if you feel like (kill System process).

Or if you're a GUI kind of guy and want a nice interface with plenty of options I recommend "Process Hacker" (https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/).
Why's that? A quick google with no filters gave me nothing NSFW
I agree, though these can deteriorate too. I've been with Vanguard for a while but was astounded as to how much the site and the customer support had degraded. Kind of worried about them but not enough to take a capital gains hit likely necessary to transfer the funds.
I'm a broken record on why I believe this is a distinctively bad use case for public blockchains, for whatever it's worth. But it doesn't matter that I think this use case is doomed; what matters is: it's not a serious mainstream thing right now. If it becomes one, you won't have to argue; it'll be self-evidently an important use case.
Several possible scenario; M/S - US.gov - MiM - RU.gov - ISPs
Same here at 20 years. It definitely seems to be one of those things that's not universal to all Senior devs.
I've been using a Mogics Donut[1] for several years now - it's been by far the best travel power strip I've used - super compact, enough of a extension cable for plugging into odd corners/below desks/etc, and comes with a built in international plug adapter and can handle up to 5 AC plugs, more than enough for all my adapters. It has 2 x USB-A ports to boot (there's a newer version of their Bagel which has USB-C, but I haven't felt the need to upgrade).

[1] https://www.mogics.com/3824-2
The point is if you know the basic algorithms and can apply them you don't need to memorize the answers to leetcode. You can (Gasp) come up with them.
Within the last decade, general-purpose zero-knowledge arguments have made the jump from theory to practice. This has opened new doors in the design of cryptographic systems, and generated additional insights into the power of IPs and arguments (zero-knowledge or otherwise). There are now no fewer than five promising approaches to designing efficient, general-purpose zero-knowledge arguments. This survey covers these approaches in a unified manner, emphasizing commonalities between them.
The crypto use case is bitcoin.

Everything you can do elsewhere you can do it in Bitcoin, and safer.
Loans do not need collateral, for example educational loans.
> It's like calling a company "tech" and hoping that gets you more dollar signs.

Yeah but... that does actually work... so... hmm.
> - Resume screened by in-house recruiter

1st mistake

> - 30m call with them

2nd mistake

stopped reading after that. :-)

and I dont mean to sound harsh. but in a market where experienced talent is in high demand, we get TONS of inbound leads, in parallel, and thus look for ultra easy ways to filter them down. you immediately gave me a way to do it

> Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

DOH. if I hadn't bailed by now, heres where I would pass on you fast. you're welcome to look at my resume/CV and respect my word, welcome to look at my GitHub, and welcome to offer me a paying project, but if you think I'll give you 4+ unpaid hours of my professional time, to every rando who pings me, just to prove, "Yes, I'm A Programmer Like I Already Told/Showed You" then be prepared to miss out on all the people with BATNA's and self-respect.

The attitude of entitlement by some companies in 2022 has gotten out of hand. Overdue for corrective turn.
The west side Denver nextdoor is mostly people crying about fireworks or posting videos of porch pirates. I couldn't find the value in it so I stopped using their service.
Frankly I hate on-screen keyboards. Wish phones were a little smaller but fatter with physical keyboards.
I don’t know how much help I can be specifically to the topic, but as a recent grad who had an enjoyable and productive (imo) time in college, feel free to reach out to the email in my profile and I’d be happy to set up more informal communication to talk in the future. This is an open invitation to anyone in a similar predicament.
“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)
I'm using the manjaro build, I'll try Telegram's own build, thanks.
RE diff: you should try `git diff --color-words` it's very good for diffing text (output is similar to output of latexdiff: red = word removed, blue = word added)
I have. One of my previous phones was Vodaphone-unlocked so I could use it with my carrier BUT it displayed the vodaphone logo on boot/shutdown
This.

The social media analytics company I left last year offered me 7 stock units (in RSU) for $20,000 as bonus. I declined. They are not in IPO yet. The confidence of the CFO saying, "[...] of course they will appreciate even higher" is laughable.

Giving an overblown estimate as bonus is doing disservice. The hard work is real, the valuation is not.
I have those skills. I joined LinkedIn 2 weeks ago and in that time have been bombarded by recruiters. I've had maybe 30-40 message me directly. I was looking but now I'm sitting tight in my current job. I'd consider moving for unlimited time off, full remote and twice the salary most offer (starting around £250k basic) because I know my current job and it's cushy.

And yeah, I'd direct you to my GH instead of doing tests, but would obviously be ok to interview.

Like others have said, without knowing your salary I wouldn't even reply, and you'd need to contact me initially anyway.

In this market you may need to approach hiring not as fishing for bites, but more like headhunting for execs, since that's what your competitors are doing.
The power company could publish this data. I was able to get a flat rate quote on a property that I didn't live in yet using an online tool from Georgia power. It's basically the previous year energy cost divided by 12 and a 5-20% markup depending on past annual variations. It doesn't exactly equal efficiency but I knew what I could pay for an entire year of power.
> The absence of the State as we know it isn’t the absence of private property.

Yes it is. Any attempt to enforce private property ownership itself entails the attempted creation of a monopoly of violence in respect to that land - also known as "a state".

> try something more akin to a cross between Europe in the Middle Ages and drug cartels

Both feudal lordships and drug cartels (well, the ones that are actually worth fearing, at least) entail the creation and enforcement of a monopoly of violence over a given geographic area (a.k.a. "land"). That would make them states. They collect(ed) taxes, they raise(d) armies, and they generally control(led) the local populace under threat of violence. The latter case is only exceptional due to it competing with another state over control of a given geographic area; that hardly precludes a cartel from being a state, for the same reason that two states at war continue to be states even when they're being invaded by each other.

> private property rights are recognized by the State by custom (or “common law” if you prefer), not derived from the State, even though they can be deprived from you by the State by due process per the compromises we made in our Constitutional order.

If the State can deprive you of your "private" property, then how does that not in and of itself demonstrate rather plainly that the State is the thing from which said property derives? By what authority do you get to claim a piece of land as your own except with the State giving you a piece of paper saying it's yours?
> Impressively small and trade-offs seem pretty reasonable. (namely lack of runtime parser, minimal built-ins).

Not really. If you remove the runtime parser, then you're effectively just a VM and there are lots of VMs significantly smaller than this.

Anytime you attempt to implement a language in a tiny amount of memory, a ridiculous chunk of it goes to implementing the parsing system. Infix parsing is particularly expensive to implement--which is why the only two languages in the extremely tiny space are Forth and Lisp.
I mentioned on the previous comment, but it was labeled as Jira cult.

Developing software for 30+ years.

Before Jira came to be, in-house stuff based in Perl CGIs, Lotus, DOORS. ClearQuest, Bugzilla, among others.

After Jira came to be, Trello, GitHub, Azure DevOps, TFS.

None of them provides the same seamless integration between documentation, code changes, change requests, project management, build pipeline, in-house deployment and quite relevant in enterprise context, customization.
Swap speed isn't particularly germane when you're loading 50mb websites, but generally yes. However, swap only gets you so far, and memory pressure eventually gets you. I have a friend using the 64gb iMac Pro who routinely complains about OOM warnings when browsing and programming. It really does depend on the workload and configuration of the device, but thankfully most people have figured that out by now.
I find it interesting that other programmers engage in bizarre levels of almost ritualistic minimalism.

I say others because Im 100% guilty. I’ve figured out how to fit my life in a small closet.
Ex smoker here: this is a very under-appreciated challenge to smoking/nicotine quits. There are genuinely positive aspects of smoking that are going to be missed when you quit. The key is to reconcile this, and try and build in the opportunity for those little moments of peace and sanity (and often friendship and camaraderie) in a life without nicotine. There are pros and cons to both sides of nicotine addiction, the healthiest mindset, in my opinion, is to weigh of the sum totals of each and see that a life without nicotine is worth giving up some of the good moments too.
It is like Google Docs vs Office.

Good for casual users, while at the enterprise level everyone wants a different set of 90% Jira features.

It is no accident that Microsoft is turning GitHub into an ecosystem that combines Azure DevOps with GitHub.
I think this will get more common with remote working. Start a new role, then dump it if one of the other searches turns up a better one.

I think FAANG has something to do with this too. They're often known to be slow in coming up with the offer, often seeming like they're not going to proceed. A friend started working at a startup, then got a top Google offer, dumped the startup for the better job that came in later.
My personal stats on feedback assistant:

6 bugs filed

4 of those were fixed or went away. 2 were marked as closed,
2 are marked open but were fixed anyways.

1 is a bug that still affects me occasionally.

1 was a one-off bug in a rare case that i haven't seen since.

So my experience is pretty far from it being /dev/null.