skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered about stances like this: if the US economy ever falters will you consider whether these extra costs could have an impact on it? If enough people run the calculus that the business isn't worth opening then you end up with communities that don't have businesses serving them.

Villages in my country are losing their only stores because the stores don't get enough business to make it worth the cost. These are usually villages with a high average age. What happens to the residents? Many of the elderly don't have a car. They can't exactly go over to the next town and buy a week's worth of groceries if they can't carry these.

The store closing essentially kills off the village over time. Heavy additional costs to doing business can mean that a community just goes without any service at all. It might not be a common issue now, but if it ever does appear then it's not like you can turn the economy back on like you would flip a switch.
> If we all just peacefully accept that standards of living have to go down for everyone

Alternatively, we could all just agree that "standard of living" != "GDP". In the old days, measuring GDP was a lot easier than measuring the standard of living. They were highly correlated, so we used it as a proxy. But now, it's outdated, and it has been for 50+ years.
I’ve never quite understood the advantage of this over a server bmc(unless it’s not server hardware).
I did mean it as a joke.

Jokes on HN often get downvotes. I think it's because I'm British and my sense of humour is hard for Americans to know when I'm joking. Or I'm not very funny. Probably the first one.
I hadn't heard of the Wonderlic test before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test

Interesting and a bit creepy.

I think here in California for nerds who have been around for a while, companies have at least some concept of what competitive rates are, so I hadn't worried about posted salary ranges. If they waste your time leading up to a lowball offer, they at least have wasted their own time as well, so they have an incentive to not do that. That of course assumes you didn't do a take home assignment ;).
I met a guy living in Brazil once while I was staying at a hotel for work, he said he moved there specifically because he had enough of the governments reach into his personal matters.

Two days later, his (Brazilian) bank started to withhold his (non-Brazilian) salary payments for money laundering suspicions because he forgot to file one random document, he was frantically trying to find a way to open a bank account here in Europe, no one would let him with his Brazilian residency, and he had to resort to asking his wife for money. Another two days later, his lawyer told him to get lost because the Brazilian tax office knocked at his office door, he lost the preliminary court case to get his (to begin with, legal) money back, was stranded in Europe and they went to detain his wife. He couldn’t even open a cryptocurrency exchange account because not even they want to deal with the Brazilian authorities and the only ones operating in Brazil itself are on the governments leash.

It's not lawless at all. He also told me they have a personal identification number like the US SSN, but that it's much more widely used for almost anything, even if you want to rent an apartment or go shopping (his words, never verified it) and allows authorities to track their every (mostly financial) step. He emphasised you better have that number ready when you enter the country too.
Interesting.

Note, soldiers are initially filtered for health conditions. It's not the same starting point.
This tells you everything you need to know about the kind of person that hires Accenture and what motivates them. Accenture will always be Accenture (and Deloitte, EY, PwC) as long as there's this CIO personality flaw of burning money doing flashy things without accomplishing much. Or in this case, anything at all.
I doubt it. HN has always been company friendly, just look at where it started from. If anything HN has become much more skeptical about corporate interests over the years.
Gregory Robinson – The Impressive Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
What's the annualized mortality rate among US men fit enough to pass the PFT (Physical Fitness Test)?

(Put differently, I don't think there are any morbidly obese people in the military which skews the comparison you're laying out here.)
The UK’s NHS can top that, with the infamous Capita contract that cost billions and delivered nothing.
> You have a right to be stupid, even if it results in your death.

Do you? I’ve not seen hide nor hair of that right defined anywhere.
I agree, I've always been surprised we do it with animals and vets but not humans and doctors.

We know gut flora plays an important role in our health and development.

The C.Diff study with fecal matter transplants was an eye opener, and we are definitely overlooking important data.

interesting study
Why anyone would pick that over a bunch of very mature open source offerings (with much larger developer communities) is beyond me.
The ultimate measure of a tech systems integrator is how many CIOs were fired as a result of hiring your firm.
England, Drugs, and the Law: Draconian
That doesn't match my memory, so I'd be curious which weeks you're talking about. You can find the main topics of discussion via links like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-07-19. (They're ordered by time spent on the front page.)
is it only me or does this site works only over plaintext http, while you gave an https link?
Personally, I refuse to work for companies that don't explicitly evaluate programming ability when interviewing engineers.

I want to know that the people I'll be working with are at least baseline competent in that regard.
OpenBB terminal, a Python-based environment for investment research
I think knowing that people have been actively managing whole landscapes and ecosystems for as long as people have existed should inspire hope. Climate Change isn't insurmountable and a lot of damage can be repaired. If we want more vibrant and ecologically diverse landscapes in the future, we have the ability to make that happen.

Even without a well coordinated global effort emissions growth is slowing, and declining in many places. In the US emissions have been declining for 15 years, and that's almost entirely driven by market forces and technology. Even a modest coordinated effort will make a huge difference over the coming decades.
$6.6m doesn't sound like that's a lot of money to make an Excel killer. Also, it looks very much like a spreadsheet to me.
I'm making my way through and haven't had any problems besides slowness (which I chose at the beginning not to treat as a problem). I did a little research before starting (for one I listened to the first season of The Cosmic Library podcast) and do a bit more when something strikes my interest (the last little dive was based on the Mookse and Gripes story: https://originalpositions.home.blog/2013/12/27/finnegans-wak...). I read it out loud to my wife some nights as she goes to sleep. It's fun and every so often intelligible; So far it seems worth it to simply press on and not try to comprehend much. I'm a rather dissatisfied monoglot and Joyce has just about managed to put me in love with English.

Also: I had a childhood habit of reading the last page of a novel before starting the book. The Wake is quite possibly the best book ever written to try that on.
> You should take a breath and chill with the Jingo.

I had to look up what that means. I'm not German. Now what?

> So yeah, let's have that.

Yeah, let's. Italian pensions are about 90% of the former salary? Germany is 50%. Italians make higher payments tough as well.
The difference is, Germany is doing that from a much lower debt ratio.

Temp workers are a thing in Germany as well, they get no inion representations. And again, the difference here: German economy is doing well.

Sure the Ruhr existed, have you been there lately? Crazy decline since the 70s. Wasn't a coincidence that the heaviest german metal bands come from there.

> The main difference is that Italy made a few bad choices in the '80s

Exactly. That's why they have this huge debt now, which results in the whole Eurozone shaking whenever interest rates go up. That's why we had low interest rates, which the Germans were very unhappy with. Draghi tried to work on that, but now he is out. Seems like a right to far right coalition might ein the election in the promise of flat tax and not raising retirement age. Will that be the Germans fault as well?

> Let's build the United States of Europe, everyone doing their bit so we can fulfil the federal dream and be done with these petty rivalries from 200 years ago.

Yes, please! But that only works if everyone is in and works on themselves. I don't thinkt the attitude of blaming everything on the Germans is very constructive either.
>I really want there to be, but there just isn't a viable alternative.

There isn't? My Eastern European highschool had self hosted email since as far as I can remember hosted on some pentium PCs.

The issue isn't that there's no alternative, the issue is that, schools are unable or unwilling to bother doing things themselves and instead just go with Apple, Google, Microsoft, because it's easy and almost free.
As a designer-turned-developer, I find this topic and the comments amusing. I don't think there's much question that the agency in question treated the client terribly, and should have been fired post haste and early.

That said, you couldn't pay me enough to get involved with design again in any way shape or form. The reason, as reflected by the comments and experience, is greatly increased customer expectations of the design process, number of expected mockups/choices, iterations, content changes, scope creep, etc. Even for small projects like the OPs, it's has ballooned to such an extent that many times it's practically impossible to know if something is going to take weeks or even years.

10 years ago when I last did design, if this author approached me I'm confident that I could have delivered a significantly better end result in far less time and at a cost similar to the original estimate. However, I would have be up front at the start (and in the contract) about maximum iterations and time spent before triggering the hourly rate. This most of the time anyway, worked pretty well to set the client's expectation to what I needed to match their estimate. I do understand that this wouldn't be palatable to most businesses anymore because it means having to be more trusting and flexible about the end result. Yet in almost all cases, I was able to please the companies I worked with and do it mostly on time/budget. Indeed, they sometimes had to compromise a bit but the end result as measured by revenue and traffic was almost never disappointing to them.

I'm a big believer of listening carefully and delivering not what "I" want, but what my customer wants. That said, I also believe business should be open to the advice of design (and other) professionals, because that is what they spend all their time doing. If you're fighting stuff like color/font/design choices with your designer to the extent that you have to go through a million changes, you've either picked the wrong designer or you might also consider the possibility that you might not be effectively communicating your opinions and/or that they might not make sense.
The thing is in the US driving is essential to having any sort of life for the most part leaving tiny enclaves like NYC aside. And freedom is an important part of US ethos. Autonomous cars as long as they are better than humans would be accepted by a range of people especially by elderly etc because what they want is to get from point A to point B, not necessarily to drive.
how large is the database file? aren't backup a bit long to perform?
I'll take a contrarian position here. You paid for professional services that you could afford, you got them, and they made you more money. It's the definition of a good investment and a successful project.

Will also add that based on the happy conclusion of your story the title is almost clickbait — and highly effective clickbait at that, since you've now gotten 1000s of targeted HN eyeballs. I can't imagine how much that would have cost you!
Well that’s a bold statement, guess the rest of us are just wrong and there are no externalities associated with not wearing a seat belt
> Just move everyone in the country?

You've misunderstood.

No need to move everyone in the country. People buying these new houses would be moving. As you're probably aware, people that buy new houses already regularly move into them. And it certainly wouldn't be everyone.
I've done so many AEM sites for clients with more money than sense. I had to quit the agency business to get away from it. It's absolutely sensible for a big company with complex requirements to buy an off-the-shelf enterprise software package even at a substantial price tag, it's just that AEM absolutely sucks at almost everything. They sell it with the stupid Adobe Marketing Cloud saying you'll get CMS, analytics, A/B testing, ad targeting, yadda yadda in one giant package. Only they're all just a mishmash of acquisitions that don't integrate well at all and none of them are close to the best products for their task. They made for a very compelling sales pitch back in like 2013 when options were more limited and enterprise CMS was a busy space, but no one should be fooled by this in the 2020s.

Also, I can't prove this, but I am highly suspicious that Adobe and their integrators cook up a lot of these deals and get service firms like Accenture to recommend their products for a kickback. I've been stared at by their sales team asking me to help sell their products and refused. Not ever offered anything under the table but I felt like I was getting winked at.
To lots of people in tech it's probably one of AMC's greatest. It had all the thrills and dreams of being a software engineer!

It's the last "show" I bought since "The Office"... I wish it had a few more seasons, but everything good must come to an end!
I think J.G. Ballard said everything that could be said about this in his 2004 Academy Award winning film "Crash"
Why do so many websites urge readers to avoid using sqlite as a production database? From what it looks like sqlite can handle a million daily users
I am not a technical founder, more a product guy in between sales and engineering, but I was in a similar spot 4 years ago and about to leave, so here is my experience.

* we (~10 people) were acquired by/merged into Templafy (~80 people at the time, now over 350)

* first 1-2 years I kept me busy with learning everything in the new company, integrating everything and everyone into their new teams and growing our Berlin office.

* after that came the time to decide whether to take up formal responsibility in one of the departments, manage people etc. long story short I didn't, I loved the IC role, helped with tech prototypes and scouting, M&A

* after that I found two other projects that I found interesting and was in a unique position to help out with: one were internal tools for migrating customers from our monolith to micro-services system, then spend a couple of month with the data/analyst team.

* In the end I think the size of Templafy doesn't match my personal "ideal" organization size where I can be effective as a generalist, that's why I'm leaving.

>I am not sure how to transition from being a coder founder executive to Director or VP level executive.

I don't know much about you, but from my experience the overlap between "typical" founders and "typical" VP level executive is pretty small. So without knowing more I'd say you'll probably leave & start something new sooner or later :-)

That being said I still think you can have a great couple of years and contribute&benefit a lot, I just wouldn't worry too much if this turns out less permanent than you want it to be.

I'd probably rather approach it as "let's see where it takes me" not as "this is the starting point of me being an executive instead of a founder"
Agreed! I think this is the idea behind Facebook's emoji responses.
Well, this explains something. When my daughter was very young I used to take her to bookstores as an activity (the kids sections are often setup like play spaces) and without fail she'd fill her diaper.

Juggling a kid with a full diaper while trying to buy some books and decide whether to risk the nearby public restrooms (also a shooting gallery) or try to wait to get home before changing her.

Now I have an explanation
> They have a pretty tight control over video hosting, video monetisation and video discovery, making it impossible for an incumbent to enter into one of those markets

You're kind of putting the cart before the horse here in asserting that those are three independent markets. I could just as easily say that restaurants participate in the "food cooking, table bussing, and patron seating" markets, and that it's way too hard for my upstart kitchen to compete in the food cooking market due to Cheesecake Factory having such tight control over the seating and serving markets. But the reality is, maybe my cuisine just sucks, and the singular market won't entertain it.
I get about half my heat from burning wood. But, my century-old house is so leaky that I would need a very large cold air duct to make a difference.
I remember the story about the addiction "study" ("Porter Jick") that was used as the basis for declaring OxyContin "non-addictive." It was dramatized (but fairly accurately) in Dopesick.

It was a letter to the editor, by a doctor, describing a small study on hospitalized patients, and was seized upon by Purdue, as the basis for their entire sales pitch.

When there's money to be made, people can look the other way, quite easily.
Legally it's required, but I think their point is it should be required by hardware. Right now most new cars just beep at you, but you can still operate them.
> Something like 80% of fatal crashes involve either alcohol, no seatbelt, or excessive speed

This is the crux of the issue on why we as a society ignore car crashes and panic about train/plane crashes.

I'd wager it mostly comes down to filtering out things we feel we have control over stressing about those we don't.
The internet being a byproduct of defense spending means that the ROI of defense spending is probably many years ahead considering where it put the U.S. from a global software dominance standpoint.
oh, interresting - try this - https://www.symas.com/lmdb - something happened to my chrome months ago, and now it asks me everytime to switch to secure - so it resolved it somehow on mine, but didn't know it didn't work for others
> Fast gigabit internet is cheap and everywhere (5G or mesh wifi)

Dev machines (laptops, tablets, VR) are cheap and have multiday battery life

Your apps build in a second regardless of scale, with tests and staging

... and pigs fly.
no, speeding hardly changes risk at all, but reckless driving certainly can, but that’s beside the point. the point is that changing your own behavior (i.e., “control”) has a negligible marginal effect on reducing your overall risk. nearly all of the practical risk is external and therefore out of your control (unless you manufacture additional risk by being distracted, reckless, and/or impaired).

you can’t really lower risk, which is what “control” implies. that’s simply a falsehood some folks choose to believe that’s unsupported by a basic application of stats & probability.
I would imagine that most auto insurance policies require seatbelts (under some general safety baseline provision) for coverage to be valid.
Been a long time since ya'll had a populist revolution.
Well, comparing guns and cars is just absurd. Many kinds of restrictions like age limits, requiring a driver license, requiring liability insurance, seat belt restrictions, speed limits, NHTA safety regulations that car manufacturers have to meet, speed traps by traffic police and so on... none of that exists for guns.
You misunderstand my meaning. By "accidental", I don't mean the quarrel was accidental. We mean the death of the unborn child was accidental. (Even more, the text may not imply death of the child, but rather, premature birth. The Hebrew wording is uncertain.)

The fine imposed for either manslaughter or premature birth indicates the Bible values an unborn's life to some extent. But the text doesn't prescribe punishment for deliberate killing of the unborn child. One would presume the punishment would no longer be a fine. (Indeed, the following verses suggest that if a life is taken, the punishment is capital.)

Your statement about Judaism's view of abortion is misleading. Judaism generally forbids it, and allows for it in only certain extreme cases, such as to preserve the life of the mother.[0]

[0]: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/39015/is-a-jew-p...
Well written and an interesting read. Thanks for posting. My reaction is "WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOING?" haha.

I am not in the position to spend 46k on... anything but I would like to think I wouldn't be duped in the same way. All this "you're a small client" stuff is BS imo.
The £10bn one under Tony Blair?
> ethics and justifications of military recruitment

Putin's War shows what happens when you don't have a strong military.
oh of course, very likely! but it's an interesting illustration of the massive budget these defense projects get — and this is just one project!
I think it mega Hertz.
What other engineering field has acceptable death rates? We design roads EXPECTING people to die on them. Insane.
Getting a realistic number of views out of a p2p service is... difficult. It's too easy to fudge. Youtube acts like a neutral party that won't cheat, because it has no reason to. There's no neutral party in peer tube to provide the count.
They have offices in NZ, they are owned by a HK based entity.
As an enduser I don’t like Zendesk. I find it unfriendly to use. Like when you open a request you receive a response by email and you can reply it to. But if you want to open your request on the website (to check status or other details) you won’t find a single link to your ticket, not even to the home. I have to manually open my browser and navigate to the support page (if I am lucky enough to find it) of whatever product I am using is. How frustrating…
you have some false assumptions though.

what is in the walled garden is decided by apple, and they do not have your best interests in mind.

For example - any app you install has unfettered network access.

what/who the app is connecting to, and what is being sent back and forth is opaque to you.

deep linking allows apps to intercept url references external to the app.

privacy policies are documents that live on a web server and can change at any time. And app updates can silently change the behavior of the apps as well.

It's all a mess, but because there are nice fonts and the icons have rounded corners people are subtly influenced to think it is well organized, maintained and modern.
> From TFA: "In court, Zuru said it plans to file a defamation lawsuit in New Zealand against whoever posted these on Glassdoor, once their identities are revealed."

That quote clearly says there is no lawsuit in NZ.

> So, no, the rules for burden of proof in the US have nothing to do with this.

They do, since it should be clear they were not applied by Tse. That is the issue here, not an unfiled suit in another country, when the US federal courts have jurisdiction over the unmasking process.
> do you just love wine and pleasant social spaces

Yes. Aperitif at a cafe in Italy scratches the same itch.