skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a cult. They can look back on this work culture with rose colored glasses because Stripe was successful. But for every Stripe there are dozens (hundreds?) of companies with equally demanding cultures that simply fail.

I doubt this person would feel the same if Stripe had been a failure. Articles like this encourage companies that don't have product-market fit (no amount of 15 hour days will fix product market fit, sorry), adequate talent, nor adequate resources to imitate this kind of culture. The end result isn't pretty.

I might be biased because I could never imagine myself working this hard for an Internet payments platform (noting that in 2015, Stripe was already worth $5B. This is not a seed or Series A/B scenario). Maybe it's because I came from bio- and medical engineering where the people who work this hard save lives and cure diseases.
The reason you wouldn't do it with a normal cassette is that there's a side A and a side B. You could reorder one side with enough time and skill, but the other side would now be screwed up. Maybe you could develop a taste for songs that are all about the same length and/or put a lot of buffer between songs, and then this would kinda sorta work.

The other reason is that cassettes sound like shit, even if you have metal tape and a Nakamichi Dragon.
My understanding of the DMCA is that the person receiving the complaint is the judge by design of the law.

The complainant submits a complaint, the receiver submits a counter notice, youtube is granted immunity to put the content back up after 14 days (unless the complainant initiates a lawsuit within that timeframe) and the complainant has no recourse but to take the alleged-infringer to court.
It's because of polyphenols from goat/sheep milk/cheese.
It is, it evens says at the start "[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]".

But he could have done it in so many different ways. The way he's done it is a very clean and easy way to read. Even has some links embedded.
Continued cyber activity in Eastern Europe observed by TAG
Is it possible to claim copyright on videos uploaded by Alphabet and all it's subsidiaries - Google, Youtube, Waymo, etc?
High Output Management Summary
I'm guessing you're not a native English speaker because this: Yet claims like she owns the copyright if anybody since she owns an original reel is poorly articulated isn't at all how I interpreted what she said.
> It's very unclear to me whether htmx really offers advantages that other approaches don't meet or exceed.

You say what is the advantage before :) :

> ... maybe not on day one, but maybe on day 100 or 1000.

That is the thing. Is Wonderfull when you actually wait and see if you truly need the extra complexity of things.

Go nuts when is time to go nuts.

But is nuts to do it now.
Preventing their talent from organizing? Squashing unions and labor movements is as old as labor itself. Think about it: does Amazon really stand to lose everything if a warehouse full of minimum wage workers demand healthcare? No. Then why does Amazon fight it? For control, plain and simple.
Yes, without a doubt. Other than messing up a bunch of land, Chernobyl wasn’t even that terrible outside of a certain radius.
Lithium iron phosphate batteries [1] do not use any cobalt and are becoming widespread in battery electric vehicles. Cheaper but less power and energy dense - worth it trade off. Similar calculations would likely apply for shipping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery
Frankly it has nothing to do with “being a kid”. There is a shit-ton for adults with a keen eye:

Impeccably landscaped grounds. Heavily themed environments (not even the trash cans are left unthemed). Care and thought put into the immersive experience, sight lines, smell, music, etc. Christ some of the live musicians (Dixieland, barbershop, the Dapper Dans, etc) are worth it on their own. Its a fantastic place to just walk around (assuming not hot and crowded) and devour the sensory experience.

Not for the cynical of course. You have to just give in and let it all in.

If you’re the type to just trounce through an area without taking in the details that sit before you, it’s not the place for you. If you’re the type to admire the street lamps, flowers, insanely well-maintained painted woodwork, etc it’s the place for you.
Windows' cmd.exe is the only shell I'm aware of that (by default) checks the local directory for executables before the actual PATH variable, so I wouldn't consider that a real problem.

The 'local directory' one is the actual concern. For example, our CI system for one of our tools runs commands like `pip install -U setuptools`. If we switched it to `python -m pip install -U setuptools`, it would continue to work fine - unless a developer accidentally committed a file called `pip.py` to the root.

At that point, Python would try to import `pip.py` as `pip` instead of the actual module pip (because current directory is checked for includes first).
And that's why it can work in countries with small claims, no lawyers or costs required to petition. Idea behind these courts is that people can represent themselves for a conciliatory session with a judge. The judge reach a verdict and, if a part does not accept, s/he can appeal (but now there are fees and lawyers required). Verdicts by default are possible if the part does not represent, however. This usually scales well because typical lawsuits are 1:1, and very uncommon for particular person.

However, if a few thousand people sue Google on a small amount, a simple demand to repair monetary damages (this seems to have a different name every country), or co-name Google with a John Doe because Google has the information on Doe or is the only presence on that particular country, they will need to represent or risk a default. And the process won't scale on their side only.

A legal and ethically correct DDoS on Google, but requires thousands of people motivated enough to navigate the bureaucratic depths.

And Fran's comment about lawyering up is probably valid on USA where, AFAIK, the procedure for small claims is different.
>She even has the physical copy of one Apollo 12 scene which she telecine'd to digital,

Okay, so that's supposed to make a legitimacy claim. I've had arguments with the internet claiming that I made upres copies of digibetas when photographic evidence showing the 16mm prints on the telecine, but the internet still disagreed. So I KNOW the pain.

However, let's say that you, me, and Dupree all have a print of the Apollo 12 scene. We all pay to have the things done to have it available as a digital file, and eventually we all post our independent videos to YT. If we did some sort of perceptual hashing to each video, would it not be logical to assume we'd all be flagged? At that point, what's an algo to do?
Maybe it will make the current generation more affordable.
Given how many of these claims are A. scripted and B. bullshit, I'm sure that they have exempted themselves from their own shitty rules.
You can get beer and wine from the restaurant car or the snack car.

I believe if you have a roomette you can drink your own if you brought some.
This is obviously going to be controversial but the people talking about how this is abuse or slavery or exploitation are missing the point.

The author knows how it sounds. And yet...

> "it felt good to care about anything that much"

Purpose is fleeting in modern existence. Religion is waning. Spirituality is trivialized. Both for excellent reasons. So many people in the world are just surviving, while others are going through the motions of modern existence, as if on a treadmill. Achieving milestones but without feeling connected to them. Chasing Instagram highlight reels.

But we still have a human desire for impact, achievement, and purpose.

In Silicon Valley - the place, the culture, the TV show - the term "Changing The World" has been completely squeezed of it's meaning and replaced by grifters who are only seeking a quick buck. Maybe it always has.

But there are those places - and Stripe is one of them - that can lay honest claim to having done something legitimately groundbreaking and impactful to the world.

And to those that worked there, it gave them a *MISSION*, and *PURPOSE*.

There is no need to scoff at that. If you found your own purpose without working 15 hour days and making your boss a multi-billionaire, that's wonderful. If you haven't, but think you'd never do it at this cost, that's also a valid choice for you.

But for this person, it was the right choice. And it was/will be for many others also.
Even if PATH includes the current directory, you'll be safe as long as it doesn't take priority over the regular bin directories.
“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
Is a tendency to miss some practical concerns the same as "physics defying" or have you just completely shifted arguments without acknowledging that your former one was completely fabricated and anti-scientific?

What does your number have to do with the practicality of the prospects of electric container ships? You threw out a number, now justify what you think that means. A big number is supposed to do what?
Yeah

but Twitter bought it and then shut it down because they couldn’t make any money from it
That's an everyday mistake

I think the better guess is having people opt into amazon drivers using ring to let themselves in so their package isn't stolen from their porch
I agree that the FTC should be looking at tech.

Personally I'd like to see them aimed at regional broadband ISP monopolies first, since that is an underlying infrastructure for the services we use.

I'm not sure where the FTC is on this, but I know the focus in media has shifted in recent years from Comcast etc. to FAANG. Perhaps that's because the problems from the platform-based monopolies enabled by ISPs are closer and thus more apparent to us. Or, maybe it's a campaign propped up by ISPs to take the focus off of them.
I wonder how many of the ContentID claims are actually even real. With so little transparency, maybe the system just generates fake ones to pad earnings?
I think it is a pretty bad sign when the cost of replacing a part is higher than the cost of the whole thing.

I suspect this will continue to be true for any used EV whose MSRP (i.e. brand new price) is under $30k. If true, then EVs are the vehicle equivalent of single-use plastics.
The post reads a lot better skipping over the 15h days / pizza section. I wish the author had omitted that part.
"The ability for the world to produce a huge surplus of calories and to trade them as commodities across borders IS resilience."

HN bot remind me in one year.
Here's a review of a Lenovo's new thin and light Thinkpad X1 Yoga with Intel's current gen flagship laptop CPU:

>Unfortunately, the laptop got uncomfortably hot in its Best performance mode during testing, even with light workloads.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/review-lenovos-think...

This is a laptop with two fans that cannot be used comfortably, even for light workloads, without being set to throttle all the time.

A fanless laptop that throttles under sustained load is perfectly normal. A laptop with active cooling that is too hot for light use until you configure it to always throttle is not.
Roll the dice and hope you find a good therapist in your area who clicks with your style
While I default to AMD64, Intel 64 is the latest variant from the eponymous manufacturer.

There is some justification for Intel 64, as AMD suffered a series of mistakes and bad decisions, starting with the "Barcelona" Opterons, only recently emerging from these problems.

Intel has been the best-performing AMD64 implementation for much of this standard's time on the market, so a little revisionism must be excused.
"Reverse emulating the NES" looks a lot like "forward emulating a cartridge". Badass technical trick though.
It's interesting how this personality type of ultra-neurotic who is confusing fulfillment with work, as follows, is the ultimate carry for almost every team in the Valley;

"It’s more about missing that universal agreement that it’s really, really cool to devote yourself fully to your work."

"But I do think work can be a source of real meaning in life. But, we’ll only ever get out what we put in."

"And of course I believe you can love something without it having to hurt. But I’ve never truly loved anything that didn’t move me to my core."

And then she gets her vacation cancelled for her by her manager. You got absolutely railed for your time and confused it for camaraderie.

In life, you get less than what you put in if you're working on the wrong things. You get what you put in if you aren't working on the right things. And you get more than what you put in if you're working on the right things.
Breakup/Divorce

From the article:

The only thing that works is to remove yourself from the environment that is causing burnout, and then taking the time off to recover. The good news is that recovery is guaranteed.
I feel like so many businesses are just focusing on the whales without realizing that part of what made them successful before was that everyone could've been a "Whale".

Like, it seems so much more enviable to have 1000 regular "fish" that all pay a moderate amount than to try and squeeze every dollar out of 1 whale. But instead our economy is so terribly skewed that we try and give a cheap option to the "minnows" while trying to make a "luxury experience" for a handful of "whales".

It doesn't serve anyone really, but we're so stuck in this trickle-down mindset that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The solution is remove the middleman (and thus legal responsibility) as much as possible (e.g. peertube)
Sooo.... Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a post promoting "tiddlywiki"?
python's poetry has poetry.lock I think it's slowly becoming semi-standard.
But still slowly and still not fully ready(bugs).
Also its odd that pyproject.toml (not poetry.toml which is the poetry settings for repo) is the dependency definition file and poetry.lock is the lock file

for pip file I usually make a requirements-to-freeze.txt, make a fresh virtualenv, install requirements-to-freeze.txt and then pip freeze > requirements.txt
poetry does this automatically
Thanks for the correction! I can no longer edit my comment but you are right.
What's a good name?

Power C++ Syntax Plus Edition

C&₹π÷×√
The Einstein Principle

Einstein’s push for general relativity highlights an important reality about accomplishment. We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects on which we can devote a large amount of attention
I think, Fran has been quite public regarding her economic struggles. While maybe popular to some audiences, she is certainly not a millionaire. On the other hand, cases like this provide publicity to the very problem that is haunting many and provide a broader perceptible platform for these concerns.

Edit: Maybe I've misinterpreted your comment, but I stand to the importance of publicity that may be lent by such cases.
A revolving line of credit with a bank. Basically, bank says you have (to make up some numbers) revenues of $15,000,000/year and profits of $5,000,000, so we think it would be pretty safe to lend you up to say $1,000,000 that you can borrow whenever you want to run your business and you'll pay it down on some agreed upon interest rate (which is likely not fixed, but some percentage over prime rate[1]). Notably, you don't have to borrow, it's just available with pretty much no questions asked whenever you need it. Kind of like a credit card, but with a lower APR. It's very commonly used even for profitable businesses since cash inflows often don't match expenditure flows, especially if your company is growing.

For example, maybe you grew your company a lot this year and ran out of money in November, but a bunch of your customers will be paying you large sums when annual renewals renew in January. You can't just not pay employees in December, so you borrow for a month or two in order to smooth over payroll and other expenses and then pay it back in January.

Typically, a revolving line-of-credit is going to help with month-to-month expenses, but won't be enough to massively grow your business. For example, if you are a startup, a bank won't give you nearly as much money as a VC, but at the same time, you probably don't want to give up equity in your company every time you are temporarily behind on payroll. If you are a very large and established company, you'll likely have other, cheaper ways of getting money for your day-to-day business. For example, Commercial Paper is basically a short term bond issued by large well-known and creditworthy companies that need to smooth over payroll and other operational expenses. But by the time you are doing things like that, you probably have an entire corporate finance department handling these sorts of things. A revolving line-of-credit is much simpler.

[1] prime rate is the interest rate that big banks can borrow at which is typically lower than what you can borrow at. They'll borrow at rate Y and charge you rate Y+Z.
Ultimately, you are correct, but the problem here is that 14 days. Effectively anyone can DoS your content for 14 days just by submitting a form online.

Technically, submitting a copyright claim with blatantly false information is perjury, but your only recourse as the victim is to beg a prosecutor to take the perpetrator to court over it. There is no civil remedy for false DMCA takedowns.

As far as I am aware, not a single person has ever been convicted of perjury because of information supplied in a DMCA takedown.
Well, for example, the view that gay marriage should be legal. Until very recently this view was judged very harshly by society. Many people who had this view were afraid to express it. Of those people who today complain about not feeling safe to express their views, some of them may be horrible racist people as you suggest, but others are advanced thinkers who will eventually convince most of us to change our views. That is how and why the morals of society change and evolve with every generation.
You can buy cheap used car. A 5 years old used car today will be nicer, more convenient, safer and more reliable than new Civic in 1985.
A discussion on burnout here[0] last year called burnout "a kind of unrequited love." I don't know that it's a perfect metaphor, but it's changed the way I approach my attitude and commitment to work. This article touches on that idea under "Prevent Ineffectiveness." The times I've felt most burnt out aren't always when I'm working the hardest, but when I'm working the hardest without getting enough in return. When working on a project I am passionate about or I control, I can work much harder without burnout creeping in.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307721
I found this PDF file [1] that gives more information on how the Jurong Rock Caverns is set up for oil storage. Maybe it will help answer your questions.

[1] https://awards.ita-aites.org/images/Proceedings/2016/8-Juron...
You're right. There are a lot of industry actors making positive changes. It seems the authors are referring to supply chain resiliency in this case, but yes, an abundance of calories and protein grams due to global trade has enormous benefits.

One hidden issue that we will face is the rise of income in low-middle income countries. As their purchasing power increases, they will likely demand more meat and other, more expensive, food options. As we decrease our productivity for the sake of environmental impact, the invisible hand will force the price of food higher. I'm not saying we shouldn't promote regenerative ag, just that this will pose a major problem that we shouldn't ignore.
Bakke decision is the reason we started to talk about diversity
Wasn't nutanix using cassandra "modified" for some SAN product almost 10 years ago?
Car theft isn't treated very seriously either, I would like to point out. Once your car is stolen, you're pretty much on your own. They'll let you know if it turns up. They won't go looking for it, they won't chase someone in a stolen car for long. The only time it 'turns up' is if it's involved in an incident that doesn't go well, or if it's sold to some unsuspecting buyer who tries to register it and it comes up stolen.
A-GPS == Assisted GPS (A-GPS) is used to speed up start-up times of GPS-based positioning systems.

Basically it uses an internet connection to find the satellites positions and not having to calculate them their selfs.
Army cuts force size amid unprecedented battle for recruits
A corporation is not a monolith.
Many, many people are forced/have chosen to 'believe' in science. (Just as, in the past, they 'believed in' whatever the prevailing orthodoxy was... with or without gods.) Being dogmatic is the easier path for those without the time/access.

Of course, professing 'belief' doesnt confer actual knowledge about that faith. EG. anyone who's ever said that science 'proved' something or other.

If this misstatement about phytoplankton is misleading (gee I hope so), if it gets people to start carrying that canary into the mines, that's a positive outcome. We probably aren't aware of all of the tipping points.
OP probably takes in 3-5M a year. It is far from a cult when its benefit is a borderline generational wealth.

It is not surprising that OP likes Stripe so much.

You would fucking love your company if you were paid $5m USD per year as a regular engineer. Let's not kid ourselves lmao.
It’s always having problems with reliability tbh
> If a customer uses Firefox and loses money because of a Firefox bug or incompatibility, who do you think will be liable? The customer? No way. The bank is on the hook because it's their website that resulted in the loss.

>
> So the bank has to test in Firefox, they can't just put all their hope in web standards that may or may not represent reality.

Thanks to the open nature of the web, i can modify the request/response, JS that executes, etc right in the browser. So for your argument to be valid, the bank would literally have to fully trust client side directives and do next to zero validation of the users input. Even banks aren’t that stupid…

And if you know of a bank doing that, please share! I’d love to print myself some free money!

Security issues somewhat withstanding here, but even that argument is bullshit because Chromium/Chrome has just as many bad security bugs as FF, sometimes even more and/or worse.

So no, this is bullshit. The reason they’re doing this is so they can reduce development costs while more likely than not engaging in surreptitious activity surveillance, given FF has some of the strongest protections against that crap that have ever existed. Coupled with recent-ish reports that credit bureaus want to let your browsing data impact your credit score, they’ve already got several big fish on the line willing to buy. And with little to no isolation for client side storage per domain in most of those browsers, i can see no other incentive for them to do this.
No-SQL databases have their pros and cons and so do SQL databases.

Would it be feasible to use both, from within the same application, depending on the type of data in question?

The SQL vs. No-SQL debate has been going on for along time. Why not use both? Has anybody tried that?
Go is governed very well for all practical purposes. If you disagree with their opinions on language design (I do, too) that's another thing.
Author here. I'll be launching the project which uses this license next week, which would make it clear how the monetization module works. Stay tuned!