skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So finally we come to what you could have made clear from the start without the desultory, time-wasting back and forth. The industry in which you are involved and for which you would not consider hiring someone who believes objective data is one in which you imagine there is some benefit to lock washers in assembling crap.

It sounds as though you are using lock washers as a compliant element to avoid crushing fragile components rather than to prevent unscrewing - so outside the scope of this discussion.
And the political gain is so minor. It's not like people are unaware of their own economic experiences and this will change any minds.

The cost in trust is very high, and the gain so small.
> And if you read HN and can't think of progress in the last five years, then you must be incredibly cynical.

Reading on HN means 99% of the times aspirational stuff. Aspirational stuff doesn't count.

What counts is stuff that improves quality of life in the real world, not just aspirationally sometimes in the future in order to play the musical chair game of the stock market or VC markets.

Stuff like mRNA vaccines.

An other example would be fracking but that largely happened 2005-2015
Stripe actively markets to the smallest of businesses.

My church uses Stripe for various fundraising events. It would cause a serious cash flow issue if our payments for the bbq chicken fundraiser were held up for 3 months. We don’t have $3k to pay the chicken guy.

A key feature of Stripe is daily deposits. To me it’s understandable that they will flag transactions to address risk. But there has to be a process to adjudicate quickly.
They didn't pay for it--someone (probably Bubba the Love Sponge) anonymously sent them the footage. He was legally able to record his own home.
For a hobby project of mine I use Gumroad.

The integration on my website is bad... But payments and payouts have been solid so far.
One issue would be slowing down when you get there.

You'd need to carry a deployable/detachable mirror with you to reflect the laser back at the craft, but that mirror itself would also get accelerated further out, which means having to correct for that, etc., etc.
You can make $160K at almost any US company as a software guy...
So, Rust has this very awesome thing where all variables are move by default, but types may opt in to be copied by implementing the Copy trait (a trait being the Rust equivalent of a Swift protocol).

This works exceedingly well. It essentially maps to what I want to do in almost all cases: Things that can trivially be copied (because they don't contain a resource) will usually work as you'd expect in any other programming language, while things that cannot (because they contain a resource like a file descriptor, or an owned pointer to some allocated memory) will indeed mark the old variable as unusable.

This is a really pleasant model to work with. So much so that I miss it terribly whenever I work in another language.
Except it isn't actually higher.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
I think this point is key "Those margins would jump to 58% if that remote driver only needed to pay attention for the first and last miles." - if you're going for #1 you still have a human in the loop for the first and last mile. If I understand the original post correctly (and I may not be), going from human in the loop at beginning and end-of-trip to no human in the loop at all is where the ROI vanishes
The Dawn of the Apocalypse
Love this site, it explains how to deal with all of the developer archetypes: https://neilonsoftware.com/difficult-people-on-software-proj...
A lot of people, me including, do not see political views as harassment. I also ascribe to the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights that gives every person the right to hold and express political views without being harassed for it, regardless if I agree or disagree with those political views.

RMS has/had a bunch of views about the definition of the word rape. I would start any such global discussion by adding a few more languages, like Swedish, German and Japanese for a bit more global context to such words and legal definitions. I personally really like the Swedish concept for "lesser rape", a concept totally alien to the US. The word "rape" here is both a word with a specific definition, a chapter in the law book, and a specific law all at the same time. Each has a total different definition depending on how it is being used.
I hate to say it (because I've worked at more companies that have it than don't), but "unlimited vacation days" is a trap. In practice, it turns too many vacations into a per-event negotiation with one's boss instead of "I have days accumulated, this is an average work week, I'm out" being a simple process.

I prefer a setup where the company has employees accumulate vacation days but also has a flexible policy about "going into debt" so that if something significant comes up, it's easy to deal with.
Code Snitching: Nashvillians Are Weaponizing Metro Codes
It is this weird move that is probably going to eat at people who are insecure about their own productivity. Is this an environment where employees can really lock in and focus on their tasks at hand?
Pineapple pizza is hated but also loved. Some people really hate it, some people really love it. It seems that whenever many pizzas are being ordered for a large group, at least one of them is always a pineapple pizza. Everybody has a chance to try it and fall into one of those two camps.

Personally I think it's a bit odd, but I don't hate it. I don't hate it, but I never order it for myself either. I think pairing the pineapple with ham bridges the savory/sweet gap well enough, but pineapple alone sounds pretty bad.
We can't all be 100x, God's gift to computer science, engineers like you.
> one merely challenging them

I'm always more interested to hear from someone who also has suggestions for improvement or change.
Come on. The NBER is not a government organization. This sophistry is just that.
Yes proteins can be dynamic, and multiple proteins can come together to form bigger structures (like a cell's membrane for example), and they can very much interact with other proteins and molecules in complex ways.

I think AlphaFold gives us more of a static picture that doesn't tell us much about how the protein will interact with the world. Predicting these dynamic aspects, protein-to-protein interactions, and ultimately an entire cell, is probably what they'll like to do next.

I don't know if the walking buddy is a single protein, it may be a handful of different ones joined together.
New Phase of Matter Opens Portal to Extra Time Dimension
After first-ever Facebook revenue drop, Meta looks like it's in panic mode
If it was caused by money injection into the U.S. economy then how do you explain inflation being a worldwide phenomenon? Quite a few experts believe a year ago that inflation was a result of imbalance in supply chains due to lockdowns. New information arises and a reevaluation of old ideas occurs. No evidence of lying as far as I can see.
A site that is meant to foster discussion about interesting topics, and your solution is to punish the people who post things they found interesting?

Yeah, no thanks from me.

It takes less than a second for me to see a duplicate and ignore it. Many times a duplicate is actually my first encounter (I'm not on here 24/7, reading every single post).

There's also a pattern of visibility problems with some posts, otherwise there wouldn't be a second-chance pool -- good quality posts that are posted at the wrong time or whatever -- and you want to punish those users? For having a good post that didn't get lucky enough or wasn't posted at the right time?

I guess if you want to massively reduce the number of submissions (including many engaging and topical posts) this would be one way to do it... Not sure it'd bring the results you're after.
Fly.io raises a $25M Series B
It wasn't a boneheaded question at all. As an executive in an all-hands situation, with thousands of employees and their concerns, you'll get questions that are uncomfortable (because they're repetitive, touch on grey areas, etc. etc.). Mark is partially a billionaire because he should be able to handle these softballs more gracefully.

Mark not being able to empathize and give a more human answer is a fault, not some logical depth and honesty revealed like some of his employees saw it.

Edit here's an example:

We've talked a lot today about the headwinds and economic conditions we're expecting for this year and the following few years. In that same vein, we'll reevaluate meta days. Right now I expect them to be reduced both to save costs and because we're transitioning to a more hybrid working environment.

I pulled that out of my butt in 5 seconds. There's no need to be a big baby at a fluff event.
oh for crying out loud. yes the answer is yes.

This recession has been on its way for a while, and in my opinion this is just the beginning. I think next year and maybe the year after is likely to be very ugly.
Fascinating thread.

I've always felt that Bombadil represented things which did not yield to logical interpretation by Enlightenment reasoning; hence him being left completely opaque by Tolkien in his backstory explanations (and generally acting nonsensically within the narrative). This does not exclude the interpretations that he represents a kind of pre-Modern nature spirit and in fact seems to support and synergize with those interpretations. It synergizes particularly well with his immunity to technology as discussed in the replies by @jpgcrowley.
Are you a physicist? This sounds like the opinion of a non-physicist. In physics we usually work on and publish basically any idea possible, just so that we have a full picture of what actually is possible and what the challenges are. Of course it's better if it's practical but that's not a necessity
Given the ease with which Okta was recently penetrated, any company that asked me "should we use a SaaS offering for any sort of access control" would get a firm no. That said, I'm sure you'll make absolutely rude amounts of money with this. So good on you.
Yes, in Stripe’s case. That’s the only way I’ve ever had a big issue successfully resolved.
They empower their customer service team with over a dozen ways to say “sorry the system won’t let me solve this” or “Your issue may be unique to you, but since my solution for somebody else’s different issue wouldn’t work for you, I have no power to do anything”.
Upper Limit. Hiring you at $3,000 a month will increase my income by $3,000.

No reason to hire you.
Below $3,000 and I can make money.

But ~1/3 employees are lazy and I can't fire them. So I have build in some safety margin for the bad employee's.

So I can pay you $2,000 a month and on average I'll break even. No thanks.

So I can pay you $1,500 a month, I'll make $500.
Recap of Spice DAO that bought a copy of Jodorowski's Dune production Bible
Falling in the hole is the only thing I remember about ET. I have no recollection of any other aspect of it.
And Reddit mods removed it...
>don't understand what NBER is.

There is a consideration that NBER isn't the issue. yes you are correct, they make a determination. I think the difference this time is that you have what was commonly accepted among normal people that 2 quarters negative meant recession. This time there is pushback against it.

I think the hang up is more political than technical. When the opposing party controls the white house there wouldn't be broad support for "let's wait and let NBER make a determination."

Hope that helps somewhat.
> there were tens of people who walked by and asked the security people what they were filming. They got one of two answers. The first one was a name for a series that was different than the one I was told. The second answer was "this is a new series with a largely unknown cast". This answer sounded very specific and very rehearsed.

I believe this is standard procedure on sets to keep from gathering a crowd, or leaking information about the film prior to marketing release. I’m sure there are other good reasons.
> Most do not support advanced Typescript features like generic application, mapped types, or string literal types. So, what's the point?

I use @sinclair/typebox and the point is that I can get a JSON Schema out the other side, usable in-process and as a communicative description of what my code expects, just by evaluating my code and printing out an object.

It does support string literal types, FWIW. I'm good with it not supporting generics, because the places where I need an interchange format generally don't. Mapped types would be nice but aren't really critical to where I need to generate interchange formats; dependent types that result from transforming these can use mapped types, so it's close enough.

For my money, typebox has far-and-away the best user experience of any of the flavor of libraries you described, and IMO is probably worth studying.
I am an extremely small account and have a merchant account with Authorize.net. Most of my customers pay by check so I even have some months where I have zero card transactions.

There is a small monthly fee and the processing fee is variable depending on the card. Plain debit/check card under 2%, compared to an airline rewards card that’s more like 4%…

I’m not even eligible for a Stripe account because a large part of my business could be called computer repair and that is explicitly disallowed.
I'm no defender of stripe (or corporations) but the one thing I always find interesting is that a lot of the complaint stories are one sided as the company can't release any information due to privacy. Many times these complaint stories have cases of fraud or other problematic issues and use the public forum to generate publicity. There are cases of people getting caught up inadvertently as well.
yea and you wouldnt have to live/pay bay area costs
If you're 'on the inside' then you know much of the consumer benefit is the silent 'redistribution of wealth' in 'points.' Since there are 'fewer fees to the right people' in the lightning network, points probably don't make as much sense - so it's a non-starter to your primary customer.

Also, disputing charges is a whole separate protocol for lightning that hasn't yet been considered. Or more accurately, is railed against as 'code is law' and 'not your keys not your crypto'

So for all the fees you 'save,' lightning nets a significantly below 0.

[Edit] Upwork is big enough to make their own gateway - the idea that they haven't is negligent.
oooo... i have a suggestion. it is janky but it works but i am too lazy to keep up with this.

it can be a million dollar app idea so saddle up.

>I have become immune to alarm clocks

100% me but i've found a cheat. i have observed i am immune to the alarm "tune" itself and not the loudness of it. my tests revealed if i change the alarm tone without listening to it first, the next morning i do "hear it".

for the app itself, if there was an alarm clock app that does "random tune", that would be it. i remember back in 2010-13 there was this IOS alarm app, sunrise or something. they had that. sadly after going over to android, i have yet to find an alternative.

and yes, i have tried those radio alarm clocks, they just drain the battery and the selection of music is not always suited for waking up so it doesnt matter.

try it just now. put your phone to mute/low audio and randomly select an alarm tune without reading/hearing what it is. you should "hear" it in the morning
I would argue the subset of software engineering that does not require this type of knowledge is a far, far smaller portion than that does. Maybe if you're only dealing with the simplest of CRUD + web stuff. Looking back on my own career, which started in corpo CRUD hell, it was still relevant knowledge a number of times.
> It is a tiny amount of money comparatively speaking.

It's hardly the only charge of this nature.
LJ was bought by some company in Russia years ago -- at which point, there was a very large exodus among Anglophone users (particularly of the LGBTQA community, and their friends). A lot of them went to Dreamwidth, which started with a fork of the LJ codebase, but not enough to make it nearly as vital as LJ used to be.
Great. So that's even more likely to have people in public places and transport watching videos with the sound up on their phones and no headphones.
Swift is ref counted so I’m not sure how having move semantics be the default would really work with that? If it weren’t, I’d agree, but that was one of the core tenets of the language as a successor of ObjC
This is really interesting to me because it would be so easy to have handled this better.

Yes the question is somewhat insensitive given the circumstances. On the other hand if you do any meeting you have to deal with the things the other people in the meeting care about. You can't only deal with the things you care about.

If you only want to make it about one-to-many one-way information flow, send an email. Or have the meeting but don't take questions, say you'll deal with questions 1-to-1 or something. If you have a meeting and decide to take open questions but you don't want to deal with certain questions have someone you trust moderate the questions.
Or carry a clipboard.
LotR stuff pops on here pretty regularly, though not in big swarms. There's the Battle of Helms Deep analysis series (or something like that) that usually gets posted, for example.

I'm sure The Rings of Power (which I assume is what you meant) will give the subject a bump, but this is more likely something someone came across and shared unrelated.
If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the same writer's take on R2D2 being the central character of Star Wara:
https://km-515.livejournal.com/746.html
Thanks for the link to that Wikipedia page, I'd never seen it before. Really amazing stuff. There have been many authors since that have done a good job at replicating that "impression of depth", but I still feel like none of them has ever done it at Tolkien's level.
> To some, this is a recession

Not "to some", two back-to-back negative GDP stats has been the definition of a recession for my entire life. Now suddenly it's questionable, because the current administration would like to shrug away its failures, and too many in the media are helping them do it.

This ad-hoc re-definition of language to suit political purposes is scary and Orwellian.
Unfortunately that is also the problem with rational arguments if they are deliberately or ignorantly reductive, i.e. without holistic perspective.
I wanted to be a software engineer since I was in middle school. Fast forward 25 years and I want out... badly.
Yeah, having employees decide how much vacation to take based on their own personal guilt and their boss' discretion is an uncomfortable dynamic.
Github issues have also largely replaced SO for me when it comes to failure modes (production tasks). But it's relevant for development when you want to learn how to extract a certain behaviour from a given tool. It's a treasure trove of obscure capabilities, especially when it comes to older versions of tools you've got to work with in production.
Even if that's exaggerated, it might have taken significant time to reach to this stage. Probably on the order of >50 years.
Sometimes it's hard to believe this kind of thing even happens in tech. In many ways, I feel shielded from the "real world" of Silicon Valley having been working at an employee friendly company for almost seven years.

If the CEO of a company I worked for said this, I'd have a lot of anxiety, straight up.
Yeah, I tried to leave the Stripe platform for lower fees and... well I'd give just about anything to go back in time and stop myself from doing something so stupid. Also in the end the %/per-transaction fees were barely lower AND they had a TON of hidden fees/charges.

The processor lied about fees/rates, API/docs were absolute shit (and they were on the better end of what else I've seen but compared to Stripe they sucked), and I had to go through 3-5 video calls before they gave me API keys for even the dev environment. Then you get to enter the world of monthly charges on your account, minimum fees (if you don't pay enough in fees you have to pay the difference, for me it was $35 in fees minimum which doesn't work well for seasonal things or in-house test accounts), PCI compliance (fuck that form), even worse service, and slimy sales people.

Even with Stripe's absolutely terrible customer support (that I've experienced first-hand multiple times) I'll stick with them over dealing with the alternatives.
From the point of view of a programmer setting up a new project, type checking tools are yet another optional linting operation that can be integrated in pre-commit hooks or other automation.
> If one’s aim is not so much discovering the truth as winning an argument at all costs, fallacy theory can provide a training in the dark arts of closing down a discussion prematurely, leaving the impression that it has been won.

If you aim is to discover "the truth", maybe you shoud stay out of debates altogether and not lecture others on what to say. If you train a bunch of kids to go into brain shutdown mode when they hear some latin keywords, why exactly shouldn't I exploit that? I will exploit that, because others will exploit it for sure. You can whine about it all you want, but if my strategy works I will win the debates and contol opinions, while you will fuss over correcness in complete irrelevance.
Does Nuclear Deterrence Work?
How frequent you refer SO depends on simply how crowded the field you're working, and nothing else.
Not even science can prove that the observed cycle is inevitable.

There have been people in the past who noticed the cycle and came up with methods at stopping the cycle.
Customers like the ability to charge back if the product is faulty, not as advertised, or the retailer goes under. Heck its one of the advertised bonuses of using a credit card for purchases, You are spending the banks money so you are better protected against fraud/retailer bankruptcy.

Customers with outstanding orders are often on the bottom of the list of creditors who get paid back when a company goes bust and even the companies themselves will often say in their final messages to customers to speak to their card company and issue a charge back for outstanding orders.
An alternative reason could be that they are in a great place right now.

Despite the usa's promises, china's economic chokehold could theoretically let them invade with few repercussions.

It would explain the slow but increasing escalations, as if they were testing the waters and making the west used to their prodding.

Honestly I don't know if the usa could survive the economic hit of war with china, I doubt it would be worth it at all.

Infact it would seem they would rather use nukes than loose it if they invade taiwan.
It's pretty normal to have a few beers before boarding that train. You sleep like the dead.
> At this point it is obvious that he/his PR staff are lying.

Without taking any stance on the problem at hand: How does an N=1 sample make it "obvious" that a 50% or 90% reduction has not taken place?
I know it's the tacky thing to say, but: I feel like StackOverflow has gotten worse over the past couple years. The questions and answers are both lower quality.

It's possible that Google is leading me astray since that's typically how I'll find Q&As on there, but I don't see the same issue on the other sites in the Stack network.
The move function is not move semantics (though the latter is being discussed by the community). The main purpose of the move function is to explicitly document where performance sensitive code depends on a specific type of compiler optimization and providing diagnostics if those conditions change in a subsequent revision of the code.

Swift’s focus on progressive disclosure means most Swift users won’t need to worry about this.
Among the traditional FAANG, Facebook is the most remote friendly of them, with a large proportion of the company being fulltime remote.