skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a concept in microeconomics called the Lerner equation. A monopolist maximises profits at the price where gross margin % is equal to -1/ price elasticity of demand.

The intuition behind this is their uplift in sales from a small price cut must equal the revenue they lose on all existing items, and their costs of producing the extra items. So if they have a gross margin of 50%, they need price elasticity of demand to be -2, since a 1% price cut will sell 2% more, raising revenue by 1% and costs by 1%.

The same applies for blocking fraudulent customers, you want your assessed likelihood of fraud to be higher than your gross margin. If I think you have a 25% chance of being fraudster, and I make a 25% margin, then selling to 4 customers I will make 25% 3 times, and lose 75% one time.

If you have more complicated factors like cost of processing chargeback, different interventions like 3DS/manual review, then the threshold is different, but the overall probabilistic framework and calculating breakeven thresholds can still be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerner_index
If you scare off 80% of your recurring clients, you've drastically lowered your workload without penalty.

If you scare off just 50% of your recurring clients, you've halved your workload and are making more money.

The downside is if you scare off more than 80% of your recurring clients.
I don't see a repo on there for LiveView Native. Just a tutorial, example app, and a backend.
The infants, children, and frail who are most imperiled by this plan to freeze them to death on purpose don't have equal access to the internet debate over whether it's worth it to do that.
OpenTTD is probably one of the better games I've played recently.

A few notes though:

1. Distances and tiles are very poorly represented, especially for things like inner-city rail stations. The train-station taking up 2-tiles x 5-tiles is a good building block in theory, except entire cities are like 5x5 tiles in this game.

2. I think OpenTTD needs a "revamp", bigger maps and "smaller buildings". That way, a city or town can be maybe 40x40 tiles or 80x80 tiles, allowing the players to actually think about a viable subway network. As it is, you pretty much just "ctrl-click" bus stations everywhere to increase the radius of your train-station to absurd proportions (ie: cover a whole city with the "same bus stop").

3. The industry is fine. A lot of mods seem to be making industry chains deeper / more complex. I think having just 2 or 3 steps per industry is fine (a bit unrealistic, but good enough to represent the inputs vs outputs of train stations and have interesting traffic flow issues).

4. Airplanes are a bit overpowered, but maybe that's good (since it provides an easy source of money, allowing you to reach "post-game" rather quickly). Trains are the best for station-ratings, I feel like the station-rating algorithm needs to be revamped to encourage a bit more diversity. Boats are in a weird spot, but I think increasing the "size" of the map, and then letting boats have collision detection, would help dramatically. Real life docks are far larger than represented in this game (a 30x30 area could, and probably should be, a dock in this game)

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So yeah, the main thing is the original representation of "1 tile == 1km-squared" from Transport Tycoon was a fine starting point, but our computers today can simulate far larger tilesets. So we probably should revamp so that we're closer to 1-tile == 100-square meters or so? And then rebalancing against that (or, 10,000x more granularity compared to 1km^2 tiles).

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But OpenTTD is perhaps one of the few games where "parking space" is in fact, adequately represented. And gameplay loop revolves around it (how do you design stations? Even if you're doing bus and truck stations, the number of parking spots on the route is of supreme importance). Maybe a bit silly that a parking space is 1km^2, but that's the smallest the tileset goes, lol.
AFAIK German unions are very diverse and workers can pick and choose which one they want to join, vs the US where it's typically a 1:1 relationship between workplace and union.
There's a lot of great advice in this post, but this is the one I'll start with:
"Start a blog and post to it every day. It might be a single line from a story that doesn’t yet exist. Or a scene—maybe a first kiss or a bar fight. Maybe you write a different first kiss scene every day for a month."
I'm not sure on your argument. I belive it's rational to make a decision that you would repeat every time you are presented with the decision, no matter if you knew beforehand how much times that decision would be presented to you.

Let's account for the marginal value of each dollar to set the number 50 to be some number that equated to triple the utility of the first million.

Why would it make less sense to choose the 50%? Assuming you would definitely take a 99.9999% chance of 50 million over 100% of 1 million, at what percentage do you switch over to the higher percentage?
I drive for Amazon flex and they’re beginning to trial orders similar to what you describe.

I don’t have a clue what the interface for ordering is like, but I know there’s a new offer type where I’m expected to pick up orders from one-or-several brick and mortar stores in a single shopping plaza before delivering
I would love to hear your honest opinion OP. How do you plan to source the jobs? How do you plan to attract job seekers to your site?

Remote job boards represents the majority of the spam emails I got since I started posting on Whoishiring. The irony is that, that is a job thread itself and people think that the people posting there are "leads" to their job sites. At first I even posted on a couple, but I got sick of being treated like a beta user with job zero proposals. Job boards is hard to grow just like social media sites.

I would love to hear your plan. In the world of tech projects the rule of success is being lucky, be first, be lucky or offer something different. When an aggregration-type pops up for an industry, it is darn freaking hard to grow a new business there. And there are dozens of job aggregrator sites that sit on top other sites. And all has filter by location.

I am not dismissing you at all, I am geniunely curious. I hope you take no offense.
> People go to universities to learn how to tackle real world programming problems.

That's your problem right there. Also, the term 'university' seems to be overloaded in so many different ways (multiplied by different countries and cultures).

To me, it seems that the American descriptions and their derivatives are pretty bad, same with the "poly"-prefixed educational institutions. There are so many factors that should be irrelevant (i.e. the "name" of the institute, the cost, the location) where only the subject matter and accreditation should be the actual factors.

If I were to categorise it, you'd have to split it in three directions:

- Academia, scientific research (University)
- High-level education, scientific principles and theory, but with application of said principes and theory in mind (College perhaps?)
- General or vocational education, aimed at learning how to do a job (Trade school?)

But it is of course much more marketable if you call that middle tier a "University of Applied Sciences" as that sound much cooler and more advanced. The reality is that there are many more people needed in the world that actually perform the work than the amount of people that mostly think about the work that others might do.

The world needs people in all sorts of varieties, but the real-world workload is overwhelmingly one of execution, not one of theory. Of course, when people are stuck in the (rat) race, one must go to university because that is the best, and only the best is good enough. So even if going that far risks people into diving headfirst into their own Peter Principle, it is what people do anyway. The end result are a bunch of people that barely made it through university and aren't all that useful in the real world right away (not advanced enough to propel the entire field or niche forward, not practical enough to perform less theoretical work).

Of course, FAANG only wants the best, and since they can't go screen the 100k+ applications in their inboxes in detail they just start filtering based on paper promises or previous experience, with the end result being a stack of people who either already did the job, or who came out of university with advanced enough results to be malleable into the positions that are available. And thus the path is biased towards "if you want to make a ton of money so you can rent a broom closet in the bay area, you have to work at a FAANG and you can only do that with a university background". Ironically, as large and advanced as those companies may be, most people in the world don't work there. And trading in 80k for half the amount of work and normal living arrangements really isn't a bad deal when working anywhere else that's not a FAANG.
First of all, if it was unclear i was being sarcastic with my response back to the OP.

I took what he wrote, replaced "union" with "company" and asked if this made sense too?

One thing about "fairness" is it should run in both directions.

The point is that there needs to be a better balance of power between both unions (which have literally bankrupt companies) and corporations (which have done really shitty things like "company towns").
Open Source and Non-profit program Fastly
I think in the beginning recruiters on LinkedIn. Note however that like all parasites they will try to skim a lot off the top. Worse than that, some will try to lock you in and write in clauses saying that they should get a share of any other future contracts you might have - make sure to never sign smth like that.

Once you have a few 6 month contracts under your belt and you can get good references you can probably find things without relying on intermediaries.
I'm quite a generalist, my strongest expertise is the JVM ecosystem, but these days I'm helping clients to migrate to cloud infra.
FWIW, the reason it used to work in the case of Firefox is that Firefox used to have only one process responsible for all tabs. This would mean that if any tab caused the browser engine to crash, all of Firefox would crash, and it meant that if there was a sandboxing bug, any tab could spy on any other tab.

The reason it no longer works is that tabs run in separate processes. This means that if a tab causes the engine to crash, only that crash (or a small number of tabs) crashes, while Firefox itself and all other tabs keep working, and if there's a sandboxing bug, you still have process isolation which prevents one tab from spying on another. But it also means that if you replace the binary without restarting Firefox, the parent process and the content process will be different versions and they can't really talk to each other.

Software engineering is all about trade-offs. We get improved performance, improved security and improved reliability, and we pay with increased memory usage and a less smooth upgrade process. Personally, I'd say that's a clear improvement.
> at those speeds

It all depends on how fast it can be pushed by the mass driver, but the weapon would need to ingest ~4e+15 Joules to impart a megaton of energy into something.

I wonder if there wouldn't be a point where the impactor would be squashed enough to fuse some tritium, but, then, it's no longer just a kinetic weapon.
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Leak was on launch tower side, no?

8-inch quick disconnect hoses have to be really gnarly to do anything with.
Those vehicles are all there on borrowed money, and I'm sure it ain't the full purchase price that's needed.
Impossibility Theorems in AI Value Alignment (against utility functions)
This the attitude of most religious groups at their core, those practitioners are generally termed fundamentalists.
Most dealers have their Floorplan financed, i.e. FMCC for Ford/Lincoln, NMAC for Nissan, as well as other independent players
Also very difficult to compete with Amazon. Amazon makes their operating profits from cloud computing and subsidizes their retail market with it. That is how they keep prices so low.
Yeah, this doesn’t always work. I applied for compensation from Lufthansa and they just keep replying with a “Covid times are busy” message despite threatening legal action. In the end, using a service made sure I got my money back.
I totally agree that value != location, but clients' budgets absolutely depends on the location. I only work with local clients, and my rates are on the expensive sides of the scale.

For comparison, my rates are about 25 times of minimum wage.

I know that I could make more working internationally, but I was happy in my comfort zone. If my indie maker/single founder adventure doesn't work out (happened in the past), I'll keep your advice in mind.
Ah, here we are: https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon
[0] https://www.dcode.fr/letter-number-cipher
I had a job like that, every 10 mins: webcam shot, screenshot, average keystrokes
Germany, mostly doing iOS, macOS native (Objc & Swift), Android (Kotlin), Hybrid (Ionic/Capacitor) & Web (Angular + React). ~ 10 years of experience. Working with lots of low level communication protocols for controlling industrial field devices from native apps or web apps. However I never decline a project based on technology and have done all sort of other things as well.

I usually charge 120€ per hour (working mostly for big german companies). Currently mostly helping various international teams of my clients and not doing much dev work myself anymore. Usually my contracts are at least 500 hours.

However I do this in addition to my own software projects that sell pretty well. This gives me the flexibility to decline any customer project I don’t like. (Or if they want me to do scrum)
Generally because the wokeness of a few things like that is used as a stick to beat reviewers with, tarring all their valid complaints as racism.

See star wars where when people like a character with a black actor (Finn) it's ignored but when people dislike a character with a Korean actor (Rose) the studio/media line is that people are racist and hate asians.

If these adaptations were better their PR staff wouldn't need to blow up a few comments about race swapping by being the only thing they acknowledge, all to justify deleting the "racist criticisms" which they say are all that is plaguing their score. This is the tip of the criticism iceberg but it's all they're willing to engage with.
Nice site! If I could request a feature, it would be the ability to filter by country, job and perhaps time model.
Probably not. Both of these were staple party games in my household.
This is not accurate at all. I've found people who pay these rates are better to work with and demand less.

You know that trope all startup people say "raise your prices and get rid of the low value high cost customers"

Same thing.
Isn't the best solution here to find a wealthy investor and sell him the option to press the green button priced at $20M? You get $20M, and they get an instrument with an EV of $25M at the cost of $20M.
I'm not sure if this is the point you're trying to make or if you're implying private companies aren't up to it, but... the other launcher of the same class, which will probably be launching within a year and is much more capable, is Starship.

https://everydayastronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sup...
The fancy security boundary thing totally broke smart cards. The blast radius on this Firefox snap thing overall just infuriates me.
Yep, they had working nuclear reactors.. She gave into the greens who wanted them gone. So to get her government back into power again, she made the deal.

Then chose Russian Gas to try and do a "2 birds 1 stone" kind of thing where if they had to get more energy, might as well try and do some geopolitics out of it...

Just two problems there;
1. Typical Greens, trading green firm power (nuclear) for another firm power.. just of course its not a green one, because the only green firm power IS nuclear! So now you've got fossil fuels .. congrats!
2. You're putting the country's energy in the hands of Putin... gee wonder how that will play out.
Ask HN: Bloggers/Mastodon users sharing Z80 retrocomputing projects
I'm looking for blogs or Mastodon users to follow who consistently share their retrocomputing projects or direct experience with Z80 or Intel 8080 systems, Assembly programming, CP/M, homebrew computers, or vintage non-game software and documentation.

Any recommendations?

I'm not interested in gaming-related recommendations because there's abundant, easy to find online coverage of retro gaming and I'm not into gaming anyway. I'm not interested in Twitter users either as these days I focus on blogs and Mastodon.
Google launches third-party billing pilot with only 4% discount
> Why would you even try to whitewash it like that?

Because non-flammable, inert gases aren't that useful for pushing things into space. The window of discussion here (in the broader sense, obv) is inherently explosive.

Yes, there's an important safety aspect here but NASA aren't taking advice from HN threads.

I happen to agree with GP. While hydrogen provides certain challenges, the human race has to embrace it. It's possibly the only workaround for a near-time methane shortage, especially as it can be generated locally (and cheaply) via PV. A much cheaper "battery" than Li-based batteries, and possibly a fuel for CCGT power stations to run from (blended and not).
I don’t mind the HOA handling all sorts of exterior work I can’t be bothered with. I may not like to the fees, but I understand that is the price I pay for amenities. So you’re saying a union would operate similarly? Not bad.
Nassim Taleb famously destroys those lines of reasoning in his books: game theory is unpractical for most people, because it almost always ignore variables that don't exist in a lab but are crucial IRL.

Comments have been explaining which ones already apply to this article, I'm not going to repeat them.

But there is an another example from Taleb that always makes me smile:

- If the other player tosses a coin and gets 9 tail in a row, what are the chances of getting tail on the next toss?

- 50%!

- No, 100%. The other player is cheating.
Other cities have followed, for example Ann Arbor in Michigan - making mushrooms the lowest priority for police (effectively decriminalizing them).

One thing stands out: Oregon decriminalized all drugs in 2020 - it feels like a not well-known fact.

Another side-note: because mushroom spores do not contain the psychoactive ingredient, they are not illegal to ship across state lines, so it's entirely legal to purchase spores on the internet ("for microscopy use only"), and then use "Uncle Ben Tek" to grow your own mushrooms (this part is illegal).
Please post a link too so that I can take a look and others can trust your claim as well.

Some mistakes happen. I am trying my best to eradicate such postings.
> I really don't understand who's it for.

It is, sadly, for everyone. Writing Github actions workflow? That's on Ubuntu (and you'll need to use Ubuntu for self-hosted runners for more success). Aiming to install a random package binary for a random project you've found? That's probably for Ubuntu. Need any enterprise/MDM stuff? That's probably Ubuntu.

We need people to start offering (or demanding) alternatives to Ubuntu before we can reasonably move off of it.
I noticed that this post is from January 2016. It would be interesting if anyone followed his advice and succeeded or didn't. I also noticed he had another blog post from 2013 titled "My Advice to Aspiring Authors" that seemed to me to have a somewhat different tone.
A (deeply) personal note:

"Albert" is my pen name, not my actual name. Albert was my dad's brother, who was killed in his very first day on the job at Swift & Co. in the Chicago stockyards. He either fell off a scaffold, or it collapsed, I'm not sure which.

Was there a meatpacker's union then, and did Albert belong to it? I don't know.

Worker safety is a sine qua non of unions. In some industries, the union enforces safety regulations rigorously; in others, the workers' comp laws force the companies to watch out for it. Before unions, the companies didn't have to care, and there were no laws.

As other people have pointed out here, safety laws protect everyone whether or not they belong to a union.
> Rocket tech lags because it competes with the private market, which the people with money don't like.

This is exactly backwards.

Rocket tech lags because NASA, via congress, has been captured by the private market to ensure that existing big players continue to get contracts. SLS is a boondoggle in large part because Congress required that it use half-century-old rocket tech. Not because of concerns about competing with the private market, but to ensure that the major players that got contracted to build the shuttle rockets half a century ago continue to get contracts.

This lagging rocket tech created by Congressional capture (and a similar situation in Europe) created the private rocket market, not the other way around as you suggest.
It may be screwed up, but it seems to be the best system humanity has created to date.

The alternative of a mineral backed currency that can’t adjust with population levels and is inherently deflationary we know to be far worse.
I mostly agree with your rules of thumb, but an incremental spelling reform should also (1) not leave native speakers guessing as to what you're trying to say, and (2) preserve morphological relationships as far as practical. So wrt. your examples of reformed spellings, I think I'd prefer *givve (compare gave, given etc.) and *menye - which is even an attested spelling, if only in Middle English. (The -ye ending is a bit weird, but is arguably the best fit for the final /i/ in /'mɛni/. -y and -ie just seem too confusing.)
re: 1; since payments processors compete for business, ones that can convincingly claim to reduce fraud rate can charge higher fees of the merchants
All this heavy duty construction at KSC, which is ~10' above present sea level, but then, sea level is rising [1]

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/NASASeaLevel/page...
I still don’t get it how hitting the green button (50% at 50 mullion) is the “rational” choice, it isn’t. 1 million in your pocket, no matter what, is exponentially and life-changing (for the majority of us) better than a 50% of getting nothing. Maybe if the value behind the red button would have been smaller (let’s say $1000 or even $100) then things would have been different, but, again an $1 million in one’s pocket no matter what is life-changing for most of us.
Less that and more that I don't play the FANG game of being under pressure to whiteboard the process of unlinking a doubly linked list or show bubblesort algorithm stuff for a position where all I am doing is stringing some divs together in a React codebase.

I mean if you enjoy that stuff by all means do it, but I prefer to build real stuff that make impact not practice showmanship.
ah. thanks for pointing that out! i didn't realize it.
A capture of a bright green meteor over South India
Cost of a Crisis: Phoenix's struggle with homelessness after the Covid pandemic
Feels like there's a big race to be the all-in-one everything tool for everything. It's Gitlabs whole schtick, GitHub is moving in that direction, now "also Jetbrains".

IMO I think something like Jetbrains should be leaning into integration, not all-in-one. Connective tissue last longer than walled garden.
Did it work for the company? Did they ship quality features faster?
I think the main problem is not the fact that they included divers cast. The main problem of modern shows is that they make it one of their main features. If the story and acting are good most people would not care of skin color. If diverse character are included organically into story - that is even better.