skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wihom is a platform that allows online businesses to reconciliate their payment gateways, aggregators in an accounting or ERP software without a line of code.

The reconciliation process today in Latam has a gap because it has been done since when the accounting software started to work in the cloud. Actually data entry in accounting software is manually, complex and delayed, companies overhiring staff to do this process in spreadsheets wasting their money. Yet the $38B in the US & Latam market for online transactions continues growing.

Wihom is easy to set up, was created for non technical teams to create integrations and workflow automations no-code that connect different payment processors like (Stripe, PayU, MercadoPago), banks integrations in latam and accounting or ERP like SAP, and has the added benefit of connecting via API with multiple apps.

We want to help and collaborate with other founders that want to automate their reconciliation payments gateways with their accounting!

joan.rodriguez@wihom.com.co
Ok thank you. At least there is accessible assignment project 1-4ab and the https://craftinginterpreters.com/ good!
I’m slightly surprised they’d just lay you off instead of trying to fill other internal positions first. That seems like it’d cost less than $40k for one thing.
I mean yeah, it's irresponsible to let people go outside, drive cars, play sports, consume media by personal choice, engage in romantic relationships, climb stairs and ladders, drink alcohol etc. Yet we still generally feel the quality of life improvements outweigh the quantity of life decreases.

Consider also that humans confined to an indoor environment have much more environmental enrichment available in books, television, internet, games etc. The only environmental enrichment available to cats indoors are really terrible simulacra of nature (strings, balls, furniture) and many of these are only available when people are available to play.
Thomas Midgley Jr. was an impressively prolific builder. Navigators are just as important as drivers. You need both, not either in exclusion.
The reporting is fine. The commenters do my head in tho
WinAmp really whips the llama's ass.
Sounds like blackmail. You’re not whistleblowing or suing for damages, so how else are you getting leverage from a story in disagreement?
The EUs AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn
> I usually don't go for double my target but others might. I usually start out at 150% of my target.

150% is far more reasonable than 200%. Let's say you won't take below 100k, Co. won't take above 120k, you offer 150k. From the Co.'s perspective, that's 25% difference, it's worth negotiating. If you offer 200k, that's 66% off what you'll take. Co.'s probably thinking, okay, this guy will take 160 maybe 140 but no way they'll really think they can negotiate down to 120.

At bigger companies there aren't incentives to spend tons of time negotiating a candidate down to the top of your acceptable range, so even if they think they can get you down 80k you're out.

You don't counteroffer a candidate you can't afford. And I think you understand intuitively 200% is too much, which is why you go 150%.
get rid of all the Ethical AI folks too. in theory, it might be useful, but in practice, it's just bureaucracy
I worked in a bookstore at the start of the 1980s. Its magazine section had many hundreds of titles (I stocked them). All of them were more or less that way: mostly ads by page area and page count, with the ratio of ads to content rising as you got toward the back of the magazine (but with most magazines maintaining the last couple of pages for distinctive editorial content).

Magazines are generally much slimmer nowadays. Magazine racks are generally smaller and less ubiquitous. I presume the ad dollars have mostly moved onto the web, and the great majority of magazines have shrunk—many disappearing entirely.
Wikipedia’s ‘Deaditors’ Sprang into Action on Queen Elizabeth II’s Page
Hey Bob. You go independant so you can fill your own queue to your hearts content. You are wasting your life fullfilling some other's get rich quick dream instead of your own.

Getting gigs will not be a problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

“The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.”

Currently 32 points, in the ten minutes since it was posted.

*edit: now 43 points in 11 minutes
Given the current cost of corn, how about doing the same for the ethanol subsidy.
Sounds like pretty standard big corp stuff. I honestly don't understand why a NDA is even required here.
It is amazing, I remember using out of the box winamp for decentralized video streaming circa ~2003?.

This was years before YouTube was even founded
I had that, offset maybe more like 50ms but that's just quibbling. Showed up in a firmware update, disappeared again a month later. Not often, but often enough that I started calling it skew. Disorienting!
Honestly, I'm turned off by these frameworks. Javascript is an easy language, and these frameworks raise the bar to entry. Many will say they make things 'easier' but that's not my personal experience. Some context: I wrote a lot of JS in the early/late 2000s (Anyone remember WebFX by Erik Arvidsson?). His follow-up gig became WebOS[0]

Back then it was called DHTML or Dynamic HTML and then evolved into the HTML5 standard later on. The syntax of React & Vue is just too weird for me. Frankly I've reached a framework fatigue after learning jQuery inside out which was a hard-won battle, and then having to learn React/Vue/Svelte just to stay 'in the game' is too much for me. Excuse me if I'm biased here.

[0] https://newmedia.fandom.com/wiki/Web_Operating_System
I'm old and often hike with younger people who are much faster than I am. When I catch up with them if I need a break, I ask for one. So far, I've never hiked with anybody who refused that request. If I did, it would be the last time. It's just not that hard.
19 votes --- less than 1 in 20 people comment I suppose? Or it takes them a few minutes to type out a comment.

It gets to number 1 I suppose as it got those votes very quickly. It's likely to be a hot topic if you give it a bit of time.
This Is the Kind of Storytelling That Economics Needs
I has no idea it was this costly, that's crazy ... Yeah maybe I'm wrong and they really seriously bet on this weird project
It is impossible to have an internal oversight team that’s without a conflict of interest.

From law enforcement to newspapers to government to technology — unless there’s demand from the public and oversight is independently funded and managed, without fail, function of team will end up either functionally meaningless or aligned to the parent organization’s core objectives.

Beyond that, no venture is without flaws, and until people are able to acknowledge that optimal solution do not mean zero negative impact, it will be a race to the bottom for which another culture that’s able to manage the complexity either by luck or skill will eventually replace those who are unable to do so.
The financial value of software is future cash flows.

It may have other values like entertainment that lead to an end user purchase.

Neither sounds like your situation.

The only way to sell your software is find someone who will buy it.

That’s probably more work than selling something people want.
Thanks for feedback. Exactly what I was searching for on HN - people with some experience there that have felt the real roadblocks.
19 votes in a few minutes. Not surprising.
On my on-going list of terrible ideas is a restaurant that recreates the airline dining experience. Good to know it'd have at least one devoted customer
> Parallel state trees just always suck (I've also dealt with them in Box2D, some game engines, SVG renderers...), it's probably an antipattern.

Just to reinforce this ... this is the case even with native desktop GUI toolkits. Take the example of GTK. You build a model for a tree/list view using the "nice" data types GTK provides. In Gtkmm (the C++ bindings) it's even easier and actually feels very idiomatic.

However, if you already have a model data structure somewhere in your code for other reasons (for example, your "backend" code isn't allowed to use GUI toolkit objects or APIs), you now have parallel state trees, and they suck just as much here as anywhere else.
Now that you mention multiple endpoints, I noticed (admittedly, this is in USB1/2, which seems to be a totally separate system from USB3) my KB shows up as multiple HIDs. Probably for RGB and nkey rollover. But I wonder how it is implemented? Is there an internal hub (adding one more layer of hubs, ontop of whatever is done internally in my PC before the physical USB port - a lot, if lsusb/lspci-tree-list is to go by)?
I voted for Mr. Mac before I read the comments, exactly for this reason.
From the linked Nature article, my layman's interpretation is it seems a more severe finding (CHIP) was not found (and was possibly what they were looking for as CHIP may have indicated a potentially more material impact), and that this is more like an early, thin data set which can't be fully evaluated without more data:

>We identified 34 nonsynonymous SNVs in 17 known CHdriver genes, of which TP53 and DNMT3A were the most frequent. Notably, clone size was small, ranging from 0.10% to 0.95% VAF, and thus did not achieve the technical threshold to be
considered as CHIP

and

>Due to the lack of longitudinal samples and small sample size,
conclusions regarding the implications of observed lesions remain
limited, and further studies are required to assess the penetrance
of these clones.

Is that how the rest of you read this, especially those of you who are more expert?
What about in every western country where it isn't profitable?
C had pointer arithmetic which let you do systems work that you could not do in PASCAL, by the later 1980s Turbo Pascal had extensions to fill the gap and I liked it better but school had me using Unix workstations that didn’t have Turbo Pascsl so I switched to C.
Okay, so if I understand the main benefit is that you get to use a package manager and import statements? Also, don't you still need to manage tons of files, directories and config files in a React project? The React websites I've seen have way more complex directory structures than your average HTML/CSS/JS site.
No shot. Check out the cosponsors. Not a single R in sight.
Yep. I got laid off right after 9/11 (which was sort of the last straw). Fortunately, I almost immediately landed a similar (but better job), albeit with a pay cut--and there were some lean times for a few years once the tech recession hit my new company in force. But I had started looking around elsewhere as well and there was nothing that I found.

I lot of people I knew ended up exiting the industry and no small number of them ever really got back on track with their careers.
What can we know?
> keep the UI in sync with state

This is absolutely true, however there are some newer tools that are appearing that make this much easer with vanilla html - htmx, hyperscript, alpine.js for example (links below).

These newer tools are all made possible due to the “new”(ish) MutationObserver api, it allows you to intercept new dom elements being placed into the document. These libraries let you simple decorate your “real” html with extra attributes enabling easer client side state management. No build step required.

My hope is that a combination of these type of tools, js modules and web components will result in dropping all js build tools. With http2/3 we don’t really need bundling. In many ways it the bundling and transpiling process that has contributed the most to the friction with JS development.

My other observation would be that as js frameworks have evolved they have become more “enterprise” ready, adding tooling (complex central state management, strict typing) to make working in large teams on very large codebases easer. Much of this isn’t really necessary for the majority of we development.

https://htmx.org/

https://hyperscript.org/

https://alpinejs.dev/
> I remember when the moderators starting closing SO topics as "not constructive".

I don't think that was a decision made by the mods, I think that's policy created by SO. I really like that it's so focused, clearly defines what is on and off topic, and strictly enforces that policy. You're right, such discussion can be very valuable, but if these policies didn't exist or weren't enforced, I don't think the site would be nearly as useful. Doesn't mean that the people with closed questions are bad, or the conversation can't be had in chat or a different site.

> Can this descend into a flamewar? Absolutely. But just kill the flamewars and the people who start them.

Meanwhile the strong contributors get tired of dealing with (even more) toxicity and move on, the signal:noise ratio drops, and it turns into just another (ostensibly) programming-focused forum. Not to mention that the more time mods spend dealing with toxic behavior, the less time they have for work that improves the content of the site.
Depending on what you want to build and how many people will contribute, the answer might vary. HTML/CSS/JS can be enough, but mostly you will need to handle streamlining browser differences etc. explicitly. Frameworks are popular because they can help to streamline these issues. Also there is mostly an eco-system built around these frameworks, so you don't have to build every component from scratch for example. From a business perspective it's easier to say we're hiring for this specific framework (React, Vue etc). vs. we have our own rules and styles. Finally these frameworks also have a social function. It's like a style or taste preference, where a group shares the same preferences.
The book not so much (despite its initial critical acclaim on continuing commercial success), but at least his research summarized within seems to be reproducible and his reputation is intact. The research on priming in particular, was reliant on low sample size studies, and was not reproducible.
The government could curb any behavior it wants with taxes and removing subsidies. Raise the price on gas, and the market will respond with EVs. If the tax on cigarettes were $50 then smoking would likely end immediately; I suppose a black market could emerge though.
I agree, but also you really need regulation with teeth around what is a carbon credit. The voluntary market for carbon offsets is pretty sketchy right now.

Cheap energy doesn't need to come from fusion, wind and solar are getting quite cheap, I suspect it'll take a loong time for fusion to get as cheap even after it's wall plug positive.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

28 - 37 $/MWh for solar
26 - 50 $/MWh for wind

This includes the maintenance and operating costs.

Their estimate for maintenance costs of a pre-existing nuclear plant is 29 $/MWh. That means there are cases where it'd make financial sense to shutter a pre-existing plant to build a new solar array (obviously not all cases, the generation profile of nuclear is very nice for base load)

Fusion is 10 years away from being able to generate more energy than it consumes, how far away is it from being able to be cost competitive with solar & wind?
So he can't work on the product for the full week as per the article.

What about looking internally about tools, techniques and approaches that can help him accelerate the team. It is outside of the product.

From what I have seen of hyper productive employees, there are two types:

The self aware junkie - they know why, how and what to do. You can ask them, and they will tell you. People won't necessarily agree or understand why it works, but they know. This ability to externalize and communicate allows for step function improvements in the org. IF the team is willing to try new things.

The naive "I dunno" - this is much harder, they do what they do, but they don't know how they do it. in this case you just need to fill up the hopper with more work.

Of course there are risks here, the velocity my end up making the system "their system" capturing their ideas, conceptualization, etc. If they have a great bar in communication (documents, diagrams, etc) then that can work quite well. But the risk is that people may not understand what it is they are working on in the end (see Tao of Rodney in Stargate Atlantis).

But ultimately this is between the engineer and their manager. They need to work it out. The engineer needs to work out what they really want, and the manager needs to work out how to provide.
It is being actively maintained. More important, IMHO, would be if they ( I think it is Chris Hanson these days) would greatly improve some of the documentation. For quite a few things you need to read source code. There is not much for beginners to get started with IMO.
Also I think there was a way how some guy got it to work on the M1 Apple. It may have been through a VM however, IDK.
As for edwin, I was under the impression that one was left behind years ago. Not sure if it is good enough for what you need (I never used edwin so I don't know at all) but there is Geiser.
But I also kinda of agree, compared to other implementations, MIT Scheme seems to have lost some steam.
Chicken and Guile for example seem more practical and accessible.
Maybe they found it was hopeless...
But I thought R's hated government handouts
I mean, yes, sunburn is excess ultraviolet radiation, but there are lots of other (more severe) forms and it’s pretty straightforward to understand they mean “excess [beyond the type experienced in the comparison populations, namely, the general population, who tend to experience minor exposure to excessive ultraviolet radiation, aka sunburn].”

This isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is.
I went with our cat for a USG. I held her while the vet examined her. Suddenly I felt some vibrations in her throat (didn't hear purring) and alerted the vet to it. He said that it's probably a quiet purr, cats often do that when getting examined and it's probably to self-soothe.
My impression reading the question is it's a low-tier outsourcing company. (Work is billed by the hour, only for approved tasks, code has to be auditing/approved by an external party).

But e.g. considering "setup a packaging solution in days, when it wasn't done in a month" or "stuck for three weeks reviewing code which took two weeks to write" suggests either the star performer MUCH better than the others, or that he's more careless.

"working without really understanding what you're doing" is a good technique in many cases, though, rather than a criticism as-such.
pg. 401 has an interesting article on software by some guy named William Gates.
It was upvoted a lot.

It's kind of like the concept of a child prodigy: not every single one grows into something significant but performing well early gets you into spotlights.
What do you mean, "even Nature"? They have no incentive to downplay the omnipresence of microplastics
Reddit has been overrun with cleverly constructed fictional posts. Let's not let this happen with hacker news.
I've no love for mobile gaming, but the idea of payment platforms being encouraged to ban legal activities willy-nilly is a trend that scares me a lot more.
I got that too. And on desktop it just never loads, pretty strange.
It was worth $40k to the OP, but for Twitter it cost that multiplied by the number of engineers (minus OP).

That silence was worth a lot to Twitter.
some relevant bits:

"Wanted to try using noninvasive recordings of brain activity. And the goal was to build an AI system that can decode brain

Those datasets contain the brain recordings of 169 healthy volunteers, taken as they were listening to audiobooks in Dutch and English, over 150 hours worth.

After chopping up those hours into three second bits, they fed both the audiobook and brain recordings to the AI, which analyzed them to spot patterns.

our system performs what’s known as zero-shot classification

From there, the algorithm infers the words the person has most likely heard

AI was capable of getting the right word in the top ten 72.5% of the time when using three seconds of MEG data — hitting it first guess 44% of the time — and 19.1% for EEG data. "
Re >> From someone who has used React professionally but uses vanilla HTML/CSS/JS for his personal website"

What a refreshing perspective. My personal site is also vanilla HTML/CSS/JS on a self hosted server. I constantly catch flak from all of my software engineering friends for it too, and I'm a little burned out on it.

Edit: I'm a bit burned out on the flak and defending my position; not burned out on the approach :-)
parent has already essentially admitted that the answer is no. they asked "where is the cut-off?"
I had to get somewhat elaborate to keep the long-stem AirPods clean, with the Pros, it's really just getting the goo off them and the case. They seem impervious.
Seems like there'd be a lot of tension between that goal, and reducing energy use.
of course, hence "technically", or "I'm being a smartass, but"
Because leafing through ads for stuff in 1983 was the equivalent of googling for stuff today.
Plus, I may have downtime to dumpster dive for old tickets but my manager / peers usually don't. So try to I avoid creating PR work for others unless the ticket is relevant to the feature-being-developed or a one-line fix.
The current Mozilla might disappear but if it brings back the old Mozilla it can only be a good news
Check back after midterms.
I could imagine someone embedding something like this in a much larger URL, one that was full of many different characters, to make it look innocent.
I haven't worked much with financial teams, but the security teams I've worked with have absolutely helped build our products. They put practices & systems in place that made a golden path to getting software green-lit for production.
Ha, I expected it to be about SOAP the protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP but this seems to be more interesting.

I suppose if you have a Galactic Empire sized business, maybe something like SOAP (or EDI) to really nail things down makes some sense. Otherwise I'm not so sure.
Another way to ask the question is how small are your projects? How many engineering-years do you put in each of them?

If the cutoff is something like 10 years, what would your response be?
Oh, duh, don't need to rely on a generally-available remote friend. I disabled iMessage on my phone and send SMS to my partner while watching their phone. Had them respond. In both cases, sub-second delivery.

There is normally no delay for SMS messages for me. Again, I can text phones running Android just fine.
> Alexa was only the 32nd most popular name in the US for girls.

32nd most popular is not exactly obscure. Why did they have to give the computer a human name in the first place? Probably because it helps people form some sort of parasocial relationship to the product, which is gross, but probably good for business.
Anyone have a GDPR compliant link for this article?
Haha I'd go for the novelty value
Maybe you'd recognize the original domain, There Gister.co.uk?
only to poor people
Yeah, 30 year fixed mortgages are pretty common in the US. They're generally a bit higher than the equivalent variable rate.

And yes, they've been practically giving money away for so long that anybody needing a mortgage should have locked that rate in.

I suspect many didn't because at any given point, the variable rate loan will be cheaper. And with loan rates that low, re-financing would be a hassle without a clear short-term benefit. And that held up for well over a decade.

One saving grace: most variable mortgages are limited in how much they can go up (or down) in any year. So it will take a few years before they go up to their maximum potential rate. I'm not sure what mortgage rates will do between now and then. I'd love to see this as a temporary pendulum swing, but the "temporary" free money era lasted way long than I would ever have imagined.