skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's look at the 37.100 for Actual Damages from the VA pattern jury instructions*

"The probable effect on those who heard the statement" is ambiguous. Does it mean the effect on their opinion of the plaintiff? Or does it mean the effect on their actions?

Legally, I believe it's the first. The defendant can be held responsible for the probable effects of their defamatory false statements as far as inducing negative opinions in others regarding the plaintiff. But the defendant cannot be held responsible for some other nutjob, who is not an associate or employee or in some other relationship with the defendant, choosing to harass the plaintiff based on nothing more than defamatory false statements. There would have to be something in the statements that explicitly incited others to commit wrongful acts, instead of just inducing them to hold negative opinions. And, as I have said, in the Alex Jones case I have not found anything that alleges or attributes incitement on the part of Jones.

This is an instance of a more general legal principle that individuals are free agents and are presumed to be in control of their actions, so no third party can be legally responsible for what an individual chooses to do (in the absence of some legally recognized relationship such as principal-agent). Explicit incitement can go against that presumption, but simple false statements that could reasonably induce a negative opinion cannot.
Dogfooding can often be a good thing but not if your target customer is a very different type of business than your own.

For example, Stripe is a _very_ large company but their product is geared mostly towards small and medium size businesses.

It's very possible that in the process of making Stripe Billing work for Stripe, they'd make it work less well for their actual customers.

It's the same reason why Intuit probably doesn't use QuickBooks to do their accounting.
I'll rephrase: my suspicion is that there's a survivorship bias here. No-framework setups with poor architecture cause people to leave more often, while no-framework setups that work out are a pleasure to work with.
If we are not willing to enforce the restrictions to the point that they will be effective in carrying out their intended purpose, then there should be no such restrictions.

Three 911's is meaningless to compare because the response is so much different. A better comparison would be 0.2 bad flu seasons. Because no one ever wore a mask during a bad flu season, not to mention any of the actually relevant and economically damaging measures taken to stop covid.
Isn’t the correct comparison other ethics rules around conflicts of interest/gifting/etc for government officials? Upside on $15k through each merger transaction seems way out of line.
> Most of them don't get 'paid' by Disney in a traditional sense, but will get things like exclusive access to press events/rides, free upcoming products, or in the case with that flop of a star wars hotel a "free $7,000 hotel stay."

>All of which lets them technically say "I'm not paid by Disney, they just gave me this to show all of you!"

So they literally are not receiving any meaningful payments from Disney. A “$7000 hotel stay” you can’t even resell is worth very little compared to $ in bank.

Also, you forgot about Club 33. Those folks sometimes get better treatment than the regular passholes.
even better, it asks you to type a specific vim command before enabling it. Great "here there be dragons, are you a dragonslayer?" UX choice, and fun easter egg too ;)
Even a hundred dollars is enough to make people feel an irrational protective attachment to the company. Shit, even buying a company's product has been known to make people treat that company like part of their tribe. Insult Apple in another thread if you want to see a demonstration of this. Or insult the Harley Davidson company at a biker bar.
> Simply letting COVID run rampant may have done less economic damage because it’s vastly less deadly to working age populations, but we would have barbarically sacrificed a significant chunk of the population for little gain

Saved Medicare and SS spending.
Arctic-Fox: Web Browser for Mac OS X 10.6+, Windows XP, and PowerPC Linux
There's quite a few good Android Go and Xiaomi phones in that price segment.

As you might recall, when the first Moto G was released in that price segment, within of a year it became the most sold phone in several countries.

That's a massive market.

It's only the US, Scandinavia and Japan where upmarket Apple devices are so popular.
Perhaps because the framework is hiding the mess from you and you have no idea how it is accomplishing critical portions of your application.

Out of sight out of mind.
Email? “Massive outage” for Twilio would bring down a lot of products, they would have to be back up in minutes.
Storage Considerations for Photographers
A few years ago I hired a machinist on an O visa. He didn't even have a high school degree but years of specialization and experience. The package the lawyer assembled was pretty large to get over those kinds of hurdles.

We hired a bunch of machinists. This guy was worth his weight in gold and nobody ever asked "why did you bother to bring in someone from another country?"
What you’re saying is true, but not really related to the policy makers decision making process at the moment. If inflation were up 8.5% YoY but MoM was flat for the last three months, the tone of the conversation would be very different. The original July numbers were flat, and everyone was excited to predict the Fed pivot that would occur any day. If only…
Oh yeah. That's way more along the lines of what I was thinking. Very nice, thanks for the link!
you can most definitely use your mastodon account to log in to a peertube instance and post from there, no one is stopping you from doing that NOW...... if you have a mastodon/pleroma go and try it on a peertube instance.

don't know why people create multiple accounts, peeertube has had sign in from fediverse for a long time now
> “It is very clear what the agenda is, it is not a family-friendly event and the district is lying to our children and these are our children,“ home school parent Joleene Burts said.

Vs. a "traditional American" Halloween event - with kids dressed up as vampires, werewolves, zombies, Darth Vader, and various comic book super-villains - is considered family-friendly?
Works well for bulk operations where you're loading data in on a lower frequency.
> Why not? It feels like there's a movie made about them every other year.

Hmm, no? Aside from Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace there aren't many female computer scientists who are well known and shown to be exemplary. Historic figures and people you know firsthand impact much more than fictional characters.

> They also cannot go into politics, because ... women chancellors don't count, apparently.

Who said this? An important phenomenon is that we've seen a wave of increased female participation into politics and those figures have certainly helped young women find role models.
I concur with this post. Shaum’s outlines are no-nonsense supplements for any math course that isn’t proof-based.
>Let me guess, this teenager has a parent that is an established mathematician.

But wouldn't those teenagers have higher chance and assistance in studying higher math compared to peers? (Though being sole paper author is a bit strange.)
The sync part I solved with syncthing.

I started with logseq and now obsidian doesn't work for me anymore. Tried to switch but I am into this small self containing bits now.
Plus journal with timestamps
I never use it for regex, because when using CL, I tend to be authoring the regex from scratch. But I found it elegant and thought it might be useful to interpret someone else's hairy regex. But the reason I mentioned it, was because I thought it might be more useful to me for FORMAT... just because decades of Perl 5 taught me regex really well, but I don't get to use CL's FORMAT syntax every week. ;-)

Your further points are well taken.
Should You Have Kids?
That’s why SRE teams at companies I have been at always keep an IRC server hosted separately from all their other infra.
Right now we don't live in a world where such a bidding system exists, because it's a rather obscure (but interesting) idea. Even if people were widely aware of the details the political will to implement it probably doesn't exist.

But you seem to be arguing that if such a system were implemented the very structure of it would lead to a race to the bottom?

I don't see why that would be the case, if there's political reluctance to implement such a system to avoid certain outcomes, why wouldn't there be the same reluctance to raise the relevant taxes?

In any case, the book I cited upthread doesn't argue for some sort of "shock therapy" introduction of a system like this, but e.g. starting with commercial real estate.

Even people who'd argue that they should never have to sell their ancestral family home would probably find it hard to extent that argument to their neighbourhood Starbucks never having to accept a bid from a competing coffee company.
happens a lot even on twitch and youtube too. With this tool that shows small channels, there are a lot of channels with the same thumbnail and the channels would have gibberish channel names https://twitch-tools.rootonline.de/channel_previews.php?game...
Yeah I have no desire to build the next stripe, but if I could have a nice one person SAAS company that replaced my salary that would be the dream. However, it seems like the issue is if you do not keep scaling someone else will come along and do it at a larger scale to beat you on price forcing you out of business.
(I work on Stripe Billing). This is a question we raise fairly regularly internally at Stripe. The real, prosaic answer is because when we started working on Stripe Billing in 2017, Stripe had already built an internal billing system to bill its own customers. Stripe was 7 years old at that point.

At the time, we got lots of feedback from the folks who had built that system. Our goal was to build a flexible billing system for all kinds of companies at different sizes, but we were definitely focused on smaller (doing maybe $100k–$10M of ARR) SaaS companies to start. We've come a long way since then and now power billing for a number of large/public companies. Atlassian, Figma, Notion and Slack are either using or migrating onto Stripe Billing today.

Stripe Billing is a powerful tool with a role to play in any company's revenue management system, including Stripe's. Newer Stripe products (such as Atlas) do build on top of Stripe Billing but we haven't gotten around to migrating our existing stack. That said, I do have a personal goal of taking on more internal billing responsibilities over time (e.g. I think we could easily use Stripe Invoices internally today, and it's mostly opportunity cost keeping us from actually doing so).

I do want to say that the specific use case covered in the post is something we have thought about a lot. I think about it as a pipeline with stages for collecting high volumes of usage events, aggregating them, mapping them to rate cards based on usage, and then producing recurring bills, collecting payment, dunning, etc... The post claims we don’t do a good job on the first two stages (collecting usage events and aggregating them) is perhaps missing that the style of percentage-based fees is a one-line addition to a Connect integration as my colleague edwinwee mentioned below. It is also possible to have a scalable usage event collection/aggregation pipeline integrated with Stripe Billing. You can read this AWS blog post https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/building-a-third-party-saas... for information about how to build such a system according to our best practices.

While I’m here, I’m always eager to hear feedback on Stripe Billing from folks who are using it. My email is ark@stripe.com.
Really disagree that news outlets make it clear that they're talking about yoy inflation. You see headlines like "inflation hit x% in august" and then they're quoting the yearly numbers. If you don't already know that inflation is measured yearly that headline is completely misleading.

But the point of OP is that past inflation isn't what we should be worried about, future inflation is. Obviously the inflation we've had this year is unacceptable, but that doesn't mean inflation will continue to be unacceptable, and looking at recent monthly numbers is a better way to try to gauge future inflation than looking at yearly numbers.
People learn from mentors. Its not that surprising and doesn't neccesarily imply the parent did it. The parents probably did help by teaching them math.
It is a different product at this point. They are officially killing the desktop application suite known as Office and migrating everyone to their brand new 365 web portal.
If you look at the absolute carnage at school test scores it was not a good ROI. We sacrificed the well being of the young for the lives of the old.
- They're slow (like really slower than almost any other package, if you use their ModelSerializer)
- They're quite verbose
- Above all, they're trying to do way too much. A serializer should just be about (de)serialization, i.e. converting from a generic format (e.g. JSON) to / back a python object, with some validation. When you use a DRF serializer inside a view, it can do complex queries to retrieve / modify the model instance, save the instance in database, modify the serializer instance with db values (for example because of default values) and return the modified object in the HTTP response. All this logic should not be defined inside the serializer. Obviously you don't have to do it, but it means you cannot use the DRF mixins, nor the viewsets.

On the opposite, I'm in love with pydantic. Like any other package, it has issues, but it tries to solve a single problem, it's concise, validators are explicit and readable.

Obviously I don't mean any disrespect towards DRF maintainers, they're doing an impressive job, a lot of people use and love their work (and I still use it everyday)
Thanks.

I only have so much experience in management positions; but I have 16 years of work experience and 33 years of life experience. Those last two means I have decades of experience dealing with shitty people. I try to put it to use as best I can, even in this world that placates, coddles and basically all around serves them.
> that would entice someone to continue their time on TikTok?

a lot of people want to be simulated every moment of every day, so they need the constant hit of dopamine
I remember Xtree back in 1990. Oh boy, do I feel old. I still miss the lightning fast navigation using Xtree and NC afterwards. I used NC till the long filenames were an issue and though I know it supported it later on I just moved on to crappier trends. One recent trend is to completely disempower users by obscuring the file system away.
How has remote work changed the immigration industry? Do you see any evidence that more founders are choosing to work outside the USA, and if so - does that impact their fundraising?
both his parents are mathematicians and his uncle is a fields medal winner and his grandfather is a mathematician. I'm sure this kid is very intelligent, and i could even believe he solved most of the problem himself but in the end of the article stating "“He did all this without an undergraduate education,” Grantham said." made me roll my eyes.
> Again, you're completely missing the point of the comment you're replying to

Actually you and the GP are the ones missing my point by obsessing over a throwaway comment about this commit being over a year old. I was literally making zero conclusions from that observation. You guys are reading far far far too much into that comment. You seem to be projecting your annoyance about this change onto me as if I’m defending and supporting this change, yet literally nothing I’ve posted has supported that claim.

> average users don't pay attention to what's being staged upstream.

I’m going to assume that you skipped over my point about how any outrage will come from blog/Twitter/etc posts going viral.

This has already landed on some distros and most people, rightly or wrongly, went “meh”. If that last 30 years of the internet has taught me anything, it’s that people get outraged by posts, not by software. And the fact that youre arguing over a meta-point like when people will get annoyed, rather than discussing the technology itself, really just confirms my 3 decades of observations.

In fact the only reason we are discussing this now is because someone blogged about it and it hasn’t even hit the distro they’re using; they know about it because they read another news article who found out about it from the release notes posted on the mailing list and the authors then went back and checked the commits! Literally nothing in that chain of discovery was via experiencing the change itself in their chosen distros.

So to be clear:

I am NOT suggesting that the commit being > 1 year old means GNU have a free pass to make a breaking change. Any conclusion like that you derive from my posts are a misinterpretation and not worth arguing over.

Now, can we move on to more interesting things?
Well, Google?
Im not actually sure of your meaning.
His mother is also a mathematician, and his uncle is a Fields Medalist.

That said, I disagree with OP that this suggests his parents secretly did this work. Rather, it tells me that being surrounded by great mathematicians at a young age is going to foster success in those with raw talent much more effectively than, I dunno, attending some “gifted” program at a typical public school.
If you take the nicotine out of tobacco, nobody will smoke it.
If you take the sugar out of chocolate, nobody will eat it.
As a user of Terminal.Gui I appreciate that there is also solid mouse support. It serves my particular application well.
Ding, ding, ding.

I don't care what the government rules would have been, I wouldn't have been travelling/commuting to the office/going to the bar at any point in 2020. My employer would not have been organizing any in-person conferences.

Which would, without the PPP/unemployment stopgap, would have happily put most of the firms in the travel/hospitality/conference organization industry out of business, due to a temporary disruption.
A take home test is such an alternative. I have seen several companies offering either a technical challenge live or a take home test.
I'm quoting numbers from the BLS, no need to point me at the BLS.

The last two months of CPI were 0.2 and 0.4 respectively. (0.2 + 0.4) * 6 = 3.6, not 7. You accidentally put a factor of 2. (yes I know multiplying by 12 to go from month to year is an approximation, but it works well)
Looks great, thanks!

As for Orthodox File Managers, I'm in the same camp and I could never understand how people can be productive with bare Explorer window. Most operations of files and directories require more work (keystrokes/mouse movements) than in OFMs. Not to mention things like having a quick look into any text file, for example (F3-Esc) as opposed to double clicking - running an external viewer - closing it. Practically everything in OFMs can be done faster.
Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/208/

You're right about many people not being fluent in Regex. If you were fluent though, you wouldn't even need to use it that much anyway, so people don't learn it fully. They just Google for patterns that match their criteria.
(I'll answer that, since we originally wrote that title, not Peter.)

It's a fair point but AMA hasn't meant AMA for a long time, if it ever did.

I'm pretty sure that people would bring in about the same number of generic complaints / tangents as they usually do, regardless of whether AMA is in the title, so it seems like a red herring.
"and communities for the post-capitalist world"

Rule #37 of Doing Business: Don't use language that is vague and open to wildly different interpretations in your public advertising as to why people should use your product. Save that for the Terms of Service.
>Do you teach your grandmother to use WhatsApp so her birthday greetings won't be intercepted by the NSA?

Do you not?
You're quoting backward looking numbers, not forward looking ones which is the entire point of this post. If core went up 6% in january and 0 since then you could say the same thing, but no one would think it's a problem.
Over the past decade it's become really hard to hire someone on an H1 because they all seem to be snapped up in October. This was especially bad when I was on the board of a private foreign-language school because teachers look for new jobs in March-June, but I'm also looking for certain kinds of technical folks.

Fortunately, for most jobs I can start hiring them as remote workers. But that made me wonder: after they've worked remotely for some time could they then be brought in as an inter-company transfer? Or would H1 still be better for us and for them?
Getting 7 things when I ask for 6 is not a minor artefact!
Ask HN: How Do Pro's Diligence and Acquire Specific Email Lists?
My 19 year old son is launching a food startup that will appeal to Omaha Steaks, Goldbelly, Harry & David customers.
Truly appreciate any guidance on best-practice of acquiring email/phone lists of customers who've previously bought from them or equivalent.
I mean it sounds like he has already received the equivalent of an undergraduate education.
Interesting that one YC company publicly attacks another YC company. I thought there's at least some "family" vibes there, instead of bitching each other now.
> If the objective is to get cash into the pockets of workers, you can just give it to them directly, and they'll get 100% of it.

That objective was achieved by opening up the unemployment taps.

The objective of PPP was to prevent the destruction of half the businesses in the economy, which would have had knock-on-effects that would have taken years and decades to fully unravel.

Think of the bullwhip effect in supply chains that everyone's been bitching about for the past two years. Now, multiply it times ten, because half the participants in the economy collapsed, and their replacements have not gotten their shit together yet, and won't for another five years.

Businesses collapsing, and ~identical businesses re-opening next year destroys massive amounts of value. The value was in the human knowledge, connections, contracts, and relationships between them and their suppliers/customers. You lose all of that. PPP was a stop-gap measure to reduce the # of these losses.
I left the bay area. Too expensive, too homogeneous (male engineers everywhere), need a car for everything...

I moved to Europe and work remotely.
As somebody considering using a PEO -

How do PEOs impact both founder + employee immigration processes? (I'm assuming that having a different employer of record might have some consequences.) Would you advise startups to avoid a PEO if they intend to sponsor visas in the future for employees?
Microsoft’s HoloLens Left US Soldiers with Nausea, Headaches in Tes
As the old men say at the park, there comes a moment in every SaaS's life where you need to spend a year of a team's time just adding Zuora. They are dark days but hopefully life is better on the other side.
@paulg isn't it against YC guidelines to attack other YC companies?
Translate to what? The next likely string of characters? How would this executive even interact with it? Sibling comment of yours mentioned extracting low level steps from high level tasks but it needed another language model (no kidding!) to map to the «most likely» of the admissable actions. I mean, this shit is half baked even in theory.
If that's all it was this wouldn't be a story. This is specifically talking about individual stocks.

> Nearly one in four top FTC officials owned or traded individual stocks of tech companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp.
The mission control center for California's power grid
That changes your default shell, bash scripts (which should have the sheband `#!/usr/bin/env bash` will still get executed by bash normally.