skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely not my experience (or the experience of anyone I know) in the US. Debit cards don't ever involve a fee charged by your bank here. Businesses may charge a fixed fee for debit transactions, but that hasn't been common for probably a decade or more in my experience.

Free credit cards a bountiful and my estimation is that the vast majority of people using a credit card with a (usually annual) fee are doing so because they have done at least some math to convince themselves that the benefits (usually cashback or airline miles) will outweigh the fee for their specific usage.

In some localities, it is common for businesses to charge a fee for using plastic, but these days it's pretty much never tied to debit/credit anymore.
I have to get disagreeable at times -- not to 'achieve power', but to protect the things over which I already have power.

In organizations of sufficient size, if you run something important enough, everyone will have input - at the worst times.

No, I won't fundamentally change the design on a whim because of something you noticed.

I'll discuss it and work with you towards it, but I will not be strong-armed.

This has gone as far as me outright refusing to do things that reached executives -- being able to prevent them, because I/my team own the keys.
My personal experience is heightened awareness and even increased physical strength on mushrooms. Alcohol gets me dizzy, confused, and dumb. So comparatively, I'd be more concerned about someone taking advantage of me drunk than tripping.
That's exactly what the comment you're replying is saying though. You're talking about scalability which they say modules doesn't exactly solve.

And I do agree that most people need less of those than they think.
Same story from The Canadian Press, but not on a paywalled site:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ransomware-group-sick...
I am 100% in favor of any technology that allows us to stop emitting CO2 in a short time-frame, including nuclear. My reservation about the pro-nuclear (online) argument is that it always seems to be framed more as an excuse to "punch some hippies" than as a serious effort to calculate the cost of deploying nuclear at scale, let alone an effort to marshal political opinion to a state that would allow for any of it to happen.
You're assuming both people are working on the same thing. I'm assuming they're not.

You're also assuming there's only one task the developer could be working on. That's a very rare scenario.
I wouldn't assume that future versions are going to work the same way past versions did.
Because I don't make anywhere near enough money. I would if I could.
Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand
I'd use this every day in place of $JS-framework-of-the-day + HTML + CSS, alas...
I’ve never worked on indie desktop software, but I’ve heard the same story repeated here for over a decade by those who have:

Everyone wants buy once, updated forever software. But, they don’t want to pay for it. Usually they think a fair, up-front price is less than they’d pay month-to-month as a subscription for a year. And, then 80+% of them will only buy when there is a big sale cutting that price to a fraction. And, even when you have a good product at a good price, your sales plummet every time the crack for your DRM gets updated. So, you have to push frivolous updates that mainly exist to keep your DRM ahead of the crackers.

Buy once works great for consumers. And, has worked great for a handful of products. But, commercial desktop software has been an excessively difficult market for two decades now. That’s why it is a hollow shell of what it could be with the issues I listed above. That’s why we get so many web apps that would be better for consumers as desktop apps: can’t pirate a web app, subscribing to a web app feels justifiable.
This kind of hazard that helps legitimize criminality of risky health decisions (like drug consumption) is one of the major reasons why I am against taxpayer funded healthcare.
I'm sure this will have no long term side effects or risks! Is exercise + sound diet that difficult for people?
This is some nanny-state bullshit. You should not be able to impose your idea of 'culture of family and community' on others when there is overwhelming evidence that these substances are less harmful and addictive than other already legal drugs like alcohol and nicotine.
Various forms of checking invariants is applied in all kinds of "real life, professional programming" ranging from test suites to e.g. invariants checked by your database schema. Most code contains huge amounts of manually written invariants (every check to determine if a value is valid before e.g. setting an instance variable in a class is an attempt to maintain an invariant), and often it'd be a lot faster to get stuff to work with more comprehensive ability to enforce invariants - whether just during development or in production too.
I pay for "unlimited" hosting which includes Wordpress blogs. I hosted a couple blogs and always at the start of the year, I have the goal to write more but doing it consistently is hard. Anyone have any tips on that?
Controversy article, but digging deeper - especially the rants from CZ against competitors - it looks not so good, as for the whole industry. I bet crypto.com and / or Binance are the next and last one in this consolidation period.
We treat obese people (as is probably ethical) so we can as well treat all the other self-imposed conditions without counting the pennies.
Because of status quo bias, "do I need to create a 1 hour sync meeting for this" is a very different question than "should I cancel the 1 hour sync meeting for this". I'm generally on a very low meeting team, and I still have 2.5 hours a week of meetings that I don't expect would be recreated if some calendar glitch deleted them.
- don't need a new vehicle yet

- they won't hold my whole family
In real life, most software is a fragile unreliable timebomb waiting to ruin businesses and lives.
Depends what the goals of the movements are. Most feminist discussions I've seen acknowledge that "the partriarchy hurts men as well". So highlighting issues like being discriminated as a male single parent or stay-at-home dad would probably find support in feminist spaces: Dealing with them shares the same vision as feminism does, just from the perspective of men instead of women.

In contrast, many spaces that are branded as "men's rights" today seem to go for an entire different vision of society, which often looks like a cartoon version of the 50s (if consistent at all). If lots of men find themselves lonely, unfulfilled and unable to find a girlfriend, I think that is a serious issue, but the solution of the "men's rights" groups - that it's the women who have cut back their own goals and ambitions, just so some men they don't even know have a chance to have sex - seems pretty insane to me.

Also note, not all women are feminists either. There are plenty of women who have issues with men taking on traditionally feminine roles because they it violates their own conservative worldview. I believe that's where the "Karen" slur originated from.
Running shoes cost about $50-$100 for a decent pair and last for many months
I doubt they are separating the two enantiomers, that is very very hard to do. It seems much more likely that have a synthesis which is selective for one or the other.
Plumbers, at least on the East Coast, make good money. If one of my kids became a plumber I would have no problem with it. Do I WANT them to become a plumber? Not really. If school is just not interesting to them and they like working with their hands a trade isn't a bad way to go.
I mean there is obviously the more money component, but if the software continually receives updates every month then it's easier to justify it. The old photoshop model is difficult for most developers to pull off (having paid versions). Also it makes it challenging if you are say running a class, or doing YouTube tutorials and everyone is on various versions that might not have some of the new features.

I wonder if there is a happy medium where you can buy it, and then if a couple years later the software improves a bunch you can upgrade at a discounted price tiered to how many years it's been since you updated. I.E if it's 1 year is a 90% discount, 2 years a 80% discount, 3 years 70% discount etc. What do people think of this model?
I'm in an extremely weird, one-off position (a chain of interesting dependencies) where I am still on Python 2.7. Not sure when we'll be able to move to a newer version but it sounds like a lot of the growing pains have been dealt with. It should be interesting, most of my inputs are still in ASCII-land.

(I know someone who will pretend to know my situation better than I will advocate for some "solution;" no, it won't work in a way that won't break some of my priors)
There is no shortage of motors for boats nowadays. All kinds of jet engines or outboard motor units are available for purchase, each offering a unique set of benefits and uses.
At best that severs collaboration between India and the rest of the world when github isn't blocked.

And who would get to define "important"? Switch that word out with "approved" and you'd have a more accurate picture of what would be present.

One of the benefits (or perhaps "ideals" would be a better word) of open source is that all of it is available to everyone with no authority deciding who can access it.
I don't understand why some people feel the need to be so snarky in their summary messages:

> I'll bet this clown got paid to write this article and they did a poor job of it, too.

It's really turned me off from contributing. Years ago I got into a spat where someone didn't like something I added to an article and said my sources weren't valid since they were blog posts. I went and found a mainstream magazine article on the topic and they still balked - but eventually relented since they really didn't have a leg to stand on. They silently removed the addition a few months later. However, at that point I was over it and didn't care. The fact eventually made it back into the article a few years later when someone else added it in.
Why do we accept it for alcohol but not for food? If someone could invent a drug for avoiding alcohol consumption, why wouldn’t an alcoholic use it?
This is a fascinating question because we're in a transitionary period.

Like my mother, who is very much alive and still working, was 100% a victim of sexism: She was alive in and grew up in times where she couldn't have a credit card or mortgage, when jobs were sex-segregated, and wasn't allowed to go to college to be an engineer like her brother because she was raised to stay at home and pop out babies. (She bailed at 15 instead of conforming.)

On the other hand, that's very different from the experience of a woman born in 2003. They're both adult parts of society.

And that's without getting into the experiences of women in their 30s and 40s which, depending on where they grew up, could go either way.
Why anything?
The free updates don't last indefinitely, generally you still have to pay for "extended" support.
Who is the target audience for something like this? I'm not sure anybody is going to pay to have Apple's ToS simplified before clicking "agree". On the other hand, if you are squinting at a contract that actually matters, I don't think a service like this gives sufficient understanding of what all that legalese would actually mean if shit hits the fan. For example, changing the applicable law in a contract can yield wildly different interpretations without changing a word in the contract iself. This is why you should seek professional help when in doubt.

You say "The summaries are to help inform conversations with actual lawyers", but would a lawyer give a rats ass about a layman's interpretation of an AI-backed translation of a legal doc from a company who "does not guarantee that the stuff on the website is good or works"? IANAL but I don't think so.
> What if you want introduce some diagramming or Latex rendering in your blog ?

Then you are starting to step beyond what I was referring to as “a simple blog” (text, formatting, maybe some pictures or SVG).

Though there are options that don't require a CI/CD pipeline. Depending on what Latext you need MathJax may do the trick (just include the JS in your standard page header, and drop the Latex code straight in inline where needed as per their standard example: https://jsbin.com/?html,output. There are similar charting options like mermaid too. I don't know of inline charting options off the top of my head but I expect several exist.
So every nuclear capable nation on Earth is ruled by this fear cabal? What else can this powerful cabal do, end world hunger or colonize the moon?

If nuclear was everything it proponents claimed it to be, there would be at least one country on Earth going all in on them. Nuclear is useful in the power mix but it's value is way overstated. It is not an economical choice, if it was no amount of lobbying would stop them from being built. Coal usage did not decrease due to intense environment lobbying, but only when cheaper alternatives were available.
> The way it usually works, if 1 of your 100 modules needs to be scaled, it probably means the overall monolith only needs a small amount of extra resources, since that module is only using 1% of the total. So it's not like you need to double the instances of the whole thing.

I could be wrong but doesn't monolith usually refer to one really heavy app? As soon as you go from needing 1 instance to 2 (because 1 of the 100 inner "modules" needs to be scaled), I would guess most of the time there's a high expense (lots of memory) in duplicating the entire monolith? Unless you can scale threads or something instead of the entire process... Or if the entire process doesn't initiate 100 modules as soon as it is started (although I imagine it would in most cases)
Ah, the good old “communism would work perfectly but the Soviet Union was doing it all wrong” style argument.

Blind faith in an economic theory against all empirical evidence is a dead end.
This is a pretty intriguing contrarian view. I recall fielding many such inquiries during my Google days.

Of course, ideally every company (and organization) would offer fantastic customer service in every situation. In a world where that doesn't always happen, having an additional safety valve can be helpful for customers and companies alike.

If something is eye-catching enough that a newspaper would report on it, or it would get traction on HN or social media, that's worth the time to dig deeper and investigate what happened. Again, it's not the optimal way to triage issues, but it's better than ignoring outside feedback entirely.
Cloudflare's a pariah on the internet
I agree. That is why the cost isn't just economical.

We treat obese people while enacting laws to improve public health. Such as food quality laws.
> /r/twoxchromosomes

That is a sub in which nearly every post that rises to this a "my partner/male-acquaintence did x I'm shocked" and it's nothing but a pile on about how "bad men are". Even if not every post is male critical a lot of the positives seem to be shaping on behavior. It hasn't always been radicalized like that, nor has it been focused on that type of content.
> VSC isn't slow for me.

How big is your project? With Visual Assist X and our solution it can take me upwards of 30 seconds before I can do anything after opening the project.
In the UK you couldn't claim $400k through small-claims, it is limited to £10k. Is it that high in the US?

You also can't get 2x damages, or a fast process!
Agreed - ther is no reason for that not to be the case. It just is that in practice (and not as some essentialism of how organizations needs to structure things) that miroservices tend proliferate git-repos and modules tend to be part of monorepos. But, sure, there is no need for that to be the case. So given a world like that, the repo seperation is what enforces the friction for junior devs to submit changes across repos. With monorepos it is easier.
If the USPS ran like the DoD, the country would fall apart.

Government is capable of efficiency.
Thanks for the context. Sounds like he's being passive-aggressive towards the parties involved that required the test for some reason. Now it's not just weird, but comes across as oddly petty for someone that is an adult that's teaching a bunch of younger people. Not sure what it is, but the way the guy is operating is a big turn off in a lot of ways.
it wants it to work correctly, and it wants it to work fast. this is what all these "buzzwords" enable.
See and engage.
is this a common nomenclature/design? how does a monolith that makes IPC/RPC calls to submodules not basically microservices?
I personally don't take anything (other than maybe some over-the-counter painkillers when I've got a minor injury, or what doctors prescribe to me - just to quell the gotchas). I don't drink or smoke cigs, because of the obvious health defects that are associated with them. Drinking less so, but I am personally concerned about acquiring an addiction.

But if there was one thing I would consider trying, it's psychedelics. It can help you think outside the box, apparently has some link to treating depression, and they're not particularly addictive (other than an adrenaline junkie type of addiction, which can develop with anything).

Point being, I don't do anything of the sort. But it baffles me that people are incapable of allowing others to do things that they personally don't want to partake in.
And one time I tried to install MS Office on my OpenBSD server. Can you guess what happened?

Since then I only use Ed even though I prefer MS Office. What was your point again?
Tokyo has all of those things, and yet. Why do you think supply and demand do not exist in the housing market? Why is this the one market on earth where it won't ever work? If you have as many houses as jobs in the nearby area then it will be more affordable. That's just facts.

Further higher interest rates lead to lower house prices, to an extent (but only to the extent supply exceeds demand) because people buy houses based on monthly mortgage affordability.

People have looked into this. Here are the results. [1]

> The resultant high demand for housing, combined with the lack of supply, (caused by severe restrictions on the building of new housing units) caused dramatic increases in rents and extremely high housing prices.

I'm not saying you'll be able to live in SF for the cost of living in a shack in the corn belt, but there's no reason it'll be "unaffordable forever and there's nothing we can do about it" when that historically wasn't the case and there are other global counter-examples. And a ton of research was done on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage
This requires giving a random website a service account with 'Owner' permissions to your Search Console
Kindly visit the Men's Rights Movement wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement

Go through the issues in the second section and tell me what Andrew Tate's position was on any of them.

Spoiler alert: you can't. Tate was not an MRA, he was a pickup artist.

Male feminists also tend to find themselves in trouble, by the way. Michael Kimmel used to play the same game of lumping legitimate issues (suicide/education/family courts) in with incels upset they can't get laid. He had to retire after getting #MeToo'd, heh. Tiresome and predictable. Perhaps I should add a Google Alert for your name ;)
If you zoom out far enough, nothing is straightforward. I bet most people on this site would consider building a small-scale CRUD app straightforward, but if you ask them to start from pure silicon and a bit of metal nobody could pull it off.

Germany already operates about 40,000 km of natural gas pipeline. This was a 26km extension in a flat and rural/industrial area. There was no engineering challenge here that they hadn't already pulled off hundreds of times before.
Honestly, I just found Python 3 to introduce a whole bunch of complexity when working with text. Why can't it just be a byte buffer? Why must you complicate interacting with the OS so much? Text is just a buffer of mostly UTF-8 encoded bytes, why make it needlessly hard?
Humpty Dumpty is not an authority on the meaning of words.
But, I am trying to feel my way towards the idea that that was true when managers arranged systems for workers to follow, and then we came along to automate the current process. But if we have a system where the workers are the CPUs, then the people doing the managing are the coders.

The point ebing is that if workers are CPUs and coders are managers, then why worry about how the managers of the coders are arranged. Get rid of that management layer. Conway is not implying the financiers of the organisation affect the architecture.

This basically means that the microservices a company is built out of should more readily align to the realities of the business model. And instead of shuffling organisations around it would behove executives to look at the microservices.

One can more easily measure orders transferred, etc, if the boundaries are clearer.

Plus conway is just a ... neat idea, not a bound fate.

There is a caveat with the architecture reflecting the organisation of the software teams, but that usually follows the other to-be-automated structure as well.
This was my first thought as well, I was giggling throughout!
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I really wanted one, but its too impractical. There are no or very few charging stations where I live, it gets very cold here, and I often find I need to drive across the country driving through rural areas that have limited charging coverage. I dont think its really a tesla problem, but an ev problem. Right now ice cars seem more aligned with my needs.
I like this, in the sense that you're paying for more closed-loop usage. Look at e-waste or tire recycling fees. It makes sense to be responsible for the whole lifecycle—the end of an item's life is not necessarily "free" when you're done with it.

Sadly, that's likely not what's happening here—these butts probably all going to hit the landfill rather than have any usable recyclable life afterward. So really it's just ensuring they don't cause local pollution.
Reading between the lines, it looks like:
0. Stripe for some legal reason cannot explain in detail why some transaction is 'flagged'
1. The information Stripe asked for was not enough to reach a decision.
2. Stripe team members dont know how or what to communicate when they dont have a clear decision.
3. Customer is stuck in limbo.
> ChatGPT did exactly what it was told

Actually, I'd suggest it didn't. The prompt implies (but without explicitly stating) that she is the passenger (maybe even one of several) in the helicopter. You wouldn't say "in which only she survives" if she was alone. But the response has her piloting it, with no mention of others on board. I think this illustrates how ChatGPT doesn't really understand the text it is manipulating.
because FSD is a lie, and the cars have significant quality problems that must be addressed during inspection/pickup.
I'm not familiar with r/askafeminist (or any other part of Reddit, really), but from what I've seen, the mirror "equivalent" to MRAs more generally is radical feminism, or radfems.

For those who are unfamiliar, the basic tenet of radical feminism is that the source of women's oppression is the patriarchy (OK so far, if reductionist), which is run by and for men (broadly true), and thus men are all inherently bad (whoops that's where they lose me).

In many cases, it's an ideology that ends up repeating many of the aspects of Christian fundamentalist patriarchy, just from a different angle: men and women are fundamentally different; biology dictates your role in society; etc.