skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently learned about the concept of the "Lead Dad" which is when the father is the chief caregiver. There are a handful of groups that try to connect these fathers (1).

A big part of their emerging agenda is to get corporations and schools to recognize that the father is actually the point of contact and to destigmatize the dad who pauses or leaves his career to raise the kids.

1. https://thecompanyofdads.com
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Is having a spike of sales on Cyber Monday such an unusual situation? How many Stripe accounts get locked on Cyber Monday, Black Friday...?
It's one thing to say that about very young men, and quite another who followed society's and especially goverment's pushing and funding of higher and higher education. Only later do they find out that their crazy study hours were largely wasted, and they'd have done much better in a trade. They were led astray.

It would be better for people to be integrated into the workforce _during_ their education, to ensure that it stays relevant and to keep the movtivation. This idea of education as a kind of social enlightenment is an elite luxury, and makes people more miserable and regretful and unemployable.
“let’s go leaf!”
I would need to see a side-by-side comparison of 10x and vs code performing equivalent tasks in a large codebase before investing time and money in this tool.
The bloat from the exception tables isn't really ideal, but it is the tradeoff of allowing for exceptions to be zero cost in the non-exceptional cases.

I'm not sure RTTI for exceptions is such a big deal.

I'm guessing you are referring instead to the the fact that exception catching needs pull in most of the dynamic casting machinery in many cases, since exception hierarchies at least in theory can have multiple inheritance, virtual inheritance, and other complications, which means that not only is determining if a specific exception thrown is compatible with a given catch clause non-trivial at runtime, but even once determined, the cast may be non-trivial, not to mention the possibility of catching by value needing to invoke a copy constructor.

If a language catches by type, some form of run time type indication in the exception object is fundamentally needed if the language allows throwing an exception whose concrete type is not known at initial throw time. C++ is such a language, as you can throw an exception that was allocated elsewhere, and which you received via a pointer to a non-final class.

In a language where the concrete type is always known at initial exception throw time, then the stack unwinding code could conceptually simply identify any catch blocks that would apply from data in the exception tables because all superclasses are statically known. And it could pregenerate code for any possible upcasting or copy construction needed, so no dynamic casting machinery would be needed.

(But many other static languages with exceptions only allow single inheritance, don't allow catching by interface, and only allow catching by reference, so no fancy copying or upcasting code is needed. Almost all of them do allow throwing without knowing the concrete type, so they need some form of RTTI data nevertheless.)
Could it be that robberies have moved to online scams? This is probably physically safer for thieves and opens up more possibilities not limited by physical proximity.
You've got a point. I was mostly thinking about the "copy-pasting into the REPL" argument, which is a problem unique to executable code, at least in my experience.
The maintenance cost is a debt that must be paid by all means. and microservices may be the cleanest solution if there are teams that develop businesses completely independent of each other.
In which countries is it genuinely difficult to switch banks?
I've worked extensively in both. Both are complex. Games typically have a complexity that requires more careful thinking at the microscopic level (we must do all this game state stuff within 16ms). Web service complexity requires careful thinking about overall systems architecture (we must be able to bring up 10x normal capacity during user surges while avoiding cost overruns). The solutions to these problems overlap in some ways, but are mostly rather different.
So much the worse for social activism then.
Because the trustless nature of crypto is present only at the protocol layer of crypto. The application layer, which is what basically all non institutional users of crypto interact with, isn't trustless at all.

But also we should remember that pretty much every bank in the US would have FTXed it's customers money in 2008 if the government hadn't bailed them out.
That's what I said, I think?

> They just sell crypto on behalf of the merchant and send them the actual money.

Did I misunderstand? If so, my bad.

[edit] BitPay is actually fascinating because they publish their merchant breakdown, or at least they used to. It's overwhelmingly all prepaid gift cards, "internet" and VPN. And the share has shifted more and more towards prepaid gift cards. [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142527/bitpay-payments-...
I didn't downvote but it is a low effort question, that may be why.
Try to open a large text file in VS Code and watch it grind to a halt. While VS Code offers a buffet of features that are cool and convenient it has a lot of problems.
'Per child' doesn't seem significant as the average family has 2 kids max. Moving costs, rent and mortgage amounts would be interesting to compare the $7500 against.
Shopify is a highly dysfunctional company when it comes to management. What you are hoping for in your comment is the command control style model where you have very highly independent teams that own their area and can move without outside interference (though note that this childish no meetings thing would still negatively affect the ability for even small efficient teams to coordinate well).

However, from what I can tell shopify has the opposite of a command and control culture. They believe "everyone is an owner" which is another way of saying that no one is an owner. The result is that dozens of people need to approve every little change because there is no clear ownership structure and you can't just tell an adjacent team's manager to buzz off. In addition to getting sign off from adjacent teams, you need approval from your manager, their manager, the manager after that, all the way up the chain often to Toby himself.

Everyone is afraid of being shit on from the level above that they all need to review. This behaviour is explicitly encouraged. In the end you get a bureaucratic and political nightmare where everything is designed and developed according to the loudest consensus opinion.

Making things even worse, making data-based decisions is explicitly discouraged, I guess because it makes things more difficult for the loud opinions of main product drivers.
Doesn't seem to me that this would work. Most of the HN audience will not go to the Complaints tab, so the forces of social shaming wouldn't work. The marketing dept only cares about complaints that affect the company's reputation.
"GPT skills", I'm assured our jobs are saved now, but what if GPT learns GPT skills of GPT skills of... /s
I used to tell kids to go to college, and was unhappy if they did not go. Now I tell them they need a career. You need a skill people will pay for, or your life will suck. I'm in IT and most of skills come from a 2 year local degree, so it's college, but. It was very skills based. It was a career. Tell kids to get a career.
I think it's actually more excusable in recent scripts as Python 2.7 has been deprecated and unsupported for ages now.

You won't know what version of Python 3 you're getting, but at this point it's safe to assume you're getting a version of Python 3 when you call python.

Only old scripts written when Python 2 and 3 were maintained separately should've ever had this problem, but we're past that point now.
On the contrary, it is my certainty that there are bad people in every area of life that causes me to prefer the system with checks and balances and laws and enforcers and insurance, all of which help to protect me from those bad people.

"don't have an inch of skepticism" seems to better describe the collective from whom more than $4 billion was stolen this year without recourse than those who did or didn't fall prey to traditional banking fraud with consumer protections in place.
You'd think so, but an array of regulations makes that increasingly difficult. Fixing your own house or car can put you in legal hot water.
They introduced Facebook Workplace today, as well, for “async things”. Public slack channels now have a membership cap. All the “social channels” have limited posting permissions and people were mass-removed from other work channels. Slack is supposed to be just for DMs, I guess.

I guess I’m not entirely mad, Slack has a lot of downsides. But feels like they only half-assed solving for that set of problems.
<< A lot is put into the idea that adults need to be part of the economic productivity cycle or you're failing.

Yes and no, I think. I agree in abstract, because I am sure it is a factor, but I will give my personal anecdata. Covid was a stroke of good luck for me, because I effectively was able to be a father and work from home at the same time ( 1st year kid - and she slept on a tight schedule ). And I will admit it was incredibly fulfilling ( albeit tiring ).

We are a dual income household and above average in terms of income for our state and I honestly do not feel comfortable enough to let her stay home full time ( which is part of the reason for my goals for 2023 are more aggressive in terms of learning and moving my skill set to the next level ). Even by myself, we are above average and I still think it is not enough to keep the current level of comforts ( and I have no idea how other people manage ).

<< 2) We have an idea that women can do anything men can. That women can step into traditional mens spaces. But, the opposite isn't true. That men can step into traditional womens spaces. It's a double standard. It's not said but it's thought. Even when people don't realize it.

Again, I think yes and no. Are there MMA fighters? Yeah, and some good ones too, but as my cousin recently said: "Do I want my daughter to be a plumber? No."
But that’s implied in the question. Right? I don’t think I’d answer any differently?
I've been using this fulltime for a few months so I can provide some perspective from real-world experience:

Firstly, on speed, I really recommend giving it a try. There's things like launch time / time to syntax highlighting which are nice to have and make it a joy to use but then there's things like instant 'Find References' and workspace search that I think contribute to a qualitative difference to the way I work - I simply would not use these features as much or in the same way if they took seconds (as they do in VS).

Seen some discussion comparing to things like Sublime - 10x understands c++ code much much better than sublime and that's crucial for making some of its best features like 'Rename' and 'Find references' work so well.

The other thing I think is worth mentioning is just how active and responsive the developer is. Bug-fixes and improvements often get implemented within hours of reporting. As an example, I've always been annoyed by how impossible it is to make VS do 'tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment' - after a brief discussion, this got sorted in 10x quickly. I think that's a serious advantage over Visual Studio, that often has annoying issues/bugs languishing for literally years.
> This statement about what is "good for society" can't be evaluated by statistics or metrics

I'd beg to differ. One can think up any number of metrics that would be inarguably good for society. Reduction in suicide would be a huge one. Reduced crime rate. Reduced addiction rate. Increase in lifespan. Increase in standard of living. Reduction of domestic violence. There are many more dimensions you could measure, establishing direct causation is the tricky part but it is certainly possible to establish if the state of society in general is improving.
The reason it take a Twitter referral is that the phone reps usually are “subcontractors” that aren’t allowed to do anything. There’s a good chance they have to meet absurd metrics in order not to get fired.

This linked article explains why in many cases a companies phone support can’t do much and is also mistreated.

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service...
Unless there is infrastructure in place good luck replicating those dropped requests as services are replaced.

Infrastructure that someone has to take care of.
Not addiction or deaths but long term psychological problems. Surely there are companies lobbying...

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/03/us-dru...
Validation doesn't necessarily mean view count though - consider citations/WebMention or whatever - a thoughtful post referencing, disputing, discussing your own is surely worth some quite large number of views, in terms of validation.
> Also, filenames and directories tree act as metadata to help create a mental map of the application

Correct. But this is an argument against splitting: once your folder structure reflects your mental model, you should no longer split, no matter how big individual files get. Splitting further will cause you to deviate from your mental model.

Also, it seems like we're arguing against a strawman: saying "big files are okay" is not the same as "you should only have big files". When people mean is that having a big file does not provide enough justification to split it. But it is still a signal.
I actively dislike the subscription model as well and it's permeating into software products unfortunately.

With this said I actually like Jetbrains' model where you pay something like a subscription but after 12 installments you get to keep the version you've paid for, even if you discontinue the subscription. If you prefer you can pay the full price upfront and you get the same result.
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You nailed what I find discomforting about these discussions. They’re incredibly narrowly focused on a specific implementation that satisfies hitherto unsolved problems by pointing out its doesn’t do already solved problems. But surely folks realize the human brain isn’t a single monolithic processing program but an ensemble of specialized subsystems that organize to form the mind. Why would you assume you wouldn’t do the same with AI systems? We’ve been tackling reasoning, inference, problem solving, information retrieval, mathematics, logic, and other domains for decades with some stupendous results. But they lacked the ability to ingest and translate language into some intermediate semantic form and take output and reconstruct it into a human language. Likewise vision, and audio processing and input output has been a struggle until recently.

I also really strongly disagree that it’s basically doing some sort of information retrieval design where based on language it regurgitates some sort of markov expectations. You can ask it to do very complex translations of a concept from one domain to another and expressed in a form that’s certainly never been done before and it does it with alacrity. At the very minimum it “remembers” things from the past in the conversation and can associate the semantic ideas across prompts and synthesize cogent responses - that in itself implies it has some semantic “understanding” of the structure of the language. That is a huge missing piece in our tool kit to date.

Frankly I feel these threads expose just how jaded and unable to dream we have become, that even when a wonder walks up and hits you in the nose we can’t even see it.
There’s obviously a super complex web of things involved, but I personally think that the nature of the post-2008 economic recovery (in the US) has had an impact on this at a societal level.

I think people perceive that the opportunity to have a comfortable life doing a “regular job” is slipping away in favor of an upper middle class of professionals who enjoy stability, and an enlarged sub-middle class who are finding the traditional trappings of middle class stability hard to come by.

This widening class gap leaves many realizing that lifestyle improvements will require a significant step change, not just a bit more effort. So we see people gambling. Someone might be working hard and saving all they can and still only have $5k in savings. They look at the price of houses doubling and realize they’d need to save for another 50 years at this rate just for a down payment, so they say fuck it and buy some call options and NFTs instead.
They are not legal profits. And what they are doing in getting creative is pretty much vanilla money laundering. But to enforce the law would just invite the more violent cartels to do it instead.

The whole system of a patchwork of half-measures is really insanity in the face of the simplicity of just de-scheduling cannabis.
I didn't really read the details of the secret key, but what happens if you lose your device that was storing it?
Let's face it: Customer support is viewed as a cost center.

Until there is some negative financial consequence associated with inadequate customer support, there will be no improvement, so plan accordingly.
Forecast for the Bay Area & Monterey has the storm starting to roll in at midnight tonight, so there's relatively little time to get out if you're planning a long road trip out of the storm's influence. Unless OP is hitting the road right about now I would recommend staying put.
I am curious about side effects, especially long term IQ changes.
I envy your experiences. I personally have had the opposite experience. It’s important to remember that your personal experience may not be the same as others. As this movement is very popular in the general public, my guess is many others have had bad experiences with trying to repair their device (i.e. $500+ for a simple repair from the manufacturer).

I personally don’t care for Louis and he may be a jerk as you suggested, but I try to look at ideas instead of people. Some really bad people have had good ideas. If you follow ideas instead of people, it’s not an issue if you agree with someone on one topic and disagree with almost everything else they have said.
I didn't mean a team of hundreds maintaining the product concurrently, but over its long lifetime. A rather average codebase lifetime for server software is 15-20 years. The kind of codebase that Carmack has experience with has a lifetime of about five years, after which it is often abandoned or drastically overhauled, and it's not like games have an exceptional quality or that their developers report an exceptionally good experience that other domains would do well to replicate what games do. So if I were a game developer I would definitely be interested in Carmack's experience -- he's a leading expert on computer graphics (and some low-level optimisation) and has significant domain expertise in games, but he hasn't demonstrated some unique know-how in maintaining a very large and constantly evolving codebase over many years. Others have more experience than him in domains that are more relevant to the ones discussed here.
It's obvious Stripe doesn't have any alerts or observability to catch situations like this, when customers are in this obviously bad state.

Hopefully they fix this and add the proper metrics so that this can be caught and handled by customer support before it turns into a problem.
> Primarily used for illicit goods and services

This is the only actual use case. And it’s not a great look.
Crypto solves none of those problems because those are social and political problems. You can not free your self from oppression by changing the brand on the boot.
Asking for a feedback to the #startup community, #entrepreneurs and #techfounders:

We are seeing a massive number of users signing up every day, and in the last few months, seeing 30-40% MoM new users on Speak Ai. They are also adding their card details and subscribing to a plan.

Questions are:

1. In your experience with your product, how did you increase the conversion rate when you saw a massive number of new users signing up daily?

2. Anything you would try differently when you had this opportunity in the past?

Feel encouraged to share your success or failure stories so that others learn as well - I appreciate your feedback in advance.

P.S: I do know in theory, but if you have done something pragmatically - I am more inclined towards learning from it.

#founders #tech #community #learning #experience #startup #startupcommunity #opportunity #ai #entrepreneur
Even Starship's exact payload capability isn't set in stone just yet (the stated numbers are targets requiring optimization of the design beyond what the current prototypes have), nor is the amount of refueling needed. Even the fuel transfer system hasn't been concretely settled on yet. While they are working on catching, there isn't enough certainty on its reliability (particularly for the ships).

Hell, as it stands it isn't even clear if initial vehicles will need auxiliary thrusters to avoid digging up a hole upon landing. Even NASA seems to be uncertain about that one.

So yes, it is ridiculous to argue that they aren't serious about setting up a colony based on what they're doing right now.

Beyond that though, they're working on the spacesuits (granted, they're so early into that they're nowhere near ones usable on Mars) and they have demonstrated the ability to perform some amount of important maintenance on the Starship vehicles without needing machinery that isn't easy to bring along.
As I can’t find the book or the data it references, can someone more knowledgeable comment on the validity (and interpretation) of the data?
It's now owned by VISA. :(
Same here, I've learned to check. I really should have explicitly pointed out who, so it was less blown off. Almost came back and did so. And yes, why HN is great.
It's more similar than people want to think. I suspect that when all the dust settles, the FTX collapse will look something like the MF Global collapse. And in 2008, the only difference in the outcome of your checking account to the outcome of an FTX customer is that in the former case, the government bailed the bank out.
Maybe it should be the opposite where Support Tickets make the post public to social media like Venmo does with their transactions.
I can't say I've encountered a reason for it not to be used in production.
We keep regurgitating this, because most microservices are the 2nd coming of big data that fits into a USB stick.
> the minority that historically was doing the oppressing?

Is it so difficult to realize those oppressors are dead and these men weren’t alive in 1920?
This seems odd to me, given that he looks (from the outside at least) to be one of the most ambitious CEO's around. E.g. Building a fulfilment network to compete with Amazon.
Nowadays digital stores sell you the privilege to get access to said content, you own shit.

Making virtually unlimited profit on a limited initial amount of time, labour, costs is what's evil here. "X number of years" argument will never solve it (the shorter the worst the hype push will get).

Should be capped by a function of said time, labour invested plus costs and allowed profit adjusted for inflation.

I don't care how much one thinks he deserves to milk such work/invention. Look at what Nikola Tesla gave us and what he got in return.
1 microservice. It's up to the software engineer to scope out the microservices properly.
First guess only shows the top line match. Second guess shows the two top lines match. And so it goes.
She states that the "single number" is a "very conservative" estimate, in part because it's very difficult to track some of the "radically transparent" obfuscation in the cryptocurrency world.

In addition, being able to state that X worth of cryptocurrency disappeared into a tumbler or mixer isn't particularly transparent, either.
OP claims it’s SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything.