skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this as a cultural difference between "self-improvement" type engineers, and "dark matter" type engineers.

Self improvers are the ones reading Hacker News, going to conferences, and generally trying to hone their skill.

Dark matter developers are a class I've shamelessly stolen from https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un... - which is definitely worth a read for the context, but the gist is that they're in this as a 9-to-5.

The trouble comes where the two groups meet. We can all learn about how to ask better questions and more generally improve our communication skills, but it's vastly more difficult to _make someone care_ to do so. We've all seen and empathized with https://www.nohello.com/, but if you link it to a dark matter coworker who behaves exactly this way, chances are they will see it as an attack, not as a recommendation - and that attack reflects poorly on you, rather than on them.
Except the complexity wasn't created for the sake of creating complexity - it exists for a reason. You can go the simple route if you happen to be brand new to virtual infrastructure management. The problem is you're going to quickly outgrow your solution and then what? Besides, if you want simple you can go with Wix, Wordpress, or Digital Ocean.
> I tend to like the idea of a regular reset to cancel all those meetings and then add them back as needed.

I also approve of this kind of house-cleaning. Calendars, like any other storage device, get a lot of built-up cruft too. Mine have even had some absurdly long-interval meetings with people no longer with the company.

But I think that Shopify took it a bit too far by banning them all going forward as well.
They didn't become the richest companies in the world by selling software without a subscription, they did it by illegally suppressing competition without any repercussions (among other things)
Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Judge to Keep His Bail Guarantors Secret
> I'm still laughing at his hot LCD displays mounted directly below the thermostats in each room

I caved and watched - as this triggered my interest. It was actually worse than I expected. They really have 'designed' the system to be broken, and they were just pretending they couldnt figure out how to make it work, and had been sat in a freezing house for weeks ... right?
The tail end of your post takes away from otherwise valid points IMO.
Never heard of such feature.

Could you tell how to set this up in say VSCode or IntelliJ?

AFAIK it works only one way: You can format tabs with an arbitrary number of spaces. But you can't render spaces with anything else than spaces. How should this even work? You would need semantic code analysis to make it happen…
While it won't be a good lawyer, it can replace lots of bad lawyers when people just want to send some legal papers or ask some legal advice.
I'm still confused why vacuum tube trains still make news. 300kph TGV trains that operate without the massive overhead of manitaining a vacuum across a massive pipe would be more than capable of eliminating any need to fly/drive between Edmondton/Red Deer/Calgary for most simple trips.

The idea that making the train faster is worth 10x-ing the cost of operation, and thus lowering the effective thruput since less trips can be made, isn't exactly smart. I'd much rather have the trip take 2hrs and I can show up at the station whenever because a train leaves every 45min, vs a 1hr trip where I have to show up at the precise time to catch my train since they only run 3 trains a day.

You're not just competing with the top speed of a plane, you're also competing with how annoying the entire airline experience is. (Trips are booked in advance, show up at airport 1hr before flight to get thru security, airport is 45min out of downtown on BOTH ends of your trip)
There are some men's right subreddits that do not have allow the self-pity but they do not make it to the front page. I will not share specific subreddits for the sanity of the moderators but they are out there that focus on men's mental health specifically.

Toxic Masculinity is men on men hate.
> be more of a destabilising black-eye for Russia than a slow-burn demographic time-bomb?

In this situation you can't get rid of all the stale weapons, can't have a hundreds of new weapon contracts and can't have a perfect opportunity to sell LNG.

> At the very least so the the EU could go back to buying gas and oil from Russia.

This is not in the interests of one NATO country.

That wasn't a masterplan, but it's a result of decades of meddling in the politics of all states on Russian border. Yep, there was a disastrous blunder which allowed to the current situation to develop, but always remember what Soviets were 10 feet tall.
Yes, federal vs. state. For example, many early dispensary owners - after wading through mountains of red tape, paying license fees, getting inspected, etc - had to get "creative" with their accounting and investment strategies, as the legal profits their business generated cannot be deposited into (federally monitored) bank accounts. It doesn't make much sense and seems to be arbitrarily enforced.
The is also Mollie [0] if you're in Europe. It's more comparable to Stripe than Adyen if you're just accepting payments in my experience.

[0] https://mollie.com
Have we ever seen a complaint for Pinboard?
This is perfect if we optimize for short-term value gains. Less so if we're looking for something long-term.

Also, I remember a similar anecdote about an executive who gave his assistant two weeks off, took their responsibilities himself, and concluded he didn't need their services anymore.
Unspecified in all of this is: Society at large needs less labor to function.

What happens when all of the production is automated to the point we don't NEED 'Men to work'?

What do we do with them? What mischief do they get into when they have idle hands?
In the case of finance, anti-money laundering laws triump GDPR.

If you as a financial institution suspect money laundering by your client i.e. a spike in transaction volume, you as a financial institution have an unlimited time to not to reply, can freeze the assets and cannot be held responsible for any inconvenience. Even suspecting money laundering is enough, you do not need to have an evidence. In fact it is opposite and it is a criminal offensive to tip off anyone about AML issues. The law is very one sided.

https://www.mondaq.com/cyprus/privacy-protection/1008074/gdp...
> What if you don't want to go through an exchange?

You don't need an exchange to take payments, but you will need to trade the currency into fiat at one point, either through an exchange or an OTC trade.
posters in this thread believe that there are obviously really bad people using and working with crypto currencies.

these same posters, however, don't have an inch of skepticism that there could be equally bad people sitting in powerful western financial institutions.
I really like this, especially when overlapping/doubling as a social happy hour. A former company did something similar, I always enjoyed seeing what other parts of the company were up to.
I'd really love to get more insight into the Dec 30 -> Jan 3 time frame, since that's where everything meaningful happened... From the outside it's hard to tell WHY the lower level employees are completely incapable of driving a resolution, whether they're underpaid and apathetic, or if management has crippled them from making any decisions on their own. It's amazing that they don't have better processes in place after seeing HN escalation posts for years on end.
Sounds like anti-histamines are a good mechanism to stop drinking!
> I'm talking about preferring to never do a voice/video call.

That would drive me crazy.

I think you'll have to accept that somethings have to be face to face. And some companies prefer to do things that way.

I guess you adapt or go to a company that can guarantee you'll never have to speak to someone at all.

But face to face is the oldest form of human interaction. Its going to be hard to get along in the real world if you really don't like it.

I'm trying to imagine how you'd do something like a lay off over chat or an interview or a performance review? That just seems like living life on the hardest possible mode.
Public shaming and social media managers are probably more flexible than customer support, if it even exists, (i.e. they can forward a complaint to the right people).

I'm sure there is a solution to better solve these 'problems' that pop up but not something high on the list for most places to pursue.
I play in incognito mode, and I barely watch my rating. I mean, I know that "I'm somewhere in 1750" or "1850", but I'm not trying to get high rating.

I just play when I eat and I don't care THAT much.

The thing is that if I'm in a bad mood (I take antidepressants so to speak), then I don't focus, don't care much, blunt a lot and so on.

But there are periods when I'm in good mood (hopefully I don't have bipolar disorder), and I'm still eating and playing in the same manner except that I focus more and tell myself that I'll destroy the opponent
> So what are they doing instead? How are they surviving?

Government handouts, but especially undocumented "gig" work and all kinds of crime, or relying on income women (or other family members) make from cleaning or whatever other shit paying jobs. Or they join the Army and serve as cannon fodder, which technically removes them from employment counts.

The problem is that there are a lot of "left behind" areas, not just in the rural USA aka "flyover states" but everywhere across Western societies, and governments haven't really figured out solutions for large, structural changes (industries closing down, less manual work needed in farming) other than handouts and leaving people to their own fate. The reality is that a lot of these areas simply are far too far gone to be saved, but it's political suicide to even admit that, much less do something about it - something like paying to re-settle people somewhere else, or to inject absurd amounts of money into these areas to make them livable again, e.g. incentivizing large employers for the long term (instead of the current "trend" to stay just barely long enough until tax credits expire and then re-locate to somewhere with fresh tax credits), subsidizing critical infrastructure like public transport, basic grocery and other stores, doctors, schools and basic entertainment.

Political incentives simply aren't lined up with what needs to be done, and to make it worse there are entire political parties who have made their entire policy just to be obstructionist to any common sense - first and foremost the GQP in the US, but also in Europe parties like the German AfD, UKIP/Brexit Party in the UK, FN in France or whatever Berlusconis and Salvinis parties in Italy are called. Additionally, eroded tax bases (thanks to decades of neoliberal, trickle-down bullshit) everywhere make the large-scale investments required outright impossible, and the rich elites have bought off enough politicians to make sure that meaningful change on that front won't ever come around.
It matters because if traffic falls off, Google is even more likely to axe it.
Adyen can be used beyond the EU[0] and they’re quite reasonable as well. Covers the majority of commerce areas globally

[0]: https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub#pago_local
Two big things stick out in all of this to me...

1) There's the idea that one parent does not work for a company.

This is hard for a lot of men and women to handle. A lot is put into the idea that adults need to be part of the economic productivity cycle or you're failing. Stay at home dad's are looked down on by others a lot due to this. It happens to many stay at home mom's, too.

Think about it. If both parents work they make more so they can consume more. That means more money for share holders and companies.

> what it is that you do

This assumes that the important thing to do is something related to companies and the economy. It's unsaid but assumed without most realizing it.

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.
Is there anything that can be done for patients with family history of schizophrenia?
And I was excited about possible use of multiple signal levels per cell.. Seriously though, how's the state of analog or multi-level memory? With rather weak data preservation guarantees, of course. Could get to breakthrough performance per watt for AI and simulation applications, and more attainable than quantum computing.
Besides the obvious malodorous actors, Iran and Russia, what's wrong with that list in your opinion?
The fact that people rely on GitHub, even when it is based on git, which is free and distributed software, shows how easy it is for big companies to force users into their closed software.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29873306
My year of writing short stories
One advantage with "call communication" is that I can clear the problem in single 'block' of time and then get back to what I was doing know that the problem was put to bed. With "type communication" there is a risk I'll be pinging every 10 minutes with "no that didn't work, got this error message, any other ideas?" for an undefined amount of time, constantly taking me out of my flow.
Not sure why Square is never mentioned. I use them for my book sales. They work with Woocommerce and my fulfillment warehouse scrapes the orders three times a day.
While my experience with Stripe for my SaaS product has been great I don't like that they hold on to funds for ten days. Square transfers the money the same or the next day.
I'm guessing the risk on Stripe's side is that OP (or someone else!) is using a bunch of stolen credit cards to make purchases. If there are a lot of chargebacks, Stripe's on the hook for that.
i know exactly what you mean. I remember an early doc appointment with my wife she was pregnant with our first child, the doctor was going over things with my wife like what she should be doing and what she should not be doing etc. I asked the doctor what i should be doing and what i should look out for, she just glared at me and said "you've done enough." implying i was only there to get my wife pregnant. That was 13 years ago but i still remember it vividly.
Because the ones paying for that increase in productivity should be the ones receiving the benefits from it.

That is, the shareholders who own the business and paid for the machines, not the employees who merely operate them.
This is such an odd and entitled take for a person who is really trying hard not to care about python.
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System76 offers woodgrain sides in multiple colors on their Thelio desktop line [0]. I've been running one for six months as my employer-provided machine and it's been fantastic.

[0] https://system76.com/desktops
> How do you navigate this if you never want to do the voice call and always just handle it over text?

It's fine to have preferences but to expect your company and team to let you always do things your personal preferred way is pretty unrealistic. I don't think even the CEO of any company gets to have their way 100% of the time (although they almost certainly get their way more than anyone else in the company does)
To be clear, you believe the Global Boyhood Initiative, who published that report, are an extreme minority, and are accusing me of a fallacy because of that?

Fascinating. This is exactly the sort of half-baked lie I was talking about.

Edit: At some point, rubber has to meet road. Either you accept that boys falling behind in education is an issue, or you don't. If you don't accept it as an issue, then you cannot simultaneously claim to be the ones solving it.

Some of those solutions are not easy. It's been known for decades that boys get lower grades in school, and not always for the quality of their work. In the UK we saw girls suddenly shoot past boys in maths results when exams were cancelled for COVID and teacher-assessed grades were given instead. What's the feminist solution for that?
There's this other thing where instead of posting your Complaint to HN you can file your Complaint in a court of law, it's kind of like an analog version of Zendesk that every company has to use.
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> Obviously Adyen if you're in EU

Though they have "call us" so I’m thinking it’s only for big businesses.

> one do payments in the 10-100$ USD range on the blockchain

Yes, depending on the chain that results in expensive fees, and then there’s the whole wait for validations which makes it not so instant.

> What if you don't want to go through an exchange?

If you want to convert it to a proper currency, you’ll either have to do that, or something like localbitcoin.
First world problems.

When they don't exist, you invent them.

EDIT: Young people who can work but don't surely have a reason why they don't work.

Some are happy just freeloading and enjoying life on someone else's expense (often their parents). Others have a solid income on the side, just doing freelance stuff.

There are also those who have saved some money while working part-time. Now they just want to live their life before comitting to full time work.
I had the same reaction to his first sentence. Why do you need to say that?
There will always be bugs in production. Achieving perfection is not something you should require.
I always mean to stop, but somehow never get around to it.
That's exactly the counterpoint I'm trying to make: a lot of French reactors were and are down "for maintenance", making it very much not the ideal base, or any, load provider.
That's something we never hear from nuclear power proponents, why?
Executives paid bucketloads to come in and lead a Transformation™ can only dream about the empowerment of actually making changes that Musk is enjoying.

That job tends to be virtually impossible as companies launch a transformation then reject each individual change as "this is fine" or as a sacred cow.

If, to survive, you must change many things quickly, some decisions will be wrong, but that's why you iterate.
We had a great experience w/ Fastspring: https://fastspring.com/

It has been a few years though since we sold the company. Super easy to set up, super reliable. Never had any issues w/ them.
FWIW, I've never had a fee to use the ATM physically at one of my (US) credit union branches. That's three separate credit unions in two states, starting around 20 years ago. Also, there are typically no fees at branches of other credit unions either (with some exceptions: A+ and UFCU in Austin always charge fees to me as a non-member, no idea if they charge their members too). Transactions at standalone ATMs (7-11s, etc.) typically cost, as do transactions at regular banks (not credit unions).
You never want code with shared ownership to tolerate feature creep. That’s impossible to keep on the rails. If you’re going to use SOLID anywhere, it’s in shared code.

If your org doesn’t suffer feature creep willingly, I believe that means you can have a lot more flexibility with respect to Conway’s Law. A low-churn project can maintain a common understanding. Not all of them will of course, but it’s at least possible. Feature factories absolutely cannot, and you shouldn’t even try.

What really kills a lot of projects though is an inverted dependency tree. And by inverted I mean that the most volatile code is at the bottom of the call graph, not the top. In this case every build, every deploy, or in the microservices scenario every request, can have different behavior from the previous one because some tertiary dependency changed under you. Now you need all sorts of triggers in your CI/CD pipeline to guarantee that integration tests are rerun constantly to figure out where the regressions are being introduced. Your build pipeline starts to look like one of those server rooms with loose wires everywhere and a bucket under the AC unit. Nothing is stable and everything is on the verge of being on fire at a moment’s notice.
Serious question. Did you watch the first link? Are you ok with that?

I'm from a different country but found the first video showed behaviour that I think should be illegal.
1. The growth of deep fake porn might lead us down a path where revenge porn no longer "works" as people know that for every real nude leaked there are like 10'000 fake ones.

2. Stylometrics AI gets so good that the only way to remain anonymous/private is to follow boring writing manuals thus killing a lot of creative writing of sensitive topics.

3. People spending so much time online that neighbours can barely talk to each other as they use the same words in subtly different meanings. We tradicionally saw this happening with people of different professions (e.g. law speak is very different from doctor speak). But having this phenomenon happening for every single fandom or microlabel can lead us to a lot of political troubles as votres can't reach common ground.

4. Companies will start storing fake data on their servers so as to minimize the value of the data for cybercriminals.
Of course none of that applies if the Stripe account belongs to a business as opposed to an individual.
I consider journaling and blogging two distinct and separate mediums.

In case you use them interchangeably, what do you write about?
The State of Mobile User Experience
Superconducting-qubit reset based on photon-assisted quasiparticle tunneling
What do you call the fallacy, which I have seen increasingly online, where someone defines something as being an "extreme minority" when it actually isn't, and then claims the other person committed a fallacy because of that?
Repo search.
Paywalless mirror: https://archive.ph/c1S9E
There is nothing wrong or bad with the social media. The problem is big tech trying to squeeze maximal profit via advertising by selling the attention of the users. Mastodon is the answer here, works amazingly well.
hmm tell me about the diamond inheritance pattern for iostreams and that hard turn away from OO. Never heard of this and couldn't find any sources on an initial search. Got any links on it?
For an individual, yes. For a country? It is just a matter of the country not wanting to spend the money to buy servers, bandwidth, and labor to moderate.
Stripe seems really expensive with poor support...
Apparently they take more than 1.4% of your earning. For $400K, it's more than 11 200$. With that money you could hire a developer for a month or two and make him/her create a payment platform adapted to your needs and under your control.
Yes, often. It's yet another HN-celebrated startup that turned into a neglected pile of crap:

Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802

Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (November '22 edition) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33398395

Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (August '22 edition)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32580491

etc.
Of course, but nevertheless it was fast. It should be noted, however, that what has been built so far is only a precursor to a "real" terminal that has yet to be built. And that environmental concerns have not been adequately considered due to the hasty implementation. The special circumstances caused by the failures of previous governments have also prompted the Green Party, under whose ministerial initiative the construction took place, to prioritise speed over thoroughness. However, due to these special circumstances and the previous negligence, this case is not suitable as a general recommendation for the future.