jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if using a tiny computer such as ODROID-XU3 running Ubuntu and a Widows laptop could work for web development.

The pocket computer needs to be battery powered, able to run virtual machines and have ethernet/wifi. SSH and Cygwin gnome-terminal (for tabs) could be used to connect from the Windows laptop.

I have been using Ubuntu for many years but there are a number of windows audio applications that do not run well under wine or OSX. This setup would allow me to do web development using Vagrant VMs, Photoshop etc and switch to audio work without having to reboot.

I have tried running Ubuntu guest VMs from windows and it's not always ideal for development. There are issues with VMs inside VM that a pocket computer would not have.
But wait, how is this fair to the millions of software engineers that can only pass interviews by memorizing the question? Isn't that the whole point? To gatekeep people with other learning styles and fast track people who arguably cheated on tests throughout school?
Exactly. Most narratives hang everything on simplifications like “willing to spend what it takes to win.” Reality is more complex and there are serious drawbacks to any real life examples.

A better comparison mould have been circa 2000 "asian tiger" policies of south korea, taiwan, etc. The idea was to subsidize industries with massive growth potential... on a 20-50 year horizon. On that sort of a timeline, F-35 program might be considered an ok success. More expensive than necessary, but better than not having invested. For this to make sense, fighter jets need to be a massive growth industry, and adjacent to other massive growth industries. Not sure if the US has appetite for generational investments in industries.

A lot goes into success and failure at something like this than the "correct theory" though.

Part of the idea behind letting the semiconductor industry decline is that it frees up capital and human resources to work on higher ROI stuff. It's hard to get a high ROI manufacturing, because manufacturing has a high "I." Building factories is capital intensive.

It's possible to make a decent case that it succeeded too. The US absolutely dominates the high ROI, high margin industries: Software, financial services, pharma. Design... Intangibles. You can't make a money machine like FB, Pfizer or JPMorgan if (a) marginal costs are real or (b) you need to invest capital in order to grow.
I can vouch on the "complain culture"!

I even have a neat anecdote:

A Portuguese lady was complaining that the supermarket cashier line took too long (this was pre-covid). So I told her that there were self-checkouts the isle over. Her answer was: "I don't like self-checkout either; I like to do things the way I'm used to".

Or don't conflate my complaints with a desire for solutions.
https://www.smallcase.com/ does something similar for Indian markets.
Right, but the argument seems to be that "partial support" was good enough for this use case.
How does Total Cookie Protection work with sites that redirect users to authentication providers on other domains ? What about shops that redirect to payment processors that rely on some magic cookie sharing in the background ? What about company.com loading some cookie-dependent content from company-cdn.com ?
The latter is definitely because the hardware manufacturers QA with it.
I gladly make Bitcoin transactions regularly online for the same reason I use cash in person: privacy.

Everyone is selling data but they can't sell what they don't know. That is worth a premium to me.
With ssh the situation is quite good, and it should serve as an example on "how to do it right".

I find web services to be a huge pain, though: Obviously most don't offer any kind of 2FA, or maybe Google Authenticator or SMS at best (which means those websites must be so bad that people don't login to it on their phone?). But even those who do "proper" 2FA often will only allow a single U2F token - and enforce GA, SMS or a secondary email as fallback.

(Putting this rant here so maybe a webdev or even two do it better the next time they do some auth stuff ;-))
If Mattel was smart they would have purchased Bratz instead of driving them out of business. That's why the toy industry is so stale, there's no vested interest in innovation.
Pete Tong
Thanks for the input. I didn't know that it was wrong to compare Elon with Columbus. Others have complained about it as well, so I will probably find a another explorer.
A good sleeping bag, and you don't need to heat anything at night.
Lots. Depends on where your interests are :)

* Do you like to really understand customer needs? Start focusing on UX/Interaction design

* Do you like to help the dev team to avoid critical bugs and you're feeling confident to delve deep into the domain of some product? Approach a quality assurance career or go into test automation

* Do you like to directly interact with customers, helping them overcome technical or product obstacles etc.? What about trying a customer support role?

I guess the main point is: find the thing you like, and sell it! :)
Since I live in San Francisco, I'm going to this place later tonight.
This is an interest proposition for Uber. I wonder if they have conceived of a strategy to lure drivers of traditional taxis away by essentially helping them wipe the slate clean, or transferring the debt to them, with low interest. I think that they'd make a lot of headway that way and come across more positive as a company supporting and enabling a new, vibrant workforce.
I suspect he's referring to all the litigation surrounding Google Book Search.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books#Copyright_infringe...

But as far as I know, there has been no ruling, yet, as everything is either still pending, or settled out of court.
are there any major companies providing co-location or is it kindof a diverse scene? im curious about it but only really know about cloud VM... basically just looking for a site where i can read about one of these services / pricing plan. my main questions are about bandwidth -- for one company i freelance for, the majority portion of their bill is s3 IO and it would be huge for them to get to a capped pricing model even if speed suffers

tried googling but it doesnt seem so straight-forward... i like the idea though.
It does, but a "good" password manager is the cost of a Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes accounts combined times infinity.

1Password is probably my favorite app/suite of apps ever. And I willingly shelled out for them. But most people balk at paying $.99 to remove advertising in mobile games, so I don't see this catching on.

(Plus sync, plus backups, plus...)
Compared to CPAN, PHP is fairly monolithic. Many of the OSS projects that we hear about are sponsored and/or open/closed or the Automattic business model.

Many CPAN modules are blobs of arcanery and some work completely well but are relatively abandoned.
It does have a coherent meaning, I think; a "dark web" site is any website that—although fully routable from the public Internet—is impossible to stumble upon accidentally without going through some process that could be considered mens rea for consuming that kind of content.

This is useful because it separates the effect (joining a private club) from the mechanism (downloading Tor, but also things like just signing up for a private forum, etc.)

It also implies something about these sorts of privacy-enhancing technologies: if they become part of the "defaults"—if browsers become able to access Tor sites by default, and Google starts indexing them—then a Tor hidden service will no longer implicitly be part of the "dark web." It'll be part of the regular web—just anonymously so.
I see this comment a lot.

What does suppression of free speech in America look like to you then?
In at least a few orgs I've seen the switch was to RDS (usually postgres) instead of dynamodb because they couldn't justify an entire redesign of the schema at the same time as the switch. It was a huge effort with a lot of late nights especially at the very end of the cutover.
> It was probably not a great strategy to build a brand completely on the backs of third parties you don't control.

How do you suggest emailing people without third parties? That includes your ISP. Your DNS domain provider. Your datacenter. Your hydro company. Your bank. etc. etc.
Does Parler actually ban people? I assumed anything goes.
A small percentage of a large number is still a sizable number.
Here you go.

https://member.cash
Probably not going to work for someone with millions of followers and thousands of likes and replies on every tweet.
We need Russians - or people outside of the progressive bubble of Europe and North America - to create an alternate internet, please. Starting with browser, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook replacement. Then onto OS - mobile and desktop.
> It worked really, really well for the better part of the last century

No, it didn't. Rule by experts got us a world war, a great depression, another world war, a Holocaust, tens of millions of people killed by Communist governments and well over a billion still ruled by one in China. And that's just picking out the biggest few items.

The reason public confidence in experts is eroding is not that the experts have gotten worse. It's that the experts have lost control over the flow of information, so now they can't prevent everyone else from finding out how bad they actually are and always have been.
I don't think it's github's responsibility to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot.
They're minor investments practically, and major investments politically.

As you say, for many motorists, giving up space on even some roads to cyclists is treated like some sort of war crime. There's very much of attitude of, "we can't just have a majority of the road space -- we need nearly all of it!"
The delicious irony is that this adds an extra point of failure (the request to the CSS file may time out), which brings us right back to the message of the original...
Jira isn't a very good bug tracker either. Doing xommon operations ends up being a handful of clicks (although this can very depending on configuration) it doesn't show history or comments clearly and adding dependencies between bugs is so painful. It also can't do things that I consider basic such as "show me my unblocked issues"
Google Cloud SQL. I say magic because locally I need a service key to connect to the proxy, but the production app doesn't seem to need anything but the internal google address.
One of the possible reasons Chromium is a bad for EPUB is its lack of MathML support. But then it's not like all EPUB readers have it, and it's not like MathJax can't be used for rendering.
> If you use a color-calibrated

Over 99% of users don't, most phones are not high end and as such don't have such a screen.

> feeling of something as bright as looking into the fucking sun

Again, not a experience around 99% of internet users can follow, their devices don't get that bright, especially not on a per-pixel basis.

Also most people use devices in rooms with varying degrees of natural sunlight showing in.

And if whites are to bright then it's because my screen is wrongly setup for my eyes/usage. A perfect color calibrated screen is ironically often not a perfectly setup screen for normal usage.
* the compile builder... not the DIY movement.
OMG that website is so easy to read! It's a breath of fresh air!

What would be really cool is if web browsers offered a mode that forced a contrast minimum when viewing websites. This would benefit devs and users alike: Users would have a pushbutton way to make bad websites readable, and devs would have a push button to show what their site would look like to users who get annoyed enough to push that button.
Not affiliated; found this whilst searching for a book recommendation, found it useful and thought I'd share.

I'm also happy to get recommendations from comments! Fiction and non-fiction alike. If you have a great book to share, please do so!
I personally find dark mode with too much contrast to be harder to read. I experience real discomfort otherwise, so I don't think it's as simple as "more contrast is always better".

I think it comes down to what you're used to, what your vision is like, and how sensitive your eyes are. Some prefer high contrast, some don't.
Of course. The point is that interpreting that as a "force" is anthropomorphization ("this physical thing is "pushing"/"pulling" this").
This was 100% my favorite thing about weaning. It gave me more time with the boys and a chance to demonstrate my commitment to the effort to their mother. And she started getting a lot more sleep, which improved general happiness in the house, and everything that goes along with that.
I dunno, I spend $3 monthly with AWS, but when I click the support button I’m talking to a real person pretty much immediately.
I have Alopecia Areata. It meant I had bald spots (pure bald - not just thin) of varying (and ever changing!) size from around 4 years old. I know how you are feeling first hand from the hell I survived at the hands of other children when I was young and the awkwardness of teenage dating with bald spots. It took me a long time to work up the courage to shave it all off - I did so at 19. I have no idea why it took so long. But I can tell you that it was the defining moment in my life. It’s been nearly two decades since I shaved my head and I’ve had numerous successful businesses, made a shit ton of money and retired in my 30s with a wife who is a 12/10 that draws more looks from other men than I care for. Hair doesn’t have to define you. It can and will if you let it. Or you can tell it to go fuck itself and shave you head and never think about it again. People are drawn to confidence. Eliminate things that are destroying your confidence. Confidence comes from self love. At the end of the day, if it isn’t hair it is something else - every single person is struggling with something they don’t love about their bodies. Hair is relatively easy to overcome. Good luck!
I don't know why you think value doesn't exist until a transaction. Nonetheless, people are welcome to contest the price if it's wrong and they're welcome to sell the house and leave if they don't want to pay the tax.

They're actually welcome to stay and have a lien on their house: if you're living there you aren't going to have it taken away for a property tax lien. (If they will where you are, they can fix that in the same bill that repeals property tax distortions.)

> Buying or owning a house doesn’t make you a millionaire.

I'm focusing on the millions of houses in California that have went up in value by huge amounts since the last market snapshot for the tax basis whose owners are millionaires.
Mabrook

Really happy to read about your journey, incredibly inspirational.
Dang probably changed the URL. The original URL did say "hard drives".
> "Let’s say you have an MRI scanner with the OR76 magnet with the full capacity of 1800 litres of helium. Your system consumes approximately 4% of its helium capacity per month, that sums up to 48% per year (4%12 = 48%). That means that 864 litres are consumed per year (1800 litres 48% = 864 litres)."

I know this is napkin math so it doesn't really matter, but a 4% loss times 12 months would be 1-(.96^12) = 39%. Unless of course they're topping up the helium every month.
Before that, I think they were mail order only for a while.
I found an approach like this was especially nice on teamcity in conjunction with its template feature.

Individual apps were still able to have whatever specific thing they needed, but you could globally add a step, eg a security scanning tool or slack notification by modifying the template only rather than 100s of build configuration files as the GitHub / circleci approach seems to encourage.

Adding a new pipeline basically just meant naming it and selecting the VCS URL
"Fixed" is so often an opinion.

CS makes scoping assumptions for you, because it wants to avoid syntactic clutter like "var. Maybe you'd like a different default assumption. Maybe you'd prefer to add in scoping keywords/sigils. These issues are full of tradeoffs.

The worst thing that can happen, though, is for there to be two nearly identical implementations, differing only by their subtle treatment of scope. If you think it's a showstopper now, imagine a world where your code silently manifests a variable binding security hole because you used a different fork of CoffeeScript.
My commercial app: Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/en/

App written with Electron & Angular. Includes a "web app" inside that gets served so you can browse videos on your phone - built in Angular.

The public-facing website is built in Gatsby, and served from the cheapest hosting I could find: $3/month - also connected to CloudFlare for free-tier CDN.

Made a small webpage for users to download their purchased app too - just 3 pages built with PHP (so fast and easy!)

All code is MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris
The universe is (too) big, so we may never know.
I really miss my V20's 2nd screen and removable battery.

I went with the V30 next because I needed the extra horsepower. I'm mostly happy - except for the headphone jack on top.
If you improve the lives of others (including by creating employment and reasonably leveraging resources), fair reward to reap a fraction of that improvement. Improve lives of billions, reap billion$.
Oracle wasn't trying to make Bad Things happen.

I didn't say they were.

They were seeking damages from a damaging situation, and if bad things had happened... I'd blame the patent trolls and judges that enable them.

The issue at hand is about copyright not patents.

And note that I'm not saying that nothing bad can, or will, ever happen again. I'm just saying that the consequences of this decision coming down the other way would have been Very Bad, which makes the current decision a Very Good Thing in general.
PFAS is a pretty serious problem with US (and global) water supplies. There was a great documentary a couple years ago that covered it [0].

Even though they 'stopped' using these chemicals in manufacturing 10-15 years ago, there's still an incredible level of contamination - 26,000 sites listed by EPA [1]. But that's sort of irrelevant, because these compounds don't break up over human time scales. Eventually every place in the world will be contaminated, and with how harmful they are it's not clear if the old adage "the solution to pollution is dilution" will hold up. It's hard not to be alarmist about this, PFAS contamination is genuinely terrifying.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7689910/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...
This is the end of the road, unless they can get Congress to change the law, of course. But they have 0% chance of that.
Well they are doing some of it for just that reason, like they raised the minimum wage to $15 (which is actually pretty good) and wave that around in their anti-union propaganda.

I bet they’ve done all kinds of risk calculations around increasing benefits and decided they could stop there. Personally, I hope their calculations are wrong and the workers unionize anyways.
IANAL, but I can imagine something like the following:

A. We decide this is fair use based on the small number of LOC used and call it a day

B. OR we can decide that APIs are not copyrightable even though they're self-evidently creative works because of the importance of interoperability based on something something related to Borland v. Lotus, a case that we couldn't agree on the last time it came up.

Hey folks. Let's do A.
But who decides if an action is unlawful? Oh, that's right... the courts.
The whole point of paying the MPEG-LA protection racket is that you don't get sued over patents. If there's another patent pool that claims to have their own patents embodied by one or more of the major proprietary codecs, that protection racket starts to look more like the sham it is. Someone can always come out of the woodwork and claim you're infringing one of their patents.
>> It doesn't invalidate the issue or the grievance.

>It most certainly does.

There's only a grievance if you assume that promotion at somewhere like KP is evidence of empowerment.

If it's actually evidence of something else - like being recognised as a member of the nomenklatura on the VC scene - then perhaps it's more evidence of successful conformity than successful empowerment.

IMO you don't win at empowerment by playing someone else's game and complaining you lost and that's not fair - you win by creating new games and making the other games irrelevant.
One thing that I like about Google Sheets is the ability to query the sheets with SQL. Only complaint is that the queries aren't super powerful and I can't use names. This would be super helpful. A powerful query language in a more powerful spreadsheet.
> Decade-old versions of TLS are flat-out bad for users. TLS 1.0 is from 1999!

no, bad standards are flat-out bad for users.

lots of text files being written in ascii, for example,
and 'ASCII is from 1963!'
Bucket of water and a cloth would probably work, then good hand sanitation as you said.
My guess: Everyone uses their services anyways, so they have no need to put as much telemetry in the browser.
I’d be much more worried they’d be carrying out the looting if layoffs continue with no relief.
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/fmvf53/stdlib_allocfr...
Writing a C compiler generating code for the PIC is what's difficult. Nobody wants to run the compiler for a microcontroller on the microcontroller itself.
>> Surgical masks aren't about protecting the wearer from everyone else, they're about protecting everyone else from the wearer [1]. They may provide the wearer some protection, but that's not really the point.

> I think you're confusing the normal use for these masks with what they are actually capable of doing. Yes, in a surgical setting the masks are worn primarily to protect the patient from the surgeon, but the masks do work both ways. Here's a citation:

I wasn't confused. That's why I said they may provide the wearer some protection. The 3M YouTube video I linked even quantifies this, by measuring and comparing leakage between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.

But that's not the point. Don't wear a mask to protect yourself, wear a mask to protect others.
Or services we integrate with will have to start emitting the correct headers.
> Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech".

Especially not on HN, where the SV/SJW group think prevail.

Argument I often get is "you are free to voice your opinions and we are free to massively downvote you", well, same happened with 9/11, the US elites have been cunts to the whole world (including to "The People" and still are), they are totally free to be, by then 9/11 came as a big slap in Wall Street America face, maybe they deserved it...
The joke I have heard is that Physics students are either shut-ins or party animals, either way they're both microdosing something or other...
The "private" companies live in a heavily-scrutinized regulaory environment, where politians also routinely demand that they take action.

These are no longer private companies anymore.