jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi! I’m one of the cofounders of Insight. We were part of the YC W19 batch — but were building something totally different back then. There’s more backstory here: https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/10/insight-launches-a-customi...
Quite likely because we rarely have heavy icing. This current storm is the worst since 1989. I've been in Austin for over 50 years and can count such incidents on one hand with fingers left to spare...
Please don't do this here. It just perpetuates the flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Great thread.

It reminds me of reading Bezos annual shareholders letters.

The culture of the place could be seen from reading those letters.

A couple of those values since day one are:

1.We will continue to focus relentlessly on our customers.

2.We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions.

3.We will continue to measure our programs and the effectiveness of our investments analytically, to jettison those that do not provide acceptable returns, and to step up our investment in those that work best.

This blog https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos-amazon-an... breaks it down further.
Free software also predates "free software." People circulated programs within the science and hobbyists communities, as early as those communities existed. And before there was software, the ham radio community thrived on shared and published designs.

With that said, I appreciate what Stallman has done, if nothing else, to shine light on what freedoms we're giving up, and on the contrasts between the different free and non-free models that are in use today.
Here is one. https://medium.com/@rutvijshah/why-i-did-not-choose-realm-io...
was thinking exactly the same. "Spotify not paying enough ? stop complainingf,just go sell tshirts ...",well too bad, soon "app developers" will earn as little peny as I earn with Spotify.
If you believe for one minute that any profitable restaurant isn't psychologically manipulating you are ripping you, you are in for a surprise.
yo understand:now
Are you suggesting that the rule of law is a bad idea?("This is...why China continues to eat our lunch"). I think legal frameworks are more tractable: a "Photography not allowed" sign, with enforcement is a more elegant solution to more technological ones (anti-photography/reflective coating maybe?)
That sounds great. The only problem is that you just have to accept the word of whatever PR person you talk to at these companies. Not that I really expect them to flat out lie to you, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the whole and complete truth either.
Companies like Zoom track and store as much data as they can by default. Once the risk of bad PR outweighs the benefits of this practice it wont stop because there is no incentive for it to stop otherwise. So it doesn't really matter if this is a bad article or not. It's bad PR and so it serves its purpose. Thanks for that link though, it is a much better article on the subject area.
Really? I always assumed that bitcoin would follow pretty much the same path as currency on its way to mainstream adoption (mainstream adoption being more or less a prerequisite of any currency). Banks, loans and mortgages don't exist because of some massive conspiracy, they exist because they are necessary. And they are just as necessary in bitcoins as in any other form of exchange.
Yes, oVirt is the upstream for RHEV, so adding the virtio-rng device to guests is a feature in oVirt 3.5 as well. I didn't mention Fedora or oVirt there but everything applies to upstreams as well.
Can you expand on that? I was under the impression that many thought of it as a waste (Sabine Hossenfelder comes to mind, for example).
Salesforce development. There's a real learning curve, but Salesforce provides really good teaching academies and certification processes.

For an enterprise company, there is no data more important or highly valued than the CRM. Also at a mature company, sale motions are already dialed in, and comp plans typically only change 1-2 times a year (more than one change a year is bad for org morale). Large overhauls can be a pain, but they're extremely infrequent and ideally scheduled well in advance.

Once the system is operating and the daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly cadence reports are dialed in, you just need to make sure the system continues to run, and deal with any special odd projects or reporting requirements from the sales execs you're working with.

Your sale exec partners have every incentive to get their processes right the first time, and rarely change them -- change disrupts any team (not just engineers), only with sales teams, that change results in tightly trackable lost revenue.

Its not "zero work", but it fits the "2 hours of active work, then chill" requirement. You'll have a busier end of quarter, but the first 2-3 weeks of the quarter will either be crickets or greenfield work.

Edit: this role can legitimately be fun too. You're at the nerve center for how the company actually makes money, and you get to have a cross sectional view of all other functions as a result. You'll see "how the sausage is made" but you only have to report on it and build the tracking systems -- you're not on the hook for performance or output. Also, sales people know when they have a good CRM process and are some of the most grateful folks in the world to those who help them. If you do a good job for your users, you'll be getting public shoutouts every day.
That is a good point. There are so many loopholes left open that the typical large corporation pays far less than the existing rates. Small companies that can't play fancy games with offshore tax rates are the ones that get hurt.
> one of the safest, most progressive countries in the world and you dismiss it as a collection of mining companies?

Throw in real estate and oil and that pretty much covers it. Canada doesn’t have a very bright future.
This is my setup. Compose and Makefiles

Ben running like this for 3 years. No fuss.
I have been using Duplicati, but

>Backup archives are mountable as userspace filesystems for easy interactive backup examination and restores (e.g. by using a regular file manager).

looks like a really nice feature of borg. Thanks.
> This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week in American history.

The day Censorship was made valid with hordes cheering them on. A very bad and sad precedent. This is going to backfire very, very badly. The Big Tech tested waters and realized they can behave like Supranational Powers and have support from the people. All it takes for Big Tech is for them to convince the popular masses on how to think. That is the last step to complete control. Elected Governments will be powerless against this kind of power. If they can do this to a sitting US President they can do it to anyone else and can influence elections and electorates in ways we have never imagined before.
Time for Trump to ratify the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace:

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather."

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Oh shit EFF just approved censorship.
> Does anybody have a solution to the bigger underlying question of de-platforming and censorship on online platforms?

the still sitting president of the USA could open a channel in telegramm (no censorship at all right now), or he could use a russian service like livejournal or vkontakte (they wouldn't have a case to ban him), but I guess that's all he could do right now.

Update: he can no longer use parler, that has been removed from both app store and google play. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/parler-removed-fro...

it seems like banning platforms wholesale is the logical next step; so usage of alternative platforms might not be a solution.
> But they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. They’re not. This is a movement. I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop, and everyone, beware. Because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before election day in November, and they are not going to stop after election day. And everyone should take note of that on both levels. That they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.

Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XxLR2r5oPg
It isn't obvious that the two contexts are so similar that customs developed in one will be useful in the other.
It's sufficient to push undesirables to services which are more expensive, more inconvenient, unreliable, and so on. Relegate them to their internet ghetto.

However, there clearly is a small number of players in mobile platforms, cloud, and payment, and they act in a unified way. It has been sufficient.
What other conservative accounts, just curious?
> But that is hardly the only reason to protect falsehoods, intentional or otherwise; there are several others. Even so, these arguments suffer from abstraction and high-mindedness; they do not amount to decisive reasons to protect falsehoods. These propositions are applied to old questions involving defamation and to new questions involving fake news, deepfakes, and doctored videos. It emerges that New York Times v. Sullivan is an anachronism, and that it should be rethought in light of current technologies and new findings in behavioral science.

Basically, forget universal principles (I.e. “abstract high minded-ness”) and 230 years of history and experience. Immediately change the rules based on unproven science in response to the first crisis.

This would amount to nothing more than a government takeover of speech by experts. Maybe the experts can be trusted, maybe they can’t be. Maybe they can overcome their biases, maybe they cannot. The evidence is not good. Even in the era of Trump’s outrageous obvious falsehoods, the fact checkers wandered into quite debatable territory. And especially when that happened; different speakers were not treated alike.

There is a reason only the most obvious falsehoods are outside the scope of the first amendment. Anything that requires deductive reasoning from evidence almost always bakes in assumptions and ideology. And there is a free market in people having speech that is based on different assumptions and different ideology.

It was not unknown in the framers’ day that people would be duped with falsehoods and into mass delusion. They chose to give a broad protection to free speech even in face of that knowledge.

Had rules like this been in place during the 1950s social liberalism wouldn’t have happened. We already skirted the line with things like Hollywood’s black list, which suppressed the real military threat of communism, and also anything that could ignite social change. Back then, the first amendment protected that censorship from becoming government censorship. If it had, the prospects are shocking. Do you really think a government that orchestrated the McCarthy hearings could launder any ban of “falsehoods” through a panel of duly appointed experts?

In the early to mid 20th century, when we were a technologically advanced society with real scientists, experts believed in things like eugenics. Have our experts finally gotten all the right answers? Are we truly at the end of history?

Sunstein is a brilliant guy, but his basic ideology is rule by experts, and this is exactly what it is. Maybe that idea has merit. But it’s not compatible with the first amendment.
There’s a south park episode about this :)
Quite right. And on the flip side, who would have guessed that haggling down the price of a super cheap at-cost AZ dose and playing hardball on liability when everyone else was bending over backwards would result in delays and supply problems for the EU...
I must remember to use "chronometer" rather than "clock".
Most of the energy a wash cycle uses is for heating the water it just took in. The part where it splashes the water around uses next to nothing.

Waiting a bit to start heating that water if there's a high consumption peak right now is hard to transfer to any significant benefit for the consumer, because electricity is just that cheap. But it might make sense from the grid point of view to have higher demand elasticity.
If possible shed load on the furnace - close vents in rooms that don't have water pipes in them and close the doors to those rooms - focus the heat on a smaller area. Try to keep rooms that have less "outside wall" area as the main focal point for people and heat. Move computers into the main room, keep people together if possible.
And this is even more true when using columnar databases.
>It suggested the neutralization titers were higher, not that they were ineffective.

See figure B here taken from the study. That's a large difference to my completely untrained eye.

https://twitter.com/AArgoetti/status/1359994177409478656

>If a delayed person keeps, say, 50% efficacy, and the person with the second dose has 95% efficacy, giving two people 50% efficacy is better than giving one person 95% efficacy.

That logic breaks down when the divided efficacy is too low, even if it's formally half of the original. Say efficiency is 33% (and lets pretend the original is 66%). The people who got the 33% efficient vaccine go out and party, balancing out the effect. People think the vaccine doesn't help. Eventually nobody trusts your vaccine, and nobody shows up to get the second dose. I'm not sure 50% is high enough. Maybe it is, but just barely.
I think the user above commented on the title of the submission
Working for income is not slavery. You can always go join open source ecology and build your own civilization from scratch.

Forced work in a prison could be considered slavery depending on the reason for the arrest and the financial motives of the owner of the prison.
Heartfulness meditation has been a life saver.
Absolutely. Off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind are video games that were shipped on ROM cartridges. Bugs or not, when shipped, it's done.
Recently launched, experimenting with a different format for quick-learning the basics of a particular topic. Love to get some feedback.
Around 3 weeks ago.
it doesnt run any os, it doesnt exist yet, its all renders and a cute marketing video.
In either case, this is further reinforcement that you cannot play dice with this thing. More honest stories like this will humble us.
Works fine on Firefox/Debian 10.
"Accessible" is a good word. Almost invites speculation as to whom they're accessible. More fitting than "secure", anyway.
A good idea, webpack is annoying sometimes
I'm in FW right by DFW, and my apartment is cold even when its warm right now.

Similarly, I dug my cold man lanterns out and fueled them, just to be sure.
Is this federal only or state as well?

The readme and website appear to be kinda thin on details. Cool nonetheless.
I'm currently using NetGuard which is also open src. What do you all opinion this app? So far I like it. I have the paid version and one feature I LOVE is the speed graph that show up/down load bandwidth. Will try out RethinkDNS. So far android really sux at privacy and security. The permissions aspect is too broad and intrusive. I wish I could sandbox specific apps with honeypot contact etc stuff I don't think app needs to have but requires to operate..wtf. So many apps nowadays "require" permissions it has no business in having else it won't launch.
Not necessarily. It's possible to write quite terse code in Java, especially Java 10+ (var, streams, etc.). And now with records and pattern matching, even more so.
> How to get first 10 paying customers?

This is irrelevant without knowing the type of product.

It this is a $3.50 product that looks good relative to limited competitors: ~$50 and a day.

If this is enterprise software: a couple million and a year+

> it’s hard to get traction here on HN without karma points

Please dont try to turn HN into an advertising front.

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Overall, take the time to write a decent post and you might get a decent answer. You need to write without namedropping for obvious spam reason, the type of product, what it does, why it has a place in the market, what you think customers are, are you targeting countries, price vs competitors, is there a significant onboarding if software etc etc

I'm >10 years of marketing products all over the world and happy to offer advice as I enjoy my work, but the quality of post defines the quality of answer.
Taking a basic economics course would answer your question.
Quite peaceful? There were four shootings in ten days and at least two people killed [1]. I personally went there and within a span of an hour or so that I was there I saw a woman screaming about how she had been raped and I saw a mob of people violently ejecting a street preacher.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone#S...
Yeah, same for a few of other nationalities (Chileans, Mexicans, Aussies), as for the rest...not so easy. Things like these is why I laugh when people talk about globalization going too far. This is only true for powerful organizations
So odd question if anyone can answer. Did Amazon already have the author's information ( and hence the 1099 ) or did the fraudster submit it ( in which case, why did he give the correct address )?
"We are mostly law abiding because we are afraid and repressed and we have no choice, not because we are inherently well behaved or “good.” We’re not Disneyland by a long shot but it is probably true to say that if George Orwell and Philip Dick had an illegitimate child of a theme park, then this would be it.

"Gibson was a visionary in that he saw clear through the hype to the disturbing underbelly. It turns out our government doesn’t have the secret to prosperity, and progress and they are clearing failing in technological innovation and creativity. But others still believe in the hype and if the PAP’s model for pseudo democracy takes off then new democracies everywhere are in danger."
I thought it might be called "clojure".
And it runs on the Java Virtual Machine with easy linking to Java libraries.
I have not programmed much in it to know whether it contains most of Common LISP.
Agreed that site is awful. At first the site would not load - I only saw the pink down arrow on a blank white page.

After refreshing, the site appeared but scrolling on child pages is frustrating.
I've gotten in the habit of adding trailing whitespace when I comment out code or do any printf debugging. It's still quick, but then git yells at me if I try and commit it.
Yeah, the lack of supersonic overfly on most countries (not just the USA) was one of the main factors against Concorde (despite the fact that in many cases the decibel levels were lower than cotemporaneous aircraft).

It's no coincidence it's main routes (London->JFK, Paris ->JFK) are 90% over the Ocean.

If you actually managed to get long distance hypersonic routes (such as London->Sydney, or even London->Beijing, London->Tokyo, etc.) at a significant time reduction, I can see it working.
"in" is the abbreviation for inches, and school maths/physics class taught us that length × length × length = volume, which is exactly what you have: 3 kilometres × 1 inch × 1 mile.

My physics lessons at secondary school must have spent at least a week on SI units, base and derived units:

Force = mass × acceleration
N = kg × m·s¯²
(i.e. a Newton is a kilogram-metre-per-second-squared.)

Pressure = force ÷ area
Pa = N ÷ m²
Pa = kg·m·s¯² ÷ m²
Pa = m¯¹·kg·s¯²
(So Pascals are Newtons-per-square-metre, or kilograms-per-metre-per-second-squared.)
I lived a block away from the CHAZ/CHOP and while it was mostly peaceful during the day, it was angry, aggressive, and deadly at night. I took video of a mob of people brutalizing (pushing to the ground, pinning on the ground) a Christian street preacher in broad daylight because they didn't like his annoying speech. At night, for days at a time, there were gunshots and people getting shot. If you think it was "quite peaceful" there, then you're getting your information from a severely biased source. I lived there and spent more time there than probably any of your sources.
"And in practice they rarely are not. Nobody calculates the total cost of an unnecessary two hour meeting where 8 highly-paid employees discuss about something almost completely irrelevant."

In my experience, that is absolutely not true. Just about any meeting I've ever been in with more than 6 people, the very first question was, "this meeting is expensive, does it need to happen and do we need everyone?"
Texas is also a good example of that density only matters if there is a land scarcity problem.

There are areas in Canada where building massive towers has been premature and also led to increase in costs.
I find it interesting how often the Therac 25 is mentioned on HN (thanks to Dan for the list), but nobody ever mentions that those kind of problems never entirely went away. Therac 25 is just the famous one. You don't have to go back to 1986, there are definitely examples from this century. The root causes are somewhat different, and somewhat the same. But no one seems to be teaching these more modern cases to aspiring programmers in school, at least not to the level where every programmer I know has heard of them.

For example, the issue which caused this in 2007:

https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20100124/News/60520...

Or the process issues which caused this in 2001:

https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/alerts-and-n...
Is this a complaint about the Preview app? Because obviously all other programs you might run in OSX make their own decisions about their functionality. Personally, I always use the Menubar search feature via QuickSilver or the default Help>Search shortcut, CMD+?, so I never even noticed those features have been now hidden behind an option key.
> Do a bit of research before buying, like on the arch wiki

This, a thousand times. While I haven't used Arch for a few years, and probably never will again, they have some of the best and most complete documentation in the GNU/Linux world. Chances are, if there's ever been a Linux-specific issue, some Arch user has run into it and either fixed it themselves or found the answer in the Arch community. Their wiki is quite thorough as well.

Another great source is linuxquestions.org. Half a million members and still growing, and they cover all major distros (though there's a ton of Slackware power users there, which suits me fine).
10.10 upgrade was a full reinstall PITA. But the tweaks, hackarounds (EasySIMBL, pqrs.org, etc.) and firewalls (icefloor and hands off) makes the pretty thing fairly usable.

Nit picks:

- iBooks uses up 100% of CPU randomly by pegging storeacountd, even without internet access.

- Mail.app is slow to start and hangs if using email rules to send notifications.

- Not all apps support a dark toolbar.

- There should be more UI LNF's themes that are pluggable.

The cost of Linux though it dependency hell on both Fedora- and Debian-based systems that aren't developed as a whole like FreeBSD or OSX, where library dependencies break things. Sure you can get ZFS going and basically compile most anything on a Linux box without having to wait for the web developers that don't understand UNIX philosophy to maintain a technical dilettante's popular package system. But really, you should be developing in isolated containers as similar to production as possible using something like Docker and Xen|KVM.

Also, the Linux kernel has bazillions of syscalls that change with the wind compared to *BSD and XNU (under a few hundred).

If I had to choose another OS, it would likely be PC-BSD. If that didn't work, the BATNA would be Mint. Failing that: arch.