jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's a rough look at my finances. I currently take home $2k a month, and live in the city of Pittsburgh, for reference. I live in one of the nicer neighborhoods in the city, though I managed to find a pretty cheap place.

Rent: $325/mo ($950 split three ways)
Student loan bills: $500/month
Fios/gas/electric: $70/mo, (again, $210 split three ways.)
Food: I eat out a fair bit, so probably like $500/mo, on average? I could cut down on this a lot if I tried.
Transportation: I bike everywhere. Spent $600 three years ago.
Phone: $60/month, Nexus One on T-Mobile with unlimited data/text, small amount of minutes that I never use.

I don't currently have health care.

That puts me at roughly $1450 of spending. I'm sure I'm forgetting something minor. But for just expenses, that'd end up being $17,400 / year.
That is somewhat interesting in terms of the intellectual history...

Nathanial Brandon: his writings most resemble modern psychology, and Rand was opposed to making her ideas sound like psychobabble... hence her use of "selfishness" rather than the looser (though more descriptive) "self-actualization".

Greenspan: One simply cannot thrive in politics by discussing the morality of capitalism (other than by criticizing it). Greenspan omitted any mention of Rand from his most recent book, and all we have is an essay he wrote. Meanwhile he officially ate crow after the financial meltdown by making some remarks critical of capitalism.

It would indeed be interesting to listen to tapes of their debates, but short of that I think it would be fairly difficult to learn much, since Greenspan himself is mum.
When I have more income, I'll see about comparing that to my Sturmey Archer.

EDIT: Looked at the Wikipedia article. Wow, there's no comparison!
The list of search results displayed from the DPRK's search engine was interesting. The query "handbook" brought up quite a few hits on IBM's Websphere Application Server, and even a guide on deploying UMTS towers. Does anyone have more information on how the country's network access works?

Edit: Some discussion over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426919
I think the two board members mentioned definitely fail the "Independent" test but in the grand scheme of things at least Fred Wilson as a VC has a basket of other companies that he/his firm own shares in so he's not as materially invested as Fred Ehrsam is (not condoning Coinbase labelling either as independent, just adding some colour to the discussion).

Unfortunately companies do this a lot, and even companies that are in the public eye. I think I read somewhere (Damodaran's blog) that when Disney was being run by Michael Eisner, half the board was insiders and some of the independent directors included the CEO's personal attorney, his kid's school teacher, etc.
Does that include scripts? Does it mean I can't include a JavaScript -script stored outside the html-page without user confirmation?
There were and are workers’ unions in communist countries. They didn’t always have their worker’ best interests in mind. Often they were a tool of the communist state to control workers. In addition sometimes you had student movements pitted against workers’ unions and so on.

Exploitation or at the minimum the potential for it exists in every economic system. It’s not a feature exclusive to capitalism as much as people dream it to be so. Even in a barter economy, can I not take advantage of another worker? Of course I can!
You could pay for hosting from a smaller provider on your own domain. Sure it costs money, but you don't have to support those giants and you get to keep your own address.
What if the buyer doesn't want to sell and requests the shares?

Genuine question, I only have very superficial understating of the option market.
All such people are so blinded by the outrage they can't take a few seconds to make clear what they're actually outraged about in way that can convince others to join them? Yeah, sounds about right.
As someone who have escaped from places with public housing and healthcare provision, I suspect you were never really experiencing that. Some place for wise regulation - maybe.

That said, a parallel is very poor. Modern academia is a zero sum morally corrupt game, guilty of many sins on its own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place

I think it also relates to operational professionalism and having your tools and toolbox in order ala Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters. They both had very interesting relationships with order, process and tooling.

I think structuring dev teams around a professional kitchen is really powerful model. All roles are critical, the sous chef, the busser, the prep cook, the dishwasher, everything.
HN's title mangler strikes again?
Fingerprint reader is definitely not the top priority, but saves a lot of typing when retrieving a password from the password manager. And yes, I think all MBPs that have a Touch Bar had one, new airs as well.

How’s battery life and thermals under Debian? I guess all Intel CPUs get hot, but at least my MBP is quiet enough. Battery life life isn’t that great though.
this is interesting. caffine never does a damn thing to me, which leaves me wondering what part of the chain is broken & why...

I wonder if there's any tests i can do to learn more about myself in this regard.
This is exactly what I've been doing for 18 years. Hiring and firing new doctors, and trying to navigate "what should I investigate next?" on my own. To be fair, there were several doctors who were willing to try (just about) anything I brought to the table, and when they were all out of ideas, they admitted as much. Unfortunately this type of doctor is rare, in my experience. Which is why I'm asking for help finding a good one in my area (Cleveland).
If you feel that everyone with the means has the moral obligation to help her, then everyone with the means to help is equally guilty regardless of whether they "exploit" her or not.

To bring it back to the example at hand, 37signals (no overseas employees, AFAIK) is just as guilty as Apple for the poor conditions of workers in China. And you or I are just as guilty as the person trading burgers for sex.
I have no problem with the chosen writing style because that's all it is. I don't think he's actually thrashing around his room and loading a pistol.
Some questions for you:

- Is there any history of learning difficulties in your immediate family?
- Were there any medical problems while your mother was pregnant with you?
- Was the birth process unusual or prolonged in any way? E.g. CS, Forceps, etc.
- Were you born early or late for term (more than 2 weeks early or more than 10 days late)?
- Did you weigh below 5lbs (pounds)?
- Did you have any difficulty feeding in the first weeks of life, or in keeping food down?
- Were you extremely demanding in the first 6 months of life?
- Did you miss out the 'motor stage' of crawling on your tummy and creeping on hands and knees?
- Were you late at learning to walk (16 months or later would be considered late)?
- Were you late at learning to talk (2-3 word phrases at 18 months or later would be considered late)?
- Did you have difficulty in learning to dress yourself, for example, do up buttons or tie shoelaces beyond the age of 6-7 years?
- Do you suffer from allergies?
- Have you had an adverse reaction to any vaccinations?
- Did you suck your thumb beyond the age of 5 years?
- Did you continue to wet the bed, albeit occasionally, above the age of 5 years?
- Do you suffer from travel sickness?
- Do you find it very difficult to learn to tell the time from a traditional (as opposed to digital) clock?
- Did you have an unusual degree of difficulty learning to ride a bicycle?
- Did you suffer from frequent ear, nose, throat or chest infections at any time in development?
- In the first 3 years of life, did you suffer from any illnesses involving extremely high temperatures, delirium or convulsion?
- Did you have difficulty catching a ball, doing forward rolls/somersaults and stand out as 'awkward' in PE classes?
- Did you have difficulty sitting still for even a short period of time?
- If there is a sudden unexpected noise, do you ever over-react?
- Did you have reading difficulties?
- Did you have writing difficulties?
- Did you have copying difficulties?

How many yeses do you get?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815065
Flagged for use of "M$" in headline. Seriously, grow up.
Conquering other countries.

More seriously, I can imagine it includes travel to work, which tends to be an epic journey through traffic jams in densely populated countries like Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands.
To be fair he pick out "popular" music as being disposable.

It is surely indisputable that much popular music is produced with short-term profit rather than musical excellence in mind.

That, I suggest, is disposable music. Is Britney Spears music getting a bit old? Don't worry, there'll be new mindless, trivial drivel here in a short while.
"you can always get a job that pays tons of money", "pick where you want to live", "just follow your passion, don't worry about your CV", err.. sorry but this is unrealistic for people that are not already upper-middle class and American. I'd love to set that as my priorities but I don't live in that bubble. #firstworldproblems
> I wonder if the non-owners think that it's merely a case of those who did buy one trying to justify their purchase.

Either that, or a case of blub.

SSDs are one of those pieces of hardware closest to magic you can find, the differences between HDD and (modern) SSD are so big it's hard to understand them until you've experienced them. I know I didn't before I got mine, but Anand's writing on the subject convinced me there was something to it (anand being a person whose opinion I respect greatly, and one of those who dived early into understanding SSDs, he didn't hesitate crucifying early crappy SSD, and his SSD series are fantastic in their breadth and depth)
I'm pretty sure it was Multiplan and not Excel that used the p-code approach. Also, when Lotus 1-2-3 shipped, it was written entirely in assembly, was blazing fast, and crushed Multiplan in the marketplace.
I should have said "many registrars have sold businesses on" not "people on".

I agree that it's not desirable to have a home address on whois as a (once again) general rule. Yet many of our customers do that and we've never heard of any particular issues that they have had.

That said, if you are working as a business (and it's unclear if you do any business consulting or programming I did look at your website quickly (very nice btw.)) in my opinion it pays to get a PO Box for $10 per month.
That's part of the point of certificate pinning.
> If a library exists for Rust 1.0, and then a library author releases a new version of the library with Rust 1.1 features, the Rust 1.0 library does not cease to exist. And Cargo supports semantic versioning...

That's true, but it ignores the way modern software unfortunately works. Programmers are lazy, and maintaining multiple development branches takes work, so they will try not to do that if they can get away with it. How many bug fixes will get backported to Rust 1.0.x, or to the 1.0-supporting version of that library? Probably not very many. Most developers will just bump the major version every 6 weeks, because that's easier than worrying about stability.
Maya has its dependency graph architecture, while Houdini has its many layers of networks. They both make explicit their pipelines of data transformation, using a common building block, and that allows the system and the artist to reason about what gets done and when. You might create some geometry (a grid), then apply some noise to it to create a landscape, then use it as part of a physics simulation as a static object, then also use it as part of the rendering of the final image. You expect to be able to change the parameters of each of those stages and reason about the result.

You'll generally see these pipelines depicted as editable, directed graphs (DAGs) in the application. Blender uses DAGs for a number of things - eg an image compositor, and for shading networks. It also provides modifier layers (like 3DS MAX) for geometry transformation. But it doesn't go down to the core of the application which is why you can get some problems when it comes to certain tasks in animation for instance. But they are working on this.

It's a bit like all these various architectures for the web - Flux, RxJS etc. They're making explicit the transformations and dependencies that happen, by means of a data flow graph (even if it is not visualised). This usually means less surprises and more opportunity for optimization.
Google Chrome automatically reports back to Google if a certificate appears for Google and it is not issued by Google's own intermediary. It also blocks it from ever loading via HPKP.
pg told me that he wanted HN to look like the output of `top`. The older it gets, the more we approach that goal.

More seriously: I've never seen a proposed "spruce-up" that didn't either add too much whitespace or too little (well, always the former), which makes me think that the current design is in the ballpark of optimal, despite its being unfashionable. Also, HN is very much a text site, a fact that goes much deeper than look-and-feel. The first thing most "spruce-ups" do is toss this quality, which compromises the site at its essence and indicates a misunderstanding of what HN is. I'm reminded of Steve Jobs' famous line about how design is not how-it-looks but how-it-works.

If someone did a redesign of HN that preserved both its information density and its textiness, I'd be stoked to see it as an experiment. We probably wouldn't change the site much, because if there's one force stronger than user complaints about design, it's user complaints about design changes. Also, I think it's an advantage for HN to have an unfashionable design, and a huge advantage to have a stable design. Still, I'd be fascinated to see it, and there might be ideas we could use.
I live in Lyon, France and we often have high air pollution warnings and you really can feel it in the air.

During lockdown, back in April and May, there was a noticeable difference in the air quality. It felt different. When we went out for a walk you could also tell the difference in noise pollution from there being so few cars on the roads. It was lovely.

There is a church nearby that we can sometimes hear when the bells ring on the hour at night but during lockdown we could hear them during the day. My wife commented back then how she knew when the area had "returned to normal" as she could no longer hear the church bells when she had lunch in the garden.
Thanks for the feedback. Personally, I feel like we nailed down the important changes earlier this month, and I agree that further churn at this point is likely to cause more harm than good.

For what it's worth, the issues you linked to are mostly about adding more rigor to possibly underspecified areas, not changing things that are already specified, but those things could easily be done after 1.0.
There is this fairly sparse press-release on the SpaceX website:

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has raised a billion dollars in a
financing round with two new investors, Google and Fidelity.
They join existing investors Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson,
Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn. Google and Fidelity will collectively
own just under 10% of the company.

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches the world's most advanced
rockets and spacecraft. This funding will be used to support continued
innovation in the areas of space transport, reusability, and satellite
manufacturing.

http://www.spacex.com/press/2015/01/20/financing-round
It faces tough competition from the excellent Visual Studio debugger, but I hope they succeed. A compiler monoculture is bad.
Well they got a court decision for them that says they have no duty to protect it serve except in the most nebulous sense of some duty "at large" that doesn't actually mean anything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb....
> Where the wheels come off is when you've never touched k8s, postgres, aws, rust, graphQL or vue - and you try to mash them all together in one ambitious project.

In my experience (both myself and observing others) this is the cause of lots of side project (sometimes even startup) failure. Lots of people choose a tech stack that's far away from what they've worked with, so they never get past the "read the docs and try to get anything working" stage. For a real chance at completion it seems like the recipe for success is choosing a stack that's 1ish derivative away from a dev's competencies so they have a new and exciting thing to learn, but are able to continue progressing and adding value.

I am also a person that, prior to using Azure, was an absolute "Kubernetes is a big waste of my time and I'll just skip it" person. I wrote it off as predominantly "resume-driven". Now, having used Azure for about a year, I'm rewriting all my Azure infra to use AKS to better insulate me from the inevitable issues that come up when I GTFO of the Azure sphere as soon as our credits run dry. And, what I'm learning, is Kubernetes is a just-fine deployment/orchestration/management tool for containerized infrastructure that is _not_ a massively complex microservices infra. It's just a more streamlined approach to scaling and managing cloud-agnostic tooling/containers.
They just copied http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ and tweaked it slightly with a few opinionated changes. This is very lazy.
I thought this was why the two stories had been posted!
Another commenter stated it's Corner Café in New Providence [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739049
Serifs can be a good thing for readability! I don’t know that the creator’s choice to force sans-serif was ideal here.
> but to simply force it amongst all age groups is beyond me.

That's how vaccines work.

> This seems very dangerous, and I don't why democracies are even flirting with the idea.

You say you're not an anti-vaxxer, which I believe, but you ARE using their utterly wrong but elegantly misleading talking point. A society being "democratic" does not equal "every member of society can do what ever the hell they want".

And democracies have not been flirting with this idea, they have been implementing it, successfully, for over a century.

> I'd consider taking one with more time/data

And just to drive the point home, no you would not.

Neither of us is able to rationally assess the safety or effectiveness of these vaccines (I'm assuming you are not a professional in the field from the arguments that you are using) so more data/time is useless to people like us. Either we trust the professional and institutions, or we don't. Not having faith in institutions/professionals isn't a problem - hell I even understand it and feel a non-trivial amount of it. But let's not pretend this has anything to do with vaccines themselves.
Please omit swipes from your comments here. Your comment would be fine without the last bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're assuming that people without televisions don't have netflix. I use netflix on my laptop.
Well, we could have not tortured him.

Failing that, we could live up to our so-called standards and laws and live with the consequences of torturing him, ie that all evidence tainted by torture is now inadmissible.
Initial idea: search engine

Eventually: Google

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Initial idea: computer

Eventually: Apple
Congrats guys! It's been a pleasure working with you.
The US Census Bureau projects that last year's census will count 114.8 households in America.[1] That tracks pretty closely to what Nielsen has measured. So you don't really need the "with TV's" qualifier. It appears nearly every American house has one.

What is interesting is that I know a lot of people who share Netflix accounts across households. I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of Americans who use Netflix is closer to 25%.

[1]: http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf
Not an invalid DMCA request, even assuming one was sent out.

Copyright applies to original and derivative works, though multiple parties may own copyrights to a derivative work.

In America, derivative works include software programs which are inseparably reliant on code or features (including APIs) of another program. It's basically the same argument that WordPress and Drupal make in regard to themes, plugins, etc., falling under the same open source licenses (i.e., copyrights) as the platforms themselves.

In this case, dropship is entirely reliant on unique features of Dropbox. This makes it a derivative work, and would mean that Dropbox has copy rights over dropship. The programmer of dropship also has copyrights over dropship to the extent that the code is an original work, but Dropbox's rights trump his b/c they own the rights to the original underlying work.
I find I learn more from those that didn't get in than those that do. There are many lessons to be learned from this post, even taking the whole YC-interview idea out of the equation. Team dynamics, different incentives for the founders, communicating a product strategy etc.

Great post Trevor.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" --Charles Caleb Colton
It makes very much sense to criticize Bitcoin for its energy usage, I really don't understand your angle, and how that would asinine. "Mining" Bitcoin is literally competing to waste energy. Even if you want to ignore the fossil fuel angle, as a civilization energy for us is still of pivotal importance - to like build stuff, live and do amazing stuff like explore another planets.

If the price of Bitcoin continues to climb, at which point does it become not sensible to spend more energy mining it? When every inch of our planet has been filled with a nuclear plant or a solar panel? Because rising price will perpetually mean mining more will break a profit. If you can make a profit from wasting energy, markets will reward you for that indefinitely and the entire society will reconfigure around Bitcoin mining.

No, that makes no sense. I don't think anybody wants to regulate how private homes or businesses use their electricity, but I just find the fundamental proposal of Bitcoin as untenable. Criticizing it does not have ulterior motive apart from trying to make people see how silly it appears to me personally.
I trust very few, but toolguyd.com is one of them. Don't know if he's reviewed your nail gun, however.
Mode X?

With mode X you could reach weird resolutions like 320x480 with 256 colors, but it was planar.
That "malicious hardware RNG" scenario has always seemed odd to me. The idea is that it's going to spy on the contents of your entropy pool (or on your entropy sources, or both) and then generate malicious random bits to exactly cancel out what's in your pool, leaving you with all zeros or something like that. My question is, if you have the capability to pull off an attack like that, wouldn't you probably also have the capability to do much worse things? Like just reading and writing arbitrary memory?
It isn't, but in addition to the (valid) arguments the other commenters make about Clubhouse not having any assets in Europe (thus making enforcement of any kind of penalty nearly impossible), the majority of the data protection agencies are also completely incompetent at enforcing the GDPR even against companies that they can collect from.
I wonder about the value of gold. You might buy gold, but can you actually, physically hold it and own it?

As far as I know, the only way you can buy gold is if you either buy jewelry or are a jeweler to make said jewelry. Otherwise you’re just buying stocks which could theoretically be lost in the digital wind.
Where you buy and sell BTC derivatives for 1 - 5 year time span with minimal counterparty risk?
> Do you also have alias make='make 2>&1' or something?

Ah, no, I probably just did `make 2>&1 | cbuf`; haven't actually been on a project using make in a while.
| Ruby: Rails (about the only reason I can think to really use Ruby).

Devops is another good reason. Quick to write powerful expressive scripts.