jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> He himself had no ability to work with technology... But he knew who did

Agreed, and in fact this is what I meant by the VP's "actual job." As a VP of Engineering, your job is indeed to build a great engineering team and then protect them from the inevitable politics.

However, to build this team you need some framework on the technology to understand who is BS'ing you, and who you can actually trust to do the right thing. IMO you can't do this well if your background is in, say, finance. (Similar to how a great engineer would probably make a terrible CFO.)

The incompetent VPs I've had to deal with weren't stupid, in fact many were quite smart, and of course politically astute. But they just didn't know enough about the technology to know who to trust to actually deliver a great product as a team.
I think it's a mistake to target and blame private companies for that. Should they not comply with the demands, feds would make their lives very difficult. How about you just stop paying to the NSA? Oh wait, you can't, cos if you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail.
> Sorry for the diversion, but what is/was it like to be able to ace a test without really studying for it?

Fairly anti-climatic. For someone that it comes easy too there is no real emotion or sense of accomplishment.

It would be like trying to explain the color green to someone that was born blind.
A/C is one of the few use cases where there is a need that was addressed. A/C accounts for the vast majority of energy usage in most homes, so optimizing it can provide real cost reduction. It's also really easy to install since there was already a single control point for the A/C in the form of a thermostat. Just look at Nest Protect if you want an example of an IoT product without a customer need; they add cost and complexity without any real benefit over normal smoke/CO2 detectors.

A need for A/C optimization doesn't extend to there being a need for IoT/home automation as a whole. What benefit exists for a "smart" house? Drastic energy reduction can be achieved through simple use of CFL/LED light bulbs; they don't need to be Wi-Fi connected. What else would you even want automated in your house?

EDIT: Also, my original point stands: Nest is not a hockey-stick business. They get revenue when a customer buys a product, yet their platform has to support all of the thermostats they've ever sold.
This whole concept of "misinformation" is the attempt of one side to silence the other, rather that debating the subject with definitive proof of their claims

The problem here is that it takes far more effort to refute bullshit than it does to spread it.

With all of the unknowns of many of these current subjects, I would think open debate presenting theories from various sources would help find common ground.

What happens in reality is that whoever asserts greater certainty has the upper hand, particularly in the absence of genuine authority. Science is (correctly) reluctant to make unconditional promises, while con artists have no such hangups.
Well they are more or less right down the road from each other.
But damn. Why did they try to take down a piece of shit like that with a ridiculous bullshit charge.

Because 97% of cases don't go to trail, and the US Attorney is in court so often that they can afford to loose here as cost of pushing judicial interpretation towards their favor (I doubt it's an explicit intention, just one of those things that evolve from well meaning incentive).
> There's simplicity as in "this is simple to understand and use"

Yeah, it's a known fallacy. We should replace "simplicity" and "readability" with understandability, since we don't really care about the first two, but only confuse people.
We already know that NSA exploits Flash bugs, and bugs like it, in the large, with impunity. They have an elaborate MITM apparatus to direct people to clientside exploiters. These things we all disclosed in the leaks. Why make new stuff up? I know security people at Apple. I do not believe for a heartbeat that they would cooperate with NSA on a backdoor.

I'm coming around to your take on TLS, for what it's worth, although the only thing I can think of that's worse than TLS are the crypto transports generalist developers come up with.
Snapchat must be target #1 for this program now. Blackmail material served up on a plate.

People are going to seriously regret using Snapchat in later life.
I readed the title, and expected an article about installing the Statistics package for PHP.
I have to admit that this is my thoughts too, defensive and watchful, but no panacea.

I'm interested primarily in mobile and web client accessing my own REST API. Users have to be logged in to do anything anyway but it doesn't stop someone who has a valid login from writing another application and abusing the system.

Like you said, you just need to be vigilant.
The non-ssl version loads much faster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl

I'm curious as to why wikimedia is even offering all their content over ssl in the first place.
The most insane meltdown ever? Well, I wasn't there, and the video I saw was short. The guy was too warm and took a moment to reclip his mic. That's what I saw. He had good reason to be uncomfortable, and he was. Consider it penance.
Reading down to the bottom...

"After taxes, she takes home about $2,300 a month. Rent runs $750, and the full monthly payments on her student loans would be about $700 if they weren't being deferred, which would not leave a lot left over."

How is $850 not a lot left over for discretionary spending when you are 26 and just starting your career? You eat crap food, walk and take public trans and you make it work. This smacks of the kind of entitlement that just makes me sick.
Yet another reason I'm glad I went through the Australian system... government funded loans and subsidised education (I paid about 2.5k AUD per year for my degree, which is about US$2200, at one of the top universities in Australia), where the loans gather no interest aside from inflation and you don't have to start paying them back until you earn over a certain amount (and then the payments are automatically taken from your pay, much like tax). Great system, imo.

It's changed a bit since I went to uni, but the general idea is still there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aust...

I remember being horrified when I saw my friend's HECS debt was around $8000 AUD... yet compared with this, it's peanuts!
As mentioned in his notes, there was actually a lego plotter kit, although he didn't base his project on that.

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/1092
Here's my take: his plan was to take some mushrooms right before he went on stage, so he'd be ready to party as soon as the interview was over. But just as he was ready to go on they delayed the show for 15 minutes, and the shrooms kicked in right in the middle of the interview. He spent the rest of the interview sweating while trying unsuccessfully to catch some sort of train of thought.
He was wearing a hoodie on a stage with dozens of extremely bright lights precises directed at him while being asked questions that he was very nervous about having to answer.

What is the scandal? I wish I could downvote this story. His answer was nonsensical because he was nervous and hot as hell, not because he didn't really have an answer.
the numbers he mentions are all piracy. his app involves a server-side so he counts the users on the server-side and the actual paying users per platform.
VCs can evaluate the likelihood of a startup being successful. Banks can certainly assess whether a particular person pursuing a particular education will be able to pay back the loans they will need.

I say if your plan is a bad risk, no one should be coerced to fund it. You'll have to come up with a better plan.

That will leave more money for education that will create more wealth.
On a completely unrelated note, I attempted to get a sexology course as an elective in my CS degree, and failed as my university did not provide such a course... What sort of course was this for?
Add one of the following to 'Ublock Origin' 'My Filters'

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Not in the graphic arts, but this is the most appropriate use of an .xyz domain I've yet seen.
> Why should I consider Laravel

If you work on all those projects alone, and you're happy doing this, you probably wouldn't. You aren't the target market for a framework like this.

Laravel (and any good framework, really) is for people who want a consistent dev experience _with good documentation_.
I also noticed we are in 2022, and my screen is so big I can have three or four files of 80'ish chars wide side to side. Specially with Django, where you usually need models.py, views.py, forms.py and a template open at the same time. With 120'ish lines, I lose one vertical split.
like "A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder" at https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/10/06/
I'd much rather have a system that doesn't try to solve human conflict by algorithms. Blockchains do this: you write code, the code becomes the law, and then there is no recourse when things go wrong. I deeply believe that we should rather focus on developping our interpersonnal communication skills and building social structures that empower us to do things together by trusting eachother and taking care together of the group. Algorithms are just tools, and we don't want them interfering in our relationships; in particular in the case of blockchains, the promise of trustlessness is absolutely opposite to this ideal.
I think you may be right about normalizing roommates, which is a horrifying thought. Roommates aren't even OK in college. Past college, I can't see how it would be willingly endured. It's barely above being homeless. Being in a SRO, even the tiny cage-like ones of East Asia, would be superior.

Having a place of your own, shared only with desired family, is fundamental to being an independent adult. Ideally you should even own the land.
Does direct air carbon capture at scale even exist? Is there plausible reason to think it will exist in the next few decades?

The whole article seems like "If nuclear fusion cost $100 per MWHr, but if it only cost $10/MWHr..."
Either a trip or someone who buys counterfeit products on the street, where information in the market is known. If you buy a Gucci bag on the street, you know it's not really Gucci and you price accordingly. The same for DVDs, or electronics in a shady camera store. This is different. This is deception by a company that wants you to believe you're buying the real thing and charging you in accordance.
I would argue that there are a couple of innovations here that haven't been tried (to my knowledge) by the previous attempts. One is the wifi directly connected controller (so it bypasses the display device for lowering input latency), the other is, supposedly, advance algorithms to estimate inputs to reduce lag. The latter, of course, is something that FPS servers have been doing for a while but I don't believe this has been tried before in terms of cloud game streaming.
Somebody told me a while back that Apple cables self-destruct when other cables don't because a while back Green Peace talked Apple into no longer using PVC for their cables. The replacement plastic is presumably better for the environment but is less durable (possibly negating any environmental benefits by increasing the amount of e-waste produced?)

I don't know how much truth there is to this theory though. It doesn't seem to explain the poor strain relief.
to be fair, I haven't actually played the game in a while, but I think you are reading a lot into alyx that isn't really there. I don't remember having the impression that alyx was in love with Gordon or really picking up on any sexual tension at all.
More money does not always mean better.

Also, you can only compare different products, I haven't seen a company that produces the same model, one with short lived parts, one with long lasting ones. Then I could make a real choice.
I've been wanting a service like this forever.
My wife is Chinese and I do a lot of work related to US and China relations. Basically from what I know, China wants to be the best, jealously is very, very strong within the Chinese, if you are not number 1 then you are last. The CCP will do all it can to be number 1. For 50 years they have systematically provided the US with opportunities, enhanced our economy (on the surface), and done so much more. However, as the US is now seeing, it was all done for China and not for the US. Now the US has placed its self in China hands. We have become so dependent on China that the US has backed its self into a corner and has no clue how to get out. So China now is cracking its iron knuckles seeing how far it take advantage of the situation.

If the US speaks out, China pulls the plug on our Economy. If the US spies on them via technology, China uses its mass 25,000 military hackers to wreak havoc in cyber-security. With the debt we owe China, they keep waving it in our face, the US is helpless.

On the plus side, the Chinese people also are loosing faith in the party and have moved their money over seas, soon China's economy bubble will burst and the most of the US will be saved. New jobs will open, our debt to China will end, and all will be well. For those who make all their business importing from China, they will be the ones you will see on the streets if they don't stop and see the signs.
"It is not paranoia if they really are out to get you"

But I'll take your advice and visit my psychiatrist. In the meantime, no google helpouts for me. I mean, I can probably pass on this one. And on the next one. Why take any risks?
If I remember correctly (and I'll be the first to admit I might not have this right), the accredited investor rule comes into play if a startup doesn't have a full prospectus explaining the risks associated with making an investment along with an in-depth report of the startup's situation. If that's still the case, then if you can make it easy for startups to crank-out semi-customized prospectuses, then you open the doors to investors with less than $1MM. Correct?

The next trick, of course, is finding companies that want your money and will be willing to do the extra work.
If you have any questions, feel free. I can't answer the obvious juicy ones regarding acquisitions or clients, but other than that, I aim to please.
Thanks for sharing your numbers, they are refreshingly honest.

I wonder if conversion rate from free to paid accounts is similar in other industries.

If so, the numbers are quite sobering.

If even a successful, highly targeted and well marketed SaaS product with 100K users and millions of pageviews makes as much profit as someone working for minimum wage flipping burgers, it seems that most startups don't stand a chance of ever getting ramen profitable.

I'm not deliberately trying to be negative, but I'm wondering why your revenues are so low even with such a massive amount of traffic.

Is your free offering so good that most people don't feel the need to upgrade?
and of course only an alliteratively poetic machinist would think to use "sublimeswarfswirlsslowly"
Awesome, thank you very much. I'm very happy with how the course has been going so far, and will have my siblings and friends take it when it runs again the next time around.
That's not hypocrisy in the slightest. It would be if Github made claims like "we think companies should open-source all of their product's code", but they would never make such a claim. In fact, their business model is selling features to people who want to keep their code private.

Against your wishes, maybe; Hypocritical, no.
I n the U.S. you do have the right to arbitrarily refuse service, except on the basis of certain specific classifications: race, religion, ethnicity, etc. Nothing keeps me from closing my shop to people named Joe, people below 5'8", people who like Battlestar Galactica, etc.

The way that works is that someone entering a public shop has implied license to be on the property. But that implied license can be explicitly revoked to exclude specific people.
If audio detection is based on the <audio> tag, the browser is in a much better position to build a solution, since it would instantly work on all HTML5 audio websites and not be constrained to only using the browser title. Regardless, this is a awesome, simple solution for now.
Then we all get stuck supporting both until its universally adopted (you know how some people still use XP?)

It is a noble desire though.
It has a ground clearance of 16 inches with the suspension at max height. When it lowered itself for the tailgate ramp, it was probably closer to 10 inches off the ground.

The triple motor also has a double stacked battery, so the center of mass is not going to be much further up than the battery is.
Even Windows runs like crap on a MacBook - with similar driver issues
This is really just a curious question, but I've been playing a lot with overlay Filesystems at work. Have you tried mounting the tars as overlays directly? (I'm not sure which driver, but to my knowledge podman does it this way) this way you wouldn't have to unpack the tarballs and also have an immutable base for the container.
I sincerely hope that one day, Linux GUI land will receive similar amounts of work as the kernel.

While it's great that we can boot it on pretty much every device out there, I would much prefer if it was a viable Windows alternative on a few devices instead.

Just yesterday, I plugged an external screen into my Ubuntu laptop. And then I had to duck-duck for like an hour to figure out how to make the fonts large enough to be readable again.

And why doesn't the file browser reliably show me all the files in a folder? Sometimes, the first file in alphabetical order is just omitted.

I sincerely want to like Linux for Desktop as much as I love it on servers. But the fact is, OSX and Windows just make you so much more productive, because things just work.
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This is a complicated topic. Marriages dissolve for many reasons. In general, though, western society has embraced a view of marriage that combining view with a coupling view. No longer are married people “as one” but rather a couple mutually supporting each other.

While this doesn’t seem like a difference, it has major implications in pretty much all aspects of life.
100% his comment about Rust.

See my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293035
Only 1.5 billion people.
There is discussion if this should be called an organ.
The Amiga CD32 fixed that issue by adding hardware-accelerated chunky/planar conversion. It came out too late to make a difference, though.
You need scales think 100 or 10k tasks. And speed. But selenium works just not well. Usually the user just sits there and solves capcha.
Yeah I honestly don't care how they do it. I just want to export an encrypted blob with a passphrase and import it when needed. Store it on my device so I have to manually move it or store it on iCloud or some other cloud service. I don't care I just want the option to backup and restore!
HN discussion about the Node.JS implementation (blessed-contrib) a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888089
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(before...
Most people have no savings to speak of and that is not the fault of inflation, so that is not a problem. And anyhow, I don't really see why the work of my grandparents should be valued equally by society as work that happens now.
Increasing the block size makes the blockchain harder to decentralize, and in the end, it doesn't solve the problem, but just kicks the can down the road. It just doesn't make sense to store every coffee payment forever in the blockchain. That's why the focus is on security and decentralization, and let second layer solutions deal with the payments problem (privacy, latency, throughput). That's the plan for now, until someone comes up with a better idea.
> Compare that with gold, or any other asset.

Depends on what you're trying to do of course. If you're looking to physically send gold somewhere, you're spot on.

I can buy and sell GLD at a zero transaction cost. I can buy $100,000 of GLD at zero transaction cost, then sell it, then repeat that a hundred times.

What will Coinbase charge for the same thing in Bitcoin for $10 million worth of transactions?

I can also store that virtual gold purchase at a low cost indefinitely (GLD has a 0.4% annual fee that it extracts; IAU is 0.25%). After you account for fees, that is likely to compare well with using a service like Coinbase to store your Bitcoin.
I find it weird to tell people which exact tools to use.

I also really enjoy knowledge management and I think I would really love org mode once I figured it out, but I just never got around to it. I am a Sublime user and really enjoy it, so I found other tools for my use cases and so far I am happy with the results.
Could org mode provide me more value? Maybe. But it's not the point.

Somebody might be taking more notes than others, because they are used to it, or because they need it, and it's totally okay and people should do what works for them.
If your data was truly yours (data affiliation vs data ownership) this would be even less of a problem.
There are 3d printers out there, that are designed to print gold, but they all cost the same regardless of metal that you want to print.
My background is in embedded, so I admittedly know extremely little about web development, but whenever I'm curious and sit down to read about microservices and containers and orchestration and all that stuff, my mind starts to numb and I can't help but conclude that 99% of companies that use it probably don't need to. And that they're just a complex way for engineers to keep themselves spinning their wheels and not actually working on an application. Like that guy who insists on doing nothing but refactoring and rearchitecting and moving things from one layer in the stack to the other, re-writing in different languages, integrating new third party libraries that do the same thing their existing third party libraries, but not actually adding anything that improves the product. How did the world get into this situation where you need all this complexity just to deploy and configure not even an application, but part of an application? Amazing!
Thanks jpk & gharbad.
You can use any browser engine you want on OS X. The point of comparison obviously has to be Windows Mobile 7, not Windows 7.

Oh, and Microsoft got flak because they were behaving in an anticompetitive way. Shipping your OS with only ine browser engine is usually no problem and only in very specific instances illegal.