jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At dawn, the moon,
like a creature of fantasy,
stole into my room
and woke me from some
lazy and unproductive sleep.
Her face quickly illuminated
the underside of my soul
and my own being stood
revealed in the naked light.
Sighing in wonder,
I faced my Self, which said:
"Your life so far has chased
the illusion of control:
You will not meet me on that path.
One flash of my glance
is worth a thousand years of piety."

Overcome by waste and loss,
my soul endarkened itself with shame.
But my moon-faced Self,
whose radiance equaled the sun,
filled a cup of Direct Experience
and urged me to drown my despair:
"No bouquet... no flavor...
but this wine can wash away
your being's whole historical library."

I finished the cup in one gulp,
and, intoxicated by its purity,
fell to the earth.
Since then I am not sure
whether I am here or not.
Neither sober nor drunk,
sometimes I feel the joy of
my soul's eyes looking through mine.
Other times I feel the curl of its hair
and my life bobs and weaves.
Sometimes, from sheer habit,
I'm back on the compost heap.
And sometimes,
when that glance finds me again,
I am back in the Rose Garden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Shabistari
he was in the gnaa
In general, the software revolution has made me think back on how much many traditional devices around my house suck.

I pay a lot for phone service and the actual quality of the service they provide to me is terrible. They actually allow illegal phone spammers onto their network. I get phone-calls from robots about free trips, on a service that costs me more than my NetFlix account that I get a lot more enjoyment from.

I get Gmail for free and it filters that crap out.

And don't get me started on the piss-poor UIs of the traditional TV industry. Holy crap.
I would argue the "magic" is that someone considered the risk and cost of messaging you, and feels confident they found something to connect about
We might be clones. I look them up too off and on. Hilarious.
Hah, domain brothers! (I own imgy .org)
To be fair, bars do provide a modicum of physical security. The overall environment is pretty sketchy/unsafe in other ways, though - hence why plenty of people are not fans of bars overall.
This is not out of the realm of the possibility. But by the time a new protocol is needed, applications will hopefully be much cleaner if they migrated to Wayland in between (less X-specific hacks, better compartmentalization of features). It would probably be easier to implement interface for backwards compatibility with Wayland than try to emulate the monolithic X (well, Xwayland is X running under Wayland because there's no other choice, so that's a possibility as well).
I'm currently in the process of building a laneway suite building on my existing Toronto lot, which is typical of the city - 25 feet wide by 160 feet long. There's a driveway and a laneway at the back.

I spent two years and $25,000 to just get to the point of having building permits. The most egregious part was that I had to pay the city around $3,000 to cut down a tree on my own property, because due to a city bylaw, I did not own the tree, the city did, and I had to pay them for their "loss".

The bureaucratic nonsense and nickel and a dimeing people to death with multiple fees and taxes, added with the premium cost of materials, makes building far more expensive than it needs to be.
One does not need to time travel to 1999 to accommodate text browsers, current HTML works just fine.

OTOH I don't worry too much, accessibility-enforcing laws will provide plenty of job opportunities for future developers... So yeah, good move, I guess.
Problem is if drivers are spread more thinly between them. But just the news today should have prompted drivers to sign up to other apps.
>> comparing the actual feature set

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites
WhatsApp is almost certainly safer and more privacy respecting than Telegram.

Telegram uses highly nonstandard cryptography (the founder hired a bunch of math competition winners and told them to design encryption from first principles), doesn't have E2E by default (unlike Whatsapp), and is owned by a quite sketchy Russian oligarch who started spending on democracy-related causes after a falling out with Putin.

Telegram uses dubious encryption and lies about their business (for ex calling themselves a nonprofit when they aren't), and they retroactively retracted and then narrowed their bug bounty program.

WhatsApp hired the company behind Signal to help them implement Signal's encryption protocol.[1] While it's not as good as Signal because it's not open source and thus can't be independently verified, if Facebook deliberately lied about the security of a product used by governments around the world they would face serious consequences.[2]

See for example previous discussion [3].

For a detailed analysis of the flaws in their protocol, see [4]

1: https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/18/end-to-end-for-everyone/

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/world/asia/afghanistan-wh...

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281788

4: https://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypt...
Purry.io aims to be a decentralized Twitter, sans new coin and scraping, though.
Incidentally, that pictures actually shows another difference I noticed between these and "store bought" eggs. The store bought eggs the egg white when fried tend to get bubbly, where as the "golden yolk" eggs they tend to stay smooth. I prefer smooth, as the bubbly white gives a weird texture.

EDIT: I don't mean bubbly as in fried crispy kind of bubbly, but just air filled but not crispy kind.
This is ableist too. You might be relieved to eliminate candidates who could be a great fit with some accommodation. You’re eliminating people unnecessarily, and it harms both you and the candidates.
I'm speaking based on the experience of dozens of engineers, including ones from all of MFAANG, and a half dozen almost-FAANGs.

I think you're conflating whether a process is useful for the organization with whether it is useful for the engineers implementing it. Since processes have to be uniform, you need to either figure out how to retain someone that's been at the company for a decade to continue to work maintenance jobs, or you need to figure out how to keep the fresh grads that will replace them from breaking the world.

The right choice for the organization is to keep production stable, and the bus factor high.

The right choice for the engineer is to demand massive comp increases (comparable to startup acquisition windfalls), and also the abilty to stop working maintenance.

A lot of the best engineers I've worked with used to be in a FAANG. Almost none of them would consider going back. They universally cite broken processes as the reason they left.
Yes, it's 100% my own money. It seems my question was perceived in an unintended way - Why I'm asking here is because I don't want to pay a salary to myself and get double taxed, unless there is some legal/tax requirement that prevents me from working on growing the company without a salary. Thanks for the short answer.
Thanks to babashka also for command line tools and other use-cases (serverless?) where startup time matters:

https://babashka.org
Agree.

But selecting formaldehyde for your scary example mostly just sounds scary because of it’s relation with embalming fluid. As you say, anything can be poisonous: the LD50 of many substances is surprisingly high https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose#Examples

From https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/19th-century-f...

In 1896, desperately concerned about diseases linked to pathogens in milk, he even endorsed formaldehyde as a good preservative. The recommended dose of two drops of formalin (a mix of 40 percent formaldehyde and 60 percent water) could preserve a pint of milk for several days. It was a tiny amount, Hurty said, and he thought it might make the product safer.

But the amounts were often far from tiny. Thanks to Hurty, Indiana passed the Pure Food Law in 1899 but the state provided no money for enforcement or testing. So dairymen began increasing the dose of formaldehyde, seeking to keep their product “fresh” for as long as possible. Chemical companies came up with new formaldehyde mixtures with innocuous names such as Iceline or Preservaline. (The latter was said to keep a pint of milk fresh for up to 10 days.) And as the dairy industry increased the amount of preservatives, the milk became more and more toxic.

Hurty was alarmed enough that by 1899, he was urging that formaldehyde use be stopped, citing “increasing knowledge” that the compound could be dangerous even in small doses, especially to children. But the industry did not heed the warning.

In the summer of 1900, The Indianapolis News reported on the deaths of three infants in the city’s orphanage due to formaldehyde poisoning. A further investigation indicated that at least 30 children had died two years prior due to use of the preservative, and in 1901, Hurty himself referenced the deaths of more than 400 children due to a combination of formaldehyde, dirt, and bacteria in milk.

Following that outbreak, the state began prosecuting dairymen for using formaldehyde and, at least briefly, reduced the practice. But it wasn’t until Harvey Wiley and his allies helped secure the federal Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 that the compound was at last banned from the food supply.

The article also talks about pasteurization being discovered in the 1850’s, but would not become standard procedure in the United States until the 1930s.
I like lobste.rs as an alternative that stays technical and has less of the fluff that HN attracts. Plus with their tagging scheme, I can just hide all of the junk that I could care less about by default.
I wish I could downvote this a million times. Do you literally have to do that at work and do you actually talk this kind of wine tasting algorithm bullshit in interviews? This has nothing to do with software engineering as far as building software for a business or any kind of meaningful work. Do you even hire people? This has to be a troll account. I enjoy code golf on a casual slack channel, but you can send me every engineer who fails that question in your interviews and I bet I'd find a few good ones.
> I'm not trained with any formal credentials

Get trained with some.

There is a massively growing demand for therapists. World events and
changing culture are creating the conditions for widespread personal
crises. This has a big effect on the economy and is really an
underlying root cause problem for many other visible socio-economic
problems. Science now strongly backs modern psychotherapeutic
practice, and it can be a rewarding career.

Most (good) training is the usual 3-5 year programme involving
psychology, reflective practice, clinical work, self-therapy, clinical
supervision. You can choose amongst a range of different "schools"
(cognitive, behavioural, attachment...) which are increasingly
combined and regulated by the same bodies.

It;s also hard work to be a professional. For the good programmes
selection is actually tough. Would you be able to help people
traumatised by witnessing horror? Rape victims? Or neurotic, obsessive
patients who break boundaries and call you at 3am? Can you keep
absolute compartmentalised discretion on par with doing intelligence
work?

Good luck.
Seeing a bit of debate concerning the most defining feature: one post a week.

This is my favorite aspect of the site!

What this really brings up is the distinction made ages ago about policy vs mechanism. Every social media platform out there has or basically uses the same mechanisms: interactive, submit text/photos/video, add "friends", and so on. You'll notice that Slow Social implements the mechanism of a social network.

So... what makes every social networking site different? It's the Policy! Most platforms had a few defining policies.

- Twitter: "tweets" must be quite short, originally emulating SMS, all tweets show up in your feed (not sure if this is true anymore).

- Facebook: add friends, must use your real name

- Quora: must use your real name, posts must take the form of either a question or an answer to a question (but comments may also be made)

- Reddit: Upvotes and Downvotes are first class citizens, users submit an idea, and the interface encourages lively discussion in the comments (this isn't technically policy, but more like culture).

And so we add Slow Social to the mix: must add a friend to your list for them to see your post or add their email, may only post once per week.

It's also just cool to experiment with new policies and see if they work.

So, Slow Social adds a new, perhaps daring policy so as to make things more enjoyable overall. As an aside, if I'm only allowed to post one thing per week for my friends, I can't help but think that that would encourage my writing to be more impactful, thoughtful, and polite. It would encourage good habits in written communication.

So needless to say, I'm signed up and looking forward to where this goes!
> But if the Roman Empire was practising “Nazism” 2000 years before Hitler was even born, maybe “Nazism” is somewhat of a misnomer for the generic phenomena (as opposed to the specific instantiation of it in 20th century Germany)

Nazism is fascism plus violent xenophobia of specific, ie. of "superiority", kind, like "master race" in case of Hitler or "master nation" in case of Russia. In my original comment i specifically mentioned practically the same definition given by Russian propagandists - "totalitarism plus political nationalism" (fascism is a totalitarism). For example Italy was fascist, yet it wasn't really nazist. Roman Empire wasn't a fascist state, thus it was also not a nazist state. USSR had totalitarism, yet it wasn't a fascism, and USSR also didn't had a nationalism ideology. Putin's Russia has both - fascism and "master nation" ideology, and thus Putin's Russia is a nazist state.
No its actually great, your opinion is unacceptable.
Whatever you may think about his political views, I think Pim Fortuyn would have benefitted from better security.
How is this a thing? I thought math could be mostly apolitical. I guess not for the government of Florida. Talk about cancel culture.
Yes, you could do that. 24-30TB of plots would win a block roughly every day or so with the current netspace.

I'm using a bunch of used drives and not worried about disk failure because worst case scenario is replacing the drive and re-generating new plots.
I have to say it, but asp.net and microsoft in general fits very well into my idea of zero-trust per se.

Jokes aside, i dont know that much how is it today, but years ago i had to run some asp.net apps in production, it was a nightmare...
They work on language translation concepts. C++ to winrt, C# to WinRT, Rust to WinRT,... And also C# to (Android) Java or C# to (iOS) Swift/Objective-C.

But that is just interop/language translation beyond stone age C ABI like most languages do.
It’s great what they did, very impressive and excellent product.

However, the article is a bit misleading, mainly for two reasons: “bootstrapped”, and “without spending a dime on marketing”.

They “bootstrapped” by financing the company with another profitable company. That technically means they were their own investors, but they weren’t limited only to the revenue that their email company was generating.

They didn’t spend “a dime on marketing”, but they did spend time promoting their product on several platforms, including producthunt, and they do have a blog (which is where the article is hosted), and they do have one full-time employee (out of four), in charge of marketing. So maybe what they truly meant is that they didn’t pay for advertising, but that’s different than not spending money on marketing, which they did, and in fact you could even say that it’s probably a significant part of their budget (given one of the only four team members is dedicated to marketing).
Keep an eye on the Cisco Small Business line - no subscription, firmware updates without an account (yes, I am still talking about Cisco) and while the management console is a bit weak, I'd wager Cisco will mature faster than UBNT can get their crap together at this point :p
> how to talk "the right way"

Not suggesting it as a fix, but this did remind me of the military phonetic alphabet, which includes numbers too.

3 is "tree", 4 is "fow er", 5 is "fife", 9 is "niner". The rest of the numbers are mostly as-is, but you'll hear very deliberate enunciation, like "Zee Row" for 0.
Not sure that qualifies as "farmland"?
I have an iPhone and AirPods, both with the Lightning port. I charge them every night with $7-$10 Qi chargers from Amazon. I've read that doing wirelessly charges slower but that's supposed to be better for the battery.

Rarely do I use a Lightning cable anymore. I bought an Apple Watch and there's nothing but an option to wirelessly charge it. Before that I would have been skeptical about the idea that Apple is not going to switch to USB-C but instead just use wireless charging. Now it seems reasonable.

PS: I had used various Bluetooth headphones before. The killer features of the AirPods Pro are their small size (I can fit the case in my coin pocket) and the ability to skip 30 seconds ahead in podcasts.

I had used various Garmin Vivofits and loved that they lasted a year on a coin battery or two. But I found that "completing my circles" on my Apple Watch was just enough gamification that I'm moving significantly more than I did before I got the watch. It does make me understand why some health care organizations give them out to members to try and get them to move more. I switched from the SE to the 6 because the SE takes 2 1/2 hours to charge instead of the 6's 1 1/2. It's still annoying to have something that requires such attention to keeping it charged and then charges so slowly. But the trade-off was worth it for me.
May I just express my gratitude for having this community. This answer is well articulated, and answers the question I had, in a form that is close to heart.
I've never used Django, but is it really that much easier to manage than a modern Java framework like SpringBoot or Quarkus? It's pretty fast to throw up a REST endpoint, and annotations have replaced much of the old boilerplate.
I kept saying "RGB, RGB" and got to level 4 before I was bored. I'm also color blind, so I was thinking I'm gonna fail here, but it wasn't that bad, probably because I wasn't distinguishing shades and such
> but as someone in the professional computer security field I know that any company or state/department/organization can be hacked by a motivated attacker.

You seem to give Sony too much credit, and also forget that they had a file server with open internal access which had a directory called "Passwords" which contained a plain text file with all the credentials to their internal servers.

That's something I'd expect to see at some small business with no professional IT on staff... certainly not from a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees and a full-time professional IT staff.

Sure, the attackers may very well have spearphised their way inside, but once inside, they didn't have to go through any of the normal hassles of island-hopping with more exploits, etc. They just logged in like they belonged.

Motivated attacker or script-kiddy, once inside, Sony made it awfully easy.
Eventually the older generations die. That stabalizes things.
My father was a Civil Service Electrical Engineer at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo. When he served in uniform, he was an antiaircraft missile fire control officer.

He had a great deal of admiration for Admiral Rickover. It's a complete surprise to me that Rickover is regarded as a jerk.

Liquid sodium-cooled reactors can be a lot more efficient than water-cooled reactors because you can get the liquid sodium a lot hotter. The efficiency of heat engines is determined largely by the difference between the hot part and the cold part.

So a Congressional committee invited the Admiral in to explain why the Navy didn't build submarines with sodium-cooled reactors. He responded by dropping a piece of sodium into a glass of water.

(Sodium burns on contact with water.)

Despite being a government employee himself, my father hated government employees with a furious passion.
I think the landing needs some work. The value prop of the landing page is vaguely discussing a service product in a similar pattern to Fiverr.com - however the listings are from very experienced consultants, and the productized service offerings they give are very different from the Fiverr model.

High end consultants will offer packages like a "Roadmap Session", which is typically just a flat rate consulting session where the deliverable is a polished project proposal, with the anticipation that the client will gain confidence and hire the consultant for the full project proposed in the roadmap.

In the case of Fiverr they do service-as-product really well, however the suppliers basically use a grittier version same loss-leader method of charging for the $5 product package on Fiverr and using that as a gateway to having the client hire them on at full rate for other projects longer term. (Though in many cases they just sell simple info products)

The difference with Fiverr is the client often gets a deliverable that they need right then and there like a design or a video etc. A high end consultant rarely delivers something like "a new website design" as a product package, they'll instead deliver a powerpoint presentation about how to approach your new website.

A high quality custom website design can't be just packaged up, it takes a lot of time and effort. There are nuances and requirements that change from client to client and different levels of value contributed. Charging a single flat fee for every website would be a disaster. But a proposal wrapped up as a roadmap is pretty cut and dry and pays dividends with more client work.

So those are the types of products you're getting on this website. They just need to be communicated in a more honest way
Hi IkmoIkmo. I sent a private message to your Reddit account.
Honestly I don't think that's what's happening.

I don't find my Facebook experience more disrupted. There was a time when ads started appearing on my feed. And they stopped again.

I get the impression Facebook is highly attuned to how much engagement it gets and does everything it can to keep that high.

I think the problem is more just the problem you get being at a party with interesting people for a long time. No matter how interesting the people might be, you get tired of them after a while.

Moreover, the process of disenchantment and disengagement happens at a different rate for different people. And because Facebook works hard to engage the people who are engage-able, you get an effect where some people have left, some people at the door hoping for others to shut up so they can leave and some people are happily engaged with the remainder of the party.

And it seems like longer term, the process of disengagement will only increase because the division between those "still at the party" and those who have left will tend to breed antipathy.

Oddly, I think you also have a division between those who post photos of themselves and those who post little comments and links - good looking photos are hard to maintain and so the photo part only happen occasionally. Snark can happen often. And so you the splitting of social groups.

And this is a social experiment, more or less, effecting millions of people today.
That would be interesting, but also require support from the terminal emulator. Hence why ET is "native scrolling", I guess?