jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I have one pair of clients who send me wireframes produced in Excel

There are no limits to Excel.

I've been sent floor plans in Excel where the spreadsheet has been zoomed out really really far, each square representing less than a square meter in a 20000+ square meter building.

Or banking applications where the terminal input screen (the backend is in COBOL) and batch reports are designed in (and print to) perfect square cell Excel files, one character per cell.

This goes through a very traditional corporate waterfall testing process, and everyone finds it normal.
Diesel pickup trucks are quite popular, particularly for people working in professions where they are already running diesel-powered heavy equipment (Of course, it's not technically legal, but the off-road diesel that bulldozers and such run on is the same as the on-road you buy at the pump, just with a different color dye and about a dollar less taxes per gallon...).
Because Jabber is awful but too many people were so enthusiastic about its open-source nature that it blinded them to its faults (specifically poor groupchat and a bunch of bad choices about the behaviour when logging in from multiple clients at the same time).

I don't think it's too late. I know the people working on http://matrix.org/ and I trust them to get the technology right. But as we know, popularity depends on a lot more than the technology.
Indeed - has anything changed?

If not, then those discussions are still relevant, and there would be value in skimming them rather than simply repeating all the points again.

If so, then it would be of value to see what has changed, possibly by reading the previous discussions. Perhaps the mood of the audience has changed, perhaps the general opinions of the HN community have shifted.

Either way, being aware of the past is of value.

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.

-- George Santayana

EDIT: People often misunderstand these back-links. They are not intended to scold people for submitting things that have been submitted before. On the contrary, I believe some things should re-surface from time to time, bringing them back either for the informing of the newer community members, or for re-evaluation in case things have moved on and should be re-considered. My main concern and motivation is that previous contributions should not be wasted.
Ah so the problem is that the supply of houses is very limited and prices are dictated by amount average house buyer for specific house can afford. It makes sense.

This is another proof why government shouldn't intervene into the market by offering loans or subsidies. Usually what they end up doing is completely opposite of the intention. Instead of subsidizing young buyers to buy homes for less cost, they end up subsidizing the owners of the houses.
Yet. They also didn’t allow you to create or install third party apps on the first iPhones too
Do you analyse the code in your browser extensions every day?

Also, this is likely far beyond the capabilities of the average computer user anyway.
Apple doesn't lose anything by opening up to other OSes (or they could single out free ones).

The hardware has already been sold, nobody's returning OSX for a refund.

If anything, they're missing out on sales to people that live by "Linux or bust" motto.
> Folks that are privacy concious are equally deluded.

This is the kind of nonsense comment that ends up being used as the moral justification engineers need to build these privacy invading services.

People are entitled to their own privacy, end of story.
here in israel its the same

and we also got very high presence of Truecaller so basically if you expose your phone number anybody can find your real name and FB profile
Thank you! userTrack was never free, but I did change the pricing model from lifetime, to yearly to now being one-time payment + yearly payments for updates.

I would love to make userTrack free if I can find a sustainable way to work on it. Most other similar open-source software offers a "hosted" version to get revenue, but my goal is to promote decentralization and self-hosting in general, so me focusing on the hosted version would go against my goal and beliefs. I really want to see a feature where any non-technical person can choose a few products and have them running on their own VPS/server in a few clicks. This would have many advantages for the clients AND for the developers:

* Clients pay a lot less for a products

* Developers must focus more on product and performance, leading to higher quality products.

* Hugely increased privacy for the average internet user and for the own data of the client using the product

* Better performance (each client has their own server so it is more likely to have more resources)

* Better latencies (each client can choose to use/host their product on a local datacenter)

* Better data transparency, easier migrations and fewer vendor lock-ins (if you own the server and the data on it you can most likely always export it in some form)

I think there are many other advantages for both companies and clients. The current SaaS environment makes it really easy for companies to ask huge amounts of money for services just because they want to, as the client has no real alternative unless he is really technical and can spend days installing and maintaining a self-hosted software that rarely gets updated.
I'm curious to know if when I make some voice/video calls, and send and receive some data and push notifications, how far that dollar would really go.
Just to re-iterate, my original comment scrolling up was specifically responding to this claim:

> We don't get this nonsense where the insurer tries to deny us and hope that we don't dispute.

Restated, this is claiming that health insurers in the US erroneously deny coverage as a policy. And that is the specific statement I am saying is untrue.

The crazy bills are true, you should of course budget to be able to afford the out of pocket maximum for healthcare costs in any given year. The hours on the phone might also be true, but I know how complicated of a topic US healthcare is (perhaps needlessly, but it is what it is).

Personally, I have more issues with the healthcare providers than with the insurance companies. The insurance company has picked the phone pretty quickly when I call, and tell me the price of a procedure they have negotiated with the provider if I give them the code for it. You can even search it online on a map to shop around the prices.

The problem that I have in US healthcare is that no healthcare provider is willing to give me a code, even for simple checkups or X-rays or what have you, where everything is known in advance. The healthcare providers don't want to risk

And to finish, I'll provide with an anecdote about one of my experiences with healthcare:

My wife gets an ultrasound. The healthcare provider charges $15 for "towels" used to clean up the gel they put on my wife for the ultrasound. In reality, it was a few pieces of paper towel. The insurance company denies to pay for the towels, so we get a bill for $15. I call the healthcare provider and asked why I'm being charged $15 for a few pieces of paper towels. The person in the billing department says to ignore the bill and not pay it.

As a consumer, what am I to understand here? That healthcare providers are overcharging? Or maybe insurers are underpaying (or paying late, or causing too much paperwork) so that healthcare providers are overcharging to make up for some of that? Or healthcare provider is just charging and collecting payment from anyone who doesn't contest, and letting it go for anyone who does?

I inquired multiple times as to all the charges that will be had during the ultrasound. It's a completely routine procedure with no unexpected costs, but the healthcare provider told me they can't give me the codes they will bill. Had I been provided the codes beforehand, I would have brought my own paper towels to wipe the gel off. So I can conclude that the healthcare provider was not really trying to recoup paper towel costs.
This is interesting to read, as it's pertinent to where I'm at and what I'm contemplating for the next stage of my career.

I had a promising start with a consumer travel startup about 10 years ago, but stepped back from that about 6 years ago as it wasn't taking off and I was experiencing severe burnout.

I've since worked on projects in ag-tech, travel, medical services and commercial real-estate.. All of them are showing some viability and could become very successful if properly funded/staffed. I've also identified some new opportunities that I'm keen to explore, particularly relating to health and personal growth, after my own journey to overcome burnout. And, I still haven't fully scratched the itch of the original travel startup.

I'm uncomfortable with the idea of committing exclusively to any one of these concepts, as several of them are compelling, both as commercial opportunities and the potential to havre a positive impact for the people they serve. I'm also now a father and mortgager, so I'm not in a position to bet everything on a single idea the way I was 5+ years ago.

Whilst the industries/markets I listed might seem very disparate, I'm confident there are common aspects of the way these companies could be built and run, that could mean it could be beneficial to build several of them out of the one studio.

I've been turning the idea over in my head for a while, with part of me feeling like it makes sense and could work really well, but the other part of me thinking "nobody has made this work before, everyone will say you're unfocused and noncommittal..."

So, it's just nice to see others thinking along similar lines.

If anyone can point to any examples of this kind of thing working really well, I'd love you to share them.
How does this help you? If your dotancohen acct is compromised, I will just capture the password for dotancohens when you su to that account.
There are basically two options; maintain up-to-date dependencies carefully (engineer around dll-hell with lots of automated testing and be well-versed in the changelogs of dependencies) or compile a bunch of CVEs into production software.

There really isn't any middle ground (except to not use third-party libraries at all).
> Is it unreasonable to want, or even expect, an incognito window to disable all forms of tracking?

> Ask what the layperson would think tracking is!

No. No no no no no. There is a serious problem with this line of thinking. Lay people cannot dictate how technology must work. Because they don't understand what is possible.

This post is like the famous quote from that Australian politician

> The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia

It's simply not appropriate to assume that just because a lay person wants something to be true, that it must somehow be possible to actually do.
The point has always been painfully straightforward, your browser is the one who stops tracking your browsing activity, not the sites you visit.

There's even a warning about that
It's now closer than you might think (except in extreme conditions).

The main driver of range loss for earlier tesla's was the fact that they used an resistivity heater for the cabin/battery. That changed fairly recently to a heat pump. The range loss now is far less than it used to be.

Extreme temps will render the heat pumps useless, but that's not the common case. You've got to be in northern Candida and Alaska before you are starting to talk about a useless heatpump.
> Nomad's read-only Web UI,

Nomad's UI has a good number of functionalities that can be controlled through it. Sure, there are some more lower level operations that are CLI only(though this seems to be something they are actively working to improve on) but most of that probably won't be needed but someone just trying to run a couple containers on a single node.
Maybe but despite the fact that they might celebrate it... I really doubt the value of "hey someone opened up diplomatic relations with Israel" is all that valuable to a given US politician... same goes with the state that chose to do so.

I think whatever horse trading happened behind the scenes was likely more valuable than PR.
You see similar pan out in medicine.

Physicians at "renown" institutions actually tend to make less (on average) than the average physician. They can do it because so many physicians are willing to move to a high CoL location, work more, and take a pay cut.

The best jobs actually tend to be in rural states and areas. Pay is better and work/life balance tends to be better.

CNN article: https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/27/pf/jobs/doctors-pay/index.h...
This is partially covered in the linked article.
I definitely don't feel that way.

I don't go into the code I wrote 6months ago knowing exactly what every line does, but I remember the broad strokes about what it is generally doing, where different logic will live, and it makes it much easier to jump back into code I wrote 6months ago vs code I've never seen before.
+1

Actually, I was having this exact same issue last week, as my dog was sick and I found myself scouring google for even a semi-organized resource. Excellent job!
> I wish there was a language that was actually multiple levels of compatible languages.

I first read about multi-level programming back in the 80ies and was hooked.

Objective-C has bit of this, because the C part is static and pretty low level, but the object-oriented part is dynamic and can go quite high level [1][2].

My own project, Objective-Smalltalk[3] definitely has "multi-levelness" as one of its primary goals. The way to get there is to make the elements of the language malleable, similar to Open Implementation[4], but using a software-architectural frameworks instead of an object-oriented one.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_order_message

[2] http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/the-spidy-subset-or-avoid...

[3] http://objective.st/

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_implementation
One cool feature that isn't listed here is that you can use emacs org-mode files instead of markdown to document your project.
Have you looked at the mess that is FirstData> ISO> ISO> ISO?

Sales has been difficult to scale in this market for so long, it has relied on lots of layers of independent sales people. I would argue Square will bring some efficiency to this market.
And pays more than 10x as much per dose.
Is there anything more to this link than "ha ha, they screwed up, they're so stupid!"?
wow, tested that in chrome and ff on mac, and fails nicely on both. Very surprised to see that get past QA.

I've always be amazed at the quality that FB is able to put out at the pace they do updates, and across so many users. Very surprised to see such a blatant error.
If you could use tarsnap in Canada, I would totally use it
Do you have any particular security holes in mind that nginx guards which node.js / io.js are open for ?
Another one selling a "You Can Do It, Too!" book.
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I can relate, on some level. Sometimes I feel like writing test cases that increase coverage is not enough. There are days where I think I need a sat solver in order to get confidence that I'll never see incorrect behavior from my code.

> type hinting will dampen the effect of type inconsistency I feel

I'm not sure that I see type hinting being that advantageous. I kinda hope that it could allow PyPy and other VMs to make assumptions that would otherwise require heuristics.

Perhaps type hinting could make static checkers/linters for Python more effective, though.
Well your single customer is your paycheck and your deal with the devil. If you triple the price of what you really think it will take because the gov will be inflating dollar supply by double digits every year and you're working a 10 year project, then the gov may go for a different/multiple contractors. So you have to just milk the project for as long as you can beyond 10 years and hope you can dollar/cost over time for the best profit. Lockheed should offer a store of value price and a dollar price. Otherwise, this is the new standard for long-term gov contracts. Lockheed can't lay their legendary game down when dealing with this kind of client. Is what it is.
I would look at flying cars are a metaphor, not as a literal thing people are opining over.
The US has a very different relationship with race than your country.
Developed countries tend to build tunnels for lengthy mountain routes for which there is serious demand, so there is less a case for flying cars here.
Which most tech workers who get paid in RSUs are?
>> We can build cool shit, but our government and most companies don't optimize for that.

I don't think they know how. They want cool shit too. Imagine a pork project that also produces cool shit - they would love that.
Whether or not the rich earned their wealth honestly has nothing to do with the issue of excessive wealth inequality.

Excessive wealth inequality creates a massive imbalance in society. The concentration of wealth in the hands of so few leads to corruption, oppression, and wars. We already see all of this and it will only get worse unless we address the issue.
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For some insight/rumors/thoughts from IBMers you can check out this board:

http://www.endicottalliance.org/jobcutsreports.php

At the moment it seems to be down, probably from being overrun with traffic now that this story is trending a bit.
You can put up to 64 hard disks/SSDs in the front.

If your power consumption figures are right, it would take 46 years to make up the difference at 10 cents/kW h. As I recall, you'd divide that by half for the cost of cooling, and then you'd have to figure in the lower capital costs of requiring 1/2 the cooling.

Also possibly subtract some network hardware. The box provides "Up to 64 1 Gbps or 16 10 Gbps uplinks". And it may be more "server grade" than your setup, it integrates load balancing and server management; at the very least, the hotswap granularity is smaller.

That still sounds off, except for companies that are running out of machine room space (the type of premium you pay for a laptop).

How sure are you of your alternative's power consumption? I.e. have you hooked one up to a Kill-A-Watt meter? They claim 1/4 of the power of "today's best in class volume server".

I think we're obsessing too much on the "$139,000" figure, if you look at http://www.seamicro.com/?q=node/38 you'll see there are so many options (1 or 2 GB per CPU, Ethernet and storage cards, possibly/likely some cost for the optional hot swap disk physical infrastructure, etc.).

To make a good comparison you'd need to figure out and price a system including load balancing and network hardware, measure it for real and contact SeaMicro to find out the real price for a comparable system from them. Plus until they work through their backlog they won't be too eager to discount....
Fine, but that doesn't make the "power " any more or less valid, only that it seems to be useful thus far.
So in 3.1, if you were to write frontend code, are you supposed to write it in CoffeeScript, or jQuery?
Also known as shotgun debugging, where you randomly poke at the relevant portion of the source code in the hope that the bug will magically vanish. I think the habit is formed early on, when most of the mistakes are things like syntax errors or off-by-one problems, where certain types of random tweaking actually can be somewhat effective.
Out of curiosity: Damn, $6k per month? What kind of work are you doing to have that much left over for debts?
I don't think the cost of expanding to other regions/AZs is necessarily linear such that adding a zone would incur 50% more costs. Going from one zone to two would probably look that way (or even one server to two), but when you start going from two to three or even 10 to 11 then the %change-in-cost starts to decrease.

This is even more true if/when you load balance between zones and aren't just using them as hot backups. As another commenter pointed out, Netflix says they have three zones and only need two to operate.
Not sure if I'm adding value here but gdbtui also works (article mentions gdb -tui).
Ubuntu/debian has a package called gdbtui which does exactly what gdb -tui does
Really? Maybe I'm just unusually cynical, or I guess maybe I knew about the web interface and you didn't?
Sometimes I share this feeling, but then I think about all the loved ones who were cured of some disease that would have been deadly 50 years ago. I don't think it's the pharma companies that are responsible for this. They are for-profit entities. Our governments should create the necessary business environment which will encourage these companies to work more for the people.
I have to assume the reason that it hasn't been done is HN doesn't consider it a problem, from my viewpoint I just followed and I can see there are definitely a few flags I did not intentionally do. I have two pages of flags, I would say approximately a page worth is misflags.

on edit: I don't seem to have any misvouches so not sure why misflags would happen and not misvouches.

on edit 2: obviously misflags must happen more frequently because it is possible to flag any post, and misvouches can only happen if I accidentally vouch for something someone else has flagged which I wouldn't see that often. So I guess it is reasonable I have no misvouches but a page worth of misflags.
Why is that unreasonable? US emissions are actually lower than in the past.

But the US could go to zero and if China and India don't lower emission it won't matter.

Tragedy of the commons and all.
Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, but it comes back down as rain quite quickly. It's also more or less in (dynamical) equilibrium, because there is always a huge source of atmospheric water in the form of evaporation from the oceans' surface. The way to meaningfully increase atmospheric water content is to increase atmospheric temperature, which methane contributes to, but that's a second order effect.
What is the startup removing Methane? (sorry if I missed it in your profile)
This is pretty interesting/terrifying. Could you say more about the startup? At least its name?
From the article:
"IFS is, Intel boasts, the only foundry optimised for x86, Arm and RISC-V."

So TSMC doesn't manufacture x86 (for AMD), ARM (e.g. for Apple) and RISC-V (e.g. for SiFive)? And I would argue that TSMC currently uses more advances technology than Intel. Also, one might also ask why a fab needs to be optimised for a specific architecture (compared to an implementation)?

After Intel's attempt to take over SiFive has failed (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-failed-to-buy-sifive), this really sounds like extend and embrace...
> I think being a free speech quasi-absolutist is the only viable position

I disagree.

I think that deplatforming Alex Jones is probably a good idea, and deplatforming JRE is probably a bad idea. If I could choose, I'd deplatform one but not the other.

I think that's a perfectly consistent point of view to hold. The line has to be drawn somewhere - but I don't know why it can't be at a nuanced place in between these two.
I think we need a better mutual definition of useful. IMO an equation is "useful" if someone out there is doing practical things with it. You are taking a sort of definition where anyone can do math with it.
Bought my MBA 13 days ago. I have 24 hours to decide if I want to return it for a full refund or not...
I used to have one in Facebook, and I used to have one in instagram.

These platforms got users by providing that service, and only remove them later once they want to exploit us
with atomic swaps that make use of taproot, that wouldn't be distinguishable from, say, opening a lightning channel, but still, there's not enough liquidity there (and this is very recent stuff anyway)