jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have no interest in telling you what to do as an individual but this thread and all of the people that seem on board with this is what drives me crazy about most of the places I've worked.

I have the hardest time getting anything done because of the sea of people trying to find ways not to do any work. Is this not abuse of privilege? Do you all not hear the stories of people working multiple jobs and still not being able to pay their bills. Is this entitlement?

There are actual problems in the world, sure most of them you are able to effect might be small but what a complete waist of time to be stuck in a job for 8 hours a day and be actively choosing not to contribute solutions to the problems you are faced with. Sure not everything along the way is going to be interesting but if these problems don't excite you there are other jobs that should and if all of that fails go start a company because you are only on this planet for so long and waisting these hours making it look like you are doing work pails in comparison to actually making any impact on the people and things around you. You will be missing out on shared relationships of successes and failures as you resign yourself to this void.

It doesn't feel good to deceive people, it doesn't feel good to take money from people for work you haven't done.

There are people in this world that would literally give anything to have the jobs you have all listed but they can't even apply because they were not born in the right country or their parents didn't have the money to send them to the right school or their accent or skin color made that same interview that you passed impossible to even get.

This whole thread feels so wrong to me and I'm really amazed this community is okay with propagating it. It goes completely against the idea of progress and works against any form of entrepreneurial spirit. Companies fail because of this mentality and world as a whole is worse off because of it. Sure everyone has moments of these feelings but to encourage this as an ok path through of life, I just don't understand.
In the context of this post, i.e. publishing a small personal blog, simplicity works well.
"I'm very unhappy with this, but it's not a monetization scheme."

It's not for Signal, it's a monetization scheme for Moxie.
Illegal in particular doesn't really have a proper legal meaning in many juristictions.

Generally, in lay terms, unlawful means to act in contrary to the law, so it covers anything where a) the police come after you and charge you with a crime b) a governmental body charges you with an offense or imposes a penalty for a breach of the law or c) you are in a situation where a third party can sue you and win for damages etc due to you acting in contrary to your legal obligations.

Generally speaking "illegal" is only used to describe a and b, or just a.

But to be honest so many people get them wrong that there's a legitimate argument that the layperson difference is meaningless nowadays.
I get the sense you may not be aware of the state of "news" these days. Let's say he does find a news organization that is interested in even touching this, it's likely that he will simply be lured into exclusivity agreements that then leads to the story being locked away to protect the depraved princes and dukes of Silicon Valley.

Even if he finds some news or actual journalistic organization with some moderate reach that has not been totally compromised, the shadow censorship will totally suppress the story from even getting in front of anyone who is not already aware.

In case the allusion was not sufficient; fact of the matter is that Silicon Valley, although not exclusive by any means, is one of the major epicenters of an emerging neo-aristocracy that becomes ever more drunk on its power, control, and abuses. For its own sake, the exponential network effects of the whole technology sector really needs to be shattered and scattered. We say "diversity is our greatest strength" like a mantra, but we practice centralization of power and control in ever fewer people … a self-important and self-perpetual aristocratic parasitic class.

Maybe the ability to abuse will last centuries, as it lasted up until the American/French Revolution, but maybe it won't and the peasants will come to erase the whole aristocratic layer many of us belong to. I'd rather not find out.
I believe the most commonly cited criticism is that they rolled their own cryptographic solution.
You are right in the sense that a modern mainframe is reminiscent of a cluster of specialised computers connected through multiple ridiculously fast interconnects. The difference is that IBM offers the software you’ll need to manage the environment.
try again!

You might get that if the websocket fails to connect, too.. hmm.
But, you don't need to incorporate every new feature into your own web projects, and you don't need to follow the same rapid release cycle as the browsers.

Sure, but then if the features aren't going to be incorporated into new projects almost immediately, browsers don't need to push out new releases (and the attendant risk of regressions) every few weeks either. The biggest claimed advantage of the rapid release cycles doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

If my project has an annual update cycle, I want to be certain that any new browser features I'd like to use are widely supported and have been tested in-the-wild for as long as possible before I commit to them.

That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Unfortunately, I think it's also reasonable to assume that lots of other people who might be interested in that same feature will behave the same way. It's therefore not reasonable to assume that those new features have in fact been thoroughly tested in-the-wild before you rely on them.

A related concern is that with the very rapid release cycles, you never really know when an implementation is "final". We've seen fundamental changes over recent years in everything from the syntax for new CSS features to the layout of controls on multimedia elements, sometimes more than once in the same browser within a few months of each other. At least if you ship functionality updates several months apart you offer a degree of definitive behaviour and stability.

also ensures that there will be blogs and StackOverflow questions providing useful documentation on the best ways to use the new features by the time I'm ready to learn about them.

It seems you've had better luck than me. I frequently find that when we run into issues with relatively recent developments in browsers, there are a handful of other people writing blog posts or writing SO questions that show we're not alone, but no-one actually has the answer.

It's also worth considering that just because the main production release of a browser only updates, say, annually, that doesn't necessarily mean that the browser can't also have developer releases going out more regularly for those who want to experiment with new features.
Will someone please sell a well-maintained (and regularly blocklist-updated) Privoxy-as-a-service? I'd like to block ads on my phone, and haven't had time to set it all up myself.
Bug filed and PR sent! :)
But the author specifically states the resume he shares with others is the truth, and not the same as the false resume only he sees.
I think you're misunderstanding the difference between listing goals to yourself privately (be it mental or physical), and sharing it with a wider audience.

I highly doubt that Steve Jobs 'kept his fucking mouth shut' about his vision(s) for iPhone iterations. After all, if he didn't share what his goals were with his close team, then surely he would have had to have built the phone himself in order to not 'list all the things a nonexistent iPhone did' to at least a few other people.

Sorry for the refute, but I couldn't help but call-out your highly inaccurate (to your first point), and also false choice of analogy.
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The BS other people put in the resumes they share with others has nothing to do with the author.
You can only pardon people by name. There will be many more arrests to come after Trump leaves office when the FBI have gone through all the social media posts.
2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630779

(June) 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896990
There's a thought provoking web site out there, Low Tech Magazine. Their basic idea is that electricity 100% of the time isn't as important for everyone and everyting as we think. The need for base capacity is still there of course, but if we allow unnecessary things to shut down when there's less supply we can get away with less.

(Yes, of course we need to have electricity in hospitals and for heating 100% of the time - but if the newspapers are unavailable three days per year, or if some non-essential TV channels turn off when it's really cold - maybe not as bad.)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
You're actually kind of making my point here. You're accepting the governments intrusion (defining what can and can't be done on "your" tract of land via zoning and law). And that's my point. Once you accept that it's a question of where you draw the line -- you're debating shades of grey and not moral black and white.
Black hawk down... hmm not this one. Blue bird down.. not again.. ohh yea facebook is down :)
WordPress is the most flexible and the most easy-to-use platform I've used. WordPress offers so many cool themes both free and premium. Here is the cutest WP theme I've ever found - https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/monstroid2.... . It can be used for setting any website, from a simple blog to a full fledged e-commerce store.
Most (all?) component manufacturers use lead-free solder these days. Lead alloy solders are harder to come by since they're generally only used by hobbyists who find them easier to work with.
thanks for the write up. Having been through this on the inside, company implosion, the few of us who stayed needed to save the software from all the poor decisions made for all the right reasons, I can say it's made me a better programmer.

Not a job for the faint of heart, especially when it's your own history you are now fixing, and I appreciate seeing the experience of someone else.
"Turning a profit" has almost no meaning, particularly with mark-to-market investments in the mix. More concretely Uber's business has never generated positive cash flow (i.e. taken in more money in a given period than they spent in that same period) and are projecting they will reach that milestone for the first time in Q4 of this year.
Yeah, I've experience both of those. I don't know what the long term impact of exposure is to that, but I'd be surprised if it's as bad as being exposed to toxic air.
Many tax services don't allow you to order a taxi ahead of time. You have to flag one down (eg NYC). For ordering a car, you need to otherwise deal with an (expensive) car service

First this is just inherently wrong. You’ve been able to call and schedule a cab, even in the burbs, since before the internet was a thing.

Second there’s now services like Curb (in NYC) or Flywheel which allow you to use an Uber/Lyft style experience with cabs.
I'm in Los Angeles. My downstream is half using this tool compared to the one built into Google.

That's reasonable, actually pretty impressive for talking to Amsterdam

It's hard to really comprehend how amazing it is that I can talk to Europe at 200M/s over WiFi from my personal apartment on my smartphone while lying in bed in Los Angeles, and pay a flat rate that works out to about $2.25/day for the privilege.

It's just absurd. It's pretty easy to forget how much of a future world we live in
Speedtest is there to verify the PHY - shouldn’t be used for anything else. If you want to test “Internet” speed - use speed.cloudflare.com
Interesting profile
https://cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/news/colloquium/1170/

BREAKING AND BUILDING END-TO-END ENCRYPTED SYSTEMS
Speaker: Paul Allen Grubbs, Cornell University

Today’s computer systems and their owners fail to protect data. Exacerbating this are new threats stemming from the rise of cloud computing. The consequences are dire: sensitive information like financial statements, medical records, and private messages are disclosed to malicious parties. In my research at the intersection of security, cryptography, and systems, I work to change this by breaking and building efficient end-to-end (E2E) encrypted systems, which protect data by keeping it encrypted throughout processing and storage. In this talk, I’ll explain some of the flaws I’ve found in existing E2E-encrypted systems deployed to billions of users, how the flaws have led me to a new methodology for building these systems that’s rooted in co-design of cryptography and systems, and some of the new E2E-encrypted systems I’m building.
Yeah, and perhaps it will too much friction in the end. Or maybe it won't be. Either way, time will tell. Thanks for your feedback!
Seidlitz has amassed more than 120,000 brain scans — the largest collection of its kind — to create the first comprehensive growth charts for brain development.

The unusually large sample size alone makes this an important body of work.
Totems have a long and rich history that predate and have nothing to do with Inception.

A totem is generally an object that holds some kind of spiritual or symbolic significance. Its use here is true to the traditional definition.
Can I ask why you wrote this comment? It’s a dig at the other person and it’s not terribly funny, just sarcastic. I didn’t think he meant to allow kids to do anything they want, just not to tell them what’s impossible before they have a shot at it.
Do children normally drive cars where you are from?
The trolling on HN is getting a little too obvious with all of the "nuclear war won't be so bad" posts all over this place.

We all know there are a lot of vested interests itching for WW3. So the question is...why?
Related questions: why aren’t there ASICs to accelerate compilation
The issue is that with twitter, you can only ban a user from interacting with you, or from interacting with the entire platform.

Traditionally, there used to be something in between: Ban someone from your small sub-community.

And moderators on most social media platforms only take action if they have to, preferring to stay inactive, while in most social circles people would proactively make sure a new member is a good fit.
> the current rich-world countries built up their economies largely on the back of environmentally damaging practices. Now that we're developed, though, there is a large push for global regulation of climate policy, punishing polluting countries

While tangential to your point, it should be emphasized that when the current rich-world countries built up their economies, low-emission energy such as solar, wind, and nuclear were not available (or much more expensive). And it is those same rich countries that developed those technologies, that the rest of the world now has access to. In this light, requesting that countries minimize fossil fuel use is not so unfair.
What about using Anycast IPs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
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"copying well-established international websites and derive their success from paying attention to the Indian market before the country "

I'm not sure if this is such a bad thing. Flipkart copied Amazon and its thriving in this country.
I agree it's not effective rhetorically. Digging into any controversial issue is rhetorically risky for a public figure. What is worrying to me is the disproportionate sensitivity Americans have to this particular bit of controversy. All he said is he believes the US government was involved in 9/11. He didn't say how or in what capacity. Yet based on many of the responses, you'd think he said that Lizard Man Bush flew the planes himself by remote control. The author complains that Stallman is marginalizing himself, yet if he and others are willing to attempt to marginalize him based on unpopular (not crazy) political opinions, who's really to blame?
office suites, the code bases of the major office suites pre-date the rise of Java, which brought GC into the mainstream.

Yes, but Java and GC proponents talked up the possibility at the time. There were various projects to do pure-java office suites and web browsers. The time or two I tried them they were memory pigs and slow.

Lot's of apps bigger and more complex than an office suite have been written in Java.

Many that take take heavy user interactivity? Eclipse perhaps, but IBM had to come up with a custom native-code UI toolkit to implement it. I still considered it too slow to use until the last year or so.

As for web browsers... every web browser has a GC...

Last I looked (a long time ago) my impression was that DOM and Javascript interpreter objects were usually refcounted internally. Did this changed?
Oh man, that burn rate thing is true. Back in '98 or so, when I was living in Bloomington, Indiana, I interviewed with a guy who was forming the "first dot-com in Indiana" (despite the fact that my own vivtek.com dates to 1997, and I'm pretty sure efax.com was based in Fort Wayne). I think it was some kind of real estate site; he was a local ISP.

During the interview, he took a phone call to scream at AT&T about connectivity issues. When it came to money, I named what I thought was a fair market price and he sat there, stunned, and blurted, "You make that much with that site"?

Well. I made that much with consulting work, and so that was kind of the clue for me that this wasn't going to work out. About two weeks later, after not having heard anything from him, I told him as much and asked him to destroy the code samples I'd sent him. He responded that the disrespectful manner in which I'd treated the officers of the company had already led them to decide not to hire me.

But you know? He sure did get his venture capital, apparently in rather large amounts; I heard figures around a million. He moved offices from the building they already had in Bloomington, up to Indianapolis, and later I heard that he'd been advised that their "burn rate" was not high enough. They weren't spending enough money. So they started flying by private jet instead of regular flights, for instance.

Madness.

Yes, he crashed and burned. I don't know what became of him, but when the economy went south a couple of years later and I qualified for EIC, I knew exactly why.

That isn't happening now. Everything I read about startups includes "how to manage your business". People understand business processes, mostly. There is a concept of spending money only if it's actually necessary, not to increase an artificial burn rate metric to impress capitalists that should damn well know better.

My intuition tells me that this isn't a bubble - it's just what we should have done the first time around.
You were the one who said he liked the new feature that comment scores are hidden because it means that your snarky comments get more upvotes. This is exactly the attitude the article complains about, so that you got banned from his projects might not actually point to a problem on his side.
Michael's main points are that

1.) Less money invested now than 2001.

2.) Low burnrate.

Therefore it's not a bubble.

1.) Sure, there is less money invested now. However, the market cap (and possible return for the investors) is also smaller. Remember that at the height of dot com in 1999, nasdaq had a market cap of 6.6 trillion. The bubble crash wiped out $5 trillion in the market value of the technology companies. The current market cap for nasdaq is $3.1 trillion, and if adjusted for inflation, is 2.3 trillion. (using government inflation data. if you were to use realistic inflation data, it would probably be way less than that) So we have less money invested, sure. But it's because there is less return possible.

2.) Low burnrate has nothing to do with overvaluation of companies. If a company's potential exit is realistically X, and investors miscalculated and invested an amount that valuates the company at 5X, and the ceo choose to burn that investment over 16 months instead of 5, the investor is still gonna lose the 4X over time.

And because the US economy is alot worse than 2001, (check government debt level, unemployment rate, labor participation rate, average personal savings rate, average retirement savings size, food/gas inflation) when the hangover comes, the tech industry is gonna have a massive headache. Lots of layoffs, startups shuttering, investors losing 90% of their investment, etc.

So the question you have to ask, and only ask is, will the company ever realistically achieve that valuation, regardless of burnrate, regardless of past performance, in the current and future macroeconomic conditions. For companies like Facebook at $70 billion, Twitter at $11 billion, Groupon at $6 billion, etc.
It is misguided to expect an intuitive understanding of these symbols. And they are technically signs, not symbols. They are supposed to be learned and the primary requisite for their form is that they are easy to distinguish from other signs. Signs are arbitrary shapes with no innate meaning.

What you are referring to is maybe symbols that have a metaphorical relation or is an analogy. A symbol made to resemble something "real" that the user already knows and understands. An email symbol that looks like an envelope, a document symbol that looks like a piece of paper, you get my drift. The strange looking symbol for the save command is actually a diskette (look it up).

Unfortunately, the vast majority of signs have to be learned and can't be intuited. The letters of the alphabet is an example and so is probably 90% or more of all the "symbols" around us.

Most computer commands are "abstract" in the sense that they don't have a representation in nature that we can easily use. What would the symbol for Stop, Start, Save, Open, etc, be? What would be a good symbol for Power On? Electric spark? A rising sun? Trouble is that these already have an established meaning, sometimes religious, and often a different meaning for different cultures around the world.

The IEC power symbols have a meaning if you are an engineer or coder (the binary I and 0), but most people won't see that, so they act as signs,

Morten (user experience guy)
Here's how I see reposts. I agree that people shouldn't just repost things because they were popular at one point, and they want the karma. However, realize that for people who weren't around when that was posted (over a year ago), this is pretty cool. There is also no way I would have ever thought "Hey, I wonder if there is a shell-esque interface to google? Oh, I bet HN will have a link about it! Let me go search!". So, I think when spaced out enough reposts are good. Over a year seems like long enough to me.
I think it's fairly telling that the analysts appeared to treat the decline in stock price as a punitive measure, rather than offering any kind of explanation for why Page's silence means the company is worth less than it was last week.