jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No doubt the one-button design is very simple. But if she can operate her mail today, she understands enough abstraction that "touch the item instead of using the mouse" isn't going to be a problem.

Just because our parents didn't grow up with computers it doesn't mean that they aren't able to grasp computing as a concept and need to be treated like children. I'm sorry, that's how I read your approach: She needs pictures on the tablet to create emotional attachment? Having pictures on there will somehow make her forget that it's just a machine?

Of course there's a lot we can do to limit the avalanche of buttons and options that has come to dominate computing, and we should (and we are, and that's not just targeting the elderly). But these people has navigated life for decades, and just because it's on a computer, and they might need some hand-holding to get started, it isn't rocket science..
Someone needs to find a way to pipe a terminal output onto one. Then we can all use ed and be happy.
Yeah I am a fan of ISO-8601 durations.
You'd input a street address on something that looked like a SNES game controller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6EQXiLPkY
Very nice, thanks! So Apple's disappeared in Sept. 2014. I also found their privacy report for anyone who's interested: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/report-pdf.html
Retail LFP in the US quite a bit more expensive per KWH than LNC though apparently not in China or if you order from there. I wonder why that is.

FWIW I'm a one-car "family" and I wouldn't be bothered by a BEV with 200 mile range if I had a way to charge it on normal nights. I can deal with an occasional car rental or a few stops if I go on a trip. The main thing putting me off BEV right now is that I live in a city without good access to daily charging facilities. If I were in the burbs the satisfaction of charging it from solar panels instead of paying for fuel would make up for quite a few occasional range inconveniences.
Hi! I am Ruud, an engineer at Doppler. Good question! We made sure that the passwords in the URL are always stripped out when sending anything to Bugsnag. This way, we (or Bugsnag) never have enough information to decrypt the encrypted secrets.
However you make a good point, we initially added this to make sure the website is stable without errors, but at this point we can remove it (in progress at the moment).
I appreciate the suggestion that cabin fever makes you murderous, but I can't help but think that this is not a widespread psychological feature, and may mark a significant difference between yourself and others.

Have you been assessed for psychopathy?
They should own their social media again instead of leasing out their IP to FB for little to no exposure.
YEah I stalk a TON of people so it's fine, it's just aggregate stalking.
Is there a field, "neuro architecture" etc? What is the possibility for parallelism vs a human brain? How much smaller can it be than a human brain? How much faster? If it is smaller+faster+more parallel then are they smarter? When can I start programming these things? Are there already ways to play around with these components virtually? WOW WOW WOW WOW
#3 is actually the main issue, in my opinion.
can someone provide a link to the US bureau of labor statistics that has these numbers? (for my own edification)

it has been often mentioned but i don't think i have ever seen a link to the report people are quoting.
I remember back in 2002 when I took a college course on Computer Security and the prof told story after harrowing story of the lengths to which spy agencies went to get the information they were after. I remember thinking, "Well if the NSA really wanted to track everyone and record everything that was ever transmitted over the internet, I suppose they could. But nah, that's crazy."

Fast forward to 2013 and Snowden.

Our defaults for "they wouldn't do that" when it comes to your privacy are all wrong.

If that's a "conspiracy theory" that you need to dismiss so that you can go about your life, fine. But the truth is, these people are constantly up to no good and you can't trust closed software nor hardware. The technical capability for draconian mass surveillance exists.
Earth is not paradise, on a timeframe of tens of thousands of years it is a volatile place that could blow us up in an instant. Terraforming and space mining are absolute necessities for human survival. You really only can argue that maybe it is one or two centuries too early to think about colonizing Mars, but you gotta start somewhere.
This article is self disproving.

1. Federal minimum wage hasn't been increased. In a handful of liberal, urban locations it has been. How do we know the claim is true if it hasn't been tested in the majority of situations? Perhaps localities should be able to decide minimum wage for themselves! $15/hr might be the bare minimum in NY but in small town USA it is beyond what the market can bare for entry level.

2. The article mentions companies like Amazon are taking matters into their own hands and raising their minimum range. This is evidence the labor market does not need wage regulation when companies are making the decision to raise wages themselves.

3. The article mentions only hospitality related industries were studied. All service industries in the US are growing. What about entry level jobs in other parts of the economy?

4. I am not sure why they are comparing minimum wage to economic growth. Seems like apples and oranges to me, not useful. Of course if one economy is growing it can bare higher minimum wage than one that isn't.
I haven't, but...

I'm (currently) a freelance web developer. I've worked at and with y-combinator companies (including one as the first employee), and am currently working to get my own project off the ground, and would like to extend my run rate a bit.

I may not be able to compete with Upwork in regards to hourly rate, but I'm at the top of my game developing MVPs and solving tricky web development problems. My last corporate job was developing the world's first IDE for DNA programming.

If you are interested in talking further, checking out my github/linkedin bio, recent work etc, let me know, and we can set up a time to talk about your project, and the specific problem you are having. You can reach me at jon at elbizri dot com
is MAIB or MIAB?
It's not meant to provide a living. Companies don't exist to provide jobs, jobs are a byproduct of the business, not its reason to exist. Minimum wage jobs are people with no skills who are easily replaceable, usually teenagers learning to enter the workforce.
Heads up that the article's first link to your site is broken

The link is showing up as https://sourcesort.com/interview/browserless.io instead of https://browserless.io
I see now that the problem was that you pointed it out in a way that made sense to you, but not to the rest of us who lack all that background information. If you had responded in the first place with the explanation you've posted here, it would have been much easier to understand what the issue was. Now that I read this, I get your point, and I also see how the problem started with the GP comment, not yours. But this was not at all clear to me before! and I'm sure not to many readers.

HN has been super impressed and favorable to the feats of demoscene programming for over a decade now, so hopefully there's a lot more of that than this.
The New Yorker has written about Thiel more than a few times... https://www.newyorker.com/tag/peter-thiel

I don't see that it would be necessary to include him in this profile of someone else, this is less about the Palantir sort of "surveillance tech" than the Facebook sort.
There probably are. They tend to be idealists who if it ever came time for them to set rules in their newly formed society would lean on the same instincts to keep people who disagree with them out when realpolitik emerges.
I'd buy a laptop, but I'd probably get better value for my money by buying it used though eBay anyways, so there's no point in rushing.
Knowing how to code sure helps bootstrapping! I’m not sure how else I would have been able to get a SaaS to 7 figures bootstrapping.

Maybe the second best path would be a very high paying job (lawyer?) that can afford to pay a developer or two to get the MVP going. But you have the fun risk of “how do you judge the code being made if you don’t code”
Tweet reads "One of the men who was part of the siege of the Capitol building is John Earle Sullivan, an extreme BLM activist from Utah." Is that a one-line attempt at what-about-ism?
There is a recent Nature paper that uses a "relatedness disequilibrium regression" [1] that claims to show that twin studies overestimate heritability [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0178-9
[2] https://geneticvariance.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/relatedness...
Your experience is known as synesthesia [1], and while not common, it can be found in people naturally and under certain conditions (like drugs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
Have you ever used ReSharper or IntelliJ IDEA for any real work? I think not.
Am I reading this right, the free plan only supports 10 transactions a month? Meaing 10 total connections?
Have you heard of "learned industriousness"?
“crap like Uber doesn't shoot to the moon on opening day”

I think the main reason for this is that all the upside and speculation has already been taken by earlier investors and an IPO is done only when there is basically no upside left. In 1998 Uber would have gone IPO much earlier and retail investors would have driven up the price, not the VCs as it’s done now.

What’s common is that we have a lot of companies who don’t even have the slightest idea how to become profitable other than a miracle happening.

Not sure how this will end but judging from 2002 and following it won’t be pretty for a lot of people that are flying high in the current market.
You'll enjoy http://rrrrthats5rs.com then.
This is one of the key insights to take away from this whole AWS mess: When things start to go wrong, your automatic recovery code will increase the load on your system, and commonly lead you into a spiral of death.

I'm delighted to now have a name for this: "Congestive collapse."

The first time I saw congestive collapse in a real-world system, it was an ugly surprise. And this is presumably one reason why Netflix runs at 30-60% capacity across 3 AZs: They want to be able to lose a zone without overloading key systems.
I disagree. It's like debugging -- at some point, bugs are just too slippery and difficult to find, so we give up and say "I can't hope to solve this" ?

No.
Thanks for that. It is, of course, no surprise that the one that gets the most attention is the one with the most sensationalist headline.
Historically, betting against Kurzweil hasn't been that good of a bet. He actually predicted the victory of a computer over the top human player as happening a year and a half later than it did. And yet in the 80s, when he made the prediction, it was largely rejected as a fantasy. People thought it wouldn't happen until decades later, if at all.

Similarly, his support of and predictions related to the human genome project at its beginning drew a great deal of skepticism. Once again, he was right. Ditto for wearable computing (i.e. iPod touch).

Kurzweil hasn't been right about everything, of course, but I think we'd be hard pressed to find another futurist with as good of a success rate with pubic predictions.
I, too, love C++ and the boost smart pointer library.

In fact, it's been adopted into modern versions of the C++ standard itself. std::tr1::shared_ptr and std::shared_ptr.
Good posting. I'd be interested to hear what other questions YC alums have gone through.
Those are great questions for all startups, even if you are not applying to YC. Thanks for sharing.
FWIW, in hiring game programmers (at all levels), I rarely give PhD or MS resumes a second look. I wonder if others do the same?
I think the principle attribute that determines how long support lasts is the cost to get to the next supported version and not anything to do with feature differences. Apple made the decision to give away upgrades precisely so they could move people off old versions I suspect.
Yup. I have a huge LaTeX installation on my Mac. Took over a day to update to Yosemite.
This is something that I love about using Bazel. It allows you to do this. Bazel is aware of application-level concepts: libraries, binaries, and everything that glues this together. It has a simple way to describe a "test" (something that's run who's exit code determines pass/fail) and how to link/build infinitely complex programs. Do you build a game engine and need to take huge multi-gb assets folders and compile them into an efficient format for your game to ship with? You can use a genrule to represent this and now you, your CI, and everyone on your team will always have up-to-date copies of this without needing to worry about "Bob, did you run the repack script again?"

It also provides a very simple contract to your CI runners. Everything has a "target" which is a name that identifies it.

A great talk about some things that are possible: https://youtu.be/muvU1DYrY0w?t=459

At a previous company I got our entire build/test CI (without code coverage) from ~15 minutes to ~30 to ~60 seconds for ~40 _binary and ~50 _tests (~100 to ~500 unit tests).
But did the union do anything about the working conditions for these contractors, or just the retaliation for this one person who got fired?

I don’t have anything against the worker here, I feel for them. It just seems like the union is very ineffective, and it’s goals don’t even seem to be aligned with the workers (other than those who get fired for being in the union).
How did the situation get so bad so fast? There are now homeless camps all over California. It’s not this bad in other states except maybe parts of Oregon and Washington. As a lifelong resident, I am thinking California is conclusively making the problem worse but hasn’t figured that out yet.
Tech companies don't rely on public sector pay scales. Does LeBron James get paid the same as Darius Garland? Turns out he is free to negotiate his own contract, despite being part of a strong union. Imagine that.
Which cyberpunk comics? Give us some recommendations please. :)
I find that the highest expense, at least in the early years, is time.
Alcohol has always been a social-only thing for me, but during lockdown found that there's a place for solo consumption. I never got much into wines so have been taking the time to figure some of it out. Having a short glass with dinner, even alone has been a boost. I find I sleep better most nights. If I have more than a little, I'll wake up too early, not get back to sleep and wake up tired in the morning.
Which build tools don’t also run tests? That seems very common with Java, Scala, Bazel users, npm, etc.
Most of the public sector jobs in India (& in California too) have published lists of every position's base rate & the rate of increase.
How is this any less secure than handing the customer a zip file containing arbitrary binary files and asking them to execute them with admin privileges?
My opinion is exactly the opposite. Large organizations have the resources (person-hours, server infrastructure, etc.) to do all of the hacks required to get decent performance out of HTTP/1.x. Smaller shops aren't as likely to have the time to do domain sharding, sprites, etc.; yes, there are tools and services to do a lot of that work for you, but it still adds complexity.
For me Roosevelt Avenue in Queens between Jackson Heights and Junction Blvd on a 80F day is the real NYC. People of every ethnicity on the street, everyone in the shade of the elevated 7 train, street vendors selling everything and thousands of people strolling along.

Rents are cheap here but it is not glamorous and in some areas even borderline dangerous (around Corona, especially at night). People in Manhattan and trendy parts of Brooklyn don't realize it but they're paying high rents for safety. Gentrification brings police protection and in my area of Queens you're not going to see cops on that dark corner at 1AM like you would in Williamsburg.

There are many neighborhoods in The Bronx and Brooklyn that are still like this but people don't feel comfortable living there.
The key point here is that the government forces businesses to accommodate Emotional Support Animals through the Fair Housing Act, the Air Carrier Access Act and the Americans with Disability Act. This is not an issue of modern society not being able to control assholes. It is a matter of government legislation intended to protect the rights of disabled people, being (allegedly) misused. The difficulty in drawing this line directly brings into question whether the government should be forcing businesses to accommodate people with disabilities.
Weren't the calls to ban crypto in response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks? Wouldn't the elimination of strong crypto make cyberattacks much worse?
Same here. Three computers on Yosemite (including iMac from 2008), two iPhones, two iPads. I would not say zero problems, but those are mingo glitches at worst. Text messaging from any device alone was worth the upgrade.
Nice seeing itch.io here. I make itch.io, check it out if you're into indie games: http://itch.io
I find this interesting for how it demonstrates recursion as a means of looping. Most simple code tutorials like this just follow the procedural style, and make you throw a set of instructions inside of a loop block.
There are no facts to argue with. Aside from the numbers from Wikipedia, of course – but the only thing you do with those is pass opinion on them. It's just a mean-spirited, slanderous hack-job.

I didn't realise that you were the founder of Newslines. I'll tell you what – someone at Wikipedia must have pissed you off something fierce, for you to have such as weirdly twisted and poisonous view of it, quite aside from the laughable idea that Newslines is "Wikipedia's only direct competitor".
how about more background info on the "US Warehouse (think amazon)" that will actually fire someone "on the spot" for taking a 31 minute lunch? (think actual company / location names, backing documentation?) I find it hard to believe that's not just a bit exaggerated.
No, services cost money and have to be paid for. That was my argument. Still interesting that you guys find that there is ground for argument - an irrelvant topic would not be ground for argument, wouldn't it?
I am shocked that Google gets so much praise for giving so little, but I’m even more shocked about the hypocrisy of other giants (e.g. Microsoft) Who give what, 60k?
Well I'm impressed. From bicycles to planes back then. Paypal to cars to rockets today.
At my current job a collegue created a shell script to achieve the same result. The tools used by the shell script are Inkscape[0] and cpdf[1].

The core functionally is done by the following 2 lines of code:

$INKSCAPE --export-area-page --export-area-snap "$SVG" -A "$PDF_TEMP"
$CPDF -scale-page "0.625 0.625" "${PDF_TEMP}" -o "${PDF}"

It might be a nice alternative approach compared to a GUI tool.

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[0]: http://brewformulas.org/Inkscape

[1]: http://community.coherentpdf.com
If google asked to build a tall building in your town... I suspect the bylaw would be overturned.
They should really change the ToS then.
They seem to have thought of that: "Unless you elect otherwise, Dash Button responds only to your first press until your order is delivered"
Let's suppose everyone at work calls me a peon. "Hey peon, get this for me." "Hey peon, make me some coffee." "Hey peon, sudo make me a sandwich." Hey peon, get rid of these compiler warnings." People replace my door tag with "Peon Dalke". People sneak in and change my screen saver to "Peon's machine". And so on.

Assume also that I don't particularly like being called peon, but the entire office thinks it's funny, and funny when I protest.

Should I get treatment to be able to better handle being called peon? Or should I change the workplace culture, perhaps by getting the owner involved, so people stop calling me names? Or should I quit? (The only way it could be POST-traumatic is for the so-called trauma to stop.)

It sounds like you're suggesting that it's due to my inability to handle name-calling, and I should seek mental health treatment to accept being called names all the time.

If so, you have an odd view on life.

Otherwise, I don't know what you're talking about.
The Stasi controlled every aspect of life in East Germany, including the postal service and communications industry. In the US, FOIA documents reveal a history of domestic political spying on civil-rights leaders such as MLK, and on a wide variety of legitimate organizations.

Throughout history, suspicionless surveillance has been carried out by mafioso to oppress and control.

Of your suspicionless surveillance, you assert "this time is different". The assertion fails.

The Nazis could use your arguments word for word on dissenters of the Gestapo.
I have applied for the card last month and might use some Estonian e-services in the future. SignWise[0] will save some time when signing contracts with persons from countries with supported e-IDs.
Forming a company in Estonia remotely is indeed very easy, however there appears to be little benefit compared to e.g. the UK, which makes online limited company formation just as easy (you do not even need a digital ID card) and has a well-known legal system. Since I am a resident of Germany, my Estonian company would be taxed here and could not enjoy the unique Estonian corporate income tax regime anyway.

[0] https://www.signwise.me
It's not so simple. Consider the basic equation. Mostly unpopulated, desolate, rugged terrain in the North where artillery can hide. Heavily populated metropolitan areas in the South where Northern artillery can hit. You would need to blanket a huge area of the North with devastating bombardment in order to remove all of the artillery positions. Meanwhile, every single shell fired from the North will likely result in civilian deaths in the South. And they can fire a lot of shells in a very short amount of time.

The only way to guarantee taking out all of the Northern artillery positions would be carpet bombing with nukes, which would result in lots of deaths in South Korea from fallout (not to mention all the other much more serious problems involved, such as establishing a precedent of preemptive nuclear attack).

In reality, the situation is even more complicated than this simplistic analysis. It's not so easy to take out an artillery position in a previously undetermined location, especially if that artillery position can be hidden in a cave/bunker on a moment's notice. More so if there are thousands of artillery positions spread over many square miles.

Even if the artillery in the North survives only a few hours or even a few minutes the sheer number of them and the population density of the regions of South Korea within artillery range would lead to catastrophic civilian deaths in the South.

The South Koreans have been militarily capable of stomping all over the North for decades, without American help. The fact that they haven't yet, despite numerous provocations from the North, is a testament to the huge losses that they would inevitably face if a hot war broke out again on the Korean peninsula.

Edit: Current estimates are that North Korea has the capability to fire around 10,000 rounds a minute into heavily populated regions near Seoul.
Modelled on the excellent Teach For America program no doubt.
That's a great point; the author is a very worthy contributor and deserves gratitude.

But where's the line?

Should user popularity be used to dictate whether a post - which is solely focused advertising a product - lives?
The list of known issues seem really straightforward to fix. I hate to come down on a really cool idea, but maybe this was released a little soon?
It's because the tangents to Archimedes' polygons also approach the tangents to the circle.

(This is the "velocity vector" convergence condition mentioned by cousin_it above).