jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can't say for sure what aspect of "Snow Leopard design philosophy" the GP was referring to, but since they also mentioned "lack of control over hardware and software", that's one thing that comes to mind.

I don't think enough people appreciate just how beautifully hackable OS X used to be. The Library folder was unhidden by default, basically inviting users to go explore their systems. Applescript and Automator were treated as first-class citizens, offering an easy way to extend existing apps. Custom themes—while never officially supported—were easy to make via a bit of file replacement, and there seems to have been quite a lot of them, if DeviantArt is any indication. And there was nothing to stop you from writing and loading your own drivers to add support for new hardware, as plenty of enthusiasts did.

Today, stock apps like Music store data in obtuse and non-human-readable locations, Apple Events are virtually useless due to mandatory permission dialogs, kernel extensions are deprecated, and the root filesystem is mounted via a complex snapshot mechanism in which a reboot is required for changes to take effect.

Perhaps this was always Apple's goal. Perhaps it was necessary for security. Perhaps, for a majority of users, it ultimately provides a better experience. But if you are someone who likes to tweak and customize your machine, OS X used to be a great home, in a way that it isn't today.
I've dealt with cloudflare people semi-regulary recently and they seem to know their shit, they also (from an outside perspective) seem to have a really good culture.

Questions get answered quickly and with a level of detail appropriate to the person asking.

Really impressive given the usual "Enterprise(TM)" level of support from most service suppliers.
16GB is the max configuration option.
How is a flat tax regressive?

How far from flat does it have to be to stop being regressive?
I've come to the conclusion that there is zero upside in your job description requiring you to write code. You might have to write in Java, or lose a weekend every 9 weeks to production support, or maintain some shitty legacy code.

Instead, you want the freedom to write code, but a job title that makes it clear that you don't have to write any code. If you're a data scientist or an architect or in R&D, you get this freedom. It's best, in sum, if you get to build things and solve problems by writing code, but aren't seen as a cog that can be plugged into any code-writing or -reading hole.
Time would only slow seen from their perspective. You would still experience 10000 years of travel time.

There is no way to live longer by traveling fast.
If frontend devs can produce valid HTML, they can produce valid JSON. They aren't idiots.

Be strict in what you produce and liberal in what you accept is nice and all, but that's how we got into the mess that is different implementations of HTML and "quirks mode" in different browsers today.
In face of the downvotes, I should clarify that this isn't a decision at the API level! The API requires JSON, valid JSON, of course.

The templates operate against the API, delivering it valid JSON. Just like you can write an object literal in Javascript without quoted strings, you can in our templates as well.

The JS library uses JSON.stringify before sending it to the API.

The depth of my preference to omit quotes on keys when allowed extends no deeper than this blog post. I am sure Kris will regret having me format it for him.
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Happy Holidays!
Diversity can bring a difference of perspective on the problems you face. Sometimes it just brings different looking folks who think the same way.
Courts don't rule on just what is written, but also on what should be writable. You can't contract away many things.
I do not think this is typical, yet, in High School. I think the social and sexual ineptness and poor behaviour is fostered and reinforced by the lack of female presence for the crucial years between, say, 14-23 (I doubt the number of actual sexual offenders — for whom acclimation is not a solution — is larger among the techy group than any others).

The long-term solution is to get more girls (HS and younger) interested in programming and so on.

Edit: probably unnecessary clarifications in italics.
I also disagree on points 1 and 2 but for different reasons.
We're still going to need antivirus as long as less computer literate people download and run random executables. Gaining root or administrator privileges isn't necessary for the common tasks that malware does such as spending spam or getting the user's usernames/passwords/credit card details.

Also, despite its stronger security model, all it takes is one script that runs as root to have the wrong permissions set, or to read/execute other executables which have wrong permissions and you've got root. I'm not sure if the common packages on standard Linux desktop machines are configured correctly out of the box (I'd hope that they are), but this is worryingly common in corporate/enterprise environments. There are also bugs in other packages (including the kernel) which can be used for privilege escalation through buffer overflows, etc (although these tend to be patched fairly quickly)
We are working on that even though it initially slowed down the development process. It changed my answers when talking to potential partners from "You can embed our widget" to "You can make an API call and either display our widget or manipulate the data we return as JSON however you want."

Guess which answer is getting me a lot more interest. :)
Thank you. I'm not at all sure why the 'old hands' here on HN have decided to so viciously downvote this. I didn't call anybody names, didn't violate any posting rules, did not violate etiquette, and provided a very nice link to Multics.

If there is a perceived error in what I wrote, then, like the one nice responder, explain, please.

HN is such a different community now than when I joined 1,835 days ago. It brings tears to my eyes.
Yes. People are not being given a choice (at least, here in the UK). Petrol cars are being legislated out of existence. Ideally, I want a reliable, cost-effective family car without any extra gadgets, and I don't want an EV. However, those cars are just not made any more.

Also, I doubt the people that want a gas guzzler will be among the first to switch to an EV.
Eh... They still can't do anything meaningful with that information that I'm particularly worried about.

Facebook shows a profile picture associated with the phone number but it can't be linked back to the actual facebook profile because they use an obfuscated URL for the photo. Facebook also shows email addresses, but they are also obfuscated.
That's just a warning telling you no more warnings will be printed. It's still more time before the page will change to "click me" where you can start the demo. The dev version is unpacked so you don't have to wait for this.
Firstly, this is the first I've heard about newer CS degrees not having classes on compilers, etc. and are now just 4 year boot camps that focus on AWS, React, etc. If true, thanks for this insight! Helpful to know about the current landscape of CS education. (at least for the not so prestigious universities as you mentioned)

Secondly, I'm not sure if you've spent time in different industries? While you may still be building what amounts to CRUD apps in different industries, your work can be very different and you can have very different learnings. For example, I worked in social games (i.e. FB) and mobile games a decade+ ago, for several years. Engineering was all about high traffic, high performance backends; squeezing every bit of speed possible, handling large amount of concurrents and DAU while keeping systems up. Over the next couple of jobs, eventually I landed in real estate transaction tech, which is almost a polar opposite -- very small amount of traffic relatively, but needing to be very robust and well-designed at every level from API to data store to schemas to ETL. Design patterns and concerns etc. are completely different; to me it's a whole different world of software engineering. I imagine if you move the opposite direction, you would see just as much drastic differences.
> Enough Amazon workers have filed charges against the company over the last year that the NLRB is considering launching a national investigation

It must be a lot of people who were affected, wow. I wish the article mentioned how many, but I guess numbers do really count when people stand together. I wonder when the day tech people will do the same; I have hope!!
My go to - 2 minutes of pregnancy questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
Could they ethically do that?

As then the prosecution has no reason to grant any leniency, so whichever clients they tried would receive far longer sentences.

Sacrificing some clients to get others off does not seem permissible.

I believe they are also required to present the deal to their clients.
It was zero courts before, too, no?

CAFC does not have natural jurisdiction over copyright and thus always applies circuit law.

Here, this was also a 3-judge panel of the federal circuit, and en banc review was denied.

Those decisions are already not binding on future 3-judge panels IIRC (it's been a while, honestly), and definitely not binding on the circuits
Good luck. I'd support it if it were not a US thing.
More realistically, that chief public defender would be fired or harassed out of office within days.

It's probably unconstitutional for them to refuse plea deals en masse if it creates a massive violation of one's right to a speedy trial.
One day there will be a movie about all this.
Also keep in mind that even if the forum is the main thing you are known for, a lot of people learn in different ways. So it is helpful to offer a variety of formats to be more remarkable. In addition to our forum we offer: a monthly newsletter, private paid tools, free public tools, blog regularly, videos & training modules.

Another point I would add are that brand matters a lot ... if you are asking people to pay for something were there are free offerings in the marketplace (even if the free ones are far worse) then people really need to believe in you to want to buy from you. Thus we offer a good number of things for free, including some tools & our blog.

The last thing I would say is that many private membership websites are quickly ghost towns that die. The hardest part is building up the initial critical mass. You can always raise rates later, but sometimes it helps to have lower rates off the start to buy that marketshare and help build momentum. For example, we charged only $50 a month for the first 100 customers & gave our ebook customers a free trial...these meant we had a vast active community right out of the gate. Then over time as we kept adding more value (more tools, bigger archives of information, etc.) we raised prices.
Certified mail works pretty well.
Awesome startup concept! Take a product that everybody knows and almost everybody buys. Add some sort of modification that will appeal to a lot of people. Let your users create the merchandise and start earning.

Very well done!
I want to point out that I have never looked at arc the language before, and yet the snippet above is very easy to quickly understand.
i think it's a right brain bicameral lateralization thing, but if someone more knowledgeable than me can get more explicit, i would absolutely love to hear
A payload reduction of 30-40% is huge. And even if refurb and recovery is less than 10%, you still loose the 2nd stage at every lunch (18% of the rocket by weight). You then have to include the extra development costs and additional risk of failure.

I highly doubt they hit break-even with only two launches, the math just doesn't add up.

If reusing rocket was so profitable, there is a high chance someone else would have done it before. Landing a rocket isn't totally new tech. NASA did it on the moon 50y ago.
Gme related?
Yes, I downvoted your comment. I don't doubt your intentions are admirable, but please don't shame strangers.

GP is trying to survive in the world in which they find themselves. Will sniping some guilt at them summon up some hidden parenting strength?
I personally wish that the reporter had dug deeper. The statue which was to be mounted outside the science center couldn't happen because of COVID? I think for whatever reason they decided not to do it so they came up with the lamest reason they could. Why would the pandemic block a statue from being erected on a sidewalk?

But on the positive side hopefully they can find a better location, my preference is somewhere on Woodward Avenue, perhaps where the Pistons and Red Wings play?
The iOS app actually does have infinite scroll, but I'm very glad the in-browser GUI does not. Very little about the Internet is more annoying than having your scrollbar position suddenly pulled out from under you and what had been a smooth scroll hijacks where you are on the page and throws you thousands of words lower. To me, this makes Google News and Facebook effectively unusable in a browser (which is maybe the point given how much harder it is to block ads in their native apps).
colonies? (like, every single one of them, past and present)
Actually don't buy cheap. That's a sure way to be disappointed and to give up hobby before even getting into it.
Whoops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#/media/File:Mao_Zed...
I don't think you're required to provide me anything at all.

>It’s no different than how the entire Western media establishment has been relying on one-off style testimonies pushing atrocity propaganda and basing almost their entire genocide thesis off of anecdotal evidence.

I think you greatly misunderstand how western media operates.

But that's not really surprising. I find folks who sympathize with non free states often misunderstand that their government's propaganda is not equal to how western media operates. It's just not a 1:1.
Google had $30 billion in revenues in 2010. Facebook has an estimated $2 billion. 15x the revenue, but only 2.4x market cap.

Google also had a reported $8 billion in profits, and it's been suggested that Facebook's profits are meager.

Google also operates in a segment of the industry that is much less fad-driven.
It will forever be "only partially the case", no matter how successful Netflix becomes. It's only a matter of proportions.
Everyone, scroll to the bottom of that forum thread. Jokke talks about what to do if you fall overboard into cold waters.

The fact that these tips came from personal experience only continues to bolster my respect for Jokke. I've never really given too much thought to what I'd do if I fell overboard significantly far away from shore (I've been on many boats, but generally smaller ones and seldom more than a few miles from land). Awesome tips!
Humility, I would state unless he as worked as either type ..Mr Dixion needs a lesson in humility before preaching to any o either class..

Too many of the VC asset class problems today resemble the need to make assumptions not borne out by experience with some those VCs never having had their own decision making forged under real conditions.

I can now understand why older VCs sometimes give Mr Dixon the yelling treatment.
You can't use the population density argument when places like New York and Chicago have the same options as rural Iowa.
My citation is that I am a Netflix subscriber -- and I have seen content available on the Tubes which is still in the theatres.

I have a tough time finding new, contemporary content in the streaming lib of netflix.
This is HN, hopefully someone smarter than I could come up with an algorithm that could model content bandwidth activity.

Content creates a spike of activity when it is "born" on the internet.

Content maintains activity over the life of its availability.

Activity may be a function of the contents [age, quality, rating, medium, popularity, relation to other content, etc]

\It is a sequel, part of a set, etc.

It would be interesting to be able to utilize the rating from netflix/imdb to predict how much total activity a piece of content might create.
can i contact you outside of hackernews, email me jedarogroup@gmail.com
I personally think everyone should have a team to give them help and guidance, and members of that team should have their own teams. I think this is a good idea in theory - will be hard to do in practice though.
For my own project (much simpler—only deals with stereo audio), I used this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5dvah8zke3uky8/HellOfAGuy_demo.mp...

Audio came from here, with a very open license: http://www.audiogroup.web.fh-koeln.de/anechoic.html.
In most cases the blame can probably go to the games and not the platform.
> And here's the problem - some people just cannot be respectful of other people's time or flow and also you can find a lot of variation between communication styles (e.g. synchronous vs asynchronous) or noise tolerance of people.

Could it be that a solution or mitigation here is to directly address this problem? I think the idea that people are only capable of communicating in a certain way is probably too strict. Maybe it's just my experience but it seems to me that most people (with exceptions of course) don't give or get direct feedback about what type of communication works best for them, more typically they use some passive-aggressive move like brightly colored headphones or just acting annoyed and expect people to get the hint. This probably works to some degree but in a large open space it seems like you need everyone on the same page.
Hey, as going out rage quit rants go -- I honestly enjoyed it... it had a spark. I don't agree with (most of) what he thinks, but at least he did it with some style. Hope he enjoys the potato farming life, or whatever the heck he does next.
Yep. I rewatched Office Space recently and found myself envious of their working conditions (!). That's what 5 years of open plan does to you
Ah, I see. Well, you're quite right about Disney, but they're actually rather exceptional. Most films that go out of print or become hard to find do so because they're just not very popular, and the apparently-tiny audience isn't enough to offset the costs of bringing it onto a new platform (which can run into tens of thousands - QA requirements are very specific and if you don't meet them exactly it costs the streaming operator nothing to refuse it).
It is thinking like this that leads companies from being awesome. I've known a couple people in real life that this has happened to. It is stupid and wasteful.
Exactly. I think there’s also a distinction to be made between engineering and writing/editorial environments. Then again, the opinion of one is not a fair reflection of the majority. Sounds like her office lacks ample break-out rooms, though who really cares if it’s a “fishbowl” office or not?
I have the opposite yet same reaction to open office environments. I was always the loud person in the group, and I have a hard time staying out of conversations with others. I try to keep myself to myself, but I know that I distract others around me.

Ironically, having a private office not only kept my noise from other people, but I actually got quieter because it was simply the presence of the group around me that got me loud. I got a lot more work done too, since I wasn't constantly distracted from the discussions going on around me, work related or not.
Launch on BigCommerce, where you can use your own billing, and come back and tell us how that went.

Hint: poor conversion rate because merchants need to enter their CC details, and low volume. 20% on Shopify is a steal IMO.
What's that old saying ? "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated".

First up, people who call Bloomberg Terminal a "$25k/year chat terminal" are utterly clueless and have evidently never seen or used a Bloomberg Terminal.

The main reason Bloomberg costs so much is because unlike their competitors, Bloomberg have a "one-size-fits-all" price. You get all the data (except live data that is subject to exchange fees levied by third-parties such as NASDAQ). Contrast this with Bloomberg competitors where you spend days haggling with your neighborhood sales rep over a list of indecipherable package options (which almost always end up costing the same or more as Bloomberg by the time you add everything you want).

Secondly, hardly a year goes by without one of these "Bloomberg killers" popping up. The trouble is its nonsense.

Most of the so called "Bloomberg killers" only offer a subset of features, for example they only focus on charting. Or they only offer limited market data (e.g. US market only).

Also, most so-called "Bloomberg killers" rely on second-rate data feeds of poor or questionable quality. Services such as Bloomberg (and those of similar tier, e.g. Eikon) spend a lot of time and effort procuring first-class data.

So, don't kid yourself with the ludicrous dream of thinking you can replicate Bloomberg (or Eikon or similar) and sell it for a fraction of the cost (or give it away for free).
Trading since 2017,I hate, hate, hate all of these major exchanges crashing etc, when market is ripe for making money. Any tips ?
FTA :

> I personally enjoy computer games. I downloaded one before I left that is essentially infinite

I wonder what game it is... NetHack ?
At least the freelance rates of today are about the same value as in the early 2000's, for the typical enterprise job.

I used to work as a freelance around 5 years ago, and I still receive some recruiter emails with occasional mention of the going rates.

It's the same as 5 years ago or less, which is the same since I remember in the early 2000's.

The rates took a hit with the 2008 crisis and stagnated since then. I think the golden age was somewhere in the mid-90s, where developers got paid really well.
> There are many American products that are initially set in USD that I can buy with EUR

Ultimately those EURs are being converted to USDs because the producers of those American products are taxed in USDs.
I'd buy this at the blink of an eye if there was an epub version. Also a Kobo users who'd rather not use PDF or feed the Amazon :)
That’s someone who understands bubble physics. They tend to join like that before they pop.
Since it uses SwiftUI heavily, I doubt it.
> Even English teachers have the literacy sucked straight out of their eyeballs. Trust me.

I was about to say the guy is being overly optimistic. Users can't bother to read a dialog box before pressing OK will never, ever, read, much less recall, a web page that contradicts their wishes.
What's wrong with Chicago? Chicago was genius. Old Macs had black and white screens, no grayscale. But grayed-out text was a necessity for showing disabled or unavailable items in the desktop GUI Apple was developing. Most bitmapped fonts are completely unreadable if they are checkerboard-dithered to appear at 50% gray on a black-and-white screen, because they have mostly one-pixel lines in their glyphs. However, the 2px-wide vertical lines of 12pt Chicago allow it to be completely readable when dithered to 50%.

It was a font built for specific requirements; on today's million-color screens it's out of place, but at the time it was introduced, it made perfect sense.
Any response to "S08? What have they been doing all this time?" ?

Are you guys working on something else besides this app?
Im a college aged kid working on several projects, whats the best way to format a request/application like this
to be fair, anyone watching china cases emerge in january should have done the same thing. hindsight is 20/20 and all, but when china didn't lock their borders down right away should have been a major warning sign