jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The system is broken by this need to have everyone available at one specific time frame. The best experiences I've had working for tech companies is when the culture is basically "We don't care if you come in or not, or when you work, just get stuff done." Of course there's a few exceptions, for example if a in-person meeting is required, everyone is expected to attend (unless you're in a different area/country, in which case just use video chat to 'be there').

When I'm on a roll I don't want to stop working, as a matter of fact, I once got to the office at 6am (I avoided traffic commuting at this time) on a Monday and left at 2pm Thursday. Although I didn't sleep at all, which was not a healthy thing to do, not only did I finish a three week task in 80 hours, but I ended up automating a bunch of processes, and fixing a bunch of bugs. I easily did a months work (probably more) in that time frame. Not only was I awarded a bonus, but I was expected not to work for a 15 days, of course I was till being payed as if I were still working. In contrast, I've had days where the only productive time I've had are two or three hours, and that's OK to, as long as you're reaching your goals.
I'm disappointed by the vendor war attitude in this thread. Why don't Mozilla or MS support WebSQL? Do they have some objection to it or have they just not gotten around to implementing it yet?
"It exists for one reason only - shareholders of pre-IPO companies don't want to wait years and hence are willing to trade their shares for immediate cash."

Yes, secondary markets are designed to provide liquidity to shareholders in pre-IPO companies. At the same time, most investors who want access to pre-IPO stocks have no ability to participate. Value creation has increasingly shifted from the public markets toward private markets. Consider eBay, which was valued at $32 million in 1996 and went public with a $1.9 billion valuation in 1998 (a 60x gain), compared to Twitter which went public in 2013 at a $24 billion valuation, a 657x gain from their $35 million valuation in 2007.

Why should those who are extremely wealthy and well connected be the only investors with access to such investments?
You should add a way to preview what kind of results keyword provides.
I think it's a matter of retaining mindshare vs. Google Docs. The Office web apps are seen as complementing (and complemented by) Office.
Perhaps rate-limit but expand the rate per user if the links submitted are getting points. Also perhaps indicate how much time/points are remaining before a new submission can be sent.
You would have to ask them that question to get the full answer, however I have never experienced bandwidth issues in the 5 years+ I have been connected.re. Idle pipes at the end of the month, this is likely mitigated by each customers billing cycle starting when they first use the service.
if you guys have some ideas about a business model, let me know.
This was incredibly useless for both google and users.I can't see any point to it.
That's today, but it wasn't so initially. You'd learn about your monitor's scan modes, how the disk is structured, dumping bytes between devices, optimizing for load by placing bytes on the outer sectors of floppy disks, using RAM as a disk to speed things up, and whole lot of "useless" things that build machine sympathy.
Agree. Nginx is probably a thousand times more powerful than lighttpd, but while setting up php with fastcgi on the latter was straight forward and easy to understand, with nginx you need a convoluted mess of includes, location directives, setting variables, then handling 404 is broken, there are ten different tutorials on how to do this and nine of them are wrong or open security holes and then you feel like a complete idiot.
How can the point be right in front of your face and you still miss it...
This would make for a super interesting blog post / case study IMO, you should write about it even if it's just to showcase the two algorithms / comparisons.
Right, so the older API is akin to "/dev/kvm" and ioctls on Linux ?
It’s not merely asset prices, its employment.
Maybe, but I'm still pretty confident that no important or meaningful speech will ever come from an ad server.
If it's as broad as that then there's definitely some mixed messaging going on.
A foreclosure is in many jurisdiction an expedited lawsuit.

And some mortgage loans, in some states, are full recourse -- they can go after other assets (including bank balances) and paychecks. That they often don't reinforces my original point: there are plenty of levers creditors theoretically have that can't practically be employed against mass defaults and poor/unemployed people.
I verified that there were no messages sent on my behalf.

How can this be verified, given that sent messages can be deleted as well?
First, as edw519 mentioned, 30 is still quite young. A friend of mine moved from Japan to the US at 38, taking less than half his former salary, and is still waiting for his green card at 43. He doesn't like his job that much but it keeps him here and the lifestyle is much better for him.

I myself am 35 with a wife and two kids. I've been bootstrapping solo for the last two and a half years. Traction takes time (like 2-5 years). You can't just put something online and expect it to grow. You have to physically talk to your potential customers, even if it means doing so repeatedly for very small deals.

You're actually quite lucky to be employed while working on your side project. Keep your job (or find another one if it won't screw up your green card process) and figure out a way to keep building on the side (make sure you're covered from an IP perspective). If you really want to make it happen, you're going to need a lot of energy and patience.

Also, don't worry about competition. It's the least of your concerns.
A major global pandemic seems like a plausible scenario. We've had a few (semi..) close calls with SARS and swine flu but have been lucky that they haven't mutated to be airborne and infectous from human to human.

You don't have to go further back than the 1918 global flu pandemic to see an example of what a global pandemic can do. 3% of the global population died.

You may think that we have better vaccines and better systems in place now than we did 100 years ago, but you'd be largely mistaken[1]. A vaccine takes so long to develop and produce that when it's ready for the market millions of people will already have died. Pandemics spread quickly. Adding to the problem is that the world is so connected and people so mobile that once the virus is out it could easily spread across the globe in a matter of days. One infected stewardess in Heathrow airport wil lmake sure of that.

[1] I'm no expert on biotech so please correct me if I'm mistaken.
How about increasing the price as the stock diminishes, then return it to the "regular" price as stock catches up?

Another idea: instead of starting at $50, start at, say, $80 and boost the perceived value of the product too. Some people will still buy it, and while they flush the production, keep the price. As soon as demand diminishes, cut the price to $60 and now it's a $80 product at a 25% discount! Rinse and repeat ;) But as others said, don't take more time to deliver than promised.

Also, couldn't the revenue of the first ~500 sales be used to hire someone to help catch up with demand?
Exportable is not the same thing as naturally distributed though. And git-backed is nice, but with fossil it's fossil-baked as everything is tucked into the exact same repository.

> Wikis are first up and we're very close.

Well yeah but as far as I understand, with Fossil it's done already, not just close (and I'd say distributed bug trackers are closer than wikis if not done already)
Keyword domains are something that SEO people have been using for a long time. It isn't really against terms of service, especially not if you actually have different content on each domain. Basically, you can boost your site's ranking by setting up numerous smaller sites that funnel traffic and Google PR to your site.

It works for some, but isn't my chosen technique for getting quality web traffic.
Let me add a scary possibility, the use of a nuclear bomb on a major city.

It is worth noting that India and Pakistan have fought several recent wars, and are now both nuclear armed. Worse yet, everyone's wargame simulations have concluded that their next war WILL go nuclear. As one friend of mine (whose father is high up in India's air force) put it, "The only real question is whether the bomb that Pakistan drops on New Delhi works."

To be specific, the likely scenario is that they go to war, Pakistan, lacking reserves, knows it has to win fast. Pakistan throws everything into the battle front, India breaks through somewhere, and Pakistan, with nothing to stop India's breakthrough, drops a nuke on Indian troops in Pakistani territory. (There is a perverse logic to having all of the civilian casualties be your own.) India, having just lost major numbers of troops, has little choice but to escalate to nuclear war against Pakistani military targets. Pakistan, with a more limited supply of nukes, has only one way to escalate. And New Delhi is the easiest to reach major city.

There is speculation that the last military coup in Pakistan happened in part because the Pakistani army was scared that Pakistan was escalating into another war with India, and it was the easiest way to force the situation to de-escalate.
One interesting aspect is that the NYT pulled these from their log of user's clicking the terms to look them up...so they correspond to their readership's (lack of) vocab
Please don't do this here.

This subthread detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115439 and marked off-topic.
You should consider
a divorce.
I created codehawke.com architecture from scratch to avoid hosting my content on other people's platforms. I make way more money than with platforms like Udemy. I think we should all be moving away from other people's platforms and tools.
It was my first thought on reading the article, also. Programming teaches you to have a lot of respect for how things can go wrong.
> Legal enforcement legitimizes crypto as property. It expands the definition of property by institutionally conferring the status of "owned" to a functional configuration of bits distributed over thousands of computers.

Isn't this exactly how your access to digital content is mediated? A bunch of servers somewhere says that this user identifier is allowed to access this content.
Of course, he was right any platform needs developers.
Many places will ask for a graduate with excellent communication skills. Some places won't take you if you don't have a degree, whatever subject it is in.
They may not ask for the specific subject on the bit of paper, but the transferable skills gained whilst studying e.g.: Critical thinking, researching, communication skills, the ability to collate a lot of evidence in a more succinct manner.
"In my view, the main reason for the uneven management sex ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence. That is, because we (people in general) commonly misinterpret displays of confidence as a sign of competence, we are fooled into believing that men are better leaders than women."

While this view may hold true for the majority, I think the complete opposite is true. The people I have learned the most from, and who are the most competent (some of them in CEO positions, most in leadership), take the exact opposite approach. Always willing to admit fault, and imperfections, and always "looking for a better way to do X".
This kind of article makes me gag - the online equivalent of those "proud parent of a ..." bumper sticker.
First thing I thought. This is exactly the same. Unless someone starts commercialising mass sales of radars, this is basically inadmissible in court.

For those who don't know, the basis for ruling thermal imaging an unreasonable search is that most people don't have high-resolution thermal imaging devices (so you can't assume you're being watched that way)
As a muslim this makes me scared of ever going to the USA.
Do you even economics?
if they step outside the boundaries of what's permitted, you can haul them into court over it.

;..whereupon they will promptly grant themselves immunity.
I do not think moving within 10 days of taking a flight is an "odd" story, but I don't think any further discussion will go anywhere.
SugarSync is not bad either, 5GB for free compared to Dropbox's 2.
In the state of Maryland, you can order booze to your doorstep. So that’s not much of a problem here. I wonder why California is so far behind; must be those restaurant lobbyists, or something.
There’s zero evidence that I can find showing that a single N95 mask is actually currently manufactured in the U.S.

Quote from a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article related to the mask manufacturing ramp up at 3M for COVID19:
“‘We're seeing increased demand for our respiratory protection products, and we're ramping up our production worldwide, in China, around the world to meet that demand.’ (Mike Roman, 3M CEO)” [0]

Nothing about that statement gives me any confidence that a single 3M N95 mask is produced in the U.S. In fact, it sounds downright evasive to me.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/01/29/3ms-c...
What if they were dying anyway? Seems hard to decide how to count that.
Oh yes, that’s a great example: “so many people died that the two-thirds that survived enjoyed benefits for generations”.

Yes, it’s accurate... but I think it also somewhat misses the point. The unexpected consequences of a mass culling several years down the line probably is of the “extremely bad” persuasion.
https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1240689935557865472

Details a study on a different Coronavirus in 1990. There is definitely some immunity, but its complicated.
Either this thing is "The End of the World As We Know It", or it is not.

Give it another week or so.
That would be incredibly unhelpful. It's much more to type, it's yet another thing to sanitize, and most users don't know HTML.
Do we really care that much? I think people pick browsers for more reasons than just "speed".
Here's a steel bottle getting sucked in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g5UVrOt2CI
It's pretty messed up I agree. But it is also their platform.

Also I was previously under the impression that Google would win taking the 'Windows' route on the mobile market but it is such a different beast. Apple really is taking the Windows approach in standard phones, common single OS and much more of a solid platform in mobile currently. It may change when phone designs are more commodities and they just looks like the iPhone.

Another thing to consider is that Steve Jobs got fired in 1985 when Apple was ahead. They lost both because Steve Jobs was fired and Bill Gates emerged and Microsoft took advantage of the lamer Apple. So I am not sure the same situation will happen this time around that happened to desktop in the 90's, maybe once Jobs gets too old.

We shall see and it will be interesting. But Apple isn't Apple anymore, they are a morphed NeXTSTEP which was Jobs reboot after he got fired from Apple. Microsoft is done as a challenger most likely and Google seems to be reactive. Apple is mostly competitive with their last product not the competition as much, where the competition will be following and reactive for some time.

I think Apple is 5-10 years ahead currently. People also ALWAYS overlook the iPod/iPad handheld market that makes up almost 60% of their market. Noone has even began to tread on that and iTunes. Now Apple it going after mobile advertising so Google can't grow as fast as they'd like in mobile.

Maybe it is inevitable but this time around there are differences.
"We will be updating the TOS to require you to check t.co and register the click."

This quote does not appear in the Twitter announcement; is it from elsewhere, or speculation?
I've updated my post to be clear that I meant more efficient for Twitter, not the end user in that case. Also, my assumption is that people use this instead of normal URL shorteners in most cases.
Interesting idea. Not a bad one, necessarily, but you'd need to wrap some more requirements about what you want to get and your personal parameters. I could actually use someone with your skills, but I want to be clear what you want to get. Hit me at my email in my profile if you want to chat!
.co is a huge opportunity for squatters. I can't tell you how many times I've typed "site.co" instead of "site.com" because I hit enter too quickly.

For legitimate uses, it's terrible. Imagine having to say "that's co NOT com... see-oh. no M!" every time you give out your domain.
Well, personally I send a lot of prints to http://whcc.com/, which involves uploading a 300 PPI image to an ftp server and filling out a web form, and then receiving a nice quality print by UPS 2-day ground a couple days later. If I was printing on an inkjet, I might print at even higher resolution, but after 300 PPI the improvements get harder and harder to notice.

As for web designers: (a) they presumably aren’t the same as “photographers” that Tim Bray was explicitly talking about so I’m not sure they’re really relevant to my comment, but (b) it’s a lot easier to simulate lower-resolution displays than higher-resolution displays. That is, if you had a 300+ DPI monitor, you could approximate the appearance of both a traditional (say, 100 DPI) computer screen, and an iPhone, Android Phone, high-resolution netbook, or whatever else.
They're not.
They're only magnetic when they are in operation. I've been in them, I've been with people who've been in them, and my family is in the medical field.
If they were fully energized all the time, you wouldn't be able to bring people in and out of the room on a stretcher.
It’s very possible to give constructive, honest feedback without being a jerk. It’s that constructive feedback that makes it worth posting here.

On the other hand, I don’t think the condescension or arrogance that’s fairly common on this site improves it at all, no.
Can someone ELI5 the real world applications of this? I don't know many people who spend their time coloring graphs, let alone needing to know how many colors are needed to color them.
Security chips shouldn't be black boxes in the first place.
I was wrong. The latest expansion was $3.5 billion per mile.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
“As proof, a large number of images showing the process of a base model M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage being upgraded to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and this change being correctly shown in macOS Big Sur, have been shared online.”

IMO, that’s not very surprising. Apple sells such setups, so all it shows is that the smaller models run the same hardware as the smaller ones, so that careful soldering can turn one into the other, or repair such a device.

A more surprising result would be if they managed to fit 32GB RAM, as that would mean the chip has the extra address line to accommodate that.
That's without considering a very real risk of repackaging and rip-offs, especially when these are paired with aggressive SEO. This alone makes releasing the source of a commercial software a remarkably shortsighted move.
In 2019 they reported ~$20B profit. So this is like one quarter's profit. You win some, you lose some.

https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
https://www.afwerx.af.mil/
Grass is always greener, man. My wife is from New York and every now and then I try to convince her we should move back there. Concern about finding a job is always her worry, but I think she vastly underestimates herself.

I've been in Texas over a decade now and presently live in Dallas. The homelessness problem is just as bad. Train infrastructure is probably worse consider there are only five lines in the entire city, and the interiors often have puke and shit all over the seats. Combine above ground power lines with constant high winds and we get power outages probably once a week, at least once a month. The city never fixes sidewalks or potholes. A quarter inch of rain results in half the traffic lights going out. I live within spitting distance of AT&T world headquarters and still can't broadband service from anyone but Spectrum, which is terrible (they once shut down my service and terminated my account because someone else gave them the wrong address and claimed to be moving into my house). Code inspectors literally sleep on the job and shoddy contractors and builders are all over the place, so you need to be extremely careful shopping for a place to live and you can expect to be making some extremely expensive repairs and upgrades within a few years of moving in, somewhat negating the advantage of lower purchase price.

It's a bit of a cultural wasteland, too, which many people won't care about, but if you're from New York, you're probably going to miss it. Dallas is thankfully pretty good for live music if you're into 70s through 90s era punk/metal/industrial type stuff, which thankfully I am, but if you're more artsy, well, the city tried to build an arts district after losing out on Boeing headquarters 20 years ago supposedly because executives wives didn't want to live in a city with no culture, but I can't say it worked out well.

Space is the saving grace. The one thing I still love about this city compared to New York is I've got a downtown townhouse five times the interior floor area as my sister-in-law in Queens at about a quarter the price of her place. But again, we've also sunk a ton of money into fixing nonsense poor craftsmanship that would have never gotten past a city that does real building inspection. My neighbor successfully sued the city for his furnace being installed upside down because the inspector was 84 and he was somehow able to prove the guy was unwilling to walk up the stairs to actually look at what he was signing off on.

I'm not trying to say it's terrible here or anything or that New York is paradise (which I wouldn't know anyway since I've only visited and never lived there). Just beware. Low taxes aren't the end all be all of life. The government still manages to be terrible in a lot of other ways besides, largely with horrible infrastructure and no maintenance, but also in smaller ways like selling your information when you register to vote or get a driver's license, making it effectively impossible to not be slammed with nonstop spam no matter how careful you otherwise are about privacy hygiene.
This article seems to be asserting that Airpods have a Wifi radio (in addition to BT and NFC). I can't find anything to support that including the article he cites.

It does rather devalue his argument about why airpods are so good if he doesn't even understand which wireless standards are involved.

I have no experience with Airpods, but if they're good it's because of two things:

Apple actually invests in the time and effort needed for a good end to end system. From RF and antenna design all the way up to user facing software.

They control the whole stack. Basically every line of code, and every gate in every chip involve in that end to end link. That means that proper development can achieve the best possible result.

I have some Samsung Galaxy Buds (and a Samsung phone). I have found them to be excellent from a stability and ease of use point of view. Admittedly less good from an audio quality point of view (which isn't a problem for me as I use them almost exclusively for podcasts and phone calls at which they do a good job).
Not really following your logic. Why do you care as a customer if there’s variation in KYC requirements from vendor to vendor?

Also not sure why this makes handling ID information “safer.” The vendor using this service still has access to all the images (ID and selfie) and data returned to them from this API that they can store a copy of on their own servers forever. This is not like your Stripe analogy where you only get the token and not the actual card number.