jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And no mention of how they plan to ward off Uber's killbots, known to roam Tempe. Given the opacity of the financial system, how do we even know this is being developed by humans? The whole thing could just be a setup to lure more fleshy targets out into the open.
Oh, nice to see a Vultr guide here. I think they made an effort to build a library of knowledge recently, like DigitalOcean has - I was pleasantly surprised by this just last month.

Vultr is a bit “me too” in the cloud-provider space, but their prices are good and (the main reason they’re my main provider at the moment) they have very good support for BSD images, including OpenBSD - new releases drop pretty quickly.
Talking to your representative is a basic civic duty.
Apple fans are hilarious sometimes.
It's disappointing to me that these new privacy labels from Apple don't regard client IP as "coarse location", only gps/wifi sourced location data.
Yes, if the company Thether has full control of its tokens they can print them and don't back them with anything (as the author says their reserves are not public)
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.kuenzler.whatsappwebtogo/
hey guys, I'm one of the authors (Pedro) let me know if you have any questions!
I'll call myself that once I get the title/promotion. Or maybe if I were looking for employment. I've had people call me senior or be shocked when they hear I'm not. I've even had people call me tech lead the year I was an acting tech lead. Sadly they've officially left me at the mid-level title.
I still don't quite understand how they can manipulate the price.

The price of a USDT is 1 dollar. They give out new USDT for $1 a piece.

Sure, they may be spending these dollars elsewhere, thus holding a fractional reserve. Sure this may illegal and get them in trouble.

But this doesn't effect the dollar value for which these USDT's and thus Bitcoins are traded.

As long as a USDT is $1, nobody is manipulating the price.
Location: Grenoble/France
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes (ideally in France or EU)
Technologies: C/C++, OCaml, Reverse Engineering.
Résumé/CV: http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~tat/ (with my updated CV)
Github: https://github.com/tathanhdinh
StackExchange: https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/users/1619/tathanhdinh
Email: tathanhdinh AT gmail.com

I am now in my second year postdoc (which will be finished at the end of April). I have completed Master (2010 - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1) and PhD (2014 - University of Lorraine) in Computer Science. I am looking for a computer security related job.
The problem is that Boeing tries to cover it up and is purportedly full of managers that you don’t want in charge of a company where human flight safety is at stake. They deserve the bad press they get.
> Bestsnip Animation Studio relies on the Webm VP9 video codec. Please use chrome or a chromium based browser to view this website.

how is vp9 a problem? it's been working for years in firefox
In the general sense the the USA as a whole tends to value individual freedoms over the collective. It is a individualistic culture. Sometimes I wish that we were a more collective culture. Not much more, but I think there are pros to being more collective than we are because as humans we are social animals.

I don't know if it is just me but I think perhaps we have gotten more individualistic in the past few decades and those questions would illicit different responses 40 years ago. Hitchhiking used to be common but now we are afraid strangers are going to kill us, even though the world is actually safer today. I even admit I am absolutely terrified of random stranger violence, irrationally. I know that if I were to become a victim of violence it would be far more likely to be someone I know who did it and not a random stranger on the street. Most people are not killers or serial rapists or muggers. Yet, I still can't shake the fear.

But you are right, those answers would very much vary between countries.

Those are my thoughts on the matter anyways, for what it is worth. (Probably not much :))
Slightly off-topic: Could you please add RSS support to your "blog"? I'm sure others, besides me, would love to me notified of new entries. Thanks!
Not quite. When reading an article I want nearly all facts to be correct. Otherwise it won't do me any good.
Now if I sample two facts and one is true, the other is false, it makes it unlikely that the article is mostly true.
Sure, it is also unlikely that nearly every facts is false, but that's still not very comforting.
You are absolutely right to be skeptical about MAD, the invention of genius civilians like Robert Strange McNamara who also brought up the horribly fought Vietnam War, the previous generation F-35, the M16/M4, etc. etc. etc.

The Soviets never bought into it, and rightly judged us to be utterly evil to target their children in their homes instead of military targets like we'd done prior the the early '60s.

As you implicitly note, we can be sure nuclear weapons will again be used in anger. Although the dangers from a false flag operation are potentially less than you think, in that each weapon has a radioisotope signature which tells you everything from its design to where the fissionable materials came from. So we'd know who manufactured it, or so I gather and believe from my study of all this (born when Eisenhower was still president, I'm a child of the cold war with e.g. my mother's Civil Defense Block Mother sign a dozen feet from me).
How old are the people using this CV format?! For any date that would appear on in someone's work history yyyymmdd is not ambiguous, but if you're being really strict then a delimiter would fix the problem.
I am not entirely sure that it is necessary to charge people twice for the same thing. If someone robs a bank, it is to try and spend that money. Making it an extra crime of spending the money isn't going to stop people from trying to spend the money. That is what the money is for. What it does do, is encourage the bank robber try and get other people to spend the money on their behalf, to try and offload those potential charges, so corrupting and jailing an ever widening circle of people.
Oh, perfect, I needed a way for recruiters to speed up the rate at which they bombard me with mismatched job postings ("I saw your 6 years of Java/Javascript experience and found a Senior COBOL Developer position that I think is a perfect fit!").
It's more complex than that. One of the major reasons why there isn't a universal ARM standard of booting is that once you've gained control of execution, now you just have a bunch more per SoC work that needs to happen in the kernel compared to x86. ARM is simply far far far more heterogeneous on much deeper levels than x86-pc.

"Well, ARM just should be more standardized on it's hardware interface then", is a common refrain I hear then, but that's just nerfing a major benefit of ARM in the first place. It's a strategic advantage that it didn't have it's own set of legacy cruft or an extremely heavyweight interface to everything like PCI is.
No, I don't, and I advise other people not to. The baseline dozen-or-so services are awesome (EC2, RDS, S3, etc.).

The massive number of newer services are propriety, often buggy, and poorly documented.

I don't use any AWS services introduced past 2015 or so.
Employees don't realize that taxes are the reason companies generally don't allow for remote positions. It's not just payroll taxes at stake.

In a nutshell, having an employee in a tax jurisdiction creates a taxable nexus for the company, meaning that they can be subject to income taxes, commercial taxes, sales taxes/VAT, etc., in that jurisdiction. (And note: this has been part of domestic and international tax law for decades.)

For example: Company C in CA has an employee, E, who moves to NY to work remotely. Company C is now subject to NY income taxes, and must now collect NY sales tax if they have any sales to NY customers (though note: in the US many states now require sales tax collection even in the absence of physical presence, so C may already have been obligated to collect NY sales tax). If E is a programmer, the NY income tax exposure is probably very low, but if E is in sales, they could be looking at significant NY tax liabilities based on how they may be required to apportion (aka allocate) their income between CA and NY.
Switching to F# from python solves just about every drawback that is listed.
The only viable non-Mozilla alternative to Blink-based browsers are WebKit-based browsers (or the minimal ones with custom engines that are developed to run in the terminal, if you can stomach it).
After the massively incorrect analysis by popular YouTuber Thunderf00t, I made a video analyzing SpaceX's reusability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36o4UrS9OS4 It's 8 minutes but I recommend watching at 2 times speed.

The latest numbers are that the marginal cost of relaunch is $15 million, with $10 million of that the second stage. Refurbishment cost is 27 days with a $1 million refurbishment cost (not $250,000 as I mistakenly said in the video, see description). The net effect is the cost of marginal cost of reflight is approximately 25% but the payload reduction is 30%, which leads to a break even point of 3 launches. After 10 flights, the cost to orbit per kilogram is halved. SpaceX has demonstrated 8 flights of a single booster.

Note, these are all using SpaceX's own numbers (but so was the payload reduction and original reuse cost figures). It depends on recovering the $6 million fairing (which does not happen every mission). All numbers are sourced from an Aviation Week May 2020 podcast that I linked to. Yes, the cost numbers are from SpaceX but the only public refurbishment cost analogue we have is their 27 day turnaround time.

SpaceX are currently operating at a sixth of the rest of the industry and use their cost advantage to launch 60 Starlink satellites at their $15 million marginal cost.

The traditional military-industrial complex with cost-plus accounting is "subcontractors all the way down", and the incentives weren't aligned to make an industry dominating rocket until arguably the 1990s commercial satellite boom (eg, the original Iridium constellation). Until 2008, there hadn't ever been a privately funded rocket reach orbit ever. Until SpaceX. Prior rockets we designed, owned and approved by the US government under World War 2-era cost-plus accounting arrangements.
Yes created by an act of Congress but is not under the jurisdiction of congress or the president, apart from appointments.
Email has increasingly become my preferred method of communication over
the past few years.

As the popularity of other instant messaging platforms ebb and flow,
email has remained one of the few ubiquitous methods for discourse,
messaging, and notification.

In addition to its ubiquity, I like that email enables slow thinking /
maintaining focus and doesn't require an always-on internet connection.

I also like that it's decentralized; though some of the bigger players
have certainly gained enough users to control the ecosystem a bit,
Fastmail, ProtonMail, Posteo, Gandi, and others, as well as self-hosting
are all available.

In terms of client software, mu4e has been absolutely fantastic for
searching, and indexing (via mu), threading, marking, replies, etc.
making email work even better. mutt was also a favorite MUA for many
years before my journey into Emacs.

For responding to SMS messages via email, voip.ms gets the job done as a
SMS/email gateway, helping to consolidate the majority of my
asynchronous messages into the same platform.
The enforcement does not necessarily need to come from the compiler - it's not uncommon to introduce additional required processes / checks that new code needs to pass (ex. "tests need to pass", "at least one reviewer must approve a change"). The compiler probably won't be able to leverage those annotations since there's always a potential for mismatch between annotations and code (but the verification system should be able to catch it) - I agree that integration into the language would be needed here, but that's not likely going to happen with C/C++ so I'm open to using a solution that's not perfect. :-)
I would love to know your streaming setup for this. I did an interactive project using Twitch/YouTube chat a month back, controlmylights.net, and I found the delay on both of services was pretty bad. And you can't use Twitch's low latency mode on Safari/Edge. Also, unless you can monetize on YouTube you can't embed a live YouTube stream.

If you are interested in how I made it: https://edwarddeaver.me/portfolio/control-my-lights/
Surely you can do both, so you can still perform sane sorting/indexing on "real" timestamps and then use the extra precision string timestamp for drilling down?
Long startup time are norm in size-limited entries. E.g. the winning 64k entry had about 10-15s load time on the very high end party computer, and it is a native windows executable: https://youtu.be/6INL_pxX8L4
Care to tell me how it is a net positive? What kind of germs/virussus are you cleaning off that you wouldn't have come in contact with in the grocery store itself?
Textbook case.
Logs are usually more detailed. So while you get error events (and perhaps other interesting events) aggregated in Sentry and similar tools -- when you actually want to understand the failure, logs can help you understand the reason for the event.

A typical workflow would be to look for common errors reported by Sentry, then take a few example cases and examine the logs to understand what went wrong.
A net positive in what sense? What is positive about it?
Can you not propose a PR to the backend code?
I hear that you are questioning whether other's desires to reach enlightenment is right for you or not. To answer that, I'm going to point out you made two you/blaming statements in your comment. Bear with me here, I'm not attacking you.

The first blaming statement is "who would want to stop thinking?". Logically this parses into asking a generalized question of whether there exists anyone at all who would want to 'stop thinking'. It seems obvious to me, based on personal observation, that I am someone that wants to "stop" my thinking process now and again.

Given I'm one person who desires this, your question then turns into this question: "why would kordless want to stop thinking". I can answer that quickly: I periodically enjoy damping the chatter that goes on non-stop in my brain while I'm awake. I get the most joy out of getting to a place where I'm thinking of nothing and just letting things be the way they are without my input. Now, the conclusion of that is that you might agree that I have the right to make this a rational choice, or you may not. The only way I could tell you meant one over the other is if you told me that already - which you did! The 'tell' was that you 'agree' with jostmey's statement that he "doesn't want to experience" it right before you ask the leading/blaming question.

For me, that indicates you don't agree with my choice to 'stop thinking'. And that is a blaming statement because it's my choice to make, not yours. :) A better way to put it would be "I'd like to understand why someone would want to stop thinking. I'm not sure I want it for myself and I have no data from anyone I know that helps me understand why I would." Or something along those lines. Those statements are more inline with being present and being receptive to other's thoughts.

The second blaming statement is "I'm sure we'll be told". That point is easier to make because clearly until someone says "trekky1700, you simply don't understand" (a blaming statement in and of itself) it won't be truthful statement. Even if they did that, they'd be wrong for doing it. Your blaming statement indicates you are expecting (simulating?) someone coming in and making their own blaming statements.

I learned about all this via exposure to non violent communications (NVC), which has it's roots in Buddhism. It's also why I bothered to write all of it in the first place. Listening and hearing others is the most effective when you turn down the volume of your own brain!

I hope I didn't make any blaming statements in my comment. I still screw it up at times...but I mean well.
But if you code JS for Vert.x, you're restricted to Vert.x for life.

This way you write JS for Node and you can run it under either Node or the JVM.
I have it aliased but for some reason I still add -nw every time I open it. Silly muscle memory.
Here's the perspective from a first world client.

We contracted with Delhi dev shop and were paying about $8000 Australian dollars per month for the equivalent of 3 developers (mix of backend devs full time, and on call front end dev, designer, tester)

I think our junior dev was charged out at $1300 per month so if using standard agency markup of 100% her salary would've been around $650 per month (~26000 rupees per month).

The manager was also always complaining that new recruits kept increasing their demands each year.

So it's strange that there's such a difference in salaries between 2 cities so close by. If it was true then I'd expect programmers to move to Delhi.
I hate the implication that busywork is somehow less valuable than other kinds of work. Much of software development isn't intellectually rigorous. Many deficiencies in OSS could be resolved by people willing to do the same kind of gruntwork that you linked to here. I see this and think major props to @sferik for working hard to maintain public code, even when it's not glamorous.
Yep!

Check out the "Record" button in the iOS Camera app, when you switch to video it changes the circle from white to red.
Past the demotivation, PG lists "single founder" as [one of]the top mistake that kills a startup.

"it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. that's pretty alarming"[1]

"Ideally you want between two and four founders. It would be hard to start with just one. One person would find the moral weight of starting a company hard to bear."[2]

There could be other reasons why a founder chose to be single. In my case, my other friends who were interested in joining as co-founders but, I chose not[include/work them] because they didn't had the same values as I imagine one should. for me, this is more important than their respective abilities.

[1] The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
[2] How to start a startup
I foster kittens for the local SPCA until they're old enough to be adopted.
Not just the view. React Native also gives you access to HTTP and full JavaScript logic, so the model, view and controllers can be written using React Native.
Mutually assured destruction. If Facebook sued Yahoo, Yahoo could sue Facebook right back.

I'm not really sure what Facebook thinks they are gaining with this clause. They aren't going to stop patent trolls, because they are non-practicing entities. Maybe they want to guard against someone making improvements to React and then suing Facebook if they do something similar later.
I don't pretend to understand the details here, but if it's just a question of better enforcing existing laws then why is there a bill?
I just came back from lunch with a guy that I consider an informal "advisor" and who I hope may agree to join my advisory board later. We met at a LinkedIn themed networking event, aka "LinkedIn Live." Not sure if those happen all over or not, but here in the Raleigh area, there's a guy who hosts a networking event about once a quarter that's targeted at people in this area who are connected to each other, through him, on LinkedIn.

I find those kind of events valuable, but you have to separate a lot of chaff from the wheat, ya know. That is, in a given night, you might meet 70 people and collect 50 business cards, but maybe only one or two of those people will actually offer any kind of mutually beneficial connection in the future.

As for LinkedIn itself, yeah, I occasionally get cold contacts from people who said "I saw your profile, looks like you're interested in some of the same stuff I am, let's meet" or "Looks like you're an entrepreneur, I like meeting people like that, let's grab coffee." Some of those connections have been some of the more interesting / useful ones I've made, to be honest.

Other thoughts: leverage former co-workers or classmates. Want to meet a professor who teaches a certain topic, because you think he might have useful info or be a potential advisor? Maybe a coworker graduated from that school and knows him/her. Don't be shy about calling around and asking people. Maintain a big list of connections, even if they're "weak ties" Weak ties can be very useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties#Weak_tie_hyp...

Also, Barcamp or similar events. If your town doesn't have a HN Meetup / Open Coffee Club or something similar, start one. If there is one, join it and attend. Join "business development" related Meetups on Meetup.com, if there are any near you.

There's potential to meet people all over the place, look around. Does a local community college or university offer free seminars for entrepreneurs? Attend those, even if the content isn't all that interesting, just to meet the other people. Go to a Startup Weekend. Hang out in the "business" section at Barnes & Noble or Borders and strike up conversations with random people. If you see somebody reading an interesting book in the cafe at Barnes & Noble or Borders, strike up a conversation.

Edit: another thought on LinkedIn. Use it to find and connect with people from former employers, who worked in different departments, even if you didn't know them well. In my experience, most people will accept link requests if you actually worked at the same company at the same time, even if they don't really know you on a deep level. So, if you are, say, a techie, and looking to make some biz dev connections... go back to a former employer, link with the marketing / biz dev / sales people from there, and message them and arrange to meet for coffee or drinks or what-have-you. Even if they can't help you themselves, the'll likely have other contacts they can refer you to.
"And we especially think there's something wrong when our favorite show is interrupted for a *&@!^%$#@!! sporting event!!!"

Really? THAT is the point you want to finish on?
hey stiggz - thanks for responding. how can I get in touch with you? If you want to just send me an e-mail, send it to nchastain at gmail.com
Emacs org-mode + Google Calendar... Here I come!
Unfortunately for S-Corp advocates on HN, the "natural" FICA exemption already stops right around the "reasonable" salary of a computer professional.
what are they going to do, sue?

(this is my answer to every one of my actions that may be construed as copyright infringement)
There are many uses cases, but one of them *might be as a potential solution to current social media polarization.

Imagine putting radical liberals and conservatives or loyal Taiwanese and Chinese in the same room AND be able to participate in the discussion.

The value Clubhouse brings is the ability to start a dialogue to understand the other side that we are often blinded from - empathy through conversation from multiple viewpoints.

Civil discussions that were never possible can now be (abuses are quickly reported and kicked out). Of course we will have to see the long term repercussions of this technology that only time can tell.
I’m not sure. I was referred by an employee several times at Shopify for instance and it did nothing for me. A referral in a lot of places is just so that the company knows who to give the referral bonus to if you’re hired but it doesn’t give you any kind of edge.
I mean, who says Python strings are immutable?

s = "asd"
import ctypes
ctypes.memmove(id(s) + ord('1'), b'X', 1)
print(s) # prints aXd

(Python 3.3+, 64-bit; this is a joke so please do not use this in anything real)
Definitely a case of "if you have to ask, it's not for you"