jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The third revision of the Xbox One (1708, doesn’t have the glossy plastic piece at the top where the Xbox button sits) added Bluetooth support. The consoles and the Xbox Wireless Adapter still use the “Xbox Wireless” (basically WiFi Direct), however.
To be fair their offer was 1/3 of revenue not net income. The $40k was net income.

So 1/3 of revenue could easily be > 40k but no clue with what is said here.
Hey there, somewhat unrelated, I'm super interested in what you're working on with Kiva Protocol — do you have any way I could contact you? I really like what Kiva is doing and am very interested in the Kiva Protocol. Contact info in profile if you prefer to reach out that way.
So... does anyone use Kaspersky anymore?

I mean any CTO or underling in any company could be an unknown "asset" --maybe mitigated a bit if they are scrutinized because of official contracts with GOV. These types may by simply naive and sympathetic to some politics elsewhere. All governments should be weary of these types, lest they have undesired outcomes.
You'd get some jaggies.
It's striking that someone as intelligent as the comment parent could not see this.

Saying "the US justice system seems only to protect the status quo because it vigorously enforces email leaks out of shady private spying companies while ignoring torture" doesn't imply that car theft should go unpunished at all.

But then, if you're an HN celebrity, you can probably count on being able to say anything and get upvoted, and then having anything said against you downvoted. You could test this by masking the username on a comment until after a vote, but HN would never do that because the people who could do that are all people that benefit from this effect, and the powerful never cede power. (I hope to be proven wrong, but cynicism is rarely wrong in the world where we live.)
Never mind robustness, they're horribly easy to lose. I put a blank microSD card on my coffee table the other day and lost it instantly.

Re: photos, I think that long term security requires long term care, prioritisation of the important few for printed copies, and reviewing every few years. All of which take time and effort. :(
I think I'll just start building some rules as I described and see how far those take me. Just wish there would be some literature outlining this, like
- "shoot for >86.5% consensus of moderators, because math"
- "hide videos where unique views * times reported * sum of user trust scores > X"
etc.
Do you have the attention span to meditate? I mean maybe it could help ADHD if you are super interested in it so you hyper focus on it but otherwise it would be a chore.
What have they done except have money in your example? Why should they get anything?
"Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier."

Laws could be passed to keep wealth from moving overseas without being taxed first.

It's very simple. All it takes is political will.
> If he's still making $250K+ per year beyond the deductions for those expenses, then I don't see that the sob story of the poor doctor just trying to get by with all the uncontrollable expenses is really valid.

Exactly.
I'd first get rid of "smart and doesn't get things done"
The scenario explicitly says he didn't show up to drink with the other nine.
They don't, his argument revolves more around the fact that not releasing them is exceedingly suspicious not that their release would be the savior of iron clad truth.
I was wondering how the waterfall model would be justified when the pendulum started to swing back from manic styles like XP and TDD. The idea that you can't play around with your code and experiment with it right away before thinking too hard is just silly. Many of the nice points about functional languages are precisely that iteration time can be really low. A dev should smack this person for messing with the bugtracker of a project that should be better than this.
So that isn't quite the same as Meld's left-, right- and center panels where the center is whatever output you want saved.
> Also worth pointing out is that it's unrealistic to expect that everyone can be happy, some unhappiness is essential to social stability.

Thank you for this. This was one of the most important things I learned out of my (pretty) mild depression. Since then whenever I see people pretending to always be happy or at least striving to always be happy I sense that there's something wrong. That, and the thing that I began to understand what the Stoics were saying a little bit more (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism)
Xmerge looks great. Too bad I'm on git.
Then you can already use a Telegram channel. (Or an RSS feed if your friends can bother.) It fits your needs pretty well. You don’t need a new social media app.
It's a shame that they can't transition it to a read-only archive type site, where everything is still accessible and playable- jut no new updates or content.
People should be afraid to post. Erring on the side of less content is better, as the content isn’t all that valuable in the best of times.

It might very well be that the best social media is simple private messaging.
Yeap, I posted a movie review article on medium once and it still has 0 reads.
That was a harsh wake up call.
>"holographic bracelet"

Oo! Is it radioactive? : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=news: 'radioactive hologr...>
Was there ever any doubt? If Apple has shown us anything, it's that they will kill your app for any reason they damn well please, and maybe they'll eventually deem you worthy of being given some sort of explanation.
I recently bought my first MacBook and was wondering exactly the same thing.

How can all of the other manufacturers miss the point to this extent?

Simple branding. Simple model distinction. "15 inch". Elegance. High quality. Visual appeal. No wonder Apple has been so successful... everyone else is so poor, and so caught up in the middle of the pack. Sony is the only other company offering laptops to appeal to the high-end and theirs are kind of a joke.
5 days seems to be too short a notice to get a fix.
They themselves didn’t know, actually. Until someone told them to look at the Acknowledgements. (If you have Safari 5 installed you can check it out yourself, the Acknowledgments can be found in the Help menu.)
I don't mind adding those categories (the 'N' for Android ones) if you can think of a few.
I just saw something that said these are the lowest temps in the last 30 yrs. That isn't once in a century!
My understanding of the TurboTax free edition is that it doesn't support anything beyond basic income received from an employer. For those that don't really know the tax rules (including myself), are not the higher editions practically a requirement given they cover investing scenarios, house sales, etc...?
Yeah, hence the fireplace in the very open main room.

The radiator in my office -- which is a normal shaped room with maybe an 8 foot ceiling -- does very well.
Are you suggesting they'll take another two tries to get a working quantum computer?
>Who would you say are in the target audience of Kubernetes?

Everything else - I literally said "K8s is enterprise stuff". Now if we go to specifics then it depends of what the company does, maybe they'd do just fine with Nomad or a managed solution like ECS.

>If you want Kubernetes it's probably a better idea to use a hosted Kubernetes solution like Google's offering.

Well I agree? All of the big companies I've been in used EKS and before EKS was decent there was some maintenance overhead. It'd still be less than the maintenance overhead to maintain the full list of features that K8s provides with Nomad, as Nomad doesn't provide any of those and you'd need to seek solutions outside of the product and try to fit them in.

The same way you'd not buy a car if you're going to drive yourself quarter of a mile once a week, you'd not use such a complex solution to run a few dozen containers.
thanks and congratulations to you too for your work
do you have any podcasts you could recommend? I'm particularly interested in music, but anything creation related would be useful.
If you are a believer in bitcoin as a viable currency, store of value, or whatever you reason for supporting it, how is this a good thing?
From the article:

"No matter how engaging the songs or poems that a computer generates may be, they ultimately feel empty. They lack the electricity of the human body, the hum of human consciousness, the connection with another person."

This hypothesis can be easily tested by seeing how well he can distinguish between human generated and AI generated art.
Mosquitoes are a rather distinct element in the natural world and it just seems unlikely that we are capable of understanding the full set of downstream effects of eradicating them entirely.
I actually was talking about our behavior, not our actual genetics or biology.

My understanding is that a lot of the diseases we want to kill mosquitoes for are also more likely to affect people in developing countries.
Examples of people being fired for saying things that "aren't so black and white"?
Have you tried https://medium.com/feed/@dlorenc ?
Another paper by the same author was retracted from Scientific Reports in 2019: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45584-3

> Although, it is not clear yet if this trend in the terrestrial temperature and solar irradiance is caused directly by the increased solar activity itself or by some other factors of the solar-terrestrial interaction in the whole solar system and human activities.
> There is nothing inherently good or bad ethnic diversity.

Depends on the context. For example, if your user base is diverse, it can be larger than if it wasn't - the total potential market is larger. So, diversity is profitable in that context.

Serving a diverse user base well is potentially easier with diverse staff. Remember those "Falsehoods programmers believe about X" articles? With a diverse team, chances are higher that those falsehoods are caught early, because the team covers a broader range of life experiences. So, diversity is good in that context.

How much of an impact this argument has depends on the concrete role, of course. My work tends to be very low on the overall software stack, and the notion that diversity helps seems very weak there. At the very least, I expect that diversity of thought or actual neurodiversity matters more than ethnic or gender diversity.
wins the ugly site competition.
That failed spectacularly.
Security, integration, exploring a new feature or design that didn't work out, removing old a/b code for completed experiments....
I agree, the posts on the website is moderated to prevent spams. and I thought this tool would help one save shortened version of tutorials they watch, like to watch later for review. and once tutorial is added, people can find it while browsing Youtube using this chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/summarypandacom-cu...
What I don't understand is why he just stands up and walks away. It seems impolite. Why not say, "I'm sorry, but I think that question is meant to manipulate your watchers, not inform them, so I won't be able to continue this interview".

Or better, point out that this is based on accusations which are being interpreted by the legal system, with good reason for privacy: not smearing him as a person, which has been violated by the leak. There's a little bit of irony there, but wikileaks doesn't do these kinds of leaks. If, for example, wikileaks were to receive a list of patients with AIDS from a central government database, they would not leak it. I imagine Julian believes in some privacy laws, such as those protecting people on trial from unproven accusations being used to smear their person.
Yeah its quite out dated but I think just a textual reading doesn't give us exact idea about the OS and its functions.
It would be instructive to see an actual image, rather than an illustration.
(Disclaimer: I'm author of mithril.js, another minimalist JS framework)

I'm curious why you decided to export multiple tag names as opposed to using hyperscript. Something that helped mithril.js gain more traction was that while it is idiomatically meant to be used as plain JS, it's also compatible with JSX tooling for the folks that want that. Also, some things are a bit awkward to express in terms of tag-names-as-functions (most notably, custom components require a hyphen in their names, and SVG tags need to be created with a different DOM API, and some have name collisions with HTML tags, e.g. `title`)
The only thing I think I can do is to initially make a guess, and then revise the guess according to what is being figured out later. Some things it is possible to verify by yourself, others is more difficult to do.
The difference is that if you screw up your browser rendering, you're not messing up your data integrity at rest and creating compound technical and potential business debt. If anything in the critical path from pricing to payments that talks to your data store makes a mistake, you can risk anything from not recording your transactions properly to charging the wrong amount or not enough at all.

It's very expensive to acquire customers. It gets even more expensive when you have dirty data from incomplete domain modeling.
I should have been clearer: I'm not taking a position on whether that argument for minimum wage is accurate. I don't know enough.

If it's not, then minimum wage also falls in the second category - of problems that should be solved by saying "Society will provide for the least profitable workers among us," not "You shouldn't be legally unemployable, but being legally underemployable is your own problem."
I actually fully disagree. I find it much easier to "fake" the DB in the first stages (like just store shit in memory) where you explore and understand what your system must do, the questions it should answer with data from the DB, etc. Then, just replace your fake repo with an actual DB and you're done.

And it goes with what you're saying: changing a schema is not as easy as changing the code. So start by really understanding what you need to do, and then build the schema at the end.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/1904/And...
I'm willing to wager that we thought saturated fat was bad for a very good reason, and it's not one of the reasons touted by people who want to eat deep fried bacon wrapped hot dogs for every meal. My first thought when someone calls a scientific consensus a scare is that they have an agenda. You'll see similar language in climate change denial. Yes, new data comes out and some theories are shown to not be perfect, but if you're getting your education from internet memes and hacker forums and scattered papers you're going to draw conclusions that miss things. It's also a matter of whether whichever studies are being touted right now are representative of the larger scientific landscape.
Focus on both - they just serve different purposes. The items mentioned will get their attention, so they are great. But once you have their attention, you need to switch to proving you can help their business.
Could you give an example of situations where there would not be small and well-defined inputs and outputs because this certainly does not sound like a common situation to me?

And what do you mean by 'Tests that only asses their own mocks are a waste of time.' Certainly, many side effects can very effecitively be checked by mocks. Now, it could certainly get much more difficult if the side effects were very large and hard to define as you said in the paragraph before that, but I have some difficulty picturing that as a common situation.
Tons of replies to your comment already, but for point #1, this was absolutely the case for me. ActiveRecord is incredibly, incredibly good for pretty much all basic use cases. However, it comes with drawbacks like you said. It took me too long to realize I was behind on knowing sql to get to the next level.

To the point where I'm working today to fix slowness in a client's app where it relies way too heavily on the ORM and plain ruby code instead of going more in depth with sql.

Knowing sql more in further depth is the number one skill I'd want to tell backend devs to learn.

Also, I'm mainly a python guy, and if we're talking about ORMs, I will say that SQLAlchemy doesn't live up to ActiveRecord, to the point where I built my own db connection code for queries in some of the other flask / general python apps I'm working on.
There is barely any Rust discussed here except for the package managers discussion?
The problem is that the lack of decency is critical to the whole situation. If they had shown decency in the first place, he wouldn't have reacted in a way that they construed as "suspicious", and then they wouldn't have wasted several hours and harassed an innocent person.
Never heard of it. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out.
IMHO the best line: "perfect is never possible, and shipped is better than perfect."
I am going to copypasta this in every "NSA is evil" post I come across. You put it more eloquently than I've been able to.
NHTSA Six Stars: The car is a mobile fortress.
As part of the program, Microsoft will also offer free Surface tablets...

Because they can't sell them... this is just PR garbage.
Now you know how everyone outside the United States feels.
Given the number of opportunities (people interested in me interviewing, not job offers) that I come across which also seem compelling, the idea of making an in depth cover letter or completing a small project for each one seems a little absurd. Oh, and quit my job to work for you for a week in the hopes of getting a full time offer? Yeah, no thanks.
There was an article a few years ago on how the time investment of learning new programming tools is often worthwhile. I believe awk was included as an example.

Anyone recall it?
Same here in Eastern Europe - every game pirated, every software product - pirated.

20 years later - huge steam library, working in software and paying a lot of taxes, etc etc.
You’re right, I stand corrected:

> The problem is mitigated somewhat by our orchestration system. The control plane for Fly.io is Hashicorp Nomad, about which we will be writing more in the future.

https://fly.io/blog/persistent-storage-and-fast-remote-build...
sounds like you don't know what "hibernation" is in this context.

when you hibernate a computer, it serializes all of its RAM and the state of all hardware to disk then powers off. Powers off. this is not "standby."

on Windows it generally works flawlessly, and when spinning disks were still the ruling storage mechanism, hibernation was always faster than shutting down and booting again later.

I will admit that I haven't tried using hibernate on any machine with an SSD as a main drive since bootup is so fast with an SSD.
Broadening the idea of a CTO from startups to companies with long track records, I've always thought of ideal CTOs as those who can balance risk and stability, growth and retention. They are elastic enough to handle being stretched between the business/product/finance goals of the organization and the engineering required to make the product actually go.

Good CTOs know about all the shiny new things but have the good taste to apply them only when appropriate, can manage the finances of an engineering team, and aren't afraid to hire developers who might be smarter and better than themselves.
Disagree about the iPad's business uptake.

I just ran into a fellow passenger on a flight who works for a startup in the Bay Area that makes portal software for corporate boards of directors (to securely share info about the company).

After starting as a normal web-based app, they now have three full-time iPad app developers devoted to their iPad app -- because these board members love their iPads and demanded a version be created for it. They have so much demand from corporate boards that their sales team is struggling just to keep up with inbound orders.

An anecdote does not suffice for data, but if gray-haired corporate board members are so nuts about it, there must be some sort of significant business demand.
That is absolutely superb. And probably grounds for a lawsuit. Wouldn't think paul and barry would be too litigious. That bloke who always hired them every week is probably well up for it though.
It's interesting that the previews are made available using JSONP. This should technically allow other web sites to also retrieve and display them.

The post doesn't mention whether Google allows this, though, or whether they expect the interface to remain stable.
That's the point of that article, use bcrypt because it's slow.
> Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders.

Since they own no appreciable equity in Twitter except for Jack, their power is in proportion to Twitter's capacity to moderate content, not the market value. Elon threatens that. It would be shocking if they did not fight him.
I think you could only cover that by visualizing the path of a single chunk. Showing that the client asks the tracker who has it, then asks the other peer if they are willing to provide it, then receiving the separate blocks and checking the integrity and blacklisting the peer if necessary. Then advertising that you have that chunk to other peers.

To me, that is the more interesting side of BitTorrent, compared to what the linked visualization is showing, which is just that "peers get stuff from peers that already have it, then once they have it, provide it to other peers."
I agree not much is heard about it. I blog about it a fair amount on [1]. There's also /r/ats [2]. I use it in production. The backend of my bitcoin mining pool [3] is written in ATS and has about 1% of the total bitcoin mining capacity and has been operating for a couple of years. The front end of the pool is written in Ur/Web.

[1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/
[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/ATS/
[3] http://mmpool.bitparking.com
I suspect that modern processors are closer to quantum limits than what neurons are.
Not OP but this is what I'm leaning towards. I can only think of opening up a software consultancy, population: 1 (myself); I'm not convinced that's a long term strategy and I would struggle to find clients
It's a function of growth and success.

If the company is growing, winning deals, all people are busy it feels great. A lot of energy is pointed outwards, competing, hustling, convincing. Literally no time for internal politics.

Once a company stalls, the energy, actions, focus, drift inward. "Politics". Shit culture.

Now, what is correlation, what is causation?

I suspect results drive culture. Culture can't make up for overall failure.
I think the answer is because it's called "business" - if you're not busy it's "bad for the economy"
I read some speculation that the delay was to keep this objectionable crypto payment development under wraps until they were ready to launch.
I agree. I've learnt my lesson and I will _NOT_ be running "npm install" on any greenfield projects anymore. I like the idea of Svelte but I do not like its dependency on npm/node.

At least with Vue I can just include the library into the page, with no mandatory build step.
You can still have a backup of your files and push them to another provider without self-hosting. It will take up 10x-100x your time to learn and use and maintain these alternatives, versus just taking a regular backup and using a managed provider.

It seems like 95% of the adherents to self-hosting do it as a hobby but pretend it's prudence.
I am not the owner, but I think this sorts by the "Rotten Tomatoes" score
Terminator 2?!

But its reasonable not to spent money on cliched crap for adolescent if you are not adolescent.
>but last I checked they did _not_ do Python web deployment quite right (i.e., no gevent, no gunicorn, no uWSGI).

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