skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when Alfred Perlstein (FreeBSD committer) invited me into #bsdcode on EFnet in the late 90s/early 00s after I kept pinging him with random kernel questions. Was fun idly chatting and learning from folk like John Lemon, John Baldwin, Jordan K. Hubbard (before Jobs snatched him up as Director of UNIX technology for Apple (pioneering the BSD element of today's OS X)).
I suppose that (barring any fundamental transformation of the structure of our society during the intervening time) the income tax rates will still be progressive, and that the lowest brackets will be quite low - perhaps similar to the current ones.

If you assume that, and you've paid off your mortgage by the time you retire, and aren't planning to blow lots of money on air travel and hotels, then probably the rate at which you withdraw from your 401k will place you in one of those low-rate, bottom brackets.
But I thought I read his latest bike record was 23km/h ..
Russia Used Fake News to Influence the Election, Says U.S. Intelligence Chief
This makes the case that auto fill just ain't that secure, I guess if we use it we just need to accept that.
Ad blockers have started blocking known tracking pixels on major sites, something to be aware of.
The core is. The product is not.
You need physical access to the items to perform tests on them to understand where they come from and what they're made of. You also fund the further study of these objects by renting/selling pieces of the collection to museums, curators, and collectors.
If anything Facebook represents, it's the fact that no amount of technical prominence matters in the general market. You can have a product built by a single person in PHP and if it catches itself in the wind it will become a multi-billion dollar entity.

No doubt nobody cared about Facebook. It was worthless, it was badly coded, it was a webpage. When that thing reached a valuation of $1m I couldn't believe he didn't sell it. What kind of idiot would offer a million dollars for such a thing. Then it went up from there. Now I think whoever stands to gain from a sale of Facebook is a moron. It's valued at hundreds of billions. Just retire. Make another website on the side in your spare time, take as much time as you like. Do whatever you like. Let whoever dropped that much cash on a website to their devices.

At the same time I'm blown away by how many people still use that thing. Regardless of how many scandals after scandals occur.

Facebook is one of those things that makes me not understand tech anymore.
One group of people who could potentially be affected: people who use anti-SAD lighting (especially people building souped-up DIY rigs: https://meaningness.com/metablog/sad-light-led-lux). Those use LEDs and are specifically meant to be very bright and very blue.

Hopefully this turns out not to be a big deal. Having to choose between depression and retina damage would sure suck :/
AWS is just a fancier form of server outsourcing. It's helpful and progress but doesn't represent a paradigm shift. Great chance for companies to shoot themselves in the foot by wasting lots of money though:

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#heavyclouds

Javascript is a mess. Node got traction because it enabled lots of web devs to port their skills to the server side without having to learn new languages. Heck, the web is a mess. We desperately need a better app platform.
Why draw the lines by state? Wouldn't income or race be better dividers?
The Principles of Virality
So you mean a self-hosted solution? What is inherently unsafe about it?
Lol "pessimism is the cure for anger".
I tell Uber the exact address at which I should be picked up and dropped off. Taxis don't get nearly that much granularity. Furthermore, one can pay for taxis with cash.
> It hasn't built its prosperity on invading other nations to annex them and plunder their national wealth, which is traditionally how empires temporarily sustain themselves.

That is exactly how it has built its wealth, what?
CHOLLA: A 3D GPU-based hydrodynamics code
There's more information about the blue hazards in this report from Cree (LED manufacturer)

http://www.cree.com/~/media/Files/Cree/LED%20Components%20an...
I''m of the same sentiment, but I feel that even more rigor and a smaller p value should be demanded from our election methods. 99% seems like a nice number.
Weechat lacks passive DCC. Otherwise, considering the respective plugin ecosystems, both can be made look and work pretty much alike.
A bot like this is necessary to ensure that Wikipedia continues to be relevant and that it remains approximately correct. Supporting work like this is one of the reasons The Internet Archive deserves your financial support. http://www.archive.org/donate.
> Consumers vote with their wallet

Evidence shows that in the vast majority of cases (home depot, target, psn, jp morgan etc) they do no such thing.

Chipotle is getting people sick, people don't like to be sick. Uber, the above mentioned breaches, and the GP were talking about their data. People don't care about that, hence companies face no real penalty for not protecting data.
>Why does your personal website need sponsorship at all? //

I don't blog much, it's mainly things that I've fixed on my main linux install. I see the blog as useful for others too, I'm pretty poor and couldn't reasonably afford to do it without at least it covering costs. Advertising has covered my costs for the last 15 years or so, on the best years it's paid for a new [self-built] computer on the worst, this year [see my other comment here], pretty much just covered hosting, domain and backup costs.

Money is primarily how we exchange value, without micro-payments we're left with advertising as the exchange medium online, way inefficient and not good at direct costs nor applying money to value centres but it serves approximately the purpose of paying people for their time and the value they create. Why shouldn't someone pay me a fraction of a penny [eg via advertising] if I can solve their computer problem, or provide entertainment, or education, or whatever?

Personally I'd prefer a communist system, but that relies on those providing value to the web to receive value from others by eg food, housing, repairs and such. Within a capitalist framework that's hard to manage and so we resort to using the exchange medium that is money, but again that's not been formalised and so advertising acts as a proxy.

Maybe we need, before the world becomes one happy commune [!], pico-payments such that a browser will transfer 1/1000th of a GBP to me for every visitor to my blog, say, in order to do away with reliance on advertising?
No, I mean that burnout is not caused by physical things like lack of sleep, improper diet, lack of exercise, etc.
> Burnout is, unfortunately, a very real phenomena in software development

These people sound like they are bomb technicians not software developers...

> "I'd rather do anything else than this right now" — even though writing software is one of your favorite activities in the world.

So? Does this mean you have burnt out? How does this compare to jobs like algorithmic trading or mission critical software?

Burning out over stress of writing a web site? I call BS on all these burn out blog posts.

You have other problems in your life that make you depress, coding might be little part of it but I don't see what levels of stress can you be under while doing mostly non interesting jobs.
It just seems easier now to reinvent the wheel 500 times as opposed to fixing it the first time. It may just be agile thinking.
I think you should consider prioritizing medium-to-long term plans that will maximize the number of enjoyable little things you will have at the end of your life.

And about the particular example of learning to sing, about 2 years of deliberate practice with a good teacher will get you where you want to be, so, not that big of a commitment in the grand scheme of things, I'd say.
I don't really see how, seeing as the President doesn't end up having to appeal to rural Californian Republicans, urban Texas Democrats, or in fact anyone outside the four or so "swing states" whose outcomes actually have nonzero uncertainty. It's been most effective at setting the stage for regional warfare or breakup of the USA along the lines of the Civil War.
Except you have to trade that off with the diluted-density of having the internet filled with all these people whose blogs and things are either specifically geared towards, if not toxically influenced by, making money and coddling up to advertisers.

And also it doesn't happen. Turns out people who want to write/paint will write/paint.

The internet was around before advertising. We had free sites back in the day. We've got free sites now. And we can fight for taxes to pay for public libraries, access points, community groups, or even philanthropists to set up free servers.

It was actually a pretty cool place (i thought). I mean, I use adblockers to try to simulate it, and am horrified every time I use the web at work without one, but even my ad blocker can't remove the influence and draw of content and material pumped out by money hungry people vs people actually interested in writing/painting/expressing its opinion for its own sake, and the way that profit motive subtly influences the ratio of content produced, and the content and style of that material as well.

Its much more liberating as an author to just say "fuck them", rather than continually go "well, it slows down the page load/breaks up the article, but it will result in 0.01% more views/might piss off my sponsors/industry".

Not so naive as to say that isn't always an issue, but its pretty clear to me what side of the line advertising is on...
I saved up money contracting before I took the plunge. This definitely wouldn't have been possible otherwise! But also, if you don't have a family, serious debt, or health issues, it's pretty easy to be resourceful and live cheaply, even in an expensive city like San Francisco.
Haven't you ever heard that "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"? There's a reason the Christian right has a political voice far out of proportion to their actual numbers: they're active and loud.

No, of course the answer isn't to "vote really hard", but that phrasing is simply rhetoric built to disparage the poster you're responding to. Everyone has only one vote. But the people who make noise, the people who are politically active, gain power far beyond their single vote. And get enough of them together -- it doesn't necessarily take that many -- and you can orchestrate some real change.
Do you have to be alive to participate?
I'm more debating the definition of "value creation" rather than "investment". But admittedly I did conflate the two terms in an earlier response. I'd offer: not all investments, even the ones that provide monetary returns, do so by creating value.
In the south maybe, but if the temp gets anywhere near 30F then no.

I do a fair bit of camping and I use a 0 degree down quilt from September through May where I live, rest of the year a 20 degree down quilt or bag.
I learned recently that if I list a few things I am grateful for, I will instantly feel happier. It seems like it works for others as well.
It is an open system that includes a closed component (FTDI FT2232HL chip).

Open Source (software) equivalent would be something like a Linux distribution that is generally fully open source but relies on a binary blob driver for the videocard... Is it still "open source"? Yes, mostly, but not 100% fully.
In strictly rational terms It has to be better than 1 fatality for every 100,000,000 miles driven, but public opinion isn't exactly rational so it probably needs to be even better than that.
Thank you! I love having incentives aligned where me doing my job better helps everyone both myself and everyone else :D
So commenters have to go through a registration process before commenting. It makes moderation easier.
Yup, I burn karma on this almost daily.
That behaviour is frustratingly frustrating.

A few colourful words were uttered because of their shady, terrible UX choice.

And all for a few extra email addresses? God damnit, what the hell is wrong with people?
Curious about the results. Most of luck to the team.
A big part of Rust is that it lets you very easily parallelize things, even in super complicated situations, because it keeps it safe. The corresponding task might certainly be possible in C++, but not necessarily always maintainable. Doing Servo's parallel styling or layout in C++ would be very hard.

So it doesn't produce more efficient machine code, but it does open up new opportunities for optimization at a higher level.
How do you discover nice little channels that are fun to hang out in?
This level of illumination is 20x or more what you'd expect in a household situation.
HDMI also has built in digital content protection built in which is a part of who it got so much support from content producers, particularly with Sony.
You are calling bullshit based some vague feelings of "job difficulty"?

Do you have a robust mental model of the day to day experiences of these people who you are calling bullshit on? If not, I would be careful with your words. It can come off as fairly snide, ignorant, and callous.
Platform has nothing to do with it. If you keep reading unrealistic marketing stories and believe what they say... well you are the problem...

A lot of people read the same things, should we all burn out?
Yes not caring for your health is a stupid risk, no one can reasonably claim the dangers are unknown. Not caring for yourself can shorten your life however caring for yourself will not extend it, it simply means you are not actively trying to end it.
> Where will that come from?

The same place cash comes from now when the Fed buys t-bonds in order to manipulate the interest rate: nowhere. The Federal Reserve has the authority to create money to redeem any US government security.
You have to think at some point that this isn't about abortions for this group.

With only 3% of PP services being abortions along with the fact that using federal money for abortions is illegal unless the mothers life is in danger, I really feel that there is more to this and my suspicion is that in the hubris of these fools, they really feel that this is their last ditch effort to control women.

I'm not trying to be obtuse or liberal here, what reason do they have for this? They either don't realize the benefits that PP offer to women, or I'm in some crazy ass Twilight Zone episode.

I'm open to feedback here. If someone can explain a point I haven't considered, I'm all ears and I mean that honestly. What am I missing?
I program with Elm which aspires to compete (or coexist) with React. Basically I am going to have to learn React as well in order to do interOp. So, extremely helpful.
"When you started Facebook did you think it would become a full-fledged business?"

"No."
Why doesn't the city hire them to do what they're already doing?

It increases recycling rates and reduces litter providing a public service.
>75 people employed

This just shifts the question down the resource pipeline :)
There's no way to know. Maybe we should start with what is inherently safe.
I believe there's a saying in the Caribbean: "Feel sorry fi maga dog, him turn roun' bite you."

They fall into the gap where the most humane thing to do would be to kill them, but they aren't quite dangerous enough for anyone to do that without feeling bad about it.

In the context of ad networks, they do need to be burned to the foundations and rebuilt better, but no one can stomach hurting anyone that currently needs them.
Walmart's Jet Buys ShoeBuy in Push versus Amazon's Zappos
External JS dependency? It will be in all adblock databases in no time.

Do this with HTML <map> and CSS :hover inline and it will bypass them; it would also make it work on nearly any browser.
You're not entirely wrong, but building most products is easier than finding the right audience and being able to sell it to them. That's the business.
A lot of people are full time on $0 a month
>There's plenty of intolerance there too.

I agree. If I were to wear a Trump hat there, I'd probably be mugged or punched in the face at the very least.
Splitting hairs. Of course the intent isn't to defraud, but they function in the same manner (need a constant supply of new investors [workers] to pay off the old investors [workers]) and have the same failure mode.
Not in my tests, it continued to aggressively populate forms with autocomplete="off" set.
You consider 280k script lightweight?
Wow.

Have you tested this on some cheap, low-end, Chinese phones with the default browser?
"So it's not necessarily true that employees pushing back are right."

I think we give managers and executives too much credit. The employees on the ground often know much better what's really going on.

Said another way, if executives have it right and employees have it wrong, the organization structure is broken.
I'd argue that yes, it is different in software development.

The nature of ditch digging is such that given enough effort, it's probably still possible to dig a ditch. It doesn't mean you'll be motivated to dig the ditch, it doesn't mean it won't be ridiculously hard to dig the ditch, but barring seriously physical issues preventing you from making progress, digging a ditch is mechanical and doesn't really involve a serious need for critical thinking.

When you burn out as a software dev (and probably other fields that involve serious mental investment), it doesn't matter how much you try, there's a good chance you'll just fail.

I do agree that software development is not the only field that can be seriously impacted by burnout, but the degree of impact seems to be highest in fields involving knowledge work.
How do you define "recover"? Stocks were ahead of 10-year T.Bonds by 1945.

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
I don't understand what you've posting here, but when users flag something, please don't create a new account just to post it again. We ban accounts that behave like this on HN.
"everyone else is following city regulations"
> It's the same with fashion. Gucci and Saks Fifth Ave don't have an increase in quality that can be attributed to the high price over say kohls.

I'm going to disagree a bit. As in many things, the first order of magnitude is a huge jump in quality. After that, the curve drops away.

In clothing the jump from say $5 to $50 is huge. The jump from $50 to $500 is generally quite noticeable, but the marginal increase in utility probably may not be as significant (sometimes it is, though). A jump from $500 to $5000 is generally subtle and is generally signalling behavior except in rare circumstances (men's suits spring to mind--the jump from $500 to about $3-4K feels quite astonishing).

Other goods have a similar curve at different points. The jump in quality from a Stratocaster-type guitar from about $100 or so to $500 is generally an astonishing jump in quality. The jump from $500 to $1000 is generally quite noticeable even to amateur guitar players. The jump from $1000 to $2000 is generally nice, but quite a bit more subtle and you probably have to be somewhat decent at guitar to notice. Above that, and we're back into signalling behavior territory with very marginal increases in actual utility.
This is just a matter of semantics and word choice? Why isn't Eurasia (or Afro-Eurasia before the Suez canal) the largest island? Why not Greenland?
The use after free basically had to do with spidermonkey, which has a GC, and is not 100% safe to use in Servo (we try to make it safe).

The quantum projects don't involve moving Servo's DOM into Firefox (they do involve implementing lessons learned from Servo's DOM, but not the DOM itself), so this isn't an issue.
Really the only other option besides those two would be content advertising (Sponsored Articles)... ick
Did seccomp sandboxing make it to this release? (Not in the highlights listed.)
Sure but a mile-wide canyon is a mile-wide canyon. They're just not in the same ballpark.
You're right, but it's not shame. It's just a raw reinforcement feedback cycle. If you repeatedly put a lot of effort into things that fail (or fail to achieve an expected reward - monetary, status, etc...), and then you train your brain to associate labor with failure, so it creates a mechanism to avoid labor.

It's why scientists burn out regularly. 9/10 experiments fail - and that's for a highly skilled scientist.
Would you mind sharing what has been your most effective method of generating inbound interest to your site?

This was actually fascinating to me and I've spent the last 3 hours reading stuff from your links. Just trying to wrap my head around how you built enough inbounds to make that sort of revenue...
I am saying depression is caused by large variety of factors and not just coding, if you have personal problems you will burnt out cos of them, and that will affect your coding, you can't blame software development for that. Also unless you are doing really stressful work what is it that makes you burn out?

Maybe you have other interests? Not wanting to code all day every day does not mean you have burnt out.

Also the words "burnt out" sounds like one those buzz words people come up to feel like more special snow flakes...

What are examples of this in other professions that put tons of stress on you? Compare that to writing code in cozy office...
As far as I know, you're not taxed when the shares are granted, but they are taxed as income when they vest, and then later as capital gains if you sell for more than the price when they vested.
Why do you pay based on rent instead of market rate in the first place?
We've already asked you to stop posting like this, so we've banned the account. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329720 and marked it off-topic.
Great! The reason I bought a Yubikey Neo over the Yubikey 4 is that I need access to the key on all my devices - computers and my phone(s). It's a way to do secure and user-friendly way to solve the key distribution problem to have access to your TOTP tokens, FIDO credentials and/or your PGP keys on all your stuff. I would not use PGP otherwise, as it leaves key distribution as an exercise to the user [2].

Since USB-C is going to be the standard on computers, phones and tablets this new product will be very versatile and usable secure authentication across almost all devices [1]. Only question is - do apps like Yubico Authenticator and OpenKeyChain support this on Android already?

[1]: You're out of luck on iDevices of course, but you're out of luck with iDevices and Yubikey already.

[2]: This was much less of a problem for the first ~15 years of PGP's existence of course, but it feels old-fashioned nowadays.
If we use imaging equipment we can somehow learn more by using more spatial reasoning. Then you can make more.
Which wouldnt be as big a problem if electors were not chosen by political party loyalty, and bound.
Awesome! Love The Hustle and Office Snapshots, will check out SaaS Weekly. Been meaning to interview Stephen from OS since back in August, we were on Product Hunt on the same day :D
Ah, yes.

So, it may not have been the product that cost $132 million, but the spectacularly underwhelming monetization strategy.