skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t like database triggers? You just don’t know how to work with them
Minus the fact that the WebExtensions API isn't as capable as the legacy extensions API, there are a number of compelling features and significantly improved quality (reliability, performance, security rolled into one) in the next few releases of Firefox. Small annoyances exist on macOS -- lack of Keychain integration, some controls scroll or look different from native behavior -- but on the whole, this renewed focus on the browser vs. other initiatives is paying dividends.

Onward and upward!
I know right, SF is just too cheap for its own good! :p

We think it's a case of horses for courses. Sitebulb has the potential to save you a ton of time when auditing and reporting. If you don't do a lot of that then it might not be a good option for you. If you do, that's where a lot of the value lies.

There's a fully featured 2 week trial to give it a proper go, and the monthly billing means you have the option to switch it on/off as you need it.
50 tape backup drives is not a large number for less than a single rack of storage? Buy one rack of storage and two racks of tape backup for it? That seems... not great.

Even outside of managing hundreds and hundreds of tapes.
Why Congress Must Act Quickly to Reform U.S. Space Law
That's possible. I'll try it on a physical system in a bit. See what I can do.
> fancy apartment

Being a 400 sq. ft. studio that you pay $3k per month for to live in an area where you won't get stabbed when you go out at night and is close enough to work where you don't need a car.
You can grab virtually any old type of old tape reader over on ebay. As long as the host system has drivers for it (IIRC even 8 years ago there were no mainline drivers for Iomega ZIP floppies), you'll be fine.

And for really crucial data, you can always go to a data lab and have them restore the tape; wasn't there a story a year ago or so when they found old NASA tapes?
This is the predictable result of our turn to seeing the academy as a consumer product and vocational school meant to train white-collar workers.
Butterfly-inspired robot undergoes mechanical metamorphosis
mid 6 figures? As in, half a million?
As a variation on (b), the supply of programmers can be kept artificially lower via "over-complication and obfuscation", to make basic operations more difficult than it needs to be. It sometimes feels like bureaucracies choose this strategy to keep themselves "necessary" and overpriced.
Exactly this. The problem here is wanting to be a tenured professor, not having an English degree.
I think the web is the lone exception.

Consider the other big software platforms from the last few decades: Android, iOS, Java, Windows. The trend is adequate-but-not-exceptional tech with rich companies pouring cash into their success. (iPhones have better than average tech in the hardware, so maybe there's hope that great tech will make up for lack of cash, but iPhone tech also required massive amounts of cash to develop and the software is also middling.) You can highlight any number of parallel attempts at platforms that arguably had better tech but failed.

I guess another way of phrasing my point is that good tech doesn't seem to be much of a factor in succeeding; ok tech with money succeeds, good tech without money fails. (Where "money" here maybe stands in for a bunch of related things, including "marketing", "building a market for developers", "attracting paying users", etc.)

I am sorry for the random sniping. I wish you luck and I will read your subsequent posts with interest. I write my comment because I would like to read some higher-level analysis (e.g. why will your project succeed when similar attempts X,Y,Z failed, what is different about the state of the market today vs last time).
no, it is not.

do I need to spell it out? youre the sys admin for your company. your Mac breaks. are you really going to give the keys to your company to the customer service guy at apple and have them record that for any other service employ to reference?

they can use a USB drive while working on the computer. they can also swap the drive. there are many other options than handing them to keys to your life

do they ask for your phone unlock code? I honestly don't know but if they did it would be just as clearly bad
This is the number one reason for endowment reform. Many universities have the GDP of small countries tied up in endowments, but cry poverty when state and fed budgets are cut.

Unlocking endowments will free up money so that universities can be held accountable for tuition and salaries.
I read a few of these articles a couple of years ago. Along with a few of the inevitable cuckoo hash filter rejoinders.

I think they are neat algorithms and I'm glad to have come across them. But that said, I have yet to find a problem in my day to day work which required set membership, with space at a premium, and where false positives were acceptable. So I've never used either in anger.
> Unions still must restrict the supply of labor, or else they're not unions

This is true insofar as setting a floor on any of wages or working conditions is, strictly speaking, a supply restriction.

> which would destroy Open Source

No, it wouldn't.

> Otherwise, by using GNU Emacs, you're depriving a union worker of their wages

I'm a member of a union that represents programmers. None of our contracts restrict the use of open source (or even paid off-the-shelf) products by the employer.

Contracting out custom programming work isn't even prohibited, though it is redtricted.
It really has nothing to do with biological sex. It has to do with our culture and society.
Because the people we are working with as commercial clients wanted 2.7 supported; they weren't interested in Python 3. We have Python 3 support slated for the end of the year.

Basically, we establish a roadmap for ourselves and then adjust it based on interest from folks who will pay us.

We are now adjusting that to including feedback from the open source community as well.

There are many many things we could be building. Getting feedback from folks who will help us grow the business is an important part of our process.
Perhaps a more modern take might be Florida Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man
I think he means that you'd need 50 tape drives with the backup running simultaneously across all of them to run the backup in a day - fortunately that's not how backups get run, you generally aren't running full backups every time, you run a full then do incremental or differential backups starting from that point with periodic full backups.

The point I caught from the article that most people are bypassing is that tape provides a fully disconnected and unreachable (by attackers) backup, where many online backup systems are using software and systems that may be reachable from the systems being backed up. In the worst case of a motivated knowledgeable skilled attacker that could mean an attacker having the ability to wipe backups as well as live systems.
Why would you ever live in a studio if you want to save money?
If that was the point of the article, I think it was spectacularly ineffective at communicating it. Your points here (and above) are a far better and more succinct presentation of the argument than the article itself was.
Yes, Good source for BTC historical data

https://www.coinigy.com/bitcoin-data/
In which city are you?
> • Often don’t get a voice in major decisions – even when you “know the right answer”

I'm not sure if the use of quotes here is intended to imply one doesn't actually know the right answer, but only feels that way. It's a particularly important point, I feel in my career I've met so many managers insecure in themselves that they would never consider listening to an idea from a report, not unless you can convince them it was their own idea.
Utopia for Realists[1] has several chapters on the basic income experiments of the 70's, and the conclusions people have reached when analyzing the data from them against various control groups. Entire towns provided with basic income had higher rates of kids graduating, lower rates of domestic violence, lower medical costs, and less homelessness.

It contains extensive citations, and costs about twelve to seventeen bucks on Amazon[2], depending on whether you buy it as an e-book, paperback, or hardback. If you don't wanna spend that much money, buy it and send a picture/screenshot of the receipt to egypt@urnash.com, and I'll cover it for you.

1: https://thecorrespondent.com/utopia-for-realists/
2: http://amzn.to/2xJ4IKP
A lot of things ‘provide real value’. What matters is the magnitude of said value. And before you can get there, you need a way to quantify it. I would posit that Bitcoin creates a lot less real (and particularly marginal real) value than perceived value.
> Add in the racket that is software + books and things add up quickly.

Don't students have to pay for software and books? Where I went to school the library didn't stock any textbooks, and there was an extra per-credit hour "technology fee" slapped on to the regular tuition? You'd think the "technology fee" would cover all required software, but it only really paid for things like Microsoft Office, Peoplesoft, etc. Specialized software had to be bought separately (glares at Adbobe) at the student's expense.
Seems surprising that such can't find a position outside of academia. I am cog-neuro so a little more bound.
Option one, remove sources of stress, typically debt and/or investors; grow slowly and organically -- don't have employees until you can afford them.

Option two, reframe ordinarily stressful things to be less stressful. Stoic philosophy is probably a good start here. Adopt a mindset that does not require you to "be responsible for" your employees. (One possibility: there are plenty of independently wealthy people that will join the right project.) Reject self-flagellation -- the only person "blaming yourself" is you.

I'm sure there are other options as well.

Also consider that while being an employee may provide a sense of financial stability, it introduces other forms of stress, such as reduced autonomy.
Yeah,the OCS requirement is different than what I remembered.
I didn't say they were. They aren't, that's the issue. A college degree overshoots the level of qualification necessary for a general skills job and comes short of the qualification necessary for a specialized position.

Also, your crosswise comparison between an experienced candidate without a degree and an inexperienced candidate with a degree only tells me that you put more weight into experience than having a degree. It really doesn't tell me much about whether a degree is a good signal, but only that it's worse than experience. Now, if you had told me that you don't consider whether a candidate has a degree at all then I'd be able to infer that they are terrible signals and carry no information at all.
Show HN: Open source graphing calculator
A bit of topic, but since we are talking about MacOS filesystems, if anyone from Apple is listening: please kill the .DS_Store
Journalism's continued defense of chivalry further enables the abuse. Akin to bringing cardboard tube swords to a gun fight.
See Facebook's "Cold Storage" systems for an example of this

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262

> To get the most data into this footprint, we needed high density, but we also needed to remain media-agnostic and low-frills. Using the theme that “less is more,” we started with the Open Vault OCP specification and made changes from there. The biggest change was allowing only one drive per tray to be powered on at a time. In fact, to ensure that a software bug doesn’t power all drives on by mistake and blow fuses in a data center, we updated the firmware in the drive controller to enforce this constraint. The machines could power up with no drives receiving any power whatsoever, leaving our software to then control their duty cycle.

> Not having to power all those drives at the same time gave us even more room to increase efficiency. We reduced the number of fans per storage node from six to four, reduced the number of power shelves from three to one, and even reduced the number of power supplies in the shelf from seven to five. These server changes then meant that we could reduce the number of Open Rack bus bars from three to one.
I would assume retiring Theano implies they are working on some other framework. What is it?
I use a couple of things. All photos go to my local NAS (QNAP has an app that does this automatically). They also go to iCloud and I don't have the problem you have with it but then again I use it only for mobile photos so I don't really care about sync as much as about backup.
If you are bootstrapping, and you are starting a company in an area that does not need the top tier of engineers (which is most of them, regardless of how they talk about hiring the best), I'd consider starting someplace low cost.

I think college towns in the midwest / rust belt are untapped resources, or areas that used to have strong technically focused companies that moved away. I've personally seen founders bootstrap and launch successful companies (B2B with real revenue, not Uber for cats) in areas with little tech presence.

The ability to not have to shell out huge salaries and equity was a real winner, there's also less distractions. You can get strong engineers (no, not SV / Seattle top end engineers, but people that can throw together a reasonable website) for < 100k in these areas, and they won't bounce around as much. You aren't competing with AmaFaceGoogSoft here, you're competing with HR companies and random consulting houses. There's disadvantages to being outside of the tech bubble, but advantages too. That being said, for an employee, you should at least try and do some time in SV / Seattle etc.
I think it started as an affordable alternative to stick frame construction in a few instances where the containers were readily available, but I agree it's become something people want to do even when its not cost efficient in their area. On the other hand, why shouldn't building a house be as simple as joining two or three prefabricated, easily transported, container-sized modules together? It just needs the right price point.

[edit] There's a company called Bone Structure that has a modular steel building system that's almost a hybrid between pre-fab and on-site custom. Still expensive though.
We still use tapes at my enterprise. I'm on the network team, so I don't really work with the tapes directly, but it doesn't seem as inconvenient as it might sound.

We have a few large "tape libraries" in our data centers. The tape libraries have a robotic arm that handles the bulk of the tape swapping and organization. Humans are involved in loading the tape library and carrying the tapes offsite for storage.

I'm speaking as someone who has had a couple of casual conversations about the tape libraries and am not involved in the management of them in any way. They could actually be a huge pain.
I like the original version:

Source: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-...
Collapses affect employees too.

Contractors can save many more multiples of cash than employees in the same period of time between collapses, assuming they have some discipline.

Discipline contributes to freedom more than anything.
This was my experience. I had a relatively successful period as Startup founder, and was able to put away some retirement money.

Then instead of doing another startup, I took a less stressful job for less money, and enjoyed my family time.

As a founder I never really had a day off for 5 years. Even if I was "taking a vacation", my laptop was never always in a backpack within 20 feet from me for emergencies, and my mind was always focused on the consequences of failure. For me it was living in fear, even during success.

Some people are more optimistic. They don't feel stress in the same way. I think that is a KEY ingredient in being a successful founder long term.
Why are people so damned busy they couldn't build a train set with their kid? That would be fun as all hell.

I am not trying to blame you specifically, as I'm guessing you meant it as an example.
Human reproductive function and capacity is not dependent on cultures or beliefs; hope this helps clear things up for you.

Ever produced small motile gametes? Then you're a male! Congrats!
Show HN: Jovo – Build cross-platform apps for Alexa and Google Home (open source)
This is really nifty as a proof of concept, major kudos to the authors. However, it completely kills accessibility, so it's probably best to avoid for any serious projects.

I've gotta ask, since I've never used Java applets... Wasn't this already possible back in 1995? Have we come full circle?
Why would you ever live with roommates if you want to be sane and productive at work each day?
The lack of even a nod to diversity issues (race, gender, class, etc.) that the tech industry is dealing (or not dealing with) is tone deaf and insulting to the extreme.
In the future you describe, humans continue to be treated as tools to be used by others. In the future I describe, people are not exploited for their labor but are free to follow their own desires.

Or more succinctly, in my future people don’t have to work.
I find altering environment to be much (like, much) more effective than altering behavior. Clothes chronically on the floor somewhere[1]? That spot needs a hamper. Toddlers' toys all over the place and spouse vetoes throwing out like 80% of that junk? Bins, in child-locked cabinets. Time spent cleaning massive toy messes immediately down by well over half, for a one-time cost of a few dollars, time spent policing how much crap the kids are spreading around the room (a hopeless task anyway) dropped to nearly zero. Notice you're (both) not managing to get the kids' clothes sorted and to their dressers/closets? Kid- and clothing-type-labeled pull-out bins (god I love bins) on shelves in the laundry room, basically eliminating any actual need to cart the clothes from room to room (it just makes for more work later) and putting the output location closer to the input. Problem reduced from "OMG this is really becoming a problem" to "it's not perfect, but WOW is this better". Etc., etc.

Altering behavior's rarely worked for me. My own, sometimes, my spouse's... well, pretty much never. So if it's the effect you want gone, it's often possible to make it go away really fast and with little fuss (often praise!) through a change in your environment. I'm sure lots of people of both sexes put this into practice, but I can say with certainty that it just never, ever occurs to some, and they'll put up with and complain about the issue indefinitely if someone else doesn't spend a few bucks and a few minutes making it permanently disappear.

[1] just taking your example, not implying that the solution was appropriate in your case or that it wasn't attempted and failed—to be clear, this approach definitely can't solve every problem.
Note, this is not a calculator I designed it is one that the folks at ST Micro brought to my attention and I felt that the community here would be interested.

I've been building a "PC" with the same chip (the STM32F4) for many of the same reasons the Numworks folks picked it. (good documentation, interface options, Etc.)
Subverting Trust in Windows [pdf]
Basic Income Experiment is in the title of the first link, so no, what I said is not something entirely different that has never been tried.

Giving it to everyone elsE besides those in need would just be like a progressive tax break.

If your concern is it will disincentivize work: it is true there will be some drop in the labor participation rate. However, that drop is unappreciably small in comparison to the amount of corruption and number of total jobs in the economy that do not add any value to society. If your concern is that "people won't produce things we need," you should be focused on bankers, healthcare lobbyists and insurance companies, a significant part of corporate America, academia, government, teacher's unions(see: 1), etc.

In fact, removing the above corruption in the labor market and replacing with BI may actually increase incentive to work by opening up opportunities for innovation, and creating good faith in governance within the labor market.

1-https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VObBmEBSTXU
Sometimes the hardest thing for a manager is to give up managing something. Being in control is not a pure cost. Managing is work, but it's also prestige, power, and security. It's also easy to delude yourself into believing that you have "higher" standards, when all you have is different wants. And if you're a manager, chances are you're a better debater and negotiator, so your beliefs are sheltered even if you're wrong.

When I was a manager, kicking the micromanagement habit required months of conscious effort. It wasn't easier at first. A problem with most bad habits is that overcoming them involves things getting worse before they get better.

It took a while for people to believe that they could make their own decisions. Most of them had already been doing so, but keeping their managers out of the loop. Giving up control meant that I was actually allowed to know what was going on.

If someone complains to me that people aren't taking initiative, I ask them if the people are really allowed to take initiative.
In some aspects. In others, such as public health, it is not.
Even on a browser, not taking in inputs, until I realised I needed to press on the "A" to insert text.
So probably just a UX thing...
Facebook is trying to match blood donors with those who need it
Or MQTT over WebSockets?
Speaking of cheap housing, I've been so pissed off at the blatant rent-seeking that I've been tempted to kit out a cargo van for sleeping in instead of paying outrageous amounts for barely more space.
> it will definitionally be more stressful than being an employee

I've done all three paths and it's not this cut-and-dry. There are years at startups that aren't stressful at all and years that are stressful. Likewise for being an employee (or executive).

Startups are, by-and-large, less secure than most jobs so if that insecurity bothers you that can create stress. On the other hand, most people starting tech startups are fairly employable and "failing" doesn't really look too bad. On the plus side, at a startup you have more ability to manage your stress by controlling your world.
You cannot leave the walls alone, typically the paints are not something you'd want in your home. I believe the solution is typically spray-foam insulation to prevent off-gassing instead of sandblasting.

Some choose to cover the floor instead of removing it, however this makes the low (8.5') ceiling even lower.

These processes increase the expense and waste involved in conversion.
> “I live paycheck to paycheck and I’m deeply in debt,” she
> said, including from car repairs and a hospitalization for
> food poisoning.

While there are many iterations, it is always this same story. Medical debt, job loss, and/or divorce precede something like 90% of consumer bankruptcies.
> If I don't have time to assemble the elaborate toy train set I bought for my kid, it will probably never occur to me that I could pay someone to drop in and do that task for me, even if I would happily pay someone if they offered.

That's the kind of problem nobody should ever have in the first place. The whole point is to work together on it, not just to give it. To have some stranger put it together defeats the purpose.
There's some claims that Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard had discussions about religion prior to the writing of Stranger in a Strange Land and founding of Scientology.

https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+M...
This insistence that everything always has to be about diversity is both insulting and counter-productive. Maybe some of the time we can talk about things that work for all people?