skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.Internet providers are often artificial monopolies

2. The internet is a public good
In the long term, automation makes these immigrants completely redundant though.
I'm 99.99% sure this is just a joke. ;) It's the sort of thing that gets bandied about by Trump and his supporters. I laughed when I read it.
> "(white, black, and read all over)"

Isn't that supposed to be "red all over"? Or are you making a pun?
I'm sorry, but you have completely missed the mark here.
I think Authenticator leverages cognito from browsing the developer docs.
A bit off topic but lets say you and your co-founder follow the canonical YC advice. You form a Deleware C-Corp, register your California foreign entity and grant yourselves ISOs with a 4 year vesting period and a 1-year cliff.

But then your company starts to do very well and in 6-months you both agree you won't need to raise VC and want to start paying yourselves more than the ~$100k mentioned in this article. What would be the best way to draw money from the company ? Increasing you payroll check seems unwise from a tax standpoint. Dividends might be a good way but you don't yet own a single share so you can't be paid through a dividend. You could pay yourselves bonus checks, but isn't that taxed at same rate as payroll ?

Side request, can anyone recommend a CPA in the East Bay (SF). Thanks.
Yes, population of Australia at ~24m is about the same as Shanghai.
> zero value to society

What value are financial services? Do you

- have a bank account? checking? savings? money markets?

- monitor your accounts online? do transfers?

- have an investment account? save for retirement?

- have life or disability insurance? pool risks and hedge against them?

- have a city or country that needs to raise money, borrow from others?

- have a company that needs to issue stock for capital investments?

People earn, save, invest, borrow, and build their dreams. Finance makes it possible.

I'm sure you just want to pay the rent, but finance is very competitive and if your firm created no value for society, it would go out of business.
How much does prior experience and shipping successful products count? Is it really better for your salary to pump out a few kids instead of shipping a few successful products? Do the kids have to be successful or will any kids do? ;)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gpJ2FfhmWMc/TYb7Un7m-gI/A...
Surprisingly, they’re not the first. I believe both Sony and Microsoft reserve the right to ban you from their online gaming networks for behavior out-of-network.
This seems reasonable to me.

An automatic download that size can be an issue in certain circumstances, but why is this blogger just assuming Apple hasn’t done anything to address that? E.g., perhaps it doesn’t automatically download if you’re low on disk space. Perhaps they’ve even done something clever to determine when it might cost you download tolls and avoid it then too. I mean, if you use the internet much at all you are very likely involuntarily downloading a lot more than that in the form of ads and their associated video/audio, images, and tracking code.

At least (as the blogger mentions) it’s generally good for people to be up-to-date. It’s just reality that there are so many people who simply won’t unless it’s easy and without a little prodding.

I think people manufacture outrage at Apple for the attention it get them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Accounting FTW
What Apple could do to improve the Touch Bar
This has became the new normal it seems. Just like it's acceptable to reboot a computer without a user's permission, losing all their work (or to start it in the middle of the night and not switch it back off).

This is purely something that these companies do for their own good without any regard for the user. They probably think "What are you going to do about it? Install Ubuntu?"
Depends on which categories you want to have.

You can use the TCP port (http vs bittorrent vs email, or individual games which often use a well-known port for communication), deep packet inspection (eg. to distinguish between normal web and HTTP video streaming), reverse IP lookups to detect location of the remote endpoint or what company it's assigned to (through AS number for example).
You don't need external funding to start a company. Then you can pay yourself whatever you want it's your company.

If you want external funding then you stop being sole owner and you need agreement with othe owners on what is the worth of your services to the company. Your stake has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I think that’s accurate.

I made the remark primarily because the article discusses career trajectory as one of the motivations for emphasizing the combination of “traders who code.” In essence, they’re advertising that your pay won’t get capped out at the level of “a very good programmer.” Instead, the cap will the higher number of “a very good trader.”
I wish i could type out that number without losing my sanity.
As an independent researcher in machine vision, I take strong issue with your first statement - the gateways to science controlled by a beauty contest/club membership is fundamentally horrible science. However with your third paragraph you completely redeemed yourself - I'd argue if you've published, I'd guess you'd be quite happy with anyone reading the paper, it's just the emails from cranks that are a pain :-)
Practically I find that any paper I want can be found by tracking down the authors institutional home page - they always seem to find some way to make it available :-) Yay them!
Excellent point. Most people don't want to swim in a sewerage. Except of course if someone tells them that vague concepts such as sovereignty is more important than swimming in a lake.
Why You Need Passion and Belief to Unlock Your Sweet Success
The mistake here is to use an entry-level model for development ;)
Promote-My-Logo service to help startups launched by Frontplug
Never mind when an update is effectively a rewrite that strips out features/behaviors someone, somewhere, relied upon.

This duality of updates is why people avoid updating.
You may be missing the point if the post. Good software asymptotically aproaches bug free over time. Meaning it should require fewer and fewer updates less and less frequently. But reduced frequency of updates is percieved as death of software, and this is actually a problem. I even see it in developers who use it as a metric when choosing frameworks and libraries which is a mistake for older software.

I saw a study done on github where the author wanted to know what languages had the smallest open bug count, and found unexpectedly that c and c++, which are notoriously bug inducing languages, had some of the lowest bug rates of all the languages. His conclusion was that the low bug count was actually due to the languages being used for foudational work, libraries and drivers and such, basically reaffirming the 'many eyes make shallow bugs' adage.

The better metric for if software is no longer being maintained is how responsive is the maintainer to their mailing list/support channel. Regularly seeing requests going unanswered is also likely to show that any updates that happen are also likely ignoring actual user needs.
Out of curiosity where does one find such a driver?
I also suffer from that "it-must-be-challenging-or-I-get-bored" syndrome. Is there any way to fight it?
As long as you disclose your views upfront, rather than partnering with seething resentment because your cofounder has kids. Such people and even others without kids who also abhor such a perspective would like to know upfront so they can partner with someone else.

Bottomline, if you're comfortable holding this view because unlike most people, you actually have many potential partners with the necessary industry skills that have no kids and have the qualities I listed above and share your views, good for you. Otherwise, not starting a company or having it prematurely fail because you picked wrong partners partly by skipping better ones because they had kids seems ridiculous.
The moderators generally ask us to email this kind of request to hn@ycombinator.com, I’ll do that now.
Then you are missing years of security patches. Your call there but... seems like a risk
It seems you won't post civilly and substantively like we've asked many times before, so we've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There was another article from Brandur recently about redis streams- which was great. The diagrams really called my attention but I shied away from asking the source since it felt like a bit disrespectful. Thanks for the link.
Great White Sharks hunt seals near shore. The seals, in turn, hunt fish that often finds them going to sandy beaches where rivers meet the ocean. Humans like to swim and surf on these beaches. This forces contact between humans and the sharks.

Are there similar pressures to force Orca-human interactions?
DF is also unlikely to be critical to someones workflow or similar.
Downloading in the background is not the same as installing without warning. Yes, Apple should make the install notification more clear to prevent users from clicking blindly. That’s not the same as surreptitiously tricking users (it is possible to decline the update on macOS). These are separate griefs.
I also use the thought: "I have to have a shower anyway, so why not go for a run first".
To support the claim that the article is full of unjustified statements, you should offer more than one pedantic example.
In other words, people are "virtue signaling"...
Show HN: Wurfel Engine – isometric game engine with Open world, block based
Today I want to present you my game engine. I have worked on it for almost five years. I also wrote my bachelor thesis on the rendering. I am planning on releasing a short book based on my work but before I finish said I want to get some feedback. I want to share what I learned and the huge amount of work with the world. It would be sad if this would be lost on my hard-drive therefore I publish this under BSD license.

In its current state some major things are missing to compete with other game engines. As a single developer it is hard to compete with engines like unity. There are some things which could be improved to make this more accessible for further development. For example someone already gave me the advice to add unit tests. Also there is a need for small game demos.

As I am switching my career directions to AI development and AI safety I rarely find the time to work on the engine any more.
An Unbelievable Story of Failure and Persistence – Part 1
Science as a side project
“For the greater good” seem to be the answer for these aggressive moves from tech companies.
We are talking about knowledge, the knowledge how to regulate public life. There is no way to accept anything, in terms of information, from someone who knows nothing.
In Microsoft, it really depends on which org you're in, and which product you're working on. Older codebases (Windows, Office) tend to be monorepos. Newer ones are generally less so. And some of the older ones have been migrating slowly via componentization (VS).
That's already happening, look at the HVAC company Trump claimed to fix. Jobs went to Mexico anyway.

It's not the taxes, it's wages. Taxes are just a percentage of your costs. Wages are a much, much bigger percentage. As a CEO/COO, I can manage the tax burden just fine, I just make sure I have enough expenses and presto! No taxes for me. That's relatively easy so all this noise about taxes is BS. The effective corporate tax rate in the US is under 19%:

https://cbo.gov/system/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/report...

That's noise in the system compared to wages. Jobs move out of the country because other countries have a lower standard of living and you can get the same work done for less money.
No, that is far too active and directed,

just live the natural and inevitable path

toward a future where it has happened.
Please don't violate the guidelines with comments like this.

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He's an EU citizen, he can move to other places.
I know this is such a Hacker News question, but is there a good place to gauge what good places in Germany also have solid internet speeds (100/30)?

I’ve thought about moving there, too, but it’d be great to narrow the places in Germany down geographically with some data like this, especially with what I hear about the state of internet infrastructure there.
Sadly unable to find the source I got that from (an article I read several months ago). It did feature noun declensions quite prominently though, you're right in that respect ;-)

My understanding was that as major languages spread and came into contact with speakers of other languages, the cross-pollination led to a net loss in complexity of the original language (due to the fact that it had to accommodate speakers from a wide range of backgrounds). Of course, this effect only applies to those languages that do attain a sufficiently large reach, so my statement above was oversimplified.

Again, I am no linguist, so I cannot backup my claims with any scientific literature. My anecdotal experience would, however, confirm the general trend. (Drawing on what I know about English, German, Greek, kiSwahili and the Bantu languages.)

What you say about Chinese increasing in complexity strikes me as quite intriguing. Though the self-imposed isolation of the Chinese throughout much of history might account for that, as that must have created quite a strong linguistic insularity.
I think it's being down-voted because it sounds like a incontinence commercial.
My router does it with a comprehensive list of (sub)domain => category. It may not have anywhere near 100% precision, but for the sake of what this subthread talked about, it good enough to know who eats your bandwith and for what.
And that should be reflected in the equity split, not in comp.
just to second your comment with a comparable chart(with history) (worldbank data):

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
As someone who loves in an area with both, traffic lights and roundabouts are very different and solve different problems. One critical thing lights offer is you can drop in a pedestrian crossing sequenced to the lights. These days you would use puffin crossings (sensors check the crossing is clear of pedestrians before giving signals back to motor traffic, also the cross/don't cross indication is mounted where pedestrians looking at it are also facing the nearest lane of motor traffic, increasing safety). On the other hand roundabouts are great for junctions where a lot of traffic enters the junction but most doesn't conflict.

In some scenarios it makes sense to have both lights and roundabouts, in extreme cases it even makes sense to fit roundabouts on a circle of roundabouts which then have lights at peak times.
You are correct, of course. But when someone over 40 has a much deeper understanding of programming in several languages, a CS degree, AND experience from 2 bootcamps, AND at teaching (in 2 bootcamps, at a University, and with private clients) AND has coding experience at a school, with private clients, and one's own side projects in several languages- a linguistics blog, journalism and technical writing experience, and they are then turned down for a junior technical writing role at a company where the tech writers can't code at the same level, I don't know... it is hard to say what that is, isn't it? But yes, I completely understand skepticism of the breadth and depth of the skills of those whose ONLY experience of programming was at a bootcamp. And when that same company makes a mistake in their own assessment (which you politely point out after you are told you are incorrect in your technical writing), and when that same company hires someone with virtually no experience in any of these things as its next writer hire and also for its manager of technical writing, and while those two employees are in their 20s...what would you think? Am I excluding a possible interpretation? "Culture fit"? The candidate we speak of doesn't fit the expected cultural profile in several areas for a tech company. Might it be that in some other form? It is just really tough to say. I realize it stinks to see how blatant ageism can be. It makes all of us feel unsettled for our own futures-- it is also just stupid and embarrassing in an industry that prides itself on being so smart. But we have to get real about it. We also have to get real about sexism and racism. It seems to take more than a village (of women at Google, Uber, Tessla, etc.) shouting it out with lawsuits and news articles. We have not even begun to handle race issues in tech, perhaps because so few can break through. We need to face these things and stop trying to explain them away with coded words like "culture fit" or "updated skills" (when the skills are updated, of course). We need to look around our departments and seriously ask if there was ever a new hire over 40. Then, we can dig into these issues. We have to stop knee-jerk dismissing the stories of those who are shafted by these practices. Yes, it is uncomfortable.
> Great White Sharks hunt seals near shore.

Orcas do that too.
Do for their own good? I see this as for the collective good, as most of the people hurt by unpatched software are NOT microsoft but people, small businesses, and the victims of the resulting botnets.

Obviously if you know what this is you can turn it off.
I have yet to see this stereotype play out in practice.

What I have seen is that when the younger ones look like they're working really hard, it's usually because they don't have a full grasp on whatever the task is, and they're putting in more hours because they keep getting their work wrong.
Amusing, how people fear monoculture on one hand, but a longing to have everyting as the web app on the other.
For what is worth it is good web apps cannot access everything.
Quit reading internet comments and watching fear mongering news. Come visit and make your own assumptions.

There are so many places in the US and you can find a lifestyle that suits you. Most people are very welcoming and would love to have you.

Germans are well thought of in the States. My state, Georgia, even has a Bavarian inspired town in the “mountains”.
New things are fun when you are young. As you grow older you learn to appreciate stable reliable behavior.
Funny, my 5S still insists that the latest version is 10.3.3 when I check for updates.
You intend to use your phone for a year without installing any security updates?

Some people like living dangerously, I guess. For the rest, it's a good thing iOS strongly encourages people to keep up to date.
Another correction:
> The notes in "Cm" are C,D#,G.

It's actually C Eb G. The difference is that D# is an augmented 2 while Eb is a minor 3. They sound the same but they have totally different functions.
I have not seen anything bad about the new FS, I have heard everything bad from the OS itself. I had held off of Sierra because it felt half-baked and hoped High Sierra to be a Snow Leopard/Mountain Lion/Cap, but it's really not looking good.

It does not help that I have one of the "dead dGPU" 2010 series, and with every new release I dread more and more that gfx won't be able to lock the system in "integrated only" mode.
Exactly this.

I get chills reading that some founders were eating ramen for a year. Imagine how much extra work could have a fed brain complete.

Some may say I am not understanding the startup life, however without founder's health and sanity startups rarely succeed, because just like you said they're distracted with things they should not be worrying about like living frugally.

On the other hand I would never jeopardize my health, family and property for a startup. Maybe that will cost me 10 million in startup funds from a "get rich die trying" mentality loving VC, but at the end of the day, too many startups have failed because they scaled too soon and because someone made a decision when they lacked glucose. I'd much rather have my physical and mental health and future success, than a short term money to spend and an uncertain life ahead. Now, I am not saying that I would not work extra, but there has to be a balance otherwise you'll burn out.
So many big apps (including some from Google themselves) have such a line permanently bolted to them over at Android as well.
If we lay all these complaints of "the update is worse" end-to-end, from the first OS X to today, we'd get some sort of eternally crashing MC Escher OS :)
The author does not seem to be familiar with the numerous accusations against Mr. Spacey, it's not just one guy 20 years ago but a history abuse.
They haven't.

I moved house three weeks ago, and was using a short-term cellular internet connection to stay in touch with emails, update version control, etc.

The automatic download blew through all my bandwidth, and I needed to top up.

I was able to control other downloads, no ads no video, etc. But I had no clue what had used all my bandwidth until it was done.
You Could Do Almost Anything (2016)
Are employees paid more (in a given company) just because they have children? It might not be even legal to ask them in some jurisdictions, during recrutement and salary negotiation. Most of the time employees are not paid more just for that reason. Should they? Maybe a little (well in lots of civilised countries they might already have tax cuts, but so do the founders), but throwing them 10k$ more per child for that would seems quite insane.

Adding that kind of special treatment for founders on top of all they already have seems kind of unfair.

The argument about the lack of responsibility because children cannot be cancelled at startup time is very curious. Absolutely everybody knows that children come with costs, some are monetary, some are about other factors. You can not retrospectively pretend that those costs shall be privately covered by others beyond all the social organisation already agreed on (tax reductions), just because of status. Yes those costs can not be erased at startup time; asking for others to erase some of them -- well if everybody involved agrees why not, but on my side I will never see that as fair without serious compensations (distribution of shares for ex.)

And what about ANY other costly choices that can not be easily cancelled at startup time? Should alimony for their ex-spouses be paid for by others too? If they have a horse they are bounded to and would be horrified to the suggestion of abandoning it, should the recurring costs it involves be covered by others too?

Founders do not live in an alternate universe were all common laws and wealth distribution are to be renegotiated in private: those questions are important but should be applied for everybody, and actually they have been debated and there are important cases where the society have decided that doing this or that would be good. If this is actually not enough in some cases, that should be changed.
lol, also every wind and brass instrument. Also drums.
GJ&S’s primary argument is that whoever discovered (by accident!) agriculture first made all the later stages inevitable.