skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. But there's also been very little investment into remote work, both from a research and infrastructure perspective.

I just wonder, if they were to take some of this cash and invest it into proving out remote work, would it turn out to be a better long term investment?

In most of the cases that I've observed, companies enter into remote work literally by just letting their employees start working remotely. Maybe they get a nice contract with Zoom and hire a specialized lawyer or two. But what if we were to really try investing in it, in the same way (or even in a fraction of the way) that we're investing in real estate?
I bet you would.
Did life happen “by chance”?
I just do something like this in Ruby. There's probably a way to do it in every language:

clientId = SecureRandom.hex(12)

clientSecret = SecureRandom.hex(12)
Well, ok, but what about the websites that don't have ads or logins or other personal information?
Brings back the good old days :)
But I don't have any mp3s anymore.
Spotify.
What should be done is that cities should relax zoning laws, and allow more housing to be built in high demand areas.

That way the city can fit everyone, cheaply.
i have rated myself. i think i'm about a c+, need to try harder.
Economic Moat -> Global Monopoly -> Positive Cashflow -> Higher Pay -> More Talents -> Create more value -> Higher Moat
Welcome to the world where ad company tells you which sites you should look at.
The wish-lists in this thread are numerous, and gripes against C++ are many. However, C++ & the multi-platform approach is very clearly working for Qt.

This is classic noise drowning out the signal - if existing or future paying customers of Qt want something different, they'll let Qt know - after all paying customers pay for support that buys them a direct line with the builder(s).
I have realized that my perfectionism is a mask for a fragile ego.
UV-B–induced forest sterility may have caused Earth’s largest extinction
A closed platform is just a hurdle to overcome - but yeah, someone has to do it. If they make it a little more consumer friendly this could be very impactful.
Bike-sharing startup Spin is getting into scooter-sharing
I mean, of course once you invent serious industrial scale processes, you can set up a serious business. But the lag time between "invention of steel" and "invention of the Bessemer process" was a lot bigger than the lag time between "invention of Apple I" and "invention of Apple II".
Interesting I have had 3 surgeries (two abdomen and one transplant) in the last year in the UK and they used paper based systems and verbal instructions for the two planed ones.

The NHS still runs on paper :-) still cant do my regular bloods at my local ahead of my regular check up at another specialist hospital.
Boulder can't have it both ways: you can't ask for blockbuster skyline employers and low density; or, you can, but as you can see from SFBA, the result is inhumane.

If Boulder wants to be Ann Arbor of the Mountains, that's fine. But I suspect that's not what Boulder really wants; people who live in Boulder want to have a competitive employment market with multiple options for where to work and little risk of being forced to relocate out of town if their job doesn't work out. That's a basket of benefits that you can't humanely get while holding density constant.
1775 USA: If we don't like the king, we shouldn't get rid of the monarchy - think of the impacts to the wider society!

2018 USA: If we don't like the executive, we shouldn't get rid of foocorp - think of the impacts to the wider society!

systemic/structural answers to specific problems are rarely the solution, but they sure do help you avoid the cost of dealing with the specific problem..
99% of the perfectionists I have had the misfortune to work with are just slow or out of their depth and are using the term as an emotional crutch. How much nicer it is to tell yourself that you are a perfectionist than you are just not very good at whatever you are doing.

The people that turn out near perfect work are usually the fastest and just get things done. It is a pity they are so rare.
Stanford AI in Healthcare Course, Andrew Ng Notes
I foresee site owners complaining, and then this bit of history being repeated: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/firef...
But many will want to, and that's enough to impact the market there significantly.

No Googlers are forced to live in Mountain View either. That doesn't change the fact that Google employees fight for houses in Mountain View.

People with means who do not like commutes will buy closer housing. And guess what, most people don't like commutes.
Very interesting. This seems like more of an open co-working space, but it pokes at that hybrid remote / co-located idea.
One small annoyance/drawback with everything moving to https: I travel a fair bit, and hotel wifi usually relies on users connecting to their AP and then using a DNS-based redirect to send the user to the login page. That only happens when on http, as https sites which are redirected get the MITM warning from the browser. I used to be able to just type in "google.com" in the address bar and be redirected accordingly; nowadays I struggle to remember a site I use which isn't https. Looking up the gateway address is kind of a pain too.
The first real CCIE certificate awarded was in 1993, #1025. 18k was something in like the year 2005 when I was in my early 20s.

Kubernetes was barely a blip on the map until 2017. There was Cisco routing and switching hardware LONG before there was even a CCIE certification.

This is a new ecosystem. Of course it takes time to develop experts.

A CCIE not touching a network for 10 years? That's ludicrous. I was a network engineer. I wish that was even remotely the case. I was constantly fighting firmware/bugs/etc. In fact I swore off Cisco and began working on my JNCIE at some point to stick with Juniper which of course had it's own issues.

I've run k8s 1.5 in production for 2 years on various clusters. That is almost a 2 year old release. I've had zero k8s specific problems. I recently migrated those clusters to 1.9 and apart from updating some API endpoints that changed over the major releases, and a lot of annotations that changed, it was very little actual work. It was mostly tedious "find & replace" work.

I'm not going to bullshit people. K8s has its bugs, quirks and is complex, but there seem to be a huge number of people who run away in fear on HN.

It can be understood. I didn't even know how to use Docker before I jumped into learning k8s.
That's HN's job.
This is a bit skimpy on the details. I highly recommend every American adult to read The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. It will change the way you think about the world. It also shows how Rockefeller was able to pivot his business from kerosene lamps, which were on the way to obsolescence, to fuel.
Good luck with enforcement. AirBnB being mostly illegal in NYC hasn’t stopped us from (AFAIR) being the number one source of revenue for them. Nothing seems to deter them. Maybe some city should start looking at what criminal laws might apply (like RICO perhaps).
Remember being kids and going to the amusement park with your friends? They had those booths where you could win a cool price, if you successfully hit the bullseye.

The middle-class kids had the pocket money to try a few times, usually in the games which seemed the best match for their skills. The rich kids went around and picked the booth with the coolest prices, then simply tried again until they won the price they wanted, or got bored. The poor kids were manning the booths, helping their parents sell popcorn and keep the show running.

Things haven't changed much as we've grown up. If you come from a wealthy background, you can keep on trying seed ideas until you find traction. With a more middle-class background, you can put in a small number of attempts, spread between long stretches of saving more money. If you're poor, you'll never have the ability to even try.
Meanwhile, google is busy screwing people who have cultivated mailing lists for their fans by hiding that content from their inbox...
I think AirBnB would be a force to help people keep their housing, driving rents up but allowing people flexibility to generate more income if they are falling back. I'm interested to see how the company responds.
I know it is meant to be satirical, but the reality is there are trade-offs involved with each of these points. I don't think it is wise to treat any of them as absolute rules.

Maybe someone smarter than me could write about the trade-offs involved with each and when to break the rules.
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing.
the 4 minute mil started getting broken more often when people started using pacers.

then tracks got faster due to new materials

we started having more full time pros.

The mental barrier thing is possibly not a first order cause of any of this.
Yeah, generally speaking, if you are comparing the same types of housing (Single Family Homes) isn't new construction almost always more expensive than the existing inventory? Unless OP is talking about building more of different types of housing (multi-family, condos, etc.), then I don't see how the cost for housing goes down without a recession, as you said.

Another issue with the "just build more" philosophy is that it takes no account of the added infrastructure stresses that drive up other prices (gas, electricity, water, traffic, public transit, medical/police/fire) in the community and can detract from the quality of life previously enjoyed by the natives.
No, it's not my field. I agree it would be nice if someone who is could explain how the findings are different than elsewhere, and how and why it might be a problem, without all the "game changer" and other panic hype.

I was just going mainly on that one paragraph which seems rather benign. It would be really nice to understand why they think it's not.
Yes. The performance benefit isn't really TLS.
I agree that rising housing costs are a problem and more should be done on the affordable housing front, but everything getting more crowded sounds pretty good for those businesses that are getting crowded. A growing vibrant economy is a good thing for a city to have.
Good point.

I believe you can only do that distinction (business vs toy) after the fact. So it offers no guidance at all.

Was Dropbox a toy in the beggining? You can argue.
Was Google a toy in the beggining? You can argue.
Was Uber a toy in the beggining? You can argue.
Was Airbnb a toy in the beggining? You can argue.

Unless, of course, you're talking about the famous SOCIAL NETWORKS. In which case they were -- and continue to be -- toys.
I use example.com, for now it's HTTP.
What if, instead, these cities relax zoning laws, and allow supply to meet demand in the housing market?

For every 1k Googlers who move to the city, the city should make damn sure that at least 1k apartments are built by developers.
I read most of that, and did not weep, 20 years ago when I was getting my degree in aero/astro engineering. Neither of your links support what you're trying to say.

The walls get linearly thicker, and your intuition about why the walls need to get thicker is incorrect.
Open source project trends for 2018
Hudson Valley, New York.

The northeastern USA is wonderful in its own way, and I found it more livable than the Bay, but the wonderful weirdness of San Francisco can't help but make me feel wistful.
Okay I can't resist - this stuff is just too cool. Here is my take on some of this stuff; assume grains of salt throughout as I am an engineer of sorts.
(And sorry if this is old hat - and that the direction I go in strays pretty far, at times, from the original question about gauge theory actually having to do with physical things)

It's funny that charge conservation, noted below as a consequence of gauge symmetry, is not exact. See CP symmetry violation and "all that". Furthermore there are various notions of internal symmetries... in engineer talk, perhaps gauge symmetry is a symmetry of parameterization - in math talk the base space of a fibre bundle "parameterizes" (in a coordinate free way) a larger space. --Gauge symmetry is a freedom in how exactly this is done (shout out to your comment about equivalence classes - totally agree).
(For example the space time manifold showing how to put a vector space at every location in the manifold via tangent space constructions, or similar)

I get lost sometimes..

Anyway, looking at part of the Wikipedia charge conservation article we read that:

"...an electromagnetic field is unchanged when the scalar and vector potential are shifted by the gradient of an arbitrary scalar field."

In quantum mechanics the scalar field is equivalent to a phase shift in the wavefunction of the charged particle..."

This shift in the Lagrangian (to call it a different way) is gauge symmetry (U(1)) again. Interestingly, the phase shift can occur even if the space is "E&M flat" (no detectable field) and this shift IS observable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Bohm_effect

-A purely topological effect due to the fact that loops (around the solenoid in the experiment) in the space cannot be shrunk to a point! (not without leaving "the space" that is)

Any phase shift is in fact a manifestation of Weyl's "path dependent length" which he'd speculated about to Einstein. (Einstein shot it down, but it was reborn as phase) But wait, path dependent lengths (generalized path length shift == phase shift) mean we have some, admittedly abstract, notion of curvature!

This is the connection (ahem) between E&M theories and General Relativity.
(and even closer connection with E&M-like, but non-abelian (Yang Mills) )

The potential, A, in electrodynamics plays a role analogous to that of the connection coefficient (Christoffel) in differential geometry. The tensor field strength in electrodynamics is analogous to curvature! (luckily for those who like their minds un-exploded E&M "happens" in flat space.)

Once you get to Yang Mills, the commutator of the potential has to be added to the derivative of the Faraday tensor to get the total field strength. This is just the same as in General Relativity, where the curvature is the derivative of the connection plus its commutator.

I guess what I am saying is, depending on how you look at it, the field theories are sort of shot-through with gauge symmetry, to both quantifiable effect and mathematical purpose, and it is neat.
How small can a black hole be before it would evaporate faster than it can consume ordinary matter? If I set the radius in the calculator you linked to approximately equal the proton radius at 8.4e-16 meters, I get a luminosity of just about 1 gigawatt and a lifetime of 500 gigayears. If such a black hole were drifting through e.g. a giant cube of water, specific gravity 1.0, would more mass be added to the black hole per second than it loses via evaporation? How far beyond the event horizon is such a black hole's gravity strong enough that ordinary matter doesn't have the compressive mechanical strength to resist the gravitational forces exerted by the black hole? My questions may be faulty or incoherent because I don't have enough background.
I always use captive.apple.com, which appears to be designed for this purpose.
Spin's own explanation: https://blog.spin.pm/spin-the-urban-and-campus-mobility-comp...
"The third thing that goes wrong when you take your toy too seriously is that you immediately start optimizing on the things that you believe serious businesses should – profit and margins."

This is of course only true if you're playing the Silicon Valley VC game, a lot of healthy businesses has been built by focusing hard on turning profit early. For an example from recent news, look at IKEA.
Do you have a site you can share? Sounds cool!
FBI Informant on Uranium on Breaks Silence
Given that "currently no browser supports HTTP/2 unencrypted" they're inseparable in the real world.

https://http2.github.io/faq/#does-http2-require-encryption
Additional question - what is the value prop for clients? Why do they buy your service?
ha, that's not exactly what I mean in this post, I hope that's not what you would take away. (although you might just be sarcastic)

What leads us to perfect our work (and prevents us from shipping) is hopefully not an ego problem. It's just that we might be too eager to keep improving it, instead of enjoying the current state. It's just like the belief that adding yet another feature to an app will solve everything.
Trade Secrets and Theatrics: Inside the Waymo V. Uber Courtroom
absolutely, uuuge contrast to the fair, non-partisan and balanced pragmatism of say, HRC, Feinstein, etc.
No, but the lemonade stand _operator_ has evolved into a serious entrepreneur. OP was trying to identify business ideas that take very little when it comes to skill and capital.
Check out ONC's technical wiki:
https://opennanocarbon.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REF/pages/2...
Linked and referenced.

The biggest and most immediate problem is we've put too much carbon in the air to expect the natural carbon sinks of trees, land, oceans, the biosphere, to absorb it before runaway effects start unlocking vast prehistoric amounts of carbon accelerating climate change https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/5752202.... The sooner we lock up carbon, the sooner we get out of the danger of having much high sea levels, and runaway global climate warming.
Definitely not specific to Texas. I hear and have used "over to Columbus", "down to Cincinnati", "up to Toledo" here in Ohio (that probably narrows my location pretty significantly). Though I don't think I've heard "out to Indianapolis", only "out west"
Right, but enabling TLS on an HTTP/1.1 site isn't going to generate that performance improvement. It's a bogus comparison.
I highly recommend friends and family as proofreaders.
Partisan is a flexible, TCP-based membership system for Erlang/Elixir
As someone who grew up on the coast of California, I've used "out" and "back" to refer to east and west respectively, but I don't think would be a generalizable rule. For people who grew up on an east-facing coast, perhaps it would be reversed?

As other commenters have stated, I would commonly use up and down to refer to north and south.
Look how far Viacom got suing youtube for copyright violations. I wouldn't be surprised if Viacom put on the order of $50 million dollars or more into that series of lawsuits.

But sure, FunnyOrDie could definitely compel Facebook to take down their videos...
That sounds more like an indictment of journalists, then of the city. It's their job to report on important changes.

Should the city have spent a few hundred thousand dollars on a PSA? People love calling those a 'waste of money.'
1. You don't have to monitor your cronjobs. They'll send you an email when they produce output.

2. Let's Encrypt will send you an email if your certificate is going to expire in a month. This will normally never happen, since it is continuously renewed.
Rauschmayer is a good writer - He's been running a great JS blog for many years (http://2ality.com/)
Alternatively, try "This well known URL":
http://clients3.google.com/generate_204

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
No evidence?

H2F's complaint included customer complaints regarding the authenticity of H2F's products, which could support Apple's trademark infringement and counterfeiting concerns, and therefore Apple's notice to Amazon was not baseless.
This is one of the reason why e-mail is still relevant in marketing: no gatekeepers asking you to pay for access to your audience.
I haven't read the article yet but I'm fixin' to.
Gasoline still requires an ignition source to catch fire. Lithium cells can spontaneously ignite when they experience physical damage.

I'm not saying electric cars are safer or more dangerous in the event of a crash (because I don't know the answer to that), just that batteries can and will catch fire.
Integrity. HTTPS prevents scripts from being inserted into a page, which is still a problem even for static content that includes no forms.
UPDATE: +1,000 more, total of 9,000 pounds offset!
PROOF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzw930vhj1s9165/more%20hacker%20ne...
Yeah and that feels like a hack to me. What generates the events on the right cadence to trigger this Lambda alarm? Why not just have that run the Lambda? And why not just have that run the code like cron?

I know it works and it fills a gap for people but it just feels odd to me. It's like there is cron -> log -> monitor -> alarm -> event -> lambda -> script when you could just have cron -> script.

I'm probably just hung up on the naming and the fact that these events are branded as part of Cloudwatch. If there was some service spun off that just generated events in AWS I wouldn't raise an eyebrow, even if under the hood it was exactly the same thing.
It's just the bootloader.

It doesn't have an awful lot of functionality. There might be exploits to be found, but probably not many, and most would probably require disassembly of the phone to access test interfaces etc.
It doesn't, but the lack of other good sources of indoor lighting refutes the claim that the lamp oil market is a toy.
Oh, I see what you mean. The relationship doesn't work both ways, and the benchmark might lead one to believe it does.
Thanks. Also, try adding a overlay line that shows the larger trend like the Keeling curve, to keep some of the variance.
With focus on paid newsletters, Substack is opening up its tools to creators
Why doesn't wood that paves streets biodegrade?
Thats hilarious! The last hackathon I was in went similarly: we built an ML-powered sign language app and lost to something a team copied from an Instructable lol
Thats not how supply and demand works.

The purpose of building more houses, is not to make new houses for the existing, poor residents to live in. The purpose is to prevent the NEW rich residents from displacing old residents.

For every million dollar condo that is built in the marina SF, that is 1 less family in the mission that will be displaced.
I don't understand what is insecure about http://example.com? It's a simple static site which does not allow user input.
Most downloaded page contains basically mandatory reading for students. Who I guess use Guttenberg to download books to read as homework. Then there are few popular things most people already read (like Sherlock Holmes) and there you end.

It is great place for study, good place if you actually are into some historical period and not much of a place if you are contemporary person and just wanna have some fun. No, majority of those most popular books are not fun for most people.
No, the F-35 is the opposite in a way: we're building thousands of them, piling on to the programme cost, in order to make the unit cost number looks smaller. Most of the F-35 isn't really cutting-edge technology; the F-22 is ahead of it in some respects. The lift fan business is cutting-edge, compromising the design even in the variants that don't use it; it would be much more appropriate for a small-production-run high-tech programme like the Zumwalts.

Maybe there was space for a ground attack aircraft for the Navy and Air Force that could replace the F/A-18 and the A-10. But expecting the same plane to also replace the Harrier was a mistake, as was stopping production of the F-22.
Digital natives will get old, too
A geographer's theory of regional inequality as a cause of revolt
> I think AirBnB would be a force to help people keep their housing, driving rents up but allowing people flexibility to generate more income if they are falling back.

Until it becomes the new normal, and market rents will factor that in. Then, people who, for whatever reason, cannot rent half their apartment out on AirBnB will just be priced out.
To solve inequality?? I don’t think that’s the business YC is in.

But we can do a lot. We can drastically reduce the potential financial rewards for extracting value from millions of people.

We can set a max income of $300k per person and the rest goes to elevating the poor.

It would pretty much destroy the VC industry though.