skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I can understand the hatred many people here have toward Standard Oil or other big gigantic life-controlling entities.

The step to remove Standard Oil dominance is to find, create and nurture alternatives. For example, I started buying petroleum from a small independent refiner. I'm using some of Royal Dutch Oil Company products like their lubricants and ointments. I'm using whale oil for indoor lighting.

So I'm diversifying a bit though they can engage in price fixing. This reduces the monopoly power of one single entity.

Blocking Standard Oil, Royal Dutch or another big provider will not work and if it did, it can have severe consequences. Most people (and politicians) are ignoring the massive productivity benefits that Standard Oil is bringing. It can be used for evil, but the productivity it brings is paramount.

You can't fight Standard Oil by blocking it or destroying it. There is a reason that Standard Oil is huge: It is magical and there is no usable alternative.

To remove Standard Oil monopoly you did what Standard Oil did for the Cleveland or Pittsburg cartels: You build an alternative. It is possible to have multiple alternatives for oil like for steel or railroads (though we have only two).

The reason we don't? Standard Oil won. Carnegie Steel won. North Pacific won. Everybody gave up and just accepted it. Now everyone is screaming of "regulating" these guys. Trust me. This how you get closer to your demise (politicians and current day governments) than to their demise."
Turris MOX: Modular and Open-Source Fully Configurable Router
Would you please not paste boilerplate into HN threads?

Discussions here are supposed to be conversations. Imagine someone insisting on reading the complete lyrics to Common People out loud in a real conversation. That would be awfully tedious, unless you're an Andy Kaufman and can get away with it.

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/andy_kaufmans_sublimely_...
Musk is being far more productive with his accumulated wealth than Buffett (my opinion). Once he can buy his breakfast sandwich for $3 at a restaurant on Mars, I will revise my opinions on how he chooses to spend his money. Until then, I will continue to believe that thrift and frugality are the domains of the poor, and when the rich dabble in it, they are essentially forcing the truly frugal to become more so.
> I'm not working on an 80x24 terminal anymore.

Even with 80x24 (don't ask), I fully agree with Allman style braces.
> If fewer guns is really not the answer, then how many guns do you think you'll need to eradicate gun violence?

None. Guns are a tool. If more guns would end all violence, then we just need to hire more cops and flood the street with them. Recent events have shown that is clearly not the answer. But, leaving law abiding people unable to defend themselves and their family against an armed criminal class isn't the answer either.
Here's the question: if you were to "cut back on things like eating out at restaurants and taking public transportation to work," would you be able to save 71% of your income? How long would it take you, just in cutting back on lattes and painting your own home rather than hiring a contractor, to buy a 4 bedroom house on 66 acres in Vermont?

I don't really like doing plumbing, but I've replaced quite a few faucets and toilets. Not because I wanted to be "frugal", but because I could not afford to pay someone to do it; if I didn't, it wasn't getting done. I didn't blog about it; I didn't tell everyone, "Hey, lookit me! I'm saving money!" because everyone else I knew was also doing their own plumbing because they were also broke.

(Now, of course, I could pay someone. But that ship's sailed. Besides, it's really hard to find good contractors.)

The McFrugals, according to the article, aren't talking to millenials or anyone else who needs to be frugal; they're talking to the wealthy, saying "all those people you think are whiney, spoiled kids, really are spoiled, whiney kids."
To be fair a lot of people want to avoid US carrier builds of phones like the plague. I don't understand why simlock free never caught on in the US.
Why isn't car driving AI put to the same rigour of testing and approval as that of airplanes?
There are far more people on the road than in the sky, and yet, there's formal verification for airplane autopilot code but an accident like this is supposed to be "you couldn't have prevented it either?"

If no one could prevent such a thing, this AI should never drive a car!
> I think the reasoning your suggestions wouldn't work is because it takes people out of the "magic"... I obviously know movies are fake, but I don't necessarily want to be reminded of that... I want music and some graphics, while I absorb what I just watched.

This. End credits have evolved a secondary function as the In Between Time. You're still under the spell; here's a gentle transition back to reality.
I don't think a minor scuffle about Google News, a product Google's profits aren't dependent on, and user data isn't contained in, is a relevant comparison to discussion of what would happen if a search/email-level breakup was in the cards.
What does a VP of Engineering do?
I am constantly 'running a social simulator' in my mind. I was diagnosed as autistic a few years ago in my mid twenties.
This is a call to arms: Shitty Popups must die
Can you elaborate on Uranium One being 'libel'? As far as I know from reading the Wiki, this went to a Congressional Investigation.
If you want to play with the winding number proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, here's a toy I made a while back to help my linear algebra students (hopefully) gain some intuition for complex numbers: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kmill/toys/roots/roots.html

If you want to play with a wider palette of complex functions as well as domain coloring of the Riemann sphere, there is also https://math.berkeley.edu/~kmill/toys/zgraph/zgraph.html

Documentation for each of them is the "Help" link in their respective upper right corners.

One thing I think would be amusing is to be able to change the texture used for the domain coloring, from the contoured rainbow to say a cat.
> But they have, multiple times? First it was just giving people links to godep when people complained in github issues. Then it was a tacit "we like this" about gps and glide. Then it was a pretty-much-official-blessing of dep. Now it's a super-official-now-we-mean-it implementation of vgo. I recognize this as a pattern because I do it all the time, software engineers constantly re-write things from the ground up when they don't care about actually solving the problem and just want to play around with cool new ideas.

No. Golang hasn't had an official/pretty-much-official dependency management system. The community recommends some tools over others, but that's about it.

With dep it is a bit different - the creators were google engineeers and they wanted it to become the official tool, with integration as a go subcommand etc.pp. - but that was never signed off by Pike or any other lead, only confirmed that it would be a possibility if the tools performs well.

With vgo its similar to dep - a proof of concept to see _if_ it works nicely.

Regarding a library multiple tools can use; Yes, that would be a nice thing - however when designing such a tool _and_ a library at the same time you will get into bigger problems. Generally you'll want a library designed by someone who already solved a given problem in at least one way. That brings enough experience to make the correct architectural decisions early on as well as a good, usable API.

I'm happy that we don't just get half-assed solutions just to have one. I have seen enough projects go to shit because a major step in the project was reconsidered a few times before management put a lock on it because it went through 'enough' revisions.
“9 to 5 life” isn’t a schedule, it’s a mindset.

It’s the idea that from 9 to 5 you are like a slave and you are not living your own life, you are giving up your time to render a service for someone paying you to do it.

We can sit here and move the hands on the clock and try to make your day look more interesting in all sorts of ways, but in the end you will work those hours, all the same.

So what do you do if you don’t want that life? Find a way to get your income not from services you perform but through other means which are inherently timeless.

In the best case, what this looks like is you living your own life on your own terms while making decisions that feed income into your revenue streams whenever necessary. Before I continue, is this what you want?
Exactly. Most of my coworkers are very satisfied with their low-effort/low-risk jobs. I do like the stability it offers but it's so depressing selling my precious time for cash.
That's not how quantum physics or evolution work. Saying that there is no brain sounds very deep and astounding but as most stuff said when you are high (on drugs or religion or ego) it all falls apart when you start connecting dots to make picture.
He is assuming if you are working, you are productive. That is the problem.
Healthcare is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison from many decades ago. There are definitely serious problems with healthcare, but we are also increasingly getting options in healthcare that were not available 30, 40, 50 years ago and contribute significantly to costs.

With housing, on the other hand, we are routinely seeing people pay upwards of 500% what people were paying for the exact same property a few decades ago with few or no changes, even with the effect of inflation removed.
I'd say learn to live with as few luxuries as possible in a place where the cost of living is low. Earn as much as you can, but in a way that is flexible (contracting for example). This will give you the opportunity to save and have a lot of free time.
Not sure how the cost of chairs is relevant, compared to the costs of things like housing, student debt, health care, transportation, you know, the things that are actually keeping people today from saving.

I make about 4X what my parents combined made as schoolteachers, yet my housing costs about 10X what theirs cost. In order to get that great price I had to move about 2 hours from work (and pay for the required transportation), compared to their 10 minute commute. I came out of grad school six figures in debt, whereas theirs was cheap enough that they barely had to finance it. They paid for reasonably priced doctor visits out of pocket, compared to my high deductible "healthcare plan" that still has me dropping $hundreds for a single X-ray.

But I have a cellphone so I'm a reckless spender.
Started my own startup. Now I have 9-9 life!
The internet that took over the Internet
>It's also an open secret that SRS and its friends brigade the rest of the site

Haven't been there in a while, but an invariant of scrolling through SRS was that the linked posts had a high upvote count, before and after being linked from SRS page.

Which is the entire point of SRS - to show what kinds of things that that group finds objectionable gets upvoted on reddit.

I know that SRS is reddit's favorite bogeyman, but personally, I just haven't seen any evidence to the claim you made.

Note, I am not saying this to argue with you. I am writing this to provide a piece of anecdata to the person scrolling through this thread not much aware of the things being talked about.
I've heard that there are plenty of non-9-5 vacancies for nurses available, and the math requirements are typically lighter too than in engineering.
It was more likely the uber iPad data logging app, which they've allowed to be using whilst moving.

Can't think it would help with driver's night vision.
Several states have passed laws saying that affiliates in a state are enough to establish a nexus. Precedent varies by court about whether this is so. For example New York said yes, Illinois said no. No case has yet found its way to the Supreme Court.

I do not know of precedent involving subsidiaries. But the legal case for it would seem to me to be stronger than it is for affiliates. And even if the courts did rule otherwise, well, if the state really wants to go after a local subsidiary, surely they can make their life hard in SOME way...

According to California law AB153, affiliates count as a nexus. This did not get legislated. Amazon responded by cutting off all California affiliates after that was passed. Then the issue of subsidiaries was raised. After some negotiation, California did not go after subsidiaries like A2Z Development, and Amazon started collecting California state tax in 2012.
Really shows how some people in HN have never experienced poverty. If a households main income earner is making minimum wage they will not be making shopping trips to IKEA to furnish their whole apartment lol. IKEA is cheap but the $50 you have left over after bills won't get you much. Many months you will have a negative balance after you've paid for essentials.
This article feels the need to repurpose the term "on-premises" to mean "self-hosted".

From a previous article [0]:

In the SaaS context, “on-premise” historically meant deploying a separate instance of your SaaS application to your customer’s server room or data center, behind their firewall. More recently, this term may also include deploying to the customer’s private cloud at a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services or Azure

I'm a bit baffled this is necessary. You go from two terms that are widely understood to now having to add a disclaimer every time you say "on-premises".

0 - https://gravitational.com/blog/time-to-reconsider-going-onpr...
> And you're not 'ripping them out of context's, since the guard objects are still there where you would be doing the resource management manually.

The guard object is there (e.g. "on the stack") but the destructor is not defined in-line but in a separate class method definition. Classes have always that implicit ideal of being "isolated". This is wishful thinking, of course. In the end all the parts of the code need to contribute to the program. That's why OOP codebases often end up as a terrible mess. Classes can't decide if they want to be isolated or involved. The compromise is all this terrible implicit state. (do you know the quote by Joe Armstrong about the banana, monkey and jungle?)
Sorry - I meant "grunt" in the sense of "POGs" / what your MOS was. Thank you for your service, especially as a corpsman.
No, they started to go rotten in a cupboard and got thrown out a few years ago.
Something satisfying about talking/listening to hardware.

Seems somehow more "real".

Should have gone into writing drivers but that always seemed so damned tedious. ;/
We need a FOSS phone yesterday. What are the options?
Where are we at with Conversational AI?
Isn't that simply called (investment) diligence, and unrelated to Theranos?
> Just give me an opinionated ${LANG}fmt utility to do it for me so I don't have to care and don't have to waste time arguing with other zealots. Let the tool be the zealot.

So totally this. I despise indenting with tabs with a passion, but when I heard gofmt did that I was actually pleased. There's no arguing with the official formatting utility: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#formatting
> The cost of living has gone up far, far faster than income has, while wages have stagnated or dropped, meaning people these days are earning less money and have more expenses than before.

Common talking point, not borne out by data.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16682711 for references.
Now in my late 20s, I've come to appreciate this advice:

"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
-Gustave Flaubert
I'm not OP, but yes, please continue.
or a "9 to 7" to life.
Okay. However the main point is there is something objective, and external to the observer, that is being perceived. That phenomena no matter how complex or disjointed, can reasonably be labelled color.

The experience of color, even with all the intricacies and deficiencies of human perception, is another matter. When I ask you to think of the color blue, you can recall the experience with no need for the visual stimuli.

The word can refer to parts of the EM spectrum or to the experience, or both.
Reconstituting plastic is what your body does every time you pack on a pound of fat as you comment on Hacker News — the only difference between a molecule of saturated fat and three molecules of kerosene is a little COOH group on the end and a glycerin to tie them together. Reversing metal oxidation is where we get the metal in the first place, with the notable exceptions of copper and some precious metals. And it has been for several thousand years. We dig up rocks made of metal oxides and reverse the oxidation. I'm just saying it's often easier to dig up the more concentrated oxides in landfills instead, and that economic advantage will grow as accessible natural deposits are mined out.

Silicon, aluminum, iron, and concrete excepted, naturally.

And, yeah, this uses energy. That's why I mentioned accessible energy as one of the two things we do actually consume.
I think you need to ask yourself the much more difficult what your real desire is. I'm not in the same boat, but might have similar desires.

Do I want an adventurous life?
Do I like nature?
Do I like to socialize?
Are all the people around me dead inside?
Do I like to solve problems, all the time?
Do I hate working with legacy systems?
Do I want to have more of a direct impact with people?
Do I prefer working out of cafes?

Make your own list, those are some off of mine. They might help direct your decision making. These are hard problems that can be immensely stressful. Don't waste your time or parent's money. Consider opportunity cost. Don't burn yourself out. Sometimes you need to shit you don't want to do to get somewhere.

I'd also go out and try to meat someone in the fields and who meet the criteria you're considering. Ask them in real life everything you can.
This is exactly how I feel, as someone who has been coding for 22 years (professionally, closer to 32 if you count when I started hacking in BASIC and 6510 assembly on the C64).

I just defer to the code formatter. That way everything is consistent looking internally, which is all I care about. I couldn't care less whether the braces are on the same or a different line or other things like that outside of the fact that I do like internal consistency within projects.

All that aside, as soon as I saw the OP title I knew (via years of exposure to bikeshedding programmers) that this thread would end up having a ton of comments on it and wasn't surprised to see it was up to 500-something and still rapidly climbing.
> I don’t think you have this right.

That is probably true, I don't disagree with anything you are saying. To me the most in-band representation is everything passed in the URL with no user control over headers.
How a deaf, blind Harvard graduate is influencing Apple
> AggregateIQ works in full compliance within all legal and regulatory requirements in all jurisdictions where it operates. It has never knowingly been involved in any illegal activity. All work AggregateIQ does for each client is kept separate from every other client.

Their main page actually reads kind of laughable, hence you probably have a point too. Let the creepy people make their shady affairs, not everyone has to be a hero.
A/B testing of link colors if fine, of course. Manipulating users' emotions -- not so much. Interfering in elections, without proper disclosure, and providing data of people who did not agree to it to support just one side -- yes, quite despicable. And if it weren't, then what's the problem with Cambridge? It shouldn't really matter that that one time they've supported the candidate that, I make a guess, you liked.

And it's not like the give you a new setting that you need to update. They remove, completely, the capability that you had. You just can't keep it "up to date" with the same discoverability settings you had before just because Zuck decided that you shouldn't.

Of course, it's not like every FB employee is given an operatic villain's costume during their orientation. But if you work there, you're enabling it.
True. I do not. It is pure conjecture, backed historical examples I provided. Could this be different? Absolutely.

I could flip your comment though. Unless you have some clairvoyant powers you don't actually know that "Fallout from this is forthcoming". There may be no further negative fallout from this.
Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards
> Does the absolute inflation and purchasing power adjusted value even match 90s?

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16682711 for references. (Wages rising slightly faster than inflation over decades long period.)
What technical solution is there to writing it yourself that is on-premise and if possible open source and extensible?

I have found mautic but not much else.
This. The unsub rates I see tend to be measured in tenths of a percent or less.
I was expecting the article to say how they've inherited a massive amount of money or how their parents paid for their education/first home/etc., which made them deciding to go frugal by achieving financial independence a hell of a lot easier. I didn't see any of that.

Furthermore, the author doesn't fully explain how these two were "rich" before pursuing their journey to frugality aside from purchasing a home in Cambridge (which was a smart decision and is definitely possible with a dual-income tech salary in the area, assuming they didn't have debt to begin with).

There are definitely people that are able to live extremely frugally with sizeable salaries and achieve large goals/financial independence in a considerably short amount of time. However, like building a beach body, the question is always "How much are you willing to sacrifice to get it?"

For many (myself included), the answer is "not enough."
I work in a 9-5 environment and am at my desk 9-5, but I don't feel like I am "wasting days". Some of that depends on the environment you put yourself in though.

I do some personal stuff during the day at the office. I end up also doing some office stuff during the evening at home. I am responsive to emails... close to 18 hours a day, but am also not inherently always "on call"... If I get to an email in my personal time, I get to it. If not, I don't, and obviously it depends on how urgent the email is.

The key thing, IMHO, is that you need to find an employer that values you, and knows you put in the amount of work that earns your paycheck. If you're earning your keep, generally an employer should be flexible with how you do it.
> Trump hasn't done anything so far that Obama hasn't also done.

This is obviously literally false (virtually all of Trump's official acts have been things that Obama did not do), and I can't see any obvious relevant non-literal sense where it is true.

Even in a narrow sense of authoritarian approaches to gun rights, the Trump bump stock ban is an action that was specifically rejected by the Obama Administration, not on policy grounds, but because it exceeded the power of the executive branch without legislative change.
Contracting has been pretty good, it pays enough to have some decent gaps.
Ya... it can take a while. There are some ways to speed it up. Giving my Credit Card that I had on filed helped a lot I think.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921
Well, what's better: to have loved and lost it or never have loved at all?

Can we answer this for him? Does your son know what the world around him is and what a neuro-typical person is like in that world? Us mild cases still need 20 or 30 years to realize what's wrong, that normal people do things differently than we though. When you try to fit in but know you might never do 100%, why bother keep trying?

His disability is visible, the expectations lowered; but in darker time 70yrs ago his condition would have been his death sentence.
I feel happy that times have changed and society and parents do care. Thank you.
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