skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t this kind of what a startup is? In the early 2000s I worked for a 5 man band company that rode the pre-smartphone mobile wave to a 500 million pound valuation and 400 employees, sounds cute now I know, and our first days were similarly seat of the pants.

Our CEO could sell anything, and then we built it.

If you’re not defrauding customers but leaving them with a useful solution, where is the snake oil?

Sounds like the engine is you guys :)
We reduced the stress of on-call by introducing processes that supported creativity and reduced panic:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/04/04/things-i-learned-managin...
> I think adding dependency resolution is the only thing it misses vs Arch or Void

Please, no! Having independent packages is a huge plus! I moved out of voidlinux because I could not install the X headers without python2, due to some silly "dependency".
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I don't think I'll be taking writing advice from a site whose publisher thinks "certificated" is a word.
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In the ideal world that's how it should be, in every pull request, the reviewers should check the architecture and implementation to fix issues increasing the debt. Instead to be fixed later with 10-100x costs.
A lot of people are chiming in on 'being that person' - it's me, as well.

I find text awkward, shallow, and ultimately I spin my wheels trying to decode and write messages - the kind of enegry I specifically need for things I'm working on.

Not to mention I prefer to just wait until the next time I see somebody in person so that the interaction will actually be meaningful.

A lot of people don't consider the world of difference between in-person communication and making a small electronic object beep-and-buzz near the recipient on their behalf.

About your question: The problem of deciding if a relationship is 'unhealthy' is very open-ended and rough. I can never arrive at a binary answer, and the topic does make me sad. Attention is hard to gauge and manage. You have some great specific questions though, like Does he crave attention in the same way, Why doesn't he like messaging, etc. You two should find a way to talk about it. That's what I'd do.

All I know for sure is that relying on electronic communication can have weird and annoying effects on friendships where neither person quite realises there's a problem.
> Usually there’s no interface to addressing such problem

I think you mean correcting culture to some preferred ideal, and that's likely true.

But what I'm saying is that institutional culture is a factor of every problem facing the institution, whether is a thing to fix as part of the solution or a constraint on viable solutions.
This is fascinating. Thanks!
Love this book. The prologue is one of my favourite beginnings to a book and hints at how epic/vast the book's universe is:

> The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light-years and eight centuries. It had always been a secret search, unacknowledged even among some of the participants. In the early years, it had simply been encrypted queries hidden in radio broadcasts. Decades and centuries passed. There were clues, interviews with The Man's fellow-travelers, pointers in a half-dozen contradictory directions: The Man was alone now and heading still farther away; The Man had died before the search ever began; The Man had a war fleet and was coming back upon them. With time, there was some consistency to the most credible stories. The evidence was solid enough that certain ships changed schedules and burned decades of time to look for more clues. Fortunes were lost because of the detours and delays, but the losses were to a few of the largest trading Families, and went unacknowledged. They were rich enough, and this search was important enough that it scarcely mattered. For the search had narrowed: the man was traveling alone, a vague blur of multiple identities, a chain of one-shot jobs on minor trading vessels, but always moving back and back into this end of Human Space. The hunt narrowed from a hundred light-years, to fifty, to twenty - and a half-dozen star systems. And finally, the manhunt came down to a single world at the coreward end of Human Space.
Quite impressive, considering that only a few out of many are chosen to become an actual shaolin monk and receive official warrior monkhood (if you were thinking of the kung fu monks), usually only a few out of couple hundred normal monks get chosen. They still have to abide by the rigorous no-meat no-wine, no-sex, no-marriage lifestyle and fight to protect Buddhists.
> The founder needs to do what he has to fund the dream while it is still amorphous.

Meaning, lie about the product? Maybe this is normal; I'm not part of that world, so I wouldn't know. But hiding it behind fuzzy phrasing seems like doubling down on dishonesty.
This is a reblog of the original Bloomberg article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/coinbase-...
Not to be too pedantic, but that doesn't mean that there aren't wrong ways to do it.

(Such as code blocks which are a pain on mobile.)
It's worth mentioning that postgraphql was renamed to postgraphile. They are the same project.
Fruitful

Just my friend eating fruit and talking with friends. Listened to his first 3 episodes.
You are so wrong on so many levels.

Have you ever looked at what CRA does? Just do an `eject`. It layers and layers and layers of configuration. The moment you need something not covered by CRA you'll be stuck with the insanity that is webpack config. [1]

webpack 3 did nothing to solve the configuration problems. Heck, just half a year ago one of the core devs of webpack argued that there could be no defaults in webpack and that webpack config is horrendous "because it's javascript" [2] [3]

webpack 4 addresses just some of the long-standing problems with webpack configuration leaving the actual config as insane and inscrutable as ever. And the only reason it exists is probably due to the public outcry of the larger community and tools like Parcel somewhat stealing the thunder.

Parcel is probably the best thing to happen to JS bundlers in recent years, but it's still not without its problems.

[1] I did: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/908677755046449154

[2] Webpack team arguing there can't be defaults in October 2017: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/920542261020160000

[3] And continues pretending config issues are because of Javascript: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/920714918625775618
Seems like a nice alternative to more opinionated language dependent site generators and webapp frameworks built on top of Webpack (ex. Gatsby, Next.js, Nuxt).
I would certainly recommend reading up on the GDPR legislation. There are plenty of summaries that are good and covers the important aspects. Because once you understand GDPR, complience can follow naturally while you develop your application. Even if you dont serve customers in EU, GDPR complience will benefit non EU residents as well, since you have then implemented tooling for proper management of private information.

And if your application doesn't store data, then it's a one time cost essentially. Which is the time spent reading up on the legislation.
Fun fact: in the glossary at the end of the original xp book, it describes unit tests as 'tests from the perspective of the programmer', and that's that - a woolly cop-out.
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> For the cloud, I say "it's expensive" (10x more than a bardebone server).

As do I, although there seems to be some kind of mass delusion in effect that causes disbelief of this.

I'm careful not to quote a single multiplier, though I do point out that it's a multiplier, not just merely a percentage (below 100%) premium. I've found that it can vary between 2x-10x, depending on ones specific performance needs and how much one is paying for colo "space" (power).

Part of what I've been realizing is feeding the misconception (if not mass delusion) is that the knowledge on how to price/negotiate commodity servers without getting, shall we say, fleeced, is quite rare. Getting a good deal on the base server and CPU doesn't matter if the bulk of the order is RAM and storage and you're grossly over-paying on those.
I was shocked to discover that finger is no longer installed by default on most linux distros.
Good point. For me that's an edge case, though. Cutting and pasting to reorder seems easier than editing refs too.
Except we don't have great modules support in the browser.
Unsafe Haskell (2015)
You still have to build it from source with local dependencies.
It's not about objects. It's about meaning. Owning a "Da Vinci original" is not about owning some bunch of atoms. It's about owning the particular bunch of atoms that Da Vinci put together.

As far as the interstellar trade goes, they would need to trust the seller. Or trust third-party experts to authenticate it. That's all that any art buyer can do.

Regarding some particular release of Word, perhaps there is a disk somewhere containing the original compiled binary. I doubt that anyone has considered such stuff memorable, but who knows? Also, given how disk storage works, that arrangement of atoms wouldn't have persisted very long. So it's not such a useful distinction for software.
I'm not seeing any actual figures here.

My assumption has always been that infant mortality was a huge factor, but also that adult life expectancy was shorter. Perhaps not 40 years shorter, but shorter nonetheless because of disease and infection.

I'm not actually seeing anything much to contradict this here.
"The point of this is that if we provided these Ancient Greeks with nothing but urgent life-saving emergency care from modern technology, it's highly likely that their life expectancy would dwarf ours of today."

This is something you can't possibly determine. Ancient Greeks famous enough to have their own Wikipedia pages may not have had penicillin but on balance they certainly would have lived easier lives than peasants who worked years of hard labour just to survive, and would have lived longer because of it. It is also, quite literally, survivorship bias - people who lived to be older had more time to achieve things and become notable enough to make Wikipedia.

The thing with getting old, as noted in the article, is that past a certain age if one thing doesn't get ya, another thing probably will. Modern medicine is not a buff which will add +X years to all humans regardless of circumstance, it is just about staving off the first few things which try and kill you - and that's why, by all accounts (including this article), life expectancy is longer now than it was in the past.

And for the record boiling water works just fine at killing bacteria living in it. It's not magic and if your water is still full of arsenic you'll still die, but it's much better than nothing.
> I'm yet to meet anyone retired who says "I wish I was still working". Quite the opposite in fact.

My brother and I both shared a fear that our father would waste away and die after retirement (he is extremely driven). It turned out that he “never has enough time” for all the projects he creates for himself post-retirement. He wrote a book, researches the family tree, travels, etc. It was surprising how much he wants, and finds ways to, remain active. I don’t think we were wrong to expect him to need an outlet. We simply did not anticipate that he would create his own.
Webpack's zero config is a joke.
> People can still grow their own veggies and meat.

Not as an alternative means of even survival-level support if they don't have access to sufficient suitable real estate to do so.
Email is a critical service. Loosing emails because a misclick or uploaded a too big of file is not acceptable UX.
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Yep this is how you’re supposed to escape from a local maximum. But maybe Netflix’s usual customer doesn’t stick around long enough to have this problem so it’s not worth fixing. I can’t imagine none of their machine learning engineers know how to fix this.
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This was my thought too -- at least about Paleo diet proponents rejecting grains.

IMHO these early people were smart enough to work out ways to eat things that were available to them. They probably had cooking with heat, boiling in water, grinding with stone, and probably worked out using salted water for preservation, and kept the spoiled food that had random yeast that tasted good and used it for culture.

Rice is a soft grain and can be eaten whole. Grains like wheat are HARD and need grinding to be edible. The hard grains keep well, so there was a big incentive to work out how to use them. A tribe that got it right probably had quite an advantage.

The movie "10,000" works on this idea.
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spoliation inference the prosecutor can now use against you.
It's also likely that treatments where you can actually screen for mutations extensively will be more successful. The issue here is you get a lot of mutations that aren't desirable, if you can grow lots of different cultures and ID the ones that are OK, maybe that can work.
> where is the snake oil

Doesn't the original post describe a CEO lying to potential investors about a product that doesn't exist? Maybe that doesn't map perfectly to the 'snake oil' analogy, but it's close enough.

Not everyone is comfortable with dishonesty. If it's a necessary part of doing business in this field, fine, maybe the OP needs to hear that. But lies are lies, even if sometimes they work.
If someone could actually make this, I would gladly pay an annual subscription to access it. Almost the only reason I'm still buying MacBooks is because of the touchpad, and if I could get that on Linux I probably would just switch to a normal PC.
With the way that resource allocation seems to be bound by presently, if there was a war, and one/some group could some how get the resources to scale up such processes if they could seriously convince the war planners of its "super weapon" capabilities, I could see it happening even if it took a couple years to get a working prototype at scale (depending on its ability to not compete sufficiently with other resources for war to not purse such project at all). And seeing that humans haven't came up with the abilities to avoid war completely, it's only a matter of time (which may be a lot for an individual humans lifespan).
That sounds like a very low bus factor to me.
I'm trying to keep it simple stupid and using Bear Writer.
The only caveat is you can't share the note with other people unless you export it
This is both an education issue and a std lib issue. There is no need for packages such as "is-number" or "is-odd" when the language already provides the facilities it check if a value is a number or is even/odd, yet these packages are downloaded a thousand times a a day because they are dependencies in this or that popular package.

For some the first reflex is to add a dependency instead of spending 5 minutes thinking of simple solutions for their use case. But the latter isn't restricted to the node ecosystem.

The avalanche of useless modules profits mainly to NPM, a for profit organisation operating a closed source package repository which imposed itself on the node project in dubious ways. Even nodejs creator regrets it.
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The first one, yes. Maybe.

The second British one definitely not. That accent was much better than the first. Incredibly talented scam artist.
It's present on every page, and it's loaded from google. Anonymisation is pointless.

The fact that they use Piwik on a couple of pages they consider sensitive (usually to do with payment) shows that even gov.uk know this cannot be relied upon to fully hide things.

It shouldn't be there and I've raised a complaint with the ICO.

Note that the page says that it can be configured to strip all that info, not that it does by default. One would have to look at each page to see how this is configured. And it could still be wrong to switch this on by default, under the GDPR.
Season-long plots are awesome, I personally much prefer shows with a long story arc than ones in which episodes can be watched in any order.

The complaint here is different though. Netflix-made shows seem to be deliberately designed so that all plot subpoints get dragged through the entire season. Each episode will introduce something, later episodes will occasionally remind you of it, but you have to wait 'till the very end for everything to be simultaneously resolved. Basically, what would be a classical story arc gets stretched in a way that 90% of its mass falls into the last episode.

(And then the resolution turns out to be meh, and you end up wondering why did you just waste 10 hours of your life on this show. It's quite like modern journalism - a bit of clickbait at the beginning, then a long article giving exactly zero useful information, and then a meaningless conclusion at the end.)
You were lucky that you only knew Windows and had concerned parents.

At around the same time I had people show me various flavours of Linux with great enthusiasm. I was supposed to be impressed but I had SGI Irix plus applications for it. From my perspective I could not see the point of this 'toy operating system'. It was a bit like one of those cloned Chinese cars that we used to laugh about, with stupid names for programs that were sensibly named in real UNIX.

As a consequence I missed the boat and only started with Linux when Ubuntu came along.
Can you please give a reference for the ~250fj MAC?
I don't understand the difference between the wording in your post and the post you're replying to.
Agreed. If a founder is willing to be dishonest to investors, he/she are also likely to be dishonest to customers and employees. There’s a fine line between marketing fluff, which is ugly but acceptable, and outright lies, but if you feel uncomfortable, it’s likely a problem.
Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge support modules. Firefox is landing import.meta.url and working on dynamic import() now.
Am I the only one who prefers the nipples on thinkpads?
> "I thought this was great but maybe engineer X was on to something when he said Y could be an issue"

...said no trend-follower, ever.

Less flippantly, I do believe this might have been the case when the average tenure of engineers was much longer than today's 2ish years, but too often, by the time the idea does fail, enough people (even engineer X) are likely to be at different companies.
The original is more rare than a large number of perfect copies. If the aliens have had a long time to interact with people on Earth, there will be some people they "trust" more than others. The most trusted humans will be the ones who the aliens will trust to determine which artifacts are "original" and which ones are copies. The aliens will value the original, more rare, art work higher than the identical copies that less trusted people send. Similar to how the art world works today.

This original and perfect copy stuff is mostly about status and the monkey-human desire to get to the top of hierarchies. Aliens might not care about that, but they might not care about anything we have.
Risky Business, if for nothing else than the news segment.

https://risky.biz/RB506/
How practical would be to treat your urine so that the metabolites become undetectable?
So it is 3 times faster than Webpack, ATM it does not seem worth to be switching to this.
Also the Parcel comparison seems wrong (maybe they are using too old version of Parcel?), see Parcels own benchmarks https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel#benchmarks
I used to care a lot about this kind of things about two years ago when I switched from mac to linux. But to be honest, you just kind of get used to it after a while and its not really that much of a deal breaker anymore. I spend most of my time in terminals, and I use i3wm so most of my workflow doesnt involve using the touchpad at all. The only use case i have for it is when using chrome, but even so theres vimium and similar things to help you navigate around without leaving your keyboard.
They gave a photo credit to Rocket Lab at the least.
Pulled pork?
Google Drive lost some of my files due to syncing errors early on. Dropbox didn't.

Google Drive might have improved since (and I do use Google Apps for email and documents), but I haven't been able to forget that experience and trust Dropbox.
Yeah, I bet they know. Question is, do their managers want them to fix this?

There is this hypothesis that I've seen floating on HN at times, that Netflix does this to hide the fact that their selection is very small. I'm not totally convinced, but a lot of their UI choices feel like good evidence in favour of this hypothesis.
You could probably get away with optical encoding, just paint a barcode down the center.
There's nothing funny; nobody uses or cares about DailyMotion.

Also, nobody got sued, ignorant reporters notwithstanding. Schrems only filed complaints with the regulators.
Just for the sake of argument:

Rent can be fixed by moving. A lot of people move out of California and NY for a better life. Companies will follow.

College and education are being disrupted. Hopefully online courses and independent certification can fix the problem soon.

Healthcare is expensive because people in US are obese and unhealthy. And there is a lot more treatment for previously untreated problems but at a very high price. Go walk around a hospital to see where your insurance money is spent.
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My point is Amazon has hired some managers that have really lowered the bar due to the environment they are from and people they are used to dealing with. Imagine someone from a place where you could tell a preposterous lie and 50% of people would believe you.
Hey, I looked at ejecting as early as September 2016, but why let that stop you from saying “you’re wrong on so many levels” :)

Looking at JavaScript build tools today and ridiculing it makes as much sense as ridiculing the width of car lanes (from width of wagons) or ridiculing the width of rockets (width of railroads).

Create-react-app works just fine with the 80% case you wanted so badly for webpack team to implement. (Not to mention there are easy ways to make incremental changes without ejecting.) But why let that stop you from writing a rant about webpck’s lack of default either :)
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You are misusing the "Show HN" mechanism. This is your 14th such submittal in 3 weeks.
Thank obesity.
you had me at lagrange multipliers
I don’t expect that, I’m wondering out loud in the hopes someone may be able to shine a light on something I’ve not considered

From my point of view they store a list of URLs and provide a way to nicely view the content of those URLs. What in that could be causing 2 months of downtime to fix?
Here is a classic clip from the 1970's as to where the future was going to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ATNdGVpH8A

Wires under the road to message drivers and roadside transmitters never caught on but a lot could be done with very basic electronics.
I care! We need this.