skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spinning it off was part of the deal with Carly coming on board. :/
Whiteboard interviews vindicated. /s
Yes, but I believe their answer is that they make you hold a certain amount of REP tokens to report, and REP tokens cost $$$. So you would have to buy more REP for each new identity.
In general though, if you want good Thai food I mostly recommend in North Thailand or Laos. Sometimes I would go to the same place and order the same thing, but get a completely different thing (for example, deep fried noodles instead of steamed; a fresh set veggies, etc), but either time be blown away by tastyness.
Replacing my 3 year old Moto G3 with a 3 year old 6S Plus was one of the best calls I've made in years. It's a weird feeling being current on an older phone, and knowing that it's got at least one more OS update coming. I know it's flagship vs. budget, but the way the Android phone began decaying before it even got here was still inexcusable.

I'd never really used an Apple device before, so it was easy to knock them for this thing or that, but I wouldn't go back after actually seeing how their philosophy works.
> And the buttons and popups required to browse those websites has doubled.

I'd blame those websites for that, since they're the ones who made the decision to track you regardless of how bad it made their UX.

Remember: all they need to do to get rid of those buttons and popups is to respect your privacy by default.
Multiple copies, encrypted on USB, in a safety deposit box. Probate lawyers will provide the decryption passphrase and death certificate, which is required for the bank.
Yelp is terrible.
Fun fact: BeeLine Reader was launched via a Show HN!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
I struggle a little to see how there is a single point of failure here (a fibre optic cable). I’d have thought the screens were powered by a device plugged into a LAN. Would be interested if anyone knows the architecture of such screens and why there is such a single point of failure in the whole airport.
I'm 47 and got my first programming job at 19. I still love it and look forward to a good number more years. I have a few guidelines/principles that seem to have worked so far:

* Do meaningful work, whatever that means to you. Maybe it's picking a domain that helps people or society, or maybe it's some other criterion. Ask yourself what meaningful work is to you.

* Be mindful about your craftsmanship and always work to improve it. Try to write solid, expressive, readable code that works, and be critical about your own code. Read other people's code closely and see what you can learn from it. Explore new technologies, not just for "variety" but for what you can learn from what led to their development and how they were implemented.

* Engage in mentorship of younger developers. Mentorship can really do a lot to renew your love of coding. If your employer doesn't have an established mentorship program try to help set one up. If that doesn't work, there are coding bootcamps that will let you work as little as an hour a week mentoring new developers as a consultant.

* Try to be that person within your organization that others want to come to with their thorny technical problems. Listen deeply and respond compassionately.

* Work on side projects. They don't have to change the world or "go somewhere". A side project can remind you why you love programming when the daily becomes a grind.
Very, very good. One of those meals I can remember years later. Sit by the burners and sweat for the full experience.
It is, see my quote from a paper below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17800935
I think the "volume" problem breaks further into two critical sub-questions:

1. A big selling point of these markets is that there are theoretical commercial value to predictions- i.e. a company could get information of the likely success of their new product line ahead of time, to help them make strategic adjustments. However, Robin Hansen (one of the top economists working on betting markets) says, counterintuitively, that industries have been very luke warm about actually doing this in reality, for various psychological and economic reasons (he got into this in his econtalk interview I think)

2. Suppose bets on Augur start ramping up- How do we know these are real bets from real customers? The Augur company has immense funds on hand and its easy on blockchains to simulate fake volume through anonymous accounts. I have no reason to doubt the ethics of the Augur team, but it's unfortunate that if their marketplace starts taking off that it'll be so hard to tell how organic the growth is.
This happened to me in companies with teams scattered across different rooms/buildings/countries.

That's bad communication and insularity. Remote working only makes it more obvious.
Additionally, not all bets on a person's or persons' life will be made with malevolent intentions. A global non-profit can use prediction markets as an exotic form of donating. The donator takes the "bad" side of the market, and if the non-profit is successful at saving lives, or doing some other form of reportable good, they receive a payout from their bet. Now, if the non-profit pays its employees absurd salaries, operates inefficiently, etc then they stand to lose some amount of money in the prediction market.

If you approach it this way there is no reason all bets on the "bad" side have to have "bad" intentions.
> If you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects

I disagree. I have always worked for reliable steady paychecks, not equity. I have a decent set of projects under my belt, with some small exits, so while not quite wealthy enough to retire, I'm doing fine.

As far as the question of staying motivated, that does change. I don't care so much about code these days. But I do get motivated when I see younger team members with growing skills. I get motivated by helping the teams succeed. And while I agree that I am far more critical of ideas and projects, that is all the more motivating when I find one that I do believe in. And the aforementioned steady checks over 20+ years let me take time off between projects to find something I can believe in.

In short, if your only measure of success is a big exit, then I can understand the struggle. But there are more meanings of success than that.
I noticed that about "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's in his late fifties and yet -- even as he works in a field where even long-lived artists peak in their 20s or 30s, his music just gets ever more sophisticated, and funnier.
Most of Amazon R&D has nothing to do with smart speakers. It's mostly AWS and store related.

Apple doesn't innovate anymore.

Written on a Mid 2014 MBP I loathe to replace.
> most likely a computationally intensive task to do

Eh, let me stop you there. Everything isn't about performance.

Hardware and UI based things really benefit from parallelism.
You could put your pages on cloud storage?
You pay your insurance against cancer before you get it.

A more complicated pre-existing condition would be maybe for kids, young adults whose parents didnt give coverage for , etc. But you could use subsidies to manage those cases and it would be a blip in the budget. If someone deliberately avoided insurance and the catches an expensive disease, he should be toast, because thats the gamble he made and the result of it.

Please also keep in mind that in a state run system, if a treatment is very expensive the state will not give it and thats it. Thats one of the reasons why public healthcare is often cheaper, because it says no to many treatments, which is not something easy to accept for americans.
It's one of the major reasons the workspace industry exists. Had a flatmate who had a beautiful big room in a usually empty house to run his one-man agency from and contracted all his developers remotely, but he bought himself a desk space with 30 minute commute as soon as he had the cashflow to do so. I guess it helped create an illusion of separation even when he was still emailing clients after getting home, and offered social interaction during the day as well as the evenings

As for workers being forced to work remote by bigger companies, a colleague of mine who mostly worked from home because they closed her local office always insisted she much preferred the days she came into the London office, even though she seldom participated in office chat outside formal social events (even in the original office) and was very productive when working mostly at home.

Had another friend who didn't mind the remote work one day a week because we don't have the space for all of you rota at all, but found it a bit weird since he was a quant at a major bank...
I relate with you. And my opinion is that it’s harder (or seems harder) to take risks when you have your family to provide to. I’m near 47, and to be sure we won’t end all struggling, I’m mainly working for the same clients, doing mostly the same things over and over.

Of course there are some new project here and there, but in the end it’s mostly CRUD and not that interesting.

So to answer your question, I don’t keep the fire, I do my job.

(Sorry if I sounded a bit dramatic. I love my actual life, we all just moved to Ireland after 3.5 years in the Caribbean. I guess my « fire » is more oriented on the personal life that professional one)
As quickly as necessary, but no faster ;)
Tried out upwork.com?
Good. Proprietary software doesn't belong on Linux, or anywhere else for that matter.
Tech giants warn Coalition bill opens customers up to cyber attack
And a lot of well-meaning doctors that apparently don't take the time to do things right. Have a family member with RA that was almost given an injection for another condition that is contraindicated in people with RA, and it would have happened had we not done the research online and spoken up ourselves.

Multiple times we have found ourselves being more well-informed than the doctors, and it seems things are only caught if we bring them up...
> According to Bloomberg, the latest measures are unlikely to provide a quick fix for the economy, and there are risks that inflation will climb even faster

The only thing that would help Venezuela is Maduro's government falling, the socialist experiment being called off and a lot of international help.

It's not just the corruption, you can't really cap the prices for the sake of socialism and pretend that business won't fail.
Despite my departure from Mac to happily become a full time Linux user...you'll pry away my iPhone from my cold dead hands.
I remember somebody on this forum saying the best way to judge someone's technical prowess is to give a simple explanation of a complicated part of their field. If you can't summarize your knowledge you don't know what you are talking about.
my mind is being blown that this is getting upvoted. this article can be summarized as "other companies are making dumb products, so good for apple for not doing that". what? what the what? is this vapid apple propaganda really worth the read? to me the salient trajectory of apple of the last 10 years has been the absolute decline of their software. people who upvoted this article- why? genuinely curious
Back in El Campo, TX in the early 80s, a Korean family moved into the tiny town to take over the local Chinese restaurant. I’m guessing whoever was running the Chinese restaurant at any given time would have been the only Asian family in town.
Last November Krafcik said "In a few months". A few months later in March it was changed to "Later this year." Rumours circulated that they had planned for this month, August, which were corroborated by a big Bloomberg puff piece and a ballyhooed partnership announcement with the Valley transit authority, that came out late July, but still no deployment. They're hung up on something.
I find the cut man page (looking at the OpenBSD one) very clear. It's just 62 lines (fits on a screen), has only 5 flags and the 2 examples clearly show how the tool is used.

The xargs man page is ought to have some examples, I agree.

The find manual is lengthy (as it has a bunch of options) but not excessively so and it also has a good bunch of examples.

Edit: it also helps to be familiar with the pager, like using the search feature (hit / , n, n, Shift+n, ...) and the jump keys (G and g).
P.S.: I love you. When gamers break up with you
My introduction to programming was around 1973, with a Teletype connected via modem to an HP 2000C minicomputer. I've always had a soft spot for HP.
Attempting to read nix man pages, always felt like I was alone in learning best from examples. Documentation in any form without examples is always difficult for me to sort through.
Some people in this thread are conflating "remote work" with "working alone at home".

A service to connect with other remote workers in the same city as you would be really helpful.
The problem comes when we've normalized the idea of exploring public endpoints as "yeah, this is probably exceeding authorized access".
I'd like to see this applied to patents.

And then test how many of them survive the scrutiny of USPTO officers.
I'm not sure if it's okay to call the entire Silicon Valley has gone rogue. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is still one company that's not part of these controversies and yet trying to innovate at the same time. What's disheartening is how Apple has become like IBM rather than Amazon. Probably, Always listening on Speaker that can steal couple's conversation wasn't their thing but they failed to capitalize on the love Siri had received!
Despite the iPhone and business success, I do kind of mourn for the days when their hardware was more reliable. My 2017 Macbook is not nearly as nice as my 2015 model.

Though, as a bit of irony I do like that I can charge my Android phone with my Macbook charger.
theres definitely more than one prediction market available in the us. for instance, https://www.predictit.org/ (assuming you were referring to IEM in your comment)
> https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

Was a damn good read, Thanks!
I've encountered the same issue as well. I found that I could "fix" the issue by uninstalling the snap version and installing apt version instead.
You addressed my second point but not the first nor the third.

Mockery or not, it happened and still happens. Only two years ago in Cincinnati. That was technically not "punishment" but the result was the same.

My main point is not whether or to prosecute other animals, but that humans live double standards.
If that’s true, then on top of that, they’ve now broadcasted that fact to the world. And they’re a payment services company.
> I can only assume most people either just grok that or put up with it unconsciously without effort

Most people do not even notice. They live their entire lives without knowing this.

It normally comes as a surprise that the hardest obstacle to natural language based AI is this, and not some well defined problem.
> If so, what is the fundamental difference between accessing google.com and this hypothetical URL?

Your intention. It matters.
Too dramatic for an electronic device, no ?
Considering you don't actually check who the person is, wouldn't it be easier to just leave the door unlocked during business hours?

KISS and all that...
Is it just me, or did the article completely fail to answer it's premise? I really wanted to hear about how office politics works in a full time remote workplace. The closest thing to an answer for this is "we write stuff down so it's permanent."
The narrative that it’s marketing or cult thinking that got Apple here always ignores this elephant in the room: what if consumers put a premium on their privacy?

Privacy is itself valuable. Until SV can see this obvious, self-evident truth, the ad-driven models will rule and shrivel with a predictable boom-bust cadence.
Depends. Is it election season or they're buying submarines from us season ?
Turning the question around, if you did discover that you were able access a site, and it concerned you enough that you felt obliged to report it as a security problem, then by your own judgement you have decided you shouldn't have had access.

So this creates a bad situation where responsibly reporting security holes provides evidence that you knew the access was not authorized, regardless of your intent.
It's unconventional given the liberal/libertarian aspects of the current movement, but this is a problem. I know at least two people very well, and a few more less well who smoke - all - the - time. They vape it like tobacco. They are basically permanently 'kind of high' - completely functional, you'd never really know it to meet them ... but this is more than a little distressing. One is in finance, the other a healthcare practitioner, the others stay at home parents.

It's a kind of new phenom that we need to grapple with because the 'bad effects' are not going to be so much chemical etc., they're going to be psychological and we're in kind of new territory.
In the US, pretty much anyone can sue anyone else for any reason. While a judge may eventually throw out the lawsuit (for various reasons including frivolity, etc.), being sued generally requires the services of a lawyer to at least bring up the motion to toss the suit. Lawyers ain't cheap (at least the kind that are effective).

Furthermore, there's the whole watchlist thing - if the EU has decided against you, they can make traveling outside the US very inconvenient.
I've eaten in restaurants all over Europe and I'm genuinely amazed at how many Americans in this thread think the service is bad here. Personally I like my servers to stay out of the way unless I call them, instead of hovering around me with a huge fake grin wishing me a hollow "nice day" just because they want to extract money from me.

It's the same reason I just don't see the appeal of strip clubs - I can't stand people being "nice" to me just because they want me to give them money.
If housing demand was going down then housing prices would be going down. That's not what we see except in certain markets such as Detroit.
There's a kind of funny warranty/liability split when you cant test the quality of your own lock.

Locks are generally a let the buyer beware kinda proposition. It's up to me to decide if this lock is good enough to protect the tools in my shed.

If i'm explicitly forbidden from investigating that - i think the manufacturer should be required to say how much of your losses they'll cover when the lock fails. Obviously the current state of affairs is _none_ and i can't lawfully tell if the lock sucks or not.

We'd all be better off if lock makers were forced to choose. either i can pick my own lock (evaluate my own risk) or advertise how much insurance comes with the purchase of the lock (evaluate risk for me).

(i fully appreciate the world does not work this way. I'm just asserting it would be better for everyone if it did.)
Weird Al is essentially a comedian, and they only really get good after many years of life experience.
The current encrypted SNI proposal[1] basically boils down to putting an ECDH key share in DNS and then using that to encrypt the SNI.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-esni-00
Well duh, the only other ways are “be more energy efficient” (hard because they’re already good at that) or “get everyone to do less” (I’d approve of that, but most people don’t seem to).

Likewise, the cost of less people living there (or in any defined region) is less taxpayers, less people making stuff, and less people supplying stuff.
I spent a lot of time a number of years ago making fun of Apple, their technology, and their business models. I have come to the realization that all of my criticisms were wrong. I don't own any Apple products right now, but unless the market changes significantly, my next phone will be my first ever iPhone.
I agree with him. I don't want to imagine my life using an Android. :P
Went to one of his concerts a couple years ago. Except for his vanity, it was one of the best shows I've ever been to. A lot of fun.
My father still use my square white Macbook, it stills work as good as day 1 with the factory battery. I wonder if my 2016 and 2018 MacBook Pro will get the same lifetime, if they does, it's still crazy hardware.
> (But I won’t buy a $1,000 phone; sorry, Mr. Cook.)

Strange that the author correctly dissects the problem with Apple's competitors, i.e. that their products are subsidised by violating their users' privacy and selling their data, but then ends with the conclusion that they still won't pay what Apple is charging. I wish they'd elaborated: Are they arguing that it'd better not to have a smartphone, or better to accept selling your privacy to get a cheaper phone?
Not always and not comprehensively, but they work alongside their users to tune packages as appropriate. It introduces a dispassionate 3rd party for users to report issues to who can fix problems which the upstream has an incentive not to fix.

>The world hasn't collapsed for [major OS vendors] so far

Hell yes it has. Malware and user-hostile is running rampant on the "major" platforms like Windows and macOS. Have you ever used a non-technical person's computer for a few minutes? It's like a warzone.
Ask HN: What skills are important to teach to kids today?
Hi HN Community,

I am a parent of a 9yo and a 12yo. My husband and I have been thinking if there is anything else we should be teaching our kids apart from academics and usual extracurricular classes they do at school.
What skills have you taught or you think are important to teach to kids today? (Have read a few threads on HN on how to and not to teach programing.)
Definitely agree with that. Issue trackers in particular I've found to be a very powerful tool for navigating an environment that has bad actors within it - when everything is down in black and white it greatly reduces attempts at weasally behaviour from the more Machiavellian. Sad to say, I've come across this type more than once.
Two big reasons why I might switch from Android to Apple:

- My Bluetooth audio has been broken for years. There's a discussion forum topic about this, but Google doesn't listen.

- Starting the camera app takes about 3-5 seconds. In most cases, this is enough time to spoil the entire photo-moment.

Edit: it's also the fact that Google allowed these problems to exist in the first place.
People did call it the Jesus Phone when was first released.
Doesn't Ender continue to attack Stilson and Bonzo after they are down? Are we to assume that he doesn't know that doing such a thing could be lethal?

If I remember correctly, isn't the military surprised that Ender uses the super-bomb against the bugger's planet?

By the way, what's your take on "Cold Equations?"
Thanks! Nice to see it's still progressing.
The privacy practices are part of the product.
It's great to keep old houses but unless the population stops growing you need to build new ones for people to live in. Well, they can keep living with their parents but most people want to move out.
My wife is Thai and she tells me that the majority of the Thai places she's eaten at in North America suck.

Exception is San Francisco. There's a place in Little Saigon that is run by Thai people and she said the food there is exactly the same as home.

Here in Toronto we recommend Si Lom Thai Bistro. Which is good but not perfect.
The MacBook Pro and Mac Pro I’ll give you, I agree there. I think the iMac is doing fine, maybe it’s time for a spec bump (next month?).

What’s wrong with the iPhone though? That’s the product that seems to work better than any of the others. How have the last few years not been great?

Im not looking for some small personal preference thing, like the lack of the headphone jack.

The MBPs lost useful ports for a flakey ecosystem, have keyboard problems, lowered their battery life for real work, and got hotter.

The Mac Pro... is from 2013. Enough said.

What problems of any similar caliber exist for the iPhone?