skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't get it. how is amazon threatening the bookshops' livelihood when it was the traditional publishers who didn't pick up the book? shouldn't bookshop owners be upset that publishers aren't able to scale properly?
It's handy that the "empty sum " (zero) happens to be a palindrome, so it can just work to fill any number of empty slots.
Would you please not perpetuate tedious tit-for-tat flamewars on HN? At some point it needs to be let go.
Wish there was one for Tcl/Tk.
You would be wrong, but the bigger issue will be claims of stock manipulation rather than Reg FD violation.
I share the sentiment, but I also appreciate the truth.

> Text editors! What can be simpler? On each keystroke, all you have to do is update tiny rectangular region and modern text editors can’t do that in 16ms.

I use text editors with syntax highlighting. Also IDEs with completion, error highlighting, etc. Assuming we are talking about those, updating a rectangular region is not "all you have to do". (Though it is the only thing that has to be done synchronously.)

> Windows 10 takes 30 minutes to update. What could it possibly be doing for that long? That much time is enough to fully format my SSD drive, download a fresh build and install it like 5 times in a row.

You can format an SSD, download a multi-gig image and install it in under 6 minutes?

> The whole webpage/SQL database architecture is built on a premise (hope, even) that nobody will touch your data while you look at the rendered webpage.

What?

> Ever seen this dialogue “which version to keep?” I mean, bar today is so low that your users would be happy to at least have a window like that.

I'm failing to see the problem with that dialog. It's hardly new. Vim:

WARNING: The file has been changed since reading!!!
Do you really want to write to it (y/n)?

> Nobody thinks compiler that works minutes or even hours is a problem.

Everyone thinks that a problem. It's the reason that memory-bloating scripting languages the author is shitting over have become so popular.

> We put virtual machines inside Linux, and then we put Docker inside virtual machines, simply because nobody was able to clean up the mess that most programs, languages and their environment produce.

Huh? When will you put virtual machines inside Linux and then Docker inside those virtual machines. (Maybe a Docker dev testing against different kernel versions?)

> Linux kills random processes by design.

It can kill processes (configurable). But AFAIK it doesn't do it randomly.

> Programs can’t work for years without reboots anymore.

Anymore? Really? I reboot my Windows computer one-tenth as often as twenty years ago.

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Well, there might be problems, but as least the author is not overgeneralizing, right?

> Nobody understands anything at this point. Neither they want to.

> What’s worse, nobody has time to stop and figure out what happened.

> Nothing stops us from making build process reliable, predictable and 100% reproducible. Just nobody thinks its important.

> We’re stuck in local optima and nobody wants to move out.
How is access to employment improved by making job ads more expensive?
This was talked about at length on Joe Rogans show by Peter Schiff:

https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI

I think its a net benefit to Puerto Rico to be in this position.
Live to work or work to live?
What do you need an attorney for? Contact the owner and negotiate a sale.
What happens after Rice? Is everyone graduating equal, or do we need to apply the "privileged children" label to some?

What is your recommendation to companies that go to Rice for hiring? Hire the best - whatever their objective definition of best is (which I presume doesn't have a privilege filter)?
IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless.

And not just the learning purposes. Imagine the possibilities if we could properly simulate (and speed up the simulation) the world - what if we could use genetic algorithms to develop an organism.
Capcom closes Vancouver studio and terminates all project development
No, you're correct, and I misparsed the chart _entirely_, thanks for calling out; for some insane reason I thought it was a monthly cadence (since I think I glanced and saw "april" and elided the fact that it was year incremented.)

I'd stand by the crux of my statement that I don't think the chart was intentionally misleading, however, with one fewer complaints about the nature of the data :)
Sent :)
Still brand new to this, but have pretty much hit the tipping point from "unsure if enough work" to "too much work" immediately.

If the goal is to be on your own, one thing that is incredibly useful is to build a network of people who would be in a complimentary business to yours, are likely to stumble across work that you would be able to do, and aren't in the position to do themselves. For me, that's working with a former coworker whose business is data science + the strategy around it, or a larger consulting firm where I used to work that has projects come across their plate for steady clients that are too small to be worth their time, but can be quite lucrative for an individual.
A better startup idea would be some way for people in a neighborhood to act collectively to improve the local school.

How can someone who isn't a parent improve the quality of their local school? A point is worth _a lot_ around here.

I know buyers are thinking to themselves:

"I can either send my children to private school, or I can buy this house and send them to public school. Either I spend $35k/yr per child in fees, or I can spend $80k/yr and buy in a good district."

At that point the $80k is a good buy - they're thinking they can get it back.

I look at my school (poorly scored school) and ask "how can I convince them to send that private school funding money my way?" Typically I would vote up property taxes but I don't have that lever in California.
In many ways “govt as a business” is apt. Global competition for talent and global competition for capital are just two ways in which governments compete with each other for continued prosperity.
Optimizing DXVK apps
an IRCer reminded me of http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ ;)
Anecdotally, I can speak a bit about my Nexus 7 which I've had since 2014. It supported the wireless Qi standard when it came out, and I got a wireless charging pad soon after I got the thing.

I've seen quite a few complaints on the xda-developers board about people with various Android phones and tablets (Nexus 7 included) becoming more or less unusable because the microUSB port wears out after so many thousand plug-ins and eventually breaks, dislodges, or stops recognizing the cable, and the end-user is unable to charge their device anymore.

Since I wirelessly charge my Nexus 7 90% of the time (only using micro-USB if travelling or topping it off at work), the micro-USB port is still in great condition. Personally I've had four phones and two tablets and never had any of the ports break on me, but, I suppose fumbling in the dark trying to jam the cable into the phone late at night could definitely put some wear and tear on the device.

I've heard possible stories that wireless charging might be worse for the battery, though, so, trade-offs for everything I suppose.
I was already working remotely, but I'd quit a job of several years because of a disagreement.

Someone wanted to give me work, but they preferred to give me a job through a company-based contract rather than being an employee (for work permit reasons). It was pretty straightforward to make that happen from my side. Once I was in that game of "you contract for some of my time, but not all of it", I just carried on.

That someone found me through word-of-mouth / personal recommendation, which is also how everything after that has come along.

I don't market myself particularly hard, but I like to think that my reputation is "brutally honest".
Because Reddit drama is tedious and predictable, and tends to suck the oxygen away from other topics.
No joke my first client was from a HackerNews "Who is Hiring" thread. I had been doing part-time freelancing while working a full-time job, and had enough of a portfolio that they took a chance on me. That was my first 5 months, and now I'm in month 11 with a 2nd major client that I got through my network of people in my local city.
I completely agree, I've done a bunch of 100BGAs - it's hard but not impossible, I use a steel mask, solder paste and a cheap reflow oven - alignment just requires a steady hand and good tweezers
How will you be monetizing it?
Bingo. William Marsh Rice left his entire fortune (after a really fascinating story of his murder) to make the entity today known as Rice. Historically, tuition was free but limited to white only. As Wikipedia has it:

> The original charter of Rice Institute dictated that the university admit and educate, tuition-free, "the white inhabitants of Houston, and the state of Texas". In 1963, the governing board of Rice University filed a lawsuit to allow the university to modify its charter to admit students of all races and to charge tuition.

They also have massive amounts of real-estate and stock grants.
I must've missed something, what I understood from reading the article was simply that there are insider reports of a criminal probe, not that the U.S. government made an announcement of such.
"crypto" is not short for "cryptocurrency", which is what I assume you mean. For many people it is short for "cryptography", and if read as such, makes your comment very confusing.
There is no comparison to be made between european cities where you can walk for hours and hours and see a thousand things vs americans cities where you will mostly spend your time crossing large streets. If you really believe this you probably never have been to Europe.
Not true, since Congress can limit how much a stamp costs.

Edit: Apparently there is a commission set up. It's part of the executive branch, but still, the USPS can't up and decide the price of a stamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Regulatory_Commission
It's worth pointing out that tuition is not necessarily the main source of income for a school, especially a well-established prestigious one. At my college, which is less than 75 years old, the number cited to me was that tuition covered only 40% of the college's cost of providing an education. Endownments, grants, foundations, and alumni donations accounts for a lot. I'm not super familiar with Rice, but I would imagine it has a decent endowment and access to other funding sources.
Ask HN: Signal Hackers: Why a delay connecting voice to signal partner?
Signal Hackers: What is the delay when Open Whisper Systems' Signal connects me via voice to my destination (google is not helpful)?

In addition, is Signal regularly audited for monitoring code?
> In my view, in Europe there is a bigger pressure to value people/individuals over company/corporate interest and that's seems like the crux of the difference.

The sentence reads funny as if people/individuals don't own companies. A better way to put it would be that they value some kinds of people over other kinds of people. Or users over entrepreneurs, or something besides just the ambiguous "people".
I'm a cyclist and I drive a car. Dedicated infrastructure is usually for slow bicycles. I welcome it but I stay clear of it. I don't feel in danger in the road and I can go faster.

Problems with bicycle roads:

90% of traffic is much slower than me, which I do 20 km/h in cities (nothing special with some training)

They go up and down sidewalks and turn before intersections. This slows down everybody willing to go faster than 10 km/h

They are bumpier than roads

They are on the side of the road and more dangerous at any intersection, where they are close or before the stop line for cars coming from the side. Furthermore there is less space to look for incoming traffic. Being on the car's road is safer. I like bicycle roads when they are far away from car's roads, for example along rivers. Small low traffic roads are good enough.

On the other side, roundabouts and every other modern road layout that force cars and bikes to get close is dangerous for bikes. I feel safe to say that roads became less dangerous for cars in the last 20 years and more dangerous for bicycles.

I'd like to have the roads of the 70s: long straights, no speed bumps, no roundabouts (cyclists also don't like stop and go),
> And now they've regressed.

That's not entirely true, there are teams in the new campus that have offices (usually shared, which is much the same as Infinite Loop) - it's a mix of working spaces and styles.

What is true is that engineering at Apple is very much a meritocracy, and some teams are treated much better than others. When I was there I saw engineering teams - particularly those working on things perceived as less important by the company - were put into open plan spaces and cube farms. Meanwhile, others were treated very well, with large offices and private spaces.
Why'd you have so many kids?

No cable? :P
Because of they way your comment is worded, it sounds like your 2nd graph is still referring to German incomes where it's actually referring to US incomes.
Rather than being "too much of a thing causes me to run down", it's "absence of a thing causes me to run down".
The EU actually has extensive law about lobbying.[1] It actually tries to be transparant in regards to how lobbying happens and what kind of lobbying happens.

Also, your 30K figure also includes lobbyists from civil rights groups and other NGO's. Not just purely companies.

Lobbying happens, it is how people influence politics. Better to be transparant and open about it them to hide it.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2015/57280...
In theory once you attract a big enough cluster of “tax hackers”, the government can then modestly increase taxes on these folks and that can be a high leverage thing once you’ve attracted a large revenue base.
I built up connections during employment and open source communities (the latter was much easier 2 decades ago). Ever since, my "marketing" is:

* Try to over-deliver in some aspect important to the customer (time to delivery, documentation, client integration)

* Try to detect clients I cannot interact with properly and refuse them upfront (refer them to a friend who can deal with this type of client!)

* Bring lube. As an extern, you are causing more friction than an employee. A small present to whoever has to deal with the extra overhead and lots of work towards making his/her work easier help a lot.

* Be professional. Never ever talk bad about a client in public, no matter how bad they are; when you want to mention them in a positive public statement, ask for permission (most will say yes anyways and you pointed them at the free advertising you do for them)

Works for me; I don't even have a website nor any picture of me online with my real name. I don't make public appearances at all.
Disclaimer: I'm not a security expert.

For GnuPG there's an effort with NeoPG, although I don't know how it's regarded. Just heard the name and it is said to strive to resolve some GnuPG issues.

For OpenPGP itself, I don't think it's considered obsolete. I think there are fair concerns about OpenPGP-encrypted emails (when an alternative technology is an option), but I don't have the impression PGP itself is considered obsolete.
I really hope you are right and have your priorities straight when it comes to search. I'd love for a way to search for usages of a class::method, or for strings that contain the text "hello" or for variables named foo. And if you integrate that into the code itself, Ctrl+click a class method to find all usages, maybe even usages in other repositories, so I can see how other people use a certain library.

And of course good old regex search.
Or maybe we should collectively wonder whether we're tracking the good metrics and whether GreatSchools is really tracking something useful. Not to mention they're funded by the CEO of Walmart :-/
I actually dream about bringing Atom (as far as I understand it's better than RSS but RSS just seems a better brand-name for this, in fact in many cases when you click on a link that says RSS you'll get Atom) back, expanding it with social functionality like likes, reposts and comments, implementing it better (auto-generated feeds on many sites are pretty crappy) and popularizing generic feed readers so non-geeks would be able to interact with others' self-hosted blogs (like my blog built on GitHub Pages) as easy and fun as it they do with Facebook, Instagram etc.
I don't do contracting as much now, but I used to get work through referrals and also blogging. If I toss an item on my blog, do a few blog posts:

https://austingwalters.com/

And I'll probably get some hits within a week or so.
Apple have paid Ireland the €13B they owed plus a billion in interest
Exactly. It's when the complaining stops (and/or the complainers are demonized) that the mandate to move on to more invasive laws is given.
I have no idea. In any case, Jobs never would have allowed it. The iTunes Store has the optimal purchasing process that happened to be covered by Amazon’s patent. They took the cheap way out. That same UX morphed into the AppStore after the iPhone. Then it made its way into the Apple TV.

Everyone has it now. I wonder if they got as good a deal as Apple did. We all expected someone big to fight that patent. Apple basically said “f- this” and took the easy way out even if it meant everyone else would get screwed. One of the few times Apple had first mover advantage.
Locally (Portland, Oregon) the car2go rental rate is approximately equivalent at 1 hour versus my cost of owning a new car for a day. So if I could get by on less than an hour of car2go time per day it would be worthwhile.
I often see “enterprise” options with “call us” pricing on saas products. However often there are no enterprise features listed. I presume that is because those extra features a customized per large customer.

Do you (or anyone else reading) have examples of some of those type of features enterprise customers might want? I know this is a pretty open ended question. So if helpful, you could limit them to the context of a saas like this one.
I don’t have a driver’s license. Almost none of my friends have one. I don’t understand the need to have one besides the occasional “I need to do something on holidays that requires a car” and even then I would say: rent one.
Whenever anyone young asks me this general question I point them first to pg's awesome essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html. This is targeted for HS students but I think also applies to freshmen and sophomores. To boil it to one sentence: Make decisions as to maximize your options.

I would add that your personal network is one of the most valuable asset you'll have so start on your networking skills. To do this well, as they say, be interested, not just interesting. Ask people what are the most important open research problems in their fields, people love to talk about this stuff.

Finally, if possible, avoid companies that "care about GPA above a certain level".
> The requirements for processors are basically that you can only use processors that are compliant with GDPR themselves.

How can you be sure that the compliance isn't just marketing? There is no official cert body or institution for GDPR afaik. Isn't it all trust based at this point?

Actual certification would require a huge continous investment, where a outside body would constantly monitor and proof your code and its side effects.

>Any well designed regulation disallows skirting liability by subcontracting out functionality. Is that really unreasonable?

But what if this industry, especially the small business world is based on subcontracting out functionality? They're basically ignoring an existing ecosystem and methodologies that developed over a decade in that space.

>It describes pretty clearly how to be a compliant processor, and it's basically saying that you have to have a contract with the "controller" that requires you to fulfill the same responsibilities that the controller would have under GDPR if they were doing the work in house.

If its so clear, why isn't there an official cert body or institution? Afaik there is none. Compliance refers to the interpretations of the GDPR text, not real logical safety on an technology level, the laws aren't detailed enough for that. To cert or guarantee safety they'd have to monitor code repos and analyze side effects of the code on a constant basis.

I think the correct way to handle data privacy is on an individual level, within the operating system and browser, making sure that your privacy settings are respected. A page that doesn't conform to your settings just wouldn't load, you get the internet you deserve.

Everybody should also have the opportunity to learn the basics of using an internet connected device, similar to driver licenses. The individual level would be a much better fit, and potentially real solution and not just a castle in the sky.

GDPR relies on trust, one little bug that results in a privacy issue and you can close up shop as business. It's a setting where those that employ cyber warfare to hack competitors and have those resources win. Politicians who brought you GDPR are the same ones that wage wars on drugs. Total morons.
Can’t you rent in these cases? It sounds like it would be cheaper.
Relative to the US, yes it does
GitHub clone entirely written in Elixir
Rice is not an Ivy League school. It is an academically great institution though!
The first Samsung I linked to actually has a huge ring that lights up. No amount of electrical tape would help there.
What is your recommendation to companies that go to Rice for hiring?

If it's for CS, don't bother. The kids're mainly set on FANG and while they're somewhat skilled the ones that show up at fairs are pretty milquetoast.

If you want the smart ones who aren't risk-averse, look at who's drinking at Valhalla. Also, look for graduates of Wong's 410/415 sequence if it's still offered.
Following up on the comments of many people about not offering a free tier, would it be possible to make your system easy to clone on github AND run from a GitHub hosted site? If so, this could solve the question of you paying to host free accounts.
Laws that exclusively protect shareholders. That's the problem. And most of the population doesn't have the resources to lobby Congress to roll back those laws the way financial laws were rolled back. The fault for that inequality lays squarely on our nation.
What you're describing sounds a lot like the indieweb movement. Worth checking out although they're getting significantly less momentum than activity-pub or any other number of protocol-first social networking projects.

https://indieweb.org
Because you live in a place where public transport is bad.
Driving without license plates is irresponsible antisocial behavior, not "hacking."
> It "transpiles" to lua. So you can do anything lua does, run on any lua interpreter, use any lua library.

Bit odd statement, considering that LuaJIT afaik targets Lua 5.1 compatibility with some 5.2 extensions, while main Lua is currently at 5.3. I guess the question is what version Fennel is targeting
This is great! I wish I'd started doing something like this long ago. The closest thing I've found to this that I'm able to at least remind myself to use regularly is this, https://daylio.webflow.io/

It'd be interesting to leverage something like this to decide when I should take vacation... If my happiness is slowly decreasing and visualized like this, it'd serve as a nice reminder to schedule some vacation. I'd also be interested to see how long after vacations the "high" wears off