skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still pretty good in English.

(If you wanted something that was a bit more polished, you could say "Promise the stars, deliver the moon." or as a complete sentence, "They promised the stars, then delivered the moon.")
About $33 assuming median wages[1]. Maybe $150 assuming SF area tech salaries.

You spend more on war.

1. https://www.space.com/10849-nasa-budget-contribute.html
Berlin and Leipzig, for starters, both of which are major startup capitals.
Thank you, now I know what I should not change :)
iOS 12 Update: Introducing Autofill Passwords and Siri Shortcuts in Zoho Vault
Google helped sink Sun with their Java fork and they could have bought Sun if they really cared about it.

The only company besides Oracle that cared about Sun assets was IBM, and I very much doubt they would not have done the same thing to Google. After all, Sun would have liked to do it if the bank account had any money left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...

It was Sun who refused to give the TCK to Apache Harmony.

It was Sun that had different licenses and price categories depending on which kind of Java and version one would be using in production.

Some people easily forget or act as if past actions/history aren't a metric, while others forget who actually did them in first place.
As others have said Kawabata is great. Banana Yoshimoto too. Personally I really enjoyed Fuminori Nakamura, especially The Thief.
FWIW Iridium already does the same thing on a global scale. Includes AIS and ADS-B tracking (tho both can be switched off easily).
I'm Italian and no, it can't (would love for the people of Naples to prove me wrong though)
I thought Elon Musk was a “total fraud”?

https://nypost.com/2018/07/21/elon-musk-is-a-total-fraud/amp...
Better change the name now then rather than later. Such a shame that firewalls would do that though.
Could you talk a little more about this? I’ve never encountered a stooge collection but when I interviewed for a job right out of college the CTO of a company told me that “this lead dev had a few friends follow him here since he’s so good.” Is that likely a stooge collection?
I belive that the last example is overcomplicated. The CommunicationMethod instance still has to check if the email address is present with a really weird accesss to the Customer object. Anyway, the purpose of Maybe in FP is to force the user to handle both cases, not only replace "!= null" with ".exists()".
When you have billions it's irrelevant, no more than the average joe dropping $10k on a holiday
Apple doesn't need Steve. Tim Cook is doing a great job.
The parent parent comment to mine is not limited to SpaceX in scope, "Elon Musk and his companies", nor is the parent comment.
That is why AOT compilers also support PGO, including Graal.
I think my main message is that by being so definitive in the rejection of things, you close down the possibility there is something you don't know. For example, the moveFile() thing, maybe this is some kind of fingerprinted DRM library where "nothing can change". Just leaving open the possibility there might be a reason removes a lot of friction. And btw, this moveFile example is so horrible it probably does require some yelling :-)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08496 is linked in the "Related" section.
I come from a coal mining region. For over a 100 years there has only been one mine in the area, a big mine. There is plenty of coal in the surrounding areas. This is Africa. An uncle of mine had the idea that we start a mine. He invited about 20 of us, all related. We started putting aside money to register a company, pay a geologist to prospect for the coal and get mining permit to mine the coal. We all contributed money on a monthly basis. All paper work is done in the capital city so we used to send the oldest uncle in the group to go process the paperwork. He had worked in government before and he was older. In my culture you respect old(er) people.

To cut a long story short we successfully registered the company, got a geologist to confirm there was indeed coal and got a mining license from the government. We then signed a contract with a sub contractor to come and mine. When the share certificates came instead of owing 5% I ownwed 0.00086% of the mine. Yes there were 3 zeros before the 86. Our elder the uncle we had sent to do the paperwork basically screwed all of us, including the uncle who originally came up with the idea.

Lessions
1. Never use your cultural beliefs in business. Stick to contracts.
2. Don't just trust family.
Kafka didn't have a lot of fun either.
You can install a separate box running pfSense to act as a gateway, configuring different rules/load balancing etc. It also has a plugin ecosystem to enable additional features. That would allow you to size the box and grow as you need. I usually virtualize it with VMWare on Dell Server hardware. That way you get good remote management via Dell idrac, and can make config changes/reboot without losing access.

https://www.pfsense.org/

On the access point side, if you want more granular control to handle congestion, Ubiquiti Unifi and their various mgmt platforms work well. I can't recommend their Security Gateway Appliance (frequent reboots), but the backhauls, APs and CPEs are solid. That will allow you to visualize utilization using a gui, and adjust limits per device/group easily. If you already have the APs, then a gateway device may be better.

https://www.ubnt.com/

I've found over the years, and in the datacenter, that running pfsense on server hardware is very reliable. You can run on a single board computer kit but the CPU doesn't hold up to heavier traffic/vpns etc, worse remote management.
This sounds like AirBnB effects again :(
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. You have very good points.

It wouldn't be in my personality (I think) to lash out at people publicly like that, precisely because it's a public channel. It is in his personality, however, and I think it's fair to observe the negative aspects of this behaviour, and call him out on it.

And I particularly dislike the "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" apologist crowd (which you are not part of, I know). Not sure if I'm blowing this out of proportion, but to my ears it sounds not very different from "if you don't want to be sexually assaulted, you shouldn't have dressed like that".

Having said all that: I'm actually really impressed by Linus' email. Proud of him, even. Like all of us he has his vices, but he has become aware of them and tries to improve. What more can you ask.

To me, this has pretty much taken all of the negativity out of future blowups he might (will, probably) have: because he's now on record for not intending to be this way, I personally could overlook any personal attacks and filter them as unintentional, reacting only to the factual content.

Let me just discuss the argument about being this way in public vs. in private. IMO even traditional CEOs shouldn't be that way, whether it becomes public or not. For one thing because it's "not nice" (which they might not care about), but for another because it might foster a climate that is detrimental to the company.

A good example might be VW, whose exhaust cheating fiasco seems to have come about in part because engineers didn't dare push back against impossible demands from top management.
See also:

https://fortiguard.com/webfilter?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgrapedrop.c...

There's a link to submit a review on that page.
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That's a remarkable letter. It would make a good standalone HN post.... Just checked - it's been posted twice previously and got a total of 6 upvotes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Stuhlinger&sort=byPopularity&p...
It certainly does in helicopters, which have large, relatively heavy blades you really don’t want to stop turning.

In a quadcopter the blades a small and light, so you could conceivably stop them and let them turn them in reverse as the airflow changes direction (from downwards to up through the blades). I think there would be real problem with control during the transition, and you’d need a lot of height to make it worthwhile.
Finally! I've given up on asyncio many times only because the documentation was way too complex to understand parts without going entirely in-depth on the whole.
Ok, so a ”Maybe” avoided, but instead we added a coupling, plus moved the decision logic to the inside of the Customer object?

I would consider this a very bad design. It’s one of those solutions that you think of and tell yourself ”look at how elegant it looks”. Then one month (or more) when you revisit the code to do some additions / code reading, you realize how bad an idea it was.
I replied below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18013579

And the OP replied to clarify, so I think vaporware is an unfair characterization. But I think that regardless, to be clear.
Plastic roads: India’s radical plan to bury its garbage beneath the streets 2016
https://aave.com did it propagate?
There’s a certain level of Musk fatigue. An increasing number of people seem to be tired of his antics.
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How confident are you on delivering what you are going to sell?

I worked for a global healthcare IT company that was notoriously bad at selling "futures" - modules, functionality and even applications that didn't exist. It came back to bite them on the ass massively - even with a strong and large engineering/test/release team.

Can you phase the product and structure the deal based on that? For example:

1. Sign contract or MoU with enterprise including timelines.
2. Deliver core functionality and realise first revenue.
etc.
The real trolley problem:

[ ] Let self driving cars kill people during development but try to make it up by saving thousands of lives after they are perfected. (Uber)

[ ] Make self driving cars extremely safe from the start but more people end up dying from manual driving because development takes longer. (Waymo)
My experience of moving into engineering management has very much been that I need to keep writing code to truly understand what people are facing, and ensure I'm not coming up with crazy ideas that will be a pain to implement.

The only caveat I'd add to that is that I can't keep on working on things in the critical path, at least as the sole developer picking up those tasks, because I'm hugely more likely to have things come up that prevent me from doing those things in a timely manner. That then leads to other people being blocked on my work.

The best balance I've found is for me to either pair with a developer who's able to remain focused on a task when I'm inevitably dragged away to do something else, or for me to pick up non-urgent tasks like refactoring, or developer tooling. The latter is probably my favourite as it means I'm applying my experience to tools and libraries that can then be used in widely applicable circumstances to make the rest of the team more productive.
The Bitcoin thesis is playing out in Venezuela
License.

Maturity (is this stable?).

Test coverage.

Recency of updates (is it actively maintained and up to date?).

Size and composition (bug/feature) of issue tracker backlog (how fragile is it? do bugs actually get fixed?).

Popularity (if this gets abandoned, will someone else fork and maintain it?).

Documentation.
> prior to this silly trade spat China simply charged their national sales tax

Not true. Developing countries like China and India have long imposed "import duties" (aka customs or tariff) on certain categories of products to safe guard local industry and employment while making special trade agreements only with a few countries.

They even change the tariffs on a yearly basis without caring about consumers of imported goods in their country (prices of imported cars and items like the iPhone vary every year in India).
What's the reason a stooge collection means it's time to go?
What value could they create from using your setup?
A quick skim suggests https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_brick#Perfect_cuboid : it sounds like a simple generalisation from Pythagorean triangles that we are all shown as young children, but it turns out to be intractable so far.

No "small" solutions exist, thanks to exhaustive search, but the prospect that one does exist at a horrifyingly large number remains.
The discourse may be a bit spicy but by no means flame war territory. The story certainly isn’t clickbait or overly political.

It’s certainly the most newsworthy thing of the week IMO.

Dear Mods,

Put it back. And deduct 100 points from whoever flagged it off.
Agreed that weed itself is irrelevant (though I literally don’t believe that $420 wasn’t a drugs reference even though it’s been explicitly denied), unlike violating the rules about manipulating share prices and the defamation on Twitter.

Looks to me like chronic overwork. How do we convince him to take a holiday?
Thanks for the detailed post. It's awesome that you folks are trying to fix the funding model of the web .

Any chance of putting brave on f-droid? Its the only app on my phone that I manually download/update. Totally worth it though :)
Try to sell the product before spending the time to build it.
Sell the dream, then build it.
Thank you very much, I'm submitting right now
> Finally there's Freud and his school of psychoanalysis, who took a lot of inspiration from N.

That doesn't really play to his advantage either.
The goal is to force companies to move the manufacturing they took to China back to the US. The only reason companies manufacture in China is price. It is cheap to manufacture in China and then import it. Make it expensive to import from China and the companies will be forced to move manufacturing back.
The CLI example in the talk is quite impressive

edit: a bit more on zprint & GraalVM and a comparison to the equivalent code on node:

graalVM native startup time: 0.055s
node startup time: 0.260s

execution time is also more than 1 order of magnitude faster w/ graalVM native compared to node

https://github.com/kkinnear/zprint/blob/master/doc/graalvm.m...
I have a hunch - mathematically unverified - that yield wouldn't increase linearly with volume. And you might have to build your stadiums underwater, because a surface explosion would be unlikely to create the energy density.

Also, it's not obvious there's enough uranium in the world for that many fission devices.

If you want to kill everyone with nuclear weapons, there are easier ways to do it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb

This wouldn't scour all life from the earth, but enthusiastic use of cobalt salt weapons would probably put life back to the plant and mutant insect stage.
This is one of the times where I am glad to be working in maritime autonomy and not (any longer) in automotive -- we have the considerable benefit of being able to modify the operating procedures for our autonomous vessels to restrict operations or modify operating procedures in environmental conditions where normal operation is no longer safe.
If it's academic, Academia.edu has a feature to request feedback. I've seen people use this feature for rough drafts and even paper outlines and slides.

The feature is described here: http://support.academia.edu/customer/portal/articles/2080805...

To be clear, I'm not encouraging you to sign up for Academia.edu -- I think they are guilty of a lot of dark patterns and shouldn't really be rewarded, but in some fields, the site has become a de facto standard.
As CEO pay raises, When will tech worker wages start growing again?
If I understand correctly the airborne LIDAR works in the timedomain and is much more expensive, while the LIDAR on automobiles is much more affordable but works in the frequency domain...
Well, he's worked on it for ~25 years...
.. and as well, exercise an iron grip over the third worlds' economy ..
I’ve gotten friends out early in the morning for outdoor social events like golf, hiking, camping, etc. I play on a softball team that has games at 6 am. Heck, even some of my first dates with my wife were early in the morning. So I disagree that social events need be limited to dinner and drinks in the evening. Oh and I still go out for dinner and drinks too... just not every day and when I do I usually sleep in a bit the next day.

I really don’t understand the resistance to waking up a bit earlier in summer. Btw I don’t even consider myself a morning person really, it’s just that when I moved to a place that gets light early in the morning I naturally started waking up earlier.
Note that “users flagged it” often isn’t true. For example, mods flag many comments manually, at which point the rest of the community believes users flagged it.

It’s easier to enjoy HN if you just accept you don’t have a say. For better or worse, the old times are gone. But it might be possible to resurrect it in a new form.
Age discrimination in Silicon Valley
I was part of a start-up that still exists but it seems to be stagnating. i left due to the founders having almost nothing in common except for making money.

The site is like squarespace but for local shops and businesses. The founders met on an airplane and thought they can make a business. So you had the business CEO with no technical background living in X country and the ruthless CTO with his team in Y country.

I left ship when the CTO cleaned out the bank account and disappeared. The Y country never extradite their citizens or charges them for any international crimes so he got off scott free while the CEO had to "use" his car insurance to get money to keep the business afloat and pay the out-sourced developers. (He set his car on fire to get a payout)

Edit: I guess the lesson is that the founders need a vision and co-operation to make it work. These two basically had a common goal of making money of a fad. Back then the latest craze was to become a market place for other businesses ie. JustEat, SquareSpace etc.

Another would be that the core team better stick together. The founders were separated by hundreds of miles. The business side was in EU while the CTO and the devs where not. This caused communication issues, planning problems and of course money.

I left because of money too I guess. After working 6 months on a "paid" internship which was 50 eu a week I was offered a contract that would give me 0.5% equity, no raise and force me to work full time AND when doing my final year college thesis to be based for something the company can use.
I wonder why it's not Elon himself? He can obviously afford it, and it is clearly his passion, so why not take a once in a lifetime opportunity and head into space?
I totally get it. I really want his daily yellow-page-worthy news out of HN.

But calling a fly to the moon "antics" is rather unfair.
Because you stand over the mods shoulders watching them? How do you claim to know this and that it wasn’t flagged?
I simplified the story a little bit, but two factors contributed to the sad outcome:

1. making a _live routing_ app is tougher than it looks

2. our team was really emotionally exhausted after this (the whole process consumed around 2 years) and some key team members needed some time off

But yeah, it could have been possible to make the app ourselves.
Most (all?) US residential ISPs throttle.
Because good leaders eat last.
When the cost of increasing performance enough to satisfactorily run spaghetti is greater than the cost of writing efficient code.
>No, it does not happen with the iPhone or most other Apple products. They are incredibly hostile to 3rd party repairers.

Clearly you have not been to Asia. Plenty of 3rd party iPhone repair shops. Very easy to get batteries and cracked screens replaced.
Show HN: Goes – Simple event sourcing framework for Go
There are numerous ways to address world peace such as through education, technology, medicine etc. According to this paper by the WHO and UNICEF there was a shortage of about $11 billion for immunization. How many hundreds of thousands could be saved from a $200 million donation?

http://www.who.int/choice/publications/p_2007_Scaling-up_Imm...
If it happens I’ll come back and edit the comment, until then it’s just another publicity grab. I’ll have to put it on my 2023 todo list!
Nice! But why is free without tls? :|
How viable is the enhancement of Gatsby with client side interactive stuff (maybe with Create React App widgets) on a Gatsby site?

I'm currently reasearching different workflows and tools where you can transition from a landing page to a saas without changing the dev environment that much.

The closest thing I've found is in the Laravel/Vue ecosystem, where you can start with a static site generator (Jigsaw), and progress into a full Laravel application from there, as it uses the same stuff under the hood minus the backend.
To HN's credit, though, the Juicero-riffic aspects of SV are understood for what they are: the greasy, obsequious total fucking bullshit that produces nothing, or worse, wastes everyone's time, aching beneath a cloud of impostor syndrome that isn't entirely incorrect. Either that or peacocking the pick-up artistry of engraved, wooden iPhone cases, and popped collar headshots in douchey Vanity Fair biopics.

YC has its own stinky investments that one can rationalize as "teaching experiences" and "lessons learned" and maybe that's a cop out for not being diligent enough, but press too hard and the subculture gets stifled by the Steve Ballmers with a Trump-like attitude. Stack ranking kills the crab, and you get Windows Vista and "Scroogled" ad campaigns at the other end of the pole. A company of paranoid drone wonks, who wear the soulless dork uniform and drive the speed limit, to get to the morning traffic jam on time.

So leaving room for the dumber shit, the flights of fancy, gets you more of the most interesting things that can be had (the dropboxes, the reddits, the dockers, the gitlabs). For all the effort to produce one solid, tangible, self-sustaining utility though, there's definitely 9 or 99 like the link you posted, which, five years later, results in the thread we now read.

Had path.com been destroyed in that moment, instead of wasting another fruitless five years, would the world be a better place? Eh, there's plenty of insufferable nonsense going around. I'm probably as insufferable, when push comes to shove.

Should HN crush all the criticism thereof. Well, at least HN isn't a place where enemies are made, so there's that.
The monopoly is a “natural” one in that there is only so much spectrum to go around and two companies can’t share it.

Oversubscribing is a vastly preferable economic solution in this case. Everyone who can pay a small amount gets access to the network, and most of the time they get the bandwidth they need.

Selling a limited number of tickets at a massively increased price, or selling a massive number of tickets each with a dedicated data rate that was almost always idle are both strictly inferior solutions by very wide margins.

That throttling is essential to network management is undisputed. There were even carve outs in the old NN refs for it. The problem is if the “throttling” is not just limited video streams in general during peak times, but actually just limiting just certain services’ streams.
Interesting. I hadn’t made that connection before. I’ve ready 3-4 Vonnegut books but admittedly not since I was a kid. Maybe I was too young to understand. Or maybe I hadn’t yet identified the right feelings yet. I’ll give him another try.
That doesn't really play to his
advantage either.

Could you elaborate on this?

The parts of Freudian psychoanalysis that have not passed the test of time (e.g. Oedipus complex, sexual differentiation, theory of homosexuality) clearly don't come via Nietzsche, whereas Freud's approach to memory and its malleability by our desires and hopes, which is most clearly from N, is not only alive and kicking, but as far as I can tell, now (in suitably modernised form) the dominant understanding of memory in contemporary psychology.
> Attacking people is not.

Lots of SJWs attack people.
Because he’s not expendable yet.