skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be concerned about physical security of the hardware. Most of these cell towers are only secured by a chain-link fence and a padlock.

As far as data security, it should be easy to auto-wipe your server when intruders are detected, but then there is still the matter of the valuable server hardware and the risk of theft. Hopefully nobody is colocating very expensive hardware or they will probably be prone to theft.
One of the few people I know does this is Andre Staltz. He is active in Scuttlebut community, and is behind i.e. cycle-js fronted library/framework. I remember he uses a small portable keyboard to hack away on a library on a plane.

I tried to do this as well, and it is one of the reasons I bought Blackberry Key One with a physical keyboard. I do like to use the combination of termux running emacs to do some learning of programming languages, i.e. I did play around with Rust around this way.

More productive way to do actual programming that I tried, was to run jupyter-notebooks, as the notebook interface in the browser turned up to be a nicer interface to work in with a small touch-screen.

I wouldn't attempt any more serious work though, I would need to have the lager screen space and better key-board to write anything longer, or to read larger poritons of code. Most of my programming work consists of untangling and fixing interlinked pieces of code and I have to say, having more screen-space helps :P

On the other hand, maybe if you write APL, language famous for being succint, you might be able to productively work even on the small screen :-)
Don't underestimate the convenience of having a decent small camera. Since it also is your all-purpose pocket computer and communication device it is super convenient. Having to grab an interchangeable lens camera out of your bag for every shot gets annoying.

Sometimes you just want a quick snapshot, sometimes you don't want to carry several pounds of camera gear at all times.
Lest we forget the warning that was Cloudbleed [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
I'm using this lib for about ~2 years now on some of my projects. Beautiful & elegant api
> Back then, if you wanted to develop a program for a Commodore 64, you bought a Commodore 64.

For testing, yes. To protect their sanity, developers of big projects developed their code using rented CPU minutes on a mainframe.

Maybe apple should provide pay-by-the-minute xcode-as-a-service for the real 1980s feeling?
Buying stock absolutely provides value. Your cash is transferred to the seller, who then uses it in some way that is valuable to them. Over the big view of the market, some of that cash goes to funding companies through IPOs and later funding rounds, even if you don't participate in them directly.
Craftsman homes, in my opinion are timelessly beautiful.
Show HN: React Native Boilerplate by Prominent Edge
Sounds more like “fortunately” for iOS users...
I inherited this beautiful oak dining set from the 1800s. It has immense sentimental value and I badly want to use it. But houses I can afford don't come with dining rooms that fit it. And it's not suitable as an everyday kitchen set.

It came out of a 4000sqft home I grew up in built in 1989 for about 300k CAD. That house is worth about 4x now so despite being more financially successful than my parents, I don't come close to affording it.

I'm left with the heartbreaking reality that there's no room for the dining room set in my future.
Visit China to see a cornucopia of QR codes. Everything there is QR codes. Almost all payment is done through scanning a QR code (even tiny stands by the side of the road). Public transportation is accessed through QR codes. Adding people on social networks is done through QR codes. Some restaurants don't even have menus and you access their menu via a QR code (and of course pay again through the same). QR codes everywhere.
Install the "just read" addons for Chrome or FF. Bypasses this evey time for me.
That said,the current HQ is a revitalized community of what used to be Auto industry warehouses
> not being loaned out.

The $64,000 Question is what is the money being loaned out for. If it's bidding up the price of stocks, bonds, and real estate then it takes a leap of faith to assume that will lead to actual productivity improvements.
Sorry, was too lazy, just wanted to dump my thoughts.
Interesting to bring up the cultural revolution, what's even more interesting is what caused that almost immune-system like response.

Mainly, the invasion and drugging of a large % of the Chinese for a century by western powers.

True, understanding the launching point of the last 2 centuries of interactions is quite important.
It's just an internet forum. Some people will welcome you, some people will hate you, many people will disagree with you for sport, many others won't care. Hacker News isn't a monoculture, even if it seems that way depending on which threads you visit and who shows up for them. Just don't take karma or downvotes seriously and you'll be fine.
You obviously don't know many researchers (if any).
Paste link into news.google.com.
Galactic ghosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way
If you can afford to waste land out of your own pocket, go right ahead. But supporting and subsidizing people who want to live an economically inefficient and socially detrimental lifestyle, in part by outlawing efficient and pro-social alternatives, is a terrible use of government power.
Instagram (Also) Spreading Hate?
:D glad you liked it, I wish I could take commission for the amount of referrals I have given for it.

I take it you noticed the "politics" of Bletchely Park trust and TNMOC. Its sad that the two organisations fight over the heritage of that place.
Austrian Discovery Could Open the Door to Quantum Teleportation
> Aether is a peer-to-peer app, and it has no servers. A result of this is that source IP of any specific public post cannot (easily) be determined.

Really? Doesn't p2p model actually expose your IP address to everybody you communicate to?
WireGuard Didn't Make it To The Mainline Linux Kernel This Cycle
Nothing is on Facebook by pure chance. This feature is there because it was designed to be.
There is no evidence? Too funny, I was hoping the work required was just reminding this (expected educated) audience of history, rather than teaching a full course myself.

There is a reason the statue of Lin Zexu is in Chatham Square, NYC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Zexu
Plenty just stick with the Financial Independence without getting into Retiring Early. But the latter does imply that you withdraw yourself from work, at least from being a sole contributor to a business you don’t own.
Could you provide such a service?

There certainly seem to be enough developers who complain about this. I wonder if there'd be a market for a virtual-iphone-dev-box-thing.
Ask HN: How to get old manager back?
A year ago I joined a YC company out of college. I loved my first manager. He is probably one of the smartest people I've met. He let me be creative, have autonomy, and his priority was ensuring we were happy and productive. I was scared of the horror stories of bad managers, but I couldn't have asked for someone better. It doesn't mean it's easy. Everyone was held accountable to their work & mistakes.

He didn't jive well with mgmt. He pushed back on stuff he didn't find helpful, like yearly personal OKRs. He told us to not worry about it, and eng. should be taking most of our time. Instead of planning how we did everything, we just planned where we wanted to get to & he let us figure it out. It's not that we didn't do planning, we did it quickly and adjusted as needed. It helped that he had a vision for us to work with.

As a team we did very well. We met deadlines, and we never felt soul-sucking pressure. We were a true team, not just a bunch of coworkers. But 2 months ago he stepped down. It came as a shock, and we believe he was asked to step down because afterward they brought in a SW VP.

Since the VP joined we've just been planning. We get emailed on weekends to draw up timelines. We have to do planning for the year, the next 3 months, the next month, and the next sprint, all at the same time. He's also hiring some Agile consultants to teach us SW process. He said we need to start measuring success by velocity and accurate story point estimating. We go back and forth about whether story points should be measured in hours or work-units or w/e. Since he joined, we've made so many PowerPoints but not written SW.

The VP hasn't written SW in years. He can't hold a conversation about SW w/o turning it into a time mgmt lesson. It's miserable. I haven't learned anything from him. It feels like the best possible scenario became the worst. The VP wants to turn us into a machine. Upper mgmt loves him though.

I don't really know what to do. Advice?
It is a flood network.

> A result of this is that source IP of any specific public post cannot (easily) be determined.
>They can get it, but have to pay for that. Just like the porn industry had to build their own payment providers.

There are two problems with that argument.

First, it's nowhere near as trivial as you make it sound. A one man shop could potentially build and maintain a custom forum service himself, but trying to create a real-world ready payment processing infrastructure from scratch is going to mean a team of tens of specialists.

The porn industry was able to solve it because it was a big, industry-wide problem that left a lot of money on the table-- a need big enough to create a market for specialists.

Second, it may not be possible to bypass every firm that presents a deplatforming risk. The porn industry may have avoided rejection by the mainstream gateway providers, but they're still dependent on retaining good relationsips with Visa and Mastercard at the end of the day. I'd think those guys are the nuclear option for deplatforming-- no matter who you line up to take your payments, if you can't accept 90% of the cards on the market, you're not going to be able to monetize effectively.
>As long as my boat is afloat, I care not about yours.

Everything that's wrong about the USA right here.
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/OpenPOWER_Firmware

Talos has fully open source firmware, down to the very first POWER instructions that are executed from efuses. That's pretty damn open.
Perhaps you could include a comparison with BSTR implementation used extensively in Windows COM interfaces?
Yeah, looking for I should qualify in overall presentation yes.

My comment was more a remark on the de-noise Apple's default camera app applies.

Again, I'd check out that image I linked to. At 100% zoom the ground detail is quite literally erased from the iPhone X image, to the point where it looks like a stylized art filter was applied.

The Pixel at least retains detail in such places (also, for example, on the roof tiles). Link: https://images.anandtech.com/galleries/6731/G_Pixel3_IMG_201...

None are perfect of course -- Samsung loves them some sharpening, and the Pixels images have a slightly garish blue cast I'm not a fan of.
It's not just consumerism. What doesn't cost money? Walking around?
This doesn’t work anymore.
I find myself in the same situation in Canada. Also more financially successful than my parents at this age, but unable to afford a home here in Vancouver.

Either I'm going to be renting for a very long time, or I'll leave this country again. It's kind of sad that Canadians are getting priced out of their own country!
Cut it and make it smaller?
I didn't express any sentiment that it was ok for the UK to do it or in anyway justify it. I just pointed out the naivety of thinking the other EU states don't do it.
Samsung Exynos 9810 Atomics Bug.c
Agreed, I've even had apple fanboy friends rage about the price of apple hardware and then go right out and buy the latest thing. If you're willing to pay sticker price for a product, it is clearly not overpriced. If you want the prices to drop, stop behaving like a price insensitive userbase.
I see it being huge for content caches and CDN's. I see it as more about saving backhaul bandwidth than anything else.
Red Dead,' 'Ocarina of Time' and the New Measure of a Classic
> One complaint from readers was that the 33-year-old author and her husband still earn sizable incomes. Nate Thames works for a nonprofit and was paid about $270,000 in 2016, according to his employer’s most recent tax forms. Ms. Thames makes an undisclosed amount from her blog and a recently published book. “Now I understand why even with cutting everything to the bone, that we haven’t been able to save like they do,” a reader posted in an online review of the book. Ms. Thames says she is “transparent about the fact that my husband still works a conventional job from home and that I enjoy working for myself through Frugalwoods.com.”

> Mr. Sabatier, 33, says his Millennial Money website made $401,000 last year. Blogger Joe Udo, 44, recently disclosed he has made almost $350,000 since starting “Retire by 40” in 2010.

> Tanja Hester, author of a blog called Our Next Life, called for FIRE bloggers to be more transparent about their financial lives in a post this year. She said she makes less than $1,000 a year on the blog, but declines to disclose her income from a book advance, saying “there’s no need to share your actual numbers if you are honest with readers about your general financial situation.”

Like much of the self-help ecosystem, seems the key to living that superior lifestyle is having other people pay for it.
Based on EXIF data that image was taken with an iPhone X back in October.

Which means the OS was 12.0 which had a widely reported bug where the image processing was interpolating images incorrectly. This has been fixed in 12.1. Would be interesting to see the photo taken again to see if the quality has improved.

Also why are you comparing an iPhone X against the Pixel 3. The iPhone Xs has had significant improvements to the camera.
I assume that you have a proposal that would differentiate between the two? So that they would be forced to serve "somebody someone else really doesn't like", but not be forced to serve Nazis?
US Citizen Voter Records Hacked and Now for Sale on the Dark Web
He said we need to start measuring success by velocity and accurate story point estimating. We go back and forth about whether story points should be measured in hours or work-units or w/e.

This individual is a clueless moron. Start looking for a new job.

Why do I say that? Because those statements flatly contradict the very essence of what "agile" means. Story points, velocity, and the like are (sometimes) useful tools that teams use to achieve their goals. They are NOT how you measure success though. You measure success through shipping valuable software that customers use.

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. ... Working software is the primary measure of progress.[1]

Notice that our highest priority is not "accurate story point estimation, high velocity, properly written Jira tickets, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." And likewise progress is measured through what you actually ship, not some bullshit imaginary metric that correlates to nothing.

If you want to work with your old manager again, look him up and ask him if he can get you in at wherever he landed.

[1]: http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
JB has had a home there which he’s been renovating to host large Gatsby-esk parties. It wouldn’t be surprising to see HQ2 there. I also foresee a strong potential he’ll turn into a Koch-esk political operative for his political positions; or, He might just make a run for the Presidency in several election cycles from now.
Are you really "more financially successful" if you can't afford the same things, though?

Unless you have different priorities, which is fine. Like I could afford some stuff, but "can't" cause that wouldn't let me afford other stuff my parents never had.
The demos look great, good job!
NetBSD can read ext3/4 with a puffs filesystem driver... these days it can support ext4 extents natively as well, just not journalling.

Puffs is the NetBSD version of FUSE, and there is even a FUSE-to-puffs adapter so you can mount FUSE filesystems under NetBSD.
The prototypical full stack software as a service web developer or the standard in house bespoke application writer that knew how to implement a string wouldn’t tell me anything about how they can design or write real world systems.

If their day to day job is solving hard problems at scale then maybe. But most companies overestimate the complexity of what they are really doing.

What would tell me how they write real world systems - and how I interview - is to give them a simple real world skeleton of a problem with failing unit tests, sit them down to a computer and make them make the tests pass.

If I am hiring an architect level position, I am not going to have then write algorithms on a board. I am going to do the same set of tests as above and have them design a scalable, fault tolerant system and have them draw it out.
I'm guessing they can afford better in general, just not for real estate, because real estate is generally speaking completely fucked.
All bad news? Ever heard something good?
You'd be surprised how many ThinkPads I see in use in coffee shops. By business people and college students, not even counting the developers.

There are a lot of ThinkPads in the wild.
But where to put it? Access ramps have to be shallow and thus take up considerable street space. Ramps are as long as those for an elevated road; they're just narrower. Long spirals and zig-zags are a pain; few people use those things unless there's no alternative, such as a freeway overcrossing.

China has a 7km elevated bikeway.[1] But they already had an elevated busway on that route; the bikeway just hangs underneath.
Los Angeles had a 9 mile elevated bicycle tollway in 1900, but it was unprofitable and was torn down.

Market St. in SF has an "elevated bikeway" test, but they mean elevation to curb height, not a few meters up.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/china-has-just-built-...
Even if you have the space, a lot of antique furniture just doesn't fit with modern lifestyles. Even if I had a big formal dining room, as in the house I grew up it, I'd use it once in a blue moon.

The article also notes furniture like rolltop desks. My dad has a beautiful one that mostly serves as a display cabinet in his living room. I'm honestly not sure what I would do with it. I have my own shelving to display things and it would be pretty useless for any actual work I do. (As I kid I really loved sitting at that desk and doing kid-like scribbling at it.)
It's a set of six chairs and a rounded table that slides apart to fit 14. Part of the sentiment is that my extended family would have Christmas dinner at it every year. Now that I have kids I wanted to continue my generation of that tradition. It's not so much about making the table smaller. It's that the table and the tradition doesn't exactly fit in the kinds of houses in my city these days.
So you think somebody else should make that business decision, rather than the actual company involved? Who would that be?
My grandmother had this rug in the living room. No one could ever set foot on that rug, because she wanted to sell it one day for what she imagined would be a great sum of money.

She never did sell it, but after she died, my father and his brothers imagined it would be worth as much as she had imagined it to be at auction. Long story short, it sold for about $100. 40 years of consternation for $100.

The lesson I learned from all of this is that stuff is just stuff, and the less of it you have when you die the better.
Google's LYmph Node Assistant – A Boost, Not Replacement, for Doctors
Correct. Everything else is trivially cheap. Except houses. As I said, the house I grew up in quadrupled in value.
Not the querient, but my first experience with Racket was something to the effect of:

> (cons 'foo 'bar)
! error: bar is not a list

There were several other condescendingly-reported gross implementation defects like this, most damningly a inability to define macros, which meant that Racket is not in fact a LISP, and the syntactic homogenity that makes LISPs annoying to work with (at the benfit of being able to generate and rewrite arbitrary program fragments on demand) serves no purpose whatsoever.

I later found out that this was apparently due to having been provided with a "teaching" version of the interpreter intended for beginning students (who presuably don't know any better), which makes it even worse.

I would definitely characterize my attitude toward Racket as "hate", and if acbart made the same mistake my (generally quite reasonable and competent) CS professor did, I wouldn't be surprised if their students felt likewise.
Does that private equity lobby state & local governments to use these machines?

Probably.
”After all, who hangs a Picasso in the kitchen?”

Some years ago I visited the home of an upscale New England family. They had a million-dollar Alexander Calder sculpture on a corner table in the kitchen. At the time this struck me as an odd placement for such a valuable object — I guess this article explains why.
I know I was happy with my last manager, but I also don't really know what good product-oriented SW eng looks like. I thought we were doing good, but maybe not? I'm confused about was whether my old manager would have been successful in the long term, and whether the company really needed somebody to install process.
Old furniture not being compatible with laptops and charging cables really shows how utility is always the first priority.

I'm reminded of a YouTube series which walks around malls on the brink of bankruptcy. Malls put forward a psuedo-utopian view of society, a place where people can come together (for commerce), but all of that matters 0% if there's less utility than Amazon.
Peak Moments of Jeff Bezos Hiding in Plain Sight
Ah, excellent. Thank you both.
I've been asking myself, "what Ontario city is currently where Waterloo was 30 years ago?"

I'd move there.
It's also not going to happen. Normal people don't pay for high-end phones, and way outnumber the people who do in most of the world (those parts that are not California). Even the "cheap" iPhone models are outside the price range the average consumer pays.
It's not specific to Canada, you'll get the exact same issue abroad: aside from a few exceptions (e.g. Japan) real estate prices in popular locations keeps climbing ever upwards, significantly faster than income does. I'm guessing real estate is cheaper in YT than it is in Vancouver.
My mother has a beautiful Steinway grand piano she inherited from her father. Anyone familiar with the size of a grand piano knows they more or less require a mid-sized room to themselves or a good chunk of a large room. They're also not worth that much anymore because the market for used grand's is tiny. So mot of the value is sentimental.

We are most likely going to have to get rid of it when she downsizes. My brother and I are unsure where we would ever put it and neither of us play the piano (probably one of my bigger regrets is not learning...). Neither of us want a 4,000SF house especially in New England where 4,000SF probably means older house and lots of maintenance from weather over many years.

Similar problem with the antique dining room and the billiard table (though I may try and save that one if I can).
I agree with your point, but note..

> they would commit career suicide by publishing it

Meanwhile some researches create their career by publishing this sort of stuff, even when it isn't well researched
Would you still use it more than once a week if you had a room for it? The trend towards open kitchens has seriously reduced the need for a formal dining room (except when listing a house for sale.)
I think by definition Racket not being used in industry makes it more niche than those "much more niche languages being used"