skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call any service business from top list on Yelp (Handyman, Dryer Vent Cleaning, Plumber etc), they would charge minimum 80$ (Irrespective of whether they do work or not).

Where is this money going?
Thanks, but I'm waiting for the right person to tell me to get into David Foster Wallace http://reductress.com/post/why-im-waiting-for-the-right-man-...
Hiri: A linux email client for Exchange and Office 365
Reading through these comments is actually kind of hilarious, HN is definitely embracing The Grinch just in time for the holidays.
In Hooli there's one big player - Benson - who is erratic and egomaniacal, and everybody else does what he says. He is a personification of a jerk (I mean, look at his signature!) and serves as a kind of super-villain that is the source of all evil. But usually there's no super-villain, there's just "culture" and everybody is playing by the set of rules that nobody in particular invented.
Maybe not today. But we’ve had our moments.

https://youtu.be/-P28LKWTzrI
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Isn’t it ironic that the rates of poverty are increasing in possibly the wealthiest region in the world?
Yep - I specifcially remember using Padmapper (3Taps) around the time that Craigslist yanked their content.

Padmapper is just a much better interface for craigslist data. Even though craigslist pulled their data, craigslist didn't create a new interface to match or even bother to improve their experience, even though they have the user mindshare for posting this type of data.

Essentially it's as you said - innovation is being killed to preserve walled gardens like Craigslist, and users are the ones being hurt here.
What are you even talking about?

Does the stuff you are referring to have a market price? Like with Bitcoin, we can say that its market price is around $5,000 USD per BTC.

Does this other stuff, which you say is so great, have a unit price at which it can be bought and sold? If yes, is that market anywhere as large as Bitcoin?

If it doesn’t have a Traded price, then what is it?
And yet just doodling something raw and having something presentable come out is way more fun than choosing stuff from drop down menus. Everyone is wired differently and this may not work for you but may work for others.

Why even have a GUI why not a CLI which parses a config file that says "house boat".
Heck, I've only read papers about most rasterization based "realism" tricks and I want this switch to happen. Polemically speaking, current realtime rendering pipelines are based on sprite rotoscalers and the end user being too busy to notice the errors. Raytracing is based on how light works.
BBT is a great foil for SV. It's caricature vs satire.

BBT is outsiders laughing at the image of a nerd archetype many have in their head. It can be entertaining; it can tell you a lot about their relationship with that archetype. But as with all caricature, the distorted image can be a little ouchy.

SV satirizes insider territory with surprising resolution. It can be entertaining; it can tell people a lot about the culture. Where it's ouchy, it's ouchy because the truth can be painful as well as funny.
I'm a Redux maintainer. You could probably use xstate instead of Redux in some cases. You could also probably use xstate as the actual implementation of your Redux reducers, too :)
> But, on her computer, my mail appeared like it has been translated from French to English then to French again... After a bit of fiddling, I discovered that disabling the "suggest to automatically translate a website in a foreign language" option solved the issue... That every email, even in ProtonMail, is sent to Google even if, in this case, the translation should not happen (translation had been disabled for both French and English websites so there was no reason to think PM would be translated).

Sounds like a bug. I am going to disable the translation feature now, I never use it but have never bothered to turn it off completely.
Far enough away from civilization one can generally build anything without any permits etc.

By the time anyone 'official' finds out about your building, it will have been there decades, and usually it will have exceeded any time limit for them to tell you to pull it down.
Not sure why, but this crawls on Safari, (2013 MBP, 16GB RAM) and demands I update either Chrome or Firefox before it will run, and I generally avoid running the newest version of anything unless completely necessary.

Safari gives me about 4FPS, with nothing else open.
Pond meet frog
Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces is a jewel. But I wish the typesetting was updated to something more modern. Same applies to Rudin.

I find well typeset TeX a joy to read. Whereas FDVS is a bit cramped and looks antique.
Ask HN: If I like programming, what other hobbies would I likely enjoy?
Especially ones that are maybe a bit left of field and that the regular person might not necessarily know about.
I think logfile analysis is a perfect example. Regex could be the perfect tool for one-shot analysis of logs. But if you are writing an actual commercial application to do logfile analysis, regex is probably not the right tool.
> if the web existing in the 1980s and the Soviets controlled the world's main search engine, the top results for "AIDS" would be disinformation articles about how the US government created it.

Soviets tended to play up the bad points in their propaganda, so it would likely be pushing images and videos of people suffering with AIDS, captioned with "American pigs aren't researching or treating this mass epidemic ripping through their capitalist stronghold".

The sad part is such propaganda would be fairly accurate, for most of the 1970s and 1980s our government stood by and let people die of AIDS, not funding research or pushing safe sex education, feeding the epidemic.
Should be on iTunes or Amazon for 3 bucks an episode.
You can get very close to making about half of what you need to live!
Rather than threats, I'd like to hear commentary. If anyone's "destroy[ying] intellectual curiosity", its the one threatening bans.

I've made a point, from multiple sources, that SV major players are retarding salaries from all but the C-level positions. Considering that YC is in that area, it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders.

But, threats.
So either sitting kills by itself and standing up is enough to avoid it, or sitting kills by taking time from being physically active and it's not enough to stand up (which also takes time from being physically active).

Here's some brand-new research based on 1000 people wearing accelerometers 24/7: http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_isbn_978-952-61-2928-0/i...

Sedentary behaviour, physical activity, and risk of coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus

"From the accelerometer-derived parameters of SB [sedentary behaviour], a higher number of daily SB bouts lasting over 10 minutes was the strongest predictor of a high CVD [cardiovascular disease] risk."
They are offering jobs starting at $15 either way. I walked by a fast food shop that is not in those cities offering $15-$21/hour jobs recently.
> Even a huge believer in technology like me has to laugh when some character talks about how they’re going to change the world with an app that tells you whether what you’re eating is a hot dog or not.

sorry bill but one could argue in a round about way that andrej karpathy did do just that ;P

the hot dog identifying app is one of my favourite examples of how spot on the show is

here(o) is a question i asked to one of the show's technical consultants whether the choice of 'not hotdog' was a reference to one of karpathy's early demos(i||ii)

timanglade> Ha seems like a fun coincidence.

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639161 the yt link is now a dead link.. use either of the below

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aEYuemt0M&t=465 ; Title: Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI) ; Desc: The talks at the Deep Learning School on September 24/25, 2016 were amazing. I clipped out individual talks from the full live streams and provided links to each below in case that's useful for people who want to watch specific talks several times (like I do).

(ii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyovmAtoUx0&t=5787 ; timestamped from the full stream; Title: Bay Area Deep Learning School Day 1 at CEMEX auditorium, Stanford ; Desc: Day 1 of Bay Area Deep Learning School featuring speakers Hugo Larochelle, Andrej Karpathy, Richard Socher, Sherry Moore, Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Andrew Ng. ;
Your problems are most likely not unique. I think you might be overthinking your problems.
That's because creation of new housing is highly restricted in Silicon Valley because of high regulation and very restrictive zoning laws. And additionally all the money that would be going to the low income is getting sucked out by the continuous raising of the minimum wage, greatly restricting the size of the labor market at the low end resulting in higher unemployment.
It's a singularity - there's no 'you' to do anything, so its not quite right to say what 'you' will be doing after death? 0/0
abcde - A Better CD Encoder (http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/) I bought three cheap USB CD drives and concurrently ripped all of my CDs to FLAC over the course of a couple of weekends. abcde gets the best possible copy.

ddrescue - GNU ddrescue (https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/) not to be confused with dd_rescue (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/) This piece of software is outstandingly good for rescuing bits from failing spinning rust. It doesn't care about the filesystem, it just tries really hard to get data from a raw device. Once you've got all the bits onto a safer medium, you can use testdisk to explore the disk image.
Only somewhat true. There is register renaming which increases the size of the virtual register set. rax assigned to in line 1 can be a different virtual register from rax assigned to in line 5. AMD and Intel should both be very good at exploiting it to the limits, they had to in their superscalar 32 bit x86 designs :)
Some of us judge the policies of the people in office, regardless of their ostensible party association. In a state where you have to register as a Democrat in order to have a chance at winning in many districts, the label doesn't mean much.
Lots of great stuff here! Key takeaway though (for me at least) is that a lot of this stuff turns into cumbersome management if you're not doing the bulk of your work on localhost, but instead dealing with a various few dozen or hundreds (in my case) of different servers. Yeah you can use ansible to automate installation/setup, but then again if you suddenly end up on a fresh server without root access you're gonna be/feel crippled, being used to aliasing everything and replacing standard shells with something extra fancy.

Some level of balance is needed, which is what I've been trying to do. That said I always setup oh-my-zsh and `git config --global alias.kurwa status` wherever I go.
I have been using Firefox since version 1.0. I don't understand the desire to use google's browser. However, why would even trying view secure data in your web-browser... Not even just Chrome. Things may get cached ect... Although, Mozilla has been doing things that I find annoying at times. Like adding pocket ect...

Little Rant
Although, I have looked at some of the other forks. What I find more depressing is how few up to date browser engines exist. It's a sign that web standards are getting too complicated. We already going to have a 3rd version HTTP as well... Both HTTP/2 and potential HTTP/3 are based off of work from google. Those protocols are a lot more complicated than HTTP. So it's much harder for a small group to implement them. That's just the protocol layer. Let alone JS, HTML, CSS, and all the other little things. It's like big companies keep bloating the standards. The result is the browser is probably one more complicated pieces of software regularly use.

What ever happened to "KISS".
This reminds me that I have private email threads with JoshMnem regarding my essay/overview.
Don't be fooled by this sophistry. As a smart guy said once, "It's not that I fear death; I just don't want to be there when it happens".

Another lady of my acquaintance said "Old age is not for the timid". There's plenty to fear about getting old.
I started a nonprofit 2 years ago (garagescript.org) that hires low income people in San Jose and their full time job is to learn how to code and teach new students.

Our nonprofit started off with 20 students, most were making about 25k/year and had no coding experience. I paid each of them 2k / month to quit their jobs and focus on coding full time.

From the original 20 students, 6 are left. The other 14 are all full-stack software engineers.

If anyone wants to help out, send me an email to song at garagescript.org. I believe the real long term solution is to train under-served communities better and help them acquire technical skills.

edit remove donation link.
> Soviets tended to play up the bad points in their propaganda, so it would likely be pushing images and videos of people suffering with AIDS

Soviets tended to play up the bad points in their propaganda, so it would likely be pushing images and videos of people suffering with AIDS, captioned with "American pigs aren't researching or treating this mass epidemic ripping through their capitalist stronghold".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infektion
this is hilarious. thanks for sharing.
Is there a summary of which results did hold up?
Easy and short, and fun. Yet points the attentive reader straight at central moral failures of our era.
ah, the arrogance of HN hard at work. Prescribing the perfect solution to a problem he didn’t even know he had.
Ask HN: Two co-founders, USA and EU. Where should we incorporate?
It seems this project of ours is about to make its first Euro! So we need to incorporate, quick.

Given that we wish to both hire and sell globally-- where should we register our online business?

I am having trouble finding good information on the nuances, especially when it comes to paying foreign employees. Services like Gust and Stripe Atlas look really enticing, as does the Delaware corporate tax rate-- but our initial customers are in the EU and I fear I am overlooking something.

In short, we offer a web platform that makes it easy to run crowd-sourced mapping campaigns. Our initial target market is municipalities, planning departments, and people working in public participation and civic engagement. (if you find these topics interesting in any way, let's connect! brendan@canvis.app)

I'd love to hear from anyone whose considered both options, what you ended up deciding on, and any difficulties or regrets you've had!
Honestly, I'm a democrat, and what he says makes a lot of sense.

It really worries me that they have a super majority now - my hope is that they use it to invest in infrastructure, like public transit, that is sorely lacking in the state.

But I am not holding my breath. I fully expect they will squander it on the public unions and double pensions.
I think there’s a step missing in the analysis there. If tech workers are spending all this money — what are they spending it _on_? If they’re spending it locally shouldn’t that increase wages locally?
They are not out to get you. They’re just doing what makes most sense for them.
Many tout their laziness as efficiency.
The problem with Marxism is that there's always a way to game a system. The people who are opportunistic CEOs right now would find a way to be opportunistic as an official in a socialist government, except now they wouldn't be producing as much economic surplus. Marxists tend to hand wave this problem by claiming that a strong democracy would keep this in check. However, the world is too complicated, and people have neither the intelligence nor patience to make sure everyone is a good actor.
It is much closer to state capitalism. The economy boomed when Mao died and Deng Xiaoping brought about economic reforms.
It's a bug but what is to stop Google from sending everything you type in any textbox to Google? Have they said anywhere that they won't do such a thing? Completely trivial to do and extremely useful in providing data about you to Google that they could potentially never look at and use to train AI.
calculate radiation exposure during air travel with icaro
Exactly this. Moving elsewhere when your extended family has lived in one place for multiple generations is probably one of the largest risks a person can take. You’re essentially trading most or all of your network for the possibility of a better life. If the possibility doesn’t work out, the person is usually worse off than if had they stayed in their original location.
Except 'Not collecting money' and 'spending money' are not quite the same thing. Almost, but not quite.
> Extreamly small (~8kB gzipped)

For a regex library, that strikes me as not only not small, but actually extremely big.

If you're building a project that really warrants 8+k just for an external dependency to abstract the regex logic, you're either overusing regex, or regex is such a central and fundamental part of your project that rolling your own non-generalised abstractions is going to be well worth your while.
Hiding $50m over the years isn't worth arresting?

Boards werent aware.
They have the freedom to tell Google to go away, but they don’t have the freedom to extract money from Google. They needed the legislature for that.
Not saying it's definitive. It's just what we learned from a bunch of product teams that owned a single product or scoped our feature-set. Thanks for bringing up the point though, I made it clearer on the post.
Thank you! I should have thought of checking Amazon.

I just bought Season 1. It took 10 seconds and cost 10 bucks, and now I can watch them at my leisure. Exactly what I was looking for. :-)
Firefox performs badly, especially on my 2-core macbook.

Quantum is still not fast enough with many pages I use, I bet most devs do not test on firefox anymore and I've found FF unusable unless you use a 4 core machine, otherwise you get many random pauses here and there.

So my choice is chrome or safari. Safari is not customizable enough for me so chrome it is.
> If you need to keep state, then it needs to be durable with a well-defined lifetime

Why? Why can't you drop it at any time and have the client repeat the interaction on any kind of problem?

I'm not saying that it shouldn't be a resource either. Those things do not exclude each other.
Right there are no immigrants to speak of in silicon valley
Using anchors and docking was extremely intuitive and easy in WinForms, I miss these heavily. I'm trying to build an UI with Qt Designer right now and using layouts instead is quite a pain when building something sophisticated. Perhaps everything can be done with them but becoming fluent in their behavior and tweaking is going to take time.
Can one have a 10 yard x 10 yard x 10 yard water tank under the house, and use it as a massive thermal mass to use summer heat to keep the building warm in winter?
Shelter and avocado toast.
> supermarket guacamole

In the EU, the only requirement for being legally allowed to call something "guacamole" is that it contains avocado as an ingredient. In practice, that is usually a few percentages of avocado powder.
The plaintiff wasn't claiming a copyright infringement, it was trying to claim specifically for removal of the copyright notice, which is a separate cause of action under the DMCA.
We're spending it on housing, mostly.
Rent. Are the landlords local?
I don't think that was a easter egg given that they work on compression. It's a standard test for image compression, after all.
Its almost as if forcing (rational) people to select D or R via a number of single issue pivot points creates a situation where everyone is guilty of some level of hypocrisy.
> ...the show has almost nothing to do with IT.

"The Internet" device. All the tech illiterate coworkers. Jen's imposter syndrome. Moss's on-the-spectrum reactions. Online dating when it was still nerdy. Novelty websites. Viral cultural events.

But it wasn't exclusively geek humor. There were broader episodes involving Jen's and Roy's romantic lives too.
If you care about privacy these days:

Remote self-destructible VM for browsing with Firefox in incognito mode (only sites you NEED to, that REQUIRE JS), through multiple VPNs over multiple proxies.

Everything else is command line HTML parsers (also on different, remote VMs), or API endpoints (HN API as an example?).

Need email service? Self-hosted, tiny email-server somewhere in eastern Europe. DDNS etc.

Local machine is always clean. Imagine you had to have iPad as your primary work machine? Very similar spiel.

Good thing is that most of it can get into a habit very quickly and most tedious parts can be automated :)

Keeping it up offline? Cash-only, prepaid phones (these give you internet access as well, 80$ no contracts, activate, use 20GiB until the end of the month, discard the phone, destroy and repeat), prepaid debit for "card required" purchases.

Easy-peasy! no idea what people are complaining about....
> How about instead trying to make coal compete on level ground: tax its carbon emissions, tax its particulate emissions, require real management for whatever waste it produces, and see if any investors or inventors want to keep it alive.

They've been trying to do this at the international, national and state level for decades now. The Kyoto protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol) was signed in 1997. Unfortunately right wing parties in most of the anglosphere think market driven solutions are left wing conspiracy theories.
Being the "legend" seems to have been the problem as no one but those two were aware of them hiding $50m and was also using company cash on private matters.
> And what were the complaints about SOAP? Right, that using POST for everything was not RESTful, which among other things means things you could have gotten with GET can't be cached by middleboxes, and so on.

Honestly that wasn't much of an issue. If you're doing something transactional then the GET parts still need to participate in that transaction and so you don't actually want to be caching them. The big problems with SOAP were XML and especially XML schema, the fact that there was no good way to have a single source of truth about what your data model looked like, and especially the corresponding absence of clarity about what kind of changes to the data model were forward compatible.

And even with all that, SOAP applied intelligently (rather than autogenerated by one-size-fits-all tools) was often nicer to work with than REST is. Part of me thinks the only reason REST has a better reputation is that developers are forced to hand-craft REST interfaces whether you want to or not, whereas with SOAP it's very easy to have a tool generate an API that's crappy but "good enough".
Oh yes, I forgot about that one.
I don't see why any of that would have to change. You sell your home at the same time you buy the new one, and what you get from the sell goes towards the cost of the new home.

Money-wise, you're no longer throwing it away on rent, but paying down a mortgage that eventually is paid off entirely.

On top of that, you're also no longer racing against the end of the rent contract, and can wait a bit - or move earlier - to find a new place you really like.

The turning point for me was, here in Chicago, when I was renting and my dad sent me some properties with the costs laid out: These places were significantly nicer, and the mortgage cost per month was ~60% what I was paying in rent.