skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take. I've always felt his work was "art: the useless kind." Ambiguous to a T as stipulated by art guidelines. His praise is the unimaginative patting themselves on the back for sitting through an editing mess.
This data seems of limited applicability to most jobs considering that these operators would typically have very standardized pay scales, very standardized promotion tracks, very standardized job roles, very standardized performance evaluation criteria and so on which greatly limits the factors that can affect pay differences. Most jobs have much greater variability in all of those areas.
>created Java, the programming language that formed the

>foundation for much of today’s internet

How did Java help the enable the Internet?

There’s a discussion to be had about it’s significance to programming languages, but I don’t see how the Internet would have flourished any less without it.

Seems it could be argued Java was an obstacle to the Internet w.r.t. it’s role in the history of various fat tech ideas that tried and failed to become a defacto browser standard.

With all due respect to his successes, I’m not quite sure which of those is the source of getting credit for creating the foundation of the Internet.

Sun didn’t invent HTTP and didn’t sell the only computers that could run a web server.
All I want for Christmas is a small phone
So correct me if I'm wrong, but the most sinister part of the story in how some might assume SuperMicro is a Chinese or a MainlandChinese-founded company. It came right around the time ZTE, Huawei and others were facing renewed scrutiny. So you can imagine how easy it is to read the story and just think "oh, another Chinese company got busted".
How is that a bad thing though? Why would you voluntarily work for free (overtime is rarely paid in tech) and long for it? Giving away your most valuable hours 5 days a week isn't enough, you should aspire to more? Screw that, you're an employee not the owner.
Nayirah testimony
Even Rails only manages to be opinionated for a small set of aspects about building CRUD web applications. If you can stay within those boundaries, it is useful. But as soon as your application needs to deviate from that, it seems that every project goes off and does its own thing again.
I believe the current line there, at least in the US, is whether they knowingly ran factually inaccurate information.

Given their doubling down, unless we assume they somehow didn't ask their legal department, I would bet they have enough sources for the information that they think they're not at risk of being prosecuted for libel or slander.
I'd say that 4-13 billion tons is a lot.

Quick grab from the Wikipedia page re biomass.

humans: ~0.1 billion tonnes

domesticated animals: ~0.7 billion tonnes

earthworms: ~1 billion tonnes

annual cereal crops: ~2.3 billion tonnes

Antarctic krill: ~0.5 billion tonnes

fish: 0.8-2.0 billion tonnes
The reputation hit from being wrong is much bigger than the ad revenue from this one story. Bloomberg has been a very reputable and trusted source and wouldn't willingly throw that away
If a specific implementation of a bikeshare or scooter share program is borderline useless because the hardware is junk, that sounds like an implementation detail rather than the sort of philosophical argument you seem to be making.

I've been in cities where the bikeshare was borderline useless. I've also spent lots of time in NY, where its bikeshare is both at least as useful as the subway within Manhattan and legitimately the fastest way to get e.g. north or south within Brooklyn.

I'm currently based in Berlin, where I agree with the parent to your comment. Berlin's metro is generally great, but there are a large number of places I go to regularly that are ~10 minutes away by bike but ~30 minutes by public transit, purely because of the way the system is laid out.

If you're going to complain about bikes or scooters cluttering up sidewalks, perhaps the answer is they should have dedicated space on the streets (as with docked bikeshare programs like NY). I'd love to see studies about the effect on number of transportation trips that e.g. a dedicated scooter stand the size of a car parking space has on the flow of traffic as compared to letting that single parking space be usable by cars.

I totally get your point that this is something that should be handled at the civic planning level rather than at SV-funded startups. Copenhagen is probably the clearest example where the city government was able to make massive improvements to the way people move around their city, encouraging non-car transit. That doesn't change that bikes and scooters are arguably a more effective way to move individuals than cars (either private ownership or rideshare), and a shared system has transportation benefits that are unique from the benefits offered by traditional public transit.
'Getting Started in Electronics" is the Mims book for people who are learning from scratch. His notebooks are meant more as reminders for stuff you already know.
"Most of what we do doesn't matter"

One of the pernicious aspects of our culture of celebrity worship is that it leads to the feeling that if something won't be recorded in a book, or on TV, or in a movie, that it doesn't matter.

This is wrong, the instance to instance living of our lives matters, it all matters.

I've seen Space Odyssey a few times, its a cool movie.

How I treat the people I come in contact with today, will matter as much to their lives as how they spent 3 hours several years ago.

It all matters.
Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies – Free Course
Well there is something inheriently bad about a private company littering public spaces and walkways with their shitty products.

I mean if I could litter crap all over the homes of the founders and investors of these companies, what do you think would happen?
C syntax parser implemented with Common Lisp read macros
AppOnboard raises $15M to let Android users try before buying apps
Very limited ability to factor code especially related to error handling. Go2 will have some broken form of generics so that will help. Why do I say broken? Because they are starting from scratch to come up with something different rather than taking something good and making it better.
If someone will pay to trade with you instead of someone else, you're definitely not getting the best price.
Ask HN: Are there any Artists in the house?
Are there any Artists in here? Any Entrepreneurs who think of themselves as being Artists. If you have a start-up do you believe that what you're creating is a form of Art per se?
Is Your iOS App Accessible? Probably Not, Here’s How to Find Out
helps if your graphics editor also develops sveltejs, ractivejs and rollup
Genomics Startup Human Longevity’s Valuation Falls 80%
On a related note, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401,_A_User%27s_Manual
Afvallen met gewichten een goed idee of toch maar niet?
Voyager 2 escapes the heliosphere
An Open Letter to Girl Develop It Board
> They are in the business of making money and not getting the story right

All business are "in the business of making money", that's what being a business is. What sets them apart is how they make it. In the case of media companies is, precisely, by getting the story right. A publisher that doesn't is more likely to lose influence and readership as time goes by. For a publication like Bloomberg, more so.

So yeah, they do care. That doesn't mean they don't fall for scams or bad reporting. They do, but it's in their best interest not to do so. In this case, I'm sure Bloomberg is already frantically calling all the reporter sources. They should have done it before the piece was published, sure, and they'll sure blame the reporter and the sources, but I think it's disingenuous to think they just shrug these things off.
For me by the time I got a Dreamcast games were hard to come by, but I was still pretty limited by slow download speeds at home / not that many CD-Rs so I got to experience most of the great games at a fun pace.

I think it’s hard to overestimate how important privacy is for building wide fanbases. Games are expensive, kids have time but no money.... of course now that I have a job I can just get stuff off of Amazon and not worry about patches.
There are many of them. they are not made by the US film industry. Check out "Mr. Nobody", check out "The Congress", "Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind"... come on now, these are masterworks.
The story was given legs because Bloomberg has generally been a credible organization. They are tainted if they don't firmly explain their side, and forever anything they report will be coupled with "they were the ones behind that debunked SuperMicro thing".

Clickbait and manufactured stories is a dead end tactic, so they certainly do care, and they certainly have some reasoning. Perhaps they were intentionally mislead.
> For large datacenters, excepting labor, on premises costs are usually an order or two of magnitude lower than Amazon, so you can ignore all the details.

That’s too big a caveat to breeze by without a huge justification. If you look at the full cost that 1-2 orders of magnitude for many places goes negative and is a smaller margin for almost everyone else unless you have some combination of very high usage to amortize your staff costs over and/or the ability to change the problem (e.g. beating S3 with fewer copies or using cold storage, having simpler or slower ops or security, etc.).

It can be done but I’ve seen far more people achieve it through incomplete comparisons than actual measured TCO, especially when you consider the first outage where they’re down for a week longer because they learned something important about how data centers can fail.
T-SQL_Merge
All of the movies by him that I’ve watched are brilliant.

Dr Strangelove is my favourite movie. The Shining is excellent, A clockwork orange, Barry Lyndon, 2001, Eyes Wide Shut ...

He was also a fantastic photographer.
Why are you keep using "Trend micro"? Did you realize that's a totally different company?
It takes both kinds of genius to make a great game.
I've noticed that Firefox's awesomebar does a full text search, and will find the text you've entered in the middle of words, but Chrome doesn't.

For example, I have bookmarked my blog (theandrewbailey.com) in both. Typing "rew" into Firefox suggests my blog. Chrome doesn't, and I need to type it out from the beginning in order for it to get the clue.
I was sad when this edition of MAD came out, because I owned a Spectravideo 318 (based on a Z80 chip) that didn't have a listing. That wasn't a surprise though - my parents must have got it super cheap thinking "it's just as good as that C64 he keeps asking for". It turns out it was "popular" in Japan, but no one I knew even owned one, let alone had any games to share!

However, I also noticed that in MAD for many months afterwards there was always at least one "letter from readers" suggesting typos and bugfixes to try and get it to work.

I remember thinking that maybe I dodged a bullet!
Cashflow on the Blockchain Part I: Tokenized Debt and Security Tokens
Yup, that’s been my own experience too. I’ve really come to appreciate the virtue of GOPATH, and I honestly don’t understand the complaints about it.

Why wouldn’t one want all of one’s code in a single place? What’s wrong with organisation? If one needs to work with different versions, then that’s what version control is for, isn’t it?

Obviously I’m missing something, because my opinion seems to be in the minority. I wonder if it’s because most people are using GUI file managers, which make using directories of code more difficult, while I use emacs and the shell, and so can comfortably manipulate files & directories at scale.
I see how this could have happened yes. Especially if the reporter was not clear on the angle of the questions.

It's easy to see how security researchers could go off on a tangent about the insecurities of IMPI and other out of band management systems. Which'd sound like an endorsement to the reporter.

Who knows what really happened.
> I enjoyed the article - is this too strong a look in the mirror for most folks? My ideal job now is one where I can live in the bush, have boring but steady work, and otherwise not care about programming after 5pm and feel OK with myself for it.

Would love to find such a job, but sadly they don't seem to exist. It's either startups like described in the article, or major companies cheating the system and building startups within so they can hire contractors instead of employees and pay start-up rates. Every company in Toronto does it, even the large ones (hello banks, telcos)
What parks are you talking about? Any park I'm aware of with parking restrictions has them because the roads are narrow and people suck at parking. They become so crowded that the road becomes impossible to navigate.
> “The essence of a dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated,” he said. “When you say something directly, it is simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.”

I watched 2001 with some friends on 1 January 2001. Unfortunately I picked the wrong group of friends, people who couldn't settle back into to the slow pace and no appreciation of mystery - they were constantly asking me to explain everything. Later that day I watched 2010 (by myself). That movie never raises a question that it doesn't answer within about 10 minutes.
Given today's screen resolution, anything less would probably look horrible.
Oww, comeon, it is a simple comic strip, no need to make a case of something the Author wrote once and with which you may (or may not) be in disagreement.
There have been many great pricing models posed in this thread to dis-incentivize gaming, but I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned the simple "make bird hunting a full time job with benefits."

Just like uber before them, bird threatens to upend some reasonably decent jobs in cities with bike share programs- assuming the bike share programs don't learn from taxi drivers and adapt.

So much of the reason these things work- and that the companies themselves become massively valuable is the externalization of costs. That doesn't have to be a given.
At the end of the day, everyone's only in it for themselves one way or another. People at the top want to secure their spot, people at the bottom want everyone to share, and there's some people who are up but can't sleep at night if someone think poorly of them.

But in all cases, it's all different sides of the same coin.
Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
Does anyone know if such a thing exists in Europe?
$100M ARR and fully remote!
Oh, my bad... Doesn't really change much though.
Maybe this is all common knowledge; I live in NYC so we don't have Birds yet, so I'm a little ignorant here.

From what I can tell, each scooter that is low on batteries is given a bounty (somewhere between $5 to $20) based on how hard it is to find. I assume that the "hardness" is computed based on how many chargers fail to find the scooter, but there may be something more sophisticated at work. To charge a scooter, a charger finds one, checks it out in the charger app, and then takes it home and charges it, and returns it to its "Bird's Nest" (clever) in the morning, at which point you get paid.

The scooters have GPS trackers to prevent theft.

So what these hoarders are doing is stealing the scooters -- rather than checking them out through the charger app, they're just grabbing them and tossing them in their van, and then keeping them in their home, where other chargers will fail to find them, thus increasing their bounty, until they "discover" the scooters, claim them through the app, charge them, and return them to their nest.

Have I understood this correctly? Given that they are removing the scooter without claiming it through the app (either as a rider or a charger) that means that they are stealing them, which means all Bird has to do is provide the police with the address of the hoarder and that's the end of it.
Our demand for energy is NOT increasing, at least not in the US. Demand has flatlined since 2007 and more efficient appliances, bulbs, etc are to blame. I have TVA and they have been egregiously self-sabotaging their own solar program in all sorts of ways because the dang sun is a threat to their monopoly and would cut into their revenues. And renewables are so much cheaper, TVA has shifted $1.4 billion of their operating costs from large industrial to residential customers to further disincentivize their switch.

Honestly it's outrageous.
Liquid Fuel That Can Store the Sun's Energy for Up to 18 Years
But why? People are affected by the practical application. Even if you argue that intent matters once it reaches a court or regulator, that is long past the effect.
I had to learn a little about what went on behind the scenes to appreciate it. Once I saw the making of the ship models, watching the camera pan across one for an hour wasn't as boring.
Matey, Give me my long sword, ho!
The World Bank just promised $200 billion to help them out?
Wow, I can't believe I never heard of this or even tried it back then.
China is no different than england. Anybody on the raw end of English foreign policy knows that.
Disappointing this comment was flagged. It's all that really needs to be said, and sums him and the article's thesis on him quite nicely. The world would be a terrible place if it were filled only with Vinod Khoslas.
I'm not sure what you mean. We wouldn't have AMD now, and the utterly non-competitive x86 CPU market would look entirely different than it does now. Despite AMD not being competitive on performance in the past ~10ish years, they were still an alternative if Intel ever really dropped the ball or went off the rails on exploitative business practices. Without that counterweight, there would've been no limit to what Intel could've done.

More needs to be done to ensure proprietary silos like Apple, but second sourcing has, largely, done its job.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

My favorite part is the knitted castle.
How NLU domains can independently calibrate their decisions to field a query
I was heavily into burning DC ROMs back in the day. Its most valuable utility was making backups of the games we owned, as our first copy of Sonic Adventure 2 became scratched and nearly unreadable after awhile. The backups allowed me to keep our "critical" games like Soul Calibur, MvC2, and Power Stone 2 (that one cost a pretty penny) in their cases while we used the backups. It also allowed a handful of custom soundtrack-editions of games to float around on the web, like one which changed MvC2's (IMO, awful) soundtrack.

One thing I lament in hindsight was that the CD's we burned were not GD-ROMs, and so the backups or ROMs we burned often had their assets compressed in order to fit on the smaller disk.

Further pity is that even 15ish years later, many people in the ROM collection scene are still relying on those early, compressed CDI rips that were made over a decade ago. The higher-fidelity GDI dumps are comparatively rare and hard-to-find, especially with such reliable repositories as Emuparadise shutting down. If I had the proper equipment, I would probably try to make proper GDI dumps of my collection.
> And companies will neglect the EU market altogether

As an EU citizen (until April, anyway), can I live in that future please?
Startup. $2.65B valuation. I guess "startup" just means any non-public company now.
Why Poland Probably Is the Most Amazing Country in the World?
Berlin’s startup ecosystem at a glance
I'm not sure for how long, but DuPont has been making water filters for some time. Since at least 2014 [1]

Ironic? Okay, sure. A little evil? Fine. But, the headline is garbage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141003205844/http://www.dupont...
Those rare folks who prefer older Google interfaces might actually consider this a feature, a nice additional reason to ditch modern Chrome.
There's been a whistleblower or two on HN about how Plaid scapes and sells your bank account transaction history to third parties.

It seems more unethical than most selling-user-data strategies in that the users don't even know Plaid is involved in the transaction whatsoever; they're just a hidden middle layer.

I'd be interested to know if this is still part of their monetization strategy, or if anyone at Plaid can confirm definitively that they do not collect and sell your bank account transaction history?

Edit: So sorry on my part, specifically on selling data, must've mixed this up now that I've read the comment (linked below). It involved scraping user data against the wishes of the banks, and doing huge amounts of customer analytics with such data, and another separate thread on giving transaction history as part of the service. Still a negative but different than above-- will leave this up so as to not destroy thread.
There was a time rs made an attempt to go back to selling hobby components, but they were basically a cellphone company by then.
I know you are being sarcastic, but honestly yes. I'm not too bothered about being tracked and having targeted ads. It doesn't negatively affect my experience. My ad-blocker takes care of most of the ads anyway.

These intrusive popups and banners, on the other hand — especially the new post-GDPR in-your-face ones which I have to dismiss before I can even read a simple article — have ruined the user experience of the web. And my ad blocker doesn't seem to be able to block them.
this appears to be a collection of CVEs from many users and often exploits accompanying them with citations to those.

wonder what is collecting this and if it is automated.

side note: another quote from Dr Who I see, thanks for sharing. I wish there were not so many seasons but I feel I am too far behind to start. I need a clean 10 page summary for all seasons so I can get into the next one :-)
Show HN: Minesweeper game for the nand2tetris course
Why are so many people getting a meat allergy?
Winterize your Bash prompt in Linux
It's also easy to read this as a smear campaign against Chinese companies.
The bar for libel and slander is very high. I also think it’s civil and not criminal, so there would be no prosecution in any case, they would just get sued.
"A person familiar with the analysis told Reuters it had been conducted by global firm Nardello & Co and that customers could ask for more detail on that company’s findings."

So I guess yes you can bypass Super Micro if you're a customer.
Rust in 2022
Ohhh is that so?
Show me how you do the following in Javascript.

try{
$exceptionType = rand(1,10) > 5?
BadMethodCallException::class
: LogicException::class;
throw new $exceptionType("smartass");
}
catch(BadMethodCallException $typed_1){
file_put_contents('php://stderr', "Bad method, ".$typed_1->getMessage());
}
catch(LogicException $typed_2){
file_put_contents('php://stderr', "Bad logic, ".$typed_2->getMessage());
}

or this:

function lieToMe(PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer $mailer){

}

or this:

$mailStrategy = new MailStrategy();
$mailStrategy("email@example.com","Subject","Body");

Or any of the other actually cool things you get with PHP if you can cope with the language.

It's sad to see people who probably can't program a microwave diss an entire language they haven't ever actually used.
There are lots of places where you rarely see PCs, too, but that doesn’t mean that Intel and AMD don’t sell a lot of chips. 200M per year is well into the economies of scale range.
But then you can not truncate the location.