skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the only sites lacking a feed of some RSS-equivalent format are the ones that have commercial interests that are not compatible with RSS or really many other open standards and principles of good web design but might otherwise make good app design, and home made sites that don’t account for the idea that one might want to read a feed instead of visiting the web page, if they even considered that some out there might still use feed readers.
Anyone else remember netcom.com? [1]

When I finished college in 1989 I moved to Silicon Valley and found work. I sorely missed the Internet access I had enjoyed at the University. About a year later I heard about a dial up system called Netcom and immediately signed up. They offered email, internet news (NNTP), and even command line access. Wonderful!

One story I can recall:

The system grew until netcom consisted of 15 or 20 Sun OS 4.x servers.

One night a user wrote a shell script to poll all the servers, locate the server with the lightest load, and then log into that system. They shared the script and within hours many users were running the script in their login file. Since there was no check to see if the script was already in use in that session, long chains of user logins bounced around the systems resulting in an early DDOS shutdown.

Good times, until about 2000 when the buyers of Netcom eventually shut down shell account service [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcom_%28United_States%29

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/technology/2...
Year in AI/Machine Learning Advances: Xavier Amatriain 2018 Roundup
The only direct variable which has an inverse relation to the vicious cycle is the property tax rate, as higher property taxes increases the effective price for property ownership.
In California due to Prop 13, the property tax rate (of ~1% of the initially appraised market value of the home) gets negated by inflation, and it's further countered in regions such as the Bay Area by the sustained increase in demand from the influx of residents and higher wage growth.
Yeah, after I submitted my resignation, I was given the choice between legal action and a promotion. I'd been performing at a very high level, been recommended for that promotion by my boss months earlier, only to have kicked it down the road by upper management. After I gave notice they offered to give it to me immediately, with a raise that made them almost competitive with the new company.

The legal threats almost scared me into staying, but then I thought about how miserable I would be if I went back there. The postponement of the promotion had been the least of my complaints, nothing else would be getting better, and I'd only be inviting further bullying in the future.

So I left. I didn't get sued because the new company dropped the offer before I started. I was unemployed for a couple of months and also spent a significant sum on a lawyer. The whole thing was expensive and stressful bordering on traumatic. But I've never regretted turning down the counteroffer.
I'm always amazed at all the developers who are in favor of remote work....as long as you don't offshore....

If I'm going to hire remote workers why wouldn't I hire great talent in Vietnam or China or Poland instead of in the US?
There is something about hacking that makes it a sort of anti-authority, counter-culture activity. In the event of a fascist coup, in whatever country, or even the entire western neoliberal order, I feel this deeply, that hackers would be at the forefront of the resistance. There’s something about sitting in a room and taking something apart to understand how it works that feels incompatible with fascism. I’m not exactly sure how to articulate it, but it exists.

Tldr: it has EVERYTHING to do with hacking
I wouldn't say attrocious but the third one isn't holding my attention. I don't want to know what happens next, I just want to know what happens at the end.

Meanwhile, I'm really bummed that the last book of the Expanse got delayed 4 months. I don't know how they're going to wrap up the story line in only one more book.
>The final piece in the puzzle is that the desired salary multiple of these experienced workers (over entry-level ones) is higher than their productivity gains. That is, if the experienced cook needs twice as much take-home ($110k pre-tax) as the entry-level one (due to family needs), unfortunately, there is insufficient customer demand to pay 2.2x as much for food for this higher quality. (but mind you much more base demand in SF than elsewhere!). Result is that experienced folks move to areas where housing costs (per-sq feet) are lower as a percent of salary.

Or, in even shorter terms, high land rents divert value away from skilled workers and towards largely parasitical speculators.
http://www.feedbin.com
By law, yes.

And redistribution of porn materials is a crime that can send committers to prison, depends generally on how much money they've earned from it or/and how many redistribution has been made etc.

But personal consumption is not illegal.

To put it simple, if you want to be a 100% law obeying person in China, then you can watch porn, but you cannot produce it, you cannot copy it and send to others, you cannot recommend it to others. The real life situation is bit different of course.
I left Tor Project after seven years for the same reason (the pivot from "internet privacy" to "human rights watch for nerds" where internet privacy is a means to an end). At Tor Project, the adults are no longer guiding the ship.

https://medium.com/@virgilgr/tors-branding-pivot-is-going-to...
Madagascar has become an outsourcing hotspot thanks to its super-fast internet
https://imgur.com/a/nwmRueJ

This is a screencap from some time ago on /g/ talking about Tor.

Tor is tod.
The best NetHack GUI that I have used is glhack, but I believe it was discontinued long ago.
I agree. Personally, I was never taught that they were all synonymous. For whatever it's worth, I was a EE major.
Yes, you never know what you'll get.

But you can protect yourself. Whenever you have a new batch of some street drug, you test with a small dose. Maybe 10% of what you'd normally use. If it's too little, test with maybe twice as much. Waiting as appropriate, if tolerance is an issue (as with LSD). And then use what you need, to get the desired effect.

In most cases, bad drugs are either cut way too much, or adulterated with some other drug. But it's pretty rare for someone to be selling outright poison. So maybe an amphetamine in the MDMA or LSD. But nothing that's likely to kill at 10% of a typical dose.

The one key exception is fentanyl. So yes, some idiot may indeed sell you heroin (or even cocaine) containing too much fentanyl. However, you can still protect yourself by initially testing a small dose.
i haven't read through each of the detailed pages, but just by looking at the categories one that popped into my mind is legal or regulatory risks

what happens if laws or regulations change? for example rules that caused uber to stop operating in certain cities. rules around health software, etc...
There's nothing to be worry dangers of this network. I don't believe that our intelligence agencies haven't found a way break this anonymized distribution network. Its a well known fact that IA is indirectly sponsoring this network to get funds for their illicit operations. And I am pretty sure that they have planted backdoor in this network.
SOD: An Embedded Computer Vision C Library
Lots of nontechnical people at google used Linux. Of course it was supported by IT, so less hw problems.

I also made a few Debian box like 15 years ago for a nonprofit I interned with. Seemed to work just fine for basic web stuff.
I created a native iMessage app for Windows 10:

https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/imessage-for-windows/

Taking full advantage of UWP features and functionality.
Yeah, it's become my currently-preferred explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-dark-forest-theory...
I like Reeder on iOS/Mac. Within the app, you can choose a number of different sync mechanisms - I use Inoreader as mine.
> "The situation in this industry has created a mercenary frenzy where everyone is running around trying to maximize what they’re able to make per hour." That describes the general trend in human behavior worldwide for the past six thousand or so years.

That's fascinating-- in exactly that same time span there's been a worldwide trend toward blockchain technologies.

Do you think there's a connection?
Well, I don't know, but I bet if you or I or anyone else, probably including George R.R. Martin, was asked a couple years before GoT came on the air if it would become this kind of cultural phenomenon, it would have seemed wildly unlikely. These sorts of things are pretty hard to predict. It's possible that there won't be anything else like GoT, but it's possible that something else will become the must-see thing everyone is suddenly talking about.

(Of course, there's no guarantee it will be on any premium streaming service, or indeed any streaming service at all. Or that it will even be video anything. Currently I'm sitting at a Starbucks listening to music that gave me a possible answer to your initial question: it's the soundtrack to "Hamilton.")
When the market price of jet fuel increases, airlines don't cry that they can't find jet fuel, they pay the higher price and then they raise fares.

When the market price of coffee increases, coffee shops don't cry that they can't find coffee, they pay the higher price and then they raise prices.

But when the market price of labor increases, employers don't raise their wages, and then they say they can't find workers and can't afford to pay more.

Why is labor pricing treated differently from any other economic input?
Thank you for this! I know someone going through this right now and it's been driving me crazy trying to figure out what to do.

This is very helpful advice.
Valley of the Boom Captures Silicon Valley’s Insanity
Ok, The following is the highly level goal. It dictates the design choice and hence the user experience of Stensal SDK.

I want to make C/C++ more user friendly and less scary to beginners. If you love C, you should keep enjoying coding in C and worry less about the memory safety issues. With the advancement of tooling (You will see more advanced static analyzers and runtime analyzers coming out from academia and the industry), it will be less a problem in the future.

The simplicity and portability of C is its key strength that no other languages have. Once the memory safety issue is alleviated, the simplicity of C will help us to build less complex but more functional and reliable code.

C++ is just a completely different beast that I have to support.
It is, but it's also worth noting that Disney is so far a notable holdout from supplying Apple with 4K copies of movies for iTunes. I'm not sure the two companies are all that buddy-buddy with one another these days.
It's also just nice to do an activity and not worry about work.
It's unclear to me whether the author meant two-plus hours one way or round trip (I think they meant one-way, but I'll address both cases).

If the author meant 2+ hours round trip: Lots of tech employees making 200k+ do this regularly. For example, driving from your house to the Fremont BART station and taking the train into downtown San Francisco can easily take 1 hour and 15 minutes one way.

If the author meant 2+ hours one way: There are affordable areas outside of San Francisco's borders that have a reasonable commute. This is especially true if you're willing to have roommates, although that would be more difficult if you have four children like one of the employees mentioned in the article. Oakland comes to mind - you can take the BART from Oakland to the Mission (where the restaurant in the article is located) in ~35 minutes.

While I do think that there is a housing issue in the Bay Area, I don't think the lines you quoted from the article are fair.
Aha, nice! I have wondered about doing something similar before.

As part of a module on XML for my MSc I decided to go maximum overkill, and created in XSLT a simple key-value lookup, a breadth-first node search algorithm, and a simple TAP-based test suite to make sure it all worked properly. Almost looked at seeing how much of the Functional Data Structures book I could cram into XSLT for my dissertation before choosing something a little less ambitious.
Now do a study on how many productivity hours we have lost solving reCaptcha over TOR
Well, they could end the drug war, and then crime wouldn't be an issue.
The majority of industries which involve the potential to cause harm operate with comparable licensing and oversight systems. Food manufacturing, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, factories with dangerous equipment like smelters or refineries, all of these strictly require licensed professionals to do design work, that plans be approved by various oversight bodies before operation commences, and in some cases that those oversight bodies conduct regular inspections. We mandate this oversight because, without it, people do horrible things and get away with it. They hide their crimes too well, they have pockets deep enough to win any court case, or they foist the blame off on someone else. So we prevent harm instead of trusting people and corporations to be good when we know they won't be. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/timel...
A Short Story That Led to a Seven-Figure Two-Book Deal
You don’t understand. There was nothing wrong with my car. They screeed up a basic maintenance task (new spark plugs) and caused a computer code for a misfire. They misdiagnosed this as a bent valve and told me I needed a new head. In reality I needed two spark plugs gapped.

I understand throwing parts at a problem but they misdiagnosed a simple issue so badly that I suspect malice.
The Story of a 6-CPU Server from 1997
Absolutely - Reeder IMO is a very well designed app and it’s great going from my phone / iPad to my home / work desktops and having the syncing work properly.

I use Feedly for my subscriptions, filters and other logic processing.
Newsblur is really nice. Web site, mobile apps, and it's even accessible in Emacs via elfeed-protocol.
Just clone it and move on

I do that for anything that looks predictably hot
If scarcity is causing high prices, why did San Francisco rents balloon from $2300 in 2008 to $3600 in 2016 when the population size only grew modestly at the same time? The idea that supply scarcity is responsible for what is clearly a tech-driven event is some serious head-in-sand reasoning. I watched this happen; tech boomed in SF after 2008, and prices boomed with them. The population, meanwhile, did not boom significantly. This has little to do with scarcity.
Not necessarily uniquely Chinese trait, but an idea I had never read in western sci-fi.

1. The most powerful human trait is the ability to hide ones true feelings and thoughts from others.

I have not read enough Chinese sci-fi to know if this is a recurring theme.
Lessons from 2.5 years of scaling a Facebook Dev Community to 9000 members
This.

In the past year I have cleaned my mess of (social media) accounts and got rid of everything that is not needed and switched over to RSS (with Liferea). It works perfectly fine. No annoying notifications, no unnecessary mails, just new News when I feel like opening my RSS feed. A wonderful thing.
I had no idea they did that, just made an issue about it[0].

Also, I wouldn't be so quick to write them off -- their solution is based on Container Attached Storage (CAS), and is the only relatively mature solution so far I've seen (I haven't seen any others that do CAS) that sort of take the Ceph model and turn it inside out -- pods talk to volumes over iSCSI via "controller" pods, and writes are replicated amongst these controller pods (controller pods have anti-affinity to ensure they end up on separate machines).

I have yet to do any performance testing on ceph vs openebs but I can tell you it was easier to wrap my head around than Ceph (though of course ceph is a pretty robust system), and way easier to debug/trace through the system.

[0]: https://github.com/openebs/openebs/issues/2345
I'm always interested in tools that can download only changed chunks, or repair damaged files without having to re-download the whole lot. Habit, after being on extremely slow connections for about 15 years.

See also:

* http://atterer.org/jigdo

* https://multipar.eu/

* I've abused webseed support in torrent clients to do similar things - a downloader based on the torrent chunk hashing format would be quite interesting

* rsync can do it, maybe

* http://xdelta.org/ - have used this to patch Raspberry Pi images
> I think we inhabit such different intellectual universes that I doubt we can have a civil conversation, but let’s try.

That's a pretty pompous thing to say...

>> “Grievance studies” (like “social justice warrior”) is a made up term whose goal is to group together a large group of people with a wide range of interests, ideological premises, methodologies, etc., and dismiss/discredit them collectively without bothering to engage with their work.

> If grievance studies is just a “made up term” then how can I be insulting anyone let alone any group?

You're being obtuse. It's obvious to anyone with experience of human society that terms can be made up that have very little utility beyond being insulting to some person or group.

The GP makes a valid point about the use and meaning of those terms. I can admit that even though I'm no fan of many of the ideas and attitudes that are lazily lumped under them.

> As for who I am wishing to see removed from academia it people in those areas that the hoax we are discussing exposed

Would you like a system more like the Soviet Union's, where a political authority controls who gets admitted into academia and who gets kept out?
> our servers were making $38 per hour or the equivalent of $70,000 to $80,000 a year ... assuming 36% on rent after tax, that would mean you have about $1,460 available for rent per month.

> Cheryl Young, an economist for Trulia, found that in nearby San Francisco, only 0.1% of restaurant staff can find affordable housing in the city, with the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment at an insane $3,447.

$80,000 is vastly too much pay for restaurant servers.

It's understandable that if one-bedroom rent in the bad part of town is $2447 that restaurants simply can't exist in this economy. That's just the way it is.
are you talking about pdiff for list files, or debdelta (http://debdelta.debian.net/html/index.html)?

I've never seen debdelta used in the wild, but I know Fedora's delta RPMs work quite well.
It's okay to fabricate data if you're experiment is to detect whether journal editors and reviewers can pick up on fabricated data.
>"The situation in this industry has created a mercenary frenzy where everyone is running around trying to maximize what they’re able to make per hour." That describes the general trend in human behavior worldwide for the past six thousand or so years. This seems like such a foundational truth that I question if the author is writing it in good faith.

It's hard to respond to that, as it's not clear to me at all what you're claiming. What's the 'general trend'? Towards everyone running around in a money-making frenzy? Perhaps it's extremely metaphorical and nothing of the kind is meant. Just that people are..constantly trying to increase their incomes. Or something. What is the 'foundational truth' - that there's a general trend towards that frenzy? ..So after 6,000 years, we've reached that state, or are close to it? What you said sounds like something I want to criticize, but I'm not at all clear what that was.

All I can say is, it sounds like you're in the USA, talking like that. One of the parts of the USA that's particularly like that. The whole world is not like that.
If ASAN/MSAN works for you well that's great.

You want to give Stensal SDK a try, you will find it's easier to use provided Stensal SDK can build your code.
If you have any problems, feel free to send bugs report to support@stensal.com. What communication method do you prefer? a mailing list.
Because many tech companies are not looking for sweatworkers but people who fully understand the context in which the product they are working on exists...from my expierence you won’t find these folks offshore
Hopefully. The alternative (silently alert and hope I pick up the phone) might not be so bad for users if a hosting provider is running analytics or ads, but from a detect-and-alert perspective it's pretty hard to tell the difference between a scummy-hosting-provider script and a credential-scraping bonafide hack. Many people (or robots) who install the latter aren't smart enough to defeat alerting measures, so it's a big benefit if those measures warn the users directly.
I think the main points of criticism about Slack are not the ones you listed. It's that it's a proprietary protocol, a data silo that can't easily be accessed, the bait and switch of first supporting IRC and then killing off the gateway, forced to use the official electron/browser based client.

I never heart anyone complain about inline images / gifs (which is also something that most IRC clients support) or that it's paid (which IRC bouncers / clients are often too in cases).
Thanks a lot for reposting it here. Our original post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894032 has answered some of the questions you might have.
And you became an old-earth evangelical christian after reading this very article?
My layman's understanding mirrors this.

Because one part of a pair of virtual particles crosses the horizon, and the other one does not, they become separated by said horizon and cannot recombine and disappear. The particles become actual and not virtual, but one is lost to the hole. Hence, it looks to the external world as if a particle was emitted by the hole.

Note that to my (layman's) knowledge, this has not been actually observed, but does seem to be a modern consensus and involved a paid bet.
Okay by me as long as you’re willing to pay more.
I wonder if it was a paid search portal owned by someone that did not feel the need to maximize profits could do a much better job? Like Craigslist worked well for a long time.
In Canada there are a lot fly in only or winter road(and the period of time with these roads is reducing due to climate change) communities. A large capacity would allow bringing in machinery and supplies. Airships have been looking like a strong solution
I had forgotten about webrings. The web of the mid-90s was truly a "web". The search engines were basically garbage, so you never knew what you were going to find. It was weird and interesting and there was a lot of random interesting stuff on it (mostly if you were a nerd, which we all were because normal people didn't use it yet).
Google Play new policy will cripple call recording apps
Honest question: how can the population grow more than modestly without more housing?

Without more information, what you just described sounds to me exactly like a supply-constrained scenario. Population can’t grow, so prices skyrocket.
For anything techie, given that choice, I'd go with the .io version. It resonates with techies because of the overlap with the acronym for Input/Output. And it seems to be somewhat trendy to use .io for tech oriented sites.

FWIW, my newest SaaS offering is using a .io domain as well, so I am "putting my money where my mouth is" on this topic.