skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one always cracked me up:

The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and restore the bipartisan light-touch regulatory consensus that enabled the internet to flourish for more than 20 years. The plan currently under consideration at the FCC to repeal Obama's Title II power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone.

Barack Obama

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC
It doesn't make sense at all, because this encourages people to destroy these kinds of things whenever they find them on their land. If you find treasure on your land and you report it then the government comes in and basically takes over your land for a while. They want to let archaeologists investigate, but you usually don't get much compensation. If you rely on that land to make ends meet then it's a bad idea to report it.

I think the rewards need to be high enough that people want to report these.

Edit: there was that case in France where a farmer found a rare mastodon skull and didn't want to bring attention to it because he didn't want amateur paleontologists on his farm: https://www.livescience.com/63060-farmer-finds-mastodon-skul...
Ask HN: Template for Startup Tech Evaluation?
I've been asked to do a little consulting for a new VC firm, specifically to do due diligence on the startups' tech stack after they've passed through some other screening.

Does anyone have a template they use for this sort of thing? Preferably examples from other VC firms, but any examples are appreciated.

I'm specifically looking for tech evaluation templates - not overall business.

Thanks!
No, but in Taiwan's case the concern is not the cities (everybody knows where those are), it's this kind of thing: https://thediplomat.com/2014/09/taiwan-asias-secret-air-powe...
People complaining about rudeness or arrogance towards the recruiter are deliberately missing the point. The author is venting about the thing Facebook has become. It's an opinion piece. The fact that it started with repeated recruiter emails is just the window dressing, the hook.

This is no different than a wapo editor seeing some seedy Facebook post and opining at length about it in an article.
The tool is called AWB, [0] and a better way to explain it would be that it lets you work on lists of articles, applying the same change to each, but each edit still has to be approved one-by-one. It's only bots that are normally allowed to just fire away edits and those have to be granted permission beforehand. [1] Pruitt does not have any special bot exemption, [2] and those running bots are usually expected to create a separate account for them. Indeed, looking at his contributions, [3] they have the tag "AWB". The requirements are also not that high, needing only "250 non-automated mainspace edits or 500 total mainspace edits" to be eligible.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ser_Aman...
Yes, if I recall well, it's not even about treasures, it's just that above 1m, the land is private, and below, it's public.
It does not. The amount of risk involved is not a factor. The term "selfie" refers to the inherent narcissism of the focus of the shot.

In a traditional selfie, when you move, your arm moves with you and your self remains the center focus of the shot. A drone selfie acts in a similar way. A timed shot on the other hand will always capture a specific scene, whether you are in it or not.

Arguably Eschers lithograph "Hand with Reflecting Sphere" does qualify, but Korneyevs picture doesn't.
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Even if any company wanted to advertise that, it probably would be incredibly unwise to do so for many reasons, but particularly because it's going to look really, really bad in court if they ever get sued for employment discrimination.
You're a dickface.
Huawei Frightens Europe's Data Protectors. America Does, Too
Tab completion is different - it's explicit, you have to choose a completion. Bolding, italicizing, copying, pasting, etc. are all explicit actions here.

This here is implicit alteration of user input, and the real question is not whether it can be done correctly (in this case, I vote for "maaaybe in theory; impossible in practice"). The real question is why do it at all? It only confuses and irritates people, which makes them make more errors and also break their flow.

(Hell, it's not an issue if that's just one field on a random sign-up field of some fly-by-night shop. But those "brilliant" UX ideas tend to find their ways to software people use for work - say, managing listings in ecommerce shops. There, such ideas cause many people to lose a lot of time, and by extensions their employers to lose a ton of money.)
Linux Fsync Issue for Buffered IO and Its Preliminary Fix for PostgreSQL
I'm just playing GunShy now.
This is probably the easiest one, although it only works for small companies: if you're both indispensable and likeable, you can get a lot simply by asking nicely with the very distant implication that you might leave if you don't get what you want.

(Of course, someone will cite "The graveyards are full of indispensable men"..)
One strange thing about the AMA is the reverent tone of some of the replies. Some people are saying "thanks for this article" or "thanks for getting me through school", etc. I think there's a misconception at play because people are assuming since he has the most edits, he wrote most of the content. It probably also doesn't help when there are blatantly false headlines like "Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia". [0] In actuality, a majority of the edits are semi-automated and minor fixes: think things like fixing typos, categorization, or page formatting.

Not trying to diminish his work, but hoping to provide some perspective. It's important that people understand the vast collaboration behind the project and the numerous voices that have built it up to what it is today. If one person was responsible for most of the content, it would be nowhere as diverse as it is.

[0]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-man-behind-a-third-of-...
Trip report: Winter ISO C++ Standards Meeting (Kona)
Re: floppy disks as save icons - if you show an elementary-school aged kid an actual floppy disk, they’re probably more likely to call it a 3D-printed save icon now. How things change!
Only to be replaced with an "SD card" icon, which looks surprisingly similar to a floppy disk.
Ask HN: Software developers what do you do get in the zone?
What are some of the routines that work to minimize time before one can do great work with good focus? In addition to knowing time of day when one is most productive, what other strategies do you employ to be excellent and deliver great work when you sit down to work?
Not OP but i keep trying and the tools still have a long way to go and compile times are abysmal (even relative to C++). For example, https://github.com/rust-lang/rls-vscode/issues/237 this issue that has persisted for over a year with no signs of being fixed.

With C++, in spite of its warts, I can still be productive just because of the ecosystem around it. Rust was something I was gung-ho about, but after repeated attempts to create a medium/large project, I am still in a wait and see mode. Moreover, it's just not powerful enough. Many features are coming in, but they break the compiler and you end up needing to work off nightly regardless. I think it's a good effort, but people just recommending the Rust train nonchalantly really need to step back and check their biases.
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The same thing happens everywhere. My kitchen was!fully Miele. So, after around 3,5 years or so. The dishwasher broke. So I thought: call a specialist, get repaired. It is is Miele at least! (you can get replacement parts even after years) so, guy came, saw the brand. Checked, said, something with the heater. Several models have that problem. And it is super expensive.. I should just buy a new one. Asked him what I should buy, you know what he said? It is not worth anymore.just buy 2 or 3 cheap dishwashers in 10 years then just one expensive, which brakes anyway after 3 to 5 years....

I have a 15 years old Miele washing machine I bought used. Still running like a champ...
> But imagine what she’d have if her name was attached to every instance of the image, doctored or not?

Then her name would be connected to a silly joke forever.
Yeah the grant is liberal because someone would complain that, I don't know, twitter used a CDN or allows it to be displayed on 3rd party apps or or some other minor nitpicky complaint.

But yes, if you're writing on twitter, you are giving them permission to use your content.
After Entering a Holy Indian Shrine, Her Family Locked Her Out of the House
Two reasons. First and foremost, $4.99 lifetime is it enough to support a customer forever. You have servers to maintain, a customer support team to pay, and also you have to put food on the table. I’m pretty against “lifetime” and “unlimited lol pricing for hosted software.

Second, pricing is a signal. By pricing extremely low you’re going to attract people who care about getting the lowest price possible and from personal lived experience these are basically the worst, most demanding customers.
Is this supposed to be groundbreaking? Seems very similar to methods that have already been successfully trialed in the wild in both the US and Australia: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-10/zika-and-dengue-sp...
I bought crossover and run Office 2010 on Wine just to be able to use OneNote on Linux. It just matches my way of organising. I've never found any Linux native apps that get close :(
These are not GM-ed, they are sterilized using bacteria infection.
Similar story for me, only my wife accepted a new job outside California back in 2008.

I was in a small place, we both liked each other, and I simply explained my situation. Been remote every since
I thought cost to android was privacy from world's largest ad company.
Sounds like a really humble and level-headed guy. Kudos for all the selfless hours he has put in for the greater good.
Living in a world built around male data can be deadly
Specifically he used the knives to hold down keys for sustained tones. At least one of his knives was a Hitlerjugend knife, given to him by Lemmy Kilmister.
The mobile app sends monthly notifications to subscribers and, if she chooses to continue her subscription, she can do it by signing the transaction on her multisig wallet provided in the app with a single button click.
How about a game like chess or checkers or go that you play against an AI?
I love to bring up Python examples, as it is thought of being a beginners friendly language, yet many seem unaware how big the language, standard library and behaviour changes across releases actually are.
Anti-Tank Dog
Actually would be interesting to see the content of the HTTP packets that are not encrypted!
I wonder what kind of information is shared by our smartphones without it being properly secured...
When it becomes problem they fire you, they don't give you some special cash suitcase and tell you, go improve your life first.
I don't think I've ever seen an R library() take more than about a second, and usually the action is complete as my finger is starting to raise from the 'return' key. When I tried "using Plots" in julia, it took several tens of seconds the first time, and several seconds in subsequent sessions. So, slower than R, but not terribly so. I suspect the real advantage of Julia is that it lets the analyst stick to a single language, without (as in the R case) having to write time-consuming components in C, C++, or Fortran.
Even though there are international companies on there, anything similar like this for UK specific companies?
Just realised I said WiFi here. Yeah the in built WiFi network isn't what would be surprising but using satellite internet would be. Streaming from a cache on the plane, that makes a lot of sense.

I kinda fancy the idea of Netflix partnering with an airline to offer the IFE, wonder if that will ever ever happen.
Enjoying the productivity of debuggers since mid-90's, with ability to graphically display data structures.

Printf debbuging is the actual suffering.
Interesting. Though AFAIK Lookout is mostly useless on iOS, it's essentially just another "Find my iPhone" service right?

I'd be interested to know what the Google queries were for. Does he use GMail?
What is permafrost and why might it be the climate change time bomb?
Sure, but it's not the same as being an actual developer.
Lego is expensive. Not everybody has the kind of money to buy brand name Lego. As a Lego 'puritan' I would never give anything but the real thing to kids but if someone were to give my kid a present that is not 'the original' the only words I would use would be 'thank you', after all, who am I to judge someone else's purchasing power.

The plastic they use used to be very good but more recent mixes are actually not all that good, they turn brittle after just a few months outside of the packaging. Especially 1x1's will spontaneously cracked when they have been connected to a stud at the bottom.

Counterfeit blocks aren't really counterfeit either, Lego itself is a counterfeit product, it was an idea taken from a UK company.
Structuring 1M line of code as one function or 1M functions is clearly equally absurd. What is the sweet spot? There must be an answer from psychology and/or information theory.
Ask HN: How many co-founder breakups did you go through?
How many co-founder breakups did you go through before finding the "one", if at all?
I am at 3 and haven't found the one. It's probably the most difficult part of a startup and even more important than the idea itself.
That's assuming they tested for one masked/non-masked input only and not bundled it with other redesigns, or didn't have other confounders like a sale, or marketing campaign, etc. Also that they did run this as a trial for set amount of time, and not until Optimizely told them that the B-version is outperforming A-version (common A/B testing pitfall).

Overall, seeing the UX crap produced by many data-driven companies (Google included), I have low trust in their methodology.
Countdown to Calving at Brunt Ice Shelf
Cats are very variable in behavior.

I've got a brother/sister rescue pair (got them as kittens).

Boy cat rarely comes to you and mostly does his own thing (except strangely when I'm ill then he just sits next to me and follows me around), if you pet him he'll roll over to have his belly rubbed though.

Girl cat is constantly wanting petting, she'll sit on or near me whenever I'm in the room and purr at the slightest attention, she also plays fetch (didn't teach her), is inquisitive and will stick her head in everything.

They couldn't be more different within the constraints of both been cats.
There are 3 potential reasons to join a startup:

1. You're the founder
2. You have no other choice
3. You think it'll be fun

Just switch-case that.
A plate slotted into another at right angles, and plugging a brick into a fence, were standard techniques when I was a lad. Returning to Lego in later years with my own kids, the various bricks introduced in the interim with studs on top and the sides, obviating these hacks, were the most glaring (and welcome) innovations.
Living standards in Japan? You mean the minuscule apartments? The notoriously bad heating system (lack of isolation)? Overpriced food in general in supermarkets (with products made using 10x the levels of pesticides/fertilizers compared to other countries)? The fact that Japan rejected nuclear and now used coal and petrol to power its electrical grid (hence aerial pollution)?

Don't get me wrong, there are positive aspects to living in Japan, but there's a lot of trade-offs as well and level of life wise it's far from being all rosy in Japan.
NHS told to ditch 'outdated' pagers
Nuclear goes retro – with a much greener outlook
DNA Gets a New and Bigger Genetic Alphabet
Tidy my office/workspace.

Move all none work related stuff onto virtual desktop 2 or 3.

Put on film OST's that lack lyrics (The Equalizer, Oblivion, almost anything from Hans Zimmer).

Make fresh coffee.

I've used that routine for over a decade and it's become a habit, once I've done all that I'm ready to work.
The Surprising Power of Online Experiments (2017)
> But 15 million is low?

It's low relatively speaking to what that person can get in the US. When you are on the global market, you can compare between countries. On top of that devs are quite underpaid in Japan especially at the beginning of their careers, it's not an outlandish claim.
Maybe they’ve made connections into the insurance industry. For them it might be interesting what your location profile looks like.
I have one of the very final Power Mac G5s, a dual-dual G5 970mp (which contrary to what one often reads on the internet, it wasn’t water-cooled, that was the top-of-the-line of the previous year’s lineup). It featured PCI-express and I’d stuffed it with oodles if ECC RAM, a FibreChannel interface, and an early SSD.

I have to disagree that this system feels in any way ‘ancient’. Honestly it feels more like science fiction, a professional, hefty, dependable machine as opposed to today’s consumer-orientated devices.

Yeah, a modern MacBookPro is probably faster. It certainly costs much less too. But... that was a workstation. I did science on it. Nowadays it’s one-size-fits-all and if for some reason it doesn’t fit you you’re shit out of luck.
What do you have against ping pong?
I was thinking that I would start with $5 for a lifetime while I see if anyone would be interested in the idea, then maybe expanding to $5 a month.

But Yeah, I could see that, you would attract customers that would keep demanding more and more unless they will leave. That could have been a bit of a mistake.

So I'll up it to $15 per month, Thank you for your help Pete :)
Check your address bar. This is HN, not Twitter. Longer-form comments here are welcome.

(And it's not about nothing, it's a perfectly valid, if strong worded, criticism about a library promoting bad UX, which is unfortunately popular, and thus inflicting UX suffering on many users on the Internet.)
This article is written in a very biased unscientific way and I wonder why it got so many upvotes. I get that people like meat here but.
This absolutely is a problem.

US domination of the 'cloud' space is close to total, I've been thinking about building something that involves medical data for a while but I've not pulled the trigger on it yet because amongst many concerns it's hard to host anything in the cloud that in some way doesn't trace back to a US company.

I've actually started compiling a list of companies that provide hosting that aren't US based or US subsidaries in some way.

Of course even if you manage that they are still using US processors and US technology.

Once you start getting a bit paranoid it is quite hard not to get alot paranoid.

Especially when you live in a 5-eyes country.
Heh, no I wasn't assuming that you didn't know, I guess I was just pointing out that our ISO code is silly!
I would conjecture that while GM is _saying_ publicly that they're going full-bore on pure EV they've done a 180 since the end of their federal tax credits and the election of Trump and in fact are doing their best to just focus on what makes them money at home, Equinoxs and Silverados, and make all that weird eco-stuff for markets abroad ... in China.

Closing factories in the US and Canada and laying people off is a part of that. Shutting down the Volt is also part of that, as it's a through-and-through domestically produced machine out of Michigan.

Trump style politics and climate denying in the 'conservative' movement is setting North America back. In 20 years when the dust settles the locus of production of the next generation of vehicles will be in Asia, and we'll be behind.

I love my Volt, it's the best car I've owned. I used to be a big advocate of the GM EV program. The engineering is top notch. But the engineers at GM seem to have been undermined by their management. It's very sad.
Depends pretty much on each one.

Coming from Turbo Pascal 6.0, it provided me a world with access to C based tools, without having to endure typical C unsafe code.
> Things are so disorganized that you if you accidentally fuck up, no one might even notice

I accidentally fucked up at a startup. My reaction was to provide infrastructure such that that particular class of fuckup was much less likely to happen again. Guess what happened ... I got thrown under a bus some months later over the fuckup anyway. Learned a lot. Was worth it. Would not do it (i.e. work for that type of organisation) again.
On the chemical level, , before applying conversion, transmission and utilization inefficiencies that all drive trains suffer from in some form, coal releases more CO2 per Joule of raw output than petrol. Up to 50% more, depending on coal quality, according to the tables at https://www.volker-quaschning.de/datserv/CO2-spez/index_e.ph... . The difference is even bigger between coal and natural gas, so if the EV wins the comparison by a considerable but not stellar margin on a gas-powered grid it might still lose on a coal grid.

Basically, my point is that even when you are driving an EV you are still driving. We are prone to forget that.
If this road info is in OSM, we will take it. Also you could send the route to Google Maps or HERE Maps. Notice red globe icon in the right top corner of the map, in opened trip plan. Click it, send to Google Maps, then send to your phone from them. Navigate using them. Could be possible to split the roads.
"Amazon loses money" but Bezos is getting richer. Does not compute.

It's clearly paper losses.
Yep, safety is important. Not only distances, but also weather, altitude, diff conditions for diff ages. Already thinking of it...
That's a really simply abstraction there, and I bet most people won't even call that an abstraction.

It's a bit like saying bricks are useless, by limiting the entire argument to a single brick.
Opel Ampera is the Volt not the Bolt.
>Sure, I've had a few bosses, who don't call me more than a few times a year, and they certainly don't complain if I don't answer outside working hours.

Well, if you have a boss and (a) work in the field (as lots of people do, from sales reps and messengers to technicians) or (b) are an exec that travels to meetings, customers, etc, or (c) are responsible for a system that might fail (e.g. a sysadmin, a dev whose work is deployed, etc), you'd be expected to have the phone open all the time. And even if they call "a few times a year", they'd expect to reach someone then.

>I'm guessing a spouse would be annoyed if you just disappeared without notice for a day, but then again I doubt this wouldn't be true even before phones.

If there's any kind of emergency or semi-emergency (from the babysitter called in sick to the car broke down) the spouse will usually be more than annoyed if they can't find you during the day.
But don't add all 54 on a magnet/torrent, two should be enough, maybe four at most.