skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to start a conversation with him, I would initially focus on two things: I would recognize his value and dedication and I would get to know him better. I don't know his name, but I'll call him Ben. I would probably start like this:

"Ben, I know this whole thing is very hard on you, but let me say I think you're doing a great job. No matter what anyone says, you're here for your father. That means a lot and I am sure your father would be proud of you for that. Not only that, but when the hospital asked you to step up and take on an important responsibility (power of attorney), you did it without hesitation. You're a loyal son and a gentleman.

"How are you getting along? Have you ever experienced something like this before? [Wait for the answer and talk about it. Let him talk about his experiences for a while and choose to go in more depth about a particular experience.] What was it like to go through that? Did everyone turn out OK?

"Listen, Ben, I'm here for you. I want you to keep the power of attorney because you've demonstrated your loyalty. Can we work together to figure out what it means to have power of attorney? I'm not too experienced with it, but I know attorneys in general have certain responsibilities to communicate with their clients and I'm sure something like that applies here. You've taken on a responsibility to communicate what's going on and I want to help you fulfill that responsibility.

"I know your family has been hard on you, Ben, so I want to help you by communicating with them for you so you can focus on the more important things. Again, I'm with you every step of the way, so let's figure this out together. We're going to get through this."

As you work with him, always be on his team. Never his superior nor subordinate, but always his peer. Navigate together.
I think the closest thing is https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
Nice! Thanks for sharing your graphviz-fu, that's actually not as hairy as I thought it would be, and the result is neat enough. I do remember playing with subgraphs and ranks when testing graphviz, but I gave up before getting this far. I'll try applying those techniques to more complex diagrams, and if I find it workable, I might just switch to that.
How is it different to someone who is perceived as too far right in the US? We have already heard about people not being served by tech giants and banks just because of their political views. It never goes the other way around though.

So in China it is the government doing it based on their values and in the US it is facebook or patreon or even regular banks doing it based on their values. In both cases it is an authoritarian decision by a monopoly or coordinated which the simple citizen got no control of and there is no any transparency to their actions.
The article admits this view isnt falsifiable. It's a fun idea but it is a dissapointment to see such a misleading title in scientific american.

In a sense, the idea that only the content of a model matters has always been present in science. Does an electron really exist? Who knows, but people have models which make use of a concept called an electron and they are testable and have superb predictive power. I dont see that this article offers any meaningful contributions to the current understanding.
How could email possibly be more performant? Its just a few blocks of text. I click on the email and it loads instantly because its already downloaded.
Since the article title is different now, I assume a moderator looked at it at some point. IIRC, they check all instances of the flame war detector firing, to prevent false positives. In this case, they probably didn't find the comments salvageable.

On the other hand, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493033 is currently on the front page after previously disappearing, so the mods seem to have intervened in that case.
Bibio’s Phantom Brickworks do remind me a bit of stone in focus. I think Capel Celyn is an especially beautiful piece, evenmore so if accompanied by the music clip.
Studies, especially in recent years, have shown that punishment is not an effective way of improving on self-destructive behavior. Usually things like procrastination and substance abuse are irrational symptoms of emotional drain and hopelessness, and punishment exacerbates those problems. There was an HN post about it just the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487411. Poverty and debt tend to also protract out from this kind of emotional bankruptcy.

I hold some small hope that despite their lack of empathy, regimes will at least see the practical side of how ineffective this kind of policy is and how much it inevitably will hurt their economy, after trying it out for a while. Hopefully that lesson will be learned while it's still mostly contained to China.
As mentioned in that article, the eeriness comes from him creating the album through lucid dreaming, allegedly. Here's the original interview about that, its pretty fascinating:

Interview with David Toop, March 1994, The Face

Broaching this subject of dreams, he becomes animated and talks a long streak. "This album is really specific," he says, "because 70 percent of it is done from lucid dreaming... To have lucid dreams is to be conscious of being in a dream state, even to be capable of directing the action while still in a dream. I've been able to do it since I was little," Richard explains. "I taught myself how to do it and it's my most precious thing. Through the years, I've done everything that you can do, including talking and shagging with anyone you feel that takes your fancy. The only thing I haven't done is tried to kill myself. That's a bit shady. You probably wouldn't wake up, and you wouldn't know if it had worked, anyway. Or maybe you would.

"I often throw myself off skyscrapers or cliffs and zoom off right at the last minute That's quite good fun. It's well realistic. Eating food is quite smart. Like tasting food. Smells as well. I make foods up and sometimes they don't taste of anything—like they taste of some weird mish-mash of other things."

...

"About a year and a half ago," he says, "I badly wanted to dream tracks. Like imagine I'm in the studio and write a track in my sleep, wake up and then write it in the real world with real instruments. I couldn't do it at first. The main problem was just remembering it. Melodies were easy to remember. I'd go to sleep in my studio. I'd go to sleep for ten minutes and write three tracks - only small segments, not l00 percent finished tracks. I'd wake up and I'd only been asleep for ten minutes. That's quite mental.

"I vary the way I do it, dreaming either I'm in my studio, entirely the way it is, or all kinds of variations. The hardest thing is getting the sounds the same. It's never the same. It doesn't really come close to it. When you have a nightmare or a weird dream, you wake up and tell someone about it and it sounds really shit. It's the same for sounds, roughly. When I imagine sounds, they are in dream form. As you get better at doing it, you can get closer and closer to the actual sounds. But that's only 70 percent of it."
> And all we're talking about here is the monetary payout of working at a startup

Fair, I concede my point based on this premise.
Likely they saw him 'bashing cars' and immediately downvoted. People on HN tend to reflexively downvote opinions like this as unrealistic (if it was non-reflexive, they would've seen the caveat at the end there).
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Certainly a fair point.
Ah in that case I don't think you'll have a problem. I had white clover, camomile and timothy hay (the latter I don't recommend, but it's an annual, so easy to recover from ;-) ) in the front and didn't get any complaints about it.

The back yard was HUGE. I had wild daisies, black eyed susans, and a variety of other wild flowers. The previous year I'd grown it in order to bring in butterflies, etc and my one neighbour really liked it because they could see it from their second floor windows. The way I did it was to grow it into about the middle of July and after most of the flowering was finished to mow it down.

I think the other neighbour was trying to sell their house that year and instead of just telling me they made a complaint to the city. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it wasn't my neighbours (who I was friendly with) but their real estate agent. Like I said, I was not worried about it at all, but having the city inspector to come to your house and demand that you cut your garden is somewhat stressful (especially if you were planning to grow it out).

You may get some push back from neighbours about the white clover because it is fairly invasive, but probably there isn't anything they can do about it. Anyway, good luck with your lawn! I really enjoyed mine. If you feel like it, mix in some camomile when you overseed. I think you won't regret it (low growing, super soft, smells nice and pretty yellow flowers if you let it grow long enough).
>USA is heading down this road, too. 21 states will suspend your driver's license if you fall behind on student debt.

How are those two connected?!

And what if you need to have a car to ...keep a job and pay your debt (seeing that many cities are built for cars, and not everyone has the luxury to live close to work, or even have a basic public transport).
The last unsolved integer under 100 is 42...
ZIP code should be a number pad for every American, but if someone ships or bills to Canada then you have to have the letters. Not much you can do about that, unfortunately.
Right, and a 45 minute car commute that can't be replaced by public transit is...well, not uniquely American, but certainly a hell of a lot more common in the US than most other developed countries.
Your views of bike activists do not match my experience.

> It's always cringy when bike activists just assume that everybody can get to work on a bike fast and without sweating.

My experience is that people tend to have an inaccurate view of what bike activists believe. I think few would say that most people can switch to cycling without major issues.

As for sweating, my experience is that cyclists tend to argue that some sweating is acceptable, not that people won't sweat. I can recall some people discussing how to reduce how much you sweat to a minimum, but I can't recall anyone claiming that you won't sweat at all.

> But the whole discussion tends to veer into fat shaming real quick.

Having participated in and observed many conversations about cycling, I can't recall that happening once. Can you point out an example?
Being able to respond to & deal with gdocs changes directly within an email has clear advantages for users of gdocs.
With ebikes these days, you probably can. And you can generally adjust how much assistance they give to match your circumstances.
Support a language that billions use is a bad thing?
That's strange, as dereferencing an invalid pointer in C++ will not cause anything to be thrown. In the best case you immediately get a segfault; if you're unlucky the code just goes on reading random data from memory and crashing some time after that.
No passengers on board and unrelated to the MCAS.
Sure, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Evaluating/comparing/benchmarking your competitors is something that everyone, including Apple, does daily.

Now, my understanding is that both Apple and Samsung initially agreed not to present any evidence from the "trade dress" part of the lawsuit that might mislead the jury's ruling on other part of the lawsuit (eg, design patent infringement). Apple waited until the last minute to submit the 140+page document. Samsung in response submitted theirs, but was rejected. Samsung's lawyer Quinn went a bit batsh*t crazy at this point (https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/31/3209204/samsung-angers-ju...).

This kind of shenanigan went on over and over again throughout the trial -- for example, see again Mueller's comment on adversal jury instruction that was granted to Apple, but not Samsung because Samsung's motion (or "me too" complaint as Mueller described) was filed after the supposed deadline that never existed, or just two days after Apple had filed theirs. (this was reversed after a brief public uproar).

You know it wasn't pure coincidence that the FTC brought the Qualcomm case to Lucy Koh's desk in Apple's backyard.
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Email has in some ways sat around in the gutter but media reasons are not why. The protocols are insanely complex and archaic and you need about 20 bits of software to actually run an email server. And then its all completely insecure because email was never built with end to end crypto.

imap is so insane that every email provider reinvented it to have a sane api for their web client and app. Fastmail also created JMAP to have a standard json api for email.
Ex-Amazon SDE here.

A lot of this has changed.

First, there is a movement to build a lot of services in Native AWS instead of MAWS/Apollo.

Apollo doesn't require copying configs anymore; you can have the config exist as part of the package you are deploying. Generally, that's a best practice.

Pipelines can be configured as code too.

There is a centralized log service which requires onboarding.
It does require some commandline tools, but it works. The logs get stored on S3, IIRC.

If containers suits your needs, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone telling you not to use it. Generally, though, you would want to use bare metal for Amazon's scale.

There is also a change to how NPM is being used at Amazon. It was a lot easier towards the end of my tenure, and was probably as close as it would get when working with Amazon's build systems.

Amazonians are generally conservative and don't use the latest and greatest unless it solves an actual customer need. Customer Obsession is still the defining leadership principle.
>As I've been reminded countless times, "driving is a privilege not a right".

That's just a BS saying, not some rule of nature.

Societies should define what is a privilege and what is a right.

Do you think if there was a referendum on this specific matter (and not tied to 200 other policy questions, like general elections are), people would vote that "yeah, indeed driving is a privilege"?
Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted for Articles 11 and 13; EU Says Too Bad
The best thing I can think of that fits what you're asking is an Actor framework (which abstracts the compute and message passing between objects for you).

Think Akka or New Orleans, etc.
No one is going to send you an amp email. Amp emails seem only useful for marketing spam
Also, yes, I do take likes/dislikes into consideration. It's a very helpful tool that helps me see when I've done something people really didn't like or liked a lot. For example, my editorial on Google's AlphaStar was very well received: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e0bf0...
Arguably it does indirectly - e.g. being able to say that you're responsible for Popular Tool X might help your brand, make it easier to make sales, etc
Goo Google!

Amp site are the best!

Can't wait to use amp email.
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I did, once, when I was at school. It was great - everything was so fast to type, the program (a somewhat complex game) would fit in on two screens. I almost finished it in a week.

And the I had exams, and did not touch the computer for two weeks. When I came back, I forgot it all. Cx? Dzy? Those names were meaningless.

This was a very importantly lesson - programs must be maintaineable. Unless you want to spend your entire life working on a single piece of software, you want to be able to context switch, and do it quickly.
> But if the upside of investing in a startup won't reasonably beat the market then you're essentially taking a pay cut.

Like the OP said, if you look at it only from a financial point of view then joining a start-up is probably a worst financial decision compared to joining an established company.

The OP mentioned that going the start-up way has provided him/her with unique skills that then were of great help in his/her career. I can chime in with my own anecdote and say that joining a start-up/small-ish company has provided me with a greater will to do the actual work, a greater sense of purpose compared to me potentially having chosen to work for en established/bigger company.

I'm in this job (I'm a programmer) for the long run, I genuinely think that had I chosen to work at a big company my mental health would have been in shambles because I would have felt as an insignificant cog in the corporate machine no matter the compensation.
>But say, if he hadn't been sent to prison, would he have paid child support then?

The amount could have been ordered to be taken from his bank account, or confiscated from his salary directly from his employer or payment system, or taken from his property.

There's absolutely nothing that necessitates that he is sent to prison if he merely can't pay.

Only if he has money and doesn't pay (and that after accounting for his food and rent expenses at a nominal minimal fee), or hides money that he could have used to pay.
> Plenty of ways to get a credit card without credit history (secured credit cards are typically easiest) and as long as you pay it off before the statement due date

How it works? What the reason for a bank to give credit without interest? I just do not believe it. System must have a way to get interest. If system says it charges no interest, it means that interest payments are hidden. Either behind transactions fees, or by fixed costs covering maintanance of credit card, or by some other ways.
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Is that the only thing that makes you raise your eyebrow?

:)
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Didn't personally play with it, but UHC (ultra hardcore, aka PVP with only one live) from a bunch of streamers used it for one season. It was pretty fun to watch: https://youtu.be/WfHtL07nvcE?t=73
You got to add also the networking effect, when you work for a startup you tend to meet more people from other companies whether other startups or higher up people in regular companies that interact with your startup. That helped me a lot during my career.

I have worked in all kind of environments and still prefer the startup environment even as an employee but usually I try to get there early enough to have some substantial shares. The only difference is that when I was young I couldn't care less about hours and now I pick startups where the culture is not so crazy in terms of working hours. It is just much more fun and flexible than a big company and I am willing to take the salary cut for the lifestyle. I spend much more my time with my kids than most people I know who are working for big corporates.
How many of that 5% live in places where public transit is even a meaningful option for them to get to work?

How much of the country is that, again?

What's that ratio in the places where it isn't?
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Isn't one of the main points of Tor that other than by knowing that an IP is an exit node, no one is able to tell you're using it? And .onion resolution is entirely client side, no?
Also, keep in mind that China has an economy right now that is in many ways precarious, and big parts of that include corruption and debt. That doesn't make this right, but it makes it more understandable and contextual, and may bode better for the rest of the world's countries which aren't in that kind of situation (and for future China).
Chris Gammell of Contextual Electronic and Amp Hour fame? Boy I better not screw this up! :D

Bad news: I use Altium

Good news: I’m trying out kicad on my spare time (feel free to take the credit)

As to the question, Altium is quite flexible in regards to using a database as a library, but it is riddled with bugs, workarounds and generally weird stuff. I’ve tried from the extremely simple to the overly complex. In that order:

- Easy level: Excel files on a shared NAS.

Pros:

* easy to set up.

* easy to convince management to try it out.

Cons:

* Not really a database

* You need to close Altium to add parts (this is very frustrating during sch capture)

- Medium level: Acces database (mdb) on a shared NAS

Pros:

* easy to set up (not as quite as excel but similar)

* you can add parts from inside Altium itself (with limited input interface)

Cons:

* because of how buggy Altium is the database tends to get completely corrupted. Almost daily backups are mandatory.

* You need to set up a form for part management, directly editing the mdb files is a path to disaster even with as little as 2 people.

Insane level: SQL server on AWS. Conected to local LAN through VPN. A simple php CRUD on apache for management.

Pros:

* Can handle heavish loads (a T2 micro can support about a dozen hardware engineers working in parallel)

* should be more scalable

* hides a lot of the complexity of the database for the junior engineers.

* small sized NAS won’t suffer while someone is generating a BOM.

* changes to database are more manageable if someone on the team knows sql.

* more reliable and resilient to altium bugs

Cons:

* No internet connection means no one works.

* possibly the most expensive solution

PS: I’m on my phone, I’ll reformat stuff when I get my pc to make it more legible
Turning the question around, Firefox also makes mobile browsers, so why should they have created Lockbox at all?

There are many reasons to want to use different browsers:

* Your spouse prefers a different browser

* Firefox doesn't work as well on MacOS as Windows/Linux

* You need to use multiple browsers for testing

* You currently use Firefox everywhere, but don't want to be locked into that decision.

The only reason I don't use Firefox Sync is because I don't want my password manager tied to single browser. I would have pounced on this in a heartbeat if a chrome plugin to Sync was available a year ago.
Apparently the author of jwz.org doesn't like HN. This is him, by the way:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170125134508/http://sleepmode....
>Apple continues to push the patent exhaustion angle saying they don't owe anything.

Thanks for the pointer, will look it up when I have time.

But is that what they are really pushing though? I don't seems to read anything in regards to this. Apple has a dispute with pricing, and whether it should be charged a flat rate instead of % of devices. But I don't see Apple trying to argue for patent exhaustion and Intel should be paying for it.
> I'm sure someone's going to point out that Comcast likely isn't any better…

Google search: comcast http injection.

Results from 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 ... all of them seem "surprised" about Comcast modifying HTTP stream data...

Comcast even published an RFC for it: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108

Comcast even goes so far as to claim that it's "more" secure: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108#section-10
If there was a 5% the market would crash 50% tomorrow. Would you call that an almost certainty that it wouldn't happen? You wouldn't hedge your risk? If there was a 5% that you would die tomorrow, you wouldn't feel concerned?

5% is huge.
Not robust at all. It assumes that the person who set up the cameras and the network is basically just an amateur. Anyone with even a basic level of expertise in networking could architect their network so that cameras would be completely hidden from devices on whatever network guests would join.
It was brought up a long time ago that it was not valid HTML around the earlier days of the AMP project - https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/472

It was kept in because it is fun, apparently.