skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss the closeness to the machine that programming an 8-bit computer embodies. There was a brief explosion of Flash games that might have been similar but at a higher level. Now we have JavaScript+HTML+CSS which seems so abstracted. I feel a bit sorry for newer generations that do not get the chance to learn not just software but hardware to go with it. Even the PC up to SVGA cards still had that. Everything's more powerful now, including the tools to make software which is better for making larger works but something was lost. At least indie game dev's have kept aesthetics and focus on gameplay alive.
Most clients don't wrap in a way that helps readability, though. Look at Hacker News comments for example. At 1:1 zoom the text is spread out across the screen in super-wide lines that are hard to read. The classic recommended 72-char hard wrap guarantees a good reading experience on all but the narrowest of screens.
What I like about Linus's summary is that it articulates which use cases matter; "here are the tools I am using, make my experience pleasant."

Use the same spelling conventions as the auto-generated messages seems a reasonable request.
I mean, it's great that you thrived and didn't cause any huge issues as you got up to speed but uh...

...surely we can all agree that this is highly sub-optimal right?

> My team races at a million miles per hour, and frankly doesn't have the time to hand-hold a juniour as they learn the ropes. I was put on pagerduty and started putting out production fires within 3 weeks of being hired. With no prior experience.

I'm not saying this applies to you, but by experience has been that very well performing teams are so productive that they can be measured and calm. Overtime isn't needed, emergencies are rare, and "fires in production" don't happen, because the team is so far ahead of the curve. Whereas once a team starts to cut corners on documentation and processes, then more and more emergencies start to crop up, and all of a sudden it's crunch mode 24/7.

> My manager during performance reviews would heap praise on me for being so green and yet so low-maintenance.

Okay. I recently had a conversation with my manager about two recent hires. One asked a lot of questions, has become productive incredibly quickly, and is extremely well liked by the team. The second has been very low maintenance, has been very reluctant to ask questions, has been very slow to become productive. My conversation with my manager basically centred on how great the fist dev is, and how we can make sure future hires are more like the first dev, and less like the second dev.

Low maintenance is not really a trait I would want to optimise on.

> Coming from basically nothing. Allow me to brag a little bit. I'm proud of myself.

As you should be. But I would suggest that the average new hire, in your shoes, would certainly have come even further if they'd been given a healthy environment. You might as well.

> It is stressful, there are long hours involved, but the experience hardens one for sure.

Yeah, I'm just going to say it: That sort of stress is not good, and long hours simply aren't something we as an industry should expect or condone.

I would interpret the linked article as "good environments are better that stink ones", which is true. I would interpret your comment as "skilled and/or lucky devs can survive stink environments", which is also true. But just because you can doesn't mean it isn't better to not have to!
Substitute humility for salt and personality for the tripe and cabbage. That was Christ’s message after all, right? Beyond any supernatural phenomena, the whole New Testament seems to be a testament to humility. Like, ‘I am literally God and even I am not above washing another person’s feet, get over yourselves Romans’.
My friend launched EnvKey (https://www.envkey.com/) completely solo and grew it slowly over time. He eventually went through YC and took on investment but the first few years were bootstrapped. But he's still solo with a few freelancers.
> a new generation born and grown up entirely digitally and connected

The 'new generation' seems to want to sit on their collective arses and watch movies & music for free, but not contribute to the cost of their creation.

I'm all ears as to why their selfish, immediate-gratification desires should be considered.

'The old business model is broken!' they exclaim. Well then, stop consuming its output and go out there and CREATE better content. But most of them decline to do so. Hypocrites.
It seems like the type of empathy taught in the 1970s had a very specific purpose: prevent the world they knew from going up in flames through nuclear war.

And the type of tribal empathy people show together has the same purpose: prevent their world (in the form of values, customs, traditions, and other things they hold sacred) from going up in flames through inaction and the erosion of others not holding those believes.

It makes me wonder how much empathy is coupled with fear. I've read that the post-WW2 unionized capitalism, the Marshall plan, all of the egalitarian civil society built up in the 50s and beyond was supported by the capitalist elite because just about everything was viewed as superior to the devastation of WW2. People were willing to sacrifice some of their personal wealth because the alternative was losing all of it, and oftentimes their lives as well.

Memories of war have faded from most of the developed world. Perhaps it'll take a refresher before people remember why all of those institutions that preserve social stability were necessary in the first place.
> The complexity of engineering that goes into a high-performance modem is nothing to sneeze at

For Apple to make a 5G modem that's competitive on power and area with Qualcomm's will be a significant feat. But Apple's got some really good design teams and I'm sure they'll figure it out eventually.
Posted my zstd 1.4.0 compression benchmarks https://community.centminmod.com/threads/round-3-compression... - looking good :)
Apparently solution to heaps of unmanageable yaml is... templated unmanageable yaml
This compares against the opportunity cost of investing the initial down payment, but does not seem to factor the opportunity cost of ongoing carry costs.

For example, I was able to easily craft a model where my expected monthly income was negative. (Just bump the expected annual costs to 2.0%, which is actually more realistic since 1.0% = tax and 1.0% = maintenance.)

Surely the couple hundred dollars a month could also be continuously invested and producing returns if they weren’t being driven into the real estate asset.
Where does it say that? I've read the article twice now, and nowhere does it say that Apple internal memos tried to say Qualcomm's patents were somehow inferior. What it said was they intentionally licensed less-expensive patents to try and make Qualcomm's look more expensive, but that's the argument I already addressed.
I build my own custom tar 1.32 rpm with zstd support https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-tar-archiver... and can confirm you can pass options that way.
The FTC would have you believe that Qualcomm leveraged its patent portfolio in order to unload low quality chips. If that were true, then it would seem to be harming the marketplace. But in reality the chips are market leaders because they deliver superior performance/value, not because of patent leverage.

Obtw it's very likely that Apple applied leverage to convince FTC to bring their suit.
> it is impossible for a copy of the Mueller report to be infringement since it cannot be copyrighted

This is specious reasoning. The report could contain an independent copyrighted material, like a previously published poem verbatim, "used with permission". So copies could be automatically flagged for infringement of that material.

The "public domain" document is tainted.
For me the most important aspect is the use of a VPN, security software, and the combination of multiple layers of authentication. These are of course just general good practices, but how you implement them is what's unique compared to Windows or Linux. A full list would be too long for an HN comment, but a few months ago I put together something of a reference guide listing the methods I apply to secure Macs in a roughly organized fashion. It's brief in most aspects, but but hopefully it can be of use to someone. It's licensed under Creative Commons, so feel free to redistribute it. I've uploaded it to iTunes[1], but if Freedom is a concern I can email[3] a PDF of it directly.

[1]
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/kickstart-security-macos-mo...

[2]
contact@austinlasota.com
You'd have to show a harm.

It's about as bad as the mailman losing your letter. So what? If it was important, you would have insured/certified it.
should be the same though zstd defaults to 1 cpu thread AFAIK so probably why you seeing differences ?
How does Japan do?

Those might be the group who lost their job to China.
That's actually one of the great things about being bootstrapped and profitable. I can grow naturally and I don't need to scale rapidly and hit huge customer numbers to keep VCs happy.

I'm in this for the long run. Even if 90% of my customers left me tomorrow then I would keep this going as a side gig.

I'm also able to facilitate customers that want to move off the ToDesktop platform to their own (i.e. built in-house) desktop app. Just send me on your binaries and I'll push an auto-update to your customers that gets them onto your new desktop app and your new auto-update platform. I charge $200 once-off for this currently and this feature will never be priced to force people to stay on the platform. The only reason for the charge right now is that it's a manual process so I charge consultancy rates.
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There really isn't any need to templatize kubernetes. They have auto-generated client libraries for most popular languages which let you define configurations as code, and serialize to json/yaml of that's what you want.
It's pretty good, thanks!
That's not how this works. The prosecution and the defendant can agree to about what they'll ask for, but it's ultimately up to the judge to sentence. Prosecutors can't "offer him a sentence".
Very nice! I posted on the other thread about pigeonsms.com. It’s built 100% in Elixir with Phoenix framework.

If you’re ever looking for a collab or another content creator for elixir courses it’s something I’ve been thinking of getting in to. HMU if you want to do something like that.
Installing ublock origin is far preferable to an old version of Firefox or an old version of Firefox with branding.
Thanks!

Yeah you're totally right about taxes — it does make a big difference. We had to make simplifications somewhere, and taxes are quite country-specific so we didn't want to be too prescriptive. We hoped you could increase "Annual Costs" as a very rough proxy for taxes.

Cashflow is a really good point, and something we hadn't considered much. You can get a rough idea of cashflow in the "Net monthly earnings" section of the output, but it probably deserves more focus for sure.

Operational headache is interesting to account for haha — we'll add these things to the model explanation :)
With more than 100.000 millennials taking to the streets in parts of Europe alone [0], and many suggestions on how to do it differently and better, ignored by „the internet is a series of tubes“ politicians, your claim of „collective passive consumption arse sitting“ doesn’t sit right with me.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-copyright-bill-protests-across-euro...
As others have pointed out this model is oversimplified and doesn’t break out maintenance and taxes. 1% is unreasonably low for both considering that 1% is a low property tax rate first of all and second because rental income itself is taxable.

Another point in actual real estate proformas is expected vacancy and leasing costs. Ie. you will have tenants leave and when you do it isn’t always easy or fast to find good tenants to replace them.

There’s also the significant consideration of transaction costs missing. Conservatively you should budget 8% to sell and 4% to buy.

The asset is also highly illiquid compared to stocks, and also has ups and downs just like the stock market but in slow motion. If you happen to want to cash out your equity during a downturn it can be years before you get back to where you’d be with your “long term expected appreciation.”

And one last bit: since a house isn’t fungible you need to accumulate the entire downpayment all at once, and to liquidate you must sell it all at once, whereas stocks you can accumulate and release incrementally.

TLDR; this model makes it look a lot more attractive than it really is to be a single-property landlord.
Can you give some examples? I don't understand what you mean by autogenerated client libraries, unless you mean the python and go clients. Those aren't for kubernetes yamls, though.
> professional audience

Who?
Thanks!! The Loadster Fuel option is just that, where you buy a bunch of "fuel" (credits) and use it whenever you need to run tests. Each unit of fuel is enough to run 1 virtual user for 1 hour and it never expires.

Loadster's revenue split is something like 70/30 between MRR and Fuel. As the founder, of course, I love MRR, but many customers are like you and load testing is an occasional activity where it wouldn't make sense to have a recurring commitment.

I do always wonder how much friction it causes having two separate pricing models... pricing is hard.
There seem to be Series 30 phones still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_30%2B#Made_by_HMD
By making it possible to disable it, you are adding fingerprintable bits of entropy to your browser.

Concerns about this were also the reason why toggling the sending of the DNT header was removed for example.
testssl looks good. thanks
This is nearly always and for nearly everything, the right answer.

Even that article sort of acknowledges this, when it talks about being ultra conservative in your estimations of when this solution will start to fall apart.

Facebook can clearly not "just store all the photos and images in the db! It's less complex!" Same with Google.

To 4 or 5 or more nines of certainty, whatever you're working on doesn't now and never will have Facebook scale problems. And if it _does_, hopefully your business plan has you wallowing in cash-on-hand to pay teams of other smart engineers to help you solve that problem. (I'll respect you more if that pile of cash comes from customers buying your shit, but I'll acknowledge that wallowing in VC money you've raised on hockeystick growth or engagement numbers is also a valid path.)

If your business plan doesn't explain how you'll pay for a db.r4.16xlarge (or your cloud provider or on-prem db vendor's equivalent) with the number of users (or transactions/whatever-your-apporpriate-metric) that a topped-out vertically scaled db can support doing things the "easy and least complicated way", perhaps _that's_ a more important problem to be working on that ACID compliant deletion of user photos...
If that were the case, reproducing the quoted parts of the copyrighted material embedded in a complete reproduction of the public-domain report would almost certainly fall under the fair use exception. The law is written to be interpreted by reasonable people, and computers are neither reasonable nor people — this sort of automatic detection should only be used to trigger a human review and not directly make enforcement actions.
> That sounds like it will undermine the copyright system.

That's not a good thing.

Copyright has been abused and copyright lifetimes dramatically extended past what should be reasonable. But the fundamental goal of copyright is laudable, and the current copyright system is better than no system.

Perhaps you're confusing copyright with software patents? There are many arguments against the latter, but the arguments against software patents don't apply to the general case of copyrights.

> DMCA gives complete copyright immunity to platforms, as long as they respond to take down requests.

If a platform makes it hard to file a takedown, and easy to simply re-upload a new infringing copy of the copyrighted work, then I'm absolutely certain IP holders would sue the platform and claim that they're violating the DMCA. By providing a safe haven for piracy they'd be encouraging infringing activity on their systems, which would then cause them to fail the "red flag" test.

I don't know if the IP holders would necessarily succeed in their lawsuit, but you can bet they'd try, and surely the platform doesn't want to spend the time and effort to try and defend against that.
I've been looking on Redfin for potential investment properties in SF but I cannot find a single home on the market where rent would remotely cover the mortgage.
> when they make eventually make their own modems

As a former person who was aware of Blackberry Mobility's Modem Firmware division by working within it.... LOL!
I was speaking in the context of the cloud. If you are using S3, I presume you are using AWS EC2 or other services. Otherwise network egress costs dwarf everything else for most use cases. Except maybe as a repo of database backups.
Little electric car is the coolest thing at the NY Auto Show
I'd say the main inspiration was Bitkeeper, which is what Linus used until the free usage was withdrawn by the author.
Does anyone have a handy hyperlink auditing test website to check your current browser?
Look, the simple matter is that commit messages are designed from the bottom up to be a medium of prose in the same way email is. I would venture to guess that an email written with good grammar, capitalizes subject (that is less then 50 characters), and a articulated thoughts would ecstatically welcomed compared to the drivel we normally recieve. Commit messages are no different. If one feels that a one liner is sufficient to establish context because the code is so impeccable then that is nothing short of arrogance.

Think of commits like little emails. They have a subject that should fit in a subject cell of a table. They have a body. And they have attachments (the diffs).

Why wrap lines? Because it is text. If you feel every client ever created handles wrapping appropriately then I’d ask to move the rock you’ve been under. For 30 years I’ve watched client after client screw up text wrapping. Heck, just sample a few government websites. By claiming commit messages are text you are taking back control of the crazy cesspool that is the modern app era and crafting a prose and typesetting fit for your own high standards.

As Steve Jobs once quoted: “Be a yard stick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.“
No. the problem here wasn't that Apple was a tough negotiator, but that it also lied to regulators around the world that QCOM violated their FRAND obligation by overcharging.

The FTC obviously had no such proof that QCOM was "overcharging" or breached their FRAND obligation, so instead they used the euphemism like "elevated fee" to describe QCOM's licensing practice. In other regulatory investigation, QCOM wasn't even allowed full access to Apple's false testimony (eg, rebates for exclusivity or Apple's switch to Intel), much less representation to respond to its accusation.
Thanks for writing that out, very interesting.

I find this concept of a black hole's surface having the contents inscribed on it to be really difficult for me to imagine; but I can take people's word for it, and it does explain away the paradox.

This reminds me that from some vantage points the universe seems so arbitrary sometimes. This is probably just my human intuition, but personally it just appears to me that nature is not really always elegant, but rather has these work-arounds and different layers to it to keep it working. Not unlike my terrible code.
Does Carbohydrates Cause Acne?
Galaxy Fold teardown is all hinges, ribbon cables, and screens ready to break
Seems worth it to me.

Whereas building it yourself does not.

You spent $1000+ of your time building it (assuming you can find freelance work) to save $60/yr
'MalwareTech' security researcher pleads guilty
No. The literal definition of the economic drag on value creation is "rent seeking".

Be a part of the solution and build something. Do not be a part of the problem and become a landlord.
China unveils colossal Mars imitation base camp in Gobi desert
Some systems are worth having. Taxing idle wealth instead of productive work would be a good system. Rewarding work instead of cutting off benefits would be a good system.

The system we have helps people who don't work but does little to help poor working people and IMO isn't worth having.
DNT support was removed from Firefox? When did this happen?

Probably good for the reasons you mention considering DNT is dead anyway.
You're right that the irresponsible behavior of tech giants today makes what Microsoft did in the 90s look harmless. But only by comparison. It's dangerous because in this case hindsight is not 20/20. What Microsoft was doing in the 90s wasn't harmless. It was, at the very least, a step on the path that led to the very behavior we're condemning from others now. And besides that, their behavior was objectively harmful.
Is there a prose-free science version? What is the information content of the article?
I feel obliged to confess here that whenever I come upon "NVM" in text like this I have to remind myself not to just skip to the next paragraph (because "nevermind").
You had me until in agreement until this:
"dictate what is and is acceptable speech for their platform"

You build your own platform if you don't like it - free software people do, so can you.
That's exactly what the FTC did during their trial. The FTC lined up QCOM's competitors and had them testify that QCOM's patents were insignificant/inferior compared to their own patent portfolio. I'm fairly sure that this repertoire was in Apple lawyer's play too.
I wonder what all of this is like from an engineer’s perspective. I imagine a lot of internal resources were aimed at the problem. There must have been a tremendous amount of pressure to ship something that was ultimately thwarted by the quality of Qualcomm’s product. I’m no hardware engineer, and I’m sure some of the particulars are private... but there is probably a remarkable story there.
It's also an interesting case of language extensibility benefits. Spec is just a library. And its spritual predecessor, Prismatic/Plumatic Schema, was also just a library. This enabled the markers of spec to learn from a body of usage when creating spec with an eye of making it a a standard feature, first as the spec.alpha library and hopefully now the final form.

An always-on static type system could not develop this way.
Crux – open-source bitemporal database
I am not a lawyer - I would appreciate it if a lawyer could confirm or reject my understanding - I think it's actually the opposite (but take this with a grain of salt):

This would be a derivative work of the material it is quoting. Derivative works aren't protected by both the original copyright and the copyright of the person who prepared the derivative work, only the latter. Since the US government does not gain a copyright on derivative works that means the entire derivative work is in the public domain. You can make copies of it, distribute it, prepare further derivative works (such as cutting out everything except the poem! Though maybe not a good idea to test that plan), etc.

The only exception to this would be (I think) if the report was created in violation of copyright law, but there's no way that this would not be found to be fair use. All the standard factors are in it's favor. There is a strong public good in it's favor.
I launched https://travelmap.net as a side project 5 years ago but now I'm working full-time on it. I preferred that than freelancing ;)