skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I understand chasing dreams, but be prepared for the outcome.

Since when is a degree about “chasing a dream”? We aren’t talking about starving artists or people pursing acting or becoming a professional athlete.

These are 18 year old kids who are pursuing an education and wind up in a mountain of debt they will service for the rest of their lives (at least 30-40 years).

In a world where the system is set up so these 18 year olds have to take on debt to obtain an education. These kids shouldn’t be blamed for the shit economy that doesn’t have jobs and the jobs that are available won’t be sufficient to repay their loans.

1million student loans are defaulted on every year, these are not dreamchasers its an entire generation that is finding there is no more middle class in this country rather a new unemployed/underemployed/indebted class.
Not even close to anti-trust triggering size though
If you don't trust TurboTax as a company why did you use their software? It's not like they are the only tax prep software in existence.
I found my own solution a while back. I started reading newspapers. The up to the minute need for news is total and utter bullshit for like 95% of the population. Being a day behind on news is literally no different to me than knowing within an hour of it happening.

Someone is going to mention politics, I know it. Let me beat you to it. What have you done same day when a politician you hated did something? Of consequence of course. Angry twating on twitter doesn’t count.

Newspapers are fucking awesome. Easy to read. Easy as hell to skim. Headlines are 95% accurate to their article. Ads don’t track you and in truth, aren’t that lame in the paper compared to online. Granted I mostly read WSJ and sometimes NYTimes. But never online. Only reason I check CNN online is to see if there’s a catastrophe. Like when Notre Dame became an unholy gate to hell. Other than that, the news is pretty useless to begin with.
Use at own risk* [1]

[1] https://github.com/plaid/link/issues/68
Stamets is an interesting guy who should never be considered an authority on anything other than the psychedelic experience. He's fun to listen to, but he's a total crank when it comes to actual reproducible science.
Why Mathematics Works So Well [pdf]
Do you have a good reference link to learn more about what you're talking about?
Close the company? If he’s not working in good faith, why should you? Of course consult a lawyer before you go that route.
I don’t know if this has been done but I suppose a good use of the `<time>` element would be for browser addons to target it and use the `datetime` attribute for something like “add to calendar (ical)” or “translate the text content to my locale” or something similar.
There's also Mailbox which offers the same kind of payment and is very similar to Posteo as far as I know.
We’re all one GDPR violation from bankruptcy.

Time to put some EU risk takers and ambulance chasing lawyers in Sacramento together for freedom. Would make a great startup.
It doesn't matter what you want. The job market has already spoken.
> Newspapers are meant to be a source of accurate, current information on topics that are relevant to the continued health and progress of society.

They never ever meant to be that. They always meant to do one thing and one thing only - influence opinions. So it's hard to figure out an honest way of paying for news, because that would mean paying for newspapers that advance your interests, but reach and try to influence other people with different interests. This is also the reason why bias is not really a problem, biased news is just news as they meant to be. You just call them biased when you don't like who is trying to influence you, but nevertheless influence is always there and is what news are about.

In general big news publishers are bad for society, since they concentrate too much influence over significant parts of it.
I'm going to guess the proprietors of this company haven't thought that far ahead, and instead are banking on growing large enough, fast enough, that it won't be their problem.
Angular has server side rendering capabilities, called universal angular app, which allows sending HTML pre-rendered to the client similar to Next.js or Nuxt.js.
There are soo many concerns out there...it is really hard to deal with it as a consumer.

All these nano technologies for food-related products might slightly help the bottom line...(slight flavor increase, slight improvement in shelf life..etc...) of some companies, but I am not sure those small gains are worth the risk to public health...and to mental health. The gains just don't seem important enough. We already are good enough at food preservation and production.
Mark Gurman just released a podcast [0] with Phillip Shoemaker, former Apple head of App Store Review. Here is an article [1] summarizing their conversation. Some interesting takeaways:

- Most automation has been removed from the process, since Phil Schiller took over. Each approval goes through a human (rejections can be automated)

- Google Voice rejection fiasco [2] probably originated from internal politicking and fear of competition.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-05-28/wwdc-preview...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/why-did-a...

[2] - https://www.pcworld.com/article/169179/Apple_Rejects_Google_...
I have been self-hosting for over 20 years using self-signed certificates, now widely described by current browsers as "unsafe and suspicious." My clients receive my emails without issue, whether they have Microsoft-hosted, Google-hosted, email servers, etc. or their own private self-hosted servers. As do any other service I interact with via email.

Being bounced as spam not an issue for me.
I've been on fastmail for a while too an I'm quite satisfied. Yes, web interface is ugly, but I use a mail client on my computer most of the time (mutt!) so it doesn't matter that much for me.
Okay, now try to.

You need an existing account, which you can't get if you:

- disable javascript

- don't verify with a phone number

- get stuck in captcha hell

verify with a phone number is notorious for blocking google voice number blocks and detecting devices that aren't pinging cell towers
Relevant article by former App Approval Chief at Apple: https://medium.com/@phillipshoemaker/apple-v-everybody-59030...
Abstract:

A major question in philosophy of science involves the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics. Why should mathematics, created or discovered, with nothing empirical in mind be so perfectly suited to describe the laws of the physical universe? We review the well-known fact that the symmetries of the laws of physics are their defining properties. We show that there are similar symmetries of mathematical facts and that these symmetries are the defining properties of mathematics. By examining the symmetries of physics and mathematics, we show that the effectiveness is actually quite reasonable. In essence, we show that the regularities of physics are a subset of the regularities of mathematics.
Lenovo does nothing more than assemblying, and their acts on PC can be easily identified.
That and also:

- dealing with the environment. My program always works perfectly until it moves away from my laptop.

- debugging. If you don't know how to code, good luck to find the error in your system.

- interfacing. Your codeless stuff is going to work fine for everything that it already know. But new stuff are coming. Somebody will need to code for that.

Now I do think that eventually AI will be able to manage all that. And that it will give human a fuzzy codeless experience. But it will take A LOT of time before we get there.
B2B SaaS Conversion Rates for 84 Countries
At least the founders of Posteo show a strong willingness to proceed against attempts of intimidation which they face. See for example

> https://posteo.de/blog/bnetza-entscheidung-zu-posteo-kryptog...

> https://posteo.de/Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerde_Strafanzeige.pdf

(both in German).
Maybe this is the case today. When I went to school EE’s built things, they didn’t just design them. In fact, you would be looked down upon if you could not assemble your own design properly.

Note I said “assemble” not “solder”. At the time (‘80’s) wire-wrapping was a viable prototyping option. Once digital circuit speeds and complexity increased the option evaporated. I must have wire-wrapped thousands of feet of circuits, including a 6502-based multiprocessor robot controller.
`openssl help` ... the macos version hides the `Invalid command '--help'; type "help" for a list.` message.
Martin Eberhard not Elon.
Maintaining your own email infrastructure is a security nightmare on its own right, you are probably better off using Gmail and just GPG encrypting everything unless you really know what you are doing and have a surplus of free time.
My life got a lot better when I stopped believing anything and just decided that there are maybe one or two things I'm fairly confident are true. As in, I'm pretty confident that I exist, and fairly confident that you do. But I couldn't prove either of those, and everything else is basically up for grabs.
christ. how much free time did you have as a kid?
Yup! This image from a nature really helped me

https://media.nature.com/w800/magazine-assets/d41586-018-078...

paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07848-2
Maybe a micro-kernel that just runs the networking stack and couple of drivers for any custom h/w they're using?

I also wonder if by optimizing for some combination of battery life, battery size, device size, Cost, QPS required, Sensors on-board we'll end up with something that has interesting monitoring capabilities in very remote regions.
You can buy and sell Protonmail accounts on Empire, Nightmare (formerly Dream) and other marketplaces
Ask HN: What is a good book on operating systems?
I just finished reading this book (based on recs found here): https://dataintensive.net/buy.html. And thought it was excellent. Can some recommend a book with similar level content + explanations on OSs. I'm and EE undergrad, but am looking for something higher level if possible.
Stick to the standard diet advice[1], ignore articles like these, and get on with your life.

[1] "Eat Food. Mostly plants. Not too much." Google it if you need more context.
How are they better? Your emails aren't even encrypted so they can read your emails anytime they want.
I may be entirely misunderstanding what the point of this is, but wouldn't it be better if they just made their API unhorrible and let people use their own components?
Uber is now kicking low-rated passengers out of its cars
So, working as intended, no?
I'm excited for it, but if it ends up being not in chronological order it's a non starter for me. You can pry my neatly ordered 1 line tall list of RSS feeds from my cold dead hands.
Re: It is if you're doing it right.

Well, okay, but the typical suggestion is to use async/await even if your app logic is not currently intended to be divided that way. Is it a "keep up good habits" suggestion? Unless scaling up happens a lot in a shop in a way that can be app-side parallelitized, I'd say YAGNI dictates to leave it out of app logic. (I deal mostly with database-heavy work-oriented CRUD-ish apps, not social networking and ad-funded sites, by the way.)

Re: If a request takes 10x as long, it will have 10x requests in flight at any given time.

That assumes the app logic is "parallelitized" per above, doesn't it? Otherwise, the processing time per request shouldn't be different because async/await-ing database/network calls will not make them process faster by itself.

By the way, I couldn't find much info on "session cookie servers". Is that usually a roll-your-own kind of task, perhaps with the aid of an API?

Hey, I think your diagram came out as you intended. Kudos! Ascii U.
In other words, in America you have the opportunity, the freedom if you will, to be an idiot.

Jonathan Franzen explores this in _Freedom_.
> Rails is for CPU intensive operations WHILE NodeJS is for IO intensive operations.

The whole comparison they did on this link is flawed.
https://thebittheories.com/rails-vs-nodejs-the-comparison-fe...

AFAIK, from v0.12 NodeJS was always faster than Ruby runtime. Although author might be referring to some c-extension hacks which Rails framework uses.

Ruby Vs NodeJS computation benchmark:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> Ruby is multi-threaded in its operations in contrast to NodeJS which makes it much better for CPU intensive operations.

>NodeJS is single threaded and was designed for heavy I/O bound applications and is great in this domain. BUT when it comes to heavy computing requirements, NodeJS is terrible.

OMG people still don't understand concurrency and parallelism and how to reap out maximum throughput out of CPU bound an IO bound tasks.
This is definitely not true (source, myself -- sans degree). You have to do something though. Github, community projects, start a small business...

University takes an incredible amount of time and money. If people put their resources into more independent endeavours, they'd certainly see a return on the investment greater than most college degrees.

If you've done something interesting (and really having a degree isn't all that interesting), then large companies will be happy to talk to you.
Spies with that? Police can snoop on McDonald's and Westfield WiFi customers
tutanota.com is a good one.
Youre looking for the word "Mentat" (Dune human 'computers'. They were used after the AI war that turned computers against humans. When the humans won, they banned all forms of machine learning.)

And that's how facial recog is legal. Its legal to put people in public and write down who they are. So its legal for a computer to do it.

And I even wrote my own for a 2015 maker convention and deployed this. No GPU, no internet. CPU bound and worked very well: https://hackaday.com/2015/03/04/face-recognition-for-your-ne...

Aside lawmakers restricting law-upholders (hah), we've got a snowballs chance in hell in solving this.

FaceRec is here to stay. :(
My Uber passenger rating is 4.57. I have no idea whether that's good or bad. I'm typically at pick-up points before the drivers are, I sometimes chat with drivers, I always wear my seatbelt, I sit in the back, and I don't make a mess or cause any problems. It's hard to know what I could be doing to get a better rating beyond just bribing drivers with cash tips at the end of the ride. I tend to rate every driver a 5 unless they clearly did something wrong, like insane driving (which happens rarely).

I'd be curious to know what the passenger cut-off ratings are, and what thus what kind of behavior is actually kicking people off the app.

Also, if there's some inherent racial or other protected class bias in the kinds of ratings that people get, then Uber could be in a world of trouble here.
If you truly believe that, please reply to this comment with your full home address.
I agree, Elixir/Phoenix is really great. One advantage Rails still carries though, is the massive Ruby ecosystem.
Do you collect any stats for overall ads blocked?, I wonder how much $$ damage you did to Google finances since you launched your extensions on Chrome and Firefox.
In the UK, about 50% of people go to university but the government is heavily pushing 'apprenticeships' instead. These involve on the job training with (hopefully) a professional qualification.

Some apprenticeships are just in it for the tax breaks, but others are worthwhile, such as engineering at Rolls Royce or accounting at the B4 (accountants don't actually need a degree in UK, unlike CPAs in US, but they take more exams).
> I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients.

Barret stopped selling to CA government agencies after CA banned "regular peasants" from owning Barret's flagship product.

That said, this situation is very different politically. People aren't going to stop using AWS en-masse because Amazon is helping enable the police state.
Let me speak a joke "IEEE is an institute of technology and academia, not the flunky of U.S.".
No downtime is "unicorn feathers" territory. Extremely low downtime requires redundant systems and a dedicated support team actively trying to head off potential problems. And Gmail still has downtime.

But you're asking the wrong questions. Email itself has retries built in, it doesn't need perfect uptime. What you should be asking is how badly Gmail deciding you might be a spammer and not caring about fixing that for one person is going to torpedo your deliverability rate.
At a previous organization I worked at that operated at this kind of scale, I came up with a couple of maxims:

1. If you're only 99% automated, you're dead.

2. Anything you can easily imagine going wrong is probably going wrong right now.

3. Everything else that can possibly go wrong will go wrong at some point in the not distant future.

Some of the problems we ran into were pretty fun and challenging. The longest substantial one I'm aware of took a couple of years to figure out.
Paid subscriptions. The people bitching about paywalls in reddit and HN comment sections are a loud minority. The fact is, they work and are worth it imo.
Sometimes it is a feature, not bug?
Some of this reads like a “the App Store is not a monopoly” explainer.
Thanks for your hard work, you have made the web massively more useful for hundreds of millions of people.

Never give up the fight.
I’m going to speak with people he mentioned working with to see if he does this regularly, or if some circumstances came up that made him unable to make the investment. If the second, transfer the IP and create a new shell company. If the first, repurpose the business slightly and move it offshore.
I think there can be good and bad Nanoparticles. TiO2 is for looks. But I don’t see an issue with finely ground green tea or table salt.

We should strive to not pollute the term Nano particle because there are good and bad uses and if only bad gets associated with it, it can end up like GMOs where people fear them for no reason —while we can sanction GMOs like roundup crops due to their negative externalities, not all GMOs exhibit bad aspects.
archive link for anyone else who is unable to access the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190529151510/https://steigerle...
Ask HN: Is it ok to drop IE11 support for SaaS product?
We are spending a fair amount of time testing a debugging weird issues with IE 11. Do you think it is ok to simply drop the support since most of our users are engineers and analytics show pretty much zero IE traffic? Have you faced a similar decision recently?
> Now I'm hesitant - what other options are there?

I think you'll have a very hard time finding an email provider that behaves any differently from ProtonMail on this count.
We self-host email for some clients. It is not worth the hassle whatsoever and I highly recommend against doing it. Just getting a clean IP can be a nightmare; We switched hosts for this server and we had to go through nearly 20 IPs. Each one we were assigned had a reputation so poor that it wasn't even feasible for us to get it to a respectable level.
Ask HN: How do you think automation and AI will affect barbershops and salons?
Since most European countries (civil law systems) don't have such high incarceration rates and considering the U.S. (common law system) has one of the highest I don't think it's fair to attribute Louisiana's high incarceration rate to the state's civil law system.

Louisiana is one of the poorest states in the country and has one of the highest contracted private prison quotas in the country (96% occupancy).[1] And until recently, Louisiana had some of the harshest mandatory minimum drug sentencing requirements.[2] They still have harsh mandatory minimums for other offenses. If you're looking for an explanation for Louisiana's criminal justice issues those factors are the far more likely explanations than the existence of a civil law system.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Department_of_Publ...

[2] https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2018/03/pspp_louisi...
Yeah, I would think so. The onboard battery is probably more than sufficient on some of them as well. The pi is probably more useful for connecting to sensors and things like that, though.
It looks like it is a set of components and helpers for building components of your own.

The good thing about Web Components is that they are reusable across frameworks. You don't need jQuery-picker, react-datepicker, and vue-datepicker just <my-datepicker /> and its reusable anywhere.
Apps Are Using Background App Refresh to Send Data to Tracking Companies
On the other hand, if no other farmers are helped with grants, then the price of food would increase and they might not need help from the government. It might not be as illogical for them to not like help from the government while at the same time being helped.
I think the whole concept is meh. Can you create visual builing blocks that are transformable to an AST? yeah, thats no problem for a given fixed set of blocks. Can vsual blocks be as communicative as written language/syntax for much more open set problem spaces? Yeah as long as you don't want to make that AST, or yeah as long as you hand code the AST map to grow the set manually, but at what point do these visual representations fail to convey clearly the topic?

There is a reason why you have textbooks in school and not a stack of photos. written language is much better suited to convey deep and complex information. Sometimes both together can convey a complex idea better than one in a silo, however without the text to convey what is trying to be shown in the image the complexities of the content in the image are severely limited.

Code is written language, and just happens to be various forms of specialized language we use to convey these open ended concepts. Visuals just can't be as communicative. So I firmly believe that visual blocks are relegated to small sets of problem space and not these open ended sets of problems.
>Pursuant to Swiss law, the user in question will also be notified and afforded the opportunity to defend against this in court before the data can be used in criminal proceedings.[1]

[1]https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
AMP pages enclose the page you visit within the html of google. So from the browsers perspective it is styling a box, not a scrolling body of text. iOS has similar weird behavior in Safari, and it’s pretty annoying.
You're only thinking of development, which is still a bit of the wild west when it comes to figuring out who does what.
A bunch of folks have been warning that ProtonMail is essentially well-polished marketing, smoke and mirrors. It isn't just their position on law enforcement or data collection; they've made a series of very awkward cryptographic mistakes that sort of give the game away. For example, using problematic crypto libraries, omitting salient facts from their marketing copy, and repeatedly failing to deliver on promises to correct the above issues.
Holy grails still do not exist. But for Some use cases old tools worked fine. A more balanced story on https://nocomplexity.com/nocode-solutions/
> I really want to go back to late-90s desktop UI development sometimes…

While it's not a JS framework, can I interest you in an explicitly VB/Delphi-inspired app development tool for the web?

It's got drag'n'drop design, you code entirely in Python (including the front end - it transpiles to JS), and it even has a built-in database: https://anvil.works/
Perhaps you're right. I probably have a warped view of wages working in tech, but I just can't imagine working for over a decade just to max out around $50-$60k without starting my own business