skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem has far more to do with perverse promoting incentives

As a Googler, I agree. The promo system is fucked up here, and everyone is micro-optimizing for promos. Nobody gives a fuck for developing long-term, stable and scalable solutions. People just want to fling shit on the wall, and if it doesn't stick fling some more. Sooner or later something will stick and they'll be basking in the glow of L_{N+1}, before starting the process all over again. Google is very top-heavy now, with 1000s of people sitting at levels 7+ doing absolutely nothing (since you don't get demoted for lack of production).
There are many places in South India where the temperature crosses 40 and above during months of Apr-May. For example see temperatures at these places in Karnataka, and AP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raichur (avg. temperature of 45.0 C in May)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurnool (avg. temperature of 46.5 C in May)
So they should continue to hire by a metric that doesn’t work? Not try anything different at all?
What right of the husband-to-be are you talking about?

Is failing to tell someone something the same thing as deception?

Is this supposed right symmetric? Does bride-to-be have the right to know if the husband participated in porn video?
Yep, at last a lot of progress to report to Apache Board of Directors
Open Spaces Suck
Maybe read the last paragraph, too. He especially talks about meaningful software:

> I want to change the world, but real problems are hard. There are huge opportunities, in transportation, energy, computing, healthcare, manufacturing, but none of them can be solved on the kind of timelines and expectations that the startup community have. So many companies I see have great ideas, but aren't realistic and serious enough to realize them. I worry that we wont solve these solvable problems, because everyone just want to party like its 2009.
What news do you read? From here it seems quite divided.
I'll wait to see the results from the anti-trust investigations going on.
To some degree this is probably wishful thinking, but I feel the growing contempt for Google's dismal stance on privacy (eg recent changes to Chrome) may eventually harm their market share. This is especially true if it turns out that personalized ads have less value than thought. For me, the change in perception was certainly the reasom to switch from full on Google disciple to deleting my accounts.

I argue this has certainly affected facebook already.

Then again, lots of wishful thinking, i admit.
Cycles of Optimism and Pessimism
> just wait till you see the number arriving due to the fuel we burn.

But in the case is the fuel they burn, right? India is projected to become the 2nd biggest producer of CO2 (behind China) this decade.

Also, I go around here and gasoline is so cheap that people don't care about waste. Drivers let their cars with the motor on while they go to buy some small thing to eat or drink.
This is seriously demotivating but thankfully lacks any substance.
I think that there’s truth in the idea that there are many problems to be solved that will take a significant amount of time and effort to be cracked.

There probably are plenty of opportunities for hockey stick growth and quick impact, BUT is that really what humanity needs?
Why is it the jobs of engineers of the company to know what businesses need to succeed? Why do companies hire and VPs and directors for. Sure principal engineers and above do get a say in what to build, but I don't think they are hired via red black trees. It is the job of the leadership to assess the market and focus the company. The job of most engineers to build and at most have say in the product, not in what market to tackle.
StackPath EdgeEngine can do JS with WASM support for PHP, C, C++, Go, Python, Perl, Rust + others
https://www.stackpath.com/products/edgeengine/
A tiling window manager is a must for me. But I (like the OP's article mentions) prefer to use a standard desktop environment (Gnome or macOS) but add tiling feature only.

So, on my macOS laptops, it is Amethyst all day https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst. Love it.

But on my Linux desktops, I am stuck with Gnome and not gone for full VM replacement with XMonad, i3 or Awesome.

I don't want issues with disk mounting, clipboards, multiple monitors, etc just cause I want automated tiling and have to replace my whole desktop environment to achieve it.
Also, even if the attack is small enough to block using iptables, you still have to have someone on call 24x7, and then spend time to figure out which ports/ips need blocked. If you use OVH or similar provider that has built-in DDoS protection, the mitigation will all happen automatically.
I don't think it's that simple at all.

The principal human-appreciated effect of AC is the dehumidifying of the air when it's cooled.

The dry interior air allows human perspiration to regulate temperature effectively. The AC doesn't have to cool all the bodies, it just has to keep the air dry enough.
Reading this reminded me of the urban legend where the US Patent Office commissioner quit because everything had been invented in the early 1900s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell
Dolphin is the gold standard all emulators should strive for.
Fair enough, I can see how even with a citation, aggregators might dilute the credit received to the original poster because most people prefer the more convenient option of just staying with the aggregator.

Though I would still argue that by definition, sites like Hacker News are also aggregators in the same way, so I think it's slightly disingenuous to pick on one and not the other.
Well, that wasn't my argument but since you've asked, in my case it is/was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894122
Cangaroo isn’t a real startup
Related - Andrew Chen (of Andreessen Horowitz) on his reasons on why growth is getting harder. (Undated, looks like 2018)

https://andrewchen.co/growth-is-getting-hard/
> Today I would argue that you should expect it to take five years to build anything that matters.

Setting aside for the moment whether this is true, if you're unwilling to invest 5 years of your time into a business, I would argue you're not committed enough to it for it to succeed. I suspect investors will think similarly.
That sounds like currying.
I export, analyze, and resurface my Kindle highlights
Except they used suicidal thoughts as their key symptom -- which is something that is widely already known to increase in prevalence with media attention, see: "13 Reasons Why"...
As long as the trend of blocking ads doesn’t increase and as long ad buyers don’t see Facebook as being better at targeting.

Ads on the FB app are almost impossible to block.
There's more to water than forests. For example invertebrates, which play a key role in an ecosystem.

Next time thing before you talk.
If having a thermostat at all is considered "luddite" in USA, then I'm glad I live in a "commie block" and the only temperature control is a valve on a central heating radiator. Can't get wiretapped through that. Though now I wonder if it was possible to attach a microphone to the radiator, and listen to sound picked up from other flats...
Ip theft and cirumventing sanctions.

To see no relation to the trade war is, however, a tad naive.
I think the key word is "was". Yes, in the beginning it was a pretty straightforward amalgamation of a bunch of standard Unix tools. (Although it should be noted that those were even then in a separate category from languages meant for application programming!) But that's where the Perl timeline started to diverge from the mainstream, in which production-ready programming languages have mostly grown to agree on basic concepts and terminology, and to emphasize design principles like clarity over cleverness and readability over writability.
Not sure about the website you run but there might be a corelation to Linux users and your site. It could be either due to your network and the way people came to know about the site or it could be the content among other things
Exploring the Animal ‘Supernavigators’ That Can Fly 56,000 Miles a Year
It's a nice debugging story, but I actually thought it was a bit anti-climactic.

I say that because hardware that ignores irrelevant address bits is not really a rare or surprising thing. The more primitive/simple the hardware the more this is likely to happen. After all, "why bother" checking those bits or piping them through to a memory bus if they couldn't possibly affect the result?

It was however a nice description of the process by which the bug was reproduced and analyzed! Also, props to whoever managed to isolate that repro case.

PS: If you're into crazy game bugs, here's another one: https://twitter.com/mmalex/status/1066111290580582403
Ok, we'll ask you again later.
No. You can use NIST guidance and are not required to change your password every 90 days
IIRC when I first tried that about a year and a half ago, it didn't work properly :/
not to be too dramatic, but they are bane of my existence
What does PC-engineer mean? How does politically-correct hiring select for them?
I hate to admit it, but my life just seems to be more productive and organized when I have a job eating up most of my time and forcing me to make the most out of what's left. I took a year off from work to start my own business..after about 2 weeks I was spending probably 95% of my time relaxing. I recently started a traditional job again and the amount of progress I'm making with ~2 hours of free time is greater than what it was when I had no job. It really gave me some respect for the willpower required to run your own business.
How is this a relevant comment?
Yeah and how much CO2 emissions will that A/C emit?
Perhaps, but setting aside whether or not that's true completely ignores the point of the article, which is that all of the low-hanging fruit has already been plucked.
I’m quite certain that any US state’s department of natural resources would take great exception to diversion of streams.
Isn't their point that investors want a product before 5 years is up, and they don't care how much time you might be willing to invest into it?
Yeah. This very apparent imbalance creates a lot of distrust for the pharma industry (as well as for medical providers).
Diverting the water through pipes will definitely cause significant ecological change.

Nature minus humans endlessly causes the same sort of change, but to second an earlier comment this would be a nightmare to try to do in a lot of areas. In my area the most dire thing to touch is the flow of water -- with three layers of government/protection agencies monitoring it with a very close eye.
I predict the hardware device startup party is just getting started. Hardware today is where Linux was 20 years ago. Once people catch on to the shift, traditional manufacturing companies won’t have a chance of keeping up.
Usually it is the other way round: you miss what you had somewhere else and learned to love. When you go back it hurts. Try a 800x600 monitor nowadays and you will cringe. For me after using functional constructs a lot I find myself wishing for them in languages where they are not available that easily.
I love FF, really do, but as I said I have two specific issues keeping me on chrome right now.

I hope they can be sorted out.
My company, roughly 400k employees and contractors, already sent security notices from the DOJ banning Hauwei, ZTE, etc. devices across the entire corporation. It effectively banned their phones from a not insignificant percentage of the population in one fell sweep.
Because the entire aim of every employee at the company is to either make the company money or to save the company money. The engineers are so busy “doing cool stuff” that none of Google’s products outside of ad sales have made any money.

And before someone mentions Android, according to information that came out during the Oracle trial (that Google tried to keep redacted), Android has only made Google $22 Billion in profit during its entire existence up until then.
> I don't think they are hired via red black trees

No, they were hired long ago via red-black trees and got promoted for building google plus.
This is the reasoning behind the project. In short I'd say that with VR around the corner and touchscreen everywhere but no practical way of doing work as such on smarthones tablets the way we look at text input should be reconsidered. International input and accomodating for disabled people are other angles.
tbf-rnd.life/blog/2019/05/21/hello-world

I'm working on compiling my findings into a book.
http://tbf-rnd.life/the-book-of-lesser-known-input-methods/

Along with this I am creating a framwork that can be used to
- demonstrate
- benchmark
- provide common os support
- provide
to the different models.

As such say the Dasher model can be compared more or less scientifically to say plain old keyboard method or why not chorded input

So there are plenty of interesting concepts to dig into here. From UI design in javascript to analysis on text a lot of word2vec and other fun stuff and why not 3d interfaces.

I do this as a portfolio of sorts since it demonstrates such a wide range of knowledge.

Furthermore as we are dealing with a keyboard, that is something that is _always_ in use it's really important to create a wellpolished fast method so it's not for the faint hearted.
You’re oversimplifying why they’re failing in the cloud.

* _Immmature Product Offering_: No good, cost effective SQL solution (cloudsql is a terrible solution), small list of managed services (managed sftp please? It would take maybe a month for a team of Google engineers to spin one up)

* _Support Sucks_; except if you pay for premium support in which case it’s decent.

* _Shitty IAM_: too coarse, too confusing. Custom roles don’t always work. IAM roles can be granted on a project, bucket and ... subnet? (Yeah, really).

There are other things I could go in detail if someone bought me a beer. The only saving grace is that GKE is actually a pretty cool managed k8s offering, perhaps the best in the market.
We apparently have a much harder time hacking them :(
Try finding a psychiatrist willing to help you through that. Most won't (it is seen as risky and liability-generating).
Which startups would be targets of antitrust investigations? The big companies are the ones that have something to worry about.
Obviously they’ll deny you entry if you don’t adhere to the national coding style. It’s about time a nation has the courage to enforce curly braces on a new line.
What are the relevant US regulations on doing something like this? I know some streams are crucial ecologically. But is it mostly regulated on a national, state or local level?
Economy takes center stage for voters in upcoming Argentina elections
I think that there’s a bug difference between a site that’s clearly an aggregator (HN) and something with original content and thin wrappers around another site’s content.
I think it goes even a little deeper than that: "help yourself" can be scaled to a level of profitability that is objectively impossible to reach once you put humans in the loop. I don't think that Google is interested in diluting their existing high profitability activities with lower profitability, so whenever they enter a new market like cloud computing they effectively limit themselves to the subset of that market that is open to absence of human support. Just like on the other end of the scale, Oracle is limiting themselves to the subset of their market that will gladly pay extra for the privilege of getting overrun by salespersons.

edit: in other words, I think Google would rather have a highly profitable slice of the market than dominate it and have all the gains eaten up by a greedy sales org.
the whole 'pattern' and 'anti-pattern' terminology robs technical discussion of its meaning.

can't we just say things like 'maybe writing a bespoke build system isn't the best use of time right now', or 'there is this really cool range data structure I saw that seems really relevant, here's a link', or 'we keep having consistency problems cleaning up objects to put them back in the pool, maybe we should just always reinitialize them so that all that code is in one place'

trying to boil down all software to 50 simple shapes that we can assemble is just way too reductionist. think about what you're doing. use your words.
Sure, but this is in Chile.
One thing I have learned about business is that this is not true at all. Hurting social norms or political ideas does not harm most businesses. People care about the benefits to themselves individually. They don't care about anything more than maybe a passing thought or an online venting if they really care.
Appreciated, I took the time to make these changes this morning.
the article specifically points out the period of 2002 to 2014. You've listed 3 from 2015, but the article didn't sound too fixated on the year 2014 so I think some wiggle room should be allowed.

But please, I would love to see your list from 2016/2017. That would be very interesting.
Blue Ocean Strategy: Finding and Exploiting Uncontested Markets
I tend to treat my data structures as immutable, even when they technically aren't.
>The next Chrome standard manifest says that ad blockers are a deprecated feature since they hurt Googles business.

Ad blocking isn't part of the rendering or JS engine.

>Looking a bit further (into possible future business needs of Alphabet) you might see that chrome will refuse to serve anything not based on Googles AMP standard and globally remove anything that hurts their partnership with the Chinese government.

>This is the single standard JS engine we are looking forward to.

This is just unsubstantiated fear mongering and mostly flat out wrong. If worst came to worst and Google rammed something like that into Chromium everyone else could just fork it and remove the offending parts. A Google Chromium and a Non-google Chromium fork is still way better than what we have now today with four distinct engines in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE.
Why ‘Anonymized Data’ Isn’t So Anonymous
Paper voting is pretty effective at preventing mass election hacking.

Software can never prevent mass election hacking, as hardware can always deliberetly miss-implement your algorithm.

I'm also curious what is supposed to happen if you go check, and your vote doesn't match. Sure, the government investigates, but, a, why would you trust the government, and b, why would they trust that you weren't simply paid to cast doubt on the election?
Yes the author of edgewrite talks extensivly about grafiti but claims some advantages over that system.

I'd like to do a web demoable implementation of edgewrite but it's kind of hard for me to get a hand on a Palm Pilot.

Have you used that system?
I agree with his overall message - it's hard (and takes time) to actually do something valuable. And I agree that we're in an age where iterative startups ("Uber for X") outnumber innovative startups.

But there is just so much wrong with this article. One of the most egregious errors is the assertion that the conditions which enabled unicorns are no longer present.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The only accurate assertion of the article - that it's genuinely hard to add value - was already obvious.
Generally speaking, it is no longer a secret that doing science for the sake of doing science always has a wider impact.
Exactly this. Google products always feel like they weren’t designed by someone who carefully thought about and empathizes with the end user (thinking of Google cloud specifically).
> The long term impact of this Huawei dispute will be China building out a complete vertical communications/computing stack from low level chips to operating system to phone design.

Correction, this has been China's plan all along. This skizm is just speeding up the process.
Ask HN: Do I still need a dot com domain?
I have a couple of projects that are gaining traction, generating revenue, and slowly turning into a full-time job.

Recently, I saw a discussion on whether a dot io domain is really a good domain name for a business, which made me start thinking: do people still view companies running websites with a non-dot com domain to be any less worthy? All my projects run on a dot io domain, and I'm starting to wonder whether this choice would affect my business's creditability.

All my projects are aimed at businesses working in tech.
I don't think, here in the UK at least, that vote fraud in counting stations and total reporting is considered a big issue.

Whereas we know that there are (patriarchal) religious groups that apply huge pressure
At some point he was using 2/3 of the creek.
It's a modern Version of:
"everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, 1899 suggested to close the patent offices. As we know today, he was wrong then.

That said, there is a point in the article that, some longer term investments are probably just not happening because a big amount of the investments is going to "short term VC gambling". E.g. personally I'm also not very happy with the little progress that robotics made electro mechanically in the last 40 years...

I guess that investing into the next messenger app to topple the current #1 is a) more likely to succeed and b) has an average return rate below 5 years. Sad but I don't see how that is going to change anytime soon. They will keep innovating.
I wondered about combining it with dual licensing, but I don't even know how people do that today. Say if a whole community contributed to an AGPL project and it has a dual commercial license, who controls and profits from it?
> The supposed chemical inbalance is not being measured

I like the idea of measuring. How would we do it though?
It's actually a really interesting question, but also very hard to answer in practice. The positive answer would involve the ability of competitive markets[1] to serve as efficient mechanisms that coordinate the activities of people across the globe to collectively increase wealth/output[2]. With greater total surplus, it becomes relatively "cheaper" [on a societal level] to solve problems like saving the village. (Of course, this leaves out the public goods problem of actually provisioning the village-saving in the case that the villagers don't get lifted up directly by economic growth and buy it for themselves.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_equilibrium

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfar...
The voter, and only the voter, has access to all three pieces of information.
I never claimed garbage collection was free, but the point was memory complexity and not computational complexity. So claiming that the implementation would be O(n * n) in terms of memory complexity still doesn't make sense to me.
I mostly agree except that around very close friends you should not be spending energy and instead recharging. For years I mistook my lack of « physical » energy to go out instead of staying cozy at home for introversion, but that’s not the same thing. If you have balance in your life good but be careful of loneliness, we are social beings, even introverts.
As someone who's had the opportunity to go through a pile of 100+ resumes and have met people who have gone to Ivy League (or other top technical schools like Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, etc) I definitely do not put too much weight on education (even for new grads). As a software engineer I'd rather put weight on their projects and accomplishments. I've seen a lot of students from prestigious schools with high GPAs who completely bomb the in person interviews.
"Treatment is worse than the disease". This is also true in cancer treatment, where many drugs have measured effects on reducing tumor size and yet not increasing survival times...yet the side effects make the patients' quality of life significantly worse.