skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing I worry about is people with poor bike handling skills getting an e-bike that suddenly lets them ride as fast as a pro cyclist with little effort. If you watch people getting on rented bikes at a tourist destination, you see a lot of wobbly riding. Plus the fat comfort seats that people use make it even harder to control a bike.
The only issue I have with the voice in my head is that it makes me read slowly, because I have to imagine the sound of the word instead of its meaning only.
The ideal in life should be to tame that stream of harsh criticism into witty, offhand commentary worthy of MST3K.
There's quite a class divide between corner pub and brew-pub clientele. It feels like for every trendy brewery thriving, a few anonymous bars are failing. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it is different, and I'm not sure that a popular brew-pub is a useful counterexample to the general decline of dive bars.
Please don't. Even if you're right, it only adds poison to the commons.
I suspect there are more PC gamers than console gamers and FPS shooters will lean towards PC compared to the overall distribution.
I've changed the link to the book from big-lies.org to freeread.com.au.

I haven't investigated either of these websites and don't approve of or even know of any of the views that may be posted on them. I'm just posting a link to the book alone.

However, if you don't like the website for whatever reason and know of any better sources feel free to post another link.
Ah, just making the point that the questions don't occur in a vacuum. By the time something's bad enough to consult random strangers on Reddit the problem has sometimes escalated beyond the point. Often the "dump him" answers come with people also sharing their own life experience. (I've seen my share of the silly questions/answers too of course.)
Ask HN: What's the best mail hoster for a startup?
Currently we use gsuit, but there is too much in there we don't use and > 5€ per user is too much.
We need a stable hoster, privacy and no gimmicks.. any suggestions ?
Same place as the assumption that you shouldn't bother interviewing older developers because they're going to demand too much money.
Why should Google listen to what they say? Pull the company from dictatorship regimes, and then ignore their commands.
> Nothing is said about what killed him...

From the article:

> If the Plough provided him with a home in Boston and a community that was his own, it also helped him toward his demise. When he died at 60 in 2017, booze played a starring role in his precipitous decline.

Later in the article, the author also explicitly states that Richard was an alcoholic.
You haven't understood the purpose of projects like these at all, have you?
The current execs seem to be just following the incentives given to them. Investors are willing to spend more money for "marketshare" than profit, under the delusion that they can turn profit later.

Uber and ride sharing in general is especially screwed because there are other ride sharing services funded by other investors who are _also_ willing to burn money for marketshare. As soon as one of these companies tries to increase pricing for profitability, customers will move to a different platform that is still subsidizing rides.

Seems like a "Congratulations you've played yourself" state for the entire industry.

Terrible industry to invest in, essentially there are other investors who are willing to lose all of their money to ensure that you lose most of your own. It's almost a clever little wealth redistribution engine lol.
A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts
I wish. But the reality is that if that regulation comes, it's going to be state regulation and not federal, so the effect would take years to unfold and be state by state and never reach 100%.
TRAC also. Probably why it was so slow, but a friendly language.

See Ted Nelson's Computer Lib (p18) for a nice description of TRAC.
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The part I was confused about was that you said "35 square meter years per person" but I guess you mean per person per year? Then wouldn't that just be 35 square meters per person?

Wind is awesome, but I don't think the total wind resource at tower-like heights is sufficient to wean the humans off fossil fuels; but I don't have hard numbers. Maybe power-to-gas is a solution.

Thank you very much for helping me explore this!
Great. If only monitor manufacturers would do the same thing.

I have a monitor with exactly 2 inputs (1 DP, 1 HDMI). What do I need to do to switch between them?

1. Press the Menu button

2. Move the option to Input Source

3. Select Input Source

4. Move from one to the other

5. Press Select

Some monitor will compress 1-3 into a single Input Source option. Still, 3 presses? Why does literally NO ONE make a monitor with hardware input source buttons? WHY?

I HATE OSD menus. With a passion. I don't care if it's a few cents cheaper. They are literally AWFUL. Just look at the Macbook touch bar and how much it's generally reviled.
I said in a majority of cases. The legality doesn't have to do with whether or not they're allowed by the state (they're allowed everywhere, even in California), but whether or not they can apply to the person signing the agreement. Courts uphold non-competes against managers moving to a competitor, workers taking client lists, former equity stakeholders, etc..., but almost never against low-level employees.
Perhaps I was unclear. The reason I scarequoted the term "devops engineer" is that to have such a thing (and we simply must stop abusing the term engineer, we're not) you'd need to find somebody who does absolutely everything in the stack, from technical to business-strategic. Which is why "devops engineer" makes as much sense as "Agile engineer". They're processes for people, they're not computer-touching anythings.

The idea that a "full stack developer" is "hurr, JavaScript" but that devops engineers are somehow different is...questionable. I've shipped mobile apps, web apps, backend APIs, and build and operate computing infrastructure at scale in cloud and on-premises environments, while having also had success at the strategic level with regards to the development of and the pursuit of business requirements and objectives.

Write code to tell computers to do stuff. That's all any of it is. The elaboration of the details is important in the small but not important in the large.
Is any part of that online in anyway? I just started as a prof and I am looking to do as well at teaching as I can.
> Ordinary cycling is just too tiring for non-cyclists to want to do. An ebike makes it workable.

Although geography is a requirement for non-assisted cycling (ie. no big hills), it's ultimately a cultural matter.

Northern european countries largerly use bikes; there is no distinction between "cyclist" and "non-cyclist". Southern european countries, geographical factors being equal, use the bicycles much less.
It is also interesting game-theory wise that we see countless towns and states trying to be 'the next Silicon Valley' but that is one thing that they never do that could put them in some degree of competition. Especially places with other assets such as having many prominent universities.
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I think that's the point that post and the parent comment are making. A "Real-full-stack" (actually-full-stack) would actually include communication + networking.

I think it's more of a criticism on the term "full-stack" for someone who works on a backend and touches front-end every now and then.

I think everyone is in agreement that what we call "dev0ps" devs and "full-stack" devs have completely different skill sets and mindsets but if I had to attribute "full-stack" to either of these it would be a "dev-ops" dev. (theoretically, real life is messy)
I think they claim the prices are not unsustainable once they get economies of scale. Every new company "subsidizes" their customers until they reach a critical mass that allows them to achieve profitability.
I didn't know what it meant, and looked it up. "Time-based One Time Password" explains a hell of a lot more that "TOTP." From just those 4 words I figured out we were talking about the kind of thing that powers 2-factor auth implementations where get a time-based one-time code.

Before I looked it up, I thought it was somehow related to NTP.
How about Mailbox? https://mailbox.org/en/ (they support calendar sync)

or Zoho https://www.zoho.com/
It’s definitely not unique to you. Something that helped me was to not try quiet the voice but to counter all of its automatic negativity with realistic, positive counter-thoughts. It took about six months of intense practice, but now the voice is mostly supportive.
I stopped reading novels for a long time because of this. Focused on the voice reading the audio of the words, while ingesting little of the content's meaning.

I've intentionally practiced reading aloud lately to counter it. (only sometimes, generally with someone else to read to; it helps)
I was desperate for work and signed a non-compete for a security guard job, one of the easiest jobs to get. If I got a job at a competitor within N miles I would have had to pay $Xtimes1000 to my current employer.

Sheesh.
Been 3 months since I graduated, I have been working.

Corporate life is much more lame than I anticipated it'd be.
I think that the idea that wisdom is either innate or entirely absent is the main reason that there aren't more wise people around. (Kind of the "I was never any good at math" school of thought.) Wisdom is, and should be, a learned attribute.
As person with a similarly vicious voice, part of the answer lies in cognitive behavioral therapy techniques - information is the enemy of hyper-criticism (usually, anyway).

The voice of your own critical judgment can be vicious, but if you're on board with that you're not, nor are you somehow supposed to be, some kind of rational Messiah with all the perfections and answers, but rather regular person doing their best, subject to the usual problems and issues that beset humans all the time, it's much easier to remind the voice, almost as if going one voice deeper - giving the hyper critical voice it's OWN voice - that it's being harsh to a standard that virtually no one has ever or will ever meet, that there are reason you or other did things the way they did (even if those reasons include "we didn't have time to research any other way, and the resources that would've made it possible or trivial like it feels now came about after we finished this.").

Anyway - basic idea here is to give you voice a voice and whip back around and overflow into the regular critical space where criticism can be healthy instead of incessant and damaging. I hope it works for you! It works fairly well for me, but I'll admit freely that sometimes I do feel like such a massive twat that BOTH voice roll their eyes at me. XD
Author wrote a pro-Jordan Peterson piece for the weekly standard. We both know exactly where this plays well.
Just like in US, in Russia, some protests require permits, especially if they interfere with day-to-day of other citizens.

https://qz.com/890689/what-us-protestors-can-and-cannot-do-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly_in_Russia

I’m not saying the law is good. But if it does exist, and people don’t obey it, they are indeed doing something illegal.
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Title: please note this is a review of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Private-Government-Employers-Universi...

Aside: If you like to compare-contrast US<->EU, I found this paper interesting: Why Doesn’t The US Have A European-Style Welfare State? (2001) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/why_doesnt_t....
I think it would be blameless because of determinism and even if uncreated.
In a nutshell, the situation is that the startup is:

> ... not growing but it's not dying. ... and the founder doesn't really know what to do.

Makes me think of Paul Graham's concept of "default alive/dead":

> When I talk to a startup that's been operating for more than 8 or 9 months, the first thing I want to know is almost always the same. Assuming their expenses remain constant and their revenue growth is what it has been over the last several months, do they make it to profitability on the money they have left? Or to put it more dramatically, by default do they live or die?

http://paulgraham.com/aord.html

I think this is a much more valuable place to start the conversation. The available options (which may or may not include shutdown) depend strongly on the answer to the question "are you default alive or default dead?"
Volcanic/sedimentary/ice core records of Earth's last magnetic polarity reversal
Significant discussion 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023159
I suspect I am far from the first person to suggest this, unless you’ve never talked about this before, but have you tried meditation? There’s a lot of stuff about learning to not listen to that voice, about learning to make it shut up when it’s not needed.
Another possibility that doesn't require a conspiracy theory: Epstein's death is fake but blatantly obvious because he agreed to be a protected witness.
> Opium wasn't really the reason they went to war, it was mostly just economic bullying by Britian's part...

Well, that's an interesting spin on the Opium Wars. You say "tea" could have been exchanged for opium?

Last time I checked, "tea" doesn't create addicted zombies that will pretty much totally destroy their lives to get another sip, does it?

Saying opium wasn't the reason is disingenuous...yes, the only thing China was willing to trade Britain for their much desired tea was India's opium, but the widespread social destruction that was created by this trade had to be ended.

I often think that few things in history show just how uncaring governments can be then how the Brit's went to war not once by twice to force the Chinese to continue to accept opium (and thus keep their population addicted and in terrible crisis) as payment for tea.
Your quote appears nowhere in the article or comments.
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> Considering the amount of back scratching that goes on between government and the private sector, it's a true wonder that there are any consumer protection or labor laws at all

Well keep watching, because the landscape is getting less wonderful by the day.
Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high
I have a cargo e-bike (Yuba Boda Boda) for taking my son to daycare (8mi each way, plenty of hills and stops) and if the records from my Apple Watch are at all accurate, it’s basically canceling out the extra weight of the burlier bike and passenger: heart rate stays in the same territory, travel time is about the same, etc. compared to my road bike (roughly 100lbs lighter).

For my wife, this was the difference between biking every day or not - her commute is a little longer and better served by transit so the hills on the way home after a long day were a disincentive.
Facebook is building type by thought stuff that looks rather promising. I think their stated goal is 100 wpm
The article makes a statistical argument though, that the numbers of a certain sort of bar declined 17% after 2006. That 4 out of 5 bars are still there follows from that argument rather than addressing it.
In fairness, learning implies a sort of intentionality to study something. While math can be picked up with some hard work, in my experience, what a lot of people call wisdom is just reflecting on your life and what’s worked and what hasn’t.
Wait, you didn't have an internal monologue until somebody told you it would help? That is really weird.

I'd give anything to turn mine off.
It is not outdated, it has less information. The parallel joins is a bigger topic itself. In this blog, I want to give a brief introduction about parallelism in PostgreSQL.

I will definitely read what you suggested. But keep in touch I will post more blogs for each sub-topic to cover it all.
If we as people who are actually knowledgeable about technology and who care about privacy are sick of ignorant and scare-mongering politicians turning the world in to a version of 1984, we really have to become more active in politics ourselves.. and by doing more than just voting.

You can run for local government, organize, or volunteer, for instance. That will make much greater difference than simply voting or voicing one's displeasure on the internet (though doing both of those can help some too, especially if enough people do so).
Also based on the idea of lightweight static checks and dependent types in existing ML languages: https://notebooks.azure.com/allisterb/projects/sylvester/htm...
It depends, of course. If replacing most rides in a car, definitely better. If replacing rides on a non-electric bike, it still could be a positive if it encourages biking further and getting out more.

Would also love to see the study extended to those countries to find out.
I suspect the people that feel the way you do probably wouldn't gravitate towards the risk/reward system of the startup lifestyle in the first place.
My point is that "time based one-time password" doesn't really tell you anything about what TOTP is; what you want is the phrase "the protocol code-based 2FA applications like Google Authenticator use", after which you don't care anymore about the stupid name the protocol has.

It's a little bit like expanding "transport control protocol". I mean, sure, I guess it's marginally better than the acronym TCP? But really, that's not the clarification you want to provide to someone who doesn't know what TCP is.

Also, obviously, if you don't know what TOTP is, you might just not be the audience for the article. Remember that most people don't write their personal blogs (or, in this case, their Github personal projects) specifically for an audience of Hacker News people, even though HN sometimes makes it seem that way.
I really believe we would be better off if every piece of technology we used was open source. All the display manufacturers really want is to make displays. Making the OSD doesn’t have to be their doing, and an open source community could build a common interface with some basic button requirements. We could maintain a list of supported manufacturers and before long you know to avoid devices that don’t support it. This doesn’t happy because open source is uncommon in non-software industries, but I truly believe no one is maintaining any competitive advantage with their proprietary OSD. They could share their source with, I believe, no negative impact on competition. In fact the industry would be healthier because consumer friction would be lower.
Branding is good because we can then know what brands to stay away from or knowing what to choose.
And just like when they learn to use the shifter, they need to learn what that thing on the other side of the steering wheel does too before driving off whether it's tested or not.
> The deployment of the new encryption system […] could[.[…] expos[e] millions of people to the worst imagery

Not really. It is difficult to accidentally encounter these kinds of images because they are so illegal, and for those who are trying, rudimentary ISP DNS blocking is not going to stop them when Tor exists.
To be fair, speaking to yourself is the second person; speaking about yourself is the third person.
Why? Wisdom comes in part from analyzing the mistakes you’ve made and finding ways to avoid them. We speak of passing down wisdom, it’s a thing that can be transferred.

In my experience, any tactic that helps in disengaging the mind from immediate passions is helpful; the mind is really good at making up justifications for things, especially when it’s passionate about something.
DevOps in my experience often stems from a breakdown of communication/trust between management and developers. Software production and deployment complexity has outpaced the deliverable(s). Traditional IT system admins struggle to keep up with deployments that are way beyond ftp/sync tools. Simultaneously developers are creating microservices each with independent multi-step build processes.

The complexity and problem solving of the job is not automating some widget or service. That is very easy and not a challenge to someone with a deep programming background. The challenge is knowing what to build to a) enable developer productivity and flexibility to b) increase development speed to c) provide products/services the business side can iterate on quickly while d) not completely destroying the infrastructure and lessons learned that already exist and e) providing training and leadership to system admins and developers not used to these processes.
Amen! Why can't that be software? I'd be happy to hook up a second cable or a BT connection to send control signals.

If not that, how about a simple Dpad at least!?
Thanks for reading that.
Funny, I just realized something. Remember the Commodore 64? My brother used to call it CBM64, and his initials are BM, so I thought it was C for Commodore + his initials + 64.

And now, looking at CBM900, I got a hint that CBM could have been something else. Quick google search, and I see that it's "Commodore Business Machines", probably inspired by IBM (International Business Machines).
Fix my tools instead of the product.
Friendly advice from fellow Pakistani. Your homepage needs about 10x less words. I looked at it and didn't want to read it at all.
>I suspect there are more PC gamers than console gamers

Source for this? Random search yields this:

>Steam now has more than 65 million active accounts. [...] Microsoft's Xbox Live has 48 million accounts [...] and Sony's PlayStation Network claims 110 million.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5045830/steam-65-million...
I recently did technical deep dives on my late model Volvo XC90 and XC60. I was amazed to still see SuperH SH4 processors in use in various parts of the telematics system.
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Although not at the very first line, I do expand the acronyms in the first section:

> Introduction: TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. At the heart of the TOTP algorithm lies the HOTP algorithm. HOTP stands for HMAC-based One-Time Password.
Bikes are kind of a strange industry, at least in the US. Almost all of the big brands steadfastly refuse to embrace online shopping, so you’re paying at least a hundred or two for brick and mortar bike shops.

Second, cycling in the US is mostly for sport, so bike shops mostly sell road or mountain bikes, not utility bikes. And people who ride for sport are willing to spend a lot on this year’s new tech and lighter bikes.

If you want a cheap, reliable bike, buy used. Try to find an older chromoly steel mountain bike with name brand components, for example Bridgestone. It will have fender and rack mounts, and clearance for wide tires.
A key issue for the Navy is that they have multiple stations which can control steering and propulsion, and they are not tied together with force feedback. There's at least one airplane crash of an Airbus that came from that situation, and a crash between a ferry and a NYC dock for the same reason.

What the Navy is looking for is available off the shelf. Force and position feedback ship throttles are available.[1] Move one lever and all the other ones move to match.

[1] https://www.kongsberg.com/globalassets/maritime/km-products/...