skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, ~90ish of those 100 successful ones have come from batches pre 2014, so there is that… ;-)
This has been speculated about for a while: how the rise of online dating and hookup services (Tinder et al), in addition to the growing connected-ness over large distances, will result in a convergence of male dating pool. In essence, women are less likely to "settle" for an average dude when "above average" guys are easily reachable and available.
Yes, but the point op seemed to be making was that FB inc was in trouble because now instagram is the #1 choice instead of Facebook. This makes no sense - it all goes to the same bank account
It's de-preferenced relative to v4. Which, if you have v4, you should just use directly.

I was wrong above -- NAT64+DNS64 (not a tunnel) is generally what v6-only ISPs provide.
I'll need a million USD grant to simulate that.
They do, but they never abuse this capability.
Rapid, large, thermally controlled 3D printing using a mobile liquid interface
I have trouble seeing how the fifth largest economy by GDP in the world (11th per capita) can be fairly described as "poor". If that's "poor", then the word "poor" doesn't mean anything.

Edit: I'm not saying that the state doesn't have high inequality. It does, as does the US in general. I'm saying it's not poor. California is rich, but does not distribute that wealth equitably.
Kind of like how the existence of terrorists and pedophiles justifies putting backdoors in all encryption. It ends at a place where all your rights get eroded away, and doesn't even end up protecting anyone anyway.
Some of the astronomical data is compatible with any kind of dark matter, though other observations (such as the Bullet Cluster) points at WIMPs.
I applied for the Baltimore City director of digital operations position. I interviewed with Frank Johnson and a variety of other city department heads.

I got the impression they were a group of people that broadly understood their problems and were finding it very difficult to steer the city towards good solutions.

Although Mr. Johnson was the City's Director of IT, realistically he had very nominal oversight over many of the city's actual IT departments - which were spread across a series of departments with their own employees, budgets, and resources. This was something he had been actively trying to improve but with limited progress.

I don't know what the best solution is - their hiring process is flawed and it's difficult to remove or replace problem employees. The budget is about 60% of what it probably needs to be and there's no path towards improving it.
Maybe that means something in a different context. From here it sure looks like a difficulty ranking.
What is privacy? The same way the home user can get privacy from the network operator, can malware get its privacy from the home user.

This is amplified by moving DNS resolution into applications, Mozilla style. Now even the operating system or local firewall applications (Little Snitch, etc) can't know, where the processes are connecting.

Again, the application vendors can have objectives that are not aligned with the users. It is a mistake to conflate the home users with random applications running on their computers.
> I never liked the way it was a single point of failure

What? I don't understand what the single point is here.

The webserver you are trying to connect to has a higher failure rate than DNS.
Okay, I’m missing something then.
It's blog posts like these that totally break down the "mirage" of the philosopher VC for me. This completely lacks any substance or meaning or relevancy, and makes me question why we pay so much attention to glorified check writers.
> I know that abolishing Prop-13 is an impossibility.

it can be replaced with some very slow tax increase, so market will return into normal pace in 5-10-20 years.
I'll pile on here with my experience. I took a fairly complex Python/Django app and rewrote it into Elixir/Phoenix (and ripped out nearly all the complex caching along the way).

The Elixir/Phoenix app rewrite was a little more than 10x faster, much more consistent in response times, and needed far fewer resources to run.
"The TB skin test is performed by injecting a small amount of fluid (called tuberculin) into the skin on the lower part of the arm. A person given the tuberculin skin test must return within 48 to 72 hours to have a trained health care worker look for a reaction on the arm."

In health care as a care giver we do it this way to see if we have it. I am not sure why they would not do it this way as opposed to a chest X-ray but I am going to go out on a limb and guess you could probably limit or maybe slow down the reaction with antihistamines or some other means I am not sure of where a chest x-ray would be impossible to hide evidence of TB.
Most of those—e.g. psychology, a field which has led to significant improvements in well-being worldwide—have no political bent. If you want to criticize anthropology, say "anthropology", not "social science".
Ok that highlights the misunderstanding.

My analogy would be that Yum Brands doesn't care whether you visit Taco Bell or Pizza Hut. In the same way Facebook (inc) doesn't care whether you visit Facebook or Instagram.
They could always block you from doing business with your customers (or suppliers) in the EU.

Obviously it would be much easier to enforce against companies that do have some presence in the EU.
Oof. Every year I regret not sticking with genomics/ biology. Its changed so quickly that even what I learned at the beginning of this decade seems very outdated.
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The point here is that for many domains performance is not the top consideration. And it's also worth noting that it's perfectly possible to tune applications written in FP languages to get very good performance. It's also possible to identify the parts of the code that are performance critical and implement those using imperative style. This is especially easy to do with Clojure where you have direct access to Java.

So, yeah if you're working in a niche domain where raw performance is the dominant concern, then you should absolutely use a language that optimizes for that. However, in a general case using FP language will work just fine.
> it costs you $20/server, now you need 4

OK, so in real life maybe the costs can actually be an order of magnitude higher than this.

But for $60/$80 a month? Is like no money.

That is less than one hour of time for even a cheap developer including taxes and other overhead, or okay call it two hours a month of time if you want to be generous. So if Elixir instead of Rails (or, of course worse, _switching_ to Elixir from current Rails) takes more than, say, 24 hours of developer time in a year... you didn't save money.
There's a graph (generated by graphviz from text description) that shows the flow and files involved for bash, sh and zsh. Yes, it's insane.

https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.ht...
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It completely depends on the target demographic. For escape rooms, for example (mentioned in the above post), everyone is going to look up reviews on Facebook before buying tickets.
From: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

> Compiler writers let C programmers pretend that they are writing code that is “close to the metal” but must then generate machine code that has very different behavior if they want C programmers to keep believing that they are using a fast language
Would be really funny for an art student to paint many copies of the lent art, then return a half dozen copies with the original.
Possibly, I'm unsure of their executive structure or internal culture, it could go either way.
This is why you should be very skeptical of anyone who claims transparency between genetics and complex phenotypes.
Averages in this case are meaningless. The distribution matters more than the average.

Never cross a river that is "on average 4 feet deep".
The 'terrorist' label is a great example of how the meaning of terms get conveniently expanded and broadened for political ends.
BTW: Totally get it. No worries.

I just reread this, and the TL;DR:

For very large numbers of people, the current arrangement simply isn't acceptable. The pain level on that has reached a point where those people are now motivated politically.

Medicare For All is an expansion of Medicare, and an augmentation.

Technically, part of what you said is right: Medicare is being used to reference policy modeled on, but does expand considerably on that which we know as Medicare today.

That's being done because people largely understand and like the part of Medicare being expanded on, and that's the part sans private insurers and the usual mechanics associated with all that.

The Dem front runners are looking to garner those health care votes. They aren't wrong to be doing that as for increasing fractions of those votes, a solid proposal that eliminates the harm potential present in our current system is a litmus test.

Cheers!
I recommend watching the "But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY. Beautiful.
I get what you're saying here, and I agree—although you also mentioned specific objections above that don't seem to be valid.
For states, California is actually middle of the pack when it comes to per capita budget. Given that, you're going to have a difficult time convincing me there's a spending problem.
I guess I don't see how this is such a remarkable system. Everywhere I've hiked there has been some sort of blaze system to keep you on the trail you want. This looks pretty much identical, only with the added bonus of ambiguity throughout the country.

I just don't see the utility that makes this such a great idea.
They can just do the heavy lifting on the backend if they run into browser limitations.
If you define "success" as market valuation, assume that market valuation grows with time for successful companies and YC select companies with a bias for companies that are not successful yet... The fact that most successful companies come from older batches is just a description of their business model right?
Wind Power Returns to Oceangoing Cargo Ships, Finally
> But California’s political system is making it hard to respond to these pressures. Thanks to a 1978 ballot initiative called Proposition 13, California cities have stringent limits on raising revenue from local property taxes. That forces the state to provide many services, financing them with hefty income taxes. Those are inherently more unreliable than property taxes, since wealthy taxpayers can move away (while property can’t move), and since California’s income taxes fluctuate a lot because they depend so much on the profits residents earn on volatile stock prices.

Prop 13 is widely cited as one of California's biggest weaknesses. I suspect the state will be looking quite closely at other ways to tax property, given that property taxes are relatively easy to assess and enforce, and depending on your economic situation, have a built-in progressive quality to them.

What restrictions does the state have around imposing taxes on real estate sales?

For example, could the state impose a 1% tax on profits from the sale of a private residence under $50,000?

I know this would put the state at odds with the federal government, but could it be a way around Prop 13?
If systemd is so bad, then why did it get made and broadly adopted? It seems like critics of systemd might make more progress if they admitted that there is more going on than an evil developer trying to sabotage everything good about Unix based systems.
I appreciate it because I've read his other book. If I had not, or maybe if I didn't enjoy it as much as I did, I wouldn't get much from this either. It's purely a promotional component for his upcoming book so it's more of a teaser than anything.
> The state legislature needs to pass bills to allow greater housing density and more construction throughout the state.

The Legislature did just that with the ADU bills that effectively abolish single-family zoning throughout the state. Additionally, SB 330 (the Housing Crisis Act) puts a stop to some of the more egregious forms of NIMBYism. Citizens can sue cities that refuse to follow the law under the Housing Accountability Act, which was recently strengthened; no such recourse is available to residents of most other states.

More must be done, but California is now leading the way in cracking down on NIMBYism. I predict that states like Texas are going to see the NIMBY pattern play out in time (if they aren't already—look at Austin), leading to skyrocketing housing costs. They will have to do the same thing in time. California is just ahead of the curve.
Suggestion: Walk under a highway overpass, observe tent city, revise opinion.
> I don't feel obliged to ditch convenience for nerdcred or the feeling of authenticity or whatever your frame is.

That's an awfully dismissive way of putting it given the prevailing topic of this thread: privacy. Firefox isn't perfect in that regard, but I trust Mozilla a hell of a lot more than I trust Google.

Not to mention I don't want Google dictating how the web works through sheer force of market share. It's like nobody remembers the 90s and IE anymore. Do we really want a repeat of that?

Obviously there's a line to be drawn: when "convenience" turns into "browsing is actually a difficult chore because FF has bugs X, Y, Z", then sure, it's of course understandable that you'd ditch FF for an alternative. But I don't think that experience should be common.
Just because the economy is big doesn't mean that everyone is getting a big share of it
This is exactly the main issue I see right now, politicians who use Christianity as a banner to do less for people. Which is very confusing to me but somehow they get away with it. This is turning people away from Christianity before they can find out that its purpose is to serve people especially the mentally ill, homeless, poor, etc.
> Can the government please make something that's easy to use?

Many law makers don't want the Government to make this process easy on the assumption that the easier it is for the Government to tax, the more it will do so.
>and how to commit suicide.

And that's when I'd come to my senses, realize all the sweet talk they lured me in with was rubbish, and hand in my 2 second resignation notice, if an employer is going to train me on how to end my own life I'm out.
200k is a 22 year old at a FAANG vs 30 year old MD.

I was a somewhat successful premed student (99.9th percentile MCAT, CS major), and I went the FAANG route instead. Physician and tech salaries are similar in that the top makes alot more than everyone else, although the bottom for physicians is a bit higher. For less competitive people who may only have only gotten into a single med school and whose job prospects with a biology degree are limited, the med route can make sense from a purely financial point of view.
I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority among HN crowd, but I don't do any of this. I still read a lot of articles and links. When I find something interesting I tend to read it immediately. (guilty of taking time to read during work; though some of these are work-related, some not.)

After I read it I roughly remember the topic, though not the details. At a later point if a conversation comes up or if something at work relates to that content, I roughly remember something about it, then google (or DDG if you prefer) for the piece again with some keywords I remember.

This has served me quite well for many many years and I don't really spend any of the time most people here spend with note-taking and maintaining a personal knowledge base. There were a few times I can remember myself failing to google a piece I wanted because I either can't remember enough keywords from it or the article is too obscure to find, but majority of the time I'm ok.
It would require 2.7 billion Toffoli gates gates for 2048 bit input and it could factor one key in 8 hours.

Microprocessors reached that high MOS transistor count less than 10 years ago. For example, 8-core Core i7 Haswell-E has 2.6 billion transistors (2014). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocesso...
You can enter into binding contracts to sell, rent, or donate your property under pretty much any terms. This makes “data as property” a lot weaker than GDPR, which treats it more like your person in constraining what you can give up.
I hear this repeated a lot, and I'm not so sure I buy it. Yes, Prop 13 limits how much taxes can go up, but if that's the case, then why wouldn't you try to build more to capture more tax? I'm willing to bet that easing zoning restrictions would help with revenue generation.
The big push now is to exempt commercial property from prop 13
> On the other hand, I find that problems like this may be (ab)used in the future for technical interviews at financial/asset/investment management institutions for software engineering roles

I'm not really worried. In general, the trend for hiring software engineers has been away from silly puzzles, not towards. Microsoft and Google both used to use them and now they don't, and other companies have been following along. In general, hiring fads and follow-the-leader are not great, but in this case it's for the best that other companies have taken their lead.

To be sure, there are still lots of other problems with how developers are hired, but the stupid puzzles at least have mostly faded away.
Accountants: lies, damn lies and ebitda
This is well known but often ignored for convenience. Go to any restaurant in the DC area around lunchtime and you'd be amazed at what you can learn from the table next to you.
An easy solution to that is to find a homeless person nearby and use fake IDs -- i.e. bribe someone else do the transaction instead of you
The insane thing is it's 2019 and this should be a baseline when dealing with your backups. It's shocking to know many people don't even do this.
I live in San Francisco and observe homelessness every day. What I see is a rich state that is failing to distribute its wealth equitably.
Agreed. I arrived at programming through math (B.S. in Mathematics) and have no love for FP. At the end of the day all software (except hobby projects) is mostly about maintaining it. FP adds unnecessary complexity, abstraction and obfuscations. None of those qualities help code maintenance.
None of this addresses the problem that it is failing to record successful solutions.

It's great that it works ok for some players, but if this degree of dismissal is typical, I see no reason to communicate further.
How does this help all the existing applications, tools, scripts etc. that use .env?
Five hurdles blockchain faces to revolutionise banking
"Thanks in large part to spiraling urban rents, the homeless population increased by 5.3% from 2010 to 2018, in a state that already has almost half of the nation’s homeless. In Los Angeles and San Francisco, the crisis is especially acute, with destitute people and pitiful tent encampments crowding the sidewalks."

This is ridiculous. California is filled with homeless people because:

1) there's a nationwide opioid crisis

2) if you're going to be homeless, might as well move to where the weather is nice

In a recent survey in Los Angeles, somewhere around 90% of the homeless reported a substance abuse problem.

This is impacting Seattle and Portland too; it's a lot easier to be homeless in Portland than Phoenix.
I fondly remember being confused by “return” for weeks (granted, I was 9). What are you returning? And to where? And why was it only one thing? And where did it go when it got there?

It’s easy to forget how hard something was to learn once you already know it.
Show HN: Puck, an ASP.Net core CMS, code first and MVC
This reads like a complete 180 on the previous policy. It's very far from a "change of wording".

Don't get me wrong, I welcome it, and if the most we can get I feel like it is acceptable. However calling it a "change of wording" is a bit dishonest, really you reverted it completely in response to the negative feedback.
I'll probably subscribe just to test the pool of games, but I do not plan on purchasing any games or special hardware like the gamepad.

At least with a subscription, I know what I'm paying for is ephemeral.
How would you like if everyone kept submitting their old blog posts over and over again?

Do you genuinely believe that would lead to a community of great content ?
Both matter. California has a high Gini coefficient (as does the US in general). That's a problem, and one we need to fix. But it's counterbalanced to an extent by high GDP.
It sounds great to not have to conduct any sort of business over the phone.
What's with the title? I thought Jailtime might be a new apple product. It should be "jail time".
It’s laughable that they could not find anyone in the past ten years to write a JS version.

For reference, they spend about $10B (billion with capital “B”) last year on tech projects: https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-of-america-keeps-pace-with...
Punched cards or GTFO
One place I worked at, the fingerprint reader for security was horrible... you had to get your finger in the exact same position. Sometimes it'd work in the morning, but not in the afternoon after lunch. I thought it was funny how my phone could figure it out, but the building system couldn't... of course the building only took two sample scans, while my phone will take 6 or so.
Note: this is an opinion piece, not a news piece.

I never feel like I can trust pessimistic opinion pieces on California's economy. Many pundits want California to fail for various reasons, and trying to dredge useful information out of them is difficult.
Profitable with $5k in monthly revenue? Profitable needs to cover market salaries and all expenses, IMO. Maybe Ramen profitable.
What app works well for recording without hurting audio quality or lag? I'm happy to pay for something that just works; the free ones I've tried suffer from quality/lag/glitchy issues.
>Ok, but what on this list actually requires an internet connection

I have a somewhat irregular work schedule, and on hot days was lifechanging to be able to turn the A/C on before I got home. Similarly, if you're on vacation and go "oh shit I forgot to turn the A/C off" it's nice to be able to do that remotely. The Nest has a motion detector but it's not 100% accurate. Maybe some non internet connected thermostats also detect presence, but it's nice to be able to confirm the state of the A/C remotely. I also like being able to graph the temperature/humidity of my place over time.

That said, my next thermostat will probably be an Ecobee because I'm pissed off about a number of decisions Nest has made lately (e.g. removing access to their API)
Welcome to inequality. Not everyone will get some crazy rate in SV. The guy who serves your latte, or cares for elderly parents should be able to afford to live and eat somewhere.

Many will be stuck well below the poverty line.
What? The poverty rate in California is high and California also has significant welfare population, for 10% of US population share, California has 20-30% share for Welfare (fact-check me here).

Outside of the elite coastal town, interior California has lot of poverty and the other aliments.
"full access to your USB stack" is not very meaningful (and honestly sounds like a WebUSB criticism, maybe someone thought U2F required WebUSB?!)

You only have access to the devices which you have permission to access. On FreeBSD, we have a devd config that sets the u2f group on U2F tokens.